When something deviates from normal logic, it will naturally make people resist.

Even people like Hopkins are still like this, so after hearing this conjecture, his brows furrowed more and more, and finally he even looked at Sherlock with an almost helpless look, and after a while, he finally muttered:

"Pope Nadine Belu is a ripper?.I. I can't understand it. ”

Well, as a judicial officer, I was suddenly told that the deceased I tried so hard to protect was actually the murderer I had always wanted to catch, and this news was not easy for anyone to understand.

And how can a pope be a murderer?

But the thought that no matter how much I trace, I couldn't lock the identity of the ripper, seems to confirm this view.

The former murderer is the current deceased, which of course cannot be found.

Sherlock knew that Hopkins's mentality was a little overwhelmed, but he didn't care, and continued: "Not only Pope Nadine Beru, but I even think that the Rippers wrote each other into the death prophecy, which is the main way, if not the only way, for their inheritance. Killing, or being killed, is like a complex social structure, and they have their own set of rules, so there must have been a lot more cases of rippers actually happening than we have discovered.

It's just that a lot of the murders are low-end, and those guys have been killed by another ripper before we even came into contact with them, or they have been treated as poor imitations.

Did you know that before the opening of the holy calendar, there was a very traditional way of making drugs?

It is to keep many poisonous insects or animals together. ”

Hopkins didn't seem to be able to come out of the surprise just now, so he subconsciously shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, I don't know much about pharmacy." ”

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, in fact, this method of making drugs does not involve pharmacy.

The idea is very simple, anyway, put the poison in an enclosed space, and then let them fight each other, inject each other's toxins into each other's bodies, and see who can survive in the end.

And the last one to live is naturally the most poisonous thing.

I think [Ripper] is such a pattern, the people below are not enough to worry about, and even we can't reach it, because there is a very strong Ripper above who is devouring them.

Those scum are his nourishment, and what we have been in contact with now is the most powerful ripper, haven't you noticed, the style of the recent murder has not changed for a long time.

Because it's been a long time since there is no one to replace him. He's just killing other people of his kind, and if he continues at this rate, he's likely to gradually kill all the other Rippers, and finally, make himself the only being. ”

"And what will happen when he becomes the only ripper?" Old-school pragmatic guys like Gregerson didn't think deeply about this weird conjecture and the even more outlandish inheritance model, and directly wanted to ask the result.

However, Sherlock just shook his head, and said irresponsibly, "How do I know, otherwise let's wait and see what will become of him in the end?" ”

"Please don't make such jokes." Hopkins really didn't want to joke at all at this absurd and nervous time, but suddenly realized something, and stared at Sherlock worriedly: "You're joking, right?" ”

Sherlock paused subtly before replying, "Of course it's a joke, or else?" ”

The two people in the office didn't dare to speculate, but pursed their lips a little unsteadily.

"But how do you think that Pope Nadine Belu is one of the rippers?" Captain Gregerson asked, a little confused.

"Oh, it's actually quite simple, because I went to visit him the night before he was killed, after all, Pope Belu is the one who is about to be murdered on the ripper list, and I always have to check to see if his room is really as safe as he said, and I found out at that time. A monk standing guard in his courtyard was replaced. ”

"Huh?" Gregerson was stunned: "How did you find out?" ”

"Because the first time I went, I remembered the faces of all the people in that church." Sherlock replied naturally.

"Uh" Captain Gregerson blinked, didn't know what to say for a moment, and could only apologize for his interruption.

So Sherlock continued: "I remember very well that the rotation time set by Pope Belu was three hours, so I should have been there that night at the same time as the first time I went.

However, I noticed that everyone in the church, and the location of the person, had not changed, but the monk had been replaced at the nearest guard point in the corridor outside the Pope of Beru. ”

As for Sherlock's ability to remember everyone's faces as soon as he walked, everyone in the room said that they could accept it:

"But what does it have to do with the fact that a monk standing guard has been replaced, and that Pope Belu is one of the rippers?"

"It didn't matter, but the next morning, Scotland Yard received a report that half of the body had been found on the banks of the River Thames. Although only the lower half of his body floated ashore, it was clear that the body was the monk who had been replaced in the church, because his right foot was tilted outward, which was a sign of a broken tibia, and it was easy to identify.

The method of beheading the deceased is the same as the description in several files I have read about the murder of the ripper before, it is customary to start with the gap between the spine and then cut it to the sides with a sharp weapon, and when dividing the body, I also like to use a knife from the articular cartilage to both sides, and I like to lean forward in the posture of holding the knife, and use the strength of the wrist and thumb to cut the flesh and blood, like this. ”

As he spoke, Sherlock made a gesture of holding his thumb against the back of the knife and cutting things back and forth.

The two people in the room listened very carefully, no one asked, why he was so quick to know the information about the murder that was not reported in Scotland Yard, although Sherlock was just a private detective, but he had a terrifying influence in the London police department, he wanted to know a case, it was too simple.

Of course, no one asked him why he knew about the monk's broken leg bone, because this guy must have written down the physical characteristics of everyone in the church by the way, and he did it.

And Sherlock also felt that this kind of observation, memory, and influence were the most basic behaviors of being a detective, so he didn't specifically explain it, so he continued:

"And when I visited Pope Nadine Beru, I noticed a mark on his thumb that had not completely faded, and it was pressed out of the back of a knife that was not very thick.

Also, when we found his body, he held the knife in the same way.

You should be able to see that this kind of posture is impossible to develop this habit without decades."

Sherlock said this, his words like the knife that poked into the flesh and twisted, and the ears of Hopkins and Captain Gregerson made a wild cacophony.

Although it is very reluctant to believe it, and there is no direct evidence that Pope Nadine Belu is one of the rippers.

Maybe the monk left the church for some reason, and then he was chopped up on the street by some gangsters who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Perhaps, the gangster's knife posture is exactly the same as that of Pope Nadine Beru.

Perhaps, the corpse on the lower half of the body was not the monk's at all, but the legs of the two people happened to be broken, and they happened to be broken in the same position, and after they recovered, they both deviated at the same angle.

Maybe. Maybe.

There are too many coincidences in this world, but everyone knows that so many coincidences should not happen to the same person suddenly.

Therefore, from the perspective of the professional attitude of a judicial worker, the two finally found out helplessly that Pope Nadine Beru. It really seems to be one of the rippers.

"But. Even if you're right, why did Pope Belu become the ripper? He is a pope, why should he kill people, even if he wants to kill people, then he has 11,000 ways to make the other party die, why do he have to do it himself? ”

Hopkins couldn't help but ask:

"Also, how did the inheritance model between the Rippers that you mentioned come about?

Ants have pheromones.

Bees are hive conscious.

Even if a spider eats and gives birth to its mother, it is also a way of survival that has evolved from natural creatures for tens of millions of years.

But we're human. Those rippers, whether they are powerful or low-level, are living people with their own independent consciousness. How could they suddenly and inexplicably become obsessed with killing, why did they follow such a strange way of inheritance, what were the rules they followed, and why did they have to follow that kind of rules.

No matter how you think about it, you can't explain it with common sense.

And the most important thing is how did the powerful ripper in your mouth kill people?

Even if he killed Pope Nadine Beru, how did he complete that secret room?! ”

It may be that Hopkins thinks that Sherlock's remarks are too unbelievable, but in his subconscious, he seems to feel that what the other party says is the truth, and this kind of conflict makes him very irritable, and even the tone of his speech is a little uncalm, it seems that only by constantly questioning can he make his psychology feel better:

"It's not just a church room!

And that vault vault!

That's a solid toughened layer with a thickness of tens of centimeters, even if you use an armor-piercing bullet to bombard, you may not be able to break through the defense for a few hours, and the password is placed in the tightest place in the whole of London, and it is absolutely impossible for anyone to know the password in advance!

Yes, and the death of a banker. How could someone be starved to death? What did he see that made him refuse to even eat food.

Finally, how did the Chamber of Secrets made of the bodies of the dead come to be?"

Hopkins's series of questions were asked very intensively, and the speed of speech became faster and faster, as if venting, until all the doubts in his heart were poured out, and then he finally took a deep breath.

Captain Gregerson didn't say anything, but these questions were indeed his concern.

Watson went to participate in the autopsy, not in this office, otherwise, he would have been almost confused.

However, in the face of these seemingly impossible murders, Sherlock did not have any change in his expression, but still leaned back in his chair a little lazily, and said leisurely:

"The Chamber of Secrets?

Turns out you've always cared about this kind of thing. ”

"Of course I do." Hopkins said: "If you want to find the murderer, you must at least know his modus operandi, otherwise how can you be sure that the murderer is the murderer?" ”

"Okay, okay." Sherlock said nonchalantly, "Actually, I remember what I said earlier.

No matter how incredible it is, after eliminating all the impossibilities, the last thing that remains is the truth.

So, let's follow a very traditional reasoning method to integrate the clues of all the secret rooms. ”

Next, Sherlock used the most concise description to roughly sort out the important information of the three secret rooms.

First, the Church Chamber.

In fact, this secret room is divided into two phases:

The first stage is how the murderer did not alarm the tight guards and reached that room in the depths of the church.

The second stage is how the murderer enters the room where Pope Nadine Belu is, or how he leaves the room after killing someone.

The main suspicion is that the only key to the door of the room has always been in the hands of the Pope's corpse.

Second, [Vault Secret Room]

The mystery of this chamber is obvious, but it is impossible to explain why the dead are starved to death in a vault with plenty of food and water.

What the hell did he see in the vault, and he desperately used everything he could grab to smash the thing that couldn't exist.

Third, [Corpse Chamber]

The mystery of this secret room is still very straightforward, that is, in the absence of any windows, the only exit from the room and the outside world, the only door.

How did the murderer nail the deceased between the door and the wall like a seal, and then mysteriously disappear from the room.

Moreover, the door to the room was locked, but the key was hanging around the neck of the deceased's body.

After describing the highlights of the three cases, Sherlock was very frank:

"You see, when you think about it, these three rooms are not absolute secret rooms."

"What? How. How not counting? Hopkins and Gregerson asked almost at the same time.

"It's just that the dead are not completely isolated from the outside world." Sherlock explains:

"For example, the first church chamber. It's sturdy, but the steel baffles that come down from the inside of the windows aren't seamless, and those baffles have tiny holes in them that can be used to circulate air.

The second chamber doesn't seem to have any contact with the outside world, but it has a demonic tranquilizer.

There is a third, which is the most obvious one, the door of the old and unfinished building is still wooden, and there is such a big gap between the door and the door, so these three secret rooms, in fact, to some extent, have some kind of intersection with the outside world. ”

The other two seemed to be a little puzzled when they listened to Sherlock's words, so they thought silently for a while:

"Well, even if the secret room and the outside world are not absolutely independent, so what, do you want to say that the murderer is gas, and he can find a gap and go in and kill people, and then turn into gas and float out?"

"Of course not." Sherlock Road:

"Didn't I say that before, I think.

The murderer is an ordinary human."

(Today's update is less than 5,000 words, but I've sorted out the general clues of the case, and the murder method has no contractual ability, or demon assistance, you can try to reason, ticket, hehe.) ）

(End of chapter)