Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

The adjutant watched Fernan die in front of his eyes.

He died too quickly, giving no reaction time at all; and the appearance of death was too brutal, his body was corroded to a bloody mess.

The adjutant slumped on the seat, and immediately jumped up like a frightened bird, for fear of touching some mechanism and another wave of corrosive liquid attack.

Not in the mood to guess the true meaning of B, he yelled subconsciously to cover up his panic, "Whatever the true meaning of B, hurry up and get out of here!"

No one responded to the adjutant.

Now it is easy to evacuate the main hall, but if you want to evacuate the castle, you must crack the copper box on the watchtower.

"Beelzebub."

Mr. Tang gave the name of a demon king, who was mentioned in the Bible, and in the seven deadly sins that appeared later, he was corresponding to the demon king in charge of the crime of gluttony.

Kelsey glanced at the two black holes above his head, draining the last drop of corrosive liquid.

The sudden corrosive liquid is like the third hell in Dante's hell, where the glutton is punished into the rainstorm.

The sin of gluttony means that the souls of gluttons and gluttons are torn apart by the three-headed dogs of hell. With the mutilated souls, they will continue to eat poisonous snakes and insects to receive punishment.

After all, the reality cannot replicate the punishment in the story. B used a highly corrosive liquid to create a death torrential rain, which suddenly rose and poured down on his head.

"The bite marks match up."

While thinking, Kelsey compared the apple bitten by B. The tooth marks on it matched the plaster apple.This time I can be sure that there will be no Tao Dai Li Zong again.

At this time, Sherlock pointed out the strangeness, "B built a hell castle of his own, and he chose to end his life with a corrosive rainstorm, is it atonement? Or for him, such a death is just to return to the throne of hell.

No matter what kind, he once committed the behavior of gluttony.We know that nobles pay attention to diet, but is that considered gluttonous? "

Compared with the common people, which earl eats less finely?

Previously, the crimes of obscenity/evil committed by Isaac and others, and the brutal crimes committed by Ilhan and others were not comparable to the same crimes just because of the high quality of ingredients.

So what counts as binge eating?

"The highest point of my love for you is to be one. To be one, let me love you enough to eat you."

Kelsey suddenly said this sentence, causing the main hall to suddenly fall into dead silence.

Kelsey felt that the eyes that fell on her were a little strange, and she tilted her head innocently, "Why don't you talk? This guess is enough for gluttony! I think this possibility is very high. How do you think B will deal with the countess?" Corpse?"

Since B claims to be Beelzebub, the content of his gluttony must be terrifying, and human flesh is a very likely option.

The perverted love made B eat the countess' body. This sensational thing, in B's view, is probably in line with his logic.

"Cough cough."

Watson cleared his throat. This inference is very reasonable, but can the bearded man say it in a calm and subtly fiery tone instead of the No. 1 tone?

People have to doubt the bearded research B, and the research made me crazy.And Mr. Sigson, can you stop nodding in agreement!

Watson turned his head slightly, he didn't want to admit that the three of them were together, but he still spoke to save the atmosphere.

"Yes, this possibility is quite high. On the way to the castle, I passed a wooden house in the forest. There was a mutilated girl's face mask in the basement, and there was an inscription of Mary's nursery rhyme on the back of the floor.

B died too quickly, and the relevant questions were not asked clearly.But judging from the Countess's mask and her nickname Mary, it is likely that they are inseparable. "

Today, Watson would no longer say that those were not death masks.

Those masks are likely to be that B deliberately murdered some girls, using their corpses as an experiment to study how to perfectly make a death mask.

"These doubts should be answered in B's notes."

Mr. Tang mentioned some of B's ​​notes. B created a set of so-called devil texts, but [-]% of them have been deciphered.

"One of them records his life with M. It is now known that M is the countess, and the two have lived at the junction of France and Germany, and mentions words such as death masks."

More specific content requires more time to decipher.At present, the words with the highest frequency of occurrence are determined first.

"However, time is running out. B is dead, and the snow doesn't know when it will stop. We must find a way out as soon as possible before we run out of supplies."

Mr. Tang suggested, "The more you know about B, the faster you can decipher the opening method of the copper box. If you don't mind, please tell me something about the things B just mentioned."

B tells the truth that most of the invited guests are related to the countess' tragic experience.

Now that I can understand it in more detail, I can better infer that the hell of structure B includes those crimes.

Duke was the first to admit, "The prophet B mentioned was my grandfather. When I was a child, I pestered my mother to tell stories, and I heard her mention that my grandfather made a prophecy to a German girl named Griselda."

The reason why I remember it clearly is because Duke's grandfather died after leaving Germany, and Duke's mother does not know the details.

He only listened to Duke's grandmother's warning that all relevant books had been burned, and no one in the family was allowed to study occultism from now on.

It seemed a little ominous to Griselda.

Watson thought to himself, and saw that both David and Yannick frowned.

The two Germans managed to find out the vague impression from their memory.

"We used to live in the village of Walger, and that was more than 30 years ago."

David tried hard to remember, but still shook his head helplessly, "A little girl from another village came here, but I can't remember her name, appearance, etc. There is an orphan living at the end of the village, and the boy is older than us Some, never come and go."

"We were seven or eight years old at the time, and we often went wild in the fields with other boys in the village. We were really naughty, and we liked to play tricks on everyone."

Yannick added, "They often scare each other with bugs, and they also secretly put live frogs in the food baskets of the adults. Almost everyone in the village is wrong. Skip her, but I don't remember ever deliberately excluding anyone."

Although the three of them have only a vague idea of ​​the past, several key place names and people correspond to B's brief description one by one.

There is still a little left.

Griselda once had the opportunity to escape from the brothel, but she was betrayed by her friends.

Who is the traitor?

"Adjutant Jeff, aren't you going to make it clear?"

Sherlock had long felt that Fernan's position as a general was not worthy of the name. Although he was dead, what should be clarified still needed to be clarified.

"me……"

The adjutant still wanted to shirk his ignorance, but was stared at by a group of people with stern eyes. He was obliterated by B's death and had a psychological breakdown, and he could no longer withstand the pressure and tell the whole story. "Yes, Fernan's position is wrong."

The adjutant said that after joining the army, Fernan encountered a strong enemy on the battlefield. He not only surrendered but also betrayed the old lord, the Sultan, and personally led people to rebel, almost destroying his whole family.

"Fernan saved a life, but it's better not to keep it. The Sudan's daughter, Princess Haide, was turned into a slave and sold out. With his ability to double-face three swords, he made military exploits in many ways and asked the French side for promotion. Earl's qualifications."

Many countries participated in this battle.

The relationship between the participating countries is also intricate and changeable, and the early cooperation turned against each other later.It's no wonder that Fernan was able to achieve the so-called 'record' by constantly changing camps.

After the adjutant finished speaking, it was no surprise that everyone looked contemptuous.He also felt that Fernan was too unscrupulous, but they were all in the same boat, so he could have turned it against him.

"However, as far as I know, these betrayals have nothing to do with B or the countess."

"It's okay, that makes sense."

Sherlock pointed out, "B thinks that everyone's sin is different."

B divides the people in the castle into categories, some must die, and some can be killed later.

Isaac, Ilhan and other eight people, B must be killed, and must die under the corresponding hell punishment, because they are Griselda's perpetrators.

The few people who are still alive have relatively minor crimes, so they are allowed to live for a while to wait and see.As for Fernand, B did not forget to take him away when he was dying.

Sherlock said, "Compared to all of you, there is no doubt that Fernand's crimes are serious, and his betrayal is rampant and unforgivable.

It can be said that he hates the house and the black, and B hates the betrayer.He must have designed a punishment for the traitors, but after being exposed, he had no chance to do anything, so he could only kill Fernand by other means before dying. "

If Fernan was really related to Griselda and dared to betray Griselda, his life would definitely not last for 26 days.

Kelsey also mentioned that B had personally told the reason for inviting the three of them to the castle.

"We once suspected that the crime we corresponded to was heresy. In a world where God loves the world, cheap horror novels can also be called heresy. But now it seems that B will more or less allow someone to leave alive, so that the castle can be restored. Horror stories of the

Perhaps, B did not expect that he would be found out, and the original plan was that only the guests he let go could leave alive.

B's original plan is no longer testable.

Mr. Tang integrated all the information, and finally deciphered the mechanism copper box on the observation deck before the food reserves were exhausted.

The copper box leads to a long and narrow passage that goes straight into the ground.

The front is unfathomable, and you can't see your fingers. It seems that the end of it is hell.

The snow outside the castle is getting bigger and bigger, and this winter is destined to be cold.Waiting for the suspension bridge to be repaired, or climbing down the mountain with bare hands, has become a distant prospect.

The remaining nine people did not want to starve to death, so they could only choose to go down through the unknown dark passage.

Perhaps as stated in Dante's Divine Comedy, when you pass through the center of hell, you will enter another world.

**

"Brilliant! "Adventures in the Alps" takes you into the world of hell. 』

『Three giants of terror join forces, "Adventures in the Alps" reveals the top-secret past of the true and false earls. 』

"Italian baron naked hanging on the wall?A wealthy Ottoman businessman pierced his heart with ten thousand arrows?The French general is in limbo?Is it revenge, is it murder?All in the horror masterpiece "Alpine Adventures". 』

In mid-March 1875, it was spring in London.

Watson walked on the campus, passing by his classmates, and could hear people talking about "Adventures in the Alps" from time to time.

However, it has been a month since Watson returned to London, but he has not seen the two people who wrote the book together.

"Apep", "Chocolate Cake", and the horrific death in the castle, those are like a heavy snow in winter, when the warm sun appears in spring, all the snow melts and disappears.

At the beginning of January, nine people escaped from the passage of hell in a dangerous situation.Separated in twos and threes at the foot of the Alps, each to deal with follow-up matters.

For example, to report the problems of the deceased to relevant places, and of course to punish the surviving adjutant, who also participated in Fernan's betrayal.

Afterwards, with the consent of several survivors, Watson proposed cooperation to bearded beards and gold-rimmed glasses.

The three of them wrote "Adventures in the Alps" together, telling the story of the hell killing in the dark castle from three different perspectives.

After the bearded and gold-rimmed glasses agreed, the three of them slowed down a little and returned to England from Austria leisurely.

After one and a half months of return journey, the whole set of Adventures has been written, and it will be published by three publishing houses in London.

No one expected that "Adventures in the Alps" would be so popular and influential that it would be published as a book strongly demanded by readers from all walks of life from being serialized in cheap tabloid newspapers, which were disdained by the mainstream.

The new book was sold out as soon as it was released.

If Watson was not the author, he would have been given several sets of books by the editor-in-chief, and it would be difficult to buy his own books.The editor-in-chief sent a specific version, with the signatures of "Apep" and "Chocolate Cake" on it.

The two did not leave their home addresses, saying that they can send a letter to the publishing house to contact them if they have anything to do, and they will meet again in the future.

"Hahaha!" This is a cheerful laugh.

"Papa papa!" This is excited applause.

As soon as Watson was on the second floor of the medical school, he heard loud cheers from a laboratory.He continued to go to the classroom on the fourth floor for no apparent reason, waiting for the professor to come to class.

until get out of class.

Watson casually asked his experimental partner, "Walton, I have been intern in the hospital during this period, and I missed a lot of college news. Who is the laboratory on the second floor lent to? I heard that it is very lively inside today."

"You don't know, John? It's famous."

Walton said, "Those guys on the second floor successfully proved that human blood is divided into four blood types. If it is very lively today, the paper should have passed the review of the Academy of Sciences."

"This experiment was initially unpopular, and the funds were paid for by the participants themselves."

Walton shrugged, "I heard that Mr. Bennet from the School of Economics and Mr. Holmes, who graduated from Oxford, paid a large share. Back then, there was a gamble on whether the money would not be heard. "

As a result, needless to say, everyone who saw the joke was disappointed.

Watson belatedly remembered that when he returned to London, he had received an invitation to the laboratory.

Because he was not interested in immunology research and wanted to learn more clinical experience in the hospital, he politely declined the invitation.

"Congratulations to them."

Watson said sincerely, whether he is interested or not, new scientific discoveries are always exciting.

He sorted out the courseware, walked out of the medical school with Walton, and chatted about "Adventures in the Alps" by the way.

Watson kept his pseudonym tight and did not tell his classmates that he was "the sharpshooter who loves roses".

He glanced at the primroses on the side of the road, companions who have experienced life and death together, where are you?Have you also seen the colorful primroses already in bloom?