Chapter 127: Planning
Emptiness, silence, darkness, dead silence...... It's so dark, where is this?
"What can you do! You're just a piece of waste now! You can't do anything but drag everyone down!" said a voice in the darkness.
No, I'm not a waste......
"What is it that is not waste? The reincarnation of the killer is already in the past tense! Now you are just a waste that cannot carry a basket on your shoulders! Even hacking technology is afraid to use it for fear of being hunted down, what use do you have?!"
I'm still useful, and the boss said I'm the best machine......
"The magician is still gorgeous, but it's a pity that Lucifer is a thing of the past......" Kuaidou, dressed in a white dress and wearing a top hat, looked at me with regretful expressions.
It's not like that, I can still fight...... I can help you with that, Kaidou......
"Do you think that if you become an ordinary person, I will let you live an ordinary life? No way! This will only make it easier for me to arrest you and put you in prison. No one can escape the law!" Conan lifted his glasses, his eyes shining sharply.
No, no, I still have things to do, I don't want to go to jail......
"Die, demon, this is your retribution, you are here, you will kill everyone!" Koizumi smiled sharply at me.
"I'll just say, how can a murderous maniac have one day change from evil to good?" Hattori smiled with a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Xiaoguang, aren't you called Xiaoguang? You've been lying to me, you're actually a criminal?!" Aoko looked at me with disappointment and disgust in her eyes.
"Xiaohui, you ......" Xiaolan wanted to speak and stopped, looking at me with a look in her eyes that was no longer gentle and tolerant, but ...... Fear.
"Minghui-san is actually a murderer...... "Motota, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Mayuki all looked at me in disbelief.
No, I'm not a murderer, no, if I don't kill, people will kill me......
"Edogawa Akiki! You have no way out!"
Uncle Maori, Sonoko, Officer Sato, Officer Takagi, Officer Shiratori, Dr. Asasa, and Sister Yeγ...... There were more and more people, I looked around, and at some point, I was surrounded by everyone, but they looked at me......
Fear, hatred, boredom, hatred...... I can't see anything from everybody's eyes other than that.
Why do you look at me like that? Don't you know me? I'm Xiaohui! No, don't look at me like that...... I'm scared......
"This is the fate you deserve! You have done all the bad things, and you deserve a thousand cuts!! You can die in peace! If you die, it will be good for everyone!!"
No, I don't want to die, I still have a lot to do...... Why are you forcing me?
"Forcing you, murderers are always killed, you know this truth, right?"
I'm not trying to kill people!!
Where is Xiao Ai?!!
I desperately searched for Xiao Ai in the crowd, but Xiao Ai was not there...... I couldn't even find my parents......
Have you even given up on me......
No, don't give up on me...... I managed to escape, don't let me go back to that dark place...... I'll be a good kid, I'll be obedient......
Please...... Please......
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It felt like I had slept for a long time, I don't remember when I fell asleep because of something, and when I opened my eyes, I was greeted by nineteenth-century English chandeliers and a beautiful dark brown painted gold ceiling, contrasted with the colorful ceiling, my blank brain.
Where is this? I looked around.
Oh, by the way, I participated in the game demo, and this is in the game...... Where is it?
I got up suddenly, the goose down quilt on my body slowly slipped off my body, and I realized that I was lying on the bed, turning my head to look out the window, and the morning sun was shining through the window into the room, looking very warm.
My head was still aching, my chest was stuffy, I was in a bad mood, and I just had a dream, but judging from such a bad mood, it didn't seem to be a pleasant dream...... I touched my head and smiled wryly.
"Oh, you're awake, little one?" a gentle female voice drew my attention back to reality.
"Ah...... You are...... Mr. Holmes's butler?" I patted my head, remembering the identity of the blonde lady in front of me.
"Yes, when you came back yesterday, you didn't seem to be feeling well, and your group of friends have been worried for a long time, are you feeling better now?" The housekeeper put a cup of black tea in her hand in front of me, and a gentle smile appeared on her face.
"Ah, well, much better. Thank you. "Taking a sip of black tea, a warm warmth spreads throughout my body, making my dull head feel a lot more comfortable.
"Really? Great. Hearing my words, the housekeeper was a lot more relieved.
"Where's everyone?"
"You mean your little friends? They seem to have gone to Whitechapel and said they were going to investigate something. The housekeeper thought for a moment and said to me.
"Do they have anything to say to me?"
"Well, I said that you should cultivate here, and they will take care of the rest. They will definitely take you out...... I don't quite understand what they mean. β
"So that's ......" The housekeeper didn't understand, but I did, and it was nothing more than letting me stay here obediently, waiting for the news of their customs clearance.
Sure enough...... Has it become a burden?
Thinking of this, my fists clenched unconsciously.
Damn!!Damn, hateful, hateful!!
Am I really just waiting here like a wreck for news from others?!
I don't know why, but I always feel that if I really become a wasted person who can't do anything, I will be abandoned by everyone. Even though I knew Conan wasn't that kind of person, this nasty feeling somehow haunted me just haunted me and made me unusually irritable.
"Are you alright, little friend?" the housekeeper asked me with some unease, perhaps frightened by my somewhat hideous expression.
"Nothing, don't worry about me. I hurriedly suppressed the anger in my heart from nowhere, and said to the housekeeper with a smile.
"Yes? That's good. You're resting here, your friends will be back in the evening, and if you're bored, you can help them think of something first, they seem to have something to frustrate them. Seeing that I was fine, the housekeeper packed up her things, gave me a word, and walked out of the room, but her words were like a thunderbolt, which broadened my mind at once!
Yes, without my strength, I can still use my wisdom to help everyone!
Thinking of this, I can't help but secretly annoy, after being a killer for so many years, I am used to solving problems by the most direct and violent means, but I forget what I am best at, it is really stupid, when a killer is regarded as a muscular stupid!
I can do what I want! People are not around me, but it allows me to move without constraints, and I think I can do a lot of things.
I jumped out of bed, got dressed, and slipped out while the housekeeper wasn't paying attention to her chores.
The bustle of pedestrians on the street made me a little uncomfortable, and I did a slight chest expansion exercise to get used to the clumsy air of London in this era, and grinned.
Professor Moriarty, who has heard of the name for a long time, is not a talented boy who came to visit......
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London's East End, a traditional 19th-century British ghetto and Conan Doyle's most dangerous area of foggy London, is home to narrow streets, dense houses, and a large number of poor people, immigrants and idlers who sell their coolies for a living. Stealing, robbing, murdering...... It's a common thing here, and in fact, it's from this area that Jack the Ripper came from, and I'm in that place right now.
As soon as I stepped into this street, I clearly felt undisguised hostility, countless ragged idlers squinted at me, the people here are all local snakes who have been in this area all year round, and any outsider who enters here is as conspicuous as a sheep breaking into a wolf pack, and will naturally be ostracized by everyone here.
Walking down the sewage-strewn streets, I could feel the shadows of a myriad of cowering, greedy, cruel, expectant eyes sneaking into me. The reason is simple, because I am an outsider and a child.
Because it is a child, and it is a child who is not guarded by an adult, so, in this chaotic place, it can almost be said that it is the lowest existence, although I have only been here for less than half an hour, I am sure that at least no less than ten people have been secretly calling my attention. The reason why no one blatantly stood up was just because I didn't know my identity, after all, the clothes on my body were much better than theirs, which made them feel a kind of unconscious awe when they were used to looking up at the status of big people and being lowly. Clothes, in this era, are a symbol of identity, and my appearance can be regarded as handsome, although I have black hair, but I have red eyes, and my skin is fair, which is completely in line with the characteristics of Caucasian nobles, maybe in their eyes, I am a big family sneaking out to play. And that's what I want. If they don't think that way, I'm in this kind of place, and it's hard to get out of it.
What I'm wearing now is not what I wore when I first entered the game, but the high-end goods that I bought at high-end clothing stores with the money I had, and high-end goods that only the aristocracy could afford, and I was glad that the currency of this game world was changed to Japanese yen instead of pounds, and I had just enough cash on me, although not a lot, but it was more than enough to buy a set of clothes.
At some point, the bustling noise on the street gradually subsided, and people's eyes were focused on me, a child. They were all waiting for me to move, for me to do something or say something, to judge if I was a fat sheep they could rob. If they judge that I am only the son of a merchant, or even the son of a minor nobleman, and believe that they will not hesitate to rob me of my belongings, and use me as a "meat ticket" to extort a sum of money from my family, the only thing lacking here is the outlaws.
"Hey, you two!" After a long search, I finally chose who I was looking for.
β...... Huh?" two men crouching side by side in front of me heard my voice and looked up at me.
Wooden, hungry, greedy, cruel, cowering...... Everything I wanted could be found in them, and a look of satisfaction flashed in my eyes.
"Don't you hear me, you stupid asses, bitch, you're a bug in the sewers!I'm dirty to talk to you!" I raised my chin and looked at them with my nostrils, insulting them unceremoniously in an arrogant tone, with a naked contempt that a dog could understand.
As soon as these words came out, the whole street fell silent, staring at me, the arrogant little kid of Pea.
The two big men in their thirties were stunned for a moment, and then anger rose in their eyes, but before they could ignite, they disappeared in a flash, followed by that kind of cowardly and flattering eyes.
"Hey, this little master, what kind of stuffy are you doing with us, the villain's life is very cheap, if you are angry, go back to the noble lord to find small trouble, and the little ones can't afford it." One of the big men carefully complimented me with a flattering smile.
In fact, if they really come to rob me, I will really be finished, and I can only let them do it, but the long-standing class ideas, coupled with the preconceived subconscious that I have imposed on them, intentionally or unintentionally, and my kind of behavior that no one in the eyes of the upper class of the British aristocracy, have succeeded in making them think that I am a little ghost from a big aristocratic family, but no one dares to offend.
"Don't be wordy, young master, I secretly ran out of the house to play today, and I want to find you two to lead the way, the benefits are naturally indispensable to you, how about it?" I said to the two of them with a big grin.
Hearing my words, the two of them invariably lit up in their eyes, and hurriedly said to me: "I can do it! I can do it! My name is Devon, as long as you give the little one a bite of rice to eat, the small two hundred catties of meat will be sold to the young master!"
"My name is Simon, young master, and I am willing to serve the young master. β
I pretended to be disgusted and waved my hand: "Get out of here, who cares about you useless things! Just use you for a day, if you want to reward money, come with me, listen to me." I said as I walked forward.
"Yes! Yes! The little one understands! hehe!" the two of them scrambled to bow their heads and compliment, feeling the jealous eyes of the people around them, and the two people behind me straightened their chests, revealing a proud look of a villain.
Both of them are more than 1.9 meters tall, because they often work as coolies, and their bodies are also very strong, which invisibly scared off a lot of coveting eyes, but this is not enough, although most people have stopped peeking at me, but it is obvious that there are still several unkind eyes that refuse to leave my body.
Realizing this, I deliberately walked in front of me with an arrogant attitude of no one in my eyes, and said loudly to the two people behind me: "Follow the young master, I definitely don't have to lose, do you know who the young master is, you two fools!"
"I don't know. The two shook their heads in tacit understanding.
"Look what this is!" I shook my hand and threw a bronze badge back, on which a white rose stood out.
"This is the family emblem of the noble lord, right? But I don't know what this family emblem is called. The two people in the back stared at the four bull's eyes, looked at the badge desperately for a while, and muttered for a while, before one of them muttered.
"Sure enough, it's a fool," I rolled my eyes and said, "See clearly! This is the coat of arms of the White Rose family! My uncle is the Duke of York! The Duke of York knows! Only the second son of the royal family can be knighted! My uncle is the third in line to the throne of the royal family!"
As soon as these words came out, not only the two people behind me trembled, but also the sound of people talking to each other suddenly appeared around me, and the malicious eyes that had been lingering on my body disappeared suddenly. Sensing this, I couldn't help but smile secretly.
The badge was made by a craftsman before I came here, and although the master was startled to learn that I was going to make a copy of the white rose badge, the craftsman took over my business when I offered to make a badge that was sixty percent similar and distinctly different in some places. In my previous life, I knew a friend of the York family, so I was very familiar with his family crest, so this family crest was made by craftsmen under my guidance.
Although it is just a clumsy imitation, a knowledgeable person can see through it at a glance, but it is enough for me, I just want to use this thing to deter some young people, and how can they at the bottom of the society know how the subtle design of the badge is different? This is enough to deceive people.
As I had expected, the two men behind me were completely intimidated by my badge, and no one in the whole street dared to glance at me again, and my purpose was accomplished.
"Master, where are we going now?" After learning my "true identity", two of my men became even more flattering to me.
"When I go to the casino, I always hear the adults say how interesting the casino is, so I want to see it, young master. I paused slightly, and then raised my voice, "You should know what big casino is here, right?"
"This ......" Simon hesitated, not daring to say anything. If he took the Duke of York's nephew into the casino and let the Duke of York know about it later, he would probably be in danger of losing his life.
"Why? I don't know?" I pretended to be displeased and frowned, "I don't know the casino, what do I want you to do?!"
"Don't, don't, young master, I know, I know. Compared with Simon's scruples, Devin seemed even more boneless, bowed his head and said to me: "I know there is a big casino in front, please come with me." β
The reason why I have to go to the casino is because I need money, I need a lot of money, and without money, I can't do anything, and I am looking for these two bodyguards just to ensure my safety in the casino, lest I win money in the casino and be robbed by thugs as soon as I get out of the casino.
As I saw with Conan in the bridge club before, the casinos of this era are still only in the most basic state, only poker, dice, pai gow and other four or five kinds of gambling equipment, and the means to prevent cheating can only rely on the small gangsters under the casino owner to go back and forth to monitor, such a casino, for me, is like a bank that opens the door to me and allows me to take money, you know, in my previous life, I was jointly rejected by the world's four major casinos.
The casino is not surprising, and the yen is also used, under the leadership of Simon and Devon, I specially found some medium-to-lower size casinos to enter, and I won two million and left, never greedy, so that I could evacuate safely without attracting anyone's attention, the big guys don't look down on a little money, and the little gangsters, with Simon and Devon, the two big men as cover, plus the name of the York family as a cover, but also smoothly solved, after visiting seven or eight casinos, I quickly gathered fifteen million in my hands, and the time, it was only noonγ
"Money! That's a lot of money......"
"God, I've never seen so much money!"
In the rooms of the small hotel, Simon and Devin looked at the boxes of money piled up, their eyes full of greed, and the light of a beast appeared.
"Hmph, it's so rare and weird, no wonder you can only survive in a place like that stinky ditch. I snorted, interrupting their thoughts.
"Goo!" Simon swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pulled his eyes out of the money with difficulty, and looked at me attentively: "Young master, this money ......"
"Don't worry, I'll give you a part, this little money, young master, I don't care about it. I snorted disdainfully and said.
"That's that, that's. Devin bowed to me again and again: "How can the young master be as ignorant as us poor people, hehe......"
"I still have something for you to do, and when you are satisfied, I will give you a large sum of money. "I sat on the couch, crossed Jiro's legs, and pointed at the two of them with my chin.
"Young master, even if you tell me, the villain will definitely help you do it properly. The two said in unison. If at the beginning, the two of them were just taken by my nonsense "life experience", then now, the two people who saw the money have been completely enveloped by me with money, as long as they give them money, I like even if I want them to kill, they will not hesitate.
"Good. I sat upright, leaned forward slightly, crossed my fingers on my chest, looked at the two of them with burning eyes, and in my red pupils, there was a strange light: "Young master, I want to play a game now, these money are bets, if you win, these money are yours." β
"Yes, young master. "The two of them looked at me, no, at the money, and looked more humble.
"How long have you been here, and are you familiar with all the walks of life in the area?"
"Of course, young master, we grew up here, not to mention the casinos, brothels, underground banks, and even the sewers on the street, we know how many rats there are. The two of them patted their chests and assured me.
"Good. First of all, I think I need some firearms, well, maybe some explosives......"
Yesterday I was a little dazed, but I still remember some of the things, such as today, Professor Moriarty would publish a murder message to Jack the Ripper in the newspaper. Devon and Simon took my orders and went their separate ways, while I stayed in my hotel room and waited for news from them. The newspaper that Devon had bought for me was on the table in front of me, and the information about the murder was easy to find, or rather, Professor Moriarty seemed to think that he had eaten us, so he did not bother to hide his murderous intentions, and directly published his orders in the newspaper. It reads like this:
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Tonight I went to clean the stage of the opera house.
MtoJ is nothing more than what Professor Moriarty meant to Jack the Ripper, and the so-called opera house, a little reading of the newspaper, you will know that there is only one opera house with a public performance tonight - the Royal Opera House in Warlootha, and the actor is Erin Adler.
Erin Adler I know that in Conan Doyle's pen, Erin Adler is the only woman who has made Sherlock Holmes suffer, and the only woman who has made Sherlock Holmes respect and awe. Although there is no indication in "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" that there has been any ambiguous relationship between Erin Adler and Mr. Sherlock Holmes, but when it comes to the woman who has the closest relationship with Sherlock Holmes, it must be Erin Adler......
Well, if that's the case, the plan would have to be revised again. Thinking about this, I feel a little troubled. Even though I knew that this Erin Adler was just a fictional character in the game, even though I knew that she was just like my mother, even though I knew that she was just an NPC and had no consciousness of her own, I still couldn't put my mind to her safety, just as I couldn't let go of the real reason in the first place.
She looked just like my mom, and that reason alone was enough for me to protect her from harm.
I carefully sketched the prototype of the plan in my mind, perfected the details of the plan little by little, checked the loopholes in the plan over and over again, and before I knew it, the sun outside the window was gradually setting in the west, and Simon and Devon had completed their tasks and returned to the hotel.
"Are you back?
"Well, it's all done according to the young master's wishes, this is a gun for you. Devon respectfully handed me a small pocket pistol, and I glanced at it, the caliber was very small, and the range was estimated to be only ten or twenty meters, and if I didn't hit the vital point at close range, I couldn't kill anyone at all. Fortunately, although the gun is small, the recoil is almost equal to none, but it is not dangerous to be inaccurate.
"Young master, we've almost spent all our money. Simon said with a bitter face.
"What are you afraid of spending money, even if it is all spent, with my uncle Duke of York here, are you afraid that there will be no money for you!" I glared at Simon, and suddenly found that Simon and Devin had come in, and there was another person I didn't know, wearing a brown coat with a few patches, and a certain shabby dogskin hat, standing silently behind Simon and Devon.
"Who is he?" I asked, pointing to the man.
"Oh, he's Big Brother John, the boss of this area, I heard that the young master is going to play a big ticket, and Brother John also wants to play for the young master, by the way, make some extra money, we are looking for arms dealers to buy guns and explosives, all of which are the threads that Boss John pulled for us. Devin rushed to explain to me, a flattering smile on his face.
"Yes," I beckoned to John noncommittally, "come here." β
"I don't know what to call this young master. The big man named John walked up to me and bowed to me with a humble smile on his face.
"You don't have to know my name, if you complete the task, I won't be in debt," I frowned and waved his hand to interrupt him, "So, what can you do for me?"
"As the two of them said before, there are a total of 23 streets in the East End, and I am the boss of this street, and whatever you want to do, as long as you are on this street, I can do it for you. But with all due respect, you seem to be doing more than you can play, despite your young age......" John looked at me with a slightly playful smile on his face.
"You're a smart guy. I smiled.
"Thank you for the compliment, young master, it's a great honor. John smiled at me as well.
"It's a pleasure to talk to smart people, you come here, I have something to ask you to do, I can't let those two fools hear......"
"Oh?" said John, with a look of interest, as he leaned in front of me.
"All I have to say is ......," I said, leaning close to his ear.
"Poof!"
With a slight muffled sound, John looked at me with wide eyes of disbelief, his eyes full of horror, but soon, his constricted pupils were dilated.
"Bang!" John's bulky body threw himself on the dusty floor, splashing up a puff of dust, blood, slowly flowing out of his temples and turning into a puddle of red, viscous liquid on the floor.
"Shhh Talking and laughing about killing people, and only a child under the age of ten, this kind of scene is really terrifying.
"Smart people don't live long, and my subordinates don't need smart people. I said lightly and put the gun away. I just need a dog that doesn't think, only listens.
"What do you see?" I said, looking up at the two of them.
"Mmmmmm
"This room is too dirty, let's change the room, as for this corpse, who knows who did it, after all, he is the boss, so many enemies, right?" I smiled and looked at the two of them.
"Mmmmmmmmmm
"Good. Hehe. I smiled with satisfaction.
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PS:It's been a long time, everyone.,I'm sorry to disappear for so long.,Hawkers,Anyway, it's still updated.,Last night, the network cable went on strike.,It's not my fault......
Answering a friend's question, I don't know how to typeset or anything, we have always used txt to write things.
Anyway, I'm glad to see someone ask me for questions, but I'm embarrassed to call me Helenin......