Chapter 534 Resurrection (Part 2)

Time will not end because of anyone's departure.

A lot of things happened this year.

Watson used Jasmine's private money to open a small clinic and perform some simple surgical operations. With his skills, he soon became famous.

After that, the couple wondered whether to have a child, but the empire is really in chaos now, and it is not necessarily a good thing to let a baby be born in this period, so they kept dragging it on.

Sherlock's body was placed in the back room on the second floor. It stands to reason that a body that has been placed for a year must have rotted to the bones, but with Nightingale's ability, this soulless body has been well preserved, and even because of the surrounding temperature, it is no longer cold, and the skin has become soft. From a distance, it looks like a sleeping person.

As for the war between the imperial people, well, in fact, no one knows what the real cause of this war is, but gradually, people have already had a direction to target.

That is the current emperor of the empire and pope of the church-Moriarty.

An extreme power tyrant who tries to control everything in his own hands.

The Holy Light Temple has disappeared for more than a year, disappearing in the newly opened Hell Gate, and the Holy Light seems to have stopped favoring this world. Fortunately, all the demons that fell from the Hell Gate before are concentrated in the Elbes Mountains. The complex mountains make it difficult for them to rush out.

The frequency of the appearance of the third-level big demon is not very frequent. Most of them are concentrated near the Hell Gate. The old-school soldiers of the Empire have established a defensive battle formation. For the time being, these guys will not threaten the heartland of the Empire.

Now, the biggest threat to the Empire is the Empire itself.

Since Lord Moriarty came to power, the Empire's economy has been close to stagnation. The words "New Era" and "The Beautiful Future of Mankind" that were promoted in the late Great Expedition have never appeared again. The Holy Journal announced that it would be permanently suspended, and more than 60% of the media were confiscated by the Imperial Government.

To put it bluntly, ordinary people now have no way of knowing what the world has become.

However, it can be seen from the increasingly meager wages that the current empire must be in a bad state. Demonstrations have become the norm between cities, and even open anti-government organizations have emerged. The previously split armies have gradually merged together, and from time to time they fight with the imperial army outside the city.

The Church has completely become a military factory because it has lost the support of believers in the Holy Light. The combat forces mixed with the Contractor and the Crusaders are fully under the command of the Emperor of the Empire. The Council of Elders has been abolished, prices have risen, the right to purchase houses has changed every three days, and the amount of military expenditure has continued to rise. The churches that were previously erected in various cities have now become a singing group that praises the great achievements of the emperor, and those who join can also distribute food.

Under the reduction of social welfare, local governments are also miserable. Facing the parade teams holding banners, they can only helplessly shout empty comfort and promises that can never be realized. The owner of the bakery cautiously stared at the ragged homeless children across the street. The old man thought of his seriously ill grandson at home, gritted his teeth, bought a fresh apple, and carefully put it in his arms.

This is the true portrayal of the heartland of the empire today.

There is an old saying in the empire that only when you are full and satisfied will you fantasize about those empty and lewd things.

In fact, this saying is a bit absolute, because people in suffering will also frequently fantasize about beautiful things.

To put it bluntly, it is daydreaming.

In these empty daydreams, people thought of the empire a few years ago. Although there were always wars at that time, people's lives were still passable. At that time, Lord Dante was still alive. Occasionally, one or two heroes who could lead mankind to a bright future would appear in the empire, and there was new hope every day.

Oh, by the way, speaking of heroes, it seems that there was once an empire hero who was actually a wanted criminal.

That guy is called... Sherlock.

The reason why that guy became a wanted criminal seems to be because he once assassinated the emperor of the empire.

During that period, assassinating the emperor of the empire must have been a matter of great indignation. No empire person could accept that such a murderer was still alive in the world, so naturally, they began to want this person.

But now, it seems that most people think that it would be great if that person could reappear and assassinate the current Lord Moriarty.

The original wanted criminal inexplicably became the protagonist of people's daydreams in their miserable lives. This kind of thing sounds awkward, but if you think carefully about the evolution of the empire over the years, it seems that all the chaos can be covered by a conspiracy theory.

Moriarty, the most powerful person in the world, seems to be the mastermind behind all this.

Starting from a major accident in London many years ago, this terrible conspirator has been slowly weaving his evil web, showing it to the world with a beautiful disguise of being harmless to people and animals, and even considering the future destiny of mankind as his lifelong pursuit;

He gradually became the Pope, and then transformed the entire Church into his own private army, planning a lie about the Great Crusade, just to remove the Holy Light from this world, deceive Sherlock to assassinate the Emperor of the Empire, or simply frame the other party for this matter. After Lord Dante recognized Sherlock as a human hero, he designed to let the two kill each other, and finally he successfully sat on the throne of the Emperor of the Empire and became the well-deserved King of the Empire.

In this way, all the absurdities and doubts before seemed to be solved.

Moriarty, it turned out to be the criminal who committed unforgivable crimes against mankind.

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People thought and speculated like this, as if suddenly, all the people in the empire became detectives, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that the truth of everything was like this.

But even so, people can only stay at the level of thinking, because in addition to daily work, most of the time people need to work hard to recite the hymn about Lord Moriarty. The patrolling stop guards would stop pedestrians on the street and conduct random checks. If there were any mistakes in reciting, they would be severely punished.

They did not ban marches or petitions, and they called it a manifestation of the freedom of the people in the new era, but they required people to recite some indisputable documents and poems repeatedly. In fact, this high-pressure mental control method was more sinister and more effective than direct confrontation with the people.

Everything seemed to continue slowly at this pace. Maybe in another ten or even five years, the entire empire would become a machine without thoughts and controlled by individuals.

And on this day.

In an apartment on Baker Street, Miss Nightingale, who had not appeared in public for almost three years, had just tried to make a pot of tomato soup. She had been practicing cooking for a long time, but if no one tasted it for her, she herself did not know whether her soup-making skills had improved. It was just that from the color point of view, it seemed to be better than a few months ago.

She completely ignored the heat of the soup pot, held it barehanded, walked out of the kitchen, and wanted to put the bowl of soup on the table.

But suddenly, she saw the door of the bedroom out of the corner of her eye.

Subconsciously, she raised her head.

Then she just stood there in a daze.

"Bang!"

The soup pot fell to the ground and shattered into a bright red color.