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Text Chapter 450: Sherlock Holmes (Part 2)

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    An out-of-control game begins. Holmes and Sophie are taken to London, which was surrounded by dark fog a year ago. They are shocked to find that the background of this game level is the era that Holmes is extremely familiar with in Conan Doyle's novels.

    When entering the game, Holmes is lying on the boat at his residence in Baker Street.  At first, Holmes thought he had a dream. He dreamed that he had returned to 200 years ago. At that time, he saw flying iron birds in the sky, trains no longer smoked, and he did not even need to go to the theater to watch a play.  Just face a glowing screen.  In that dream, he also met a woman named Sophie, and he helped her solve many difficult cases.

    When Holmes opened his eyes, he found that his assistant Watson had turned into Sophie. Only then did he realize that he was not dreaming and that it was all just a virtual game.  Because the appearance of "Noah" blocked their contact with the outside world, they did not know what was happening in reality.

    Holmes and Sophie did not trigger the game mission at the beginning and returned to their own world. Holmes enthusiastically acted as a guide for Sophie and took her to visit the foggy London written by Conan Doyle in the 19th century.

    But in the end trouble came to the door. A horrific murder occurred in London. Scotland Yard detective Rex thought of his "old friend" Sherlock Holmes in desperation.

    This is a serial murder case. The first murder occurred more than a month ago. The original victim was found dead in Whitechapel, East End, London. The deceased was Martha Tabrian, a middle-aged prostitute. She was stabbed thirty-nine times.  Nine of them were slashed across the throat.  Half a month later, another prostitute, Mary Nicholas, was found dead in a stocking area near Whitechapel. She was 43 years old.

    Not only was her face bruised and some of her front teeth fell off, but her neck was also cut twice.  But the most cruel thing is that the abdomen was cut open, the intestines were dragged out, and the vagina was severely stabbed with a sharp knife.  Since homicides rarely occur near the church, these two cases caused panic among local residents.  Police had no clue after scouring the scene.  Only more plainclothes detectives were deployed to patrol the area, and local residents also organized patrols to maintain law and order.

    Unexpectedly, the murderer did not stop there, eight days later.  An old coachman who lived at No. 29 Hanburning Street found a female body in the fence behind his low-rent apartment. The deceased was 47-year-old prostitute Anne Chapman.  Like the previous deceased, her throat was slit and her intestines were thrown onto her right shoulder.  Part of the uterus and abdominal flesh were cut off by the murderer.  There were obvious strangulation marks on his neck. It is said that he called for help before his death, but no attention was paid to him.

    In more than a month, three people were killed one after another, all of whom were prostitutes.  Moreover, the murderer's killing methods were extremely cruel. Even though Sophie was used to seeing various murder scenes, her stomach couldn't help but churn when she listened to Rex describing the case.

    After listening to the description of the case, Holmes quickly came up with many characteristics of the criminal suspect: Judging from the criminal's method of killing, he must have considerable knowledge of anatomy.  Considering that the environment at that time was outdoors, there was basically no lighting, and the criminal had to be alert to his surroundings at all times and completed the crime in an extremely tight time, it is certain that the other party was a skilled knife user.

    ¡°The three victims were all stabbed from left to right, which shows that the criminal is most likely not left-handed.  Or be able to use a knife skillfully with both hands.  This speculation indirectly indicates that the criminal is likely to be an experienced doctor or anatomist.  And depending on the criminal's goals.  Holmes also concluded that the other person had a low social presence, was unobtrusive, and might have sexual deficiencies.

    After listening to his analysis, Rex fell into deep thought. Apparently he had found some clues to solve the case from Holmes's judgment, but Holmes only inferred some vague characteristics.  Finding the real criminal among London's vast crowds is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

    And Sophie discovered a fact that surprised her from Holmes's reasoning about the case they encountered.  It is exactly the same as the murder experience of "Jack the Ripper", the most notorious killer in European and American culture.  Sophie is keenly aware that the level set for them by the game is probably to solve the murder case of "Jack the Ripper".

    Sophie told Holmes what she had discovered.  And predicted the next move of "Jack the Ripper".  Sure enough, the Central News Agency soon received a letter written in red ink and stamped with fingerprints, signed "Jack the Ripper."  The letter jokingly stated that he was the murderer of the prostitutes and claimed that he would continue to kill more prostitutes before being arrested.

    This incident confirmed Sophie¡¯s judgment, but her mood became very depressed.  "Jack the Ripper" is the most famous unsolved case in history. During the crime, "Jack the Ripper" wrote provocative letters publicly many times, but he never fell into the law.  His bold crime methods have been repeatedly exaggerated by the media and aroused public concern.panic in British society at that time.  Although it has been over a hundred years since the crime was committed, there are an increasing number of books and related research on the case.  However, due to lack of evidence, there are different stories about who the murderer is, and there is no overlap, making the case even more confusing.

    Even if she could grasp "Jack the Ripper's" next move plan in advance, Sophie was not sure that she would be able to catch him.  Because the crime scenes are mainly concentrated near Whitechapel in East London.  This was a famous immigration center in London at the time, with tens of thousands of immigrants from as far away as Russia and Eastern Europe settling here.  Due to the meager income, it has long become a hotbed of poverty and crime, with homeless gangsters and prostitutes living on the streets.

    Although Scotland Yard established a city-wide patrol network in 1829, the weak police force was still unable to maintain security in the East End, where tens of thousands of prostitutes visited every night.  With no camera surveillance, no fingerprint identification, and no DNA identification, Sophie has no confidence in solving the case.

    The most critical thing is that the game designers do not know the true identity of "Jack the Ripper", which greatly increases the uncertainty of the murderer. It is not ordinary to find the murderer set by the other party in the fog of history.  big.

    Holmes didn't want Sophie to give up, so he came up with the first time the two of them cooperated to detect the case in reality. High-tech detection technology is not necessarily more effective than personal logical reasoning in many cases, and Holmes has no idea about himself.  Very confident in this ability.

    Based on Sophie¡¯s knowledge of the entire case, they set up an ambush in advance where the next target of ¡°Jack the Ripper¡± would be killed.  The 44-year-old Swedish prostitute Elizabeth Stead was indeed attacked by a criminal. The police who had been waiting around for a long time swarmed in and subdued the criminal easily.

    "Jack the Ripper" was caught so easily. Sophie always felt that something was wrong with this matter. Holmes also noticed this problem. The arrested criminal was definitely not the real culprit they wanted to catch.

    Holmes and Sophie thought at the same time that this might be a ploy by the criminal to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Just when a large number of police arrived at the scene of the Elizabeth Stead crime, at about 1:45 in the morning, the 46-year-old prostitute Kathleen Edouard  His body was found lying in the Bishop's Square.  In addition to having her throat cut and her intestines thrown out to her right breast, part of her uterus and kidneys were also taken away.

    Holmes realized that "Jack the Ripper" was much more cunning than they imagined, and based on Sophie's understanding of the "Jack the Ripper" case, the murderer would kill another person and disappear forever, that is  Said that they only had one chance left in their hands.

    In view of the failure of the last operation, Holmes became cautious this time. He asked Sophie to list all the clues in the entire "Jack the Ripper" case. On this basis, he conducted careful and rigorous reasoning and finally found the clues.  The trajectory of the murderer's crime.

    After a careful plan, a large arresting net was quietly launched in the East End of London. They used the method of "leading the snake out of the hole" to catch the killer who was about to commit the crime, and then went to great lengths to subdue the other person.

    Both Holmes and Sophie thought they had finally caught the real "Jack the Ripper" this time. However, the next day Scotland Yard received a report that a landlord on Dorset Street asked his assistant to collect money from Mary Kelly's room.  The rent had not been paid for several weeks, but the 25-year-old young prostitute was found dead on the bed through the window: her body was naked, there were strangulation marks on her neck, her chest and abdomen were cut open, and the ears, nose and vagina on her face were also cut.  Lose.

    Two consecutive misses made Holmes begin to doubt his abilities. He even felt that in this virtual game, he was not the all-powerful detective Holmes at all.

    Sophie said: "If Sherlock Holmes had not appeared, you would have been our Sherlock Holmes. There is no case that you cannot handle." Holmes's fighting spirit was rekindled, and he locked himself in the room for three days and three nights without closing his eyes.  The real murderer was finally deduced, and the other party was preparing to leave London by train at this time.

    During the arrest process, in order to save the lives of other passengers on the train, Holmes decided to die together with "Jack the Ripper". As long as Sophie was still alive, they would win against the computer.  But Sophie felt that there was no need for Holmes to sacrifice himself, because the lives in the game were all virtual, and the lives of those passengers were just a bunch of cold data in reality.

    Holmes insisted that life in the game was also worthy of respect, and he jumped off the train resolutely.  After the virtual game was cleared, Sophie woke up from the game cabin, and other players also walked out of the game cabin. Only the game cabin that Holmes entered did not react at all.  (To be continued)

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