Sherlock Holmes

"I do."

A very simple answer.

People will say this word at weddings; people will say this word in contracts; even before you are imprisoned, blindfolded and shot, or tied up and executed by lethal injection, whether you want it or not, you will say it. I do'.

This is a promise that means you are willing to do something and are willing to be responsible for the follow-up of the matter.

In fact, commitment and gambling are similar to a certain extent. Someone may be able to open a crack in the void, but no one can predict the future, so some people will get divorced, some will break the contract, and some people will verbally agree to the death penalty, but they also cry bitterly on the execution ground. Runny nose.

In the hospital bed, this old man who wanted to save the world had no idea what impact his decision would have on the entire world.

Anyway, he is willing.

Soon after, he closed his eyes and passed away forever. Beside his bed, there were still information about experiments and unfinished complex data.

These were preserved as peerless treasures by later generations.

But no one paid attention to it. Next to his bed, there was an almost torn detective novel - "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes".

This is the old man's favorite book. When he has nothing to do, he will pick it up and flip through two pages. This can help him reluctantly break away from complex thinking and get a short rest.

In short, this old man died, and the surviving human alliance held the grandest funeral for him. On that day, the last city of mankind was full of sorrow and pain, and people remembered the wisest man in the world. The old man, at the same time, was also crying for himself, because if the old man died, who else could complete the cracks in the void.

Just as the old man said during his lifetime, his brain was taken out after his death, installed into an artificial sun, and launched into the sky. The super-powerful brain was combined with the machine, and countless active neurons were thinking in the unnecessary universe. Moving and running, it has no eyes, but it always looks down at the earth and the sun, protecting mankind from disaster.

It is worth mentioning that his body was not cremated, but was carefully preserved.

Lilith once told Sherlock that after the void crack plan was shelved, humans have thought of many ways to continue their race, and the most important one is artificial embryos.

Human genes are extracted and artificially cultivated in underground embryo factories. Those with defects are thrown into the cracks in the void, and those without defects are sent to the homes of their gene providers to be nurtured and grown up.

The old man's 'escape from time and space' has been stranded forever because of his death. There is no successor, so————

If his genes were extracted and a person as intelligent as him was cultivated again, could he continue his experiments when he grew up?

Although it sounds a bit unrealistic, it seems to be the only way.

As a result, the old man's body was cut and decomposed, and countless embryos were sent into the artificial womb. After nearly a century of continuous cultivation, almost all the embryos were abandoned due to maturity disorders, and the remaining fully developed embryos were Because biological tests did not find that their brain reaction abilities were different from ordinary people, they were all terminated before maturity.

During this period, countless manpower and material resources were wasted, but other than that, people could not think of any way to escape from this world. Anyway, this is it, [Time and Space Escape Completion Plan] year after year, in It goes on in secrecy.

Finally, one day many years later, when the experimenters were checking the development status of another batch of embryos, an abnormality report of one embryo suddenly came into view.

During the gestation process, this embryo showed incredible neural activity. In just 3 months, it had synaptic responses, and thought waves could be detected before the five senses were formed.

Although it is hard to believe, it seems that an unparalleled genius is gradually emerging.

At this moment, the entire laboratory was infected with sudden joy, and people began to cheer. Years of hard work seemed to have finally been in vain, and the future of mankind was finally saved.

However, no one thought that a visitor from another world would rewrite everything.

That person appeared extremely suddenly. He fell from the cracks in time and space, and then set off huge waves in this world that was almost collapsing. He was like an unrivaled monster wreaking havoc in the city. Humans' high-intensity weapons can't stop him at all. Some people even suggested that this monster just wants to go back, so let him go back, and just ask him not to stay in this world anymore.

No matter what era, human society does not advocate the courage of ordinary people, but if the lethality of an individual exceeds a certain threshold, then even the hatred of generations can be given up.

Dante Alighier is such a single individual who should not exist in any world.

He is obviously not willing to just return to his original world. Now that he is here, he needs to know more things, and this man with too strong combat power has some kind of stubborn loyalty to human beings, of course, the human beings in his world. , he is the kind of terrifying existence who is willing to sacrifice himself, and even others, for the beliefs he protects.

So, he lurked in this desperate world for a year and seven months, and investigated many things. During this period, he also became acquainted with a young ordinary citizen, who lived in his house for more than half a year. time, and left a lie that deceived that person for a lifetime.

Dante said that he would come back and save mankind.

But he did not tell the other party that the humans he wanted to save in his heart were only humans who existed on the other side of the rift in time and space and lived during the Holy Calendar.

In his heart, the people of this world are already destined to be extinct.

In short, this loyal human guardian sneaked into the embryo factory one day, found the experimental area of ​​the "Time and Space Escape Completion Project", and tore the undeveloped embryo container that carried the hope of mankind from the incubation machine. Come down and smash it ruthlessly.

At the same time, he stole a female fetus that had infinite regeneration due to mutation.

Of course, the reason why he didn't smash this embryo was entirely because he was interested in her healing ability. Crossing the gate of hell is a very dangerous thing. With this little guy, he might be able to save his life. .

In this way, Dante shattered one hope of mankind and stole another. The next thing that happened was that he returned to the gate of hell and became a monument to protect mankind in the empire.

As for the female fetus, maybe because of his soft heart, or because he pushed the humans in another world into the abyss of complete death, he did not do anything to the fetus, but one night, he put it In front of an ordinary couple, many years later, this baby grew up into the great Lord Nightingale.

He thought everything would end like this

However, Dante did not know that even after he jumped into the rift of time and space, mankind in the desperate era still did not give up the pursuit of hope.

They looked desperately at the ruined embryo factory, looked at the mutated embryos that had been stolen, and desperately picked up the half-developed babies who were thrown to the ground and were dying in the artificial amniotic fluid all over the floor. The roar, the anger, the pain.

Despair but not complete despair.

At this moment, the human race's tenacious belief in survival broke out again. They put the dying baby from the "Time and Space Escape Completion Plan" back into the training chamber. Due to serious injuries, the baby could no longer maintain life for a long time. There may be several He will die in an hour.

But the experimenters forced the government to put the embryo into the time rift.

They actually made a desperate and desperate attempt to use the ability of time and space cracks to mutate living things, hoping to keep this baby alive.

No matter what he will become, whether he will lose his human form and become a monster, no matter what, it is better than watching him die like this in the laboratory.

Even if he survives, it will probably affect his brain development. It is unknown whether the magnetic field in the time rift will destroy his thinking ability and turn him into an idiot, a madman, or a stillborn child. Even if he does survive, he will not be able to survive. Know when he can return to this world.

But people still persist, hoping that as long as there is even a one-in-a-million chance, they will not give up.

In this world, all people survive tenaciously by adhering to this belief!

So the embryo was put into the breeding warehouse. The day after Dante traveled through the rift in time and space, he was thrown into the rift in time and space. There was no wind blowing through the yellow sand and fallen leaves, no coldness on the banks of the Yishui River, and even no heroes. Looking back at death, there was only one infant who was not yet fully developed. With the expectations of the whole world, he was sent into the time and space tunnel of a narrow escape and came to the Antarctic continent more than 800 years ago.

In the ice and snow, the training chamber fell into the white snow. Perhaps the baby was extremely lucky and was not distorted by the power of time and space. Perhaps he had undergone some kind of mutation, but it had not been revealed yet. In short, she closed her eyes , floating quietly in artificial amniotic fluid.

A demon came over. He was attracted by the shiny round metal object on the ground. He picked it up and played with it for a while, then threw it into a gap between the bones of his body, and soon forgot about it.

In the next six months, this demon, like all other demons, wandered around aimlessly, joining a group of mindlessly running demons in a daze, wading through mountains and rivers in the chaotic group consciousness, and crossing the Redeker Strait. He was killed again at the gunpoint of a group of encircling soldiers.

And that embryo, protected by the powerful and solid material of the 800-year-later culture cabin, naturally withstood the baptism of artillery fire. When cleaning the battlefield afterwards, it detected the human heartbeat and successfully opened the hatch.

At this moment, the child finally let out his first cry as a human being.

Not long after that, the second demon invasion war was victorious, and the entire empire was celebrating the return of the soldiers. A soldier with a less important name returned to the hinterland of the empire and his hometown holding a baby that was just a hundred days old. London, but he is not the kind of literary young man who just picks up a child on the battlefield and entrusts it with him for the rest of his life. He can't even figure out how this child survived on the battlefield.

But obviously, it is no longer practical to find his parents now.

So the soldier sent him to an orphanage outside London.

This child from another world gradually grew up in this way. As originally imagined, he had a genius-like thinking ability since he was a child. He had no parents and naturally had no name.

The orphanage will give children a name when they are one or two years old, but this boy is different. He seems to dislike the names given to him by others.

Finally, on a very ordinary rainy day, he said a name to the grandmother who was watching over him.

【Sherlock Holmes】

Grandma felt very strange, because very few children could say a complete name at such a young age. Most of them were still in the stage of babbling. Even if they could spit out a name, then I didn’t know where I heard it, and then I subconsciously learned to pronounce it.

However, there is no one with this name in this orphanage.

Even in this world, no one knows what such a name means.

Even the child himself doesn't know.

It was in the coordinates of his life that he had traveled for 800 years. Among the genetic fragments that could not be explained by modern technology, his overly developed brain seemed to be able to vaguely remember his previous life, or the one who was about to save mankind 800 years later. In The Desperate Genius——My favorite book. The name of the protagonist.