Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 955 Hidden Boss

   Jiang Xia still looks like his soul, which is different from the "Jiangxia Tongzhi" that players are usually familiar with.

   Just now, players have only seen "Professor Moriarty" on the second floor of the cafe next to the crime scene of "Jack the Ripper". At that time, the window was not cleaned, it was covered with a thin layer of ash, and it was a little reflective.

   So now, players are hard to recognize at first glance.

  Suzuki Sonoko didn't have any troubles in this regard: "You are..." She was stunned, but recognized it as soon as possible, and said in surprise, "You are the mysterious person on the second floor of the cafe!"

  —When he first entered the game, Suzuki Sonoko listened to Conan Haibara and the others for an analysis, and the impression that "the mysterious man is the player's helper" still remains in his mind.

   "Good evening, lovely lady." Jiang Xia acquiesced to Sonoko Suzuki's words. He took off his hat, turned it over and pressed it on his chest, and bowed shallowly in an invisible range, with a hint of restraint that an elder should have in his politeness.

   Then he handed his hat to Miyano Akemi who was coming up, ignoring the chaos in the poker club, came to the long table unhurriedly, turned around and sat down.

   Under the watchful eyes of the players, either nervous or excited.

   "Moriarty" raised his head, looked at the group of strong NPCs surrounding the player, and smiled: "The next time is the time to meet guests. Staying here will only disturb my rare guests."

   "I'm very sorry, we'll go now." The strong men bowed deeply, seeming to be a little scared that they had caused the boss's dissatisfaction.

   Soon, they exited the house neatly, the last one to leave, even picked up the kicked-off door from the ground, clicked it on, and was very dedicated.

  …

   After the idle people left.

Jiang Xia looked at Conan, his eyes fell on the wine bottle he was holding high, and he tapped on the solid wood table with his fingers, and said kindly: "Okay, return the wine. Excellent guests shouldn't destroy the owner's belongings—then It's a good wine carefully selected by Moran, don't break a piece of her heart."

  Noah mingled with the players. Hearing this sentence, it looked at the wine bottle and felt a little sad: it was obviously the wine it had worked overtime and rubbed out. This is called the blood and sweat of working ghosts...

  …

  Conan did not notice the complex expression of "Hideki Zhuxing" in the blink of an eye.

   His attention at this time was all on the black-haired young man who suddenly appeared at the table.

  Conan: "..." Although the other party hasn't reported his name yet. But no matter from the plot, or the attitude of Colonel Moran and those thugs...

  Conan couldn't help but jump out of a name.

   - Moriarty.

  "..." If this is the case, then this "criminal mentor" is too young. Removing his mature attire, he almost seems to be classified into the ranks of "will be asked to show ID when entering the bar"... Conan can't help thinking to himself: Why did Dad and Dr. Ali design such a young "Murray" "Professor Artie" come out?

   Or, maybe this is the setting of Noah's Ark?

   What is the purpose of this?

  …

  Conan thought, jumped off the table with the bottle in his hand, and walked carefully towards Moriarty.

   But in the end, he couldn't get close to the young little professor - "Colonel Moran" stopped in front of him halfway, blocking his approach, and took the bottle of red wine from Conan's hand.

  Conan hesitated for a while between "cheeky and close observation" and "there are not many people, or a little more", and finally chose the latter.

   - If it's really just a game, or just himself in the game, he might risk the former.

  But now, the clearance of this game is about the lives of at least 50 people...

  Conan glanced at the gun that Miyano Akemi had pinned to his waist, but said nothing.

   After handing over the wine, he walked to the stool on the other side of the long table, jumped on it and sat down, and looked at "Professor Moriarty" across the long table, and said something secretly in his heart.

  …

  Across the table, Miyano Akemi picked up the bottle of wine and glanced at Jiang Xia, a little hesitant.

  "..." Although she is dead, but because she has a younger sister who is also underage, Miyano Akimi always feels that she should not drink if she is under 20 years old.

   But after thinking about it, it’s in the game anyway, so drinking too much won’t hurt the liver or brain. And in reality, the masters of the psychic masters don't often drive their vests to buy wine, and they can't stop them...

   After a second, she silently opened the bottle cap and let the wine flow into the glass in a proper manner.

   Jiang Xia watched this scene with satisfaction.

   He picked up the wine glass, looked at it, smelled it, and finally took a slow sip.

   Then, under the anxious gazes of the players but not dare to speak directly, he looked at them leisurely: "What's the matter with me?"

  Conan tried his best to euphemistically say: "Did you deliberately put the 'Jack the Ripper' that caused social panic recently on the street in order to cause chaos?"

   "That's right." Jiang Xia put down the wine glass and glanced at the player with interest. He remembered the appearance of Kudo Yusaku, and smiled mysteriously at Conan, "But not all."

  …

  Originally, in the setting of Kudo Yusaku, "Jack the Ripper" is a dying perverted noble. Players and Sherlock Holmes will work together to find him and successfully clear the level when the noble repents before his death.

  …but now, this is Noah’s script.

   In this game, in addition to "wanting to restart Japan", Noah has another purpose - he wants to expose the fact that "Sindora is a descendant of 'Jack the Ripper'".

   So the character "Jack the Ripper" in the game has undoubtedly become the top priority.

  Noah therefore specially made a new set of settings for him.

   "Jack is a genius."

   Jiang Xia recalled the settings in the game and slowly leaned back on the back of the chair. He rested his elbows on the armrest of the chair, and folded his fingers in front of him, showing a nostalgic expression recalling something, "He's the homeless boy I picked up in the slum."

  Conan, Maurilan, Suzuki Sonoko: "…"

  ...Looking at a face about the same age as them and speaking in a tone of "grandpa who adopted a problem child", I always felt a little bit of a subtle sense of dislocation.

   But they dared not say it.

  This is obviously Moriarty's home.

   If the "Colonel Moran" with unknown force value was offended because of "questioning the professor's age and experience", causing them to be destroyed here, things would be troublesome - in my impression. When they were fighting together just now, Colonel Moran didn't do anything, but just watched from the sidelines.

   Explained with the idea of ​​​​the game, players secretly thought: This "Colonel Moran", who is said to have a very high force value, is probably a hidden boss.

   (end of this chapter)