.”

Silence after silence.

In fact, Nightingale herself didn't know why her heart began to panic, maybe she didn't dare to tell Sherlock about it, not because she was afraid that he would be too weak, but because she was afraid that Sherlock would do something unstoppable.

Those who don't know Sherlock have no idea how bizarre and contradictory this feeling is.

Because for so many years, the Divine Servant and the Temple of Holy Light have been high and untouchable, and this idea has been implanted in the depths of the minds of the people of the Empire.

In this world, the Light is the God!

But by the way, two perverted things, Sherlock and Watson, appeared.

Watson is a mortal, and if a mortal angers the gods, he will naturally be punished, and this logic is very clear; But Watson is Sherlock's friend, so what if the gods anger Sherlock?

Thinking back to all the things Sherlock has done over the years, Nightingale logically has to panic.

"I know you're going to save Watson, but," she said, don't do anything stupid, but trying to save someone who killed a servant of God is a fool's thing in itself, so Nightingale fell silent again.

After a long time.

"How many did you kill?" Sherlock asked.

He didn't even ask Watson why that kid killed the servant.

"One."

"How long have you been taken?"

"It's been almost a month."

Sherlock lit a cigarette, his expression did not change much, but he looked up at the sun in the sky, and some of the soldiers around him also saw his appearance, because the distance was very far, they didn't know what Nightingale and Sherlock said, but from all kinds of rumors, these soldiers already knew that this moment was going to come after all.

Therefore, the dead silence began to spread, and the soldiers in countless camps also began to be silent, stopped, and their hearts were also detached from the joy of the hero's return, and Nightingale began to panic and begin to worry,

Some civilians with historical knowledge even thought of the images depicted in many historical documents in this silence.

A mortal climbed Mount Olympus for his wife, and then washed the gods on high with blood; The monks bowed down in the temple and used the Buddha statue to debate the vast Brahma scriptures, and finally the creator was speechless; A certain elf carried a stick and rushed up to the sky, smashing the magnificent palace into ruins.

People create faith, and at the same time, they yearn for faith to be destroyed by mortals.

So, what does the man in front of him want to do?

Rush to the temple to dignitaries?

To be honest, if it were an ordinary person, this idea would of course be nonsense, but after Sherlock returned from hell, his body was faintly covered with a light like that of Lord Dante, and it seemed reasonable to ask for someone from the Temple of Light at this time.

finally

Help me contact the military, prepare an airship for me, and I'm going back to leave the front line.

……

Sherlock was leaving the front.

In fact, as long as you have a brain, you know what is the reason why he has just recovered his body and is leaving.

But the military was so confused that they really prepared an airship for him to cross the coast of the Redk Strait directly

Although the whole process seems to be nothing, there is a feeling that there are two people, and a guy who is not too big of a problem quietly handed over a knife.

A few hours later, a high-speed airship landed in the center of the camp, the engine did not turn off, and when Sherlock got on the airship, he directly rose from the ground and sped off into the distance.

On the airship, Sherlock looked at a phone hanging on the wall, his eyes full of doubt.

"Now, you can make phone calls on the airship?"

"Yes sir. Now the signal receiving station has been laid in a large area along with the expedition route, and the wireless communication system is directly connected to the hinterland of the empire, and it is possible to make phone calls on the airship. A soldier said.

Sherlock nodded, feeling that in the year he was gone, the scientific and technological development of the empire was really amazing.

So, he said calmly: "Help me contact the Pope." ”

"Huh?" The soldier on the side was stunned for a moment and held back for a long time: "But. . But"

Even the highest-ranking commanders in the Holy Sect Army have to report to the Pope at an unknown number of levels.

"You call the holy city of Jerusalem, and if you take care of that institution, you will say that Sherlock is going to find the Pope, and they will figure out the rest."

“.”

The attendant opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and co-authored not to apply for a dialogue with the Pope, but to let the Pope come to him.

What kind of operation is this, even if the guy in front of him is a hero, he won't have such a big face.

Of course, heroes don't have such a big face, but Sherlock does, and he has had this face since he fought four years ago, the moment he knew that the first night of His Royal Highness the Holy Son was taken away by his personal maid.

And so it was, half an hour later.

"Hey!"

It sounded much deeper, but it seemed to be the habitual pretending to be very cold in front of Sherlock.

Sherlock was dazed, woken up by the phone's public function, sat up and closed the public function, and then picked up the microphone: "Yo, long time no see." ”

Two people who have known each other for a long time, but for various reasons, have not been in touch for more than two years, and finally heard each other's voices again at this moment.

"So you can't ask for my emergency number? If you have to go all the way, let me go to the reception department of believers? ”

Moriarty seems to be never satisfied with every conversation with Sherlock.

There is no way, the only agency phone number in Jerusalem that the flight attendant knows is the [Believer Reception Department], which is specially used to arrange believers to come to the Holy City to worship, to put it bluntly, it is engaged in tourism promotion.

And when the Pope's full-time vehicle stopped at the gate of their department, and watched the young man who had not had time to take off the papal robe walk into the hall, the head of the department was so frightened that his legs went limp.

Especially when the Pope picked up the phone at the front desk, he had already the guy on the phone.

Thinking about it, I am tired of being alive and want to provoke the Pope, that's your business, don't bother us!

Sherlock leaned lazily against the wall, "It's too much trouble to find your contact number through a lot of people, and I don't want too many people to know that I've looked for you." ”

“.” There was silence on the other end of the phone, and his tone softened slightly: "So what's the matter with you?" Came back alive from hell and showed it off to me? ”

"I'll show you what I've seen in Hell during the year, know the source of the demons, know how to open and close the gates of Hell and how to end this war, and so on." Sherlock was distracted and uttered these shocking breathing unsteady words, and then, to put it mildly, turned the subject in a different direction:

"Watson killed a servant, you know that."

The other end of the phone seemed to have known that the other party was going to talk about it, so it was natural to respond: "Yes." ”

"Well, you're the current pope after all, so to be on the safe side, I think it's necessary for me to talk to you first, and if you have a way to get that Watson kid out, I'll deal with it lightly."

How do you listen to this, how awkward is it, what is [light treatment]?

Watson killed the servant of the gods, and then was taken away and punished, isn't it a natural thing, why do you want people to acquit the criminals, as if they want to find trouble with others.

It felt like saying, "My brother is just the one who killed you, and you're going to arrest my brother?" Is there any reason for this? Is there still a royal law? Hurry up and release the person to me, and then make up for the medical expenses and mental damages, and then find your leaders to come to me to apologize, and slap yourself 2,000 mouths, and this matter is over! ”

What is even more unacceptable is that listening to Shylock's tone, it seems that he has solved this matter by himself, as if he has given Moriarty a lot of face.

In the microphone, Moriarty's heavy breathing was heard, probably angry, but he still responded:

"You've been gone for a year, and you probably don't know the relationship between the Holy See and the Temple of Light now. In order to make the Holy Light cover on the expedition larger, sometime last year, I went to the Temple of the Holy Light and made some agreements with the Old Divine Envoy.

So now, the Temple of Light is in a state of independence. ”

"Independence?" Sherlock was stunned for a moment, the relationship between the Holy Light Temple and the Holy See has always been very delicate, and the roughly meaning is that the Holy Light Temple is the immortals above the clouds, and the Holy See is the institution that helps these gods deal with everything in the human world.

But this group of immortals doesn't care about the things under the clouds at all, and only cares about their own one-third of an acre, so in terms of power, the Holy See is much more powerful than the Temple of Divine Light, but the Holy See must let the Temple of Holy Light exist, after all, this Temple is the foundation of human faith.

Both are indispensable.

But now, the temple is going to be independent??

This reminded Sherlock of the ultimate goal that Moriarty had always wanted to achieve.

Pope and Emperor. It has to be a person.

He seemed to think of something, but he didn't care much about what Moriarty was doing, so he just asked very directly: "So, you can't interfere in Watson's affairs?" ”

"Yes." Moriarty said, then hesitated: "Actually. I hope you don't get into this either. The Temple of Light is different from all the forces you have been in contact with before, he is no better than the Emperor, for so many years, mankind has relied on the Holy Light to survive to this day, if you are too disrespectful to the Temple of Light, you are likely to force yourself to the opposite side of the entire Empire. ”

"Huh." Sherlock smiled bitterly: "Isn't it just the enemy of the whole world, although this sounds like a thief is embarrassing, but I have to say that I have lived like this in the past year or so."

Besides."

Sherlock couldn't help but think of his summoned creature named Crimson, and then the strange dreams that had followed him for more than 30 years, and the arrival in the hinterland of the empire, which would probably enter the temple of his mind again.

"Besides, people revere the Light. What's the matter with the Temple of Light? ”

……

The empire is huge

Compared to the other side of the Gate of Hell, the tragic can only be said to have all the human beings gathered together and established the city to protect themselves 800 years later, these mountains, rivers, and grassy plains are scenes that can only be seen in historical documents.

Sherlock stood on top of the airship, looking down from the hanging window, as if wondering if the current clearing could accommodate the humans of the other world.

In terms of the number of people, the food and water needed for life, and the living area, such a large empire territory, as long as a small part of it is divided, it can be exchanged for 800 years of scientific and technological progress, and this account is earned no matter how it is calculated.

That's what Lilith said to herself before the gates of hell.

But she avoided other problems very well, such as the concept of survival between humans in the two worlds, the war that lasted for so many years, the squandering of blood, the lack of reproduction and the constant hatred of abandonment.

I am just a person, and in that world everyone shouts and fights like a heinous demon, if the people of the two worlds really meet each other, then is there really the possibility of 'peaceful coexistence'?

Sherlock is an extremely selfish person, everything he does is to make himself comfortable, he knows that whether people in the other world are dead or alive has nothing to do with him, but after all, he has been to the world over there, and he knows some things, so he will always think about it, he will recall the young sister and brother of the small street detective agency, he will recall the old man in the factory who has been waiting for him for more than 30 years for a sentence that is not true or false, and he will think back to the old man who has chased him for more than a year, But in the end, she stood defenselessly in front of a sensible woman.

The airship slowly sailed through the Redek Strait, across the vast territory of the Empire, and a few days later, the airship came to a huge mountain range so large that you couldn't see the edge from above.

The Elbes Mountains, the highest, longest, and most sacred mountain range in the entire Empire, even spanned two quarters and reached above the clouds, and at the top of the highest peak of this mountain range, the temple revered by the whole Empire, also stood on the top of the mountain.

It was impossible for the airship to sail to the highest mountain like this, and no one dared to approach it without permission, because to approach was to blaspheme.

So slowly, the airship landed on the edge of a small town at the foot of the mountain, which was requisitioned as a military outpost during the Second Demon Invasion that year, and there happened to be a tarmac.

Sherlock stepped off the airship.

Then, with some surprise, he looked at the two women in front of him and fell into a deep thought that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

(End of chapter)