Mary's Nineteenth Century

At 17:54, the carriage stopped in a dead alley.

Walking ten meters inside, there is a closed wooden door on the left hand side, and there is a faint light from the windows along the alley.

Emily was helped out of the car by Steve, "Thank you, this is it. Finn doesn't look like he's home yet, the three gentlemen, please sit in the house."

Whether it is Mary or Mycroft, if they usually help a pregnant woman with a sprained ankle, they will not personally escort them. They would rather pay for a car to take them for a ride, and it is even less likely to go to the home of a stranger who is being helped.

But today is stinging.Even though both of them played the roles of injured people, they still followed Amy Le into the door.

Steve, who played the role of the coachman, declined to sit in the house with him, saying that he would just stay at the door.

This is like undoubtedly arranging the sticky hair cap on the head, one stroke with the left hand and one stroke with the right hand.The representative code remains the same: "Manpower is in place all around."

get inside.

This rented house is not big, and the kitchen, living room, and bedroom add up to more than 20 square meters.There is no separate bathroom, so it is easier to see that there are no Tibetans in the room.

Regardless of the foot injury, Emily insisted that she was much better after resting for 10 minutes, so she made tea for the two of them with hot water simmering on a low fire. "There is no good tea at home, please don't dislike the two gentlemen."

"Thank you."

Mary would never touch the cup on the coffee table, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the tea. Under such circumstances, who can guarantee that the tea is non-toxic?

Mycroft looked around, whether it was teacups, trays, vases, etc., all the fragile objects were new.

Brand new like it was just started yesterday.Then contact Amy Le's finger scratches, how many utensils in this room were smashed?It seems that Emily's cohabitant is in a bad mood.

It's right to be in a bad mood.

Recently, the news has been overwhelmingly reporting that the murderer of the crow is a coward. It is logical for me to become more angry after reading it.

In the living room, it was quiet for a while.

Emily looked at the clock unnaturally, and there were still 6 minutes until 18:[-], the agreed time.

Unlike the last time when little Ralph's convoy was lured into the mountain hut, when little Ralph's chattering made her bored, now she was sitting on pins and needles feeling unwell.

4 minutes is very difficult.

Amy Le was even more anxious because the two people on the opposite side didn't touch their teacups, even if they took a sip of symbolic courtesy.If they can't be stunned, can they be tied up smoothly?

Don't panic!

Amy Le sat on the soft chair for one person, subconsciously touched the armrest of the chair with her right hand.

别忘

Lucien had already made a big killer and hid it in the cushion of the soft chair. She had used it before, and the power of that weapon was not small.

Tick, tick.

The hands of the wall clock moved slowly, and the time passed by every minute.

18:02

Emily stared at the wall clock uncontrollably. Why has Lucien not come yet after 2 minutes have passed since the agreed hands-on time?Could it be that something went wrong when dealing with the coachman?

At this moment, there was a bang bang bang outside the door, followed by a man's yell. "Ah! The coachman is..."

What is a coachman?

The man groaned before he could finish speaking, because his mouth was gagged.

Amy Le immediately prepared to take out the big killer in the cushion of the soft chair, because Lucian outside needed her.What do you want her to do?Her body moves faster than she thinks, and she wants to rescue the trapped Lucian anyway.

At this moment, she thought very simply, the two men opposite were both injured.The other with a broken foot was more manageable than Mycroft with his hand in a cast.Then hold people hostage and take them as hostages.

Thinking about it, Emily glanced at Mr. Minton unkindly.

Still, Mycroft was on the lookout.As soon as she saw Emily's malicious eyes towards Mr. Minton and her tendentious behavior, she kicked over the coffee table in front of her without hesitation.

In an instant, the solid wood coffee table and two cups of hot tea were kicked away, and they ran straight towards Amy Le.

Everything happened too fast.

In the blink of an eye, Aimile got the stick-shaped killer with his right hand, but before he could stand up, he was knocked to the ground head-on by the flying coffee table.There was no way to avoid it, his hands hurt, and Hei Buliuqiu's stick fell from his hand and fell to the ground.

Mycroft breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the sharp weapon on the ground was not a gun.Otherwise, facing the risk of shooting at close range, it really cannot be said that the two of them will be able to retreat unscathed.

"what--"

Emily screamed out in agony, seeing that she had lost the weapon, she was about to crawl to pick it up.

This time, I didn't cover my stomach in a fake way. The part of my stomach that seemed to be pregnant was flattened strangely, and the bulge actually moved down by three centimeters.

Needless to say, the cushion Emily wore to pretend she was pregnant has shifted.

Mary had a heavy cast on her feet, and it was true that she could not walk dexterously, but she still had flexible hands.

With a quick swipe of the cane, the stick-shaped sharp weapon rolled a little further, and Amy Le Wuda no longer touched it easily.

Then, Mary took a pair of handcuffs from her pocket and threw them to Mycroft, "You may need them."

why

Does anyone carry handcuffs with them, or are they lighter than the police handcuffs on the market?

At the moment, Mycroft didn't disperse his associative power, and quickly stepped forward after taking the handcuffs.Handcuffed Emily who was struggling, and pulled a napkin to cover her mouth.

At this time, the door was also knocked open from the outside.

Steve, disguised as a coachman, rushed in first, and he was relieved after seeing the situation in the house.

He immediately caught sight of the black stick on the ground, and even though he was always smiling, his face turned darker.

2 minutes ago, he and his colleagues outside almost fell because of this unknown substance whose roots would discharge electricity.

"Great, the two of you didn't get hurt by this damned discharge stick."

Steve said, "The man outside also took control, missing two fingers on his left hand. He used this kind of electric baton to attack us."

Mary looked at the shape of the stick. There was a copper wire at the top, and the body of the stick was mostly wrapped in rubber.This thing looks shoddy, but it is also a new invention that has never been seen before - it looks like the first generation of electric shock rods.

Even if the power, stability, shape, etc. of this electric baton cannot be compared with later generations, but in the era when dry batteries have not yet appeared, there are still a few people who can come up with this new invention.

Lucian showed a talent for electromagnetism in his youth.

Jeff made such a correct judgment, and today's electric baton just verified this guess.

Mary did not rush to pick it up with her hands, but found a dry ceramic basin, and picked the electric baton into the porcelain basin with a cane.

"Mr. Steve, I will take this electric shock baton home and study it. As for the interrogation of the two suspects, I will thank you."

Don't talk about taking the murder weapon privately, this is no longer a case under the jurisdiction of the Berlin police, and there are not so many rules and regulations in this era.

Of course, Steven wouldn't say much, anyway, there is still an electric baton that allows him to go back to work.

"Mr. Holmes, I will go home and wait for you."

Mary picked up the porcelain basin with one hand, but glanced at Mycroft's right foot.This person kicked the solid wood coffee table, wondering if his toes would hurt?

Obviously, this is not the time to ask such personal questions.

The crowd left in an orderly manner.

Mary drove away alone, and could vaguely hear the movement of the suspect being escorted behind her.

Soon, the streets were deserted.

There are only wheel marks and some messy footprints on the snow.

The interrogation did not last too long and ended in less than two hours.

The murderer did not refuse to speak, in order to prove that he did not

Like the coward who hides his head and shows his tail in the newspapers, he also explained the whole crime process quite complacently.

That is almost in line with previous speculation.The principal culprit, Wanda Lucien, a Frenchman, was severely irritated, as presumed, by losing a finger to a war wound.

He felt that the fingers playing the piano could be exchanged for weird wings, but most people couldn't see the black feather wings on his back, which was also called phantom limb disease.At one point, he was consulted in a mental hospital, but received electric shock therapy without improving his symptoms.

In order to verify the relationship between wings and missing fingers, he first tricked the delirious old man and the vagrant who could not resist, and performed amputation and electric shock experiments on them.

The bones in the basement of the abandoned church and the blood used to paint the graffiti were extracted from the bodies of these victims.

For Lucien, the results of the human experiments couldn't be more obvious. He is the only human with the wings of God.

The donkey, black cat, dog, and rooster were successively killed, these four animals with symbolic significance.In the process, no one has been able to see through the behavior that stopped him, which made him more sure that he was different, and that he was a man destined to embark on the road of revenge.

"After the evolution of Lucien's crime pattern, the reason for the first choice to kill Ralph is very simple."

Mycroft, returning home from the interrogation, outlined Lucien's statement.

"In addition to the sensation that little Ralph was killed, there is also a personal grudge between Lucian and him. Three years ago, little Ralph humiliated a violinist that Lucian admired very much."

Yes, sometimes the justification for committing the crime is simple.

As for the accomplice Lily Emily, she and Lucian are old acquaintances who have known each other for five years.The two met in a cafe in Paris, France, Lucien was a customer, and Amy Le was a pastry chef who had a crush on him.

At the beginning of this year, Lucien broke his finger on the battlefield, and Amy Le took the initiative to take care of this regular customer.Under Lucien's deliberate seduction and brainwashing, Emily thought she had obtained a deep love, so she embarked on the road of accomplice to murder.

At this point, the truth of the whole case came to light.

"I guess you will ask Lucian why he chose to abandon the basement of the church. According to his confession, he randomly found a suitable corpse dumping place in Berlin based on his childhood memories. The deserted church is very suitable."

Mycroft said that in addition to the abandoned church, Lucian also confessed to other dismemberment sites and locations of electric shock victims.Not only in the city of Berlin, but also in the surrounding area.

As for the original scarab pattern on the wall in the basement of the abandoned church?

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Foot expressed regret, "When Lucien entered the abandoned church, the patterns on the basement walls had weathered and fallen off. He didn't have much deep memory of what he saw and heard when he entered with the expedition company 15 years ago. In his words, It was just a basement with some bug patterns, nothing special."

Yeah?There has been a fire in an abandoned church, and there has been a fire in the archives of the University of Berlin.There are traces of the Scarab Society in both places, is that also a coincidence?

It is impossible for Mary to draw conclusions based on Lucien's few confessions, and a trip to Baden-Baden during the Christmas holiday is imperative.

"Thank you for your report. In any case, the Lucien case is closed."

Mary didn't say much about the scarab, and changed the topic, "Then I should go back to my home tomorrow, and I want to say goodbye to you."

Mycroft: The case is solved. It's normal to move away. Is there any excuse to live together?

Mary didn't seem to want to make excuses at all, and the matter of sharing a house turned the page here, and she went straight to chatting about Christmas.

"There are still eighteen days until Christmas Eve. The Christmas holiday of the university is earlier, and I am going to go to Baden-Baden on the edge of the Black Forest for vacation. Hot springs, forests, casinos, and garden restaurants are really a good place to enjoy, isn't it ?"

Having said that, Mary glanced at Mycroft's right foot which had just kicked off the coffee table.

She smiled and asked: "Are you interested in going to relax too? I haven't thanked you for your timely action today to prevent possible harm for me.

As a token of my thanks, I invite you to soak in the hot springs.Don't think the gift is too small. The spa in Baden-Baden is famous in Europe, and many famous people have visited it. "

"Mr. Minton, you are too polite. It is only my duty to cooperate and catch the murderer."

Mycroft immediately declined and went to a hot spring vacation together, which would have deviated from the original intention of keeping a distance.He felt that he could still stick to rational principles, and going to Baden-Baden was absolutely impossible.

What's more, can office workers compare the length of the Christmas holiday with students?

Mycroft considers himself far from being a good employee who takes time off as he pleases.

"Thank you for your kindness, but the embassy's vacation is not long, and I don't want to waste a few days of vacation on the road. I wish you a pleasant stay in Baden-Baden."

"That's such a pity."

Mary had expected this answer, and she didn't intend to instigate Mycroft to skip work at will.

It's a pity and it's a pity, without this person, the fun of the journey will be a little less. "Let me thank you again when I have a chance, Nati

Merry Christmas to you before. "

**

Time flies, ten days in the blink of an eye.

These days the newspapers are full of follow-up news about Lucien's case, but under the insistence of Mary and Mycroft, these do not focus on the two of them.

On December 12, the university began its Christmas break.

Mary left Berlin in a carriage early in the morning, and would arrive in Baden-Baden in five days.

To be honest, she didn't know what clues she could find there.Even if you can't find it, it's not all a waste of time.As she said before, at least she had a comfortable vacation.

When someone leaves Berlin, someone comes to Berlin.

Seven o'clock at night.

After dinner, Mycroft was about to find a book to read, but he heard a messenger from outside.

It is His Excellency Matthew's special messenger, who came here from London thousands of miles away to deliver the letter.The messenger didn't say much, and handed a document bag to Mycroft himself, and he left without staying for a second.

Mycroft signed for the paper bag and trudged up the stairs a little.I don't know if it was superfluous, but when he received a letter from His Majesty Matthew, he had a bad premonition.

Open the document bag and read it quickly.

There is only one piece of letter paper, and the content of the letter is very brief.Matthew expressed condolences first, and then quickly clarified the mission.

"My dear Mycroft, this is a matter which should not be publicized. The son of a great man in London has 'lost' a family keepsake in the famous leisure palace in the town of Baden-Baden.

You know the rules of the casino, there is no way to redeem things directly with money, you can only win it back by following the rules.Since you're in Germany, drop by and use your math talents to play in a casino session.

Please don't thank me too much for fighting for this public holiday for you. See the appendix for details.Note: The betting money has been sent out in the bag, please use the £[-] money order to your heart's content, and it will be yours if you win. "

For a full minute, Mycroft held the letter without moving his fingers.

It's too outrageous, and the content of His Excellency Matthew's mission is even more outrageous.

Why should he be entrusted with the personal task of cleaning up the mess for the son of the rich and powerful without a long head?Did he care about the commission, or did he handle little Ralph too well?I didn't see that little Ralph was killed, so I shouldn't continue to use him like this, right?

Or something else, something odd about Baden-Baden.

Mycroft flicked through the remainder of the briefcase.The information mainly introduces Leisure Palace Casino

, The distribution of forces in Baden-Baden Town, and did not mention other tasks.

Everything looks very ordinary, this is just a private commission that cannot be rejected.

If there is a hidden secret, you need to discover it by yourself after arriving in Baden-Baden.Now I really want to say quit, but the cunning messenger has already slipped away ahead of time.

Immediately I remembered Mr. Minton, who should have already set off for Baden-Baden for vacation.

Mycroft thought of the scene where the two met in the small town not long after, and he slapped himself in the face, so he couldn't say anything.

At this moment, when I read His Excellency Matthew's letter again, I suddenly had a feeling.

Doesn't Matthew have some kind of weird talent, like is he the reincarnation of Cupid?