Although Sherlock's reasoning is very complete and reasonable. But only Aiwass knew that Sherlock's answer must be wrong.
Because he lacks an important piece of information, but Aiwass cannot tell Sherlock this piece of information.
Sherlock followed the clue from Aiwass's grandfather and found out about the Noble Red Society. Coupled with the Pelican Bar, the Giant Remnant and the smuggling case, he logically believed that Aiwass's parents were killed by the Noble Red Society.
This inference is completely logical.
But in the dream ritual, Aiwass tortured the curser "Aziz bin Abdul" as the deformed limb demon, and learned from him that he was Moriarty Professor Services. He is the real master of the Iron Hook Demon, and he killed the entire Alexander family.
But he is not a demon warlock from the Noble Red Society.
He is not even an Avalonian, and has absolutely nothing to do with the giants and the Star Antimonians. He is a Parthian.
This information is still information that Sherlock himself mentioned to the "Fox" during the dream ceremony.
At that time, Shylock only knew that "the man behind the scenes finally went abroad, and his destination was the Horus Empire or the ancient Parthian kingdom." But Aiwass had seen that man's appearance with his own eyes, and also knew his ancient Parthian-style name.
In other words, as the founders of the Scaleless Hands, the Alexander family is related to the Noble Red Society, and the Noble Red Society also has the motive and ability to kill them; but this can ultimately be carried out The person behind the plan was a foreign curse master hired by Professor Moriarty.
The party with motivation has no action, and the party with action has no motivation.
The key is that Aiwass has never heard of Professor Moriarty's relationship with the Star Antimony Man or the Giant. If they had, Aiwass would not have been attacked by the Noble Red Society and selected as a sacrifice in the first place. He was really sacrificed at that time, and was almost silenced.
At that time, Aiwass had already had a long correspondence with the demonologist master and apprentice. As long as they know something about the professor, there is no reason for them to sacrifice Aiwass at the risk of angering the professor.
Everything in this incident was full of unnatural atmosphere, and it was so involved that it gave Aiwass a headache.
He always felt that he had missed a very important clue. But it’s impossible to confirm without going to Haina’s hometown to investigate for herself.
Aiwass can only put this aside for now.
The thread he can grasp so far is that there must be something wrong with the person who attacked Sherlock. The need to let Sherlock fake his death and let Sherlock's family help in the acting shows that that person most likely knows Sherlock and is related to the Hermes family.
The most important thing is that Sherlock identified the suspect almost immediately
After washing his face and sobering up, Sherlock came back and resumed his cold demeanor. expression. As if nothing had happened before, he answered Aiwass’s doubts in a serious manner..
"Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with you, Mr. Fox."
"I"
Aiwass was a little confused, "What's the matter with me?" "
Sherlock drank black tea with honey calmly, his voice was calm without any trembling, as if what Aiwass had seen before was all an illusion. "You told me about Lloyd in your dream that day. The secrets of the Society and the Strangler. I was surprised at the time.
“I have long known about the existence of Lloyd’s, I know their history very well, and I also know that they are actually a gray loan sharking institution. It is also known that they used Lloyd's Weekly as a credit currency to collect benefits and transfer taxes to Avalon. But I knew so much, but I didn't know that they actually hired stranglers.
“And it was unreasonable that in all my previous investigations I had never found this to exist. So I knew immediately that someone was trying to prevent me from accessing the deep secrets of Lloyd’s. "
"And the fact that he can do this easily means that he is your source of information."
Aiwass continued smoothly, "And you think this source of information is very good. Reliable. At least in terms of Lloyd's and even Lloyd's District, you think he is the most reliable expert."
This is the only possibility.
Now Aiwass has fully understood Sherlock's extremely powerful investigative ability. It only took less than a week, without even leaving the glass island, to follow the clue of Aiwass to find out Jacob and the Scaleless Hand. This is not something that can be done simply by “looking up information”.
In other words, Sherlock must have used his own connections. His main method of investigation is actually to consult on various matters he wants to ask through his strong connections and connections.
So, if you want to "poison the intelligence" for Sherlock, you can only become an expert in this direction.
"As long as he can gain your complete trust, then if you want to ask about this matter, you will definitely come to him first. Because you will think that he is the most reliable."
"Not bad." Sherlock nodded.
As expected of a "fox".
Sherlock admires Aiwass who can always keep up with his own thinking.
He nodded appreciatively and added in a calm and cold voice, "Moreover, this person should be closely related to the interests of Lloyd's."
"It just so happened that I did. Meet someone like this. He was my uncle, York Hermes, the half-brother of my father, Arthur Hermes. "
Sherlock put down the tea cup and crossed his fingers in front of his abdomen. "He is the vice president of the Avalon Bar Association and the editor-in-chief of Lloyd's Weekly. The top brass at Lloyd's hired legal counsel. I told you in my dream before that Lloyd's had invited me and it was he who invited me.
"Actually, you have seen him before."
"I have seen him"
Aiwass was a little confused.
Sherlock nodded, "At your investiture ceremony. He was sitting next to Inspector Gordon."
"The middle-aged lawyer with short blond hair"
Hearing what Sherlock said, Aiwass recalled the lawyer in a white suit.
He was a little surprised "But he is blond"
"My father and I inherited the black hair from my grandmother."
Sherlock He said flatly, "Uncle York inherited my grandfather's blond hair. As the eldest son, the Hermes family's heirloom armor was supposed to be inherited to him.
"But it happened to be the tenth day of the year. war. My uncle didn't want to go to war, so he passed the family armor to my father. My father was commanding the vanguard army at that time. Thanks to His Excellency the Grand Arbiter, this war, which was originally expected to be very tragic, only lasted ten days. After the triumph, my father was promoted to chamberlain. ”
“It turns out that your father is the Minister of the Palace. "
Aiwass exclaimed, "You've never mentioned it before. ”
The responsibilities of the Chamberlain mainly include planning various ceremonies and activities that the royal family participates in, and is also responsible for presiding over the royal weddings and funerals, as well as hiring and dismissing servants and female officials within the Palace of Silver and Tin. He is basically equivalent to a butler in an ordinary knight family, and is even higher. He has the authority to supervise the education and conduct of royal members, and to punish princes and princesses who misbehave.
Shylock sighed. He sighed, "Because my father and Her Majesty the Queen used to go to the theater together. Unlike me, he is an avid lover of literature. Therefore, I think this appointment involves Her Majesty's personal relationship and is not worth bragging about.
"Because of this experience, Her Majesty the Queen also signed a special order. It gave my father an additional power, that is, he can veto the performance of any new play and force the revision of the plot of any existing play. , or cancel the performance qualification of the new theater. But before my father used this power, he suffered a disaster for no reason."
"Disaster" Aiwass asked.
"It's a curse."
Sherlock replied, "But we didn't find any traces of the curse at that time, and we all thought it was poisoning because Prince Cantor's symptoms at the time were very confusing. He was poisoned. His liver, lungs and brain were almost melted, and blood flowed from his mouth and nose. The priests who came to examine him also confirmed that he was poisoned.
"Since the royal family was poisoned. If he dies, the first to bear the brunt will be the servants responsible for His Royal Highness’s daily life. They were tortured and their memories were extracted, so of course they didn't get any information.
"At this time, there was an anonymous letter reporting that my father was the person who poisoned me. Later, the Supervisory Bureau found the same poison in my home. In this case, a cranial search was necessary no matter what. The memory proves innocence, and the legal technique of searching the memory will burn the brain, which means that my father will die anyway, the difference is just whether he is innocent or not."
"Obviously, things happened later.A turnaround. "Aiwass nodded and continued.
Because although Lord Arthur has resigned as minister, he is obviously still alive.
"Yes, Her Majesty the Queen directly issued an emergency order at that time , released my father. She said directly that she didn't think Arthur would do such a thing, and she directly exonerated him and reinstated him without looking at the evidence submitted by the Supervisory Bureau.
"My father burst into tears with gratitude, but still resolutely tendered his resignation."
Sherlock sighed, "He was right. Because we later learned that that was just the beginning. Later. Every member of the royal family died in a different way, so it was confirmed that it should be some kind of curse. Logically speaking, a country with such a strong curse could only be Star Antimony. But in fact, this statement is not absolute or scientific.
"The path of love also has the ability to curse," Aiwass replied, "so the Iris people are also possible."
"Yes," Sherlock nodded, "The Iris Kingdom is pressed hard by the Star Antimony people. They are eager for Avalon to share some firepower.
"The cursed ones may also come from the giant remnants. After all, one of the paths pursued by giants is to transcend the path, and they also have the ability to curse; there may even be Scaleless Hands or Noble Red, and they also have the inheritance of curse science. "
"Could it be that," Aiwass vaguely realized something, "Avalon actually does not know the origin of the cursed one"
"Yes. Such a curse is difficult to detect, and the frequency with which it can be executed is so low. The propaganda says we are Star Antimony people just because we already have a feud. This makes it easier for the public to understand and gives us a greater sense of urgency. After all, there are quite a lot of people who know that we actually cannot defeat Star Antimony. Setting up an unbeatable target can effectively avoid being kidnapped by public opinion. ”
If you don’t know who the enemy is, the moment Avalon chooses the wrong target to start the war, it means doomed defeat.
Because it was originally cursed to kill. The royal family is unlikely to join the war immediately. It will only add insult to injury and even wait to reap the benefits when both sides suffer.
"Fortunately, my father is fast. Otherwise, he will be blamed later. "
Sherlock narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze became sharp. "And my uncle has always claimed that he likes the job of a lawyer. Looking back now, he also had the motive and possibility to frame my father.
“I used to have a good relationship with my uncle. He would take me hunting when I was a child, but my father only liked to watch plays. During the half-month period when my father was on the battlefield, he was also the one who came to our home. He took care of me. The reason I doubted him was mainly because he was the last person to visit me before I was bombed.
"He asked me about the Sweater Brotherhood, repeatedly. Confirm to me who my intelligence source is, why don't you confirm it with him before taking the risk to investigate? Because before this, I always asked him about Lloyd District and Lloyd's Agency.
“I explained to him that this wasThe information from dreams comes from another possibility in history. But it clearly didn't convince him.
"He invited me to join Lloyd's again. I already knew the details of Lloyd's, so how could I agree to it? So I refused without hesitation."
"You should I agreed first." Aiwas couldn't help but said.
"How did I know that he could do such a thing? York was very angry at the time, but soon calmed down. He told me that he would come again in the afternoon and take my My father wanted me not to go too far. After he left, I suddenly felt a little sleepy, so I planned to take a shower and take a nap.
"But when I was about to finish washing, something suddenly happened outside. There was a loud noise and the house collapsed. The water inside the shower head exploded, and the wall exploded with smoke and cracked and collapsed.
“Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough. I sampled water from the burst pipe on the spot and condensed it into an ice shield. I wrapped myself up to prevent the first wave of impact, so I didn’t die immediately. But all my bones At least twelve were broken, internal organs were bleeding, and I lost my vision and hearing. I lay on the ground and couldn't even get up.
"Based on the time and scale of the explosion, he must not have gone far at that time. . Hearing the explosion it was entirely possible to backtrack but he didn't. "
Not until the end. Sherlock whispered.
He looked a little sad.
"I feel like someone is shaking my body. My rationality tells me that she should be the landlady. I told her not to shake me and gave her Mr. Bishop's contact information. And the alchemical mixture in my storage box that can temporarily kill me. In the end, I barely survived with the first aid provided by Bishop Mathers, who lived nearby.
"After I was rescued, I contacted my brother Mycroft Hermes immediately and told him everything. Then I told him that I would not publicize my death to the outside world. Let’s see how Uncle York reacts.”
He looked at Aiwass seriously and said seriously, “Looking back now, maybe the person who framed my father started from this point. , he may have a connection with the cursed person, so he was able to get the bottle of cursed poison.
“This matter is not only my personal grudge and family grudge, but also related to the future of Avalon and even Isabel. Princess safety. If things go well, we may even be able to solve the mystery of the curse
"Edward has the ability to search memories, but it can only be used at the most critical moments. I can't determine how Uncle York is connected to this matter. How deep, and there is only one chance. If they find out that I am actually alive, I am afraid that this clue will be cut off immediately.
"The landlady has been protected outside. The only people who know that I am still alive are my brother Mycroft, you guys and Edward.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to hide my suspended animation for long. This matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. I leave everything to you, my friend. If you need my help,If you are busy with analysis, please feel free to come to me. ”
Sherlock solemnly announced his mission to Aiwass.
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