big devil holmes

Chapter 76 The Divine Comedy on Earth ([-])

In a noisy city, the speed of traffic can always make people feel inexplicable impatience.

Along the way, the driver of the carriage scolded countless people's mothers.

However, Sherlock in the carriage was in a good mood, and slowly followed the car's stop and go. After several hours, he finally arrived at the library.

Compared with the dilapidated and huge building in hell, the British Library in reality presents a vigorous and solemn visual state. In this era when people are running around for life and dedicating their conscience or body for the imperial currency, there are still many Few people linger near the stone pillars in front of the library, thinking, sitting on the steps with a book in their hands, studying carefully in the ice and snow.

Human's desire for knowledge is an instinct. Although this instinct will be gradually obliterated with time and social conditions, there are still many people who are tenaciously moving forward on this road. Most of them know that, I may not have made any academic achievements from birth to death, and I never dreamed of becoming a hero who can change the world, but I still want to be those sparks, bringing even the faintest light to this era.

Perhaps it is these brave existences that are the foundation for the empire to stand for hundreds of years.

Sherlock strolled up the long steps, passed a few students who were deep in thought, and when he entered the door, he saw two young people dressed as students arguing red-faced for the anti-corrosion smelting of steel. The road that I walked in hell went all the way; I also walked through the grand hall and the quiet reading room, and passed through many huge bookshelves that were more than five or six meters high and reached the ceiling, and finally came to a In front of a small corridor that almost no one will notice, and go all the way to the end.

Right here, there is a door, and inside the door is the small room where the book of "Divine Comedy" is placed.

At this moment, there is also an inconspicuous door in front of Sherlock. There is no sign on it, and there is no door handle. The overall material is similar to the wall of the corridor. Some people might not even notice that there is a door here.

Sherlock frowned, then looked to both sides, and found that almost no one passed by, it was remote and quiet, like a small section of abandoned space during the architectural planning period, even the staff of the library Forget about it generally.

But forget it, forget it, if Sherlock digs up this book with a crowbar now, there must be a group of people in security uniforms rushing over and taking Sherlock to the police station for the crime of destroying public property.

Moreover, Sherlock has always been a very gentleman. In such a place full of knowledge, he would definitely not engage in any rude behavior such as picking locks and smashing doors.

So he just had a thought, and on the other side of the door, a void crack appeared

Fortunately, Sherlock has seen the space inside the door in hell, otherwise, he would not be able to tear this crack open.

This is also a disadvantage of the contractors, that is, they cannot summon their own demons in places where there is no 'cognitive concept'.

For example, through an unfamiliar wall, there is no way to open the void crack on the other side, because I don’t know where the other side is, whether it is blocked, whether it will be stuck in the wall, etc.

This uncertainty prevents the contractor's summoning behavior from being successful anyway, just like you can't make a person fantasize about how to breathe through the anus.

Soon, a carrion dog emerged from the crack in the void. The dog walked to the door, bit the door bolt with its teeth, and pulled it aside.
A "click" sound.

The door opened.

Sherlock naturally pushed open the door and walked in.

Unlike the room in hell, the room in front of him was cleaner, and it could even be said that it was a little monotonous.

The whole body is white wall, inlaid with a row of bookshelves, in the center of the room, there is a small white sofa, and in front of it is a small white table less than half a meter long and wide, this posture, Sherlock can hardly think , I had a dream again.

Anyway, this is everything in the room, as long as you walk in, you can clearly feel that you can't do anything except read a book.
So Sherlock walked to the bookshelf, and let the carrion dog close the door, and then let him go back into the crack.

There are only a few books on the bookshelf in front of me, so it's easy to find the one you want.

Divine Comedy
Obviously, this book exists in the real world, similar to the one in hell, with a leather cover and extremely sloppy binding, but it is a little cleaner than that one.

Sherlock took it over and opened it
It is also a very heavy touch, and the sight falls on the first page.

At this moment, his expression was obviously startled, and then his brows were slightly frowned.

Everything is as he thought, the book in hell is an 'evil' version, and the Divine Comedy in the real world can be read.

It's just that the content of this book is not words, but a picture.

At least the first page is a picture.

It can be seen that the author does not have any painting skills, but because the lines are extremely simple, he can see the scene he wants to depict.

Some undulating line segments constitute overlapping mountains, and under the mountains, there are some small brush strokes, which can vaguely distinguish that the painting is some kind of animal, or simply a demon.

Because some of them focus on sharp teeth, some have wings that are bigger than the body, or extremely uncoordinated feet.

Of course, these are not enough to make Sherlock frown. After all, it is just drawing a few demons. Every child in every household has been beaten by their parents for drawing demons.

What made Sherlock's expression more and more dignified was the round thing drawn on the mountain.

It's small, in the upper left corner of the page, but it doesn't take much to figure out that the circle represents the sun.

Unlike the normal sun, the circle is surrounded by countless densely twisted lines, long or short, like countless twisted tentacles.

No!That painting is the twisted tentacles!

this painting,
The painting is hell.
Sherlock confirmed this almost instantly!
So he turned to the second page
On this page, there is simply a huge eyeball drawn throughout the entire page. Obviously, this is a close-up of the distorted sun in hell.

But who would see such a vision of hell?

And who could face the sun, but didn't go crazy immediately, but depicted it.

In fact, the answer is obvious.
But Sherlock doesn't seem to have the heart to think now!
Because in hell, the feeling of falling when reading this book hit again, and now, what he saw was not chaotic strokes, but an understandable picture, so that feeling was even stronger. strong.

He really felt that his consciousness was falling little by little, as if he was about to fall into the sky, in the boundless black void, towards the sun surrounded by tentacles.
And just as this feeling swept his whole body, the countless tentacles in the shadows began to writhe crazily, and together with the countless tentacles in hell, they all began to rise neatly towards the sky!
The huge sun hanging in the sky cracked again, and the eyeballs that were pregnant with the most extreme madness opened wider and wider, staring straight at the ground
They are conveying some kind of information, some expectation, or request to each other.

Oh, on a stone wall in front of the main entrance of the British Library, such a sentence is engraved.

"Books are always the best way to understand knowledge".
(End of this chapter)