After finishing the talks with Archduke Stuart, Sherlock did not stay in the Archduke's palace to rest.

The Green family owns its own businesses in the Western District, and of course it also has a branch in Newland.

As the next Duke designated by the Green family, Sherlock automatically took over all control of Newland's industries after arriving in Newland, and lived and ate in his own house.

After returning to his own territory and making sure he had entered an unsupervised area, Sherlock took out a communicator from his pocket and opened an email that had been specially encrypted before he set out. The email would only be decrypted after he arrived in Shinran.

It said that the Western District Alliance sent him to New Lan for another secret mission besides persuading Grand Duke Stuart.

After reading the entire content of the email, there was no change in Sherlock's expression. His eyes were still as bright and determined as before. He just called a butler-like figure to arrange some things.

20 minutes later, a car slowly drove out of the garage in the villa. Some people who had been keeping watch in a hidden corner nearby looked at the brand and license plate of the car alertly.

Soon, these people determined from the most common affordable car brands and license plates on the road that this should be a normal trip for the servants in the villa to go home. According to the information previously retained, the car did belong to one of the servants.

The people hiding in the dark and watching couldn't help but relax, but to be safe, they still divided a team of people to quietly follow the car, watching it until it drove out of the Green family's villa and returned to the owner's home in Xinlan.

The people stationed in the Green family villa also spread the news that the distinguished son of the Duke rested in the bedroom after returning. Except for letting the butler go in to deal with the extra luxury furniture in the bedroom, he never came out again, and no one let anyone else in.

This made the observers completely relax, and they began to grumble to each other, complaining about the heavy snow in Shinran in the past two days, the increasingly cold weather, and the fact that the Meteorological Bureau had not done anything.

However, as the night gradually deepened, the snowflakes falling from the sky became denser and denser, and the air became colder and colder.

At the servant's house returning home from Green Villa, an inconspicuous figure quietly climbed over the wall, then moved in the city at a speed far beyond that of a normal person, and finally came to a parking lot.

He took out the car keys from his pocket and quickly found his own car among the many cars in the parking lot. His steps became lighter, and he walked quickly to the car door, opened it, and sat in the driver's seat.

After starting the car, he fiddled with the car radio a few times and switched to his favorite Western District Music Channel. After midnight, this radio station would keep playing some relaxing classical folk songs. Listening to such music while driving on a quiet and deserted road was a very relaxing and enjoyable thing for him.

But just as he turned the steering wheel and was about to reverse out of the parking lot, he subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car, and his body suddenly stiffened.

A chill seemed to sweep across his body from his back, and his hair stood on end! But soon, he tightly gripped the steering wheel with both hands, and his breathing became even again under deliberate control. Although his muscles were still tense, they were no longer as stiff as at the beginning.

Sherlock didn't look back. He still faced forward, as if he knew from the beginning that there would be a second person in the car besides himself. He continued to reverse out of the parking lot and then spoke in a faint voice.

"Sir, if you need me to give you a ride, you should first tell me a destination so that I can set off, right?"

"Give me a ride? What do you mean by give me a ride? I'll go wherever you go. Stop dawdling and drive."

Sherlock inexplicably felt that the voice and tone were very familiar, but for a moment he couldn't figure out where this familiar feeling came from.

He simply parked the car slowly on the side of the road and looked through the rearview mirror at the unfamiliar young man from the Western District sitting in the back seat. It seemed as if he had been sitting there, deliberately waiting for him to get in the car and fall into a trap.

"Do we know each other?"

"Do you know him? The famous traitor of the academy, the second to last head of discipline department, you don't recognize your old friend after leaving the academy? Before you left, you kept telling me that if I ran into any trouble, I could come to the West District to find you. Now that I come to you, you actually ask, 'Do we know each other?'"

Levi clicked his tongue twice.

"It's so sad."

Hearing this, Sherlock turned his head suddenly, staring at Levi's smiling face with wide eyes. A name that had always been hidden in his memory but had not been heard or recited for a long time blurted out from his mouth!

“Qian Wei!!!”

Levi couldn't help but shrug when he saw his big reaction.

"Why are you shouting so loudly? I'm not deaf, I can hear you."

"You! Why are you here? And you're not dead!"

Sherlock stretched almost half of his body from the driver's seat to the back seat. He looked at Levi in ​​shock, his expression showing great surprise!

"Why do you think I'm dead? I didn't say anything when you left. I cherish my life very much. I won't die even if anyone dies."

"Cherish your life? Do you think I don't have a way to know what happened to the academy later? After we hijacked the train and escaped, a huge explosion happened in the academy! They said that a special recruit used the patented chemical liquid explosive stolen from the cellar and died together with those people!"

"When I found out about this later, I really thought you were dead! You secretly took a liquid explosive in the cellar. Did you plan to do that at the time? If not for the identity you asked me to prepare for you later."

When he said this, Sherlock suddenly shut his mouth.

He stared at Levi closely, his eyes fixed on him as if he wanted to see through that strange face and find the person he was familiar with.

Levi still just smiled and looked at him, blinked, and knew why he stopped the words that were about to come out.

Because that matter is an absolute secret. No matter how many people are involved in it, only Sherlock and Levi know the core secret in this world.

"Why didn't you say anything? If the identity of Vic Forrest that I asked you to help prepare had not been activated and he had been re-enrolled in the academy, you would have really believed that I and the others had blown ourselves up, right?"

After hearing Levi say this himself, Sherlock finally breathed a sigh of relief and no longer had any doubts about Levi's identity.

There are certainly no absolute secrets in this world. Not to mention anything else, there are scientists who have mastered the rules of biology and can dig out secrets from the human brain, although they are rare.

Later, when this name spread to the East and West, and to every corner of the world, even when his biological father came to ask him who Vic Forrest's true identity was, Sherlock did not tell anyone.

But it is precisely because Sherlock knows that Forrest and Qian Wei are the same person that he truly finds it unbelievable what Levi did.

He knew what Qian Wei had promised Zhu Long when he first entered the college.

When they acted like thieves, robbed the cellar, and escaped with thousands of special recruits, Sherlock and Zhu Long had no doubt that Qian Wei could really do it.

Revenge on this city, on this temple of truth! There is no doubt that it is because they believe in Qian Wei's future. They believe from the bottom of their hearts that if another ten years or so pass, this daring young man who seems to be fearless and can do anything will really do all this.

However, the truth is that it doesn’t take ten years at all, and it’s hardly even a year!

Qian Wei used the identity of Vic Forrest to destroy the entire college and turned that city into the history of the Eastern District.

Sherlock, who was in the Western District, couldn't imagine how Qian Wei did it.

At the same time, news coming from both the central government and the destroyed college was that Forrest was dead. Some students saw with their own eyes that his body spontaneously combusted on the spot and was burned to ashes.

After experiencing the news that Qian Wei had committed suicide, Sherlock no longer believed such death news.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

During this year or so, he had been trying to find out information about Qian Wei, but to no avail. Just when he was beginning to waver and feel scared, and began to doubt whether this was true.

That night, Qian Wei suddenly appeared in front of him!

Sherlock looked very excited. He seemed to have a lot of questions to ask, but didn't know where to start. In the end, Levi opened the car door, got out and moved to the passenger seat.

"Don't act like it's some kind of reunion after a lifetime of separation. Just drive on. If you want to know anything, you can ask as you drive."

At this time Sherlock finally calmed down a little. He did not forget what Levi said at the beginning, that their destination for this trip was the same.

After restarting the car, Sherlock took the steering wheel and drove onto a quiet road.

"How did you know I was here and find me?"

Levi took out a box of biscuits from the storage compartment and said as he ate without hiding anything.

"My access to information is very special. As long as there is data communication, almost everything can be hidden from me. I came to Xinlan a week ago. When you got off the train tonight, I only knew that there was an important person who needed to be personally received by Archduke Stuart. Later I found out it was you."

"You came to Newland because of the Duke Stuart?"

Since Levi said that they had the same destination tonight, Sherlock could naturally guess something, and when he asked about it, his tone became a little solemn.

Because there are only two parties involved in this matter now, Sherlock represents one of them, and if Levi has the same purpose, then he can only represent the other party.

Coupled with the rumors he had heard before that "Forrest was a assassin trained by Green Day", Sherlock's mood at this moment inevitably became heavy.

Li Wei could guess what he was thinking just from his tone.

"Do you think I would join Green Day, become one of them, and do things for them?"

Hearing Levi ask this question himself, Sherlock couldn't help but laugh.

"Won't."

"Of course not. When I first came to Xinlan, I only knew that the Duke's parents were missing. Later, after I came into contact with one of the key figures, I realized that there were so many twists and turns in this matter. As for your competitor, a parrot from Green Day, I killed him with my own hands just five hours ago."

Sherlock was not surprised to hear this. This was exactly the style of the Qian Wei he knew.

If you don't like something, just don't like it. If you want to do something, do it. If you want to kill someone, kill them immediately!

"From that dead bird's brain, I got some information that is not very favorable to you. The Grand Duke Stuart actually leans more towards Green Day, especially whether his last name is Stuart. There are great doubts about this matter. If this is really a person who has been replaced by a cat, then he must stand on the opposite side of you. Of course, you must have been prepared. The Grand Duke's parents have contacted you, right? You sneaked out tonight without attracting anyone's attention just to meet the parents and confirm this matter."

Sherlock turned around and looked at Levi in ​​surprise. Although Levi said that as long as the information was transmitted at the data level, it could not be hidden from him, he still found it unbelievable.

"You seem to know more than I do."

"I do know more than you, but our goal tonight is the same, otherwise I wouldn't have come all this way to wait for you in your car."

Levi reclined the seat and lay down comfortably, and Sherlock asked.

"So what do you want to do with all this?"

"Use this to find an opportunity to kill the Duke of Stuart, seize his chosen one, and by the way, find out about the rule fragment that Green Day took away."

After hearing Levi's unreserved answer, Sherlock did not show much surprise on his face this time. Instead, he laughed. He gripped the steering wheel tightly and stepped on the accelerator pedal. The roar of the engine sounded, and they drove out of the Xinlan city and started to speed towards the barrier on the edge of the city.

"That's your usual style."

(End of this chapter)