big devil holmes

Chapter 216 The Bohemia Scandal ([-])

And Sherlock continued to look at the other party, until a few seconds later, Her Royal Highness seemed to feel the temperature change on his face, and then avoided the other party's sight.

"Can you tell me?" Sherlock finally asked.

"Yeah." Mrs. Hudson nodded, pretending to be nonchalant: "I told you before that my father moved to London when I was a child, but I didn't tell you. Actually, my hometown is in Bohemia, a small city more than 1400 kilometers away from London."

Such a sentence made Sherlock bite his teeth subconsciously, and the slight pain caused countless thoughts to flash through his mind
The take-off of the airship, the third-order contractor who airborne in London, the suicide and death of a local government official, etc., etc., but he didn't interrupt Hudson, just continued to listen carefully.

In the other party's narration, Sherlock also found that the development of this whole thing seemed to be full of strangeness.

A few months ago, the airship fell from the sky and turned into a sea of ​​flames on the ground. The holy son of the Holy See almost died in the sea of ​​flames.

And after that disaster, no one can stop the anger of the Holy See, no matter whether it is a hostile force covering up the truth, or the Holy See is taking this opportunity to massacre important personnel of the opposing force, anyway, in the investigation, there are very few clues .

But even so, some physical evidence was still forcefully pulled out.

For example, there is such a letter.

The letter was dissected from the stomach of the person in charge of the Bohemia Airport. At that time, people from the Judgment Department rushed into his office, but he had swallowed the letter long before that.

It's just that I didn't expect the Holy See to search so hard, and even if I died, I would dig out the body inside and out.

And on the small piece of paper left in the gastric juice, there were written orders for those airships that descended from the sky to hide and wait in the airport!

hand!Write!of!
In other words, if the person who wrote this letter is found, even if he is not behind the scenes, he is still an important person in this series of events.

The person in charge of collecting evidence at that time was very excited, because the comparison of handwriting has a certain notarization effect in this era. Unfortunately, such hard-won evidence was found to be of no use in subsequent investigations .

Because the trial court compared countless relevant personnel, but could not find the writer of this letter.

Among them, even Augustine the Great.
However, the comparison of the emperor's handwriting is very special. It's not that the handwriting is different, but that this old man who is nearly a hundred years old has not been able to trace any of his handwriting.

Yes, although it sounds unbelievable, in his decades of imperial career, he seems to have never written!

All orders seem to be communicated by telephone, recording, and face-to-face words, and all written documents are not signed by him himself, but with the special seal of the emperor of the empire.

In short, he did not leave even a single handwriting in the world!

This really makes me feel deeply hopeless
However, no one expected that the one who broke the despair was Her Royal Highness who had not participated in the investigation of this incident from the beginning to the end!
No, more precisely, it wasn't her who broke it, but her grandfather, an old man who had been killed during the second demon invasion for more than 30 years.

The method of breaking is also very incredible, dating back more than half a century ago.

At that time, the old man was still very young, living in the small town called Bohemia, and his job was a copyist.

The paper product industry at that time was not as durable as it is now. After a few years, it would become very fragile due to moisture, dryness, etc., so it had to be rewritten every ten years. One copy, so that it can be stored for a long time.

At the same time, there was no mature printing technology in that era, so if you want to rewrite, you really have to find a copyist to rewrite it stroke by stroke.

And this old man once wrote a batch of discharge applications for an orphanage in Bohemia for 12 years.

Scribes at that time generally had two incomes. The first was naturally the commission for copying texts, and the other was to pack and sell the copied manuscripts. The pages of these manuscripts would be broken into pulp and bleached again. If you accumulate a lot of new paper, it can be regarded as a small fortune when you recycle it.

Anyway, Mrs. Hudson's grandfather kept the orphanage discharge form in his cellar.

After that, the copyist changed his career to become a farmer because of the popularization of publishing and printing technology. At the same time, he also experienced many major events such as marrying a wife, having children, changing the emperor's position, reforming and changing, etc., but these are nothing to do with him as a small commoner However, he just survived until the second demon invasion, and then he was gnawed to death by the demons that suddenly appeared on the street, just like most people.

However, he forgot that there were still several piles of unsold waste paper stored in the cellar, and this one was stored for a long time, until his wife fled to London with her son; Long enough for his wife to die and his son to grow up; long enough for him to have a granddaughter who inherited his Hudson name; long enough for this Mrs. Hudson to be a saint of the Holy See!

It wasn't until this time that someone finally paid attention to her ancestral house in the small town called Bohemia.

"So. People from the Holy See went to your ancestral house to carry out renovations?"

"Yeah." The landlady nodded: "My father has just such a wish. He has been lying unconscious on the bed for so many years, and he has suffered a lot. After waking up, he just wants to go back to his hometown to spend the rest of his life. I always I have no choice but to agree."

"Those old papers have been stored for such a long time, but they haven't broken?"

"80% of them were broken, stacks of stacks were placed in the cellar, and the outer layer was moldy, but some survived. The staff who were responsible for cleaning up the sundries didn't know what it was. Dare to throw it away, and the name Augustine, you can also imagine that the huge letter "A", when people see it, they will always subconsciously take a look at it."

Sherlock listened to the whole process, although it made sense from the timeline and logic, and if the handwriting comparison was really the same as that of Augustine the Great, then it might be possible to prove from the side that the emperor of the empire planned London The man behind the crash.

This kind of thing is undoubtedly exciting.

But Sherlock didn't seem to be particularly excited, but frowned slightly
In the night, a carriage drove out of the urban area and headed for the hidden factory.

Sherlock sat in the carriage, silent all the way.

A handwriting written decades ago suddenly appeared, and it happened to be on the eve of the inheritance ceremony of the empire. It happened to be the same as the handwriting of the planner of a disaster, and it happened to be the relic of the grandfather of this saint. Among the weathered or weathered pages, only a few with evidence have been preserved.

To be honest, this kind of thing requires too many coincidences, and if too many coincidences come together, it seems that something is not right.

Inexplicably, Sherlock thought of the situation when Watson and himself were talking about the day of holy love a few months ago.

At that time, because Moriarty fled the scene recklessly, the people in the whole church fell into a kind of confusion, and the priest of the Temple of Holy Light who presided over the ceremony emphasized that the saint does not have to be To marry the Holy Son, the saint is the saint, she is the person hand-picked by the Holy Light, there is no reason, the world just needs to accept it.

At the time, this kind of words sounded like they were forced out in order to alleviate the embarrassment of the Son's escape from marriage.

But thinking about it now, it seems that it contains a different meaning.

'Holy Light is omniscient and omnipotent, knowing the past and the future. '

This truth, known to everyone in the empire, began to linger in Sherlock's heart slowly.

Could it be that when Shengguang hand-picked the saintess, he had already seen such a future?Mrs. Hudson also said just now that the saint is similar to the messenger of the Holy Light preaching in the world, so could this series of coincidences have been drawn up a few months ago?
But can things like this in the future really be seen?

Of course Sherlock can't see the future, he can only continue to think about the meaning of this handwriting.

In fact, to be honest, a piece of handwriting is useless at all. No one would think that with a few words, an old man who has been sitting on the throne of the empire for decades can be dragged down. It changed, and this case didn't need to be investigated at all, the murderer was already known.

The important thing is how to make the murderer admit that he is the murderer
He raised his head, and wanted to look through the roof of the carriage, looking at the endless night sky beyond the sky, as if he wanted to see what the holy light was.

The carriage entered the factory, and Sherlock didn't check to see if the facilities in the factory area had been completed, but directly got on the elevator and walked towards George Romanis' office.

With a knock on the door, the 50-year-old factory manager opened the door and looked at Sherlock in doubt:

"The restoration of the facilities is still in progress, and it may not be completed until tomorrow afternoon. I suggest you take advantage of this time to rest for a while, otherwise the next time will be very difficult."

He thought that the other party wanted to start work quickly, so he explained.

But Sherlock directly changed the topic: "The soul visual device is not damaged, right?"

"no, what happened?"

"I want to see 【Crimson】."

(End of this chapter)