"Eh, eh! Lisa, look at that! ”

Sissi and Lisa stood in the street together, excitedly pointing to the army coming towards the end of the street.

The infantry marched down the street in three columns, loaded with loaded guns. They are clearly an elite unit of professional soldiers.

Their steps are strikingly uniform, as if they had been copied and pasted. The sound of uniform footsteps was like a herd of bison running on migration, making a rumbling sound, and even the earth trembled faintly.

At the back of the military column, there were the most advanced mechs in Britannia, one after another like ancient beasts, with the tremor of the ground with every step.

In fact, in a sense, this mecha should not be called a mecha, it should be called a power exoskeleton. Because compared to the mecha that used to be more than ten meters in the past, these mecha are only about three meters.

Tesla originally designed the mechs for agriculture, public transportation, and engineering use, so he designed multi-legged structures, and in order to meet the engineering needs, some mechs were designed to be very large. Mainly at that time, the public transport system was not as developed as it is now, and the multi-legged system could adapt to many terrains.

So of course, such a system also extends to combat mechs. At that time, people were still in a state of exploration for combat mechas, so it was a stage where mecha forms were blooming.

There are giant mechas with a height of more than ten meters, as well as excellent bionic biomecs such as scorpion-shaped mechas.

However, as the world war progressed, the size of the mecha became smaller and smaller. Because people have found in actual combat that large mecha not only does not increase too much combat effectiveness, but will have many drawbacks. One is the cost problem, the second is the flexibility problem, the third is that the body size is too large, it is easy to become a target on the battlefield, and the repair after damage is also a problem.

With the progress of the times, the mecha of this size that is now displayed in front of Sissi and others has become the best size of a combat mecha.

The body is flexible, and the armor can be stacked thicker. In the past, some of the armor was abandoned due to power, but as the size of the mecha decreased, a more powerful power system could naturally provide heavier armor.

Although it cannot carry the huge number of weapons of large mechs like in the past, it can be mass-produced, and the actual combat will not be much weaker than the large armor.

The land warship was retained as a large combat platform, and it was still a key weapon of mass destruction in this era.

But now it is obviously impossible to drive into the city.

But even on the outskirts, the guns of land warships could still penetrate any corner of the city.

In fact, Mycroft also mobilized one cruiser and three frigates to defend the imperial capital.

"That's the latest mech, right?" Sissi asked, "Looks like she inherited the name of the Storm Mecha." ”

She said excitedly, "It's beautiful, the armor is very heavy, the custom weapons are also very rough, and the lines are also very abortive." It's just not as good as "grace". ”

"Grace" is the name of the mech she harvested earlier, and it was also given by her. Not because she thought the mech meant "grace", but because of the name of a gospel song she loved very much, called "Amazing Grace".

Char's grace to Sissi was a little higher, about eight meters. Tony himself is an admirer of small powered exoskeleton armor, and almost all of his armor is a small powered exoskeleton.

These large mechs were designed to cope with the dragon's sheer size. Secondly, the mechs in the Grace series are equipped with a stance defense system and a self-repair system, and the power system is not to mention, so you don't have to worry about the rest of the problems at all.

Pedestrians on both sides of the street hurried back to their homes in fear, so the two of them stood abruptly when they stood still.

The officer who was following the army spotted them, and he shouted.

"The ban was imposed throughout the city, and emergency urban offensive and defensive drills began. All residents of the Imperial Capital, please go back to your houses and close the doors and windows to prevent accidental injuries from stray bullets! ”

"Okay, what kind of city drills are you doing, can't you go to other cities?" Sissi muttered, "Do they know how much money they have to lose if the entire imperial capital is suspended for a day?" ”

"Let's go." Lisa came back to her senses from the dark clouds in the sky and said, "Things seem to be a little in trouble, let's hurry back to the villa." ”

Sissi looked at Lisa, her expression was heavy, it was the first time she had seen her show such an expression.

She slowly raised her head to look at the dark sky at the moment, the dark clouds had been dense for a long time, and the torrential rain remained at a stage where she wanted to come to the future.

She doesn't know magic, but her talent for magic is among the best in the world. Therefore, she could clearly feel the gradually changing aura around her.

Thinking of the abnormal state of these armies suddenly entering the imperial capital, it is obvious what happened.

It will definitely not be an invasion by the army of an enemy country, so there is a high probability that it is something more supernatural.

She is very receptive to these things, as she is a supernatural creature herself.

"The storm is coming." Sissi's gaze shone with an unknown light.

She turned her head, "Let's go, let's go back to the office first." ”

Lisa nodded, and they slowly walked off the street and down the street back to the office.

The streets were littered with troops with bullhorns and began to hail everyone on the street to come home, and even began to drive and blockade them, causing Sissi and Lisa to make a few detours to reach their office.

But when she arrived at the office, there were already several people standing in front of her office.

It was Sherlock, Watson, and Locke.

"What an accident." Sissi curled her eyelids and teased, "I didn't expect the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes to come to my small office." ”

Sissi's office consults everything, and sometimes she has some business conflicts with Sherlock Holmes's office.

Not much, of course. Sherlock Holmes didn't do it to make money, just to satisfy himself. Sissi had a similar reason, but she charged much more than Sherlock Holmes.

Living in the same city, and the business is still similar, of course there will be some intersections.

"I don't want to talk nonsense with you, Akasya." Sherlock said directly, "I know you have a lot of mechs there, and there will be a lot of trouble going to happen next, so lend it to us." ”

"Hmph, if you use it for you, you will use it?" Sissi said unhappily, "I'm all collectibles. Do you know about collectibles? ”

After a pause, she said, "How do you know I have a lot of mechs?" ”

"The biggest financier on the black market is a very beautiful girl with dark green hair, and she is accompanied by a very good maid." Sherlock looked at Sissi, and then at Lisa on her side.

At this moment, Lisa also happened to be wearing a very beautiful maid dress.

"I'm going to have to make a disguise next time." Sissi muttered.

"Now that the army is in, what can I do with those old antiques?" She said.

"The army is there to deal with those things, but we also have to have something that we can protect ourselves."

"Tell me first, what's going on?" Sissi said with interest.

"Remember the news of that serial murder case?" Sherlock said.

Sissi raised her eyebrows, "Can he make such a big fuss?" ”

"He's doing an ancient magical sacrifice ritual. He was going to summon something from hell. Sherlock slowly looked up at the sky, "And unfortunately, he succeeded." ”

Sissi opened her eyes, looking shocked.

Just when Watson and Locke thought she was shocked that hell really existed.

Unexpectedly, she shouted directly with remorse.

"I would have sold the house if I knew it, but now that this kind of thing happens, the house price will definitely fall!"

"Is this the time to worry about housing prices?" Watson complained.

"I thought you'd think I'd fool you." Sherlock said with an eyebrow raised.

"What a damn guy!" Sissi gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, her eyes full of murderous intent, "I knew I should have killed him when I saw him before!" ”

"You didn't do anything when he wanted to kill you before, but you were so angry that it affected your house price." Lisa said helplessly on the side.

"You've seen him before?" Sherlock was keenly aware of what Sissi's words were saying.

"He played a game with me." Sissi said.

"Giving you a choice between two pills?"

Sissi nodded.

"You won?"

"No, I lost, but he cheated on me." Sissi was not convinced, and said, "Both of his pills are poisons. ”

"You've been rescued?" Watson asked with a frown.

"No, I got some sleep." Sissi said seriously, "My body is better. ”

"But the poison has killed five people." Locke said faintly.

"The potential of the human body is limitless." Sissi said seriously, "Don't stay up late, as long as you go to bed on time and don't stay up late, you will have a healthy liver, and the liver is the most important detoxification organ in the human body." ”

She sighed and said, "The vast majority of people in this world don't care much about their bodies. Smoking and drinking and staying up late will damage your liver, and it is normal for you to be poisoned. ”

"A neurotoxin, similar to tetrodotine venom, can cause respiratory paralysis and eventually suffocation." Sherlock said quietly, "If your liver can metabolize this toxin, it probably needs to be a non-human research institute." ”

Sissi raised her eyebrows, "I was very angry at the time, and the potential of people in extreme anger is limitless. ”

Watson and Locke both looked at the girl in front of them with a serious nonsense look speechless.

"So. You are representing "greed". Sherlock muttered softly, "No wonder they would choose a place like the Imperial Palace." Maybe it's because you're not dead that their plans have gone awry. ”

"Are you insulting me?" Sissi was keenly aware of the meaning of Sherlock's words, "What do you mean by greed?" ”

Lisa nodded approvingly, "Very apt." ”

"Lisa!" Sissi said angrily, "Am I called greed? I'm called motivated! ”

But Sherlock apparently didn't listen to her, and he fell into a kind of contemplation.

Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply, and he froze in place.

After a moment, he excitedly turned his head to look at Watson.

"John, we seem to have overlooked something."

Watson was stunned for a moment, but still said, "What? ”

This ritual is to select people for sacrifice according to the criteria of the seven deadly sins. But that doesn't mean you have to kill only seven people, does it? Sherlock said.

After a pause, he continued, "Of the seven people, we found six. So far, the only known conditions for sacrifice are "suicide" and not "discovery". This means that the killer can provide himself with time by hiding the body.

In this case, isn't the discovery rate of this body a bit high? ”

Watson seemed to realize this, and his pupils shrank slightly.

"What do you mean......"

"In this case, there is generally a high probability that it will be...... These corpses were deliberately let us find. Sherlock muttered softly.

Watson and Locke froze in place, and an inexplicable chill gradually rushed from the tail vertebrae to the door of their heads, and goosebumps rose all over their bodies......

If this guess is correct, then it proves that the murderer has something he wants to hide......

"What a cunning fellow."

Sherlock, on the other hand, had goosebumps as well, but because he was excited.

His eyes lit up with excitement.

"The world is getting more and more interesting......" (end of chapter)