The man was the one Xiaolan had just mentioned, and their English teacher, Judy San Timilion, had short straight blonde hair and wore a pair of old glasses.

Xiaolan and Yuanzi soon noticed her as well. Judy didn't seem to want to reveal her identity as a high school teacher here, so she led the group around the corner before talking.

After a brief introduction to Conan and Kaedehara, Ran and Sonoko then ask Judy how she came to such a place.

"You come to this arcade every day after class?"

Yuanzi was a little surprised by the answer.

“Yes！ The video game is really exciting! Judy seems to be a fan of games, "In the United States, the video games imported from Yuben are also very popular, and there are long queues every time, and sometimes there is no queue! ”

"That's why I came to be an English teacher, because I can enjoy fun video games every day!"

"But you're so serious in class..."

"If something goes wrong and I'm fired, I'm finished, and it's very, very difficult for foreigners to find a job in Yuben." Judy put her index finger in front of her mouth and made a secret gesture, "So what I'm doing here, please keep it secret, don't say it!" ”

"But, that's cool!"

"yes!"

Xiaolan and Yuanzi are surprised that the usually serious English teacher has such an unknown side, and Judy replaces Yuanzi as a real "old horse" and takes Xiaolan and them to play a nearby game console.

This is a first-person virtual fighting game in which real-life moves are reflected to the game character through a sensor device, and the pain of being beaten is also transmitted to the player. But these are still relatively rudimentary.

"Her shooting moves seem to be very professional." Over there, Xiaolan listened to Judy's introduction to the game, and Kaedehara whispered to Conan.

"yes." Conan nodded, "But she often comes here to play games, and she's an American, so it's normal for her to be professional in shooting action." ”

There's no way to argue with that.

However, this is actually because Judy is an FBI agent.

Kaedehara thought to himself. But he couldn't explain why he knew, and he didn't have the idea of being a prophet, so he didn't go on.

There is no need to say either.

On the other side, Xiaolan had already put on headphones and started the game. Except for the sneak attack of the other party who didn't talk about martial arts at the beginning, Xiaolan almost pressed the other party to fight.

"That's amazing!"

"Of course!" Yuanzi crossed her hands on her hips and looked proud, as if she was praised by Judy, "Xiaolan, she is a karate champion!" ”

At this moment, Xiaolan threw a heavy punch, and the opposite character fell to the ground.

"Great!"

Xiaolan was very happy to win the game, but she was a little embarrassed by the compliments of several people, so she planned to get up and change people to play.

That's when she noticed that someone had joined the fray.

"What is this?"

"It's a challenger," Judy said, "and it looks like there are other players coming to challenge you." ”

"Huh? Are you sure? ”

"Hmm. Be careful," Judy said, looking back at a machine behind her, where a young man was sitting, and making a defiant gesture to them, "He's a great master..."

The game began quickly.

Kaedehara also looked at it seriously.

In fact, he still remembered that the first encounter with Judy might have a case, but he didn't remember the details.

What's more, with Conan here, cases can happen every day.

In the game, Ran encountered a major challenge.

The other party seems to be very good at this game, and Xiaolan quickly falls behind, and she persists for a while with her strong karate strength, but in the end she still regrets defeat.

"It's a pity..."

"If you lose, get out of the way, little sister!" The man behind him took off his helmet and stood up, he called Kengo Oto, "That golden throne is my exclusive seat..."

"What did you say?" The other party was very rude, and the garden was very dissatisfied, "Xiaolan, do it again, go and take revenge..."

"Impossible," the voice came from the side, speaking to the staff member named Jun Dejima, who was retrieving coins from Xiaolan's machine, "because he not only uses his fists and feet, but also uses the four buttons on the handles of both hands to exert the strongest power." ”

"It's the first time you've played this game today," he said to Ran, "it's impossible to win..."

Kengo Oto looked very impatient, urging Dejima Jun to leave quickly, and at the same time sat in the seat where Xiaolan had just left.

The garden, who also wanted to experience it, had to leave with everyone stupidly, "That guy is so angry! ”

"Because everyone calls him Rice Flower Caesar, that's why he's so arrogant, but in fact, he's just a gangster."

A middle-aged man sitting nearby playing a game said, his name is Toshiji Emori, "He seems to have joined a certain gang group recently, so it has intensified, and even I have suffered from it..."

Toshiji Emori seems to be very optimistic about Xiaolan, who only regretted defeat for the first time when he played, just like a special NPC who hopes that the brave will defeat the evil dragon, and teaches Xiaolan the experience of the game.

He saw the game from the big screen on the wall, which, according to him, was usually just a display screen, and once the game was in challenge mode, he could see the game on the screen.

As he introduced, Kaedehara noticed another man walking towards him, looking to be about thirty years old. Toshiji Emori also introduced that this is Shimizu Takaho, who is known as the "Rutas of the Cup", and it seems that he has an agreement with Kengo Oto to challenge him.

There aren't many machines in this game, and now that there are no slots, Judy plans to play another racing game on the sidelines.

Sonoko wasn't very interested in racing, and he had a little itchy hands just after watching Xiaolan's game, so he pulled Kaedehara and ran back to the previous ordinary fighting game console.

The game here is over quickly.

The battle was neatly solved by the garden, and Kaedehara followed the garden back to Xiaolan and Conan.

However, the two are not watching Judy's racing game, but are watching the battle between Takasu Shimizu and Kengo Oto on the screen not long after the first day.

"What a fierce battle!"

"Really!"

Xiaolan and Yuanzi sighed, and Conan nodded in agreement on the side. Kaedehara didn't think so.

It's not so much intense as it is one-sided, like the game he just played with the garden.

He was a little impressed, so he glanced over to Kengo Oto, who was across from Judy.

"Sister Xiaolan," Feng Yuan gently pulled Xiaolan to attract her attention, "How did that big brother become so vegetable, didn't he just win Sister Xiaolan?" ”

"No," Ran explained, "he's leading now..."

Kengo Oto often uses the character of Caesar, and challenger Shimizu Takaho often uses the character of Rutas. On the screen, Rutas is being beaten by Caesar.

But Sora wasn't here just now, so it's normal to not know this...

Xiaolan thought to herself, but after being reminded by Kaedehara, she still glanced over there.

The garden on the other side did the same, and by the way, he complained:

"You're embarrassed to talk about other people's dishes at your level, and you don't even know the game characters, you see—huh?"

They were already very close to Kengo Oto's machine, and they could see it directly from this side, but they didn't pay attention to it just now when they were on the big screen.

And when I looked at it, the screen on Kengo Oto's game console showed the character of Caesar.

Since this is a first-person virtual fighting game, this means that he is actually using Rutas, a defenseless character who is beaten on the big screen.

As if thinking of something, Conan ran in that direction.

After taking a closer look, Conan's face changed slightly, and then he shouted, "Sister Xiaolan, call an ambulance!" ”

It seemed that something had happened, Xiaolan subconsciously took out her mobile phone and prepared to call the police, and then she thought that Conan was calling an ambulance. But despite this, she shouted both.

But Kengo Oto stopped breathing in the next moment.

Judy, who was playing a racing game on the sidelines, also noticed the movement, stopped the game, and walked over to Conan. The on-screen game seems to have been aborted, and the time limit is quickly outrun.

The arcade was in a mess.

……

"Die in a video game battle?" The Twilight Police Department, who arrived quickly, was a little surprised, "Really? ”

"Well, we watched them fight on that screen." Xiaolan explained, "In the middle of the game, we found that he was not using his usual character, and when we looked closely, we found that he was unconscious..."

"Not necessarily." Conan looked serious, "It's possible that he lost consciousness before the game started, and he didn't have much to fight back from the beginning." ”

Judy looked at her with some surprise.

"He's probably poisoned, probably with a syringe or something," Conan continued, "and, don't you think it's strange?" Why do they swap roles for battle? ”

This kid seems to be very unusual...

Judy thought to herself, and looked at Conan carefully.

It's rare to see a child as smart as this.

And, to be honest, the kid named Kaedehara Sora next to him also looked very unusual, and when such a thing happened, he behaved very indifferently...

On the other side, at Conan's reminder, the Twilight Police Department sent someone to retrieve the footage of the overhead camera to see who had approached the deceased in the time between the deceased sitting down and before the game began.

Shimizu Gaobao stood in the crowd with a gloomy face.

Since the death of the deceased was discovered in advance, he was actually the only one who approached the deceased.

Under the pretext of probing the deceased's combat countermeasures, he whispered to the deceased, and pricked the deceased in the armpit with a cigarette and a needle containing tetrodotoxin.

He also terminated the deceased's game at the same time, helping him start a new round and switch characters, trying to make everyone think that Caesar, the character who took the lead, was controlled by the deceased.

It's just that...

In this kind of place where a random person can find this kind of trick at a glance at the machine, there are all these bells and whistles, and you really have it.

Kaedehara thought to himself.

But in any case, his first meeting with the FBI ended smoothly.

(End of chapter)