[sherlock] It's mine, don't move!
Chapter 58 Meeting with Magnussen 2
In Magnuson's office on the top floor of the newspaper building, except for one wall, the other three sides have spacious and bright floor-to-ceiling glass windows. There are floor lamps with beige cone-shaped lampshades, and the metal stairs wind up to Magnussen's private apartment, and the office floor is covered with brown pure wool carpets.Immediately, what came into view was Magnussen, who was sitting opposite the red cherry wood desk, leaning against the leather beige sofa chair, looking like a successful man in a suit and leather shoes.
It's just that in Sherlock's eyes, this person is simply out of tune with this warm and bright environment, like a drop of ink falling into pure water.
"Boss, the Mr. Sherlock Holmes you made an appointment with is here. Do you want me to pour you two cups of coffee?" Mary approached the large desk, and put a large stack of documents to be signed by Magnuson in her arms, and put them on the table. In front of Magnussen, and then asked a question in a businesslike manner.
"Oh~ I think it's best to have two cups of coffee. After all, our next topic will take a lot of time and energy, won't it? Little Mr. Holmes." Magnuson raised his hand and habitually supported the armrest on the tall tower The rimless glasses on the bridge of the nose, reflected in the light, shifted from Mary's body to Sherlock's body again, and stretched out her hand to Sherlock as a 'please sit down' gesture, "I've always been very curious about you , Mr. Detective. Everything about you is very special, but unfortunately, your brother has never allowed me to touch you. He thinks that I will bring you down. You are really a good brother who loves to worry~"
"I've never heard him hear about you, do you know each other?" Sherlock was still sitting on the reception chair at the desk, directly opposite to Magnuson, but out of the corner of his eye, he followed Mary's back without a trace And moving, until the door of the office was closed, he silently withdrew his eyes and concentrated his attention on getting ready to deal with the most difficult newspaper owner in the history of his detective career. "Your office looks good, it must have cost a lot of money to decorate it?"
"Thank you for your compliments. I think I can still afford this amount of money." Magnuson continued the conversation with a normal expression, clasped his hands together, placed them on the table leisurely, and looked up and down with almost see-through eyes. Looking at Sherlock, he continued to speak: "If you are willing, you can come and live here for a while, provided that your brother does not object."
"Although your place is nice, it is far from my apartment." Sherlock spread his hands regretfully. This place is just like what John said, no matter how bright it looks, it is full of coldness and darkness. The breath, is this the so-called object-like figure?As for Magnussen's grotesque death, living in a "haunted house" seems to be just right.Although Sherlock felt that he was sitting across from this man, he felt hairy and uncomfortable under his gaze, but he was more curious about whether there were some secrets hidden in this private apartment and office belonging to Magnussen. Untold secrets.If possible, Sherlock is quite willing to accept this man's invitation to stay here for a few days and have a good adventure.But after thinking about it carefully, I finally decided to give up!
Sherlock felt so pitiful that he was the only one living here alone. He never felt lonely even if he went to the overpass to work as an undercover beggar for a few weeks for the case.Since returning to London with John, he has found it increasingly difficult to be alone, which I don't know is a good thing or a bad thing.Look at how uncomfortable John was when he entered this newspaper building just now. Even without reasoning, he can know that the former military doctor of his family would not agree to live together in Magnuson's private apartment.It is estimated that at that time, John will beat him up and drag him back to 221B Baker Street!Then think about the Mary outside the office who has been staring at John with all her heart. For the sake of his own safety and to prevent other women from taking advantage of John, he still refuses this huge temptation! !
"Really? Human beings always feel that they have a family-loving nature. This is a common weakness. It seems that even the famous detectives are no exception." Magnuson said with a blank face. The corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and he stared closely at Sherlock with a half-smile like a snake, while silently recording the observation data about this great detective in his heart.
"That's because you are pitiful and unloved! In fact, this is also normal. It is estimated that anyone who falls in love with you will be a big tragedy. During the period of time I accepted the commission, I have been thinking about you." Sherlock He raised his legs and propped one elbow on the armrest of the leather beige sofa back chair. He turned the chair and looked around the modern office while responding unceremoniously.
"I've been thinking of you too."
If John stayed in this office, he would probably have started to explode by now. Although the two parties were completely unaware, their conversation would be extremely ambiguous to anyone.
"My client told me that all of them generally think that you, as an ordinary newspaper owner, have frequent contacts with the British Prime Minister. This is a very abnormal thing." Sherlock said casually, although there was nothing in his mind The name information of the current prime minister was deleted as garbage, and whoever the prime minister is has nothing to do with him, does it?After wandering around twice, storing everything that should be seen and what should not be seen in his mind, Sherlock inadvertently pressed the armrest of the chair with his hand again, stopped turning, and sat facing Magnuson again. .
"Should I be extremely sorry for being a foreigner? Also, what is the content of Elizabeth's commission?" For Magnussen, what Sherlock said earlier was just meaningless nonsense. He has become numb to hearing in countless hearings, and this does not cause him any trouble or harm.On the contrary, he was more interested in the content of Sherlock's commission from Elizabeth Smallwood, the only female official at the hearing. All of this was so interesting!
"You should call her Mrs. Smallwood, I mean, even if you're not English, it's a very ungentlemanlike endearment. I'd like to see Appledore for myself, where you keep all the I hope you can invite me to the place where secrets, information, and everyone's handles are in your hands." Sherlock directly stated the ultimate purpose of this meeting.
"Little Mr. Holmes doesn't seem to be very patient~ Also, why do you think I would be so careless?" Magnuson asked back with a smile.He didn't think he looked like the kind of person who would casually bring strangers into such an important secret place, did he?You must know that he, the newspaper boss, has always been known for his cautious style inside and outside the industry.
"In my opinion, you are more careless than you imagined." Sherlock tapped his desk with his fingers, and the knocking sound echoed in the closed office like a needle falling. , as if to knock straight into someone's heart.This action has always been owned by his elder brother Mycroft, because it is very intimidating, so Sherlock decided to borrow it here.
"Really?" Magnussen, who was completely unmoved by this, still asked with that stiff smile.
"It's your 'dead fish eyes' that betrayed you, but it's not 'dead fish eyes', right?" Sherlock opened his green eyes curiously, carefully observing Magnussen's face The rimless glasses he was wearing, in this place, he couldn't find any weakness of Magnussen in several subjects. The only thing left to be observed was the eye-catching glasses. Classes not only feel magical but also powerful.
"You're reading the information, ha! A moving Appledo?" Sherlock didn't know what "politeness" was at all. He pressed his hands hard on the armrests on both sides, kicked off his leather shoes, and stood up straight away, poking around. He took off the glasses from Magnussen's face, played with them in his hands, and tried to put them on his own face, asking, "What mechanism and material are these made of?"
"You underestimate me, little Mr. Holmes. It's just a pair of ordinary myopia glasses~" After seeing Sherlock put it on, Magnussen expressed his disappointment, imitating Sherlock's innocence just now. With a gesture of courtesy, he directly reached out and took back the rimless eyes on Sherlock's face, and put them on slowly, covering those inorganic cold blue eyes.Of course, Sherlock is more than happy to call them a pair of 'dead fish eyes'.
"Oh~ It's really funny when you always make mistakes in reasoning. In this case, let me open my eyes and see the real Appledo." Sherlock subconsciously bit his lower lip and let it go quickly , I couldn't help being a little annoyed in my heart, and then naturally put on another expression of regret, shrugged my shoulders, and suggested helplessly.Tsk~!Who can't act?This is the strength of their Sherlock Holmes family.
If the environment here was changed to 221B Baker Street, the big detective would probably fall directly on the only couch in the living room, roll around in embarrassment and anger, and then wait for John to comfort him in various ways.
"If you can cancel the entrustment of Mrs. Smallwood, I can tell you where the real Appledo is." Magnuson asked lightly.
"Isn't Appledo in Hampstead near London?" Sherlock recalled the information about that Appledo in his mind.
"Oh~ little Mr. Holmes, you are so innocent compared to your brother. It is just my private villa. What makes you think it is the real Appledo? I said , I have always been a cautious person." Magnuson shook his head, for him, although Sherlock is a very smart young man, his thinking is still too immature!
"If I cancel the commission, can you take me to visit Appledore?" Sherlock raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Everything has a price, just like what we said earlier." Magnuson adjusted his glasses, paused, and continued, "Although Mrs. Smallwood is an upright and loyal official of the British government , but she is still a normal person, as long as she is a person, she must have weaknesses, and unfortunately, I have grasped a little bit of her weaknesses. As a result, whether her commission is canceled or not is not a big threat to me. If If you want to visit Appledoes, you have to pay more, you know, I'm a businessman."
"It seems that you really have mastered the secrets of all government officials?" As long as you master the hidden secrets of those powerful figures, it is tantamount to directly controlling the British government. Dare to really touch this person, even Mycroft forbids him to touch this person, it is really speechless!
"No, no, no! Your words are a bit exaggerated, not 'all' but 'most'." Magnussen waved his hand and corrected Sherlock's words in time.
"Oh~ it seems there are people you can't control."
"Of course~ After all, I'm just an 'ordinary person'. Mr. Detective, in this world, there will always be some people who are much stronger and smarter than you imagined, such as your brother—Macrof Holmes Sir." Magnussen said with a sigh.As he himself said, if the Sherlock Holmes sitting in front of him was smart but still a little immature, then his own brother, Mycroft Holmes, was a sophisticated and powerful existence.
"You still don't give up on the information in my brother's hand?" Sherlock asked knowingly.
"Of course." For Magnuson, in this already unchallenging British territory, only Mycroft and the state secrets in his hands could arouse his interest.
"No one has ever been able to take that top-secret information from him."
"Of course! I know this very well. Therefore, you need to go out yourself. You are the only one who can approach him without being guarded, aren't you?"
"This is treason!"
"Don't worry, your brother won't just watch you spend the rest of your life in prison." Since meeting Sherlock, Magnuson has become more and more sure that this person is the only weakness of Mycroft Holmes.This meeting was indeed a big surprise for him!
"I need to think about it." If Sherlock encountered Moriarty's predicament two years ago, but it was a predicament he could control, then when facing Magnussen this time, Sherlock really felt that he was in a dilemma. What he saw was a real dilemma, and this was his first time, a dilemma where he didn't know what to do.
"Think about John Holmes who is waiting for you outside? He is not like you two brothers, he is very fragile..."
"I don't think I interrupted your conversation?" There were three soft knocks from the office door, which interrupted Magnulin's soft and low voice, and then the office door was pushed open from the outside to the inside.The person who came was Magnuson's temporary substitute assistant Mary. She walked in with a tray in one hand with a sorry look in her eyes. After stepping into the office, she closed the door behind her.
"Where's John?" Taking advantage of the gap between Mary's opening the door, Sherlock looked sharply at the seat where John was sitting outside the door. Unfortunately, the former military doctor was no longer on the chair, which made the detective uneasy for no reason.
"He thinks it's very silly to sit there and wait for you to come out. He is watching the scenery by the glass window in the corridor." Mary smiled and put the coffee in the tray on both ends of the desk, and then looked back and forth. Glancing at Magnuson and Sherlock, he said with a sweet smile, "It's fine and safe for John to stay outside. However, I think it's wiser for you, Boss and Mr. Holmes, to worry about your own safety first."
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It's just that in Sherlock's eyes, this person is simply out of tune with this warm and bright environment, like a drop of ink falling into pure water.
"Boss, the Mr. Sherlock Holmes you made an appointment with is here. Do you want me to pour you two cups of coffee?" Mary approached the large desk, and put a large stack of documents to be signed by Magnuson in her arms, and put them on the table. In front of Magnussen, and then asked a question in a businesslike manner.
"Oh~ I think it's best to have two cups of coffee. After all, our next topic will take a lot of time and energy, won't it? Little Mr. Holmes." Magnuson raised his hand and habitually supported the armrest on the tall tower The rimless glasses on the bridge of the nose, reflected in the light, shifted from Mary's body to Sherlock's body again, and stretched out her hand to Sherlock as a 'please sit down' gesture, "I've always been very curious about you , Mr. Detective. Everything about you is very special, but unfortunately, your brother has never allowed me to touch you. He thinks that I will bring you down. You are really a good brother who loves to worry~"
"I've never heard him hear about you, do you know each other?" Sherlock was still sitting on the reception chair at the desk, directly opposite to Magnuson, but out of the corner of his eye, he followed Mary's back without a trace And moving, until the door of the office was closed, he silently withdrew his eyes and concentrated his attention on getting ready to deal with the most difficult newspaper owner in the history of his detective career. "Your office looks good, it must have cost a lot of money to decorate it?"
"Thank you for your compliments. I think I can still afford this amount of money." Magnuson continued the conversation with a normal expression, clasped his hands together, placed them on the table leisurely, and looked up and down with almost see-through eyes. Looking at Sherlock, he continued to speak: "If you are willing, you can come and live here for a while, provided that your brother does not object."
"Although your place is nice, it is far from my apartment." Sherlock spread his hands regretfully. This place is just like what John said, no matter how bright it looks, it is full of coldness and darkness. The breath, is this the so-called object-like figure?As for Magnussen's grotesque death, living in a "haunted house" seems to be just right.Although Sherlock felt that he was sitting across from this man, he felt hairy and uncomfortable under his gaze, but he was more curious about whether there were some secrets hidden in this private apartment and office belonging to Magnussen. Untold secrets.If possible, Sherlock is quite willing to accept this man's invitation to stay here for a few days and have a good adventure.But after thinking about it carefully, I finally decided to give up!
Sherlock felt so pitiful that he was the only one living here alone. He never felt lonely even if he went to the overpass to work as an undercover beggar for a few weeks for the case.Since returning to London with John, he has found it increasingly difficult to be alone, which I don't know is a good thing or a bad thing.Look at how uncomfortable John was when he entered this newspaper building just now. Even without reasoning, he can know that the former military doctor of his family would not agree to live together in Magnuson's private apartment.It is estimated that at that time, John will beat him up and drag him back to 221B Baker Street!Then think about the Mary outside the office who has been staring at John with all her heart. For the sake of his own safety and to prevent other women from taking advantage of John, he still refuses this huge temptation! !
"Really? Human beings always feel that they have a family-loving nature. This is a common weakness. It seems that even the famous detectives are no exception." Magnuson said with a blank face. The corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and he stared closely at Sherlock with a half-smile like a snake, while silently recording the observation data about this great detective in his heart.
"That's because you are pitiful and unloved! In fact, this is also normal. It is estimated that anyone who falls in love with you will be a big tragedy. During the period of time I accepted the commission, I have been thinking about you." Sherlock He raised his legs and propped one elbow on the armrest of the leather beige sofa back chair. He turned the chair and looked around the modern office while responding unceremoniously.
"I've been thinking of you too."
If John stayed in this office, he would probably have started to explode by now. Although the two parties were completely unaware, their conversation would be extremely ambiguous to anyone.
"My client told me that all of them generally think that you, as an ordinary newspaper owner, have frequent contacts with the British Prime Minister. This is a very abnormal thing." Sherlock said casually, although there was nothing in his mind The name information of the current prime minister was deleted as garbage, and whoever the prime minister is has nothing to do with him, does it?After wandering around twice, storing everything that should be seen and what should not be seen in his mind, Sherlock inadvertently pressed the armrest of the chair with his hand again, stopped turning, and sat facing Magnuson again. .
"Should I be extremely sorry for being a foreigner? Also, what is the content of Elizabeth's commission?" For Magnussen, what Sherlock said earlier was just meaningless nonsense. He has become numb to hearing in countless hearings, and this does not cause him any trouble or harm.On the contrary, he was more interested in the content of Sherlock's commission from Elizabeth Smallwood, the only female official at the hearing. All of this was so interesting!
"You should call her Mrs. Smallwood, I mean, even if you're not English, it's a very ungentlemanlike endearment. I'd like to see Appledore for myself, where you keep all the I hope you can invite me to the place where secrets, information, and everyone's handles are in your hands." Sherlock directly stated the ultimate purpose of this meeting.
"Little Mr. Holmes doesn't seem to be very patient~ Also, why do you think I would be so careless?" Magnuson asked back with a smile.He didn't think he looked like the kind of person who would casually bring strangers into such an important secret place, did he?You must know that he, the newspaper boss, has always been known for his cautious style inside and outside the industry.
"In my opinion, you are more careless than you imagined." Sherlock tapped his desk with his fingers, and the knocking sound echoed in the closed office like a needle falling. , as if to knock straight into someone's heart.This action has always been owned by his elder brother Mycroft, because it is very intimidating, so Sherlock decided to borrow it here.
"Really?" Magnussen, who was completely unmoved by this, still asked with that stiff smile.
"It's your 'dead fish eyes' that betrayed you, but it's not 'dead fish eyes', right?" Sherlock opened his green eyes curiously, carefully observing Magnussen's face The rimless glasses he was wearing, in this place, he couldn't find any weakness of Magnussen in several subjects. The only thing left to be observed was the eye-catching glasses. Classes not only feel magical but also powerful.
"You're reading the information, ha! A moving Appledo?" Sherlock didn't know what "politeness" was at all. He pressed his hands hard on the armrests on both sides, kicked off his leather shoes, and stood up straight away, poking around. He took off the glasses from Magnussen's face, played with them in his hands, and tried to put them on his own face, asking, "What mechanism and material are these made of?"
"You underestimate me, little Mr. Holmes. It's just a pair of ordinary myopia glasses~" After seeing Sherlock put it on, Magnussen expressed his disappointment, imitating Sherlock's innocence just now. With a gesture of courtesy, he directly reached out and took back the rimless eyes on Sherlock's face, and put them on slowly, covering those inorganic cold blue eyes.Of course, Sherlock is more than happy to call them a pair of 'dead fish eyes'.
"Oh~ It's really funny when you always make mistakes in reasoning. In this case, let me open my eyes and see the real Appledo." Sherlock subconsciously bit his lower lip and let it go quickly , I couldn't help being a little annoyed in my heart, and then naturally put on another expression of regret, shrugged my shoulders, and suggested helplessly.Tsk~!Who can't act?This is the strength of their Sherlock Holmes family.
If the environment here was changed to 221B Baker Street, the big detective would probably fall directly on the only couch in the living room, roll around in embarrassment and anger, and then wait for John to comfort him in various ways.
"If you can cancel the entrustment of Mrs. Smallwood, I can tell you where the real Appledo is." Magnuson asked lightly.
"Isn't Appledo in Hampstead near London?" Sherlock recalled the information about that Appledo in his mind.
"Oh~ little Mr. Holmes, you are so innocent compared to your brother. It is just my private villa. What makes you think it is the real Appledo? I said , I have always been a cautious person." Magnuson shook his head, for him, although Sherlock is a very smart young man, his thinking is still too immature!
"If I cancel the commission, can you take me to visit Appledore?" Sherlock raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Everything has a price, just like what we said earlier." Magnuson adjusted his glasses, paused, and continued, "Although Mrs. Smallwood is an upright and loyal official of the British government , but she is still a normal person, as long as she is a person, she must have weaknesses, and unfortunately, I have grasped a little bit of her weaknesses. As a result, whether her commission is canceled or not is not a big threat to me. If If you want to visit Appledoes, you have to pay more, you know, I'm a businessman."
"It seems that you really have mastered the secrets of all government officials?" As long as you master the hidden secrets of those powerful figures, it is tantamount to directly controlling the British government. Dare to really touch this person, even Mycroft forbids him to touch this person, it is really speechless!
"No, no, no! Your words are a bit exaggerated, not 'all' but 'most'." Magnussen waved his hand and corrected Sherlock's words in time.
"Oh~ it seems there are people you can't control."
"Of course~ After all, I'm just an 'ordinary person'. Mr. Detective, in this world, there will always be some people who are much stronger and smarter than you imagined, such as your brother—Macrof Holmes Sir." Magnussen said with a sigh.As he himself said, if the Sherlock Holmes sitting in front of him was smart but still a little immature, then his own brother, Mycroft Holmes, was a sophisticated and powerful existence.
"You still don't give up on the information in my brother's hand?" Sherlock asked knowingly.
"Of course." For Magnuson, in this already unchallenging British territory, only Mycroft and the state secrets in his hands could arouse his interest.
"No one has ever been able to take that top-secret information from him."
"Of course! I know this very well. Therefore, you need to go out yourself. You are the only one who can approach him without being guarded, aren't you?"
"This is treason!"
"Don't worry, your brother won't just watch you spend the rest of your life in prison." Since meeting Sherlock, Magnuson has become more and more sure that this person is the only weakness of Mycroft Holmes.This meeting was indeed a big surprise for him!
"I need to think about it." If Sherlock encountered Moriarty's predicament two years ago, but it was a predicament he could control, then when facing Magnussen this time, Sherlock really felt that he was in a dilemma. What he saw was a real dilemma, and this was his first time, a dilemma where he didn't know what to do.
"Think about John Holmes who is waiting for you outside? He is not like you two brothers, he is very fragile..."
"I don't think I interrupted your conversation?" There were three soft knocks from the office door, which interrupted Magnulin's soft and low voice, and then the office door was pushed open from the outside to the inside.The person who came was Magnuson's temporary substitute assistant Mary. She walked in with a tray in one hand with a sorry look in her eyes. After stepping into the office, she closed the door behind her.
"Where's John?" Taking advantage of the gap between Mary's opening the door, Sherlock looked sharply at the seat where John was sitting outside the door. Unfortunately, the former military doctor was no longer on the chair, which made the detective uneasy for no reason.
"He thinks it's very silly to sit there and wait for you to come out. He is watching the scenery by the glass window in the corridor." Mary smiled and put the coffee in the tray on both ends of the desk, and then looked back and forth. Glancing at Magnuson and Sherlock, he said with a sweet smile, "It's fine and safe for John to stay outside. However, I think it's wiser for you, Boss and Mr. Holmes, to worry about your own safety first."
The author has something to say: every morning at 7:[-], it will be updated on time, I hope you will collect more (*∩_∩*)
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