Chapter 488 A well-matched opponent
“…Kazushi Nakamichi.” Noah said quietly, “Why set fire if you are doing well.”
“You can’t control the burning of the flames. What's the scope?" Conan, who had been watching the plot for a while, was awakened by his exclamation and turned his head to look at Noah curiously and inquiringly.
He has not forgotten that after Noah escaped, the developers of Sindora Company stated that the game could not be restarted.
Without Noah, even a large-scale multinational technology company would not be able to reproduce the technology of holographic games; there are only a few members of the Phantom Thieves here, and it didn’t take long after they had Noah. A holographic game that is more advanced than the game cabin has been developed.
Once this variable is controlled, doesn't it mean that the holographic game is actually developed and operated independently by Noah's Ark? At best, Sindora Company only made some connection peripherals and installed host servers and the like.
"It's possible to control it barely, but..." Noah frowned, thinking about how to fool this clever little dwarf without exposing his knowledge of the world.
Everything in the palace is running on its own according to inherent laws. It is very simple to build it, but it requires extra strength to control it...
He can indeed combine the buildings in the palace with The combination of modeling can achieve a control effect similar to game management, but these all consume his energy, that is, operation and storage.
After all, he saves trouble when modeling. His materials are sewn together with directly intercepted cognitive world information. It is not that simple to repair.
"Because this game is originally built on the original real engine, once it is successfully built, it does not need to take up Noah's computing power. Controlling the destruction effect consumes running space, not to mention particle effects such as flames." Tang Ze took over the conversation and threw out a bunch of terms easily, "We don't have the financial resources to organize it, so we can't provide Noah with more space for the time being. It would be great to be able to run in this scenario."
“Is that so?” Conan adjusted his glasses and accepted this explanation with uncertainty.
It sounds like that, but something is not quite right...
"Okay, Noah, don't limit the range of the flames." Tangze patted Noah. Ya's hard head said, "Let them burn it as they please, and restart this scene later."
It makes sense, let them burn it as they please, and when the game is over, he will just restore the entire London map.
Nodding, Noah completely gave up controlling the terrain, and the fire spread along the house. Soon, the fire ignited almost the entire block.
The sky-high flames lit up half of London. London was destined to be unrest tonight.
The exclaimed crowd screamed for water and ran towards the outside of the block amid burning buildings, a scene of apocalyptic chaos.
Among the fleeing crowd, the four people running against the flow of people towards the Briony Mansion stood out.
"It seems that our client is indeed an arrogant and irritable Majesty." Holding his hat and running forward, the young Kudo took a breath, "Do we have to use two legs? I The called carriage is still parked near the church.”
"It's all in such a mess. How can the carriage drive on the road?" Tang Ze, the young man following him, sighed, "I hope your majesty will still stay at the scene, otherwise we won't know where to go with such a huge loss." "Recourse."
"He must still be there," Leon, who was silent along the way, said, "His purpose is not to set fire, but to destroy it." Photo. If you are not sure that you have achieved your goal, you will not leave easily."
Noah, who knows how to edit, turned the camera and the scene switched to Kazushi Nakamichi.
Just as Leon guessed, he did not move far away from the place where the fire started. Instead, he shouted to the sky with some madness: "Guys from the Phantom Thieves, come out, I did it, I have done it. Here, I destroyed all those things, didn’t I! I won, come out and tell me I won!”
The thought of being able to get rid of Horikoshi Yumi’s entanglement immediately made him stand in a choked position. In the midst of the thick smoke, he still burst out with a hearty and hearty laugh.
No one responded to his frantic question. The only ones who heard his frantic reaction were the four people who rushed to the scene immediately.
"I told you, your client is a vicious idiot!" As soon as she heard what he said, Horikoshi Yumi understood that this was Kazushi Nakamichi himself, not some NPC set by the game. , she arched her back almost immediately and screamed hysterically, "Look what he did!"
"Shut up!" Stimulated by this familiar voice, Nakamichi Kazushi Turning his head with blood-red eyes, he pulled off the mask on his face, "I've had enough of you, Yumi Horikoshi, I've had enough of you for a long time! You really think of yourself as a peerless beauty, you think of yourself as a At the center of the world, everyone must be you!"
"I didn't force you, Nakamichi Kazushi, I didn't force you!" I saw the expression on this all-too-familiar face. With a ferocious expression, Horikoshi Yumi's emotions began to break down, "You lied to me first, you went on a blind date without telling me!"
"That's also because you don't agree to my proposal! I've been three I’m eighteen, I want a family, I want my own children, what’s the problem?”
"Ha, then you went to find your boss's daughter? That's really good proof!"
"What does it matter? I am free to choose who I want!"
"You judgmental bastard, I just want a good explanation, is this hard?!"
"So this is how you keep harassing my fiancée, trying to tell her about the two of us What's the reason?"
"You don't even dare to let her know what you have deceived her! Who is the guilty person?"
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"Turn down the volume." Tangze waved his hand and ordered Noah with some disgust.
The space of the Japanese-style room they were in was small. When this kind of sharp high-frequency human voice reverberated in the space, it could create an effect comparable to that of a wet market, making his brain hurt. .
Conan, who had already covered his ears tightly, breathed a sigh of relief, put down his hands and complained softly: "Did you also arrange their meeting? This kind of quarrel is really terrifying, and I suddenly felt The quarrel between my parents is nothing.”
“That’s why they are called enemies. When you hate someone who you know well enough and who understands you well enough, the negative emotions caused will be very serious. It goes on and on." Tang Ze waved his hand and said, "When this kind of quarrel breaks out between husband and wife or long-term lovers, the longer they know each other, the better the relationship will be, and the more intense the conflict will be between your parents. That kind of bickering is really nothing.”
"I still don't quite understand." Conan looked at the two people on the screen with confusion, arguing so much that they almost lost their minds. "Since the relationship has deteriorated to this extent, why doesn't Yumi Horikoshi choose to break up? Or why can't Kazushi Nakamichi and... His fiancée confessed that he once had a girlfriend whom he had been dating for more than ten years? In that case, taking photos would no longer be a threat to him. "
A criminal policeman would be forced to choose to kill. This method... is really a strange relationship the more I think about it.
"The former is because of sunk costs. A person who is immersed in loss aversion will really be surprised by the stupid things he can do." Karasawa clicked on Horikoshi Yumi on the left side of the screen, and then pointed at the screen. Kazushi Nakamichi on the right, "The latter is more likely to be a collateral reaction to lies. He lied from the beginning, trying to whitewash his conditions to make the woman more acceptable to his pursuit. But Kudo, You also know..."
Tangze turned his head and glanced meaningfully at Conan, whose expression suddenly froze, through the cloth strips on his eyes.
“Once a lie starts, you can only use more lies to cover it...right?”
Conan, who was still in disbelief at Nakamichi Kazushi's stupid choice just now, was speechless by his question.
In the tea room outside, a sharp conflict broke out between two people. It seemed to be a scene that was impactful enough, but everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison, so that there was a burst of neatness in the room. The sound of exhalation.
"...I just think," realizing that her behavior was in sync with the others, Noriko Ayashiro looked back at a few people and scratched her cheeks with embarrassment, "the two of them are like this It seems that having a big fight is more decent than just pretending." "You can be more direct," Yukio Ayagi put his arms around his wife's shoulders in a funny way, "That's more like Yumi and Kazuo. Kazushi's character... How the two of them could have been talking for more than ten years is really unimaginable."
"What else could it be because of Yumi's beauty? "Mouri Kogoro replied with confidence, "If Yumi was not a social beauty, or if her figure and appearance were not well maintained and were out of shape, do you think Kazushi would still have this attitude? , and he deserves it.”
The quarrel broke out fiercely in the game, but outside the game, everyone felt much more relaxed.
The most important thing is to expose the contradiction to outsiders like them, and the next problems will be much easier.
They can persuade two people to separate completely, even if they use some coercive means to prevent the two people from continuing to have trouble. If they find the crux, the problem can be easily solved.
Just when the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious, the sound of a "bang" gun suddenly drew their attention back.
In the picture, Kazushi Nakamichi took out a gorgeous shotgun from nowhere, pointed it at Yumi Horikoshi ahead, and pulled the trigger.
Yumi Horikoshi, who was still wearing a torn wedding dress, lowered her head in disbelief and held down the waist and abdomen where she was hit by the gun. The bright red blood smeared along the white gauze.
Things happened very suddenly. The two noisy people who couldn't get apart were almost leaning against each other. By the time Nakamichi Kazushi took out his gun, the detective and Leon who were two steps behind were already too late. Rescued.
"You..." Horikoshi Yumi's high-pitched scream stopped abruptly. She desperately covered her abdomen where a hole had been opened. She was hit by severe pain and slid down tremblingly.
In order not to kneel down in embarrassment, her blood-stained hands tightly grasped the fur cloak on Nakamichi Kazushi. At first glance, it looked like a bride wearing a white gauze lying on her body. The dress looks like a man's arms, and has an unexpected romantic beauty.
"You confident stupid woman, I knew you could only bring things with you." Taking advantage of the situation, he grabbed Horikoshi Yumi's arm, and he decisively grabbed her hidden in the layered skirt. paper, pulled it out, "I won this game!"
This was the purpose of his quarrel with Yumi Horikoshi.
Although he was full of resentment towards this woman, and his emotions during the quarrel were not fake, he never forgot the purpose of his game.
Irene's house has been burned down by him. Even if she could escape from the church, she would not have time to carry extra things.
But the game has never judged him as the winner, so the only possible place for a group photo would be on her own.
He deliberately aroused Horikoshi Yumi's emotions, causing her to become more and more noisy and emotional, so that she came very close to him, so that he could get what he wanted at the same time.
"I originally planned to kill you with a gun." He said maliciously towards Yumi Horikoshi with some revenge, "So I... hmm?"
He turned to look at the stack in his hand. Something, he couldn't help but be startled.
There were indeed several hard and slippery objects that looked like photos sandwiched between the papers. However, when they were shaken open, they turned out to be several price tags written on them, used to mark the sales and rental prices of wedding dresses.
It was only then that the trembling Horikoshi Yumi showed an equally happy smile.
She pushed the thing that her "husband" gave her in her hand without reservation into the chest of the man who was close at hand. The ears attached to his chest heard the pain from the other man clearly. He shouted, ignoring the wounds on his waist and abdomen, and let out a burst of giggles.
Nakamichi Kazushi pushed the woman in his arms away, but the sharp short blade had already pierced his chest deeply. He could only let out a painful gasp and fell to the ground in embarrassment.
Horikoshi Yumi, who was pushed aside by him, laughed mockingly and looked at the three NPCs who had been standing there as if they didn't know how to respond since they started arguing.
"It's true that I won't leave things to others for safekeeping...but this is a game, you idiot." Trying her best to speak, Horikoshi Yumi grabbed the letter that fell from Nakamichi Kazushi's hand. , tightly clenched in his hand, "When I was changing my wedding dress, I asked Norton to change these things...I won. In the end, I won, Hezhi! Hahaha! Ahem..."
Leon, who was dressed in formal attire, slowly took out the photos from his front and held them in his hands until this moment.
In the photo, there are two people hugging each other in kimonos under the cherry blossom tree. Their young faces are filled with unmistakable happy smiles.
"As long as the photo is well preserved, I win, right?" Looking at Kazushi Nakamichi, who was more outgoing and less incoming than herself, Yumi Horikoshi murmured in a low voice, her hands covered with silk gloves, working hard He stretched out in the direction of Leon with all his strength, "Norton, give me the thing..."
Looking at Yumi Horikoshi who fell on the ground with a pair of clear golden eyes for a moment, Leon's face had the same expression as before. The same gentle smile.
Then he turned around and handed the photo in his hand to the detective who looked at this ethical tragedy in surprise.
"You, you...!" Yumi Horikoshi's expression froze, and her already blurry vision became even more dizzy.
"I don't know what to do with these things, Mr. Holmes." Leon, who sold the person without hesitation, showed no signs of uneasiness on his face, his smile remained the same, and he spoke his logic step by step, "I deeply feel that this should not be used as a bargaining chip to threaten other people's marriages. No matter what the purpose is, it is inappropriate to harm others with malicious intent. But I also think that concealing this kind of behavior from the Princess of Navia who is about to get married is inappropriate. It's also immoral. I don't know how to deal with it, so I'll leave it to you."
The young Kudo was stunned for a moment. After confirming that the expression on Leon's face was very serious, he took the stack of photos with a strange expression.
Although what he said is not unreasonable, isn't it inappropriate to say it in front of his new wife who committed suicide with her old lover...
She originally only had one child left. His tone now looks like he is about to die of anger.
After handing over the photo, Leon Shiran walked to Horikoshi Yumi, squatted down, gently hugged the bloody woman, wiped her cheek, and said calmly: " How does it feel to be played with your emotions, only to find out at the last moment that the trust you put in is not returned, Ms. Horikoshi Yumi? "
The game screen is gradually rising with Noah's control, and the only thing in the camera is He saw London burning in flames, and Yumi Horikoshi, dressed in white gauze covering the floor, half-hugged by Leon.
Therefore, Leon's words will naturally not fall into the ears of the spectators. The only ones who can hear it are Horikoshi Yumi, who is now trying to widen his eyes and look at the somewhat horrifying Yumi.
"You, you are...you are pretending to be human..." Yumi Horikoshi, who had gradually lost the power to speak, squeezed out a sentence through her teeth with difficulty.
In the eyes of the game NPC, she was all Irene Adler. This person started calling her Yumi Horikoshi, and the meaning of that was naturally self-evident.
"Of course." Leon squinted his eyes, still smiling like a businessman. Under the light of the fire, there was an inappropriately gentle smile with a strange and inhuman feeling, "Put the heart in your heart." The Phantom Thieves regard us as a tool to satisfy your desires, and you underestimate us, madam. You are a pair of equally matched opponents. If you hadn't been in such a mess today, you would have been a perfect match. It's a pity for you in this game. Both of you are losers, leave these photos of yours to us. Good night, have a good dream."
After that, he gently covered it with his black-gloved hand. Horikoshi Yumi's eyes seemed to be giving her a final farewell.
Before her vision completely darkened, Horikoshi Yumi could only vaguely see the stack of paper tightly clutched in her hand.
That was Irene Adler. The message she left for Holmes was originally intended to be placed where the photos were stored, but Norton used it as a means of concealment and hid it in the overskirt of her wedding dress.
"...I love someone better than him, and this person loves me. The king can do whatever he wants without worrying about what the people he has wronged will do to him. What obstacles will it cause. I save this photo to protect myself. This is a weapon that will protect me from any means..."
(End of this chapter)