In fact, sometimes, secrets don't have to be spoken.

Because the act of hiding the secret itself leaves a lot of traces.

For example, the old beggar's assassination of Nightingale

The first thing that can be determined is that, in his view, Nightingale is not an object that must be killed, or rather, not an object that must be killed as soon as possible.

Otherwise, with his strength, he would have been able to suddenly appear at any time and directly take the other party's life. Instead of using the life and death of this young girl as a 'test'.

In this case, the old beggar can be used as an entry point.

What does he care about.

In the previous chat with Watson, he once occasionally mentioned this mysterious old man, in fact, according to him, this old guy has no pursuit of his quality of life, he is a person who sleeps next to the trash can and doesn't care, in this case, then the pursuit of beauty he mentioned before, can exclude himself.

Then, nine times out of ten, he is the kind of person who sees external factors as extremely important, and to put it more clearly, he is the kind of guy who finds that he has a certain ability, and he is miserable and cannot ignore this ability.

A faithful believer in the old imperial saying, 'With great power comes great responsibility'.

Of course, in Sherlock's view, this kind of person is just a perfectionist who can't ignore his inner responsibility, compassion, morality, and always feels that things should go in a better direction.

If this kind of person has some kind of powerful ability, it can always bring some convenience to the people around him.

But if you don't have the ability, you will become a person who has a plot of the Virgin in the general sense.

So if you continue to analyze according to this perfectionist character, you can easily think of what he said after he was shot.

He said that Watson was very similar to himself, and listening to his tone, it was not the first time he had said this.

Well, another guy who stays in this world and always wants to make the world a better place.

But if you want to make the world better, what does that have to do with killing Miss Nightingale?

Now that the situation in the empire has improved, even the matter of closing the gates of hell has become a possibility, and in the past six months in the blood prison, the efficiency of conscription has been stronger than in the past few hundred years, and the willingness of the people to counterattack the demon war zone is unprecedentedly high, so what is there to be dissatisfied with.

If it is said that he is disgusted with this kind of counteroffensive horn that is too presumptuous, and feels that he should wait for the demon's controllable plan to be more popularized, and fight steadily, so as not to lose a wave of battles and lead to a failure. Then you go and kill the Minister of Military Aircraft, Nightingale is just a contractor with healing powers, why kill her?

Moreover, Nightingale's death is bound to bring great turmoil to the Empire!

Is it that even if this is the case, you have to kill her?

If this is the case, then there is actually very little left. Considering that it is now the moment when the counteroffensive has begun, then the most likely of these reasons is Nightingale, which will lead to the defeat of the human counterattack on the gates of hell.

Well, this inference sounds completely incomprehensible, because Nightingale's healing power is unlikely to have any negative impact on the greatest war in human history.

In order to confirm this, Sherlock also deliberately told the old beggar in advance of Nightingale's plan to go to the Redek Strait theater.

The other party has nothing superfluous to reflect.

But this kind of thing will surprise anyone, especially Nightingale's trip to the war zone, which will inevitably reduce the casualty rate of front-line soldiers to a very exaggerated level.

It's impossible for an old guy who always wants to change the world without a ripple.

So. Sherlock concluded.

Miss Nightingale, it is really possible to have some kind of influence on the frontline of the war.

Then the rest of the inference is very simple.

Because the girl herself was certainly not likely to actively influence the war, she gave up her travelling life and went to the more difficult environment of the Redek Strait, in order to make the war come to a better end.

So since it's not her

That's Nopa, after all, this little girl is always by her side.

Forehead. Of course, it wasn't Nopa, that little girl did have some talent for machinery, but even if she could build a steam chariot with her bare hands, it would certainly not be enough to influence the tide of battle.

Then, only Miss Nightingale's contract demon remained.

It is said that over the years, no matter which city Nightingale went to, no matter where she blessed, there would be no shortage of newspaper reports, and even there were no less than 20 newspaper offices in the empire, relying on Nightingale's itinerary, as well as her praise and photos, to maintain their newspaper sales at a very good level.

However, in the midst of so many related reports, it seems that no newspaper has ever reported on her contract demon.

"What level of contractor?" Nightingale hesitated: "It should be the second order." ”

"Should?"

Sherlock frowned slightly, because the answer was strange.

The Empire's division of the contractor's abilities is very simple.

A contractor who can summon a contract demon and control it to a certain extent.

Second-order contractors, their bodies have been affected by the contract demons, and they have begun to gradually surpass ordinary humans, and even a few contractors can have some demon-related abilities.

The third-order contractor, the ability in all aspects is only an enhanced version of the second-order contractor, but there is an extremely clear sign, that is, his demon can no longer be summoned in the empire on his own initiative, because it is shielded by the holy light.

Under this division, a person can clearly know that he is at that stage.

Nightingale smiled a little embarrassed after seeing Sherlock's expression:

"It's true that I don't know my own stage, because according to common sense, after I get the contract demon, it should be the first stage, and when I have some demonic abilities, it is the second stage.

But when I signed a contract with my demon, I was already able to heal my injuries.

So, I never knew what rank I was supposed to be. ”

“.”

Sherlock was silent, in fact, if you recall it, Nightingale had actually started her travels in the empire as early as when she was just a teenager, so she could indeed have been cured of her disease at an earlier time.

This is not the same as the normal contractor promotion path.

Sherlock thought for a moment:

"Can you summon your demons?"

Nightingale seemed extremely embarrassed, and she looked at the bedroom door closed, and that Watson and Sherlock in the room were both men who had almost put their lives on the line to protect themselves, after a long hesitation.

She finally made up her mind and nodded:

"Okay."

As she spoke, she waved her hand, and a void crack opened beside her.

And then

A young girl walked out.

(End of chapter)