"The Widow" Bertha

A blaze lit up London's underground waterways.

Bertha chose to go on the ground, and it was enough to send a few boys down the road to burn the farm.

The underground laboratory on the map is located near the shipyard, and there is no one at night.Thomas led people to find the entrance to the underground waterway, and then came back to report to Bertha.

"Italians are supposed to go underground," he said, "there's nobody guarding the top. But that means it's not easy for us, ma'am."

Bertha, on the other hand, specially changed into men's clothing for the convenience of movement. The suit and trousers outlined her tall figure, but Bertha had no intention of concealing her gender identity. She just bundled her thick black hair high on the back of her head Tie a ponytail, capable and neat.

Hearing Thomas' report, she nodded with her hands behind her back: "Send someone to run errands and go to Pall Mall."

Thomas nodded: "I see, the Scotland Yard side..."

Bertha: "Just tell Mycroft. He will know what to do when."

Don't report to Scotland Yard now, since Bertha "played" Inspector Lestrade with her double identity before, let me know in advance, Bertha thinks the Inspector will definitely jump out of her bed on the spot and bring someone over to arrest her .

Thomas: "I see, let's go in then?"

Bertha: "Go."

Enter from the underground waterway of the shipyard, only 300 meters away from the laboratory on the map.

This means that Bertha and Thomas were exploring the way ahead, but after walking for about 3 minutes, they had to order all their men to extinguish the torches and hold their feet.

Fortunately, the Italians do not intend to play in the dark.

The cramped river bank is wet and sticky, with seven turns and eight turns, passing through the wide and narrow roads, and then the eyes suddenly open up.

The Italians used arc lamps to completely light up the laboratory, and with the roar of several generators, the scene under the circular dome was as bright as day.

The entire underground building is like an indoor colosseum, with a total of three floors.

Bertha sneaked in quickly with the Thames boys, and everyone dispersed on the third floor. During this period, Thomas quietly knocked out three or two Italians who were patrolling on the third floor.

Marco Esposito himself stands in the middle of the second floor.

In front of him, the first floor of the laboratory was not a flat ground, but a pit about three meters deep. Bertha saw Katie and...an animal that looked like a lion bound by an iron cage at a glance.

Thomas: "Then what the fuck is that..."

Needless to say the second half of the sentence, he understood it himself.The blood on Thomas's face faded away at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

He managed to hold back the physiological reaction of nausea this time, and lowered his voice: "Ma'am!"

Bertha: "I know."

When Bertha saw the "lion" clearly, she felt a buzzing in her head.

Trouble.

The best course of action would have been to assassinate the Italian, but now Katie was at stake.

Trying to assassinate Marco Esposito makes it impossible to quietly save Katie, and vice versa.

Holmes on the side said coldly: "Shock east and west."

At the critical moment, she couldn't allow her to think too much.

Bertha issued an order almost immediately: "Thomas, you and Holmes go to rescue Katie, and the rest follow me!"

Speaking of which, Bertha held up the gun and pulled the trigger toward the ceiling——

Loud gunshots suddenly exploded in the closed room.

The next moment, Marco Esposito turned around.

"Italian bitch," said Bertha, seldom swearing, "I want you to die for my boys!"

The four eyes met each other, and Marco Esposito burst out laughing when Bertha turned to aim at his own gun.

He opened his arms, as if to meet Bertha's attack himself.

"finally come."

Marco laughed.

"I have been waiting for you, my dear Lady Thames."

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand: "Bruno, let it go!"

Hearing this, the Italian butler immediately opened the mechanism at hand.

The iron cage in the dead man's pit was unlocked immediately, and the "lion" came out.

On the second and third floors, Mrs. Thames' boys quickly started a gun battle with the Italians, while Thomas Thames and Sherlock Holmes circled below the scene of the fire.

"then!"

Thomas raised his hand to take the thing Holmes threw, and he took a closer look and found that it was the end of the rope.

Sherlock Holmes looped the rope around the dynamo above the death pit with great skill, and held it tightly in his hand.Thomas understood immediately, and wrapped one end of the rope around his waist.

"Hold on," said he, "the lives of both are in your hands, Holmes!"

"pass it to me."

The young man stopped talking, turned around and jumped.

He stepped on the wall of the deep pit and slid all the way. As he got closer to the deep pit, Thomas only felt that the lingering depression and nausea in his heart became stronger, especially when his sight touched the creature——

In this direction, he could just see the front of the "lion".

The dark, broken face was only left with a black hole and a bloody gap. It had no eyes, but it raised its head because of Thomas' movement.

The moment the "sights" met, Thomas Thames felt that the remaining blood in his body was frozen.

It felt like the air around him was completely drawn away, the walls of the deep pit were twisted and deformed, and they collapsed towards him from all directions——

Then, a clear, young girl's voice cut through all the darkness and despair.

"Thomas!!!!"

Katie looked up.

Thomas Thames came to his senses almost at once.

He took out his gun from his waist, and with the power of the rope around his waist, he stepped on the straight wall with his feet, holding the gun in one hand, and stretched out his other hand towards Katie on the pile of bones: " Come!"

Katie just shook her head: "Go, it's too late."

Thomas was unmoved.

"Come," he said firmly, "jump over—Holmes!"

When his words fell, Holmes on the second floor immediately dropped the generator cover at his feet.

There was a mind-numbing sound of metal scraping the slate, and it hit the "creature" who was trying to locate the two living people in the pit.It let out a growl, and Thomas snapped, "Katie, jump over and I'll catch you!"

Katie stared blankly at the young man who was only one person away from her.

He was hanging in mid-air, the red scarf swaying slightly with his movements, and the gloves of the same color were stretched towards him. Under the daylight-like light, he looked handsome like a hero only in folklore.

In those stories, the commoner heroes wandering in the woods and the market will always fall from the sky to save the girl they love.

But Katie is not the chaste, innocent and harmless good girl in the story.

She was... bruised, bloody, and dirty, and just falling over the pit felt like breaking a bone, and Katie didn't think she could do it, even if it was that, that close.

She couldn't even stand up.

But Thomas Thames was unwavering.

"Katie," his icy blue eyes were full of seriousness, as if promising, as if pleading, "jump over, and I'll catch you."

The monster behind him fell into a rage.

Katie took a deep breath.

Yes, she is not the good girl in folklore who can reach the happy ending with the hero, but Katie wants to live.

From the ghetto to the red-light district, she has come so, so far, and Katie has seized every opportunity to survive.

She couldn't miss it this time either.

In the end, Katie, who was lying on the rotting corpse, still tried her best and stood up tremblingly.

Along with the sound in the death pit, the lion-like creature finally found the right direction.

Katie took a limping step towards Thomas.

She smelled the rancid air from behind almost instantly, the creature opened its mouth, and the heat was getting closer and closer, and Katie could even feel the wind brought by the huge creature raising its sharp claws——

Immediately afterwards, Thomas' legs slammed into the wall.

A strong arm wrapped around Katie's waist.

—Monster, Katie, and Thomas, so close at one point that they were no more than half a foot apart.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

One, two, three shots exploded in Katie's ears.

She closed her eyes tightly, but the pain she imagined did not happen.

Roaring, roaring, and then the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, followed by an unexpected silence in the pit.All Katie could hear was her own heartbeat and the sound of her breathing blowing in front of her face.

Katie slowly opened her eyes.

A pair of very shallow, very shallow, as light as ice blue eyes are close in front of you.

Thomas Thames held Katie tightly and smiled.

"Look," he whispered, "I've got you."

***

But a few meters above their heads, Mrs. Thames and the Italians had an extremely tragic clash.

The gunshot from under her feet made Bertha look down at the deep pit, and her heart was finally relieved after seeing the monster fell to the ground.Leaning behind the cover, she curled her lips and said loudly, "Thomas has saved Katie, we have no scruples!"

This statement certainly gave the Thames boys a boost of morale.

However, just when Bertha was about to plan a complete counterattack, before she showed her face, the boy who was still staying on the third floor suddenly shouted: "Ma'am! Come, come, it's... it's the army!"

Bertha: "..."

army? !

She had thought that Mycroft Holmes knew when to inform the police of the gang's fire, but she never expected that the army would eventually come!

This was heard not only by Bertha, but also by the Italians.

Through the bunker, Bertha clearly saw the sudden change in Marco Esposito's face. He didn't even want to fight anymore. He grabbed his housekeeper's skirt and ran away!

"Damn!"

Can't let him get away.

If you run away this time, whether you will be troublesome or not is not a matter of course, the point is——

Bertha must personally avenge those whom the Italians killed.

"Don't resist!"

She said loudly: "When you see the army, put down your weapons immediately, don't resist! You, and you."

Bertha quickly ordered a few boys around her, and while shouting for her men to surrender, she loaded her own pistol.

"Come with me," she said coldly, "to catch up with the Italians, Marco Esposito will definitely die today."