big devil holmes

Chapter 178 Watson's Arrival

the next morning
It may be that the case has progressed, or it may be that the old dean's hard work of more than 30 years has been rescued. In the entire villa, the tense and depressing atmosphere was swept away. In the air, the smell makes people feel more comfortable.

That huge machine was transferred to an underground private warehouse in a certain experimental area. As for how it was transferred out, don’t worry about it. The old butler Maude was also sent away in order to repair the wall in Sherlock’s bedroom. And furniture, the purpose is to completely remove the old housekeeper from this matter.

As for why she did this, Catherine was puzzled, but she was not in a hurry to ask. He believed that at the end of everything, Sherlock would definitely give the most reasonable explanation.

"Sour cream may not be used to it when you eat it for the first time, but after eating it a few times, you will find that it tastes really good."

Catherine introduced Sherlock to the plate of white paste on the table, lest he think it was spoiled salad dressing.

At this time, Catherine's usual indifferent attitude has been restrained too much. Although she is still a little domineering, she always feels that this expression is deliberately pretended. After all, no one will use a domineering posture to introduce others food.

"Also, in fact, I can provide you with a steam locomotive and a special driver, so that it will be much more convenient for you to go anywhere, and you don't have to wait for the carriage to pass by the side of the road." Catherine sat upright by the table, talking quietly. Looking at the food on the plate, he said lightly.

"Thank you, but I'm used to thinking about things in the carriage, and the bumps can give rhythm to thinking." Sherlock said.

Catherine didn't know what the 'sense of rhythm of thinking' was, but Sherlock said that she didn't need it, so she stopped mentioning it: "Anyway, if there is anything that can be used for me, remember to tell me."

"Oh, Duncan."

"what?"

"The name of a person who participated in your father's experiment, but he disappeared from the list of experiments. The rest of the people have already started to investigate, but I want to see if I can find anything from your perspective. Something different."

Catherine nodded. Although the actual control of the School of Life Sciences is now in the hands of Vice President Hulk, she is still only the Vice President after all, and her status as the daughter of the old President and her absolute priority shares can still play a role. some effect.

"Also." Sherlock looked at her suddenly: "Do you know what your father's original contracted creature was?"

"The original contracted creature?" Catherine was taken aback, and then began to think seriously in her memory.

Since Dean Darwin had already started his research when she was born, Catherine had hardly seen his contracted creatures, and after her mother died of illness, she also resolutely left home without knowing anything about it. Knowing that, I can only vaguely say: "I probably haven't seen it before, but it seems that I heard my mother mention it when I was a child, and my father's contract creature is very small, and it seems quite cute."

"Oh? Is this her own description of the demon?"

"Well, in my impression, my mother once made fun of my father's contract demon, saying that such a cute little guy doesn't look like a second-order demon, but a pet."

Sherlock was thoughtful, and after a while: "Well, this description is definitely not enough, so if you want to know more specific details, you can only ask Butler Maud."

"Well, he has been by his father's side all the time, so he naturally understands his father's contract demon better. It seems that he was by his father's side when his father was promoted."

Just now, a servant in charge of cleaning the garden trotted in, bowed to Catherine and Sherlock, and said with a worried face: "Miss, there are a group of people outside who want to find Sherlock. gentlemen."

"A group of people?" Catherine frowned.

"Yes, they didn't introduce themselves either, but they were all wearing military uniforms."

Sherlock didn't change much in his expression, he seemed to have known that someone would come, so he just stuffed the food on the plate into his mouth: "I'll go and see."

In the courtyard, the captain of the gendarmerie stood in the courtyard with more than a dozen gendarmes. This is the villa of the old dean. Although they could freely carry the research results of the old dean with the acquiescence of the deputy dean, but in private In the territory, there is no reason to rush in, so I can only wait.

Fortunately, the detective didn't mean to hide all the time, he really came out, he went straight to the Gendarmerie Captain like a normal person, and smiled politely: "Hello, I am Sherlock Holmes, May I ask who you are.?"

The captain looked gloomy: "Why are you pretending to be confused, we met the morning before yesterday, in warehouse No. 77."

"Uh..." Sherlock tilted his head half-understood: "So?"

The captain didn't sleep for two days, was wronged and scolded, and was stopped in the yard early in the morning. He was angry at first, but now seeing the other party like this, he became even more angry. He stepped forward and grabbed his collar, biting The tooth said: "I know you are the one who took that thing away, so fuck me here to pretend to be garlic!"

However, before he finished speaking, there was a "crash", and a dustpan was sprinkled on him!

The captain was startled, and suddenly turned his head to look to the side, and then saw a maid who was tidying up the lawn with an upright face, staring at him with a fearless attitude: "What are you doing? Don't ask where this place is?" , want to hit someone?"

The captain of the gendarmerie was glared at by the old lady who was about the same age as his own mother, and he was so angry that he suppressed it abruptly, and his whole body trembled.

And at this moment.
"What's the matter?" Catherine walked out of the villa gracefully, as if she didn't see the scene just now and the captain's body, she asked indifferently.

"Miss Catherine" the captain of the gendarmerie bowed slightly, but the anger in his eyes did not disappear, he gritted his teeth and said, "The day before yesterday, a precision instrument we were guarding was stolen."

"So?" Catherine's tone was exactly the same as Sherlock's.

The captain's fists were clenched white.

".So, I suspect it's the detective who did it!"

Hearing this, Catherine seemed very puzzled: "I don't quite understand what you mean, but if I'm not wrong, what you are guarding should be the large device developed by my father."

"Exactly!"

"Well, actually, I didn't ask you to guard that thing, so don't worry, just lose it if you lose it. No need to look for it."

Her tone was a bit like that she had lost a piece of clothing that had been torn long ago, so she just waved her hand, indicating that this matter should be left as it is.

The captain of the gendarmerie didn't react for a while, he was stunned for a second, and then immediately objected: "Wait! Miss Catherine, that thing is very important, how can I just forget it?!"

Catherine frowned, with a little more anger in her expression: "Sir, please clarify your logic. After my father died, that thing was originally mine. Whether it is important or not has nothing to do with you. If you lose it, you will lose it." , are you still forcing me to look for it?"

"But that thing will threaten the social security of the empire, how can it be left alone?"

"This is even more strange. You were the ones who said it threatened the safety of the empire, and you were the ones who wanted to move it away after it was placed in the laboratory. Instead, come to my house to question? Besides, why did you come to doubt us? Is there any basis?" Catherine raised her head slightly, and her slightly wrinkled eyebrows turned into two cold knives: "Do you really think that there are people behind us? Can you be unscrupulous in the Academy of Sciences if you support and acquiesce?"

Catherine is also a former clergyman, and her personality is also the type that people dare not mess with. Now she looks like a lady in a dress, but her voice is cold, and she still has the blood of the past. The icy taste.

There was a drop of cold sweat on the corner of the gendarmerie captain's eyebrows, not only because of Catherine's anger, but more because of her words, as if she knew that the vice president had opened the door for herself in many things.

But he still didn't intend to leave, as he said before, the pot was too big for him to carry.

"Line up!"

In a dilemma, he gritted his teeth and shouted sharply!

Then he said to Catherine: "I'm sorry, Miss Catherine, the situation is urgent. As an imperial soldier, I have my own obligations and responsibilities, so..."

But before the words fell, all of a sudden, there was a faint roar of a steam locomotive in the distance.

Everyone followed the voice and looked over.

Immediately afterwards, a steam locomotive engraved with a golden sunflower mark was seen coming towards this side, then slowed down slowly, and finally stopped at the gate of the villa.

The pupils of the gendarmerie captain constricted suddenly, because he saw the position of the sunflower on the car and the exquisite painting, and knew that this car is the exclusive car of the Holy See, and those who can ride it are generally people with a good background Important figures of the Holy See.

As soon as I thought of this, I clicked, and the door was opened.

A man in a white suit came down.
That white suit was a little too beautiful and eye-catching, and the print on the neckline was too gorgeous. If it was worn by ordinary people, it would definitely look ridiculous.

However, when worn on the man in front of him, there is a particularly harmonious feeling.

Watson habitually flicked the blond hair on his forehead, smiled and looked at Sherlock who was not far away.
"Hi, long time no see."

During this period, he also naturally saw the gendarmerie in the field, and the gendarmerie captain who was looking at him in surprise.

After just taking a sip, he felt the subtlety of the surrounding atmosphere, but he still smiled, his eyes narrowed beautifully, and he seemed to be happier:

"It seems that you are in trouble."

(End of this chapter)