Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

How to deal with a drug tester?

Kelsey smiled at Sherlock, "Like tie you up first."

No one can predict the effect of taking hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs, and experience shows that thin people will become infinitely powerful after taking the drugs, not to mention the reaction of Sherlock.

"If you don't tie it now, maybe you won't be able to subdue you later."

Kelsey did what he said, opened the backpack, and took out the rope that hung the two corpses without stopping.

This is obviously well prepared.

Kelsey originally planned to use the rope on himself, but now sherlock volunteered to experience it.

"I'll give you a chance to choose, Tom, you can choose a comfortable position. Please hurry up, no one knows when the medicine will take effect."

"Jerry, you're so thoughtful."

Sherlock praised and chose to lie down on the bed, "The bed can be fixed more firmly. Although I don't think a small dose of herbal tea will make me crazy, it's always good to be prepared."

Since it is a drug test, it is difficult to predict the result.

Kelsey is never blindly optimistic, "How much does the so-called small dose mean? It's not uncommon to take a spoonful of poison that can kill you."

"But the manager did not die suddenly from poisoning. The cruelty of hallucinogenic drugs is not directly killing people, but lies in the accidental injury when falling into the illusion."

Sherlock looked at the bound hands and feet, and gave Kelsey a satisfied smile, "I feel safe now."

'Boom thump—'

Watson's voice was outside the door. "Mr. Sigson, I have delivered the bottle of salt and the box of raw eggs you asked for."

"The door is unlocked, please come in."

As Sherlock spoke, Watson's footsteps stopped in front of the bedroom.

Watson tried his best to maintain a calm expression, but he almost threw the food basket out with shaking hands.

What did he see?

His eyes were stunned!The beard is binding the limbs of the gold-rimmed glasses to the bedpost!

Kelsey didn't look back. Hearing the salt and eggs reported by Watson, he knew that Sherlock had originally planned to get diluted salt water and a large amount of egg whites, which were first aid for vomiting.

After tying the last knot, she seemed to praise Sherlock, "It seems that Mr. Sigson hasn't completely put life and death aside, and is prepared in the end."

"I said earlier that I have a sense of proportion."

Sherlock accepted the compliment as a matter of course, and the two looked at Watson who was standing dumbly and silent.

Kelsey turned around and saw Watson's eyes. Don't ask, this guy has made up some strange plots.

"Mr. Watson, thank you for coming. I'm afraid you still need to be mentally prepared. Mr. Sigson is testing the poison himself, and we don't know what emergencies will happen."

It turned out to be a drug test.

Watson heaved a sigh of relief, paused for a second, and hesitated again. "What? Test poison! Mr. Sigson, you are too..."

Watson couldn't find an adjective for a while, and he didn't look shocked when he saw his beard. Could it be that the authors of horror novels are used to working so hard?

"I'm here to find the murderer."

Sherlock changed the subject without causing Watson to rack his brains for another thought. "I smell other scents. You must have kindly brought dinner. Sorry, I'm going to experiment on an empty stomach."

"If you don't mind, let Mr. Adair have dinner first."

Sherlock made a favor, and Kelsey didn't have to be moved by the fact that he still remembered that they didn't have dinner.

"Okay." Watson finally couldn't say anything else.While starting to help dilute the salt water and make a lot of egg whites to make an emetic, he invited the beard to eat.

"Sorry, Mr. Adair, I didn't know you were here. If you don't mind, please use the one for Mr. Sigson first."

"Don't be sorry at all, don't worry about these little things now."

Kelsey had nothing against Watson, of course, but don't expect her to thank Sherlock just because he stole the job of tonight's drug test.

More than two hours later.

The clock points to 09:30 at night.

'clang--'

Half o'clock strikes.

Sherlock only felt a cold forehead and neck, and finally woke up from a series of weird fantasies.

He was about to ask Kelsey to untie him, but what he saw almost made him think that the medicine hadn't worked.

I saw Kelsey sitting on a chair, holding an apple in his hand, and observing it in all directions.It seems to be looking for where to start biting the apple.

— but it was clearly a plaster apple.

"you're awake."

Kelsey felt the gaze watching her, and when she turned her head this time, Sherlock's eyes were clear.

To be precise, the look in her eyes was filled with surprise. He must be suspecting that she stole herbal tea and went crazy.

Kelsey calmly put down the plaster apple and went to untie Sherlock.

"One hour after taking the herbal tea, you entered a hallucinatory state. It lasted for nearly half an hour, and slowly slowed down the struggle, and no longer clamored to decipher the perfect crime."

Kelsey untied the rope, "Twenty minutes ago, I put some ice on your forehead and neck, which should speed up your recovery time. You whispered something inaudible, and then completely silent. "

Sherlock got up feeling a little tired, with obvious pain in his wrists and ankles.

This showed that the past two hours hadn't been a lethargy, and he was trying to make various struggles under the effects of the hallucination drug.

"Yes, I saw myself jumping into the icy lake and getting out of the confusion faster."

Sherlock didn't talk about the new illusion that appeared when he was about to wake up, "Just when I opened my eyes, I saw you holding a plaster apple, and I almost thought that there was going to be a show of poisoned apples."

Kelsey raised her eyebrows, she was actually a little curious about Sherlock's fantasy in the second half, but she politely didn't ask directly. "Tom who came back from the poison test, you actually think of Snow White eating a poisoned apple, what books have you read?"

"Fairy tale book, you can get it in one fell swoop."

Sherlock speaks eloquently, "When you are not thinking, fairy tales are warm reading materials; when you are thinking, you can discover the hidden crimes under the story; it can make people learn how to write horror with tenderness."

Kelsey smirked back, respecting everyone's reading preferences.

The two didn't chat much, Sherlock simply ate something, looked at the plaster apple, "Where did this come from?"

"Just turned over from Earl B's bedside."

Kelsey didn't take care of Sherlock all the time, and Watson took care of him during the middle period. She went to Earl B's bedroom to look around.

One death after another today, there are still many unsearched corners of the entire castle.

An hour ago, Earl B's bedroom was searched, and there were very few valuable clues in it.A notebook was taken away by Mr. Tang for analysis, and a gypsum apple hidden in the quilt was brought out by her.

"Count B must have touched this apple from time to time, smoothing the surface of the plaster apple."

Kelsey tried to use this to get into Earl B's inner world. "In connection with the plaster mask of the countess that Earl B specially made, there is reason to speculate on the particularity of the plaster apple to him."

However, the key revelation has not yet been obtained from the gypsum apple.

Kelsey put down the plaster apple and asked Sherlock about the cup of herbal tea instead. "Which kind of poison are you really?"

"Yes, this is good news. I have identified this poison."

Sherlock pointed out, "It comes from Africa. It is a brown powder extracted from the woody plant i/bog. It has a strong hallucinogenic effect. In slightly increased doses, people who take it can easily be suggested to fall into terrible hallucinations."

After Sherlock finished speaking, he asked, "This poison comes from Africa, and it is extremely rare on the European continent. Who do you suspect the most now?"

"It turned out to be the four of Ilkhan."

Kelsey was a little surprised.The Ottomans, who seemed impulsive and irritable, kept drawing their knives in displeasure, but unexpectedly they secretly poisoned them.

Why are the four most suspicious of Ilhan?

Because the Barbary pirates that the Ottoman Empire once supported were pirate organizations located in North Africa.For a long time, it had a strict governance mechanism and was the privateer fleet of the Ottoman Empire.

This pirate organization has a history of more than 200 years.

It was not until more than ten years ago that the Barbary pirates were wiped out by the sea forces of Britain, the United States and France.

The four of Ilkhan came from the Ottoman Empire and were engaged in a large-scale maritime trade business. Their backgrounds are likely to be related to the remnants of the Barbary pirates.

"Earlier, Ilhan clashed with Duke and others on the lawn, and both sides cut their clothes with knives."

Kelsey was surveying the scene of Earl B's fall and only glanced briefly at both sides of the conflict. "I vaguely saw tattoos on the arms of the three of Ilhan."

"This is more in line. Most pirates have tattoos, and Ilhan's background is probably not clean."

Sherlock stood up and said, "You don't have to wait any longer this time, just ask them directly."

Of course, not alone to question.

Even if Ilhan and the others lost two fights today, and one of them was bruised all over, but looking back, it is very likely that they did it on purpose to show others that they are weak.

"He actually took hallucinogenic tea!"

David, Mr. Tang and other four people gathered in the room to decipher the notes. When the door was knocked open, they were also very surprised to hear Sherlock's drug testing.

"Now that we have evidence, go upstairs and ask for clarification."

Yannick fetched a gun, "Those four people have bad intentions, if it is confirmed that they poisoned, they must be controlled immediately."

Such an easy-to-use hallucinogenic drug, the four of Ilhan probably still have it in stock, and they might be able to search for one.

A group of people rushed to the residence of Ilhan and others on the fourth floor, knocking on the door.

Two rooms, but no response at all.

Duke had a bad intuition, "It's not right! According to the temperament of those three people, they should have opened the door immediately when they heard the door being smashed."

After eight o'clock, everyone took spare food and water, and locked the kitchen and well.

It was agreed to stay in the room tonight, and not to go out unless there were special circumstances, and now the four people in the two rooms have not moved at all.

"Slam the door."

Kelsey suggested right away.After the earl died, the steward gave the spare key to the guests for safekeeping.No matter what's going on inside, you just have to smash the door to see what's going on.

The guest room doors and locks in the castle are very strong, it is best to find a knife or axe.

He heard Mr. Tang call out, "Bai Shu, come here."

The silent white-clothed man kicked the two doors without asking any further questions.

'Clang! '

The two solid doors fell to the ground.

Everyone came and went to marvel at the superb kung fu in the white clothes, but there was no one in the two rooms, and the kerosene lamp on the table was gone.

"My God! There are really strange powders."

Duke went straight to the bedroom, rummaged around, and found some bottles and cans in his mistress Kaya's suitcase.Most were labeled as cosmetics, but a few bottles were unlabeled.

According to the description, Duke took out the most suspicious bottle, "Mr. Sigson, do you think it is this kind of brown powder?"

Sherlock opened the glass bottle and smelled it, "Yes, it's it. This thing dissolves in tea, and the smell will be masked by the tea."

The medicine powder that caused the steward to have a terrible illusion was found, but where did the four people who gave the medicine go?

Half an hour passed.

A group of people turned the known rooms of the castle upside down, but did not see the four of Ilkhan.

12 month 25 day.

The clock strikes twelve o'clock at midnight, less than two hours away.

Counting from the early hours of Christmas, after 14 people died in the dark castle in one day, four more people disappeared.