Chapter 954 Is Moriarty a good person?
As soon as I stepped onto the stone street outside, I suddenly heard footsteps in the alley next to me.
The three remaining players and an AI traitor turned their heads and saw a man dressed in black, wearing a black robe and covering his face with an ornate half-face mask. The man had a dagger on his waist and was walking by in a high-profile manner.
——It was the first NPC they saw after entering this dungeon.
"It's Jack the Ripper!"
Conan loudly reminded his teammates.
Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan took advantage of the momentum to stand still, and kicked sideways. Her slender and powerful legs swept through with a sound of breaking through the air, kicking accurately in the path of Jack the Ripper.
——When I first entered the game, Conan was the only one who saw Jack the Ripper face to face. But others saw Jack the Ripper's back from afar when he left. The black robe fluttering in the wind and the top hat he wore even when running away were really impressive.
…
He was running on the road, and suddenly someone tried to kick him. However, "Jack the Ripper" who was passing by was not surprised.
At the moment of close combat with Mao Lilan, he suddenly flipped sideways and passed over Mao Lilan. His black robe fluttered in the air, and he held down the hat on his head and landed lightly on the ground, like a black bird.
After that, Bomber Jack didn't hesitate for a second and continued running forward without stopping. It was a short and hasty fight, but it looked like a performance that had been rehearsed several times in advance.
Suzuki Sonoko was the last one to run out of the theater. She looked up breathlessly and caught a glimpse of the agile Mao Lilan and the lower half of Jack the Ripper's face that was not covered by the mask. Her eyes lit up and she shouted, "I want this scene too!"
As he spoke, he did not forget to pick up a lamp that had fallen at his feet, and threw it at "Jack the Ripper" with a "whoosh". He made a meager effort as a weakling in combat, trying to stop the villain who decided their fate.
Matsuda Jinpei lowered his head and dodged: "..." Little girls nowadays have a really good mentality.
However, on second thought, the number of corpses that Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran saw on a daily basis, and the number of times they encountered desperate criminals, were almost more than that of a police officer like him who graduated from a serious police academy... Matsuda Jinpei suddenly felt that "this is normal".
He dodged the things that the players behind him were chasing and smashing, listened carefully to the footsteps behind him, and ran along the narrow alley at a speed that "the players can see him but can never catch up with him", sometimes fast and sometimes slow, rushing towards the "Charlie Cross Station" in the distance.
I have the impression that, according to the script, this will be the final climax of the entire copy.
——Players will have the final battle with "Jack the Ripper" on a high-speed train.
If the player can find the hidden "Jack the Ripper" from among the many passengers, uncover his motives and identity for murder, and finally survive to the end, the player will successfully pass the level.
Otherwise, the entire copy will fail.
…
As the players were desperately chasing him, "Jack the Ripper" took them for a stroll along the streets and alleys around the theater, meaning to "shake off" the people behind him.
Finding that he could not get rid of it, Jack the Ripper paid attention to the time and rushed into "Charlie Cross Station" at the moment when the last steam train departed and boarded the train that had already started moving.
The players arrived a little later than him.
As it rushed onto the platform, the old train was spewing steam and had already accumulated considerable speed.
Conan and "Hideki Moroboshi" quickly chased to the side of the train, gritted their teeth and ran at a speed relatively to the stationary train, and jumped onto the hook between the two carriages without any danger.
Mao Lilan also jumped up and turned around to pull Suzuki Sonoko up.
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Suzuki Sonoko wore an evening dress today.
When they logged into the game, the game cabin seemed to scan their appearance data and reproduced their real-life appearance one-to-one, including the pair of high-heeled shoes under Suzuki Sonoko's feet.
Suzuki Sonoko ran the slowest, but didn't want to fall behind. At the last moment when the train was speeding up, she suddenly had an idea. She jumped up with a scream, and with a strong desire to survive, she grabbed the protruding handrail at the end of the carriage.
"Hideki Moroboshi" stepped on the hook and turned her head to take a look.
Thinking of the difficulty of the level that will be set later, and the number of players that should be present in the last level, the emotionless AI's eyes moved secretly.
The next moment, Suzuki Sonoko's palm suddenly slipped - the inside of the shiny handrail had grown moss without her knowing. The moment she lost her grip on the handrail and was forced to slide away, the train accelerated completely. With a whistle sound, it sped away along the track.
“Aaaaaaaa——!”
Ran Mouri stretched out her hand but grabbed nothing. Suzuki Sonoko was blown in the face by the sudden strong wind, like a voice poster caught in the wind, howling and drifting backwards.
Before she fell to the ground, a figure walked out from the awning next to the platform, raised his hand, and caught her.
…
The train, having completed the speed increase, clanged forward and left Charlie Cross station at a speed that was unbelievable for a steam locomotive.
Mao Lilan, Conan and "Hideki Moroboshi" stepped on the solid hook between the two carriages. They faced the strong wind, looked at each other for a moment, and finally retracted their gaze, opened the door next to them, and entered the carriage.
They had been losing teammates all the time along the way, especially at the poker club, where more than half of the team members had gone in to meet Moriarty.
By now, the companions who were temporarily eliminated have become the fighting spirit of the remaining people.
And, on the bright side, maybe Suzuki Sonoko is not out yet...
"Sonoko is with Professor Moriarty. If we split up into two groups, we might have a better chance of winning." Mao Lilan tried to think optimistically. "Although we can't be sure that the professor is the 'helper' in this copy, we can't say that he is not. I always feel that he is actually quite good..."
Conan reluctantly responded, but his heart felt heavy.
——Looking out from this car, you can’t see the huge “reverse clock” in the city, and naturally you can’t confirm the number of survivors in the current copy.
But in short, he felt that he could not be optimistic about the fact that "Moriarty would continue to help."
Come to think of it, when they escaped from the opera house just now, Moriarty stayed in the VIP seats leisurely. This may not only be because he "wanted to watch the audience struggle in the explosion", but at that time, he did not think that the box he was in was in danger.
Subsequent events also proved this point.
Most other places were bombed into ruins, but Professor Moriarty's place was "safe" and not even a drop of wine in the glass was spilled.
(End of this chapter)
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