[Comprehensive British and American] The world is malicious

The woman leaned on crutches and approached slowly with some inconvenience in her legs and feet. Nina glanced at the woman, then hurriedly moved her eyes away, and frowned slightly.

This is not a kind-hearted old man, her cheeks are covered with wrinkles, and there is a horrible scar under her eyes. It seems that in order to cover up this scar, the elderly woman deliberately raised her collar.

"Your things, ma'am." Nina picked up the wallet that was dropped at her feet when the two passed by, and called out to the elderly woman who passed by her.

"Thank you." The woman replied in a hoarse and slow voice. The dark purple hat on her head was pressed down so low that it seemed that even her eyes were covered, and the wide collar almost covered half of her face, " ... Nina? Why are you here?"

The woman raised her head, a surprised expression appeared on her wrinkled face, she raised her hand, raised her hat slightly, revealing her sunken eye sockets, "Well... I'm Adrian, you know the compound soup."

Adrian reluctantly twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to force a smile, but when he thought of his old and frightening appearance, Adrian quickly stopped smiling and shrugged helplessly.

"I made a bet with Sid, but obviously the goddess of luck has never favored me, are you going back to school tomorrow? If possible, we can go back together,...you, Avril, Sid and me, the four of us."

"You remind me of when we first entered school, Ed." Nina smiled at Adrian. She and Adrian happened to be students of Ravenclaw, but Avril and Sid belonged to Granville respectively. Fendo and Hufflepuff, what a strange friendship.

"Indeed." Adrian obviously also thought of his shocked expression when he saw Hogwarts for the first time, like a child who accidentally broke into someone's house, wishing to open his eyes and see all the places .

However, now that they have reached their final year, the day of parting is just around the corner.

"The effect of the compound decoction is coming, I need to find a hidden place, maybe you are willing to wait here for a while, we can have dinner together."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back. I know there's a good store nearby." Nina said, after Adrian left, she put her hands in her pockets, took out her phone, and sent Sherlock a text message. Text messages, telling him about Camilla and Andrew, and the fire and the escape.

As for the latter, she believed that even if she didn't mention it, Sherlock would know it well. He was like a comprehensive history of criminology, and he knew almost all criminal incidents clearly.

After editing a long string of messages, Nina clicked the send button. She moved her stiff fingers and looked up, just in time to see Adrian walking out of a deep alley.

I have to say that Adrian is a handsome young man, and his mother is a Lebanese, which may be seen from his outstanding appearance.

"Sorry, Nina, I almost scared you just now." Adrian had an apologetic smile on his face, and the tip of his ear was slightly red, as if he was still embarrassed by the woman's attire just now.

"It's okay, that's insignificant compared to the dragon."

"Do you like dragons?" Adrian was a little surprised. He had never heard that Nina liked dragons. He only knew that Nina liked potions and was Professor Wilson's favorite student. Therefore, Adrian would choose birthday gifts on purpose. Potion ingredients.

"It's just an example, Ed." Nina blinked. Her understanding was absolutely different from Adrian's. She was referring to the ancient mosasaur, and she absolutely didn't want to see it a second time.

"I remember you originally planned to go to the Moon Mountains in Africa, how about it?" Nina asked curiously, she knew that Uagadou, a famous African magic school, was located there.

"It's a magical place. I met Uagadou's students. Without a wand, they can use any magic as long as they make gestures. They can conjure elephants and cheetahs with their thoughts."

Adrian said a little excitedly, with a lively expression on his usually calm face, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a wizard without a wand could cast magic freely.

"However, I believe that Hogwarts is still the best school in the world." Adrian gradually calmed down his excitement, and his deep eyes showed wisdom and gentleness again.

"Surprisingly, maybe I should change my plan after graduation." Nina looked at Adrian and said with a smile, "I planned to submit an application to Principal McGonagall or continue my studies in the UK, but here Before, there is still a crucial exam waiting for us, sorry..."

Nina took out her phone from her pocket and glanced at the text message notification.

"Help! Help! Help! - SH"

"I need to leave first, sorry, Ed, see you tomorrow." Nina said quickly.

"Nina?" Adrian looked puzzled at Nina who suddenly became nervous, feeling a little disappointed in his heart, but before he came to make any inquiries, Nina had already used Apparition to leave In situ.

221B Baker Street

Nina hurried back to Baker Street. She couldn't really understand why she was so nervous. They hadn't even known each other for two months, even though it was the most unforgettable and helpless time she had ever spent.

Nina hurriedly opened the door, looked at the two people sitting in the room in shock, raised her eyebrows, "Sherlock?"

"You are not suitable, goodbye, sir." Sherlock twitched the corners of his mouth, stood up and invited the man sitting on the opposite sofa out.

"Mr. Holmes, maybe you should reconsider, I think..." The man supported the door frame, trying to justify something, but Sherlock cut off his words.

"Oh, I don't think we have much to talk about. You had a wife once, but she should have died in an accident not long ago. Obviously, your relationship is hard, and the specific reason may be because of your obvious violence. Drinking, from Your badly worn phone can tell a thing or two. You tried to connect the charger to the phone, but because of shaking hands, you left a lot of scratches on the charging port.

You were extravagant, you got a lot of money after your wife died, you used the money to take a long trip, the destination should be in Hawaii.But soon the money was squandered by you, and the wedding ring in your hand should also be pawned by you. Do you need to continue, sir?

I don't think so. Goodbye. Sherlock pushed the obviously sluggish man out of the door, closed the door, turned around and twitched the corners of his mouth, and said, "I received your text message, Nina, no doubt your instinct on this matter is correct. "

"Mr. Sherlock Holmes, maybe you would like to explain the text message just now. I think you are sitting here safe and sound. Nothing can involve the word "help." Nina lowered her voice and said word by word. Some angrily glared at a certain big detective who was safe and sound.

"I need to find a co-tenant, but looking at the few people who came here just now, it can be imagined that they can almost pull the IQ of the whole street to a negative number. I never thought that there are such difficult things in the world , it is simply more powerless than any weird case." Sherlock said quickly.

"A co-tenant?" Nina was stunned for a few seconds, and the anger welling up in her heart was like a deflated balloon. After it disappeared completely, it turned into a deep sense of helplessness.

"I need to find someone to pay the expenses here. Of course, this is not the most important thing." Sherlock sat back on the sofa, facing the open notebook, raised his hand and typed a few times on the keyboard.

"What about the case of the lost sapphire? And the case of Andrew being killed... I thought you were worrying about these two things." Nina asked in a slow tone, walking into the kitchen and giving herself Poured a glass of water.

"It's one thing, Nina, all we need to do at the moment is wait, it is undeniable that he is a cunning person, good at disguising, even if the people around him don't know anything about his true nature, I need to spend a little Time to hang out with him, . . . a cup of coffee, no sugar, how's your friend?"

Nina blinked and looked down at her clothes, hoping to see how Sherlock had guessed that she had just been with Adrian.However, Nina quickly gave up on this plan, "He is very nice, we planned to have dinner together."

Nina said as she put the brewed coffee in front of Sherlock, "Perhaps a good-tempered roommate would be a good choice, in this way, Mrs. Hudson will save a lot of trouble."

"Him?" Sherlock turned his head to look at Nina, and then quickly looked away.

[(①Carefully groomed long blond hair, trimmed eyebrows) (②Lips: no trace of lipstick) (Fingers: clean, neatly trimmed, with a slight and strange herbal smell) (Clothes: subtle soot Trace → Camilla or him) (①＋②→A less important friend or a random encounter↑)]

"My friend" Nina blinked and replied simply, "Just like Avril Lavigne, I need to go back, if possible, I hope we will have contact, Merry Christmas, Sherlock, just take it as an advance blessing. "

Sherlock didn't seem to care too much about Nina's farewell, his eyes were still on the laptop screen, and after a few seconds, he twitched his lips and asked, "Maybe we should change the solution, are you willing to move in?" ?...Look at this sentence from your understanding, Nina."