I, the Buddhist who raises leopards in the Conan world

"3, 2, 1, Fight!" The Muay Thai fighter rushed forward and raised his right knee like a battle axe.

Shen Yuan retreated and raised his left arm to block - "Bang!" The sensor belt vibrated violently, and his left forearm felt a burning pain.

This game's 60% pain feedback is indeed well-deserved.

"Brother Shen, be careful!" Conan's voice came from behind.

Shen Yuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly and suddenly changed his breathing rhythm.

When the Thai boxer swung his elbow again, Shen Yuan suddenly lowered his body.

The sensor belt accurately captured every tremor of his muscles, and the "Qinglong" on the screen slid to the side of the opponent like a ghost.

"Hah!" Shen Yuan's right fist blasted out like a cannonball, and the induction belt stretched straight with a "buzz".

This powerful punch hit the ribs hard, and the virtual image of the Thai boxer immediately bent over and retched.

"Beautiful!" Conan jumped up.

As the seventh opponent's virtual image slowly fell, the electronic screen in the game hall flashed a few times, displaying the words "No Challenger Currently".

The crowd of onlookers exclaimed in surprise. Several young people who were eager to try pushed each other, but no one dared to step forward to scan the code and take the challenge.

Shen Yuan took off his holographic helmet, and the hair on his forehead was still stained with sweat.

The sensor belt of the game cabin automatically loosened, making a "hissing" sound of deflation.

He rubbed his sore wrist and heard Yuanzi's excited voice coming from behind him.

"Brother Shen Yuan! You were so cool just now!" Yuanzi pulled Xiaolan through the crowd of onlookers, "We won seven games in a row! We even beat down the guy who bullied Xiaolan!" Shen Yuan raised his eyebrows in confusion: "Miss Xiaolan was bullied?" Conan also looked at Xiaolan nervously.

"It's a game!" Xiaolan waved her hands embarrassedly, and the hem of her Teitan High School uniform swayed slightly with her movements. "Just now, a boy challenged me to a real-life fight, and I lost badly!" Sonoko curled her lips and put her hands on her hips: "I think that guy is just trying to make a name for himself by bullying Xiaolan because she is a newcomer. Look, he lost to Brother Shen Yuan!" At this time, Judy walked slowly over, bringing a faint scent of perfume.

There was a glimmer of inquiry in her azure eyes, and she said in her exotic Japanese accent: "Shen, your fighting moves just now were very handsome." There was a hint of doubt in her eyes, and then she asked, "You must have learned it professionally. Is this some kind of flower kung fu?" Yuanzi on the side also spoke excitedly, "Yes, yes, Brother Shen Yuan, I think your moves just now are more handsome than when we faced the armed bank robbers. Brother Shen Yuan, your kung fu is really good!" Conan couldn't help but say, "Brother Shen's skills seem to be more advanced than when we faced the three armed robbers in the cave! Brother Shen is training again recently, right?" Shen Yuan rolled his eyes silently in his heart - yes, Gin card special training, the kind of life and death speed every day.

Judy's gaze lingered on Shen Yuan's wrists and neck - the muscle lines in those areas were clearly the result of systematic training.

But what concerned her more was what these children had just said... "Bank robbers? A gunfight in a cave?" Judy's mouth twitched noticeably, "You kids... you have really rich experience!" Shen Yuan spread his hands helplessly, "Ms. Judy, now you understand why I am so professional!" He pointed at Conan, "When you are with this kid, you may encounter all kinds of 'surprises' at any time, so I need to practice life-saving skills!" Judy's mouth twitched, and she suddenly felt that she had nothing to say.

Chapter 84 Fighting Game 3

Shen Yuan, Xiaolan and others followed Judy to play in the game hall and then returned to Great Fighter Spirit.

"It's so lively over there!" Yuanzi stood on tiptoe and pointed at the big screen in the Great Fighter Spirit game area. The huge display screen was crowded with onlookers, and bursts of exclamations broke out from time to time.

Shen Yuan and his group followed Judy into the crowd, and saw on the big screen a character in a red martial arts uniform fighting fiercely with a character in a blue ninja costume.

The special effects of fists and feet colliding sent sparks flying, and the health bars of both characters dropped rapidly.

"That's 'Invincible Cup' Bito and game critic Mr. Shimizu!" A young man wearing glasses pushed his glasses excitedly, "Bito has won 98 games in a row on this machine, and Mr. Shimizu came here specifically to challenge him!" Xiaolan covered her mouth in surprise: "Ah, it's the guy who just beat me!" Sonoko curled her lips in disdain: "98 consecutive wins, so what? Didn't he just lose to Brother Shen Yuan!" Conan's eyes swept across the crowd and noticed that several young people were whispering: "Bito Kengo, 21 years old, unemployed!" A boy with dyed yellow hair whispered, "But he's a legend in this game hall!"

"I heard he makes money from gambling and playing games," his companion added, "He has a very arrogant personality. Last time he even beat a primary school student and made him cry!" On the big screen, the character in the red martial arts uniform suddenly performed a gorgeous combo - an uppercut followed by a spinning kick, and finally ended with an elbow strike.

The blue ninja was knocked to the ground hard, his health bar almost reaching the bottom.

"KO!" The electronic sound effect sounded, and the crowd burst into deafening cheers and applause.

"It's so exciting! Mr. Oto really lives up to his reputation!" The second game started soon.

This duel was more intense than the previous one, with Oto's red martial arts uniform character still having the upper hand, but Shimizu's blue ninja also managed to counterattack successfully from time to time.

"Mr. Bito's operation is so precise!" the young man with glasses exclaimed, "Every combo is perfect, it's as if he can predict his opponent's actions!" The game entered the final moment, and Bito's character only needed to deliver one more normal attack to win.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for the historic 99th consecutive victory.

However—the character in the red martial arts uniform suddenly froze in place, motionless.

Shimizu's blue ninja took the opportunity to fight back, but soon stopped.

The countdown ended and the game unexpectedly ended in a draw.

"what happened?"

"What is Bidou doing?"

"We can obviously win!" A puzzled discussion was heard among the crowd.

Several of Bito's fans ran to his game cabin: "Mr. Bito? Are you okay?" There was no response - he was dead.

"Sister Xiaolan! Call the police quickly!" Conan nimbly squeezed through the crowd, maintained the scene after seeing the situation, and drove away the people around. At this time, Judy only thought that he was a precocious little boy.

Fifteen minutes later, the shrill sound of sirens pierced the night sky.

When Inspector Megure and Officer Takagi hurriedly arrived, the scene had already been cordoned off with isolation tape by the game hall staff.

"Why are you here again..." Inspector Megure wiped the sweat off his forehead, and his expression froze when he glanced at Xiaolan and her group.

Shen Yuan smiled and waved to Inspector Megure, "Good afternoon, Inspector!" Officer Takagi flipped through the preliminary investigation records: "The deceased, Kengo Bito, was 21 years old and unemployed... According to the people at the scene, his reputation was not very good... The preliminary judgment is that he died of poisoning!" Inspector Megure turned to Xiaolan, "You mean, he died suddenly during the game?" Xiaolan nodded and pointed to the big screen behind her, "Mr. Bito was just playing against someone else, and we watched the whole process on this big screen.

Just when he was about to win, he suddenly stopped attacking and stood motionless on the screen..." She paused, "Then someone ran over to check, only to find that he had..." At this time Judy suddenly spoke, her short golden hair shining in the light: "Xiaolan, are you familiar with this police officer?" Xiaolan smiled awkwardly: "Um... We often encounter cases, so I am more familiar with Inspector Megure!" Inspector Megure then noticed the strange woman in the crowd and looked at Xiaolan puzzledly.

"This lady is Judy Saint-Timilian, our school's English teacher," Xiaolan introduced quickly, "We were just playing games together!" Judy nodded gracefully to Inspector Megure, a professional smile on her red lips.

Inspector Megure squatted down and carefully examined Kengo Oto's body.

The deceased's limbs were still firmly fixed by sensor belts, and the full-coverage neural link helmet hung crookedly on his head, revealing his purple face.

"What is this...?" Inspector Megure frowned and pointed at the complicated equipment.

"This is the realistic fighting system of 'Great Fighter Spirit'!" A young man in an arcade uniform walked over quickly and explained.

Dejima squatted down and expertly untied a sensor belt: “These devices will connect to the player’s nervous system and feed back the impact sensation in the game to the player at 60% of the pain.

In other words..." He pointed to the fighting scene that was still being replayed on the big screen, "When the game character is hit, the player will also feel the pain in the corresponding part!" Seeing Inspector Megure looking at him strangely, "Ah, Officer, my name is Izumi Hitoshi, and I'm a clerk in this game hall!" Inspector Megure frowned more and more: "You mean, this thing can feel the pain of the opponent's attack? Then is it possible that he was 'beaten to death'? "At this time, a man entered the cordon.

He came out to deny, "Impossible, he was pinning people down and beating them just now, how could he be beaten to death because of the pain?" Inspector Megure stood up, his signature crescent eyes showing confusion as he looked at the uninvited guest: "You are... again?"

"Shimizu Takashi!" the man pulled out his business card. "Game magazine critic.

It was me who just fought against Bito!" He pointed to the battle replay on the big screen, "Officer, please look, he was attacking me the whole time.

If we talk about pain feedback, it should be me who should be in trouble.

I don't think my attack just now could kill anyone, please don't misunderstand me, Officer."

"That..." Someone suddenly spoke from the crowd outside the cordon. A young man with dyed yellow hair pointed in the direction of Shen Yuan and shouted, "If he died from the pain of being hit, could it be him? He defeated Kengo Bito before, and beat him badly!" Everyone's eyes turned to Shen Yuan.

Conan held his forehead speechlessly, as if three black lines appeared on his forehead. He complained silently in his heart: Here it comes again... Why does Brother Shen always become a suspect inexplicably... Inspector Megure showed his signature half-moon eyes and asked helplessly: "Mr. Shen, what did you do again?" Shen Yuan spread his hands with an innocent look: "Inspector, I didn't do anything!" He pointed to the game record screen, "I just beat this guy in the game.

And I fought against seven people in total, and the other six are still alive and well!" Officer Takagi quickly flipped through the records: "That's true.

Mr. Shen’s battle records show that his battle with Bidou was completed an hour ago, and after that, Bidou was alive and well and even fought against Shishui!”

"Besides," Shen Yuan added slowly, "if the death was really caused by the pain feedback from the game, it should have happened during the battle, not an hour after playing with me!" Shimizu Gaobao suddenly interrupted, "Wait, you said you beat Bito?" He looked Shen Yuan up and down, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes, "He has a record of 98 consecutive wins on this machine..."

"That's because he lost to me in the first round!" Shen Yuan smiled faintly, "But I'm afraid this record will be frozen there forever!"

"Ahem!" Inspector Megure cleared his throat, interrupting this inappropriate conversation, and immediately announced, "In short, Mr. Shen is not a suspect for the time being.

Now we need to focus on investigating the people and objects that Mr. Bito came into contact with within an hour before his death!"

Chapter 85 Fighting Game 4

Just as Inspector Megure was about to question the people around him, a female voice with a strange accent suddenly sounded: "Inspector~" Judy lightly fiddled with her short golden hair, pointing her slender fingers to the corner of the ceiling, "Can we use that thing to speed up the investigation?" Everyone looked in the direction of her finger - a hemispherical surveillance camera was quietly overlooking the entire gaming area.

"Ah! Surveillance!" Inspector Megure slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "Takagi, take people to the monitoring room immediately!" The monitoring room of the game hall was small and stuffy, and the walls were covered with monitors showing the images of various areas.

The security guard retrieved the past two hours of video footage from the Great Fighter Spirit game area, and the footage clearly showed Kengo Bito's activities before his death.

"Fast forward to here!" Conan suddenly pointed at the screen, which showed that Bito was coming out of the game cabin to rest, "This is the time point after his battle with Brother Shen!" As the video fast-forwarded, everyone saw: Bito took the drink from the vending machine - talked to several fans - clerk Dejima Hitoshi came forward to debug the equipment - Shimizu Takahashi came to challenge - the whole process of the last round of the battle.

The surveillance footage froze at the moment when a strange man bent over.

Inspector Megure immediately ordered someone to take him to the monitoring room.

"My name is Jiang Mingzhi, and I'm a taxi driver!" The middle-aged man rubbed his hands. "I was just bending down to pick up a coin. Seriously! I have no grudge against Bidou. On the contrary, I admire his gaming skills. How could I possibly kill him?"

"Not necessarily?" Shimizu Takao suddenly sneered. "Last month, you fell off the machine while playing a racing game, and Bito laughed at you in public, saying, 'A driver who can't even play a racing game well should just be a loser.' Didn't you also say you wanted to send him to reincarnation as soon as possible?" Jiang Mingzhi's face suddenly changed. "What about you?" He directed the contradiction at Shimizu. "Isn't Bito your precious sister's boyfriend? He deceived your sister so badly, and now he's still lying in the hospital, right? Aren't you more likely to kill Bito?"

"You!" Shimizu Takashi clenched his fists suddenly.

Jiang Shou turned to Dejima Jun again: "And you, you have a motive too, right? Aren't you the video game fan who lost to Bidou before? Patra, who was previously called Rice Flower, made a bet with that guy Bidou, and after losing, he could no longer play games. Now that you come to the game hall to work as a clerk, does it mean that you can't live without games? So you killed him just to be able to play games?" The scene suddenly became tense.

Inspector Megure looked at the three suspects who were exposing each other with a headache. It was difficult to judge for a moment, but if you think about it, the three suspects are together.

However, Conan is now more concerned about Shen Yuan, because Shen Yuan has been paying attention to Shimizu Takashi since he entered the monitoring room and has looked at him several times.

He quietly tugged at the corner of Shen Yuan's clothes.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yuan lowered his head.

"Brother Shen, you've been looking at Mr. Zhishui," Conan asked quietly, "Do you think he's the murderer?" Shen Yuan nodded: "I think he's probably the real murderer!" Conan felt that his reasoning was a step behind, very frustrated, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Shen, how did you deduce this? Did I miss any clues?"

"Ever since Mr. Shishui knew that I defeated Bito," Shen Yuan explained as if jokingly, "his attitude towards me has been strange, as if I became his new target of hatred!" He spread his hands helplessly, "You also know that the murderers of the recent cases will eventually attack me inexplicably!" Conan was speechless for a moment.

Although this reason is outrageous, thinking about the three recent cases - the truck murder case, the arson case, and the monster murder case, these murderers did turn their spearheads towards Shen Yuan at the last moment... "Puff!" Judy, who was eavesdropping on the side, almost fell down.

She wanted to hear what this foreign student with questionable abilities and the child with miraculous performance were secretly talking about, but she didn't expect to hear such absurd reasoning.

She suppressed a smile, and her short golden hair swayed slightly as her shoulders shook.

Just as the three suspects were arguing, the forensic department personnel hurriedly pushed the door open.

"Reporting to the Chief!" The forensic officer wiped the sweat from his forehead, "The deceased's blood test results showed that the cause of death was tetrodotoxin poisoning.

The injection site was on the inside of the deceased's right upper arm, and the poison was directly injected into the artery!"

"Tetrodotoxin?" Inspector Megure frowned in confusion.

"Tetrodotoxin," Judy suddenly said, her short blond hair swaying slightly as she turned. "It's commonly known as TTX. 0.5 to 1 mg is a lethal dose!" She gestured with her fingers in the air. "It's five hundred times more toxic than potassium cyanate~" Sonoko narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "How does Judy know so much? Don't you teach English?"

"Ah," Judy blinked her blue eyes and waved her hands quickly, "This is what my doctor friend told me.

He knew I was coming to Japan, so he specifically reminded me not to eat pufferfish and get poisoned~" A white light flashed across Conan's glasses.

He is now certain that the murderer is Shimizu Takashige - the surveillance footage shows that only Shimizu approached Bito's right side before the game.

Chapter 86 Fighting Game 5

Conan quietly retreated behind the crowd, ran to Sonoko, stuck a sound device on her, adjusted the bow voice changer, and aimed the anesthetic needle at Sonoko.

"Ah - why did I suddenly..." Before Sonoko could finish her words, she felt a slight pain.

Her eyelids suddenly became extremely heavy, and her body softened and leaned back against the chair.

Before anyone could react, her head had already tilted forward slightly, and her golden headband gleamed faintly under the light of the monitoring room.

"Everyone, I already know the truth!" Sonoko suddenly said, "The murderer of this case is - Mr. Shimizu Takashi!" There was an uproar in the monitoring room, and everyone's eyes were fixed on Shimizu Takashi, and his face turned pale instantly.

"Let's reconstruct the crime process!" Sonoko's voice continued from the chair: "First, Mr. Shimizu found a cigarette of a different brand from his usual brand and a stick of chewing gum in the ashtray of the game hall.

He inserted a needle containing tetrodotoxin into a cigarette, fixed it to the wrapper with chewing gum, and then stuffed it back into the cigarette box - so that the needle would be exposed outside the box!" Shishui's hands began to shake uncontrollably.

"Before the match, Mr. Shimizu pretended to talk to Bito!" 'Sonoko' motioned for everyone to look at the surveillance screen, "... taking advantage of this action, he pinched the cigarette box with one hand, squeezed out the poison needle, and pierced the artery inside Bito's right arm!" The picture clearly showed that Shimizu's right hand was against Bito's right arm at a strange angle.

"There's a clever trick here," Sonoko continued, "Mr. Shimizu specifically chose a role for Bito that matched him, and he chose a role for himself that matched the criminal's code name.

He deliberately made it a draw, using the special effects of the VR game console to make the poisoned Bito appear to be operating normally!" Inspector Megure suddenly realized: "So in fact, in the second half of the game, Bito had already..."

"That's right, Bito had already died of the poison!" Sonoko said with certainty. "Mr. Shimizu was simply using the force feedback system of the game console to make the deceased's arm move mechanically!"

"As for the murder weapon..." Sonoko pointed at Dejima Hitoshi's shoes, "The metal collision sound made when Mr. Dejima walked is the best evidence - the sole of his shoe is stuck with the poison needle discarded by Mr. Shimizu!" The monitoring room was suddenly silent, and only the buzzing sound of the air conditioner could be heard.

Everyone's eyes turned to Dejima Jun, who was standing in the corner. The arcade clerk looked down at his shoes with a confused look on his face.

"I..." Dejima subconsciously lifted his right foot, the sole of his shoe reflecting a metallic luster under the light.

When he turned his ankle, a silver needle as thin as a hair was embedded in the texture of the sole, and the tip of the needle was emitting a strange blue light.

"This..." Dejima's voice trembled a little, "I have no idea when..." Officer Takagi immediately put on gloves and carefully removed the needle with an evidence bag.

Inspector Megure came closer to observe, his expression suddenly becoming serious: "There is obvious residue on the tip of the needle..."

"That's right!" Yuanzi's voice continued, "That's tetrodotoxin.

Mr. Shimizu hid the poison needle in a specially made cigarette box and administered the injection while pretending to talk to Bito!"

"More direct evidence is..." Sonoko's voice suddenly rose. "In the coin storage compartment, there's a coin with Mr. Shimizu's fingerprint on it! That proves you put a coin in this machine, right? Mr. Shimizu?"

"You...how could you..." Shishui's legs began to tremble.

"The motive is obvious!" Sonoko's voice was filled with pity. "It's because of your sister, right? To get your sister away from her jerk boyfriend?"