Chapter 543: Countdown to Stop

Normally speaking, unless they are Hit-Girl or Benjamin Button, elementary school students should not be able to defuse bombs.

As a game for primary school students, Cocoon Game will naturally not set game conditions that require hardcore knowledge and make it impossible for primary school students to pass the game, just like now——————

The timer of this time bomb is a reverse clock. It will explode when the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand return to zero. If you want to defuse this time bomb, you need to read the instruction manual left next to Miss Alice...

Yes, the instruction manual. This instruction manual is like a simple and easy-to-understand decryption game. You only need to solve the mystery to know which wire the player needs to cut to defuse the bomb.

These puzzles are only somewhat difficult for elementary school students, but for a top student like Haibara Ai who used to be a scientist of the Black Organization, she can solve them in just one or two minutes.

"The reserved time is fifteen minutes. The time for the action in the middle plus the delay is nine minutes. Now there are six minutes left...six minutes is enough."

Although she looks like an elementary school student, Ai Haibara is actually more intelligent than an average person. She reads the instruction manual carefully, and quickly searches between the lines for the answer to dismantling the time bomb.

While Mao Lilan and others were outside looking for the specific location of the gymnasium, it was late at night, the lights were dim, they were unfamiliar with the place and didn't even have the coordinates, so they were like headless flies and couldn't find the way.

However, while they were still looking for the way, a group of new people arrived outside.

"...University of London...Why not call it University of London?"

The young man from a prominent family, Takizawa Shinya, looked up at the inconspicuous sign of Dunlun University late at night and asked curiously.

Naturally, this question was one that neither Shousado nor Naruhodō Ryunosuke could answer.

The legendary lawyer in the cocoon game could only raise his head and stare at the sign for a while, then finally spoke seriously.

"I think... it's probably for fashion, right? I heard that writing your name backwards is very fashionable these days...?"

“Is there a fashionable way of saying this? Ryunosuke Naruhodō-sama…!”

"Ah, I was kidding... We have never been to the University of London before, so of course we can't know the answer..."

Naruhodō Ryunosuke explained embarrassedly to prevent himself from encountering the long-lost Shousatsutou of his legal assistant.

Haruki remembers the first time he and Shousa came to London by boat, and they were thrown into the water twice right after they came out of the closet.

In order to avoid Takizawa Shinya asking questions like "Why don't you know this after being in London for so long?"

He immediately turned his head and looked towards the interior of Dunlun University not far away, and said thoughtfully.

"By the way, is this what Dunlun University looks like at night? There's no light at all."

"Besides, even the gate guard is missing. It's a bit strange..."

"...I have a bad feeling. Let's go in and take a look at the situation first."

——-——————

"Bomb dismantled, first one, confirmed."

The fuse of the time bomb was cut directly, but the flame of the bomb did not engulf the entire stadium.

Haibara Ai, who was originally a little nervous, relaxed a little and put the dismantled bomb aside.

Then, she picked up Miss Alice, who had not yet woken up, and placed her a little further away.

It's obvious that Haibara Ai has no intention of leaving here for the time being... She wants to try whether the second bomb can be defused.

"The original time was fifteen minutes, the journey was nine minutes, and it took one minute and forty seconds to dismantle the first bomb. I still have four minutes to deal with the second time bomb."

"Even if the second time bomb cannot be dismantled, I only need one minute and thirty seconds to run out of the gymnasium with Miss Alice..."

"Even if Moriarty lied, and the explosion range of this bomb was not for one person but for the entire stadium, it would not pose a threat..."

She picked up the instruction manual in her hand and stood at the treasure chest where the second bomb was tied. Her eyes rested on the dial of the second time bomb, which was different from the previous one.

The previous bomb was a countdown, and it would explode when all the pointers returned to zero, while this bomb was a normal time dial, but it was deliberately set to a certain time point and would explode fifteen minutes later. This is also one of the keys to distinguish the puzzle-solving methods of the first bomb from the puzzle-solving methods of the second bomb in the manual, to prevent bomb disposal personnel from confusing the two methods.

"It looks like the difficulty of cracking the bomb is not much different from the first one, just a little higher... Two minutes... Two minutes should be enough."

Haibara Ai's eyes quickly swept across the dial. She recalled the time when the first time bomb stopped, and thus deduced the specific time on the dial when the second bomb was installed.

Then substitute this time into the puzzle on the instruction manual, use your memory and calculation ability to quickly think of various answers, and substitute them into the corresponding color code.

Red, blue, yellow, green...

Time was passing by minute by minute, and Haibara Ai's attention was completely focused on the instruction manual. She didn't need to look at the time on the dial because she could clearly remember how many minutes and seconds had passed.

Therefore, when she raised her head again, it was already the second minute of the cracking time.

"...disarm the second bomb..."

Click——————

Haibara Ai accurately cut the yellow line of the second time bomb, then turned her head to look at the dial.

Just like the first time bomb, the second time bomb has stopped.

She then put the bomb aside and opened the treasure chest with a click.

There was only a manuscript in the treasure chest, written in English.

"Holmes will go step by step to the Reichenbach Abyss, and the end of reasoning is death."

"Alice Watson and Naruhodō Ryunosuke's logic theater can find the answer."

Haibara Ai hung up the phone with Conan, picked up the detective medal and whispered.

Unaware of this, Alice Watson behind him had already stood up.

The pink-haired little girl looked at Huibara Ai's back, then looked at the ground, a hint of shock flashed in her eyes.

"...When you see this, unfortunately, you are already dead."

"Yours sincerely, James Moriarty."

Huihara Ai read out the last English words on the manuscript. She didn't understand what Moriarty was saying.

And Alice Watson spoke loudly at this time.

"Get out of the way! The time bomb's dial...is about to explode!"

...arrived...at the explosion time? But...the dial has clearly stopped...

Ai Huihara looked down at the clock face and seemed to hear the chimes of Big Ben again.

In an instant, she suddenly understood something, then she picked up the detective badge and spoke loudly.

"Kudo, Professor Moriarty is not just a plot..."

Rumble.

The flames of the explosion instantly engulfed the area near the treasure chest.

call out------

In the game hall, a virtual game cabin spewed out steam and then dived.

(End of this chapter)

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