48 Hours a Day

The female singer watched the pale man in bed come towards her.

The latter's eyes flashed with an exciting light, like the child who discovered the novel toy, and also with some kind of twisted attachment, and the morbid smile on his face reflected on the scalpel of his left hand.

Irene Adler closed her eyes in despair.

But the next moment, there was a rumbling sound coming from the top of the heads of the three men, the sound of the entrance to the secret room being opened.

Yet when Zhang Heng and Holmes rushed down with their revolvers, they stood still.

They didn't expect to see such a strange scene anyway.

Seeing that the female singer was still tied up and unable to move, Father Jacob stood still and a strange middle-aged man fell to his feet in blood.

The latter, with an incredible divine color on his pale face, was like seeing the most incredible thing in the world, with his eyes open, looking at Father Jacob, seemingly asking why.

Father Jacob saw Zhang Heng and Holmes, threw away the bloody knife in his hand and said calmly, “You're here just in time. I killed people. ”

Holmes squatted to the ground, examined the middle-aged man, saw the wound on his back of the head, and shook his head in a constant fashion, "It's hopeless. ”

Zhang Hengzhe crossed the body, came to the female singer, untied the rope on her hands and feet, and removed the rag from her mouth. As soon as Irene Adler was free, she spit on the ground, seemingly trying to spit out the odor in her mouth.

Zhang Heng was actually ready to use the Wall of Malice for the last time, but Holmes found the entrance within three minutes.

Both men rushed in thinking they were going to encounter hostage-taking by the murderer, but everyone was surprised.

The next moment, Zhang Heng's ear sent a hint of completion of the main task, although there was still a lot of confusion in his mind, but now was not the time to get involved, he and Holmes tied Father Jacob up with a rope that had been removed from the female singer and then informed the nearby patrol police.

Holmes stayed where he was, guarding Father Jacob while waiting for additional police personnel, while Zhang Heng sent the female singer home first.

Zhang Heng stayed at Eileen's place until 6: 00 a.m. to return to 221B Baker Street, when Holmes had also returned from the police station.

He looked satisfied, ignoring the protest of his landlord, Mrs. Hudson, pulled out his violin and the loud violin echoed in the room, just wondering if the neighbor who was woken up in the next building would want to rush over and kill him.

“Looks like you've got everything figured out.” Zhang Hengdao.

“Looks like you can go to the theater for free in the future.” Holmes also said.

“ ………… ”

“This may not be the most complex case I've ever had, but it's certainly the most interesting.” Holmes dropped the violin and finally turned the subject back to the case.

“Father Jacob made a mistake when he was young and left a bastard, although I didn't personally think it was his child, but it didn't matter, what mattered was that he was willing to treat the child as his own flesh and blood, or that he was punishing himself in this way to atone for the mistakes he made that year. ”

Zhang Heng had actually learned these things from Eileen Adler, so he wasn't surprised, indicating that Holmes would go on.

“The birth of this child is a mistake. He is the crystallization of a priest and a maiden after an impulse. There is not even love between them. He has been abandoned by his mother since childhood, and the father can only send him to an orphanage for his reputation. Growing up in such an environment, his personality inevitably becomes isolated and gloomy. Father Jacob says that there are evil seeds buried in his body, but in fact I disagree. ”

Holmes lit the pipe, “The police and Father Jacob himself believed that Jack the Ripper murdered those gooks out of revenge for giving birth to his birth to his biological mother, but I think he was more like a ritual in pursuing the origin of his life, and, of course, at the same time he craved the attention of the world like so many serial killers, and that letter to the newspaper was the best explanation. ”

“Uterine?” Zhang Hengyang raised his eyebrows.

“Yes, I think the womb is a very important symbol in this case, it's related to reproduction, it's also the place where the embryo was conceived, Jack the Ripper took the victim's womb, meaning that he wanted to find his own place, just as he chose the goal of having a child, drinking and living with a cohabiting gorge, and through these qualities, he linked these victims to his own biological mother, and he did feel the connection between himself and the target again when he was committing the crime, just as he found his mother, and it was amazing, wasn't it, that Emma gave him life, and he took life away from those replacements, like a complete turn. ”

Holmes blinked, “Of course, the rest is just my guess, Jack the Ripper is dead, and I guess my guess will never be proven... Speaking of Jack the Ripper, let's go back to Father Jacob and admit that his role in this case was unexpected to me, remember our previous guess? ”

“Hmm?”

“We all agreed that there was no conspiracy in this case, so at the end of the day, when you reconnected Father Jacob with Jack the Ripper through Mark Cohen, I did have a brief confusion, and Father Jacob did not prove to be an accomplice to Jack the Ripper. ”

Holmes continued, "Jack Murmer, the Ripper, lives in a secret chamber under the confession chamber of the Church of the Sacred Heart, which makes him hear a lot of secrets that should not have been known to a third person. When he first committed the crime, Father Jacob did not know that he had done it until he himself confessed to Father Jacob, who of course did not want Jack the Ripper to kill, but the latter, on the other hand, was his child and Emma's child, who had reason to protect the child in order to make up for his previous losses.

“So he made another wrong choice, and he decided to hide it, hoping that he could control the beast, while at the same time preparing himself to consciously guide Mark Cohen, who was also mentally ill, to use the latter as bait to mislead the police investigation, which was a reasonable choice in his father's position.

“But he obviously overestimated his abilities and underestimated Jack the Ripper's long-suppressed morbid psychology, and then there was a second, third homicide, where things were slipping out of control, and it was at that time that Father Jacob began to realize that he had no ability at all to stop Jack the Ripper from committing the crime. At that point, Miss Adler came to the door, and she showed the traits that fit perfectly with what Jack the Ripper had been looking for, so Father Jacob kidnapped her, but not to treat her as a sacrifice to the devil, but rather as a test question for Jack the Ripper.

“He wanted to see for himself whether his son had truly defeated the demon in his heart, as he had repeatedly promised, and would not commit any more crimes, but he was disappointed… from Jack the Ripper's reaction he knew that as long as the latter lived in the world, there would be a next victim, an innocent soul, who would die, so in the end he had to choose to kill the demon himself. ”