[Comprehensive] Sherlock is going to be kicked by a donkey

The weekend amusement park was full of visitors, and little Polly could not walk very well. Josie was worried that he would be squeezed, so she just hugged him all the time. It was just because there were so many people queuing up outside the amusement facilities. Tired, so she had no choice but to put down the child in her arms, and took little Polly with her right hand to let him stand beside her.

Little Polly is a very well-behaved child. Josie was there when he was born. The baby who was just picked up from the delivery room by the doctor and looked like a little monkey seldom cried. At this moment, little Polly was hugging him with his right hand Holding a small toy, Josie held her left hand firmly. Seeing that he was so well-behaved, Josie softened her heart, so she squatted down and looked at him: "Are you tired, Polly? Do you want me to hold him?" Are you sitting on the railing?"

The child who can't speak very well obviously only understood the word "hug" in Josie's words, so he thought it was Josie who wanted to hug him, so he stretched out his hand and murmured to Josie, "Hold... Aunt... …hug……"

Josie saw the soft voice of the little child, so she picked him up and let him sit on the fence of the team, holding his waist with both hands, "Children are so cute, how can Sherlock be so disgusted with them? ..."

"Ahem, sitting like this will make his legs unstable."

Josie turned her head in surprise when she heard the voice, and Sherlock was standing behind her, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you were going to wait for us in the restaurant?"

Sherlock went around the line and walked behind little Polly, stretched out his arms and hugged him, and then said to Josie who was standing in the fence, "I can hold him, you line up."

In fact, when Sherlock was sitting by the window of the restaurant just now, she saw Josie hugging the baby. Although little Polly is small in stature, her weight is not too light. After holding her for a long time, adults will definitely get tired. As expected, Sherlock Seeing Josie put down the baby in her hand and holding hands instead of hugging, Sherlock thought for a while and put away the mobile phone in his hand, then pushed the stroller to the storage place, and walked towards Josie and the others.

"Stop hacking into Mycroft's computer?" Josie leaned against the fence with a smile in her eyes. She really wanted to take a picture of Sherlock holding the baby.

"..." Sherlock, who obviously realized that Josie had used her ability on him before, was stunned for a moment, knowing that the other party wanted to tease him again, "I don't have enough battery power to hack into his computer."

Josie wanted to start joking, but was interrupted by the phone ringing suddenly in the pocket of Sherlock's coat. Josie picked up little Polly, and Sherlock turned around and walked to a relatively quiet place and pressed the answer button. .

"Mycroft, what's wrong with the incompetence of your people..."

"Sherlock, where are you now?"

Mycroft on the other end of the phone spoke in an unusually flustered tone. Sherlock froze for a moment, and then told the location of the amusement park.

"Thirty officials went missing after coming out of Parliament this morning, and six people from academia went missing at a presentation today. A threatening letter came to my office half an hour ago. The 36 people are now In the hands of Adam Adrian, the condition he gave for releasing the hostages was Josie in exchange, Sherlock, is Josie staying with you now?"

Sherlock turned his head and glanced at Josie, who was standing in the line holding the child. The latter was teasing the child in her arms. She felt Sherlock's gaze and looked up.

"I'm with her."

"Take care of her, Sherlock," Mycroft said in a rare commanding tone, "This is for Josie's sake, and you don't want her to be in any danger, do you?"

"I don't think the goldfish in MI6 and Scotland Yard can play against Adrian. I'll take Josie to find you now." Sherlock said and walked towards Josie.

"No, Sherlock," Mycroft said to stop Sherlock, "Josie and you must stay in the amusement park, this is one of the additional conditions."

Sherlock was silent for a while, "Tell me, Mycroft, who were those 36 people who were taken away?"

Mycroft on the other end of the phone didn't make a sound, and it took several seconds before he said: "Listen, Sherlock, I will send the specific information to your mobile phone. You and Josie must stay in the amusement park." .”

"It seems that you have leaked something again." Sherlock sneered, if it weren't for this, Mycroft wouldn't have handled the matter well with his methods and abilities.

"Sherlock, stay in the amusement park with Josie obediently, and you are not allowed to go anywhere else. This time, your opponent is much better at playing than Irene Adler," Mycroft paused, "Joe Did Qian know about Irene Adler?"

Mycroft's question made Sherlock speechless for a moment. He looked at Josie, who was holding the child, who was looking at him with a worried face, "I know."

"Including the fact that you went to the Middle East to save her?"

"...No." Sherlock obviously didn't want to continue this topic with Mycroft, "Give me all the information, Mycroft."

"I'll send it to you, but, Sherlock, there is one thing I need to tell you first," Mycroft's deep voice came into Sherlock's ear from the receiver, "Adrian said in the letter that Josie I will definitely choose him willingly.”

After hanging up the phone, Sherlock walked back to the team and took the initiative to pick up little Polly. Josie didn't use her ability to listen to what Sherlock said on the phone just now. Most of the time, Josie would choose to avoid listening to other people's privacy. She didn't want to abuse her ability to pry into other people's privacy like an eavesdropper, but Sherlock's two glances and serious face during the phone call made her worry that something happened.

"Sherlock, what happened?" Josie looked at Sherlock worriedly, but the latter shook her head and said it was okay. Josie was dubious, "Is there really nothing wrong? Sherlock?" Locke's heart, however, did not hear anything unusual.

"Don't worry, there's nothing." Ever since he was a child, Sherlock has never been a liar in front of Josie. the things he said.

Sherlock glanced at the front of the team. It was only a few people before it was Josie's turn. The staff standing outside the field were directing the tourists to enter in order. Sherlock let Josie hold the little Polly in his arms, and then Said: "Go and play, I will wait for you in the restaurant."

Josie wanted to say something, but the staff in front were already urging her to move forward quickly. She turned her head to look at Sherlock standing outside the fence, and the latter had already turned and left.

Josie, who accompanied little Polly on the Dumbo Elephant, was not in the mood to continue teasing the child. She turned her head to the direction of the restaurant and frowned. Josie knew that even if she heard nothing in Sherlock's heart, But something must have happened, the person who called Sherlock must have told Sherlock something, but why Sherlock didn't want to tell her, Josie hugged little Polly who was sitting next to her and danced happily , looked uneasy.

At this time, Sherlock, who was sitting by the glass window of the restaurant, took out his mobile phone from his pocket. Mycroft had already sent the detailed information including the scanned copy of the threat letter. Sherlock clicked on the hostage information. Looking carefully one by one, finally the finger stopped on a familiar name.

Alan Jonathan, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, was attending a British science fair in London when he disappeared.

Sherlock stared at the photo on the phone screen for a few seconds, and he was quite sure that it was someone he was familiar with - his university professor, Josie's father.

The Dumbo Elephant not far outside the restaurant gradually stopped as the music stopped. Josie hugged Little Polly and followed the crowd away, walking towards the restaurant. She saw the elephant sitting behind the glass window from a distance Sherlock, the latter was holding his mobile phone intently and didn't know what he was looking at. Josie hesitated for a moment, but stopped and stood on the side of the road not far from the restaurant to use the ability.

【...He knew we were in an amusement park, and he trapped us here. He needed a place to show his abilities, and showed Josie the 36 hostages he had kidnapped...Where would they be?Amusement park... Where is the amusement park...] Sherlock has never been to an amusement park, so naturally he doesn't know all the amusement facilities in the amusement park. He took out a map of the amusement park from the bookshelf next to the dining table and opened it,【 Dumbo...Impossible, not high enough; Ferris wheel...Impossible too, the Ferris wheel here can't fit 36 ​​people in a car, too many cars and not enough attention; then...] Sherlock pointed to the northwest of the amusement park Stopped on the roller coaster at the corner, and there was an introduction written on the side with the picture of the roller coaster, [Three carriages, one carriage can seat twelve people... a roller coaster!What he wants to choose is a roller coaster...] When Sherlock was about to put away the amusement park map, she accidentally saw the introduction next to Dumbo Elephant, which said "The ride lasts for 3 minutes", Sherlock was stunned , and then turned to look out the window. Josie was standing on the side of the road with little Polly in her arms, looking at him with a complicated expression.

Sherlock was silent. He put away the map of the amusement park in his hand and put it by his hand. Josie walked in holding little Polly outside the window, sat down opposite him, and looked at it after putting the child in her arms into the stroller. To Sherlock.

"Sherlock, don't lie to me, what happened? It's related to me, right?" Josie stretched out her hand and grabbed Sherlock's hands on the table, "Is it Adam? Adrian? He did it again. what?"

Josie's tone was full of uneasiness and fear. She couldn't help but think of the last time she met Annabelle in the bathroom of the theater. She still remembered what Annabel said to her that night. She didn't know what Adrian was going to do. What do you want to do, but she knows that he will not let her go. Although everything seems to be peaceful in the past few years, the occasional small fights are just because he is trying to attract everyone's attention to him. Everything he has done before is Foreshadowing, although he doesn't know what it is, but he must have a bigger plan.

Sherlock looked at the hands covering his hands. The fingertips of these hands were cold. He knew that this was a small problem of Josie. Every time she was nervous, her fingertips would be as cold as they are now, and they are usually pink and moist. His nails looked bloodless now, "He kidnapped thirty government officials and six academics this morning, and sent Mycroft a threatening letter..."

"What did the letter say?" Josie felt a faint sense of uneasiness in her heart, and the hand on Sherlock's hand turned into a hand holding his with a little force.

"You are the condition for releasing the hostages." Sherlock's gray-blue eyes looked at Josie in front of him, and he was paying attention to all her expressions.

"..." Josie opened her mouth slightly, her sky-blue eyes were filled with fear and confusion, "How confident is he that he can propose such a condition?"

Sherlock was silent for a while, and then said, "Your father is among the 36 hostages."

Josie withdrew her hand, she lowered her head, Sherlock couldn't see her face clearly, only her tightly clenched hands on the table.

"Josie..."

"I'm fine," Josie's voice was trembling, she was suppressing her emotions, "What else did Mycroft say? What should I do next? Are there any clues now?"

"The additional condition he put forward in the letter is to let me stay with you in the amusement park. If it is correct, he will show you the 36 hostages he kidnapped in the amusement park, so that you can choose him willingly."

"Willingly?" Josie raised her lowered head slightly and looked at Sherlock who was sitting opposite. She remembered the last words Annabelle told her in the bathroom of the theater——

Josie would choose Adam Adrian willingly one day.

That's right, using her closest relatives to threaten her, how could she be unwilling to trade herself for her father's life?Josie was surprised before that Adam? Adrian is obviously such a crazy person, and he is so fascinated by her personality and ability, why didn't he use more insane methods to achieve his goal? She was wrong, this person is simply Not a human being, he could kill so many people without blinking an eye, how could he not do crazier things?

The sky at noon was clear, the sun’s glaring rays passed through the atmosphere and shone on the ground, and there was still a tinge of coldness in the air in London in February. The bustling tourists in the amusement park shuttled between the amusement facilities, their faces were full of emotion. Happy smile inside, innocent young children holding colorful balloons, workers at amusement park stand are rolling freshly baked light pink marshmallows, a pretty little brown haired girl got this yummy Marshmallow, other children were chattering around her, the amusement park was full of laughter as usual, no one noticed that the men and women by the glass windows of the restaurant looked strange.

The author has something to say: The small theater——

Josie: There is really nothing to say about this (spread hands)

Sherlock: It's so simple and rude without any puzzles to solve, it's really not a challenge at all (spread hands)

Adrian: It will be in the next chapter (laughs)

Sherlock: ...

Josie: Call you Crow's Mouth!