Chapter 314

The game scene of "Old-Era London" was a stage designed with the murderer Jack the Ripper, who made all of Europe tremble in the 19th century, as the story background.

And in order to enrich the content in the game, characters from novels like Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty were added to this scene.

In the late night of 19th-century London, accompanied by the ringing of a police bell, the patrol police who were originally patrolling on the road discovered a female corpse who had been attacked in a dim alley again.

And according to the murderer's criminal method and the tragic state of the deceased, the patrol police also judged without hesitation that this was Jack the Ripper's handiwork again.

When Shengzai and his group just entered the game scene, a black shadow with agile movements flashed past from an alley beside them.

But the moment he saw that black shadow, Conan instinctively bent down and activated his black-tech sneakers, and kicked toward a broken water pot on the side, attempting to block the other party's escape with a power-enhanced shot.

However, accompanied by the water pot only being kicked and flying no more than two meters away, Conan also shouted while holding his foot.

In order to compensate for the disadvantage of his body becoming smaller, Conan had many props developed by Professor Agasa on hand.

However, "Cocoon," as a virtual reality game, although it could allow players to experience the five senses in the game scene, Conan's scientific props that were like cheats seemed to have no effect here.

Seeing that Conan was not useful, and the Jack the Ripper who had just committed the crime was about to disappear from their field of vision, Shengzai now also rushed out from among the few, and rushed out with a speed that did not match his physique at all!

Although Jack the Ripper in the theatrical film *The Phantom of Baker Street* finally appeared, the identity of the other party was a mystery throughout.

If he could catch the other party at the beginning, then many twists and turns could be avoided in the middle.

Conan's scientific cheats couldn't be used in this game scene, but Shengzai's various combat techniques and excellent five senses were also brought into this game scene.

Although he didn't have outrageous physical ability, Shengzai, who reacted in the first time and chased after him, still used his agile and petite body to constantly borrow the surrounding buildings and chased after him with an extremely astonishing speed.

And at the same time, at the presentation site in the outside world, everyone who also used the projection screen to see the scene of Shengzai chasing Jack the Ripper relentlessly was also stunned.

Many people at the venue had also seen the conflict between Shengzai and the few rich kids, Moroboshi Hideki and the others, before.

At the age of seven, beating four children who were four or five years older than himself to the ground—originally, everyone thought that he was just as he said himself, having learned some martial arts.

But now, when they looked at Shengzai, who was like a first-class gymnast, using all kinds of astonishing techniques to jump with borrowed strength and constantly shortening the distance between himself and Jack the Ripper, everyone present even had the illusion that they were watching a movie now.

"Mrs. Suzuki, may I ask, who is the master in the country who taught your noble son martial arts?"

Shengzai's ability to respond to situations and his mind, which he showed before, no longer looked like a seven-year-old child. Many people thought that he inherited his parents' excellent talent and would be an excellent business genius in the future.

But now, when they looked at the big screen in front of them, they realized with a start that they had somewhat underestimated this heir to the Suzuki conglomerate before.

Not only was he quick-thinking and naturally intelligent, but this child's talent in physical fitness was also quite heaven-defying!

And when seeing Shengzai in the projected big screen shortening the distance with the London murderer Jack the Ripper, and the praise for her son from others beside her, Tomoko Suzuki's previous worried emotions also vanished instantly.

According to Mr. Yusaku Kudo, who was one of the developers, the condition for passing the "Old-Era London" game scene was to find Jack the Ripper and arrest the other party.

And Shengzai and the others had just entered the game scene and encountered Jack the Ripper committing a crime, and her precious son was even more outstanding than she imagined. They were about to pass the game directly at the first meeting—how could she not be happy?

Those who attended the Sindora Company presentation this time were either rich or noble, and the elders of those children who obtained "Cocoon" experience badges were the top upper-class figures in the country.

And if her precious son Shengzai could pass the game under the eyes of everyone this time and save all the other children, the benefits for their entire Suzuki conglomerate would be needless to say.

Their Suzuki conglomerate's only son saved the children of these upper-class figures—no matter how you looked at it, it was equivalent to letting them owe a big favor, right?

And just when Tomoko Suzuki was secretly enjoying it inside but humbly indicating on the surface that her child was not a genius, just more hardworking than ordinary people, an accident suddenly happened.

In the projected big screen, Shengzai, who was originally only a few meters away from Jack the Ripper, dodged a few daggers thrown by Jack the Ripper when he turned around and landed on a stone bridge, but the stone bridge suddenly collapsed with a boom.

At the same time the stone bridge collapsed, Shengzai avoided falling under the ruins by stepping on the constantly falling rocks, but because of this sudden change, he lost Jack the Ripper, who was originally close at hand.

The sudden change not only made Tomoko Suzuki, who was originally secretly enjoying it, sweat for her son, but also made the entire "Cocoon" presentation site suddenly become restless.

Because they had just learned from Yusaku Kudo, one of the game developers, that there was originally no such broken bridge accident in the "Old-Era London" game scene.

So that is to say, there was only one possibility for such an accident to suddenly appear, which was that the artificial intelligence "Noah's Ark" tampered with the plot in the game and even increased the difficulty of passing the game.

And just now, Professor Agasa, relying on his computer technology, finally managed to get in touch with Conan in the game and just wanted to tell them the true identity of Jack the Ripper directly, when the communication was forcibly interrupted by "Noah's Ark."

"Damn it, this damn artificial intelligence is truly despicable! In order to prevent us from cheating, he directly interrupted our contact with those children.

And in order to avoid the game being cleared too easily, he used his authority to tamper with the plot and even increased the difficulty!"

Kogoro Mouri looked at Jack the Ripper disappearing into the dark night on the screen and was now also smashing the table in front of him in anger and shouting helplessly.

"Believe in those children. Now what we can do is to find out the murderer who killed Kashimura as soon as possible.

If I am not wrong, the reason why "Noah's Ark" trapped those children in the game must also have a certain connection with Kashimura's death."

Yusaku Kudo patted Kogoro Mouri on the shoulder to comfort him. He had quite a lot of confidence in his son Kudo Shinichi. Besides his son, that child named Suzuki Shengzai was also absolutely not a simple character.

If it were them, wanting to pass the game and save those children shouldn't be a big problem.

(End of chapter)