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Chapter 316: The increasing difficulty of the game
Seeing that Conan refuted his reasoning but Sonoko was still stubborn and even used herself as a shield, Seiya sighed and said, "It's unlikely that the homeless man was Jack the Ripper, but I think Sonoko is right about one thing.

That means the other party should also be a crucial figure in this game scene."

Hearing Seiya's words, Conan immediately showed a dead fish face, and couldn't help but secretly pushed him and said: "Hey, even if you are protecting your sister, don't mislead everyone because of this kind of thing."

"No, I'm serious, and I really think that the homeless man just now is an important task in this game scene.

Conan, you guys probably don't play RPGs very often, so you probably don't know much about this kind of experience, right?"

"Cocoon" is a newly developed virtual reality game. Players who enter the game scene of "Old London" will play the role of detective and uncover the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Besides the players, the other characters in the game, commonly known as NPCs, aside from Sherlock Holmes, whom we are currently looking for, have you seen any NPCs actively approach us or deliberately attract our attention so far?"

After hearing Seiya's explanation, everyone present was still confused. After all, although their team was large, they were basically just children.

The only two who look like adults are Xiaolan and Sonoko. Xiaolan has good fighting skills, but her IQ is just average. As for Sonoko... well, let's not mention her.

"Seiya, what you mean is that the homeless man just now should be an NPC similar to Sherlock Holmes, who is there to provide assistance to the players in the game."

Conan understood what Seiya meant and took the initiative to explain to others.

“Sherlock Holmes is a famous detective in 19th century London. I can understand why he can help players.

But what did that homeless man say just now...? I understand. It's the song he just sang, but what does "If you don't want to die, you have to be covered in blood" mean?

With Conan's reminder, Ai beside him also understood the meaning of Seiya's words, and looked at him with a puzzled look and asked.

"Who knows? Perhaps we'll only get the answer if we actually meet Jack the Ripper."

In response to Ai's questioning, Seiya spread his hands and said that he didn't know, and that all this was just his speculation, and there was no way to verify whether it was true or not.

However, what they didn't know was that when Seiya just said that reasoning, Moroboshi Hideki beside him also slightly raised the corner of his mouth, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Seiya was obviously filled with admiration.

Along the way, everyone was deducing the lyrics of the tramp's song and arrived at 221B Baker Street where Holmes was.

However, to their great disappointment, Holmes' landlord said that Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson had temporarily left London for work.

To put it simply, Seiya and his friends' original plan to ask Sherlock Holmes, the big boss, to help solve the case has now been aborted.

In the outside world, Kudo Yusaku and others were also surprised when they saw Seiya and others going to Holmes' house but coming back empty-handed.

The storyline for the game's "Old London" setting was written by mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo, and even the in-game characters for Sherlock Holmes and Watson are actually him and Dr. Agasa. According to the original storyline, players should successfully find Sherlock Holmes and, with his help, find Jack the Ripper.

The true identity of Jack the Ripper was an aristocrat who was suffering from a terminal illness and had not much time left.

But now Seiya and his friends did not find Holmes at 221B Baker Street, and even a homeless man with a harp appeared who should not have existed. This immediately made Kudo Yusaku and his friends realize that "Noah's Ark" seemed to have changed the plot of the game by virtue of its control over the game.

In other words, the original player should only need to find Sherlock Holmes, and then he will basically be led by the boss and win the whole process without any effort.

The difficulty of this game is also suitable for the age of the children who experienced the "cocoon" at the press conference.

However, due to the interference of "Noah's Ark", the player has now gone from being an auxiliary role to the main force in arresting Jack the Ripper, and can't even get the help provided by Sherlock Holmes. The difficulty of this game has increased a lot.

"It seems we underestimated Noah's Ark. He had long suspected that we would help those children, so he deliberately changed the plot and increased the difficulty of the game."

Dr. Agasa, who was sitting in front of the computer, was originally thinking of ways to contact Conan and the others in the game again and provide them with clues, but now it seems that the current game plot is obviously completely different from before.

The clues they could provide have now either been erased by "Noah's Ark" or have nothing to do with the changed plot.

"Damn it, this damned AI is just trying to drive those children to death!"

Once those kids are rescued, I'm going to smash this thing up and throw it in the garbage dump!"

Kogoro Mouri has long been annoyed with the arrogant "Noah's Ark". Now seeing that the other party is cheating and constantly increasing the difficulty of passing the game, he is even more furious and is about to go forward and smash the computer in front of him.

"Calm down. If Noah's Ark really wanted to kill those children, there would be no need to do this.

Moreover, the homeless man with the violin who was not in the original plot also attracted considerable attention. Fortunately, the child named Seiya noticed the uniqueness of this character.

If it were those kids, I believe they would be able to find the real answer.

After all, there is no such thing as a truly perfect crime in the world. Everything will leave some clues. Do you agree with me, Chairman Sindora? "

When Sindora, who was sitting next to him, heard Kudo Yusaku suddenly call out his name, he was obviously stunned for a moment.

Meanwhile, Inspector Megure, standing by, had already sensed the unusual tone in Kudo Yusaku's words and quickly asked, "Brother Kudo, have you figured out who killed Mr. Kashimura?"

After hearing the conversation between Kudo Yusaku and Inspector Megure, Sindora immediately stood up and said angrily, "Kudo Yusaku, are you trying to say that I'm the murderer who hurt Kashimura?
"Even though Kashimura is an employee of my company and one of the contributors to the development of Cocoon, do I have any motive to kill him? And where's the evidence? Given my social status, do you understand how serious the consequences of a false accusation without evidence can be?"

(End of this chapter)