Chapter 955 Yuanzi, Rest in Peace
Conan also recalled the scene at Charlie Cross Station just now.
——When "Professor Moriarty" appeared next to Suzuki Sonoko, he was dressed neatly, with not a speck of dust on his face. One could imagine him leisurely leaving the theater along the pre-set safe passage while the players were chasing "Jack the Ripper" all over the street.
Conan: "..." This shows that the situation between "Professor Moriarty" and "Jack the Ripper" is not "out of control" as Moriarty himself said.
On the contrary, Jack the Ripper knew the location of Moriarty's box and deliberately avoided it when placing the bomb.
When Professor Moriarty left the theater, he also knew the best way to go through the theater that had been bombed into a mess... These two people must still be in touch, they are actually in the same group!
In other words, if Moriarty really wanted to help them catch Jack the Ripper, there would be no need to create this scene.
Conan's heart sank - thinking the worst, maybe "Professor Moriarty" didn't like them, the "Baker Street Guerrillas" under Sherlock Holmes, so he deliberately designed today's drama so that Jack the Ripper could kill these people.
Even if we think in a better way, Professor Moriarty does not want "Jack the Ripper" to get out of control, so he plans to use the players to destroy both parties.
In short, the player must die.
Conan: "..." Under such circumstances, Suzuki Sonoko fell into Moriarty's hands...
He sighed inwardly and silently put Suzuki into the group of "Rest in peace for now, we will definitely complete the game!"
…
The only three remaining players, or rather two players and a "Hideki Moroboshi", entered the carriage and walked along the corridor of the box, secretly looking for "Jack the Ripper" who had mixed into the crowd.
I didn't see any suspicious people along the way, but I did meet the train conductor.
Mao Lilan approached and tried to get help from the NPC:
"Jack the Ripper attacked the theater just now. We chased him all the way here and found him on this train. Have you seen him? His outfit is easy to identify - he is dressed in black, with a black robe behind him, a hat of the same color, and a half-face mask."
"Jack the Ripper got on our train? When?" The conductor panicked when he heard this. He paced back and forth anxiously, and suddenly turned to the player and asked, "What should we do?"
Conan hadn't heard such a request for help for a long time, and he immediately perked up and gave a skillful command:
"Jack the Ripper's outfit is very recognizable. But we haven't seen anyone like him on the train along the way. Since you haven't seen him either, he may have disguised himself and blended in with other passengers. Please gather all the passengers in one car, and we will be responsible for finding him!"
The train conductor nodded heavily and became one of the few obedient NPCs in this copy.
He called to the conductor and they all ran out the door.
…
Soon, the passengers who were sitting in various places gathered in the same carriage - "Jack the Ripper" was a notorious villain in this world. When the passengers heard that the murderer had sneaked into the train, they immediately became very cooperative, hoping to catch him as soon as possible, so as not to become the dead souls under the knife inexplicably before arriving at the next station.
The conductor stood at the end of the carriage, looking at the passengers sitting on the seats on both sides, with three real and fake players next to them.
He remembered the method Conan had just provided, and said to the passengers: "Please stretch out your hands and raise them in front of you like me - we need to confirm that you are not carrying any weapons."
"Jack the Ripper" Jinpei Matsuda was now mixed in the crowd and had completed his disguise.
Hearing this, he looked down at his hands, and suddenly thought of something and understood something.
——After getting on the train, Noah forced him to change his clothes.
His appearance now was very different from before. The only thing that remained the same was that one of his fingers was noticeably thinner than the others.
Jinpei Matsuda thought secretly: It seems that this copy is about to end.
He felt a little joyful that "I'm finally off work", and like other passengers, he spread out his hands and raised them in front of his face as the conductor instructed.
…
Conan looked around the carriage, his eyes sweeping over all the passengers, and paused slightly on Matsuda Jinpei's finger, and a reflection flashed across his glasses.
He gave a secret wink to Mao Lilan.
Then he looked at the other passengers: "According to the investigation materials left by Mr. Holmes, one of the victims of 'Jack the Ripper', Honey Charlest, was a woman from the small town of Windsor. She was born, grew up, and married in Windsor, but she didn't want to stay in that small place forever. So ten years ago, she left her son and dying husband and came to London."
At this point, Conan suddenly paused as he remembered something.
"..." So, "Jack the Ripper" was abandoned by his family ten years ago. That should be around the time when Moriarty picked up this "genius criminal".
but……
Conan was silent for a moment: That "Professor Moriarty", if we go back ten years, could he be ten years old?
Conan: "..." Could it be that when my dad designed this character, he was using "immortality" or "rejuvenation" as a metaphor for Kudo Shinichi who took APTX4869?
Then he didn't want to attract the attention of the Black Organization, so he deliberately blurred his face?
...No, I feel like something is not right. I am not that kind of person.
There is no one with a similar personality around me. Could it be one of my dad's classmates?
…
"Conan?"
Ran Mao's voice suddenly rang out beside him.
She looked at Conan, who suddenly got stuck in the middle of his speech, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Hmm? Nothing, I'm just sorting out my thoughts." Conan came back to his senses and decided to deal with the crisis in front of him first, and deal with other things after he got out.
He fished out a photo from his pocket, which he had taken from Sherlock Holmes's file book. At first, Conan was a little embarrassed, but then he found out that "Sherlock Holmes" was actually his father, and he started searching more quickly.
Conan held up the photo and faced the passengers.
In the photo, there is a pair of silver rings, one large and one small.
"Honey Charles was murdered near Whitechapel. On the day of the murder, the church was holding a 'Parents and Children's Charity Sale'. And at the scene where Honey was murdered, there happened to be a pair of relics like this."
Conan took a look at the photo in his hand:
"The larger one is Honey Charles's ring. The other one once belonged to Jack the Ripper. The pair of rings were not 'accidentally' left at the scene. They were deliberately left there by Jack the Ripper as a token of their parent-child relationship."
(End of this chapter)
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