[Comprehensive Yingmei] Really nothing happened

Lestrade couldn't reach his destination in the end, because the carriage overturned halfway, and he had to be taken to the hospital.In the end, however, his goal was achieved: he managed to meet the famous consulting detective.

This detective became excited after taking over a commission related to a certain gang in the United States. He stayed in a place other than 221B for a long time. Originally, Lestrade just wanted to try his luck and see if he could Get help from this extremely reliable friend.

Although I was very happy to meet the police officer with a sense of justice, but this way of meeting... Well, I really can't say it is very good.

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"Are you all right, Sheriff Lestrade?" Although Watson was shorter, he stepped into the ward before Holmes.

"Well...no big problem." Lestrade leaned on the hospital bed and waved to them.

Holmes took a good look at his old friend, pulled out a nearby chair and sat down.

"Is there any problem with that case?" He went straight to the point.

Lestrade was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses (after all, he had known Holmes for so many years, and knew that Holmes' deduction method could be called "magical" at certain times), and began to narrate.

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"That's the way it is." Near the end, Lestrade, who was lying on the hospital bed, concluded.

"Hmm..." Holmes put his fingertips in front of him, thought for a while, and asked, "Have you found any clues on him?"

"Well, he (He)?" Watson was stunned for a moment, "I think the woman who first discovered the scene of the crime should also be suspected. Why did you ask directly..."

"Ah, speaking of which, she has a complete alibi, so the suspicion can be ruled out." Lestrade said hastily.

Watson turned his head to look at Holmes, and seeing that he was not surprised by this answer, he temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and looked at the sheriff on the hospital bed.

Lestrade thought for a while and said, "There's nothing else, but there's one thing that's not very strange. On the boy's left wrist, there is a piece of ribbon."

"!!!" Holmes sat up straight suddenly, and Watson also showed a shocked expression on his face.

"What color is it?" asked Holmes, and there was a seriousness in his tone which had not been there before.

Lestrade hesitated for a moment: "It rained when the incident happened, so the original color can't be seen, but...it's very likely to be white." He is a sheriff, not a cloth shop owner, and more Not the only consulting detective in the world, and it's normal not to see it.

Holmes and Watson looked at each other (there should be a scream of a rotten girl).

Watson was very, very worried about this case—because they had encountered a very similar case before.

When they were investigating another case, a little boy was also killed, and his hand was also wrapped with a piece of white ribbon.

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"Holmes, do you think this could be done by the same person?" Watson asked worriedly after walking out of the hospital.

In this era when forensic science is far from perfect, people have little understanding of "serial killers"-I say "almost" because there is still a Jack the Ripper who has not been forgotten so far.

Although they don't know what kind of behavior and mental illness a certain type of serial killer will have, just "a piece of white ribbon wrapped around the wrist" is enough for them to connect the two cases.

but……

"The time interval in between is too short." Holmes shook his head and denied, "Two cases with the same characteristics occurred one after another, and they were still in two places far apart... Judging from the scene where the case was picked up before, the murderer was extremely calm. A decisive and experienced person will not leave such a big hole."

"So, that is to say..." Watson was thoughtful.

These two cases should be handled by an organization, and the white ribbon is the characteristic of this organization.

but……

"The ones who were killed seemed to be boys from civilian families, right?" Watson slowly asked, "Why...kill them?" As he spoke, the tone of the upright military doctor began to tremble.

Yeah, why kill them?Ask for money?Impossible, one of them is from an ordinary family (the victim described in the previous chapter), and the other is even a vagrant. How could they take someone's life for such a reason?

"The mystery is getting deeper..." Holmes pinched his brows, "However, it's not that there are no clues."

When the pair of partners were investigating the previous case, they also got news about the waif's sister. Perhaps, they could learn something from her.

……

Yemengard also read some novels.

Her mind... how should I put it, it is difficult to understand the aesthetics of human words.Those gorgeous rhetoric are far less meaningful than cold data in her eyes.

There is no way, it is really an extremely difficult task for the Old Ones to understand human aesthetics. ←Even if the Great Old One was once a human being.

Therefore, the novels she read obviously couldn't be the kind...well, you know, the type that only has emotional lines, but the more serious type.

↑Wait... It's better to go directly to those tomes!

After all, Jormungandr was only a little interested in the deductive method in Sherlock Holmes' novels.Of course, we can imagine that she has never watched any related TV series or movies, and it is even more impossible to discuss her CP in the show with her colleagues.

Speaking of CP standing in line... I also know that she can't be a rotten girl, okay? !

Of course, if you really want to look at it from a human point of view, she is neither from the FFF group, nor is she a holder of the view that "homosexuals are all cults", but the kind that can calmly accept all other sexual orientations.

Although in Two-dimensional, the FFF group is in power, but in the three-dimensional world we live in, it has to be said that most people still find it difficult to accept homosexuality.Even in the old days, homosexuality was considered a mental illness, to be sent to the electric chair.

Of course, let's look on the bright side, the situation has improved a lot, hasn't it?I believe that in the near future, there will never be such discrimination again.

Well, everyone must be very clear that Yemengade's reaction was more because...she didn't care about these things at all, so naturally she wouldn't have any unnecessary reactions.

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Hmm... I believe everyone's impression of Sherlock Holmes comes from a certain BBC TV series.

But... What I want to say is that the image of Sherlock Holmes in the original book is not exactly the same as the image in the TV series.

For example, the so-called "high-functioning anti-social"... Where did such a high-level vocabulary come from in the [-]th century?

There are other differences, of course, so I won’t repeat them one by one here, and you can read and understand them yourself.

However, I want to explain here that Holmes in this era still has a sense of justice.

If he had no sense of justice, he might become the second Moriarty.

↑Although in his heart, more is the desire to solve the mystery, but we can't just ignore it for granted.

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Even for Sherlock Holmes, it is not an easy task to investigate these cases clearly.

Resistance does not come from the case itself, but elsewhere.

These cases obviously involved some important figures.Holmes' elder brother, Mycroft, had promised to help him in some places at first, but when the two brothers met again after a period of time, Mycroft told his younger brother: don't do it again. Continue to investigate, otherwise he will definitely be in danger.

Obviously, Holmes' determination cannot be dispelled so easily, and the flag planted by Mycroft... Sorry, the flag that was erected has really come true.

Not long after Holmes saw the waif's sister, the girl died—killed.And around her wrist, there was also a white ribbon wrapped around it.

And Sherlock Holmes, by coincidence, appeared at the scene of the crime, and was accused of being the murderer of the girl.

As a detective who solved many weird cases, Sherlock Holmes still has a good reputation. Of course, the public is not so easy to believe that he will do such a thing.But... who made him appear at the scene of the crime in a state of just taking drugs (friendly reminder: this is a bad habit, everyone must not learn this behavior!)?

This is an era when it is difficult to find direct evidence. Basically, only the so-called "witnesses" can make a conclusion.What's more... There are people in that force who have money. As long as they want to, they can use ulterior means to directly destroy this detective who is struggling to find the truth.

——Maybe, he is still alive now, just because the leader of that force doesn't want him to die.

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"Holmes! How do you feel?" In the prison, the upright military doctor asked his partner eagerly.

When the two went to visit the waif's sister together, Watson was stabbed by a terrified girl with a sharp object, and this is why he did not go out with Holmes to investigate after that.If the two went out together, maybe he would become an "accomplice" and be imprisoned.

"I'm fine." Holmes did seem to be in good shape - at least it was quite different from the drugged look when he appeared at the crime scene. "Next, we still have that church school that we haven't investigated, Watson, please."

There was a poster found in the "Church School" where the waif was hiding, and they investigated and found that the kid had lived there for a while.