Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

Zhi Xing tapped his head with his hand and thought for a while. After making up his mind, he asked Inspector Megure:

"Will I be arrested and taken to the police station again now?"

Chapter 159: Game of Life?

Inspector Megure scratched his hat, not at all prepared for Zhixing's question.

In the past, suspects always tried hard to get rid of their crimes, and even recording statements was difficult. How could anyone stare at the detention center and think about going in?

After all, the crimes that Inspector Megure can send people to jail for are all closely related to human life. Normal petty thefts are handled by other departments. How could someone in this situation...

Inspector Megure's gaze fell on the kendo coach beside him, and he suddenly remembered that this guy seemed to be intentionally trying to conceal his motives.

"No, it has been proven that your previous charges were not true, so we will not arrest you again."

Inspector Megure looked around and saw that only the Mori family and the real criminal were around, and that everyone else, including the suspect in this case, had gradually left the murder scene. He added:

"Your crime of fraud may now be a good deed that saved a life, but the previous murders all had irrefutable evidence, and no trace of you was ever found."

"The only thing that counts as a mouth is that you escaped several times during your detention."

Inspector Megure coughed and said in a blatantly protective tone:

"But considering that you are innocent of all previous crimes, and based on your description, this is beyond your control, so it can also be considered innocent."

Zhixing frowned, feeling a little surprised.

He clearly provided me with food and lodging the last time we met again, so why is he suddenly not providing them now?

No, that's not the point.

Zhi Xing looked at Yuuji, who had calmed down and was also listening to Inspector Megure's words. He had a guess in his mind, so he boldly asked:

"So, what about my crime of illegal immigration? And..."

Zhixing opened his mouth, but suddenly forgot the name when the words came to his lips, so he turned his head and looked at the other police officers who were still at the scene and said:

"Is the policeman who was following me before really okay?"

After these words were spoken, Inspector Megure, who was about to say something to avoid close contact between the criminal and the paper company, fell silent.

"Don't worry, Kamijou-nii. Uncle Taiga is fine. At least his life is safe."

Conan silently left Kogoro and came to Zhixing alone to explain to him.

"Conan-kun..."

Xiaolan saw Conan's actions from behind her and instinctively wanted to tell Conan not to disturb the adults' conversation, but when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she remembered Zhixing's definition of Conan and stopped shouting. She just stared at Conan's back with a complicated look.

Zhixing turned his head to look in the direction of Xiaolan, and after not seeing Conan, he seemed to have thought of something and looked down at his lower body.

Sure enough, Conan had come to his side and was in his blind spot.

"Is he really alright?"

"Yeah, it's true."

"Is there no discomfort in your lower body?"

It was clearly Zhixing who was talking to Conan, but when Inspector Megure heard Zhixing describe the specific location, he suddenly felt an inexplicable anger in his heart, and immediately waved his hand and said:

"It's getting late now. Since the case has been solved, we should leave and stop disturbing others."

Then, without giving Zhixing a chance to persuade him to stay, he immediately mobilized the other police officers in the team and carried out the final finishing work in a hurry. Then he turned around and looked at Zhixing and the Maori family and said:

"Since the case has been completed, I won't keep you here any longer. It's time to go back. This is not the place for you to stay."

Seeing Inspector Megure ordering them to leave, Zhixing began to feel uneasy.

Am I mistaken again? This isn't some immersive stealth game with futuristic technology? So instead of giving me a branching option, I don't actually have a choice?

Zhixing never moved a step, still standing in the center where he came from, and began to look at the layout of the room.

However, Jixing did not figure out what rules there were for his random location in this place that was obviously not the center of the room, so he was politely asked to leave the Karasu mansion by the police officer who received the order from Inspector Megure.

Zhi Xingben thought that if he stood still, the police officer approaching him would disappear like the criminal. However, until he was dragged to the door, the police officers on both sides were at peace.

Looking at the door that this police officer had closed, Zhixing was a little absent-minded. But before Zhixing could think about it, Xiaolan, who had been waiting aside for a long time, came forward and asked hesitantly:

"Are you free tomorrow? I want to talk to you about something."

"tomorrow?"

"Ah."

Xiaolan looked at the stars that had already appeared in the sky and nodded, completely unaware of the surprise revealed in Zhixing's expression.

Zhixing opened his mouth to say something, but after a pause, he replied to Xiaolan's puzzled gaze:

"I can't guarantee I'll be able to come tomorrow."

Zhixing first gave a negative answer. After all, if nothing unexpected happened, with the end of the case, Zhixing would probably have to enter that dark space again after 0 o'clock.

Last time, he could clearly see that the other party had approached him and was trying to reach out.

Zhixing didn't know what would happen if he came into contact with the other party, but just because he could meet the conditions for him to go back, Zhixing had already defined him as the final boss in his mind.

So the paper trader changed the subject and said:

"But if you can accompany me to do an experiment tonight, I can wait at your house so that you can find me as soon as I get back."

Conan stared at the paper with wide eyes, extremely shocked.

Hey, hey, hey, you know I'm Kudo Shinichi, yet you actually make this request in front of me... No, Uncle Mori is also here. How dare you make this request in front of him?

As Conan expected, Maori Kogoro, who was about to call a taxi, suddenly came over and shouted angrily:

"You, so this is your purpose! No wonder you say things that are hard to understand. It turns out you are trying to trick the little girl!"

"father!"

Xiaolan stood between Maori Kogoro and Kazuyuki, facing Kazuyuki with her back to Maori Kogoro and said:

"I believe in Kamijou-san's character. Dad, you must have misunderstood, right?"

"Hmm? What's that, right?"

Zhixing was still thinking about the circumstances of the last failed attempt to save Miyano Akemi, and was unable to come to his senses for a moment.

"You little bastard, you said you wanted to do some experiment on my daughter. I'm still here, and you dared to set your sights on my daughter!"

"Oh, I misunderstood. I just want Xiaolan to do an experiment with me at midnight. It will be fine in the hall. You can watch and it will save me from having to explain it later."

"What's going to happen at midnight?"

Conan was also very confused about this. Judging from the several times Conan had contact with Zhixing, Zhixing was a person who was not good at asking others for help, but his execution ability was very poor, and he was also somewhat mysteriously confident in his plans.

After all, the paper company had an unquestionable attitude and a strong request to participate in the so-called experiment, and Conan could also see that the police were strongly requesting the police to act according to the paper company's plan.

Although the background of Zhixing cannot be figured out by the clues collected by Conan, Conan still doesn't understand why Zhixing would want people to conduct experiments.

"Based on my previous experience, it should have happened at midnight, but because the situation last time was a bit special, I'm not sure the exact time now, so I exaggerated it to the evening."

The paper company roughly sorted out the time.

If Akemi Miyano's escape was during dinner time, then if we count based on 19 p.m. when dinner ended, a two-hour drive to the pier would have been enough. She would have arrived at the pier at 21 p.m., and then rounded up to an hour wasted at the pier, which would have been only 22 p.m.

After that, a lot of things seemed to happen when he entered the witch's barrier, but Zhixing didn't think he could survive the last two hours in front of the witch. It was even hard to say whether it took only 10 minutes at that time.

But after entering the witch's barrier for the second time, the dark world that only appears at midnight appeared.

Zhi Xing glanced down at Conan, then looked at Xiaolan, who was also looking at him, and said a little embarrassedly:

"Although I feel like I'm taking advantage of your kindness, what I said is the truth."

Zhi Xing looked at the moon in the sky and said with a hint of uncertainty in his tone:

"The results of tonight's experiment may determine whether I can survive."

"!!!"

Sitting in a taxi on the way back to the Maori Detective Agency.

Zhixing watched the scenery outside the window pass by, his heart filled with uncertainty about the future.

If this kind of time travel is really just a game, and these NPCs are just highly intelligent AIs performing real-time calculations, then the reason why I had no choice in the situation of choosing between the two just now is probably not just because I said the wrong thing.

There is also a most common setting, which is that the waiting time is too long and the system automatically selects the route.

Zhixing reached out and touched his pocket, feeling the note from Hongzi hidden inside, which he had never had the chance to translate, and couldn't help but brainstorm.

Judging from the situation just described by that guy, if there really is an organization behind this, it is most likely an organization that uses swordsmanship as the open side and magic as the covert side.

After all, there is a witch named Koizumi Akako in this world. In order to reconcile the contradictory setting of magic, it is very likely that there is a group of warriors in this world who can compete with magic.

The victim, a wealthy man who could still lend money at high interest rates, also happened to have studied kendo. The criminal, too, managed to raise funds equivalent to the value of a famous sword in just one month. Even such a person would become cannon fodder. Clearly, there's a lot of water here.

If I really choose that side, what awaits me is probably to understand the magic of this world, rely on magic to get rid of the threat of the witch's kiss, and even learn some swordsmanship to barely protect myself, and then finally face the white figure and understand the truth about the existence of magic in this world.

Although Zhixing hasn't read many novels, he knows very well how high the level of magic in "Detective Conan" can be.

Although on the surface Koizumi Akako can easily play with devils like Lucifer, the actual effect she can achieve is not even at the level of a heartthrob.

According to Zhixing's own past school experience, there are only a few thousand students in a junior high school, not to mention that the ratio of boys to girls is not much different. I am afraid that a Lucifer-level charm perfume can only have an influence on a thousand people.

From this perspective, her influence is not even as great as that of Xingzi's father.

"But that's also the magic of love."

When Zhixing returned to his rental house, he considered going directly to the set of Kaito Kid, so that he could try to see if he could use the love generated by the Red Chocolate to cause some extraordinary development to happen to the witch.

But due to various considerations, Zhixing gave up this option and returned to the world of "Detective Conan".

The magic of love? Sure enough, this guy was thinking about something bad.

Zhixing turned his head and looked at Conan, who had inadvertently intruded into his thoughts with his gaze, and then looked at Xiaolan, who was sitting in the middle of the back seat, separating Zhixing and Conan.

If this is really a game, and the boss behind the scenes is the main quest, then both routes can actually return to the main quest.

It's nothing more than one entering the main line by force, and the other entering the main line by clever means.

Meeting the boss is the main storyline ending, and because neither of the two routes has enough plot, the option of exiting and starting over appears. This is quite reasonable.

But although he already had a complete logical chain in his mind, Zhixing remembered what Xiaolan had just said.

Tomorrow, if I can also enter the main storyline here, then for me who always jumps time, it would be the best choice to announce the clue on the spot. It is impossible to use this destined missed tomorrow as an excuse, and then after the main storyline is over, I will reverse the routine to a true ending because of this clue, right?

If this is true, then there should be an option that allows you to enter the second and third rounds, complete both routes, and finally get the true ending.

And there is only one reason I can think of that would allow me to play the second round in the world of "Detective Conan" without feeling out of place.

If I choose not to go back, I will lose my memory.

Perhaps because Zhixing had been thinking for a long time, Xiaolan, who was being watched by Zhixing, could not help but ask:

"Um, Kamijou-san, what do you need me to do tonight?"

Zhixing came back to his senses and his gaze shifted from Xiaolan's face to her hands.

Seeing Xiaolan's hands shrinking into fists, Zhixing said indifferently:

"There's nothing else to do. Just be an insurance policy and try. You don't have to do anything. Just listen to me no matter what happens. Don't make a fuss or resist."

"No...don't resist?"

Chapter 160 It’s time to summarize the rules

"We should know by then. It's possible that I'm wrong."

After Zhixing finished speaking, he closed his eyes and began to rest, but he had already started to make permutations and combinations in his mind.

The point is not to have the original meaning.

Considering the possibility of amnesia, Zhixing had to race against time to prepare the encrypted information for himself from now on.

But Zhixing really couldn't remember the characters here, and now without the help of tools, it was even more difficult for Zhixing to create a set of unfamiliar long articles.

It was supposed to be like this originally, but the cabinet just now gave Paper Bank an inspiration.

Although Zhixing actually understood the meaning because of Conan's gaze, the misunderstanding occurred because the word had been scrambled.

The scrambled characters cannot be recognized by language software, nor can they be recognized by other people, and naturally they will not be given any meaning.

Based on this, Zhixing thought of something called Wubi.

Split the characters into strokes, and then one character can be turned into multiple symbols, so that the carrier used for encryption can be quickly selected.

So the next step is to condense your own experiences and then define them into these constituent words.