[Sherlock Holmes + Shenxia] Mirror Theory

Sherlock's illness recovered quickly. After getting the medicine, enough food and sleep, he was refreshed immediately, and even the two of them returned to Oxford Street the next day to start cleaning the room-the so-called cleaning, for the two For any consulting detective, it is nothing more than throwing away all the worn-out specimens and reagents, and then tidying up the scattered pages, as well as replenishing the bedding and cleaning the dust in the guest room.You must know that these two people have very low requirements for the living environment. In fact, if the dust in the guest room (Li Mingye is about to move in) is almost as thick as a finger, the two of them would not even clean it up.

On the other hand, since Li Mingye arrived in London five days ago, it has snowed from time to time in London-this adds a bit of Christmas atmosphere, but at the same time it also makes the two of them less willing to go out .These two are not very active people. When there is no case, they can't wait to stay in the apartment, do experiments and write songs. By the way, recently, one of the two is studying the history of world crime and the other is obsessed with ferns. Classification and species, busy every day to compete for the only computer.

Calling it "competition" is actually not counted, because Sherlock will argue and die after a few words in about 60.00% of the cases-yes, 60.00%, this is the standard line Sherlock set for himself.If it exceeds, it will arouse Li Mingye's keen desire to explore, but if it is less, it will not attract her attention.His intention is actually very simple, he just wants to cultivate a certain subtle habit of Shirley, so that she will subtly develop a mentality of "I am more important to Sherlock than his science", and develop a sense of dependence over time.This step may be very small, but it may be effective over time.

There's no way, this woman is like a copper pea that can't be steamed or cooked, can't be smashed or fried, and has nowhere to go except dripping water through the stone.

The harmony ended with Mycroft's visit.At that time, Li Mingye was half leaning on the soft and comfortable single sofa, hugging her violin, pondering the shortcomings of the new song she composed recently, while Sherlock was making coffee, using Li Mingye's belt The coffee beans from Costa Rica, the room is filled with the clear aroma of strong alcohol and slightly sour overflowing from the siphon coffee pot.Both of them are not sour, but the taste is still there after it is cold.

At this time, the three doorbells rang interrupted the harmonious atmosphere in the room.

Sherlock turned his head to look at the door, and subconsciously frowned: "Three sounds on average, two seconds apart——Mycroft."

Li Mingye put her violin aside and got up to open the door, half-jokingly imitating Sherlock's way of speaking: "I think there is an 80.00% chance that Mr. Holmes' visit was due to the large sum of pounds spent five days ago." She opened the door, glanced at a smiling government employee, and raised her eyebrows involuntarily. "Oh, I was wrong."

Mycroft walked in abruptly, still wearing a bright British three-piece suit. The clean clothes that did not stain the slightest snow and the high-end car perfume faintly lingering around the tip of the nose showed the dignity of this government official.However, the sharp eyes of the two consulting detectives in the room fell on his slightly revealing double chin and the belly that could hardly be covered by heavy clothes—Sherlock's half-smile mocking expression was full of malice, while Li Mingye's picky He raised his eyebrows, and seemed to show a smile.

Looking at the world where Mycroft finally gained weight, he actually felt a strange sense of satisfaction... Li Mingye tried his best to suppress the curvature of the corners of his mouth, and led Mycroft to sit on the sofa, gloating He glanced at the former agent's thighs that were already a little loose.

"Mycroft, your weight has increased by at least ten catties. Your muscle relaxation and blood sugar and blood pressure have a lot to do with your enthusiasm for desserts. As your sworn enemy, I have to remind you that if you Trying to increase my financial expenses by collapsing my sofa is extremely stupid." Sherlock retracted his eyes and opened his mouth in a very cynical tone. "Your weight gain depends on your eating habits and extreme laziness, so what 'national business' do you have to throw at me? This can even allow you to change your schedule and overcome inertia to come to my residence. Is there going to be another war ?”

Li Mingye looked at Mycroft with his violin in his arms—this "little clerk" still smelled of alcohol in his hands, and his shoulders were stained with a few slender, supple but obviously well-nourished white hairs. The dog fur, the creases of the knees and the creases of the waist and hips show that he has not been sitting for a long time today.She raised her eyebrows, knowing that a government official with a large white dog (supposedly Samoyed) entrusted Mycroft with a personal matter, and Mycroft found it without a doubt. Sherlock——Li Mingye can guess the content of the text message that Sherlock didn't respond to in the morning!

Mycroft's eyes flashed, and he glanced thoughtfully at Li Mingye, who was watching from the sidelines, and then at Sherlock, who was making coffee, with a pleasant smile: "Sherlock, don't you think about giving you a lot of trouble?" Does your elder brother make a cup of coffee? As your elder brother, I have never tasted your craft a few times since I was a child."

Li Mingye raised his eyebrows, vaguely feeling that there seemed to be a deep meaning in this sentence.

Sherlock remained calm on the surface. The moment he heard this sentence, he heard the subtle threat in Mycroft's words, and he also understood his brother's thoughts at the moment.But the most important thing now is to dispel Xue Li's doubts, and she must not be allowed to think deeply!

"Coffee? I'm 'brother who is tired of traveling', the drink you should consider is Pu'er tea from Yunnan, China, not coffee!" Sherlock sneered, sneered back, poured out two cups of coffee, and put it on A very small amount of brown sugar and milk was stirred casually, and a cup was handed to Shirley.Taking advantage of the moment Shirley's eyes fell on the coffee cup, he glanced at Mycroft, who had a clear expression on his face, and then withdrew with a smile.

Mycroft received the message from Sherlock's eyes, and he was happy to give his brother a face and cooperate with him in such a scene: "Sherlock, we have an inseparable blood relationship. After all, we are all One camp - don't you forget you have to go home for Christmas and it's only a week away."

Sherlock's face darkened again.And Mycroft turned to Li Mingye with a polite and gentle smile: "Miss Li is Sherlock's best friend. If you don't mind, on behalf of the Holmes family, I would like to send you an invitation to spend Christmas together—I hope this invitation Without being too presumptuous, our parents are very curious about Sherlock's friends, and if you agree, the Holmes family can guarantee that you will have a pleasant Christmas holiday."

"Thank you very much for your invitation. I am very flattered, Mr. Holmes." Li Mingye, who was caught off guard and burned to death, was stunned for a moment. Thinking of the old Holmes and his wife in this world, he suddenly became curious. .However, she still maintained her "sincere and gentle" smile and sipped a cup of coffee reservedly. After thinking about Mycroft's purpose for a moment, she said tentatively, "I don't know what Mr. Holmes said about the 'happy' Christmas holiday. what does it look like?"

"Fireplace, turkey, dessert, wine, house concert, and a few light-hearted conversations, enough to soothe our year's weariness, ma'am." Mycroft said politely.

Li Mingye thought about it and agreed.Mycroft's eyes flicked to his brother, who lowered his eyelids in acknowledgment, although his face was not very good-looking.And this very small communication was ignored by Li Mingye, who was distracted for a moment - after all, they were acquaintances, and they were no match for outsiders, and Li Mingye would not pay attention to any details all the time.The two brothers who had reached an exchange changed the topic in a tacit understanding, and Sherlock sneered: "Okay, Mycroft! You'd better put away your false politeness, I don't think an invitation to Christmas holiday is enough to make you condescend Come to my place, why don't you tell me what your colleague who owns a Samoyed and his alcoholic friend gave you enough to make you come running to me for help?"

"That's very rude, Sherlock. The friend of Mr. Holmes's colleague is not a drunkard. I'm more inclined that a very important and extremely confidential matter happened to that friend, and he fainted because of mental and physical exhaustion. Li Mingye habitually corrected the fallacies in Sherlock's reasoning, "Look at Mr. Holmes' knees. He once knelt on one knee. Do you think he is proposing marriage? Obviously, the wine in Mr. Holmes' hands Smell to pour brandy down on that fainted friend to keep him refreshed..."

"—and only the dog hair on Mycroft's shoulders means that he is interviewing two people, and the fact that he personally dealt with the person's fainting problem means that the matter is confidential. I understand that, Shirley, I was just Irony!" Sherlock cut off Li Mingye's words impatiently, he didn't want Shirley to continue treating him as a student.Immediately afterwards, he realized that he was being impolite, but he had already spoken, so he could only purse his lips slightly, and turned to Mycroft and said, "So what happened?"

Mycroft glanced at them both, sighed at last, and began to tell the reason why he had come to Oxford Street.

The intruder who stormed into Mycroft's office at around 10:30 this morning was a man worthy of the title - the Duke of Holdereth.The duke has many honorable titles in his political career, and he can be called a figure who turns his hands into clouds and turns his hands into rain.But in rushing into Mycroft's office, he was downright insolent, and at the same time he took a distraught man with him.

It was only after Mycroft dismissed the secretary that he learned about the incident from the Duke—it turned out that the only son of the Duke who was studying at Eton College was missing!And that distraught middle-aged man was the vice-principal of Eton College, Thornick Ford Huxtable. He went straight to the Duke's mansion early this morning and informed the Duke of the news of his only son's disappearance.

His Excellency the Duke immediately went to Mycroft's office in shock.Having worked together for many years, he had great trust in Holmes' ability, and the two of them were even political allies, and the Duke was a high-ranking man, and every disturbance around him was enough to affect many people, so he didn't even consider going to Scotland Yard to report the crime.

In the course of Mr. Vice President's narration, he even fainted due to physical and mental exhaustion.The Duke, whose only son was missing, showed extraordinary will, and communicated with Mycroft about the whole incident, and even sorted out several of his political enemies.For Duke Holderith's consideration, Mycroft decided to personally send agents to protect the Duke and be responsible for possible blackmail and other incidents. At the same time, he recommended his brother Sherlock Holmes to deal with the other end of the missing Thrall. Lord Tell's business.Lord Holderith agreed to the decision, and returned to the mansion in apparent calm, while Mycroft headed straight for Oxford Street.

"As far as the current situation is concerned, there are three people who can threaten the Duke's income by kidnapping Lord Salter." Mycroft paused, and spoke out three names very carefully, "These three gentlemen are related to other countries. I'm in charge of that aspect of the agent, Sherlock, and all you have to do is go to Eton and try to find the missing Lord Salter."

Sherlock was noncommittal.

Mycroft glared at his ignorant younger brother, and continued: "The time of the little lord's disappearance is still uncertain, but it must have disappeared from last night to eight o'clock this morning. The one who disappeared at the same time was his mentor Heidi. Brother. According to the vice-principal Huxtable, at seven o'clock this morning, when the janitor was about to enter the Lord's dormitory to clean, he found that the little Lord's bed had been slept in, the quilt was completely cold, and it was lifted. It’s open. And the little Lord’s school uniform, socks, and shoes are all gone, and the same is true of Black Diego’s room. Obviously, there is some inevitable relationship between the disappearance of these two people.”

"What about surveillance?" Sherlock asked.

"The surveillance hasn't been investigated yet. The public school has suppressed this matter, so we can't make it public." Mycroft stood up after finishing speaking, obviously intending to leave. "Duke Holderez can't do without my help for the time being, I have to leave, Sherlock, I hope you can find Lord Salter back as soon as possible. By the way - there is one thing that cannot be said on the table, I must explain , I think it helps the case. The duke’s marriage is indeed as unfortunate as the media said, and the relationship between them is extremely cold.”

"Do you want me to consider the possibility that the missing Lord ran away by himself? Mycroft." Sherlock dismissed it, "Since you want to leave the matter to me, don't affect my judgment! Now, the door There, it’s easy to leave.”

After Mycroft left, Sherlock turned to Li Mingye—the moment he saw her expression clearly, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows in surprise.Li Mingye's expression was a bit complicated, a solemn look of solemnity and surprise flashed across her face, it was obvious that she had just fallen into a state of contemplation.

"I just assumed that you have decided to help me?" Sherlock suppressed his doubts and invited Li Mingye.

Li Mingye quickly recovered her relaxed appearance, smiled and said: "My honor, Sherlock. Time is running out, I suggest we start now." She immediately stood up and took down her coat from the hanger. Coats, scarves and hats, he looked like he was in a hurry.Sherlock glanced at her, and simply let it go as she wished.

Sherlock's doubts disappeared when the two got into the taxi, or it was stored in his thinking palace.However, Li Mingye's calm and plain appearance was turbulent. She could not forget the names of Duke Holderez and Lord Salter. In her previous life, she and Watson had dealt with the disappearance of Lord Salter. case, and received a reward of six thousand pounds from the powerful duke.To be honest, this can be regarded as the most comfortable and mocking money she has ever earned, and Watson also wrote this "Abbey School" case as a novel and published it (see the original work for details, this case is an adaptation, are basically the same except for the name of the person).

After hearing Sherlock talking about Peter Gary, she felt a little dazed about the past and present life for a while. At this time, she had to suspect that she was in a carefully adapted world at the moment, and all the names were correct, even There are traces of the development of certain events.The similar "Black Peter", the similar "Abbey Public School"... I am afraid that the most bizarre and bizarre cases will reappear in front of her in a different form.

As a logician who pays attention to facts, Li Mingye will not express any opinions on the unresolved Lord Salter's disappearance case, but these same names and similarly familiar developments have aroused her vigilance.This made her wonder again why her brothers and Moriarty appeared in this world.

But this world is undoubtedly real, and things will develop on their own with anyone's subtle choices, such as Peter Gary's "escape from the dead" and Moran's solicitation, every butterfly's wings flap There seems to be an inextricable connection between them.For example, she can be sure of McVitie's recruitment and abandonment of Moran, and this kind of recruitment in disguise pushed Moran to the top of London's West End... thus changing the fate of Peter Gary.

The more sober a person is, the more he can appreciate the pain of a bird in a cage.Li Mingye is not a person who ignores clues. No matter whether the world and herself are real or unreal, or even a dream someone had overnight, she will regard it as real.

Even this universe is formed by a series of coincidences. How is this similar to a computer program?Li Mingye is not a philosopher, even if she encounters bizarre events that can turn anyone into a philosopher.Since her previous life had already ushered in death, she didn't mind living with another identity—especially when there were so many crimes and dangers in this world, and her old enemies were stalking her.

Li Mingye finally let out a long breath, letting go of all doubts.She turned her head to look at Sherlock, and suddenly smiled - thinking about it carefully, the proudest thing she did after arriving in this world was probably awakening and teaching Sherlock Holmes in this world.

Sherlock glanced at her inexplicably.Li Mingye's thinking was calm, so Sherlock could only vaguely feel that she seemed to be caught in some serious thoughts just now, but at this moment she was relieved, and even smiled kindly and affectionately.People like Li Mingye or Mycroft, when they don't want to be found thinking about something, simply don't make any small movements, and they have no way of inferring their thoughts.

But Sherlock really likes Li Mingye's smile now.The indistinct heaviness on that handsome face seemed to have been washed away, and the beauty that had always been shrouded in clouds and mist became more real in an instant, showing a transparent true color.He felt that Li Mingye seemed to let go of something, and the shackles immersed in his soul were taken off again - the sense of caution anytime and anywhere in the past seemed to have disappeared at this moment.

"I searched Black Diego's blog, look at these." Sherlock handed over his mobile phone, leading the topic to the case, "Hey Diego is a master's degree from the University of London, his family background is not good, and his marriage Lukewarm, no signs of extramarital affairs, no children but very fond of children, two days ago he published such a blog post 'Choice of Responsibility and Another Responsibility' and then deleted it, this is the version I restored."

Li Mingye took Sherlock's mobile phone and carefully checked He Diego's blog, slowly pushing away his reasoning in his mind.

The choice between responsibility and another kind of responsibility shows that there is a huge conflict in He Diego's life, showing multiple possibilities.Judging from the blog post, Black Diego is very fond of all children, especially Lord Salter, who he guides, but there is no obscene (anti-harmony) obscenity between the lines, excluding love (anti-harmony) children (anti-harmony) Harmony) the possibility of obsession.And the most important thing is that He Diego updated his blog posts very frequently a week ago, about one post a day, but since a week ago, the frequency has changed-in this week, only two days ago The blog post was deleted immediately after he published it.

If the content of the blog post shows a conflict between two responsibilities, then deleting the blog post soon means that he has made a choice, and deleting the blog post immediately means that this choice may not be in line with his own values. Said that he did not want to reveal clues when the incident happened later.Obviously, Hei Diego was not in a state of control two days ago, and deleting blog posts can only be his own choice.

Sherlock and Li Mingye looked at each other, and they understood each other's judgment before they arrived at the scene.

"I don't want to waste energy. It's a better choice to focus on the investigation after seeing the scene." Sherlock looked out of the window in dismay, pouted a little bored. "Before I hoped that this would be a case that would excite me, but now I think the possibility of this idea being realized is probably no more than 20.00%, because we now have a suspect."

"Before the matter is over, never be too sure, my dear Sherlock. The world is always changing, who knows what ironic turning point will be in the end?"

"...I hope it will be as you wish, but I don't expect it." Sherlock forcibly pressed back the rebuttal in his heart, and reluctantly agreed.

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The original Fu has experienced a series of events such as crossing, discovering his own origin, and the integration of the world. If he did not think about it, he would be a real OOC. After the stimulation of the Black Peter incident, he began to think again.

In the original book, Maggie's political career is another way of thinking. He is comparing the differences between the two worlds, and even relying on controlling government departments to explore the secrets of this world (not shown in the text)

But the author must not let him continue to think, otherwise he will go to cultivate immortality

So I threw the original Moriarty and Juanfu to him (set up a new life goal), so that he can continue to keep his feet on the ground

As for the communication between Mai Ge and Juan Fu, it is actually very simple, anyway, it is a metaphorical routine

Anyway, it's purple

Brother Mai: Since you were young, you haven’t made coffee a few times, now you want to make a girl and start showing love?Believe it or not, I will expose you?

Juan Fu: Brother!Please don't say it!

Brother Mai: OK, help me with things, I will smooth things over for you, and I will even take my sister to your house

Juan Fu: Brother, what are you talking about?

Original Fu:? ? ?I'm gone God what happened?