[Comprehensive] Sherlock's Secret

Chapter 17 The Cowardly and Violent Murderer

The staff was obviously embarrassed: "I'm really sorry, this—"

"Didn't Hunter tell you I'm coming, and you still want to be sent by your boss to water the lawn? God, you don't know how funny you are dragging the hose to water the lawn..."

The staff was shocked: "You... how do you know?"

Sherlock said triumphantly: "Of course I saw it. I came here a few days ago, and Hunter brought me here specially."

"Then, please come in," the staff promised, and immediately changed into a flattering smile, "Go slowly, walk slowly..."

Sherlock snorted with a sneer, and pulled Su Fu into the tent.

Su Fu asked, "How do you know that he—"

Sherlock interrupted her impatiently, and said very fast: "There is a blade of grass on the back of his trousers, and there are some mud spots on his knees and thighs. Although they have been treated, they can still be seen. But not below. He was wearing rain boots at the time, and there was a palm-wide stain and wet water stain on the side of his shirt, which should have been accidentally scratched when he pulled the water pipe. There was rust in his fingernails, and there was still a valve on his finger. The traces, if it was his own lawn, he would definitely change his clothes after watering, but he didn't, but came to work after a little tidying up, indicating that it was urgent, but a ticket checker wanted to rush to water the lawn? What else could it be if it wasn't forced—"

He moved the corner of his lips and showed a sarcastic smile: "Do I still need to explain to you why I know his boss is Hunter?"

"That's not necessary," Su Fu smiled, "It's written on the door, 'Hunter's Big Circus'..."

There was no one in the tent at this time, the performance stage and the surrounding seats were quiet and silent, Sherlock quickly walked around to the backstage, and entered very carefully - there was no one here either.

The animals in the cage lay lazily on their stomachs, snorted from time to time, flicked their tails to disperse the lice on their bodies, and stared at the two intruders with big and ignorant eyes.

"Why is there no one?" Sherlock murmured, walked past the lion cage, and turned his gaze to the two leopards with closed eyes and a closed water tank next to him.

"Sherlock, here." Su Fu called him softly.

He walked over quickly and saw a big dark purple snake with a thick bowl mouth and three to four meters long in a relatively low cage.

Its diamond-shaped pupils have a cold metallic color, and the snake letters that "hiss" from time to time are creepy.

Su Fu knelt down to look at it, and the boa constrictor bumped its flat head against the railing of the cage fearlessly, but she didn't move...much uglier than Nagini, she thought.

"Who are you? How did you get in here!" Another voice suddenly appeared amidst the noise of animals, and Sherlock and Su Fu looked up at the same time.

It was a short, blond man with a thin build and a sunken nose. He was wearing a funny circus costume, but he was obviously too big, which made him look extremely incongruous.

Sherlock stood up and said quickly as he walked towards him: "Skeletal hypoplasia should be caused by malnutrition when I was young. When walking, I dragged my steps and flinched, because you were often bullied. I just came from the tropics. It was because the circus troupe had just toured in India, and there were two hole-shaped scars on the back of the hand, side by side, with purple-black edges, either the injury was not treated well at the time, or the wound was caused by something poisonous—snake bite.”

His speaking speed was so fast that some syllables were blurred directly. His sharp gaze was like a blade, and he collected countless detailed information on every part of the short man in front of him.

"...the shoulders are of different heights, obviously the right shoulder often bears a heavy load." Sherlock's eyes barely shifted to look at the cage next to him, "this snake often sits on your shoulders—the dark circles under your eyes are deep, at least I haven’t had a good rest for three nights, the edge of the shoe is degummed, new mouth, I have been soaked in water for a long time, I have scratches on my neck, caused by irregular sharp objects, most likely glass shards... Perth· Collier, are you having fun with your little friend recently?"

The short man took a few steps back in shock, pressed down on the railing of an ostrich's cage, and said incoherently, "You—you, who are you? You're talking nonsense, I am, why—"

"Because you were often bullied in the Andrea Orphanage when you were a child, you were unable to resist, so you left the Orphanage very early, and then worked in a circus, but you still often said that you were treated unfairly because of your innate figure. So after this circus tour came to London, you tried your best to find out the traces of the people who had abused you in the orphanage, and you found that Arthur Johnson and Harry Davis were still in London with another person, so you will They tricked them out into somehow—”

"To shut up!"

Perth Collier suddenly roared viciously: "You don't have any evidence, so you can't just convict me!"

He took two steps back, turned around and was about to run out, Sherlock stepped forward and grabbed his shoulders, not wanting that this man was thin, but extremely flexible, he slipped under Sherlock's armpit as soon as he was short , and immediately rolled behind a water tank.

Su Fu quickly picked up the crowbar next to him and threw it to Sherlock, then pulled out the slender brooch on his clothes and inserted it into the keyhole on the snake cage, smashing the lock cylinder twice, and finally clapped his hands in a leisurely manner.

Collier, who was shrinking behind the water tank, suddenly gave a short and sharp laugh.

Su Fu frowned.

And just when Sherlock was holding the crowbar to go around the water tank, one side of the water tank suddenly hit the ground with a "bang", and the water flow was turbulent between the collision of the chains, and the huge impact immediately pushed him back.

"Be careful--"

Su Fu's last syllable was still lingering on the tip of his tongue, and suddenly a huge mouth lined with fangs protruded from the spray.

Collier blew a whistle, and the vicious reptile immediately crawled over with the water, and with a sweep of its bulky tail, the side cover of the water tank was directly thrown aside.

It was a crocodile more than three meters long.

Its ugly body looks like spoiled bean skin, and its protruding eyeballs are violent and cold. This animal is not easy to mess with at all.

Sherlock got up from the ground, but he couldn't get around the crocodile because it was surrounded by cages. What's more, the crocodile seemed to be in a state of mania, with its iron-gray pimple-covered tail sweeping wildly, and some cages were knocked over by it, making all kinds of messes. The animal calls one after another.

"Hey man, enjoy yourself!"

Collier laughed morbidly and triumphantly, then jumped over the water tank neatly and ran towards the door.

Sherlock cursed, Su Fu was still looking for a tool to fight the crocodile, the crocodile suddenly raised its flat head, and the powerful crocodile opened and rushed towards Sherlock!

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