[Comprehensive] They forced me to die

"Has there ever been a fire here?"

Karl looked at the big detective in astonishment, obviously finding it incredible.

"Yes, a fire broke out in... this courtyard 20 years ago, but I was young at that time, so I didn't know exactly what happened, but my great-grandfather died in this fire. "

"You said that your great-great-grandfather loved oriental art, and this house is obviously mostly built in an oriental style. From the beginning when you came here, looking at the back from a distance, only this place adopts a more "modern" European medieval style. Style. Although a long time has passed and the walls have been painted several times, there are still traces of fire in the corners. The best explanation is that the camphor tree has been dead for more than ten years, and everything has been renovated However, it is the only one that does not have it. Obviously, the owner of this tree must be someone who is quite influential in this castle, and he cherishes this book very much. For various reasons, it can be explained that some unspeakable things must have happened here. Big deal."

"Ding~Dong~" A ringtone broke this gorgeous and sturdy detective deduction, Alice looked at Carl with some embarrassment, and smiled apologetically.

"Hello?"

"What are you doing?" A familiar and deep voice came from the phone, making Alice's body tremble and ache faintly.

"Uh... the number you dialed has been shut down, please try again later."

"Alice!" Mycroft's low and annoyed voice came from the phone.

"Sherlock asked me for help." Alice immediately betrayed Sherlock without hesitation.

"If you don't believe me, ask him." Alice immediately put the phone to Sherlock's ear.

"Two packs of cigarettes, please." Alice looked at Sherlock beggingly, with the expression that the baby is begging you, and the baby depends on you to make a fortune.

It's clear they're trading.

Dr. Watson covered his face, thinking... God, are you still quitting smoking?

"You have to believe that I don't need someone with an IQ no higher than those idiots at Scotland Yard to be my assistant."

Alice's face darkened suddenly.

"Sherlock, you have to believe that my intelligence is recognized by many people."

"Stupid people are stupid, but there are people who are even more stupid to applaud them."

So Mycroft seems to have been forgotten by them...

Alice suddenly realized that her mobile phone didn't seem to be hung up...so when she answered the phone again, she called out cautiously.

"Mycroft?"

"Yeah." The cold voice was full of anger, so is he angry?

"Sherlock said I was stupid." Alice betrayed her teammates again.

"Where have you been?"

"Shouldn't you know... uh, Bermuda."

After a long silence, the other party's voice came out again: "Be careful."

"Yes."

Karl took them around the entire castle, and finally said that those missing people, the time of disappearance, and the place of disappearance cannot be determined, so I hope they can be more careful.

"It's late too. I'll ask the housekeeper to take you to the guest room."

"Then trouble you."

"So how long are you going to stay here?" Sherlock looked at Alice and said calmly.

"Uh... Sherlock, is there a ghost here?"

"That has no scientific basis. The so-called ghost theory is just a bunch of idiots making up some boring stories."

"Watson, haven't you slept yet?"

"He's my assistant."

"We're still after twelve o'clock, and we're going to investigate the castle. Sherlock suspects that there are other parts of the castle that we haven't been to."

"You mean...you go on a risk and leave me alone."

"You came by yourself."

"Okay." Alice curled her lips a little unhappily, and went back to her bedroom resignedly.

What's wrong with this door?

Alice found that the door of her room was really difficult to open. Didn't she find any problems when allocating the room?After fiddling for a long time, I still can't drive it, I can't kick it with my feet... I'd better go to the housekeeper for help.

Walking through the long corridor, there was a gorgeous and huge clock hanging on the wall, Alice couldn't help but stop and take a few more glances.

"As expected of getting rich by war, even the clock is different."

"It's just that this clock is broken?" Why does it turn and stop?

Alice couldn't help touching it, but a door appeared behind the disappearance, following the pressure, (reference: revolving door) directly pulled her in.Suddenly, there was darkness in front of him.

Alice turned on her mobile phone, looking at the empty surroundings under the faint light.

Suddenly aware of someone pulling her feet, looked down, bloody eyes, bloody white cloth, old and thin face, fixedly staring at her. "Ahhhh!"

A sound echoed through the entire castle.

"Sherlock, Sherlock, Miss Alice is gone." Dr. Watson was about to go back to his room to get something, when he heard a scream in the corridor, subconsciously thought of Alice, and immediately knocked on her door , but couldn't open it, and knocked the door open in a hurry, and there was no one there, and the scream...

"what?"

"I heard a scream just now, I went to see Alice, but she wasn't there..."

"But I didn't hear it. Of course it may be a sound insulation problem. I always think this castle is very strange, Watson. Take me to the place where you heard the sound."

I heard it here, Persian carpets, countless oil paintings hanging on the snow-white walls, Sherlock walked back and forth a few steps, and suddenly looked at the huge clock in the middle.

"Watson, what time is it?"

Watson took out his phone. "12:41."

"And the clock showed exactly 12:30."

"It was a full ten minutes late, assuming you heard the scream at 1:12, arrived at Alice's room in less than 30 seconds, and came back to me in less than 20 minutes, and arrived here, zero and zero The total time is about 5 minutes."

"Alice should not be far from me."

Sherlock took out his magnifying glass from his coat pocket and carefully observed the hour hand.

"It's a solar clock...the weather is fine these days, there's no way there's going to be a lack of energy."

He tapped the wall lightly, and there was a click sound, very crisp.

Sherlock frowned, kept moving his position, and knocked on the wall at the same time, even lying on his ears to listen to the sound, until he walked to the side of the clock, took out the magnifying glass again, and a shallow trace was immediately clear stand up.

"There seems to be something wrong with this wall." Before Dr. Watson finished expressing his discovery, this huge clock was touched by Sherlock somewhere, and a door suddenly appeared in front of them.

"This is……."

"intersection."

They turned on the flashlights in their mobile phones and moved through the long tunnel by the dim light.

"I really didn't expect it."

"It's quite common to have one or two secret passages and secret rooms in a huge old castle."

"You're looking and I'm observing, and there's a big difference."

Dr. Watson resigned himself to his fate and concentrated on watching the road: "Will Miss Alice be here?"

"Judging from the new shoe prints, she has indeed been to this place."

Dr. Watson subconsciously squatted down to study his shoe prints. The dust here was too thick.

"What about her?"

"Ran."

Sherlock frowned: "If you didn't notice the extra shoe prints just because of the light, I think I can forgive your stupidity."

"36 yards, female, has not exercised for a long time, resulting in inconvenient movement, hunchback, and great strength."

"This is... a skeleton!" Dr. Watson took a few steps back.

"It has been a skeleton for a long time. Judging from the dust, it should not be long since I moved here."

Mr. Holmes noticed the newspaper under his feet. The date on it showed more than 20 years, 12:30 PM.

"In the fire, a total of 28 people were killed. Because the fire was too strong, the bones were broken, so the bodies can only be identified by the items on their bodies, which means that someone may have used the fire to exchange identities with someone. "

"The deceased was probably over seventy years old, with loose teeth, gray hair, and her length, the bones in other parts compared to her feet...this is...."

"There is a motive, they accidentally touched a mechanism, they fell outside, the light is bright, it is the hall of the castle.

"The mechanism here is really ingenious."

"Grandma, why haven't you gone back to bed so late?" A refreshing male voice sounded.

"Mr. Carl?"

"Oh, Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes, what are you doing here?"

"Alice is gone."

"What!" Mr. Carl immediately took out his mobile phone and made a call.

"I think I'll ask you to help find you."

Dr. Watson nodded.

Sherlock stared at the woman in front of him with light eyes, frowned, and said coldly: "No need."

"what?"

"I know where she is?"

At this time, many people had heard the news and rushed over, and many people crowded the corridor for a while.

"Holmes, where is Miss Alice?"

"I think you know best, Ms. Phyllis Reid."