Moran was still wearing a simple maid outfit at this time, which attracted the sideways glances of the passengers waiting for the train around her from time to time, but not because of her outfit, which was quite common in this era, but because of her overly tall figure and her hand.

The metallic texture exposed outside the cuffs, and the sunlight shining on it, reflects a diffuse halo, which is really difficult not to notice.

After seeing Moran, Sherlock and Watson immediately began to look around.

Because since Moran is here, then Moriarty's little myopic eye must also be here anyway, I don't know why, in the concept of these two people, this pair of figures is so different that men and women are bound together.

"Master, he's not here." Moran said lightly.

"Oh~"

"He's on the airship"

"Huh??"

"The special airship of the Holy See is parked in the open space three kilometers away now, and the Imperial Inheritance Ceremony will start in two months, and it is too dangerous to take the steam train at this time."

"Amount"

The two of them didn't speak one by one, but they tacitly agreed that at the end of each sentence of Moran, a little annoying syllable was issued.

Moran still maintained the docile expression of a maid, but his hands were already clenched, and the green tendons on one hand burst out, and the other hand seemed to make a turbo turning sound.

"Oh, then I don't know why His Highness the Holy Son came here specially for?" Sherlock quickly asked with a very serious expression.

"Of course, I have something important to find you two, hurry up and follow me!"

"But we bought the tickets."

Moran was stunned for a few seconds as if he saw two people with IQ problems, and then drank with some anger: "The financial department of the Holy See will compensate the two of you for the tickets!" ”

"Oh, that's okay, lead the way." Sherlock nodded reassuringly to Watson, and then got into the steam locomotive parked on the edge of the platform.

In the middle of a forest farm on the edge of the Life Science Institute, there is a relatively hidden huge clearing, at this time a small airship is docked in the middle, the steam locomotive slowly along the forest path, and finally stopped on the side of the airship, a crew member dressed in a nun costume has been waiting for a long time, saw Sherlock and Watson get out of the car, immediately greeted them, and then invited the two into the airship.

The Imperial airship is not a common means of transportation, because it is far inferior to a steam train in terms of speed, but because it does not have to take into account factors such as mountains or rivers, the route is straight, so it is much faster than a train on certain journeys.

Sherlock walked into the airship, and then saw the spacious seats, comfortable sofas, ice racks around it, and the gorgeous carpet with the sunflower mark on his feet, and couldn't help but sigh that the group of people in the Holy See would really enjoy it.

Then, I saw Moriarty and Erin sitting facing each other at a table not far away. Adler, slightly puzzled, walked over with Watson.

"You're coming a little slowly." Moriarty's tone was so light and cold, as high as snow on the top of a high mountain.

At this time, he was wearing a set of black and white robes, at the junction of colors, inlaid with thin golden threads, the whole person looked extraordinarily clean and holy, and between the fingers of the wine glass, he wore a ring printed with the emblem of the Holy See, representing what terrible rights and status this person had.

If an ordinary person saw such a Moriarty, he would definitely not help but tremble in his heart, puff and kneel in front of him, and reverently bow his head and dare not raise it again.

However, on this airship, he didn't seem to have this treatment, only Watson responded with a smile on the basic principle of politeness: "There was a traffic jam on the road for a while." ”

After saying that, he sat down next to him.

Sherlock didn't know whether this guy was intentional or unintentional, anyway, now only the seat next to Erin was left, and he had to sit down next to Erin, today she seemed to be dressed not much worse than usual, when I thought that Erin should not have a noble status, nor did she have any official position, so she could sit in front of the Holy Son as a commoner, and she didn't dress up deliberately, this woman's posture is really very high.

"Actually, when I came today, I didn't know that His Highness the Holy Son had also invited you, otherwise, I would have changed into the dress we met for the first time, and it matched my necklace today." Erin looked at Sherlock with an apologetic smile.

Moriarty took a sip of the wine in his glass and was silent.

"You two know each other?" Sherlock didn't bother with this kind of exchange of words, and asked bluntly.

"Of course, Miss Erin Adler was Franklin's first investor, and we should be considered partners." Moriarty said lightly.

"Well, then if I'm not mistaken. You called us, I guess it has something to do with the candidate? ”

Moriarty nodded, then handed the two newspapers to Sherlock and Watson.

"This morning's special issue, what you did yesterday has now been compiled into more than 30 editions, it is expected that at noon today, the entire empire will explode, and in the next three days, the number of editions will be doubled, and the holy journal will definitely not be able to withstand the pressure by then, and choose to report on this event in at least three large plates" Moriarty said, his tone was steady, but his eyes were full of anger and majesty:

"You went a little too hard this time and tried the vice president of the Academy of Life Sciences in front of reporters from 11 newspapers?

In your makeshift court?

And killed him??? ”

Moriarty glared at Sherlock, as if he still hadn't figured out how this guy had managed to get things like this.

Erin looked at the angry look on Moriarty's face, not only did she not fear, but instead picked up the wine, poured a glass for Sherlock, and said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness, please don't care, the people's memory is limited, think about the London airship crash more than a month ago, almost 20,000 people died, and now there is nothing to talk about." ”

“.” Moriarty exhaled heavily: "In short, the content of the newspaper is still focusing on the front-line officer who killed Deputy Director Holker, I will erase your name from the newspaper as much as possible, and replace it with a title such as "a private detective" or "case taker", you don't have to worry about being seen as a monkey on the road."

But this method is only for the general public, the Empire is not all fools, and your reputation will soon spread in some circles, even more ferociously than the commander named Baskerville. ”

Sherlock picked up his glass and made a toast gesture: "It doesn't sound like it's easy to suppress, but thank you, so why are you looking for me?" ”

As soon as he said this, Moriarty's expression gradually became serious:

"The report at the end of the third page of the newspaper, you should read it for yourself."

Sherlock seemed to sense something was wrong from the other party's expression, and frowned slightly, then opened the newspaper in his hand and began to read.

And just like that, his eyebrows wrinkled deeper and deeper, and finally he even laughed helplessly: "Heh, Augustine's old guy's methods are really a little unexpected to me." ”

The third edition of the article is very simple, does not take up a long space, and is written by an editor-in-chief of this newspaper. He once interviewed an expert in demonology, and according to that expert, Professor Darwin's [Wild Demon Manipulation Theory] could not have succeeded.

The specific reason, this expert gave a lot of arguments, but the academic flavor is too strong for ordinary imperial citizen readers to understand, but fortunately, the conclusion is very clear, that is, Professor Darwin's experiment is a hoax, a shameful means of high-ranking government officials to increase the people's taxes.

This report seems ordinary, but the details are very subtle, first of all, he does not represent the writer's own opinion, because he heard an old expert say it.

However, he did not point out who this 'old expert' was, because it touched the interests of the top of society, so the other party did not dare to reveal his real name.

So to put it bluntly, no one will be responsible for the text above, even if they are responsible, at most, the editor-in-chief will be scolded and deducted a month's bonus.

And the position of this report is very particular, although it is the third edition, but at the end of the homicide report of the Academy of Life Sciences, all those who have read the previous report can see it for the first time, and if they can't finish reading, readers who want to see the end of the murder can also see it, anyway, its reading probability is not much different from the front page.

In the end, it also cleverly attributed this so-called conspiracy to [increase taxes].

As we all know, the common people don't care about everything that the upper echelons of the empire do, even if it is the mayor of a certain city, the people will just smile, because it has nothing to do with them whether the day dog is hi or not.

But when it comes to taxes, it's a different concept entirely, and even the word itself is 90% offensive.

"If I'm not wrong, this is just a preliminary warm-up, in the next half a month, the forces under the forces of Augustine the Great will confirm this unwarranted statement, and countless people will jump out and accuse Professor Darwin's experiment of being a hoax." Moriarty said calmly.

"And if Professor Darwin's experiment is really a hoax, then the production of [Soul Visualization Device] will also become a joke, and the application range of new electric energy will be greatly reduced, and then with it, the success rate of Mr. Franklin's inheritance will plummet." Erin added:

"The final result of all this is that Augustine the Great will be re-elected as Emperor of the Empire, and at that time, there will be no investment competitors for the life extension experiment, if I were Augustine the Great, during this time, I would strongly promote a rising star in the scientific community in the Academy of Life Sciences, and then integrate all the forces at his disposal, and in five years, or even three years, explosively put into the experiments he wants.

In short, he will have power, status, money, and control of the Life Science Academy, and as long as he persists for a few more years without dying, then he will most likely monopolize all the results of life extension experiments in one fell swoop.

You can never imagine that some aristocrats or politicians in this world are willing to pay a huge price in order to live a few more years.

When the time comes, Augustine the Great will become an unshakable existence.

Even as long as it's long enough. It is possible for him to surpass the Holy Light, after all, the Holy Light is only acting according to its own logic, it does not care what people think, and what can really manipulate human society is still human beings in the final analysis. ”

(End of chapter)