"Thanks to you, the case has finally been resolved smoothly, student Xiaoying," William said to Du Ruoying after bandaging his right hand, "I haven't been able to have a peaceful meal today, since the travel restrictions have been lifted now, how about Just let me honor my promise and invite you out to dinner?"

"Okay." Du Ruoying nodded, "After all, you will be locked into the system soon, and if that happens, you will no longer be able to invite me to dinner."

"You are as confident as ever." William smiled. "Don't you feel any guilt after you just announced such a cruel truth?"

Hearing this, Du Ruoying fell into a brief silence.

"Ah, back to the light side," William said, "so where do you want to eat?"

"Hmm..." She pondered for a moment, then replied, "I want to go to the Yunding restaurant in Beiyu Center Building."

"Okay, let's go then." He promised very readily.

Under the leadership of Du Ruoying, the two came to the tallest skyscraper in Beiyu City - Beiyu Center Building, also known as Yu Tower.This building is located in the most prosperous central area of ​​Beiyu City. Looking up, the slender curved volume nearly 400 meters high reaches the sky, and the transparent glass curtain wall covers it, emitting candle-hued colors in the night sky. Gloss, like a gigantic miracle.

After entering the building, at the elevator door, William suddenly stopped: "Sorry, I don't really want to take the elevator."

"...?!!" Du Ruoying was stunned, "Then do you want to climb the 78 stairs on foot?"

"Why don't we eat somewhere else?" He said with a faint smile.

"Are you afraid of heights?"

"That's not it," he said. "I'm just considering the accident fatality rate for equipment like elevators—"

"Ah, you don't have to worry about that at all." Du Ruoying pressed the up button and said, "I know that elevator safety devices just appeared in your era, so there were still a lot of fall accidents. But today's safety technology is already very advanced. And the popularity is very high. Last year, there were 49 elevator accidents in our country, and the death toll was 37. Only half of them were passengers, and most of them were caused by illegal operations during the elevator failure. In this elevator In the era when it has become popular, the fatality rate is one fortieth of the probability of being struck by lightning based on the total population, so you can rest assured.”[1]

"Since classmate Xiaoying said so, that's fine." Looking at the slowly opening elevator door and the two-square-meter silver metal space inside, William dispelled his doubts and walked in with Du Ruoying.There was a beautiful line of French written on the red carpet under his feet, the numbers on the ink screen in front of him were constantly beating, and the entire interior space exuded an obvious sense of luxury, which made him smile: "It seems that classmate Xiaoying is really You want to kill me, this place is not cheap."

"Don't worry, I will eat you seven or eight thousand at most, and I will save some living expenses for you." Du Ruoying said, her eyes casually glanced at the corner of the elevator.

"What's the matter, judging by your expression, it seems that something is on your mind?"

"No...it's nothing." She quickly withdrew her attention and saw that the screen showed that she had reached the 50th floor.So she reached out and pressed the button on the 80th floor, which is the top floor of the entire Beiyu Center Building. There you can overlook the night view of the whole city.”

"Okay." William nodded, "It must be beautiful, the night view of this city."

"Yes, it's beautiful..." Du Ruoying lowered her head and said.

This is a beautiful city, so I will never allow you to continue to destroy it.

Bewitched by the dream of Big Ben before, she naively thought that she could do something that even Sherlock Holmes could not do—to use the weapon of law to give Moriarty the correct sanction.

Really, so naive...

After all, it was her innocence that killed so many people.It was she who put this demon who was good at demagogy into this world, it was she who caused him to be able to enter Beiyu University, and it was she who taught him to use chopsticks and natural gas, which caused so many people to die It was her who failed to give him the most fatal blow on that most successful night, just because she was afraid that the person punished by the law would become herself.

It's all her fault...

She kept asking Holmes what she should do, but she forgot that Holmes had given her the answer at the very beginning—that was Reichenbach.

In other words, it means "to die together".

The two people who came out of the elevator hall walked to the edge of the apron against the strong wind.Under the dark blue night sky, strings of warm orange street lamps weave the city's road network into delicate golden necklaces, and the undulating buildings are like huge gemstones in various colors, against the black background , more and more blurred and gorgeous.

"Ah." Du Ruoying suddenly let out a short cry.

William followed her gaze and found that her mobile phone had fallen beyond the railing.She crouched down, trying to retrieve it, but just couldn't reach it.

"I was really careless." She looked at him pitifully, "I planned to take a picture with my mobile phone, but my hand slipped and fell off."

He shook his head and smiled at her and sighed: "It was really careless, but fortunately it didn't fall, otherwise it would definitely be smashed to pieces."

"Yeah," she tried to reach for the phone again, "but I can't get it back now."

"Let me try." William also leaned over and stretched out his hand, but still couldn't reach it, "It seems that we can only climb over the railing to pick it up." After finishing speaking, he propped himself up with one hand, and quickly jumped over the railing.

"Well, be careful."

William squatted down to lower his center of gravity. He grabbed the railing beside him with one hand and carefully moved to where the phone was, while slowly stretching out the other hand, trying to reach it.

He glanced down inadvertently, and suddenly saw the terrifying abyss-like scene at his feet - under the nearly 400-meter-high building, the endless asphalt road looked like a model toy, too small to be real Feeling, but faintly exudes some kind of terrible visual gravity, as if trying to drag him down.Driven by the instinct of fear of heights hidden deep in biological genes, his legs could not help but tilt slightly.

At the same time, Du Ruoying also held the railing with both hands behind him, and quietly climbed over.She rushed towards him quickly, wanting to die with him.

Unexpectedly, he seemed to have noticed it a long time ago, and he completely avoided her with just a quick dodge.However, Du Ruoying completely lost her center of gravity. She felt that her feet were suddenly empty, and her whole body was immediately pulled down by an irresistible force.

The feeling of falling lasted less than a second before it was over, and it was Moriarty who stretched out his left hand in time to catch her.She looked up at his kind face, her heart still beating wildly.

"Does Xiaoying want to repeat Reichenbach?" He smiled, "But, don't forget, a person can't fall twice in the same place."

Seeing that he didn't intend to pull her up, nor did he intend to let go and ruin her life, Du Ruoying couldn't help showing a puzzled expression.

William continued to explain: "Student Xiaoying, although I know you are very reluctant, but I have to remind you that you have only two options now - first, if you don't want to continue the game, I will not force you, I will choose Let go, and then go back to the system to wait for the next player; second, if you want to continue the game, then here, with this mobile phone, do the task of false fire alarm."

"If you want to do a task, then you have to pull me up first." Du Ruoying said displeased.

"I have observed carefully these days. A mobile phone is a device that you can operate with one hand, so in my opinion, it is more appropriate for you to complete this task now."

"What if the phone falls in the middle?"

"So, unfortunately, I can only let go."

"You..." Du Ruoying couldn't help but feel angry at his indifferent attitude, but the current bad situation forced her to calm down quickly.

It stands to reason that she should choose to give up the game. This is a correct sacrifice, but it is also a meaningless sacrifice.This evasion just turns another innocent person into a second player.

and so--

"Then please hand me your phone," she said.

William was not surprised by Du Ruoying's answer.He had known for a long time that she would definitely choose to continue the game.It seems that he is giving her room to make choices, but in fact, every step she takes is completely within the scope of his calculations.

Yes, that's right, like the filaments of a puppet, controlling her every thought and every movement.

William picked up the phone with difficulty and handed it to her, and said, "By the way, let me give you another friendly reminder—after you complete task three, it's best to agree to task four right away."

"What?!" This guy actually sits on the ground and raises the price!

"Is this a matter of course?" He sneered, "Think about it, once task three is completed, I will disappear, so who can pull you up, right? So, only you accept task four , to ensure that I have enough time to save you."

This is the truth...but why does this truth make her sound so unhappy...

"Okay, I accept." Suspending in mid-air for a long time caused her arms to become more and more sore, and she couldn't help frowning.

She took the mobile phone with one hand, quickly dialed the fire alarm number according to the requirements of task three, and reported the fake fire alarm in the department building of the School of Architecture of Bei Yu University.Task three is complete.Immediately afterwards, she accepted Mission Four, preventing Moriarty from disappearing.

Seeing that she obeyed his instructions obediently, he smiled with satisfaction, and then pulled her up.

"Okay," William raised his hand to straighten her skirt, and said, "Let's go down for dinner, don't you want to kill me?"

Du Ruoying calmed down and dispelled the dizziness in front of her eyes. In the blink of an eye, she saw his bleeding right hand, and also saw the railing behind him that was also stained with bright red blood. It seemed that in the process of saving her, the wound on his right hand Cracked badly.

It turned out that when he was negotiating with her without changing his face, he was still suffering from such severe pain at the same time, and she didn't notice it at all.

What a terrible endurance!

Seeing that she was looking at his wound, William couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth slightly. His expression was so indifferent, as if it wasn't him who was hurt, but someone else.He took off his tie silently, performed a simple hemostatic bandage on the wound, and then hid his right hand in his trouser pocket.

"Let's go and have dinner together." He stretched out his left hand to invite her, "I just want to see what a restaurant that can cost me a month's salary would look like.

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