[Zhongyingmei] There are always people who want to harm me

The sound of sirens broke the silence on campus.

News of the murder at UCL's Faculty of Arts spread throughout London in less than an hour.

As the detective of Scotland Yard, Lestrade immediately led people to the scene after receiving the alarm call.Rao has been a policeman for many years, and the scene in front of him also shocked him.

The teaching building where the incident happened was a building built in the last century.The corridor on the first floor is very high, with reliefs painted around the walls.In order to match the overall style of the building, chandeliers are hung on the top of the corridor, which is simple and elegant, with an artistic atmosphere.But at this moment, the beautiful chandelier that should be used for lighting makes people feel chills down the spine.

A girl in a red dress was lying face down on the chandelier, her long hair hanging down, blood dripping down faintly.

"My God..." Some of the newly recruited police officers have already screamed.

"Where is the reporter?" Lestrade arranged for the on-site investigators to collect evidence and take pictures, and then wanted to meet the first witness first.

"Over there," Donovan walked over, "the reporter was the school police. They heard the screams of the students and rushed to the police. The first witness was the student who was supposed to come to class, Emily Lee , an exchange student from the United States this semester. It's the girl from last time." Donovan was deeply impressed by the American girl who could keep Sherlock Holmes silent.

"...I'll go talk to her." Lestrade didn't expect the first witness to be an acquaintance.

"Hey, Miss Emily, I'm Inspector Lestrade from Scotland Yard, we met, do you remember?" The scene was terrible, and Lestrade could understand the crying of the girl in the ambulance. Out of breath.

The girl who didn't seem to have recovered herself paid any attention to Lestrade, clutching the blanket with both hands, and just kept crying.

"Miss Emily?" Lestrade called again, and found that she really couldn't answer the question, so he could only call a female police officer to look after her, and went back to continue to check the crime scene.

"How?" Because the corpse was delicately placed on the chandelier, it was not easy to take the corpse down.In addition, if the corpse is removed now, the scene will be destroyed to a great extent, Lestrade asked his police officers not to move, and everything will be discussed after Sherlock comes to see it.

"A teacher at the school recognized the deceased as Sophia Green, a third-year student in the Faculty of Arts. In addition, all the professors and students of the Western History course scheduled for the afternoon received email notifications from the school saying that the course was cancelled." Novan reported to Lestrade, "That's all we know now."

"Hey, here comes the freak!"

Lestrade finally expected Sherlock to come.

"The deceased was Sophia Green, a student from the Faculty of Arts. It was originally scheduled to have a Western History class here at [-]:[-] this afternoon. What is known is that the professor and other students have all received emails from the school saying that the class has been cancelled. The deceased's cell phone is still It was not found and it is impossible to confirm whether the deceased was also notified, the first witness was also a student who came to class, you know Emily Lee, she is in the car now." Lestrade didn't even have time to greet Dr. Watson Immediately reported the situation to Sherlock, "The corpse is placed on the chandelier in the corridor on the first floor. We haven't taken it down yet. You should take a look first."

A group of people walked in, and Lestrade first let Sherlock check the crime scene.

"My God..." Watson was also surprised when he saw the corpse placed on the chandelier.

Compared to others, the great detective Sherlock's reaction is the calmest.He was neither surprised by the tragic scene nor regretted the loss of young life, but just observed the crime scene without saying a word.

"Okay, I'm going to talk to the witness."

After speaking, he walked out.

Lestrade and Watson hurried to follow.

Emily was crying so hard that she couldn't breathe.

Even when she was frightened by someone pretending to be a ghost, she was never so scared.

At that time, Emily, who took out her mobile phone to illuminate, saw the pale face and blood dripping hair at first sight. Apart from screaming, she fell to the ground and didn't even have the strength to get up and leave.

Fortunately, the school police who heard the voice rushed to take her out and called the police.

"Hey, Emily, are you okay?" Emily was crying while sitting in the ambulance, and the female police officer next to her couldn't do anything except occasionally give her a sip of water.

Hearing a familiar voice, Emily wiped her red eyes from crying, "Watson...doctor?"

"Everyone, including the professor, who was scheduled for this afternoon's Western History class received a cancellation email. Why do you still come here to teach? After you arrived, there was no one at the scene. Didn't you suspect it? The dead were never placed on the big chandelier. It took less than an hour to die, didn't you notice any movement on the chandelier when you came? Did you hide something!? Say, what did you see?!" The big detective threw Emily away blanket.

"Ahhh!"

When watching TV dramas before, Emily always thought the scene was funny when she saw the big detective making fun of Scotland Yard for putting blankets on witnesses.But it was really her turn to realize that the blanket seemed inconspicuous, but when it was wrapped around her body, it could really bring a sense of security to the frightened.

But at this moment, this sense of security was immediately thrown away by the big detective.

Rationally, Emily understands that the big detective hopes to let her tell the story quickly in this way, but Emily, who has just been greatly frightened, finds it difficult to accept the big detective's behavior emotionally.

"What's wrong with you?!" Emily cried so hard that her voice became hoarse, "You can't speak well, can you?!"

"Hey, Sherlock." Watson had seen his friends use this method many times to stimulate witnesses to tell what happened as quickly as possible, so he didn't stop him at the beginning.But at this time, seeing that the method failed, Watson could only bite the bullet and come out to clean the battlefield for Sherlock, "Emily, come", he handed the blanket to the girl in the car whose eyes were swollen from crying.

From the incident to the present, Emily cried for almost an hour without interruption.At this moment, not only her eyes were swollen and her voice was hoarse, but she also felt a severe headache.

After taking the blanket handed by Dr. Watson and putting it on her knees, Emily took the hot drink that was put aside by the female police officer and drank it down.

"I haven't received any emails about class suspension... There was no one in the classroom when I came." I was angry in my heart, but I had to talk about the process.Emily struggled to calm down and recall details.

"This professor's course is very popular. I was afraid that I would not get a good seat if I came late, so I arrived early. The lights in the corridor were on when I came." When she mentioned the chandelier, she couldn't help but flinch, " The classroom door was open and there was no one in. I sat in the front row."

"Did you hear or see anything when you entered the teaching building and the classroom?" Lestrade hurriedly asked the witness when he saw the witnesses quiet down.At the time of the incident, the surveillance video in the teaching building was artificially destroyed, and Scotland Yard found nothing.

"...No." Emily was only thinking about getting to the classroom early, and didn't pay attention to the situation beside her.

"Why did you leave the classroom afterwards?" Sherlock didn't give Emily a moment to pause.

"...I heard a sound." Emily took a deep breath, "I was surprised that no one came for a long time. At this time, I heard the sound of water dripping in the corridor outside." Looking back afterwards, Emily felt that The whole thing was very strange, "I heard the sound of water drops, and it kept ringing." How much blood can there be in a person's body?Even if the dead girl had her arteries cut off and bled, under the circumstances at that time, Emily shouldn't have heard the sound of water dripping so clearly, "It was like the sound of water dripping from a faucet, tick tock, I felt strange and went out Look." After calming down, Emily found that things were very strange.

"Sound of water drops?" Lestrade also found it strange.Judging from the location where the body was found and the amount of bleeding, it was impossible for witnesses sitting in the classroom to hear the sound of blood dripping.

"Well, gratulations", Sherlock looked at the little girl who was huddled in the car and tried to widen her eyes swollen from crying, with an arc at the corner of her mouth——

"You just had a brush with death."

Such a big event happened, and the Faculty of Arts of University College London directly suspended classes for a week.Emily, a witness, was even comforted by the dean's visit.

What?Is the school overreacting when a homicide suspends classes?

Of course not, the reason why the school was suspended immediately was because another homicide happened while the police were investigating the scene.

The location of the incident was another university in London, and the deceased was also a student of the school's Faculty of Arts.The girl, wearing a red dress and long hair, was also placed on a chandelier. The only difference from what Emily experienced was that two people died this time.

In addition to the deceased who was placed on the chandelier, there was another deceased at the scene.

The deceased was Barton Freeman, a business school student at the same school.It's a boy.The body was found in a classroom not far from the previous deceased.His throat was slit from behind, and blood spilled all over the floor.

Emily didn't know the specific circumstances at the time. She just heard a few words from the police officers when she was taken to Scotland Yard to make a statement, and then she was sent home.

Then Emily she moved.

Or rather she was moved.

According to the reasoning of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, the murders at University College London and the University of East London were committed by the same gang.The time of the two incidents was similar, the modus operandi was similar, and the type of the deceased was the same.

The two deceased who were placed on the chandeliers were both third-year students in the Faculty of Arts.They are all dark-haired, tall, and usually cheerful, wearing red skirts on the day of the crime.

The only male deceased was a student at the Business School of the University of East London. On the day of the murder, he went to the liberal arts school to find his girlfriend.His girlfriend was late for something, so the deceased found an empty classroom to sit down and wait.

"You should be thankful that your ears are good." Sherlock sat on the exclusive sofa in [-]B and fiddled with the computer, "That Bud Freeman was too fascinated by the music to notice the music specially played by the suspect who was still hovering nearby , and died."

"But I still don't understand." After crying for too long in the afternoon, Emily's eyes, throat and head hurt badly, "Why should I live with you?"

Yes, Emily was forcibly moved to [-]B by the great detective Sherlock.

"Sherlock, you really have to give us an explanation for what happened today." Dr. Watson, who always followed the detective, rarely expressed objections.

In the afternoon Emily was driven home by a police van after a statement was taken at Scotland Yard.But before she greeted the landlord, Mrs. Morgan, she was stopped by the detective Sherlock Holmes who suddenly jumped out of a taxi and asked her to take her luggage and move to [-]B.

Emily naturally refused, she insisted on going back to [-]B, but was dragged by the big detective's arm to [-]B. Not to mention, even her change of clothes was tricked by the big detective Sherlock in her name and Mrs. Morgan helped to bring them here. up.

So, waited until Watson returned from the police station and the University of East London with the materials according to Sherlock's instructions.Emily has been arranged into his room by the great detective Sherlock.

"Sherlock, Emily is indeed in danger this time," Watson tried to take a deep breath, "but if you are worried about her safety, we can ask Lestrade to arrange the police to protect her. You can't drag a girl into your home!" God knows what Watson went through when he found out that the little girl was forced to move into his home by Sherlock after entering the door.

#It's over, what should I do if I find out that my roommate is a pervert#

#How to bail out a roommate who offended all Scotland Yard police officers#

#On whether Mycroft, the British government, will release his brother for personal gain#

"Oh, Scotland Yard, yes, the group of goldfish can help her collect her body on time after she is killed, that's what they are best at." Sherlock looked at the two people standing opposite him at the same time, knowing that today is a must. Explained clearly.

"Hey, have you read that very popular and very stupid novel with a very stupid name called Drop?"

"I've seen it..." Emily felt that the great detective Sherlock Holmes was naive, but she didn't think that the other party would be unreasonable enough to ask a girl to live in her home for no reason. "Is this related to the case?"

The novel was published nine months ago, and it was an instant hit all over America and Europe.How hot is it?At that time, the sales ranking of David Rossi's novel, which was published in the same month as him, was actually below it.You know, the current FBI agent, David Rossi, one of the founders of BAU, has always been ranked in the top three of the book sales list in the United States.

"Ah... wait, I haven't read it." As a former military doctor, Watson is not interested in romance novels.He just heard the name of the book from his previous girlfriends.

"It's a love novel." Emily joined in the fun and bought a copy at the time. "The heroine is a student of the Faculty of Arts and is good at painting. She met the hero once when she was sketching at the beach. The whole book revolves around The emotional life of the two unfolded." It is said that the prototype of the male protagonist is still Iron Man Tony Stark, "The plot is very compact and the plot is very exciting, but... it is just a love story with an adventurous plot." The whole book The book revolves around the hero and heroine, and the setting is a bit similar to the small words of "the domineering president falls in love with me", but the structure is exquisite, the plot reversal is wonderful, and the protagonists have experienced many adventure stories.The author is also very good at language, the process has many climaxes, and the ending is sweet, which can touch Emily's girlish heart very much, and she still likes it very much.

"In the whole book, the word 'drop' appears 158 times." Sherlock pointed out the point.

"Wait, Sherlock, you actually read novels!?" Watson focused on the point inconceivably.

"I just turned it over." The big detective looked as contemptuous as if the novel with hundreds of thousands of words had only two pages.

"Of course I know that word, that's the name of the whole book." Emily ignored the dialogue between the detective duo on Baker Street.She still didn't understand why the detective would link the murder case with the romance novel. "This word is the most frequently used clue in the book. The meeting between the hero and heroine and the subsequent development of the plot are all used..." Emily figured it out. .

"What is it?" Watson, who had never read the novel, was still at a loss.

"In the novel...the word 'drop' is a code. Every time the hero and heroine miss each other, they will use various codes to express this word. If the other party cannot solve the problem, they will be punished." The author of the novel is still in the novel There are many ways to arrange the ciphertext, which is one of the reasons why Emily likes that book, "This clue is the first one used by the heroine. At the beginning, it was the sound of water dripping to express her love for the book. The love of the hero." Just like the voice Emily heard in the classroom today.

"That's right," Sherlock agreed with Emily's narration, "The female character who interferes with the hero and heroine for the first time in the novel is called Lilith, a classmate of the heroine, a woman with long hair in a red dress, and today The descriptions of the two deceased persons who died were identical in identity and appearance."

"But how do you confirm that the two murders today are related to a novel?" Emily felt that it was too far-fetched based on these alone.Girls with long hair and red skirts are everywhere on the street.

"We found this at the scene of the crime today." Watson suddenly remembered the evidence Sherlock found at the scene of the two crimes today, "It is... this", picked up the evidence bag on the table and handed it to Emily , "Sherlock found this not far from the two crime scenes."

A hand-painted picture, two cute cartoon little people.

"This is..." Emily didn't see anything.

"Oh, thank you for reading that book." Sherlock habitually sarcastically said, "It's a picture at the end of the novel where the author describes the hero and heroine drawing together. The hand-painted strokes are added together and then calculated with a formula. The final result is The word 'drop'."

The great detective can actually see this through his eyes? !

Although Emily felt that the great detective Sherlock Holmes himself was a bit naive in some aspects, but at the moment she really admired him——

This should be the correct way for Mr. Sherlock Holmes to open it!

"But... even if the two murders are related to the novel, what does it have to do with Emily?" Watson expressed sympathy for the frightened Emily.But because of this, he felt that the little girl should go home and have a good sleep to relax.

"Oh, John, when will you learn to use your brain?!" Sherlock exaggerated, "Hey, you got it, right? Tell him."

"Emily?" Watson turned to Emily who was already sitting on the sofa, still not understanding what the little girl understood.

"Hey", couldn't help sighing, Emily resisted the urge to immediately go online to transfer a thousand or eight hundred koi fish, "The heroine of the novel is a student of the Faculty of Arts, good at painting, petite and long hair", she stretched her finger Pointing to himself, "Like me."

"The hero graduated from a business school, tall, handsome, blond and blue-eyed, just like him," Emily pointed to the photo of the deceased on the coffee table.

"The murderers are choosing their heroes and heroines." Sherlock stood up and looked down at Emily and Watson, "The deceased Bud Freeman was selected because he fit the hero and heroine, but he couldn't hear the suspects. The clues were released after people killed the female character Lillian who seemed to destroy the relationship between the hero and heroine, so he failed the test and died."

"And you," Sherlock pointed at Emily, "you heard the sound of water droplets and found the body of the deceased, so you passed the assessment and officially became a candidate for the heroine in the suspect's heart, so..."

"So there will be a series of tests in the future." The hero and heroine in the novel are more affectionate than Jin Jian, but they have experienced twists and turns. Every time the word 'drop', which represents the friendship between the two, appears, it is almost always accompanied by danger. "So Whoever the murder suspect is, I'm not safe until the police catch him."

What a hell!

"Otherwise... I'll go back to the United States first." Emily was physically and mentally exhausted after a whole day of tossing around. Now that she heard the bad news, her first reaction was to run away, "This kind of thing happened, Thinking about it, even if the exchange activities are interrupted, the school will agree." Far away from the UK and under the protection of the Avengers, Emily believed that no murderer would dare to go to New York to find herself.

"Emily, if I were you, I wouldn't..." Watson handed over the laptop, "Look, the same type of case has happened in the United States."

#Federal News Headlines: Recently, a group of serial killers appeared in many places in New York, choosing their victims according to the plot of a best-selling novel.Citizens please pay attention to safety#