After confirming that Sherlock is the last Raider, Nora began to frequently pursue cases with Sherlock.

Before that, Nora and Stephen became very good friends because of the similar experience, and Stephen's favorability for Nora has reached 90.

Sherlock's affection for Nora is also slowly increasing, reaching 85.Nora guessed that if she worked on the last case with Sherlock, the 90 favorability required by the system should be achieved.

But the last case is not simple.

——It involves multiple forces, and mutants, Moriarty, and the London police can all find traces in this case.If it wasn't for another Sherlock Holmes—Sherlock's brother, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock himself would not have wanted to take on this complicated, meaningless, but troublesome case.

Because of the influence of mutants, Nora can also help Sherlock a lot, not to mention that she is trying to increase Sherlock's favorability.

In this incident, no one died, but the matter was not much simpler than death.

——There is a person who has information on almost everyone in the UK and has threatened many people with it, including the British Prime Minister.It can be said that this person has mastered the life and death of millions of people to a certain extent.

However, no one has ever been able to obtain the materials in the hands of this man named Akamo who is in charge of half of the British journalism industry.It is said that because these materials are too confidential, he did not store them in the computer, but stored them all in the form of paper documents in a place with very strict security.

The address of this place is also kept secret, so far no one knows.

The most troublesome thing is that according to Nora's news from Sphinx, Akamo is a mutant.If not handled properly, it might even become another reason for politicians to target mutants.

A mutant who doesn't seem to have any great skills can easily obtain the information of everyone in the UK, so what else can't a mutant do?They will definitely threaten the security of a country.

Akamo controlled half of British journalism, and even though his whereabouts had never been secret, even Mycroft could not directly arrest and convict him without any evidence.

Akamo has always been very cautious. Even though he has been probing on the edge of the law, he has never left evidence that can convict him.

Anyway... Sherlock and Nora are in an impasse.

Akamo masters everyone's weaknesses, making them helpless against him.

But Sherlock is Sherlock after all. He found a hidden property in Akamo. The security here is as strict as the White House, and the houses are all made of special materials.Sherlock knew from nowhere that there was a huge basement beneath the property.

"Sherlock, do you really think you can just go in like this?" Nora lowered her voice and asked Sherlock.

Now Nora and Sherlock are outside the property called "Summer Palace".

Sherlock nodded, "Of course."

Nora sighed, exchanged a system skill, and pulled Sherlock into a corner of the house without anyone noticing.

With Akamo's prudence, mutant suppressors are scattered all over the property for several kilometers, and ordinary mutants cannot use their mutant abilities here.But Nora is different. Her mutant ability is endowed by the system, which is different from other mutants.In other words, Nora's ability cannot actually be called a mutant ability.

So of course the mutant suppressor is useless against Nora.

"What are you looking for?" Nora asked Sherlock, raising her eyebrows triumphantly.

Sherlock took out a map and pointed to a location on it, "Go here."

Although Sherlock himself can also enter the summer palace without arousing the vigilance of the guards inside the summer palace, but Nora's mutant ability can be used, and it is naturally better to be able to enter without any effort.

"No problem." Nora hugged Sherlock's waist, and the next second, two people appeared in that position.

Sherlock looked at Nora as if searching for something.After investigating in advance, he certainly knew that there were mutant suppressors everywhere, which was why he didn't want to use Nora's mutant ability, but sneaked in by himself.But why is Nora's mutant ability not affected at all here?This is really... very interesting.

Sherlock groped around the empty wall until he found a small button.

At the push of a button, the wall parted in two, revealing a door inside.

—There is a lock on the door.

"I've always liked a more raw approach."

Akamo appears behind Sherlock and Nora, holding a bunch of keys.

Seeing Akamo with a relaxed face, Sherlock suddenly understood why Nora could use the mutant ability here.

— because it was a trap.Akamo had let them here on purpose.

Although Nora's mutant ability is indeed not affected by the mutant ability suppressor, in fact, as Sherlock guessed, the mutant ability suppressor in Xiagong was not turned on today.

"Do you want to see my treasure house?" Akamo asked, waving the bunch of keys in his hand.

"Of course." Sherlock looked at Akamo, "We are all curious about what your treasure house looks like."

"Then... please."

Akamo took out one of the keys from the bunch and unlocked the door.

And behind this door is another door.

Akamo found another key from the bunch of keys again, and opened the second door.

Behind the second door there is a third door.

……

In this way, Akamo used every key in the bunch of keys, and then opened all the doors.

But there was nothing behind a dozen doors.

There is no basement, nor any documentation.

"Sherlock, you probably didn't expect that there was never a basement in the summer palace, and there was never any data stored?" Akamo laughed.He stood in this empty room with his arms outstretched, the corners of his mouth curved strangely.

"I know you, the famous consulting detective, the famous Sherlock. I know you too. You must have a thinking palace in your mind, right?"

"Why have you never thought that besides Sherlock Holmes, there is another person who also has his own mind palace?"

"The thinking palace where he stores all the information in his mind, naturally no longer needs any piece of paper to add to the snake."

Nora looked at Akamo: "Is this your mutant ability?"

Akamo smiled, "You can say that, but I don't think it's a mutant ability, it's my talent."

Nora: As long as you are happy.

"Did you know...in fact, your talent can be taken away?" Nora asked.

"When you use your mutant ability to do these things, we can completely deprive you of your mutant ability."

Akamo smiled, "If you mean mutant ability suppressors, then I think you will be disappointed. Since my summer palace is full of mutant suppressors, I naturally have my own way to deal with them."

"What if it's this?" Nora took out a needle with blue liquid in it, "I wonder if you've tried it?"

The liquid that Norana uses is a mutant inhibitor produced by the system. This inhibitor has similar effects to the mutant inhibitor. The only difference between the medicine and the suppressor is that after injecting the medicine, unless there is a release agent produced by the system, otherwise It is almost impossible to restore mutant powers.

As for the release agent produced by the system, only Nora has it.

Before coming to Akamo, Nora had already exchanged this potion in the system for emergencies.Although she didn't expect that the information of countless people that Akamo relied on came from his mutant ability.

With a flash of Nora's figure, she came to Akamo's side.

The calm expression on Akamo's face disappeared, he looked at Nora in panic, and stepped back.

Although according to the information that Akamo knew, there was no potion that could permanently lose the mutant ability.The mutant ability is a talent, and it will not be taken away, and the intelligence is temporarily suppressed.However, Nora is really too weird. According to the information obtained by Akamo, Nora seems to have many mutant abilities, and has done many impossible things. It seems that Nora can also be seen at many important times. pull figure.

So when Nora took out the potion that was suspected to be able to make him lose his mutant ability, Akamo's first reaction was not that this was impossible, but panic.

Akamo whispered, "Turn on the mutant suppressor."

In places that Nora and Sherlock couldn't see, thousands of mutant suppressors in the entire summer palace were activated at the same time.

Thousands of mutant suppressors produced different magnetic fields, and although they couldn't be seen by the naked eye, they did produce something different.

Nora picked up the needle, but suddenly felt dizzy. She directed the needle towards Akamoza with one hand, and rubbed her temple with her fingers with the other hand.

Akamo took a step back abruptly.

Nora felt a blur in front of her eyes, and she took a step forward, but the figure of Akamo in front of her became blurred. She blinked her eyes, trying to see clearly, but lost consciousness the moment she closed her eyes.

Sherlock on the other side sensed something was wrong.

Almost at the moment when Nora passed out, Sherlock ran to Nora's side, snatched the needle from the unconscious Nora, took a stride with his long legs, and stuck the needle into Akamo's neck , advancing the potion.

With a bang, Nora fell heavily to the ground.

All the blue medicine in the needle tube was pushed into Akamo's body. At this moment, a loud alarm sounded outside.

Akamo stood where he was, with a panicked expression.He couldn't feel his mind palace at all.

At this time, Sherlock didn't care about Akamo anymore. He squatted on the ground, helped Nora up, and when he saw a huge bump on the back of Nora's head due to the collision, he blinked and silently Pulling Nora's collar up.

Otherwise, wait until Tony or Toni sees it...it's not so good...

Mycroft disembarked from a helicopter to attend to matters related to Akamo.Tony disembarked from another helicopter to pick up Nora.

"What's going on?!" Tony looked at Sherlock when he saw Nora lying unconscious on the sofa.

Without waiting for Sherlock's answer, Tony picked up Nora directly, took her to the helicopter, and went to the hospital.

When Nora woke up, all she saw was the white ceiling of the hospital.

"Should you explain something to us?" Toni, sitting on the left side of the bed, asked loudly the moment Nora opened her eyes.

"Toni...what's the matter with you?" Nora wasn't sure if it was her own illusion. Are there tears on Toni's face?

"Do you want to see your medical report?" Tony, who was sitting on the right side of the hospital bed, pursed his lips and asked.

Nora seems to know what happened... Although her appearance has not changed, if she has a physical examination, she will find that her current state is not the state of a young man at all, and she will be over seventy years old .

"Have you...already found out?"

Nora's indifferent attitude seemed to have angered Toni, her red eyes stared at Nora, "Is that all you want to say?"

Nora sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment.She has been carefully keeping secrets about her body, but she never expected that the mutant suppressor, which had no effect on her before, would have such a big impact on her after she aged at a rapid rate. When handling the case with Sherlock, he suddenly fell into a coma. He did not expect to be taken to the hospital for a physical examination without knowing it, and finally exposed.

She never thought about what she would do after being exposed, how to explain all this to them.But now... hiding it is obviously not a good idea.

Nora thought for a while, roughly organized the language, and slowly told most of the situation.

Nora emphasized that she will not always be like this, and then die quickly due to old age. As long as she returns to her own world, she will return to her original appearance.And it is not difficult to return to her original world, she has almost done everything that needs to be done.

After hearing Nora's explanation, the worried expression on Toni's face became calmer.

But Tony's expression was more complicated, although his face had returned to calm when he found Nora looking at him.

He knew that after Nora returned to her original world, it might be difficult for him to see her again.

But he couldn't keep it.

Probably because of his own negligence, Nora had a big bump on his head, and Sherlock's affection for Nora was soon full.

That night, Nora left the ward alone and met the time traveler who called herself Li outside.

Lee brings bad news.

It takes a lot of energy to allow the system to travel across time and space and between countless parallel universes, but due to some reasons, even though Nora has completed the task of favorability required by the system, the energy of the system still has not reached the size required to travel through parallel universes again .

Originally, the system had a spar that stored huge energy, allowing her to take Nora back to her own world and restore Nora's youth, but that spar was lost during the journey of time and space, and now unless After finding that spar, Nora will not be able to return to her own world even if she completes all the tasks in the system.

Of course, since Toni can come to this world, Nora can also return to the world with Toni, but in this case, even if Nora returns to her own world, she will not be able to return to her original appearance. normal rate of aging.

Li also told Nora guiltily that he could send Nora back to his own world, so that she would age at a normal rate, but without going through the system, she would not be able to regain her youth.

Only by returning to her own world through the system, Nora can not only restore the normal aging speed, but also return to her youth.

"How do I find that hedron?" Nora asked.

Li's face was full of guilt, "This spar must still be on Earth, but... I'm not sure where it is now... We have completely lost contact with it."

After meeting Li this time, Nora did not start looking for this spar.

I want to find a piece of unknown form and appearance on the huge earth... And because this spar comes from a high-level civilization, it is impossible to detect it with the existing technology on the earth.To be precise, Nora knew nothing about this spar. The only way to confirm that it is the spar that the system needs is that when Nora touches this spar, the system can perceive it. .

It can be said that finding this spar is an impossible task.

Now, because of the system, although Nora is aging, she can still maintain her youthful appearance.After returning to her own world, Nora couldn't even maintain her youthful appearance.

Nora decided that since she couldn't find this spar, she would stay in this world for a while and say goodbye to everyone, then she would go back to her own world, so that she could live for more than ten years and live with another Say goodbye to all friends of the world.She wouldn't tell Tony about it, just let him think he was fine in another universe.

Nora told everyone that she was about to leave this world and was ready to say goodbye to everyone.

After saying goodbye to all her friends in London, Nora went to Xavier School for Gifted Boys, to Kenosha established by Magneto, to Gotham, to New York... She met Charles, Eric, and Many mutants, met Bruce, met Steve...

Nora went to many places and said goodbye to many people one by one.

Nora stayed in New York, living in Tony's house.She had made an agreement with Li, and after saying goodbye to Tony, she asked Li to send her and Toni back to her own world.

The energy of the system was no longer enough to maintain Nora's youthful appearance. Without the disguise, Nora's hair became gray and wrinkled, her skin became inelastic, and her plump apple muscles became shriveled.When you smile, the wrinkles at the end of your eyes will also deepen with the smile.

Seeing herself in the mirror, Nora smiled and blinked, and said to Toni, "Looking at myself like this, I feel a little magical."

Toni touched the wrinkles on Nora's face, "Let me take some photos for you, but not everyone can know in advance what they will look like when they get old."

Nora looked at Toni's smiling face, and wanted to tell her today that even if she went back, she wouldn't get younger.But for a while, he didn't know how to say it.

Forget it, let's procrastinate.Nora sighed.

Probably because the system is closely connected with Nora, the energy of the system is insufficient, and Nora's physical condition has deteriorated visibly.After sighing, Nora coughed, and coughed for a while without stopping.

Toni patted Nora on the back, Xiaodai brought a glass of water, Nora drank the whole glass of water before she stopped coughing.

The long cough made Nora's face flushed, and she took a long breath and inhaled, and after inhaling and exhaling, her face slowly returned to its normal color.

"When are we going back?" Toni looked at Nora worriedly.

Nora took another sip of water before saying in a hoarse voice, "The day after tomorrow, we can go back the day after tomorrow."

"Will you really be okay after you go back? I'm really worried about you." Toni paused, and then said, "Sister."

Toni's intuition is as accurate as ever... Nora smiled, "Of course."

After Toni left for a while, Nora took out the facial tissue she had just used when she coughed from her tightly clenched palm, seeing the harsh color on the facial tissue, Nora calmly stuffed it into her pocket , and then walked out of the villa.

Nora walked along the cliff to a remote corner, and sure enough, she saw Li.

"Your situation is not very good now." Li looked at Nora worriedly, "Tomorrow at the latest... Tomorrow you must return to your own world."

Nora was silent for a while, then nodded, "Okay."

"Tomorrow night, I will come to take you back." Li repeated again, "Tomorrow night, this is the latest time."

In fact, there was no need for Li to remind her. Nora herself knew that her physical condition was indeed not good, and it was still getting worse.After returning to the villa, Nora felt dizzy and not very conscious.After struggling to walk back to her bedroom, Nora fell asleep just as her head touched the pillow.

When Nora woke up again, it was already dark.

"Is it evening?" Nora sat up from the bed, her voice hoarse.

"To be precise, it was the night of the second day." Toni rubbed her eyes, "Are you really not hiding anything from me?"

Nora opened her mouth and was about to tell Tony everything when Tony rushed in.

Tony was holding a delicate small box in his hand, and his face was still covered with sweat. Seeing this, Toni left the room silently and closed the door behind him.

Tony stood by Nora's window, and the two of them looked at each other. The atmosphere of silence made this short moment seem like years.

Nora blinked her eyes, and a warm smile spread out. The wrinkled old face actually showed a unique girlish look.

"Isn't that an ugly face?" asked Nora.

Tony didn't speak, he squatted down, held Nora's wrinkled right hand hanging by the bed with one hand, his fingers were tightly intertwined, the other hand gently brushed away Nora's broken hair, and kissed her. on her forehead.

Nora closed her eyes.

Along Nora's forehead, Tony kissed her eyelids, the bridge of the nose, and her cheeks. He kissed every wrinkle of hers, and finally stayed on Nora's chapped lips.

Nora's drooping, long eyelashes trembled slightly, and there was something crystal along the corner of her eye, leaving a curved tear trail on her cheek.

The tear flowed to the corner of his lips and was kissed by Tony.

Just when Tony's lips were about to leave, Nora stretched out his left hand and put his arms around Tony's neck, his lips parted slightly, and his tongue quickly licked Tony's lips.

Tony paused, hooking the restless little tongue.

……

After the kiss was over, both of them were out of breath.

Tony took the delicate locket and opened it to reveal the ring inside.

A gemstone the size of a pigeon egg is inlaid on the ring. The gemstone is red, and there is a light golden pattern in the shape of a silk thread inside.

"I got this by accident. All instruments can't detect its composition. I don't think it is a product of the earth." It is unique, just like you.Tony didn't say the last word.

Nora smiled and held out her ring finger.

Tony paused, then carefully put the ring on Nora's ring finger.

"I love you."

Tony did not hear Nora's answer for a long time.

——Because Nora heard the prompt from the system.

[Obtain energy crystals, time and space travel is ready]

The author has something to say: There will be a follow-up chapter tomorrow, and then this article will end.

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