151. The British Government
"What's the news about Jim Moriarty, Mr. Mycrof?"
During this time, the people around Jim Moriarty sensed that someone was investigating them, and Moriarty thought it was Hannibal, who knew that it was Mycroft and Will, who were even more difficult to deal with than Hannibal.
"The authenticity of this name is still under investigation, and there is a lot of power behind him, and if my agent is not mistaken, he is the boss behind the entire organization." McCroft pulled out a photograph from his briefcase, and it was none other than Mr. Jim Moriarty.
Will put down the case at hand for the time being, and took the photo, on which the person was wearing a black suit, looking like an elite, and his eyes were shining with a smart person. Such a person is really easy to recognize at a moment in the crowd, Will stared at Jim Moriarty's picture for a long time.
He bet that Hannibal was actually interested in Moriarti as a person, not the so-called forces behind him, but such a man had to pay attention, who knows if he would find Hannibal or him one day.
"Actually, I've always wondered why you suddenly cared about Jim Moriarty."
Mycroft was of course curious, and Will seldom showed his dedication to anything from the beginning, and Moriarty was one of them. He didn't know where Will knew about this man, but he knew that he was a dangerous person. But since it was Will who wanted to know, he also helped Will investigate. Now that the results are in, it's time to allow Mycroft to be a little curious.
Will shrugged, he wouldn't tell SΓΉ McCroft about Hannibal and Moriarty's private chat, after all, a man is a person in power, and Will is worried that he will not be wary of Hannibal.
Since Will didn't say anything, he didn't ask anything more.
"This Jim Moriarty, we have investigated that he has many identities, and Ancia has already recorded him among the subjects that need to be monitored, and he looks really dangerous."
Will curled his lips, "But even in danger, Mr. Mycroft can hold him in the palm of his hand, can't he?" β
Mycroft acquiesced to Will's words, in his opinion Jim Moriarty was just a clever clown on the stage, and Mycroft had many ways to deal with him, violent or non-violent, but since he was not causing any major danger and was not involved in the scope of Mycroft's jurisdiction, he was only monitoring Moriarty.
"What else do you have to do with this case?"
"The murderer's psychology is changing, he is starting to become arrogant, judging from the newspapers this morning, the content is not only to remind the 'criminals' in London, but also to show off, he wants to be recognized by the public, and it can only be said that the previous reports have angered him."
What was the previous report? Of course, it was those critical reports on him, the man's psychology did change a lot at that time, he was not willing to be lonely, and hoped to get everyone's affirmation and support.
"The time for the dual personality, the overlapping personality, and the current change is so short, I think there must have been someone who wanted to promote his ...... before that Personality fusion, so ......"
Will believes that a big reason why the murderer will merge his two personalities so quickly is that someone guides him, and this person is Mr. Jim Moriarty in the photo in his hand.
He had known Hannibal for a long time and must have learned a lot from him. Since the third case, the murderer's side seems to have lost Moriarty's shadow, and Moriarty's plea for Hannibal's help can only show that Moriati's psychological catalysis for the murderer has not yet been completed, and the phenomenon of releasing the caged beast has occurred, so when the psychological catalysis is interrupted, the murderer's personality has changed repeatedly.
The instability of his personality will affect the judgment of the murderer, and it will also threaten the safety of some ordinary people, if he can't tell what kind of "crime" is more serious, he may find anyone to do it at any time.
"There's another way to investigate, Mr. McCroft, you can tell Sherlock about the fact that the murderer is a dual personality patient, and every employer will regularly check their employees, and I think there will be an option for dual personality in the hospital's archives."
Will's expression was very stern, no one knew what kind of tricks this murderer had left, only to find him as much as possible, before he created even greater chaos.
Hannibal and Will thought the same, the murderer was a dual personality patient Hannibal had known for a long time, but it was because he had a dual personality that he was favored by the over-eyed Jim Moriati. Coupled with his knowledge of his work, Hannibal also thought of investigating the archives of major hospitals.
The only one in the family who could do this was Harold, so Hannibal went to Harold Lestrade and Tony Lestrade Jr. to help.
After all, they are brothers, and Hannibal's tone is a little more relaxed than when Sherlock comes to ask for help, and he doesn't think it's embarrassing to ask for help.
"So first of all, we need to find the employees of a few courier companies, and secondly, we need to look for their physical examination records in the archives of major hospitals in London."
This amount of work is actually quite large, but Harold looked at his computer, and he believed that the machine he and Tony completed would definitely be able to complete this kind of task in the shortest time, but what needed to be manual was that he needed to hack into the official website of each courier company to find the basic information of their employees.
"How long will it take?"
"Up to 24 hours."
Harold was full of confidence, Hannibal patted his former roommate on the shoulder, Harold seemed to have really found something he liked, although he looked tired, his eyes flashed with excitement. Hannibal had probably listened to Tony boast about what they had done and what they were about to do, and instead of reminding Harold that it was illegal to spy on the lives of the people of London, he looked forward to the completion of Harold's plan with interest.
According to Tony, they have failed many times, and each change will take a long time, and now they will be temporarily tested for the first version, and after this test they will temporarily recycle the code and make some adjustments.
According to Harold's idea, they wanted this artificial intelligence, called the machine, to monitor everything.
After a side knock, Will also knew that Hannibal had asked Harold for help, so that he would no longer need to make a move, and Will had been thinking about Jim Moriarty, the man who didn't seem to know each other and played his cards according to common sense, he and Hannibal were in a game, and Hannibal's advantage was that he didn't use his real name, and his age.
But if one day Jim Moriarty sets his sights on them as children, how will he face it?
They can't be on the back foot now, and this time Hannibal has to win.
"You've been a little too close to Mycroft lately, haven't you? Will. β
Suddenly the person sitting next to him startled Will, he blinked at Loki and said, "It's just that Mrs. Holmes misses me a little, she is an old man, and I should help McCroft accompany her." β
There was nothing wrong with what Will said, but it was obviously impossible to fool Loki, who would later be called the god of lies, and he raised his eyebrows and let out a chuckle, and said, "Really? Then he left, Will clenched his hand as Loki left, he didn't know what Loki was for, but he seemed to know something.
It is also not known how long he will be able to hide Hannibal.
The case is now in trouble, but Sherlock believes they are close to the killer, and now is the final race against the clock, Scotland Yard wants to win the gamble, and Sherlock wants to find the murderer.
In any case, both sides used all their thoughts.
The newspaper has caused an uproar in the society, whether it is for or against, it is always necessary to stand in line, and there are all kinds of discussions on major websites, some people support it from their own perspectives, thinking that what the murderer has done is conducive to the development of society, and those who have "crimes" will be deterred by him, but some people confirm that they can have vigilantes, but such vigilantes cannot be called vigilantes, he is already more terrible than those who are guilty.
Some people even said why he didn't slaughter himself, because he was the one who was the bigger sin now.
There are even people who want to follow, and now the public opinion in society is getting bigger and bigger, and the upper echelons of Scotland Yard can't ignore the scene, so the pressure on Lestrade is even greater, and his top boss still says that if he can't catch someone, he can go to be a traffic policeman.
The next 24 hours are very critical, as long as you find the employee's medical certificate, you can find the murderer with a dual personality.
While waiting for news from Harold, Sherlock checked the newspaper's surveillance cameras, and really let him find some clues.
Part of the news in the newspaper is placed under secret names, according to the order in which the newspaper sorted out the letters, he quickly found the back of the murderer, in Sherlock's reasoning, the murderer is not a person who will trust others casually, so he will not let others send the envelope to the newspaper, the person he trusts most will only be himself, and he will definitely act in person.
But the murderer is also very smart, although he doesn't trust others, but he knows how to confuse the public, during that time, there were a total of three people who had submitted anonymous letters, both men and women, if it wasn't for Sherlock to catch / a little bit of his character, it would be really easy to be deceived, after all, those letters are very similar, and it is common to be easily confused.
The person was found, but unfortunately the camera was not clear, and the man deliberately covered his appearance, so they had no way to get the man's appearance.
Sherlock thought of a way to narrow down the murderer, before he contacted Harold, his program had been successfully uploaded, and by the way, the information of all the courier company employees was also stolen, and there were still a lot of suspects left among the women in the place, Sherlock asked Harold to help make a screening, based on the outline of the murderer found from the camera.
That way, they'll be able to narrow it down.
In addition, they can also check based on the suspect's registered residence in the company, and the murderer could not have put the loot anywhere else, except for his own home, Sherlock could not think of any other place to hide the loot. The room in the photo is very dim, most likely a shady room, or even a basement.
So they need to find out who among all the suspects has a basement or is in the shadows.
There is also a clue from Mycroft, if the suspect is locked, then in terms of evidence, you can go to his overalls, Will believes that it is impossible for the murderer to destroy his overalls lightly, if his overalls are stained with blood, there is only one way, that is, to wash it, but no matter how it is cleaned, it can still be detected.
The hospital archives are not so easy to check, and Harold has his own machine qì run an intrusion test, finding out the information about the remaining suspects they need to find from the archives of major hospitals, and integrating them to find the person who really fits.
The process machine gives itself a deadline of one hour, and it informs its creator that it will need an hour to complete the task.
While waiting for an hour, Sherlock accidentally flipped over to an inconsequential case from Lestrade's desk.
It was the first case about the abused death of cats and dogs, Sherlock had swept this before, but because it was an inconsequential matter, he deleted it from his brain, and now when he saw it on Lestrade's desk, he felt a sense of disobedience, so he asked: "Detective, what are you doing with a useless case on the table." β
"When this case is over, I'm going to ask the children there again to see if anyone else hurts their pets, you should know that pets occupy a big place in the hearts of children, and this needs to be taken seriously."
In fact, if it weren't for his father, Lestrade wouldn't have thought of these things at all, and he couldn't recognize the place of pets in the hearts of the children, so he thought that after the case was over, he would take a little time to run over and ask in person to see if the matter had been resolved.
"It's worthy of Dad~!"
Sherlock teased Lestrade by the name of Little Raven, and his eyes swept over a word on the case, which caught Sherlock's attention.
In this case, it is written that all the dead cats and dogs are very cruel on weekdays, either biting this person or frightening that person, and even bullying the pets of other children in the vicinity, and the people in the neighborhood are still quite happy after hearing that someone killed them.
This case reminded Sherlock of the case at hand.
He slammed open the case of the first victim, Bill Moulton, and the place where they received the death of the cat and dog and the place where the first victim, Bill Moulton, died, were not very far away, and the map of the neighborhood came to mind when Sherlock closed his eyes.
If you walk from the place where Bill Morton died to the place where the cat and dog were killed, it would only take twenty minutes to walk, and most of them were alleys, and it was late at night, and not many people would notice him in the sparsely populated alleys on weekdays, so no matter what he brought back, no one would know.
So at the beginning, he regarded cats and dogs as a kind of temptation, and then gradually transferred to people, which should be said to be a kind of evolution.
Sherlock's idea is correct, it is the murderer who killed the cute cat and the dog, and Moriati, who is the leader of the way, is also very helpless about this, he is the first time he has seen someone who will take animals as the object of his punishment at the beginning, but the pace of men is fast, and he quickly shifted his target to people.
The more Sherlock thought about it, the more wrong it became, the connection between the two cases could not be ignored, he slapped the table and picked up the clothes he had put behind the stool and walked outside, Lestrade felt that something was wrong and immediately followed him, "What did you find?" β
Sherlock did not immediately answer Lestrade's words, but called Harold.
"Harold, help me find someone who lives near this address."
There were only two suspects living in this position, and the two were almost the same in size and height, so Harold immediately sent the information of the two people.
At the same time, he also informed Hannibal of Sherlock's situation, and Will, who was sitting on the sidelines, also knew in his heart that Sherlock must have found some favorable clues to tell this place so accurately. He peeked at Hannibal next to him, his brow not furrowed since this morning.
Hannibal first sent Moriati an address, which was the one Shylock had mentioned.
Moriarti over there was confused by Hannibal, this address is a big location where the murderer is, Hannibal can't rely on imagination to get it, but Moriarty's subordinates in the vicinity did not say that there were suspicious people in the vicinity for the first time, and he began to wonder how Hannibal knew.
Moriati had increased his manpower, and if his dear doctor did find anything, he would probably be on the spot, and that would be the time for them to meet.
Unfortunately, his estimation was wrong, Hannibal was not prepared to appear in person like the ogre case, with Shylock and Lestrade in front of him, he just had to sit at home and wait for news, and by the way, talk to Moriarty.
In order to prevent Moriarty from associating himself with Sherlock and Lestrade, he changed his IP address and sent an anonymous letter to Scotland Yard's mailbox about Sherlock and Lestrade, and told them that the killer was nearby.
The agents of Scotland Yard, who were anxious to find the murderer, did not doubt the authenticity of the anonymous news too much, and they would not miss a message.
It's not just Hannibal who did it, but Will writes that men like Jim Moriarty wouldn't have gone unnoticed about Agent McCroft's investigation, and when he was playing games with Hannibal, he had a 90 percent chance of suspecting the investigator of being "Will", a percentage that would have risen to 98 percent if he had decided that his psychiatrist was an adult.
"Mr. McCroft, please let your men into the following addresses and stand still."
Will is helping Hannibal to hide his identity, Will is very able to understand Moriarty's psychology, people like Moriarty will not give up the right to monitor the murderer, he must still be watching the murderer somewhere, and by the way, waiting for the appearance of the person who is playing with him, whether he wants to do it himself or win it over.
In order to help Hannibal cover up his identity and erase the remaining five percent of Moriarti's suspicions about the outside world's investigation of him, he asked Mycroft's agents to enter the surveillance area that Moriati's people could see, and disguised himself as the one who watched the results. Moriarty must have known about the storage of anonymous mail, which combined with the fact that Dr. Will's people were secretly helping his boss to watch the development of a qiΔ.
Will was a little angry that Hannibal was using his identity, but he didn't want Hannibal's game with Moriarty to hurt himself or even the family.
Isn't what Hannibal did to protect this home?
"The ogre has a heart...... Actually, it's the scariest thing. β
Will smiled, this was the real Hannibal, and the man he liked.
With Sherlock's help, the suspect has shrunk down to two people, and it has also shortened the time of the machine, and it only took three minutes to search all the files of the two people from a group of codes, and in one of the person's medical files, he found the doctor's diagnosis, which is potentially dangerous for a split personality.
Again, the person hasn't done a basic check-up, but that's enough.
"Sherlock, I've found it, David Daniel's diagnosis says there's a potential risk of split personality, the date on it is three years ago, I looked for information that he didn't have counseling, if there was a danger of split personality three years ago, I think three years will only make things worse."
A lot can happen in three years, especially for someone with an underlying split personality.
"David Daniel? I remember his courier company was ......" Sherlock said the name of one of the courier companies and analyzed them to Lestrade: "One of the boxes that the first victim had just entered the door of his home was the same courier company, and among the tracking numbers kept by the second victim, one was the same one two weeks before her death." So from the perspective of time and identity, the probability that David Daniel is the murderer is 90% for the time being. β
"Harold gave me the address of his house and checked to see if he had a camera in the room."
Sherlock's words were all brisk, in order not to startle the snake, he also risked his face to ask Harold for help, Harold made a gesture for Tony to help, if there was a surveillance camera, they would need to show David Daniel an illusion, so that there would be no scare.
David Daniel. - Will
Hannibal relayed the news to Moriarty, who received a report from his subordinates who were spying on David Daniel's house, that the Scotland Yard people had arrived, and that a group of unknown people were hiding nearby, who did not look like plainclothes, but who looked like people who were spying on them.
Jim Moriarty thought of this group of McCroft's agents as Hannibal's men, he gritted his teeth and seemed to underestimate the forces behind "Will", he thought that "Will" did not have many people available, but now it seems that the person is hiding too deeply.
Scotland Yard also got the same news, a name, the real name of the murderer.
Sherlock and Lestrade had recently arrived at the suspect's house, Sherlock had forcibly opened the door to David Daniel's house, the room looked so neat that they didn't find any basement after inspecting his home, Sherlock's phone didn't hang up, and the bear could hear his conversation with Lestrade.
When he heard that they hadn't found the loot in the basement, Hannibal answered, "Sherlock, check the floor in Mr. David Daniel's house, you might find something." β
Hannibal had carved out a world under the floor, and had put some food or unprocessed food ingredients in it, and if Sherlock and Lestrade hadn't found it above, then there was only one place left in David Daniel's house on the first floor that was very dark and cold, and that was underground.
They found a secret door under the floor of David Daniel's room, and after a glance at Lestrade and Sherlock, they decided to go down with both of them, before going down, Lestrade took out his hand/gun and opened the safety and held it in his hand, while holding a flashlight in the other hand, they were still unsure if the killer was at home.
"Sherlock, I didn't find David Daniel's attendance today in the courier company, and I suspect he's at home right now."
There is a surveillance camera in this home that Harold has done before this, but then he found out that he did not find the record of David Daniel clocking in and out of work today, and he asked the machine to look for David Daniel's shadow in the video taken by the surveillance camera and found nothing, so it is very likely that the man did not go out today.
Sherlock pointed to the dimly lit basement below, informing Lestrade that the person they were looking for might be down there.
Lestrade nodded, he said that he knew, if it was down there, they had already been startled by the movement just now, and the murderer was probably lying in ambush below waiting for them to go down.
"Be careful, Sherlock."
Sherlock asked to go down first, although he didn't use a gun, but his hand-to-hand combat was as good as Lestrade's, not to mention that he was still relatively young, so he thought that the murderer was a hand-to-hand combat type, so it was better for him to go down first, and Lestrade was responsible for answering and covering him.
When Sherlock took the first step, Lestrade regretted why he didn't call Donovan and them together, what he was thinking at the time was that if Donovan was added, it would be easy for Scotland Yard's own subordinates to take the credit, after all, they could do anything in order to be able to see Sherlock again, if that was the case, it would mean that they lost, and Sherlock would lose the case in the future.
Sherlock took the flashlight in his hand, his fingers on the switch of the flashlight, the flashlight he and Lestrade used was from Lestrade's car, it was modified by him and Tony, if it shines on the eyes, the strongest light will temporarily take away people's eyesight, and so on, if there is a fight, he can be regarded as hiding a secret weapon.
Lestrade also took the first step ten seconds after Sherlock went down, this basement was very dim, and it seemed to be a long distance, Lestrade took two quick steps to catch up with Sherlock's footsteps, Sherlock looked at him with some disgust, that means, didn't you tell me to cover? What are you here for?
Lestrade shrugged and winked playfully, I am your guardian, how can I explain to Mycrof if I can't take care of you.
Sherlock grinned, oh, it's Mycroft again.
In the deepest part of the basement they found the suspect, David Daniel, who was standing in a black tracksuit with a suitcase in his hand, as if he was about to go out to commit the crime but was interrupted by their arrival. The man stood there looking at Sherlock and Lestrade, clearly prepared.
"David Daniel put down your weapon, you're arrested."
"Don't do things for the people, police officers at Scotland Yard, policemen with black hearts. And you, my friend, your arrogance is your sin. β
The man was already crazy, he didn't have any way to escape, he was just thinking about how to put these two people into his booty, he had glanced at the two of them in a hurry, one of them was a policeman, and the other was like a private detective, an arrogant private detective.
Lestrade couldn't figure out the situation in the vicinity, and didn't dare to shoot rashly, and when David Daniel attacked, he first chose Sherlock, Sherlock tilted his head to dodge the man's punch, and then jumped back two steps, he was ready to attack, and the flashlight was still tightly held in his hand.
Lestrade wants to go up to help but is scolded by Sherlock, he can drag David Daniel alone, Lestrade just needs to find the right time to subdue David Daniel.
Sherlock went from dodging to attacking, and he was actually waiting for an opportunity to attack David Daniel with a bright light.
David Daniel's fists are very hard, Sherlock thinks that he must have bruises on his body, David Daniel has not escaped much benefit, Sherlock is not a vegetarian, after all, in the years of college he mainly studied boxing and other sports, rather than normal studies.
David Daniel decided that it was impossible to subdue the curly-haired man in front of him with his fists alone, so he took advantage of the darkness to take out his usual dagger from his pocket, and Sherlock tasted blood, and the dagger slashed through his arm. The same blood also stimulated David Daniel, who became even more excited, and Sherlock pushed the flashlight switch to the highest point, and a bright white light shone / out of the flashlight, illuminating David Daniel.
Taking advantage of the light, Lestrade took aim at David Daniel's dagger-gripping hand and shot him.
David Daniel let out a scream, the sound of metal falling on the floor, and Sherlock grabbed David Daniel's injured hand and threw him an over-the-shoulder throw.
When the handcuffs in Lestrade's hands clasped David Daniel's hands, the case was over, there were actually lights in the basement, but they were too dim, and David Daniel turned off all the lights in order to ambush them, and now they turned on the switch.
Lestrade was stunned, a wall was covered with clear glass, several of them already had owners, and the man's right hand was from Mr. Bill Moulton, a thief. The tongue is from Miss Kathy Brown, a man who lives by perjury. The eyes came from the cheater, Mr. Michael Hansen, and the other was from the fourth victim, Mr. Matthew Milton, a reporter who liked to talk panicked.
There was also a glass jar with a charge written on it that caught Lestrade's attention, "The one who teaches a man to be evil."
The person who gave the man the sin caught Lestrade's attention, but their murderer, Mr. David Daniel, was not prepared to explain who he was.
By this time the people of Scotland Yard had arrived, and they received anonymous emails one after another, but it was still too late for Lestrade and Sherlock to catch the culprit quickly.
"Boss, freak."
"Basement."
Donovan's face is not very good, partly because he lost the bet with Lestrade, and on the other hand, he is frightened by these organs in front of him, and there is still some difference between the photo and the real thing, isn't it?
"Boss, David Daniel's house is full of cops, and we think David Daniel has been arrested."
The smile on Moriati's face was slightly distorted when he received the news, and at the same time Hannibal's news came.
Are you satisfied with the result? Dear Jim. - Will
"Will" already knew the result, and this was the first thing that came to Moriarty's mind. The second is to think that it must be "Will" who is monitoring this alley now, except that no one can pay attention to this case, even if he is angry in his heart, Moriarti has to thank "Will", after all, he asked "Will" for help in the first place.
His original intention was to catch "Will's" tail, but now it seems that he has failed, and he can't catch "Will's" men and ask him, which will only make him and "Will" tear their faces even more.
Thank you very much, my dear doctor. ββJim
In fact, the most unexpected thing for Moriarty was that "Will" would use the power of Scotland Yard, he was wary of himself, and he also saw through his intentions, which Moriarty still had self-knowledge.
This time the temptation ended with Hannibal's victory, but Jim Moriarty wouldn't have left it lightly.
After investigation, they found David Daniel's overalls in the courier company where he worked, and although there were no blood stains on it with the naked eye, a large amount of blood residue was found on it, and the matching results were exactly the same as those of Mr. Matthew Milton.
And the murderer David Daniel also confessed to his crimes, so that the man who was called the criminal of the criminals was finally caught.
Unfortunately, when he was sent to prison, David Daniel took advantage of the carelessness of the escort to bite his tongue and commit suicide, and Lestrade did not ask about the largest glass jar kept in his basement in the end, which said that he would give people sinhahahaha
Unfortunately, when he was sent to prison, David Daniel took advantage of the fact that the escort was not paying attention to the escort and bit his tongue and committed suicide, and Lestrade did not ask in the end to find out the largest glass jar kept in his basement, which said that he would give people sinhahaha