[Comprehensive] Miss Xizhi

"Yeah—the coffee here is really delicious!"

It is now 02:30 in the afternoon, at a well-known chain coffee shop in Tokyo.Chuya and Wang Xizhi sat on the sofa in the booth in the corner, and looked at the British gentleman sitting opposite them with exactly the same surprised eyes.

Although the Englishman's suit jacket was still covered with dead branches and leaves, it was messy and wrinkled, and his monocle had a small crack, but none of this affected his mood of drinking coffee now.He half-closed his eyes, sniffing the aroma of coffee, and unconsciously began to tremble with both mustaches.

Wang Xizhi lightly touched Zhongye's arm, moved closer to him, and asked in a low voice, "Don't you think he's weird?"

"Um……"

is very strange.

Getting stuck in a tree for no reason is already very weird. I didn't expect that just after being rescued from the tree by them, they yelled that they must drink a cup of coffee.When he heard it, he also said that he disagreed, and even sat on the ground and howled. He obviously looked like a man who was ten years older than them.Zhong also really couldn't figure out what was going on in this guy's brain.

Now that he finally brought him to the coffee shop, he didn't say a word, except for ordering a cup of coffee and exclaiming that the coffee is really delicious, he didn't say anything else.For example, what was mentioned before was his ability to chase the two of them, but he didn't mention it at all, as if it never happened at all.

Although there are many things I want to ask, Naihe really has no way to have a fluent conversation with this eccentric Englishman. Since Wang Xizhi mastered Japanese, the translation software has honorably retired and disappeared from his mobile phone.

I never imagined that there would be a time when this modern technology would be used again, but unfortunately it was too late.We had to wait until the eccentric Englishman finished his coffee.

"Let's introduce myself again."

As if he understood what Chuya was thinking, he put down his cup, nodded slightly, and continued talking.

"My name is Arthur Conan Doyle, British. You can call me whatever you want, whether you call me Arthur, Conan or Doyle." He took off his top hat, put it on his chest, and leaned over He bowed slightly to the two, "Thank you two for saving me from the tree. Especially this gentleman, thank you very much."

"It's not something to be thankful for." Wang Xizhi smiled shyly, then suddenly thought of something, and asked him, "Why did you run up the tree?"

When she and Zhong Ye were stopped by Arthur, he seemed to be hanging in the middle of the branches, tightly stuck, and there was a miniature paraglider fixed behind his back.The umbrella surface was torn and tattered by the branches, and the steel and iron bones were also bent.

In fact, the main reason why Arthur got stuck in the tree was because of this paraglider that got in the way.In the end, Nakaya climbed up the tree trunk and manipulated the gravity to knock him down.

"As I said, I am a paragliding enthusiast." Arthur was not embarrassed at all, raised a gentlemanly smile, and said slowly, "I was gliding over Tokyo, and I wanted to paraglider in mid-air." The beautiful scenery of the whole city was in sight, but the paraglider broke down halfway, and I accidentally fell on the tree and couldn’t get down. I just had a cold again, and my throat hurt so badly, so I couldn’t call for help.”

His voice was also hoarse and weak at the moment.

"You can see it too. The tree is quite tall, with dense branches and leaves, so no one saw me at all. I stayed helplessly for a few minutes, and I happened to see you. I cried out for help, and you also stopped— —but I don’t know why, you stopped and left.”

Speaking of which, he was full of resentment.God knows how angry he was then!

Listening to his words, Wang Xizhi felt embarrassed for a while. He didn't know what to say, and he didn't dare to explain that he really heard his extremely weak "help", so he smiled apologetically and asked him to continue. go down.

Going on, the one who seemed embarrassed suddenly became Arthur.

"Then... I was a little angry, thinking what was going on with you two. Since I was so angry, I used my supernatural ability to trick you a little."

Arthur Conan Doyle, the superpower "Empty House", can "resurrect" the dead - of course, this is just a nicer saying.

"The dead don't come back to life," he said.

Therefore, the actual dead are just an illusion.If it is described in combination with modern technology, it can be imagined as a holographic projection, but it can cause damage to real things. Except for the ability user Arthur and the person who uses the ability, others cannot see the dead.

Wang Xizhi could feel his heart beating restlessly.She hung her hands under the table, her fingers kept overlapping.Cautiously, she asked, "Those people...they really come to life. How did you do that?"

Lifelike isn't even an adequate word to describe how real it is.If it wasn't for Chuya still standing by her side at that time, she really would have thought that she had returned to the most unbearable time.

"In fact, those people are all based on your memories. They will appear in that way as they are in your memories. I have almost no way to control those people. Their code of conduct is based on your memories. I can only give them a few simple instructions."

For example, asking them to help drive Zhong Ye and Wang Xizhi to his place.

Zhong also pondered, without saying a word.Wang Xizhi didn't speak any more, only Arthur continued.

"Under normal circumstances, under the state of my ability control, there will be some guys who have had a huge impact on the controlled person, so they can't be forgotten. Usually they are not very good guys. But this time, they Someone suddenly appeared unexpectedly..."

"Temporary?" Wang Xizhi was a little confused.

Arthur held up the monocle in front of his eyes: "That's it, the man with the glasses."

Wang Xizhi's second brother.

"I didn't expect him to come out suddenly and resist other people. This is the first time this has happened..." He took a sip of coffee, "It's so strange. Could it be that he is in your heart Such people?"

"Well... Maybe it is..."

If it was really the second brother, he would indeed do that.

Wang Xizhi lowered her head. For some reason, her nose was blocked and she couldn't breathe. She could only breathe through her mouth.

She took a deep breath, and then exhaled forcefully, the invisible air rubbed against her chest, making her feel pain secretly.The eyelids are extremely dry, and it seems that they can hear the sound of rubbing every time they blink.

She knew that all the actions of the second brother in "The Empty House" were not based on her own memory, that was something he would really do.The most respected and beloved second brother, even if it is only in the illusion, will still protect her.

But she couldn't do anything.

Arthur put down his glass, and she heard Zhong Ye call him a grudge.

"Please change your mind!" Arthur glared, his beard raised in anger, he puffed out his chest, and said in a serious voice, "I've been stuck in a tree for so long! You stopped, you just need to look up a little, you can find me, but you are gone, do you think I should be angry?"

"Careful Brits..."

Although both bowler hat lovers, it seems that the two of them don't like each other very much.Wang Xizhi quickly cleaned up his messy mood, put on a peacemaker-like smile, and managed to reconcile the relationship between the two of them.

"By the way, is Mr. Doyle here for a tour?" she asked.

"That's right." Arthur nodded, "I was working for Agatha before, but that woman's behavior really didn't suit me, so I left, far away."

"Agatha?" Zhong also understood the name.

Wang Xizhi, who didn't know anything, suddenly felt that his knowledge blind spot had been enlarged, so he hurriedly asked Zhong Ye, "Do you know her?"

"It's not acquaintance, just knowing." He said, "That's a guy who will put human life on the balance and use the most extreme means to ensure the maximum survival rate. Anyway, I think so."

Arthur also said: "In the 'Yokohama Dense Fog' incident, when she took a solution, she sent incinerators with supernatural powers to prepare to wipe out everyone in Yokohama directly. Fortunately, it didn't work in the end." He twitched the corners of his mouth and put With a frightened grimace, he said mercilessly, "Scary woman."

"Yokohama...fog?"

Wang Xizhi tilted his head in confusion.There are more things she doesn't know.

Speaking of this, Arthur knew a little bit about it, so he gave her a popular science by the way.

"About half a year ago, a person with a supernatural ability appeared in Yokohama. I forgot his name, let's call it T. This T's ability can create thick fog. In the thick fog, the supernatural person's ability It will be stripped off to become a new individual and fight with the supernatural beings."

"Oh……"

"If the ability user defeats the ability, then everything will be fine, and the ability will return to the body. But if it is defeated, it is equivalent to being killed by its own ability-how scary!"

"really……"

It's scary just listening to it.Thinking that if she was in such a dense fog, Wang Xizhi had every reason to believe that he would be killed by his own supernatural ability, maybe he wouldn't be able to survive even a second.

Panic is panic, Wang Xizhi is full of curiosity about this matter.Arthur may not be able to ask anything here, she turned to Chuya: "Did you also experience the dense fog incident? Have you defeated your own ability, how did you defeat it? Can you tell me?"

Zhong also gave her a slanted look, his expression seemed to be gloomy, or maybe it was just a mistake.

"If you don't go back, it will be too late." He said, stood up, "Let's go."

Then, without any explanation, she stepped out of the shop.Wang Xizhi was stunned for a moment, and hurried to catch up.Only Arthur was still sitting where he was, drinking a cup of coffee silently, and suddenly remembered that he had lost his wallet when he fell.

Oops...should ask them to pay the bill before they leave!

It's a pity that when this idea came up, they had already boarded the tram.

On the way home, the silent party changed from Wang Xizhi to Zhongye.He stared out the window without saying a word.Wang Xizhi could sense something was wrong, and she vaguely guessed that she might have said something wrong.

...But which sentence did she say wrong?Can't think of it at all!

Even after thinking hard all the way until she got off the car, she still didn't have a clue.

"It's already evening...it's all the fault of that troublesome Englishman!"

Zhong also cursed in a low voice, and Arthur, who was struggling to wash the cups in the back kitchen, sneezed.He rubbed his nose, thinking that his cold was still not healed.

"Well... Although it will be a little late to go back, it can barely be regarded as a round trip within a day. I will tell Lu Xun that I will take you out." Zhong also waved to her who stopped where she was, "Hurry up .”

"Hmm..." She didn't move, she stared at something on the right, "Mr. Chuya, there is a strange person..."

"what?"

Naka also looked in the direction where her eyes were resting.

Shrouded in the evening sunlight, a figure in a dark cloak stood in the middle of the open space, his red eyes staring at him, and murderous intent seeped into the air.

The author has something to say: "The Empty Room" is one of the stories in Sherlock Holmes' detective stories. It tells how Holmes came back from the dead (?)

Corresponding to the first episode of the third season of "Detective Sherlock"