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

Chapter 535 The Urban Legend of Beika Town: The Hammer Killer
The central control room in the basement of the Chen En Group headquarters building.

After Jirokichi Suzuki stated that all current monitoring systems would be linked to that supercomputer.

Noah's Ark quickly gained control of as many as 6,000 surveillance cameras.

While quickly taking control and adapting to the multiple surveillance feeds, He then turned to ask Chen En,
"Batman, what case are you investigating right now?"

Upon hearing this, Chen En immediately replied,

"Do you remember that series of urban legends I asked you to retrieve before?"

"There's an urban legend about a hammer killer."

—The Hammer Killer?

Within Noah's Ark's field of vision, relevant case information immediately came to mind.

The Hammer Killer is an urban legend that has only emerged in the last few days.

Because Chen En was engaged in almost continuous battles with numerous criminal organizations during this period, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department experienced a certain degree of decline in their efforts to maintain daily order.

Many people took advantage of this time to commit crimes and violence.

Although the vast majority of these cases were solved by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which have been increasing their efforts in maintaining public order.

However, a small number of cases remain unsolved, some of which have become terrifying urban legends, with the hammer killer being a prime example.

In various areas of Beika Town, there are records of men killing women with hammers.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's investigation report.

The perpetrator was the same person, and the deceased women were unrelated and did not know each other. No money or identification was missing from the scene, and the crime was not committed by the victims' enemies.

In other words, this was a killing spree without reason, condition, or indiscriminate intent.

This caused a stir in the Noah's Ark program.

He and Hiroki Sawada knew better than anyone how difficult this type of criminal was to deal with.

Just like Jack the Ripper who killed indiscriminately.

To this day, the identity of Jack the Ripper has never been confirmed. In the real world, if a similar case occurs without surveillance, the difficulty of solving it is no different from that of the Jack the Ripper case.

Thinking of this, Noah's Ark suddenly realized what was going on.

It's likely that Chen En went to various places to check on the situation after saying goodbye to Ai Haibara.

The goal is to find and eliminate this urban legend of the indiscriminate killer, the Hammer Serial Killer.

No wonder Chen En demanded immediate access to the supercomputer after Suzuki Jirokichi announced that a surveillance system had been installed over 60% of the area; it turned out that he wanted to eliminate the Hammer Killer as quickly as possible!

"The hammer killer commits one or two crimes a day at night in Beika Town."

"Now, due to various major events in Beika Town, such news can only occupy a very small place in the news section, or even not make the news at all."

"But this kind of thing can't be suppressed. Once it spreads, the panic it causes is countless."

Chen En spoke calmly.

According to urban legends, this individual is over 1.8 meters tall and can run 100 meters in 11 seconds.

"This is obviously a huge exaggeration. Noah's Ark, you should have seen the case file. This individual committed five crimes in the past three days: once at Shioba Wharf, twice in the alley, once in Beika Park, and once near Teitan University."

"Based on the appearance of the five victims, I can tentatively infer that the hammer killer targeted long-haired women."

"The individual's route of action is unpredictable, but using Salt Leaf Wharf as the edge and other points as references, we can obtain a circular range of crime areas. Noah's Ark, he will commit crimes again tonight."

Does the surveillance system cover the circular area I described as the crime scene?

According to Chen En's description.

Noah's Ark quickly pinpointed the crime scene on a map of Beika Town. Then, His voice, tinged with a hint of ease, replied...

"Yes, Batman, the area you mentioned where the crimes were committed is still within the coverage of the surveillance system."

"Next, I will follow your instructions and examine all the surveillance footage to determine if there are any suspicious individuals holding a hammer or resembling a hammer."

It is impossible for humans to observe nearly a thousand surveillance screens at once and accurately extract the information from them.

Human beings cannot possibly have a multi-threaded thinking process that extends to thousands of threads.

However, Noah's Ark could.

As a super artificial intelligence, it possesses unique advantages. It can evolve the data of many NPCs in the cocoon game, and naturally it can also differentiate many threads of consciousness for synchronous observation.

Within nearly a thousand surveillance videos.

Noah's Ark could clearly see everything in every corner.

Nowadays, few people go out in Beika Town at night because everyone knows that Beika Town is quite dangerous at night, so much so that Beika Town at night seems somewhat out of place compared to other wards in Tokyo.

However, there are still some truly reckless people in Beika Town who dare to go out at night.

Not only do they travel at night, but they are also alone, without any awareness or precautions against danger.

—For example, Mihana Park.

This location was the innermost point of the crime scene within the criminal scope described by Chen En.

This park, built by Teiji Moriya, is symmetrical on both sides and resembles a maze. It is equipped with many surveillance cameras, which clearly captured a woman inside the vast park.

She sat alone in a chair, her long hair flowing, her bag beside her, head down, playing on her phone, not looking up for a long time.

For the hammer killer, this was a perfect target.

Since Noah's Ark hadn't seen a second person who might fit the description of the attack, its attention slowly shifted to the situation at Mihua Park. Finally, it noticed a strange person.

He was a man who was about 1.8 meters tall, but his physique was abnormal.

He walked out of an apartment near Mihana Park, alone and in a hurry, carrying a tool bag, the contents of which were unknown. He wore a mask and a hat, as if concealing his true identity.

This person is looking for something in Mihana Park.

Noah's Ark knew what he was looking for.

He's looking for prey.

Noah's Ark could give him a prey, but this prey might break all his teeth.

He spoke to Chen En.

"Batman, a person suspected to be the hammer killer has appeared."

"The location is Mihua Park, near the Mihua branch of Dongdu Bank."

This is a familiar place.

Chen En still remembers when he first transmigrated to this world.

He was short of money, so he borrowed some from Professor Agasa and said he was going to get a bank card.

On the way, we passed through Beika Park, and got lost for a while in its perfectly symmetrical, maze-like layout before finally finding our way out. He had initially been cursing whoever had built such a maze.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

The important thing is that he's about to make his move.

(End of this chapter)