Chapter 397 Intrigue and deception
Chapter 397: Intrigue and Deception

"Go clean the stage of the opera house tonight. This is M's message to J." In the evening, we came to the bell tower and got today's newspaper. When I saw Moriarty's blatant order in the information column of a certain page of the newspaper, I couldn't help but feel a little weird.

How did this information get published in the newspaper? There is even a section for passing on messages. Maybe it’s a game setting. It certainly can’t be so blatant in real life.

"Cleaning the stage of the opera house? What does that mean?" Ayumi was puzzled.

"Maybe there's someone performing at the opera house tonight?" Xiaolan responded, and then she flipped the newspaper back and found news about the opera house. "It says here, triumphal performance, idol of the Warsaw Royal Opera, Irene Adler?!"

"I remember Irene Adler seemed to be..." Shiho lowered her head and recalled.

"Rumor has it that she is the only woman who has ever defeated Sherlock Holmes, and she is also a woman that Holmes admires very much." Xiaolan took over the conversation.

"Killing the woman he admires as a means of revenge against Holmes?" Moriarty's behavior disgusted me. Although it can indeed work to a certain extent, this bad taste... Ugh... It reminded me of the mission that the organization gave me to advance to the gold medal. I couldn't help but feel a fire rising from the bottom of my heart.

"Kaoru?" Shiho saw that I was not in a good state and quickly reached out to pull my sleeve. "Are you okay?"

"..It's okay." Shiho's interruption made me calm down immediately. It makes sense. Moriarty's task to me is to kill Jack the Ripper, and at the same time, as a bonus, I have to keep Irene Adler. From a certain perspective, his bad taste does exist, but it mostly doesn't matter. Because whether it succeeds or not, if Irene Adler is killed by Jack the Ripper, then I will lose points, and Moriarty can also take the opportunity to disgust Sherlock Holmes. On the contrary, it will be the demise of Jack the Ripper. From Moriarty's perspective, it doesn't matter who is killed, what matters is the confrontation between Jack the Ripper and me. No matter who wins or loses between Jack the Ripper and me, it is a favorable situation for Moriarty.

"Huh... Let's wait for Conan." I said to everyone after taking a deep breath. At the same time, we also need to make a careful plan.

"In that case, why don't we just stop Irene Adler from performing on stage, then hide, set a trap and wait for Jack the Ripper to take the bait, right?" Moroboshi suggested.

"It's a good idea. But we still need to consider some details, such as..." Shiho looked at me and then took over the conversation, because she saw that my eyes were a little distracted at this time, and I was leaning against the wall of the clock tower. Shiho had seen this state many times. It was the state when I was in deep thinking. Although I could hear and follow what others said, it did not affect my thinking. What Shiho was doing now was to try not to let others disturb me as much as possible in a short period of time.

At the same time, I was thinking rapidly in my mind, from my perspective, from the perspective of Jack the Ripper, and from the perspective of Noah's Ark. How would this assassination and counter-assassination unfold?

In such a public occasion, it is very difficult to kill a person on the stage. The most direct way is to kill the person before he goes on stage. But Moriarty's order is to clean the stage, so does Jack the Ripper really have to follow the order 100% and kill Irene Adler on the stage?
Jack the Ripper always liked to use daggers and short swords to stab his victims in the heart. He was an out-and-out murderer. But jumping onto the stage and stabbing the target in the chest with a short blade was obviously a very stupid thing to do on such a public stage. So would Jack the Ripper change his tactics?
"No, that's not right." I shook my head. This is still the best consideration. If Noah's Ark interferes, the difficulty of the game will increase dramatically. When facing Monlang, we have already started to use guns to fight, and it is not ruled out that Jack the Ripper will also use high-powered weapons such as guns and bombs. If that is the case, it will be difficult for me to protect Irene Adler, after all, in a banquet hall with hundreds of people. Once the lights are dimmed, it is easy to find the person who fired the gun, but it is harder than climbing to the sky to protect the person who received the gun.

"Wait..." Suddenly, my brain suddenly froze. Why should I protect Irene Adler? Isn't my mission to capture or kill Jack the Ripper? Protecting Irene Adler is just a bonus item in the follow-up mission issued by Moriarty, and isn't my ultimate goal to kill Jack the Ripper directly? Why am I entangled in this? I almost made a mistake.

"I am back!"

Just as we were thinking, Conan's voice suddenly came from beside us. "I found clues about Jack the Ripper's motive for murder."

"Well, it just so happens that we have also solved the whereabouts and targets of Jack the Ripper." I nodded to Conan. Then I turned to Shiho and told him to tell Conan everything we had just deduced, and I needed to re-plan my part.

Since we are going to kill Jack the Ripper, the difficulty is much lower. I just need to work hard in this direction. As for saving people, I am not too worried because Conan is here. In other words, our next goal is to have two lines. One is that I hide in the dark and take the opportunity to get rid of Jack the Ripper. The other is that Conan and his team stay in the open to attract Jack the Ripper's attention and take good protection to prevent Irene Adler from being killed, so as to avoid other incidents in the mission.

————————————Detective Conan the Movie Six & The Phantom of Baker Street————————————"Midnight...six?" At night, our group arrived at the entrance of the opera house. In front of the door of the opera house, the children looked up at the clock tower not far away, only to find that the hands had turned to midnight six.

"In other words, all the people in other scenes are out? We are the only ones left." Ayumi said worriedly.

"Don't worry, even if there are only a few of us, we will definitely win in the end." Xiaolan encouraged Ayumi.

"That being said, there are only five of us here now." Ayumi turned around and looked in the direction of the opera house.

"After all, there is a division of labor." Conan smoothed things over for me. "We agreed that the five of us would go to protect Irene Adler, while Xun would go to the police and report the situation here so that the police could arrest Jack the Ripper the moment he appeared. Isn't that right?"

After Conan returned to the team, we got back on the carriage and headed towards the opera house. During this time, we discussed the plan on how to capture Jack the Ripper. Finally, we reached an agreement to split into two groups. One group was for Conan to take the children and Xiaolan to find Irene Adler directly and let them protect him in public. On the other side, I went to find the police. Of course, this was just a cover. Conan also knew that my purpose was to monitor Jack the Ripper's whereabouts in secret. So he and I made up a lie at the same time, so that I could get away from everyone's sight.

"It's just... we always trouble Xiaoxun. Is this really okay?" Xiaolan felt a little guilty. She was obviously the oldest among the children, but because of the injuries in the early battle with Jack the Ripper and the second injury in the confrontation with Colonel Montran, Xiaolan's fighting power was not fully utilized.

"Haha, don't worry about Sister Xiaolan." Conan smiled. "That guy Kaoru is enjoying it. After all, this kind of game may only happen once in a lifetime, so Kaoru must have a good time." At this time, Conan also thought that Kaoru is eager to get rid of everyone and do it alone. Whether in reality or in the game. That guy is like this every time.

"He's such a laid-back guy." Zhu Xing half-closed his eyes and laughed. "We have fifty lives on our shoulders, and he's not nervous at all."

"Don't say that. Xiaoxun has made a great contribution to this game!" Ayumi knew that Moroboshi was joking, so she was not angry. She just said something for me softly.

"You never know." Shiho complained softly. "That idiot, we don't know what the situation is now."

"Let's go and see Irene Adler." Conan smiled awkwardly, then took the bouquet of flowers he had bought long ago and walked into the opera house with the children to visit the only woman admired by Holmes, Irene Adler.

On the other hand, I had already entered the opera house and had already walked through the entire theater hall, found all the favorable environments for shooting at the stage, and found counterattack points that could monitor all places. The rest was to wait for the opera to start and Jack the Ripper to appear.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the opera officially began. I was sitting in the VIP room on the second floor, looking down at the crowd. The people sitting below were all celebrities, gentlemen, or noble ladies. It was not difficult to find a tall, muscular man with a murderous look on his face. But what surprised me was that in such a crowd, there was no such person in the several vantage points I had stepped on before. On the other side of the VIP room on the second floor, I saw Professor Moriarty who also came to enjoy the opera... No, it should be Professor Moriarty who came to enjoy the confrontation between me and Jack the Ripper. He also noticed my presence on the other side. However, judging from the cold smile on his face and the excitement when he saw me, he did not find the whereabouts of Jack the Ripper, so he was looking forward to my performance.

"Good evening, everyone." As the performance began, the leading actress of this opera, Irene Adler, also slowly came on stage. Her appearance also made me raise my eyebrows. As expected, it was a game made by Kudo's father. The game model of the woman that Holmes admired was indeed made according to the appearance of Sister Yukiko. However, after all, they were not the same person. After taking a look, I continued to stare at the people in the audience.

Time passed by, and the opera performance gradually entered its climax. But I didn't find any suspicious people on the scene. Logically, the celebrities sitting there now began to close their eyes and enjoy the final part of the opera, and Sister Yukiko on the stage... Um, Irene Adler was already there, but I didn't find anyone unusual, which made me feel a little bit of crisis. Maybe Jack the Ripper didn't plan to do it here? Or... He had already done it?! But...

boom! ! ! !

Before he could finish his thoughts, the entire opera house began to shake and collapse with a huge explosion.

Jack the Ripper, with a bomb!
　0427 Happy birthday to our angel of annihilation: Ling~ and happy birthday to our book friend Bingyu~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)