London, England--

What is special about Sherlock is not his memory, it is just one of the trivial advantages that makes him different.

Mr. Detective is keen on difficult and weird cases, and he can sleepless in search of the truth, which is not entirely due to the trend of justice.

Sherlock doesn't pride himself on justice, but he never likes to be regarded as a jerk. He longs for affirmation and approval from others.Unfortunately, Sherlock's arrogance and conceit cannot win him applause, even though he has cracked many serial murders and sent the most vicious criminals to prison.

He couldn't resist revealing other people's privacy, and had to say it out loud, as if he would be inferior if he didn't.

During the short conversation with Tang Peiling, Sherlock was almost 80.00% sure of the other party's truth at the beginning. From time to time, those private information can jump in front of him one by one.

Although he is well aware that doing so will cause the other party's displeasure.

Therefore, when Sherlock heard Tang Peiling call him a "human being", he immediately had a new inference.

"Now I'm sure you're not an alien." Sherlock pointed sharply at Tang Peiling, the calm vixen who was waiting for the detective's conclusion, "Jason wasn't either, I knew he wasn't, he didn't behave in any way." Like creatures outside the earth, but you are definitely not humans, at least not ordinary humans, because you call me 'human', I boldly guess, you have superpowers, what is your superpower, teleportation?"

It was difficult for Sherlock to confirm his speculation from Tang Peiling's micro-expressions and body movements. Even though he was confident in his reasoning, Sherlock still wanted to give him a definite answer through the other party's reaction.But Tang Peiling seemed calm and determined from the beginning to the end, Sherlock couldn't tell anything from the corners of her mouth, and no matter what judgment he made, it couldn't really move Tang Peiling.

For Sherlock, no extra expressions and movements means a blank space. Even if everything he analyzed is correct, it will not bring him a sense of accomplishment.

"Who I am is not important to you." Tang Peiling said, "And you don't really care about it. Since you have already intervened, and I don't want to erase your memory for the time being, let's go back to the original topic and put Tell me the clues you found, or take me directly."

Sherlock heard a key word, "Erasing memory", which means that his judgment just now was correct. The woman sitting opposite him does have superpowers, and she herself admitted it.

"Don't guess." Tang Peiling said, "If you really guess my secret, you will die. Don't worry, I won't let you do it for nothing."

Her expression remained unchanged, and Sherlock was temporarily unsure if this was a false threat or an ultimatum.

"I know you don't know how to read minds, so it shouldn't count as mastering secrets?" Sherlock tentatively said, "Otherwise you should have set off to the next destination long ago instead of asking me."

Tang Peiling moved an inch closer to him: "How do you think I know you live here?" She paused, "And your family and friends, I just prefer to follow your rules, it will be more interesting. "

From Sherlock's point of view, Tang Peiling is young and beautiful, but there is an unattainable wisdom in her speech and demeanor. This feeling makes Sherlock have unprecedented curiosity: "Our rules?"

"Do you want to continue guessing here, Sherlock?" Tang Peiling said with a gentle warning.

"The forest," said Sherlock, "the person, or thing, you're looking for is in the forest behind that factory."

They called a car and went back to the abandoned canning factory. Sherlock realized that Tang Peiling might have brought him home in an unexpected way.Because the factory is about half a day away from 221B, and Sherlock is very sure that he has only been unconscious for more than ten minutes.

Tang Peiling looked at Sherlock. He tapped the input box on the screen quickly with his mobile phone, as if he was sending a text message to someone: "You are really interesting." Tang Peiling finally made a pertinent evaluation of Sherlock, "Being with you is not boring at all."

Sherlock didn't answer, Tang Peiling took this as his aphasia after being flattered.

"The disappearance case is related to a person with superpowers, so all the questions make sense." Sherlock said after putting the phone back in his pocket. At the same time, he was looking forward to receiving positive feedback from Tang Peiling's face, but still nothing No, "The blood at the scene showed strange traces. I always thought it was the murderer playing tricks. I mean the forest."

"Have you been there?" Tang Peiling was a little surprised.

"I went there two months ago." Sherlock said.

"Then why did you show up at the factory today?" Tang Peiling asked, "Didn't you tell Jason what you found?"

The reason why Sherlock took over the case at first has nothing to do with his current speculation. The police took over the group murder case of the canning factory very early on. Their boss also approached Sherlock, but Sherlock at the time regarded it as an ordinary attack. Incident, did not take it to heart.After Jason came to the door and asked him to find the missing wolf demon, Sherlock became interested in the case again.

Jason didn't disclose any information about the monster, but his words and deeds were full of loopholes in front of Sherlock.

"I have not gone far near the factory. I think the murderer should have further actions. It turns out that I am right. This is not an ordinary attack. Similar incidents have happened many times in half a year, in different regions and different countries. ’ said Sherlock.

"Why do you think of aliens?" Tang Peiling said.

"You asked me a lot of questions." Sherlock looked at Tang Peiling, "but you have always refused to answer my questions. I can't think of a reason to cooperate with you."

The corner of Tang Peiling's mouth was rising. Sherlock regarded this phenomenon as ominous, so the driver was right in front. After thinking for a second, Sherlock was sure that Tang Peiling would not attack him in the taxi.

"You don't seem to have asked me any questions, you have always been the one talking." Tang Peiling said, she raised her head to respond to his alert and simple gaze, her gray irises revealed a faint joy, "I admit that you are really smart , your judgment is correct, you shocked me very much.”

This is the answer Sherlock wants, a compliment, he doesn't care why Tang Peiling hasn't aged in the past 20 years.

"But you're not smart enough, you're not the smartest person I've ever met." Tang Peiling's words undoubtedly poured cold water from the cold winter on the pretentious detective.

"This is your evaluation of me, after I opened your bottom?" Sherlock said unconvinced, "I think maybe I should conduct a deeper analysis of you."

"If you are smart enough, you should hide what you know in your heart, instead of showing me how much you have discovered to show off." Tang Peiling said softly, she looked out the car window, and the scenery gradually became desolate, "So It won't do you any good, little detective."

"Little detective?" Sherlock tried to put himself in a bigger crisis, "Are you very old, Petunia, how old are you now?"

Tang Peiling answered him with a smile: "You guess?"

"I guessed right, how long can you keep me alive?"

"You won't live long." She looked at him and said with a smile, "but I can guarantee that your body is intact, no one can see the cause of death from your body, a very mysterious way of death, you will definitely like it .”

Looking at Tang Peiling's eyes, Sherlock felt that she didn't seem to be lying. There was a strange gleam in her eyes, which was a kind of subconscious contempt.Obviously, for himself, Sherlock felt that Tang Peiling seemed to be looking at some kind of lower creature.

"I lied to you." Tang Peiling leaned back in her chair and said relaxedly, "You must be rarely deceived by others, because your expression just now was ridiculous."

Sherlock pursed his lips and never spoke again.

A few hours later, they returned to the factory, but instead of going in, they went straight to the deep forest behind the factory.

It had just rained, and the road in the forest was muddy and soft, and the trousers of the two were soaked quickly.

Sherlock was very excited, and Tang Peiling could feel it. He seemed to have forgotten the embarrassment of being teased by him just now, and he didn't spoil his mood because of the bad road under his feet: "You often walk on this road?" You seem to know which direction to go." The further you walked into the forest, the more gloomy the surrounding atmosphere became, and it wasn't until the surrounding flowers and trees became pitch black that Sherlock noticed something was wrong.

He hadn't been here, at least, a month ago, he didn't remember that there were any black plants in this forest. Sherlock turned around and found that the scene behind him was completely different from the way he came.They only walked for less than half an hour, but it seemed that they had come to another strange land. Everything around them seemed to have been smoked by fire, and the air was filled with dark red fluff.

Just now, Sherlock realized that he couldn't find the grass with the weird bloodstains on it.

"As I said, getting in touch with this matter will put you in danger." Tang Peiling didn't look back at him, because Mr. Detective finally became a little nervous, and she could hear Sherlock's heart beating faster, "You may die in this area today. The forest is gone, do you want to write your last words?"

Tang Peiling led Sherlock through a thin barrier. The moment she stepped into the forest, she found a wall invisible to humans, so she kept walking in one direction.

Sherlock was obviously taken aback, but he quickly regained his composure: "I believe you will save me again, and I don't mind repaying you again."

"Where does self-confidence come from?" Tang Peiling said, "Maybe I want your life?"

"You won't," said Sherlock, "because you won't be bored with me."

Tang Peiling let out a nice laugh, very sweet, suddenly, she stopped, and for a moment Sherlock thought that the other party was really going to do harm to him, and he had already put his hand on the handle of the gun.

"Yes, not only will I not hurt you, but I also want to thank you." Tang Peiling's words made Sherlock's tense heart relax a little, "Let's go back, I have already found the corpse of my companion."

"Corpse?" Sherlock said, "What did I miss just now?" He stared hard at the place where Tang Peiling's gaze fell. In fact, in Sherlock's eyes, there was only a piece of bare ground and dark bushes .

Tang Peiling didn't intend to explain. There was a bloody corpse in front of her. It was not a human corpse, but a huge wolf beast. Because it was surrounded by spells, humans couldn't see it.Tang Peiling knew that Frank the wolf demon was beaten back to his original form. His demonic power had completely disappeared, and only monsters could see the remaining shell.

Naturally, what Tang Peiling was looking for was gone.

"What did you see?" Sherlock stared at Tang Peiling, he regarded her as a puzzle that he hadn't solved yet, "What's there, the corpse, buried under the soil?" Sherlock seemed to want to go over to find out, More likely turning over the soil, if he happened to have a tool in hand.

Tang Peiling raised her arm, and when her palm was aimed at Sherlock's face, the man dodged and held Tang Peiling's wrist tightly.

"Don't use strange superpowers on me." Sherlock said quickly, "I know what you want to do, you did it last time, when you put your hand in my face, I will faint uncontrollably. "

Tang Peiling didn't show panic because her true intentions were exposed by humans: "You know too much."

"If you know me well enough, you will find that I know more secrets than you imagined, and each of them is unbelievable." Sherlock let go of his hand, and he stepped back a little, "Trust me, you and your companion Your secret is not the strangest secret I know, so you don't have to worry about it."

"How can I believe that you don't tell the second person what you know and see." Tang Peiling said.

"Actually." Sherlock pointed to the front, "I didn't see anything."

Tang Peiling said, "When you come here with me, you have already surpassed it."

"I only have one friend, and I don't want him to have anything to do with this matter." Sherlock's reason was quite convincing to Tang Peiling. Your need, because I'm really interesting."

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