People are in Conan, but Ace Attorney

Chapter 494: Baker Street Omen
—————June 5, 5:30 p.m.——————

—————Tokyo area, Xiangyuan Universal Office——————

Frankly speaking, Xiang Yuanguang had not expected that he would actually see this acquaintance in the office. He was said to have gone to the internal testing of the cocoon game and had not seen him since. He raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.

"Dr. Baosheng, how come you have time to come to my office today?"

The main thing is that he had just returned to Tokyo from Honichidai and had just prepared tonight's dinner, and then Housheng Reito came over. It was hard not to believe that one of the purposes of this guy coming to him was not to get a free meal.

As an old player of many games, Reito Hosho lived up to expectations and entered the office by bypassing Xiang Yuanguang in the posture of an RPG game protagonist exploring a room, giving full play to the exploration initiative of the game protagonist.

Although when he tried to explore the treasure chest further, he was lifted up by Xiang Yuanguang with one hand and failed——————"The game beta is over, so I deliberately came here to see one of the authors of the game script."

After struggling for a while, Reito Hosou found that he was indeed unable to resist the powerful force of Sonic the Hedgehog. In the end, he could only tell Xiang Yuanguang the reason why he came to find him, and successfully got a seat at the dinner table.

Xiang Yuanguang still has an impression of the Cocoon game, which was a cross-era stealth game that appeared in the movie The Phantom of Baker Street. Compared with other theatrical versions, the Cocoon game seems extremely harmless to humans and animals.

Because neither Noah's Ark nor Hiroki who has become an electronic life form actually wants this game to become a true death game. Even if everyone else is wiped out, he will complete the game alone and rescue everyone.

It is for this reason that after learning that Kudo Yusaku was invited to create the game script for the Cocoon game, in addition to proposing his own ideas for script revisions, Xiang Yuanguang asked Kudo Yusaku to investigate the matter about Hiroki.

However, as of now, if you want to deal with Thomas Sindorra, you still have to wait until the public beta experience of the Cocoon game begins. Only by seizing the moment when the other party wants to commit a crime can you send Thomas Sindorra to prison.

"Xiang Yuanguang, how did you convince Kudo Yusaku to write Watson to death and then give Watson a daughter?"

Hosou Reito looked at the blue hedgehog-head in front of him strangely. He had been a little annoyed by the endless duo acts during the internal test. In the end, he simply abandoned Holmes and went to find Watson to speed up the progress.

As a result, he searched for a long time but couldn't find Watson. Finally, he discovered that the little girl whose clothes were completely inconsistent with the standards of this era and who casually took out some props that were beyond the times was the Watson in this script.

"Didn't you tell me that the mission objective was to investigate the true identity of Jack the Ripper? How come when I entered, the clearance condition issued by Noah's Ark was to investigate the truth about the Hound of the Baskervilles?"

...Isn't it about investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper?

Xiang Yuanguang blinked his eyes. He remembered that Noah's Ark seemed to modify the game script. Could it be because the situations of the internal beta test and the public beta test were different, so they chose to promote the game according to the original script given by Kudo Yusaku?
No, the script given by Kudo Yusaku is also to investigate the true identity of Jack the Ripper, let the more interesting Sherlock Holmes accompany the player to investigate, and then let the players stand in the courtroom to use the collected evidence to prove the true identity and crimes of Jack the Ripper——————

Because the target audience of the Cocoon Game is actually children, game masters like Reito Hosho are only there to test whether the gameplay is up to standard. Therefore, Sindorah Company's requirements for the game script are only to allow children to continue playing and to make the children's parents think that the game script is valuable.

In other words, it is an entertaining and educational experience. Children follow the world-famous detective to solve unsolved cases and use their wisdom to bring the murderer to justice according to real legal procedures, which meets their educational expectations.

"I don't know about that. Anyway, the mission objectives before and after Mr. Kudo's script was revised were to investigate the true identity of Jack the Ripper. Maybe the game company modified the script themselves." Xiang Yuanguang shrugged and gave what he thought was the most likely answer. On the other side of the living room, Nanatsuki Koshimizu quietly poked his head out and observed the situation here, with his attention particularly focused on Reito Hoshino.

This doctor who spoke strangely seemed not as professional as Asai Narimi, whose graduation was delayed for several years because of Xiang Yuanguang. He also mentioned the cocoon game of Sintora Company - it felt like a lie.

Everyone is still using this level of mobile phones. No matter how advanced the information technology companies are, it is impossible for them to come up with a virtual infiltration game like the one that only exists in Dengeki Bunko light novels, right?
All in all, Reito Hosou just mentioned it at the end without any reason.

"I got in touch with the game developer, and he made a bet with me, saying that if I could participate in the Cocoon game a second time and complete the entire process perfectly myself, he would give me a copy of the core code."

Xiang Yuanguang raised his eyebrows. He didn't believe that Hongshu, the developer of Noah's Ark, would be willing to copy the core code of Noah's Ark to a high-level game player whose origins he knew little about.

However, he didn't know the whole story of the conversation between Reito Hoshino and Hiroki during the beta test of the cocoon game. Maybe Reito Hoshino used his magical facial expressions to convince Hiroki... ?
After a while, the last bowl of soup was placed on the dining table. Huihara Ai, who was sitting on the left side of Xiang Yuanguang, observed the sudden visitor. She had no impression of this person. He was like a passerby NPC with a weak presence.

However, Reito Hosho was very interested in Haibara Ai. He always felt that this little girl was somewhat similar to the little boy named Conan whom he had caught a glimpse of in Shikoku.

When the meal time was over, Baosheng Lidou was contented and ready to run away. Before running away, he turned around and loudly reminded Xiang Yuanguang——————

"On June 9th, I'll be waiting for you to come to the game venue and see with your own eyes how I use my talent that surpasses everyone else to complete this game in one life!"

"Once I get the core code, I will open a new era of gaming. I will become the card player of the next era! Create the most powerful gaming company in the world!"

Watching Hosou Reito go away, Koshimizu Nanatsuki slightly modified his previous evaluation of this guy. Originally, it was "In terms of professionalism, he seems not as good as Asai Narimi", but now he added "In terms of mental stability, he is far inferior to Asai Narimi".

"This child might really become Hokage...may really become Kami."

Xiang Yuanguang sighed and took a sip of coffee that he took out from somewhere. Then he realized that Haibara Ai had been standing beside him and had not left. Could it be that she was attracted by such a maverick like Housheng Reito?

Haibara Ai looked up at the somewhat foolish blue hedgehog, was silent for a moment, and finally spoke.

"There's a parents' meeting tomorrow morning, and there's a school festival on the 7th. Will you come?"

"It's covered."

The blue hedgehog nodded as a matter of course, giving an affirmative answer.

(End of this chapter)