Chapter 1004 Chapter 1012 [Being Targeted] (Monthly Ticket Plus)
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko have been very concerned about this for a long time.
It's just that before that they were just following the plot and didn't get the chance to ask questions.
At this time, it was finally time for players to communicate, and the two of them suddenly became curious.
When Haibara Ai heard this, she came back to her senses and turned to look at Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran.
The two looked at each other, and Suzuki Sonoko said "Hmm?" and blurted out: "You look like that little girl named 'Ai'!"
Mao Lilan nodded slightly, feeling the same way.
Kudo Shinichi looked at the three girls and felt anxious: If the fact that "Haihara Ai = Miyano Shiho" was exposed and Xiaolan realized that "children can switch between adults", then he...
…
Next to him, Hattori Heiji had already vaguely guessed Haibara Ai's identity and was also aware of it.
The image of Mouri Ran kicking the door open appeared in his mind, and when he looked at Kudo Shinichi, his eyes were filled with sympathy.
Jiang Xia looked around and was quietly eating melon, but suddenly he noticed that Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko's gazes had shifted away from Haibara Ai and fell on him.
Jiang Xia was stunned for a moment, then he understood the reason.
——Haihara Ai was standing closest to him, and from the perspectives of Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, she seemed like someone he knew.
“…”
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xia followed Suzuki Sonoko's previous guess and said under Kudo Shinichi's frantic prayerful gaze:
"This is Ai."
After a pause, he glanced at everyone's wonderful expressions, and then he continued the second half of the sentence in a natural tone: "My cousin - Miss Miyano."
Huiyuan Ai: “…”
Just now, although she was puzzled as to why Jiang Xia wanted to expose the fact that "adults can become small", she thought that maybe he had his reasons... So Haibara Ai was thinking about how to put the blame for APTX4869 on Dr. Agasa without involving the organization as much as possible.
But at this moment, hearing Jiang Xia's tone change, she could only swallow back her original lines.
Huihara Ai cleared her throat unnaturally, nodded to the two girls, and slightly changed her voice: "Hello, it's our first meeting."
"Hello." Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko also nodded at her and were successfully fooled.
Even if they are the same person, there are many differences between the appearance of a child and an adult. In fact, if Haibara Ai and "Ms. Miyano" did not have the same hairstyle, they would not immediately associate the two people together.
Now, with the explanation of "relatives", everything suddenly makes sense.
In addition, they are currently in the middle of a "tense game where their lives are at stake", so Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki's attention has finally been successfully diverted and they have begun to think about this game.
…
In a corner where they couldn't see him, Kudo Shinichi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Jiang Xia and Huibara Ai with gratitude.
He was really afraid that Xiaolan would get excited and punch him out...
"Let's sort out the existing information." Jiang Xia thought of the case that Kudo generously brought up, and kindly helped him change the subject:
"Sakuragi-senpai's last few words didn't sound like they were spoken by a simple 'senior' or 'president of the Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society'. Instead, they sounded like the tone of a higher-level game administrator announcing the rules."
Hattori Heiji also played a lot of games, and he quickly caught up with the idea and nodded:
"From what she said, the way to clear the game, or our final mission, is to solve the mystery of the 'Seventh Wonder', gather all members in the activity room of this 'Mystery Research Society' and announce the truth.
"In addition, the culprit behind the 'Seventh Wonder' is not some mysterious phenomenon, but a mastermind with a certain purpose. So after solving the mystery, we still have to bring evidence and reasoning, and even the criminal, to the police to arrest him."
…
Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door of the activity room.
Several people were startled and suddenly turned to look at the door.
Then Sakurai Ruriko came back again.
She patted her forehead, took out a book and a disk from her bag, and placed them on the table with a "duang" sound. The ground around the table shook.
—The book was incredibly thick, like a pile of bricks. There was a seam along the spine, like it was made of several magazines bound together.
"I almost forgot. This is the bound volume of our 'Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society's' annual reports." Sakurai Ruriko tapped the cover of the book. "All the thirty years are here. I found it with great difficulty in the library. It may contain the key to solving the mystery."
Then, she pointed to the disk next to her:
"Here is the information related to the 'Seven Wonders of the Campus'. Unfortunately, there are only detailed descriptions of the first six wonders. However, as legends from the same series, they may be able to help us solve the 'Seventh Wonder'."
Sakurai Ruriko finished speaking, raised her head and smiled at them:
"I may be very busy these days and won't be able to take care of these things for the time being. Please leave the information in the activity room for everyone to read together. This is very valuable information, please don't take it out of the activity room casually."
…
The senior student came back like a gust of wind, threw down a pile of "turnarounds", and floated away like the wind again.
"..." Jiang Xia touched the huge bound volume and looked at the six people present. "Five books per person, can you find time to finish reading them?"
The others nodded.
Jiang Xia looked around, opened the bookcase, took out a paper cutter, and planned to open the seams.
The sharp blade slid down, and the stitches did not move at all, but instead made a "crackling" sound - a static electricity suddenly appeared on the blade.
“…”
Jiang Xia vaguely understood something and tried to poke again.
The line was still not opened, and there was another static electricity, and the previous scene was repeated exactly.
Huibara Ai was closest to him, and saw clearly that the blade was blocked by the stitches. She frowned and said, "There's no way to open it... It seems that Sakura's words 'precious information' not only restrict us from taking the book out of the activity room, but also restrict us from browsing it in a divided way."
"So that static electricity is a punishment for destroying the data?" Hattori Heiji was stunned. He recalled the two tiny static electricity just now, and touched his hair which still smelled a little burnt. His eyes jumped, "... Is this game targeting me?!"
Kudo Shinichi made a quick comparison and quickly thought of a reasonable reason. He shook his head:
"I remember that you were struck by lightning just now because you 'destroyed the worldview' - calling the teacher 'NPC' while trying to make moves on him to extract information, you really don't act like a sane student.
"Although the action of 'tearing apart the bound volume' may make the senior unhappy, it is indeed a choice that many people would make - the seams are not part of the material, and they can be rebound after being torn apart. This should just be a common reminder."
Thanks to sperm whale for the reward
(End of this chapter)
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