Sherlock Holmes

Chapter 74 Book————

Sherlock just asked Andrew to surrender. Who knows why the young man insisted on giving his name.

But no matter what, he didn't care that much.

At this moment, he should be only interested in his contracted creatures. Oh, no, he is interested in the hell demons occupied by these tentacles. Otherwise, he would not be holding the head of a carrion dog and observing it over and over again. Seeing the faint red light in the depths of its pupils.

Obviously, this red color only appeared after the tentacles absorbed the eye-gouging demon, and Sherlock also sensed that these carrion dogs now possess an attribute that they did not originally have.

————Spread fear.

Not only these dogs, but even the tentacles crawling all over the ground have the ability to infect fear. When they were drowning the group of carapace demons blocking the road just now, several of them even panicked and tried to get up and run away. .

"It seems that these little guys can steal the devil's ability in some way." He muttered.

"No, the ability of the eye-gouging demon is to use fear to restrict the target's activities, but the ability it has after stealing it is to directly spread fear. Although the attributes are somewhat related, there is a big difference.

So, this is not simply 'stealing', but absorbing it and then converting it into something more suitable for you, just like eating, eating muscle fibers and converting them into proteins and amino acids.

Fully automatic, no worries at all. "

Sherlock nodded with satisfaction.

However, at this moment, he suddenly frowned, and then turned his head and looked in one direction.

In fact, there is nothing there, just some dilapidated buildings, weathered ruins, and tentacles crawling out of the rubble from time to time.

Of course Sherlock was not looking at these things. In fact, in his own field, 'looking' was just a subconscious action that he had been used to for decades.

What he mainly relies on now is perception.

He could clearly feel that not long ago, his territory expanded to the vicinity of a building five kilometers away, and then countless tentacles surrounded the building, preparing to occupy it bit by bit.

And in the process, or at that moment, they seemed to have discovered something.

The tentacles couldn't express the exact meaning, but the group of little guys seemed to be surrounding something at the moment, constantly entrenched, waiting for Sherlock's arrival.

This situation has never happened before, so he was also very curious, so

With a "pop~" sound, he snapped his fingers, and then, the horse, whose whole body seemed to have been burned to ashes, pulled the carriage in front of him.

Sherlock stood up and got into the carriage.

There was no driver, so there was no need to tell the destination. The horses could clearly understand what their master meant, so they just blew out some dust in their noses and then galloped away along the long street.

I have to say that the traffic in hell is much better than in the real world.

Especially in areas that have been cleaned up, there will be almost no traffic jams, and there will be no annoying situation like 'vehicles in the entire street have to wait for the Vatican personnel to pass by, and cannot continue to pass until they leave'!

In addition, the ashes horse ran happily, a few minutes faster than the steam train, and the distance of several kilometers was reached in a short time.

Sherlock got out of the car, then raised his head and looked at the building in front of him.

It is similar to a church, but much more square. It does not have many gorgeous carvings and decorations, nor does it have those colorful glass embellishments, and it does not even have the standard sunflower mark on the bell tower and the Holy See.

Some are just the oldest architectural style, the simplest blue brick walls, and outside the huge door nearly five meters high are two rows of incredibly thick stone pillars, connecting nearly a hundred floors of steps. Although in hell, Under the wind and sand, everything has become dilapidated, but it still exudes an inexplicable solemnity and solemnity.

Of course Sherlock knew about this building.

In the real world, almost all Londoners, and even all people in the Empire, know this place. Even the inauguration ceremonies of the recent London Mayors have been held here.

British Library.

This is a building that existed long before the gates of hell opened. It is older than 90% of the buildings in London. It contains more than 40 million books. Even the origins of the characters in some books cannot be traced. It carries the sacred calendar. The civilization before the opening of the Holy Calendar also inherited the name before the opening of the Holy Calendar. Even if the ancient country represented by its prefix no longer exists, no one still dares to change it.

It is said that during the second demon invasion, the defense deployment level here was higher than that of the entire strategic headquarters in London. In countless battles with the demons, countless people died around this building. The demons The corpses and bullets almost filled the long street, and blood spattered to the top of the tall building stairs. Even the library staff and some academic leaders picked up guns and swords to participate in the fight against the devil. among.

And even in such a tragic battle, these dead people still did not damage even one of the books in the tube. In the words of some people who survived the time, everyone has something to protect, and the hard work of the soldiers Killing is to protect the safety of the citizens of the empire, while scholars fight to ensure the inheritance of history and knowledge. Weak guys who can't even lose a fight with a child will abandon all reason and grace if necessary.

So. What exactly was found in this library?

Sherlock walked up the steps with doubts in mind, and walked all the way into the corrupt but still magnificent hall. He walked past the towering bookshelves that were almost collapsed by the wind and sand, the narrow corridors, the long tables filled with bright red dust, and finally , he came to a very inconspicuous small room.

Compared with all the scenes we just passed, this small room is almost like a utility room filled with brooms.

At this time, the room was filled with dense tentacles. These little guys were slowly squirming around a wooden bookshelf leaning against the wall, but they kept a certain distance from it and seemed to dare not get close.

Sherlock approached the bookshelf, and the tentacles moved obediently to the sides.

The bookshelf was very short, not even as tall as him, and there were only a few books sparsely placed on it.

I don't know why, but when Sherlock's eyes just touched the bookshelf, he was attracted by the name of a book.

————"Divine Comedy".