Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Werewolf?

This Thriller's Dark Creature Actually Appears in a Mirror?

No matter from which angle you look at it, it looks like the conjecture of the client.

Since the strange talk about peeling an apple in a mirror began to spread widely in early October, the number of cases related to it has risen sharply.

Edwards' detective agency received 35 related commissions in just half a month, and the clients were all terrified by the blurry images that appeared in the midnight mirror.

In the dead silence of midnight, the candle is dark, standing alone in front of the mirror.

With a knife in one hand and an apple in the other, a person peels the apple with concentration and anxiety.

The zero o'clock bell struck.

The bell broke the dead silence, and also called to stop the movement of the person in front of the mirror.

His hand trembled suddenly, thankful that the apple skin was not broken, and curiously and uneasily peeked up at the mirror.

"The environment is extremely dark and the atmosphere is highly tense."

Edwards gave a reasonable guess, "In that case, people are prone to hallucinations, commonly known as scaring themselves. If you look at the mirror carefully, there is no virtual image in it."

For the previous 35 cases, the detective agency inspected the client's room in detail, and tracked and observed the state of the client after he was away from the mirror, and determined that the so-called blurred virtual images were all conjectures.

"Basking in the sun and moving the mirror out of the room, those people quickly calmed down."

Although Edwards was sure that the previous cases were suspicious ghosts, he did not empirically believe that the werewolf in the mirror this time was a similar illusion.

Edwards noticed a special difference, "In the past, it was a vague virtual image. Ask those people what specific characteristics the so-called destined lover has, and they can't say a word. But this time, the werewolf is more concrete. Lake Miss Qian can roughly describe his, oh no, it or her general appearance."

At the moment, Edwards is unable to determine the correct pronoun for the werewolf.

It is even more impossible to judge whether a werewolf is male or female, and whether it belongs to the animal kingdom, chordate phylum, mammalian primate, human family, hominin, hominid, Homo sapiens?

This is an extremely complex scientific question.

However, there must be reasons why things are abnormal.

Kelsey read the dossier, and Lexie who reported the case verified the apple-peeling experiment at a vacation home outside Chicago.

"Is it far from Lexi's villa to Orr's farm?"

"It's not far or near. It takes about an hour to ride a horse."

Edwards understood Kelsey's implication, "According to the servant's testimony, Ms. Alyssa's plan before she disappeared last year was to go from Chicago to Al's Farm in the suburbs."

Fetch the map.

Edwards marked three locations, the three points are not on a line, they form a triangle.

As shown in the picture, assuming Alisa takes a regular route from the city to the suburbs, she will not pass through Lexie's villa.

"Nevertheless, there have been strange phenomena before and after in this area."

Sherlock pointed out that the outskirts of Chicago are farms and ranches. The land is sparsely populated, and there are large tracts of farmland, pastures and woods.

"Ms. Alisa's statement mentioned that she fled to the woods, the hunter shot her dead, and then she danced with the dwarves in the woods, trying to stop but couldn't stop."

Part of Alisa's description is similar to the content of the "Snow White" story.

Among them, the image of the woods matches the topography of the outskirts of Chicago, so it cannot be ruled out that Alisa went to the woods in the suburbs after her disappearance.

Last year, "Snow White" was staged, and this year, the destined lover who appeared in the mirror was a werewolf.

It was as if a sealed door had been opened, allowing creatures from another world to haunt the outskirts of Chicago.

"You might as well give us the Lexie case."

Kelsey proposed to Edwards to investigate the two cases together, "Although Snow White and the werewolf do not belong to the same fairy tale, the werewolf appeared in "Little Red Riding Hood", and the two stories were included in "Grimm's Fairy Tales."

"Then please both of you."

Edwards handed over both Lexie and Alisa files.

He accepted Moran's photo and dug three feet to dig out the second-in-command of this huge criminal group from Chicago.

Before leaving, Kelsey especially told Edwards.

"If you find any traces of Moran, or any news related to the "Magic Mirror" operation, please proceed with caution.That's a dangerous guy, and an excellent shot. "

"I know." Edwards looked at Moran's ferocious expression in the photo, "There is no harm in getting involved with gangs. You should also be careful. When Alisa disappeared last year, there were four followers by her side. The high probability of her shooting is a criminal gang."

Chicago suburbs.

The route stretches across fields of golden wheat and through fields of dark green pastures.

Kelsey and Sherlock came to Lexie's house amidst the cries of cows and domestic pigs.

If there is no werewolf incident, this country house located among trees and shrubs is a good place to enjoy the natural rural scenery.

Country houses are simple in structure.

A total of three floors, five rooms on each floor.Some can be exposed to direct sunlight, and some can see dense trees when you open the window.

"It's the room on the third floor."

The client Lexi received two detectives.

Even though Lexi was frightened by the phantom of the werewolf four days ago, she didn't directly flee back to the city.If she doesn't find out what's going on, even if she stays away from this villa, she still won't be able to sleep at night.

Also staying at the villa were Lexi's parents, and temporarily hired several ranch employees as guards.

"After the incident, no werewolves were found in the past four days."

Although Lexi stayed in the villa, she did not continue to live in the room where the accident happened.

I saw that the vanity mirror was broken all over the floor without sweeping it, trying to keep the original appearance when the incident happened.

Sherlock entered the room first and found another mirror in the room.

The full-length mirror is inlaid on the large wardrobe, and the dressing table, large wardrobe, and windows form an included angle.

Go to the window.

Two meters away, there is a row of tall camphor trees.

Kelsey put the prepared half-length mirror on the dresser.

She took a seat at the table and asked Lexie how she was sitting that night.

"Yes, this is the direction."

Lexie adjusted the orientation for Kelsey, "Two candles were placed on the two corners of the dressing table. When the clock struck zero, I looked up and saw the werewolf's face in the mirror."

At that time, Lexi picked up a candlestick and threw it at the mirror.

"It's terrible, he, it, her? Well, it's a wolf-headed face with a big mouth, as if it's going to rush to the mirror and swallow me up in the next moment."

"After that, you picked up the candlestick and smashed it at the mirror. Why didn't you just throw the apple in your hand?"

While Kelsey asked Lexie, she stared at the mirror in front of her, and saw that the mirror reflected a corner of the big wardrobe.

"I'm not stupid. Apples and paring knives, they can't smash a mirror."

Lexi expressed that fear did not affect her intelligence, "The candlestick is different, it can instantly shatter the magic mirror, preventing the werewolf from getting out of the magic mirror."

Kelsey smiled, should she praise Lexie for her fearlessness in the face of danger, or should she say that she has too many brains?

At this moment, Sherlock walked back to the wardrobe from the window.

He opened a wardrobe door, the one with the full-length mirror.

No words needed.

Kelsey raised his left hand and gestured slightly, and Sherlock adjusted the angle of the mirror of the wardrobe.

At this time, the dressing table mirror and the wardrobe mirror form a new angle.

I saw that the mirror of the dressing table reflected the scenery outside the window, which was the crown of the tall camphor tree.

"I'll go out and see."

Sherlock said and went downstairs directly.No need to ask, what I was looking at was of course the camphor tree that appeared in the mirror of the dressing table.

Kelsey asked Lexie, "Did you make sure the mirrored wardrobe door was closed that night?"

"Is the mirror door closed?"

Lexi couldn't remember clearly, she stared at the camphor tree in the mirror: "This is the third floor. Do you suspect that what I saw was a werewolf on the tree? God! I remember that wolves can't climb trees."

Kelsey said solemnly, "Yes, wolves can't climb trees, but God didn't say werewolves couldn't climb trees.

Miss Lexie, I think the werewolf climbing up the top of the tree outside your window at midnight is more believable than the way you summoned the werewolf from the magic mirror by peeling apples and peeling them. "

Lexie: Mr. Detective, your bad jokes are really cold.

"It's even scarier if werewolves appear in the trees."

Lexi felt sick and had goosebumps all over her body. "It appeared in the magic mirror, and I smashed the mirror. But it was alive and squatting on the tree, spying on me when I didn't know it."

Lexie had countless associations in an instant, "Oh my God! I wore a red dress that night! Did the werewolf think of me as Little Red Riding Hood? Want to eat me? Or, instead of eating food, it wants to..."

Kelsey interrupted Lexi just in time, "It was the last quarter moon four days ago, and it is said that werewolves would be bloodthirsty and violent on the night of the full moon.

Miss Lexie, from this point of view, the werewolf outside your window that night did not attack humans frantically.Do you consider yourself lucky in this regard? "

Lexi was speechless for a moment, and she also forgot the fear of werewolves. She had to think about which angle it would be better to slander Mr. Detective.

Kelsey: No matter how outrageous what she said, the reassuring effect is immediate.

But did werewolves really appear in the trees?

Outside the house, Sherlock climbed up the canopy in twos and twos, and crawled on the branches to search.

He found no trace of the animal's sharp claws, but a few twigs had been crushed, and the leaves showed signs of being trampled at this location.

There were never complete footprints on the leaves, but some soil stains.

"Judging from the color of the soil, some soil stains come from the woods."

Sherlock returned to the room where the accident happened, and brought not only the leaves covered with mud, but also a bunch of brown hair.

This tuft of hair is about two fingers long.

It was stuck on a branch, most likely left by a werewolf while crawling.

"Not the texture of normal human hair."

Sherlock initially judged from the appearance, "The hair is hard, close to the feel of animal hair, but I have never been in contact with this type of animal hair. Some are like human beards, but a little harder than that."

Kelsey took off his gloves, took the hair and felt it, and shook his head. "I haven't seen it either."

The unknown hair made Lexi take two steps back.

Her face was a little pale, but Shinobu maintained her rationality, "It's this color! I'm sure the werewolf I saw in the mirror has brown hair."

While Sherlock went up the tree to investigate, Kelsey had already drawn a sketch of the werewolf's portrait.

In the mirror, the werewolf stared at a pair of dark green eyes, with a long face covered with brown hair.

As for whether there is bloody mouth?

Under Kelsey's careful questioning, Lexie admitted that she didn't see it clearly, and she made a speculative inference-thinking that werewolves are cruel, and cruelty means coming to eat her.

The werewolf's nose is also not obvious.

It doesn't mean that the nose is flat. There is a protruding nose-like part in the middle of the face, but it is covered by brown hair and cannot be seen clearly.

Among the facial features, Lexi also didn't see the so-called upright wolf ears.

She could only see the eyes clearly, and the other eyebrows, ears, nose, and mouth were all covered by the brown-haired face.

Then, search the surroundings of the villa for signs of werewolves.

There were no giant animal paw prints walking barefoot, but several sneaker prints with unfamiliar sole patterns.

Different from the tall and mighty werewolves in the usual impression, the size of these shoe prints is on the small side, one size smaller than Lexi's shoe size.

What kind of werewolf is this?

From "Snow White" where Alisa was forced to act, to "Little Red Riding Hood" where Lexie's magic mirror appeared, could it be that the dark version of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" has invaded the real world?

Sherlock doesn't believe in such absurd things. The possibility of dark monsters appearing in real life is even lower than turning men into women.

What?How to explain what had happened to his dear Jerry?

The next moment, Kelsey felt a gaze locked on him.Ask Sherlock directly, "What kind of eyes are you looking at?"

"Can't you see?" Sherlock said confidently, "I'm looking at the unique Mr. Bennet."

Kelsey: Could she be too stupid to hear anything weird.

It is certain that Tom is about to expose her disguise, but which method will he use?Maybe another gamble?She is still looking forward to it.