The singer watched as the pale man on the bed came towards her.
The latter's eyes twinkled with excitement, like a child who found a novel toy, or with a twisted attachment. The sick smile on his face was reflected on the scalpel of his left hand.
Irene Adler closed her eyes in despair.
But the next moment, there was a rumbling sound from the top of their heads. It was the sound of someone opening the entrance to the secret room.
However, when Zhang Heng and Holmes rushed down with a revolver, they were stunned.
They never expected to see such a strange scene.
The female singer was still tied hands and feet, unable to move. Father Jacob stood in the same place with a wooden look, while a strange middle-aged man at his feet fell into a pool of blood.
The latter, with an incredible look on his pale face, seems to have seen the most incredible thing in the world. His eyes are wide open and he looks at father Jacob as if he is asking why.
When father Jacob saw Zhang Heng and Holmes, he threw away the bloody knife in his hand and said calmly, "you came just in time. I killed them."
Holmes squatted on the ground and examined the middle-aged man. Seeing the wound on the back of his head, he shook his head at Zhang Heng. "It's hopeless."
Zhang Heng stepped over the corpse, came to the female singer, untied the rope on her hands and feet, and took off the rag in her mouth. Irene Adler spat on the ground as soon as she was free, as if to spit out the strange smell in her mouth.
Zhang Heng is actually ready to use the wall of evil thoughts for the last time, but fortunately Holmes found the entrance in three minutes.
When they rushed in, they thought they would meet the situation of the murderer taking hostages, but the result surprised everyone.
The next moment, Zhang Heng's ear came the clue of the completion of the main task, although he still had a lot of doubts in his heart, but now is not the time to tangle this kind of thing, he and Holmes first tied father Jacob with the rope from the female singer, and then informed the nearby patrol police.
Sherlock Holmes stayed where he was, watching over father Jacob while waiting for the police to send more people, while Zhang Heng took the young singer home first.
Zhang Heng stayed at Eileen's house until 6 a.m. when he returned to 221B Baker Street. By this time, Holmes had already returned from the police station.
He looked contented, completely ignoring the protest of the landlord Mrs. Hudson, took out his violin and played it. The melodious sound of the violin reverberated in the room. He didn't know if the awakened neighbor in the next building would also want to rush to kill him.
"It seems you've got all the details." Zhang Hengdao.
"It seems that you can go to the theatre for free in the future." Holmes also said.
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"It may not be the most complicated case I've ever had, but it's the most interesting one." Holmes put down his violin and finally turned the subject back to the case.
"Father Jacob made a mistake when he was young. He left an illegitimate child with a prostitute. Although I don't think it's his child, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that it's his heart all the time. He is willing to treat that child as his own flesh and blood. In other words, he is using this method to punish himself for the mistakes he made in that year Atonement. "
In fact, Zhang Heng had learned about these things from Irene Adler, so he was not surprised. He motioned Holmes to continue.
"The birth of this child is a mistake. He is the result of an impulse from a priest and a prostitute. They are not even in love. He was abandoned by his mother since childhood, and his father can only send him to an orphanage for his reputation. Growing up in such an environment, his character will inevitably become lonely and gloomy, father Jacob said There are seeds of evil in the body, but actually I have different views on it. "
Sherlock Holmes lit his pipe. "The police and father Jacob believe that Jack the Ripper murdered those prostitutes out of revenge for giving birth to the mother grass and abandoning him. But I think he regarded the murders more like a ritual of pursuing the origin of his life. Of course, at the same time, like many serial killers, he yearned for the attention of the world The letter to the newspaper is the best explanation
"Uterus?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, I think the uterus in this case is a very important symbol. It is related to reproduction and is also a place for embryo breeding. Jack the Ripper takes away the victim's uterus, which means that he hopes to find his own home, just as the targets he chooses are all the prostitutes who have had children, drink and live with others. Through these characteristics, he connects these victims with himself It's like finding his mother, isn't it? Emma gave him life, and he took his life away from those substitutes. It's like a complete reincarnation. "Holmes blinked. "Of course, the latter part is just my conjecture. Jack the ripper is dead. I guess my conjecture will never be confirmed Speaking of Jack the Ripper, let's go back to father Jacob. I have to admit that his role in this case is beyond my expectation. Do you remember our previous conjecture? "
"Well?"
"We all agreed that there was no conspiracy in this case, so when you finally re connected father Jacob and Jack the Ripper through mark Cohen, I did have a brief confusion, and it turned out that father Jacob was not Jack the Ripper's accomplice."
Holmes continued, "Jack the Ripper lives quietly in the secret room under the confession room of holy heart church, which makes him hear a lot of secrets that should not have been known by a third person. When he committed the first crime, father Jacob didn't know that the case was done by him. Until he confessed to father Jacob himself, father Jacob fell into a dilemma In the dilemma, he certainly does not want Jack the ripper to kill, but on the other hand, the latter is the child of him and Emma. Out of the psychology of making up for the debt, he has reason to protect the child.
"So he made another wrong choice. He decided to hide it and hope he could control the beast. At the same time, he also made another preparation and began to consciously guide mark Cohen, who also had mental illness, to use the latter as bait to mislead the police investigation. This is a reasonable choice from the father's position.
"But he obviously overestimated his ability and underestimated Jack the Ripper's long repressed morbid psychology. Then there was a second and a third homicide, and things were falling out of control. It was at this time that father Jacob began to realize that he had no ability to stop Jack the Ripper from committing a crime. Just at this time, Miss Adler When she comes to the door, the qualities she shows perfectly meet the target Jack the Ripper has been looking for. So father Jacob kidnaps her, not to treat her as a sacrifice to the devil, but to give Jack the Ripper a test as a test.
"He wanted to see with his own eyes whether his son really overcame the devil in his heart and would not commit any more crimes as he repeatedly promised, but he was disappointed From the reaction of Jack the Ripper, he knows that as long as the latter is still alive in this world, there will be another victim, and innocent souls will die, so in the end, he can only choose to kill the devil he created himself. "
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