Miss Nightingale

To be honest, this name made Sherlock frown.

Someone is going to murder Miss Nightingale?

Even a guy like Augustine the Great, who reached the end of his life, adhered to the 60 years of power control of an imperial king, and the thoughts and promises of a dying man to his daughter, and frantically dragged 20,000 or 30,000 people to be buried with the Holy Son of the Holy See, and regretted it afterwards, and should not have dragged Miss Nightingale into that disaster.

That girl was a very special being.

It is a living, traveling in the world of 'hope', a person with his purest kindness, to cure all diseases, not caring about money, regardless of status, she with the power of one person, she changed the attitude of the people of the empire towards life.

She is different from Lord Dante, Lord Dante is a god who stands unstoppably on the existing rules of human society with that absolute force value, then of course he will be feared, no matter how much glory he has, how much respect he receives, there will be people who want him to die, the reason why he still exists in the world now, there is only one reason, that is, others cannot kill him, it is not difficult to imagine that one day, he really ages with the years, and passes, there must be countless people clapping in secret.

But Nightingale was different, she was a perfect person, a saint.

So what kind of person, on what grounds, would want to murder Miss Nightingale?

Of course, judging from Sherlock's years of detective experience, a murderer who wants to kill people does not necessarily need a reasonable motive, maybe a guy just likes to destroy beautiful things, then Nightingale is naturally the most beautiful person in the world, both externally and internally.

However, if a murderer alone wants to murder Miss Nightingale, are the Holy See and the government eating dry food?

"Tell me about the 'ripper.'"

Compared to the distracted attitude of the two cases just now, Sherlock's attitude is obviously much more serious, and it can be seen that he is very interested in this ripper who came out of nowhere.

Oh, when it comes to the two cases just now, it seems that none of them have not been answered.

A pregnant woman was beheaded in half and locked in a closed warehouse, her internal organs were scattered all over the ground, her upper and lower body were separated, the warehouse door was locked, and the keys were thrown inside the warehouse.

The reasoning of this kind of case is the simplest, and it is impossible for the trial court not to find out, and it is estimated that those guys cannot spare manpower.

Back to the case itself

In fact, no matter how detailed the distinction is, there are only two types of murder in the closed room.

First: The murderer is in the secret room.

Second: The murderer is outside the secret room.

In this case, the key is in the warehouse and the door is locked. The murderer can be locked directly on the body of the storekeeper who has another key, that is, the husband of the deceased.

But there is a high probability that he will not do this, how can any murderer take the initiative to take the only suspect to himself.

So, if it weren't for the fact that this guy was clever and used some kind of 'reverse thinking', then there would be only another answer.

That is, the murderer is still in the warehouse.

But the warehouse was empty, without any shelter, so where would the dead hide?

The answer is obvious, as I said before, excluding some perverts, they like to divide the corpse, otherwise no one will do such a thankless thing as 'chopping the corpse in half'.

So the deceased was stopped and chopped in two, and all the internal organs were deliberately taken out, in order to let the murderer have a place to hide.

It can be seen from the photos of the case that the deceased was wearing a very loose long dress because she was pregnant, and because of the inexpansion of the uterus, the fat in the chest and abdomen of the pregnant woman has swelled four to five times more than normal.

That's why Sherlock said, go and check people who are about 1.5 meters tall.

Well, none of this mattered, because during this time, Judge Natasha outside the prison had to recognize the man's ability to analyze the case, so she finally entered the real task of meeting Sherlock this time.

That is to explain to him, the serial murder case that has recently set off a bloody storm in the Empire.

In fact, at the beginning, this case was not taken seriously by anyone, that is, in the Whitechapel district of London, a prostitute was dismembered, and this kind of thing happens several times a year in London, a place where the gap between rich and poor is huge.

And after the police hastily investigated, it was listed as the kind of case that was 'not in a hurry to detect', because the deceased was a prostitute, had no relatives and friends, and had no contact with nobles or high-level society.

The only thing that was a little unusual was that in the throat of the deceased, a small paper tube was found with a note stuffed inside with a name written on it.

However, the police officers at Scotland Yard were so busy that they couldn't go home every day, so they didn't be wary of this thing at all.

It wasn't until two days later that a prostitute was found to be in the same horrible condition on the street, and after investigation, the name of the deceased was the name written on the note.

At the same time, in the deceased's incised coronary artery, a small note was found, on which a name was already written.

Now, the London police have finally paid more attention to this murder, not because the murderer tortured and killed two prostitutes in a row, but because the guy was a little too rampant, killing a person, and then predicting the next target to be killed, which is simply slapping the London police in the face.

So, Scottish began to search for the owner of the name throughout the city, preparing to protect him, and by the way, use it as bait to catch the murderer who kicked his nose in the face.

But the results were not found.

"Didn't find it?" Hearing this, Sherlock was stunned.

"Yes, that name is quite special, it should be easy to find, and then the police even contacted the Alien Population Registry, but still did not find this person.

But three days later, in another administrative state, more than 1,400 kilometres from London, a prostitute was killed, with the same name as on the note. ”

Sherlock smiled thoughtfully: "A murderer who is willing to travel more than a thousand kilometers to kill a prostitute. Hehe, it's really interesting, if I'm not mistaken, these three deceased, except that they are all prostitutes, shouldn't have any intersection. ”

Natasha nodded: "Yes, they don't know each other, and the murderer is completely randomly selected by this profession to kill." ”

"And after that?" Sherlock asked, "If it's just a murderer who likes to kill street girls, wouldn't it bother you to come forward in the court?" ”

Natasha was silent for a moment, in fact, the other party asked for very important case information, but now she wants to tell all these things to a death row inmate, which makes her feel very weird, but her boss deliberately emphasized before he came: 'If anyone can help us now, it will be that guy'.

Recalling Inquisitor Hopkins' reference to 'Sherlock. Sherlock Holmes' name, the inexplicable confidence that emanated, Natasha frowned, but finally continued to speak:

"Indeed, after the murderer had killed three prostitutes in a row within a week, he had killed two noble women, the wife of a mayor, three female clergy, and the mother of a pope."

“.” Sherlock listened quietly to the words of the young judge in front of him, and then blinked his glasses: "You . . . Didn't stop? ”

This question is obviously questioned, but it is understandable that this is all on the head of the Pope's own mother, and it was informed to the police in advance, how can the murderer still succeed?

Natasha rubbed her eyebrows and explained a little depressedly: "Please don't talk to me in this tone, it's not that we're negligent, it's that guy is really weird."

We sent a lot of people to protect the target, but in the house where not even a fly could fly, the murderer was able to kill the target, and there was still time to divide the body, and the deceased didn't even make a sound during the whole process!

After that, we protected our target from the point of being together in everything we did, even sleeping, surrounded by a room of deacons from the Adjudication Division.

But people always have to eat, they always have to drink, right?

In the last second, someone had just tried poison, it was a normal glass of water, but after being drunk by the target in front of a room of people, he was poisoned and died.

Even later, some people began to distrust us, thinking that there were traitors within the court.

The Pope's mother locked herself in an absolutely closed room, and no one knew where the place was except his son, but in the end. She's still dead. ”

Speaking of this, Natasha probably remembered the pressure on the trial court during this time, and she took a few deep breaths, which made her tone calmer:

"Because the murderer always has a habit of cutting open the chest of the deceased and hiding the name of the next victim in the guts, we gave him a code name. Ripper.

But that's not all.

In the beginning, he was just killing one person by one.

But gradually, the distance he killed became farther and farther apart, and on several occasions, he was able to cross thousands of kilometers overnight, and the number of killings increased.

Sometimes, three notes will appear in one corpse, and three more notes will be found in the bodies of the three people who were killed.

And then four. Five

You know that kind of moldy food, or bacteria, seaweed, it's the stuff that gets more and more.

Anyway, this ripper is like a virus, and he began to multiply.

I know it's hard to understand, but this murderer seems to have turned into something terrible, dying more and more often, and sometimes, even two people separated by several large parishes, can be killed in five minutes.

Well, I'll admit, it's a bit tricky, and there have been people killed in the courtroom, and to be honest, the cumulative number of murders has exceeded 200, but the killer still can't be found.

And now, the name of Lord Nightingale has appeared

I know you have nothing to do with Lord Nightingale, but she is of great significance to the people of the Empire, and we cannot afford to see her die of murder.

So, the trial court would like you to help you a little bit."

(End of chapter)