Sherlock Holmes

Two hours later, Sherlock, Watson and the newly appointed Supreme Judge of the Third Division of the Inquisition, Stanley Hopkins, arrived at a church in London.

Tobias Gregson needed to continue to be responsible for security in the villa area, so he did not follow.

On the carriage, the three people seemed extremely quiet. This atmosphere was very strange, because no matter who it was, they should have shown the most basic surprise. After all, under such a tight defense, how could anyone murder Nadine? ·Pope Belu.

But because this unbelievable thing had happened many times, and Hopkins had said it many times, the Ripper appeared again, and several people just remained silent and thoughtful.

In the phone call just now, he did not say that the Pope was definitely dead, but used the ambiguous word "should".

The specific reason is that the room where the Pope is located is too strong, and it is difficult to enter without a key. The monks in the church discovered that the Pope had not moved for a long time, and after knocking on the door and there was no answer, they immediately After contacting the Inquisition, Hopkins has now ordered people to rush to the church with a hammer drill used to dig out underground rocks.

But to be honest, although the body of Nadine Bellew Pope was not seen, everyone knew that he was definitely dead in the house, just like all the murders in the past few months.

No matter how incredible it is, none of the targets targeted by the Ripper can escape.

Arriving at the church, under the leadership of several church monks, the three of them walked through the courtyards they had walked through before and arrived at the door of the Pope's room.

This is a corridor located at the edge of the church. At the end is Pope Bellu's room. At this time, both sides of the corridor are filled with monks in the church and the Pope's family members. They are divided into two rows, dividing the middle aisle. It was empty, and the security personnel of the Tribunal on the periphery all had gloomy expressions.

Crossing the crowd and arriving at the door, Sherlock tried to push it. Not surprisingly, the door did not move at all. And due to the demon sedative inside, there was no way to summon the contracted creature inside the door to help. He opened the door, so helplessly, everyone could only wait like this.

After a while, Natasha finally led a group of people to appear at the other end of the corridor. Those people were pushing a large trolley with a very visually impactful steel drill placed on it. This kind of machine usually It is used to dig underground rivers and penetrate mountains. Now it is used to deal with a door. The contrast is even a little funny.

Of course, no one dares to laugh now, no one even wants to get close to the room, maybe because they don’t want to destroy the crime scene, maybe because of fear, or some weird mentality that they don’t want to be contaminated by the curse, always, everyone Everyone was silent, watching the huge drill bit being carried to the door. Then after some operations, the steam turbine began to rotate, and the drill bit erupted with a huge roar.

After drilling for seven or eight minutes, a small hole was finally drilled into the door that could barely fit a human hand. After the workers moved the drill away, no one dared to touch the door. Dozens of pairs of eyes They all stared at Sherlock or Hopkins.

Because Hopkins is the main person in charge of the Ripper case, and Sherlock is a detective specially invited by the trial court. Although his task is to protect Miss Nightingale, he naturally has a very high level of concern for other cases. right to speak.

Any tiniest detail may affect the detective's judgment. Everyone present must understand this truth. Therefore, everyone is anxiously waiting for who among these two people can go over and open the door. Then confirm whether the pope inside is dead or alive.

Sherlock and Hopkins looked at each other.

In fact, as a rare genius in the Inquisition for decades, Hopkins should have been the first to bear the brunt of this kind of thing. However, in front of Sherlock, he still behaved well and showed the humility he should have. After all, He didn't think that he could be better than Sherlock in solving crimes.

So Sherlock naturally walked towards the door, smelling the burnt smell that filled the air due to the friction of the impact drill. He put his hand into the small hole, and then turned the door lock from the inside. .

"Click." There was a sound.

The door lock was unlocked.

As the door was slowly pushed open, the expected smell of blood spread across the room. The room was dark. Sherlock groped the wall next to the door and quickly found the light switch.

After a few flashes, the bright lights illuminated the entire room. In front of him was a small vestibule. Sherlock walked in, followed by Hopkins. In fact, this is the place where the Pope usually rests. The area is not large, with only one front hall. After turning a wall, there is the bedroom and dining room for daily sleeping.

And when two people turned around that wall

When he saw Nadine Bellew sitting quietly on a chair, the dining table in front of her was filled with some food that she had not had time to eat, as well as the head on the plate.

A sense of absurdity finally came to my mind very clearly.

[Case description]

[Pope Nadine Bellew was found dead in the church dormitory at 7:40 that night on the date written in the "Ripper Murder Notice". 】

[Cause of death: beheaded.]

"As before, it was an impossible event at first glance."

In the Whitechapel office, Hopkins handed a crime scene evidence collection report he had just written to Sherlock:

"I told you before, that Ripper is very evil and seems to be able to kill people under any circumstances.

You probably still didn't believe it at that time.

But now, you should understand why the Inquisition is so overwhelmed with several murder cases. "

Sherlock didn't speak, he just silently took the investigation report and read it.

In fact, there is nothing special about the entire report, because there is almost nothing special in the room where the Pope died, which makes the on-site report very concise.

The autopsy report has not yet been released, but as a doctor, Watson made an extremely accurate judgment on the spot:

[The deceased died between 4 and 5 pm this afternoon, that is, within three hours before the body was discovered. 】

[There is no problem with the cause of death. It was just beheading. The deceased was still alive when beheading. There is no possibility of slowly cutting off the head after death. Moreover, the place of death was in the room. This can be seen from the ceiling and the blood stains on the floor. After he came out and was beheaded, the corpse still spurted blood for a long time. 】

[The deceased entered the room at 1 o'clock this afternoon. After that, he locked the door in the room. In order to prevent anyone from trying to poison himself with poison gas, he blocked the guards in the corridor and turned the exhaust in the corridor to the maximum. The windows The fenders were also lowered. 】

[After Sherlock's on-site inspection, there was indeed no space for people to pass through in the entire dormitory. Let alone people, he couldn't even find a gap more than one centimeter wide. If he wanted to get in, there was only one way, and that was the Pope. His Excellency opened the door himself. 】

Sherlock quickly read these words and fell into deep thought.

In fact, he knew very well that this room was an absolute secret room.

There is not even a situation where the murderer took the key, went in, killed the Pope, and then used some mechanism to throw the key back into the room.

Because when he and Hopkins saw the Pope's body when they opened the door to the room, the door key that could not be copied was in the Pope's hand.

Hopkins also held an investigation report in his hand, but he could not read it as fast as Sherlock, and the reading process seemed extremely painful. He kept rubbing his head while reading.

"Hey, this is the third pope to die. If the case is not solved, I, the newly appointed presiding judge, will probably die to apologize." He muttered with a frown on his face:

"But you can also see that this kind of murder is simply impossible. Let me tell you, this Ripper might be a demon who suddenly evolved super intelligence in hell, and was immune to demon sedatives, and wanted to catch him. To keep it alive, you should quickly send people to the Holy Light Temple and ask the Holy Light to come and kill it."

He complained, but he also knew that the Holy Light Temple would not take any notice of the death of a few popes. With this helpless mood, he looked at Sherlock, but he did not see the frown on his face. look like.

At this time, Sherlock seemed to be staring at a photo taken at the scene with a thoughtful expression.

Hopkins came closer

"Did you find anything?"

Sherlock stared at the photo, thought for a while, and finally pointed to a corner of the photo:

"Look here. A fork on the dining table fell to the ground."

Hopkins looked at the photo. The angle of the photo was from the table in front of the corpse. There was some food on the table, and on the plate where the main course was usually placed was the head of Pope Beru.

At the edge of the photo, you can see that a fork has indeed fallen to the ground.

Hopkins stared at the fork, pondering it for a long time, and finally said doubtfully: "Excuse me for being stupid, is there anything noteworthy about this fork?"