Sherlock Holmes

London is a very famous city in the Holy Calendar. It is the birthplace of the first generation of the Steam Revolution and the starting point for the development of countless heavy industries. It was the hardest hit area during the second demonic invasion and the post-war reconstruction. The most perfect city, after the abdication of Emperor Augustine, it was the starting point of new electric energy.

It seems that the places related to all the major revolutionary events are in this city. It is as if there is such a god in the dark who is writing everything, but he is too lazy to think of place names, so he simply stuffs everything in one go. Enter this city and settle things hastily.

Of course, this is also where Sherlock lives.

He knows every street and alley here.

Naturally, it was easy to find the inconspicuous tavern in the alley.

A week has passed since Watson was brought back. The guy was seriously injured. Although he was also a doctor, he still needed to rest, so this time Sherlock walked into the alley alone.

In the past two years, steam engines have been replaced in large numbers, resulting in a much lighter fog in London at night and less choking dust in the air. This made Sherlock a little uncomfortable, so he clicked on With a cigarette, he pushed open the door of the tavern.

It was still melodious music, and the piano accompaniment echoed in every corner of the tavern, but it didn't feel noisy. After passing a row of wine racks, Sherlock subconsciously took a few steps away from the racks. Any bottle of wine on it was It's priceless. If I knock it over, I probably won't even be able to pay back the money if I secretly sell Mrs. Hudson's old house.

Under the guidance of a waiter, he quickly arrived at a secluded small box in the tavern. Along the way, the waiters were very professional and did not look at Sherlock in surprise or admiration, and kept a straight face. The most decent little thing.

But when he turned to leave, he still couldn't help but look at Sherlock a few more times.

After all, this face can be said to have appeared most frequently in the entire empire in the past month.

Opening the curtain of the private room, Sherlock saw the woman he had not seen for a long time. She was still dressed conservatively, but her clothes showed endless amorous feelings. The long cigarette held in her black silk gloves looked like a This seductive finger is constantly tempting every man who sees it.

But if a man really dares to approach her in a daze, as long as he gets to know the woman in front of him a little bit, he will definitely be shocked and leave in embarrassment.

Erin Bar.

This is an open, but extremely safe gathering place. People who come here are definitely not just here to drink and eat. This is a place for the exchange of money and power. Every city in the empire has it, but only In this place known to the minority class, countless huge interest decisions and disputes have been decided or resolved under such dim lights and melodious music. It is even said that every papal trial in the Holy See is first discussed in the Irene Bar of the local parish, and only after the decision is passed, the normal official trial process will begin.

Of course, compared to these rumors, the owner of Erin's Bar is the most mysterious and legendary person.

At this time, Irene Adler was sitting on the sofa and made a sit down gesture to the man she had not seen for a long time.

There was no gaffe like Catherine's when she got the news of Shylock's return, nor Nightingale's crying in spite of everyone's attention, nor Mrs. Hudson's hug while holding up her long skirt and slamming into his arms.

She just puffed out the cigarette and poured Sherlock a glass of wine, which was obviously as ordinary as a most ordinary meeting.

"You suffered a lot there?"

"Not bad." Sherlock said with a smile.

"Have you met any new women?"

"Well, we know her. She has been chasing me for more than a year."

"There is no eternal rival. If you have been cheating on each other for more than a year, then you must know each other very well. If one day your interests are aligned, it is very likely that the relationship will take a further step." Eileen said, and then smiled sweetly: "Of course, I don't care about that."

When they reunited after being separated by life and death, there was no true love between the two people after their longing had been filled. Irene did not ask the other party what she had seen there or what she had experienced, because if Sherlock didn't want to talk about it, then she didn't need to. Yes, but if Sherlock had told it, then she would definitely know that in the empire, there were few secrets that Irene didn't know.

Sherlock liked this concise and clear way of talking.

In fact, if you do the math, he knows quite a few members of the opposite sex, but in his heart, Mrs. Hudson only exists within the scope of the landlord. Of course, he also knows that girl from downtown who has always regarded him as an ordinary girl. Her Royal Highness the Saint has some favorable impressions of herself, but she really has no need to respond to this favorable impression.

As for Nightingale, most of them are exchanges between life and responsibility. Every time they get along with that girl, they are accompanied by fire, gunpowder smoke, life and death, and blood. That is a person with the most lofty ambitions and also some He is a girl with powerful abilities, but he is just a small citizen with no dreams, so he has always had a helpless and wry attitude towards the gossipy romance news that has been circulating in the radio and newspapers recently.

Only this woman Irene.

You can even eliminate the factor of gender.

He is one of the few friends that Sherlock feels comfortable talking to.

Erin pushed her curly hair to her ears, revealing her ageless but definitely beautiful face: "So, do I need to prepare a celebration ceremony for you?"

"Of course not."

"I don't think so, because you can come back alive, which may not necessarily make everyone happy. As far as I know, there are quite a few people who stayed up all night after learning that you were back. .You have caused too much trouble in the empire. You are alive and making people nervous.

And I admire you very much. Just one month after you came back, you dared to cause trouble in the Holy Light Temple.

When I first heard the news, I even wanted to sever ties with you.

Who wants to invest in such a lunatic. "

Sherlock shrugged helplessly, mixed the wine in the glass with cigarettes, and swallowed it all, wasting thousands of pounds of liquid in the glass.

She didn't expect Irene to know that she went up to the Elbes Mountains, but after thinking about it, she must know about Watson's arrest, so naturally, her information network about her going up the mountain could not be hidden.

Even Sherlock suspected that there might be one or two servants of God in the Temple of Holy Light who had some beneficial dealings with the woman in front of him.

“In the past hundreds of years, no one has dared to do such an outrageous thing to the temple.

You are so amazing. You kicked down the door of the temple just after you came back. Watson killed a servant of the god, but you rescued him forcefully. And it seems that the matter really ended like this.

If my guess is correct, no less than 20 people across the empire will get news of this matter in the next month.

Although it is likely to be ambiguous information or rumors.

But it was enough to make them even more shocked and unable to sleep. "

"My partner is in trouble, of course I want to help." Sherlock said matter-of-factly.

"Yeah. You are a very cold-blooded person, but you are very weird and have persistence that normal people don't have." Irene said, and then as if every woman cares about it, she asked suspiciously: "What if One day, I will also kill the servant of God, are you willing to break into the Holy Light Temple for me?"

"Yes." Sherlock replied without thinking. Eileen smiled and said nothing, but she did not hide her satisfaction at all.

Of course, she still doesn't know the relationship between Sherlock and the Holy Light, so even if Irene kills the servant of God, Sherlock is actually just a word away.

He really can't be called a hero to save the beauty, let alone risk his life for her.

But suddenly, the smile on Eileen's face changed. She asked quietly: "Then if the Pope suddenly breaks with the Holy Light Temple, or even goes to war, who will you help?"

"Huh?" Sherlock frowned.

"You have been away from this world for too long. You may not know what changes have occurred in the Holy See in the past year." Irene's smile faded and she began to talk to Sherlock about some things seriously:

"Mr. Moriarty is different from previous popes. Since he took office, he has not consolidated the position of the Holy See in the hearts of the people. Sunflowers are no longer planted in the holy city of Jerusalem. Major dioceses have been merged. Even within the next year, There will be cities without diocesan jurisdiction, all church prayer times will be cancelled, the sacraments will become a voluntary act, and 70% of all church donations will be sent to the front lines.

I have been observing these changes, but I have never understood why the Pope did what he did.

This simply makes the Holy See's position among the people more and more marginalized. Even a fool would not make such a reform.

The most unacceptable thing to me is that for this expedition, he personally went to the Holy Light Temple and asked the servants of God to join the expedition team to speed up the progress of laying the Holy Light.

The price turned out to be that he allowed the Holy Light Temple to become independent.

This is simply to abandon the foundation of the entire Holy See. I have known Moriarty for a while. He is a wise man, but now, I find that I can't understand his wisdom. "

Sherlock was silent, savoring what Irene said.

He is a detective, and his mind is indeed good enough, with quick reactions and quick thinking, but he has to admit that he is not very good at matters such as faith or politics.

Because politics is not something that can be played with a good brain. A good detective is not necessarily a good writer, let alone a good scholar. Naturally, he is not necessarily a good politician. Theology Home.

But he knew Moriarty and knew that this guy had a very weird ideal since he was a child.

"Excuse me. What would happen if the Pope of the Holy See and the Emperor of the Empire were the same person?"

Sherlock asked. He rarely asked for advice humbly, but regarding this matter, Eileen's ideas may be more valuable than his own.

Erin blinked, as if she didn't understand Sherlock's words.

"What? The Pope is the Emperor? How could you have such an unrealistic idea?"

"Well, although it sounds incredible, you don't need to consider its feasibility. You just need to speculate. If that happens one day, what will happen to human society?"

"." Erin was silent for a long time, as if this question was more ridiculous than any question she had ever thought about.

A long time passed.

"Do you understand the religion before the start of the Holy Calendar?"

"I just heard a little bit about it."

"Before the Holy Calendar, the wars between religions were actually very fierce. In a certain era, there were a large number of beliefs that were annexed and obliterated, but in the religious records that finally survived, historians have found that they all have a very similar link.

That is, all religions have the concept of an "ideal kingdom of God". "

Sherlock did not interrupt Irene, he listened very quietly.

Eileen also continued: "The Ninth Heaven, the Garden of Eden, the Western Paradise, the Hall of Valor, and so on.

In short, these religions describe a perfect world where there are no barriers, no wars, and no conflicts of interest between people. Everyone is happy, and there is abundant material, wine, fruit, food, and meat. There is no disease in these places, no birth, old age, sickness and death, no severe cold or scorching sun.

In short, it is an ideal world where everyone can be happy. "

"So, what does this have to do with the question I asked?"

“Some scholars once pointed out that this idealized world cannot exist in human society.

First of all, social class will lead to insufficient supply of resources.

The resources consumed by the upper class of society are always hundreds or thousands of times that of the people at the bottom. Even with the development of society, this gap will reach an uncontrollable level.

To achieve an idealized world, first of all, all stratification needs to be eliminated, people are equal, and resources are distributed according to their contribution to society.

Of course, human beings are selfish and greedy in nature. Before the Holy Calendar, people spontaneously used race, surname, country, and interest groups to separate each other, madly seize resources, and waste a lot of materials on research and development to fight against each other. arms.

In the initial period after the gates of hell opened, this barrier was forcibly broken down by the overwhelming pressure of genocide.

At that time, there was a real feeling that the Kingdom of God was about to come to the world, because all mankind had a common goal, and people began to no longer care about resource distribution issues or class gaps.

In the face of demonic invasion, life and death must be above all else.

This perfect and extremely dangerous situation lasted for about half a century.

Then it was broken.

because.

The Holy Light appears."