v2 Chapter 269： the truth

The female singer watched as the pale-skinned man came to her on the bed.

The latter's eyes flashed with excitement, like a child who found a novelty toy, and with some kind of twisted attachment, the sick smile on his face reflected on the scalpel in his left hand.

Irene Adler closed her eyes in despair.

But the next moment, there was a rumbling sound above the heads of the three, which was the sound of the entrance to the secret room being opened.

However, when Zhang Heng and Holmes rushed down with their revolvers, they fell into place.

They never expected that they would see such a bizarre scene.

I saw that the female singer was still **** with her hands and feet and could not move. Father Jacob stood calmly in place, while a strange middle-aged man at his feet fell into a pool of blood.

The pale face of the latter with an unbelievable look was like seeing the most incredible thing in the world, eyes wide open, and looking at Father Jacob, it seemed to be asking why.

Father Jacob saw Zhang Heng and Holmes, threw away the **** knife in his hand, and calmly said, "You are right here, I killed someone."

Holmes squatted on the ground, examined the middle-aged man, saw the wound on the back of his head, shook his head at Zhang Heng, "It's no longer saved."

Zhang Heng crossed the corpse, came to the female singer, untied the ropes on her hands and feet, and removed the rag from her mouth. Erin Adler rushed to the ground as soon as she was free Spitting, seems to want to spit out the strange smell in his mouth.

Zhang Heng is actually ready to use the [Wall of Evil Thoughts] last chance, but fortunately Holmes found the entrance within three minutes.

When they rushed in, they thought they would encounter hostage-taking situations, but the results surprised everyone.

At the next moment, Zhang Heng's ear came with a reminder 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 entangle this kind of thing, he and Sherlock Holmes first solved it from the female singer. The rope tied Fr. Jacobs and later notified nearby patrol officers.

Holmes remained in place, guarding Father Jacob, while waiting for additional police staff, while Zhang Heng first sent the female singer home.

Zhang Heng stayed at Irene's residence until six in the morning before returning to 221b Baker Street, at which time Holmes had already returned from the police station.

He looked contented, completely ignored the protest of the landlord Mrs. Hudson, took out his violin and pulled it up, and the melodious sound echoed in the room, just not knowing the awakened neighbor in the next building. Would you also want to rush over to kill.

"It seems you have figured out all the ins and outs." Zhang Hengdao.

"It seems you can go to the theater to listen to opera for free in the future," Holmes also said.

"........."

"This may not be the most complicated case I have encountered, but it can be regarded as the most interesting one." Holmes dropped the violin and finally turned the subject back to the case.

"Fr. Jacob made a mistake when he was young, and left a widow with a witch. Although I don't think it is his child, it does not matter. It is important that he has always At the heart, he is willing to regard the child as his own flesh, or in other words, he is using this method to punish himself and atone for the mistakes he made. "

Zhang Heng has actually learned about these things from Irene Adler, so he was not surprised, and signaled Holmes to continue.

"The birth of this child was a mistake. He was the result of a priest and a witch after an impulse. They were not even love between them. He was abandoned by his mother from an early age, and his father was for his own sake. Reputation can only send him to an orphanage. Growing in such an environment, his character will inevitably become lonely and gloomy. Father Jacob said that the seeds of evil are buried in his body, but in fact I hold a different view on this. View."

Sherlock Holmes lit a pipe. "The police and Father Jacob themselves believed that the murder of Jack the Ripper was due to the haste of giving birth to his mother and abandoning his revenge, but I think he is more like taking this scene. Murder is a ritual to trace the origin of his own life. Of course, at the same time, like many serial killers, he is eager for the attention of the world. The letter to the newspaper is the best illustration. "

"Uterus?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I think the uterus is a very important symbol in this case. It is related to reproduction and the place where the embryo is bred. Jack the Ripper takes the victim's uterus, which means that he wants to find his own home. Like the targets he chose, he was a witch who had had children and cohabited with alcohol. Through these characteristics, he linked these victims with his biological mother. When he committed the crime, he could really feel himself and the target again. The connection was like finding his mother, and it was wonderful, wasn't it? Emma gave him life, and he took life from those substitutes, like a complete reincarnation. "

Sherlock Holmes blinked, "Of course, the latter part is just a speculation of mine, Jack the Ripper is dead, and I guess my speculation will probably never be confirmed ... said Jack the Ripper, we Going back to Father Jacob, I have to admit that his role in this case was beyond my expectations. Remember our previous speculation? "

"Ok?"

"We all agreed at the time that there was no conspiracy in this case, so when you finally reconnected Father Jacob and Ripper Jack through Mark Cohen, I did have a brief confusion, and it turns out Father Jacob is not an accomplice to Jack the Ripper. "

Sherlock Holmes continued, "Jack the Ripper lives silently in the secret room under the confession room of the Sacred Heart Church ~ www.novelhall.com ~ This made him hear many secrets that should not have been known to a third person when he first committed the crime At that time, Father Jacob did not know that the case was done by him, until he himself confessed to Father Jacob, and Father Jacob was in a dilemma. Of course, he did not want Jack the Ripper to kill. But on the other hand, the latter is his and Emma's child, and he has reason to protect this child because he has made up for his previous deficit.

"So he made another wrong choice. He decided to hide it and hoped that he could control the beast. At the same time, he also prepared for the other hand and began to consciously guide Mark, who also had mental illness. Cohen, using the latter as a bait to mislead the police investigation, is a reasonable choice from a father's standpoint.

"But he clearly overestimated his abilities, and underestimated the long-suppressed morbidity of Jack the Ripper, and then there was a second and third murder, and things slipped away in a runaway direction, and It was also at this time that Father Jacob began to realize that he had no ability to stop Jack the Ripper from committing the crime. It was then that Miss Adler came to the door. The characteristics she showed perfectly matched the goal that Jack the Ripper had been looking for. So, Father Jacob kidnapped her, but not to treat her as a sacrifice to the devil, but to try it as a test question for Jack the Ripper.

"He wanted to see for himself whether his son had really defeated the devil in his heart as he had promised many times and would not commit another crime, but he was disappointed in the result ... from the reaction of Jack the Ripper Knowing that as long as the latter is still alive in this world, there will be another victim and an innocent soul will die, so in the end, he can only choose to kill the demon he created himself. "