Chapter 178 – Poker Club
"Is that time okay?" When everyone walked to the range where they could see Big Ben, Hiroki Zhuxing suddenly pointed to Big Ben and said. "The time on that Big Ben."
On Big Ben, the time of 1:13 is unusually conspicuous.
“???” Conan glanced at his watch and looked at Big Ben in amazement. "It's almost five o'clock now" (the distance from Whitechapel to 221B Baker Street is about 7 kilometres, and Baker Street is about 3 kilometres to the City of London. The above distance is from Google Maps and a ruler. )
At this moment, in front of them, Big Ben's time actually went back 2 minutes, becoming 11 minutes!
"Isn't this Big Ben a sign of time, but of the number of people?" Conan was enlightened. "Does 11 11 minutes mean there are still 71 people alive? . .
Outside the main entrance of the poker club, two guards were leaning against the railings on either side of the door, chatting.
"You know what?" A guard said. "Someone has been poisoned by Jack the Ripper again."
"Didn't you say it once when you had a supper?" Another guard reminded.
"The one at that time died at the Working People's Club," the guard said. "But now someone has been killed on the Bishop's Square."
"May the Lord take up the helpless souls of these poor women." The guard drew a cross on his chest.
"Is there a back door here?" Qian Yu smacked his lips. "I don't think it's possible for us to break in in front of these professional cops."
"Generally," Conan said. "After all, it's a place to do shady things."
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Conan and Chiba walked into the poker club through the back door, hiding behind a handrail about one and a half meters tall and three meters long at the back door. The lower half of the handrail can be completely covered by about 1 meter, so Conan and Chiba can completely hide behind and watch safely.
"I call!" A voice that was clearly already angry said viciously.
At a table, two people were playing bridge, one of them was the owner of the angry voice, and the other was a very sturdy old man...
"See that old man?" Conan said softly. "That's Colonel Moran, he's 59 years old, but he's still very strong."
"What's your card?" Moran asked with a smile as he glanced at his cards.
"You should be enough to kill you," the other said unpleasantly. "Show the cards! Junko! ”
Straight... This guy has good luck, but...
Qian Yu glanced at Colonel Moran's card and sighed.
"Tsk," Colonel Moran said with a winning smile, spreading his cards. "Flush!"
"What?" The other was taken aback, and looked at Colonel Moran's cards with a look of dismay. "This!"
"Looks like I had some luck today!" Colonel Moran proudly received the chips from the betting area to his side.
"I think this is probably a deliberate preset by the system... Qianyu's brow twitched. "Sixteen in a million odds, it's too hard...
"Eight parts per million," Conan corrected. "Or rather, one is possible."
Sixteen parts per million is the probability of a straight + a flush on the field. (4/1000 straight, 2/1000 of the flush, multiply by C1/2)
And 8 in a million is the odds of Colonel Moran making a flush and a loser making a straight.
But, that one is ...
"What do you mean?" Qian Yu asked with a frown.
"There's something wrong with that monkey," Conan gestured to a monkey on the cabinet behind the loser. "When the loser looked at the cards just now, that monkey grabbed red beans with his right hand and ate them, right?"
"I didn't pay attention... A thousand feathers are embarrassed.
"Anyway, I saw it... The corners of Conan's mouth twitched. "But, you'll see it now."
“?” Qian Yu glanced at the monkey, and then he found a suspicion. “!?”
Because, right now, this monkey is grabbing beans with his left hand and eating them.
This is strange - because monkeys are also left and right-handed, and there is no reason for this monkey to grab beans with two hands without being disturbed.
Unless... Unless it's not just pacman ...
"Showing the loser's hand by the color and number of beans he eats gives Moran information to Moran, which is probably the main reason why he has so many chips in front of him." Conan shrugged.
"I see... Behind the two of them, Zhuxing Hongshu said with a look of sudden realization.
“!!!???” Chiba was startled by the sudden appearance of the stars Hongshu, and accidentally fell to the ground, making a noise.
"Who is it?" Colonel Moran had already heard the commotion and said viciously.
"Damn... Conan frowned, and in desperation, he could only walk out from behind the railing. "Hello, Colonel Moran, I'm—"
"Colonel Sebastian Moran," Hiroki Mosei, with his hands in his pockets, slowly walked over to Conan under the surprised gazes of Conan and Chiba. "Where's Professor Moriarty?"
"What!?" Moran froze for a moment, then became angry. "How do you know his name?"
After saying that, Colonel Moran walked towards Zhuxing Hongshu in a menacing manner.
"Don't come here!" Zhuxing Hiroki actually took out a pistol from the pocket of his right hand! "Otherwise I'm going to shoot!"
“!!!” Conan and Chiba were both surprised by the fact that Hiroki Zhuxing had a gun.
"What?" Colonel Moran was visibly taken aback, but his steps did not stop because of the brief blanking of his brain caused by surprise.
"Smack!" Zhu Xinghongshu had a gun, but he did not have the psychological quality that a gun bearer should have, and he was so frightened by the tight pressure that Colonel Moran fired directly - the bullet grazed Colonel Moran's shoulder and failed to hurt him.
"Cut!" Qian Yu complained in a low voice - the distance between the two people is at most 5 meters, and Zhuxing Hongshu can still miss...
"Drink!" Colonel Moran let out a burst of applause, so frightened that Zhuxing Hongshu actually dropped the gun in his hand to the ground!
"Damn!" Qian Yu was horrified, and hurriedly rushed out, trying to get the gun back - if Colonel Moran was allowed to get the gun, I am afraid that not only himself, Conan, and Zhuxing Hiroki, but Moran would definitely be able to kill a few more people.
"Catch them!" Moran stopped his steps and shouted to a few people in the club who were looking over. "Hurry up!"
Seven or eight sturdy men gathered around them.
As Chiba was about to pick up the gun, one of the sturdy men who came up first fell to the ground with an unusually fast reaction and flew the revolver out of front of Chiba.
The scuffle began.