Chapter 129
The black mist surged fiercely around the high-rise building, vaguely turning into the shape of a skull, roaring upwards, and then turning into the shape of a knife, which chilled people's hearts.
Conan secretly thought something bad. Although he didn't understand what was going on, but driven by his innate sense of justice, he couldn't sit back and watch the crime happen, and subconsciously wanted to rush to the tall building.
But those short legs couldn't help but froze before they could even run a few steps.
Because not far away, there were a few whistling sounds, and a large group of people teleported over, and then gathered around the entrance of the high-rise building, transforming into a crowd of onlookers, looking up at the floor shrouded in black mist, and started to comment:
"Wow, with such a strong criminal atmosphere, there must be a serious case in this office building. No wonder my stand-in led me to teleport here!"
"The crime fog has appeared, and the color is still so dark. It seems that the murder case has not escaped, and even the vision of a dead skeleton has appeared. If it is a shocking murder case, there must be at least several victims. This time the editor should I won’t complain that my reporting isn’t exciting enough.……"
"The crime fog mainly lingers on the thirteenth floor, where the crime scene must have been. The crime fog vaguely resembles a knife, and the murder weapon must be a knife. However, with a case of this scale, the building will probably depreciate a bit. Awesome……"
"I don’t know what the murderer’s stand-in ability and killing methods are, but it must have taken a lot of effort to create such a large-scale crime fog and come up with a seamless method of committing the crime. I wonder if the police will announce the method. Really. Want to study hard……"
Conan was silent, feeling very complicated. Unexpectedly, in the sixth changing world line, even passers-by could jump frames and observe cases by looking at the air!
The onlookers surrounded the entrance, and Conan wanted to squeeze in, but was stopped by one of the passers-by, who then educated Conan earnestly:
"Children, you are still too young. Even if you are watching a murder of this level, something might happen. Even if you want to watch the fun, you should start with ordinary cases.……"
What can Conan say? He can't reveal his true identity and tell passers-by that the shocking murder case that shook the world at the Yoneka Town Amusement Park was planned by him. In terms of crime and suicide qualifications, you, the onlookers, don't know that. How many ranks higher?
Therefore, Conan finally suppressed his inner sense of justice for the time being and decided to observe it first.
These passers-by were really talkative. Conan stood behind the crowd and listened, and he also collected a lot of information about the new world line.
In this era of great substitutes where everyone has a substitute, many social features are indeed very different from before. First, it is difficult for crimes to be as hidden as before. The bigger the crime, the easier it is to inspire some dissidents. Like, at this moment, this could be a murder involving several lives, and the vision of the birth could really be seen from a few streets away.
Conan can understand this. When the winery came to kill him, the strange phenomena in the sky and the earth were really visible from hundreds of miles away. It is not a problem if this setting continues in the new world line.
Second, criminal behavior is difficult to conceal, but it does not mean that criminals cannot succeed, or that they cannot escape after succeeding.
The more sophisticated and secretive the criminal methods and plans are, the easier it is to trigger a special phenomenon called crime fog. This crime fog is like a barrier, possessing the treacherous power to confuse everything and conceal the truth. Criminals are also affected by it when they are in it. Its blessing.
For ordinary people, once they go deep into it, their minds will be confused and confused, which is very dangerous. At worst, they may misjudge the truth, and at worst, their lives may be in danger. Only those with outstanding minds and clear wisdom can walk in the fog of crime. , peel off the cocoons, unravel the fog, find the truth, and uncover the criminals.
Third, the passers-by are able to jump frame and move. Although they have avatars, skills such as frame skipping movement cannot be used whenever they want. Only when their avatars are pulled by specific events at a specific time can they use this skill. In other words, it cannot be said that they can use the magic power of teleportation, because they were forced to move by the substitute.
Conan is more confused about the third point. Some of these passers-by are reporters, some are real estate agents, some are reasoning enthusiasts who want to learn how criminals commit crimes (!?), and there are also guys who just like to watch the fun, and so on. In fact, they have nothing in common. Conan really can't figure out why their substitutes were pulled and moved here.
It can't be a crime and we need some onlookers, so here they are!
Obviously, the rules for the forced teleportation of a substitute did not seem so joking. Soon, Conan found common ground through the chatter of these people. These passers-by who teleported were more or less the same as those who teleported. It is related to this building, and many of them have even been to this building.
Based on his past reasoning experience, Conan instantly understood that not all of these people were more or less related to that case, so they were moved here!
However, thinking of this, Conan couldn't help scratching his head, because he remembered that when he solved the case in the past, it seemed that the people around him were basically related to the case, but the appearance of those related people would be more natural. This is what it is like now, forced teleportation!
But no matter what, Conan's professionalism is still at work. He just listened to the few words of these related people, and still vaguely inferred some outlines of the case.
It was probably a shady president who opened a shady social animal company, led a few shady executives, and did a lot of shitty things, such as forcing overtime and bullying in the workplace, which led to the death of employees in the company, and contract fraud, which resulted in... Bankruptcy of cooperative companies, etc., anyway, it is the kind of thing that gods hate and ghosts hate.
The thirteenth floor is where the black-hearted company is located, and now the fog of crime has appeared on a large scale. It is estimated that the black-hearted president and the black-hearted executives should have cooled down. As for the criminal suspects, it is not too much to say, not too much. Quite a few, at least the passers-by were there to watch. Because of the connection, there were actually more or less suspicions.
For some reason, Conan felt that this victim template seemed quite familiar. It seemed that in the cases he had handled before, there seemed to be quite a few victims like the president.
But no matter what, although Conan suppressed his curiosity, after listening for a while, he still subconsciously used his brain to think about the case, and then walked towards the crime scene unknowingly, but before Conan could get closer , he was grabbed by the collar from behind and lifted up!
"Kid, don't get close to the crime scene shrouded in fog of crime. It's very dangerous!"
Conan's body stiffened suddenly, because this voice was not unfamiliar to him. He turned his head slightly and found that it was Mouri Kogoro who teleported from nowhere.
Conan subconsciously looked around and found that Maori Lan was not there. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief. However, Mouri Kogoro
's mysterious appearance still shocked him, but he quickly realized that times have changed!
Whoops, police car���Sora teleported over, and Officer Memu and others got out of the car.
When Officer Megure and others appeared, the surrounding onlookers exclaimed:
"Unexpectedly, the famous brother, Officer Xiamumu, personally took action. There will be a lot of fun to watch!"
"Even Detective Maori, the crime breaker, is here. This murder case is really interesting!"
Conan discovered that Officer Megure's popularity seems to have risen a lot compared to before. As soon as he appeared on the scene, the surrounding onlookers couldn't help but shout, as if Officer Megure was some big star, and even Mouri Kogoro. This fool seemed to be much more popular than before. At least his name could be called correctly by passers-by.
Officer Megure seemed relatively calm about the situation, but Mouri Kogoro was a little carried away and put Conan aside. , then he put his hands on his hips and laughed:
"The great detective Mouri Kogoro is here. Don't worry, this mysterious crime will be revealed soon."
Officer Megure was not as showy as Moori Kogoro. He looked at the building surrounded by strange phenomena, took a deep breath, and said:
"Such a phenomenon must be an extremely difficult case. According to the usual practice, these onlookers should be controlled first, and then ask, Brother Maori, you and I can go in and take a look at the scene."
Conan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the first thing Officer Memu did when he arrived was to control the onlookers without even entering the scene of the crime.
What was outrageous was that the onlookers seemed to be used to it and quickly cooperated.
Because Conan was also watching, he was naturally included, but he was lucky. A policewoman came to him and found out that Conan was a child. She was afraid that he would be scared, so she explained gently.
It turned out that since the world changed from a month ago. , after entering the era of great substitutes, things like crime and solving crimes have also undergone great changes.
Let’s not talk about crime, but take solving cases as an example. Officials have discovered that onlookers will be forced to teleport to the scene of the crime, or More or less, they are related to the murderer or the victim, or they are people who know some clues related to the case. The murderer may even be hiding among them. Based on this, the process of solving the case will naturally change.
Conan is not aware of the case.
He didn't know the victim or the murderer.
Even when he couldn't tell more basic information about himself, he could only smile bitterly in his heart when asked by the policewoman, and then make up a lie.
The information heard from the onlookers was put to use at this moment, and it was possible to fool the policewoman.
In other words, as a child, Conan was ruled out of suspicion from the beginning.
He heard him say information and other The National People's Congress was pretty good, so the policewoman didn't ask any more questions.
At this time, Officer Megure and Mouri Kogoro had already gone up. Although Conan was a little itchy due to the burning of the detective soul, he couldn't follow him at the moment. I went up to join in the fun, but I could only squat outside the building and watch. Then, maybe it was a coincidence or some kind of necessity. Suddenly, the criminal fog surrounding the high-rise building suddenly spread, even swallowing up the onlookers like them.
The dark fog of crime rolled in, and Conan felt like the world was spinning for a while. Then he came back to his senses and found that he had entered the thirteenth floor of the building. Not only him, but all the onlookers, including many police officers, also appeared. Here.
Although Conan didn't know the reason for this, he was secretly excited. He didn't expect that he could participate in the New World Line case in this way. But except for him, the onlookers all looked ugly.
"Oops, the crime fog has expanded, and the level of murders has risen further. Even us onlookers are in danger."
"Didn't you expect that even Brother Xia and the Sinner were under the control of the criminal? That's really too bad."
Before Conan had time to inquire more, he heard a loud bang, then turned his head to look, and couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.
Densely packed silk threads were stuck to the wall, criss-crossing, and weaved into a network, and then, a The big spider, which was only two people tall and had sharp blades on its arms and legs, was running and jumping on the silk network.
Officer Memu put one hand in his pocket and held his hat in the other, posing in a rather enchanting posture. Behind him, A humanoid avatar whose body was made of multi-faceted crystals emerged and punched the blade spider in a series of blows:
"Ola, Ola, Ola... The criminal has not yet revealed his true identity, so he will be captured without any hesitation!"
The big black spider also kept waving its sharp blades, arms and legs, forming continuous slashes and fighting with the series of heavy punches:
"Useless, useless, useless... You idiots, as long as you can't see through my criminal tricks, I will be invincible in this criminal fog!"
But at this moment, Officer Memu shouted:
"Brother Maori, haven't you found the clue yet? Hurry up, this criminal's stand-in is getting stronger and stronger!"
"Brother Memu, if you hold on a little longer, I'll be fine in no time."
Far away on the other side, Mouri Kogoro was trudging through the cobweb-intertwined office, looking for something.
Naturally, the blade spider would not sit idly by and suddenly jumped towards Moori Kogoro.
Moori Kogoro was frightened.
After a jump, a stand-in appeared behind him, but the look of the stand-in was very weird.
It was a man with arms and legs and ligated muscles...
waiting for a bottle of wine!
, shaky steps, and then started a drunken fist fight.
The posture was very standard and the power was quite good.
The flying blade spider was actually repelled by it, but the wine bottle stand-in won with one blow.
, instead of pursuing the victory, he staggered, holding on to the wall and suddenly spit out"rainbow", and finally leaned against the wall and slowly fell down!
He drank:"Brother Maori, your stand-in is so drunk.
Did you drink with your stand-in again yesterday and you drank too much? Please, when I did a physical examination on your stand-in before, I found that your stand-in's endurance is due to long-term You are an alcoholic and have already fallen to E-.
You still dare to let your substitute drink.
Be careful that your substitute will die suddenly!
"
Mouri Kogoro looked embarrassed and could only respond:"Don't worry, brother, I will ask the substitute to stop drinking and exercise well when I get back.……"
Seeing this scene, Edogawa Conan found that his mood was very complicated. The"solved case" after the world line changed was obviously more dynamic and more intense than he expected. As for Mouri Kogoro, although the world line had changed , but he hasn’t changed, still so inconsistent and unreliable.