Conan Rick's Investigator

Qin Zhibo first touched his hair, which was slightly curly, and he still had the face of "Michael Bay".

This thing should be used to scan the faces of the people playing in the cabin, so the appearance of the human skin mask can be inherited without revealing the identity.

What's even more comfortable is that when Qin Zhibo looked around, he found that his investigative vision was still effective and he could see the basic information above everyone's heads.

Bill Tuttle, Reverend, Social Credit 5000.

Walter Marsh Jr., company president, social credit 8200.

Suzuki Sonoko, high school student, social credit score 4800.

……

At this time, the young lady's introduction voice sounded in the game, and she introduced the five game scenes built into "Cocoon" in American English.

They are a Viking pirate, an off-road racer, a gladiator in the ancient Roman Colosseum, a treasure hunter in Solomon's Treasure, and a detective in the foggy London of 1888.

The game adopts a team-based clearance mode, which means that 50 players can freely form a team and overcome difficulties together.

This made Qin Zhibo a little happy, and he quickly walked up to Bill Tuttle to start a conversation.

"Hello, my name is Michael Bay. Can we team up to play games together?"

Qin Zhibo's self-introduction was very much like that of a gamer, which surprised Bill Tuttle, who was not good at games.

"Can……"

Looking at Qin Zhibo's outstretched hand, Bill felt a little hesitant, but when he thought that this was a game, he still reached out to respond.

The two hands were clasped together, but the survey options that Qin Zhibo had imagined did not appear.

Can’t investigate?

Qin Zhibo held Bill Tuttle's hand for another two seconds, but there was still no investigation option.

At this time, Bill quickly withdrew his hand, feeling a little sad and distressed.

Why do some people always feel bad about their hands today?

"What game shall we play? You decide..."

Qin Zhibo handed the decision to Bill Tuttle. He looked at the promotional animations of several games and decisively chose the game project that looked the most stable.

"I'd rather play this detective game. I'm not very good at running..."

Qin Zhibo took a look and found that the other four games did indeed look like they were all about fighting and killing, and the off-road racing game was also bumpy up and down, which looked quite physically demanding.

Judging from Bill Tuttle's physique and the medication he takes, he probably wouldn't want to play such an exciting game.

"Okay, then we'll play detective."

Qin Zhibo is quite confident in himself. After all, compared to people of this generation, he has been exposed to games for a few more years and is more familiar with the game routines.

As long as I can lead this fat uncle through the game, I will be able to easily gain his favor, and then shaking hands with him in the real world will not be a problem.

The two of them established a team relationship, and Qin Zhibo looked at Suzuki Sonoko, who was a little concerned, to see if he could also lead this rich girl.

But Suzuki Sonoko had already chosen the game of the ancient Roman Colosseum, and was gesturing seriously at the air around her, looking eager to try and excited.

In this case, Qin Zhibo didn't care anymore and he and Bill Tuttle were the first to step into the stone gate of the detective game.

After Qin Zhibo and Bill entered the stone gate, little Walter Marsh, who stood out from the crowd, also cast a gloomy look at them.

He gave up the Viking pirate game in front of him and resolutely stepped into the stone gate of the detective game.

Chapter 519: Detective Game with No Cheats

In the light gate, everyone came through one after another.

Not many people chose the detective game. Including Qin Zhibo and Bill Tuttle, there were only six people.

Although people in this world admire detectives, they don't like to experience a detective game where the results are public.

According to the information previously released by Sindora Company, there will be two press conferences for this game "Cocoon".

The first press conference was held at the headquarters of Sindora in Boston, USA, and mainly invited adults to play games.

The second press conference was held in Japan at the request of Japanese investors to invite minors to play games.

So in essence, the difficulty of this game is designed for minors.

If these powerful people cannot solve the puzzles set for minors, they will be in big trouble and even affect the stock price of their own companies.

No one wants to see tomorrow's newspaper report: "Shocking! The CEO of X× Company can't even beat a children's puzzle game..."

Powerful people often like to set difficult questions to test other people's IQ, but they don't want their own IQ to be tested by others.

Bill Tuttle looked back at the people around him and said with some relief, "Are we the only ones here?"

But before he could finish his words, an extremely huge figure walked out of the light gate.

Little Walter Marsh stepped into the light gate, glanced at the surrounding environment with an extremely gloomy expression, and saw Bill Tuttle at a glance.

Bill's frightened eyes happened to meet the light gray pupil of Walter Marsh Jr. The color of the pupil was so light that it seemed to blend in with the surrounding white of the eye, appearing empty and creepy.

Bill was so frightened that his body trembled violently. Just as he was about to ask to change the game, the light gate closed and the game officially began.

Qin Zhibo glanced at Bill Tuttle and Walter Marsh Jr., and realized that the two men seemed to be mortal enemies.

According to the information Qin Zhibo has currently obtained, Walter Marsh Jr. should be from the Marsh family in Innsmouth, where the locals once believed in a god called Cthulhu.

And Bill Tuttle may be a member of the Yellow Seal Brotherhood, who worships the Yellow King.

Is it because of different beliefs?

Qin Zhibo felt a little puzzled and could only hope to ask Conan how he knew about Cthulhu after returning to Japan.

Just as everyone was getting familiar with the environment, a howling sound suddenly came from the night sky of London.

what--

The screams cut through the "dirty air" unique to London and reached everyone's ears, causing the seven players to shudder at the same time.

After all, Qin Zhibo had been on the battlefield many times, so he immediately knew that a murder had occurred. He immediately ran as fast as he could in the direction where the sound came from. The others reacted for a few seconds before they caught up belatedly.

Passing through a dark alley, a man in a white cloak was squatting in front of a corpse with a grin on his face, his hands seemed to be groping for something.

Kaito Kidd?

This game was designed by Yusaku Kudo, and it seems he had some battles with Kuroba Kaito's father.

Designing such clothes for the murderer is really a bit of a bad taste...

But this game should end as long as the murderer is caught.

Qin Zhibo thought of a way to break the deadlock, and stopped walking with his breath held. He wanted to sneak up from behind and give him a good kick in the crotch.

However, Bill Tuttle, who was running behind, saw the body on the ground and immediately screamed in fright.

"There's death, death!"

This cry directly alarmed the murderer who was still counting the spoils, and he began to run away with his 1-meter-long legs.

Qin Zhibo wanted to catch up, but found that the game seemed to have intentionally increased the difficulty of the game, making the player's physical data far different from that of the murderer. He was left behind after only two steps.

Even if Qin Zhibo tried to call out his system props, such as using [Gift of the Golden Tree] to improve his physical data, there was still no result.

Tsk~ Cheats are disabled...

Qin Zhibo returned to the body of the assassinated woman and found that even the corpse investigation could not be used.

This is understandable, because all of this is game data. In fact, the body does not exist, so what's the point of investigating it?

The crowd was still gathered around the body when an ordinary citizen came from the end of the street. His tall and narrow figure and the London serenade he hummed reminded everyone of his identity.

Bill Tuttle was about to reach out to call the game NPC to come over and help call the police when Qin Zhibo and Walter Marsh Jr. stopped him at the same time.

"Wait a minute!" x2

Qin Zhibo and Walter Marsh Jr. looked at each other. Walter Marsh Jr. raised his head and let Qin Zhibo speak first.

Qin Zhibo didn't hesitate and said directly, "We are all wearing strange clothes that don't fit this era, and we just happened to appear next to the corpse. If we really meet the police NPC, it will be difficult to explain it clearly."

"It would be even more troublesome if the police in this game were set up as our enemies."

At this point, Walter Marsh Jr. nodded and agreed: "The police can't be trusted..."

After hearing this, everyone except Bill Tuttle also felt that there was some truth to it. After all, even if it was proved to be a stupid decision later, the blame could be put on teammates.

Most people agreed to hide first, so they hid together in a haystack in the alley next to them, quietly observing their reactions when the police arrived.

Just as Qin Zhibo expected, passers-by called the police, and the ordinary patrol officer called Officer Lestrade.

After Lestrade arrived at the scene, he first checked the identity of the deceased, then ordered his men to block off the surrounding blocks, arrest all suspicious persons, and then slowly use the method of elimination.

This method of solving cases can be said to be very un-detective and also very unsightly.

"This makes this the third murder committed by Jack the Ripper. What kind of murderous demon is he..."

Lestrade was sighing beside the corpse, and Qin Zhibo suddenly felt that Bill Tuttle, who was hiding beside him, was standing up and about to cancel his stealth mode.

Qin Zhibo immediately reached out and pressed his shoulder, but Lestrade in the game had already heard the strange noise coming from the alley. He immediately stretched out his hand to signal the patrolman beside him not to speak, and walked over here while touching the revolver at his waist.

At this critical moment when he was about to be discovered, a patrolman ran out from across the street and shouted, "Officer Lestrade! Another dead body has been found in the Innsville neighborhood!"

After hearing the report, Lestrade turned around and followed the patrolman out of the scene.

Everyone waited for the police to leave before they emerged from the haystack.

"Mr. Bill, what happened to you just now?"

Faced with Qin Zhibo's questioning, Bill Tuttle hurriedly explained that he just wanted to find the police.

"As long as we can prove to the police that we are not the murderer, can we move freely?"

Qin Zhibo was about to continue explaining when a sharp fist shadow suddenly flashed by. It was Walter Marsh Jr. who punched Bill Tuttle in the face.

Chapter 520: Shooting Teammates

Walter Marsh Jr.'s punch hit Bill Tuttle's face hard, knocking Bill to the ground two meters away, covering his face in pain.

It seems that in order to make the player's physical sensation in the game world consistent with that in the real world and prevent heavy people from feeling "light", the game shapes the player's own body data according to their body shape.

In this way, a burly man like Walter Marsh Jr., who is over 2 meters tall, is like a little Superman with cheats in this game.

"What are you doing!"

Bill Tuttle covered his face in anger, the simulated pain in the game making him miserable.

Little Walter Marsh remained expressionless and said coldly, "This is just a punishment for betrayers..."

Bill Tuttle looked aggrieved and asked for help from the people around him, but no one spoke for him.

On the one hand, everyone had already established the rules of the game, which was not to call the police, but he wanted to break this rule.

On the other hand, a smart person would not choose to provoke a giant man who is more than 2 meters tall head-on.

At this time, Qin Zhibo took the initiative to stand up and smooth things over and change the subject, "This Lestrade's name seems familiar..."

Before Qin Zhibo finished speaking, a passerby player beside him excitedly explained that this was exactly the character in Sherlock Holmes, who often partnered with Sherlock Holmes and achieved many remarkable feats with the help of Sherlock Holmes.

Oh~ It turned out to be Inspector Megure...

Qin Zhibo remembered the positioning of this character, and also remembered that he did remember such a character in "Sherlock Holmes".

Before his Sherlock Holmes journey, Qin Zhibo had never seen the original Sherlock Holmes. He only relied on his memory of having seen the adapted version of Sherlock to fish in muddy water among a group of Sherlock fans.

After a while, several people who had seen Holmes summarized the information they had obtained and the next steps.

First of all, the background of the game is the Jack the Ripper case that took place in the real world in London in 1888.

Secondly, the game combines reality and literary works, and characters related to Sherlock Holmes are also incorporated into it.

Finally, since this is the world of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, they can go directly to find Holmes, a powerful NPC.

"But... where is 221B Baker Street?" one of the players asked a very realistic question.

Qin Zhibo subconsciously turned on the navigator in his brain, but was surprised to find that this system function could still be used.

The electronic map clearly showed that their current location was in East London, while Baker Street was in West London.