Conan's Corpse Picker

Conan looked at the closed door, rubbed his ears that were buzzing by the clerk's loud voice, and sighed sadly.

"..." At times like this, I miss Jiang Xia's inexplicable affinity and talent.Although the neighbor often accidentally shows his murderous side, at least he seems like a good guy.Moreover, being close to an adult status, it is not easy to be rejected by the person you are talking to... Tsk, hateful Noah, if you can't beat Jiang Xia, you will take Jiang Xia away. You really don't speak martial arts.Also throw the pot to the game manufacturer.

The plan to crack eggs failed miserably.

Conan retreated to the alley in a delicate mood, joined the players, then raised his head again, looking at the window of the cafe.

After seeing it clearly, he was slightly taken aback.

——The young man with an Asian face is no longer there, and he doesn't know when he disappeared.

"When you were thrown out just now, that person seemed to have finished drinking the wine in the glass, then handed the glass to the waiter, and left from the window."

Although Haibara Ai doesn't often play games, she is at least better than Conan.

She tried to use the thinking of the game to speculate on the current situation: "Maybe it's not time to find a 'helper'. Key characters always appear at critical moments. We don't know anything about the main story of the game now, and it's normal not to see a helper." ...

"Besides, there is a more likely reason——

"This is indeed one of the opportunities to contact a helper. It's a pity that you chose the wrong method, so he left-I heard that the more talented a person is, the more cold he is. Xuande in the Three Kingdoms period only saw Kong Ming after three visits to the thatched cottage ..."

Hui Yuanai said as he talked, he accepted this setting.He nodded secretly.

——If this is the case, this game seems to have a sense of weight and educational significance, which is more interesting than solving crimes and catching people she imagined.

Conan interrupted her conjecture shamelessly:

"No, the situation must be the first one—it's not yet time to get in touch with that mysterious helper.

"He probably just came out for a cutscene, paving the way for the timing of his appearance. Otherwise, I couldn't climb up the wall to the second floor, and then look for him through the window... Besides, maybe it was just a simple passerby, a set a part of."

"Impossible!" Suzuki Sonoko and Yoshida Ayumi suddenly said, and interrupted him in unison, with a firm tone, "His delicacy is not at the same level as passers-by."

Conan: "...Whoever said that being handsome can't be a passerby." Maybe the game company just likes to break the rules...

……

While chatting, several people occasionally looked towards the door of the coffee shop, wanting to see if the "suspected mysterious helper" would come out by himself after leaving his seat.

Until then, though.

Following the sharp police whistle, several policemen separated from the chaotic crowd of onlookers and ran in quickly.They braked next to the body and looked down.

Conan looked at the people who avoided the police and seemed to be a little intimidated by them.

Looking at the coffee shop next to him, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

After a while, Conan ran to the police in small steps, trying to use these tool men delivered to the door to break through the fierce defense of the coffee shop clerk:

"Uncle policeman, just now I picked up a coffee cup left behind by someone who didn't know. The mark on the cup is exactly the same as the coffee shop next to it. If you go in and ask about the situation, maybe you can..."

"Go away! What's the mess with the brat!" The policeman waved his hand at him, disdainful, "'Jack the Ripper' brought a cup of coffee when he committed crimes? And then threw the cup away after killing people?—— Ridiculous, this is not your house-playing game."

Conan, who failed to strike up a conversation again: "..."

……Why it came out like this.

Is it in this world that players can't ask passers-by or the police for help?

"..." I miss Police Officer Takagi so much, Megure Police Department is fine too...

……

Conan's second attempt to "enter the coffee shop and contact the mysterious person in the coffee shop" failed again.

He frowned and walked back to the alley, trying his best to ignore the complex eyes of several brats who said "Conan is really not good at playing games", thinking about what to do next.

At this time, another policeman ran close, and the two policemen next to the corpse shouted at the new colleagues: "Go and contact the Redtree Police Department - 'Jack the Ripper' has appeared again! This kind of dirty The bloody method is unmistakable, it must be that demon!"

"The Redtree Police Department!?" Conan was startled, "Isn't this a fictional character in "Sherlock Holmes"? Could it be that this so-called 'London at the end of the [-]th century' is not entirely real history, but the real history The 'Jack the Ripper' in the novel, combined with the 'Sherlock Holmes' in the novel?"

Mao Lilan nodded thoughtfully.Although she is not a fan of detectives, whoever let Kudo Shinichi catch up with him in the past will talk about Sherlock Holmes with her.

Mao Lilan's knowledge reserve in this area has also become quite rich: "I seem to have heard the saying 'If Jack the Ripper represents the darkness of this era, then Sherlock Holmes is the light of the era'..."

"That's right, our helper might actually be Sherlock Holmes! Otherwise, the designer wouldn't need to mix real history and fiction together, and add the character 'Sherlock Holmes' when capturing 'Jack the Ripper'."

As a veteran Sherlock Holmes fan, Conan's eyes lit up, "Let me just say, the guy upstairs just now may just be a passerby..."

As he talked, he felt that the other party's appearance, aura, and even the behavior of "noticing the player immediately" were not very similar to "passers-by".

In order to prevent slaps in the face in the future, he cleared his throat again, and secretly added: "...or the villain. Of course, it may be Sherlock Holmes after the transformation!"

Conan's words are quite confident.

——Because this dungeon was designed with the help of his father.

Yusaku Kudo, on the surface, is a serious writer, but in fact, he may have been infected by Yukiko Kudo. His desire for spoofs and demonic reforms is no less than others-change Sherlock Holmes into a "mysterious Asian high school" A role like "Health"... is not impossible.

"Anyway, since there is Sherlock Holmes in this world, let's go to 221 Baker Street first."

Conan tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and his mental state was like a vodka about to meet the ladies of the earth.

The fake child said solemnly and calmly: "Even if the mysterious man is Holmes after the magic transformation, he will definitely not stay out every night. Let's wait at his house and we should be able to wait—or, we can ask the landlord or him for help." After confirming his appearance, I will search for it in a targeted manner.”

Chapter 948 The Villain Jiang Xia

The others nodded upon hearing his suggestion.

——At present, apart from "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Mysterious Man Who Disappeared", there is really no other better clue...

……

at the same time.

In the control room outside the game.

On the screen, the pictures of each copy are played in turn.

When it comes to the "London copy", it may be because among this group of players, Conan is leading the action throughout the process.Noah seems to like him very much, the camera has been following Conan to shoot, and the other companions who were discussing issues together only took a few shots of the back of the head.

So, through the huge screen, a group of anxious adults saw Conan's successive setbacks.

"...The AI ​​is too harsh to target such an elementary school student." Mori Kogoro grumbled.

——As a detective, he has a much more sensitive sense of homicides and the police than ordinary people, so he quickly followed the situation to find the control room and joined other people.

After complaining, Kogoro Mori thought of something, and suddenly looked at Yusaku Kudo: "Wait, I remember you gave a speech on stage just now. You are one of the designers of this dungeon—then you should know how to clear the dungeon."

Kudo Yusaku nodded hesitantly.

He and Dr. Ali are indeed the designers of this dungeon. .

But at present, some details in the game are quite different from his impression.

——especially the mysterious person on the second floor of the coffee shop.

In their design, there is no such role.

Kudo Yusaku: "..." Speaking of which, since Noah can hijack the game and is an artificial intelligence with its own ideas, it may realize that the group of adults outside are planning to "cheat".

but……

Kudo Yusaku glanced at the silent speaker from the corner of his eye: I don't know if Noah is busy with other things and didn't notice the conversation here, or he feels confidently that even if adults cheat, it won't affect its plan...

Yusaku Kudo always felt that this plan of "give a strategy, the children follow the strategy, and complete the dungeon" might not go well.

...but it's better than doing nothing.

"Try to establish communication." Thinking of this, Kudo Yusaku turned to Dr. Ali, "I can't help here, so go outside to get some air."

——Dr. Ali participated in the later game construction, and he is better at various "strategies" than he, the person who proposed the story idea.

It's useless for both of them to stay here.

So Yusaku Kudo decided to leave the control room temporarily, go to the crime scene and other places in the Mihua Municipal Building to find out the truth about the death of Nakabin Jianmura.

In Kudo Yusaku's view, Hiroki is Noah's maker.And what Noah is doing now, no matter how you look at it, seems to be using AI to help Hiroki "get justice".

The murdered Kenmura Nakabin was Hiroki's father.Perhaps he also subtly occupies a place in Noah's heart.

Maybe if he finds the murderer himself, he can alleviate Noah's anger and win some opportunities to talk...or at least make it so that he doesn't intentionally make things difficult for the players in the game.

Although I don't know if "Noah" has such a thing as "anger", you have to try your best in everything and try to know if you can succeed.

……

in game.

The weather was cold and wet, and a group of players gathered on the stone bridge near the starting point, studying what to do next.

Although they decided to go to 221 Baker Street to find "Sherlock Holmes", in practice, they realized that it was not an easy task to find a specific street from this strange block.

——There is no map, no enthusiastic npc to ask for directions.

In the end, they had no choice but to circle around the assassination point, trying to find some landmark buildings nearby for positioning.

Just when a group of people were discussing the route.

In the sky, Dr. Ali's excited voice suddenly sounded: "It's done!"

"?!" Everyone on the bridge was stunned and looked towards the sky in surprise.

Conan recognized the voice, and asked doubtfully, "Dr. Li?"

"It's me!" Dr. A Li is worthy of being a giant of black technology, and his struggle soon yielded results-while Noah was not paying attention, he successfully connected to the voice of the internal players.

Dr. Ali quickly revealed the spoiler: "The rule of this level is that once you are seriously injured or trapped by the enemy and cannot escape, you will be out of the game——Your current location is the Whitechapel area in Eastvedo, Follow the road on Xiaolan's left and walk straight for about 5 kilometers, and you will reach the residence of that 'helper'!"

With the face of "Zhuxing Hideki", Noah quietly mingled among the players: "..."

... Such a simple game, but you still have to cheat!

Dirty adults!

……

A group of players are listening intently to the spoiler.

At this time, the stone bridge under their feet suddenly trembled, and a gap opened in the middle.

Immediately afterwards, the crack suddenly expanded, and the stone bridge collapsed from the middle with a huge momentum.

Due to the existence of a certain buffer time, the collapse starts from the cracks and proceeds gradually.Most of the players reacted, rushed to the side in a thrilling manner, and came to a stable place.

Only one little fat man ran slower.With a terrified scream, his feet were empty, and he suddenly fell into the bottomless darkness below.But before he was out of the game, the nearest boy detective team suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed him.