I am creating a esoteric religion in London

Chapter 321 Return Visit to the Lunatic Asylum

The first ray of light in the morning shone into Ward 103 where John Watson was located.

Not long after, the same first ray of light also shone into the Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency at 221B Baker Street.

After many months, the Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency, which was originally a simple residential renovation, has now changed into a brand new look.

Charlotte Holmes also bought two nearby townhouses some time ago.

It is said that the neighbors who had lived on Baker Street for more than ten years were still unwilling to sell their property, but when they saw the price offered by Miss Charlotte that they could not refuse, they immediately signed the contract and moved out overnight.

Then these three closely connected buildings collapsed one morning - Miss Charlotte had ordered people to remind the surrounding residents beforehand, and sent the young and handsome housekeeper to send everyone an apology, so the neighbors on Baker Street No complaints at all about this.

Building structures covered with black cloth sprung up overnight, and from time to time the hum of mechanical operation could be heard inside.

When the dark gauze to prevent peeping eyes fell, what appeared in front of the residents of Baker Street was an unpretentious, even somewhat crude, square building.

The walls are painted in cold gray and black, like a dusty factory building. Even the two thick door pillars are a metallic iron-grey, and there are no exquisite relief decorations. Even the windows are very small and cannot provide enough light into the room.

The brand new Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency is as ugly as the doors, windows and inner rooms dug out from the inside of an extremely huge metal ingot.

No one can associate this gray, black and ugly building with the beautiful and noble Miss Holmes.

On the day when the Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency reopened, the well-known aristocratic ladies sat in gorgeous and comfortable carriages and looked out the window at this aesthetically unsightly building, all showing expressions of disgust.

But the citizens of London have different views on this - in their opinion, this obviously reflects Miss Charlotte's pragmatic character of thrift and thrift. Such Miss Charlotte is closer to us than those rotten aristocrats who spend a lot of time and alcohol. Lower class people.

But if the real John Watson returns here, he will definitely be able to discover what kind of secrets are hidden in the ugly design of this new detective agency.

The exterior wall without any decoration or window sills had a vague sheen of dirty oil, as if hot iron was poured on it during construction, making the exterior wall smooth and hard, and there were no protrusions to lend strength to. , no one can climb up this ugly fortress-like building.

The narrow windows criticized by other noble daughters are even more exquisitely designed - any long-range sniper looking from any direction will not be able to see important rooms such as the living room, study, bedroom, etc. through the narrow windows. All he can see is empty. Aisles and corridors.

Even though these few narrow windows seem to be barely able to accommodate a petite thorn to sneak in, in fact, if you look closely, you will find that there is a slender iron bar in the middle of the window, making the extremely limited window area even more If it were further reduced, it would be possible for only a newborn baby to sneak in from here.

In the colorful world that cannot be seen by the naked eye, the boxy iron-black Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency is shrouded in a faint purifying glow. Any evil thing that enters the scope of the glow without permission will be destroyed. You will encounter thousands of light-edged swords piercing your heart, and endure the pain of thousands of arrows piercing your heart - a certain ugly and weird skinny bird has already paid the price for this.

Charlotte Holmes wakes up in such a fortress that doubles as occult protection.

The daily work schedule has long been engraved in her mind. After the destruction of Cross Road Hospital, she can finally calm down and track down another terrible cancer parasitic in London-T.R.N. Co., Ltd.

This secretive company was suspected of having provided financial help to the Crossroads cult. Charlotte Holmes had tracked one of the company's logistics warehouses last time, but before she could apply for a search warrant from the bureau, the search warrant came back the next day. When we went there, the unattractive building had already disappeared in the sudden raging fire, and any suspicious traces were buried in the ashes.

"T.R.N. Co., Ltd.... maybe there are even spies they planted in the bureau. They had already absconded the night they learned that I applied for a search warrant. Afterwards, I could never find any trace of them. It was as if this place was related to the secret The mysterious company with which the world is inextricably linked never existed.”

Charlotte sipped her warm coffee and looked up at the mosaic survey wall in front of her. The background of the wall was a map of London, with bright red tethers connecting the paper cutouts, which were cut from newspapers and magazines. article.

[The frozen corpse of the disappeared street boy! 】

[Why are taxi cabs becoming increasingly rare on the streets? 】

[Multiple murders occurred at the Royal Free Hospital! The daughter of the late Dean of Crossroads is missing! 】

[Another middle-aged man disappeared in the red light district! 】

[Many underground casinos in East London were violently robbed, suspected of being a gang fight? ! 】

[The source of many horrific gun attacks—high-power firearms unknown in the black market? ! 】

The paper-cut red ropes all point to a codename as red as blood on the top of the investigation wall—Professor.

Charlotte pondered: "After preliminary investigation by the Anti-Suppression Bureau, many recent cases involve both the coaxing and abduction of cup/moth cultists and the violent robberies of bladed/cast cultists. Why can the London cult, which has always kept its secrets, suddenly be unable to restrain itself from creating so many high-profile cases..."

"It is clear that a new, dangerous and uncontrolled cult has emerged in the city."

"Although no witnesses survived the crime scene, based on the traces of evil magic left at the scene, it is obvious that at least two members of this newly emerged cult organization have had their taboo sexual appearances exposed. The first one is the possessor of a cup/moth A young lady of good temperament is responsible for haunting the red light district at night and abducting ignorant men."

"The second one is a strong man with a blade/casting aspect, and possesses excellent military talents. According to the testimony of residents near the scene of multiple crimes, this cultist has a very superb firearms shooting ability. Often nearby residents can only hear a volley from the same short gun, and no gunshots are heard in the underground casino... It is obvious that this cultist also has excellent investigative abilities, and perhaps it is very obvious that he is using his mind. If the cultist has the ability to sense the beating of the heart, then the second cultist’s forbidden ritual should be the Heart Blade Forging.”

"Ms. Cup Moth, man Heart Blade... Such characteristics are highly consistent with the former Crossroads cultists Clovette Ceretti and Nello Bacchus who disappeared some time ago!"

"In other words, this recent series of cases are very likely to be related to the mysterious 'professor'!"

"Professor... although your subordinates acted very carefully and did not even leave any traces such as footprints at the scene, you have missed something very important."

"Tracing 'cause' from 'effect' is the most basic method of retrospective reasoning. Even if I can't catch your flaw through the traces left at the scene, your purpose has been exposed when you issued such an order!"

"You ordered Clovette to abduct a total of six adult men. Although you specifically asked Clovette to abduct the target group as randomly as possible, the missing men include vicious gang members, repressed and pleasure-seeking working men, There are also drunken homeless people...but obviously your real targets are only four of them, four healthy men with good sleep habits."

"You want to drain their life force to complete some evil ritual, right?"

"And you ordered Nello Bacchus to rob the underground casino, and even ordered him to forge extremely powerful firearms and sell them on the black market, just to accumulate bloody funds.       " But why do you cultists need the knowledge of the waking world? Cash, aren't you more accustomed to using the ancient currency of the hidden world to conduct transactions? "

"So that means, Professor, what you are currently planning requires a large amount of cash... Do you want to purchase a certain property as a headquarters, or do you want to purchase an asset as a cover for cult activities, or do you want to sponsor something? Some secret band of rebels to complete your ritual to please the hidden gods?"

The female detective wrote down the instructions for the surveillance operation in her notebook, then tore it off and handed it to X211 who was waiting nearby. "I passed the order to the spare logistics staff and ordered them to carefully observe the details I marked and send a message back immediately if they find anything." "

"I understand, Miss Charlotte." X211, who has been promoted to the housekeeper of the detective agency, took the note, bowed slightly and exited the door.

Not long after, X211 returned again, holding a beautiful metal box in his arms, "Miss Charlotte, the prosthetic eye you made for Mr. Watson has been delivered as scheduled."

"According to your instructions, the cast material of the prosthetic eye is mixed with a trace amount of rare noon gold. If it comes into contact with a cultist with forbidden power, it will shine brightly. If it is directly put into the body of a cultist, it will even Directly burst out with violent energy like an explosive reaction!"

"But please forgive me, do you really want to give this prosthetic eye to Mr. Watson?"

"It is true that my subordinates had doubts about Mr. Watson at first. Why did the missing Clovette Ceretti and Nello Bacchus have a close relationship with Mr. Watson?

"Why was Mr. Watson, who was not very powerful in taboo sex, able to survive the terrible disaster underground at Crossroads Hospital? While other cultists who were far more powerful than Mr. Watson had all turned into withered corpses."

"Why did Mr. Watson have such amnesia that he only lost more than two years of memory, and even retained plenty of sanity?"

"But my subordinate later thought about these issues seriously and thought that these so-called doubts may just be caused by his jealousy and alertness."

"I feel very ashamed to say that I was actually very jealous of Mr. Watson, because he was your real assistant, Miss Charlotte..."

The subordinates were afraid that they were just a substitute when Mr. Watson was away. The subordinates were also afraid that when Mr. Watson returned, they would have to return to the logistics position of the Anti-Suppression Bureau. "

"But during this period of working with you, Miss Charlotte, my mind has also grown... I know that Miss Charlotte, what you are accomplishing is an unprecedented big thing, and you are willing to have the courage to fight against your own class for the benefit of the people. A great woman!"

"In the face of such a grand ideal, the power of individuals is meager and insufficient. We must unite all the forces that can be united in order to completely tear away the dark clouds hanging over London!!!"

The more X211 spoke, the more excited and enthusiastic he became. He was so excited that he wanted to wave his arms and shout, "We must—"

Charlotte directly interrupted the young and handsome subordinate's enthusiastic speech, "Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, but you'd better control your emotions first."

"We are on the front line of the fight against the hidden gods, and we must remain rational at all times."

"Did you come into contact with too many taboo objects while dealing with Crossroads Hospital during this period? Your mental state is obviously not right."

"Well, I'll allow you to take half a month's paid vacation. You can go home and have a good rest. Relax yourself, relax your mind, and recover."

"Please hand over the rest of your work to Rose first. She will be responsible for acting as my assistant during this period."

Rose, who had been waiting nearby for a long time, readily agreed and turned to look at x211, who looked gloomy. "Hehe, brother X211, please rest assured and have a good rest. I will definitely complete your unfinished tasks on your behalf."

"Ah, but, she is -" X211 shut up in time and did not say the following cultist words.

He looked back at the respected Miss Charlotte, as if he wanted to continue struggling.

However, when X211 discovered that Miss Charlotte's attention was all focused on that mosaic observation wall, her heart that tried to save her completely cooled down.

"I understand...I will go back and have a good rest."

After a while, the new assistant Rose walked in with a smile after receiving the work plan, "Sister Charlotte, the carriage is ready. Shall we leave for the nursing home now?"

"Well let's go."

…………

Before meeting John Watson, Charlotte Holmes first met with the other party's chief physician, George.

"Dr. George, how is Watson's condition recently? Has his condition improved?"

George took out the file materials he had prepared and handed them to the female detective's new assistant, his former patient Rose, "John Watson's condition has probably improved slightly."

"He no longer exhibits irritable and aggressive tendencies and looks like a normal, normal person."

Charlotte: "Just looks like a normal person? Does that mean Watson has not completely returned to normal?"

George: "Yes, although John Watson's behavioral pattern is quite close to that of a mortal who has never been exposed to forbidden knowledge, in fact, in the ward alone, his false pretense will be completely torn off...his spirit The problem has gotten worse.”

"The specific situation is as shown in the document, please take a look."

Charlotte opened the first page of the document and saw a line of eye-catching characters.

[John Watson is suspected of suffering from schizophrenia and paranoia. 】

(End of this chapter)