Chapter 392: Where are the people from Baker Street?
Chapter 392: Where are the people from Baker Street?
"That's it." We slept until the afternoon, and our carriage arrived very close to Baker Street. At the corner of Baker Street, Conan woke up slowly and pointed to the highest point in the city center, the location of Big Ben.

"That clock?" I squinted and looked into the distance. Maybe because of the game, this clock tower was built extra high. "The minute hand on it doesn't seem right."

"Well, the minute hand is now at 32," Conan said, opening his pocket watch and checking the time with me. "The clock's oddity was discovered by Moroboshi. We saw the clock move from : to :, and now it's at :."

"So, eighteen children have been eliminated, right?" I squinted my eyes as I looked at the clock at the top. At the same time, I understood the purpose of this clock. It was a counter for people present to record the number of participants. I believe that children in other scenes also have similar things.

"Yes, in addition to the eleven of us here, there are twenty-one children in other scenes. That means there are only five or six children left in each scene on average."

"But our game has only entered the early stage." I shook my head. It's understandable. After all, except for Xiaolan, the rest of the scenes are children of 11 or 12 years old. How can we expect them to complete the game? But Xiaolan, there are two souls of 17 or 18 years old, including me, and an old man in his thirties. It can be said that our group should be the most likely to complete the game.

"Yes, so we have to hurry up, as our clues are still limited at the moment." Conan said. "The place ahead is where Sherlock Holmes lives, let's go in quickly."

"Yeah!" The children nodded at the same time.

"I'll be a little late," I said to the children. "I want to go and see the clock."

"Is there anything worth noting?" Shiho turned her head and asked me.

"No, it's just that there are some things that I personally care about. After all, this is the only functional building that is out of tune with this world." I stared at the clock tower in the distance.

"I'll go with you." After thinking for a moment, Shiho said, "Edogawa, let's take everyone to Holmes's residence to seek help."

"Well... okay." Conan hesitated, but finally compromised. After all, with Kaoru and Huihara helping to open a two-line strategy game, the chances of winning would be greater.

"Then let's meet at this street corner." I pointed to where the carriage was. It only took us about half an hour to run over to see the clock tower and come back. This time was enough for Conan and the others to find Holmes, collect information, and determine the next plan.

After that, Shiho and I left Baker Street first, ran to the Big Ben, and looked up at the structure of the clock.

"It seems to be taller than the Big Ben in London in real life?" Shiho said, looking at the dial high up.

"Yeah." I nodded. "This may be the tallest building in this game world."

"Sniper point?" This was the first thing Shiho thought of when she saw the high place.

"I think so, but there are no sniper rifles in this world right now." I shook my head. "I investigated the weapons and equipment in this world. The best weapon is just a long rifle. There is no sniper scope, and the range is very short. It is useless." After saying that, I took off the backpack behind me, took out a small pocket pistol from it and handed it to Shiho. I also took a small box of bullets.

"Take what I found last night."

"Are you sure I can use it?" Shiho took the gun, looked it over, and then put it in her arms. Because she was still wearing Mitsuhiko's coat, it was a perfect place to put the gun.

"This game isn't that simple." I also put a pistol on my back. "Through my exploration last night, I found a problem that really bothered me."

"how?"

"This game... is too difficult."

"Eh?"

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"So, what's the difficulty?" A few minutes later, Shiho and I climbed to the top of the bell tower. From the top, we could see the whole city. Many building coordinates were marked on the map, and I could confirm the location of various buildings.

"When Xiaolan first came into contact with Jack the Ripper, she was injured. You saw it."

"Yeah." Shiho nodded. "It's very powerful to be able to knock out a karate champion with one strike."

"Yes, after that, we were attacked by Noah's Ark and the two children fell directly into the water."

"If you hadn't rescued them, the two children would have been washed away by the water, right?" Shiho seemed to understand what I meant. "But does that mean it's very difficult?" "We've only just started. Although the doctor tried to help us cheat, if I wasn't in the punishment, more than two children would have fallen. Including the time with Xiaolan, if I wasn't there, Jack the Ripper would have killed us without running away. If you think about it this way, don't you think it's a bit difficult? It wasn't even ten minutes into the game before we were all killed. So what's the point of playing this game? Wouldn't it be nice if Noah's Ark could electrocute us?"

"...It seems to make sense." After thinking carefully, Shiho agreed with what I said.

"And when I went out to collect resources last night, I had a fight with a group of thugs. According to the level of crime in London at that time, no matter how strong these thugs were, they could not be one-tenth as strong as Jack the Ripper. But when five thugs joined forces, I was hit by a stick when I was careless. Moreover, these five thugs had an extremely strong sense of cooperation. If I hadn't used some tricks, it would have been difficult to kill them in a short time. If I had been caught by the police, I might have been out directly."

"You mean that because of your presence, the difficulty of the entire game has increased?" Shiho seemed to have discovered the problem.

"Maybe I was too high-profile at the beginning, or maybe my physical fitness was detected by Noah's Ark. I can't say for sure, but the only thing I can be sure of is that with the current difficulty of the game, the chances of children being eliminated are too high. But I can't be sure that this is really caused by me."

"Huh... This doesn't seem to be something we can control." Shiho pondered for a moment, but couldn't think of any solution. "Besides, this doesn't seem to have much to do with your coming here."

"I was thinking, theoretically this clock tower can see all the locations on the street. If we can get a telescope, a light source, and a focusing lens, can we make it into a lighthouse?"

"What's the point? Looking for Jack the Ripper?"

"One of them." I nodded. "It is much easier to find a person in a place with the best view than to find a needle in a haystack. This is the first reason. The second reason is that the dial on this clock tower does not seem to attract the attention of the NPC. This proves that the node here is different from other program nodes. If we blow up this clock tower, do you think it will cause a node vulnerability? Can Taiyi send some interesting data in?"

"I don't recommend you do this." Shiho shook her head. "Although this idea can give us another way to win, considering our manpower and experience in confrontation, we are not actually at an advantage. Moreover, whether it is to blow up this place or to build a lighthouse, the project will be huge. If Noah's Ark wants to, he can completely deploy defenses here in advance, such as deploying police officers here. It will be even more detrimental to our actions. And... you have already attracted the attention of Noah's Ark. Completing the sandbox game of the adventure game is already Noah's Ark letting you go."

"But why did he let me go?" I rubbed my forehead. "I really want to test his bottom line."

"Heh..." Shiho smiled softly, stared at me quietly for a long time, and then slowly said, "It's good to be able to watch the beautiful sunset here. I think we should not think of making a big move. If it's really as you said, the difficulty has become very difficult now, and we can't have any more losses and unexpected situations." Shiho looked down at the number below. In this half hour, two more children were eliminated, and the pointer pointed to 30. There were still children in other games.

"Just like Kudo said, after we find Sherlock Holmes, a character who helps us, we only need to assist in many things. If the difficulty is really wrong as you said, then with Sherlock Holmes, the difficulty will be reduced a lot, right?"

"Have you forgotten that I proposed a very interesting modification to Arknights?" I scratched my head. "The characters who help us can be killed."

"Hehe~ If you put it that way, I think the difficulty has increased because of you." Shiho chuckled. "Let's go and see the character who can help us. It's better than you using these weird tricks."

"Hmm... okay." After thinking about it, I gave up on any weird tricks this time and just listened to Shiho. It seemed like it would be a good idea to just play games honestly.

After a short rest in the clock tower, Shiho and I returned to Baker Street, but found that Conan and the others had not returned yet. So Shiho and I found 221B, where Holmes lived, and knocked on the door, but it was Ayumi who opened the door.

"What? You haven't collected the information yet?" I asked when I saw Ayumi open the door.

"We did collect it." Ayumi was a little embarrassed. "But we didn't find Sherlock Holmes."

"Hmm? Didn't find it?" I asked in confusion. "Let's go in and take a look." As we talked, we walked into Holmes' room.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw the children with sad faces, and the eggplants with vines pulled out one by one. It seemed that they had encountered some difficulties, but Conan sat calmly in the chair that Sherlock Holmes often sat on, with his feet curled up and his hands resting on his chin, as if this posture was imitating Sherlock Holmes.

"Conan, are you having a chuunibyou or are you cosplaying? What the hell are you doing?" The kids looked at a loss, but Conan was quite calm. "What happened?"

"Why are you complaining about me when you come here?" Conan glanced at me. "It's a rare opportunity to come to Sherlock Holmes' room, so I want to imitate him." At this moment, Conan was like a child.

"What? I heard from Ayumi that Holmes was not found?"

"Ah, that's it." Conan returned to his original state. "I guess the character that the doctor and his team originally set up to help us was Sherlock Holmes, but just now through the conversation with the housekeeper, we learned that Holmes and Watson both left London at this time."

"So... the character who helped us was gone before I could kill him?"

"..Um."

"WTF! This is outrageous!"

(End of this chapter)