Conan's other self

There are a few lines of text below the photo, which have been thoughtfully translated into Japanese.

Conan glanced through it briefly.

"So, this ring is the key to unlocking the mechanism." Conan thought thoughtfully, "But it's a bit strange. In this note, Holmes believed that Jack the Ripper left the ring at the scene intentionally and that he stole it back... Judging from the size, this may be the ring he had when he was a child..."

"The mechanism is written in the notes on the research on the magic fog, so it should be a creation within two years. This means that the mechanism was created after the ring... The person who built the mechanism deliberately used the pre-existing ring as the key to create this mechanism."

Maplehara continued Conan's words.

"Eh?" Others were a little confused.

"No wonder Holmes asked the Lestrade Police Department to pay special attention to the case of Jack the Ripper. The ring must still be on him..."

"Hey, can you two speak human language?" Yuanzi asked dissatisfied.

"In short, we are going to catch Jack the Ripper, find the ring and activate the mechanism, right?" Haibara Ai concluded.

"What does the agency do?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"It may have something to do with the magic mist pouring out of underground pipes mentioned by the police department before," Feng Yuan replied.

"Furthermore, it is not difficult to deduce that the person we will face in the end should be Moriarty." A sharp light flashed on the lenses of Conan's glasses, "It's really exciting..."

"This is too troublesome!" Yuanzi said dissatisfied, "Why don't we just ask that guy named... what's called Chuid to go and arrest the guy named Moriarty?"

"No, Sonoko." Xiaolan said, "In Conan Doyle's works, Moriarty is a big shot!"

"Moriarty has a good reputation in society." Haihara Ai added, "He is the master of the British underworld and is extremely influential throughout Europe. He is called the Napoleon of crime. Such a figure even You can break the rules and let the police arrest us, let alone let us go and let the police arrest him."

"That's right," Conan agreed. "Besides, we have no evidence that he committed a crime..."

"And no matter how you think about it, you wouldn't play hooky like this." This is Mitsuhiko.

"I know, I know! So we still have to catch Jack the Ripper first, and then, how to catch him?"

"..."

There was a brief silence.

Kudo Shinichi's memory did have the specific date of Jack the Ripper's crime, such as today, but at this time, it was obvious that what was supposed to happen had already happened, and it was impossible for them to go to the camp.

The next time he is suspected of committing a crime will be more than a month later. They obviously cannot wait that long, unless the game suddenly jumps back in time, but they have to rely on their legs to even walk...

"Yes," Conan's eyes lit up, "Since Jack the Ripper is related to Moriarty, then we can go find Moriarty..."

"Hey, kid," Yuanzi expressed dissatisfaction with his hands on his hips, "I just said you can't catch him directly..."

"I didn't want to catch him," Conan defended, "I just went to take a look. Maybe I could get some clues..."

"But," Xiaolan said, "Moriarty's whereabouts have always been secretive, and we can't find him..."

"Then just go find someone related to him."

"Ah, Conan, you mean Colonel Moran, right? He is Moriarty's right-hand man..."

"Well! He should be..."

"No." Haihara Ai suddenly interrupted. She was looking through the magic mist research notes just now. "This note says that the place where Colonel Moran often appears is the poker club in the city center -"

Conan felt bad.

He knew this too, but if Holmes had written this in his notes on the Mist research...

"——But it is also written in the notes that it is a more exaggerated place than Baker Street. The crime rate is very high even during the day. It is obviously not a place we can go directly."

"..."

Conan was a little tired. He was already sad that he couldn't meet Holmes as he wished. He didn't expect that it would be so difficult to even meet the little Colonel Moran.

Judging from the information left by Holmes, it is obvious that catching Jack the Ripper and getting the ring is their next mission.

Everyone on the court began to think, and even Sonoko began to try to put himself to sleep so that he could enter the reasoning queen state. Only Morohoshi Hideki looked around the room in boredom. He found a somewhat worn football and threw it to Kikukawa and others. people.

Haiyuan Ai thought for a while and then noticed Fengyuan leaving the table again and walking towards the cabinet.

"What are you looking for?"

"newspaper."

In Maplehara's impression, according to the original game flow, Moriarty sent instructions to Jack the Ripper through newspapers. Although the process has been disrupted, he still has some ideas.

"Jack the Ripper and Moriarty are closely related, and there must be some way of contact between them. In this era of inconvenient communication, communication through newspaper advertising columns is both secret and convenient, and it is often used in novels. This scenario occurs.

So I thought, maybe this is how Moriarty gave instructions to Jack the Ripper. And since Holmes was investigating Jack the Ripper, he must have noticed..."

He remembered that Xiaolan was in...

Feng Yuan recalled it for a while, and thinking like this, Hai Yuan Ai walked directly to the cabinet on the other side, and then brought back a stack of newspapers.

"this?"

"...That's right."

After briefly flipping through a few pages, Fengyuan discovered that the dates in the newspapers were not consecutive, and realized that this should be what he wanted.

This also left Fengyuan a little speechless, because it also meant that his reasoning just now was actually unnecessary.

Those inferences are obviously based on "foreknowledge", and if this is necessary to find clues, then the difficulty of solving the puzzles in the game is too exaggerated.

However, that doesn't appear to be the case now.

This stack of newspapers was obviously placed together with the previous Jack the Ripper research notebook. If someone with strong reasoning ability found this note, they would also notice this stack of newspapers.

So this is also a hint given by the game, and it also means that the newspaper is indeed a key clue - sometimes things that seem to be good luck on the surface may also bring bad results.

"What's next?"

"Help see if there are any similarities between the contents in the newspaper."

Fengyuan said, and gave half of the newspaper to Haibara Ai, and the two of them stood in front of the table and started reading the newspaper.

Others also noticed the movement of the two people, but the space there was not big, and the appearance of the two people made it difficult for them to penetrate at all, so they did not bother them.

Soon, Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai had the results.

"Go clean the podium of St. Mary's Church tonight, M to J..." Hui Yuan Ai muttered softly, then turned to another newspaper, "Go clean the ground directly under Big Ben at noon today, M to J..."

"Go clean the car that leaves the station last today, M to J..." Fengyuan also read a sentence, and then looked at Haiyuan Ai who was looking over.

"M to J" obviously refers to Moriarty to Jack the Ripper.

These are the instructions given by Moriarty to Jack the Ripper.

Taking the newspaper, Fengyuan shared this new clue with everyone.

"Then what?" Morohoshi Hideki asked, which seemed to be of no help in catching Jack the Ripper.

"Wait." Fengyuan replied, "If we are unlucky and there is no new news in tomorrow's newspaper, then we will find a way to print a false news in the newspaper the day after tomorrow."

That being said, considering that neither Kudo Yusaku nor Noah's Ark would extend their game time too long, Maplehara felt that there would definitely be a result tomorrow.

If not...then they would have to spend the whole night grinding monsters and leveling up to fight through.

…

The Lestrade Police Department was still waiting for news from them outside. After a while, Conan provided him with this "information left by Holmes".

Lestrade Police were pleased.

However, he had his own matters to deal with and could not stay here with the Baker Street team all the time, so he soon returned to Scotland Yard with two of his men, intending to monitor the advertising information in the newspapers and target them again. Fengyuan and others promised to send additional patrol police during the day.

This also means they can't go out tonight.

Mrs. Hudson offered to let them sleep here for the night.

Already a little tired, and having no other choice, everyone agreed to the proposal, and Conan lay down on Holmes' bed and slept as he wished.

Fengyuan didn't like being crowded together, so he slept on the sofa. The same goes for Haihara Ai.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Hudson woke them up as promised and prepared hot milk tea and bread for them for breakfast.

After experiencing eating in the game, everyone found that there was almost no difference between it and reality. After solemnly thanking Mrs. Hudson, everyone cautiously went out.

There were obviously a lot more pedestrians on the road than there were at night, and it looked barely normal. The magic mist in the air seemed to be affected by sunlight, and the indescribable smell became lighter.

"You guys go buy newspapers first...I'll go look around..."

"No, Conan!" Xiaolan immediately objected, "It's too dangerous for you to be alone. Even if it's daytime, it's hard to tell..."

"I kind of know what we're dealing with."

Hui Yuan Ai's voice was very soft, but everyone was still attracted by these words. She was looking up at the sky in the distance, and everyone followed her gaze.

It was a chimney that was almost towering into the sky. Black smoke erupted from the top of the chimney, and then pressed down on the city as if falling from the sky.

Black clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it. It is suspected that the black river is falling from the sky.

Spectacles spoil the country.

Thinking that they might have to destroy this thing to complete the level, and time was very tight, everyone's mood became a little lower. After all, they couldn't stay in the game for too long. Even if their bodies could bear it, other people outside should also worry. .

Speaking of which, they have no information communication with outside the game and have no idea about the situation outside...

After coming back to their senses, everyone continued what Conan was talking about.

Conan himself had no fighting ability, so he had to tell the truth about his plan - he wanted to go to St. Mary's Church near Whitechapel to see if there were any clues about Jack the Ripper's murder scene.

No one objected and planned to go there together.

Walking on the road, there were not many customers in the nearby shops. Due to the pressure of life, even in the face of high crime rates, these shops can only stay open to make ends meet.

Maplehara stopped by one of the grocery stores and bought a telescope.

"Where did you get the money?" Conan was a little surprised. Telescopes are not cheap these days. Even if you can use Japanese dollars in the game, Feng Yuan usually doesn't carry that much cash with him.

"Borrowed it from Holmes."

"..."

"Don't worry, I will definitely return the money to him if I have the chance."

Fengyuan said seriously, and then took a telescope to look at the chimney in the distance.

The chimney was very tall and wide, with a metal staircase spiraling upward at the bottom, but it was broken only two-thirds of the way up. Then the telescope was passed around to everyone, and everyone was very interested in the chimney. The telescope finally fell into Haiyuan Ai's hands and was kept by her.

Soon, they arrived at their destination. Except for two traffickers who rushed over and tried to kidnap Ayumi, they did not meet other enemies.

Due to the passage of time, there are no clues at the crime scene. And after that, other murders probably happened here.

However, a notice posted by the door of the church caught Conan's attention. It said, "A parent-child charity bazaar will also be held on the second Saturday in October."

Considering that the victim in the case, Hani, died on September 8, the second Saturday in September, which means that she died on the night of the parent-child charity bazaar, this made Conan even more convinced that the two rings in the photo were Jack the Ripper and his mother's.

Xiaolan on the other side also bought a newspaper with the money given by Fengyuan.

Conan hurried back to take the newspaper, and then went straight to the advertisement column.

Maybe it was Xiaolan's luck that played a role, or maybe it was the game setting. The first newspaper they bought had the information they wanted.

"This is it!"

"Go clean the stage of the opera house tonight, M for J."

"Opera House?" Yuanzi complained, "This place is already like this, how can anyone still go to the opera?"

"Sister Sonoko, the more times like this, the more power of art is needed!" Mitsuhiko expressed a different opinion.

"Which TV show did you hear this from?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now," Xiaolan interrupted, "M to J...then this should also be the message Moriarty gave to Jack the Ripper?"

"That's right." Conan quickly flipped through the other pages of the newspaper, "It should mean that he should kill the actors performing on stage... There it is! A triumphal performance! The idol of the Warsaw Royal Opera..."

"Irene Adler!" Xiaolan said in surprise.

"Damn it! This guy Moriarty..."

Conan's face darkened.

"Who is this Irene Adler you are talking about?" Morohoshi Hideki asked.

"It is said that she was the only woman Holmes loved in his life..." Xiaolan explained.

"In other words, Moriarty wants to target the woman Holmes loves most," Haibara Ai said, "but why?"

This was obviously directed at Holmes.

"It should be because of what happened in the early morning?" Maplehara said. "After the undercover heard the news that Holmes was investigating Jack the Ripper, he wanted to pass on the news... This was probably revenge or a warning to Holmes..."

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