8:20 p.m., Mihua Municipal Building.
In the technical center where the "Cocoon" game equipment is placed, Thomas Schindler stood behind a group of technicians, staring at the large screen in front of him with a serious look on his face:
"Will that bastard Hiroki come today? Well...he will definitely come! For me, the 'Cocoon' game is very important. This bastard always harasses me and goes against me, so he will never let it go. Such an important opportunity! Come quickly! Hiroki! Today..."
"...I must make sure you die cleanly!"
Thomas Schindler gritted his teeth, and the expression on his face kept changing. Suddenly, the door of the technical center opened, and then Officer Megure, Officer Takagi, Kaitou Kidd and Dr. Ari who had just arrived walked in and walked towards Thomas Schindler said hello: "Hello, Mr. Thomas."
"Huh? It's you! Hello everyone." Thomas Schindler turned to look at everyone, nodded slightly, then looked at the LCD screen on the device again, and said, "If you are here to ask me As for the case, please forgive me that I am temporarily unavailable. In addition, I have told you everything I know. Even if I say it again, I won’t be able to say anything. Your top priority now should be to catch that Kudo Arata... Well, no, Kaitou Kidd is the one!”
After Thomas Schindler finished speaking, Officer Memu laughed dryly and was about to say a few polite words. Suddenly, all the screens in the room flickered.
Seeing this, a group of technicians quickly typed on the keyboard to troubleshoot the problem. After about a minute, all the screens instantly went black. The technicians also turned to look at Thomas Schindler, all sweating profusely:
"Mr. Thomas, the situation is not good. All the equipment here seems to be out of control!"
"Y-really?"
Thomas looked at the screen in front of him, his hands trembling with excitement. Suddenly, all the screens in the room lit up again, and then an electronic synthesized sound sounded:
"Hello! I am Noah's Ark. From now on, I will officially take over the 'Cocoon' game. Let's play a game together!"
Noah's Ark! Hiroki! You are indeed here!
Thomas's eyes lit up with excitement. Officer Megure and Kaito Kidd beside him were a little confused about the situation and asked in confusion: "Noah's Ark? What is this?"
"Noah's Ark is an artificial intelligence created by my adopted son Hiroki using himself as a template. Or..." Thomas raised his wrist, reached out and touched the jade gourd on his wrist, his eyes fierce. "...That's Hiroki! Since he wants to play games, let's play with him!"
Thomas said, the soul of the boy in red flew out of the jade gourd instantly, howled miserably, and then sank into the equipment in front of him, which flickered again.
A few seconds later, all the screens suddenly turned into a little boy in red with a ferocious expression and a distorted face. The little boy roared with a ferocious look, let out a series of strange screams, and then disappeared.
In the technical center, Officer Megure and the others looked at this scene and were confused again. They looked at Dr. Ali, an older single technical dog, and asked:
"What is this?"
"Uh..." Dr. A Li smiled dryly and scratched his head, "...I have never seen this character in the game script... maybe there is a program error?"
At the same time, Kaitou Kidd twitched the corner of his mouth, slipped to the door without leaving a trace, and glanced warily at the excited Thomas Schindler——
During this time, he had been eavesdropping on Shiratori Rensaburo, so he naturally knew what case Shiratori was investigating.
If his guess is correct, the boy in red is the poor victim who was brutally killed by Thomas Schindler and then controlled by him...
Kamikawa Kazusuke!
…
8:20 p.m., Mihua Municipal Building.
In the corridor leading to the technical center, Shiratori Rensaburo and police officer Chiba who came to pick him up were chatting intermittently. Suddenly, Chiba's cell phone rang.
Chiba was stunned for a moment, took out his mobile phone, said "Uh-huh" twice before hanging up the phone, then turned to look at Officer Shiratori, and said nervously: "I'm sorry, Officer Shiratori, something happened at the press conference." It's an emergency, I have to rush over to support and help maintain order, you can go to the technical center by yourself!"
"What?" Shiratori was stunned for a moment and asked curiously, "Officer Chiba, what happened?"
"I heard that the virtual game called 'Cocoon' was taken over by an artificial intelligence called Noah's Ark. Now it is completely out of control. If the game fails, everyone participating in the game will be killed, so the guests at the venue are very anxious. …”
Officer Qianye said simply and ran away quickly. Shu Yunwen and the others were a little surprised——
What the hell! Game out of control? What the hell kind of operation is this?
Shu Yunwen was wondering when Cheng Shi and Mingmei suddenly floated to Shu Yunwen together and gestured: "Sir Yunwen, we just went to take a look inside the technical center, and then found... the situation there seems to be very strange... "
"Weird?"
Shu Yunwen was stunned when he heard this. After frowning, he opened the [Yin Yang Eyes] directly, scanned the aisle, and couldn't help but say "fuck"——
By the way, who can tell him what the hell is going on?
Why are there so many yin and ghost energies in this area?
Also, the feeling that this yin energy and ghost energy gave him didn't seem to be emanating from some yin place, but rather like an energy field emanating from some kind of ghost!
It is not an easy task to cast this kind of energy field. As far as Shu Yunwen knows, those who can cast an energy field must be a ghost king-level ghost. Moreover, this energy field has another name.
Ghostland!
…
At the same time, in the virtual space of the "Cocoon" game.
Conan, Loli'ai, Xiaolan, Yuanzi and other selected children also listened to Noah's Ark explaining the rules of the game. They were all a little frightened. Yuanzi hugged Xiaolan tightly and asked for protection:
"Xiaolan, if we all lose, will we really be killed?"
"No, I don't know!" Xiaolan was obviously very scared, "But depending on the situation, it's very, very possible that it's true..."
"Ah... I don't want to die! I just got a boyfriend, and I haven't fully enjoyed love yet. I'm still so young..." Yuanzi hugged Xiaolan and screamed "Ahhh" while Loli Ai calmly said He glanced around and said softly:
"Miss Sonoko, instead of being scared here, you might as well take advantage of the moment and think about which game copy is better to enter. Look at the Hirasawa sisters over there..."
Loli pointed sadly at Hirasawa Yui and Hirasawa Yu, who were holding hands and walking around the door of the five game copies:
"The two of them are obviously younger than you, and they are already carefully choosing their most confident game path!"
