Chapter 84

"Mr. Okiya! Sister Xiaolan! ”

The boy's voice echoed through the hallway at the entrance, "Come and see! ”

After waiting for the two people who were checking in other places to come over, Edogawa Conan hurriedly turned to the oil painting just now, and his voice was urgent, "I accidentally pressed a handprint on it just now......"

After he finished talking about what he had just done, he wanted to talk about his speculation again, but he saw that Mao Lilan suddenly showed a frightened expression, and the whole person took a step back, and Okiya's expression was a little more serious than just now.

？

Conan Edogawa turned his head and saw a line slowly emerging in the middle of the oil painting with his back to him.

You, yes, who?

"Portraits can talk?!" He was shocked, "This painting just swallowed my question mark!" ”

It's like a notebook made from a villain's soul slice in a certain book that can talk to people.

But soon, his hypothetical assumption, which was shocked and immature, was overturned.

The paint of the portrait writhed and recessed downward, revealing two more familiar words.

Is it Conan?

Conan Edogawa: ?!

He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he had seen this word, and it was ...... That's right! When the Amuro Detective Group fills out a questionnaire about the café, the popular clerk helps the other children write the names of the forms in the same handwriting as they did at the time.

This portrait is a conduit for communication with the two people in the other door!

Sensing this, all three breathed a sigh of relief.

It's certainly better to have a way to communicate than to know what's going on with each other.

I don't know how long this contact channel can last, but after confirming each other's identities, they quickly wrote down the clues about the Hall of Memories that the manservant had just revealed.

They don't have anything to do with the House of Memories here, I'm afraid the usefulness of this information has something to do with Ikekawa Na's side.

This time there was a long pause, and it was a long time before someone replied that they had already met it.

Seeing these words, Edogawa Conan's heart almost rose to his throat. After all, Toru Amuro is an undercover agent of the Japanese public security, and if he is noticed by Nai Ikekawa, who is now 100% a member of the organization, I am afraid that things will be very troublesome.

But now that the two people on the other side are there, he can't pass on the information that can't be seen by Ikekawa Na to ask if he has revealed his identity, so he can only suppress his worries for the time being, and write a few words similar to pay attention to safety and so on to end this topic.

"Looks like they're doing okay over there." Okiya's eyes drooped, he knew the real member of the organization better than the others, and quickly caught the emotion from the few short words written by the other party, and his expression relaxed, "Alright, boy, let's continue to check the ...... over here"

"Conan......" Maolilan's voice interrupted his unfinished words.

The long-haired girl covered her mouth, and a stammering voice came from below, "Just now, just over there, was there that painting?" ”

She was really afraid of this kind of supernatural thing, and when she turned her head and found the strange painting that appeared out of thin air, her hairs were about to stand on end.

Hearing this, Okiya and Edogawa Conan turned their heads together to look at the place where the girl's eyes were focused, and then they were stunned at the same time.

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"The ...... of the exclusive rights was scheduled to be held at eight o'clock tonight"

More than ten kilometers away from the venue, Zhu Fu Jingguang got up from the sofa, picked up the remote control and lowered the sound of the TV.

There was no way to pause the live broadcast, so he could only control his urge to blink and try to catch clues in the ever-changing images.

"In the face of this change, the organizers have been vague in interviews, and the on-site staff have not responded to anything."

As he spoke, the reporter who hurried to the scene to report turned the microphone at the middle-aged man behind him and asked, "Dr. Nozawa, could you please tell us from a professional point of view what would happen if the machine couldn't turn on automatically?" ”

"I can only say from the perspective of a doctor......," he frowned, his expression as solemn as the rest of the people present, "If they can't open it all the time, their consciousness will be connected to the virtual warehouse for too long, and I'm afraid it will affect the cranial nerves." ”

"Then if you force ...... open"

"Nope." The doctor sharply interrupted this sentence, "If it is forcibly broken, it will inevitably have an impact on the brain, and it is very likely to directly lead to brain death." ”

After saying that, he left in a hurry to check on the people trapped inside, and the reporter could only stop another staff member who was passing by in a hurry and ask the next question.

A little impatient with being pestered by several reporters, the researcher reached out and nodded his head, and there was a sense of impatience in his voice, "There are dozens of people's brains connected to this machine now, if they are forcibly disconnected now, the emotions and memories generated by those brains will be disordered, and then forcibly sent back to their brains, no one can withstand this impact, brain death is inevitable!" ”

"Then you didn't have any other precautions when you designed it...... Hey, sir? Mr. Researcher—"

Because of the participation of reporters, the whole scene was even more chaotic.

Seeing that the following reports began to introduce the trapped people one by one, Zhu Fu Jingguang frowned and took out a blank manuscript paper from the side, took out a pen and wrote the words of the researcher just now.

As soon as the first word fell, his thoughts kept diverging.

When the human brain is connected to a precision instrument, it can import consciousness out, just like extracting something from a USB flash drive - after all, the researcher just said that their current consciousness is in the same instrument, but if it is forcibly disconnected halfway, it is like pulling out half of the brain and forcibly cutting it off, half of the consciousness will remain in the instrument, and half will remain in the human body.

But after the consciousness is separated, it will not survive like the earthworm that has been cut, and those who lose part of their consciousness will be brain dead, so what will the consciousness that remains in the instrument become......

After writing this, the man frowned and looked at it several times, but it still felt too unbelievable.

Can today's technology really extract the human brain like a USB flash drive? But...... He always felt that a long time ago, in the safe house where he was in suspended animation, Columbeth's words had a deep meaning.

'Oh? You shouldn't know that the previous boss, the unlucky guy named Karasuma Renya, died of brain death. ’

Could Karasuma Renya's brain death have something to do with this kind of thing, but it was more than 20 years ago that he died, and it was really unbelievable that he was able to export his thoughts at that time.

He also had a lot of heavy information documents in his hand, and with doubts, Zhu Fu Jingguang put them all on the table and looked at them one by one.

The research on the human brain has been going on for a long time, and it seems that it is mentioned in high school textbooks, and he has been reading it from the earliest time, and he has been seeing sore eyes before closing his eyes and resting for a while.

According to the time, he had found something about thirty years ago, and there was still nothing particularly worth paying attention to......

"The ...... of the Ikegawa Chaebol"

Hearing the familiar surname, Zhu Fu Jingguang immediately opened his eyes and looked, on the news screen, the familiar black-haired man was lying in the virtual warehouse with his eyes closed, his brows furrowed uneasily, and he looked very unstable.

Looking at this face that he hadn't seen in a while, the man slowly exhaled.

He still hasn't figured out why Ikekawa Nai helped him fake his death at that time, and sent a girl out, just like he still hasn't seen through what kind of person the other party is.

His own tame described the other person as 'naïve and cruel', but he had been in contact with the man for a longer time, and he didn't agree with this idea.

Columbai's naivety seems to be reflected only in all new things, and his eyes when he looks at the landscape are different from those when he looks at people, the former is slightly bright, with a certain faint expectation, but when he looks at people, he is very gloomy and gloomy, and he has nothing to do with the word 'naïve'.

He didn't like each other very much at first, because he was very sensitive to emotions [gǎn] in his own experience, and sometimes the emotions in Columbai's body overwhelmed him a little.

It's as thick as a winter of snow.

It's exactly the same feeling as when I saw him in the video.

When he thought of the video he saw at the hot spring inn a long time ago, he felt his heart tighten, and an indescribable discomfort spread from his heart.

Speaking of which, since the death of his parents, he was adopted by the person who was already a boss at the time, and has been staying in the ...... since then Wait a minute!

Thinking of the dazzling word 'parents', Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly sat up straight, and even touched the information that had been read next to him because the range of movements was too large.

He hurriedly flipped out the book he had scheduled to read, and flipped from the first page to the back at a glance, only remembering to breathe when he finally found it.

[Yutachi Ikekawa, a genius researcher in biology and life sciences]

In the black-and-white photo, a woman with a cold face looks at the camera, and her glasses cover her beautifully shaped eyes, and even if she is wearing a white coat from the time of research, she can see that she is still charming.

Under the camera, she holds a small instrument in one hand, and the other hand subconsciously blocks her lower abdomen at the moment when the flash lights on, presenting a protective posture that is difficult to be noticed.

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked down.

[…… Surprisingly, her husband is a software designer, and they ......]

As if he had been struck in the brain by a bolt of lightning, he was stunned for a moment before he raised his head, and the news was still broadcasting things related to the venue.

Inside the venue, Dr. Nozawa walked out of the hall after being interviewed by reporters, and after confirming that the researcher had said that explanation to the camera, he avoided his eyes, took off his conspicuous white coat, and turned on his mobile phone before making the next move.

There is an email lying quietly on the SMS interface.

[Dad:

How are you doing? Sister Katori said that she could contact you tonight, and said that it won't be long before you can stay with me! Is it true? I really miss Dad. ]

The man's face softened suddenly.

But soon, he retracted his expression, and after giving a positive answer to the question in his heart, he deleted the text message and walked towards the control room more resolutely.

There was already a mess outside, there weren't many people in the control room, and after he came in under the pretext of being a doctor and observing the situation, the staff quickly gave him his place.

The man, who had already learned all the skills when he was scheduled, turned on the controller and quickly changed the code.

[Security settings.]

Auto-pop condition: Injured

change

Auto-pop-up condition: Death

OK]

After confirming that he had completed the last task, Dr. Nozawa completely relaxed, and he calmly restored the instrument to its original interface, and returned to the original hall after greeting the staff, his heart beating a little fast for a moment.

But compared to the other things that Columbeth had arranged for him to do, this plan was nothing.

After this adjustment, the rest of the people will no longer be able to pop out of the game and enter a safe space immediately after receiving damage from the virtual world.

However, there are also disadvantages, without this safety guarantee, death in the game corresponds to real brain death.

He walked to the virtual warehouse belonging to Ikekawa Na again under the pretext of patrolling, and his eyes under the cover of his glasses flickered slightly.

Regardless, he trusts Na Ikekawa, who made this plan and decision, even if the plan was already made two years ago...... When he hadn't lost his memory.

It was not advisable to stay here for long, and after pretending to check it, he continued to move on to the next virtual warehouse.

Behind the doctor, the brows of the person lying in the virtual warehouse furrowed a little, as if he was in great pain.

The forum that was very active day and night was still posting new posts on his mobile phone in his pocket, and in less than ten minutes, a brand new post was pushed up and became popular.

I seem to have entered a villa in a strange story! ]

[Woo woo woo is terrible, I went to the mountains with my friends today, and then rested in a small village nearby, there is a church in that village, it is said that it was built by foreigners in the previous period, and no one has been going for more than ten years, my friend has to pull me in to see, I didn't dare to move when I was on the second floor, but this guy actually said that he wanted to see the third floor, and let me wait here for her to run away!] Ran away——! ]

[I'll go, isn't this a standard horror movie start?!!] ]

[I've already started to make up for it!] The huge monsters roaming the villa are waiting for us idiots to eat for lunch! It's like weird talk or something! ]

[If it's weird, then should you add more hints?] Like that......

: Please do not stay in one place for too long, otherwise, you will bear the consequences. ]

[Ahhhh I was standing in this church just now, and I was going to get out of here.

[And this!]

: Be wary of friends who have been lost more than once with you. ]

[Ahhhhh

In the midst of an eager discussion on the forum, a tiny light invisible to the human eye flickered twice on the name of the popular post, and then converged into a ray of silver light and burrowed into the virtual warehouse where it was working next to it.

(End of chapter)