Chapter 578

Holmes and Watson stood with the police on the path behind the hotel where the murder had taken place, and they waited quietly in the shadows of the bushes and trees. More than an hour later, a little light lit up in the room on the second floor where the crime had occurred, and Holmes stopped the police and told them to wait patiently.

The light quickly went out, and a short time later, a figure walked out of the back door of the hotel, holding a bundle of things in his hand. At the signal of Sherlock Holmes, the policemen suddenly turned on the lanterns in their hands, and the light shone on the guy, Mr. Ferguson, the owner of the hotel

"Mind you, this is our second murder offender. Mr. Ferguson," Holmes said after waiting for a couple of cops to grab Ferguson like a vice.

And Birffen was now in the museum of the Black Swan looking at the picture in front of him—the picture of Sherlock Holmes that he did not open, and his attention was now focused on Dr. Van Helsing, who had come to the Vatican, who was said to be one of the last adjudicators. Van Helsing sat in a corner of a series of palaces behind St. Peter's Basilica, in an old little building with no people in it and no guards outside—but it was actually the thirteenth lesson of Esgalli, the real heart of the Inquisition, a small building filled with a divine aura that ordinary people and even most clergy could not feel, and there was a remnant of this place when the One in Heaven was able to manifest and reach out to the earth a long, long time ago. Although it has been so many years. But it's still a forbidden area for dark creatures and supernatural beings of the non-Yawei lineage. But none of this worked for Bo Fu. Even if Yawei himself set up an enchantment in the lower realm. For Bo Fu, you can still watch it if you want to.

Dr. Van Helsing is in the basement of a small building looking for what he needs - the basement is large, but it is not lit by kerosene lamps or anything like that, but by transparent beads embedded in the ceiling. These beads emit a soft white light with a very moderate brightness. The basement was lined with rows of bookshelves on which heavy books were placed, and Dr. Van Helsing used a small ladder up and down to find what he needed. Finally he found what he was looking for—a huge, very heavy notepad, which he held in both hands and placed on the reading table, and Dr. Van Helsing opened the hard cover. The first page of "Count Dracula" reads this sentence in Gothic lettering. "I am the bird of Hermes, devouring my own wings to serve my heart. ”

Bo Fu watched with amusement as Dr. Van Helsing studied the ancient record, while the monk who had always followed him was chatting with a familiar monk in the monastery above. Buffalo opens up a scene again, and in the gloomy and huge castle, the count is no longer there, "Are you looking for my footsteps?" It seems that he has found that he can't resurrect his lover, but I didn't promise you to resurrect your lover, Dracula! Bo Fu laughed as he watched the picture, and then he closed the picture.

"It's just that this world is also quite interesting," Bo Fu looked at Van Helsing, and when Van Helsing put back the excerpted notes on Dracula, for some reason, a thin notebook suddenly fell from the top layer, and the crusty cover fell to the ground and scattered with a "thud". Van Helsing descended from the ladder, ready to put the notebook on the ground in order and put it back. But when he saw the cover, he was surprised and said, "Strange? The book is completely unsigned, but it has the highest level of firemark?"

After Bo Fu said that, he watched Van Helsing turn over the notes and began to browse the contents. The more he looked at the doctor's movements, the slower he became, and he solemnly placed the thin notebook on the table, turned on the light source above, and began to read it carefully

And in Holmes, which Burn did not watch, the great detective had already told Mr. Ferguson's motives, "I think Mr. Ferguson was only temporary, but the first case inspired him." I think you can find out lately that Mr. Ferguson is not in good financial condition, and that Mr. Bobby is bringing a large amount of cash with him this time. Mr. Ferguson desperately needed the money to save him from some dishonorable problems, and so it happened. But I think we need to catch somebody."

Holmes's hand reached into Ferguson's jacket pocket, and when he withdrew it, he already had a thick roll of banknotes in his hand. Ferguson didn't say anything, and let the policemen stuff him into the carriage in frustration. "There's also Mr. Rooney, I think they're co-defendants. But they are not accomplices, and the two happen to have the same goal, but there is a subtle difference in timing. Holmes continued, when a policeman came running on horseback, jumped off his horse and said, "We've got him!"

It turned out that this Bobi had come to the local area this time with a large amount of cash, at least two thousand pounds. Then Ferguson happened to have some serious financial problems, so he was ready to kill the old customer and take his money. He naturally knew the habits of Bobby, and although Bobby would lock the door at nine o'clock, he would calculate the accounts inside, and the real bed would be at midnight. So Ferguson was prepared, he had already been inspired by the Terry case that had happened a few weeks ago - he had also grown up listening to the legend of the Headless Horseman, and the local people had actually already decided about Terry's case, and poor Terry met the Headless Horseman, and the knight took his head.

Ferguson opened the door at about eleven p.m. with a spare key — he had called Bobby at the door beforehand, ready to enter under the pretext of delivering a supper. When he found no answer, Ferguson thought Bobby was asleep, so he quietly unlocked the lock – and he freaked out!

Bobby was lying on the ground at this time, and his head was gone. Ferguson was at a loss, but he knew he couldn't tell, and the opportunity had come. He quickly took the small bag that Bobby was accustomed to hiding money in, then locked the door, and the next day he pretended to be completely ignorant and found the body

At the police station, another guy was also caught at the train station - Rooney was caught by the police while he was preparing to take the night train.

"Now that we've got the puzzle done, it's a coincidental case – and the first one is a completely different thing than the second. Holmes replied when Watson asked—by this time they were ready to rest in their hotel rooms, and were to return to London the next day. "Although I do not yet have a definite answer to the first case - the question depends on whether something will lead to a definite conclusion," Holmes's voice suddenly became so soft that Watson did not even hear what he said later "a question that might change some of the world's views"

"The second case was a coincidence, and both men had their sights on the same goal. (To be continued......)