45. One in two 02
"Linlinβ"
"I was with Sherlock, we kissed, we didn't do - sex."
"Baba is trying to ask you if you're hungry? Baba is going to make you something to eat. You said you miss the dishes made by Baba and Baba understands, Baba is going! Ai Ye walked out as if he hadn't heard his precious girl's words, and walked out in a very freehand and romantic manner.
Erin watched as Ai Ye hit the door frame, and then walked, and then hit again.
"Daddy!"
"I don't listen, I don't listen!" Ai Ye made up his mind not to listen, because the next moment he summoned his flying sword and jumped ...... He didn't jump up, he simply grabbed the flying sword and asked the flying sword to take him away.
Erin seemed to be able to hear the echo of the voice, and she was desperate to admit that she still missed her father's "dush".
Ai Ye actually flew away, but the more he thought about it, the more heartbroken he became, so he resolutely turned back, he originally wanted to hold his baby girl...... Admit his mistake, and then the previous one was cut out with a click, but when he found out that Irene was watching three BBC episodes on his multi-screen computer, Aiye was in high spirits, and secretly thought to himself: "Look, look, recognize the authenticity of Shama's face!" β
On the surface, Comrade Ai walked in very fairy-like, trying to continue to greet the lost and recovered baby girl, but, "Linlin, you fast-forwarded?" Or open three at a time? β
Erin's brain filters, processes, and absorbs information received by her senses quickly, while still dedicating a portion of her attention to her dad, "just eight times faster." β
Ai Ye: "...... Are you hungry? β
Erin didn't reply, but her voice softened: "Daddy, I want to eat your specialty dish." β
As soon as Ai Ye heard this, he began to roll up his sleeves: "Baba, I'll make it for you!" "When he came back to his senses, he began to hug the pillar 'sad autumn and sad spring', and said that he would slowly appreciate the basic feelings? Soon he cheered up, and the three episodes were full of emotion, even if it was eight times fast-forward, it was undoubted, right? Xia Ma thought about his family Linlin, and he dreamed faster - wait, how did he forget about [dreaming], his family Linlin didn't know this trick now, hum, Ai Ye laughed like a villain. Looking from afar, the beauty smiled brightly, like a hundred flowers in full bloom.
Erin doesn't know how to [dream], but she does have a special way of communicating-
Erin found her original phone before fast-forwarding to three BBC episodes, and she had previously told Sherlock that she had modified her phone to reproduce the information from the Paper Bird in real time. And the mobile phone she left in the square has undergone a similar transformation, Erin tried to use the mobile phone she has now to connect to that one, before trying, she actually had no idea the probability of communication between the two parallel universes...... Erin didn't have the heart to calculate, she wanted to call, but after hesitating, she sent a text message, and then stared at the page closely, and when the phone prompted her to 'send successfully', she immediately cheered!
But when Erin tried to call, it was connected, but no one answered. "Sherlock ......"
This call spans two parallel universes, on the other end:
Mrs. Hudson saw the horrible news on the news, and was so frightened that she climbed up to the second floor: "Sherlock, did you see that news that could be a terrorist attack?" Isn't that the park where you and Erin went on a date? What about Irene? β
There was silence on the second floor.
Mrs. Hudson leaned against the door frame and looked in, only to notice that Sherlock was holding his knees and curling himself in the couch, and there was a strange smell in the air, and the whole living room was like a hurricane, and Mrs. Hudson muttered, "God, Sherlock, what have you done?" β
At this moment, the landlady was startled by the sudden ringing of the mobile phone, but the other living person in the living room had no intention of answering the phone, and the owner of the call was particularly persistent. The landlady couldn't take it anymore, and she struggled to find the ringing phone on the carpet under the couch, and muttered "litter again". The landlady took the phone and saw that it was an unknown number, she frowned, connected the phone, and before she could speak, the anxious voice of another of her tenants came from there: "Sherlock? Shylock? I'm sorryβ"
"Thank God, Irene, where are you? Sherlock: Ahhhhh Sherlock, you scared the hell out of me! As soon as Mrs. Hudson opened her mouth, Sherlock, who had been huddled up on the couch, sat up silently, and his pale ghost scared Mrs. Hudson so much that the phone in his hand fell down, and a hand caught it as he fell.
Mrs. Hudson shivered again, and she went downstairs with her pounding heart in her hands.
"Sherlock......" Erin thought she would have a thousand words to say to Sherlock, but when she heard Sherlock's breath again, she was stuck in her throat and couldn't say anything except call him by name.
Sherlock put his phone to his ear, and after a moment of silence, his bloodless lips moved: "I throw in the towel." β
It was obviously a sentence that was unrelated, but Erin understood, her heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a hand, making her breathing short, her nose sour, and tears flowing out of her eyes uncontrollably.
"Love is a dangerous disadvantage."
"I don't have a heart."
"I didn't do what I wanted."
Sherlock said word by word, but it was not like he was speaking to the person on the other side of the earpiece, but it was more like he was speaking to himself.
Erin cried out with a "wow", "I'm sorry, Sherlock, I like you, Sherlock." β
Sherlock seemed to wake up suddenly, "Erin? β
"Sherlock, I'm sorry, I just want to cry, I can't help it."
Sherlock is really back to reality this time, and in his palace of thought, Erin won't cry like a fool like she does now. He jumped up from the sofa with his mobile phone in his hand, because his legs had not moved for a long time, he was a little out of his brain's control, and he fell off the sofa as soon as his legs were weak, but fortunately, a thick layer of carpet was laid under the sofa, and he also grabbed the armrest of the sofa in time to prevent himself from falling down.
But that didn't stop him from yelling into the microphone: "Are you a fool? β
"Uh-huh?" Erin was stunned by her boyfriend's yelling, and then her boyfriend yelled at her again: "I said you were a fool!" If you don't have the skill of 'the body is just a conduit for energy', you can buy something to eat, this is one, in an emergency, let the body instinctively dominate the brain, this is the second, you use your non-scientific ability in public, and kill that sniper, this is the third thing! Oh, on that last point, McCroft's fat man is busy, count you in half. β
"Ugh." Erin burped violently, she buried her face in her arms, and didn't care about the tears in her sleeves, she was silent for a moment and asked, "...... Is that piece of pork okay? β
Sherlock rightly said, "I forgot." β
Erin sniffled, "Hopefully no one picks it up and cooks it." β
Sherlock was puzzled: "Why not?" No matter who it is, he can enjoy both the delicious food and the pleasure of dopamine, a double pleasure. "That piece of pork was infused with ice-poison, but it wasn't poison-medicine.
"Yes." Comrade Xiao Ai laughed, with a thick nasal voice, crying and laughing is very suitable here.
Sherlock snorted heavily, "Sentimental! β
Erin was really frightened by Sherlock's previous state, and the stone in her heart was now only put back in mid-air, and she didn't dare to poke that point lightly, so she didn't refute her boyfriend's 'disgust' words, and changed the topic dryly: "I just watched a bloody love film and television drama with you as the protagonist." β
Sherlock: "...... WhatοΌ β
Erin: "...... Said the string. β
Sherlock snorted again, "Don't reduce yourself to a normal goldfish. β
Erin shrank herself back in her chair, "I miss you, Sherlock. β
Sherlock opened his mouth, and a 'me too' came out of his mouth and it was like this: "Of course you miss me, look how long you've been away from me, and your IQ has started to drop!" "So, come back to me.
Erin: "...... Now I don't think you have as much as you just did. β
Sherlock's face suddenly drooped, his face was really not very good-looking now, he was pale like a ghost before answering the phone, and during this period, because of the excitement, the capillaries in his face began to expand, and now he described it as a sickly flush, an abnormal color.
Sherlock craned his neck and did not speak, and at this moment another person's voice came from the earpiece, a young man's voice, speaking in Chinese: "Linlin, who are you talking to?" Why are you crying? Here is still a worried tone, the next moment the tone suddenly changed, becoming full of anticipation, "Did you finally recognize the true face of Xia Ma's face!" Baba has told you a long time ago, he is a capital GAY! β
"I'll call you later." Erin quickly spoke to her boyfriend and hung up the phone, leaving Sherlock with a black face at the end of the call.
He understands Chinese!
Sherlock gritted his teeth and blacklisted his girlfriend's father, his future father-in-law. Well, he's already on Aiye's blacklist, and he's still at the top of the list.
Sherlock was still blackened one moment, but the next moment he noticed that there were multiple missed calls on the phone, and there were also double-digit unread text messages, and his face suddenly improved a little.
At the other end, Erin said to Aiye with tears and laughter: "Daddy, whether you accept it or not, Sherlock is my boyfriend." β
Ai Ye turned a deaf ear: "Linlin, who are you talking to on the phone?" Still in English? No, you're still crying. Who is it, how did I not know that you still have ghost friends. β
Erin was noncommittal about the last sentence, not only did she know how many friends Aiye had, but she was also under strict monitoring by Aiye. She felt that her father couldn't listen to what she said now, so she simply stopped saying it, turned her phone into her pants pocket and turned around to wash her face, Ai Ye followed her like a fart: "Linlin, you just came back to have a good rest, so give your mobile phone to Baba for safekeeping." β
Erin ignored him, and Ai Ye said to herself: "It's okay if you don't hand over the phone to Baba for safekeeping, then you sue SΓΉ Baba that you think Shama's face is a GAY now." β
The corners of Erin's mouth couldn't help twitching, and Ai Ye continued to make persistent efforts: "Otherwise, tell SΓΉ Ba Ba who you are talking to on the phone." Seeing that he couldn't take care of himself when he didn't fly the sword, he actually made his baby girl cry.
Erin knew her dad very well: "And let you threaten people?" β
Ai Ye "Xizi held his heart": "Linlin, how can you say that, is Baba such an unreasonable person?" β
Erin replied righteously, "Yes." β
Ai Ye: "......" Before he opened his mouth, the baby girl made up again: "If you want to say, 'Linlin, you don't love baba anymore', I advise you to change the word." By the way, Daddy, you really remind me of one thing, and the key word I can remind you of is, 'Why did I travel to a parallel universe on my twenty-fourth birthday, and you're not only sure about it, but you've had similar experiences before.'" β
Ai Ye: "...... Where did Baba remind you? β
Erin said ruthlessly and coldly, "Yours booh." β
Ai Ye: "...... Ba Ba go and take a look at the food. After saying that, he disappeared, and the soles of his feet were not so fast to be greased, don't you know that there is a sentence called "If you can run, the monk can't run the temple", and there is a sentence "You can't hide from the first day of the first month, but you can't hide from the fifteenth"?
Coincidentally, 221B Baker Street also ushered in a patriarch.
At the moment of the serial sniper murders, or even further along, when Sherlock and Erin went on a date at Lauriston Park, McCroft found the rare time to sit behind CCTV and observe his brother's first date with his brother's girlfriend in person.
In other words, Mycroft watched the first date of a young couple as a wonderful drama, and further said that he was still a little bit of schadenfreude. When Erin gladly accepted this Sherlock-style dating, McCroft had no regrets that it was impossible, but the British government had never expected what would happen next.
The moment Erin disappeared into thin air, Mycroft's heartbeat seemed to miss a beat, but it was only a seem, and Mycroft never let emotions dominate his actions. What should happen always happens, and so does it, but sooner or later, and what the British government has to do is to fix it when it happens.
The state machine was activated, and when the news was broadcast, it would only show ordinary people what the British government wanted them to see. As for the other traces, erase them, and this serial sniper case, naturally there will be a department he trusts to take over, in short, just solve it.
It was only after taking control of the situation that McCroft got up to visit his out-of-control brother on Baker Street, but as soon as McCroft stepped into the living room of 221B, he was keenly aware of the difference.
The living room was still like a hurricane, Sherlock was still curled up in the sofa, and the whole person was exuding a melancholy temperament of "unhappy", and after hearing the voice, he opened his eyes and gave his brother a condescending look, and an impatient greeting: "What are you doing here?" β
Mycroft quickly discerned the situation and gave Sherlock an official smirk, "I'm here to care about my lovelorn brother, it's over, isn't it?" β
"On the contrary, I think it's the beginning of a new chapter." When Sherlock said this, he didn't stare at his brother anymore, but at the phone. I don't know if it's a good idea, or if it's really fate, the next moment the phone rang, Sherlock quickly fished the phone in front of him, and waited for the bell to ring two more times, which was enough for him to routinely greet Mycroft's dieting results, and then connected the phone in Mycroft's suddenly sinking face.
"Oh, Linlin, I'm thinking about you." Not only did Sherlock's expression soften, but even the sweetness in his voice increased, and Mycroft rolled his eyes under his nose.
Erin on the other end of the phone also choked, if she wasn't sure she was calling Sherlock, she would have wanted to take the phone back from her ear and look at it again, but she quickly reacted: "Mycroft is next to him?" β
Sherlock's pretended 'tenderness' quickly smoothed out, and he pouted: "Why do you say that?" β
Erin blinked, "Isn't that obvious? β
Sherlock didn't like the "obviousness", and he wanted to choke when his girlfriend said, "But I'll just take your opening line as 'You miss me too, Sherlock.'" β
Sherlock: "...... Mycroft was on the side. β
"Say hello to him on my behalf, and how hard he's worked, I really didn't think about it at the timeβ" Erin was interrupted by a black-faced and disgruntled Sherlock, who glanced at Mycroft and said righteously, "Actually, based on my judgment of the sniper who has been sniped by some jealous man, the chaos he expected to cause was much more than two dead and two wounded, and I have reason to suspect that this is not the first time he's caused a mass panic." Check it out, I can guarantee that this sniper who belongs to the former French special forces must have a criminal record, and the precise selection of fatal injuries and leg injuries is not much difficult to find, for the doglegs of the British government. β
Mycroft glanced at his brother, who was precise, and then took the handle of the umbrella and began to fall silent.
Sherlock couldn't help but roll his eyes, and Erin on the other end of the line was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "You know your brother is right in front of you, right?" And I'm seriously considering whether I should hang up the phone and leave the separate space for you and Mycroft? Well, there's one more thing before I hang up, I think I should sue you, Mr. M's name is to consult criminals, and I think he's probably the one-"
"Mr. Senior."
"Mr. Senior."
The two of them were in unison again, in two parallel universes.