Conan's other me

Chapter 129 The Devil's Mist City in the Dead Realm ([-])

The two Scotland Yard troopers are about as normal as they've ever met since entering the game.

Kaedehara and Conan moved aside, and reunited with Haibara Ai and the others.But the two patrolmen did not examine the corpse as they thought, they just stood by and glanced at the corpse.

"It looks like Jack the Ripper?"

"Yeah." One of the fatter patrolmen nodded.

"Tsk, what a nuisance," another thinner patrolman said in a complaining tone, "The Lestrade Police Department specifically said that this guy's case will be reported to him...Let's go back."

Under Xiaolan's surprised eyes, the two patrolmen chatted for a few words before turning around and preparing to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Xiaolan yelled, "What should she do?"

She was obviously referring to the lonely dead man on the ground.

The two patrolmen stopped in their tracks, as if they were surprised to be stopped, and looked at Xiaolan carefully, before the fat patrolman spoke slowly:
"Someone will come to clear the road later."

Clear the way...?
Xiaolan froze for a moment and then realized that she was a little angry.But the two patrolmen had already hurried through the crowd, and the weird atmosphere around her didn't dare to go up and ask questions.The crowd of onlookers still stood there, looking at the field silently, and the scene fell into a deathly silence for a moment.

"Why don't we leave here first?" Yuanzi couldn't help but whispered, "That group of people made my hair stand on end."

Others felt the same way, and they breathed a sigh of relief when they turned into the alley they just came from.

"why is it like this…"

Xiaolan was a little sad, obviously still thinking about the unattended matter of the corpse just now.

"It's just a game, sister Xiaolan." Conan comforted.

"Where are we going next?" Mohohoshi Hideki said, "Since Jack the Ripper was mentioned, we have to catch him now, right?"

"Generally speaking, this should be the clue to trigger the mission," Mitsuhiko said, "but it may also be a side mission..."

"Hey, it won't be so troublesome, there are side missions, right?" Takizawa Shinya interjected.

"I think so, but I don't know how to catch Jack the Ripper..."

"Isn't the clue obvious?" Conan showed a confident and expectant expression, "Did you hear that too, Kaedehara? What the patrolman said just now..."

"Yeah." Fengbara was a little helpless about Conan still being a riddler at this time, but he still agreed, "He said that the case of Jack the Ripper should be notified to the Lestrade Police Department."

"Huh?" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, "Could it be the Lestrade police department that appeared in the story? But that's the character that appeared in Conan Doyle's novel!"

"This may be a world where reality and fiction are mixed together," Hui Yuanai said, "How about it, you two must really want to visit that place, right?"

"Yeah," Fengyuan imitated Conan as a riddleman, "and maybe he can figure out the situation of this world there."

"Hey, what are you talking about? I don't understand!"

"Yes!"

Yuantai and the others didn't understand the conversation between Fengyuan and the others just now, and even Yuanzi looked confused.

"Didn't Huibara just say that? This is a world where reality and fiction are mixed together." Conan's eyes flashed, "So that person should be here too... Sherlock Holmes."

"Holmes!"

"really?"

"With Sherlock Holmes around, I have the strength of a hundred more people!" Mitsuhiko exclaimed in surprise.

As a group of young detectives, they obviously knew who Holmes was and what he meant, so they were immediately excited and felt that the future was bright.

But hearing Mitsuhiko's words, Fengyuan thought of something, and couldn't help but glance at Huiyuan Ai.

"What's wrong?" Hui Yuanai asked in a low voice, leaning his head closer.

"With Mei here, it's equivalent to having the strength of a hundred people." Fengyuan blinked and said solemnly.

Huiyuan Ai's ears were slightly red, and she stared at Fengyuan with half-moon eyes for a while before saying: "Is this also the setting you thought of for this random name?"

"Yes."

"It's a pity, I'm not Sherlock Holmes." Huiyuan grunted, turned his head, and followed the large army that started to march over there, "Last time, even wanting to be Watson was rejected by a certain great detective. ~"

Fengyuan also followed, walked through the alleyway with everyone, and returned to the previous main road.

Only then did Xiaolan mention that she seemed to have become stronger again.Fengyuan also felt this way, and this feeling was more obvious than last time, so obvious that Genta and Mitsuhiko also noticed the change.

According to Mitsuhiko's analysis, this may be because they completed the "Jack the Ripper Killing Scene" event and received task rewards.

It also means they are indeed on the right track.

The future is no longer confused, the followers have become stronger, everyone's emotions have recovered a lot, and the sense of depression brought about by the weird atmosphere just now has also subsided.

At this moment, they were naturally going to Baker Street to look for Sherlock Holmes, the "Light of the Times".

And thanks to Kudo Shinichi himself's obsessive love for Holmes, both Fengyuan and Conan can recognize the roads of this century-old city.They quickly determined that they were in the Whitechapel area, not a short distance from Baker Street where Holmes was.

Everyone started to move forward.

Now this section of the road only needs to go straight. Conan did not walk in the middle to lead the way, but deliberately walked to the side, intending to discuss some things with his other self.

However, Hui Yuanai, who had been sizing up the surroundings during this section of the road, turned gloomy again, and spoke first.

"Fengyuan," Hui Yuanai whispered, bringing up the old incident again, "Don't you think those people before are very strange? They were clearly watching the murder scene but didn't say a word..."

Conan wanted to say the same thing.

"...That's because they weren't watching the murder scene."

"Huh?" Both Conan and Haibara were a little surprised.

"When the incident happened, there were obviously piercing screams, but the lights of only a few houses were turned on in the nearby buildings. Before that, when we encountered the attack for the first time, there were hardly any passers-by. reaction…

The attitude of the two Scotland Yard patrolmen was also very strange.I think they are probably used to crime scenes, and have become numb to the point of indifference to someone dying in front of them.

In this case, it was us who ran over to examine the body, which was strange.So... those people weren't actually watching the murder scene, they were watching us. "

The real horror is not how many lives the world has taken, but how many it has made the loss of life normal.

This is obviously different from Conan Doyle's world in Conan's eyes, which makes Conan feel a little depressed.After all, even a famous detective will always have various incidents around him, which is too outrageous.

Hui Yuanai was silent for a while before saying:

"Although London at the end of the century is actually an era where the gap between the rich and the poor is very large, and the criminal methods are very cruel and the people are sinister, but this is too exaggerated... And if this is the case, I feel that our plan to find Sherlock Holmes may not go so smoothly... "

Feng Yuan also felt that the plan might not go well.

The difficulty of the game has obviously increased. Just because ordinary children don't even know what to do in the game, it is even more impossible for them to hug Holmes' thigh directly.

But no matter whether the plan goes well or not, it is obviously a good choice to go directly to Holmes now, because even if they fail, they can have a deeper understanding of the world in the game.

Afterwards, they passed a stone bridge, the river below looked dark, and there was a faint smell of decay, which made everyone quicken their pace and leave here, and then walked for a while.

"Hey, don't you think that clock is weird?" Zhu Xingxiushu said suddenly.

Not far ahead is Big Ben.

They looked over.

There are lights on the tower, and they can clearly see the time on it, and it is now pointing to [-]:[-].

Conan took a few glances and didn't find anything strange. Just as he was about to ask, he found that the minute hand of the clock suddenly turned back a step.

"Ah! The minute hand turned backwards!"

"It's back again!"

"From 50 points to 49 points, then to 48 points," Conan thought for a while, holding his chin, "I see! That's the number of children participating in the game!"

"The reverse of two points means..."

"Could it be that two people were eliminated from other games?" Xiaolan showed a worried expression.

That's probably true.

The atmosphere that had been active just now became subdued, and everyone continued walking towards Baker Street without delay.

It didn't take long for them to see something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)