Stay away from Conan.

Within the dream world, while Gao Yuan was contacting the person who called herself "Vermouth" to facilitate her attempt to contact the BOSS and thus more precisely pinpoint his location, on the other side—

Because of Miyano Akemi's suggestion, the Japanese Public Security Bureau finally found something out. So, under Amuro Tooru's arrangement, the investigators finally found the internet cafe where Takato had worked, and the manager who left around the same time.

After all, with the resources of the Japanese Public Security Bureau, it would be easy to find out where this person subsequently rented a place.

And it was this former internet cafe manager who, upon discovering that the person who came to his door was actually a Japanese police officer, confessed to the murder without waiting for any specific questioning from the Japanese police.

Ultimately, the reason Gao Yuan was able to choose this particular time to revisit his dream was because it was based on the murder that occurred in the internet cafe.

Because Gao Yuan used the power of "the world" to move the starting time of this dream world forward by twenty-four hours at the beginning, the incident where the internet cafe manager wanted to kill the organization member who was trying to steal data from the internet cafe's database using the "Dark Night Baron" virus had not yet occurred.

Therefore, Gao Yuan took advantage of his knowledge of the plot to control the organization member who was about to be killed in advance. He then used this to reach an agreement with the internet cafe manager, handing the organization member over to the manager for disposal. The price was that the manager had to keep the matter a secret after the crime and prevent the news of the organization member's death from becoming known to the outside world.

And that's exactly what the network administrator did.

Therefore, from the beginning of this dream replay until now, and even after that member of the organization was murdered, this case has not come to light.

Even though Gin and his team later discovered the internet cafe through their investigation, they were immediately drawn to it by Takato's use of the "Twilight Villa" incident, and their investigation of the internet cafe itself was not pursued further.

Even though Gin and his team had already realized that the peripheral member of the organization who was investigating a list of world-renowned programmers and who carried the "Dark Baron" virus software had likely been killed.

However, without a complete investigation, speculation remains just speculation, until...

At this moment, when the Japanese police actually came knocking, the matter finally came to light!

For Gao Yuan, since this dream regression was based on the internet cafe case, once that case came to a conclusion, the dream regression also came to an end.

Therefore, it was precisely because of this investigation that Miyano Akemi had Amuro Tooru conduct, without Takato's knowledge, that the dream rewind came to an end—

And so, just as suddenly, almost at the moment when the final location was about to be revealed, Gao Yuan's vision went black, and the dream finally came to an end.

And so, when Gao Yuan regained consciousness and woke up in his own bed, he abruptly sat up, still shaken, his body already soaked in cold sweat—

The five senses in the dream world are absolutely real. The feeling of being pierced and cut by the samurai sword and gradually losing blood, which had not been treated, was still there just now. Even now, after returning from the dream, his senses did not seem to have eased immediately. As if carrying the memory, Gao Yuan could faintly feel that pain in his body.

Therefore, after catching his breath several times, Gao Yuan finally recovered and tried to recall and review his experience in the dream world as a memory before he could roughly understand the current situation.

It seems that the dream suddenly ended because the event I chose to revisit finally came to a conclusion in the dream.

However, Gao Yuan didn't have much regret at this point. After all, he had spent enough time in this dream rewind through his actions and had also obtained a lot of information. That was enough.

Even though we're still a little short of confirming the exact location of that BOSS, we have a general direction, so there's still a chance to confirm it.

And... most importantly, my initial goal—

Wasn't the purpose of investigating whether the memory card containing the list of the organization's spies, belonging to Masaaki Okakura, the organization member who was killed in the original "The Darkest Nightmare" incident, was valuable enough?

Wasn't the purpose of returning to the Kyoto hotel fire on Tanabata Festival, a year before the incident that led to this incident, through a dream?

As for his later, seemingly random, attacks on the organization in the dream world, that was merely a fleeting whim.

Now, the initial goal has already been achieved. He has seen the data on the memory card in Okakura Masaaki's hand and has roughly memorized some of the contents.

Now, the important thing is to think about how to deal with the immediate problem.

It is now a fact that Ireland has impersonated Matsumoto, and a joint investigation team composed of police from various regions has been formed. Conan and Kogoro Mouri have also become involved in the matter, and Conan has also overheard the meeting about the case through Kogoro Mouri.

So, following the original plot—

The next victim, the painter named Sumire Shindo, should have realized the connection between the victims after seeing the victims of this serial killing spree, and understood that she might be the next victim, and therefore should prepare to contact the police, right?

However, according to the original plot, the murderer is ultimately one step ahead of the police. At the same time she contacts the police, this information will also be simultaneously passed on to the organization by Ireland, who is disguised as Matsumoto Kiyonaga. Then Gin and others will inevitably try to intercept the police and take action one step ahead...

Ok……

Now that he knows who the next victim will be, he naturally has to prevent any new victims from appearing.

Originally, Gao Yuan didn't know who the next victim would be, but through this dream replay, he had completely learned the names and identities of everyone involved. After comparing the case report from the police in reality, it was easy to find out who the remaining victim was.

So now I need to consider two things—

How do I save Sumire Shindo before the culprit does, and how do I respond to the organization's actions?

And there's another thing—

Regarding Conan...

Will he follow the same path as in the original work, ultimately having his true identity as Shinichi Kudo exposed by Ireland, and then face the thrilling siege of the Tokyo Tower?

In other words, this is reality, not a dream. His actions can no longer be as unrestrained as in the dream world. He can't let the culprit succeed, nor can he let the organization succeed, and at the same time, he must prevent Conan's identity from being exposed and triggering an uncontrollable chain reaction…

What should we do? (End of Chapter)