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Conan stood up.

"We are playing games, and Noah's Ark is playing us."

"We are its game."

"And it has the 'cheat finger' of this game in its hands."

"In order to be fun to play, it certainly doesn't let us play through the game so simply and rudely."

"but…"

Conan looked thoughtfully at Jiang Shouhuang who suddenly appeared:

"If the 'Gold Finger' is always on when playing the game."

"I'm afraid it will be boring?"

"Since it tacitly allowed Jack to escape behind the scenes, at the same time, it allowed us to successfully block the block."

"That means..."

"After realizing that we can easily beat the level in the prologue..."

"In order to increase difficulty and fun, it secretly modified the main plot."

This world is the world simulated by Noah's Ark.

The evolution of the game world naturally reflects the will of Noah's Ark.

So Conan directly speculated on the intention of the man behind the scenes from the turning point of the game plot:

"If I'm not wrong, the main task it sets for us now should be..."

"Out of this police siege, out of hundreds of people on this block..."

"Find Jack the Ripper!"

Chapter 485 "Eastern Master" Lestrade (two chapters in one)

Sealing off a block is no small matter, and Scotland Yard will at most maintain the encirclement until dawn tomorrow.

When it was dawn, it would be impossible for the police to hinder the normal operation of the city of London in order to arrest a murderer.

And I want to find a person from a block in just a few hours without basically knowing any information about the other party.

This is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Sounds like a mission impossible.

But Conan's analysis made Lin Xinyi suddenly wake up:

After all, this is a virtual game world.

If you consider Noah's Ark as a player.

Then its fun, or purpose, should be to appreciate the performances of these gamers.

But Hui Yuanai has the ability to remember every detail of the Jack the Ripper case in history, and the plot setting in this game happens to be completely restored from history.

This is equivalent to being born with a "game guide".

Players took the game strategy to clear the level at light speed. Noah's Ark's long-awaited "game live broadcast" had just started for half an hour, and it was about to end in a simple and rude way.

This is certainly not what the "audience" wants to see.

So it implicitly increases the difficulty of the game.

"But it's like giving students a test paper..."

"The questions given are too simple to serve as a test for the students, so the 'problem maker' is naturally not satisfied."

"And if the question is too difficult, so that students have no hope of doing it right, it also violates the original intention of the 'problem maker'."

"so…"

By trying to figure out what the questioner meant, Lin Xinyi gradually gained confidence:

"This question is definitely not unsolvable!"

"There must be some way, let us find that Jack the Ripper from this block!"

So, how to find it?

It is still necessary to let go of the detective logic in reality, and use the thinking of a strategy game to find the clues left by the "problem maker".

"A game, unless there is a bug..."

"Otherwise, it is impossible not to leave clues for players to pass the level."

"And this kind of clue is usually hidden in the game process that the player has experienced—"

Lin Xinyi started to use the creator's thinking to solve the problem in reverse:

Just like at the beginning of the game, the voice of the NPC patrolman reminded Conan of "Go to Officer Lestrade".

The clues to promote the game plot are usually designed like this and given directly to the player.

"It's impossible for game designers to let players run around aimlessly in such a large open world, looking for clues without prompting at all."

"It's a waste of time, and it's not fun."

"So, the clue should have been given to us inadvertently!"

"What we have to do now is to find it from the 'side'!"

At this point in the analysis, both Lin Xinyi and Conan faintly realized something:

They only played the game for half an hour.

Didn't see Jack the Ripper's face, let alone know his identity.

When Jack the Ripper fled the scene in a hurry, he left no traces for tracking.

Therefore, the only clue that the player has now that can be related to Jack the Ripper is...

"Corpse."

"The body of that Lady Elizabeth."

Lin Xin turned his attention back to the victim who died in the "opening CG":

He had just performed a "post-mortem" based on historical data before, and he was anxious to bring people over to ambush Jack the Ripper.

Didn't touch the body at all.

A post mortem was also not performed according to standard procedures.

If I go back now and do a more detailed inspection, maybe I can find some clues from the corpse that was ignored by everyone at the beginning.

"Yes."

Hui Yuanai also nodded in approval.

She helped Lin Xinyi analyze:

"Actually in real history:"

"The victim we meet at the outset, Lady Elizabeth, is of a very noteworthy peculiarity in itself:"

"Elizabeth's death is not only the only one of the five cases in which there were witnesses at the time of the incident."

"And there are other eyewitnesses claiming:"

"Elizabeth bought grapes at the fruit shop in the night before the murder."

In London in 1888, grapes were still a very expensive fruit.

It is a luxury that only the elite can afford.

Grassroots manual laborers like Elizabeth who are still working in slums in their 40s are obviously not entitled to enjoy the "freedom of grapes".

And the customers she usually receives are poor ghosts.

It would be nice if you can settle the wages quickly after the work is done.

It is impossible to be so generous as to give Elizabeth a large sum of spare money to buy grapes—

In this era when people are as cheap as grass, buying grapes is more expensive than buying her.

In this way, Elizabeth's behavior of buying grapes during her lifetime is very intriguing.

People in later generations have always suspected that the benefactor who gave her money to buy grapes was Jack the Ripper himself.

"If that's the case..."

"That would suggest that Jack the Ripper wasn't simply picking his targets randomly on the street, at least not in this case."

"It is very likely that he first approached Elizabeth by pretending to be a wealthy customer, and cheated Elizabeth's trust."

"I waited until late at night to trick her, who was drunk, to the crime location I chose."

Hui Yuanai told people's guesses about the truth behind the Elizabeth case in real history.

And Lin Xinyi heard from it what Hui Yuanai really wanted to express:

If Jack the Ripper really spent some time with Elizabeth during her lifetime.

Then he has a greater possibility, more opportunities, to leave marks on Elizabeth.

And these traces may be the hints they are looking for to solve the problem.

Thinking of this, Lin Xinyi immediately turned around and walked in front of Lestrade:

"Officer Lestrade."

"Please take us back to the scene of the crime just now. I need to take a closer look at the body of that Ms. Elizabeth."

"Master, do you want to go back?"

Officer Lestrade was still thinking about Master Lin's intentions in doing so.

But the young patrolman who brought Jiang Shouhuang over, hesitantly gave a surprising news:

"Master Lin, there is no need to go back."