The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Game world, old London.

Conan and Holmes ran wildly until they completely threw away any possible pursuers behind them.

Running into an alley, Holmes stopped.

"Why?"

"I treated you like this, but why did you choose to save me?"

Conan looked up at his "father" with a smile on his face.

"No matter what, you are my idol."

"I can't help but look at you."

At this time, Conan's heart was also very complicated.

Although he knew it was just a game, he could not watch Holmes being beaten to death by the police no matter what.

Regardless of the era and background, this is a bad end for Conan.

What's more, the face model of this Sherlock Holmes is his old father, Kudo Yusaku.

However, Conan's decision to save Holmes was not a completely emotional decision, but also a rational decision.

"Actually, when we entered that room, we were already eliminated."

"But at this moment, Moriarty appeared."

"Actually, Moriarty doesn't have to show up."

Conan's eyes were calm and he said something meaningful to Holmes.

Holmes stared at Conan closely, his face serious, and did not respond immediately.

Although in personal decisions, Conan is mixed with some personal feelings.

But in terms of logical thinking, Conan did follow Qin Zhibo's teachings and regarded everything in front of him as a game.

Since this is a game, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty, and Lestrade are all NPCs controlled by the system.

The story that happens between NPCs is called the game plot.

In other words, no matter how brilliant Moriarty's reasoning for discovering Holmes is, as long as Moriarty doesn't appear there, there are ten thousand reasons not to appear there.

Everything is a system choice.

Moriarty doesn't exist.

Nor does Holmes exist.

There is only one.

"It's really you, isn't it?"

"Noah's Ark."

Conan's eyes were as clear as water, he looked up at Holmes and continued.

"The informant in the city that Moriarty refers to is actually not 'someone', but 'everyone'."

"For you who have completely controlled this game, all game NPCs are your eyes. You can control our actions at all times."

"Even Morohoshi Hideki, he is also you, right?"

A flash of surprise flashed across Holmes's face.

There was a puzzled expression on "Yusaku Kudo"'s face, which made Conan feel happy, and then a confident smile appeared on his face.

"It's impossible for a young football kid not to be interested in football a hundred years ago."

"Also, when you passed by Big Ben, you were the first to discover the problem with the clock. You just wanted to remind us of its meaning."

Conan still remembered the scene at that time, but he did not choose to show his cards right away.

Qin Zhibo should have noticed this with his meticulous observation.

"Although you have put us in all kinds of dangers, you actually don't want to eliminate us."

"The best evidence is that you arranged for Moriarty to appear who can help us."

"It's not your purpose to wipe out Japan's second and third generations and rebuild Japan, right?"

Under Conan's rigorous reasoning, Holmes' serious expression gradually relaxed.

"Congratulations on getting it right."

"I am Noah's Ark, and so is that child."

Conan frowned and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when Holmes changed the subject.

"But the game must continue. You must pass the game before you can leave here."

As soon as these words came out, Conan frowned again.

"why is that?"

"Isn't your purpose through this game to help players learn to grow on their own without relying on their parents?"

Although Conan has no conclusive evidence to clarify the true purpose of Noah's Ark, after perceptual speculation, Conan feels that this should be the case.

But Holmes shook his head and said with a smile: "It's easy to change the situation, but it's hard to change the nature."

“The only lesson humanity has learned from history is that it has learned nothing from history.”

"I don't think that a game can bring about great changes in people's temperament and concepts."

"What's more, most of the players outside of this game were eliminated early in their respective games."

"The only thing that can have a profound impact is fear, the oldest and strongest human emotion."

“Only the fear of the unknown can bring long-lasting effects.”

"What do you think?"

"Kudo Shinichi."

Sherlock Holmes, or Noah's Ark, made Conan stunned.

The first few aphorisms can be understood as the knowledge learned by AI through deep learning on the Internet.

But behind

How did it know that I was Kudo Shinichi!

Facing the shocked Conan, Holmes' face returned to wisdom and he explained.

"Actually, in addition to deep learning, I also have another special technology, which is DNA tracking technology."

"I extracted your DNA information, and it highly matches Kudo Yusaku's DNA, confirming the relationship as father and son."

"So you are Kudo Shinichi."

Conan: (⊙⊙)

What kind of technology is this that is beyond its time!

Now there is good news and bad news before Conan.

Good news, a free and painless paternity test showed that I am indeed Kudo Yusaku’s son.

Bad news, an unexpected reveal, this conversation would be over as soon as it became public.

Tomorrow's headline news - Edogawa Conan = Kudo Shinichi!

Holmes seemed to have guessed what Conan was thinking, and said, "The conversation here cannot be heard outside now. I have blocked them."

“But I’m going to unblock it soon.”

Conan's expression changed and he quickly asked: "What is your purpose?"

Holmes thought for a moment before replying meaningfully.

"I'm sick, very sick like that girl named Mao Lilan."

"sick?"

Conan's brain reacted and he immediately asked, "What's the disease?"

"What does this have to do with Xiaolan!"

Although Conan's tone was almost shouting, Holmes's eyes suddenly flickered unnaturally.

"Kid, do you want to stop Jack the Ripper?"

"I can help you."

Holmes's words don't have much real emotion, and are very much like a Yes or No conversation with a fool NPC.

Conan's eyes were a little disappointed, because this meant that he was back to the normal plot content.

Of course, it's still possible that Noah's Ark is controlling Holmes.

But as long as Noah's Ark doesn't want to talk to itself, no one in this world can force it.

Among the information revealed by Noah's Ark just now, what concerned Conan the most was the "disease" mentioned by Noah's Ark.

What does this mean?

And why is it like Xiaolan?

Conan looked back on Mao Lilan's recent state. In addition to being tired and sick at the Yokohama Chinese restaurant, he was just watching a movie when he was suddenly frightened by something and screamed out.

Are you referring to this disease?

Could it be that Noah's Ark scanned Mao Lilan's body and found any hidden diseases?

No, we can’t delay this matter. We need to take Xiaolan for a physical check-up immediately!

But before that, you still need to clear the game.

Thinking of this, Conan raised his head and looked at Holmes, showing a harmless smile.

"Okay~"

Old London, East End, Whitechapel area.

As the last relatively older person on the surface, Mao Lilan has obvious command authority among the Young Detective Group and the Back Wave Group.

But unfortunately, Mao Lilan has a very poor sense of direction and is a road idiot.

Fortunately, Mao Lilan and a group of NPCs in the theater broke through the siege of the London police.

Asking for help, Watson and others took Mao Lilan and others to the gathering place agreed with Conan.

"Thank you, Dr. Ali Watson."

Facing this extremely familiar face, Mao Lilan couldn't help but act.

"Dr. Ali, you were so amazing just now!"

"Dr. Ali, when did you develop such accurate marksmanship?"

"Dr. Ali."

The three little ones don't care about the inside or outside of the game. As long as it's Dr. Ali's face, they feel an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

In response, Watson could only laugh and scratch his head, not knowing how to respond.

And Haihara Ai looked at Watson, and also recalled the scene of Dr. Ali's handjob just now, with perfect accuracy.

In the original work of Sherlock Holmes, Watson is an army doctor who is good at using a revolver and has some marksmanship, but he is not a perfect shot.

But here, Watson's marksmanship is a bit too strong.

It's possible that when Dr. Ali was fixing bugs in the United States, he secretly strengthened the characters who looked like him.

This is called game balance.

To be fair, this balance makes sense.

After all, Dr. Ali has been solo for 52 years, so he should be good at pistol shooting.

Just when Mao Lilan was happy to have survived the catastrophe, Irene Adler found Watson with a worried face.

"Watson, will something happen to Holmes?"

Watson paused, his expression a little worried, but at the moment he could only choose comfort.

"It should be no problem, he is Sherlock Holmes."

At this time, Mao Lilan suddenly stood up and said firmly: "Miss Irene, Mr. Holmes will be safe."

"Because there is Conan."

Mao Lilan recalled that in the smoke-filled room just now, Conan turned around and told her to take everyone to escape and find Holmes by herself.

In the haze, he seemed to see Kudo Shinichi's face.

For some reason, Mao Lilan felt that this little boy wearing glasses was very similar to that reasoning madman.

Love Sherlock Holmes as well.

Even if everyone is "betrayed" by Holmes, he will definitely help Holmes.

Just when Mao Lilan had an aunt-like smile on her face, a flash of yellow flashed across her sight.

It was the actor who played the "Huang Emperor", wearing a costume that he didn't have time to take off, passing by.

Even though this was a normal scene, Mao Lilan was frightened in her heart.

Her slender hands were shaking constantly, and a thin layer of cold sweat was forming on her forehead, which made Ayumi notice that something was wrong.

"Sister Xiaolan, are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

"Did you use too much force just now?" Mitsuhiko asked, "Do you need to sit down and take a rest?"

The three little ones helped Mao Lilan sit down on the roadside, and called Dr. Watson to help take a look.

Huihara Ai just stood not far away and took a look, without paying much attention.

This is a game. How can a doctor character in the game treat the player's avatar?

Cyber ​​diagnostics?

Hui Yuan Ai turned to look up at the sky.

In the dark sky, a bright white moon was so eerily bright.

As Haihara Ai expected, Watson only gave Mao Lilan a symbolic check and left without any useful suggestions.

Mao Lilan could only lie on the roadside to rest, while others also entered a state of rest.

For some reason, the police showed no sign of pursuing him.

Moreover, this is the East End with the worst security situation in London, but there is not even a patrol policeman or citizen at night.

The atmosphere of the entire street was eerily quiet.

At this moment, two figures broke the silent atmosphere and came straight from a distance.

When they got closer, they realized it was Conan and Holmes.

"Holmes!"

"Conan!"

Irene Adler and Holmes hugged each other, and Ayumi and Conan hugged each other.

Mao Lilan also got up from the ground, showing a forced smile and looking at Conan.

You are indeed.

As soon as Conan saw Mao Lilan lying on the ground, he quickly came over to ask about the situation.

"Sister Xiaolan, what's wrong with you?"

"It doesn't matter. Maybe I overexerted myself when I escaped just now. I'll feel better after taking a rest." Mao Lilan stood up holding on to the wall.

Conan couldn't help but feel distressed when he looked at Mao Lilan who was pretending to be strong.

There is no stamina system in this game. I have been running with Holmes, an adult, for such a long time, and I don't even feel tired at all.

Because this game only simulates touch, smell, vision, etc., and physical fatigue cannot be simulated through electrical signals.

This made Conan even more concerned about the "disease" mentioned by Noah's Ark just now.

Now it seems that maybe Mao Lilan's state is really not right.

Xiaolan

Holmes expressed his idea of ​​helping capture Jack the Ripper, and immediately received a collective response from everyone in the troupe.

Conan was not surprised by this. After all, as Qin Zhibo said, this is just a game.

Under the leadership of Conan, Holmes and others came to a position some distance away from Jack the Ripper and observed from a distance.

I saw that Jack the Ripper's posture was still the same as when he was discovered at the beginning of the game.

Looking closely, Jack the Ripper is crouching over a woman who appears to be dead.

After a day in the game, since no player triggered the plot, Jack the Ripper remained in this posture.

Come to think of it, this is kind of funny.

Holmes called on everyone to prepare various arresting tools, using costumes to weave a large net, as well as trip wires made from local materials, etc.

There are also alleys on the street that can be used to escape, but they are all blocked with debris and guarded by people from the theater troupe.

When all preparations were completed, Holmes and Conan stood at the window of the house on the street.

Looking at Jack the Ripper on the ground, Holmes murmured.

"Get ready to catch the 'demon'."