Why are there only loser heroines around me?

Secondly, the glass dome and towering arcades here are not like the style of Wangfujing at all. Natural light shines through the exquisite glass structure and fills the entire interior of the mall, making it look very much like some classical European department stores.

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This was originally supposed to be a place to buy toys, but now the shelves are filled with porcelain, textiles, and all kinds of clothes that have a sense of history but look very new.

He saw an old phonograph on a shopkeeper's table, the striker pressing against the vinyl disc. The damn Moonlight Sonata made him feel depressed.

"If there is any personal grudge between us, we can resolve it privately. There is no need to sacrifice so many innocent people."

The man's expression was a little embarrassed. His eyes widened. He scratched the back of his head and said awkwardly, "Let me explain, Mr. Arthur. This was not my fault."

"Even if it wasn't you, it must have something to do with you! Damn it, where are we now?"

"Sir, you should know." The man opposite had a disappointed look on his face. "I thought your deduction skills were superb. The answer was right in front of me, wasn't it? Everyone's dressed in the style of the late 19th century... lace-up boots, slim breeches, and women in Empire style dresses, loose skirts with intricate decorations, and almost everyone wearing crinolines. And then there's the sound of carriages and the horns of classic Daimler wagons outside."

"With all due respect, the answer is obvious."

“This is London in the late 19th century.”

Oh! Damn it! This pretentious way of speaking!

"Which version of Sherlock Holmes are you?!" Arthur gritted his teeth. "Why are you so pale? And why are you pretending to straighten your back? With all due respect, you look a lot like a classic super villain. And why aren't you wearing a pipe and a beret? Where's your little cane?"

"These are the stereotypes you place on me, Mr. Arthur."

"I just wanted to test my own reasoning ability as a creator." The world's earliest legendary detective lived in the late 19th century, an era when alchemy, theology, science... were all rapidly developing. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the originator of paranormal detectives. This is what Sherlock Holmes, who is revered as a god by all detective fiction fans, said.

The man reached out and unbuttoned the collar of his shirt. Arthur saw that his neck was a different color from his face. He had put on a layer of foundation, which was matte and looked very natural, but if you looked closely you could still see the difference in texture from normal skin.

But the problem is, he didn't look carefully at all.

In reality, no one would get close to observe whether someone has applied foundation on their face today, unless there is powder on their face.

Arthur had not expected the meeting to turn out like this.

But that didn't matter anymore; he was more concerned about why he was in a 19th-century department store.

"Do you have any idea? Dear Mr. Sherlock?" Arthur switched smoothly from Chinese to fluent London accent and used the word "respect". Yes, he was also a little emotional.

Volume 140: Chapter 6: A little gambling for fun, Ms. Yanaijian (k plus)

Question (Yanaimi): How to get out of the demon world?

Answer (Ukyo): The fictional demon world has boundaries, and the size of the demon world depends on people's fantasy about it. The several demon worlds currently monitored by the White House are constantly getting bigger. This is because the influence of the revival of the supernatural is affecting people's daily lives more and more. Everyone will inevitably have fantasies about the world where demons exist. No one, no matter what method is used, can curb this kind of thinking. Even if the channels for ordinary people to understand supernatural events are controlled, the effect will be minimal.

As long as you find the boundary of the Demon Realm, you can get out of it. The "thoughts" there are extremely unstable, and there are usually huge cracks or strong reflective objects like mirrors. As long as you can find the mirror, the rest should be self-explanatory...

Question 2: Where are we now?

Answer 2: London in the late 19th century, but it doesn't look like the Demon Realm.

Question 3: How can we get out of here?

Xiaoju suddenly said, "I know how to do this. First... find a mirror!"

"Wrong." Ukyo looked at Arthur and the man in the windbreaker who came out of the mall.

The fabric of the clothes this guy is wearing is obviously more "19th century" than him.

"Instead of looking for a mirror, why don't we just ask him how he got from the late 19th century to the 21st century!"

"Hey! Friend, assuming a person is a murderer when there is no evidence is a very bad way of reasoning. You may be misled by your own thinking and go further and further on the wrong path!" For some reason, Ukyo felt that the way this man in the windbreaker spoke was very pretentious. He was not an elegant and high-end villain like Hannibal and Moritia. Instead, he looked like some funny character who entered the wrong set.

"Yes, yes." Arthur nodded repeatedly. "This is actually the great Sherlock Holmes." His words were full of sarcasm, and he didn't like Mr. Sherlock very much.

Ukyo's next question was the same as when Arthur first learned of Sherlock's identity -

"Which version are you?"

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The first thing Sherlock did after entering the modern world was to absorb knowledge from the modern world, while also searching for information related to himself.

Of course he could understand what Ukyo meant by "version".

But unfortunately, he didn't know.

The Sherlock Holmes works that have been popular on the Internet in recent times include the TV series "Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch and the "Sherlock Holmes" series filmed by Robert Downey Jr. earlier. Going back further, there is the 84 version of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", but young people who use the Internet know far less about this version than the previous two, and there are very few related video explanations that can be retrieved in video apps.

Secondly, he didn't know how to get out of here.

He wasn't even sure if he was from here.

All fictional strange creatures are born from people's imagination rather than from a certain world.

Ukyo suddenly thought of a point that might have been overlooked by everyone... Under the rules of supernatural revival, no positive characters would be born. But since the positive character Sherlock Holmes was standing right in front of them, Ukyo could think of three possibilities for the time being.

1. He is not a real fictional creation, but a person who exists in reality pretending to be him.

2. A fictional villain has stolen Holmes' identity, and the person standing before them now is still not Sherlock himself.

3. This is Sherlock Holmes himself, but he is based on a fan fiction. In that story, Holmes is a complete villain.

He may be an expert at disguise and knows how to make himself appear harmless.

In normal stories, the more powerful the villain, the more logical he is in his actions, and the series of crimes he commits usually point to a huge, ulterior conspiracy that is powerful enough to subvert the world.

For example, Moritia in different versions has his own "little calculations". In the original novel, Moritia is almost the mastermind of all the conspiracies in the series, controlling the nerve center of the British underworld. Those unsolved cold cases seem to be his planning.

Holmes compared him to Jonathan Wilder, a well-known criminal in the 18th century and the mastermind behind the London criminals. He gave "them" advice and manpower in exchange for % of the stolen goods. In some derivative works, Moritia is even a high-profile arms dealer. He invested in the British upper class and had a certain say in the royal family and the government. He once encouraged the British authorities to launch the First World War and expand Britain's conquest.

Thinking of this, Ukyo's eyes turned extremely wary as he looked at the harmless detective.

Even if his words and actions do not appear to be those of a bad person, it is still better to be wary of unfamiliar fictional characters that you do not understand.

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When a group of strangers arrive in 19th century London, what is the first thing they need to solve?

Ukyo and the others decided to act separately.

Yanaijian tried to find a way to feed everyone.

Ukyo and Arthur are responsible for finding the "mirror" or "great rift valley" that can take them back.

Kotoko and Kuro Sakuragawa tried to find out the true identity of this "Sherlock Holmes". In short, it was an investigation and surveillance. Secondly, they had to find a way to confirm whether Mr. Holmes was a native resident of this "demon world".

Xiaoju was responsible for arranging accommodation for the group at night.

As for the other ordinary people who were affected by supernatural events and fell into this world with them, Ukyo and his group had no time to care about them.

Coming with them was a male and female partner from the Beijing City Monster Hunting Team. They were both government employees and seemed to have been forced to take on the responsibility of guiding the people. Out of kindness and their own social responsibility, the two temporarily served as the "leaders" of ordinary people.

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That night.

The six met at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes and his roommates lived.

As for why they gathered at the home of this untrustworthy fictional character...it all started when they parted ways in the morning.

Xiaoju, relying on her barely passable written English, struggled to talk to a local London "pimp". The so-called pimp does not refer to some traditional middlemen who act as go-betweens between prostitutes and clients.

Rather, they are "real estate agents" who act between landlords and home buyers. If we want to blame someone, we can only blame the fact that there was no mature real estate agency system at the end of the 19th century. Many small agents who act as pimps would occasionally do some part-time real estate work.

Xiaoju Zhihua, who looks very petite and cute in the eyes of the British, is a good criminal target in the eyes of the "pimps". Her Asian face is preconceived by the other party as "unfamiliar with the place". No one will report the death of such foreigners who have no relatives or friends in the local area. As long as no one cares about their death, no one will care whether it is robbery, rape, or even worse rape and murder.

Even though Xiaoju Zhihua was not considered a very pretty girl in the 21st century, in the eyes of the wretched pimp she found on the street, her skin was indeed no less beautiful than those beautiful women who were spoiled aristocratic ladies. The most important point was that her body was very clean, unlike those ordinary women on the street who did hard labor with men, who were dirty all over and had rough skin, which made people lose all sexual desire at a glance.

But this beautiful Asian girl exudes an alluring milky fragrance, which is completely different from the rouge and powder worn by those red-light prostitutes on a daily basis.

Looking at the petite girl in front of him who made him want to tear her to pieces, the pimp led her into a deserted narrow alley. He never thought of knocking her out before raping her. In his eyes, this girl who may weigh less than 40KG was just a fledgling who was at his disposal. He could easily strangle her neck and take advantage of her breathlessness to complete a thrilling "suffocation play".

But when the sunlight above his head disappeared and the shadows of the buildings on both sides covered his head, the petite figure suddenly turned around and kicked the two soft objects under his crotch. Before he could scream, he was hit in the chin by a high kick. He didn't even remember to appreciate the view under the girl's skirt when she knelt down, and his eyes turned black and he fell on his back.

The only "middle class" who might have a house was ruined.

Xiaoju, who was unfamiliar with the place, couldn't find another pimp on the street and was almost captured by a well-dressed nobleman to be his concubine. The guy was accompanied by two strong guards and had an old revolver on his waist that was so old that Xiaoju couldn't recognize the model.

Fortunately, she had read the Sherlock Holmes series and knew London's "landmark building" Baker Street. She felt that she should be able to successfully meet Ukyo and the others here. Otherwise, she would probably have started writing her "London Wandering" by now.

Not only was things not going well for Chika Komari, but Yanami also couldn't find food for everyone.

The reason was simple. She had no penny on her, but she had noted down where to buy cheap bread near Baker Street. She had also learned that she could earn two or three pence for a day's work in a restaurant, and five pence for unloading cargo at the dock. However, tourists would pay for her work in the restaurant, but not for unloading cargo at the dock.

Secondly, the cheapest bread near Baker Street costs 1.5 pence. She also asked about the house prices and found that the cheapest one also costs 1.5 pence.

Yanami's written English scores are better than Komari's, and her oral English is also better than Komari's. Komari is a socially anxious person and almost never talks to outsiders in the "Sinking Town" case, but Yanami has a lot of exchanges with the locals in the town. She also went to the United States alone and went to the broken island of Avalon with Ukyo. She was trapped on the train with several British and Americans for several days and practiced oral English four times. Normal communication with others is not difficult for her at all.

After asking around, she wanted to complain about the prices in the UK. It was impossible for casual workers to survive here. No wonder London had such poor security and so many murders.

So, on this evening, when everyone was dejected, having achieved nothing, and their stomachs were still rumbling, when Ukyo, as the temporary leader, wanted to hear everyone's opinions, Yanami suddenly slammed the table, stood up with his chest puffed out, glanced around with a firm gaze, coughed lightly, and said with a somewhat indignant expression:

"Everyone, an ordinary restaurant worker can only earn 2 pence a day, but the cheapest loaf of bread costs 1.5 pence. The cheapest house in the UK costs another 1.5 pence a day. This means that a restaurant worker who only eats one meal a day still owes 1 pence. What's the point of such a hopeless life? I think..."

"Cough cough~, cough cough cough cough~!!!" Kotoko Iwanaga suddenly started coughing violently.

"I think the current social situation in the UK is not something we should worry about right now."

"Since our main problem right now is lack of money, then from now on, we just need to make money on our own."

"Ukyo, any clues to the exit?"

"No." Ukyo said, "I tried the old method, walking in a straight line to find the edge of the world, but one day wasn't enough. This place is obviously larger than those small demon realms. I plan to continue walking tomorrow. As for the mirror... ordinary people can't sneak through the mirror to other worlds, only demons can. So... if we can find a low-level demon here, maybe returning will be much easier."

"Well," Ukyo began to summarize, "Tomorrow our main task will be to search for lower-level demons. We'll mainly look through old newspapers and conduct field visits to see if we can find any clues related to demons."

"..."

After the second division of labor was completed, everyone went their separate ways.

Xiaoju found a new house to rent at 199 Baker Street.

Kotoko and Kuro Sakuragawa found out that this "Sherlock Holmes" was a local. His landlady matched his appearance. Although the photos in major newspapers did not have Holmes' face as usual, their height and body shape matched. The Commissioner of the London Police also knew him.

The only suspicious thing is that there is no Watson in this world, and Holmes has no roommate.

As for how everyone makes money, they all have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Kotoko and Arthur became detectives competing with Holmes for business, and gradually became familiar with the detectives of the London Police Department. The crime rate in London is very high. As soon as it gets dark, no one dares to go out on the streets. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most ideal living environment for detectives.

Yanami and Komari worked as helpers in a nearby restaurant. It didn't take long for Yanami to be promoted from a casual worker to a regular employee, and his daily salary increased to 5 pence. Komari's social phobia suffered a great loss again, and she had been working as a casual worker for 2 pence for half a month.

Kuro Sakuragawa usually serves as Kotoko's bodyguard. She and Chika Komari are of the same type, the type who will be remembered wherever they go when walking on the streets of London, so Kuro Sakuragawa must follow her.

Finally, only Ukyo was left.

He ran for five consecutive days but couldn't find the "border" of this world. He was sure that the real London was not so big. Ukyo felt that the distance he had run in more than five days was equivalent to the combined area of ​​super cities such as Tokyo, New York and Beijing. There was no reason for London in the late 19th century to be so big.

And it also mixes a lot of modern people's fantasies about old London.

He could see the pitch-black steam airship above his head, swimming in the sky like a giant whale. The seafood vendors near the dock sold all kinds of strange fish, and the fragments of limbs and internal organs looked like the "Sea Kings" in One Piece.

Newspapers often contain news reports about gunmen attempting robbery but being killed by their victims using physical skills.

The people here are obsessed with alchemy and theology, and some people often try to use witchcraft or divine arts such as "adventure" and "ascension" to summon gods or demons, but no matter which side, they all end up in failure.

Ukyo visited a crime scene. Those alchemists who studied mysticism and chemistry and worked part-time as demon summoners seemed to be messing around. They threw the dried meat of some sea monster into a silver container, added white sugar and concentrated sulfuric acid, and then... the white sugar gradually turned into black "black snow".

They regarded this black snow as a sign of the devil's coming to the world, and believed that the devil could not appear because the medium and summoning array they used were wrong. Therefore, the theological teachers here worked every day to search through Christian scriptures to improve their summoning arrays, and at the same time they were also looking for the corpses of various powerful sea beasts as their alchemical materials.

They thought that the reason the devil didn't come out was because the sacrifice they offered to the devil was not strong enough.

This is what makes Youjing speechless. White sugar turns into black "black snow" because concentrated sulfuric acid reacts with the white sugar to dehydrate it, taking away the water in the sugar and generating carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide gas, causing the volume to expand.

Some people call the unextinguishable flames hellfire, but in reality it is just some alchemist lighting magnesium powder on fire, and magnesium powder cannot be extinguished with water when burning.

Some alchemists also created "laughing gas". They claimed that after inhaling this gas, people would be temporarily possessed by demons, and those strange sounds were the original voices of the demons.

Londoners had complete faith in these alchemists.

But the vast majority of them are just charlatans with nothing but good looks, trying to make a living in London.

If he wanted to expect them to summon a demon, Ukyo might as well draw Satan's pentagram on the ground himself.

Unfortunately, he only knew that the pentagram was related to the gate of hell. If he knew a few spells to summon Satan, he wouldn't have to look for alchemists all over the world.

After this road was blocked, Ukyo returned to the vicinity of Baker Street.

Yanami thought that he would return to his old job like Arthur Kotoko and work as a detective in London, where he could make money and investigate.