Chapter 107 Lloyd's York Hermes

Chapter 107 York Hermes of Lloyd's

Although Sherlock's reasoning is very complete and reasonable. But only Aiwass knows that Sherlock's answer must be wrong.

Because he lacks an important piece of information, but Aiwass can't tell Sherlock this information.

Sherlock followed the clue of Aiwass's grandfather and found the Noble Red Society. In addition to the Pelican Bar, the giant survivors and the smuggling case, he naturally believed that Aiwass's parents were killed by the Noble Red Society.

This inference is completely logical.

But in the dream world ritual, Aiwas tortured the curse master "Aziz Ben Abdul" as a deformed limb demon, and learned from him that he served Professor Moriarty. He is the real master of the Iron Hook Demon and killed the entire Alexander family.

But he is not a demon warlock of the Noble Red Society.

He is not even an Avalonian, and has nothing to do with giants and star antimony people... He is a Parthian.

This information was the information Sherlock himself mentioned to the "fox" during the dream world ceremony.

At that time, Sherlock only knew that "the mastermind finally went abroad, and his destination was the Horus Empire or the ancient Parthian Empire." But Aiwass saw the man's appearance with his own eyes, and also knew his name in the style of the ancient Parthian Empire.

- In other words, the Alexander family, as the founders of the Scaleless Hand, are related to the Noble Red Society, and the Noble Red Society also has the motive and ability to kill them; but the person who finally carried out this plan was the foreign curser hired by Professor Moriarty.

The party with motive did not act, and the party with action had no motive.

The key is that Aiwass had never heard of any relationship between Professor Moriarty and the Star Antimony People or the Giants. If they had, Aiwass would not have been attacked by the Noble Red Society and chosen as a sacrifice in the first place - he was really sacrificed at that time, and was almost killed.

At that time, Aiwass had been in correspondence with the demon scholar master and apprentice for a long time. If they knew something about the professor, there would be no reason for them to risk angering the professor by sacrificing Aiwas.

——This incident was full of unnatural atmosphere and involved a wide range of people, which gave Aiwas a headache.

He always felt that he had missed a very important clue. But if he didn't go to Haina's hometown to investigate in person, he couldn't confirm it.

Aiwas could only put this aside for the time being.

The only clue he could grasp at the moment was that there must be something wrong with the person who attacked Sherlock. Sherlock had to fake his death and let Sherlock's family help act, which meant that the person was likely to know Sherlock and had a relationship with the Hermes family.

The most important thing was that Sherlock almost immediately locked the suspect -

Sherlock, who had washed his face and sobered up, came back and resumed his cold expression. As if nothing had happened before, he answered Aiwas's doubts seriously.

"Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with you... Mr. Fox."

"Me?"

Evans was a little puzzled: "What does it have to do with me?"

Sherlock calmly drank black tea with honey, his voice was so steady that there was no tremor, as if what Aiwas saw before was an illusion: "You told me the secrets about Lloyd's and the Stranglers in your dream that day. I was very surprised at the time.

"I have known about the existence of Lloyd's for a long time, and I know their history very well. I also know that they are actually a gray usury lending institution. I also know that they use Lloyd's Weekly as a credit currency to collect profits and transfer taxes to Avalon. But I know so much, but I don't know that they actually employ the Stranglers.

"And in all the investigations I conducted before, I never found the existence of this matter - this is very unreasonable. So I immediately realized that someone was preventing me from accessing the deep secrets of Lloyd's."

"--And he can do this easily, which means that 'he' is your source of information."

Evans fluently continued: "And you think this source of information is very reliable - at least in terms of Lloyd's and even Lloyd's District, you think he is the most reliable expert."

There is only this possibility.

Now Aiwas has fully understood Sherlock's extremely powerful investigation ability. In less than a week, he can follow Aiwas's clue to find out Jacob and the Scaleless Hand without even leaving Glass Island. This is not something that can be done by simply "looking up information".

In other words, Sherlock must have used his own connections. His main way of investigation is actually to consult various questions through his powerful connections and the connections of his connections.

So, if you want to "poison" Sherlock's intelligence, you can only become an expert in this direction.

"As long as he can gain your complete trust, then whenever you want to ask about this, you will definitely go to him first. Because you will think he is the most reliable."

"Not bad." Sherlock nodded.

--A real "fox".

Sherlock admired Aiwass very much, who could always keep up with his thinking.

He nodded in appreciation, and added in a calm and cold voice: "Moreover, this person should also be closely related to the interests of Lloyd's.

"As it happens, I do know such a person. He is my uncle, my father Arthur Hermes' half-brother-York Hermes. "

Sherlock put down the tea cup and crossed his fingers in front of his belly: "He is the vice president of the Avalon Lawyers Association and the editor-in-chief of Lloyd's Weekly. The senior management of Lloyd's...the legal counsel they hired. Before I I told you in the dream that Lloyd's had invited me... He was the one who invited me.

"——In fact, you have met him before."

"Have I 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 Sherlock say this, Aiwass recalled the lawyer in the white suit.

He was a little surprised: "But he is blond..."

"My father and I inherited the black hair from my grandmother."

Sherlock 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 that year happened to be the 'Ten Days War'. My uncle didn't want to go to the battlefield, so he passed on the family armor to my father. My father was commanding the Vanguard Army at that time. Thanks to His Excellency the Great Arbiter , this war, which was expected to be very tragic, only lasted ten days, and after the victory, my father was promoted to minister of the palace. "

"...It turns out your father is the Minister of the Palace."

Aiwass exclaimed, "You've never mentioned that before."

The responsibilities of the Lord Chamberlain mainly include planning various ceremonies and activities that the royal family participates in, and is also responsible for presiding over 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, or even higher - he has the power to supervise the education and conduct of royal family members, and has the power to punish princes and princesses who misbehave.

Sherlock sighed: "Because my father and Her Majesty the Queen once went to the theater together. Unlike me, he is an avid lover of literature. So I think this appointment involves Her Majesty the Queen'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 could veto the performance of any new play, force the plot of any existing play to be modified, or cancel the performance of the new theater Qualification. However, my father suffered a disaster for no reason before he used this power."

"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 Canter's symptoms at that time seemed to be poisoned. His liver, lungs and brain were almost It melted, and blood flowed from his mouth and nose. The priests who came to examine him also confirmed that he was poisoned.

"Since members of the royal family died of poisoning, the first to bear the brunt were the servants responsible for His Royal Highness's daily life. They were tortured and their memories were extracted... Of course, no information was obtained.

"At this time, there was an anonymous letter reporting that my father was the poisoner. Later, the Supervisory Bureau found the same poison in my home. In this case, no matter what, I had to open my head and search my memory to prove my innocence. The legal technique of searching memories will burn the brain...which means that my father is going to die anyway, the difference is just whether he is innocent or not."

"——Obviously, things turned around later." Aiwass nodded and continued.

Because although Lord Arthur has now resigned as minister, he is obviously still alive.

"Yes, Her Majesty the Queen directly issued an emergency order to release my father. She directly said, 'I don't think Arthur would do such a thing,' and directly absolved him of his innocence without looking at the 'evidence' submitted by the Inspectorate. , and reinstate his official position.

"My father was filled with gratitude, but he still resolutely tendered his resignation."

Sherlock sighed: "He is right. Because we later learned that that was just the beginning. Later, each royal member died in a different way, and then it was confirmed that it should be some kind of curse. Logically speaking, the power of the curse Such a powerful country can 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 is also a possibility."

"That's right," Sherlock nodded, "The Iris Kingdom is pressed hard by the Star Antimony people. They desperately hope that Avalon can share some firepower.

"The curser may also come from the giant remnants. After all, one of the paths followed by the giants is to transcend the path, and they also have the ability to curse; it may even be the Scaleless Hand or the Noble Red, they also have the curse The inheritance of learning.”

"Could it be that," Aiwass vaguely realized something, "Avalon actually doesn't know the origin of the cursed one?"

"Yes. It's such a hard-to-find curse, and the frequency of execution of the curse is so low. The propaganda says it's the Star Antimony People, just because we already have a feud, so that the people can understand it easily and have a greater sense of urgency - after all There are quite a few people who know that we can’t beat Xing Antimony. Setting up a target that we can’t beat 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 the party that was originally cursing the royal family was unlikely to join the war immediately. It would only add insult to injury - or even wait to reap the benefits when both sides were harmed.

"Fortunately, my father ran fast. Otherwise, he would have been responsible for it 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 has the motive and possibility of framing my father.

"I used to have a pretty good relationship with my uncle... He would take me hunting when I was a child, but my father only liked watching plays. During the half-month period when my father was on the battlefield, he came to take care of me at home. I The reason for doubting him was mainly because he was the last person to visit me before I was bombed.

"He asked me about the 'Sweater Brotherhood' and repeatedly confirmed to me who my source of intelligence was, and why he 'risked investigating' without confirming it to him - because before that, there were many reports about the Lloyd District and the Lloyd's I always ask him about the cooperative.

"I explained to him that this was information from a dream, another possibility from history. But obviously I 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 agree first." Aiwass couldn't help but said.

"How did I know he was capable of such a thing? York was very angry at the time, but he soon calmed down. He told me that he would come back in the afternoon and take my father with him - meaning to let I don’t want to go far. After he left, I suddenly felt a little sleepy, so I planned to take a bath and go to sleep.

"But when I was about to finish washing, there was a sudden loud noise outside, and the house collapsed. The water in the shower head exploded, and the wall exploded with smoke and cracked and collapsed.

"Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough. I collected 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 at least twelve bones in my body were broken. I suffered massive internal bleeding and lost my sight and hearing. I was lying on the ground and couldn't even get up.

"——Based on the time and the scale of the explosion, he must not have gone far at that time. It was entirely possible to return the same way after hearing the explosion... but he didn't."

Not until the end. Sherlock whispered.

He looked sad.

"I felt someone shaking my body - my remaining rationality told me that she should be the landlady. I told her not to shake my body, and told her the contact information of Mr. Bishop. And the ability to temporarily hang myself in my storage box In the end, I barely survived with the help of Bishop Mathers who lived nearby.

"After I was rescued, I contacted my brother Mycroft Hermes immediately and told him everything. Then I told him to tell Uncle York that I was dead. Reaction."

He looked at Aiwass solemnly and said seriously: "Looking back now, the person who framed my father may have been him - starting from this point, he may be connected with the cursed person, so he was able to get that Bottle of poison.

"This matter is not only about my personal grudges and family grudges, but also about the future of Avalon...and even the safety of Princess Isabel. 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 be sure how deep Uncle York's connection is with this matter, and there is only one chance. If they find out that I am actually still alive, I'm afraid they will immediately Be alert. This thread will be cut off immediately.

"The landlady has been protected. The only people outside 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 with analysis, please feel free to come to me at any time."

Sherlock solemnly announced his mission to Aiwass.