Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

The disappearance of the four Ilkhans was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Some of the survivors began to collapse emotionally.

"My God! This is ridiculous!"

Fernand's adjutant slumped on a chair with his head in his arms. It was the fifth time they had gathered in the main hall.

Every time there were fewer people, and in a blink of an eye there were only ten people left.

The adjutant began to ramble in disbelief, "Who would have thought that there would really be demons and gods of death haunting Earl B's dark gathering. Eighteen people are already gone, dead dead, missing and missing, and they all died in strange ways. The rest How long can ten last, I don't want to be the next one!"

"That's right! The invitation letter! General, look at the invitation letter!"

The adjutant suddenly became excited, "What is written in the invitation letter? I remember that it is a sincere invitation to participate in the dark Christmas banquet. It is written about Christmas, not Christmas Eve, right?"

Is it important to understand this wording?

Last night may not be important at all, but tonight seems to symbolize some kind of signal.

"It's Christmas."

Fernand's face was ugly. The invitation letter stated that it was a Christmas dark banquet, but it did not indicate the specific days of holding it.The so-called ten-day period was relayed when the steward came to pick him up before entering the mountain.

"Oh no--"

When the adjutant heard the exact answer, he shouted hysterically:

"Christmas Dark Feast, it must mean December 12th, the gates of hell open. Yesterday's pre-dinner prayer said that the way to come is broken, and all hope should be abandoned in the future.

On Christmas Day, we will all die, in this terrible old castle!I'm out of time, it's already ten o'clock in the evening, what should I do?What on earth should I do? "

"No, it's impossible, the castle is not a region."

Bella shook her head desperately, "I have been a cook in the castle for several years, and I have always been safe and sound. Until you appeared, a series of strange things happened. The problem is you, and the devil is among you."

Fernan was already trying his best to suppress his panic and uneasiness, but when he heard Bella's words, his rationality burned out. "We are demons? Can you stop talking nonsense!

Earl B is the devil, inviting us to a place isolated from the world.Looking at the messy books in the room, he must have made a deal with the devil, opened the gates of hell and sacrificed us to the devil. "

"Ahem." Kelsey interrupted Fernan, "General Morcerf, I heard that you led troops in battle and made great achievements.

It is said that kindness does not command soldiers. A general who has gone through the battlefield has long been fearless of ghosts and gods, and the army he leads is also like this.Because when you kill the first person, you are ready to go to hell together, isn't it? "

Kelsey looked puzzled, as if she was simply curious to verify.

As soon as these words came out, the depression and panic in the main hall were swept away, and everyone's expressions turned into shame, anger and sniggering.

It was Fernan and his adjutant who were ashamed and angry, while the rest of them were laughing.

Even Duke, who is also a Frenchman, has to admit that Fernand's name is not worthy of his name.

As a well-known general, Fernan was actually useless in the face of the sudden death of the castle.

If professional knowledge is required to investigate clues or decipher notes, he can't even stabilize people's minds.Everyone present did not question how did Fernan get the title of earl that he was about to be promoted to?

However, the more important thing right now is to end the serial deaths in the castle.

Sherlock rationalized his thinking, and was not disturbed by the disappearance of the four Ilkhans. He analyzed the cases that occurred from the early morning to the present and divided them into two modes of committing crimes.

The first category is Dante’s hell punishment, which includes the death of the attendant on the drawbridge, the death of the Italian hanging in the air, and the death of Earl B who fell from the building.

The second category is the housekeeper who jumped to his death after being drugged and hallucinated.

In terms of the means of committing the crime, no evidence can be found for the former category.

The suspension bridge was old and broken, the Italians flew out of the air after playing with it, and the telescope fell into disrepair for a long time. The three deaths were like an accident with no human traces when the god of death came.

The latter category is different. After Sherlock tested the poison himself, he found the corresponding Ibog powder in Kaya's carry-on luggage.

The housekeeper's hallucinogenic jump can be determined to be man-made, and this way of death cannot correspond to any punishment in Dante's hell.

Through the first type of crime pattern, it can be seen that the people in the castle are considered guilty with a high probability, and they will die in the corresponding hell punishment.

There should be no traces of man-made crimes on the surface, as if the time has come and he was brought into hell by the god of death.

The death of the butler found conclusive evidence of man-made murder.

Two different modes of committing crimes mean two groups of different murderers with completely different purposes of committing crimes.

Then why did another group of murderers kill the housekeeper?

It is necessary to analyze from the crimes of the people in the castle.

"The Vikings were the privateers of the Ottoman Empire."

Needless to say, Kelcido, the people present are more or less aware of the bloody history of pirates burning, killing and looting.

"If the four of Ilhan are the remnants of the Barbary pirates, the crime they committed is cruelty. In Dante's hell world, they will be punished in the pool of blood, one of the three valleys.

In the pool of blood, murderers and looters are boiled and tortured by boiling blood.Anyone who tried to escape would be shot and killed by the patrolling troops. "

Kelsey pointed out, "As long as the missing Ilhan and others are found, their situation can determine whether this speculation is correct or not."

Watson already understood the unfinished meaning, "If the four of Ilhan are pirates, they have the motive to kill the steward. After Earl B's death, the last thing he wants the castle's collection to be passive is the steward.

As long as the manager is dead, the last person who will stop them with all his strength will die, and the four of them can take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune in the castle. "

"No! It doesn't have to be just to kill the steward."

Duke felt scared for a while, "Kaya has more than one kind of medicine powder in her carry-on luggage. Today I can only give medicine to the steward. When we find a way to get out, who knows if we will be killed and silenced."

The main hall was silent for a moment.

Killing everyone else, this guess is very much in line with the pirate's style of behavior.

Fernan no longer lost control and panicked.He is afraid of death and dare not fight against unknown forces, but facing the pirates stabbed in the back, will he capsize in the gutter?

"We must find four people. We need to see people alive and dead bodies. Otherwise, when we find a way out, we may die in the last knife."

The original depression and panic in the main hall disappeared completely, and they were gearing up to find the four missing people.

Where to find new questions?How to find it?

"The four of Ilhan chose to attack the steward this evening. They must have already grasped some clues to the secret room. It is likely that they discovered it during the search of the castle in the afternoon."

Yannick suggested that everyone remember seriously, "At that time, did you notice which rooms those four people went to?"

In the afternoon, each team formed a team to search the castle. More or less, they all saw what the other team was investigating.

Bella, the cook, said first, "Kaya has been staying in the kitchen, and I haven't seen the other three."

Kelsey received, "In the beginning, the three of Ilhan and I went to the darkroom of the collection room. They were not interested in the notes, and they only stayed for 10 minutes before leaving."

David and Yanik recalled that the three of Ilhan stayed in the collection room for a period of time, probably observing each collection carefully.

Afterwards, Fernan, who was searching Earl B's bedroom, met Ilhan and the other three.The three of them were knocking and beating in the bedroom, as if they were looking for a secret door.

Later, the three of Ilhan came to the study and met Sherlock, Mr. Tang and Bai Yi.

In this way, the second floor has already been visited.

Duke remembered one thing, "I was guarding the well, around five o'clock in the afternoon, I heard some footsteps going underground. During that time, did any of you go to the underground storage room?"

Everyone shook their heads and didn't go to the first floor at that time.

The adjutant guarding the well also remembered, "Yes, there were three footsteps, and I vaguely heard the door of the storage room open."

From this point of view, the three of Ilhan searched for the whole afternoon, and finally went to the underground storage room.

Throughout the entire castle, the total area of ​​buildings on other grounds is fixed.Everyone measured the size of each house, and after calculating the total, it was determined that it was extremely difficult to have free space to build a secret room.

As long as Earl B doesn't really know how to use strange magic, he can't create an extra secret room on the ground out of nothing, but it's hard to say underground.

"But you have checked the two basements and found nothing strange, right?"

The cook, Bella, didn't quite believe it, "I've stayed in the kitchen on the first floor all these years, and I haven't heard any weird movements from the ground floor."

"That's not the way to say it. The reason why the secret room is called the secret room, how can it be known by others under normal circumstances."

David didn't think that Bella, as a cook, could know the master's secret, "If the four of Ilhan and Ilhan didn't fall off the cliff, there is a high possibility that they went deep into the underground chamber."

But as Bella said, other people checked the basement and found no mechanism. Is there really another underground secret room?

At this time, Mr. Tang said, "I think there is a [-]% possibility that there is an underground secret room, and it is not a secret room with one or two rooms, but a complex downward passage. From the top of the towering cliff, all the way down to the opposite terrain Flat mountainside."

"You mean the Jerusalem floor drain?"

"You mean the Jerusalem floor drain?"

Kelsey and Sherlock coincidentally thought of a possibility.

Since the series of deaths in the castle imitated Dante’s hell punishment, and the broken drawbridge symbolized that the dead crossed the Agron River and could not return to the world, then the passage to leave hell most likely imitated the “Divine Comedy”. stated.

Mr. Tang nodded, "I have always wanted to confirm Earl B's understanding of the occult, and from the death patterns you analyzed, it is almost certain that he is imitating hell.

Rather, he made himself the master of some hell lord. The story of "Divine Comedy" is a trial of hell, purgatory, and heaven after death. "

"Hell is a large floor drain located in Jerusalem. The deeper you go, the more sinful you are. The devil lives at the bottom of the floor drain and controls everything. Only by breaking through the bottom of the earth can you go to the next world."

Mr. Tang took out a pen and paper and drew a sketch.

"We all know that there is no big floor drain in Jerusalem, but the cliff where the castle is located has natural geographical advantages. If you hollow out part of the inner mountain of the cliff and go straight down, it will be a floor drain.

I think it is impossible to completely reproduce the hell in "Divine Comedy".But it can be done with money, manpower, and time to build a Earl B hell with its idea. "

crazy!too crazy!

Bella shook her head in disbelief, "God! Hollowing out the mountain? How is it possible? I grew up near the Alps and never heard of such a thing."

Mr. Tang seemed to be sarcasm, "In ancient times, emperors, generals and ministers built mountains and built tombs. How could the common people know the truth. There is only one ending for the tomb builders of all dynasties."

——for which he was buried.

At this moment, Kelsey and Sherlock thought of the madman in Missida village.

Ifly is crazy, and keeps grabbing the cross to protect himself, and keeps saying that God will forgive him.What kind of guilt and fear drove him mad?

Earl B always needs professional engineers to build hell, will Evelyn have anything to do with these things?

However, the question still comes back, how to find the underground secret room?

Watson hesitated and said, "I have an immature suggestion. Now go to the basement and use fingerprint powder to check inch by inch and compare the fingerprints left by the four of Ilhan. Whenever the four of them want to enter the secret room, a certain One area leaves the most traces of activity."

This kind of carpet search is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it may be thankless, and in the end it still cannot find the location of the agency.

Indeed, it is a stupid way, but it is also the most feasible way at present.

Now that it works, split up.

Continue to decipher the deciphering notes, and investigate the basement with all the tools for immediate investigation.

Sherlock took the toolbox and turned to see Kelsey pocketing the plaster apple.

"You never forget, trying to break into Earl B's inner world."

Sherlock also checked the plaster apple repeatedly. It was just an ordinary plaster apple.

He couldn't help laughing and asked, "Count B has become the devil king of hell with his own body. From the castle to the cliff is the hell he dominates. Mr. Adair, how sure are you that you can successfully invade the spiritual realm of the devil king?"

Kelsey patted his pocket, "Now please don't call me Adair, please call me Apep. I am Apep, the incarnation of the God of Darkness who rules chaos and destruction. Could it be that I can't conquer a mere demon king of hell?"

Watson, who had just come out from the next door, turned around silently when he heard the conversation between the two.

Shaking his head secretly, the dark castle is worthy of its name, and here is another crazy one.