Chapter 440 The Calm and Reliable Phantom Thieves
"I originally wanted to come to see the scenery of the island, but now I am." Looking sadly at the endless blue sea and blue sky outside the ship, Mao Lilan shook his head, "In the end, I can only The two of us are going back first."
"Yes..." Conan yawned widely and stood on the edge of the railing with the same sad look on his face.
After a trip to Moon Shadow Island, apart from deciphering the truth behind the Aso family’s tragedy twelve years ago, he didn’t seem to be able to actually save anything or prevent anything from happening.
Obviously they received Asai Narumi’s letter before everything happened. However, when they landed on the island, everything fell one after another like dominoes. , not to mention the time left for them to stop, not even much time to react.
Then came the intervention and takeover of the Phantom Thieves of Heart... Then again, how did these people get to the island? Did you really swim here from Tokyo?
Judging from the number of people who came to surrender yesterday, in just two days, at least 70 people changed their minds - this was the number when the two of them boarded the ship to leave the island. I don’t know. Whether there will be an increase after that, it will definitely be a lot more.
"Uncle, how long will they stay on the island?" Thinking of this, Conan yawned again, "Shouldn't they wait until all the cases are settled?"
"It shouldn't be the case... After all, they are all surrendering and rushing to say their faults. Well, there is nothing wrong with the detectives and police, right?" Mao Lilan said in an uncertain tone.
That's true.
Recalling the grand occasion when the threshold of the office was stepped on, Conan twitched his lips, feeling indescribably speechless.
These monster thieves of the heart only change their minds. After the change of heart, how to deal with the aftermath and how to investigate are all left to the police. It has a sense of deja vu that they went to a restaurant to eat, wiped their mouths and left after eating. .
"Well, it's rare to have a vacation and be at sea again, so let's slowly enjoy the scenery on the sea." Mao Lilan patted her cheek and tried to cheer up, "It's a pity that I don't have a suitable fishing rod. Otherwise, you can try sea fishing..."
Conan let out a breathless breath.
Besides water, it is also water. What’s so beautiful about it?
Oh, if you are on a boat, the sea breeze is indeed much stronger than on the shore, and your breath will be filled with the smell of salty sea water. It can barely be considered a feature.
If he had known this, he might as well have stayed on the island.
It is very likely that the Phantom Thieves of the Heart are still busy dealing with the reform of the island residents - the information he obtained from joker mentioned that "declaration" is an essential step for them, and I must Change of heart can only be effective if you have the self-awareness that you have become a target.
They sent a warning letter to the entire island. They will not leave until they have completed all the changes in the entire island.
Staying on Moon Shadow Island might be able to stop Joker and the others, understand the progress, and maybe make some new discoveries about the Phantom Thief of Heart...
For example, the part that Conan was puzzled by - how did they get to the island? Did they really swim all the way there?
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“Huh, I’m so exhausted.” Closing the fan in her hand, Miyano Akemi straightened her waist and sighed when she heard the creaking sound on her neck. , "How many targets have we accomplished in the past two days? It makes me dizzy."
"A total of 121 people." Noah's slightly electronically synthesized voice sounded, and the small robot was in Miyano Akemi's figure appeared next to her, her voice paused, she glanced at Asai Narumi, who was standing behind with a bow and arrow, and added, "Excluding Lunar, there are 120 people."
"Even me. Do you want to be counted?" Asai Narumi relaxed his hand, and the humanoid familiar holding the flute disappeared, and the black fox mask covered his face again.
"Of course forget it. You are the biggest shadow leader on this island." Tangze put down his phone after fishing for a while, raised his eyes and glanced at his teammates who had finished the battle, "A normal public hall is not like this. ..."
As he spoke, Tang Ze raised his eyelids and looked at the cracked ground below. As the shadows completely dissipated, the dry vines had lost their nutrients.
After observing this fragment of impression space, Karasawa realized the undesirability of Asai Narumi’s violent massacre method.
The special feature of this impressive space, apart from Narumi Asai guarding the exit, is the root system of plants crawling all over the ground.
If you just kill a certain shadow, there is a high probability that the previous cycle of the gravekeeper's hemp growth will be repeated - kill a certain shadow, the shadow will fall to the ground, be absorbed by the roots and swept into the ground, and regenerate. Send out new shades...
To put it bluntly, this strange plant that breaks through the ground and is closely integrated with the entire land is the distortion of the collective subconscious itself of "The Shadow of Moon Shadow Island".
This land did not become a place that breeds evil for no reason. Yueying Island has become what it is today. The root cause is those industries and the various black and gray fields that accompany them.
If they were all legal and compliant, they wouldn’t be called black or gray.
"If it has been taken care of... Now, is this the only thing left?" Tangze knocked on the scabbard twice, jumped lightly across the ravine on the ground, and walked towards the remaining giant rhizome on the ground. , "It's time for everything to see the light of day again."
"Yes, see the light of day again." Looking at the dark green trunk that was as entangled as tree roots, Asai Narumi took a breath and pulled it apart with force. The bow and arrow in hand, "Everything should have a beginning and an end... let me do it."
Even if he had been the gravekeeper of Moon Shadow Island for so long without knowing it... he had reason to bury it in person.
No one raised any objection to this, they just watched Asai Narumi silently.
Breaking quietly, Asai Makoto drew the bow and arrow in his hand to the fullest state. The mask on his face flickered, the familiar's figure flashed behind him, and the tip of the arrow in his hand burned. There was a bright flame.
The pain of the Aso family, the tragedy of more families...let it end here.
After closing his eyes, Asai Narumi loosened the tight bow string.
"噌——" The sound of the bowstring playing was like a sonorous string that split the space.
"Whoosh——" The sharp sound of the arrow piercing the air, carrying a huge force, pierced the barrier of space incomparably.
The ignited arrow turned into a meteor that cut through the air, combining the heat of fire and the glare of light, and hit the root system like a dead tree.
Just like sparks falling into firewood, the blazing flames burned instantly, spreading along the veins of the plants to the cracks throughout the island.
“Watch your step!” Tang Ze warned, and immediately opened the fire avoidance, and cut into Orps at the same time, in order to prepare for the timely milking of stupid teammates who accidentally stepped on the fire wall. stand up.
"...In the end, this place was really burned down." In the heat wave of the flames, Asai Narumi raised the corners of his mouth and hung the bow and arrow back behind his back.
"The code name is Lunar, but it turns out that I am the type who goes wherever I go..." Xingchuan Hui whispered.
Hearing his teammates whispering, Tang Ze glanced sideways at him from the corner of his eyes.
You are a guy who is dark from the outside to the inside, and even his special cognitive ability is a shadow. Who is more unworthy of the name, Tarot or the moon?
"Wait a minute, is this movement an earthquake?" Miyano Akemi swayed back and forth, and quickly held on to the remaining rails erected next to her to steady herself.
"Lower your center of gravity and pay attention to the changes around you." Tang Ze, who also received the shock, told him. A red light surged in his eyes, and he activated his third eye with all his strength to capture possible situations.
He did not forget to open his system interface at the same time, zoom in on the map interface in front of him, and be alert for red dots or other map changes that might appear at any time.
Although he is a multi-game player...but this is the first time he has encountered this kind of local impression space. It is not surprising that any kind of accidents occur.
"Huh?" The person who reacted faster than Karasawa was Noah, who had lifted his feet off the ground since the earthquake was felt and felt like he was floating.
The bright green data flow in his eyes continued to speed up, detecting changes in the cognitive world around him.
"Our position is changing rapidly, everyone, stay on guard." Noah's clear voice rang in everyone's ears.
"Rumble--" As the underground fire grew stronger and stronger, a violent impact hit him. Tangze quickly cut out the material-free P with quick eyesight and quick hands. The hook lock in his hand shook. He pulled Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi back after being thrown away. The thick smoke and dust flooded Tang Ze's field of vision, and he couldn't help but close his eyes to avoid the dust and gravel hitting his face.
"Cough cough cough..."
Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi, who were hurt by the force on their waists, fell to the ground, choking and coughing. While pulling away the chains wrapped around their waists by Tang Ze.
"What kind of movement is this..." In the dust-storm-like flying sand, Xingchuan Hui shook his head and shook off the sand on his face - he had the whitest clothes in the team, and now there were black and gray marks on his body. The most obvious one was, "Did a meteorite hit the earth?"
"I guess we were pulled back together with the entire fragment of Yueying Island by the public hall." Tang Ze also patted his scarf and took the time to answer. , "Isn't this just a meteorite hitting the earth? It's just that we are meteorites...ark, Lunar, are you okay?"
"No problem." Holding Asai Narumi's wide feather fabric in his hand, he held it Noah, hanging on his hand, revealed his figure through the dust, "The leader is right. Everyone, we have returned to the entrance of the impression space."
Looking around blankly for a moment, covered by the yellow sand Xingchuan Hui, who couldn't see anything clearly, could only take out his mobile phone and check the navigation of the different world.
"That's true." Xingchuan Hui opened his eyes wide when he saw the location prompt of "Impression Space Entrance" marked on the map, "This is convenient, we don't need to sneak back from the cognitive world. Okay...but what is the principle of this teleportation?"
"How about cognitive learning? It's amazing, isn't it?" Karasawa put his hands on his hips and looked at the exposed Shibuya subway entrance station as the sand gradually fell to the ground. "You think you are in Tokyo, you are in Tokyo." , don’t ask, asking is magic.”
“So, after eliminating the source of distortion, this fragment returned to the public hall?” Miyano Akemi touched her chin thoughtfully, “ If you want to explain it, it can be explained. If the common distortions and traumas in their subconscious are eliminated, the logic will naturally return to the unified consciousness of the public. This world is straightforward."
"Hey, you don't need to be so clear about understanding the world." Tang Ze waved his hand and patted the dust on his body.
This is just right. He sneaked to Yueying Island during this vacation. He was looking for an excuse not to go back to the cafe these days because he had something to prepare.
Just two days later, I was teleported back. Isn’t this a coincidence? The fake can be cancelled.
Just as he was about to change back to his daily clothes and go back to the cafe to buy off his vacation, Noah's voice interrupted his movements.
"Leader, there are changes in the subway." Noah raised his head, kept looking into the air, and explored the space of the subway downwards, and said, "The separation wall has not been opened. , the space below appeared."
"Is it the door on the bottom floor?" Tang Ze's attention suddenly focused, "Let's go down and take a look."
Finally, finally, his underground post was finally going to open a new area, and he was so tired of waiting for it!
The impression space of their Ke Xue world is really deep and deep. Just one path of thought deprivation took him all the way down to eighteen levels.
Really, bro, I almost vomited looking at the red and black colors!
As soon as he thought that this was still in the first area, and theoretically there should be seven areas in the public hall minus the bottom floor, Tang Ze felt a desperate liver ache.
So he really thinks about and worries about opening new levels of the subway.
On the one hand, Tangze really wants to know what kind of precious thing is at the bottom of the subway in this world. On the other hand, if the cleaning fish casts a wide net for him in the future, one on each floor. One or two words...
His story has to change from an exciting battle scene of a super-powered superhero to a road movie.
"This is not an eighteenth floor subway, this is an eighteenth floor of hell." Sitting in the car, Tangze explained the current situation to his teammates, "Although we can use the elevator to jump to floors, now there is Noah Now, we don’t have to worry about the storage of the car... Then we don’t know how many levels we will have to face.”
In the back seat, except for a confused Asai Narumi who was sandwiched into the car. , everyone else realized the seriousness of the problem and fell into silence.
Yes, if this happens, if they brush down layer by layer, they will create more than a hundred layers of deep pits for themselves in the future, what will they do...
He is not here like P5, who releases small garbage to him in batches according to the rhythm. His side tasks are completely random, and no one can guarantee that the new targets will be arranged according to their progress.
Don’t mention it, just think that Akechi Goro is also using the memory space to kill people. As the Phantom Thieves of Heart’s reputation increases, they go deeper and deeper into the subway. They originally fight twice a day. A job that could get off work on the 50th floor has turned into running on the 50th floor of the subway with your legs...
How should I put it? If you think about it like this, it’s not incomprehensible that he would have murderous intentions for the protagonist...
“If it doesn’t work, just process it in batches. To be honest, we usually torment the Phantom Thief CH. The frequency is already high enough, and the speed of producing scum in Tokyo will not be so fast..." Xingchuan Hui scratched his chin uncertainly.
"Since you are determined to explore the things deep in your subconscious, then don't hesitate." Miyano Akemi also nodded, "No matter how many layers there are, the difference is that it takes time."
< br>"Okay, since everyone agrees, let's deal with it like this first." Karasawa snapped his fingers and glanced at Asai Shigemi, who was still at a loss after listening to it for a long time and didn't know what they were talking about. He was considerate. Di also raised a topic for him, "Since you are the fifth member, let me leave this choice to you. After all, we need to change the vehicle because we consider the new members."
"Huh?" Asai Narimi raised his head, "What right to choose."
"What do you think is better for us to buy as our next car?" Tangze pointed at the overcrowded little Beetle with five people crammed into it. "Illusion said I could buy an SUV, but I'd rather just buy a stretched Lincoln." After all, no one knows how many people will be there next. You can save Noah from driving two cars by yourself, right?"
" Huh?" I heard it off guard. Such a nonsensical question made Asai Narumi subconsciously make a guttural sound of surprise.
This issue was brought up by Karasawa when Noah followed them off the subway. Since it was inevitable that the Phantom Thieves would continue to increase in number, they began to discuss how to increase the number of vehicles. .
However, at this point, everyone's opinions were seriously divided.
Whenever he thinks of Bancho's trendy, dripping velvet sports car, he is ready to move. He wants to buy a luxury car, spend money on a similar interior, and install a small refrigerator...
"We can think of ways to find someone to transport SUVs like that, but no matter what kind of subway shop, it's unlikely that they would use a stretched Lincoln for an event, right?!"
"Why not? I'm telling you, you can even lift a Ferrari into an underwater restaurant. You have to fully believe in the subjective initiative of the merchants!"
"A Ferrari is more reasonable than a longer Lincoln?"
“Bentley, a stretched Bentley is also okay!”
“Why are these flashy models? How can such a long car turn in such a maze!”
"Leave this to Noah, what's wrong? What's wrong with a first-class artificial intelligence driving an extended car on the subway?"
"Stop messing with Shuichi, their FBI hasn't been idle recently..."
"It's okay, we can open a shop by ourselves first! Right, and then we can organize an event by ourselves and bring in the extended car. Isn't it reasonable?"
"Just to open it. You want to rent a shop in the subway? Do you know how much a shop in Shibuya Subway costs..."
"What's wrong? We work so hard in the subway. It’s reasonable to have a base, right?”
"It's so reasonable!"
"Hey, do you want to listen to me? Just get a longer one..."
Amidst the noise around me, I was originally asked for my opinion. Asai Narumi seemed to be completely forgotten by them and was already making noises by himself.
Sitting in the midst of the bickering, Asai Narumi raised his hand and held the fox face of the lower half of his face.
Is this group really serious?
At this moment, he suddenly felt like he was on a pirate ship.
Is it too late for him to regret it now?
OK, Moon Shadow Island, it’s officially over here [standing ovation]
As for Narumi Asai’s design, considering his identity and ending, I finally came up with something like this The design of wearing a feathery fabric on the outside of the dress... Teacher Bei is drawing, go back and draw everyone Kangkang XD
(End of this chapter)