Mary's Nineteenth Century

An anonymous letter actually involved the worship organization.Who asked Watson to send the letter on his behalf, and specifically mentioned that recommenders and passwords must be required to infiltrate and investigate the worship organization?

It can be speculated that the mysterious man code-named Dr. Incarnation first paid attention to the case of Morton's beheading, and then knew a lot about Watson's friendship.

Mary thought of a suspect, "Mr. Watson, is Dr. Jekyll in London recently? I heard he went to CEIBS to attend an academic conference?"

Dr. Jekyll likes to study all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases.His medical attainments are undoubtedly at the top of the times, but he does not have the slightest bit of arrogance.

He actively participated in various medical charity activities, and even sacrificed his rest time as a part-time forensic doctor, just to find out the traces left by criminals as soon as possible.

In the past, as long as Dr. Jekyll was in London, he would complete the autopsies of major criminal cases.

This time, Moulton's bones gnawed by piranhas were not handed over to Dr. Jekyll because he was too busy to be in England.

Watson gave an affirmative answer, "Yes, Dr. Jekyll is not in the UK. There will be a half-month medical seminar in Munich in June, and Dr. Jekyll will be one of the keynote speakers. It is estimated that he will not be available until the end of June." Back to London."

Speaking of this, Watson also had a guess, "Mr. Minton, don't you think that the anonymous letter was sent by Dr. Jekyll? Can you tell something from the paper and pen and ink?"

"No, not sure yet."

Mary looked at the unsigned letter, it had no postmark, and it used the most common letter paper in London, not to mention any special ink.

The handwriting is deliberately uglified to the level of preschool children, and there is no slight resemblance to Dr. Jekyll's handwriting in the past.The identity of the sender is only a speculation.

The people who have the most contact with corpses in this era are nothing more than grave robbers, criminal investigators, medical researchers and so on.

Dr. Jekyll has practiced medicine for many years, and he also likes to study anecdotes and strange cases.It would not be surprising logically if he knew about the worship organization.

However, this skull-worshiping organization is brutal in its methods, as can be seen from the massacre of the gravekeeper when it killed Moulton and his corpse.

Dr. Jekyll has always been committed to fighting vicious criminals. It is really hard to imagine that he would join this kind of organization, but it is not ruled out that he will be an undercover agent.

Since Watson didn't know the inside story, there was no need to get too involved in the case.

Mary bid farewell to Watson first, and immediately brought this anonymous letter and knocked on the door of Mycroft next door.

"Mr. Minton, you came just in time."

Mycroft bought a train ticket to Southampton.

"Depart at one o'clock this afternoon, board the train as a pair of doctors and patients from the United States, Brown and Tony. This is the passport belonging to Doctor Brown, please keep it. There are four hours before the train starts, and Dr. Brown's luggage, clothes, etc. , are you all ready?"

"Those are ready, but you should see this first."

Mary handed out an anonymous letter, "Mr. Watson just forwarded the letter. It seems that there is a secret enthusiast who is paying attention to the case of the worship organization."

If the content of the anonymous letter is true, the real name of the Baitou organization is the Erjiu Touhui.

Its location is exactly the same as that of the rabbit's foot, which is in Southampton.The specific location still needs to be found, and the clue word is "hidden in the sound of the waves in Southampton".

The sender, under the alias of Dr. Incarnate.

This may represent his true background, at least as a Ph.D.His academic qualifications are completely opposite to the handwriting shown in the anonymous letter, and the joint code used is even more intriguing.

""With the mistletoe in my hand, I tried hard to find the exit of darkness, but I couldn't find the way to heaven after all.""

Mycroft read the code mentioned in the letter, "In a literal sense, Dr. Incarnation is eager to find the light, but he lost his way in the darkness. And it is not ordinary darkness, otherwise there is no need to hold mistletoe. It is a A very special plant."

"of course."

Mary seemed to have no intention of mentioning, "At Christmas, it is customary to decorate the door lintel with mistletoe. The two people standing under the mistletoe can exchange a kiss in a fair manner at that moment."

No, that's not accurate enough.

Mycroft silently corrected that a kiss should only be exchanged between a man and a woman.

So Mrs. Roman and Mr. Minton spent Christmas together.It was in the hotel in Salem, a witch town in the United States, and a group of collectors went to the town to watch the Crystal Skull, trying to find the secret of the treasure.

With his excellent memory, Mycroft can still clearly recall the Christmas decorations in the small town hotel, with mistletoe hanging in the lobby and corridors.

At least ten times, Mrs. Roman and Mr. Minton walked under the mistletoe. At that time, no one paid attention to the custom of giving the mistletoe a Christmas kiss.

What a pity, what a pity.

However, it was impossible to imagine what it is today.

Memories surged in Mycroft's mind, but there was no disturbance on the surface, and he brought the topic back on track.

"The meaning of mistletoe in this letter has nothing to do with the Christmas kiss. It is more inclined to represent the golden branch of life. It is related to ancient Roman myths and legends."

In ancient Roman mythology, Aeneas lost his way when he entered the underworld.He picked a mistletoe, and through its shining light, he found a ray of life in the dark and lost way of hell.

"Doctor Avatar holds the mistletoe in his hand, but the password code shows his predicament. Unlike Aeneas in the myth, Doctor Avatar has not found a bright future. Perhaps that is the reason why he turned to the worship organization for help."

Mycroft said and motioned to go to the study together, found out the visible potion and smeared it on the letter paper, but there was no change. "It seems that it did not use other means of concealing text."

The problem is coming.

Are the references and passwords in the letter true?

Is this letter a kind and secret aid, or is it a malicious pit dug for the two who went to Southampton in disguise?

Regardless of the possibility, it is imperative to go to Southampton.

The anonymous letter also mentioned that Erjiutou would hide in the sound of the waves in Southampton, indicating that there are more or less traces of the worship organization there, and whether it can be found is another matter.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the whistle sounded.

The train left the train station in London and headed for the seaport city in the south of England.

In the early 19s, traveling by train was anything but comfortable.

The car is filled with the smell of coal, and the windows are not well sealed enough to block the smoke and dust outside the window. After sitting down, you can clearly feel the bumpy feeling of the train passing the rails.

All kinds of discomforts were superimposed, and the speed of the train was about one or two times faster than that of the carriage.If you are not in a hurry, a carriage is undoubtedly a better choice.

"Tony, can we take a carriage on the way back?"

Mary had dyed her hair black, put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, buttoned her collar, and had become Dr. Brown.

Her accent also switched to a New York accent, "We were kind to ourselves in America and didn't take the train. Now we don't have to embarrass ourselves when we come to England, don't you think?"

If you take a carriage, there are only two people in the carriage.

Mycroft did not admit that it was the bottom-line thinking of being unwilling to be inferior to others a few days ago that led him to choose the train to avoid something intentionally.The reason he chose to travel by train was purely to get to Southampton earlier.

At the moment, feeling the terrible train environment, he really didn't want Mr. Minton to suffer all the way back. "Doctor Brown, as you wish. On the return journey, as long as there is no urgent matter, I think a carriage is a safer choice."

Gold-rimmed glasses doctor Brown and fat businessman Tony, this started the trip to Southampton.

Yes, Mycroft dressed up as a fat rich businessman for effective disguise.A few specially made clothes were deliberately stuffed into a fat belly, and a fluffy beard was pasted on the face, making the face look bigger.

After that, something happened to his heart.

Doctor Brown pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose when he saw Fat Tony for the first time, and gave a seemingly gentle suggestion.

——'Fat is not good for your health.Tony, with your body shape, you must lose weight, otherwise I dare not admit that I am your exclusive doctor.Making you fat is my incompetence. Lose weight when you return to the United States. '

At that moment, Mycroft was sure that Mr. Minton had spoken the truth, and that he would immediately take off the pretense of gaining weight when he returned to London.

If in real life, he gained weight without any scruples to the figure of the rich businessman Tony, except for the fact that he was sick and helpless, Mr. Minton would definitely give him a disapproving look.

Because the heartache caused by pretending to be fat may not be worthwhile.

Simply, there was no emergency on the train.Arrived in Southampton smoothly, and then searched for a needle in a haystack.

Because the wrong goods were sent and rabbit feet were received, a man in a jacket went to the pier to make trouble at the end of May.

For this reason, Mary started the search from the pier, and searched around under the banner of fanaticism of intending to join the club, trying to find out the whereabouts of the man in the jacket.The anonymous letter also mentioned that Erjiutouhui was in the sound of the waves, which may imply that the stronghold of the worshiping head organization is near the coast.

However, the search did not go smoothly.

The port pickup slip lists one of the men in the jacket as Simon King, but no further information.

Resident workers or managers on the docks said the troublemaker only showed up once.Haven't seen it near the port before, and the jacket men haven't been back after one incident.In short, they are new faces, and they know nothing about them.

If the road doesn't work, then change the direction.

Mycroft collected all the newspapers and magazines in Southampton, and they almost filled the entire room of the hotel room.

He tried to find clues from it.After five days of uninterrupted searching, I finally found a piece of words the size of a piece of dried tofu in the middle of the newspaper.

"The Snowman throws out a long pole with a hook on it. You, you caught a rabbit's head slanting up its ears. If you are interested in this, please go to 58 Burgess Road - famous Does not have"

The passage hidden in the middle crack can be seen as a riddle at a glance.

As was the trend in the Victorian era, small groups would place code words in newspaper advertisements, conveying messages that only insiders could understand.

Other outsiders couldn't see through it at a glance, so they naturally ignored the address clearly printed in the newspaper.

Mycroft's eyes lit up, how could he miss such a clue, and the clue will always favor those who never stop looking for it.

"Doctor Brown, look, the Erjiuhui we are looking for is hidden here."

"The snowman threw out a long pole with a hook hanging on it. You caught a rabbit's head with slanted ears." Is there anything strange about this sentence?

Mary glanced at it, and immediately understood what Mycroft meant.

This seemingly endless riddle is a set of numbers written in the form of images.

The snowman is made of two snowballs, just like the number "8"; the long pole is "1", and the fishhook is "5"; finally, looking sideways at the head of the long-eared rabbit, it is the number "6".

"8, 15, and 6 are the numbers of the brain, face, and auditory ossicles, and together they are the number "29." "

As Mary spoke, she looked to the right side of the riddle advertisement. The area of ​​the newspaper contained information on the timetable for some ships in Southampton port. "Well, that's what the letter said, "Twenty-nine heads will hide in the sound of the waves in Southampton", really a very cryptic hint. "

The anonymous letter reminded too vaguely, if Mycroft hadn't searched carefully and could see through the riddle of numbers at a glance, he would have missed the clue.

For this, Mary did not hesitate to praise, "Tony, you are amazing. As expected of you, I knew you could find clues. Do you want any rewards?"

Mycroft saw Mr. Minton's bright smile.Well, the man has come to tempt him again.