Chapter 3 Welcome to the World of Cognition
Early the next morning, Lai Qixiao was sent to high school by Dr. Asa to report. As a juvenile offender under probation, he does not have the right to choose his own high school. And in the end, the high school that kindly accepted his "trouble" was the Teidan High School, which was also located in Rice Flower Town.
"My name is Laiqixiao, I just transferred here, I hope to get along with you in the coming days!"
In Class B of the second year of Didan High School, Lai Qixiao stood on the podium and introduced himself, and the eyes of the audience mixed with fear and curiosity kept rolling on him, thinking that his previous conviction had already spread.
While the high school students in the audience were looking at Lai Qixiao, Lai Qixiao was also secretly looking at them. His gaze quietly moved away from the girl wearing a headband under the stage, and drifted to the girl on the other side with a beautiful face and a little worry on her face.
Suzuki Sonoko and Moriran, so the vacant seat next to it is Kudo Shinichi's?
Lai Qixiao retracted his gaze and walked to the empty seat in the back row according to the teacher's arrangement.
Prima facie, this high school is not much different from the Didan High School in the anime and manga, and only Conan-related characters appear. Characters such as a volleyball teacher who physically punishes students, a bald headmaster with a big belly, and a student president who is serious on the outside and wild on the inside.
He opened his school bag and was about to dig out the books to pack the students, but at this time, he found a strange note book in his school bag
The sticky note is the size of a palm, with a strange eye pattern printed in black ink on the cover on a red background, and nothing else special.
"This pattern...... Isn't this the 'otherworldly navigation app' in P5? In Persona 5, the protagonist relies on the otherworld navigation app to travel to and from the inner world of human beings, stealing the "heart" of the wicked and making them repent. And this notebook may be a substitute for the navigation app in another world, after all, there is no concept of smart phones in the Kexue world at present, although in the case of this world, it is about "one or two months later" smart phones will be popularized......
So the question is, how should this note be used? Lai Qixiao spread the note book on the table, and pressed the ballpoint pen in his right hand uneasily. In order to steal a person's "heart" and make them repent, the first thing you need is the target's name.
Perhaps, I need to write the name of the wicked person who committed the crime? Lai Qixiao thought back to the method of using the app in the strange thief group in P5, and made such a speculation.
Wicked man who committed crimes, what happened after Conan became smaller? It seems to be a case of a rich girl being kidnapped...... No, this case should have been solved last night.
So what's next? Which female star does you have a relationship with in your impression...... Right! It's Yoko Okino! It was the suicide of Yoko Okino's boyfriend!
However, what is Yoko Okino's boyfriend called?
Lai Qixiao, who finally saw hope, was immediately deflated, although he was deeply impressed by this case, but not so deep as to write down the names of the prisoners. And without a name, there is a high probability that you will not be able to use this note.
I'm really a fake fan...... He listlessly wrote the line "Yoko Okino's boyfriend" on the sticky note, and sure enough, there was no response.
"Alas, in this era of underdeveloped information technology, it is still too difficult to find the love history of a popular female idol, and you can only rely on some gossip tabloids and lace news...... Well? Lace news?! ”
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After school, Lai Qixiao bought a gossip magazine at a newsstand near the campus, and just flipped through it on the side of the road. However, his goal is not to find Yoko Okino's love history - there is no gossip about this at the moment - but to find the name of another female star.
That's right, what Lai Qixiao wants to find is the actress who tracked Yoko Okino in the original case.
"Debuted at the same time as Yoko Okino, her popularity is lower than her, and she doesn't have a good relationship...... Got it! The position of the heroine of the series was replaced by Yoko Okino, and you're right! ”
Lai Qixiao's gaze stopped at a photo of a brightly dressed actress, with her name written under the photo - Yuko Ikezawa.
"So now, let's try it!" Lai Qixiao took out a sticky note and wrote the name "Yuko Ikezawa" on it nervously.
At the moment when the last stroke fell, Lai Qixiao suddenly felt dizzy, forcing him to close his eyes to ease his chaotic perception.
And when he opened his eyes again, the world changed again—the originally bright and clear sky was now hanging low, and there was no sunlight to see, and the terrible wind whistled in all directions, and the sighs of men and women were mixed in the wind, echoing in the heavens and the earth.
Lai Qixiao stood on the side of the dark and bumpy road, looking at the lifeless crowd in front of him whose faces were covered by darkness, and he was also affected by this gloomy environment for a while, and couldn't help but droop his shoulders and feel depressed.
But it didn't take long for him to come to his senses again, and he was steadied by the wind and sighs, and was no longer swayed by the outside world. He looked down at his palm, where the sticky note book that had been lying in it had somehow been replaced by a map with a stark exclamation mark and a red mask sign drawn on it.
Sure enough, the way to use the sticky note is to write the name of the target on it. So, this should be the 'cognitive world'! Lai Qixiao waved his fist excitedly, his guess was not wrong!
"In this way, the exclamation mark on this map should represent the location of Yuko Ikezawa, and this mask symbol is my location."
"So, the next thing I have to do is to find the heart of Yuko Ikezawa who inhabits here?"
Lai Qixiao looked around again, and saw a lonely phone booth on the dim side of the road, only there was no cloud, and it was a bright scene. Lai Qixiao folded the map and walked in the direction of the phone booth.
As he expected, when he entered the phone booth, he was back in the bright real world.
"I see, something that is very different from the surrounding environment like this is the 'exit', so you don't have to worry about getting lost in the cognitive world." Lai Qixiao used the notebook again and re-entered the cognitive world, ensuring that he had no worries about retreating, and planned to further explore this unknown world.
Lai Qixiao took out the "weapons" prepared in advance from his schoolbag - a sharp dagger and a pistol, in the real world, they are just ordinary toys, but in the cognitive world, they will become truly lethal weapons.
According to the memory in Laiqixiao's mind, there is a monster called "shadow" in the cognitive world, and he has not been able to awaken his power like the original protagonist, so he can only rely on such a weapon to protect himself.
"If I can find Yuko Ikezawa, maybe the 'talent that can subvert everything' that Eagle said is hidden in me will awaken...... No, even if I can't wake up, I'll have to find her! ”
"No way, what I hate the most is that the boat goes to the bridge and doesn't do anything!"