When Dr. Asasa comes out, turn right and cross Kudo-ta, where Joker lived, which was supposed to be a very close road.

However, considering that Gray Yuan and Karasawa might notice his movements, Conan finally chose to take a long detour, from the other end of the street, to No. 22, where the "Amamiya Mansion" was hung.

So when he knocked on the door of the neighbor's house, Tang Ze, who stood at the door to greet him, was in a mood that was indescribable.

Do these detectives have to turn so many corners in their minds and fight wits and courage with the air?

He originally wanted to ask Hoshikawa or Akemi-san to open the door to pick up people first, and then climb over the wall to change clothes after a while, but he saw Conan walk out the door, and then turned left without hesitation and began to detour......

I don't know you detectives very well.

The onion man, who also had the title of detective on his head, sneered unconsciously, and led Conan to the meeting room: "It seems that you have received my gift." Do you like it? ”

“…… The things you give are inevitably too valuable. Feeling the power of the bag falling on his shoulders, Conan replied with mixed feelings.

Even if we don't discuss how the book came about, if the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet Letters" had been through a formal auction channel, he would now be carrying hundreds of thousands of pounds on his back.

What's more, the symbolic and commemorative value it represents is difficult to estimate with money.

"It seems that the answer is very like? That's good. ”

Following Joker into the living room and taking a seat on the sofa, Conan's gaze involuntarily looked in the direction of the hallway.

"What's wrong? Curious about my house? Getting up to get a drink in the refrigerator, Tang Ze looked in the direction of his gaze and raised an eyebrow.

"yes, I think I've only been to your reception room and war room, well, the war room only once......" Conan confessed.

"That's the war room of our monster thief group, it's an internal facility, it's good to show you once, don't get an inch, detective." Sticking the cold coffee to Conan's forehead, Tang Ze blocked his sight, walked to the opposite side and sat down, "At this time, I ran to find Gray Yuan first, and then came to me, it seems that you have something very important to tell me." ”

Conan, whose whereabouts were broken, was silent for a moment, knowing that his route of action around the big circle must not have escaped Joker's eyes, and changed the subject: "You're really staring at that side all the time......"

"If I don't stare at it, someone else will stare at me." They have a high-powered telescope upstairs, how to say, it is very Shiliang's demeanor, "What about you, did you find the desired result in her?" ”

"I have some initial ideas." Pulling open the ring of the can, Conan felt the cold droplets on its surface, calmed down, and began, "When I first heard your name, I wondered why you called yourself a 'strange thief'. ”

He also opened himself a bottle of soda Tang Ze, and the action of pouring a drink into his mouth stopped.

It's really smart, Conan, this guy caught a very core problem at once.

Monster of the Heart...... Actually, it can be regarded as a name written on the face of a riddle.

They are really strange thieves, and they are really "stealing hearts", a kind of psychologist at the physical level.

It's just that you can't see people who know the world, and it's hard to imagine what this operation is.

"Especially when it comes to sending out advance letters." Thinking of the photocopy of the teaser letter he saw for the first time in Mori Kogoro's fax machine, Conan pursed his lips, "The tone is still very pretentious, and the style of acting is also very high-profile. What you do is very different from those thieves who target high-value works of art and other property, but you have to call yourself a thief...... This bothered me for a short time. ”

Tang Ze chuckled twice: "Your brain is quite flexible, detective." ”

"After seeing a few of your actions, I have found that there are some targets to whom you have not sent a notice letter at all, but have achieved similar results. If the purpose of the notice letter is to make a name for themselves, then why are there such cases as 'Tatsuya Kimura' and 'Tetsuharu Tomizawa'? One of them is the lead singer of a famous band, and the other is the head of the zaibatsu who is not inferior to the Suzuki Foundation, and they are far more famous and more likely to cause a sensation than the people you have sent the teaser letters.

"So, my guess is that it's not that you're picking a target to send a notice letter, it's that the target itself is a condition that predestined you to declare 'stealing', otherwise you won't be able to achieve your goal."

Tang Ze bent his eyes and smiled, nodded and admitted: "You're right, at some point, 'declaring' is a necessary step. ”

The detective who got a small score also smiled and took another sip of coffee to calm down.

"I've figured out some patterns of your actions, but I still have a lot of questions about the title 'Monster Thief of the Heart'." Picking up his priceless school bag, Conan patted the heavy bag and continued, "Until I received the book...... I feel like I've found the truth. ”

"I'm very confident, Detective-kun, it seems that Gray Plains told you something important?" Tang Ze lowered one of his eyebrows and made a funny expression.

Don't say it, Tang Ze is also quite curious about how Conan speculated and made up his brain.

The monster thief of the heart is, after all, the ability to be materialistic, and it is a difficult task to find an explanation for it with logic and scientific thinking.

"I asked her for verification, and combined with the content I got myself, I think so." Holding the schoolbag in his arms, Conan put on a classic thinking pose and began to tell the ideas he had summed up, "More than ten years ago, Tang Ze's parents were conducting research on cognition, and this kind of research was discovered and used by the organization, and it began to transform from theory to practical application. During this period, the organization developed many special drugs related to brain science, psychiatry, and other fields, and developed greater ambitions......"

Reasonable, and very realistic.

Aside from the effects of the strange extraterrestrial creature of the Chalice Shatter, Conan's statement is basically correct.

So Tang Ze nodded again and encouraged him to continue

"I never figured out why organizations are looking for all kinds of top programmers, and they will collect lists through leading companies in the field of game development like Manten, are they trying to make big games? Even if they really want to make a big game, there must be a ulterior motive behind it. Flipping through the news page he found in Izu again, Conan stared at it for a moment and showed the contents to Karasawa, "Linked to 'Cocoon', linked to the organization's research, linked to the book you gave me...... I started to wonder, is the organization trying to get the power out of it? ”

Tang Ze was stunned by what he said.

"Brain science, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, plus cutting-edge computer science, if the intersection of these contents is the research discipline of Tang Ze's parents, then your power, the power that the organization wants to obtain, should be something like this, right?"

Conan flips to the front of the phone screen, which is a news video of the groundbreaking new virtual game console "Cocoon", which is about to hold a press conference in Tokyo.

In the video, Thomas Sindora stands in the spotlight and announces the launch of the company's new products with great pride.

“‘…… It is an unimaginable miracle that can dominate people's five senses and make people experience a world that is exactly the same as reality in the game! Ladies and gentlemen, it will bring you the perfect virtual reality experience, and even beyond reality. I can't put it into words, imagine that just lying in a 'cocoon', you can go anywhere in the world, you can go back to the ancient past, you can go to the infinite future, you can get precious treasures, you can sit on the ideal life. If cinema prolongs our lives by three times, then the 'cocoon' will reshape your life, and its boundaries are the boundaries of human wisdom and imagination. This is not a second life for an individual, friends, this is a new ...... of human civilization.'"

(End of chapter)