The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Tang Ze, who took time off to sleep and mortgage his sleep, was sitting in his bar with a cocktail newly mixed by Lyon, holding his face and thinking.

Regarding Curacao, apart from the fact that her arrival greatly boosted the confidence of Ireland, whose style was different from everyone else's, the most rewarding thing for Tang Ze was that the colors of the cocktails in the bar suddenly became richer.

It was mentioned a long time ago that Tangze’s bar collects the alcoholic beverages corresponding to the code-named members, and directly collects them into a large category, and all brands belonging to this category can be obtained together.

This worked after meeting Curacao. Now, although Curacao still doesn't know the truth about the ability of the Heart Thief, he is basically a member of his own camp. The colorful and dazzling Curacao wines on the wine rack make this bar very atmospheric.

"Have you figured out something new?" Leon put down the shaker, poured the second glass of wine, garnished it with lemon slices and sea salt, and asked casually, "It's just a coop upgrade. You must be used to it. Why are you posing like that?"

Tang Ze suddenly ran into the bar halfway through his tour group trip. More than half an hour had passed without him saying a word.

Leon tried to ask a few questions and tried to mix some drinks for him, but Tang Ze didn't say anything and just kept drinking without any reaction.

Tang Ze snuffed out the spinning Tarot card in his hand, raised his head, and said seriously, "Upgrading to Coop is indeed normal. I'm just thinking about some mechanical issues."

"What mechanical issues? It can't be that after all this time, you're already fussing over Coop's rank determination issues again, right?" Leon adjusted the brim of his hat, looking helpless. "Don't worry about something you can't change."

Whether it is the judgment or the setting of coop, as Tang Ze slowly lives in this world, constantly makes new friends, constantly adjusts his pace and mentality, he has been slowly developing and advancing. I believe that in the end he will definitely reach a perfect destination.

"I can't help it. Even though I know this might be an opportunity that I painstakingly planned for in the past, I can't help but keep wondering where all this came from." Tang Ze spread out his hands, looking at his empty palms. "You can see it too, right? Those things."

To say I saw it is a bit of an understatement.

As the narrator of Tang Ze's entire system, Leon's performance is almost integrated with the entire system.

Every time the rank is upgraded, the comments are written and read by Lyon, and every time the ability is granted, it is marked and explained by Lyon.

The most exaggerated one was when Lyon was promoted to a higher rank. Tang Ze was present at the bar. Lyon didn't even pretend and asked Tang Ze to sign the document himself.

This is also a very special part of Karasawa's Velvet Assistant. If this were really a game, it would be a bit of a meta element that breaks the fourth wall.

"Hmm, after all, I'm different from the average velvet dweller. We've discussed this before." Leon picked up his wine glass and said cheerfully, "Have you come up with any new insights?"

"No, I'm wondering where these co-op abilities come from," Tang Ze said bluntly. "I didn't have any doubts about this before. The main reason is that, first of all, I understand the game system, and secondly, I understand the people who have established cooperative relationships with me."

The Cooperation system is actually a summary of community relations.

The community relationships formed by people around you supplement different aspects of life and constantly add new life experiences. Everyone can learn something.

They more or less know the true identity of the Phantom Thief of Hearts, and on this basis they help and grow each other, which is a concentration of complex interpersonal relationships.

It was precisely because of his preconceived understanding of these settings that after meeting Toru Amuro and starting their initial coop, Tang Ze did not have any questions.

The co-op skills from all kinds of friends and relatives did not cause Tang Ze any doubts.

This is a group of people who don't know Tang Ze yet, but Tang Ze already knows them. Past memories and information from Chaoyou have allowed Tang Ze to have a very complete understanding and opinion of them.

Even though Tang Ze was gradually moved and infected by his life here and no longer regarded them as stereotyped characters or labels, this experience of being familiar with every name still inevitably created a basic framework in Tang Ze's mind.

Amuro Toru's identity is very complex, and his skills are diverse, so it's normal that the skills he gives can enhance Tang Ze's abilities in all aspects;

Conan's protagonist aura and event-related physique, combined with his various performances in many cases and scenes, make perfect sense, whether it provides thinking ability or a unique aura;

Shuichi Akai's acclaimed sniping skills are praised by both the Red and Black teams. What else can we give him if not this?

Mao Lilan, Hattori Heiji, Suzuki Sonoko, Vermouth...

These familiar names correspond one to one with the abilities they confer. Tang Ze accepted them as a matter of course, thus ignoring a very fundamental issue.

——A normal coop assistance system is a feedback process of growth and learning.

Even though Tang Ze, as a time traveler, is a little special, and the collision between his cognition of Hexology and Kexue is more intense, isn't it a bit exaggerated to directly transform it into a kind of initiation?

"Parody is not nonsense, adaptation is not random writing. To be honest, this set of things is somewhat disrespectful to others." Tang Ze said earnestly.

"You know that your situation is different, so why do you have to use the original settings mechanically?" Leon asked.

"Yeah, my situation is very different. The most different part is that this is my real life, not a suspended game." Tang Ze nodded and raised the point Leon had made to him in the past. "Since this is real life, is such a big cheat really justified?"

"If you don't like it, you can turn it off." Leon calmly retorted, "I didn't force you to cheat."

"Xiao Kai isn't really Kai." Tang Zexian habitually followed up with a joke, then managed to control his expression a little. "Yesterday, when I saw Xingchuan's rank increase, I realized that I had been fooled by my inertial thinking by blindly accepting this logic."

As he spoke, he waved his hand again and pulled out the Moon Tarot card.

The blue translucent tarot card hung in the palm of his hand, slowly rotating and emitting a faint blue light.

"I understand his endurance for ranks 1 and 2. He's been abused by both the organization and his own father, so his tolerance for pain is stronger than others. But look at this. What the hell is 'mental resistance'?"

Mental resistance, according to the labeling of this skill, is a kind of spiritual and mental enhancement.

Simply put, Occlumency has evolved.

It would be impossible for the organization to take Tang Ze away again, cut everything off, replicate his memory, tamper with it, and burn false memories.

At first glance, it seems somewhat reasonable. After all, Hoshikawa Teru has made great progress these days. Yesterday, he was forced to listen to a complete set of second-year scripts written by Tang Ze for him in a corner for several hours. It seems reasonable that he is mentally weakened and needs to further enhance his resistance.

But Tang Ze keenly sensed that there was something subtly wrong.

"If the coop skills I acquired all came from my coops, then this skill is very wrong. If Xingchuan had mental resistance, or if I trained him to have resistance, he wouldn't be in this mental state long ago." Tang Ze frowned deeply, "This makes me suspicious."

Leon put the empty goblet on the bar, raised his head and looked straight into Tang Ze's eyes.

"I doubt they 'taught' me these skills." Tang Ze's voice softened a little. "These are originally mine, right?"

It’s a little confusing to come to this conclusion, but if you think about it carefully, you can still make sense of it.

No matter where this game system really comes from, it can be seen that their source of information is Tang Ze himself, or in other words, Tang Ze's memories of his previous life.

Tang Ze has seen Detective Conan, so Leon has seen it too. Tang Ze has played P5, so Leon has played it too.

Therefore, the explanation of this set of skills is completely convincing for other people and can correspond one to one with their identities and characteristics. However, the completely new guy, Teru Hoshikawa, makes this logical system slightly flawed.

Leon smiled slightly and pushed the unfinished cocktail glass of Tang Ze towards him.

This was a subtle gesture of weakness, and Tang Ze understood that Lyon had tacitly agreed.

"I can't hide it from you, my friend."

"I can't help it. I've played too many games. This is an old trick. Beat a high-performance machine to amnesia or near death, and then let the machine use resources to improve its own performance..." Tang Ze's mouth twitched, "Is this interesting?"

"Interesting." Leon, who had been exposed by him, showed no shame on his face. "Isn't it very interactive? And this is the implicit game guide. It's a high-end design, guest."

Tang Ze glared at the shameless planner, but after thinking about his logic, he found it difficult to refute him.

Tang Ze, whose memory has just been restored, is in a completely player-like state of mind.

To be honest, if this coop system had not shown unparalleled benefits, pushing Tang Ze to approach other people with an almost utilitarian mentality, Tang Ze, who has always been very confident in his abilities, would be unlikely to choose his current direction.

It's just like the original red team in the plot, which was restricted by identity, position, and perspective. Even though they were essentially comrades on the same front and had strong personal abilities, they found it difficult to integrate information and form alliances due to the chain of suspicion. In the end, they all fought on their own and had a hard time. Tang Ze, who was in that state of mind, would not choose the current route.

He might very well take advantage of an opportunity to fake his own death, abandon his identity as a student who was like a burden and was shrouded in the organization's sight, and really become a lone wolf hunting darkness, ending up in the same situation as Ke Xuehong.

Leon was not wrong to call this a game guide aimed at Tang Ze himself.

"Riddler, get out of here! Also, forget about all the other abilities, but why don't you explain how the female disguise bonus has anything to do with me?"

"Ah, shouldn't you ask yourself that? I'm just a game operator at best, maintaining hot updates is pretty much all I need to do. Aren't you the one who produces and sells the game materials yourself? If you ask me, who should I ask?"

"Then let me ask you, then let me ask you..."

"You'd better not ask for now... The doorbell rang, and you should be the one to get out..."

"...Ze, Tang Ze?"

The blue in his vision, which filled his consciousness, receded and shrank. Tang Ze opened his eyes reluctantly and stood up.

This guy Leon...

He hasn't raised the most crucial question yet.

The system, the "question setter", preset various skills for his coop, allowing him to "unlock" them by establishing deep connections with these people. However, this preset deviated from the unexpected coop like Hoshikawa Teru, and obviously, the control part was handed over to Leon.

Does this mean that the "question setter" itself can no longer work on the current system? In other words, could it be that it was set up in advance by Tang Ze himself in the first episode based on his accurate prediction of himself?

Tsk, if Conan hadn't been so accurate in timing, he would have suspected that Leon was the real timing master, completely predicting the timing of dodge and parry...

Forget it, Lyon has nowhere to run anyway, it’s just a matter of time.

"What's wrong?" Tang Ze quickly adjusted his mood without revealing any flaws and looked at Conan, "Have we arrived yet?"

"No, the car broke down." Conan pointed out the window, "It seems to be out of gas."

Tang Ze sat up, looked sideways at the dashboard on the driver's seat for a moment, and asked, "Ah, are you sure it's not the fuel tank that's malfunctioning?"

"The doctor said he was paying attention to the indicator, and it was indeed gradually decreasing to 0, so the gas must have run out." Conan pointed at Dr. Agasa who had already gotten out of the car and went to the side door to observe. "You know, the doctor is really not that reliable most of the time."

"You didn't prepare any spare oil barrels?"

"No, I guess he was busy checking the food and camping equipment the kids were going to bring." Conan spread his hands.

Not only Professor Agasa, but everyone else had gotten out of the car and were walking around it to observe, except for Tang Ze who was sleeping soundly and Conan who was deliberately dawdling.

It may not work, but it's better than just sitting there.

Therefore, Conan didn't need to continue to hold his voice and act like an elementary school student, and spoke naturally.

"Okay, this is quite tricky. It's too late to call a tow truck because we're too far from the city." Tang Ze rubbed his neck and sat up straight. "Then why did you wake me up? You can't expect me to ask Mr. Amuro to drive over to deliver the gas, right?"

Yes, it's possible, maybe even Yuya Kazami can deliver it, but I feel that if I do that, I'll easily be strangled by Toru Amuro on the back of the neck.

"No, it's, uh, that," Conan laughed awkwardly a few times and pointed at Dr. Agasa who was standing outside the car with an anxious expression. "You're not, I mean, your ability... as long as the wish is sincere enough, it might work, right? Is this useful, Dr. Agasa?"

I started to think that Conan was bringing me along just to bring a 999+ wild store to Tang Ze: "..."

He kind of regretted writing this effect into the script. Even if you keep taking advantage of others, you'll eventually get taken advantage of...