foggy london

1 It all started at the Tower of London?

After returning to Mrs. Vatra's house, Jenny received Lily and brought her into the living room.

In front of the small round table, Mrs. Vatra was sitting there with a black veil on her face.

"I heard from Jenny that there is another case of disappearance?" she asked.

"Hello, Mr. Detective, no, ma'am. I never thought that the best detective in London was a woman. Oh, I didn't mean that, sorry if I took the liberty. I..." Lily stood by Mrs. Vatra Feeling at a loss in front of her face, she looked at John for help.

"Ahem, I met this lady on the street, Mrs. Vatra." John didn't know much about this alien lady who had only met once.Until now, he still remembers the green scaly face, which directly cut his appetite in half, and he only ate a little dry bread for lunch.

"Hello, ma'am. My name is Lily. Not long ago, my friend Jenna suddenly disappeared on the street." Lily summed up what happened just now. She still has lingering fears and her voice is trembling, "That At that time, I was next to her, only a few steps away. I guarded the intersection for her, and she turned over the manhole cover there."

"Did you see her disappear with your own eyes?" Mrs. Vatra in a black veil looked dignified and mysterious, and she emphasized in her usual style, "You can only answer my question with one word, and you don't need to do anything. explain."

"One word?" Lily was a little confused, but complied. "No." She replied quite positively.At that time, although she was beside her, her eyes were always on the pedestrians coming and going on the street outside, and she didn't realize that Jenna was gone until she heard the movement behind her.

Madam Vatra was silent for a moment.Like John, she immediately thought of last night's case. Mr. Jones' disappearance was also under the watchful eyes of his wife. No, to be precise, the lights were dim at that time, and Mrs. Jones couldn't see what was hidden in the darkness at all.That is to say, although there are so-called witnesses in these two cases, in fact, no one can tell the whole story clearly.

This is no longer as simple as a coincidence.

"John," Madam Vatra said, "you go to the tavern immediately to find the Doctor and the others, and tell them about this case, oh yes, tell the Doctor and Sherlock by the way, remember to cover your face when you walk outside, now The government is looking for them all over the city."

"Oh, my God. Wanted in the city?!" John exclaimed. "They shouldn't be out!"

Lily looked at John in horror, "Is your friend a wanted criminal?"

"Oh no, of course not, it's just a framing. Don't get me wrong!" John quickly denied, but the other party didn't seem to believe it.

"Ma'am, someone is looking for you outside." Strax's voice came from the entrance, and after a while he dragged a woman who was unconscious on the ground and walked in.

With his height, it is already very difficult just to lift this person. "It's weird, I just wanted to help her with her coat, but she passed out screaming."

"Strax, you go out first. Jenny, help that lady to rest on the sofa." Mrs. Vatra reluctantly asked Jenny to help.This was the Nth time, Strax made the client who came to him faint from fright.It would help a lot if he could put on a mask or something in front of people, but since he's Strax, there's no way he's expected to do that.

"Then, Lily, I now hope that you can stay at my house temporarily." This was the decision Vatra made after considering it.She was a better witness than Mrs. Jones.And... She is also likely to be the next target to be attacked.But this point must not be told to her. Mrs. Vatra found another reason, "We have to ensure the safety of witnesses before we solve the case. You are the only witness in this case now, which is very important to us."

"This..." Lily hesitated for a while, and finally nodded in agreement. "Okay, ma'am. But can you tell me how long it takes to solve the case?"

"I can't promise you this, but it should be soon. In just a few days, we don't have much time," Mrs. Vatra said. "If you can, it's best to avoid going out in the near future."

If Cruelofy had been the perpetrator, there's a good chance this young woman would have been targeted. Mrs. Vatra couldn't help but began to suspect that last night, the Doctor clearly said that those creatures are still too weak to go out to hunt humans, but by such a coincidence, during this time period, two people were kidnapped one after another.

Unless... the murderer wasn't Cruelofy.

Mrs. Vatra felt uneasy in her heart, and she yelled towards the door: "Strax, you take John to the tavern to meet the Doctor right now. Be quick!"

"Oh, no, ma'am. I'll go by myself. Just tell me where the tavern is." John immediately and firmly rejected Vatra's offer.

"You know how to drive a carriage?"

John shook his head. "I'll just walk over by myself. Or, hire a carriage."

"Then let Jenny accompany you. She is very reliable." Madam Vatra glanced at the maid who was taking care of the unconscious woman, and said, "Now there is no time to waste on other things."

"Ma'am, she's awake!!" Jenny reported the situation loudly, her hand fanning still didn't stop, "What do you think, ma'am?"

"Just now... what happened just now, I seem to see... I saw... Oh! I'm here to find the detective!" The woman who finally woke up looked around for the owner of the house. In front of the round table, behind the elegant Mrs. Vatra, the tense expression on her face finally eased a little.

"Hello, ma'am!" She stood up straight away, "Please help me. My son, he hasn't come home since last night."

Another missing one?

The development of the situation is getting more and more strange. "Can you go through it all? Maybe your son just went out drinking and it's normal to come home the next afternoon with a hangover," Mrs Vatra said.

"No, my son was on duty at the Tower of London last night. There was absolutely no way he was going out drinking. Besides, there was another young man with him at the time, and they disappeared together. I asked, and no one has heard of them. .”

"Tower of London?!" Jenny remembered the empty scene there last night, and she immediately realized that something was wrong.She winked at Madam Vatra and hurried over.

"Ma'am, when I went there to find the Doctor last night, there was no one in the Tower of London. I still thought it was strange." Jenny whispered in Madam Vatra's ear.

"Are you sure?" Madam Vatra asked in the same low voice.

"I'm sure, when I went there, the things on the table were spilled all over the floor. What's even more strange, the key to the Doctor's cell was dropped on the floor. It's very strange." The more Jenny thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, "Sorry, Madam, at that time, I should have stayed there and searched carefully. Maybe the murderer is still there."

"Don't say that, Jenny." Mrs. Vatra took Jenny's hand, she looked at the client again, and asked, "Madam, can you confirm when your son disappeared?"

"I don't know about that. He went out around six or seven in the afternoon. He wasn't in his class at all last night, but because he caught two suspects, he was called urgently. Didn't you hear that?" ? Those two prisoners escaped from prison last night, could it be... could it be that they killed my son!!"

"It's absolutely impossible!" John interrupted suddenly, and everyone's eyes focused on him.He scratched his head in embarrassment. "I mean, it's better for us not to draw conclusions without evidence."

"John," Lily gently tugged at John's sleeve, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "is the person who escaped from prison your friend?"

"But they are really innocent." John anxiously defended Sherlock and the Doctor, even if Sherlock was such a murderous person, he would not kill himself.

"I believe in you," Lily said with firm eyes, "You are a good person, and your friends must be the same as you."

"Thank you." John whispered thanks.

At this time, Jenny came over.

"John, I'm afraid I can't take you to the pub. I have to go to the Tower of London first." Jenny whispered hurriedly.

"Go to the Tower of London? Are you going to investigate by yourself?" John didn't know what Jenny saw with his own eyes. Of course, he didn't know Jenny's strength either.He couldn't help worrying about this weak-looking little maid. "It's too dangerous. I remember that London was still a prison in this era, and there were a mixture of mermaids and dragons in it. You are a girl..."

"Hey, I'm not that weak." Jenny thumped John's shoulder, "Just put a thousand hearts on it. Madam said, we need to have a good chat with that lady. This disappearance case is quite special."

"Special?" John glanced at Lily next to him, hesitated for a moment, or pulled Jenny a little further away, and the two discussed in a low voice. "How to say?"

"In addition to the missing person, there are other things missing. Several sheets of paper in the documents brought by Sherlock are missing." Jenny said, "The prisoner must have taken it away secretly. There must be There is some important evidence."

"Oh! That's right! That information. I forgot to ask him!" After being reminded, John immediately remembered the information that hurt him a lot, as well as the unsolved disappearance case in the 21st century.

"But how could the content in that document be relevant to the present? It was all from 2011."

"I'm not too sure about that. Speaking of which, Sherlock seems to have tested the paper, looking for... looking for something. Anyway, be careful on your own. The roads are not as safe as before .” Jenny looked like she was in a hurry to leave, and John couldn’t keep her any longer.

"Did something happen?" Lily asked John after Jenny left, "Is it still related to Jenna's disappearance?"

"It's nothing." John shook his head. "It's another matter. Now I have something to go out, so you can stay here for now."

【Buzzing—】

There was a regular vibrating sound from John's pocket - a reminder that the phone was about to run out of battery.

He took out his phone and looked at it, the battery was only 13.00% left.

But in this day and age, mobile phones are useless at all, so it doesn't matter if they run out of battery.Thinking so, he pressed the lock screen button, but the screen was still on.He pressed it again, but still nothing changed.

"Is it broken?" He muttered, but didn't pay much attention.It might have been damaged when the Tardis fell down before, John thought about it and stuffed the phone that couldn't be locked back into his pocket, waiting for it to automatically shut down after a while.

The author has something to say: I finally wrote it here, there are very important clues in the Tower of London~~

This picture is super emotional~~