[Comprehensive British and American] Capernaum

While Lestrade was in full swing to hunt down the injured murderer, Sherlock was finally discharged from the hospital.

But the first thing he did after he was discharged from the hospital was to ask the detective to arrange a psychiatric evaluation for little girl Annie.If the other party didn't have a character problem, and there was only one ghost, it must be that Annie had hallucinations.Sure enough, it didn't take long for the psychiatrist to notice something was wrong and arranged more and more rigorous examinations.

It turned out that the little girl was born with a serious mental illness, and the hallucinations were only the first stage.Generally speaking, no one will develop the disease at such an early age. Generally, the disease will develop gradually after adulthood. This is related to the maturation mechanism of the brain, but something obviously stimulated Annie.

Mrs. Laura was sitting in the lounge of Scotland Yard, wiping her tears and saying nothing. She felt that someone was sitting next to her, and when she turned her head, it was the innocent and troubled detective.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes." Madam Laura, who was well-bred, immediately apologized softly.

Sherlock didn't respond, but he didn't show any anger either. He just glanced at the other party and asked calmly, "Who is Annie's biological mother?"

Mrs. Laura was startled, and when she looked over again, she met the detective's staring eyes: "You still want to hide it? Scotland Yard will find out sooner or later."

With a faint sigh, Mrs. Laura's face was full of tiredness, and she told a story many years ago in a calm and soothing tone——

It was many years ago, also in the Orphanage for Women in Antaxi Diocese, there was an orphan girl named Janet who was raised by nuns.Janet had been a lovely girl, but a little withdrawn and eccentric, so she didn't have many friends.Under the circumstances at the time, this lonely girl fell in love with a romantic and gentle man, just like in all love novels, and the other person filled the gap in Janet's heart.

No one knew that the two had ever made a vow of eternal love, but Janet became pregnant before she was married, and the man disappeared without a trace.At that time, Janet hadn't left the monastery. From the perspective of Christianity, such things as being pregnant out of wedlock... as long as it is not the type of the Virgin Mary, it is a sin.And abortion is even more impossible, which is equivalent to the sin of murder.

With the help of the nun, Janet gave birth to an equally lovely girl, but not long after giving birth, she became mentally ill and began to have hallucinations. She could always see the man coming back and talk to herself, wanting to Picking it up by herself to form a new family, she even pointed to the air to let the baby recognize her "father".Janet's behavior frightened the nuns, some of them even thought that she was possessed by the devil, but finally the wise nun understood what was going on and planned to send her to the hospital.

It may be that Janet overheard the nuns' discussion, and she disappeared completely. With the last trace of sobriety, she didn't take away her infant daughter, and stayed in the women's orphanage to continue raising her.It was also a coincidence that Mrs. Laura failed to keep the fetus during her second pregnancy. After her youngest daughter had a miscarriage, she happened to meet the little baby. That cute and cute smile hit the other person's heart. Despite her husband's obstruction, she adopted the baby back Home.

Because of losing two children in a row, Mrs. Laura regarded Anne as her own, and dismissed the servants at home and replaced them with a new batch, just to prevent anyone from knowing that the child was adopted. Died one after another, or transferred to other parishes.When the only husband who knew the truth passed away due to illness, no one knew this secret at all. Sometimes, when Mrs. Laura looked at this well-behaved girl, she suddenly realized for a moment that Anne was her own.

Until Annie started seeing ghosts, she didn't think of Janet at that time, after all, she didn't know that mental illness can be hereditary.

"I'm really sorry." Mrs. Laura sighed: "If it wasn't for this incident, I would never want anyone to know the truth. What will Annie think when she grows up? She has a mentally ill biological mother, and I can't protect her well."

Sherlock didn't answer, in fact he didn't know how to answer.

After Mrs. Laura left, Ronika got out of her pocket and said in a low mood: "Sherlock, tell me, what is the relationship between parents and children like? It's like Mrs. Laura Such adoptive mothers are better than biological mothers, and there are vicious parents who abuse their adopted children; some love their children like treasures, and some treat them like enemies."

"Are you saying that parents are born to love their children?"

"At least the goldfish think so." For some unknown reason, Sherlock was willing to talk, "Just like John said, there is a certain standard that goldfish must abide by. Think about it, parents don't love their own children." Children! For the goldfish, it is a disaster."

But that is not the case.

"But to be honest, I never understood the meaning of explaining the concept of genetics in terms of ethics and morality?"

Biological parents, the concept of genetics; adoptive parents, the concept of legal meaning, probably in Sherlock's mind, this is how they are classified.Corresponding to these concepts are the obligations and rights that parents should fulfill.For example, if parents want to ensure the healthy growth of their children physically and psychologically, this requires material and spiritual contributions.

The so-called "love children" is probably to maintain the mental health of offspring, because from an evolutionary point of view, a child who is loved by others and has a cheerful and lively heart is more likely to find offspring in the future and inherit the genes of the parents. isn't it?

It should be said that Sherlock is worthy of being Sherlock, who can talk about such a touching topic so... fresh and refined.

"Don't your parents love you, or don't you love them?" Ronika complained.

Sherlock rolled his eyes: "Are you kidding me? It's that fat man who doesn't dare to bully you in front of your parents. I'm just telling you something that even a goldfish should know."

Ronika: ...this person can't communicate!

Everything seemed to be calm, except that Lestrade was still working diligently to catch the murderer overnight.

Dr. Watson yawned and was about to go home to catch up on sleep when he received a call from the clinic asking him to go back to work overtime due to urgent matters.However, considering the particularity of the work of doctors, it is true that there is no distinction between day and night.The detective shrugged helplessly, put the flower fairy and the grass fairy in different pockets, and dangled back.

Sherlock was tired, as it should be.

So he was not as keen as before to find that there were already people in the room, and even after Jason suddenly reminded him, he still turned on the light.It was a haggard woman pointing a gun at the detective. It was an unfamiliar face, but Sherlock felt like he had seen it somewhere before.

His thinking palace never made mistakes. Although his brain was a little tired due to continuous operation, Sherlock still dug out the relevant information in his mind——

"You are Henry Clive's nurse. Should I call you Liz, or should I call you Janet?" asked the detective calmly.

"It doesn't matter." The woman's expression was strangely excited, "You ruined all my plans, your companion shot and wounded me, I should also shoot you immediately."

"I don't think..." Sherlock didn't speak, and took a shot in the thigh. Damn, there is really nothing to talk about with a lunatic, and there is no logic to follow.

He subconsciously looked at the camera installed by McCoff, did that fat man think he didn't know where it was installed?But it was because he dismantled one, and Mycroft installed another one. Later, after John persuaded him desperately, he agreed to keep this "fish that slipped through the net" and give it to his brother's control freak. (Watson: You don't want Mycroft to bother you every day, or to hijack me to ask about the situation?)

The woman laughed nervously, and asked, "What are you looking at? I removed that thing, ah, no, there is no signal in this area."

Impossible, Janet is a woman with average IQ who hasn't gone to college, and Liz is just a nanny, so can she hack McCoff's device with her IQ?

But Janet didn't want to get too entangled in this issue. She seemed crazy, and explained to herself why she wanted to kill those girls.

"Tommy loves me! He loves me, always has, and I have such a sweet little daughter for him, oh, my little Anne, who has her father's eyes, but a face more like mine , isn't it?" He Janet showed a foolish smile, and then suddenly turned cold, "But another little bitch seduced him! We were going to get married, but Tommy came to tell me that he couldn't be with me. I'm together because he's in love with another girl."

"She's a member of the school band, she plays the cello, and he's going to see her perform, and he can't even accompany me to the checkup. That was Anne's first fetal movement, his daughter! It's all that bitch's." Wrong, I should have scratched her face, just like those little bastards!"

No wonder, there was such a strong venting of anger on the three corpses, and even the knife marks were so unstable.

"How do you know that they are sluts?" Sherlock's thigh was bleeding non-stop. He took off the scarf, quickly tied his thigh to stop the bleeding, and supported the shelf next to him, trying to stabilize his body, and passed The exchange dragged on, "It was Henry Clive who told you, right?"

"Henry? Henry is a videographer, a simple artist, he doesn't know that those little bastards are the poisonous snakes in the Garden of Eden. The poisonous snakes bewitched Adam and Eve back then, just like they bewitched my Tommy and also bewitched Henry. I have seen those photos, they are all evidence of poisonous snakes seducing humans!"

This man's brain is really sick!

"Listen to me, Janet, you want to take Anne away, right? Is Annie also a poisonous snake? Is Mrs. Laura too?"

"She took my daughter away, and you, that doctor, and the police are the accomplices!" It's okay not to mention this, but when this crazy woman is mentioned, she becomes completely emotional.Ronika felt bad, so she flew out and stood in front of Sherlock's heart, praying for Goliath to give her strength, even if she didn't save her, at least give her strength back!

"boom--"

The gun went off, and Sherlock fell slowly.