Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Hugging is not something that can be easily agreed.

Because no matter how similar the appearance is, gender differences always exist.Even through several layers of clothing, it is impossible to hide the truth perfectly.

At this moment, the sea is surging.

The vortex suction formed by the sinking of the "Lucky One", which was left in the distance, shows that the tragedy of shipwreck and death has just been almost staged.

This made Kelsey no longer hesitate, and hugged Sherlock forward.

The next moment, the two leaned closer to each other.

He tried his best to maintain the last three-point restraint, and did not hug the opponent tightly with excessive force.It seems that the scale is at the level of a close friend embracing each other, to cover up the turbulence of his heart.

This silent hug was not intimate enough, but it was far longer than the etiquette allowed.

No one backed away first.

Taking advantage of the thick clouds and dark sky, and the atmosphere of narrow escape, the two men can embrace openly in full view of the public.

Two minutes later, the two spoke at the same time.

"Tom, it's good that you're here."

"Jerry, it's nice of you to be here."

The words in unison made the two of them laugh out loud.

Even if the two are reluctant to part with each other, they must let go eventually.Take a step back from each other, back to the distance of friendship in the eyes of outsiders.

Right now, Kelsey put aside her personal emotions and asked about the threatening letter and Kang Tan's situation.

"You must have read the telegram, what was found on the Lucky One?I saw five bodies being transported to the search and rescue ship, one was Captain Muller, what about the other four? "

The boat the two were on was the last one in the search and rescue team.With a capacity of more than 100 people, those who boarded the ship were the last group to retreat from the "Lucky One".

Excluding the five acquaintances, namely Darcy, Bentley and Bennet's father and daughter, most of the others are sailors on the cruise ship.

When evacuating, people didn't have time to pack their luggage, but the ship picked up five bodies.

"There are some discoveries."

Sherlock also temporarily suppressed the undercurrents of his heart, and turned his focus back to the case.When evacuating, he did not leave the murderer's body behind, in order to find relevant clues from the body.

"Although the specific cause is still unknown, but I took a rough look and found that the four corpses had old burns."

The two walked towards the temporary morgue.

Of the four assailants, two died of poisoning beforehand, and the other two were killed when detonating the bilge of the cruise ship.

The two intact corpses and the other two mutilated corpses, all four were scalded by instruments of torture such as branding irons.

Visually, the scars are from many years ago.They are basically triangular in shape, without special characters, and are distributed on the chest, thighs, arms and other parts.

"You read this warning letter again."

Sherlock took out the anonymous letter he had received before leaving, "I haven't been able to confirm the source 100%, nor can I be sure whether the other party deliberately exposed flaws. The sender of the letter that the Baker Street team finally locked was a man with a slight Spanish accent."

Coincidentally, the two murderers who tried to blow up the telegram, Alec and Lars, were of slightly Spanish descent.

Kelsey read the warning letter, "There is no such thing as eternal luck. If you speak big, you will be back."

Unlike Jules who were intimidated, the content of this letter was not intended to be aimed at Sherlock, but what is the purpose of sending it to him?

"How do you feel?" Kelsey waved the letter, "Is the sender well-intentioned?"

Send a letter to the famous detective.

The time of posting the letter coincided with the maiden voyage of the luxury cruise ship. The content of the letter had an ominous meaning, and the same word collided with the name of the cruise ship.

The sender has no more than three purposes.Either challenge the famous Sherlock Holmes, or give a subtle warning.

It may also be to seize the detective's obsession with the truth and lead him to board the "Lucky One" to use the gangster's plan to blow up the ship to kill people with knives.

"Judging from the wording of the letter, the sender has no malice towards me."

Sherlock also encountered incidents against him on the cruise ship.

"When Alec and Sla were caught, they made it clear that they wanted to kill Contain. Although what they did was crazy, they did not express any targeted dissatisfaction with other passengers or crew."

It can be seen from the burns that the four murderers had been tortured before, and it may be that experience that caused their madness.

Then, as the murderer, Kang Tan was the target of revenge. Was he ever the perpetrator?

Kang Tan is currently leaving on another search and rescue ship, and this question will be left until he goes ashore to find the answer.

Not only Kantan, but Jules, Peavy, and Ethel arrived in New Orleans one after another. It is said that the three people who had never met before also received the same threatening letter.Does it mean that they also had a grudge with the murderer?

Divided by age.

The four Jules who received the first batch of threatening letters were all in their 40s, while the four murderers who died were all in their twenties.

From an economic point of view.

The four of Jules are all worth a lot of money, while the four murderers have worked in Victor Shipping for three or four years and are seamen with ordinary salaries.

It shows that the above two groups of people will not overlap.

If there is a conflict, the party holding the wealth has more initiative, forcing the other party to passively accept certain things.

How the truth is still under investigation.

First officer Ted said he knew his crew, but he didn't expect a suicide bomber among them.Regarding the past of Alec and the other four, Gongge can only understand it when they go ashore.

Kelsey talks about the disappearance of Juul and what happened to her at Oak Manor.

"In the end, Juul's ending was somewhat unexpected. His death looks like the curse of the Bat Monster on the stone tablet has been fulfilled, but the specific circumstances are yet to be autopsyed."

After hearing this, Sherlock had a subtle feeling.

"From the investigation of the threatening letter to the discovery of the cursed stele, and the end of seeing the missing person being attacked and killed by a vampire bat. Listen to your description, Jerry, don't you think there is something strange about the trip to New Orleans?"

Today's New Orleans is full of ghosts and ghosts, and there is almost nothing that is not strange.

Kelsey knew that Sherlock was talking about another kind of strangeness.

"Yes, when Jules' body was found, I thought the Oak Manor trip went too smoothly. Now that you have received a warning letter before leaving London, you can be sure that Jules' disappearance is weird."

Where is the blame?

It was because Juul was so easy to find.

He arrived in New Orleans on September [-], and on September [-], he successfully found Jules' body in the manor known as Hell's Paradise.

"Both Jules and Kang Tan received threatening letters. As long as I find out that Jules died under a curse, even if I don't believe in the existence of curses, I will definitely think about Kang Tan's situation and whether he will be murdered."

Kelsey analyzed along this line of thought:

"The scene of the shipwreck is depicted on the curse of the stele, and Kang Tan took the "Lucky One" again.As a result, I had to think that Kantan was involved in the disaster of the cruise ship, so I quickly rescued it. "

Does it sound familiar?

Combined with the warning letter received by Sherlock, and looking at asking Kelsey to investigate the disappearance of Jules, the two events ultimately point to the fact that the "Lucky" is very likely to be shipwrecked.

Unknown X first sends a letter from a detective, making Sherlock suspect that something will happen on the cruise ship.

The layout allows another detective to witness the curse fulfilled, leading Kelsey to speculate that the cruise ship may be in danger.

X's approach is like double insurance, so that both detectives should pay attention to the "Lucky Man", and with the style of the two detectives, they will try their best to save the passengers of the cruise ship.

“The messaging was not direct enough.”

Sherlock felt some of the contradictions in it, "Sending me a letter can control the time and method, but letting you find Jules' body is uncontrollable."

The structure of the Oak Manor mansion is weird, and countless people get lost after entering.

In addition, the manor haunted incidents occurred frequently.I only heard about the unlucky explorers who went in, but I didn't see anyone who came out smoothly all the way.

How can X be sure that Kelsey will be able to bump into the corpse on September [-]th?

"Indeed, if I were to figure out the architectural layout of the manor from the inside to the outside, it would take at least four or five days without encountering any obstacles."

Kelsey shook her head, "I can't delay for half a day this time, and I don't know where to salvage the "Lucky One" after waiting for another four or five days. "

Knowing that the layout of the manor is complicated, X has not given any clues at a glance. Could it be that he blindly trusts Kelsey's luck?

It would be better to suspect that on September [-]th, when Kelsey and his party entered the manor, X was secretly manipulating the indoor mechanism.

As for X's true identity?

What is the relationship with the four Jules who received the threatening letter and the culprits who committed the shipwreck murder? We have to wait until we go ashore to find out one by one.

At that moment, after exchanging known clues, the two left the lower morgue.

Sherlock watched as Kelsey locked the hatch, and now he was free to confirm another matter.

"Jerry, you came too timely tonight. From confirming the death of Jules to rescuing the "Lucky", your reaction speed is admirable. It is not easy to build a fleet that can search and rescue more than 2000 people. "

Kelsey: "So?"

"It's reasonable for me to guess that you made preparations in advance, rather than preparing to organize a search and rescue team after learning that Kang Tan was intimidated."

Sherlock gave the reason along this line of thinking, "So, after you learned that I was boarding, you arranged for the manpower. I guessed it, right?"

"It's all about evacuating the passengers from the Lucky One anyway. "

Kelsey looked at Sherlock, "You guessed it, it's important?"

"Of course the order is important. With Mycroft's personality, he would not take the initiative to mention that Watson won the lottery ticket. You must have asked him, has my dear Tom boarded the ship?"

Sherlock said with a smile, "After learning the answer in the affirmative, you threw a large sum of dollars to contract the rescue team without blinking, lest something happen to me on the "Lucky".This process is correct, right? "

There are so many coincidences in the world. The "Lucky" was able to meet the search and rescue fleet when the wireless telegraph failed, it was only because the search and rescue party had different intentions from ordinary people.

Compared to rushing out to sea after discovering Jules' death, Kelsey may have planned ahead and prepared earlier.

Sherlock was convinced that his reasoning was correct, and the meaning of his eyes could not be more obvious, "Jerry, admit it, you are here for me."

What else could Kelsey say, except that she suspected the relationship between the Lucky and the Titanic, the rest were guessed by Sherlock.

"Okay, as you expected. Out of concern for your safety, let me prepare for the rescue at sea early."

Kelsey admitted frankly, "Tom, now that you've got an affirmative answer, you can get excited and think about how to give back to me for the good things I did this time—spend a lot of money just for you."

Sherlock laughed out loud when he heard this, and instead of waiting for him to reply, he heard Kelsey continue.

"But allow me to remind you of one thing."

Kelsey completed Sherlock's speculation just now, "Why am I so worried when I hear you boarded the "Lucky One"?The answer is obvious, and we all know it.Tom, it's your turn to admit it, do you think you're lucky? "

'boom--'

At this time, thunder exploded outside the cabin, and torrential rain hit the deck.

The storm was coming fiercely.

The strong wind whipped up huge waves, and the search and rescue ship shook violently uncontrollably.

This scene is very similar to the first half of the wizard Tilan's prediction - this is a night destined to be full of wind and rain.