Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

At midnight, there was almost complete silence.

'Knock knock, knock—'

After knocking on the door twice, a familiar voice sounded outside the door, "Jerry, it's me, Tom."

In just one sentence, Kelsey's heart was relieved after hanging in the dark for hours.

Sherlock, who acted alone and was late to return, came back. She didn't have to spend the night planning how to go to the black market to find people.

Right now, Kelsey didn't open the door immediately.

Her tone was light, "In the middle of the night, you went upstairs quietly. You just said you are Tom? How can you prove that you are the Tom I know?"

"Jerry, that's too easy to prove. Did you ever send another Tom an orange rose with a smiley face on the petal?"

Sherlock immediately affirmed, "First verify that you don't open the door easily. This vigilance is your advantage, and I can explain why you came quietly. Actually, it's not a big deal. I'm just hesitating whether I need to borrow something from you."

borrow what?

Kelsey opened the door, heart skipping a beat.

Sherlock showed one thing from head to toe, he just had a bad fight.

The whole figure rolled in a circle in the plaster, narrowly escaping the pursuit of death.

Most of the wig was cut off, and a bloodstain was drawn on the left side of his face.The clothes were badly torn, black and red, and it was hard to tell whose blood was there. Even the shoes were scratched by sharp knives.

If these injuries were a few inches away, it was difficult to say whether Sherlock would come back smoothly.

Perhaps he should be thankful that his breath is still stable now, and it is only the appearance that is in a state of distress, and he has not suffered serious internal injuries.

I heard Sherlock put it simply, "I just remembered before I got home that the wound medicine at home was gone, so I thought I'd come to ask you to borrow some."

The tone is very much like borrowing jam.

It's as if you can eat bread with a layer of jam, but a person can be cured on the spot if you apply a layer of medicine at will.

Sherlock was also quite considerate of Kelsey, "But it's late, I'm afraid I'll disturb your rest. I thought about knocking on the door lightly, if you're already asleep, then I can wait until tomorrow morning to deal with it."

Hehe, it's a good one to deal with tomorrow.

Kelsey glanced at Sherlock up and down, with a half-smile: "It seems that you are very confident in your injury, sure that it can endure it until the sun rises and say good morning. The wound will also say to you, 'You Good morning too, rest assured I'm totally at risk of infection'."

Sherlock: I had expected to be ridiculed, so I hesitated to borrow medicine.The only thing to blame is that there is no pharmacy nearby.

What?Is there any other reason for going upstairs quietly and wandering around for a while?

Maybe it's because he didn't want Kelsey to worry about his condition, but wanted to meet Jerry after escaping death?

Or when he saw Kelsey's house was still bright the moment he stepped into Montague Street, he secretly guessed whether the light was on for him?

No, Sherlock never admitted to having had those complicated and devious thoughts.

Sneering is sneering.

Kelsey quickly fetched the medicine box, picked up the portkey, and signaled Sherlock to follow. "Go, go to your house to deal with your problems."

"Don't bother. You rest, and I'll do it myself."

Sherlock wanted to pick up the medicine box as he spoke, but it was empty.

"You do it yourself? Very good! I understand. Your skills are superb. You can twist your body into a spiral shape and easily apply medicine to your whole body with your injured arm."

Kelsey held the handle of the medicine box and didn't want to hand it over at all, but her face seemed to look forward to Sherlock's wonderful performance.

"Wonderful, just thinking about that kind of scene is wonderful. For the sake of providing meds, can you allow me to watch the process of you applying medicine to your back and shoulder blades with your backhand? Let me learn how to apply medicine easily in such a state." , and does not cause the wound to burst open again."

Immediately afterwards, Kelsey added, "Seriously, can you reveal the secret of mastering this stunt first? Is it possible to practice by cutting off half of the wig you are wearing without damaging the real hair?" ?”

Listen, this bright insinuation.

If Sherlock didn't wear a wig, the cut would be to shave off his real hair.Not only is it a half-bald warning, but it is more likely to hurt your head.

With a head injury, don't you just imagine that you know special skills.

Sherlock was too blocked to refute, no longer refused, and walked out first.

When Kelsey locked the door and the two walked through the dark corridor, he suddenly said in a firm tone, "Jerry, you are worried about me."

"Ha ha-"

Kelsey laughed twice, as if he had heard a very lame joke, "Mr. Holmes, is the only thing you have been shaved off is a wig? Why do I think that your mind seems a little unclear."

The irony is ironic, how can Kelsey change his words easily.

"Look at you, you took the initiative to lead the way, expressing your reluctance to perform drug stunts with silence, and let me deal with some inconvenient injuries for you. The reason why I stayed up in the middle of the night to go for a walk is very simple. I took this opportunity to find out about your The cause of your embarrassment. In this way, tonight, I can recall your horrific scene of being besieged in my dreams."

Kelsey spoke frankly, as if reading a joke was no big deal.

The corners of Sherlock's mouth curled up slightly. It's really not a frank Jerry.

The more Kelsey talked at the moment, it didn't mean that his inner peace was not enough.

At this time, Sherlock agreed smoothly, "Okay, as you said. You don't worry about me, you just want to dream about me. I have no objection to this."

Kelsey cast a sidelong glance at Sherlock.

Very good, this man's mind is extremely quick, and he can take things out of context.I'm afraid that his body is covered with bruises, which will not affect his intelligence and quick wit.

Thoughts are not affected, but the body is really black and blue.

Back home, Sherlock went to the bathroom to do a simple cleaning, insisting that he first apply medicine to the injured parts that he could touch.

Through the bathroom door, the two talked about the sudden change tonight.

"At noon, I contacted a black market broker whom Warren knew to inquire about the situation of the black middleman Vance."

Sherlock said that Warren was one of his false identities. He was French with a medical background and had bought some medicinal materials on the black market.

This time it's fishing law enforcement.

Even if Vance, who was engaged in human trafficking, is dead, his former subordinates can always follow the clues and find out the true relationship between Nancy and Vance.

The reason why he acted quickly was based on the results of the autopsy this morning.

Sherlock said, "As a result of the autopsy this morning, the methods of killing Anonymous and Megan are completely different, but the killers α and β who killed the two must be related, and α can get Megan's clothes from β."

There may be several associations between α and β.

First, α plans to kill Anonymous, but does not want the identity of the deceased to be revealed.

When it was known that Nancy was looking for Megan, so she got the clothes and intentionally mistook Nancy, then no one would investigate the death of Anonymous.

Second, β wants to kill Megan, but does not want to be discovered.

When it was discovered that a nameless person similar to Megan was killed, he deliberately left clothes to mislead Nancy that her mother was dead, so there was no need to investigate further.

"The third possibility, and the most outrageous possibility, is a self-justifying situation.

Nancy uses Vance to find someone to abduct Megan, and then finds the body of Anonymous to bury her 'mother', and she herself can do whatever she wants with Megan. "

Sherlock felt that this practice was absurdly repeated.

Megan couldn't move or speak, and Nancy wanted to harm her. For more than ten years, she had countless opportunities to poison her directly.

A pack of medicine, poisoned to kill Megan.The mother and daughter have no close relatives for a long time. As long as Nancy is not stupid enough to call the police and arrest herself, no one will notice that she has killed someone, so why do she have to make a big circle?

Sherlock felt strange, "The more people involved in a murder case, the higher the risk of exposure. If Nancy really plays the trick, she will definitely not have the same criminal psychology as ordinary murder."

Kelsey had similar suspicions.

After visiting the Unicorn Orphanage, this feeling was even stronger.

Nancy's deeds are unanimously praised, but there are contradictions that cannot be ignored after careful study.

Kelsey mentioned, "I went to the orphanage during the day, which was very different from what I had imagined to make Nancy young in the face of lively children. After she quit her job in the nursing home, she went to a hospice orphanage-every three years. Where bad people might want to witness the death of children."

Which is more saddening, a child dying before it has really begun life, than an old man waning?

In such a comparison, Nancy's job choice is really surprising.

Especially after burying her paralyzed and mute mother, she was very peaceful in caring for a child who was equally deaf or equally incapacitated.

In this peace, two deaf-mute children under Nancy's care fell down the stairs and died.But don't forget that many years ago, Megan also fell down the stairs and was paralyzed.Then, with her rich experience in caring for Megan, she turned to taking care of critically ill children who were bedridden.

"But Dean Sandra didn't know about Megan, and thought that Nancy had practiced excellent nursing skills in the nursing home. I confirmed that 71 people died of illness in four years, and there were 34 critically ill children under the care of Nancy. People, all between the ages of five and eight."

There are many things that cannot stand deep thought, but Kelsey has to consider a possibility, "Compared to Megan, compared to the elderly in the nursing home, the children who grew up in the unicorn orphanage have a characteristic."

what feature?

"Kids are easier to manipulate."

Sherlock gave the answer.Those children who have been abandoned since childhood and grew up in the orphanage and have no contact with the outside world do not know more common sense about the outside world than the elderly, such as medication.

Kelsey thought so too, so when she returned to London, she went to Carter and asked him to lead someone to dig up the bodies. "As long as there are problems, there will always be a few of the 71 corpses that will leave clues."

Clues need to be investigated in parallel, and you can't just count on one side.

For this reason, Sherlock did not waste time. He acted quickly as soon as he confirmed the doubts raised by the autopsy in the morning, and immediately pretended to be the Frenchman Warren.

Warren contacted a black market broker and tried to meet Vance's old department on the grounds that he wanted to do some illegal business.

The reasons are readily available.There was a big blood sacrifice case in Paris before, and the black market there was also affected. If you are in a hurry to buy goods, you can only come to London.

Just meeting Vance's men would pay off.

It can be speculated step by step whether Nancy was forced to agree to be Vance's mistress in order to save her mother, as if she had no choice but to dedicate herself to make a deal; .

"Jerry, you must not have imagined how lucky I was at first. Entering that house, I was greeted by the robber who robbed Meghan."

After a little contact, Sherlock quietly followed the words of the robbers.With his acting skills, he not only asked the two to rob Megan, but also learned that it was Vance's order to rob Megan.

The two men don't know when Nancy and Vance met, and they think that Vance may have cheated Nancy.

Later, Vance threw out an unrecognizable corpse and Megan's missing clothes, and asked the two men to deal with it.

Then there was Nancy's misidentification of the dead body.

"Those two people didn't have direct contact with Nancy, but what they said was that Nancy was deceived by Vance. They also wondered that since the boss made it so complicated, he finally let Nancy leave after less than half a year."

Sherlock was trying to make an appointment for a further interview next time, but unexpectedly a siege came unexpectedly.

Originally, the first trial would end at nine o'clock tonight.

Sherlock is well aware of the vigilance of people in the black market, so he can't ask too deeply, such as taking him to the former residence of Nancy and Vance, and so on.

Who would have thought that the Rush broke out suddenly, and a large wave of people besieged Vance's old department, and they would not stop dying.

The attacker didn't care if other irrelevant people were involved, anyway, people who came to Vance's old department to make a deal were not innocent passers-by.

There is no need to be merciful when black eats black.After shooting, there will be no ceasefire for any reason. The first to be killed are the two robbers who just revealed the clues.Afterwards, even if he was killed by mistake, the dead man could not speak, and he could be treated as another missing person in today's London at will.

At that time, Sherlock quickly realized that the siege against Vance's old department could not be terminated.

There is not only a conflict of interest but also a blood feud between the two parties. Before the two robbers died, they only had time to report the password of the bank cabinet of A to him.

What is hidden there is still unknown, and it is likely to be the secret of Vance's family.

Sherlock immediately took the road and fled, leaving the chaotic East District first, as long as he stepped into the West District, he could get a respite.

For more than three hours, bypassing the streets and alleys.

During the one-on-many, he ran out of ammunition in his own gun, cut off most of his wig during the conflict, and suffered many traumas all over his body.Finally, he got rid of his pursuer completely and came back without any serious problems.

Facing the mirror, Sherlock finally applied medicine to the side.

It was related to the later experience of being chased and killed due to bad luck. He only briefly mentioned it without going into details. He put on his nightgown and walked into the living room.

"Jerry, please take care of your shoulders and back."

Sherlock sat sideways on the soft chair, like an ordinary injured patient, and took off half of his nightgown cooperatively.

Dealing with trauma, Kelsey is professional.

Professionals can treat the person in front of them with a normal heart, whether they are wearing clothes or not, and how the body of the injured person is.

That is, only the injured part of the eye is seen, and no divergent associations are made.

Facing the skin-turned wound, Kelsey handled it steadily and quickly, and there was absolutely no situation where he couldn't bear to do it.

There is a coal lamp, and the room is quiet.

Sherlock asked suddenly, "You don't blame me for acting alone?"

"Understandable."

Kelsey was annoyed for a moment, but from various perspectives, Sherlock's decisive decision to go to the black market was the right choice.As for not looking for a helper, there were very few people who could cooperate with him to act in the black market without being exposed. Could it be that he was looking for Mycroft?

"Through this chase, I feel that you went in time. If you miss tonight, Vance's old team will be dead, and there will be no clues at all."

Kelsey wrapped the gauze bandage around Sherlock's shoulder, "Please allow me to make a conspiracy theory. A month ago, the news of the dismemberment case was published in the newspaper. Now it cannot be ruled out that Nancy borrowed a knife to kill the enemy of Vance's old department." Spread some news."

"As a result, you did a good job today."

Kelsey said that she had finished dressing and was about to tie a bow on Sherlock's shoulder. "If it were me, I would make the same choice today."

"Really? Same choice?"

Sherlock looked uncertain, and looked at Kelsey sideways, "Jerry, are you sure?"

Kelsey was puzzled, "What is there to be sure about?"

Sherlock nodded slowly as if he believed it, and then asked lightly, "In other words, if you are in a different place, if you are unlucky enough to encounter a hunt, will you agree to me to help after you are injured? Just like we are now so."

What does 'this is how we are' look like?

Kelsey looked at Sherlock, whose nightgown was half removed.

And just tied a bow on his shoulders, which can be called neat and beautiful.

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