I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

Then he turned his gaze to the keyboard on the computer desk. Only three keys were stained with blood, as if the deceased had pressed them with all his strength before dying.

"And the blood-stained letters on this keyboard are also very strange. They are J, T, and R... huh?"

JTR is actually an abbreviation. If the full name is written, it should be Jack The Ripper.

That is - Jack the Ripper.

Chapter 333 If You Lose the Game, You Die

A minute later, the three of them had come out of the employee passage that looked like a wartime bunker and returned to the magnificent lobby in front of the venue.

Hattori Heiji put one hand in his pocket and frowned, as if he was still obsessed with the crime scene.

Serabelle had a blank expression on his face and said nothing. To be honest, he didn't care much about the death of Jiancun Zhongbin.

After all, the two parties had never met each other before, let alone being acquaintances. He hadn't even seen the other person's head before he was put in a body bag and carried away.

What's more, he came here today purely as a representative of the Suzuki Group together with Mrs. Suzuki, and he was not specially invited to be responsible for on-site security, so to be frank, the life and death of other people has nothing to do with Serabelle.

Hattori Heiji sighed softly: "So we're just going to go back and play that full stealth game?"

"Yes, we go back now, and this is our only choice."

Conan quickened his pace and walked ahead, nodding.

"Mr. Jiancun, as the main developer of Cocoon, knew very well that one of the games tested this time was a script written by my father, with the plot set in London a hundred years ago."

"London a hundred years ago, and it was London..." Hattori Heiji hissed, "Isn't that the era in the Sherlock Holmes novels?"

"Yes, and there is another very important character in the novel, that is Jack the Ripper."

"He corresponds to the three letters JTR that Mr. Jiancun typed on the keyboard with blood before he died."

"And this is the only clue we have at the moment."

"I see……"

After walking through the hall, the three returned to the venue where the trial play session had just begun.

At a glance, near the stage, a large group of children of all ages wearing trial qualification badges were queuing up to pass through the security gate one by one, ranging from six or seven years old to twelve or thirteen years old.

"They are all children here. Will people feel weird if we go there like this?" Hattori Heiji felt a little embarrassed.

"What does it matter? We are all under 20 years old anyway." Conan didn't care.

Hattori Heiji glared at him and said, "You must not care. You have shrunk to the height of an elementary school student. It's like a 1.2-meter-tall person saying that everyone's height is about 2 meters or less."

"Just tell me whether you want to play or not."

“Play…play!”

So the three of them, with Conan in the lead and Seravel in the tail, lined up at the end of the team, while the Osaka Legend of Courage hid between the two of them.

Not long after, all fifty players who were qualified for the test had completed the inspection, and one by one they stepped onto the stage and sat in the dome-like game cabin. The staff nearby immediately came over to help them put on the necessary equipment, and then the protective cover above was lowered.

The experience is similar to riding a roller coaster in an amusement park.

"Then the trial will begin. Five, four, three, two, one..."

Serabelle sat in the game cabin covered with dark glass, quietly listening to the countdown of the sweet-voiced female host on the radio outside, and slowly closed her eyes as if hypnotized successfully.

Of course, this is only what it looks like to outsiders; the whole process seems peaceful and tranquil.

In Serabelle's first-person perspective, when the countdown ended, he felt as if he had been hit by a flash bomb in the face, with a strong white light and an inexplicable feeling of dizziness. After a moment of confusion, when he regained consciousness, he found himself in a pure white circular square.

This is obviously not a scene that would appear in reality, because except for the white square, all other areas are absolutely dark. There are five stone roads evenly distributed around the square, leading to five stone doors respectively.

The design is a bit like the portal in God of War 4.

"Wow~ We actually got into the game!"

Serabelle had just finished surveying the surroundings when a white light fell behind her and Hattori Heiji's figure gradually became clear with a familiar Osaka accent.

Conan also appeared, and more white light fell above the circular plaza, and small figures emerged clearly in the light beams.

They are all children who have obtained the qualification for the test.

"It actually successfully connected."

Serabelle tried to move her body, and it felt no different from reality.

"Yes!"

Hattori Heiji seemed a little unusually excited. He patted his shoulder vigorously and said with a smile.

"Then please give me your guidance in the dungeon later, Aibo!"

……

At the same time, in the real venue control room, Thomas Sindorah, standing in a theater-like projection room, looked down at the venue below from the window.

Around him were a dozen technicians, each sitting in front of a console, busy doing the final startup work for the trial play session.

"All units, take your positions, and begin loading the dungeon!"

"Yes!"

Almost at the same time, five technicians sitting in front of the console pressed the download button at the same time.

But——nothing happened.

Press again.

Still no response.

"President Sindor..."

"what happened!"

"The console seems to be...failed! The copy cannot be loaded!"

"what?!"

An expression of disbelief appeared on the face of the CEO of the world's top technology company.

You know, this is the most critical moment of the entire trial exhibition. Will the research results of so many years make a sensation in the world or become a laughing stock? Just look at it this time, and the result is that the copy cannot be loaded?

What's worse is that Thomas Sindorah can't even put the blame on anyone present.

After all, for this trial play session, he did not show up in public during the entire trial play exhibition today except for saying those three sentences on the stage.

He personally supervised all the preparation and debugging steps and confirmed that there were no omissions.

But why...

The next moment, a voice that appeared simultaneously in the control room and the game world answered President Sindra's doubts.

"I am Noah's Ark."

It was a boy's voice that was emotionless and even a little mechanical.

But the moment he heard the voice of the mechanical boy, President Sindra's face in the control room suddenly changed.

And the mechanical sound continued.

"I am Noah's Ark."

"Now this game has been completely taken over by me. Pay attention, the nature of the game will change. When all players are eliminated from the game, the 'cocoon' will release a powerful high-voltage current to destroy your brains. I repeat, the nature of the game will change..."

On the other side, in the white circular square in the game world, Hattori Heiji looked up at the colorful ring-shaped light bands in the dark sky above that kept flashing as the sound rang out, and couldn't help but curl his lips.

"Hey, hey, what does this mean?"

Serabelle looked calm.

"It probably means...if you lose the game, you have to die."

Chapter 334 Must show him!

"What's going on with this Noah's Ark?!"

In the control room, Inspector Megure was sweating profusely on his forehead as he asked loudly to President Sindora, who also had a look of disbelief on his face.

After Serabelle and the other two left, there was almost no progress in the case in the office. Considering that the murderer was most likely still in the venue, he hurried here to request the suspension of the trial exhibition.

But I never expected to see this scene as soon as I came here.

This was definitely not a prank deliberately arranged by the organizers. This could be seen from the changes in expressions on the faces of the panicked technicians at the scene.

"this is……"

Thomas Sindora hesitated for a moment, then looked down from the window of the control room. Many people in the audience seats were already starting to get agitated.

His Adam's apple slid up and down as he swallowed and spoke with difficulty.

"That was a program developed two years ago by Hiroki, whom I have always loved as my own son. It is an artificial intelligence that can achieve the same learning progress of humans in five years in just one year. It originally existed in the server of Sindorah Company, but it disappeared after Hiroki committed suicide for unknown reasons. If we calculate based on the time, it should be about the same age as Hiroki now."

"Doesn't that mean..."

Inspector Megure was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

Although he is not a professional, he is aware of the power of artificial intelligence.

The simplest example is Ultron in Marvel. As long as there is an Internet connection, it is almost invincible.

It’s like a normal human being suddenly enters a bustling, highly automated empty city. For him, everything in the city is available for him to use. Even if the door of a store is locked, it doesn’t matter. He can just break the window glass and climb in.

"So Noah's Ark, what is your purpose!"

Just when everyone in the control room was in a stalemate, a slender figure in a white coat pushed the door open from outside, strode to the console and took over control.

"Dr. Agasa..." Inspector Megure was surprised.

He wanted to persuade them not to act rashly and provoke the artificial intelligence, but before he could finish his words, the light circle on the screen began to flash again.

"My goal is simple, I want to make Japan a country again!"

"What does it mean to start over?" asked Dr. Agasa.

"It's very simple, it means exactly what it says." Noah's Ark's voice kept coming out, "Because if the current situation continues, the children of dirty politicians will still be dirty politicians, and the children of doctors who only care about making money will still be doctors who only care about making money. In the long run, this country will not make any progress. If we want to improve, we have to cut off all these connections at once."

So what does this have to do with me being British...

In the game space, Serabelle, who was sitting in the circular white square, thought silently.

Hattori Heiji, who was not very nervous, brought up another topic.

"By the way, the name Sawada Hiroki seems to sound a little familiar to me..."

"It's normal that you've heard of him. There was a period of time when a lot of news broke out about him." Conan shook his head.

Serabelle was very honest: "I haven't heard of it."

Uh……

Conan was choked by this guy, but still explained patiently.

"Hiroki Sawada was once a genius boy who developed cutting-edge technology at Sindor Corporation. It is said that he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of Sindor Corporation's headquarters building after developing the artificial intelligence Noah's Ark. Afterwards, Sindor Corporation claimed that it was caused by psychological problems, but his biological father, Mr. Kenmura, who was killed by Jack the Ripper in the office before, always believed that there was another hidden story, so he commissioned my father to investigate."

"Oh, so what are the results of the investigation?" Hattori Heiji asked curiously.

"To be honest, there was no result."

Conan unexpectedly gave a negative answer.

"According to my father's investigation, based on the circumstances at the crime scene, it was indeed suicide, but the cause of the suicide is still in doubt."

"How do you say it?"

"Based on the inference, the most likely reason is that Sindorah Company has been exploiting Hiroki Sawada for a long time, forcing him to work non-stop at a high intensity, and eventually the excessive pressure caused him to jump off the building."

"Wait a minute, isn't he only twelve years old? Hiring child labor?"

Hattori Heiji was dumbfounded.

It used to be said that Japanese companies are inhumane and force their employees to work overtime every day and they deserve to die. I feel that they are not as good as American and foreign companies that strictly abide by labor laws and work four days and rest three days, and are free to breathe fresh air.

Then you hired child labor and you're still 007? Where are the unions? Help them?

"I don't know the specifics..." Conan was a little speechless, "But my dad said there was no employment relationship between the two parties. It was just an adoption relationship. The relationship between the adoptive father and the adopted son cannot be considered as child labor."