Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"The game doesn't necessarily allow us to go up the river, does it?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki wondered while watching the cutscene, "What worries me is that the police and nearby passers-by are wearing thick clothes, and the branches are also bare. The background should be winter. It should not be a coincidence that there are more than one factors reflecting the season. The current time is indeed winter, but the child has no clothes on. That is to say, the murderer took off his clothes before and after the murder, or he was in the bathroom. Killed somewhere like that."

Mao Lilan: "..."

Is this how reasoning fans play horror games?

"That's right," Conan nodded in agreement, "If he was killed in the bathroom, there are two possibilities: the family committing the crime, or the murderer robbing and killing, but if it was robbing and killing, the murderer didn't have to take a naked child with him. Throw the corpse outside, the corpse of a child is easy to hide, just hide it near the child's house..."

Mori Kogoro sat at the table drinking beer, raised his eyelids to watch the cutscene end, "Maybe that child's home is by the river, so the murderer can throw the body conveniently."

"No, this still doesn't make sense," Koshimizu Nanatsuki said, "Suppose someone burglarized or robbed, and was found by a child in the bathroom taking a bath, and the murderer killed the child. After that, the murderer had enough time to escape. It should delay the discovery of the body as much as possible, and throwing the body in the river is easy for people to find the body and report it to the police.”

"In other words, the possibility of burglary and murder is not high." Conan held the game controller in his left hand, subconsciously raised his right hand and touched his chin, thinking seriously, "The rest may be family members committing the crime, or the murderer intentionally Take off the boy's clothes, if it is the former, we have to pay attention to his family, if it is the latter, then the murderer took off his clothes, it may be..."

"Infringement, hatred, and erasure of evidence on clothes, these are the only three possibilities."

As Chi Feichi said, the scene animation had ended, and the character was operating a conversation with the police NPC with an exclamation mark above his head.

When Mao Lilan heard the words 'violation' and 'vendetta', her eyelids twitched, she stared at the police NPC talking on TV, praying silently in her heart was the last possibility.

For a little boy, whether it is a crime committed by a family member, or an assault or a vendetta, it is too cruel.

This game is not suitable for children to play!

In the game, the police NPC provides the player with preliminary investigation results.

After investigation, the boy's name is Zhengnan, a student in a nearby kindergarten, and he is five years old this year.

It's winter vacation now, and Zhengnan participated in extracurricular interest activities during the winter vacation not long ago. At ten o'clock this morning, Zhengnan left school with his classmates and teachers, and parted ways at the intersection.

Later, when the teacher contacted the students to confirm whether the students had arrived home safely, he found that the phone at Zhengnan's home could not be reached.

[In half an hour, the teacher called his home three times at different times, but no one answered...]

[That child is usually mischievous, and it has happened to me before. Once a spring outing was over, the teacher called the students’ homes after returning home to ask if they got home safely. Zhengnan didn’t answer the phone that time, and waited for the kindergarten teacher, the police, and the neighbors When looking for him everywhere, he showed up by himself, saying that he just went to the store before going home, and thought everyone was making a fuss...]

[This morning, the teacher tried to contact his family, but his mother has been on a business trip for three days, and his father is in Tokyo. When he received a call from the teacher, his father said that he was busy with work and would call back later At home, the child usually likes to go shopping by himself...]

[At one o'clock this afternoon, the phone at Zhengnan's house was still unanswered. Zhengnan's father contacted the neighbors to check at his home, and found that there was no one in his house. Later, Zhengnan's teacher called the police...]

[At about four o'clock in the afternoon, people walking by the river found the body of a little boy going down the river, and immediately called the police. After we arrived here with Zhengnan's teacher, we confirmed that it was Zhengnan...]

[It is speculated that the time of Zhengnan's death was around one o'clock in the afternoon. From this point of view, Zhengnan was kidnapped by the murderer not long after he separated from his teacher and classmates at the intersection...]

Conan stared at the dialog box, frowning and organizing his thoughts.

This NPC is right. Based on the existing information, after parting with his teacher and classmates today, Masao may have met the murderer somewhere on his way home, or he may have been lured to a certain place by the murderer.

Later, Zhengnan was killed by the murderer and threw his body into the river.

Police NPCs continue to provide clues.

[The murderer cut open his throat and aorta with a sharp knife, and we found traces of being violated on Zhengnan's body, but no bodily fluids were detected...]

Conan: "?!"

frenzied.

This is a child in kindergarten! boy!

Chi Feichi: "..."

This game is so insane.

The police NPC also frowned tightly and said another thing.

There is also a scene from a song in "Smart Yixiu" on the body.

Clack, tick, tick, tick...

Conan looked at the NPC's dialog box, and his crotch was cold, and the coolness went straight to the top of his head.

Chi Feichi also felt that this game was really bad.

Not to mention children, he felt deep malice.

It is consoling that the wounds on the corpse did not respond to life, and should have been cut off by the murderer after death.

"Too, too much!" Mao Lilan was angry and couldn't bear it, "How on earth is this kind of game allowed to be released..."

"It's all marked on the box, sixteen bans."

Chi Feichi reminded, and pressed the handle again to let the NPC continue talking.

The NPC is also angrily accusing the murderer of his cruelty.

【I have been a policeman for so many years, and I have never seen such a vicious murderer...】

"Even if you are over sixteen years old, playing this game..." Mao Lilan hesitated, "Isn't it good?"

Conan's curiosity has been aroused, and he is worried that he will be taken away by Mao Lilan, so he quickly stared at the upright police NPC, showing a righteous look, "I must arrest that nasty villain, and don't let him go again. Do bad things!"

Mao Lilan was taken aback, thinking that what Conan said made sense.

Although this is a game, she will feel uncomfortable if she doesn't catch that vicious murderer.

Moreover, the murderer is vicious, but the player is a policeman in the game, which can also cultivate the child's sense of justice, and remind the little boy to pay attention to safety.

Looking at it this way, it seems that it's okay for Conan to play this game...?

At least for now, there are no restricted screens, and even the corpse is mostly blocked by the police figure, and it is all up to the NPC to provide the player with information.

After the police NPC finished scolding the murderer, he continued with a serious face: [Three, let's start the investigation, please, please make sure to catch the murderer! 】

The exclamation mark on the NPC's head disappeared, and no one in the nearby crowd had a dialogue symbol above their heads.

"It seems that I can listen to what the passers-by say," Yueshui Nanatsuki's operating character stood in front of the crowd and clicked one by one, "Although there is no prompt above their heads, let's click on the passers-by separately and listen to them What are you talking about, maybe you can understand this incident more thoroughly."

Chi Feichi and Conan also agreed with this idea, and Koshimizu Nanatsuki and Koshimizu Nanatsuki divided their respective areas of questioning, and began to watch the crowd NPCs one by one.

"I heard that a child was killed, is it true?"

"It's true! I was walking with my friends and found the child's body floating down the river. I was shocked!"

"It's so cruel! Who the hell is going to attack a child...'

"It's terrible, I have children at home..."

"Let the children pay attention to safety recently, and those who have children at home should also be careful..."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki used the character to talk to passers-by, and said, "There was more than one person who found the body at the time. Judging from what those people said, no one seemed suspicious."

"The woman in front of me has a green arrow on the edge of the dialogue box," Chi Feichi said. "No one else has it. It may be some kind of reminder, or after talking to her, a special plot will be triggered under certain circumstances."

"Huh? Is that so?" Conan operated the character and ran to the woman NPC, and clicked on the dialogue, "Really, she has a small green arrow in the dialogue box that other people don't have..."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki's policewoman character also came in front of the woman NPC, clicked on the dialog box and looked, "Like other passers-by, she has no name, no matter how you click, there is only one sentence, 'It's terrible, I also have children at home', It mentioned that she has a child in her family, could it be that the murderer is planning to continue committing crimes, and her child will be the next one?"

"Anyway, we've all talked to her. If there is a triggering plot, no matter who encounters it, they can get more clues." Chi Feichi called up the game map and looked at it. "The currently unlocked area has an entire river. , the police station, Zhengnan’s school, and Zhengnan’s home, we will investigate separately and then meet up to share clues.”

Conan also opened the game map and carefully looked at the places that can be investigated on it. "I'm still planning to go to the upper reaches of the river. Maybe I can find the place where the murderer threw the body. How about you?"

The three big detectives on their side are investigating different directions separately, and they will definitely be able to collect all the clues quickly!

"My female police officer is friendly, and she should be good at communication. Let's go to Zhengnan's school or home. It's a visit and investigation." Yueshui Nanatsuki looked at Chi Feichi, "Mr. Chi, do you want to go to school or Zhengnan?" at home?"

"Leave those two places to you." Chi Feichi looked at the police station that he could go to, "I'll go to the police station first to see if there are any clues. The murderer in this case has very personal characteristics, and the murderer may have been violated." If you have a history of harassment, or have a history of harassing others, the police may be able to find related past cases and report to the police.”

Conan nodded in agreement with Chi Feichi's conjecture, and looked at the serious-faced male policeman he was operating, "When I created the character, it was mentioned in the introduction that this character is better at discovering historical cases. This should imply that we should investigate past events. Similarly, I should also go to the police station to investigate, it may be easier to find clues..."

"No, no," Mao Lilan turned pale, "If those historical cases are bad..."

She was worried that Conan would leave a psychological shadow!

The more Conan thought about it, the more he felt that his role would make a big discovery in the police station, "But..."

"We exchange."

Chi Feichi handed his handle to Conan.

Instead, Conan uses his character to investigate the upper reaches of the river, and he uses Conan's character to go to the police station to find clues. Isn't that all right?