Conan's other self

These two Scotland Yard patrolmen are about the most normal people they've met since entering the game.

Maplehara and Conan stepped aside and rejoined Haibara Ai and the others. However, the two patrolmen did not examine the body as they thought. They just stood aside and glanced at the body.

"Looks like this, is it Jack the Ripper?"

"Yeah." One of the fatter patrolmen nodded.

"Tsk, that's really troublesome," another thinner patrol officer said in a complaining tone, "Police Department Lestrade specifically said that this guy's case should be reported to him... let's go back."

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

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

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

The two patrolmen stopped and seemed surprised to be called out. They looked at Xiaolan carefully for a few times before the fat patrolman spoke slowly:

"Someone will come and clear the road later."

Clearing the roads...?

Xiaolan was stunned for a moment and then reacted, a little angry. But the two patrolmen had already hurried through the crowd, and the strange atmosphere around them prevented her from questioning them. The crowd of onlookers still stood there, watching the scene in silence. The scene fell into deathly silence for an instant.

"How about we leave here first?" Yuanzi couldn't help but whisper, "Those people looked at me with horror."

Others felt the same way, and they all turned into the street they had just come from and breathed a sigh of relief.

"why is it like this…"

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

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

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

"Generally speaking, this should be the clue that triggers the mission," Mitsuhiko said, "But it may also be a side mission..."

"Hey, it won't be so troublesome. There are also side tasks, right?" Takizawa Shin also interjected.

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

"Isn't the clue obvious?" Conan showed a confident and expectant expression, "Did you hear it, Maplehara? What the patrol officer just said..."

"Yeah." Feng Yuan was a little helpless that Conan still wanted to be the 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?" Xiao Lan was stunned for a moment, "Is it the Lestrade Police Department that appears in the story? But that is a character that appears in Conan Doyle's novel!"

"This may be a world where reality and fiction are mixed together," Haibara Ai said, "How about it, you two must really want to go there and see it, right?"

"Yes," Maplehara imitated Conan as the Riddler, "and maybe I can figure out the situation of the world there."

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

"Yes!"

Genta and others did not understand the conversation just now between Fengyuan and others, and even Sonoko looked confused.

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

"Holmes!"

"Really?"

"With Holmes here, we have the strength of a hundred more people!" Mitsuhiko said in surprise.

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

After hearing Mitsuhiko's words, Feng Yuan thought of something and couldn't help but glance at Hai Yuan Ai.

"What's wrong?" Hui Yuan Ai leaned his head closer and asked in a low voice.

"With Mei Yi here, it's equivalent to the strength of a hundred people." Feng Yuan blinked and said seriously.

Haiyuan Ai's ears were slightly red, and he stared at Fengyuan with his half-moon eyes for a while before saying, "Is this also the setting you had in mind for this casual name?"

"That's right."

"What a pity, I'm not Sherlock Holmes." Haiyuan snorted, 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. ~”

Feng Yuan also followed, and walked through the alleyway with everyone, returning to the main road before.

Only then did Xiaolan mention that she seemed to have become stronger again. Feng Yuan also felt this way, and this feeling was more obvious than last time. It was 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 Murder Scene" incident and received mission rewards.

It also means they are indeed on the right path.

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

At this moment, they naturally want to go to Baker Street to find Holmes, the "Light of the Times".

Thanks to Kudo Shinichi's obsessive love for Sherlock Holmes, both Maplehara and Conan can identify the roads of this city a hundred years ago. They quickly determined that their location was the Whitechapel area, which was quite a distance from Baker Street where Holmes was located.

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 something with his other self.

However, Hui Yuan Ai, who had been sizing up his surroundings along the way, looked gloomier again and spoke first.

"Fengyuan," Huiyuan Ai whispered, bringing up old things again, "don't you think those people before were weird? They were obviously watching the murder scene but didn't say a word..."

This is what Conan wanted to say.

"...That's because they're not looking at a murder scene."

"Eh?" Conan and Haihara Ai were both a little surprised.

"When the incident occurred, there were clearly piercing screams, but only a few houses' lights were on in the nearby buildings. Before that, when we first encountered the attack, the few passers-by who passed by had almost no sign of anything. reaction…

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

In this case, the strange thing was that we ran over to check on the body. So...those people weren't actually looking at the murder scene, they were looking at us. "

What is really scary is not how many lives this world has taken, but how many people it has made losing their lives routine.

This is obviously different from the world written by Conan Doyle in Conan's eyes, which makes Conan feel a little depressed. After all, even if there are always various incidents happening around the detective, this is too outrageous.

Hui Yuan Ai was silent for a while before saying:

"Although London at the end of the century was actually an era where the gap between rich and poor was very large, criminal methods were very cruel, and people's hearts were sinister, this is too exaggerated... And in this 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 smoothly.

The difficulty of the game has obviously increased. Ordinary children may not even know what to do when entering the game, and it is even less possible for them to hug Sherlock Holmes' lap.

But regardless of 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.

Then, they passed a stone bridge. The river below looked dark, and there was a faint rancid smell. This made everyone speed up and leave here, and then walked for a while.

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

Not far ahead is Big Ben.

They looked over.

There was lighting on the tower, and they could clearly see the time on it, which was currently pointing to 00:50.

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

"Ah! The minute hand actually turned backwards!"

"It's back again!"

"From 50 points to 49 points, and then to 48 points," Conan cupped his chin and thought for a moment, "I know! That's the number of children participating in the game!"

"Then reversing two points means..."

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

I'm afraid that is indeed the case.

The atmosphere that had been lively just now was suppressed again, and everyone continued walking towards Baker Street without any delay.

Soon they realized something was wrong.