Chapter 36: Winterlock-Holmes

Winterlock Holmes, who was originally a member of the Royal Alchemy Laboratory, later left the laboratory like Sinkid for two reasons, the first is that he doesn't like the spotless life of scientific research, in his own words, running between the house and the laboratory like an earthbee every day, doing almost the same things, this life will kill him!

The second is that he might, probably, maybe, be the last human in the world who is still sucking the dust of dreams!

As mentioned earlier, many, many years ago, there was a kind of alchemy product popular on the mainland, called dream dust, and people who smoked this kind of thing would have a dreamlike feeling!

It's as if ordinary people can enter their own sea of consciousness, in a dream, he is a god, and he can do whatever he wants!

Later, this kind of thing has seriously threatened the rule of various empires, and almost overnight, all countries jointly declared that smoking, selling fantasy dust is a trigger for the law! Fantasy dust has become the first alchemy product in the history of the Faeron continent to be regarded as a forbidden product!

Although many people who are too addicted to it die because they can't get the Dream Dust to relieve their pain, in the end, time heals the wounds, and when the people who smoke the Dream Dust are almost dead, the matter is over!

And Winterlock didn't know where to get this ancient rumor, he likes to stimulate life, with his talent, he really let him research an alchemy product similar to fantasy dust, but in terms of effect, it is not as domineering as the lost fantasy dust.

Having said that, in the eyes of the head of the alchemy laboratory, Winterlock's behavior was simply an unforgivable sin! Every day was like getting drunk! Chaos and chaos! Eventually, after informing the king, this talented alchemist was kicked out of the alchemy laboratory! It also became the laughing stock of many alchemists!

Originally, when everyone thought that he would sink like this, Winterlock opened a private detective agency, and used his meticulous thinking and powerful alchemy to solve many cases!

One of the most famous cases, and the one that attracted the attention of King Arthur Pendrey, who had just ascended the throne at the time, was the "Half-Elf Finger" case that caused a sensation throughout Britain that year!

In a sense, after the current King Arthur and Arthur Pendrite officially became kings, Britain should be regarded as a subordinate state of the Elven Empire, one of the strongest empires on the mainland! Although the Elven Empire has not officially stated its position, Arthur Pendrey's biological mother is a member of the royal family of the Elven Empire!

Therefore, even Arthur Pendry has a certain status in the Elven Empire! This makes many humans with some Elven blood like to take refuge in Britain! Because most half-elves are not recognized by the Elven Empire.

Therefore, if they have no protection, they are the slave owner's favorite slaves! Because they are beautiful and do not age easily! And as long as they run to Britain, then according to the laws of Britain, they will officially become citizens of Britain, and any arrest or injury to them will be a provocation to the British royal family and the knight King Arthur Pendri!

Therefore, Britain has become a paradise for half-elves, but about seven years ago, that is, the year after Winterlock left the royal alchemy laboratory, six murders occurred in succession in Zemas, the capital of Britain, and the murders were all female half-elves, the cause of death was suffocation, and the little finger of the left hand was neatly cut off!

This made Arthur Pendley very angry, and ordered to solve the case within a limited time, but Zezra was so big and there were so many half-elves, he had no clue at all, so the chief of the garrison of Zemas at that time had no choice but to hire the already well-known Winterlock. As a result, it took him only three days to catch the prisoner and save the seventh half-elf who was about to die, even though her little finger had been cut off by then!

The prisoner was a woman, and the reason for killing the half-elf was because her husband was obsessed with the newly married half-elf and neglected her.

It is said that King Arthur planted a special product of the Elven Forest on the prisoner's body, a man-eating vine, and the vine will grow with human blood, body fluids, and internal organs, and the whole process is long and painful!

Since then, Winterlock has also become famous in Britain and has become the premier detective! To be exact, it should be the royal detective! Because he directly obeys King Arthur, which is also King Arthur's reward for saving the half-elves!

However, Winterlock did not change his life just because he became a great detective, when there is no case, he is still extremely lazy, sucking diluted dream dust every day, but as long as there is a case, he will become extremely energetic!

For example, now, he is lying on the sofa in the living room, and he has just smoked a little bit of dreamy dust on the coffee table, and his whole body is trembling slightly! The eyes under his eyelids are also constantly wandering! From time to time, he will moan softly.

"Bang!" The door was kicked open! It slammed into the wall! Winterlock was so frightened that he sat up! "Oh my God, Olena, won't you open the door with your hands?"

Olena gave Winterlock a blank look, "The Queen has ordered you to follow Duke Atwood to Araskey to handle the case!"

As soon as he heard that there was a case, Winterlock's whole person suddenly became energetic, and the sense of decadence brought to him by the dream dust seemed to have never existed!

"What case?"

Olena was about to say something, but when she saw the line of white powder on the coffee table, she was furious, bastard, "Didn't you say you wouldn't smoke it in the future?"

"Calm, calm~" Winterlock stretched his waist fiercely!"I've improved this thing, it won't cause harm to the body!Wait for me for a while, Winterlock staggered and stood up, I'll wash my hair, brush my teeth, and shave my beard! I'm going out, I have to clean myself up! I can't lose the face of the royal family!"

"This bastard hasn't changed at all over the years"

Olena sat down on the sofa with a bang, the warm sofa could still feel Winterlock's body temperature, the long smooth hair was spread along the shoulders, and the two pointed ears pushed out the hair! The tight-fitting uniform could better reflect her delicate posture, and there was a long sword standing next to it with exquisite patterns, which added a touch of sassiness! The only fly in the ointment was that she was tapping her left hand on the knee, without a little thumb, which couldn't help but make this picture that should be perfect have a trace of regret!

It's obvious that the seventh half-elf who was going to die that year was her, and it turned out to be like a movie, at the last moment, she was saved by Winterlock, and when she opened her eyes and saw the man with a hint of laziness in his eyes, she found that she had fallen in love with him!

But what she didn't know was that in fact, Winterlock just hadn't woken up that day.Later, she stayed by Winterlock's side and became his assistant, and in order to be able to help Winterlock, she continued to train herself to make herself stronger, and eventually became Winterlock's personal bodyguard and assistant!

On the steam locomotive leading to Arask, Winterlock scrutinizes the parchment that Atwood had brought.

"How's it going, have you found anything?" Although Winterlock's strength is average, almost like an ordinary person, but Atwood knows that this guy is able to strip the thread and find the truth, I'm afraid there will be few people in the whole of Britain who are stronger than him!

Winterlock was chewing on a vine branch in his mouth, a specialty of Lake Nethan, which had a somewhat fragrant taste, and Winterlock soaked it in water with Dream Dust, and then put it in a special metal box, which he could keep for a long time!

Hearing Atwood's words, he pulled the window of the car and spit out the vine branch that had been chewed in his mouth for a long time, and then said slowly, "The other party is very cunning and does not leave too many traces, and there is not a lot of information that can be seen from this piece of paper." ”

"To be sure, this man is not British!"

"Why?"

In the face of Atwood's question, Winterlock smiled confidently, "On this parchment, if you look closely, you can find that the magic array on the back, including me, that ordinary people will be dizzy at a glance, is very smooth, and it is not too much to call it a work of art, it is almost a masterpiece in one go! This can prove that there is no problem with his hand! But the text on the front, in many places, he does not write very smoothly, and this kind of unsmooth expression is very regular, and it will only appear on some words that are not commonly used!" ”

For example, the word "mecha" is said to be a phrase that rarely appears in ordinary life, so every time he writes these two words, his pen will pause slightly, which shows that he is not very proficient in this kind of writing. ”

"Then there is grammar and the use of some words, language is a kind of knowledge that is constantly progressing and reforming, and the language of Britain would be very different from that of a hundred years ago and today!

"So it's certain that this man is not from British, or rather, he has only been in Britain for a short time!As for the rest of the information," Winterlock rubbed the parchment again, "in terms of material, this parchment can be bought anywhere in Britain, nothing special, but the paper has been thinner by him, and it should be easy to fold into the shape of that triangular fluid!"

"Is this shape any use?" asked Olena, who had been silent, curiously.

He folded the parchment into this shape to look like the head of a sword, so that when he flew with the help of wind spells, he could tear the air with less effort! ”

Olena nodded.

"As for the rest, I think we'll have to find out until Arasch. ”