Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 362 The First Clue Investigation

The story of Sherlock Holmes continues to unfold according to the established plot, with those who should leave the stage leaving and those who should appear appearing; the brief observation of Earl Goff and Sir Morgan does not seem to have any impact on the story, and the fate of the characters in the story is like a speeding train, rushing towards the terminal along the established track.

From London to Paris, from France to Germany, the final battle finally came at the Swiss Snow Mountain Castle.

Except for Dr. Watson's new wife and Irene Adler who left early, all the important characters from both good and evil gathered at the Six Nations Peace Summit in Snowberg.

Outside the venue, on the waterfall, Holmes, who was in a rather miserable state due to his injury, and Moriarty, who was elegant and calm, sat opposite each other; both of them had already used every possible means in this case, the dice had been rolled, and now they were just waiting for the moment when the points would be settled and the winner would be decided.

So they put their extraordinary wisdom, which had nowhere to go, into the chessboard, and started a face-to-face competition between the black and white squares.

The mutual restraint between Holmes and Moriarty caused both chess players to withdraw from the competition on the "big chessboard" of the summit venue, and could only rely on the free play of the "chess pieces" to decide the outcome; but the performance of the chess pieces also had its wins and losses: Dr. Watson entered the venue in disguise, and although he stopped the assassination of the ambassadors of the six countries in time, the captured assassin was promptly killed by the other side.

For a time, the two sides reached a stalemate; they each destroyed the opponent's plan, and neither of them could achieve their ultimate goal. Moriarty failed to provoke a war in Europe, and Holmes lost the key witness to convict Moriarty.

However, overall, Holmes achieved more fruitful results; because he successfully stole Moriarty's account books and used them as evidence to allow the London police to confiscate most of his assets.

Moriarty wanted to make ill-gotten gains through the war, but he failed to make any money and instead lost a huge amount of money.

"All your assets have been confiscated by the most incompetent sheriff in the history of Scotland Yard." Holmes' calm tone carried a hint of pleasure in revenge.

Despite all the ridicule, Moriarty still did not give up and took out the code book from his pocket, only to find that it had been replaced. There was no code in the code book, only a comic strip: a fisherman was caught by a big fish.

"Worry about what you're fishing" - this is the sentence written on the last picture of the stick comic.

The former fisherman's face was livid. As a learned criminal genius, even if Moriarty had never read Das Kapital, he knew that "the economic base determines the superstructure"; without financial support, his legal and illegal businesses would quickly fall into trouble even if they were still in his hands. The foundation of the huge criminal empire was inevitably shaken.

"The sheriff will donate anonymously to a charity foundation." Holmes calmly added the final blow, "The elephant eats the elephant eight, checkmate - the ultimate kill!"

He turned around and looked Moriarty in the eye, while he told him his final move on the chessboard; the outcome on the "little chessboard" had been decided.

Moriarty could no longer remain calm; he used all his reason and self-control to barely maintain the surface calm, but the boiling anger in his heart made him murderous, and he gritted his teeth when he spoke every word.

As the plot develops, in order to protect his friends and relatives including Watson, Holmes will follow the idea of ​​"if the problem cannot be solved, solve the person who created the problem". He will jump off the snowy mountain waterfall holding Moriarty and kill the head of the criminal empire in a nearly mutual destruction manner.

But just as Holmes was about to take action, someone suddenly pressed the pause button on the plot.

"I'm sorry to bother you two." A young voice suddenly sounded in the dark corner, "I have some questions to consult Professor Moriarty, so could you spare a few minutes for me? Don't worry, it won't take you too long."

As this voice rang out, all the surrounding sounds disappeared; the whistling night wind on the mountain top, the faintly audible music and noise in the venue, and the waterfall flowing under the castle, all the sounds disappeared out of thin air.

A heart-pounding absolute silence enveloped the surroundings.

Holmes and Moriarty were both startled and turned their heads to look in the direction where the sound came from. With their high IQ and keen observation, they immediately noticed the abnormality around them.

What surprised them most was that they had no idea how this could be achieved. Creating absolute silence in a semi-open outdoor space was not only unreasonable, but also violated scientific principles.

A not-too-tall figure appeared in their sight, and slowly walked into the light, revealing a young man's face with obvious Asian features. The two searched their memories but could not find any information about this face.

This boy was a complete stranger.

"Who are you?" Holmes was relatively more relaxed, so he was the one who asked the question; on the other hand, Moriarty always had the instinctive vigilance of a criminal, so he kept a cold face and remained silent when facing strangers.

"My identity is not important, and I am not here to see you this time, Mr. Holmes." Lin You smiled and pointed behind him, where he had walked out before, "There is someone else who is here to see you. If you have any questions, go talk to her."

"She?" Hearing the clear indication of gender, Holmes was still confused; but when another figure walked out of the darkness, the great detective couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Irene?" After the incredible surprise, Holmes was overwhelmed with joy at having found someone he had lost. He didn't need the figure to come completely under the light, even if he just saw the familiar shadow, he knew it was "that woman" who appeared before him.

"Impossible..." Compared with Holmes, Moriarty did not have any joy in his heart. He was only shocked and panicked that things were out of his control.

Lin You looked at the two faces in front of him, showing completely different expressions, and urged in a sly tone, "What are you standing there for, Mr. Holmes? Could it be that, compared to Ms. Irene, you are more interested in this old man beside you?"

"NO!" Holmes denied instinctively, "But... Irene, how could it be?" Although the incident happened suddenly, the talented detective did not completely lose his ability to think independently and still tried to sort out the situation.

Perhaps this is not based on reason, but purely on a detective's instinct.

"Didn't I tell you that if you have any questions, go talk to Ms. Irene. My talking time belongs to Professor Moriarty; we all don't have much time, Mr. Holmes." Lin You reminded again.

Holmes hesitated for a while, and finally left the old man and the young man in front of him and walked towards "the woman" who was farther away. He used his remaining rationality to analyze that since Irene appeared with this mysterious boy, he might be able to get some clues through her, but he didn't need to insist on getting the answer directly from the boy.

Irene Adler's half-serious, half-fake voice came from the other side: "I almost thought that my attractiveness was really not as good as that of an old man..."

Then came the man's defense: "What, uh... Of course not; I mean, the news I knew... I was surprised, no no, I'm very happy."

"It's a rare sight, isn't it, Professor?" Lin You turned his gaze from behind him to the front, "It's not easy to see Mr. Sherlock Holmes stuttering."

Moriarty's face was gloomy, his eyes full of vigilance; "I have the same question as Holmes, who are you?" "Although there is no need to keep my identity secret, I don't want it to be known to everyone; I am from the Forrester family, since you are the emperor of the London underworld, perhaps you have heard of me?" Lin You walked slowly forward, walked past him to the railing and looked down.

"Indeed, I have heard of you. You are very mysterious. I actually looked for you, but unfortunately I couldn't find you. Because many people say that this family has a huge influence on the royal family, but you have never been seen in London politics."

Lin You laughed dumbly: "Do you still want to drag my family into your criminal empire?"

"I am happy to make friends with any powerful allies." Moriarty said frankly, "My cause does require strength from all sides."

"You remind me of someone I don't like very much, a mortal enemy." As Lin You spoke, the figure of Patrick Morgan emerged in his mind; from a certain angle, the figures of these two conspirators did overlap a lot.

"Then I'm sorry. It's inevitable that you will meet one or two people you don't like in life." Moriarty glanced subconsciously to the side, where a man and a woman were "whispering".

Lin You waved his hand: "Don't feel sorry. I came to you this time because of that mortal enemy whom I don't like very much. As far as I know, you should... No, I should say that you must have dealt with Him before."

"Are you sure? I meet a lot of people every day, especially students. I often can't match the faces and names of those children in class." Moriarty responded cautiously.

"Don't worry, professor; you must be impressed by Him. Because He gave you a treasure, a gold mine, and a wealth code that can make you a fortune in the war. With your desire for wealth, you will definitely remember Him."

Moriarty spread his hands: "But I can't get any clues from your words."

"Then let me be more specific. A piece of biological and chemical weapons technology; one of the most advanced biological and chemical weapons in the world, or poison gas." Lin You spoke softly, as if just saying these things verbally could make people feel the sinfulness of them. "He may have given you a piece of technical information, or he may have introduced you to a relevant technical expert. But there is no doubt that it is the most advanced biological and chemical weapons technology in the world."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't teach biochemistry courses in college..." Some things are almost instinctive, such as criminals denying and shirking their crimes; Moriarty is no exception. He denied it the moment he heard the question.

"No, of course you remember Him. As long as He didn't steal your memories from your brain, you would definitely remember Him. If you pay a little attention, you can even notice many things about Him that are contrary to common sense."

"Defying common sense?" Moriarty was horrified. He thought of the environment deep inside himself at the moment; the absolute silence around him was enough to defy common sense.

Lin You stretched his hand outside the railing and pointed downwards; "Why don't you come and take a look, maybe it can more effectively awaken your memory."

Moriarty walked towards the railing, but intentionally or unintentionally walked diagonally to ensure that he kept a sufficient distance from Lin You when he reached the railing. But his move was obviously unnecessary, because Lin You did not make any movement, always leaning one elbow on the railing and smiling.

When he looked inside, Moriarty was stunned.

The waterfall under the Snow Mountain Castle has stopped flowing!

It was not the scene of ice edges covering the cliffs after the winter freeze. In fact, the waterfall was still flowing rapidly, and the splashing water could even hit the lower part of the railing; but both the rapid flow and the splashing water had stopped in front of Moriarty's eyes.

Like a frozen picture.

"This is what I mean by 'contrary to common sense'. I wonder if this reminds you of something?" Lin You's voice was still gentle and calm, but it sounded like thunder to Moriarty's ears.

"Who…and what are you?"

"I am the same kind as the guy who gave you the biochemical technology; what do you say we are?"

"What did you say?!" Moriarty suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin You with doubt and surprise.

No matter how well-informed he was, the news he heard at this moment was beyond the scope of what a normal human could accept. Moriarty's panic was understandable, so when he looked at Lin You in panic, it was natural that his mind was completely lost; he saw a pair of extremely bright eyes.

"Legitimate Memory." After touching the threshold of the true God, Lin You's magic was completely beyond the scope of what human wizards could understand; let alone using it against a mortal, even against other masters of memory magic - such as Dumbledore - it could easily be effective.

The reason why so much effort was put into Moriarty was because his IQ level and willpower far exceeded those of normal humans, and the related memories also involved Patrick Morgan, who was also close to being a true God.

If the "God of Truth" was cautious enough, he would definitely tamper with Moriarty's memory; the chance left for Lin You was very small, and he had to do his best to use the smallest chance to obtain the greatest result.

One picture after another appeared in Lin You's mind; because of the prior guidance, Magic Arti focused all her attention on the relevant memories before being hit, which greatly facilitated Lin You's observation and retrieval.

"That woman... Dr. Poison, or her teacher? Mad, as soon as I got to the memory of Moriarty and Morgan meeting, the picture became blurry and was decomposing at an accelerated rate. What a cunning old fox."

After a while, Lin You quit the magic cursing and turned to walk towards Holmes.

"We should go now. These two gentlemen have to continue their performance." Lin You passed the great detective and said to Irene Adler.

"Hey, I'm having a good chat with this lady; you're also Irene's friend, so we can get to know each other... Wow, what's going on?" Holmes was muttering to Lin You, but his body "slid" uncontrollably towards Moriarty.

When the two opponents stood together again, Lin You also pulled Irene Adler back into the darkness.

"Hey, I said..."

"Everything is forgotten!"

(End of this chapter)