I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 480 The Incredible Speed of Mihua's Infrastructure Development

Chapter 480 The Incredible Speed of Mihua's Infrastructure Development
The underground research lab at the Chen En Enterprise headquarters building.

Professor Agasa stroked his chin.

He was puzzled about where to begin with the next step of the design, while the Noah's Ark program on the flickering screen next to him remained silent so as not to disturb Professor Agasa's thoughts.

—The more Noah's Ark interacted with other people, the more it felt that Hiroki Sawada's ideas were somewhat extreme.

Admittedly, Hiroki Sawada is indeed one of the world's very few super geniuses, but he is by no means the only one. He is a genius pharmacologist who was able to develop a drug that could make Shinichi Kudo young again.

And there's Professor Agasa sitting here right now, pondering his design plans.

They are already among the top geniuses in their respective fields, not to mention the top geniuses in other industries that Noah's Ark has not yet encountered.

Their views on humanity were far less pessimistic than those of Hiroki Sawada.

Noah's Ark silently watched Professor Agasa.

It wasn't until he noticed a shadow appearing in front of the screen that he realized the elusive Batman had entered the underground research lab.

The guardian knight of Beika Town was holding a coffee cup and dressed in casual clothes.

He doesn't look like a superhero protecting the city at all; he looks more like an ordinary passerby with nothing better to do. At best, he's a little handsome, and he carries a coffee cup everywhere he goes, which looks a bit odd.

"Noah's Ark, how's it going?"

Chen En didn't even turn his head before speaking in a low voice.

He knew that Noah's Ark's consciousness was not confined to the computer used for research in the underground research institute, so he did not think that Noah's Ark could not hear him when he spoke.

And as it turned out, Noah's Ark could indeed hear.

"Batman, the programming is progressing steadily and systematically."

"According to your plan, I will give Ms. Haibara some workload so that she can personally feel that her programming skills are indeed improving on the original basis. I believe Ms. Haibara will be grateful for your good intentions."

"At this rate, the program will most likely be completed three days after Professor Agasa presents the design drawings."

The audio for Noah's Ark still uses Hiroki Sawada's audio.

However, unlike Hiroki Sawada, Noah's Ark's voice sounds calmer and more reassuring, completely unlike the voice a ten-year-old child should have.

—Of course, Noah's Ark was actually only two years old.

Chen En nodded slightly.

Next, we need to find some programmers to do the bare minimum, at least to prevent them from thinking that the program data was completed by him and Professor Agasa together, otherwise it will become extremely troublesome to deal with the follow-up issues.

"Hey, Chen En, when did you get here?"

After Chen En and Noah's Ark completed their conversation, Dr. Agasa finally noticed Chen En's presence.

He said with some surprise,

"I didn't hear a single sound of your footsteps. How did you do that?"

Chen En: ?
You make it sound like you've never noticed when I sneaked up next to you.

No, you didn't even realize that others were stealthily approaching you. Back in the Blue Castle, you were probably ambushed by someone wielding a stick and a silent knife.

Chen En shook his head, then walked over to Professor Agasa and looked at the design drawings on the table.

Although Chen En's practical and theoretical abilities are far inferior to those of Professor Agasa, he has an advantage that Professor Agasa lacks—he has firsthand experience with smartphones and more advanced computers.

Therefore, if it only appears as an error correction mechanism, it can still play a role.

Seeing Chen En's serious expression, Dr. Agasa was also inspired by Chen En's earnestness.

He went to the table, pointed to the components on the design drawings, and began to explain his current research and development progress in detail, using as few technical terms as possible. However, to Dr. Agasa's surprise, Chen En didn't seem to need him to explain the technical terms in layman's terms.

This Night Knight from Beika Town seems to have some knowledge of even this kind of thing.

So much so that when Dr. Agasa introduced the design drawings to Chen En, he clearly felt much more comfortable than when he introduced them to other investors.

"...I must say, Chen En, your forward-thinking ideas are truly ahead of this era."

"It's as if you've witnessed the era of smartphones and new computers firsthand. Could it be that, outside of comics, in your world, these smartphones and new computers have already become popular?"

Dr. Agasa asked with great curiosity.

Hearing this, Chen En nodded, somewhat gratified that Professor Agasa still remembered this aspect of him.
"Of course, I've come back from the age of artificial intelligence."

“These are all things I come into contact with every day, so I’m quite familiar with them. Also, by the later stages of the comic, everyone had basically moved on to smartphones. I just wanted to seize the market before the world entered the smartphone era.”

Is that why you seem so impatient?
Professor Agasa nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

He felt that the so-called "later stage" of comics should refer to several years or even more than a decade later, since the iteration of mobile phones and computers, while seemingly fast, is actually not that fast.

—If he had known all of this would happen within six months, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold back.

Chen En's gaze fell on the design drawings.

His thoughts, however, remained on the bat cave.

Construction of the Bat Cave is currently progressing at an accelerated pace.

According to Chen En's estimate, the Bat Cave will be completed within a week at most, because Beika Town's infrastructure capabilities are quite impressive, with the Beika City Hall being the best example.

This thing was destroyed by Teiji Moriya in M1, but it was restored to its original state before M6.

So, what kind of project is the Mihana Municipal Building?
This is a landmark building consisting of two skyscrapers, each 243.4 meters tall, with 48 floors above ground and 3 floors below ground. The prototype took a full sixteen months to build in the real world and another three months to be put into use.

Given Beika Town's infrastructure capabilities, and considering the previous time, it will take another week to build.

That's already an estimate that underestimates Beika Town's infrastructure capabilities.

However, just as Chen En was pondering the situation in the bat cave...

An alarm suddenly sounded inside the underground facility.

"Batman, Beika Town needs you now."

Noah's Ark said.

"Now I'll switch the feed for you."

Chen En looked up at one of the displays on Noah's Ark.

The news has already been released there.

The person wearing a black mask has now appeared at the headquarters of Nichiri TV.

He recklessly issued a challenge to Batman.

Within Chen En's field of vision, the special mission page had already popped up.