Sherlock Holmes

"???"

This sentence made the already quiet and empty vault become even more silent. Some people even felt that they had heard wrongly and began to look at each other. Hopkins also came over with a very incomprehensible expression:

"The people from the Tribunal are right outside the door. Do you want me to call them over?"

This sentence was already very cryptic, but you could still hear that he couldn't accept the cause of death at all. He even wondered whether Watson had made a mistake, but he also felt that this doctor could become Sherlock's assistant. Even if he is not a monster, he should be an extremely terrifying figure, which makes his tone reveal a self-contradiction.

Of course, Watson didn't care that Hopkins questioned his autopsy ability, because at first, he found it incredible, so he stood up and looked at the corpse with some doubts:

"I am very sure that the deceased died of lack of water, malnutrition, and organ dysfunction. Judging from the physical signs, there is no doubt that he died of starvation. A person should only live for about a week without eating or drinking. , a trained person should be able to live for more than 10 days. Obviously, our banker is not such a person.

Of course, to be on the safe side, I also recommend sending your people over to examine the body. "

As he said that, he turned his head and looked at the box of food in the corner of the vault. He felt that this man's death was even more strange than the Pope's death a few days ago.

After Sherlock heard the cause of death, he came directly to the box of food. In fact, it didn't take too keen observation to find that the box was a cardboard box that could be seen everywhere. It was about one meter long, wide and high, not too big. , but not too small, enough to hold an adult’s food and water for ten days.

At this time, the cardboard box was in an open state. When I came in just now, I could see an empty biscuit packaging bag thrown away not far from the body. Obviously, the deceased had taken it out of this box. Passed some food and ate it.

However, I just took out the small bag of biscuits.

After that, for unknown reasons, the deceased stopped taking anything from the box, whether it was food or drink.

All the things were placed on the ground, but the banker was unwilling to eat the contents even if he died of hunger or thirst.

Just when he was wondering, Hopkins also came over, leaned over and opened the paper shell on top of the box, then took out a bottle of water inside, unscrewed the lid, poured half of the bottle onto the ground, and then He took out another apple that was a little dry, and when he exerted force on his hand, the apple was crushed into pieces. It could be seen that it was just an ordinary apple.

Everything is normal.

Hopkins took a few deep breaths, then called several of his judges and ordered them to take away the food inside and examine it carefully to see if it was poisoned or something.

In fact, he just wanted to find some clues blindly, because he knew that there should be no problem with the food in the box. As mentioned before, these things were only moved into the vault by the banker after being inspected. Yes, the ones who inspected the food were the Tribunal personnel sent by him. He didn't think anyone could secretly poison the food under the hands of these professionals.

"Is there a high probability of poisoning?"

Sherlock asked suddenly. It seemed that he was also thinking about this question, but his tone was more like a teacher asking a student than asking.

"Not big, you can even say not." Hopkins said: "But apart from poisoning, I can't think of any other way to murder.

So, we can only simply speculate based on poisoning.

But something doesn't seem right, because even if it was poisoned, the deceased should have been poisoned to death, not starved to death.

Could it be that in the bag of biscuits that the deceased ate, there was some kind of poison that would make it impossible to swallow food, such as the kind that would swell the throat and make it impossible to eat at all?

But even if you can't eat, you can't even drink water.

And judging from this box of food, after the deceased ate the bag of biscuits, he never touched the rest of the food. He never even did the act of 'trying to see if he could eat something'."

Sherlock nodded, seeming to agree with Hopkins' statement.

"What did you think of?" Hopkins asked.

"I'm just thinking about it for the moment, maybe because there is medicine in the bag of biscuits that can make the deceased fall asleep to the point where he will not wake up even if he starves to death." Sherlock said thoughtfully: "But this and My observations are contrary to this, because this guy obviously had a lot of activity in the vault, which can be seen from the wrinkles on his clothes."

As he spoke, Sherlock pointed to a watch thrown on the ground not far away:

"That watch was worn by the deceased when we first came here. It was worth a lot of money. The deceased often wiped it. It can be seen that he took great care of the watch. But now the dial has been smashed. Because of the For some reason, I threw it out with great force.

There are also some scattered books in the surrounding areas. It can also be seen that the deceased once threw things around crazily in this empty vault. "

"throw things?"

"Yes, it can be seen from this scattered distribution and the parabola without any arc. When the deceased threw these things, he used extremely hard force, as if he saw something terrible in the vault. .Then because of fear, he desperately picked up everything he could touch and used it to hit the opponent."

Hearing this, Hopkins seemed to have thought of something: "You mean, the deceased was poisoned by some kind of poison that could cause him to hallucinate. For example, he thought that the box of food was a bird emerging from a crack in the void. The devil?

So out of fear, you throw things at the non-existent illusion. Likewise, you don’t dare to approach food for fear of being bitten to death? "

In fact, from a purely theoretical perspective, this conjecture is valid.

But the details are untenable:

"According to my understanding of hallucinogens in the empire at this stage, there should be no potion that can keep people in hallucinations for 10 consecutive days." Sherlock said quietly: "And even if the Academy of Life Sciences has researched such a thing , then it would be better to poison the target directly, why waste time and effort to make him hallucinate and starve himself to death."

Indeed, the idea of ​​[causing the deceased to hallucinate] is untenable. In addition, the vault is always filled with demon sedatives. Therefore, it is impossible to use the strange abilities of some demons to cause hallucinations in people for 10 days. things.

After hearing Sherlock's denial, Hopkins became decadent.

"Two died within 10 days." He grabbed his hair in pain. Maybe at this moment, he had the idea of ​​​​resigning.

Sherlock looked at Hopkins. He had known this person for a long time. Although he could not be called a friend, he still had a good relationship. Seeing him in such distress, Sherlock sighed and comforted:

"By the way, judging from this situation, the stage actor who hid himself is probably dead.

So...not two people, but three people."