Sherlock Holmes

It’s just a young man who wants to die. It’s so common in this world. Maybe he is in the door at the end of the corridor in your house. You can pass by it every day when you walk through the stairwell. When you get off work When I get home, I want to open a bottle of beer and take a nice sip.

You have never known that on the other side of the door a few centimeters away from you, there is a person who has lost all hope in life and wants to die, but still follows the most fundamental cherishing mentality of creatures towards life and is reluctant to do anything. .

It's such a painful and sad life.

People in this world will not have any sympathy for such desperate people, because they don't know when they will become one of them.

And a mother. We don’t need to try to empathize with this mother. In short, in this kind of life, this world, this kind of atmosphere with no future, a mother made the move to kill her own child.

But murder is always illegal, so a man seeking death and a murderer came up with a clumsy method in the room where they had lived for decades.

Just put a statue behind the door. Anyway, only the deceased himself can accomplish this kind of thing, although the deceased has long been unable to move the statue due to radiation sickness.

But as long as the mother doesn't tell, who will know about this kind of thing.

Just like the past ten years, no one in the whole world except his mother knew how much pain he suffered.

So, a suicide happened like this.

However, the psychological grudge of killing one's loved ones can never be erased. It is also because of the basic respect of living creatures for living life, perhaps also because of a mother's love for her children, or because a murderer cannot forget the moment he set the fire. memories.

In short, her child died, and the child who had been tortured by radiation sickness for countless years was rested in peace, but his mother will continue to live in this world with this kind of guilt.

The pain of the burning fire made her child feel comfortable, but it made the mother feel the burning fire in her heart forever and suffered unspeakably.

So why did she want to find someone to try to reveal the truth about this murder after everything was settled?

Because she is also suffering.

She also wanted to find someone to kill herself. Rather than continuing to live in this hopeless world, she also wanted to die with the child.

【All my courage was left in the moment when I lit the fire. 】

【Don’t dare to end your own life. 】

[So expose me, report me, scream at me like a murderer, bring me before a judge and sentence me to death. 】

【Thank you. 】

This kind of mentality may only be established in this world, and this kind of murder will only appear in this world.

The woman in front of her didn't say these words. She didn't run or explain. She just stood quietly, stared at the detective, angrily reprimanded herself, and then called the police.

But after waiting for a long time, maybe not too long, she couldn't wait any longer, and finally looked at the man in front of her.

"Why didn't you call the police?"

Sherlock wanted to take out a cigarette, but found that there was only an empty cigarette box left. He asked a little boredly: "In your law, does this kind of murder require a sentence?"

"???" The woman didn't quite understand what the other party said, but she still nodded: "Of course, I killed someone and burned them alive. I should be sentenced to death."

"oh."

Sherlock responded, but still did not call the police. He had never been a person who valued the law. In his heart, there was no need to report this kind of thing to the police.

Perhaps seeing the hesitation of the man in front of her, the woman smiled lightly and said: "No need to embarrass you, Mr. Detective, I won't cause you any trouble. I'm just an ordinary citizen with no background, and you should be able to tell , I need a death penalty, otherwise I wouldn’t be looking for people everywhere, haha, it’s embarrassing to say that I have already found 12 detectives, and you were the only one who cracked the little trick my son came up with.”

"Why do you want to die?" Sherlock was still lazy, but still did not answer the other party, but changed the topic.

"Why?" The woman thought for a while: "Maybe I just can't find a reason to live."

"There is still a lot of future. It's great to be alive."

"?!" The woman was stunned for a moment. This may be the first time she showed such fluctuating emotions today: "How good is it to live? Haha, what's so good about living? I'll be lonely like this until I die. What if one day? I have radiation sickness. At my age, there is no need for treatment, and the world is unlikely to get better one day, so why live?"

This is the inherent thinking of people in this world. Hope is just empty talk here. The reason why human beings have not become extinct may just be because the huge life training base underground is constantly producing new life.

If there were a questionnaire that could ask these fetuses whether they would like to be born, then the entire embryo factory would probably not receive a few affirmative answers.

Sherlock was silent. Of course he was not a helpful person. Others' wishes for life or death had nothing to do with him. He came to this world only because of a little dwarf named Moriarty who told him It was just a story that interested him.

so.

"How about waiting a little longer." He said nonchalantly: "Maybe the world will change in a year."

The woman frowned. To her ears, the other party's words were undoubtedly just the words of a timid detective who was unwilling to bear the court summons and did not want to call the police for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.

But she couldn't force others, so she smiled bitterly and didn't insist anymore.

"Okay." She said politely: "I will pay the fee to your account."

Speaking of this, the woman suddenly thought of something and felt a little embarrassed and said: "Oh, by the way, I still don't know your name until now."

"Sherlock Holmes."

"Ah?" The woman was startled again. It's not that he was confused by the name from the novel. As I said before, in this world, no one will read the books that were once written, so Sherlock The name is nothing special in the eyes of many people.

The woman was a little surprised because she seemed to have heard this name a few years ago.

Watching the man wave his hand and leave towards the end of the corridor, the woman suddenly trembled.

She finally remembered this name. Just over a year or two years ago, this name appeared on the streets of this city.

The defector who was hunted by the entire Survivor League.

The person who broke through the rift in time and space from another world!

Why is he still in this world? !

Silently, the words that had not dissipated in the woman's ears seemed to echo again - [How about waiting a little longer? Maybe the world will change a year from now. 】

No one would believe a defector's words.

So what happened to the woman? Will she continue to hire others to report on her? Or maybe she finally mustered up the courage and walked into the police station by herself, or maybe she used her remaining fighting spirit to kill herself and go to the underworld that she didn't know existed to be with her dead child.

Sherlock wouldn't care about this, it's just a way for him to spend time in this world.

During this year, he spent most of his time in that humble office, waiting for a commission that would give him some fun, day after day, spring passed and autumn came.

Oh, there are no seasons in this world.

In short, a long time passed, and on this day, there was a knock on the door of his office.

Lilith opened the door. She was still wearing the slightly eye-catching red trench coat and used sunglasses to cover her overly beautiful face.

There is no opening line.

She walked to Sherlock's messy desk very directly and said:

"Thirty million pieces——all together."