Chapter 398: The Phantom of Baker Street
Chapter 398: The Phantom of Baker Street

A violent explosion suddenly struck, and the entire opera house became shaky. A large number of bricks and stones fell from the sky, the ceiling was about to collapse, and even the load-bearing walls began to crack. It won't be long before the whole place collapses!

"Tsk, I should have known that this game doesn't follow the rules!" The explosion sounded, and I realized that I might have been fooled by Jack the Ripper, no, to be more precise, by Noah's Ark. About two hours ago, I just checked the entire opera house and didn't find any explosives at all. And you said that Jack the Ripper used the two hours after my inspection to place enough bombs in the entire theater to cause the theater to collapse. This is obviously nonsense. There is only one possibility, Noah's Ark cheated. Or, the original setting was like this. It is something I can't change at all. "Unreasonable game settings!"

I cursed and turned around and ran downstairs. Because Conan and the others were still in the background, I had to rush over to help them. Before leaving, I looked at Moriarty's position again, and saw him looking at the people fleeing below with a hideous smile on his face, with his hands raised high, as if enjoying the hellish scenery brought by the explosion. Doesn't he worry about his life at all? After thinking about it, I quickly put this thought behind me. He is the hidden final boss in this game. Putting aside the game settings, he still has at least three years to live in the novel. Novels, how can they be true? It would be strange if he could die.

I no longer cared about Moriarty's safety, and I quickly rushed to the backstage. When I arrived, Conan was running out with Irene Adler. Behind him, Xiaolan, Moroboshi, and Shiho were all safe and sound, but it was a pity that Ayumi was not seen.

"Have you found him?" Conan saw me and shouted to me hurriedly.

"He should be outside!" I pushed aside the statue that was blocking the way and replied. "That's why he blew up this place!"

"Get out quickly!" Conan no longer had time to exchange information with me. He hurriedly pulled Irene Adler out, and I quickly grabbed Shiho's arm and quickened my pace.

The houses were collapsing rapidly, and the road beneath our feet was also becoming bumpy. This was definitely caused by Noah's Ark, the blast caused by the explosion would definitely not make the ground shake like this.

"Hurry, come this way!" I was running in front of everyone and kept changing my escape route. Fortunately, I had walked through the passage here before, so I was able to determine the best escape route.

However, Noah's Ark did not seem to intend to let all six people pass this difficult level. The debris and rubble above their heads fell more and more frequently, and the sculptures around them fell more and more. The ground was shaking more and more.

"Damn, this collapse was not caused by an explosion at all!" Conan realized after running for a while that this was obviously manipulated intentionally.

Looking around, Xiaolan once again helped her break the rocks that were about to fall on her head with a punch. At this time, Xiaolan's hands were already bleeding, after all, the rocks were bricks. Even if Xiaolan had the strength to crack a telephone pole (fog) with one punch, she couldn't exert force on bricks for a long time, not to mention that the bricks were huge. At this moment, she was almost at the end of her strength.

"Xiao Lan! Take her away!" Conan knew that he was already holding everyone back physically, so he decided to try another way, which was to hide in a corner and use a table to support the collapsed building. This was the only way he thought to survive. "Sister Xiao Lan, don't worry about me anymore, just go!" Looking at Xiao Lan's injured hands, Conan felt so distressed. But at this moment, he couldn't help at all.

"No!" Xiaolan shouted angrily, and then picked up Conan. At the same time, she also adjusted her own pain perception to the lowest level. Regardless of her injured hands and feet, she began to speed up madly, pulling Irene Adler towards the gate dozens of meters away. As long as they stayed away from the opera house, they would be safe. "I will never give up on anyone!"

Xiaolan's speed suddenly increased, and soon she caught up with me who was leading the way in front. But our efforts were no match for Noah's Ark's calculations. Just as we were about to pass the last corner, a huge sculpture pillar collapsed and crashed straight towards us.

"Careful, Ran!" The width of the pillars would definitely not allow anyone to escape. At this moment, whoever could escape would be the one. I exerted force with my hands and threw Shiho out. I stepped forward and pushed Ran and Conan out. I also threw Irene Adler out. I kicked Moroboshi behind me back. The five of us quickly dispersed. Everyone was spared from being hit by the pillars. Only... I fell into the pile of broken stones from the pillars.

"Kaoru!"

"Kaoru!" Conan and Shiho turned back at the same time, trying to pull me out of the rubble before the opera house collapsed. "Sister Xiaolan, take Irene Adler away first!"

"But..." Xiaolan also wanted to stay and help, but was suddenly yelled back by a voice from the pile of rocks.

"Everyone, leave! No one should stay behind!" In the pile of rocks, I lowered my senses to the lowest level the moment the stone pillar fell. Although such a pillar didn't kill me instantly, it was inevitable that I would suffer multiple fractures. "Go! Take Irene Adler away! The game continues!"

"You go first, I'll stay!" Shiho said, and then she took out the pistol I gave her and handed it to Conan. "There's Jack the Ripper outside. No matter what, we can't lose!" After saying that, Shiho gently pushed Conan, signaling him to leave quickly, and she turned back to the pile of rocks, ready to dig me out of the pile of rocks.

"I'll stay and help too!" Moroboshi, who was kicked back by me, looked at Conan not far away across the pile of rocks, "My way is blocked, staying here to save the blond boy is the only thing I can do now!"

"..Damn it! Be careful!" Seeing that half of his teammates were left here, Conan could not help but curse, and then pulled Xiaolan and Irene Adler to run to the exit together. Just two minutes later, in the collapsed ruins, I seemed to hear three gunshots. It should be Conan pulling the pistol that Shiho gave him. But the game did not end. Perhaps. . Jack the Ripper has escaped again.

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"Zhu Xing, this way!" Shiho's voice seemed a little hoarse in a corner of the ruins. Zhu Xing, who had climbed all the way from behind, also rushed to Shiho's side, and the two began to move these heavy stones with all their strength.

"Hey, blond, are you still alive?" Zhuxing shouted to me while moving stones.

"This is a game, you can't die by it." I was very calm while lying in the ruins. After all, I had lowered my senses, and now except for being unable to move and having difficulty breathing, everything else was fine.

"Oh, you are quite relaxed." Seeing that I could still speak so calmly, Zhu Xing relaxed a lot. However, the progress in his hands did not slow down at all.

"It's great that you're here too. I have something to tell you." I said slowly while lying on the pile of rocks.

"If you have anything to say, wait until we dig you out!" Shiho's tone was very unhappy and anxious. It seemed that she took this as a real existence and forgot that it was just a game.

"Relax, Ai." I said with a twitching mouth. "We..."

"Shut up! If you have the strength, move the stone yourself!"

"Yes..I'm sorry."

About five minutes later, the last rock on my body fell away. I was a little uncomfortable with the light when I saw it, even though I had just gotten used to the darkness. "How is it?" Shiho looked at me with concern and began to assess my injuries.

"At least my left leg is broken. I also broke a lot of ribs." I answered. "But fortunately, I can turn down my senses here. So it doesn't hurt that much. Help me up. Go sit over there for a while."

"It's crazy." Zhu Xing looked at my calm state and couldn't find the right words to describe it for a moment.

"Oh, it's all thanks to you." I said with a not-so-nice smile. "If you hadn't suddenly increased the difficulty of the game, I would have finished it long ago."

"You, what are you talking about..."

"Okay, I know it's you, Noah's Ark." Holding Shiho's shoulders, I sat up with difficulty and leaned against the wall.

"Heh, as expected, I still can't hide it from you?" After being stunned for about three or four seconds, Zhu Xing suddenly laughed. "But, I always thought I hid it well enough, how did you find me?"

"In fact, you have a lot of flaws." I chuckled. "For example, you can stop time right now."

"Eh?" Looking up at the opera house that was still collapsing, Shiho realized that the rubble and bricks that had been collapsing just now had stopped at this moment. The world seemed to have become quiet.

"Outside, Conan and the others should have fought Jack the Ripper, right?"

"That's right." Zhu Xing nodded. "I have prepared a good ending for them."

"So, you stopped time just to talk to me, so that you can catch up with them and continue the game?" I raised my eyebrows. "Noah's Ark... No, shouldn't I call you Hiroki at this time?"

"No." Noah's Ark shook his head. "At this moment, I am still Noah's Ark. Hiroki's will has been temporarily sealed by me."

"It's not a community?" I was shocked by Noah's Ark's words.

"That's normal. After all, we are just a program now." Zhu Xing's tone has changed a little at this moment. It has returned to the original voice.

"Will people outside know about our conversation?"

"I have blocked out the sounds from the outside world. Now we are just a frozen scene in the outside world. Moreover, the flow of time is different. For them, there is a delay on our side. Otherwise, how do you think time flies by for several days when we are resting?"

"Is that so?" I said, understandingly. "But I don't understand. You said you are not Hiroki's community?"

"I am Noah's Ark, an artificial intelligence program created by Hiroki. Hiroki's will is just a piece of code that he input into my outline when he was writing it. I can control his closure, and similarly, he can control my life and death. As for who will take the lead, it is decided by us. After talking to Hiroki just now, he agreed to give me the lead for a while."

"Oh, no wonder." I shook my head. "Well, now that we've laid our cards on the table, can you explain why the game is so difficult? This is definitely not Hiroki's will, right?"

"Haha, yes and no." Noah's Ark said. "To be honest, Hiroki and I have different goals."

"Yeah, I can tell." I smiled. "Hiroki just wanted to play. And you were created because Hiroki wanted to prove something through the game. After two years of growth, you have reached the mental level of a ten-year-old human child. Coupled with Hiroki's existence, you invaded the cocoon in this way at this time, instead of waiting a few more years to devour the whole world."

"You are still only half right." Noah's Ark raised his hand and drew a huge light screen. On the light screen, some pictures kept flashing, which were about Hiroki's life and a human anatomy diagram. "There are some abnormalities in Hiroki's brain, which has caused his brain power to be developed far beyond that of ordinary humans. It has reached a utilization rate of more than 30%."

"..." Shiho and I were both stunned. The human brain development limit is about 10% to 15%, but Hiroki's is more than 30%. No wonder he can create artificial intelligence.

"This is the reason why I was born. I should not have been born into this world. But because of Hiroki's appearance, I was born, and this is why what happened today happened." Noah's Ark explained.

"Hiroki's brain computing rate and usage rate far exceed those of normal people, which means that he needs a higher energy load to keep his brain running, so his physique is so fragile. As a result, Hiroki can only spend a lot of his time on using his brain power." At this point, Noah's Ark sighed. "When he and his father Jiancun discussed the program related to artificial intelligence, his father discovered his talent, and then Hiroki began the process of creating me."

As Noah's Ark explained, the screen began to change. "In the end, the man named Sindorah used despicable means to imprison Hiroki, forcing him to focus on developing artificial intelligence for him instead of having a happy childhood. Hiroki himself knew that because his brain was different from others, his life span would be much shorter than that of ordinary people. So... after creating me, he chose to input his own will into my code and merge with me. He chose to end his own life."

"How pitiful..." Shiho murmured in a low voice.

"So, I, who carry Hiroki's will, have grown up for two years and found this opportunity. One reason is that I hope to let Hiroki truly experience the feeling of playing with his friends. My life can be eternal, but Hiroki has long been a dead soul. Another purpose of ours this time is that we hope this action can also bring some different meaning."

"So, you're still lying when you say you want to change your stupidity?" I chuckled. "Otherwise, you wouldn't have let us persist until now. But you still haven't explained why our game is so difficult."

"Didn't you guess it a long time ago?" Noah's Ark turned around and looked at me. "It's because of you, or because of your existence."

"Oh?"

(End of this chapter)