Chapter 33

[Block ZERO]

If ordinary people saw this sentence, they might not think much about it, after all, it has no beginning or end, but the players this time are not ordinary people.

Huang Hun, Kudo Shinichi and Oda Sakunosuke all looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu at the same time. They all remembered that when they first met Amuro Toru, Morobushi Kagemitsu called him "Zero", and isn't Zero ZERO? If this is a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence, so the most likely result is that the ZERO in the notebook refers to Amuro Toru.

Stop Toru Amuro? Stop what? Toru Amuro is the player's guide. If he has a problem, how will the game proceed?

[What happened? What happened? Can someone explain to me why several players are not moving? ]

[Are there any class representatives? Since I watched the live broadcast of this copy, I feel like a single-celled paramecium]

[The class representative is here. I just took a screenshot and enlarged it. There is Morse code on the notebook. The content is: Stop ZERO]

【？ ？ ？ ？ ？ 】

[This ZERO doesn't mean zero, right? ]

[Besides zero, does ZERO have any other meaning here? 】

[I suddenly have a bad feeling. Could it be that Zero here has turned evil? ]

[I thought the players were too good at reasoning this time. If they continued like this, the game would be over very soon. I got it after seeing this message.]

[Don't turn evil, Jingguang is still here. How sad he would be if he saw the evil Zero]

[Is it possible that Zero has discovered important clues about the organization and wants to sacrifice himself to eliminate the organization, so he wants to stop him? ]

[If you have found important clues, why don't you share them with the players? The success rate will be higher with the help of players.]

【Maybe you are not familiar with it yet? 】

[Forget about other players, but how can you say you are not familiar with Jingguang?]

[Everyone, please stop arguing. Apart from Touko's stance, is there anyone who wonders who left the password on the notebook? ]

[Didn’t Touko tell Jingguang before that he had already checked this room?]

[So, the presence of this notebook here is even more suspicious. Since Touzi has checked it, why didn't he find the password on the notebook? ]

[Maybe it was too secretive and no one noticed? ]

[Unless you open the notebook and look carefully, it is indeed difficult to find it. Didn’t Jingguang find it when he checked the room before? ]

[Could it be that the Black side also has a boss, and this is actually a divisive tactic? ]

[If someone on the Black side knew that Bourbon was Zero, wouldn’t Zero be in danger?]

[Toru was called away by phone before, right? She is exposed now, right? 】

【No way, no way! 】

Just as the players and the bullet screen were guessing, there was another knock on the door. Huang Hun quickly closed the notebook in his hand and put it back in place, and stood behind the door in a defensive posture. Oda Sakunosuke also made a similar reaction, and Kudo Shinichi was still brainstorming about the content of the message just now. The rest of Morofushi Kagemitsu was uneasy. After all, this was his room, and the content of the notebook was related to his most cared-about friend.

"Who is it?" Oda Sakunosuke asked.

"Is Guang not here?" The person outside the door paused before speaking. The voice that came from it was the protagonist Zero who had caused their entanglement.

"It's Z...Toru." Morofu Jingguang reacted and wanted to go forward to open the door, but Huang Hun shook his head gently to stop him.

There was no peephole on the door, so they couldn't confirm that the person outside was Toru Amuro who had led them there before. Moreover, after seeing the password on the notebook, they couldn't be completely sure that Toru Amuro was harmless.

"It's Toru." Zhufu Jingguang explained to Huang Hun. He intuitively felt that the person outside the door was his good friend who had left before.

"How can you confirm that?" Oda Sakunosuke asked softly on the other side.

Zhu Fu Jingguang frowned and thought for a moment, then asked outside the door, "What is the hidden life-saving item?"

This time the person outside the door paused longer, but still gave an answer: "Bullet."

Morofushi Jingguang was asking about a police officer who was in danger during his time at the police academy, and how they used their quick wits to save the officer using bullets hidden by the trainees. The answer from the outsider was obviously very correct.

Zhu Fu Jingguang opened the door and saw the familiar blond-haired and dark-skinned young man.

Ling Yi looked at the people blocking the door and asked in confusion, "What happened?"

"For safety's sake, let's check it out." Huang Hun spoke before Zhu Fu Jing Guang, "The blonde lady I met before seemed to be very good at changing her appearance. I think changing her voice shouldn't be difficult here."

"That's true." Ling Yi nodded to confirm Huang Hun's words, and then said, "Can you let me in now?"

Several people gave up their seats, as they were still somewhat suspicious about the contents of the notebook. Huang Hun and Oda Sakunosuke hid it very well and did not show it, while Kudo Shinichi inevitably observed Ling Yi more. As for Morofushi Kagemitsu, people who knew him well could definitely see that he was worried.

Ling Yi walked in and took in the players' reactions. He said, "Don't be too nervous. As long as you don't do anything out of line here, there will be no danger."

"What do you mean by extraordinary things?" Huang Hun asked.

"This is what I'm going to tell you next." Ling Yi looked at them and said, "You are not allowed to enter the underground laboratory. Your activity area is only on the upper floor of the villa."

"Being law-abiding is not the purpose of our presence here, right?" Oda Sakunosuke said again.

Ling Yi did not deny what Oda Sakunosuke said: "I just want to remind you not to act rashly without knowing the situation."

"What you just said, does it include you among those who are not allowed to enter the laboratory?" Huang Hun continued to ask.

Ling Yi paused for a moment and nodded: "My current task is to stay on the upper floor and wait for orders." He knew that the players had many doubts, so without waiting for them to continue asking, he continued, "I went to the laboratory to deliver data to Rum."

"To get to the laboratory, you have to go through three doors. Each door has a password. If the password is wrong, an alarm will be triggered."

"So far, all the people who went to the underground laboratory were led by Gin, and only Gin knew the password."

"I have already introduced Gin to you before. He is the silver-haired guy I met when I walked in today."

"Gin once had a partner, codenamed Vodka, who died in a previous police operation to protect Gin." Ling Yi glanced at Kudo Shinichi, then quickly looked away and continued, "After that, Gin, who was already suspicious, became even more sensitive. If you want to make a breakthrough from Gin, my advice is not to act rashly without being fully prepared."

Ling Yi told them everything he knew at once. After that, he looked at the people who were thinking about something and asked, "Do you have any other questions?"

"I want to know why the police don't just surround this place?" Kudo Shinichi asked his doubts. Since the location has been determined, if they surround this small island, they will be able to break through sooner or later.

"I've said before that this resort is located in a remote area. If a large number of people suddenly come here, the organization will definitely be suspicious." Ling Yi explained, paused for a moment and continued, "Also, the organization has installed explosives here that are enough to destroy the entire resort."

Kudo Shinichi was shocked. In his previous understanding, the Black Organization was just a criminal organization doing illegal experiments. He didn't expect it to be so crazy...

The other players also had serious expressions. Although they were told that they came here to "play games", these people who were good at reasoning could not see that this was actually a real world.

Ling Yi's expression eased a little, and he turned to Zhu Fu Jing Guang and said, "Someone will deliver food to the kitchen here every day, you can use as you like."

"Tou..." Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at his friend. After listening to Ling Yi's explanation, he realized that this mission was more difficult than he had imagined. Every undercover could be sacrificed at any time. He was not afraid of sacrifice, he was just suddenly very worried about his friend's condition, especially after reading the Morse code in the notebook, he had always felt uneasy in his heart.

There was also something that he had overlooked and not thought deeply about before. Since the public security had clashed with the organization many times, many people must have been sacrificed in these conflicts, such as the person in the organization code-named Vodka. This was a member of the organization. So what about the public security side? Who else was sacrificed?

He originally decided to ask Ling Yi where he was carrying out his mission when he saw him again, but now he was at a loss...

He was not afraid of sacrifice, so naturally he was not afraid of facing his own death. What he was afraid of was facing the gazes from his good friends. Just like at this moment, he could not tell how many emotions were contained in the pair of purple-gray eyes that were staring at him. They were as thick as liquid that could not flow, wrapping around him tightly, making it difficult for him to breathe and his heartbeat.

For him, graduation from the police academy was just yesterday. At that time, the five of them gathered together to imagine the future. In their imagination, the future was bright and beautiful, and now he was in one of those futures...

...

On the first night of the game, Morofushi Jingguang couldn't sleep. He sat at the desk, flipping through the notebook he had made during the day. Apart from the cryptic message left in Morse code, there were no other clues in the notebook.

Although there is no evidence, Zhu Fu Jingguang feels that the appearance of this notebook in his room is not a coincidence. If ZERO refers to zero, then who left this message for him?

Morobushi Kagemitsu was thinking when there was a knock on his door. It was a combination of long and short knocks, which was the secret knocking signal set by several players. He walked over to open the door and saw Kudo Shinichi.

"Mr. Rukawa, Gin just left the villa." Kudo Shinichi said suddenly. The players would naturally not miss such a good reconnaissance opportunity at night. After Ling Yi left during the day, they continued to discuss things about the game and the organization.

First of all, they still know too few clues, so the most important thing at the moment is to collect intelligence.

Several people assigned tasks, that is, if Gin left the villa, Huang Hun and Oda Sakunosuke would follow him, while Kudo Shinichi and Morofushi Kagemitsu who stayed behind would be responsible for exploring the villa.

Now is the perfect time to investigate. Morofushi Kagemitsu understood what Kudo Shinichi meant. He put down the notebook in his hand and went out with Kudo Shinichi.

"Was the notebook there before Mr. Rukawa entered the room?" Kudo Shinichi suddenly asked about the notebook.

Morofushi Kagemitsu nodded, and Kudo Shinichi asked again: "Then did Mr. Rukawa ask who lived in that room before? Or who entered it?"

"I didn't find any signs that anyone else had lived in the room." Morobushi Kagemitsu said. Although there were daily necessities in the room, they were all brand new. He guessed that Zero knew he would come, so he prepared them for him. But that notebook didn't look like something Zero himself would leave behind, right?

【Has anyone figured out who put that notebook there? 】

[Let me make a bold guess. Based on the contents of the notebook, we can first rule out Toruko himself. As for the rest, I think that sentence is not hostile. "Stop ZERO" seems to be stopping Toruko from doing something. The person who would say this should be the Red Team, or at least someone who has a good relationship with Toruko and cares about him.]

[Does the person in front refer to other undercover agents in the organization? ]

[The timeline of this instance is quite late. Besides Touzi, who else is the undercover agent in the organization? ]

[Akai Shuichi has already been exposed, so the only one left with a code name is Keel]

【Could it be that Keel did it? 】

[Let’s wait and see who will show up next. Maybe a new undercover member has joined the organization.]

Like the bullet screen, Morofushi Kagemitsu and Kudo Shinichi, who were in the game, could not figure out who put the notebook there for the time being. The two avoided the surveillance in the public area and came to the door of Gin's room.

Although Ling Yi had told them to be cautious with Gin before, Gin was obviously an important member of the organization. If they wanted to complete the game mission, they would have to face Gin sooner or later, so they might as well take advantage of this time when Gin leaves the villa and investigate first.

Kudo Shinichi took out a handkerchief and placed it on the door handle, then tried to open the door, only to find that it was locked.

Gin's room is on the first floor, close to the entrance to the underground laboratory. In addition to the door, they can also choose to enter through the window outside, but the surveillance coverage outside the villa is wider. If they go out, they are likely to be photographed, so after comprehensive consideration, they might as well find a way to pry open the door lock in front of them.

Kudo Shinichi took out the thin wire he had prepared in advance, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he remembered that the person next to him was a police officer: "Mr. Rukawa, can you open the lock?"

Morobushi Kagemitsu did not answer, but stared at Kudo Shinichi, who was very skilled in his movements, and asked: "Are you really just a high school detective?"

Kudo Shinichi: “…………”

[Hahahaha, detective, why do you have to be so skilled in your movements? ]

[To be honest, normal high school students are definitely not like this]

[I think compared to other boys’ comics, Shinichi is pretty normal]

[Is it normal that crimes happen wherever you go? 】