Bad days as neighbors with Sherlock Holmes

"Yes," Elena replied, "he calls himself Linde, and he has a long scar on his face. He seems to know his mother."

She still remembered the man's paranoid expression when he mentioned the count and his mother Yvette, "He seems to know you too, father."

"The... marks on your face, did he do it?" The count lightly touched the red and swollen place on Elena's face, "He did it."

"He asked me to call him, um, his father," Elena stuck, and said a little embarrassedly, "I refused..."

Then he slapped her.

"You...forget it," the count gave Elena a complicated look, "I'll go out for a while. Don't move around, stay here, it's the safest place."

"Father, do you know him?" Elena looked up and asked curiously, "He seems to have a strange attitude towards my appearance."

On the way back, she had already told Holmes about the conversation she had in the basement, and Elena was even more surprised by this grievance between her parents.

"You look a lot like your mother." When mentioning this, the earl paused before uttering a sentence with difficulty, "and Linde, he used to be my friend."

"His feelings for your mother are more than that simple." He picked up the coat that was on the side with one hand, strode to the door, and said a few words, "I'm going to Scotland Yard. Come on The emotional grievances between generations should not involve you."

He and Linde... used to be quite good friends.

But that doesn't mean he can unscrupulously use this incident to hurt his daughter.

The count was quite aware of Linde's methods. Thinking of this, he probably knew what Elena had gone through.

Intimidation and threats have always been Linde's usual methods. If the thing in his hand is not lost, there may be more involved.

The count thought of his daughter who was smiling helplessly at him with half of her face swollen, and clenched the clothes in her hands tightly, the veins on the back of her hands bulged, almost bleeding from her palms.How dare Linde, how could he...

This despicable villain, what can't be directed at him?

No, someone should have let him out, and maybe held him.

If Linde came out by himself, then his first target must be himself, not Elena.

Thinking of the strange name that Elena mentioned last time, "Moriarty", the count firmly engraved this name in his heart.

He clenched his teeth, secretly thinking that perhaps all of Eileen's recent twists and turns had something to do with him.

But this Moriarty, does he know what he unleashed?

That's a complete lunatic!

"Wait," Holmes said, stopping him. "We still have some doubts to clear up. Besides, I think, if you really go, you will fall into his trap, Earl Molson."

The earl stopped at this.

"But if I don't go, I'll fall into his trap." He suppressed his anger with all his might, "What can't he do, this despicable bastard?"

"We don't know anything about him now, but what you have about him can make up for it," Holmes gestured. "At least he is now imprisoned in Scotland Yard, which is in the most closely guarded place, and there is no rush for a while. What's more, if you go now, if Scotland Yard can't stop his behavior, I'm even more worried about your safety."

The count looked at him, still a little hesitant.

"But he hit Elena... well, you're right," said the count, "what do you want to know?"

"Since you have been an old friend of him," said Holmes, "you must know him very well. What kind of man is he?"

The count turned cold, and he said through gritted teeth, "He's a lunatic."

A complete lunatic.

"I have known him since we were young," the earl recalled. "My family is very disciplined, and my father is strict and upright. But he has a father who spends his days and nights, and his father's illegitimate children appear in piles and piles. When I met him, Or at a dance..."

Elena quietly listened to this story at the side.

Since the memories of the past involve his mother Yvette, the Earl is reluctant to talk about his past. Most of the past things in the Countess' memory are learned from the old housekeeper. This is the first time she has sat down seriously. , to listen to the Earl tell about the past.

At that time the Earl was not yet an Earl, he was still a boy under the discipline of his father, who had to work hard every day, and only occasionally took a break.

It is a state of laziness that is often unable to lift up the spirit.

When the Earl met Linde, he was secretly sleeping in a corner of the garden.

He was impatient to deal with those things, and he didn't want to see his father's harsh eyes, so he simply hid.

Then he was hit on the head by a stone that jumped out of nowhere.

The count exclaimed in pain, and found a young man lying on the wall on the upper right, looking at him with a smile.

"My name is Lynd," he said, "the youngest son of the family. Who are you, lazy man?"

"Klein, Klein Molson," the young earl replied, "how could you hit me?"

After holding back for a long time, he spit out a sentence, "You are too bad!"

This non-aggressive sentence made Linde laugh out loud.

Then the two became friends for some reason.

Their personalities are not the same. Although Linde was born in a loose and dissolute family, he is a serious and cautious guy. Calculate.

However, the earl was so well protected by his family that he struggled every day to figure out how to be lazy, what to eat at night after drawing...

Three years later, the Count's father died, and he had to support the family himself.

But the Earl's luck has always been good.He published articles, participated in competitions, entered associations, and successfully received many projects after his debut in the construction industry. It can almost be said that the wind was smooth, but at this time he received a letter from Linde.

His mother was seriously ill, but his father ignored him.

Linde wrote in the letter that he would take his mother to the countryside to recuperate.

The earl wanted to share the joy with his friends, but he didn't expect this to happen.

He had no choice but to put down what he was doing and bid him farewell.

"It happened when he came back from the country," sighed the Count, "and he didn't look like him at all."

Linde returned to London because his mother died.

But at this time, his father was having fun with Xinhuan in his arms, without any sadness.

"I happened to inherit the title at the time," the earl said. "I never got involved in other people's housework, but I felt that Linde was not in the right condition, so I accompanied him back home."

At that time, Linde's father and Xinhuan were lying on the soft couch, making fun of and laughing, even to the juniors.

Hearing the news of Linde's mother's death, he just let out a monotonous "Oh".

"That boring and stereotyped woman is dead," Linde's father raised Xinhuan's chin and smiled indifferently, "Are you happy?"

The woman giggled, "Happy, very happy."

"Then the next day, I heard about Linde's father dying on the bed with his new love," the earl said, pausing for a while.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he said shyly, "I'm a little thirsty."

Elena straightened her clothes, and wanted to get up to get the count a glass of water, but the count held her down.

He looked at Holmes.

Holmes raised an eyebrow.

He got up to pour a cup of tea, when the Count coughed again.

"I went to ask Linde what happened," said the count. "He just told me that these two people should die."

He recalled Linde's expression at that time, almost feeling a little sad again.

It can be said that Linde admitted frankly that when he was in the country, he accidentally got a stone that could manipulate people's hearts.

And this is how he manipulated his father and lover to kill each other until they both died.

"But...you can't kill people!" The earl couldn't help but watch his friend fall into the abyss, he grabbed Linde's slender arm, "Wicked people will always get what they deserve, why bother to dirty your hands. "

At that time, he almost realized that Linde had become so thin.

Linde snorted coldly and shook off the earl.

He laughed sarcastically, "What do you know? You don't know anything... My mother was tortured to death by these two beasts!"

His father admitted that he had mixed poison in Linde's mother's diet.

Linde asked sadly, "What retribution? I don't believe it, I only do what I can do. Don't you think it's ridiculous to persuade me with such things after you haven't experienced it yourself? You're just a honeypot The bastard in the middle—you don't understand me, Molson."

"Then you parted ways and stopped seeing each other?" Elena asked.

The count shook his head and took a sip of water.

"He came back to me the next day and told me he had a bad attitude," he said, "and begged me not to speak about it."

"You promised him?" asked Holmes, almost sharply.

The count nodded, "I promised him, on the condition that he never use this thing again."

He let out a foul breath, "This is the worst decision in my life. He didn't stop, but went further and further down this road. I'm easy to deceive, I always knew this, and he knew it, so he Just hid it from me."

"Father, how did you know?" Elena asked, "Did your mother tell you directly?"

Then the count reached out and rubbed Elena's hair.

His tone softened again, "In the following years, I got to know your mother. Not long after we fell in love, Lin De, who had been estranged from me for a while, suddenly told me excitedly that after so many years, Finally found my muse."

"I'm also very happy. He gradually alienated me after his father's death. Even though he apologized to me later, we were not as close as we were when we were teenagers. He later indulged himself in the field of love," the earl said, " I told him that I also have a lover and that I will be with her for the rest of my life."

The estranged, almost estranged friends reunite after many years.

The two made an appointment for a meal, and the earl invited Linde to come and see his lover, and proudly told him a lot of secrets about pursuing his sweetheart.

"After I brought him to meet Yvette," the count smiled wryly, "it seemed like I was stabbing him with a knife. It's a pity that he was a little late."

He continued, "He almost left on the spot, showing no mercy. I wanted to explain, but Yvette held me back."

The curtain outside the window roared, the pendant holding down the curtain was blown wildly by the wind, and the sky became overcast.

"She said, 'He's a bad guy,'" said the count. "Yvette has her own people, and she has her own unique sources. Then she told me about Linde's evil deeds over the years, and I found out that The person who was hostile to him had an accident and lost his life almost in no time. I never interacted with him again, but he seemed to think that I abandoned him and took revenge on me."

"Is that scar from that time, mother scratched it?" Elena asked softly.

"He told you this?" The count said in surprise, "Yes, yes."

"The day Yvette and I got engaged, I didn't send him an invitation," he continued, "but he came anyway. He took me straight from the wedding reception, hung me up and threatened Yvette to give me up. Get engaged to him and leave him, or he kills me. Yvette... pretended to agree at the time, and after he put me down, I started fighting with him."

"Did he not resist with that special 'power' of his?" asked Holmes.

"Linde used this ability on me," the count replied, "for the first time I know what kind of thing it is. The 'stone' he holds in his hand all the time and is about to merge with him can create a Create an illusion, and then affect the emotions of the people present. At the same time, those who face him will be dragged into the illusion he created, infected by his emotions, and behave differently from usual, but Yvette said this The premise is that his own consciousness must also be in it. I... I am relatively lucky, although I have learned all the necessary things since I was a child, and I can use a gun, but I have never dueled with others, and I am relatively slow."

He scratched his face in embarrassment, "He brought me in with Yvette, and then in the illusion, he blamed the natural death of my mother and father on Yvette, as if expecting me to die when I was insane. What to do when it's clear. But he overestimated me..."

In fact, the earl was indeed affected and lost his mind, but he was pushed down by Yvette before he could fight with Yvette.

Linde, who was pretending to be the butler to fan the flames and wanted to see a joke, got nothing, but was slashed across the face by Yvette.

"Then Yvette brought me out," said the count. "I also knew at that time that Yvette also had a similar stone in her hand. She told me to leave it alone, and she would deal with it."

"And then?" Holmes asked, "Lind went crazy, and he began to take revenge on you by any means."

His guess was confirmed by the Earl.

"It was a particularly difficult time," said the Count, "but then it seemed that Yvette had found another person with something similar, and Yvette told me that she joined forces with another woman to put Linde in a special ' madhouse'."

He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a silver chain with a black stone of unknown material strung on it.

"Yvette took off her piece before... before leaving," the earl said with a choked voice, "She said that if something happened, or if Linde escaped, she would go to Linde with the bracelet. "

"She told me how to behave in the world, what words to remember, and how to treat my daughter. She...she said that even if she left me, she would always be with me," he said in a low voice.

Elena was taken aback when she saw this stone.

"Wait a minute," she said.

Elena ran upstairs and took off the necklace she put in the box.

She took off the bell that was on her bracelet again.

"I took the bell off once when I was a child," Elena explained. "It contained the same stone, but it was smaller and had a neat section. If the original size should be like this—"

She took the jewel out of the Eye of Horus and put the stone back in the bell.

Something wonderful happened.

The gem gradually lost its original color and merged with the stone, turning into a dark lump.

The count almost held his breath, watching the scene in front of him.

"But, the one in Yvette's hand was given to me," he said after a while, "where did you get this one?"

The author has something to say: I know there is something wrong with the heroine!Everyone has problems!This is a foreshadowing, sister!Please see it!

The front has been laying the groundwork everywhere, I can't spoil me qaq

The direction is not gradually fantasy, and this is not as simple as "Linde got a special ability"