Chapter 964 The person chosen by the game asks for a monthly ticketヽ(〃〃)~
"??!"
Conan's heart, which had just been put at ease, suddenly grew heavier again.
He turned his head sharply to look at the dashboard. The little remaining fuel on it made his eyes go dark. He couldn't help but shout in the strong wind: "Are you an undercover sent by Moriarty? This is worse than the train just now. With you, we might be able to break the hook!"
Beside him, "Hideki Moroboshi" moved uncomfortably. Fortunately, in the violently bumpy car, this slight movement was not noticeable.
"That car doesn't use a James-style coupler or a simple hook, but a more advanced fully automatic close-jointed coupler. It's hard to disengage under continuous acceleration, and the joints seem to have been welded shut." Jiang Xia sounded quite calm, like an optimistic salesman. "So why don't you get on my car? Although we can't brake either, we don't have to move along the tracks, so we have a wider range of movement and can find more opportunities."
"Hideki Moroboshi" silently looked at the dazzling hood of the car: "..." Shouldn't the car be made so gorgeous? The psychic master looked very fond of it and wanted to drive it for a while longer. He would not let it go to dungeons often in the future...
…
Next to him, Conan, who is also always optimistic, was actually somewhat convinced after hearing what Jiang Xia said.
Moreover, their interactions all along had left him with the impression that Jiang Xia was very reliable.
At this time, seeing that Jiang Xia was not panicking at all, Conan quickly calmed down and asked suspiciously: "Do you have a solution?"
"On my way here, I passed through a town. Guess what I found?" Jiang Xia looked at the mist in the distance. "A cotton textile factory - and their warehouse happened to be broken."
Before, Noah was busy having fun in the "Jack the Ripper" copy, and Jiang Xia was busy packing Sindorah outside. Both administrators didn't pay much attention to "Jiang Xia" who was driving an automatic driving in the "Paris Dakar Off-Road Race" next door.
This game, in general, is still designed for children, and Noah didn't pay much attention to other copies and did not specifically tamper with the difficulty.
So just now, when Jiang Xia came back from his work, he took a look as he passed by and suddenly found that the "real body" that was driving automatically was about to pass the level without any damage.
"..."Such a dull clearance is too boring, like a plain background board.
If you're going to win, do it in a heroic way. Even if you're just a background player, you have to be the most exciting one. By the way, in order to be able to naturally bring in people who are interested in Jiang Xia to play in the future, the one who survives the game to the end in this game should be "Edogawa Conan".
In this way, next time Conan sees someone being pulled into the copy, he won’t immediately think “there’s something wrong with Jiang Xia” and then run to expose the innocent neighbor’s identity. Instead, he will think “the bastard AI is randomly pulling someone around me in again”... And compared to Jiang Xia’s complicated background of having multiple relationships at the same time, Conan, the righteous detective with a red heart, can take the heaviest blame.
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“A-choo!”
Conan suddenly sneezed.
He rubbed his nose and didn't take it too seriously. He just thought that the game was quite realistic - it was normal to sneeze when the wind was blowing in the convertible sports car and it was too cold.
The golden sports car carrying three people drove along the gravel road and quickly rushed towards a cliff.
Below the cliff, a town lay quietly. It was late at night, most of the lights were off, and the moonlight quietly fell, illuminating a large white area.
——It was the cotton piled up in the factory backyard, which had been fluffed up from cotton balls. And there was much more of it than usual, a large pile of it, like a huge cushion.
"Time is running out, are you ready?" Jiang Xia's heavy voice came.
Conan looked at the rapidly approaching cliff: "Actually not yet..."
However, the cotton bed below does look very chewy. Maybe this is the correct way to pass the level.
And there is no other way for the time being. I can't really go back to that train.
"Forget it... come on!" Conan gritted his teeth and went for it.
The next second, Jiang Xia reached across and picked him up, then threw him and "Hideki Moroboshi" out.
“Aaaaaaaaa——!!!”
Following inertia, the two children shot obliquely towards the center of the "cotton bed" like two cannonballs. Jiang Xia calculated the angle and timing just right.
The cliff is not too high.
The two men dived into the fluffy cotton pile one after another. The moment they landed, a muffled explosion sounded from the sky, and the golden sports car exploded like a brilliant firework celebrating victory.
The game is over.
Noah cut off the connection with the control room and stopped projecting the screen.
Next, it’s time to whisper to the fixed players.
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Even though there was something cushioning his body, the extremely tense mood when he finally rushed to the ground, and the difference between the sudden fall and the slow stop, still made Conan dizzy and he didn't know where he was for a while.
After a while, he slowly came to his senses, pressed his throbbing head and opened his eyes. Suddenly he found that the scene around him had changed.
——He left London at the end of the 19th century and appeared on a circular platform.
This is where you choose the copy at the beginning.
“……”The game is completed.
…
The five stone doors around it have been completely closed.
A beam of pale white light shone down from above, illuminating him and a person next to him.
Conan suddenly sat up and looked at "Hideki Moroboshi" next to him - they were the two players who survived to the end.
"Hideki Moroboshi" stood quietly by, tearing off the excess cotton from his blazer and throwing it aside in a ball.
When he found Conan was awake, he looked at Conan and smiled: "It seems you won."
Conan was stunned for a moment after hearing these words with a strange stance.
After a moment, all the previous details and doubts replayed in his mind like a close-up in a movie - "Hideki Moroboshi" was the first to notice the backward clock; other children were very interested in the old football in Holmes's house, but "Hideki Moroboshi" disliked it because it was dirty and ruthlessly threw it away; it was obviously a game of life and death, even Yuanta was honest, but "Hideki Moroboshi" was reckless enough to threaten "Colonel Moran" head-on.
Conan suddenly realized that the player who had been with him to the end was not "Hideki Moroboshi" at all.
…but the “Noah” who had saved them from certain death and threatened to electrocute their brains.
“…”
Conan was silent for a moment, then smiled with a complicated meaning: "...Thank you, we had a lot of fun."
…This is a lie, I’m not happy at all.
Especially the moment when I found myself transferred from the death train to the death sports car. Even though the matter was resolved perfectly in the end, the psychological shadow of the ups and downs at that time was still there.
However, there is no need to tell the AI behind these twists and turns.
(End of this chapter)
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