[Comprehensive] Baker Street Survival Guide

A few mornings later, Joanna saw a perfectly packaged CD at the door of her own room.

Mycroft was clearly back at work, and even if his hours weren't exactly the same as before, most things were back on track.It's just that for Joanna, a non-staff member, her job is to stay in the room and sort out materials without going out.

Everyone, including Harry, thought that something bad would happen to her when she went out.

It was as if the murderer would not dare to find him in this house.

——Okay... They really didn't dare, Joanna was a little uncomfortable with the calm these days.

Joanna put the disk into her newly bought laptop. She held her chin and clicked the play button, deeply feeling that the current life is too comfortable.

At first, Joanna thought that the contents of this disk were top-secret information.But the document format that jumps out is just mp4.a video?Joanna was at a loss for a moment.

After thinking to no avail, Joanna insisted on clicking on the CD.

The player's screen was black for the first three seconds, and after that, it was a miniature camera similar to Harry's video interruption.The picture quality is much behind the Harry's, which can also help determine the year.

Joanna squinted her eyes, feeling that the style of this video was somewhat similar to the ones she had seen before.

Old-fashioned mime with only picture and no sound is really boring.The scene of the banquet was shown on the screen, and the bow tie and clothing of the waiter helped Joanna roughly locate the time of the video and the level of the venue.

After the video recorder's eyes circled around the venue for a week, they slowly moved towards the dance floor of the venue.He carefully missed the crowd, and with purpose, Joanna was able to determine the target of the task he was performing.

——A middle-aged man in the crowd, with a potbellied appearance everywhere on the street.It is difficult to provide more powerful information with blurry picture quality.

At this time, Joanna was sure that the person who took the video, that is, the agent who was performing the mission, was Mycroft.Joanna remembered what she had said herself, wanting to see some of Mycroft's missing attendance records, but he shouldn't need to lower the quality... Joanna fast forwarded a few minutes.

Suddenly, a picture made Joanna press the pause button quickly.Mycroft's perspective had almost been attached to the fat middle-aged man.The other party didn't resist, just accepted it calmly.

Joanna's eyes widened, and the image of young Mycroft sitting on the fat man's lap subconsciously appeared in her mind.Something was obviously wrong, and Joanna rewound the video a bit, watching Mycroft walk into the crowd again.

Now, Joanna has raised her spirits.Because things seem to be getting more interesting.

No matter how many times he stepped back, the middle-aged man didn't show a trace of resistance. His expression simply saw a beauty... beauty... woman... person?

Joanna was stunned by her deduction.Her hand on the mouse paused for a second, then quickly minimized the video and opened an internal database.

It was in 2000, a piece of actual field data.The content of the text vaguely stated that the required information was obtained, and the target person suffered irreversible damage.Joanna looked at the long list of proper nouns on the report, and one thing was certain, all these words and sentences that were more than three lines and tried to be incomprehensible were all expressing one meaning - the middle-aged man was... · · Obsolete.

After confirming this basic fact, Joanna reopened the video, fast forwarded the video three times, and finally saw Mycroft's general shape on a certain mirror that appeared on the screen.

Very fine dresses, and a young Mycroft.

Joanna stared at the video for a few seconds. After all, the blurred outlines were not comparable to the most advanced image restoration software. With almost no special processing by Mycroft, Joanna quickly improved the clarity of the video. Quite a lot.

Really... amazing makeup technique.

Joanna took out her mobile phone and called Mycroft's office.

Calls would be routed from Cynthia's line and counted as work.

"Joanna?..." Cynthia recognized Joanna's name first. She was surprised, and her typing on the keyboard slowed down. After a few seconds, she said, "The main content of the call is... again After a pause, Cynthia asked and answered herself: "Forget it, please don't tell me.I'll transfer you to the inside line. "

Joanna I was at a loss for words.By the time she regained consciousness, Mycroft's voice had already come from the phone.

"Did something happen?"

"I received the video you sent me." Joanna sighed: "When you showed it to me, you probably didn't think that nothing happened."

"so?"

Joanna heard a crackling typing sound, and Mycroft was obviously still busy with work.

"It shocked me... I mean, I was really curious about the blank part of your field work, but I didn't expect that you were wearing women's clothes at the time." Joanna paused, and she felt her train of thought It still needs to be sorted out, but fortunately, she has already figured out the most important part.

"You don't need to accommodate me just because I'm about to die..."

Mycroft was dumbfounded.

He heard Joanna's voice coming from the phone. The soft voice was very similar to the cat he and Sherlock saw in the pet store when they were young.With soft beige-red paws and a character that can never be figured out, Mycroft is willing to meet Joanna's demands.He even wanted time to slow down a bit, so that everything could be interpreted in a more normal form until the day when it ended.

"You can tell me directly that you are moved by my actions... I think I can still accept your frankness."

"No... I just hope I can do something for you too." Joanna was silent for a while.

She found that some things went wrong.She initially regarded Mycroft as an ally, so she spent the last time before her death by Mycroft's side.But what if Mycroft wasn't invincible?Joanna had some doubts about whether he could bear the day when the accident happened less than two months later.

Unfortunately, it is too late to discover these things now.Joanna wanted to control the ambiguous atmosphere, and Holmes' approach was like a desperate revelry when the dinner party was approaching the wee hours of the morning.

"You could consider getting engaged to me, as you said at the beginning... a politician is always insecure if he is not married... but widowed, You won’t be said that.” The second half of the sentence was purely to take care of Joanna’s feelings.

Mycroft's suggestion made Joanna feel a little embarrassed.Intellectually, this is something that can be achieved, and emotionally, Joanna is also very willing for this to happen.But thinking of the ruins she left to Mycroft two months later, that was an unbearable weight.

"That was a really long ago conversation. What if I said you needed a replacement?"

"You live."

"..." Joanna rubbed her forehead, she realized that the conversation seemed to be at a dead end, and the unsolvable knot among them was enough to make people upset: "The content of our conversation is like a child arguing, Fortunately, your phone line is already the highest route, otherwise it would be a waste of resources if someone overheard us!"

Mycroft did not immediately answer Joanna's question.Joanna heard the sound of typing again, and the crackling sound made clear the non-violent non-cooperation.

Joanna wanted to ask at first, but soon, she heard the rhythm of Mycroft's keyboard.

Joanna narrowed her eyes and thought for a moment.She continued on the phone while walking out of her room and pushing open the door of Mycroft's bedroom.

Some of the advantages of living together are exposed. For example, Joanna will never know before that the modern painting in Mycroft's bedroom also represents a set of codes.

Joanna had seen the above numbers before, and the numbers combined from the latitude and longitude were impressive. Apart from the part of Holmes's superior IQ, it probably has something to do with Mrs. Holmes being a mathematician.

Mycroft's hint corresponded to the cipherbook followed by a few letters with vowels removed, and Joanna added the vowels and came to the conclusion: 'There are—people—eaves—listen—'.Joanna showed a surprised expression.She thought about it, and decided to end this conversation with Mycroft quickly.

"Have you always been like this? Silence solves most problems? An older Sherlock? This is not what you should be."

"I just don't want anything to happen to you." Holmes said helplessly.

But Joanna had hung up the phone.

Sitting in Mycroft's room, she suddenly began to wonder if the murderer had really been included in the list she had made.Once such self-doubt arises, it cannot be easily eliminated.Compared with this question, what troubled Joanna even more was that she found that every word Mycroft said during the call was not just for the people behind the scenes, but also in an exaggerated form. Show real affection to Joanna.

*

In a secluded senior ward, Katu lay on the bed, looking at the electronic reading device in his hand comfortably.His injury was unexpected. Many people also listed his hospitalization in the recent incident of the mastermind behind the scenes, as if the mastermind behind the scenes would be willing to pay attention to such a junior rookie as him.

During the hospitalization, few people came to visit him.Some people who come here occasionally are either full of ambition or hope to hear something.

The coldness of people's hearts is nothing more than this.

Katu's right hand was wrapped with thick gauze, and his right leg was also broken. In the eyes of outsiders, it was quite unexpected that he was able to recover his life after such a serious car accident.

However, Katu himself knew that all of this was caused by someone's improper operation... This is also good, he doesn't have to bear all the firepower and hide behind the scenes to watch the show, at least the risk is minimized.

A few minutes later, Katu received an email from an agent in India on his mobile phone.Click to download, there is an audio.Kato put on the earphones, and he could hear the conversation between Mr. Holmes and Miss Heard, but they had progressed to such an extent in such a short period of time that it was enough for Kato to show a strange expression.

"You must not have imagined that Mycroft's private style is like this!... They are really... tsk tsk! This means that our strategy is correct - to kill Joanna Hill De, would be the best place to start...we just have to find one more guy, and I think he'll be able to pull it off pretty well."

Katu hung up the phone calmly, he deleted the video and audio through special software, and then restarted the phone.The sender of the email just expressed his opinion at the end of the audio... For a long time after that, they could only communicate in this way.