what do you think sherlock

Chapter 111 Funeral and Discovery

At this time, nearly a month has passed since the theft and loss of the crown occurred. During this month, Di Renjie did not take the initiative to try to obtain the radiance of good fortune.As a result, his mental strength has not undergone a qualitative breakthrough in the past month.

But on the one hand, due to his dedication in the previous cases, many people will still be grateful for his help in the follow-up, which made him reap some long-tail benefits.On the other hand, he did not give up learning knowledge during this month, so in addition to the radiance of good fortune gained from gratitude, he also gained a small but still valuable radiance of wisdom .

With the help of these lights, his mental power jumped from 1.7 times a month ago to 1.9 times a month later (taking the total mental capacity of a normal adult as a standard mental power unit).Although numerically speaking, an increase of 0.2 is not much, what needs to be known is that for the vast majority of ordinary transcendents in the Golden Dawn Association, even if they devote one year to knowledge learning and In the accumulation of practice, there is no way to improve a standard mental power unit.

Therefore, in terms of relative speed, this month's spiritual growth is considered slow for Di Renjie, but compared to ordinary transcendents of the same path, this speed is more than twice their normal speed.

What is even more enviable is that because of the timely discovery and handling of the clinic poisoning case, coupled with Di Renjie's excellent performance at the press conference, he has now reaped a large fortune.

Di Renjie's conscious body stretched out his palm lightly, touching the group of colorful brilliance entrenched in his soul room.

When his palm came into contact with the glow, like countless times before, the glow penetrated into his body instantly like a child rushing home, and then, the colorful brilliance burst into his consciousness. Walking up and down, Di Renjie felt that his soul was strengthened again, which made his nearly transparent consciousness become clearer and more solid.

After getting used to it for a while, Di Renjie withdrew from his soul room, and this time the absorption brought him an increase of nearly 0.5 times of mental power. At this time, the total mental power of his conscious body had reached 2.4 times.

Compared with the normal improvement speed, this kind of growth is simply appalling, but it doesn't mean that Di Renjie can have the possibility of stepping into the third level in a short period of time.As Angelina said in the chat with him before, the promotion from the second level to the third level is a long journey that requires a lot of patience for the transcendents of the Eternal Balance Path, and they have to sharpen themselves With a strong temperament, he waited step by step for his conscious body to grow to nine times the limit of spiritual power, thus ushering in the transformation of his conscious body.

The road to promotion is always a long one, but luckily, it's not a lonely one.
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221B Baker Street.

Di Renjie stood in front of the full-length mirror and was wearing a tie meticulously. Today he was wearing an all-black formal suit and a pure black top hat on his head.

"Hey, John, are you ready? We have to go." Sherlock also came out wearing a full black dress. He also wore black gloves and held a black umbrella in his hand:

"We have to get to Paddington station as soon as possible. It's a surprise that Mr. Disraeli's funeral will be in Beaconsfield. I thought he would at least be in London."

"I heard that he wants to be buried with his deceased wife more than a state funeral. He is more attached to his home than to the glorious church." Di Renjie finally tied his tie at this time, put on his gloves, and also took a Holding a black umbrella, he looked at Sherlock again:
"Is our wreath ready?"

"Please, Mrs. Hudson, pure white lily wreath." Most funerals held in April will use pure white lily flowers as the raw material for the wreath, because it happens to be the season when lilies are in full bloom.

After getting the wreaths, the two called a taxi and headed for Paddington Station. After arriving at Paddington Station, Di Renjie booked another noble carriage.

Since he is currently holding an important position in the White Tower, he no longer needs to rely on other people's names to book an aristocratic carriage on the train.

The two sat in the carriage, looking at the scene outside the window that was constantly receding rapidly in sight due to the high-speed movement of the train. After a long while, Sherlock suddenly said:
"I found further clues."

"What clue?" Di Renjie asked with interest, he knew that Sherlock had been tracking down the mastermind behind the poisoning case in the clinic these days.

"It's not a particularly clear clue. It's just that in some letters, I found that Vasily mentioned a place with high frequency, and this place has some kind of specialness, so I have doubts. I plan to wait until the funeral. Let's start investigating that location." Sherlock said while frowning, thinking.

"Where is it? I'm a little curious." Di Renjie smiled.

"Helot Cemetery." Sherlock slightly opened and closed his lips, and spit out a somewhat special name. After hesitating for a long time, he added:

"It's the cemetery that has been rumored to be haunted."
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More than two hours later, Di Renjie and Sherlock arrived at Huonden Manor.

The funeral will be held in a chapel near the manor, but before that, the two visited Angelina as friends.

About half an hour later, the funeral officially began.

As Prime Minister, Gladstone personally attended and presided over Disraeli's funeral. He coughed twice, facing the solemn guests, and said in a heavy tone:
"We gather here today to pay our last respects to our countrymen, our friends, our leader, a great Briton, a great statesman, a great writer, An honorable patriot. He was Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. He did great service to this country and this Empire, and he won respect and admiration both at home and abroad.

"We should not mourn him, but rejoice in him, for he has fulfilled his mission, he has fulfilled his ideal, he has enjoyed his glory
"Let us pray and ask the Holy Spirit to give us comfort and strength. Let us be grateful for his grace and mercy, and let us look forward to a future where there is no death, no crying, no pain, but eternal life and peace .” (Note 1)

"Amen." All the guests bowed their heads, silently mourning and praying for the deceased.

"He must be very happy to be able to preside over the funeral of his old rival." After coming out of the church, Sherlock said to Di Renjie.

"As you heard, he didn't mention any specific political views of Mr. Disraeli, but spent most of his time praising the other party's character." Di Renjie replied, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Mr. The scenery in the distant wilderness.

"Yeah, that's a smart thing to do," Sherlock agreed.

"Politicians are always good at making sense." Di Renjie's words seem to be talking about Gladstone and himself:
"Only death treats them equally."

Note 1: Excerpted from Gladstone's prayer at Disraeli's funeral, in which he praised the character of his political opponents without mentioning specific political content, which became a model for later generations to follow.

(End of this chapter)