"Sherlock, are you there?"

John shouted at the door of the living room, he had called Mannie to make an appointment, just like Erin said, Mannie had a crush on him, and he asked Manny out as soon as he made an appointment. Originally, he didn't plan to go back to 221B tonight, but when he and Mannie had dinner in the evening and were about to go to the movies, Mannie's company had something to do temporarily, and she had to rush back to the company. John didn't know where to go for a while, and he really wasn't so idle at this time, so when he received a call from Lestrade, John thought there would be some case, and as a result-

"Sherlock's girlfriend is back, isn't she?"

"Uh, how do you know?" He didn't blog.

Lestrade coughed, "Of course I have a special source of information, so Irene's back." ”

"yes," John asked, recalling the Scottish Yard squad's teasing of Sherlock's girlfriend, "you sound like you know her?" ”

"Huh? Don't you know? She used to live in 221B, and she lived there for about a few weeks. Lestrade flipped through the case files on the table, it was rare that there were no new cases today, he had been writing reports in the office all day, and it was rare to hear the exciting good news, he thought about it and asked, "Do you want to come out for a drink?" ”

John thought that he was fine anyway, and now he didn't know whether it was appropriate to go back to Baker Street, so he gladly agreed to Lestrade's invitation and went to the bar for a drink. John learned a lot about his roommate's girlfriend from Lestrade, "You're saying that her deduction was taught by Sherlock, why didn't I learn it?" John didn't know if it was disbelief or if he felt like he had been hit again.

Inspector Lestrade took a sip of his beer, "If you want to say that, I've known Sherlock for five years, and I don't even understand how he did it. Oh, and now there's one more Irene, God bless me. ”

John remembered the scene where he had been seen through by three in succession, and he couldn't help but feel sorry. But halfway through the drink, Lestrade was also called away by a phone call, John sullenly drank a glass of beer, and left the bar, and he couldn't help sneezing at the cool breeze outside, and by the time he came to his senses he was back on Baker Street. He didn't run into Mrs. Hudson downstairs, so John didn't know if Sherlock had returned, just in case he called twice at the door, but no one answered him.

John sneezed again, he decided to find two aspirins first, and when he came downstairs, Mrs. Hudson came up with a teapot, and John praised the landlady heartily, and after eating aspirin, he sat down on the sofa where he used to sit and drank hot tea, and asked the landlady, "Do you know where Sherlock went?" ”

Mrs. Hudson also sat down and replied, "Isn't Erin back?" The two of them went on a date. ”

John almost choked: "Dating?!" ”

"Sherlock said it himself," said Mrs. Hudson, grumbling happily, "they came back in the evening, and went out with a bunch of things, saying they were going on a date, and I don't think they were going to dinner, shopping, and going to the movies." You don't know, they went out on a date, and Sherlock went out in his coat and suit, and when he came back, he was a bum, and I don't even know what to say. ”

This is to go out and solve the case, John held the cup steady, and asked puzzledly, "Then why haven't you heard you mention Irene?" ”

"I mentioned it, you hadn't moved in at that time, and Sherlock was so angry that it scared me to death, and I didn't dare to mention it again." Mrs. Hudson was in a good mood today, "When Sherlock took you to see the house, I thought it was because Irene's departure hit him too hard, so he changed to a boyfriend. ”

John: "...... It's not funny at all. ”

"Oh, John, that's what I'll say." The landlady explained without hesitation, and when she saw the hole in the wall that had been punched by Sherlock, she immediately cried out, "What did he do with my wall again!" ”

John bowed his head and drank his tea.

Mrs. Hudson turned to John and said, "The next time he can't get along with the wall, John, you will tell Erin to take him to open the house!" ”

"Ahem." The former medic felt that he was frightened, and Mrs. Hudson, as if she didn't think she had said anything amazing, waved at John: "It's nothing, they've been to the Malmason Hotel, they're a sweet couple." ”

When Mrs. Hudson went downstairs to make dinner, John took out his phone and googled the "Malmaison Hotel", staring at the line of "Oxford Prison Converted Love Hotel" with a tangled expression, is it really fake? The barrage of new messages John received today was a bit of a dyspeptic for him, and he was thinking of his roommate's incomprehensible and emotionally intelligent accident on the one hand, and the story of the consulting detective wielding a whip and playing a role-playing game between the prison guard and the inmate. Well, Sherlock seems to have a whip, and he's seen him whip corpses with it. The whip whipped on the corpse, "Bang bang! ”

John shuddered and quickly closed the phone page, thinking that he might have drunk too much.

Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective who was "demonized" by the former military doctor, was indeed dating his girlfriend, but not really going on a date at the Malmason Hotel, but continuing the first unfinished date he had with his girlfriend before they separated.

Lawriston Park

It's still the same bench, and not far away there is still a piece of pork mixed with ice-poison, and a camera, of course, this pork is not the original piece of pork.

Sherlock also said very confidently: "Last time, I didn't finish it, and we must have a beginning and an end to everything." ”

Erin was already a little ashamed of not saying goodbye and being passive for six months, so naturally her boyfriend was whatever she wanted, and they needed some personal space. Well, relatively private space, Lawriston Park also has surveillance cameras, as for Aiye-

"Mycroft just exchanged "parenting tips" with my dad, and my dad's attitude towards you has taken a 180-degree turn, well, worthy of the mature, steady and sweet Mycroft. Erin was serious and half-nonsense.

Why is it half-nonsense, because this statement is based on facts, and the timeline goes back to when they went to the restaurant McCroft booked for lunch: When Erin and Sherlock got out of the taxi, Ai Ye, who originally raised her nose and eyes at Sherlock, did not smile, but she also made a reserved smile: "Xiao Xia, I reluctantly recognize you as Linlin's boyfriend." ”

Erin subconsciously glanced at Mycroft, who smiled very reservedly and couldn't see any flaws.

Sherlock doesn't appreciate it at all: "I think it's a fact that doesn't change for the will of external things. ”

Ai Ye not only didn't fry her hair, but also agreed: "What you said is not wrong at all. Far more than that, he repeated it three times before the meal, "Linlin, you must have a good relationship with Xiao Xia." ”

If you want to say that Ai Ye said the opposite, no, but if you want to say that you are sincere, then it is not, and Erin did not find any signs of speech, anyway, it is very wrong. Comrade Xiao Ai raised her eyebrows, and did not immediately ask clearly, but wanted to see how long her father could pretend, and she felt that it would not exceed the effort of this meal.

Sure enough, before the dessert came up after the meal, Ai Ye sent a message to his baby girl: "Linlin, have you decided to break up with Sherlock?" ”

Erin's expression did not change: "It's strange, why do you say that?" Didn't you bless us and let us have a good relationship? ”

Ai Yefeng's eyes glared: "But shouldn't you be working against me, and you must not have a relationship with Sherlock?" ”

Erin still doesn't quite understand her dad's logic sometimes: "Huh? ”

Ai Ye didn't hesitate to convey the truth to her precious girl: "That's what Mycroft said, children in the rebellious period always do it against their parents, so he only agrees to your relationship now." ”

Erin wasn't surprised by her father's thinking, she just thought that McCroft probably didn't say that, but it just became what he understood in Aiye's ears. As for the last half of the sentence, Erin said "hmm" in her heart, she was skeptical.

It was then that Erin noticed that Sherlock's fingers were regularly tapping on the table, and the Morse code translated it like this: "So what is this way of 'speaking' that I don't know?" It's funny. ”

Mycroft also pretended to speak: "We might as well have a chat before the dessert comes up." Mr. Ai, I wonder how long you plan to stay in London? Please be sure to let me entertain you as a landlord. ”

Sherlock, a true rebellious child, demonstrates what it means to go against his brother: "I've been listening to you since I was a child. ”

Ai Ye glanced at Mycroft enviously, and continued to say to his precious daughter: "See." ”

Sherlock continued to type Morse code on the table: "What? ”

Erin didn't want to speak.

Mycroft's smile was smiling.

Fortunately, dessert came up at this time, but on the whole it was really a very disturbing meal. As soon as Ai Ye wanted to say something after the meal, Erin quickly spoke: "Daddy, I'll think about your mention carefully, you have to give me time." She was so irresponsible to stuff her dad to the landlord McCroft, and dragged her boyfriend on a date.

Sherlock raised an eyebrow.

Erin laughed and filled in the 'parenting tips': "He thought I was going to him like you did with Mycroft, so I told him that I needed time to get me into a rebellious period." ”

Sherlock rolled his eyes, "Boring. ”

Erin buried her face in the scarf she was wearing, and her voice came out a little indistinctly: "So, let's talk about something that isn't boring, consult the detective, how about consulting the criminal?" ”

"There is no doubt that he is a genius, an incomparable genius of crime, and at the same time an elegant madman." Sherlock's eyes lit up, "As we know, he's a consulting criminal, counseling about crime-related activities, down to ordinary crimes, poisoning—he murdered a child with Botox twenty years ago; Falsifying the murder as an accident - he was the more senior gentleman in the murder case with a pacemaker; The falsification of works of art, the case we investigated and the loss of cultural relics in museums, was planned by him, and so on, and even using the chess pieces in his criminal network to change the political landscape of a country. Before that, not only Scotland Yard, but also the police in other countries knew nothing about him! Also, there's one more thing you see quite right. ”

Erin was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Do you mean he has a crush on you?" ”

Sherlock glared at his girlfriend, "Irene! ”

Erin pulled her scarf down and turned her head to wink at her boyfriend, "Didn't he pretend to leave you his phone number?" ”

"How are you, oh, do you remember the plot?" Sherlock thought for a moment when he finished speaking, and Erin pointed out something of the same nature: "Just as you remember that we didn't belong to the same parallel universe, so does Mycroft. I think this should be something we knew and believed in advance, so we didn't fix it when the two parallel universes fused. It's really amazing," said Erin, her eyes lit up like bright stars hanging in the dark of night, and her eyebrows fluttered.

"Now I have seen three parallel universes, and there is one that I know but have not been to, and I told you that I stayed in the parallel universe for sixteen hours, and I now know that it is also the world in which a movie is located, but because of my intervention, it has undergone a drastic change in the fulcrum, that is to say, it has become a new parallel universe."

"Your father obviously has something to hide in the jade slip you gave you, at least he didn't mention it at all about why you and him were able to travel through time and space! You didn't figure it out, but now you're interested in exploring new parallel universes, which is obviously stupid! Sherlock looked puffed, "And your father's lover is strict, you should find him a psychiatrist, immediately!" ”

Erin sighed, "Do you need to find one for Mycroft too?" ”

"I'm serious!" Sherlock glared at his girlfriend with a gloomy face, and Erin moved to his side, closing the small distance between them, and reached into Sherlock's coat pocket and took the hand he had copied in his coat pocket.

Sherlock symbolically struggled, and let his girlfriend intertwine his fingers.

Erin was silent for a moment before she said, "A whole new world, Sherlock, is waiting for us to explore. ”

"We?" Sherlock repeated the word, holding Erin unconsciously hard, "There's no 'we' there, only 'me'. ”

"So you mean, you're not willing to explore a new world with me?" Erin took in the changes in Sherlock's expression and said slowly, "Of course, who knows how likely this is, like I didn't foresee that I would see you again because of the fusion of two parallel universes. She sighed fakely, "If you don't want to—"

"Don't be stupid! I thought there was nothing new under the sun, but now, lo and behold, ghosts, painted souls, paper figures, demons, parallel universes, etc., this series is enough for a magnificent symphony concert! "Sherlock, this boring Death Starman, he's almost jumping up with joy, okay? While Erin was still around, he hadn't used nicotine tablets at all, because he didn't need their stimulation to get excited. But after Irene's departure, London became the same as before, nothing new, but the appearance of the consulting criminals made him excited again, but now there was a wider new world waiting for him.

Sherlock couldn't help but hug his girlfriend and kiss him, lips, cheeks, and forehead. His iris eyes were hung with rainbows under the light of the lit up street lamps, and his childish face looked innocent and sincere, Erin was infected by his love, and took the initiative to lean over and kiss his eyes, and touched the curls that seemed to jump up with the owner's love, and said with a subtle expression: "The hairline saving prescription I prescribed to Mycroft has a good effect, right?" ”

"Humph!" In the next second, Sherlock turned into a big cat with teeth and claws, and snorted and turned his face away.

Erin stopped poking Sherlock's family genetic scars, and by the way, pulled back the topic of consulting criminals that was originally talked about: "You say I saw him, what do you mean?" ”

Sherlock continued, "His criminal web is the web he weaves, and he is the spider at the center of the web. ”

Erin looked peaceful, and after experiencing Silent Hill, she felt more about human nature, which made her mood change more or less. If she saw Moriarty again now, she wouldn't be as surprised as she had been at the chilling blackness of humans. "So, the game between you isn't over yet."

Unlike Erin, who looked calm, Sherlock's eyes lit up: "Yes." ”

Erin nodded, remembering that in Silent Hill, the town of twisted faith had finally been burned to ashes by the fire from the ground, and that before that, the Berserks had been devoured by the ghosts of those they had "purified" with hatred and pain. And now that Moriarty wanted to burn Sherlock, Erin lowered her eyes, hiding the fire burning in the abyss under her eyes. When he spoke again, his tone became brisk: "Is the real yàn ready?" Hmm, the case is actually settled, right? ”

Sherlock is clearly good at conversation: "Six-point case. ”

At this time, Irene's mobile phone rang, and she took it out of her coat pocket and said helplessly, "It seems that we really should go." ”

Erin answered her father's call and spoke—"Sherlock and I are doing a case analysis, and now it's fine, and we're going to go back." Yes, Sherlock goes back to Baker Street, and I'll go look for you. Ai Ye also asked her to reassure again and again before hanging up the phone, as soon as Comrade Xiao Ai lowered her head, she saw that her boyfriend's face had turned stinky, and she sighed: "I will have a good talk with my father." ”

"You'd better do it."

Erin felt as if she was really being splinted.

They finished the real yàn from beginning to end, and when they left, they didn't forget to take the piece of pork with them. At this time, it was completely dark, and the street lights in the park had already been lit, and the place where they did it was not very remote, but it was so coincidental that they walked along the path for a while, and they heard a small episode, thanks to their keen hearing.

When they passed, no one spoke.

When he got to the next streetlight, Sherlock spoke first: "Extramarital affair." ”

Erin buried her face in the scarf and silently answered: "Boss and female secretary." ”

Neither of them seemed to be bothered, but when they got to the place where they could take a taxi, they didn't say anything more.

The two men parted, and Sherlock returned to Baker Street with the ice-infused pork and camera gear, while Erin went to the hotel where they were staying to find her father.

When Sherlock returned to Baker Street, John was still fiddling with his blog in the living room, and when he saw Sherlock come back, he subconsciously looked behind him, "Erin didn't come back with me, John." ”

John's gaze fell on what Sherlock was carrying, "Uh, what are you carrying?" ”

Sherlock absentmindedly replied, "Pork." ”

John didn't really want to know what this pork was for, probably the same as the human head in the refrigerator and the eyeball in the microwave that appeared in the kitchen from time to time. The former military doctor can now deal with it relatively calmly, and it's just pork! Still, "Aren't you dating your girlfriend?" I listened to Mrs. Hudson. ”

Sherlock casually threw the piece of pork into the refrigerator, observed the distribution of saliva from the skull in the refrigerator, and threw his roommate an affirmative word: "Yep."

Going on a date with pork? John couldn't figure out what kind of date this was, and he said in a ghostly way, "You have a whip, don't you?" I mean the whip you used to whip corpses. ”

Sherlock closed the refrigerator door and refuted his roommate's IQ as always: "John, what boring thing is your little head thinking about?" ”

"Sex, you and your girlfriend ......" curiosity kills the cat, John has also been troubled by this question for a long time, plus he drank a lot of beer and ate two aspirin, so he blurted out without thinking about it. But when asked, John regretted it, "Well, when I didn't say it." ”

However, John found that his roommate did not refute at the first time, or anything, and the consulting detective was stunned for a few seconds, and then walked through the living room and went back to his bedroom without saying anything.

John couldn't figure out what was going on?

On the other side, Erin was having a long talk with Ai Ye, Ai Ye touched Erin's hair, and her expression was no longer a cold style in front of outsiders, or the funny style that has always been in front of Erin, he was just an ordinary father, with love and a little imperceptible loneliness in his eyes: "Linlin, your crossing will not stop, you will not know what you will encounter in the future, and it is even possible that you will stay in another world for another day, and this world will pass hundreds of years, and when you come back, the grave of Sherlock Holmes will grow grass." Okay, this example may not be appropriate, but I just want you to know that I don't want you to be hurt, and that a long pain is better than a short one. ”

Erin stared at Ai Ye thoughtfully, and Ai Ye's conditioned reflex was weak, and at this time, Erin's mobile phone prompted a new text message. Sherlock texting her? Erin looked down and coughed in shock.

"Do you want to me? ――SH”