[Sherlock Holmes + Shenxia] Mirror Theory

The winter wind is bitter by the Thames River, the fine snow is blowing, and fine icicles are formed on the surface of the river, which seems to be bitingly cold, making people breathe into smoke.

Standing on a muddy ground soaked with crushed ice by the river, Sherlock had a very strange expression, somewhat excited and somewhat aggrieved, he tightened his coat tightly, and said to Shirley: "I have to admit that you are Yes, Shirley."

The woman who was also radiant in the cold wind showed him a smug smile.

The origin of this sentence is the corpse lying on the ground between the two.The corpse was a white male with a delicate beard, about 35 years old, with a medium build, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, even with cuff buttons and tie clips, and wearing brand new beautiful leather shoes on his feet.Sherlock has compared the information database and recognized that this corpse is Mr. Black Diego who has been missing for no more than twelve hours.

Speaking of the origin of this corpse is very simple.After Sherlock and Li Mingye arrived at Eton College, they saw Lord Salter's dormitory, and then turned to Black Diego's dormitory. According to Black Diego's random bedding and dormitory, The overturned wine bottle showed some ominous signs, and then they went to check the surveillance, and found that Diego had left the dormitory at eleven o'clock the night before, and never came back.

The two smart men immediately remembered that Lord Salter's dormitory was located on the first floor, with windows leading to the lawn outside, and then they followed the clues on the grass to the cement road—obviously, Lord Salter's dormitory on the side of the road After getting into a car at the blind corner of the surveillance, he disappeared, while the trail of Hey Diego cautiously turned back to the grass, and then disappeared into the ice mud by the Thames River.

The two immediately chased downstream along the river, and then unexpectedly found that half of the hem of the heavy coat was hanging on the oars of a moored river cruise boat.The two immediately called the police, claiming that someone had committed suicide, and then the Scotland Yard staff who arrived later salvaged in the icy river for about three hours (the two calculated the river flow rate and delineated the approximate area of ​​the salvage, which saved a lot of trouble), and finally took this A corpse was brought up.

Lestrade sneezed and complained to Sherlock: "Sherlock, I can't believe that you and your girlfriend found this corpse while taking a walk after dinner. What happened again?"

Sherlock gave Lestrade a very veiled look, while Li Mingye looked over with her sharp and penetrating eyes—even though Lestrade really wanted to do it for Sherlock's benefit. The woman he valued made a pair with him to add a little humanity to him, so he made a little joke at this time.But Mr. Inspector, who thought he had a clear conscience, still shrank his neck under the power of this look, only to feel that there seemed to be a cold wind blowing on the back of his neck.

Just when Li Mingye was about to speak - anyway, she would definitely not say anything good at this moment, the venom of that kind of meanness and politeness was ready to come out - Sherlock knelt down halfway in time, and scanned it with his small magnifying glass The gap between the teeth in Mr. Corpse Sweep's wide mouth suddenly revealed a look of real excitement, and he raised his head and shouted at Lestrade: "Evidence bag! Lestrade, your Scotland Yard is getting more and more hopeless." !Look at his right mandible between the first and second molars!"

... how can I see it!No, how did you find out?Poor Lestrade didn't even want to vomit, but simply yelled over his back, "Anderson!"

The new forensic doctor who hid far away to show that he didn't want to get close to the freak let out a grudging snort, and slowly moved over——this time even Li Mingye gave him a dissatisfied look, coldly Authentic: "Sherlock's usual words and deeds may not be respectful enough, but what he said this time is not wrong, Lestrade. Hiring a forensic doctor who brings personal emotions into the investigation at the scene of the crime shows the vision of your leadership." It’s not going to help Scotland Yard’s detection rate any further.”

Anderson's face, which was still pale from the cold just now, turned red for a moment, and he was about to retort, but he hesitated after noticing the identity of Li Mingye's woman—to be honest, Asians generally look small, especially Li Ming Ye's face is beautiful and beautiful, with soft almond eyes and cherry lips and a palm-sized thin melon-seeded face, which looks even more girlish and weak in the cold wind.Even though the expression on that face was truly unattainable arrogance, it was suddenly compromised by his looks.

Adhering to the gentleman's demeanor towards women, Anderson hesitated for a moment, and Lestrade quickly smoothed things over: "Anderson, pay attention to your professional attitude, and don't want to do it next time. What did you find, Sherlock?"

Sherlock let go and stood up, showing a perfunctory smirk at Lestrade: "As an unofficial detective, of course I can't compare with Scotland Yard's intern forensic doctor, why don't you let Anderson do the test by himself? After all, 'This is a serious crime scene, and unofficial people are not allowed to point fingers, let alone a playground for some freak!'" He turned up the collar of his coat, and winked at Li Mingye at the side, and the two together Go outside.

"Hey, wait, Sherlock..." Lestrade called out from behind, a little weakly. "You must at least tell me what the case is about."

Sherlock didn't even bother to talk to him. After all, Li Mingye thought about his past life, turned to Lestrade and said, "Mr. Inspector, this is a suicide case, you don't need to be so worried—look, It's all quite obvious. Brightly dressed, brand new shoes, tie knots that can only be tied from your own perspective, beautiful and expensive tie clips and cuff buttons, this Mr. Black Diego is obviously ready to die, So he walked into the Thames very calmly. The case is clear, beyond doubt, and you can close the case."

"Hey Diego's suicide must have a great relationship with Lord Salter's disappearance, there is no doubt about it. According to the current clues, it can be seen that Hey Diego took this child—I Sherlock and Sherlock deduced that his weight was about 70 kilograms based on Black Diego's body, but the depth of the footprints outside the window of Lord Salter's dormitory obviously did not meet Mr. Black Diego's weight. The deceased carried After the little lord left, he gave the little lord to someone else, and then committed suicide." Li Mingye stood by the window of the little lord's dormitory and called Mycroft.She was using Sherlock's mobile phone, and the owner of the phone had jumped in through the window and started re-checking Lord Salter's quarters - he insisted that the morning check had missed something.

"The duke didn't receive any blackmail information in any sense, he just seemed a little restless and very melancholy." Mycroft's voice was still deep and deep, with a sense of calmness revealed in every syllable, "This matter is very serious. It greatly disturbed the Duke's mind, and even though the Duke himself can still maintain his calm demeanor, the people around him have undoubtedly suffered."

"Is it the Duke's secretary?"

"Yes, the Duke's secretary, Mr. Wilde, is the only person around the Duke who knows about the young Lord's kidnapping. He looks very disturbed and guilty."

Li Mingye was silent for a moment, then chuckled lightly: "I think Mr. Holmes must already have an idea."

"It's a great honor to be complimented, Ms. Li."

"May I venture to ask—does Mr. Holmes do anything about it?"

"MI6's agents have monitored Mr. Wilde. Once Mr. Wilde has any flaws, we can follow the clues. After all, if Mr. Wilde is detained rashly, the Duke will be very angry. I wonder if Miss Li and my younger brother have found the little lord trail?"

Li Mingye was about to speak, when Sherlock jumped out of the window nimbly. After landing, he looked at his footprints, and a smile appeared on his face.Li Mingye is quite familiar with Sherlock's "things are getting interesting" smile, which usually means that Sherlock has found some clues that can make things more twists and turns.To be honest, to a certain extent, this brat is really afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

She hung up the phone after perfunctory Mycroft, and Sherlock couldn't wait to grab her arm and walked out - this was a bit rude, but Li Mingye just frowned and indulged him :"New discovery?"

"Yes, a new discovery, Shirley. The matter is already clear, and the rest is some trivial errand work." Sherlock spoke very fast, showing his strange excitement at the moment——every time he found out When something interesting happened, this man who seemed to be sealed up by his boring life into an indifferent sculpture seemed to be unsealed, and he radiated a dazzling and sharp brilliance from the inside out.

Perhaps because of his temperament and appearance, the usual Sherlock is enough to attract people's attention.But only at such times, this solitary young man is particularly outstanding, making people look as if they will be cut by the sharp edges all over him.But this is what he really is, and Sherlock Holmes is truly alive when he truly reveals the majestic emotion that belongs to genius.

He took a plastic bag out of his pocket, and in it was half a biscuit, apparently soaked in coffee.He enthusiastically said: "I am very familiar with this thing, which is beneficial (anti-harmony) and multi (anti-harmony) card (anti-harmony) factors. Here, this coffee tastes like this! About half a month ago, I cracked a case of child trafficking. The trafficking group usually used the excuse of inviting children to drink coffee to use the profit (anti-harmony) multi (anti-harmony) card (anti-harmony) ) in the coffee, their stronghold is the children's coffee shop. But because of Scotland Yard's stupidity, the mastermind of the case was let go, and now we have another chance to make up for the big fish left by Scotland Yard's stupidity!"

"Children's coffee shop? Child trafficking case?"

"Yes, Scotland Yard received a report call from Lord Cadogan half a month ago, claiming that his son was missing. I found clues on the dark web, and set the target on that coffee shop—the one auctioned on the dark web. Three of the toddlers had coffee stains at the corners of their mouths, and I bought the toddlers pretending to be (anti-harmony) fetishists, and after tracking them down, I found out that their den was connected to the coffee shop through a city cleaning company..." Having said this, Sherlock suddenly paused, and a thoughtful look flashed across his face.

"Is it a little trick about garbage trucks and trash cans?" Li Mingye laughed suddenly, the smile was fleeting, but it was cold and piercing.She told Sherlock about the "Woman Killing'Sex (Anti-Harmony) Slave' Corpse Throwing Case" she had uncovered in Oxford, and Sherlock immediately understood what she meant, and quickly took out her phone and started looking for information—— When it came to such a big event, he really didn't care about maintaining physical contact with Shirley.

"The Swick Cleaning Company is a group company, with many medium and large cleaning companies under its umbrella, including the Thinkcase Cleaning Company that contracted city cleaning and the Roland City Cleaning Company you met in Oxford." Sherlock pointed his finger Jumping fast on the keyboard, the fluorescence from the phone screen fell into his pair of star-like eyes of different colors, as if he could see his fast-moving brain directly from the irises. "After Roland City Cleaning Company was messed up by you, the board of directors was reorganized. The chairman of Swick Cleaning Company was killed, and the second director was imprisoned. Other major shareholders and directors have an opportunity—"

"...McVitty." Li Mingye said softly.

"Who?"

"Professor James McVitty." Li Mingye's voice was as distant as a sigh.Since she was reborn, she seldom deliberately used the London accent that belonged to her previous life—the pronunciation of English hundreds of years ago is somewhat different from that of modern society, but at this moment her thoughts have returned to the nineteenth century, so even the spoken voice is full of Somber and heavy ancient meaning.

The turbid pronunciation spit out from the lungs, light and heavy, cooling and scorching.Like a frozen war knife, the bright knife surface is still stained with traces of war and beacon smoke.

This inexplicable heaviness made Sherlock stop involuntarily.He turned his head and stared at the gentle and beautiful girl's face. At this time, Xue Li was very strange to him. That familiar face revealed a burning fighting spirit, like molten iron cast at high temperature, with an invincible willpower. Make her almost glow.

This is her true face.Sherlock thought in amazement but also with some joy.He stretched out his hand, and after a moment's hesitation, he finally patted her arm restrainedly—it could be said to be an act of intimacy or encouragement.This is how he carefully and bit by bit let her get used to this kind of physical contact, moistening things and silently wanting to touch that equally outstanding soul.

But Sherlock didn't feel wronged, because the person he admired was worth his planning.

"I'll help you, Shirley." Sherlock finally interpreted that gesture as an encouragement.He raised his eyebrows proudly, and said: "This world is too boring. If I have an opponent with enough weight, it will add a lot of fun to my life."

Li Mingye glanced at him, and suddenly showed an equally arrogant smile.She smiled and said, "He's a demon king full of minions, Sherlock. I wouldn't mind knocking him down to end this duel between good and evil—I'm glad you joined the fight."

Even though you may be too young, you still have the help of me, the former Sherlock Holmes.My old hound wouldn't mind tipping that behemoth again, even if it might cost me my life.But for the peace and tranquility of more people, I don't mind going to death again.And my successor, I hope you will understand that having such an outstanding mind means greater responsibility. People like us exist as a protector, and we stand between total darkness and public light. The space is an impenetrable line of defense.

Li Mingye thought so, and then she quickly hugged Sherlock.This is a hug of approval, which means that she regards him as the strongest ally, like a hug between a soldier on the battlefield and a comrade in arms, in which flows a responsibility heavier than gratitude and trust.

At the moment of hugging, where she couldn't see, Sherlock's pupils opened slightly, revealing a little bewildered.But in the blink of an eye, he calmed down his emotions, and even forcibly suppressed the blood surge and telangiectasia caused by the hormones stimulated by emotions.He coughed lightly: "In modern society, the closest to all evils are all the cleaners and homeless people in this city. If this is the reason why Professor McVitie tried to control the cleaning company, he would be A worthy opponent."

"Of course he will be a qualified opponent. His talent is extremely outstanding. If he is used in the right way, it is even enough to shock and applaud the whole world. It is a pity that there is an evil factor flowing in his veins, which led him to the Evil way." Li Mingye commented lightly, and then brought the topic back to the case of Lord Salter's disappearance. "Lee (anti-harmony) Do (anti-harmony) Ka (anti-harmony) cause, the case of the missing child, and the Swick cleaning company—we put these three clues aside for the time being, and now we should look for the missing Mr. Little Lord. "

The author has something to say:

Professor, you are finally exposed!happy!

yes everything comes to light

The case of throwing corpses in Oxford was caused by the professor. In the original book, Fu was played by the professor when the reasoning clues were insufficient, and he helped the professor to do something unknowingly.Now he finally realizes that he has been tricked, he is going to be furious, and he is about to open a big

These chapters are all related to the cleaning company, and the clues buried in several chapters are revealed in one go, refreshing!

Aside from the fact that these chapters are all about cleaning companies, there is a very slight hint

Why does the jailing of the professor's lawyer deal a huge blow to the professor's financial chain in Oxford?Because the professor is trying to take control of the Roland Cleaning Company when he is employing people, and he needs the help of a lawyer

So the original Fu is still very witty, even if he is tricked, he will unknowingly win the round...

Please forgive me if there is any inconsistency with the real world, this is a novel, and no matter how well-founded the novel is, there will be fictional elements

In addition, congratulations to the original book Fu for getting a new team member, Juan Fu, and will soon get a new team member, Mai Ge!

Damn, I suddenly feel sorry for the professor...