Sherlock said that there are only a few people who can do this kind of thing. And Augustine the Great is definitely the most suspicious of them all.

So what has always bothered him has never been who is behind all this.

It's motivation!

What kind of huge interest can make an old man who has stood at the pinnacle of power for decades suddenly show a different eagerness and irritability.

Sherlock had thought about the political conflict between the Holy See and the government, about the military control of the Redek Strait, and even about the old man's madness and wanting to delay the papal inheritance for ten or twenty years in this way.

But in fact, even if he is as smart as him, he has forgotten a motive that has been put on the surface all along, but has made the entire empire subconsciously forget.

It's obvious to the extreme, and it's simple to the extreme.

Augustine the Great is too old. He won't live for a few years.

People are afraid of death!

Some people may say that they are not afraid of death, but when the body gradually ages, health becomes a memory, and as time goes by, you can clearly feel that you are stepping towards death.

As an intelligent being, you are bound to be afraid.

Augustine the Great was also human, he just wanted to live, and that was the motive for everything.

Therefore, he wants to reopen the [Life Extension Trial].

The premise for this experiment to begin is that Professor Darwin's [Soul Vision] must fail!

Because if he succeeds, then it is impossible for all the people in the empire to abandon the results of this experiment that will change the course of human history. It's not about money or power, it's about the whole race.

With the Imperial Army set to take over demons in large numbers, the tide of battle on the Hell's Gate frontline will be reversed at an unprecedented rate, and humanity finally has a chance of regaining its throne as the world's master.

Under such a premise, the [Life Continuation Experiment] must be postponed to a period that he could not accept?

He is old and can't wait for a few years, even if some devices in the life science academy can barely maintain people's lives, it is only when their own organs still function.

And aging is always the most serious disease that cannot be cured.

A man who has guarded the empire all his life, he can lead the whole world through the darkest era, but he will eventually be defeated in the face of his own death.

Some ironic, some embarrassing, Sherlock habitually took out a cigarette when he thought of it, but as soon as he put it in his mouth, he suddenly realized that this was a lady's room

But just as he was about to take the cigarette down.

"Click~" sound.

Erin, with a lighter in her hand, leaned over to light the cigarette with great charm, and then continued:

"As for the assassination in London, the reason is very simple."

"Because the Holy See invested in a soul visualization device?"

Erin was stunned, as if she didn't expect Sherlock to guess this, but this surprise was instantly drowned out by the smile in her eyes: "Yes."

You should know that this experiment was rejected before Professor Darwin became dean.

And the reason why it was able to restart again afterwards was not because the old professor sat in the dean's seat, in fact, Dean Darwin was not very good at the operation of funds and sponsorship and other things except experiments.

Therefore, his first experimental funding actually came from the Holy See. Even, over the years, the Holy See has invested an astronomical amount of money and resources in this experiment. ”

I have to say that if other people heard this, they would be extremely puzzled, because most people can't understand why the Holy See invested in this experiment?

The contractors under the command of the Holy See are their main combat force, and the soul visual device can achieve mass production of the contractors beyond the level.

Isn't this self-digging grave?

But on the contrary, only those who do not know the true strength of the Holy See will feel that the number of contractors will have an impact on its foundation. In fact, the number of contractors does not affect the security of the city except for the city.

Civilians could not imagine the difference between a clergyman and an untrained contractor.

And the soul vision device can't be like a telephone or a steam locomotive, gritting your teeth and saving a few years to buy one.

And most importantly. The Empire is shrouded in holy light.

Under the holy light, the third-order Great Demon could not tear open the void crack, which meant that as long as the Holy See still controlled the Demon Breeding Ground, it would always control the promotion path of the contractor.

Just as after obtaining the qualification to practice medicine, no matter how much you toss, you can only belong to the hospital in the end, then the more contractors, the more people will inevitably become believers in the Holy See, this phenomenon may not appear at first, but after twenty or thirty years, it will become an unstoppable trend, and at that time, the foundation of the Holy See will not only be impossible to shake, but will become more and more stable.

"To be honest, in fact, at the beginning, I thought that the old guy who had been an emperor for decades was a little crazy, but hearing you say this, I seem to admire him a little." Sherlock slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, and he even felt that there was something beautiful about this practice that he could understand.

Since you have done it, you have to do it to the extreme!

Since we want to terminate this experiment, then we will kill investors, experimenters, and beneficiaries from beginning to end! Then by the way, the whole project was shaped into a failed joke, and for the sake of insurance, the results of the experiment were burned, and in this process, it was natural to promote the vice president of the Academy of Life Sciences to the top position, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the next [Life Extension Experiment], and at the same time to hold the control of a branch of the Academy of Sciences in their own hands.

And under this premise, trying to kill the Holy Son does not seem to be a hasty and abrupt idea, but a logical operation, because the failure of the soul visualization experiment must be the most cruel blow to the Holy See, and the Holy See will definitely launch the most crazy revenge.

A month earlier, at that small coffee table on Baker Street, Moriarty had said he was looking into the fall of the airship.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see who the murderer is, so why do you need to investigate?

Now that I think about it, the sentence "When you find the key point, the clue will be wiped out" suddenly became extremely gloomy and bloody.

Who the hell is killing people.?

Is it really this simple method of erasing the killer in order to cover up the clues?

Or is this the reason why the two sides are carrying out the most brutal reduction of each other's power?

Anyway, if you want to take revenge on me, it is better for me to pull out a bigger stage directly, the Holy Son will kill if he kills, that is considered to be earned, it is better not to kill, anyway, under the cover of the airship falling incident, no matter who died, it seems so forgivable.

That's it

Sherlock couldn't help but feel that because of the name of that experiment, the whole event suddenly turned around, and while admiring Augustine the Great's extremely aggressive strategy, he couldn't help but mutter. It seems that Moriarty's guy doesn't seem to be a poor boy who even needs his own maid to carry when he runs, and in this kind of big event, the bloody methods he shows are no worse than those of Augustine the Great.

With the last puff of the cigarette exhaled, the thoughts in Sherlock's eyes gradually converged, and then he looked at the extremely beautiful, but extremely mysterious woman in front of him.

"What about you? You asked me to come, is it really just a glass of wine? ”

"Or else?" Erin asked, tilting her head.

"You said, you're a businessman." The woman in front of her was just wearing the most casual home pajamas, as if she could pick them up as long as she stretched out her hand, but Sherlock's expression was extremely cautious: "The name [Duncan] is very important, and the name [Life Continuation Trial] is also very important.

You should know the importance of these two names, you can't give them to me for nothing. ”

"Haha." Erin drank a full glass of wine, looked slightly drunk, and her cheeks were slightly red: "Don't always think of me as a bad woman, I just think you're very unusual and terrifying bounty hunter in Scotland Yard, killed a clergyman of the Inquisition Division with a pistol, the soldiers who came back from the front died after touching you, and a papal administrator also died inexplicably after coming into contact with you." ”

She should be drunk, and then lay on the table, looked at Sherlock with a smile, and continued in a vague tone:

"The Son is your friend, the Saint is your landlord, Nightingale treated you alone in a hospital, few people survived the fall of the airship, you were one of them, Baskerville came to you, but you are alive and well, a machine of this size can be made by you, under everyone's noses, dear Mr. Holmes, don't you find that you are really unusual.

Isn't it reasonable for me to be a little more interested in such a person? ”

She said in a blur, her eyes were already drunk, but the words in her mouth made Sherlock more and more startled. There were many of those things that even the Holy See or the government couldn't find out, but she knew them all.

This woman really deserves a terrible evaluation.

However, it was such a woman who, after seeing Sherlock not responding for a long time, finally burst into a smile drunkenly:

"Okay, well, I know I can't hide it from you, I do have a very small favor that I want you to help me.

It's not even a help, because for you, it's just a incidental thing.

You should know that at the end of the year, the Empire's Transposition Inheritance Ceremony will be held.

As things stand, Mr. Franklin has little chance of winning, so I'd like you to help me.

The specific method is very simple, in fact, as long as you can prove that the old dean was murdered, and the soul visual test has been successful, it is fine. ”

Speaking of which, Erin lazily changed her position, propped her cheeks, and looked at Sherlock with a smile in her eyes:

Because of this, it can prevent Vice President Holke from restarting the life extension experiment, and if Dean Darwin's achievements are to be truly displayed, it is precisely necessary for Dr. Franklin's new energy supply, which is related to the future of all mankind, and it is an absolutely crushing bargaining chip.

In fact, from a certain point of view, your case has affected the change of the entire imperial government.

Of course, as I said earlier, this is just a passing thing for you. ”

Sherlock frowned and pondered, thought for a long time, and finally asked suspiciously:

"I understand the truth, but. . . Why do you care so much about the Empire's Transposition Ceremony? ”

Asked this, Erin smiled embarrassedly:

"Dr. Franklin is a declining aristocrat. Although he now has the working capital, this is all after he came up with the results of the experiment.

And for a long time before that.

You don't think he has the money to prop up his expensive energy experiments. ”

(End of chapter)