Pushing open the door of the car that had not yet been deformed, Dio gasped and stepped out of the car. She glanced at the car, which had a cracked window but looked good, laughed, pulled a cigarette out of her bosom, and put it in her mouth. The cars behind also lined up because of this man-made traffic accident, and she didn't think much about it, dragging her body and walking down the highway. She couldn't tell where she was hurt.

Is Sherlock dead? Not yet, but she's not as physically fit as Dior, and she's lucky to be able to stay awake, she flips off her airbag and gasps for air. She didn't care if she was injured, she pushed the car door and tried to chase Dior, but the pain in her legs stopped her movements, and she was dizzy, she couldn't keep her balance and almost fell to the ground.

When she raised her head again, she was already surrounded by onlookers, and there was still Dior's shadow.

"Miss, are you alright? Don't move, the ambulance will be there soon. ”

“... I'm fine. Sherlock took a deep breath.

In the case of Dior, she must have escaped the gun as soon as possible to scare away the crowd, in order to grasp the location of her target as soon as possible. But Sherlock can't do that kind of thing. The so-called rational thinking, most of the time, requires abandoning 'human nature' and not being bound by common sense and morality in the world. The evaluation of the world and the eyes of the people around her are all restricting her decision

What she cares about now is the medicine that Dior took out, which should still be in the car.

Not long after, the traffic police also heard the news and rushed to clear the traffic, and Sherlock finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon after, she was taken to a nearby police clinic. Fortunately, it's just some skin trauma, and it's not a big deal, just don't do too strenuous activities for the time being.

So she asked for evidence and materials related to the Dior case.

Morphose/brown analgesics and drugs with stimulant effects, as well as antipsychotic drugs that suppress mania, excitement, hallucinations, and also have analgesic effects. Sherlock lay in a hospital bed at the police clinic, observing the evidence sent by the police. Why did Dior need these things, and what was the inducement?

No, Sherlock held his forehead. Dior's final action was strange in itself, and if she really wanted to kill herself in this car accident, she might as well shoot her in the head. Moreover, this is also different from Dior's usual well-planned and meticulous style. Even if she didn't expect to find the parked car, she wouldn't have caused a car accident without being sure, and she didn't have the ability to use it, she didn't pause the time, and she didn't take advantage of the time to escape from the car that should have been in the accident, just as she had promised.

So why is that?

Is it all or nothing to force Sherlock to stop?

No. Many of these drugs were contraband, and she couldn't get them so easily, which meant that she had prepared them a long time ago. So why... The meaning behind these actions, go to the lending company to call themselves out and announce the start of the game.

According to the information sent by the police, only a few thousand dollars were stolen from the loan company, and nothing was less, and the only victim was the frightened manager. It can be said that the biggest loss of this trip is the police who have wasted a lot of police force on it.

“... Huh?"

Sherlock flipped through one of the documents, a report that had just been written by negotiator Roger Smith, which included a quietly recorded transcript of a conversation he had with Dio.

After five minutes of reading his report, Sherlock frowned.

Happy to commit ... If Dio wants to play this kind of role himself, then the core of this game is to capture her? Pleasant offenders, as well as psychostimulant drugs that are not easy to get...

I see!!!

If it is only analgesic and stimulant, there is no drug for the treatment of mental illness. Dior deliberately left these drugs in order to show that he was "mentally abnormal". In this case, even if she is arrested, she will not be convicted through legal means. Unless Sherlock can unify the voice of the police department and make everyone deny that this drug has been discovered, and Dio has not caused much actual damage, no matter how hard she tries, she can be convicted of the crime, only... Disorderly and drug control laws.

That's why Dior said that at that time.

If you can send me to the police station, you win. ’

"In other words, I don't have a chance to win normally," Sherlock rubbed his temples.

Dio didn't say what would be her victory, but she wouldn't let the game end so easily. Nothing will end until twelve o'clock in the evening the day after tomorrow, or until she is satisfied.

She's definitely going to do it again.

Thinking so, Sherlock asked the doctor for crutches, and limped out the door with the information.

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Just below the highway where Sherlock and Dior's car crashed into a streetlight on the side of the road, there were a number of containers here. The vacant area under the highway is occasionally sold to companies at a low price and used as a place to store sundries and goods, and these containers are prepared for this purpose. This is not the case with one of the containers.

At the entrance, a diesel generator is placed, and the glow of incandescent lamps illuminates the inside of the container. On the sides of the containers are various cabinets filled with medicines, firearms and medical equipment. There is also a lamp on the innermost table, and a chair in front of it.

Dio was sitting in a chair with a towel in her mouth, a silver scalpel in her hand, heated with an alcohol lamp, staring at the wound she had pushed, which had been sterilized with an alcohol swab, but still needed to be cautious. Carefully cut open the musculature, revealing the glass shards embedded in it,

It would have been nice to be more careful, and in order to get out of Sherlock's field of vision as quickly as possible, she had worsened the wound by acting despite her injuries.

Fortunately, she didn't hurt the main blood vessels, so she sprinkled hemostatic powder, put a seal on it, and hastily exploded with a bandage. After doing all this, she exhaled, took the towel from her mouth, and lit a cigarette.

Although she was too reckless, with Dior's current physical condition, it was still difficult to carry out a mission of this intensity, not to mention that her body might be weaker, and it seemed that her plan to go to the North African battlefield could only be put on hold for the time being. She took a deep breath and thought about how to induce Sherlock. The less she knew, the better, and now that she had shown her the medicine, she would naturally guess her true purpose.

But that was meant to be a means to hide the truth about his physical weakness. She would have thought that stimulants and painkillers were induces, but the opposite was true. The game with Sherlock is not purely for self-satisfaction.

She had to think about her current physical condition.

Jacqueline, an expert in biology and genetic engineering, is still unable to understand the reason for her gradual weakness, so it is naturally difficult for others. And the reason why she came to the United States, in addition to meeting John, was also to use the financial resources of the skeleton to find a solution to her physical situation.

Fortunately, most people think that she is dead, otherwise time does not allow her to 'play' here, and the war situation in the Central European battlefield is urgent, in order not to reveal the plan, "D-10" also needs to rush to the Central European battlefield immediately. For the time being, the United States cannot intervene in the Central European battlefield with the help of the Skull, and what is needed now is a fuse, a fuse sufficient for the United States to send troops.

"Whew. ”

Puffing out a puff of smoke, Dio pondered the feasibility of the plan in his mind. But in the end, she vetoed them one by one, indeed, Germany did not have the need to provoke the United States, but if it was not Germany, but the Soviet Union ... Utilizing Sherlock... Is it feasible?

For example, is it enough for KGB agents to kill the order of the British detective community in the United States?

It's enough to be an excuse.

She pinched out her cigarette and threw it into the ashtray.