When Pei Donglai dressed as John Watson

Keenly noticed that there was a small wound on Adam Campbell's hand. It didn't look big, but it was fresh enough.Sherlock took this as a breakthrough, and asked in a sincere and slightly worried tone: "Is that wound made by the person you care about?" As if afraid of the other party's prevarication, Sherlock even gestured Look at the location of the wound.

"No." This was the first time Abel spoke in this room, even after being found and brought into Scotland Yard.He looked reserved and uneasy, but he was still studying his words carefully, not wanting people to misunderstand that person. "The other night I was in the room feeling hot so I tried to open the window and it got stuck and I got my hand punctured."

Now that he mentioned the balloon murderer, Abel was not afraid to mention the second sentence.

He told him that the man had been nice to him and put a Band-Aid on him.

Sherlock smiled and said to him: "Of course, he loves you, so he is willing to do anything for you."

When Abel heard this, he couldn't help but put on a smile.And under Sherlock's persuasion, Abel Campbell told him many things, "Every morning when he comes home, he brings me donuts. He doesn't have to do it, but he insists on it, and I don't even ask. "

The conversation went well, but it was stopped abruptly when Lestrade suddenly appeared, because Adam Campbell's parents and their lawyers arrived.

The situation is very urgent now, because the appearance of the lawyer means that the Cambers are already applying for exoneration, but in the eyes of Sherlock, Abel is already the same prisoner as the balloon murderer. If the exoneration takes effect before the clues are revealed, it means that the heinous Adam Campbell will probably escape the punishment of the law.

Sherlock Holmes may not be the messenger of justice, but that doesn't mean he can let his prey get away with it.

Fortunately, although the conversation with Abel was interrupted just now, those words were not useless. In fact, Adam had provided Sherlock with enough clues.

For example, Adam tells Sherlock that the balloon killer brings him donuts every morning after get off work, which means he works the night shift.Although the information doesn't sound like much, it's a little more than what's known about the balloon killer before.

A perfect logician can still deduce from a drop of water which is from the Atlantic Ocean and which is from the Nyala River without seeing the real thing, and Sherlock, who is proficient in deduction, has found what he wants. That drop of water can support his reasoning.

The previous suspects could spread to everyone in the city, but now those who don't have to work the night shift can be excluded, but even so, the workload is still amazing.Especially Sherlock likes to find information by himself, lest those stupid and incompetent people who can't keep up with his thinking will waste his hard work.

Of course, now Sherlock has a helper, that is John Watson, a character who is much smarter than ordinary people, although not as good as himself.Therefore, Sherlock sincerely asked John to do him a small favor, that is to stay up late with him to check information.

After a night of hard work, Sherlock and John followed the clues sorted out in their minds and got the results they thought of.During this process, they were very quiet, constantly browsing and checking the information of the night shift personnel in this city.

One piece after another, one box after another, filtering out anyone who might have a baby, and then talking softly, the final answer is that the person changed his job.

What Sherlock and John had been looking for all night was a night shift job with access to the victim's home, and they succeeded.

When the first victim, Adam Campbell, showed up seven years ago, the police at Scotland Yard thought he was an exterminator.Because just a week before Adam Campbell disappeared, the family had just had someone come in and do a full-scale pest extermination.

At first, no one suspected too much, until the police ruled out all the suspects who had a problem with the Campbell's family, someone raised this possibility.

At that time, the police interviewed all the employees of the company that dewormed the Campbell's house, but found no strong suspicious objects, so they finally ignored their conclusions, because they did not find any of the subsequent victims near the home. Clues related to the Exterminator.

But Sherlock thinks that their suspicions are not all wrong, the culprit is the exterminator, but the police officers in Scotland Yard are not Sherlock Holmes, they are not smart enough, so there is no way to find the flaw, and then find the culprit. .

And the reason why Sherlock Holmes is compared is because he is smart enough!No, it should be said that he is a genius. He is proficient in deductive reasoning, so when he wanted to get the answer, he just spent one night and got it.And those policemen spent a full seven years, and in the end they could only ask Sherlock for help.

The balloon killer changed jobs during the time victims [-] and [-] were attacked.

In order to prove this, Sherlock also found enough evidence to prove this, and that is exactly the current job of the balloon murderer, who needs to work the night shift-in the fourth victim, and Mariana Cass Trow's family is subscribing to a newspaper, that is.The parents of victims No. [-], No. [-] and No. [-] did not subscribe to the newspaper, but their neighbors did.

So, in the end, the balloon killer was a exterminator, and now he was working the night shift delivering newspapers.

He targeted the first three victims through his first job, and the remaining four through his second job.

Sherlock confirmed the only suspect after reading the information overnight.

Among the exterminators and newspaper deliverers around Castro's home, the only repeated names seemed to stand out.That was Samuel Abbott.

So they called Lestrade and told him the good news.

This is indeed something to be happy about, isn't it?

You know, it only took a day and a night from Sherlock took over the case to confirming the suspect.During that time, he prevented the Castro couple from being on TV, so Mariana, the poor ten-year-old girl, must be alive too.Maybe she will suffer a little, but compared to the reality that she is still alive, this pain is extraordinarily insignificant, isn't it? !

Samuel Ebo lived in the apartment his mother had left him, six months since her death.However, fortunately, she is no longer here, and she doesn't know anything, otherwise, how sad it would be to see her son commit so many crimes.

The reason why he knew he was here was because he took this place as the latest address when he renewed his driver's license last month.

In order not to startle the enemy, the Scotland Yard police did not ask Samuel Abbott's neighbors to make a statement to facilitate the investigation. Instead, they only observed the situation in the apartment through remote binoculars.

Unfortunately, nothing can be seen at all.

Lestrade's agents are armed and ready to rescue Mariana directly.But when they kicked in the door, they were surprised to find that the apartment was empty.

Evidently Samuel Abbott had been alerted by Adam Campbell's failure to return to this home yesterday, and has now escaped.

The only harvest is the balloon left by Samuel, which says 'Congratulations', congratulations to Scotland Yard for finally finding his lair, which also proves the fact that Samuel is the murderer of the balloon.At the same time, there is a USB flash drive on the bandage with the balloon.

The USB flash drive was taken back to Scotland Yard, and because they were worried about a virus in it, they found a computer that was not connected to the Internet and inserted the USB flash drive into it.

An image of a middle-aged man appeared on the computer screen, a bit fat, unshaven, and looking very decadent, more decadent.This man was Samuel Abbott.

This was obviously recorded on purpose by him, and he said bluntly as soon as he opened his mouth: "You took my things from Ben, you took Adam. You know who I am and what I can do. I have killed six people. .By noon tomorrow, if you haven't returned my child to me, just wait for the seventh corpse!"

Then the frame changes, moving from Samuel's face to a room next to him.There was a black-haired little girl with a mournful face. She was Mariana Castro. She was still wearing the clothes she was taken away from, with a pair of purple slippers on her feet, curled up and shivering.

It was Scotland Yard's duty to tell the Castroes whatever it found, and Lestrade called them to Scotland Yard for this purpose.

What could be more important to a mother than her daughter?So Castro asks him, please Lestrade: "Please, trade with him, give me our daughter back."

But it couldn't be that simple, because Scotland Yard would never agree to exchange one victim for another.Because of this, Lestrade could only keep appeasing the Castro couple, trying to reason with them.

But in the eyes of the couple, what kind of good man could Adam Campbell who had been with Samuel for seven years be?To them, he was hardly a victim at all.