Three-stream detection simulator

On July 21, Edward Nygma, who was wearing a green shirt and dark blue suit pants and would later be codenamed Riddler, stood in his room and used a dart with a red line to nail a yellow note with a puzzle deeply into the center of the wall.

There was only one sentence written on it:

-Who is Hercule Hugo?

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In the early morning of July 7, Hercule looked intently at the attribute panel in front of him.

He maintained this demeanor and stood there without saying a word for nearly two minutes, so that the police in front of him looked more and more impatient. Hercule noticed it, but he still did not respond because he was really confused about the time, place and situation at the moment.

Behind the police were several colleagues who were busy investigating the scene of the accident. Police cars and ambulances surrounded the gate of the manor where a body was lying. Further away, you can see a lush garden surrounded by the manor fence on the left, and a bridge across the river leading to the city on the right.

Generally speaking, although Hercule's location is not a private territory, it is far away from the city and few people visit except the owner of the manor.

Therefore, when a human corpse appeared in front of the metal door of the mansion, Hercule, who came here for some reason, immediately became the first suspect.

Including the person who called the police, everyone's eyes were fixed on this virtual character automatically generated by the game system. He has a young and handsome face, and looks to be in his twenties. He has a head of black curly hair that is not well-groomed, with silver-gray hair in the middle, which should not be at this age, and messy bangs

Gotham City is in July, and the temperature is very high during the day, but this young man is wearing an out-of-season dark coat, and the collar and cuffs are worn a little white. The half-open coat reveals a cheap shirt and suit pants with wrinkles-it is obvious that this is a person with worrying economic conditions and a casual life.

Besides, he was not short, nearly six feet (1.8 meters), and his body was not thin, but his shoulders were slightly drooped, showing a sense of laziness or desolation. While the police were waiting for a reply, he seemed indifferent to people's suspicious or angry looks, and was completely immersed in his own thoughts.

For a while, his left hand unconsciously reached for his coat pocket, and then retracted his hand when it touched the smooth surface of the hem. This action was completely unconscious, and when he realized what he was doing, an irritable and anxious expression flashed across his face.

A poor, frustrated, and slightly neurotic young man, who might be addicted to cigarettes or drugs. A marginal person in society, a criminal in reserve.

This was the judgment of the police present.

——In fact, Hercule was just annoyed by the default standby action of the game character.

In his cognition, he traveled through time with the game system. The semi-transparent floating text in front of him is the character attribute panel of "Third-rate Detective Simulator" that only he can see.

"Third-rate Detective Simulator" is a game he played before crossing over. The content is as the title says, the player will explore in an open world with a cyberpunk background as a fledgling novice detective.

Since it is an open world, players can naturally choose to follow the task instructions step by step to trigger the main line to solve the puzzle, or they can be idle from the beginning, and the system points the player east to the west, and never look at the main line before the side quest is completed.

Hercule is such a rebellious player. He didn't even finish the first chapter of the main quest until he had maxed out his account. It is hard to say whether the reason for his crossing over is the anger of some game producers.

In short, since the main line has not been triggered, Hercule's game character is indeed a novice detective, but because of his hundreds of hours of effective game time, his character panel and character experience are not like a newcomer at all. Putting aside the fact that the character's experience comes from side quests, the detective's character panel looks like this:

[Name: Hercule Hugo

Gender: Male

Age: 25

Occupation: Detective

Alignment: Human Supremacy]

There is nothing much to say about the three lines of gender, age, and occupation. Except for the gender, which is self-selected, the other two are set by the game system. 'Hercule' is not his real name. When the player named the character, there happened to be a detective novel by Agatha Christie at hand. The protagonist Hercule Poirot is famous both in the book and outside the book, so the player just took it and used it.

Hugo is a common surname from the Germanic language family, which means 'brain' and 'wisdom', which is roughly equivalent to 'd' in English. It seems to be a metaphor for the main plot and the protagonist's occupation.

Alignment is also chosen by yourself. There are two opposing camps in the fictional society of "Third-rate Detective Simulator", namely humans and androids who have awakened free will. The stance has an impact on the numerical judgment and the direction of the plot. If he had not traveled through time, he would have changed his stance and tried other routes after finishing the first round.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

Hercule Hugo is now a complete human supremacist. According to the setting, he is not lacking in empathy or unwilling to help life other than humans, but when he has to choose between the two, he will definitely stand on the side of humans.

There are no bionic people in the 21st century. I don’t know what use this thing has except to offend animal protection organizations. Hercule ignores it for now and continues to read on. Next is the attribute panel:

[Intelligence: 90 (You have reached the human IQ ceiling)

Stamina: 25 (You're the kind of person who wants to sit down if you walk more than a mile)

Charm: 35 (You have a good appearance, but have an eccentric temperament that makes most people stay away)

Agility: 30 (luckily you won't fall on flat ground, but don't expect more)

Inspiration: 15 (You are a staunch materialist and disdain anything that cannot be explained scientifically)

Luck: 10 (You are so unlucky, how did you grow so big?)]

…

It is worth mentioning that the upper limit of the simulator's character attributes is 90. Every time the character levels up, attribute points will be provided. As a rebellious player, Hercule has been unhappy with the word "third-rate" in the name of the game for a long time, so he only spends a few attribute points during the game and changes all the points. After multiplying by 5 to satisfy his obsessive-compulsive disorder, he did not hesitate to pile all the remaining attribute points on intelligence.

Intelligence is, of course, the foundation of being a detective.

However, players do not have to take the ordinary path. Just like many assassins who adhere to the concept of "as long as the opponent is killed, the assassination will be successful without being discovered". Of course, the detective can also use full energy to defeat the suspect with two punches. You can vomit blood to collect information, or you can use your charm to make people dizzy. You are willing to share any information...

It's just that Hercule happened to be a classicist. As a detective, he preferred to rely on his mind to solve puzzles.

A deformed panel is not a big problem in a number-competition game. There is no difficulty that cannot be solved by re-opening the save file. If so, just re-open it a few times.

In reality, however, this panel is very problematic.

First of all, his attributes other than intelligence are far lower than ordinary people. No matter how you look at it, he is the kind of patient who will vomit blood in three steps and will be admitted to the hospital at any time.

But in terms of how he feels about himself after time travel, Hercule believes that this body is the same as the game model. There is nothing to criticize in terms of figure or appearance. He didn't notice any obvious illness or disability that might cause difficulty in moving. The low attributes on the panel didn't correspond to his physical condition. This was the first thing that troubled him.

Secondly, the extremely low luck value made Hercule's start after time travel extremely miserable, to the point where he was about to go to a detention center to eat in prison.

In addition, his charm value is not high. Hercule didn't have a mirror at hand, so he couldn't be sure what the 'weird temperament that made people stay away' was what the simulator system said.

At this point, he had studied the system panel over and over again but could not find the familiar button to exit the game. He had no choice but to accept the fact that he had traveled through time and quickly found a topic before the police ran out of patience: "Why are you asking me? ? I didn’t kill him, I didn’t do anything, and I don’t know anything. Instead of wasting your time here, officer, why don’t you go investigate the manor surveillance?”

As he spoke, Hercule braced himself and carefully observed the surrounding environment and the strange policeman in front of him.

With full attribute points, the physical and mental hardware of the character generated by this simulator is extremely excellent. With just one glance, Hercule can imprint the opponent's appearance deeply in his mind. He is a white male, approximately 30 to 40 years old, with dark hair that is close to his scalp covered by a dark dome hat. He has a pair of plump round ears, the tip of his nose is slightly turned downwards, he is slightly fat, and his round face is surrounded by a circle of dark stubble.

At the moment, he seemed to have completely regarded Hercule as a murderer, but for some reason he only stepped forward to interrogate him instead of directly handcuffing the criminal and escorting him to the cell.

"Someone has already gone to watch the surveillance. I advise you not to think about delaying the time." The policeman said impatiently, "It is a certainty that you will be caught from the crime scene. If you explain the crime as soon as possible, you can save yourself some time." Trouble. Don't blame me for not reminding you, scum, you will be in my hands for a long time before going to court." He gave a meaningful sneer.

Hercule was undeterred. He asked nicely: "Of course, officer, tell me what you want me to explain first."

The policeman stared at him for two seconds, then suddenly exploded, pointed at Hercule's nose and yelled at him threateningly, "Don't pretend to be stupid with me! I've met more lunatics in my life than your mother bought you." There are more story books! Now stop all the unrealistic delusions in your mind and tell me why you killed him and dumped his body in front of the gate of Wayne Manor. What grudge did you have with the deceased and Wayne? ?”

Hercule: "..."

He had absolutely no intention of provoking just now. Why is this policeman so sensitive?

Then he looked thoughtfully at the eye-catching letter ‘W’ in the center of the manor’s gate – does it turn out to represent the surname Wayne?

Then the person who bumped into the corpse earlier and at the same time as him who had just traveled through time, and then chose to call the police must be the owner of Wayne Manor.

This piece of information was of no help to the current situation, and Hercule quickly dismissed it. He recalled his sudden glimpse of the condition of the corpse, and after trying to extract clues from it with his excellent memory, he smiled kindly at the policeman in front of him:

"Well, I guess you must be looking for blood stains and murder weapons now. But after staying for so long, it seems that nothing was found." He said, "The deceased was not killed near here, and he could not walk by himself after death. Lie down in front of the manor, what do you say, officer?"

"..." The Gotham police officer who was ridiculed clenched his fists.

Hercules continued quickly: "I just noticed that the deceased was a fat man. He must have weighed at least 200 pounds. As you can see, if I want to move the body without leaving any trace, I must either use tools or someone to help. Have you found a cart or something like that? No. And in case you don't remember, I'm not the only one who showed up at the door of the manor this morning."

He spoke very logically and logically, so the police who heard this reflexively turned their heads to look at the person who called the police, Bruce Wayne, the owner of the manor.

Hercules slowly handed out the conclusion: "I can't move the body by myself, and he can't do it by himself. In fact, at present, it is more likely that he and I committed the crime in partnership."

"..."