Chapter 348 May You Be Reunited in the Afterlife
When "Cocoon" appeared, You did not pay attention to the introduction ceremony. Instead, he avoided the crowd and hid in an empty corner, carefully looking at the messages on his mobile phone.
What surprised him greatly was that the message was sent by Hiroki Sawada.
The content is very simple. It tells him that there is an office in the basement of this building where a murder is about to happen. If Youya considers himself a righteous detective, he must stop the case from happening.
Hiroki Sawada? Yuya's lips curled up in an imperceptible arc. The real sender of this message should be Noah's Ark, right?
Even if it is the world's leading artificial intelligence, it is only a ten-year-old's mind after all. Otherwise, how could it rashly let Yuya stop the case? Or use the name Sawada Hiroki.
The person who was killed should be Hiroki Sawada's biological father, Tadaki Kenmura, right?
Unfortunately, Yuya had no intention of rescuing Tadaki Kenmura from the beginning.
The simplest reason is that You doesn't know the other party. He has not even met Hiroki Sawada. Without any friendship, he has no obligation to help.
The reason I appeared here was to see if there was a chance to get Noah's Ark.
Another is that if they want to convict Sindoori, it is impossible to do so with the existing evidence, even if he is a descendant of Jack the Ripper.
Of course, this identity may bring some turbulence to his career, but as a monopolist in the United States' IT industry, he should have many means to deal with such a situation.
Besides...it's probably too late to go now.
Yuya tilted his head slightly and vaguely saw a figure flash past the entrance of the banquet hall.
That should be Thomas Sindorah who went to kill people, right?
Yuya is not familiar with this place, and it is impossible for him to take Kenmura Tadaki away before the other party. The simplest reason is that he cannot pass this level no matter what.
Of course, since he had received the message from Noah's Ark, he couldn't just sit there and do nothing; he had to go.
So, after the lights in the venue came on, he told Miyano Shiho that he wanted to leave for a while, asked a random staff member about the location of the basement office, and hurried over.
When he arrived at the door of the office, Youya saw a staff member knocking on the door.
"Director, Director, are you in there? Mr. Kudo wants to meet with you."
The staff member shouted loudly through the door, but got no response. Just when he was wondering, he saw Youya coming over.
Yuya took the initiative to ask, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Jiancun's office?" He glanced at the words on the doorplate.
"Yes, do you have something to do with the director?" asked the staff member.
Yuya nodded: "Actually, this is the case. I'm a detective. I just received a message saying that someone is going to commit a crime in this underground office, so I came to check out the situation..."
"Violence?" The staff member was shocked. Thinking that there was no response when he called out to the person inside, he hurriedly turned the door handle and found that it was not locked.
He opened the door forcefully and ran in. When he saw the scene inside clearly, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Director!"
Yuya followed him into the room and saw Kenmura Tadaki sitting sideways on a chair with one hand hanging limply. His chest was covered in blood that had already flowed onto the ground.
"Call the police immediately!" Yuya shouted, "By the way, I just heard you mention Mr. Kudo. Are you referring to Mr. Kudo Yusaku who is at the scene? Call him over too!"
"Ah, yes!" The staff member was extremely flustered. When he suddenly heard Youye's order, he subconsciously did it and ran out quickly.
Yuya turned around and looked at the dead Jiancun Zhongbin, and said silently in his heart: "I'm sorry, I hope you can be reunited in the afterlife."
Then he made the sign of the cross on his chest and prayed formally.
Soon, Kudo Yusaku rushed over. He looked at Tadaki Kenmura who was dead in the chair, his face full of shock.
"How could this happen?" He turned to look at Yuya and asked in a deep voice, "Yuya, what is going on?"
Yuya said solemnly: "I don't know either. I received a message saying that a murder would happen here, so I came to check the situation, but I didn't expect..."
Kudo Yusaku asked doubtfully: "Information?"
Yuya nodded, took out his phone, opened the message and handed it to Kudo Yusaku: "Actually, what I care most about is the sender's signature..."
Kudo Yusaku quickly browsed the message and stopped at the last signature. His eyes widened a little: "Sawada... Hiroki? How is this possible? Hiroki committed suicide by jumping off a building two years ago. How could he send you a message? Someone is impersonating you? But what is the reason for doing this?"
Yuya agreed: "I've seen that news too. How could a dead person send me a message? Someone must have used that name. I thought it was a bit suspicious, so I came here to check it out. And then I saw that someone was really killed."
Turning to look at the deceased, he slowly said, "This person is called Jiancun Zhongbin, right? He seems to be the director in charge of the development of the cocoon program?"
Kudo Yusaku nodded and said solemnly: "That's right, and he has another identity that outsiders don't know. In fact... he is Sawada Hiroki's biological father!"
"What?!" Youye turned his head in shock, his face full of disbelief.
"He is Sawada Hiroki's...biological father?"
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At the same time, at the other side of the venue, the three little brats from the Junior Detective Team were holding the super rare Kamen Ultraman Gold Card in their hands, trying to find someone to exchange it for the "Cocoon" badge that would allow them to experience the game.
"This is a really super rare Kamen Ultraman gold card!" Several second-generation brats looked at the gold card in the hands of Ayumi and the other two with envy on their faces, "It's no longer available on the market!"
"I want it so badly!" One of them immediately expressed that he wanted it very much.
Mitsuhiko suggested: "You can exchange it with the badges you got from participating in the game!"
"But, I also want to play games..." The man hesitated, looked at the gold card, and couldn't help swallowing.
"You can play the game later, but if you miss today, you may never get this out-of-print Kamen Rider gold card again!" Ayumi said with a smile.
"What should we do?" Several people looked at each other, and after discussing for a while, they finally couldn't resist the temptation of the out-of-print cards and agreed to exchange them for the badges.
"Conan!" The three little brats came back excitedly, spreading their hands in front of Conan as if to ask for credit, "Look!"
"This is a badge?" Conan's eyes widened in surprise. "One, two... four in total? Where did you get them?"
"Hey, we exchanged them from other people!" Ayumi puffed out her chest proudly, then stuffed one of them into Conan's palm, "Here, this is yours."
"Me too?" Conan was a little surprised and a little touched. These little brats actually still remembered him. It seemed that his decision not to experience the game alone was the right one.
"Alright, please move to the Cocoon venue!"
Conan was about to follow the three little brats when he suddenly saw his father and Mouri Kogoro hurriedly leaving the banquet hall out of the corner of his eye.
The detective's intuition told him that a crime must have occurred, so he followed without hesitation.