big devil holmes

Chapter 136 Assassination
A carriage is driving on the streets of Uptown.

Compared with the other side of the Thames River, the road snow removal work here is obviously done very well. Even the small road that deviates from the main road does not have much snow. The carriage drove fast and smoothly, and soon came to the Grove. At the intersection three streets away from the Nahaus Hotel.

Watson and Sherlock got out of the carriage after paying, and watched the carriage drive away.

"No matter why the pope hasn't left yet, I think he will definitely put some eyeliner around the hotel, so we'd better not let the carriage stop directly at the gate of the house." Sherlock said.

Watson frowned: "Why do you say this?"

"Ah, I'm afraid you will ask: Why did we get off the bus so far away, so explain in advance."

"I wouldn't ask such a stupid question." Watson replied with a sigh, and then walked towards the hotel on his own.

Sherlock walked with him, lit a cigarette, and smoked thoughtfully.

When passing by a shop selling gramophones on the side of the road, Watson turned to look at him: "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking about how we should get that guy out. It stands to reason that a pope must have a large group of dependents, and there must be a few powerful masters among them. If the two of us just go in so abruptly Wouldn't it be a little bad if you broke in?"

Watson frowned: "You're only thinking about this kind of question now?"

"I'm sorry, there's too much information in my head, I was a little sneaky on the road just now." Sherlock said sorry, but there was no apology in his tone.

"In this case, let me remind you one more thing. Not only should we avoid fighting as much as possible, it is best not to even show our faces. Every pope has thousands of believers in his own diocese. If you If my identity is exposed, it will definitely cause big trouble."

"Fu——then what should I do?" Sherlock muttered while exhaling smoke.

But the voice just fell
Suddenly, several people came out from the alley and blocked their way.

Immediately afterwards, another thin man with a scar on his face came out. This guy took out a shining knife from behind and gestured in front of Sherlock; then when he looked at Watson, he slightly I was stunned for a moment, probably noticed his good-looking face, and immediately approached with a smirk:

"Hey, if you don't want this face to be ruined, this young man with delicate skin and tender flesh, then please hand over your wallet."

Watson was stunned.

There is not even an opening sentence. It seems that the robbers in the upper city really pay more attention to efficiency than those in the lower city.

Two streets away, all the lights of the Grosvenor House Hotel were on at night, illuminating the roads around the building brightly.

This was requested by Pope Theodore, and the hotel owner, as a pious believer, naturally did not dare to disobey his instructions, and he even dared not turn off the lights during the day. Although he did not know why the Pope wanted to do this Do.

And he couldn't understand why Pope Theodore suddenly didn't eat the meals provided by the hotel, but bought a bunch of packaged fast food, such as bread, canned jam, and even bottled water.

In addition, he also asked his family members to take turns patrolling each floor. Don't he think this is very noisy?
Noisy of course.
The Pope already suffers from headaches, and with so many people patrolling upstairs and downstairs, no matter how careful these people are, they will always make some noise.

But even though it was noisy, it could give him a sense of security.

At 1 o'clock in the morning, the Pope's personal nuns knocked on the door and entered the room after getting permission.

"I have checked with the patrolling personnel just now, and found nothing suspicious."

Pope Theodore's expression was a little sluggish, and the dark circles under his eyes became worse after not sleeping well for several days: "Have you contacted someone from the London Police Department?"

"I have contacted them. They have sent 30 steam armors and implemented a 24-hour uninterrupted guard outside the hotel. Moreover, the 16 contractor guards dispatched from the parish have also arrived and are heading to the pre-arranged positions superior."

Hearing this, the Pope finally let out a breath of relief.

In fact, even the accompanying nun who followed him all year round didn't know why the Pope was so anxious these days, but she didn't dare to ask.

"Come here and accept the gift." It may be because the arrival of the guards has increased his sense of security a lot, so the Pope leaned his fat body on the sofa and ordered the accompanying nuns to come over to relieve the pressure for himself .

"Yes, master." The nun said respectfully, then she unbuttoned her collar piously and walked over.

But at this moment.
"boom!"

A loud noise came from a certain direction downstairs.

"What's going on?!" The Pope panicked all of a sudden!

"Report!" A panicked voice of a family member came from outside the door: "The second floor. The gas pipe exploded!"

"What?!" The nun was also shocked, she didn't even have time to fasten the button, she immediately turned around and opened the door, glaring at the people outside. She was just a humble servant in front of the Pope, but in front of these family members, But it is a superior existence: "What did you do?!"

"I'm sorry!" The man lowered his head immediately: "There may be a sudden leak in the gas pipe, but everyone has already rushed to put out the fire."

When Pope Theodore heard this, his expression froze!
It may be cautious, or it may be paranoia or life-saving, anyway, he feels that there is a sudden gas leak at this juncture, no matter how he thinks about it, something is wrong.

So just screamed!

"Protect! Protect!!"

While yelling, he jumped up from the sofa chair with extreme safety awareness and threw himself on the ground, thus keeping away from the window.

In the next second after the shout, several guards of the Contractor who were close to him rushed over and stood in front of the Pope. In the next ten seconds, three more guards rushed into the room , surrounded the Pope, as for those posts that were far away, they began to guard the stairways or doors and windows.

But in the process, there were a few more explosions, and it seemed that there were several gas leaks in other parts of the building.

But that's not all, because just listen to
"Kaka~Kaka~"

The gas lamp above the head flickered a few times, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness!And as the darkness fell, some void cracks began to be torn open in various areas of the entire hotel. Demons of different sizes and shapes rushed out, and they did not know where to spread out one by one. Tentacles, dragging everyone who can roll to the corner.

In this way, the whole hotel ushered in sudden chaos.

Fortunately, the contractors trained by a pope are certainly not all waste, and some of them even have the ability to be elected priests, so in the face of the sudden chaos, these people are not too panicked, but methodical Sticking to their positions and cooperating with each other, they quickly took control of the situation again, and bit by bit pushed these emerging demons to a desperate situation, and then killed them.

At the same time, on the floor where Pope Theodore was, everything seemed extremely quiet, and there were six contractors firmly protecting it.

It was like this for a while.
Finally, a family member ran up panting. Although he suffered some injuries, he was not so embarrassed:

"Report to the Pope, the offensive below has been blocked!"

Hearing this person's words, the people around were finally relieved. In fact, thinking about it, it was a bit of a fantasy to assassinate a pope under the protection of so many contractors.

However, before everyone could breathe out the tense breath in their chests, suddenly, they found that the family members in front of them seemed to have seen something, and they were looking at the other end of the corridor motionlessly, with horror in their eyes.

Everyone immediately looked in that direction, and then saw a person!

He was thin, wearing a long windbreaker, and the moonlight came in through the window, making his shadow long.

"What's next is a feint?!" A guard immediately realized something, but quickly stabilized his mind, put on a fighting stance extremely cautiously, and at the same time summoned his own contracted creature.

But this call didn't matter, seven or eight cracks in the void appeared on the opposite side, and then the messy demons drilled out, covering the entire corridor.

"Stop that guy quickly!"

Pope Theodore suppressed his panic and shouted, he is not a contractor, but he also knows the common sense that 'a contractor can only have one contract demon', so for such a large-scale offensive tonight, the opponent is at least A contractor team with more than 20 people!
I didn't expect that the obliteration I ushered in would be so frenzied.

He hurriedly dragged the two guards: "Go, take me down!"

It is naturally impossible for Pope Theodore to regard this hotel as a long-term stronghold. He has already prepared a back road for himself, so he has arranged a car in advance in the stables on the side of the hotel.

Not a carriage, but a real steam locomotive wrapped in iron!
Although expensive, steam locomotives are much better than horse-drawn carriages in terms of speed and attack resistance!As long as there is no accident, I get into the car by myself, and then find a few guards to stop the pursuer, even if it only stops for three to five minutes, then I don't want anyone to catch up with me.

And following his order, several contract guards in the corridor also cautiously surrounded the person on the other side, and the rest of the people hurriedly carried the Pope all the way down the stairs on the other side, or How to say that the contractor's physical fitness is strong, and the fast ones will throw his flesh into the air.

Soon, several people came to the stable on the first floor
Grosvenor House Hotel is one of the best luxury hotels in London. Naturally, the stables cannot be just a few scattered mangers, but a large open space that can accommodate more than 50 horse-drawn carriages at the same time. , a large steam locomotive made of bronze is parked.

As I said before, although this kind of locomotive is not rare in London, it is definitely rare. Most of them are toys used by nobles to show off, but the ability to withstand the operation of huge steam pressure proves that this kind of locomotive must be strong enough.

The two contractors came to the locomotive with their masters on their shoulders, and knocked on the lid of the locomotive: "Open the door! Quick!"

In order to be able to drive at any time, the locomotive driver stayed in the car all the time, and was about to fall asleep without doing anything. He was startled by such a knock, and quickly woke up and opened the car door.

"Sure enough, most of the people stayed upstairs and died, so there are only a few of you left now."

But at this moment, a lazy voice suddenly came from beside the stable.

In an instant, the two contractors became cautious, one of them was staring at the person in the shadow, while the other was desperately trying to stuff the Pope into the locomotive.

"Oh, don't bother, since there are only a few of you, then don't even think about running away."

The person in the shadows still spoke calmly.
The contractor standing by the locomotive became more cautious, because he seemed to be able to feel that the person in the shadow should be just an ordinary person, but his tone was so relaxed, without the slightest tremor, which proved that the other party had absolute power. grasp.

So...he must have a pretty scary weapon in his hand that is a machine gun?

Could it be that it is a hand cannon that only the frontline military can wear?

I am just a contractor at the peak of the first order, and I may persist under the pistol bullets, but I still can't ignore the intensive attack speed of the machine gun and the attack power of the hand cannon.

The man in the shadow stood so quietly, not in a hurry, this calmness made him panic more and more, but even so, the contractor did not flinch, as a guard of the Pope, he took it for granted Ready to sacrifice for the master at any time.

Thoughts so far
"How are you!" he yelled.

And following this roar, another contractor behind him finally stuffed the Pope into the steam locomotive, then quickly closed the door, and also made a posture of being ready for battle.

It was too late, but it was too late. In this situation, no one wanted to waste even a second, so the two summoned their own contract demons almost at the same time, and rushed towards the shadow.

And it was at this moment that the locomotive behind it also turned on its horsepower and rushed towards the road.

Hearing the sound of the wheels moving away rapidly, the two contractors were very relieved, because so far, as long as they can stop each other for 5 minutes, then no one can catch up with their master.

Moreover, without the concern of the master, the two of them seem to be less afraid. Even if the other party really got a hand cannon, under the two-to-one offensive, he can only injure one at most, and then will be killed on the spot.

Although the weapons are powerful, it is not that simple to bridge the gap between ordinary people and contractors!
and many more
At this moment, one of the contractors seemed to be taken aback for a moment.

It seems that something is wrong.
(End of this chapter)