Dawn came, and the phone was very easy to get through.
The police arrived at the scene and took Kento Toba away and sent the rest of the tour group back to Tokyo.
Returning to Zhibo's office, Qin Zhibo felt a little empty inside.
The Sherlock Holmes trip that was originally scheduled to last three days and three nights ended after only one day and two nights. How to spend the remaining time?
Qin Zhibo remembered that Toshiaki Fujizawa said that "A Study of the Green Letter" was plagiarized by the hotel owner from a man named Neil Moonlight.
Out of curiosity, Qin Zhibo turned on his computer and started searching.
There was no online encyclopedia in 1996, but Qin Zhibo searched for relevant pages on a knowledge website called "Noah's Ark".
Neil Moonlight - a nineteenth-century figure, whose dates of birth and death are unknown, a mysterious travel biographer.
He published a large number of travel biographies throughout his life, but most of them did not attract much response. These articles were published in third-rate newspapers and earned meager royalties.
Most of the articles written by him have been lost to trace, but "A Study of the Green Letter" written by him in early 1888 caused a strong social response in British society at that time and has been passed down to this day.
At that time, less than three months after the release of "A Study in Scarlet," the famous work that launched the Sherlock Holmes legend, Neil Moonlight published "A Study in Green" in a newspaper.
"A Study in the Green Letter" boldly reverses the identities of Sherlock Holmes and a character named Moriarty.
In this article, Holmes becomes the murderer of the case.
A professor named Moriarty is the detective who tracks him, and a man named Moran beside him serves as the doctor Watson in the original work, recording the case in the book.
In the original work, Holmes's study of the Scarlet Letter has also become Moriarty's study of the Green Letter.
More importantly, Queen Victoria, who ruled Britain, was hinted at as a huge, inhuman tentacled monster hiding in the darkness.
In the Victorian era, when Britain was known as the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets," this statement caused the article to be regarded as a "deviant work" and received widespread criticism.
Including Conan Doyle, the original author of the Sherlock Holmes series, he said: Adaptation is not random editing, and this kind of work is an insult to his works and even himself.
Among the many verbal and written campaigns, only the University of Brightchester in the UK publicly stated its position in support of this "Research on Green Letters".
The University of Brightchester's view is that "A Study in the Green Letter" blends the presentation of another world view into an otherwise ordinary detective story, hinting at the real world to the world, and is a ground-breaking work that breaks down barriers to public knowledge.
"This is a huge impact on the universal worldview. It seems absurd and unbelievable, but it is absolutely true..."
A professor at the University of Brightchester commented this way.
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This is not the first time Qin Zhibo has heard the name of the University of Brightchester.
Last time at the Blue Parrot Bar, the name of this university appeared in the information collected by Terai Huangnosuke.
The Planetarium of the University of Brightchester has publicly stated the existence of the "Great Halley's Comet" and is preparing to host a fierce debate with Miskatonic University in the United States.
However, before the debate began, the Miskatonic University debate team was attacked by a bomb at the hotel where they were staying, killing all members.
Gu Xi/span If I remember correctly, the time was also 1888.
Publicly stating the existence of the "Great Halley's Comet" and publicly supporting another world view shown in "A Study of the Green Letter", from these two points, the University of Brightchester is definitely a "clean stream" in the academic world.
What kind of university is this?
Qin Zhibo opened a new webpage, entered University of Brightchester into the search bar, and easily found relevant pages.
The University of Brichester is located in the town of Brichester, England. It is a world-famous university, second only to the famous British universities Oxford University and Cambridge University in terms of academic level.
It's just that the University of Brightchester often publishes some surprising research conclusions, causing strong discussion and opposition in the academic community.
In addition to the "Great Halley's Comet", the University of Brightchester also publicly stated that the disease "green rot" prevalent near the Severn Valley is related to local beliefs...
There is also an undersea city in the South Pacific that sank in ancient times. When the "Great Halley's Comet" returns, this city will surface...
In short, the University of Brightchester often publishes this type of academic research results, but it still does not affect its academic rankings around the world.
Qin Zhibo briefly learned about the university and then returned to the "Noah's Ark" website.
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Although "A Study in the Green Letter" was criticized by all quarters after its release, the most amazing thing is that Conan Doyle's "The Final Case" published in 1893 actually included "James Moriarty" for the first time.
The character "Professor" was introduced into his works.
James Moriarty is known as the "Napoleon of Crime" and a criminal genius with an extremely high IQ.
He established a huge criminal empire in London and spread his underworld network across European countries like a spider. Almost all cases in London were related to him, and he destroyed all evidence every time he committed a crime.
This character has not appeared in Conan Doyle's previous works. The only appearance was in the Sherlock Holmes fan work "A Study in the Green Letter" released in 1888, where he served as an enemy tracking Sherlock Holmes.
It can be said that Professor Moriarty is completely a character created by Sherlock Holmes fan works, but the original work of Sherlock Holmes introduced this character back again.
Conan Doyle creates a Sherlock Holmes fanfic...
In addition, Conan Doyle wrote that Holmes and Moriarty died together in "The Final Case", which caused great repercussions in society.
The original author actually let the character appearing in the fan work kill the character he created!
Someone asked whether this was a compromise with "A Study in the Green Letter" a few years ago, and Conan Doyle responded this way -
"I used to be young and ignorant, but now I am wise..."
In fact, Conan Doyle was a staunch spiritualist in his later years, accepting various spiritualist factions and views, and believed that the soul can continue to exist after death.
Not only that, Conan Doyle also publicly supported ghost photography research at the University of Bristol.
Conan Doyle even ended his friendship with world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini when he publicly derided "ghost photography as ridiculous."
A famous mystery writer whose writing style is characterized by "scientific and professional" turned out to be a spiritualist who believed in ghosts in his later years.
All these changes began with "A Study of Green Letters" written by Neil Moonlight...
