After Sherlock leaves the Forbidden City, he returns to the mansion with Wakatsuki. www.biquge.info She had locked herself in her room since then, perhaps thinking about something heavy. In short, it has little to do with Wakatsuki Bai. The only thing she needed to do now was to piece together the information sent by her subordinates. All kinds of materials are placed on the coffee table, scattered everywhere like pieces of a puzzle. Her wheelchair fell to the side, and the whole person was lying on the coffee table and looking at the materials.

"I'm curious what you're going to do and get up from the ground. ”

When this sentence reached her ears, Ruoyue Bai raised her head as if she had just woken up from a dream, she glanced at Sherlock, who was standing behind her who didn't know when to leave the room, and then looked out the window, it was already late at night. As if she hadn't heard anyone speak, she buried her head and continued reading. Sherlock lifted her wheelchair up in displeasure and sat down across from her.

"Do you know why I'm working so hard for these boring things?" Wakatsuki said suddenly, her cold eyes that didn't look like a human staring at the detective, "so that I don't have to feel my powerlessness when I fall, I just need a command and someone will help me up." But even if I have so many things that others envy, there is only one thing I want most. ”

"Healthy body?"

"It's a greater right," she sneered, "I like money, I like to order people to do things, and if I had a choice, I'd rather be in a wheelchair and not go anywhere, and I don't want any power." I have only one grievance with the status quo, and that is that I still have to work hard for others to maintain my rights. ”

"In other words, you want to "get something for nothing", right?"

"Yes, it's not right. If it's something I want to do, then I'm even willing to do it for free, but this kind of boring thing, I can't arouse any interest, but I have to do it. I hate this feeling, but it's a pity that as long as I'm alive, I can't escape from this strange circle - the more I want to live lightly, the more things I need to prepare. In my opinion, this is exactly the state in which human society is in this situation. ”

"You hate hard work, don't you?"

Sherlock felt for her pipe, which she hadn't used in a while, and she felt a little strange as she pinched it.

"Yes, I hate that word, and I don't like words like 'fight', 'come on', 'struggle' and so on. If nothing else, but all these words are just "excuses". People who really work hard will never put these words on their lips, or even say them at all. These words are just for people who have done something and want to find a reason for themselves to fail. As long as these words are used as excuses, no matter what kind of failure they have, they can avoid them in a word. ”

"Don't you think the process matters?"

"How is it possible, both the process and the result are important. It is precisely because there is a certain "process" that a certain "result" will be achieved, which is the most basic theory of cause and effect. There is an inevitable connection between them, just take these boring materials on the desktop. ”

Ruoyuebai turned a piece of back-facing data paper upside down, with dense words written on it, and her slender fingers pointed to the Chinese characters written on it, and said:

"This information tells me that Dio Connor has been in contact with our West Factory. She didn't appear out of nowhere, she was willing to cross paths with some members of the West Factory. Then, there's this material. ”

She flipped through another leaflet, a flyer with a picture of Dio Connor.

"This flyer shows that she decided to hold a "magic show" at the place where we fought against You Guang long before we had a decisive battle with You Guang. So why didn't we notify her of the evacuation? So I got a record of what she did that day. One day, we did not plan to carry out any action in the West Factory, but someone informed us that someone would come to the Ming Empire to make trouble. Putting this information together with the previous ones, you can get an answer. The person who informed the West Factory of the news was a member of the West Factory, and that member was Jiang Liu'er, a highly respected monk in the West Factory. He had some connection with Dio Connor. ”

I asked him about it, and although his answer was vague, it was enough for me to know everything based on what my men had reported. ”

Ruoyue Bai sighed and lay on the coffee table, the cold light in Fang Cai's eyes faded, like the residue of burning, and her long black hair was scattered on the table.

"It's so boring to know what happened, I don't know what to do now. So I wanted to make a cup of coffee by myself for the first time in a long time, but I fell out of my wheelchair before I could move. Then the servants were resting again, and I didn't want to move much, nor did I want to shout, so I lay here in a daze. ”

“.......”

"What's the matter, your expression seems a little hard to accept what I'm saying?"

It's hard to accept, Sherlock almost thought that the guy in front of her was really only a teenager like her appearance, she held her pipe with a smile, sighed, hurriedly picked up a match and lit the pipe, and then lay on the table to read the information.

"It just so happens that you seem to have figured out something, so let's analyze the current situation. "Ruoyuebai seems to have come to the spirit again.

"It's very simple, I, "D-10", Zhu Yuanfang, Xichang, and even the Shenji Battalion and the Hunter Department have known about Dio Connor for a long time, and there is only one explanation," Sherlock replied casually, puffing on her cigarette and picking up the flyer with Dior's photo on it, "Maybe this guy has been involved in some strange incident again, and then it affects us." Dio Connor wasn't a good person at disguising herself, and although she didn't like to show her face, she would do it whenever she had to. ”

“... It looks like you don't have 'amnesia'. Wakatsuki squinted.

"No, it's just that I have a habit of writing down anything important," Sherlock said, pulling out a small book with a leather cover from the inside bag of his jacket with one free hand, "lately I've been recalling things every day to make sure I haven't forgotten anything." Unfortunately, all I had in my notebook was about that guy lately, and I couldn't forget it. It seems that my relationship with her doesn't stop there, so, where is that guy now?"

"I don't know. ”

"I have a guess," Sherlock stretched, "why don't you ask the Emperor, he knows better than we do." Maybe you'd rather do the investigation yourself?"

"You haven't answered my question yet. Ruoyuebai slapped the table dissatisfied.

"Analyze the current situation, this is a rare opportunity, so let's talk about my thoughts. ”

In the midst of the smoke, she was speaking the truth.

"First of all, the reason why I came to the Ming Empire. You don't know much about the bad relationship between me and that guy, but most of the reasons why I came to the Ming Empire have something to do with her. All in all, it was in the course of our joint investigation of a case that we discovered that several of the world's great powers were preparing for war, and I began to travel around Europe to lobby local people of good standing and gather them together to try to reduce the scale of the war. ”

"I know all of this, but I want to say that you're naïve. ”

"Just like you like money, you like power, I enjoy the process. And the guys with good reputations are either just as happy as I am, or they are real "good people", and it's easy to convince them. My last stop was the Ming Empire. But unfortunately, the emperor is not what I thought. ”

"Of course it's different, Your Majesty's reason for currying favor with the surrounding countries is very simple, just out of interests or situation. Anyone with a discerning eye can see it. ”

"No, I thought at first that he would allow the 'monster' to operate legally within the borders of the country, but only for his personal reasons. However, he really wants to build such a society. What I didn't expect was this. If you have to be naïve, he is the most innocent guy in the world. Ah, the topic seems to be off the beaten track. When it comes to my purpose, it has to do with Dior Connor. I contacted a member of the Hunters' Mercenary Division for Sixteen Nights, and I wanted to convince her to do something. And she rejected my proposal, so I came to meet the emperor of the Ming Empire, and that matter was very important. ”

"Assassinate the commander of the first company of the Shenji Battalion. ”

She didn't shy away from saying this. Maybe I'm looking forward to the other expressions of Wakatsuki Bai, who has been looking straight at her, but she's doomed to be disappointed. Ruoyuebai yawned, and then saw that Sherlock didn't mean to continue, so he asked:

"That's it? I thought there was something more unbelievable. Countless people try to kill him every day, but no one has succeeded so far. She certainly won't promise you. ”

“... Yes, that's right. But after that, I took the same train with her to Nanjing, and I took the opportunity to install a bugging device on her. Coincidentally, I recorded her conversation with Dior. However, it seems that their actions have been known for a long time, so they deliberately avoided certain topics, but they still revealed important information to me - a person who has a lot to do with Sixteen Nights, and after a little research on the news from the past, I found that person, her stage name is "Nagisa", and I think you should know about it. ”

"I see. ”

"So I believe that You Guang's matter is related to Dio Connor, and Zhu Yuanfang still knows about Dio Connor, and he must be related. ”