[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Just as Jack was talking to several people, there was a crisp crackling sound from a corner of the hall.

Conan followed the sound, and it was the children who were playing football in the hall just now and were chased away by Jack. They accidentally smashed the football on the statue and kicked the dagger in the statue's hand away.

"You won't make us pay for it?" One of the children was a little panicked. His family did not lack money for the statue, and he was even more afraid that his parents would scold him for this incident.

"Don't worry, this is something that the chairman of Xindola moved here from his home for exhibition, it's not something valuable." Zhuxing Hideki picked up the dagger and put it back in the statue's hand.

After the children finished these, they continued to play football without fear.Conan frowned, and was about to get closer to take a closer look at the knife, but the lights dimmed at this moment, and the entire hall was plunged into darkness, which was bright for the stage.His father, Yusaku Kudo, who was responsible for the text of the "Cocoon" game, stepped onto the stage under the applause and lights of the crowd, and stood next to the organizer with a smile on his face to address the guests.Not long after, the lights came on again, and Conan looked around. The man who called himself Joe Cole had disappeared.He didn't make a sound, and didn't disturb anyone. Even Conan didn't know when he left.

About two 10 minutes later.

"What? Their director is missing?!"

As the person in charge of the text of the "Cocoon" game, Yusaku Kudo, who was attending the press conference at the scene and came over after hearing the news, asked Officer Megure like this.

The missing director is Hiroki's biological father.

Hiroki's biological father's studio is located in the basement on the grounds that he can only work in secluded places.

According to the first eyewitness, the staff member found a little blood on the stairs. He had an ominous premonition and rushed to the studio where the missing person was. The director who was supposed to be working in the studio had disappeared. traced.There was only a large pool of blood left at the scene, and then the blood meandered to the ground, extending all the way from the studio in the basement to the first floor, during which several depressions of various sizes accumulated, and the blood continued to the center of the hall on the first floor , suddenly disappeared there strangely.

According to the blood trail, the missing person was stabbed by the murderer while sitting in front of the computer.The blood was sprayed far away under the effect of blood pressure, and it seemed that the artery was injured.The murderer came straight to the point, and his technique was clean and neat. After the murder, he did not discard the murder weapon at the scene of the crime. Only the toilet paper he used to wipe the blood was found at the scene.

But the murderer probably didn't expect that the victim was not dead. After the murderer left, the victim left the crime scene and slowly moved to the first floor with his bleeding body.Then in the center of the hall on the first floor, the blood trail suddenly stopped, and the victim evaporated.

"Yes, a staff member came here, but they didn't see their director. A large area of ​​blood was found at the scene, and the director is likely to have been killed. We are conducting a blanket search for the murder weapon and requesting surveillance documents from Xindola Company. And look for witnesses. Check who entered the office around the time of death." Officer Meguro nodded.

"How's the amount of bleeding?" Yusaku Kudo asked.

"It's very big. I'm afraid the director was seriously injured. If there is no timely blood transfusion, it will be a disaster." Officer Mu Mu shook his head, "How did he bypass the monitoring and disappear?"

"Every guest enters the hall and goes through security checks, and no one can bring metal objects like knives into the venue." That is to say, the murder weapon was at the scene from the beginning, "Wait a minute, Officer Meguro, I want to ask you, Maori Has Kogoro ever been here, has he brought a child with glasses?"

"The kid with the glasses, you mean Conan?" Police Officer Meguro said with a smile, "That kid, the size of a kid, ran around the scene of the murder just like before, and was driven away not long ago."

Sure enough, Shinichi came here.

Yusaku Kudo nodded, and he looked around with his arms behind his back.

Finally, his eyes stayed on the keyboard, and he saw the dazzling red, and the blood was smeared on the three keys of "T", "R", and "J" of the keyboard respectively.This is the clue about the murderer left by the deceased before his death.

T, R, J...the initials of the notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper (Jack? the? Ripper) a hundred years ago.

The clues left by the missing... No, no, something strange.

"Brother Kudo, what's the matter with you?" Officer Megure had never seen Yusaku Kudo behave like this. He was walking around the crime scene anxiously like a trapped animal.

"I have a very strange feeling, Officer Megure, maybe there is more than one murderer." Kudo Yusaku said in a low voice, "Someone helped the missing person, so he was able to bypass the surveillance video."

"More than one person? Impossible. All the clues and traces we found prove that there were only the deceased and the murderer at the time of the crime." Officer Mu Mu replied in surprise.

"So it's a strange feeling." Kudo Yusaku was extremely anxious.

If the missing person is dead, then judging from the scene, this is an ordinary murder.

It was impossible for a third party to be present when the crime happened. If he was an accomplice, he would definitely help the murderer to do something, otherwise the murderer would not have brought him to watch a murderous show in vain.If he was a witness, it would be even more impossible. This office is very open, with unobstructed views from all corners, and there is no room for anyone to hide. The witness will only become a second corpse.

But—damn it, why does it feel like this?He sensed someone, or some ghost, haunting the scene of the murder.The reason why he is called a ghost is because he did not leave any footprints. He may have been here, but his traces have been perfectly covered up, and the whitewashing is too perfect, which makes people feel uncomfortable.However, just after he finished all this, the ghost left his breath in this room, like a sneer, tormenting Yusaku Kudo's detective's intuition.

Suddenly, Yusaku Kudo found a little trace of blood on the USB port of the computer operation panel, a very small mark, it looked like something scratched after the splashed blood was half-coagulated.

He leaned over to observe carefully, and what got into his nostrils was a faint smell of chemicals mixed with sea salt perfume.

Yusaku Kudo observed carefully, yes, it was blood spattered and solidified on the interface, and there were scratches, which proved that someone had unplugged and inserted the USB drive after the murder.

"You said this is a clue that someone entered the crime scene after the unknown person committed the crime?" Officer Mu Mu looked at the mark.

Yusaku Kudo pondered for a while: "Yes, he is the ghost hovering at the scene of Hiroki's father's murder. This scratch mark was left when he inserted the U disk into the interface and then took it out. This is where he entered The reason for the scene is to get something in the computer."

"Is it a commercial espionage?"

"Which family of commercial spies can enter the murder scene without leaving a footprint, a strand of hair, or a fingerprint in the blood all over the floor? Officer Mumu, look around us. If there is no such scratch mark, we can find evidence Does it prove that he has entered the scene? It is unreasonable for someone who noticed every detail to accidentally leave such scratches. Moreover, there is a distance between the U disk and the USB interface. There." Kudo Yusaku said slowly, "This shows that this trace was left on purpose by someone later."

Police officer Mumu opened his eyes wide: "Then why did he leave such clues? Is it a provocation?"

"It's not a provocation, it's a letter of challenge." Yusaku Kudo said firmly.

It's a challenge book for detectives.

"Then what does this mark mean?"

"Bloodstains... the traces left on the coagulated blood... I think it means 'follow the blood'."

Yusaku Kudo and Officer Megure followed the bloodstains all the way from the basement where the director's office sat to the first floor.This building is very peculiar. It is a hollow, upright cylinder. If you look down from the top, you will see two hollow nested rings.In order to prevent people from slipping, iron fences were built on the inside of the building.It is said that the developer layer wanted to build five such buildings to take advantage of the Olympic Games, but only one was built and the funds were insufficient and the construction had to be suspended.From the basement to the first floor, there are two stairs and an elevator, none of which have surveillance cameras.The first to fourth floors are closed warehouses without any windows. There are only two opposite exits on the first floor, and there are security guards at the exits.Yusaku Kudo and Police Officer Megure came to the end of the bloodstain, which is the common center of the two hollow rings, and the bloodstain disappeared here.

Where did the missing person go?

Kudo Yusaku looked up, like a frog looking up at the mouth of a well, he only saw the round sky.

At this moment, all the children entered the "cocoon" game cabin, and the egg-shaped game cabin slowly lowered the transparent glass cover, sealing all the children.The hall went dark, the lights went out one by one, and the voice of a strange boy came from the speaker: "Everyone, we will play a game of life and death."

The artificial intelligence that disappeared for several years, "Noah's Ark" appeared.

"Guys, we're going to play a game of life and death."

"The rules of the game are like this: you can choose to enter different games to find the answer, and you will be out if you are hit or hurt. When someone who successfully clears my game appears, I will not touch a hair of everyone present. But , If within the specified time, everyone is eliminated and no one wins. Then I will activate the electromagnetic pulse device hidden inside the game cabin to destroy everyone's brain tissue."

"The game cabin is protected by high-voltage electricity. Please don't try to use violent means to open the game cabin and rescue your children. If you provoke me, I will violate the rules of the game and kill all the children in the game cabin. Don't try to give the game cabin Power off, because I am not here, I am in the network, and the electromagnetic pulse device of the game cabin is powered by the built-in battery, and the data transmission speed will always be faster than you can destroy the built-in battery. Almost all the descendants of high-ranking officials and dignitaries are gathered here, Represents the future of the country at the top. Once they die here, there will be a gap in the country for future generations, and no one can take this responsibility."

"From ancient times to the present, the children of doctors will become doctors, and the children of politicians will become politicians. Power and wealth are handed over to those children by their fathers, and passed down from generation to generation. Bloodlines form an unbreakable and strong chain. That's it. Eternal cycle. What will happen to the country ruled by these children may be answered in the game today."