Two hours later, Sherlock, Watson, and the newly appointed Supreme Judge of the Third Division of the Trial Chamber, Stanley. Hopkins went to a church in the London city.

Tobias Gregerson needed to continue to be in charge of security in the villa area, so he didn't come along.

On the carriage, the three of them seemed unusually quiet, this atmosphere was very strange, because no matter who it was, they should show the most basic surprise, after all, under such a tight defense, how could anyone murder Pope Nadine Beru.

But because this unbelievable thing has happened many times, and Hopkins has said it many times, the Ripper appears again, and several people only remain silent and contemplative.

In the phone call just now, he did not say that the Pope must be dead, but used the ambiguous word "should".

The specific reason is that the room where the Pope is located is too sturdy to enter without a key, and the monks in the church immediately contacted the Inquisition after discovering that the Pope had not moved for a long time and knocked on the door, and now, Hopkins has ordered someone to rush to the church with a percussion drill used to dig the underground rock.

But to be honest, although the body of Pope Nadine Belu was not seen, everyone knew that he was definitely dead in the house, as in all the murders of the past few months.

No matter how incredible it is, none of the targets targeted by the Ripper will be able to escape.

Arriving at the church, led by several friars, the three of them walked through the courtyards they had walked through to the door of the Pope's room.

This is a corridor at the edge of the church, and at the end is the room of the Pope Beru, and at this time, the two sides of the corridor are full of monks and the Pope's dependents, who are divided into two rows, left and right, and empty the middle aisle, while the outer court security personnel are gloomy one by one.

Crossing the crowd and coming to the door of the room, Sherlock tried to push, but the door did not move unsurprisingly, and due to the demon sedative inside, there was no way to summon the contract creature inside the door and help open the door, so it was helpless, everyone could only wait.

After a while, Natasha finally appeared at the other end of the corridor with a group of people pushing a large cart with a very visual impact on it with a steel drill bit that was usually used for digging underground rivers and connecting mountains, and now it was even a little funny that it was against a door.

Of course, no one dared to laugh now, not even anyone who wanted to get close to the room, maybe because they didn't want to destroy the crime scene, or maybe because they didn't want to be damned, or because they didn't want to be cursed, always, everyone was silent, watching the huge drill being lifted to the door, and then, with some manipulation, the steam turbine began to turn, and the drill burst into a loud roar.

After seven or eight minutes of drilling, at last, a small hole was drilled into the door that could barely reach into the hands of a person, and when the group of workers moved the drill bit away, no one dared to touch the door, and the dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at Sherlock or Hopkins in unison.

Because Hopkins is the main person in charge of the Ripper case, and Sherlock, as a detective specially invited by the court, although his task is to protect Miss Nightingale, he naturally has a very high say in other cases.

Any tiniest detail may affect the detective's judgment, and everyone present must understand this truth, so everyone is anxiously waiting for which of these two people can go over and open the door, and then confirm whether the Pope inside is dead or alive.

Sherlock and Hopkins looked at each other.

In fact, as a rare genius in the court for decades, Hopkins should have borne the brunt of this kind of thing, but in front of Sherlock, he was still very well-behaved and showed due humility, after all, he didn't think that he could be more powerful than Sherlock in the field of solving crimes.

So Sherlock naturally walked towards the door, smelling the burnt smell of the steel door in the air from the friction of the impact drill, and he reached into the small hole, and then turned the lock from the inside.

"Click." Bang.

The door lock was opened.

As the door slowly pushed open, the expected smell of blood came to the surface, and the room was pitch black, Sherlock groped for the wall next to the door, and soon found the switch for the light.

After a few flickering, the bright light illuminated the whole room, in front of which was a small antechamber, Sherlock walked in, and Hopkins followed up in fact, this is actually the Pope's usual resting place, the area is not large, there is only a vestibule, after turning a wall, is the bedroom and dining room for daily sleeping.

And when two people turn that wall

Nadine Belu was sitting quietly on a chair, with some food on the table in front of him that he hadn't had time to eat, and the head on the plate.

A smell of absurdity finally came to my heart.

[Case Description]

[Pope Nadine Berou, dated 7:40 p.m. on the date written in the 'Ripper's Murder Notice', was found dead in the church bedchamber.] 】

[Cause of death: beheaded. 】

"As before, it looks like an impossible event."

In Whitechapel's office, Hopkins handed Sherlock a just-written report on the crime scene:

"As I told you before, that Ripper is evil and seems to be able to kill people in any situation.

At the time, you probably didn't believe it at the time.

But by now, you can understand why the Inquisition Chamber is so preoccupied with a few murders. ”

Sherlock didn't speak, just silently took the report and read it.

In fact, there is nothing special about the whole report, because there is hardly any special place in the room where the Pope died, which makes the field report very concise.

The autopsy report has not yet come out, but Watson, as a doctor, has already given an extremely accurate judgment on the spot:

[The deceased died between 4 and 5 p.m. today, within three hours of the body being found.] 】

[There is no problem with the cause of death, that is, he was directly beheaded, the deceased was still alive at the time of beheading, there is no possibility of slowly cutting off the head after death, and the place of death is in the room, which can be seen from the ceiling, and the blood stains all over the ground, after the beheading, the corpse also sprayed blood for a long time. 】

[The deceased entered the room at 1 p.m. today, after which he locked the door in the room, and in order to prevent anyone from trying to poison himself with poison gas, he repelled the guards in the corridor, and turned the ventilation of the corridor to the maximum, and lowered the window baffle. 】

[After Sherlock's on-site investigation, there is indeed no space for people to pass through the entire dormitory, let alone people, he didn't even find a gap more than a centimeter wide, and there is only one way to get in, and that is to open the door by the Pope himself. 】

Sherlock quickly read the text and fell into deep thought.

In fact, he knew very well that this room was an absolute secret room.

There is not even a case where the killer takes the key, goes in and kills the Pope, and then uses some kind of mechanism to throw the key back into the room.

Because when he and Hopkins opened the door to the room and saw the Pope's body, the key to the door that could not be copied was held in the Pope's hand.

Hopkins also had an investigative report in his hand, but he didn't read it as quickly as Sherlock, and the process of reading it was extremely painful, rubbing his head as he read it.

"Hey, this is the third Pope to die, if I don't solve the case, it is estimated that I, the newly appointed presiding judge, will have to apologize for my crimes." He muttered with a sad face:

But you can also see that this kind of murder is simply impossible. If you want me to say that this ripper may be some demon who has suddenly evolved super intelligence in Hell and is immune to demonic tranquilizers, if you want to catch it, you should send someone to the Temple of Light and ask the Holy Light to come down and kill him. ”

He complained, but he also knew that with only a few Popes dead, the Holy Light Temple would not care at all, and with this helplessness, he looked at Sherlock, but he didn't see the other party's frown.

At this time, Sherlock seemed to be staring at a photo taken at the scene, with a thoughtful expression.

Hopkins leaned in

"Did you find anything?"

Sherlock stared at the photograph and pondered for a moment before finally pointing to a corner of the photograph:

"Look here. A fork on the dining table fell to the floor."

Hopkins looked at the photograph, which was taken from the table in front of the corpse, with some food on the table, and the head of Pope Belu on the plate where the main course is usually placed.

At the edge of the photo, you can see that a fork has indeed fallen to the ground.

Hopkins stared at the fork for a long time, and finally said suspiciously: "Forgive me for being stupid, is there anything worth noting about this fork?" ”

(End of chapter)