Chapter 19
bang!
The wooden door was kicked open by Sherlock, and there was no mousetrap silhouette inside, only the mice in the iron cage were still barking nonstop.
“Check separately, and if you find clues, remember to notify each other.”
The criminals have bought time for the transfer by misleading them. Since they are one step late, they must continue to pursue There must be a general direction and target. This house is the stronghold of the rat catcher, and maybe some clues that have been missed can be found.
The stairs at the back of the hall outside are where the mousetrap usually rests. Sherlock rushed up first, Donald stayed below, and took out the tracking powder again while he was away. , The last time I came here, because of the positions of the two sides, there was no confirmation behind the workbench.
The Ratcatcher stayed here. When they left, he did not know what he did, but at least he could find out his course of action.
Kneading the bridge of the nose between the eyes and turning on Spirit Vision, with the experience of the first two times, Donald entered the state faster this time, staring at the ground behind the workbench, this time appeared in him There are no more sporadic footprints in front of us.
The area behind the workbench extending to the left and right is full of footprints!
The effect of tracing powder is layered. The later the trail is left, the brighter it will be in Spirit Vision. For the time being, Ignore the dim mouse footprints, Donald focuses on the brightest that part.
The rat catcher got up from the chair, turned around, and walked to the wooden cabinet at the back… There are mouse footprints on this cabinet?
As a preliminary confirmation, Donald turned off Spirit Vision. In his current state, this ability cannot be turned on for a long time. Basically, if it exceeds 10 seconds, there will be problems with the eyes. Capable of being used multiple times, only on and off switches.
There are not many wooden cabinet drawers with mouse footprints on the surface. Most of them are concentrated in the middle part. Donald adjusted the position and jumped back while pulling out to prevent one from suddenly popping out. Mutant mice give themselves a bite.
There is nothing in the drawer, but the structure of this drawer is somewhat unusual. It has no rear baffle. Donald bends down and follows the empty space of the drawer. There is no wooden cabinet behind it. board, but a channel directly connected to the inside of the wall!
breathed deeply, walked quickly to the wooden cabinet, grabbed the corner, and pushed it forward, the wooden cabinet was not heavy, it fell forward with the momentum, the situation at the rear was obvious at a glance, the front There is an irregular hole in the wall corresponding to the position of the drawer. It is not like artificial excavation, but simply made by mice.
This is an information transfer station. If the mouse catcher wants to tell the mouse, he only needs to open the drawer and let the mice lie down in it. It is not only hidden, but even if someone suddenly visits , he can also push all the drawers in just a few seconds, so that no one can see the difference.
The doors and windows are closed during the day, probably for this.
“Donald, what’s the matter, I heard a noise!”
Sherlock’s voice came from behind, and the wooden cabinet fell to the ground not softly.
“I suggest you come down and have a look. I have found evidence of communication between the rat catcher and the rat.”
After replying, I heard a thud on the stairs. Footsteps, Sherlock came down to see something on the wall, no need for him to explain, obvious at a glance.
“I found something more convincing than this. Upstairs, our previous guess was not wrong. This mousetrap is a heretic!”
From The name that came out of Sherlock’s mouth was Donald startled, a name he had heard before, when the two murderers called him…
“I May I ask what a heathen is? I don’t quite understand what you mean.”
On the stairs, Donald wanted to know what kind of person the heathen represented.
“You don’t know? Then I will simply tell you that these people are either born with or acquired in some way… In fact, many people call it innate talent , just like some people are born to jump farther and run faster than others. This is very difficult to deal with, but it is also limited. After all, the ordinary person has his own limits. Even a mediocre person can use a scientific exercise plan close, and these people are not the same, they have an enhanced version or even a variant version of these innate talents, just like the Spirit Vision innate talent that the powder needs, which the ordinary person can’t do no matter how hard they try, plus These people act without any taboos, and the church classifies them as heretics…”
Looking back at the assistant who obviously wanted to ask other things, Sherlock pressed down on his head. The top hat said first:
“I can only tell you so much, which is within the allowable range. If I didn’t come into contact with it directly today, I wouldn’t tell you. As for other information, you know The less the better, especially if you can’t mention it to others casually, it’s best not to explore and spread, ordinary person knowing too many secrets is likely to be the reason why some people come to you.”
I’m not an ordinary person, strictly speaking, my existence may be a little more special than a rat catcher… a lot!
“I just want to know, Sherlock, how do you know this information? Are you also a heretic, not afraid that some of the people you said will come to you?”
Yes Does the ordinary person know too much?
“What do you think I did before I became a detective? I’m a devoted stalker of paranormal phenomena, and I can personally participate in many events in the name of doing this. Like this one, I What you want is not just the ability to catch prisoners, the mouser to communicate and command mice, don’t you want it?”
I believe that most people will know that there are superpowers in this world and can find a way to obtain them. I can’t help but wonder how nice it would be if I had superpowers.
This is similar to the cultivation of Donald’s previous life, you know there are Divine Immortal ghosts, can you stand loneliness?
Sherlock is just a part of the people who do it. He may have discovered the other side of this world under the premise of a coincidence, and then resolutely plunged into it.
It’s just that he seemed to avoid the question of why he didn’t worry about someone coming to the door, and chose to open the door in front of him.
The rat catcher’s bedroom, with its yellowish walls full of cracks, and in front of the hard board bed visited in the middle is a table a circle smaller than the one in the hall, with some… …laboratory equipment?
Donald clearly saw an alcohol lamp, a small glass beaker, a crucible, and a glass bottle that was broken into pieces on the ground, and a pile of powders that were deliberately mixed and stepped on.
“He poured all the ingredients together to prevent us from finding the original recipe…what a piece of shit, if I caught him the first time, this recipe would be mine! ”
Compared with being deceived before, the sight in front of him made Sherlock even more angry, but he still spared no effort to pull a rag beside him, and solemnly wrapped the powder on the ground and put it in himself. pocket.
“What formula can let people communicate the formula of the mouse?”
“Secret!”
Angrily replied, Sherlock frowned and frowned. Wander around the room.
Donald has been holding the tracking powder between his fingers, sprinkled some around the workbench, there are bright marks indeed, the mousetrap has stopped here not long ago, and the footprints extend out of the room, chasing after him. Go out and see another room pointing to the second floor.
Taking advantage of Sherlock’s chagrin, he went over and opened the door. This was a storage room with two or three washbasin-sized baskets about a foot high.
By the afterglow of the setting sun outside the window, Donald noticed something shining inside, and bent down to pick up a gold pound in the basket in the middle!
“Sherlock, I think this is where the loot used to be stored. The Ratcatchers probably didn’t steal more than Mr. Abel’s family. Look at this.”
Thumbs up From the golden pound, the dark golden coin surface reflects the orange red sunset afterglow, the heavy weight and the crisp sound, it is really beautiful.
Oops…it’s a heart-wrenching feeling!
“It doesn’t matter now, we have to know where he went. What if he leaves the city of Preston directly by train?”
This is the most serious Once the Ratcatcher escaped from Preston City and wanted to find him again, he would be looking for a needle in a haystack, and whether or not he could find it in the end, it would definitely have nothing to do with the two of them.
“Look again, aren’t there two more rooms? Go in and have a look.”
The remaining room is the last hope, and the two carefully checked back and forth. , but unfortunately it backfired, searched the entire second floor, but couldn’t find any other information.
There are indications that the Ratcatchers are not only retreating calmly, but may even be ready to retreat.
The residence he chose was almost completely run down and vacant. It was difficult to find witnesses in the nearby area, and it was probably too late to expand the scope of the inquiry.
Donald does have a tracer powder in his hand, the problem is that there is still half a bottle left, which is a handful.
Even if the fiercely is swayed, let’s not say whether it can be effectively sprinkled on the mousetrap’s forward route, even if it is found, how can he explain it to Sherlock?
Besides, the Ratcatcher’s position is likely to be constantly changing, and even giving him a sack of tracking powder probably won’t be enough.
“Failed, an omission, thoroughly beat the grass to scare the snake, and shouldn’t have come in rashly.”
Sitting on the stone steps outside the house, Sherlock was a little nervous. Depressed, Donald pulled the grass stalk in his hand. At this time, Donald couldn’t say any words of comfort. The case at this time actually didn’t lose anything to him. The bottle is worth £5 for the tracer powder.
“Let’s go, eat first, it’s useless to worry now, think slowly, it’s still some time before midnight.”
Failure is not terrifying, but terrifying is after a failure Completely sinking, the rapid recovery of Sherlock’s emotional state made Donald also secretly nodded.
The situation has not reached the time when things have reached a dead end…