Chapter 1 Preface (revised) Scottish Fold cat?

swill.

Turbid air.

Rotten food.

A plastic bag soaked in an unknown liquid.

A discarded, dirty doll.

And there was Lin Xi who fell in the center of all this.

She opened her eyes drowsily and was irritated by the strong smell and began to gag.

His body curled up due to a physiological reaction. Lin Xi didn't know where he got the strength from, but he staggered to his feet and climbed out of the pile of garbage.

Ah, what a terrible taste...

There was also liquid on her body. Lin Xi felt that it should be the soup that came out after the food rotted and fermented... She walked a little further away, wiped away the physiological tears that flowed out due to dry retching, and observed this place.

Beneath the brick walls, the garbage brought here was piled up, and the stench rising from it could only drive people away, but it could not drive away the hungry animals.

Because of her action, several huge black rats rushed out from the garbage dump and crawled out through the hole in the brick wall.

Lin Xi: “…”

For a moment, the fear of infectious diseases and germs made her shudder.

But more important than fear and nausea was that she had to figure out what was happening to her.

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Lin Xi comes from China in the 21st century and is an ordinary female undergraduate student.

One night, while staying up late to review, he died suddenly and traveled to this... comic world?

Lin Xi looked at the floating blocks of color and lines around him and thought uncertainly.

She began to check her physical condition.

There were several bruises and shallow scratches on his arms and legs, probably from the fall just now.

She was wearing a pink pajamas, and no one knew where the slippers on her feet flew away when she fell. Lin Xi didn't want to go back to the pile of garbage to look for them.

So now she was only wearing cotton socks on her feet, and the white cotton socks were completely soaked with dirty water and stuck to her feet.

She found a cell phone and a key in her pajama pocket.

The phone was a flip phone from twenty years ago, with a cartoon cat sticker on the lid. Lin Xi opened it. No new messages, no contacts, no message or call logs—it was completely blank, as if programmed.

The key should be the key to her residence.

She was eager to get back to the warm room, take a good shower to wash off the dirty smell on her body, and then change into dry clothes.

However, she only had the key but not the address.

She had no idea where her house was.

…What kind of unlucky person would have a key but not know where his home is!

There must be something wrong with the way she landed!

When she was feeling depressed, there was a rustling sound coming from the garbage dump not far away.

At first, Lin Xi thought it was another mouse and looked in that direction vigilantly.

If any of those rats got close to her, ran over her feet... she'd blow the whole place up.

However, after waiting for a long time, no big black rat came out. Only a light brown head moved slowly and laboriously in the garbage heap.

Lin Xi blinked, and it took him a long time to realize that it was a person.

The person was wearing a white coat - now it had turned into a brown, yellow and black floral coat, the same as her cotton socks.

Colors belonging to humans sway in a pile of color blocks.

Lin Xi began to feel conflicted.

Is she going to help her?

Pick her up from the garbage dump?

This is not a pair of slippers that can be thrown away without any care, this is a person, a living person, like a child.

Most importantly, maybe she could tell her where this place is...

While she was struggling, the brown head looked up.

Lin Xi saw two pieces of blue.

It’s a very beautiful blue, not dark blue, but aqua blue, clear, clean and bright, as if two gems were accidentally left at the end of the world where no one cares.

Lin Xi thought that the cartoonist must have a special preference for her, which is why he used so much words to describe her.

She likes blue.

A light screen suddenly popped up in front of Lin Xi's eyes, dazzling him and blocking the blue color.

Lin Xi frowned.

"Initializing... Initialization completed"

"It has been detected that you have no saved game, and a new game has been automatically opened"

『Story loading...Generation completed』

『…』

"Player 004753, welcome to the Conan remake."

"Please use your imagination to complete the plot and create your own story."

『…』

"It has been detected that you have come into contact with a key plot character."

"The story mission has been updated, please go to the mission system to check."

『Unfinished』

Sulli's Defection

"Shiho Miyano, codenamed Shirley, learned of her sister's murder and protested by halting research on APTX4869. As a result, she was imprisoned in a gas chamber by the organization."

"Desperate, she took the hidden APTX4869 and attempted suicide, but unexpectedly, the drug's side effects triggered her body, shrinking and allowing her to break free from the handcuffs. She escaped through the waste passage... and she saw Lin Xi."

Option A: Send Shirley to Kudo Shin's family and leave her in the care of Professor Agasa, who lives next door to Kudo's house. Expected experience points: 2000.

"Reference Option B: Hand Shirley over to the organization. Expected to receive +1 Special Character Card and 10,000 Experience Points."

"Players are welcome to explore more options on their own."

...What a mess.

Lin Xi turned off the light curtain, walked over, and picked up the little girl like a cat.

The brown head drooped limply, as if in some discomfort, and struggled with a weak breath.

She thought about it, changed to a more appropriate position, and picked up the little girl.

Her brown hair rested on the crook of her neck. Lin Xi weighed the girl and found that she was even thinner than she looked.

So her name is Miyano Shiho.

She traveled into Conan's comics.

She is 004753...a gamer.

Before traveling through time, Lin Xi had not watched much of Conan and only had a general impression of its general plot.

But she did remember this little girl, her name seemed to be Ai, who had been being hunted by someone.

Why are you hunting down such a cute girl?

It must be their fault.

“Where is my apartment?” she asked. “You gave me the key, but I don’t know the address.”

"Your initial house address is marked on the map."

"Do you want to start navigation?"

"Open."

A blue arrow appeared on the color block on the ground.

Lin Xi, wearing cotton socks, walked over the dirt on the road with an expressionless face, holding the girl in his arms and started walking.

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Miyano Shiho has no strength left.

She took the APTX4869 capsules she made herself, endured the severe pain caused by her body shrinking, and crawled out of the waste passage of the organization's base to walk here. It had already exhausted all her strength.

Lying in the filthy garbage, she felt her body alternately hot and cold.

She knew she had a fever.

Her vision went black. Soon she would die, rotting here like this pile of garbage...

The face that always had a gentle smile on it came to mind again.

Soon it flashed into another playful face.

Miyano Shiho's head started to hurt.

What if I managed to escape from the organization today?

She no longer has a home.

Hearing a noise in front, Miyano Shiho forced herself to open her eyes.

She saw a pair of caramel eyes.

Very warm tones.

Maybe people really go to heaven after death, otherwise it would be hard to explain why we can see such beautiful things in this place full of garbage and rats.

Miyano Shiho felt extremely exhausted and passed out.

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Taking care of the child was easier than Lin Xi had imagined.

He bathed her, changed her clothes, blew her hair, pinched her chin and poured fever-reducing medicine into her mouth, put her on the bed, and used the ice in the refrigerator to make a simple ice pack to cool her down physically.

The child was as well-behaved as a doll throughout the whole process - well, it might also be because she was unconscious.

She also changed into clean clothes and sat in the living room to study the system.

The system includes a SAVE/LOAD (save/load) interface, map function, character introduction, backpack, plot panel and skill tree interface.

Players can gain experience points by completing story missions, and experience points can be exchanged for points to upgrade skills.

It’s just that the skills on the skill tree are not very serious.

Lin Xi looked at the skills on the panel, including bomb disposal, sniping, disguise, concealment, combat, reconnaissance, toxicology, etc., and fell into deep thought.

Is this some kind of agent/killer simulator?!

We don’t use these things in daily life, right?

However, she took a look at the game icon "Detective Conan: Story Remake" in the upper right corner and felt relieved.

So it’s the world of science, then everything is fine.

Although he didn't remember the general plot, Lin Xi knew that people died every day in this comic.

The ways of death are varied, and the motives for murder are also bizarre, which is why it has been serialized for such a long time - every death represents another chapter written by the author.

A map is a top-down plan with many moving dots on it, most of which are gray dots, a few are blue, and there are also red and green dots.

Haibara Ai's is blue.

Lin Xi guessed that the gray ones were ordinary NPCs, the other colors were plot characters, and blue, red, and green represented neutrality, evil, and justice respectively.

She tried clicking on these points, but except for Haibara Ai's, which could be clicked and jumped to the character entry, the others had no response.

She guessed that these points would only be opened when she met these people.

A backpack is storage space.

Lin Xi tried to put the fruit knife she took from the kitchen in. With a slight thought, the knife disappeared in her hand.

A very handy ability. If she wanted to, she could hide and conjure things like a magician.

She should test the size of the system backpack and the limits of what it could hold.

For example, a house...can something this big be put in it?

There were many character entries in the character introduction, but they were all grayed out and unavailable for viewing. Only the top one was lit up, and it was Miyano Shiho.

『Miyano Shiho』

"Formerly a member of the Black Organization, codenamed Shirley. Has defected."

"A genius with level 5 biochemical skills. If you have any ideas, tell her—she can make any medicine."

Lin Xi believed this. After all, if someone could invent a drug that violated the laws of physics, what else could he be but a genius?

As for the story missions...

It's presented in a vertical table, with "Sulli's Defection" highlighted at the bottom. Before it are many story missions, but they're all grayed out, with no descriptions, just the names with special characters.

■■'s birth, ■■'s long-cherished wish, ■■■■...

Lin Xi tried clicking it, and the system popped up a prompt:

"The prerequisites are not met and the plot node cannot be entered."

It seems that she still needs to continue to advance the plot to unlock more tasks.

After studying the system, Lin Xi returned to the bedroom and changed the ice pack for Miyano Shiho.

The brown hair was wet with water droplets from the melted ice pack and stuck to the forehead.

Lin Xi looked at her for a while and felt deeply sorry.

She still thought her eyes were the most beautiful, but unfortunately the man was completely asleep and couldn't open his eyes.

But sleeping soundly is not without its benefits.

You can let her check her bedroom without worrying about anything strange being discovered.

There was a calendar on the table. It was turned to April 2005.

Did I travel back to the 2000s? No wonder I'm using a flip phone.

She opened the drawer.

A pistol came into view.

Lin Xi: “……?”

Is this something the system prepared for her? How thoughtful.

The problem is that she doesn't know how to use it!

Upgrading guns requires skill points, and she is currently at level 0—there is a system note next to it: You know nothing about guns, and a gun in your hands will only hurt your teammates.

She tossed the gun into her system backpack.

In another drawer were her passport, bank cards, and a student ID.

The student ID card has her name and school on it.

Touto University

『Name: Lin Xi』

『Affiliated institution: College of Arts, College of Students』

Major: Fine Arts

Grade: 2003

Lin Xi: “……?”

"Why do I still need to go to school?" she asked the system. "Is this also part of the mission?"

The system didn't answer her.

Lin Xi put her student ID back into the drawer.

The rest of the items are very ordinary, all daily necessities for women.

Apart from that, there was nothing in the room that belonged to her personally.

Lin Xi stood there in a daze for a while.

What should I do now?

The dirty clothes were washed and hung out to dry...the soiled floor was mopped, and the refrigerator was filled with the fresh fruits and vegetables she had bought.

The children's clothes are also ready.

Everything is done.

Lin Xi stood in the empty living room and suddenly felt that the surroundings were a little too quiet.

She realized she was alone in a completely unfamiliar place. Even the dimensions of this place were different from what she was used to. Everywhere she looked, there were flat lines and blocks of color...

The same is true for people. Most people's faces look the same, with the same curve of smile. Only a few people, like Miyano Shiho, have unique facial features that Lin Xi can recognize.

She dropped her eyelids.

Judging from the time, her father and mother should have discovered her body.

Her funeral will be solemn.

Her parents will choose cremation and her ashes will be buried under a blue or black tombstone.

Not long after his death, Lin Xi began to miss the feeling of sunlight on his body and the fragrance of wisteria flowers.

Lin Xi sighed.

She really doesn't like places that are too quiet.

...Luckily she's not the only one here.

Lin Xi stood up and opened the bedroom door.

The warm and moist breathing sound was particularly clear in the quiet environment. Lin Xi narrowed her eyes slightly and observed the person on the bed from a distance.

Brown hair is not a common hair color for Japanese people, but this is the second dimension, so it is understandable.

There's still a gap between the proportions of comic characters and real people. A seven or eight-year-old girl should have grown to an adult's waist, but Lin Xi saw that Miyano Shiho was still so small, curled up in the off-white quilt, like...

Lin Xi tilted his head.

...Scandalous Scottish Fold cat?

"elder sister……"

The girl in her sleep twitched and made a crying sound.

Lin Xi came over and checked her condition.

The fever is going away, which is a good thing.

Now I'm crying... Are you having a nightmare?

"Sister, don't go..."

He held her hand while dreaming.

Sick people are very fragile and need company - looking at the little girl's tear-stained face, these words flashed through Lin Xi's mind.

She thought for a moment and said, "Don't be afraid."

Seeing that the little girl still refused to let go of her hand, she added: "I won't leave."

She really didn't pull her hand away, and let the little girl hold it comfortably.

The little girl in the dream seemed to calm down a little, and her breathing became steady again.

Lin Xi felt his hand being grabbed and was surprised to find that the paper man also had temperature.

There is warmth, heartbeat and life.

Her curiosity was suddenly aroused, and the hand in the girl's palm slowly moved up and held her neck.

The blood vessels trembled warmly under the skin, transmitting waves of heat.

...is alive.

How to describe this feeling?

It's like a trembling ribbon suddenly appears in a black and white world. After grasping this ribbon, the color is transmitted to the entire world with resonance.

Then everything began to come alive.

Lin Xi's expression kept changing, eventually blending into an amazement at life.

...That's really interesting.

I wonder if after cutting open this layer of skin, blood, bones and heart will be revealed beneath these lines and blocks of color?

She licked her lips.

Her grip tightened so much that the girl beneath her palm moaned.

Lin Xi quickly let go of his hand.

Sick people are very fragile. If you exert even a little force, you might die.

Don't use too much force. Be gentle...

He tentatively reached out his hand again and pinched the girl's face.

...so soft.

Just then, a system prompt popped up.

The tasks in the plot have become completed.