Conan Rick's Investigator

"Mr. Qin, didn't you hear any noise in the yard last night?"

"Forehead……"

Qin Zhibo was in a dreamland last night. Unless the noise outside was particularly loud, it could not disturb his deep sleep.

"I might be a heavy sleeper. What's that noise?"

Seeing this, Sugiura quickly smiled and waved his hands, "Forget it, since you didn't hear it, it's not a big deal anyway... Go ahead and do your thing."

There was an old man next door who played with explosives, and it was difficult to rent out the house here. Sugiura didn't want to scare away the tenants who had worked so hard to get in.

Even if the famous detective couldn't be scared away, he didn't want to make a big deal out of the tenant who made noise in the yard late at night and make it impossible for the tenant to continue living there if the problem wasn't serious.

……

Qin Zhibo said goodbye to the landlord and went to a nearby convenience store to buy some food, such as oden, sandwiches, etc.

He knew that Americans like to drink coffee in the morning, so he bought a big bag of instant coffee.

Back in the apartment in Mu Ma Zhuang, Qin Zhibo heard some noises coming from Akai Shuichi's room.

Although the sound was very slight, Shuichi Akai, who was unable to move around easily, could no longer be as calm as before.

"I bought breakfast and put it on the table."

Qin Zhibo shouted towards the door, then filled two cups of coffee with hot water and drank the coffee while eating a sandwich.

Standing in front of the living room window, Qin Zhibo could see Dr. Agasa's house on the other side of the wall.

Since the landlord's son has gone to school, Haibara Ai should have gone to school as well, and Dr. Agasa should get up.

Sure enough, after standing by the window for a while, he saw Dr. Agasa yawning loudly in his pajamas in front of the balcony.

Both of them are night owls in engineering, and they stay up until the middle of the night every day to conduct various scientific research.

Dr. Agasa is researching all sorts of inventions, while Haibara Ai is mainly responsible for the research on the antidote for APTX-4869, and occasionally helps Dr. Agasa.

However, in the morning, Haibara Ai usually gets up early, prepares breakfast, and then goes to meet up with the members of the Junior Detective League and go to school together.

Dr. Agasa is not good at cooking, and as he is old he can't stay up late, so he gets up slowly every day after Haibara Ai goes to school.

Looking at Dr. Agasa who had just woken up and was having breakfast, Qin Zhibo felt a little sad.

If only I had adopted Huiyuan Ai...

Haibara Ai is quite popular in the circle around here, and Cheng Shi has always wanted to adopt Haibara Ai.

But Haibara Ai didn't want to implicate Cheng Shi in the affairs of the Black Organization and kept refusing to do so.

But in fact, the last time the FBI used Chengshi Hospital as a base to detain Vermouth, Chengshi was already implicated.

But Vermouth did not try to take revenge on Cheng Shi afterwards. She probably thought Cheng Shi was a small character controlled by the FBI and was not worth mentioning.

Moreover, now that the organization has lost its mainstay, gin, it is not easy for the newly appointed Scottish whisky to become another "gin".

But what does Toru Amuro think when he learns that his former companions are now working for the organization?

His attitude is important now.

……

Qin Zhibo withdrew his thoughts, finished the sandwich in his hand, drank the coffee in one gulp, and came to the door of Akai Shuichi's room.

"I have something to do, so I'll leave first. The man you met yesterday will move in around noon or afternoon."

"you……"

Qin Zhibo wanted to say something, but his words stopped abruptly.

Although Akai Shuichi has lost his memory, he has his own judgment ability. He repeated it too many times, but it seemed that he was trying to brainwash him.

For this kind of person, if you don't restrict his thinking and actions, you can get him mental stability.

So when he left, Qin Zhibo did not lock the door.

As long as Shuichi Akai wants to leave, he can leave at any time.

When he arrived at the landlord's house in 201, Qin Zhibo handed his key to the landlord and told him that a dark-skinned young man would come to pick up the key today.

The landlord suddenly realized, "So Mr. Qin, you don't live here?"

"Well, I'm just renting a house for someone else," Qin Zhibo said comfortingly, "but don't worry, the person living here is my disciple, an amateur detective, and a reliable person."

After hearing this, the landlord finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s really not easy to find a reliable tenant these days.

If a murder occurs in the apartment, this apartment in a prime location in a wealthy area will become a worthless haunted house.

Their family still relies on this apartment to make a living.

……

After leaving the apartment building, Qin Zhibo went back to the office, fed Jerry, and took out a long-treasured floppy disk from under the floor on the third floor.

This floppy disk is the software that Taku Itakura developed for the Black Organization.

On the grounds that the software may affect the well-being of all mankind, Taku Itakura refused to hand over the software to the organization and prepared to flee overseas.

But before he could escape overseas, the killing buff from Rice Flower Town was stacked on him, and he was killed by his partner in an insignificant project 20 years ago.

Qin Zhibo used psychic skills and asked questions to the Pen Fairy to get the password to open the software.

When I opened the software, I found that it was a packet capture software that intercepts special signals on the Internet.

The software can grab a "green signal" from the Internet and put it on any device.

This green signal is the green tentacle that appeared in the game at the launch of the "Cocoon" game.

Itakura Taku called this strange green signal "Krasin".

At the final stage of the "Cocoon" game launch conference, Qin Zhibo gave the prop [Coin of Destiny] to Mao Lilan to use, and accidentally summoned the "King in Yellow", allowing all players to escape safely.

But Hiroki Sawada, who is an artificial intelligence, was not so lucky and was captured by the concrete tentacles of "Green Signal".

Qin Zhibo made a vow at that time that he must save Hiroki Sawada.

Although a long time has passed from then to now in Qin Zhibo's sense of time, in fact, the "Cocoon" game launch conference actually took place last week.

When taking the "Sunflower" flight back to Japan, Qin Zhibo asked Suzuki Sonoko about the repair status of the cocoon game console.

Suzuki Sonoko said that thanks to the overtime efforts of the Suzuki Group's engineers, the repair of the game program has been basically completed.

Unfortunately, even if the game is repaired, this next-generation full stealth game has been boycotted worldwide after the accident. It has been listed as a technologically immature product and cannot pass the safety tests of various countries. Its launch is even further away.

Therefore, the game project that the Suzuki Group invested heavily in can now only be provided internally to its own people.

Qin Zhibo plans to use the adventure game in "Cocoon" to restore the scene at that time, and then rescue Sawada Hiroki.

And today is the time I agreed with Suzuki Sonoko to "play games".

……

Half an hour later, Qin Zhibo drove to a nine-story blue-gray building.

Although this building is inconspicuous in highly urbanized Tokyo, it is indeed the R&D department building of the Suzuki Foundation.

It is quite good for a consortium focusing on real estate and tourism to build a building specifically for research and development.

Today is a school day and Suzuki Sonoko is not here, but a project manager comes out to greet Qin Zhibo.

"Hello, I'm the person in charge of the 'Cocoon' project. My name is Suzuki Shunsuke."

"Ms. Sonoko has already told us that you will be here to experience the 'cocoon' today. Welcome, welcome..."

When Qin Zhibo heard the surname "Suzuki", he was stunned for a moment, but then he thought, Suzuki is a big surname in Japan, and having the surname Suzuki does not mean that he is related to the Suzuki family.

Suzuki Shunsuke took Qin Zhibo into the elevator and went straight to the top floor, the 9th floor.

In the elevator, Suzuki Shunsuke introduced his identity. In addition to being the current person in charge of the "Cocoon" project, he is also a junior of the previous person in charge of the "Cocoon" project - Kashimura Tadaki.

At the last press conference, before the game officially started, Tadaki Kashimura was murdered by an unknown killer, and the murderer has not been found to this day.

But Qin Zhibo could probably guess that the one who tampered with the press conference was probably the Black Organization.

The people of the Black Organization have unknowingly infiltrated the Sindor Company, just to tamper with the press conference.

As the project leader, Tadayuki Kashimura is solely responsible for the safety and security of the entire "cocoon".

The undercover personnel arranged by the Black Organization, whether they use external devices to copy the core program of "Cocoon" or release viruses that attract green signals, will be discovered by Tadayuki Kashimura.

So the Black Organization's killer took the initiative and killed Kashimura Tadaki in the basement before the game officially started.

In addition, Sindora's chairman, Sindora himself, was killed in the control room, and other employees in the control room are missing.

The ultimate beneficiary of this incident is actually the black organization.

……

"We're here, Mr. Qin. This is our project research and development department."

Compared to the huge venue of the press conference, the R&D department is much smaller, occupying only 400 square meters.

But in fact, the Suzuki Group did not develop anything here. It mainly repaired the old technology left by the Sindora Company.

Since the bankruptcy of Sindora Corporation, Sindora's shareholders have collectively decided to mortgage the "full stealth technology" to the Suzuki Group.

Shunsuke Suzuki brought Qin Zhibo to the familiar "Cocoon" game console and introduced him.

"To prevent the situation we had last time from happening, we installed a voltage protection chip inside the game console. This ensures that the external power supply won't harm the player's brain, no matter what the situation..."

"This is hardware-level protection. Even an artificial intelligence Noah's Ark would be unable to break it."

Noah's Ark has disappeared from the Internet for some time, but engineers from the Suzuki Group still regard it as an imaginary enemy.

"In addition to the upgrade of the game console, we have also made new upgrades to the game itself."

"Now, the outside world can customize the physical values of players in the game. Currently, the data that can be adjusted includes strength, speed, and flight ability. This way, players can ensure their own safety when facing extreme situations..."

As he spoke, Suzuki Shunsuke felt that he was talking nonsense.

This is said as if knowing that something will happen in the game and giving players the ability to protect themselves.

Because the house may collapse, the developer asked the residents to practice the Golden Bell Cover and Iron Shirt in advance?

What the hell?

Who would dare to go in and play after that?

Just as Suzuki Shunsuke was about to correct his statement, Qin Zhibo laughed out loud with an open mind.

"Haha... In short, it's just like turning on God Mode?"

"God mode?" Suzuki Shunsuke was stunned for a moment, not understanding what it meant.

Qin Zhibo explained, "Having unparalleled strength and speed, and being able to fly through the sky, isn't that like being God? Isn't that God Mode?"

"If you don't want to include religious elements, you can also call it 'creative mode'."

"Oh~" Suzuki Shunsuke widened his eyes, his worldview was refreshed.

It turns out it can be explained this way...

The person who was most happy to learn that the game had added a new "God Mode" was naturally Qin Zhibo.

Although you can't add or delete items as you like in Minecraft, the buffs of strength and speed, as well as the ability to fly, are indeed a great help to you.

Coupled with the ability of the [Oath-Keeping Sword] to cut through evil demons, it can be said that he is sure to win this battle!

"Mr. Suzuki, please enable 'God Mode' for me..."

……

It will take some time to debug the game before it can be officially played.

While the staff were busy, Qin Zhibo quietly walked to a computer that no one was operating and plugged Itakura Taku's software into the host computer.

All the computers here use a network server. As long as one computer uploads and runs the software that captures the "green signal", it can ensure that the "Cocoon" game console can be infected again.

The "green signal" will not have much impact on people at one time when it is separated by a screen. After all, the last game screen is public.

After transferring the software and clicking to run it, Qin Zhibo put away the floppy disk.

At this time, a staff member came to inform.

"Mr. Qin, the 'Cocoon' is ready."

"Okay, here I come."