Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Is there really an invisible force manipulating the explosion?

Now that the dead mice had been destroyed and settled down, the four temporarily withdrew from the explosion site and waited until it was fully ventilated before finding the cause of the explosion.

After a while, curator Furman and the gatekeeper Zara rushed over.

"What happened here?"

Forman's eyes widened. There are only six living people in the huge museum today. How could there be an explosion? "What dangerous reagent did you use?"

The next moment, Furman overturned his own question first, "No, it's not right. The experimental supplies in the museum are mixed together, and they don't have such power."

Kelsey said succinctly that the autopsy had not yet started, and the four were still making some final preparations.After the door was locked, an explosion occurred in the empty laboratory, and the specific cause remains to be found. "Director Furman, are you sure there is no hidden door in the laboratory?"

"Of course not." Furman was very sure. "For the expansion, I was familiar with the floor plan of the entire building. As long as the door is locked, no living person can enter this laboratory."

Chala's hoarse voice sounded faintly, "If you can't go to a living person, it doesn't mean you can't go to other things. I have advised you a long time ago, don't destroy the balance of energy today."

Ten minutes later, the explosion site was thoroughly ventilated.

This time, when I entered the laboratory, I did not see traces of strange living people in the mess, but there was another kind of animal corpse among the remnants of the stone.

Half of the cat's head lost its eyes and got stuck on a broken rock.

"Oh my god!" Carter took a step back from the empty eye sockets of the black cat on the upper half of his face, goosebumps all over his body.

It is actually the most ominous black cat, how could it get into the laboratory?No, it should be said how could it appear in a museum!

Curator Furman also gasped when he saw the black cat's corpse, and turned his head to glare at Chara.

"I'm not telling you to throw it away, you can't keep black cats in museums, it's the embodiment of evil! What's going on now?!"

Chara completely ignored Furman, only seeing the black cat who died unexpectedly.

She staggered forward in disbelief, holding half of the cat's head tremblingly forward, muddy tears fell down at some point.

Silent tears ran across Chara's dark and purple-spotted face, causing an oppressive silence in the laboratory.

Kelsey watched Charla closely. The old woman was overflowing with grief. Losing the black cat was like losing a child.

The two should have lived together for a long time, but it is not difficult to understand why Chara kept black cats.

Ancient Egypt is different from the European continent. They were also black cats, one was lifted up to the sky, and the other was demoted into the dust.

The ancient Egyptians regarded the black cat as the incarnation of the god Best, the patron saint of people, who could drive away evil forces.

On the European continent, since the Middle Ages, the black cat has been regarded as an evil existence, and it walks with the devil.

Pope Gregory IX specially issued a papal bull, publicly affirming that black cats are the patron saints of pagans.Since then, with the development of the witch hunting movement, cat abuse and killing incidents have also swept across the European continent.

Turin is a mix of different cultures.

Chara has been guarding the gate of the Ancient Egyptian Museum for many years. It is no wonder that she has no fear of black cats and has become particularly partial.

At this time, Watson pointed upwards. There were no windows around the entire laboratory, but only one door and an iron door.

People couldn't enter after the door was locked, but there was a vent in the ceiling, and the black cat most likely knocked down the partition and scurried in through there.

As for the main cause of the explosion, it has nothing to do with invisible mysterious forces.

"It should be nitroglycerin with added stabilizers."

Sherlock found a piece of brown-black glass in the ruins, which did not belong to the experimental equipment just taken, and there was still a trace of liquid inside it. "Otherwise, it would not only be bombed in the laboratory, but it would not explode until now."

Nitroglycerin is an extremely dangerous chemical that can explode upon shock.

At the beginning of the 19th century, it was needed for digging mines, building railways, etc., but explosion accidents happened from time to time.It was only in the past few years that relatively safe explosives were gradually released, which can also ensure that the explosion is only in a small area.

However, it is still risky if it is easy to fry.

For example, being shaken violently, or being thrown directly from the vent to the laboratory floor, is enough to make it explode with a bang.

Black cat, air vent, bomb bottle, the three form a line.

The bomb bottle rolled into the vent at some point.The lab had been idle for some time, and no one was aware of the vent's partition being loose.

Today the black cat got into the air duct and knocked off the partition all the way forward.The black cat falls with the bottle, and the bottle containing the unstable chemical explodes on the ground.

The laboratory was completely blown up.

Kelsey felt the timing was just right.If it was bombed earlier, the four of them would not choose the laboratory as an anatomy point; if it was bombed later, the casualties would not only be one mouse and one cat.

It was unfortunate that the evidence of the dead mouse body was blown up; it was lucky that the four were not in the laboratory and were unscathed.

"Director Furman, have explosives been lost in the museum?"

Kelsey didn't believe in coincidences, "Who used this lab before?"

Furman saw the dark glass shards and guessed the explosion.It was after a while of fear that a major casualty accident almost occurred in the museum.

"Easy to fry?" Forman calmed down, "No, there are no raw materials for making nitroglycerin. Three months ago, the museum was full of cultural relics such as stone carvings, mummies, and papyrus. Store fries."

As for the laboratory, it was originally a place where some cultural relic restoration reagents were prepared.

More than a dozen researchers temporarily moved to another office, and they did not listen to their report that the vent partition above the head was loose.

"A month ago, there was a small-scale explosion in a nearby building."

Furman said that a commercial building was under construction four streets away, "but I haven't heard of any loss of explosives."

Carter regained his spirits when he realized that it wasn't caused by mysterious forces, "Even if I lose explosives, I'm afraid I won't yell around. The key is why the bottle is in the vent?"

Chara wiped away her tears, choked up, and spoke more like pulling a broken bellows.

She spoke as if a gust of wind was blowing, "The other end of the ventilation duct is in the lawn. A month ago, the manhole cover was damaged for a while. The bottle that killed the black cat may have rolled into it at that time."

For a month, the museum has been vacating exhibits one after another.

One possibility cannot be ruled out that the workers who moved in and out accidentally kicked the bottle into the pipe, and the bottle slid down the pipe and got stuck on the partition of the laboratory vent.

Because the stabilizer was added, the vibration of that magnitude was not enough to cause an explosion.

Until this time, the cat stepped on the partition and the bottle fell from a height of more than two meters, or the stabilizer exploded after a long period of time.

This is the most innocent version of the explanation, from the loss of the explosive to the detonation, a series of inadvertent failures led to the destruction of the rat carcass.

Kelsey asked an irrelevant question, "Ms. Chala, your cat is called Black Cat? Didn't you give it a name?"

"The black cat is not my own."

Chara returned to her expressionless face, and she had already taken off her scarf and carefully wrapped the black cat's remains. "It is the night watchman of the museum. Just as the god Best guarded ancient Egypt, it also guards the museum."

Chara said, squinting at Forman, "How could I throw it away? That's like abandoning the patron saint. Don't forget how many things were dug out of the pyramids in the museum. Without Best's protection, the Pharaoh's The curse will fall at any time."

Hearing the end, Furman's original expression of complaining about the black cat changed, and he looked away unnaturally. "I said to trust the science."

"You believe in your science, I keep the black cat in the museum, is this a conflict?!" Chara groaned and lowered his shoulders again, "It doesn't make sense to talk about it now."

Chara tried her best to straighten her back, and looked at the four of Kelsey.

"You are stained with dark power, and the black cat ended its life to protect you. Leave Turin early, or you will be targeted by evil spirits again, but there is no second black cat to protect you."

"you……"

Forman wanted to reprimand Zara for not talking nonsense, but looking at her hunched back, she finally swallowed all her words.

As for the four people who were asked to leave Turin early, even if they left, it would not be because they believed in evil spirits.

Where did the explosive bottle come from?Was it lost during the surrounding construction?

If yes, how many are missing?If not, it must have a provenance.

Watson was about to attend the wedding held in Turin Cathedral five days later, and he took over the investigation of the source of the explosives.

Also, how did the bottle get to the vent?

Except for the possibility of successive coincidences, it will only be artificially placed above the laboratory.

The past researchers of the laboratory, as well as the newly appointed curator Furman, the eccentric janitor Chara, the background information of these people must be checked.

Did they have any feud or friendship with Edwin, the Italian recipient of the stolen cultural relics, or with Primo, the suspected hijacking party in Germany?

Carter delayed going to the Milan police station.With regard to the cooperative investigation of the death of Baron Vittorio, the control has nothing to do with him. It is better to clarify the case that almost injured him first.

It's better for him to stay and contact the Turin police, trying to sort out the relationship between the museum and the two groups of cultural relic vendors, or what unknown secrets are behind it.

Kelsey and Sherlock chose to leave first. Since the mouse's body was destroyed, the two had to go back to investigate the murderer who killed Golden Rose.

The first stop in Italy should have been Milan, check out the former lover of Golden Rose, the crazy dentist.

The dentist planned to kill his wife and marry Jin Meigui, but he made a mistake and died by drinking poison. What happened to his wife after that?Is there any possibility of finding the golden rose for revenge?

Then go to the baron's mansion in Vercelli to find out if the baroness is suspected of hiring a brave killer.

**

Four days later, in front of the Turin Cathedral.

The afterglow of dusk shone on the brick wall of the church, leaving mottled light and shadow in half-light.

In front of the closed church today, a wedding will be held tomorrow, and suspicious people related to the death of the baron will also attend the wedding banquet.

Kelsey and Sherlock checked around and went back to Turin.

The bad news is that the dentist's wife was not found during the trip. After his death, his wife and children left Milan without a trace.

The good news is that the death of Baron Vittorio was not entirely at the mouth of wild wolves.

The baroness revealed that there was another group of people near the wild wolf haunt that day, and according to her investigation, it was related to the German cultural relics dealer Primo.But the relatives of the baron refused to admit it, and the purpose was to make her lose her right to inherit the inheritance.

For this reason, the baroness needed foreign aid, and she approached two Yankees.

That is, the American scholars played by Kelsey and Sherlock, as long as they find out the truth, they will thank the Baron with a set of Egyptian cultural relics.

With the Baroness's preliminary investigation materials, the two returned to Turin.

Because the same group of suspects appeared, the Baron-Golden Rose case was now connected with the train robbery-the case of the rat corpse being bombed.

Regarding the source of explosives, the construction site did lose a bottle of dangerous goods a month ago, and the location of the loss was near the Egyptian Museum.

But in more detail, how it was lost and how it was brought back to the basement of the museum, there is currently no witness or physical evidence to explain what happened.

"Detective Carter is still doing his best to investigate. There are no new clues yet. Even the weird gatekeeper is innocent."

Sherlock said irrefutably, "Ms. Chala's deceased husband was a member of the Egyptian expedition team. He died of a curse in his body, and his wife's face was also destroyed."

Sherlock does not believe in curses, and Chara and her husband are likely to be infected with some kind of bacteria in the pyramid.

Nowadays, people say it is a curse because they cannot explain it. Just as the explosion has nothing to do with evil spirits, there must be some hidden connection that has not yet surfaced.

At present, the two cases are more or less related to the Primo gang, and it is particularly important to try to get them to tell the truth.

Primo's whereabouts are uncertain, and the only certainty is that he will attend tomorrow's wedding.

The wedding in Turin Cathedral was widely invited, and many came with a pilgrimage.Because the family of the newlyweds persuaded the church, the couple will take the oath in the witness of a sacred object.

——The world-renowned treasure of the town hall, the Shroud of the Holy Body of Jesus.

The Duomo of Turin preserves a piece of linen cloth fourteen feet five inches long and three feet eight inches wide, on which the imprint of the front and back of a human body is faintly visible.

It is said that this cloth was used by Jesus to wrap his body during his crucifixion, so bloodstains and human figures were left behind.

The authenticity of the shroud has been debated for hundreds of years.

However, the number of times it was exhibited to the outside world is not much, and it is no wonder that the guests are excited because they can invite the holy relic for tomorrow's wedding.

In front of the empty church door, Kelsey hesitated.

She asked Sherlock with a serious face, "This is a serious question, Mr. Holmes. Are you really going to enter the church with me tomorrow?"

Why can't you go?Is there still time to observe the suspect?

Just as Sherlock was about to say this, his words froze.The two of them go into church together, and if something weird happens, it can ruin a wedding.

"Indeed, this is a serious question. Do you have any good advice on this?"

"Unfortunately, I have no good advice."

Kelsey couldn't even guarantee that going alone would be safe.Of course, the crime is actually only related to the perpetrator, and now she thinks more about it just to prepare for a rainy day.

Sherlock only showed his eyes, "I didn't think of it, please think about it harder."

Kelsey glared back, "Why don't you think hard."

Immediately, Kelsey showed a standard smile, "If I have to make a suggestion, when you get married, you don't have to consider inviting me to sit in the auditorium. I will understand and support you in making all the arrangements for the wedding, and My best wishes to you from the bottom of my heart.”

That's really an almost far-fetched suggestion.

"Although I have never planned to get married, I have to say that you are far-sighted."

Sherlock also smiled, "The same advice is also given to you. You don't need to send me an invitation letter when you get married. I will agree and agree with you to make all the arrangements for the wedding, and give you the most sincere blessings from my heart."

The two glanced at each other, turned their heads in unison, and looked at the main entrance of the Turin Cathedral without squinting.

If they can really be blessed by the gods through prayer, may their luck be normal, and don't get together to cause strange events.

As for the wedding in the church?

Will God be willing to make an exception and let it go smoothly?