Chapter 311

Kudo Yusaku had already seen the meaning of the death message, but thinking of testing his son, he didn't say the answer directly.

"It shouldn't be JTR, but RTJ, right?"

But just as he saw the meaning of the death message, a young voice suddenly appeared beside them.

At first, hearing this young voice, Kudo Yusaku was somewhat surprised. Although his son had shrunk, he didn't expect his reasoning ability to become even stronger now.

But when he saw clearly the head poking over from behind, Kudo Yusaku was surprised to find that the second person to reason out the answer was not his son Kudo Shinichi, but another child who looked about the same age as Conan.

"Wen Shengzai, right? Uncle is quite curious, how did you see it?"

Because Ran, Sonoko, and Shinichi had been childhood sweethearts since they were young, Kudo Yusaku didn't know much about Wen Shengzai, but he knew him at least.

Although he had heard his son Shinichi say before that this youngest son of the Suzuki family was very smart, he didn't expect the other party to be so heaven-defying.

"It's very simple. In a dying situation, as the body is on its last breath, the strength one can use naturally becomes weaker and weaker.

And according to the shape and area of the blood left on the keyboard, one can roughly judge the force of his fingers pressing the keyboard.

In a dying situation, Kashimura's force in pressing the keyboard should have become weaker and weaker as his body deteriorated, right? So according to this logic, the order of the death message on the keyboard should be RTJ."

And hearing Wen Shengzai's explanation, Kudo Yusaku was also stunned on the spot.

If the fingertips were stained with blood, there would indeed be different traces due to different pressing forces, but there were many things involved in such traces.

A well-known writer of mystery novels like him didn't understand this knowledge, yet a seven-year-old child knew so much!

He could see the death message left by Kashimura at a glance because he also participated in the development of "Cocoon," and this death message from Kashimura was originally left for him.

And this child being able to reason out the answer so quickly was entirely due to his heaven-defying talent!

"If it's RTJ, not JTR, then that means the death message left by Mr. Kashimura is... the abbreviation for Jack the Ripper in London 100 years ago!"

After figuring out the order of the letters, the three of them said the meaning represented by the letters in unison.

"That's right, I think this death message from Kashimura should be left for me.

Because among the five game dungeons of 'Cocoon' being developed, one of them is the 'Old-Era London' game world, and I also participated in the development of the plot steps for this dungeon world, so Kashimura would leave such a death message."

Hearing Kudo Yusaku's words, Conan beside him also said excitedly: "If that's the case, to crack the true meaning of this death message, don't we have to enter the London of the 19th century through 'Cocoon'?"

Honestly, although Wen Shengzai didn't remember the specific plot details of the theatrical version *The Phantom of Baker Street* very clearly, he roughly remembered that the murderer who killed Kashimura was actually Sindora Company President Thomas Sindora.

And the main reason the other party did this was related to the genius Sawada Hiroki who committed suicide two years ago.

Sawada Hiroki was adopted by Sindora back then, and by coincidence, he used the DNA matching system to learn through Sindora's family heirloom dagger that Thomas Sindora was actually a descendant of Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer in the 19th century.

And after learning all this, Sindora, as a business tycoon today, naturally couldn't let such news spread to the outside world.

Hiroki himself also knew very clearly that once his artificial intelligence development was completed, Sindora would inevitably kill him to silence him for knowing this secret.

So he sent this DNA matching data to his biological father using the artificial intelligence "Noah's Ark" he developed.

And Hiroki's biological father was Mr. Kashimura, who was murdered this time. In fact, the reason he worked at Sindora Company was originally because he suspected that Hiroki's death had an inseparable relationship with Sindora Company, so he sneaked into the company to investigate.

But just as he obtained the evidence and arranged a meeting with Thomas Sindora, hoping that Sindora would make all this public and apologize to the deceased Hiroki, he was killed by Sindora, who was ashamed and angry.

Jack the Ripper was Sindora's ancestor, and the crimes he committed, although they would make his descendants stink for ten thousand years, the law had no right to punish his descendants.

Sindora imprisoned Hiroki but didn't directly harm him. Hiroki ultimately chose to jump off a building to end his life.

Kashimura also knew very clearly that it was difficult to bring the powerful Sindora to justice with just this charge, so he used the DNA matching system to threaten Sindora to apologize publicly.

However, he overlooked one thing: the other party was a descendant of Jack the Ripper, and the blood flowing in his body was also sinful and ruthless.

Apologize publicly and admit his mistake? How was that different from burying his own business empire with his own hands?

If outsiders knew that he was a descendant of Jack the Ripper, how could he continue to mix in the business circle?

Cutting off someone's wealth is like killing their parents. Kashimura overestimated his ability and underestimated Sindora's ruthlessness, so he bit the dust.

However, what left Wen Shengzai speechless the most was the death message Kashimura left at the end.

You have the ability to type out a three-letter abbreviation, so why didn't you type the abbreviation of Thomas Sindora's name, but instead typed the abbreviation of Jack the Ripper? Isn't this just taking off your pants to fart—an unnecessary move?

However, although he didn't know Kashimura's intention, because of the death message left by the other party, Kudo Yusaku and Conan ultimately decided to divide the work and cooperate to find the real murderer.

Conan prepared to enter the London of the 19th century in the game through "Cocoon," while Kudo Yusaku reasoned out the murderer who killed Kashimura in reality.

This game press conference for "Cocoon" had a total of fifty experience spots, and Kudo Yusaku, as a participant in the game development, also obtained an experience badge.

And the others from the Detective Boys, just like in the original plot, used rare game cards to exchange for "Cocoon" experience badges with the rich kids present.

The only difference was that in the original plot, Sonoko's game experience badge should have been given to Ran.

But this time, Ran's badge was given by Suzuki Tomoko on the grounds that her age was no longer suitable for playing games.

Sonoko, who originally wouldn't have entered "Cocoon," seeing that her best friend Ran and the children were all going to enter the game, and originally being full of interest, naturally didn't choose to miss out this time.

And when Wen Shengzai returned to the press conference from the crime scene and saw Sonoko who had already sat into "Cocoon," Wen Shengzai was dumbfounded on the spot.

(End of chapter)