Zhang Heng and Sherlock Holmes rushed to the church as fast as they could, and the rusty copper lock on the door was obviously impossible to stop them, and Holmes knocked on it with his cane...... As a result, I didn't expect that the lock, which looked to be aged, had nothing to do.

Then he stepped aside and watched Zhang Heng take out his revolver and shoot at the lock, and the two finally rushed into the church.

Like Father Jacob's residence, there was no one here, and the moonlight fell through the stained glass on the benches, and there was an inexplicable silence.

"Find the entrance." Zhang Heng said a word to Sherlock Holmes, and the two dispersed.

…………

At this time, Erin Adler underground also heard the movement above, and she twisted her body, but now her hands and feet are tied, she can't move at all, and her mouth is blocked, so she can only make a whining sound.

Oblivious to the gunshots overhead, Father Jacob was standing at a wooden table praying.

But what terrified the singer was another person in the room, it was a man, between thirty and forty years old, his skin was a little white compared to ordinary people, he rarely seemed to see the sun, his beard looked like he hadn't shaved for a long time, his whole body was very thin, but there were a lot of muscles in his arms, he was wearing an old coat, and he was sitting on the edge of the bed at the moment looking at Erin with interest.

The priest seemed to know what the singeress was thinking, and said lightly, "They can't get in for a while, this secret room was built in the Middle Ages to give the people in the church shelter from the war, and even if they want to, they can't dig it up in a while." ”

The female singer finally stopped writhing when she heard this.

At this time, the pale-skinned man sitting on the bed spoke, and couldn't wait to say, "It's not okay yet, can I do it?!" ”

"Don't worry, wait." Father Jacob didn't look back.

He took out a bloodstained leather apron from under the table and continued to say to Erin, "You must be curious why we chose you...... It's all because of me, because of a mistake I made when I was younger. ”

"Can't we leave the story for later?" The pale-skinned man on the bed said impatiently, and he moved his gaze to the leather apron, and immediately became excited.

"It won't take much time," said Father Jacob, "remember how I taught you to be polite and patient." ”

The pale-skinned man on the bed closed his mouth again, but a sickly flush appeared on his face.

"Like I said, I made a mistake, I was only 19 years old at the time, and Father Matthew wrote to the church that there were not enough people on the Sacred Heart Church, but there were not many priests willing to come to the East End, and I was young and energetic, so I volunteered to help.

"I have to admit that at the beginning I was a little uncomfortable with life here, I came to London when I was 16 years old, and I have been with Father Eberson, and we have also been to the East End to visit the poor here, but this is completely different from living here, so I was a little depressed at that time, and I wanted to go back to Father Eberson, and I was afraid that people would think that I could not endure hardship, and then I met a girl."

"She is a servant girl in this area, her name is Emma, but she has just entered the industry, she is only sixteen years old, because her father died, and her mother ran away with another man, so she has to work in this business to support herself, but unlike other servants, she comes to church every week, and that's how we met."

"Probably because we were about the same age, she thought I was different from the rest of the church, so she would come to talk to me from time to time, and it happened that I was also depressed at that time, and many times she was comforting me." Father Jacob seemed to be caught in a memory.

"Father Matthew warned me, but I didn't take it too seriously, on the contrary I felt that I was doing a good deed, guiding a lost soul, and I was complacent about it, until one night, she came to me again, and it was late at that time, and she was beaten by a savage guest, and her arm was cut by a glass ballast, and I bandaged her, and she kissed me secretly while I got up, and I froze in place, and my brain was blank, and then she pounced, and I tried to push her away, but I didn't know why I couldn't use my strength, so, And then it just happened.

"She left before dawn, leaving me alone, and only then did I realize what I had done, and I regretted and embarrassed, and I knew that I had failed the expectations of many people, Father Eberson, Father Matthew...... Especially myself, for whatever reason, nothing should have happened that night, I wanted to fix it, and since then I have consciously begun to distance myself from Emma, she has come to the church to see me several times, and I have pretended not to be there, and at night I lock the door and no matter who knocks, she will not open it, so after a while, she finally disappeared from my life.

"I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking I could get rid of it, but I didn't expect it to be just the beginning of a nightmare."

Father Jacob said that the pale-skinned man on the bed urged again, "Shall we begin?" He said as he pulled a scalpel from under his pillow.

"Give me some more time." Father Jacob's voice was unmistakable, and the pale-skinned man had no choice but to put the scalpel back down.

"Almost a year later, I picked up a baby in front of the church, and a letter, it was not signed, but I could recognize it as Emma's letter, she said it was our child, there was no evidence, but for some reason, I believed what she said." Father Jacob paused, then repeated, "...... I just, believe what she says. ”

The singeress's gaze changed when she looked at the pale-skinned man on the bed again.

Seeing Erin's surprise, Father Jacob nodded and said, "That's right, he is the child back then, I sent him to the orphanage, but he didn't live well there, after he came out, I helped him find a few jobs in the hospital, but he didn't work long, it happened that five years ago, Father Matthew almost retired and moved to the suburbs, and I was left alone in the Sacred Heart Church, so I let him move to live below, I told him about me and his mother, I originally just wanted him to know his background, But he didn't expect him to believe that the reason why he had such a miserable life was entirely due to his mother. ”

"Can we start now?! Father Jacob. The pale-skinned man on the bed didn't know how many times he had been urged, his patience was running out completely.

"She's yours, I didn't let you call me father in the past, but now, you can call me father." Father Jacob said lightly.