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

It is said that life is like a stage play, we work hard on the stage but don't know what our fate will be.Emily originally disdained this kind of chicken soup for the soul, but looking at the interrogation room separated by a wall, and Linda sitting opposite the Gotham police, she deeply felt that the word "fate is impermanent". He really has his reasons.

"Emily?" Stark didn't approve of Emily coming to the police station with them, but he really couldn't help the little girl grabbing his and Sherlock's clothes and pretending that no one would leave without her. can compromise. "Linda White was caught by the Gotham police on the way to abandon the car, and now the evidence is solid, just waiting for her to plead guilty..." It is already a certain fact that Linda White is related to the kidnapping of Robert Blake.

"I know. I just..." Emily, who stood outside and watched the whole process from the beginning of the interrogation, naturally saw the evidence presented by the Gotham police.Surveillance footage, fingerprints, the computer equipment Linda used to log into Gotham's dark web, cell phones that had been used to communicate with the other two kidnappers in an abandoned car a kilometer from where Linda was captured plant was found.One person died from being hit on the head by an external force. It was initially suspected that another kidnapper did it, and the other kidnapper was not spared. His artery was cut from the back. When he was found, he was covered in blood and died.

"Are you still covering her?" Sherlock, who had discussed Linda White's abnormality with Emily on Baker Street, took time to glance at Emily beside him while observing the prisoners in the interrogation room.

"No." The evidence presented by the Gotham police has been confirmed by the great detective Sherlock, and Emily does not doubt the authenticity of the evidence.But she was very puzzled now, why Linda would be involved in such a case. "Linda...is it possible that she was controlled?" Linda is an Inhuman, so is it possible that another Inhuman controlled Linda?Or was Linda brainwashed or hypnotized by a psychologist like Hannibal Lecter?

"Naive." Sherlock said mercilessly.

"Emily, if you don't want to hear it, you might as well wait outside first." Iron Man was much gentler than the sharp detective. "I'll tell you the result when the matter is clear, okay?" He was about to call the Gotham police officers on the side to take Emily out.

"No, Mr. Stark, I want to stay." Emily, who was forced into the interrogation room almost by throwing herself into the interrogation room, would not go out. "I'm fine. It's just that I've known her for so long, and the matter is directly related to me, so I want to hear it." Having been with her boss for so long, Emily knows what kind of words can impress Iron Man, "No matter what the facts are , I think I have a right to know." Running away is one of the most cowardly choices in the world.Emily may not be strong and brave, but she's never afraid to face the truth.Whether she recognized Moriarty's true face at the beginning or began to doubt Linda later, she never escaped.

"Let her stay." Bruce Wayne, who had been silent all this time, spoke at this time. "It's good to know some things." Batman still had a fresh memory of Emily's eagerness to ask him to save her.If the assistant really believed in the wrong person, it would be good to know now.

"Sherlock, do you want to go in?" The Gotham police interrogation seemed to have reached a deadlock.Emily stared at Linda inside with complicated eyes, feeling that the other party's every move was a little strange.

"Of course." After straightening out his suit, the detective showed a half-smile. "It's my turn."

Quietly watching Sherlock go around a door and enter the interrogation room, Emily recalled through the double-sided mirror that she was detained in Scotland Yard as a suspect.At first, she suspected that Linda had abnormalities because of the reminder of the great detective Sherlock, so now can the other party really help her solve this doubt? "Mr. Wayne, have you found out about Linda's whereabouts in the past two months?" How did Linda, who had been missing for nearly two months, appear in Gotham City?

"Not yet." Batman, who is a local snake, was more nervous about this question than Emily. "The only thing I found was that she appeared in a bar in the 'Birdcage' three days ago. It was there that the two dead kidnappers met her." There is another speculation that no one was in front of Emily. He said it to his face—the death of the two kidnappers was initially suspected to be Linda White's work.

"Linda White." Detective Sherlock had already entered the interrogation room and sat down.A police detective with a fierce face who had been robbed of his chair dared to stand up and shrank behind the big detective, looking funny.

"Let's talk about it first..." Sherlock took the folder on the table and wanted to surprise him, but he didn't expect Linda on the opposite side to speak sooner.

"Mr. Holmes." Since entering the interrogation room, Linda, who has been saving words like gold, spoke for the first time on her own initiative. "I have admired your name for a long time. I didn't expect you to actually leave London for the Gotham case."

There was silence inside and outside the interrogation room.

"How would she know Sherlock?" The great detective Sherlock Holmes is indeed famous, but only in a certain circle.Even if Dr. Watson serializes the detective records on his blog, for most people, "Consulting Detective" Sherlock Holmes is just a name-he is too far away from the lives of ordinary people. "I thought Sherlock wasn't that famous yet." At the very least, Linda, who has always only cared about fashion magazines, shouldn't be so familiar with the big detective—but then again, if Linda is really related to the murder that happened, then She knew that Sherlock was normal.

"Mr. Holmes is actually very prestigious." As a member of "a certain circle", Bruce Wayne explained softly to Emily. "Especially in Europe." After all, the big detective's base camp is in the UK.

"You know me?" Sherlock's voice came from the interrogation room. "Have we met?" Emily swore she saw the disdain flash across the big detective's face.

"No." Linda, who was wearing a silk shirt and light jeans, looked a bit out of place in this cool season. "But I've heard of you. He thinks of you . . . very highly."

The Gotham police detective next to Sherlock was a little excited, but the three people, including Batman and Iron Man, all looked indifferent.Emily watched Linda sing a one-man show in the interrogation room, feeling a little anxious.

"Okay, let's talk about the first question first." After observing enough, Sherlock came to the conclusion that the opposite woman was a mindless idiot, and he didn't have the patience to continue acting with her. "In the cult murder case that happened in New York last September, you and your roommate were both kidnapped and later rescued by the FBI. Tell me, what role did you play in that case?" Sherlock both He didn't ask about the disappearance case in London or the kidnapping case in Gotham. He put the breakthrough point at the time when Linda White first aroused his suspicion.

Linda, who was sitting across from Sherlock, fell silent.

"Similarly, in the hostage-taking incident at the Rhine restaurant last September, you and your roommate were originally in the restaurant, but just a few minutes before the incident, you lured away the U.S. Captain, you created an opportunity for the terrorists to implement their plan smoothly, and finally led to the escape of the S.H.I.E.L.D. prisoners. Tell me, what role did you play in that case?" It was because of that case that Mo Riati not only escaped from the United States, but later made a deal with S.H.I.E.L.D., causing Sherlock and Mycroft to abort their plan to capture each other.

"Let's talk about it." Sherlock signaled Linda to continue.

"I..." Maybe it was unexpected that the big detective found out so many. Linda White, who was calm just now, obviously started to panic. "I don't know what you're talking about. I was also a victim in those two incidents. If you don't believe me, you can ask my roommate. I was also arrested at the time, and after the incident in the restaurant, SHIELD arrived in time and rescued me. Hostage!"

"Pronoun." Sherlock said grimly. "Do you know that when people feel ashamed and lie, they subconsciously use pronouns to avoid directly saying the other party's name?" He straightened his sleeves, "You are lying, you clearly know what happened in the first two cases and deliberately Put your friends in danger." The detective concluded.

Standing outside the interrogation room, Emily didn't know what expression she should have at this time.

She doubted Linda, and even told Sherlock the secret of Linda's murder because of suspicion, hoping that the other party could give her an answer.Now it seems that the big detective might have already determined the truth at that time, but he just took into account her mood, so he didn't say it.

"Emily..." Stark didn't know whether the little girl who was betrayed by her friends could accept this bloody fact.

"I'm fine." It's not a lie.If she had known the truth on Baker Street that day, maybe Emily would not be able to accept the fact that her longtime good friend would actually harm her.But after nearly two months of precipitation, she found that the moment she really heard the truth, she might feel a little sad, but there was no anger, the anger of being betrayed by someone close to her.

"Okay, let's talk about this incident now." Gotham Police Chief Gordon in the interrogation room took Sherlock's words.It's not that he doesn't care about what Linda White has done before, but the top priority now is to quickly find out what happened to the kidnapping, find out whether there is a mastermind behind Linda White, and find out whether the suspect is related to Gotham University girl. Whether the disappearance of the student is related.Where are the missing girls now, are they still alive? "Tell me, how long have you stayed in Gotham? How did you find the other two helpers? What is your purpose in kidnapping the victim, Robert Lecter?" As long as you can find out where Linda White and her accomplices are hiding There, it is possible to find clues.

"I met those two people at the bar." Perhaps intimidated by Sherlock's aggressiveness before, Linda began to cooperate. "I don't know their names, but I just gave them money and they agreed to work." Linda understated it as if she just hired someone to lift the furniture. "I want to see Emily in the future, and I'll tell you when I see her." Mingming had avoided talking about Emily before, but now Linda suddenly asked to see her.

Of course Commissioner Gordon would not agree. "You have no right to ask to see anyone. Now that you have conclusive evidence of kidnapping and murder, it is the most powerful thing for you to be frank and explain everything. We will consider helping you plead with the judge as appropriate." Say to the suspect, "Confess and be lenient. Resist Strictness” is the code of conduct that is used by police all over the world.

"I want to see her," Linda insisted. "I must see her. Don't you want to know where the girls who disappeared in Gotham are now?" In order to achieve her goal, Linda took out her trump card.

"Do you know where the missing girl is now?" the observant Sherlock asked in Gordon's place.

"No, but I know who took them." Sherlock signaled Gordon, the suspect did not lie.

"Miss Lee." As the leader of the Gotham Police Department, Gordon tends not to meet the suspect's demands, but the lives and deaths of the three missing girls are now uncertain. If the clues can be found earlier, maybe they can be rescued. life. "You can decide for yourself on this matter." Contradictory Gordon gave Emily the right to choose.

"Emily." Originally, Stark objected to his assistant being involved in these matters.But now, he will no longer forcefully stop Emily.The little girl may not be as fragile as he imagined. "You can decide for yourself." Anyway, he was watching outside.

"I want to meet her." After two years of friendship, Emily also wondered why Linda did that.

I just didn't think it from the outside. The interrogation room of the Gotham Police Department is much darker than that of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Scotland Yard. Emily could clearly feel the difference the moment she followed Sherlock into the door.If the source of discomfort in Scotland Yard's interrogation room is the police in charge of the interrogation, then Gotham's interrogation room makes people feel uncomfortable from the moment they enter.

Is it to match the gloomy architectural style of the Gotham Police Department?

Emily sat on the chair brought by the police, muttering to herself.

"Emily." Because ordinary citizens were present, the Gotham police deliberately fixed the suspect firmly on the chair to avoid accidents. "It's been a long time since I saw you. You don't seem to have changed." Linda's voice was the same as Emily remembered, but the words she said were different. "I'm sorry..." Her voice was choked with sobs. "I'm really sorry for you..."

"Linda, there must be a reason why you want to see me." After all, she was a good friend once, and Emily felt sad. "What is the reason for today's incident? Why did you kidnap Robert?" It is an indisputable fact that Linda is related to the mastermind behind the scenes.The only question now is what role she played in the case.

"I..." Linda seemed to be struggling. "I'm sorry, Emily, I'm really sorry." Linda repeated this sentence several times.

"Okay, no one here is interested in your confession." The big detective is not interested in Linda's poor performance. "Tell me, who arranged for you to do what happened today, and what is the purpose? Are the girls who disappeared in Gotham still alive? Where are they locked up?" Several police detectives in the interrogation room also stared at them with great concern. with Linda.

Looking at Linda who had been apologizing in front of her, Emily felt a little ridiculous. "Linda, you didn't call me in to see you apologize, did you? The two kidnappers who died... Did you kill them?" She chose to ask Linda the easiest question to answer.

"Yes." Linda seemed ashamed of the fact of the murder, Linda's voice was very low.

"Then... what about Lillian Granger?" The cause of Robert's kidnapping was Lillian Granger's death, and Emily had to suspect that the death of the female writer was also related to Linda.

"It's...it's me too..." Linda said otherwise.

"Miss White, do you admit that you killed Lillian Granger?" The Gotham police did not find any evidence at the scene where the female writer died, and now they were surprised to hear the suspect confessed himself.

"Yes." Linda looked up and stared at Emily. "I'm not...I don't want to...but I can't help it. Emily, believe me, I really can't..."

"Linda, who taught you the online account and that sentence you used to contact me after you kidnapped Robert?" Emily didn't believe that Linda had the ability to complete such a big case.The most likely guess is that Linda is just a link in the case, and there must be someone behind her.

"Emily, please help me." Linda's hands were firmly locked behind her back by handcuffs, but she still struggled to lean towards Emily. "Help me, I only have this younger brother, help me. I really have no choice but to do this, I have to listen to him..." At the end, Linda was already crying.

"What brother?" Emily was confused by this sudden development. "Aren't you an only child? Where did you get your younger brother?" The detective film turned into a bitter scene in seconds, and Emily was a little bit square. "And who is he?" Linda is an Inhuman, who can threaten her?

It turns out that Emily underestimated the extent of the story.

To sum up the main idea of ​​Linda's crying, the simple statement is that Linda is an Inhuman race.In order to protect her from the outside world, Linda's parents gave her to an ordinary couple for adoption when she was born, that is, Linda's adoptive parents, the White couple.But later, Linda's biological parents gave birth to another child, Linda's younger brother.Many years later, Linda's biological parents passed away one after another, and the younger brother became an orphan.Three years ago, Linda went all the way to find her younger brother. She thought it would be a happy ending for the reunion of her siblings, but unexpected changes happened unexpectedly.

It was not Linda who killed Linda's previous manager, but her younger brother.Worst of all, the news got out - Linda, who was visiting a psychiatrist, accidentally broke the news to Hannibal Lecter.So later, the ogre who escaped from the prison found Linda and threatened her to do things for him.

"Emily, I really have no choice but to help him. Otherwise, my brother..." Linda cried sadly, but Emily was terrified. "You mean...you followed Hannibal Lecter's arrangement to protect your brother?"

For a while, the only sound in the interrogation room was Linda's crying.

"Emily, come out." Iron Man opened the interrogation door and asked Emily to go with him.Regardless of whether this Linda White is telling the truth or not, what is her idea of ​​crying like this now?Could it be that she wants her assistant to take care of her younger brother for her?Stop dreaming.

"Leave the next thing to the Gotham police, let's go back." Stark worried that the little girl would be soft-hearted and agree to such a troublesome job.

Emily sat still in her chair. "Mr. Stark, I'll talk to her again." Emily imagined that Linda had some unavoidable reasons, and also imagined that Linda might have some special identity, but she never thought of Linda How could he come up with such a bloody excuse.

"You're lying." Linda's story is logically woven, reasonable, and her crying is sincere, which seems to reveal her true feelings.At least the three detectives in the interrogation room, including Chief Gordon, seemed to believe the story, but Emily knew that the other party was lying.

"I believe that you have a younger brother, and I also believe that the person who killed your previous manager is your younger brother. I also believe that you accidentally revealed this news during your doctor's visit." Looking at Lin who was crying miserably, Emily couldn't help but think of the scene when they first met. "But I don't believe your story. Linda, don't you still want to tell the truth?" Was Hannibal Lecter behind it?Thanks to her for making it up.

"Emily..." Linda stopped crying, she seemed startled by Emily's indifferent reaction. "I didn't lie...I really didn't..."

"Hahaha..." The detective who had been standing behind Emily couldn't help laughing. "Oh, Miss Linda, didn't you ask the gentleman behind the scenes to train you before you came? Your acting skills are really bad. Well, no wonder you can only be a model." Compared to Emily From the logic of the matter and his understanding of Linda, he could see that something was wrong. The observant detective knew from the very beginning that Linda was lying. "You never met that Hannibal Lecter, am I right?"

"Mr. Holmes, this is..." Commissioner Gordon was completely confused about the situation.

"Linda, your story can't fool anyone, tell the truth." At this point, Emily knew that her friendship with Linda had also come to an end. "Tell the police what you know about the missing girl first. Maybe they will help you get a better deal for the sake of providing clues." Since Linda is still unwilling to give up at this time, Emily thinks She and the other party have nothing to talk about.

Unexpectedly, Sherlock also left the interrogation room with Emily.

"Why do you think she's lying?" The big detective stood in front of Emily.

"Then why do you think she's lying?" Emily was in no mood to play guessing games with the big detective right now. "The question now is not whether she is lying, but why she is lying. What good is it to put the blame on Hannibal Lecter? This lie can't fool you at all, and the people behind her can't be Understand this." In addition to Hannibal Lecter, Linda was implicated in the case, and there was only one person who was the most suspicious.Both the ability to plan such a big event and the possibility to do so.

Kim Moriarty.

But what is the motive?

"Sherlock, did anything happen in London before you came to Gotham this time?" Emily put on her coat and planned to leave with Iron Man.Now that Linda has been captured, it's only a matter of time before the missing girl is found with Batman and the big detective around.But... "Has anything particularly important happened in London lately?" Moriarty couldn't have done that for no reason.

"London..." Before Sherlock could speak, the door of the Gotham Police Station was suddenly pushed open.

"Sherlock! Who told you to leave London?!"

The "British Government" Mycroft, whom I haven't seen in a while, shows up at the Gotham Police Department.Holding the long black umbrella in his hand, Mycroft had an indescribably stern expression. "Come back with me." These words were almost squeezed out between his teeth.

"Mr. Holmes..." Emily watched in a daze as the "British Government" changed from its previous steady and dignified appearance. After walking quickly, she grabbed Sherlock's arm and pulled it away. "The plane is on the roof, come with me." .”

Emily stood in line with Iron Man and Batman in the lobby on the second floor of the Gotham Police Station, watching the Holmes brothers leave.

"How is this going?

"Just received the news." Stark picked up the phone, leaned over and whispered in Emily's ear, "That Professor Moriarty..."

"Ah?!" Emily finally understood why all this was happening.

In an unremarkable small apartment, a mobile phone was severely thrown to the ground.