Mary's Nineteenth Century

When Mary and Mycroft returned from their sunset walk to the Forest Court, the atmosphere became very strange.

The coachman was in a hurry, and was about to open the gate to look for someone in the forest when he met two people who had just returned from a walk.

"God! The two gentlemen are finally back. Go and have a look, that witch doctor Guru, oh no, he should be called Wright. The fake witch doctor Wright was bitten by a poisonous spider he raised, and it is extremely dangerous Probably dying soon."

what?

Just went for a walk for an hour, how did the situation change suddenly?

This is simply too surprising.

"You said it was a fake witch doctor."

Mycroft caught the coachman's words. "How do you know?"

The coachman shrugged, "Wright said it all himself. He blew up a lot of things, and his mind is no longer clear."

Mutations come quickly.

When the fake witch doctor had an accident, because the sound insulation effect in the basement was exceptionally good, other people on the ground could not hear the cry for help in the first place.

The attendant Felix was in the medicine field, and the rich French businessman and his party stayed in another brick house.The coachman and guide who came with Mary are in the kitchen, already preparing today's dinner.

When he heard the strange movement in the underground, the attendant Fei Lige was the first to rush over, but he was faced with the situation that the basement door was locked from the inside and could not be rescued.

"We were all outside the door, kicking the door and looking for tools to pick the lock together, when we heard the terrified confession coming from inside."

At that time, the coachman heard the fake witch doctor begging for mercy like crazy, and his words were upside down, but he was able to straighten out what he said.

The fake witch doctor called himself Wright, and escaped into the Black Forest three years ago after being chased by debt collectors.At that time, he was attacked by wild beasts, and later he was rescued by the witch doctor Guru, and then he lived here and became a servant.

"According to Wright's words, he turned out to be a pharmacy clerk, who made the patient's condition worse because of the wrong medicine. Both the pharmacy and the patient's family filed a claim against Wright, and he fled."

The coachman shook his head while talking, he didn't see anything wrong with the witch doctor at all.

After Wright was taken in by the witch doctor Guru, he was responsible for receiving patients who came to the witch doctor for consultation. After a long time, he also got a glimpse of the doorway of one or two psychological healing techniques.

It was a nursery rhyme that moved him to kill.The witch doctor Guru sometimes reads the nursery rhyme of the red shoes, and Wright peeked into the analysis in his notes, discovering a certain secret.

The specific secret was not revealed by Wright, who was madly confessing.

he just yelled

He said, 'I didn't mean to kill you, I just drugged you because I wanted to find the treasure, and I wanted you to tell the truth.How could I have thought that you would wake up halfway, I stabbed you twice out of a sudden. '

The six people including the driver, the guide, and the servant Filige were all stunned outside the door, but the voices in the room were getting quieter.

After more than ten minutes of hard work, a group of people finally rushed through the basement door, and the face of the fake witch doctor lying on the ground was already ashen.

In the basement, glassware and all kinds of bottles and jars were broken to the ground.

Wright turned a blind eye to the six men rushing through the door, his right hand black and swollen.His eyes widened straightly, as if he was looking at the ceiling, and he seemed to see some old ghost who died under his hands.

"Then, Felic saw a slapped dead spider in the broken glass."

While the coachman was talking, he had already walked to the building where Wright was. "We carried Wright to the consultation room together, and the guide gave him a general examination. Wright was already exhaling more air than inhaling."

According to the symptoms of the fake witch doctor and the status quo of the basement, it is not difficult to judge that a poisonous spider biting happened inside.

After being bitten, Wright stumbled and rummaged through the box, with a bitter taste of medicine left in his mouth.That thing might have strong hallucinogenic properties, but it doesn't have much curative effect on poisoning.

In the consulting room, the fake witch doctor was laid flat on the ground.

At this time, his face was extremely pale, his mouth was slightly open and he wanted to speak, but he could only hear the difficult breathing sound of '嗤嗤' in his throat, and it was difficult to utter a normal syllable.

Mary glanced at the dead spider corpse in the glass bottle.

It is almost half the size of an adult's palm. It looks like an Australian funnel spider, but not exactly. It may be a mutant species.Judging by the size of its fangs, it is of the same origin as the spider that killed Bell.

"Filig, don't you know that there are spiders here?"

Mary's first concern was a serious question.Fake witch doctors used to control poisonous spiders, but now that Wright's underground laboratory is in chaos, who can guarantee that there is only one poisonous spider here?

"During the process of moving Wright, are you sure that no second poisonous spider escaped?"

"Oh! my God!"

In the consultation room, a wealthy French businessman wailed, "Please don't tell horror stories, we won't be so unlucky, will we?"

If it wasn't bad luck, how could he meet a fake witch doctor when he asked for medical treatment?

The rich businessman really wanted to leave immediately, but it was dark and he was walking in the black forest

It's not safe either.

The servant Felic who was named also had a pale face.It has been more than half an hour since the mutation, and his brain is like a mess.

"I don't know, I really don't know. I know there's a basement under the consulting room, but I've never been allowed in, don't know what's in there."

In this regard, it is common for guides who walk in the wild to have a little knowledge.

"I observed the broken glass jar. It can only be said that according to the habits of ordinary spiders, there should have been a poisonous spider in the basement."

What if it goes beyond common sense?

None of the people present wanted this possibility to happen, but they all raised their vigilance.

Mary didn't skimp on providing a special bug repellant.After that, what should be checked still needs to be checked.

Mycroft had not lost sight of the object of his trip, which was to find Dealer Singer and the stolen pocket watch, which would surely require a thorough search of all the rooms of the fake witch doctor.

"Wright, you killed the croupier Singer, right? In order to plunder the antique pocket watch."

Mycroft tried to interrogate Wright, but the other party had no way to give a normal response, only the 'chi chi' panting sound in his throat became more rapid.

If possible, Mycroft hoped to suppress the spider venom in Wright, so that people could explain the cause and effect clearly.However, he is not good at treatment, and he also knows that there is no known specific medicine for this kind of poisonous spider.

Maybe there is a recipe.

Wright must rely on something for daring to raise poisonous spiders. The residue of the medicine in his mouth shows that he drank the antidote he thought he had, but the medicine obviously failed.

Why did it fail?

Mycroft thought of a possibility, "The real witch doctor Guru, did he leave notes on the treatment plan? You didn't fully understand the formula. Where is the note? Did it mention how to configure the antidote?"

"Ah-"

Wright still struggled to say something, but no more sound came out of his quivering lips.He tilted his head, and he lost his breath.

There was a moment of silence in the consultation room.

The fake witch doctor really died, died of spider poison and eventually died of respiratory failure.

Mary broke the silence, "According to the time of poisoning, this man saw Death 10 minutes later than the drug dealer Bell, and his random medication is not without effect."

If the witch doctor was not killed, would he come up with an antidote that could successfully restrain the spider venom?

However, there is no such if.Wright killed the real witch doctor, and since that day

It is doomed that he will pay the corresponding price in the end.

"Mr. Minton, would you like to go down and have a look?"

Mycroft didn't want to deal with chores like collecting corpses, and now it was more important to restore the incident and find out the valuable clues that the real witch doctor might have left behind.

"Of course, I'm with you."

Mary had a vague guess that she might know why the poisonous spider would bite its owner back.

The two of them took a dozen extra kerosene lamps down the stairs to illuminate the basement as best they could.

The house was in a mess, but it was still possible to find an unusual thing among the fragments of the glass cylinder used to house the spiders—a fragment of a pillow cover with a strange pattern.

Mycroft's eyes darkened immediately.

This pillow cover was temporarily lent by the false witch doctor to Mr. Minton's so-called dream aid.It turns out that the terrarium in which the spider lives is enough to show that Wright is uneasy and kind.

"That's right, most things are not coincidences."

Mary used tongs to remove the pillowcase fragments, "I sprinkled a lot of insect repellant on it, and returned it to the fake witch doctor without warning him."

Who would be stupid enough to use weird pillow covers.

It is not really longing for the dead to enter the dream, and the drug dealer Bell was poisoned before, so how could he not be more prepared.

How could the poisonous spider kill the imprisoned Bell?

It must have been that Bell had already been tricked when he was doing business with the fake witch doctor.Or they wear items that attract poisonous spiders, or their breath is familiar to poisonous spiders.

Mary doesn't understand the weird spider manipulation method, all she can do is to sprinkle the medicine in a prepared manner.Normal people will definitely wash the pillow cover when they take it back, and then they don't have to worry about the harm caused by the insect repellent.

"It now appears that the odorless insect repellant provided by Dr. Jekyll is so good that it may have somehow conflicted with Wright's spider-controlling agent, causing the spider to go berserk."

Specific pharmacological conclusions require experiments, and such experiments require at least three elements, poisonous spiders, control agents, and insect repellants.

The two didn't want to do the experiment themselves, but it didn't hinder the search for a medicine to control the spiders.

The good news is that the bottles and jars in the basement are labeled and inspected, indicating the efficacy of different reagent powders.The bad news is that these things were scattered all over the place, shattered and mixed together.

The ready-made effective medicines are gone, so we can only look for possible formula notes.

It took four hours to search, and the entire basement was turned upside down.did not encounter another live venomous spider, and

A small safe was opened.

It was full of gold and silver jewelry, there was also a pocket watch of the Marquis de T, and cufflinks with Ben Baden's name engraved on it.

This basically confirms that dealer Singer and Ben Baden were killed by fake witch doctor Wright.

Wright himself did not leave many written materials, only three or four notebooks recording herbal medicines, which did not mention how to configure the medicine to control spiders.

However, there is a locked wooden box in the corner of the basement.

Mary picked the lock directly and found fifteen notebooks inside.Doesn't match Wright's handwriting, it's all from someone else who signed the title page of the notebook - Edwin Moody.

In a hurry, although all the notes use 26 English letters, it is not difficult to find that a string of words can't be read together, and it looks like gibberish.

"These notes are encrypted."

Mycroft could now speculate on what Wright had planned to do with the poisonous spider.

"Mr. Minton, you were chosen by a fake witch doctor. He hopes to use the deterrence of poisonous spiders, so that you have to translate the contents of the encrypted notes, and then you may kill them to silence them."

What's in the notes?Perhaps there is a secret to the nursery rhyme of the red shoes.

There are fifteen notebooks, each of which has a sentence on the title page, and it is the only sentence that can be read immediately.

——"Looking for, my lost memory in the Pacific Ocean. Edwin Moody"