Chapter 481 The new business of the Phantom Thieves (plus update to pour out the hot cocoa)
"If you call a girl like that, you will be hated, this little classmate." Noriko Ayashiro sent out a string She chuckled and joked heartily, "Oh, Yumi, we have reached the age where children call us aunties..."
Horikoshi Yumi reflexively raised her hand and touched herself. The delicate and soft skin slowly calmed down from the anger that had surged up just now.
She glanced at Ayashiro Noriko's smiling face, inhaled and exhaled, and smiled naturally: "Really, I'm not married yet... It's all your fault, Maori, for being so early. Why do we get married and have children? It just makes us look a lot older.”
“We are already thirty-seven or eighty-eight years old, Yumi, let’s face the reality as soon as possible!” Nakamichi Kazushipai, who had shaved his head. He patted Horikoshi Yumi's slender shoulder and said, "There are very few single people at this age!"
Horikoshi Yumi snorted, flicked her five fingers, looked at the light crossing her carefully maintained nails, and smiled: "What you said is true, I am indeed old and yellow... I was also a member of the judo club back then. Hua Ni, didn’t you all chase me?”
“Yes, in the end, you actually chose this guy Kazushi. Omura and I got into trouble when we learned about this. I have a headache and am crying..." Ayashiro Yukio said with emotion.
"Hey, hey, hey..." Ayashiro Noriko's back suddenly tensed up, and she twisted her husband's ears with her fingers. She warned with a bit of joking, but also a bit of serious embarrassment, " You are my husband now, be careful what you say!”
Horikoshi Yumi, who consciously made a comeback, smiled at first, but soon her smile became slightly stiff because of Jun Omura’s question.
"Yes, you and Kazushi, weren't you two dating at the time? Your relationship was very good until graduation... I thought you two would get married earlier than Ayashiro and the others." Pushed Pushing up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, Omura smiled honestly.
Nakamichi Kazushi's face twitched briefly for half a second. Before he could react, Yumi Horikoshi waved his hand and hit him on the head with a punch.
"What an annoying question. It's been more than ten years!" Yumi Horikoshi said with an exaggerated smile and a deliberately cheerful tone, "I broke up with this bastard a long time ago. Talk to the detective." Falling in love is too hard!”
Moori Kogoro twitched his brows and protested loudly: “Don’t talk nonsense, Yumi, I’ve also been a criminal police officer, okay...”
"Yes, so you and your wife separated." Yumi Horikoshi replied easily.
"Yumi..." Jun Omura, who found that the topic developed unexpectedly, held his glasses in a panic, thinking about how to lighten the atmosphere.
"But it doesn't matter, there are always silly girls who can't think about it." Yumi Horikoshi bumped into Kazushi Nakamichi, who had a blank face, with her shoulder, "Good things for Kazushi are not far away, right?"
中Dao Hezhi became nervous instinctively, glanced at her expression, and turned back without daring to look further: "Ah, well, that's it."
"Oh? Zhongdao, you are getting married! "
"Really?"
"Probably, maybe there will be news within this year..."
"When did you fall in love? You kept it secret, kid." Mouri Kogoro also came to him and patted his shoulder jokingly, "Why, are you afraid that someone will rob you?"
" I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from everyone, it's mainly because I haven't completely decided yet." Nakamichi Kazushi touched his smooth head in embarrassment.
"According to your eyes, she must be a beautiful girl, right?" Noriko Ayashiro glanced at Yumi Horikoshi pointedly, and her words contained a hint of compliment or sarcasm.
"She is my boss's daughter. I will inform everyone when there is confirmed news..."
"That's great. He Zhi is about to enter the stage of marriage. Alas, no Like me, at this age, I am frustrated in love and my job is not going well. If the economy continues to decline, I am afraid that I will have to face layoffs." She lowered her head and considered her fingertips again, her tone lowered. "When I think about this, I feel like I might as well just die..."
"Huh?!"
Several voices of surprise and disbelief sounded, and everyone present widened their eyes.
"It's just a joke! Speaking of which, Omura, we are the only two single people left. How about we make it work and just get married and go together..."
“Huh?”
“Are you serious? You are so beautiful, you fool!”
The atmosphere that had been stagnant for a moment returned to the relaxed and happy atmosphere. Karasawa, who had never participated in it, turned his eyes playfully on Nakamichi Kazushi and Horikoshi Yumi twice.
This look seems to be quenched with poison, and that look seems to be frozen.
There is always a feeling that it is no surprise which of these two people strikes first.
As I said, Kogoro Mouri's social circle is also quite magical.
For these two characters to know each other and come together during college, they should belong to a kind of garbage classification of fate.
With Karasawa thinking like this, he didn't interrupt the banter. The group of people who were having a lively conversation quietly got up and walked towards the door of the Japanese room.
"Hey, where are you going?" Conan, who was also not fully involved in their social circle, immediately caught Tang Ze's movements and turned around.
While driving all the way from near home, Conan would feel an indescribable strange mood every time he saw Tang Ze sitting in the passenger seat.
Although careful calculation, this is not the first time they have traveled together, but it seems that it is really the first time they have actually taken the same means of transportation.
There was always a feeling that Tang Ze, although he was sitting in their car and chatting with them in a decent manner, was actually quite absent-minded.
"I'm going to take a bath in the hot spring." Karasawa straightened his back and replied lazily.
"No, you just took a bath in the hot spring..."
"Who said I was here to take care of the child?" He dismissed the question easily, and Tang Ze glanced He glanced at Conan and said, "I haven't been able to enjoy the soup for long. Who gave it to me?"
"Uh..." Conan was speechless.
It makes sense and cannot be refuted, but he clearly remembers that Tang Ze, who just carried him and scrubbed him evenly like a chicken about to be drained, was so relaxed and effortless. On the contrary, it was him who was now covered with blood. They all feel like they’ve been polished off by their hair...
"Okay, I guess Uncle Maori will feel uncomfortable if I stay here." After saying such a strange statement that completely contradicted the generation, Karasawa waved his hand, "I will go to the open-air bath for a while and come back during lunch time. "If something happens, call me and I will hear you."
"Oh..." Conan looked at Tang Ze's leaving figure, still feeling a little weird and touched his chin.
What do you mean, what happens? It’s just a chat, what can happen?
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“Wow——” The sound of the sliding door opening and closing.
Taking off his clogs, Tangze stepped on the warm pebbles and walked into the largest hot spring in the mist.
"...I feel like I'm about to be steamed." As soon as Tangsawa got out of the water, he heard Hoshikawa Teru's feeble voice coming from the other side, "Do I have to soak in the hot spring?"
"The destination of this team building is a hot spring hotel. Why are you here if you don't want to take a bath in the hot spring?" He ruthlessly dismissed his protest. Tang Ze casually stretched his shoulders and said, "The robots are taking a bath in the hot spring. What do you think? Xingchuan Hui looked at the water not far away with his eyebrows twitching. He looked at the completely soaked puppet, floating on the water like a piece of cloth abandoned by someone, and was speechless for a while.
……This can’t be called hot spring bathing! This should obviously be called rubbing a rag!
"Okay, there are still a lot of rooms in this hotel. If you go as you please, you probably won't run into them. You can go out and take care of it for lunch later. You can have some free time in the afternoon and find some entertainment. We can go out to watch the fireworks together in the evening. There are so many people here, just a few tourists, they are not conspicuous at all, there will be no problem." Tang Ze made arrangements happily, and took a picture of the water, "I see that you are all too busy recently. You're a little tense, so it's time to relax. "
"Who are we nervous about?" From behind the rock in the distance, Miyano Akemi's equally sleepy voice came. , leaving Shiho alone there to look after the house..."
Under Karasawa's request, several of them had to pack up and follow them to Tochigi County, but Haibara Ai also disappeared with him. , Conan’s side is a bit hard to fool.
So, now on the entire 22nd, only Haihara Ai will be in and out.
"How can we call it a housekeeper? She just goes there to do experiments on a routine basis." Tang Ze shrugged and said helplessly, "Noa is in charge of the house anyway."
"Gududu..." The puppet lying in the water spit out a string of bubbles in response.
After the incident with Kyousuke Futo was over, after cleaning up the leader’s Phantom Thieves, I finally had time to pack up the newly acquired equipment.
After upgrading Noah's host, Karasawa thoughtfully installed cameras, speakers, and various corresponding switches throughout the home, allowing everyone to live a life of almost semi-magical intelligence in advance. Transform your home experience.
The room dedicated to Noah has been put into use. A computer room with a large area has begun the preliminary construction work, and is preparing to slowly build it under the guidance of Dr. Ali and Noah himself. Hurry up and get him a supercomputer.
As Karasawa said before, strong artificial intelligence is also a pearl in the field of computers. Noah's Ark is naturally not just a conscious and emotional electronic life.
As long as Noah wants to, he can become a god in the online world. The only thing that restrains him is the hardware requirements. Tangze has no reason to continue to restrain him.
Although it is still difficult for Karasawa to build a supercomputer that can rank among the best in the world, it is easy to start little by little, starting with increasing the storage capacity of Noah. matter.
After the initial establishment of the server, Noah can now barely take the initiative to build and control part of his own palace like he did in the cocoon.
This is what Karasawa was inspired by when he led Futo Kyosuke to change the world.
It would be a waste to have such a useful function sitting idle here. How long will it take to upgrade if you don’t spend money at this time?
He is also looking forward to what kind of chemical reaction will occur when Noah's Ark, which can achieve the five-year learning efficiency of human beings in one year, encounters the endless year of Ke Xue's timeline.
"So, what's the main topic this time?" Persistently bringing the topic back, Asai Narumi took a ladle of water and poured it in the direction of Karasawa, reminding this unconventional group leader not to forget their Purpose, "Which person should I start with, Nakamichi Kazushi or Horikoshi Yumi?"
"It's really a perfect match, these two." Before giving the instructions, he let out a sigh, and Karasawa shook his head, " What a heavyweight couple."
Not only are their brain circuits different, but their emotional relationship is also very twisted. The two of them are even close to each other. Even Tang Ze, who already knew the cause and effect of the incident, was confused for a while. Don't even know how to prescribe the right medicine.
Nakamichi Kazushi, a detective in Chiba Prefecture, and Yumi Horikoshi, an employee of a cosmetics company.
The two were members of Mouri Kogoro's club when he was in college. They had been in an inseparable love relationship since college, and they didn't really break up even when their classmate's daughter was seventeen years old.
Nakamichi and Shi want to get married, but Yumi Horikoshi refuses, so Nakamichi and Shi want to give up their relationship, go on a blind date and marry their boss’s daughter, but Yumi Horikoshi refuses, saying that if he wants to get married, he will He will take the intimate photos of the two of them dating for more than ten years and go to his fiancee to make trouble...
At this point in the story, the main culprit may still be Yumi Horikoshi, but in the face of the threat from his girlfriend, Nakamichi He Zhi neither chose to make it clear to her and get rid of the relationship, nor did he choose to explain the situation to his fiancée and find a compromise method to solve the problem. He chose to kill his ex-girlfriend directly.
What should I say? It’s better not to break up. It’s not good for normal people. Tokyo is chaotic enough. It’s not easy for normal people.
"Nakamichi Kazushi's murderous intention is already very determined, and Horikoshi Yumi's paranoia problem is the same. Even if they change their minds, if they are still entangled with each other, it is only a matter of time before the murder comes." On the stone surface, Tangze let out a breath, "Our change of heart is not a once-and-for-all insurance, it can at most act as a relief valve."
"Well, so...?" Hearing the subtext of Karasawa's intention to cause trouble, Asai Naomi raised his eyebrows, "Do you have any ideas or choices other than changing your mind?"
"That's not the case. Is this a good opportunity?" Tang Ze showed a happy smile, turned over, and said eagerly, "Can Noah's space be opened again?"
"Huh? When Noah's name was called, he raised his head from the water and made a vague sound like talking with water in his mouth, "It's already running."
"But if it's just running, it doesn't mean anything. Not big." After understanding part of Tangze's thoughts, Xingchuan Hui looked strange, "It's too late to customize the stage for these two people."
"There is no need to customize it." Kiri cast a sideways glance at Hoshikawa Teru's blurry shadow, and Karasawa shrugged, "A man who is about to get married and is worried about the intimate photos of himself and his ex-girlfriend, and a woman who has a photo of herself and her ex-girlfriend and wants to use it as a bargaining chip... …Did you remember anything? ”
"...Huh?" Hoshikawa Teru slowly widened his eyes after reacting, "You're not, are you?"
"Although, this is a good idea." Miyano Akemi hesitated. The voice came from far away, "I accidentally got it in, but this...Hiroyuki Kanaya..."
Thinking of this deceased who died in silence, Miyano Akemi almost wanted to bow for him. I cried bitter tears.
As a die-hard Sherlock Holmes fan, he pinned his unsatisfactory life on his love for literary works and characters to take comfort. This is not a bad thing in the first place.
However, after his love was so persistent that it became extremely aggressive and exclusive, and even led to the creation of a palace, misfortune befell him.
Even if he himself died in a party fight with his colleagues, his palace was unknowingly visited by the Phantom Thieves and became a place chosen by Karasawa for them to practice. He spent a lot of money to obtain the only copy, and the replica was given away casually. The detective who comes to your door.
That’s it for now. No matter who you think it is, others will be cold, the palace will collapse, and it can be taken out and used again and again.
His palace was sewn into his own script by the AI without telling him, and now, it is being used as a stage to teach foolish men and resentful women...
"Isn't this just right?" Karasawa, who felt no pain in his conscience, threw the water into the water and was quite proud of his idea. "After all, Noah is indeed a member of the Phantom Thieves. Can't we just let him hide behind the scenes like a logistics worker? Recruitment Noah's Ark, what kind of effect can it play? Isn't this a good opportunity to debut? "
"And it's still using leftover materials from the game, so outsiders can't feel anything wrong, right? " Hoshikawa Teru wiped his face with a towel. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was the heat from the hot spring or the sweat from Karasawa's words.
"Yes, so, we can even show it to Conan and the others this time." Tang Ze smiled and snapped his fingers wetly, "One stone kills multiple people, isn't it beautiful?"
"Hey, Kanaya Hiroyuki..." Miyano Akemi was still sighing.
"He should be happy that the London he imagined can be used as a serious stage for his favorite works. It's a great thing!" Karasawa touched his chin, feeling deeply that he was really A good person who enjoys the beauty of adulthood.
Although without the medium of cocoon, if you want to conceal the existence of the cognitive world, you still need to add some more procedures to make all developments seem to comply with materialism, but there is a precedent of holographic games, and everyone is always It's better to accept some.
When you go on vacation, don’t make it too exaggerated. Do some sideshows as a pastime. It can also be regarded as completing a team-building project.
"That's it! Prepare Noah. In the afternoon, when the couple is about to enter the room for a 1V1 life-and-death duel, we can almost take them there." Tang Ze waved his hand boldly.
"Gududu..." The person who responded to him was Noah who sank into the water again and spit out a series of bubbles.
(End of this chapter)