Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Vermouth hacked into the organization's surveillance system and intercepted the communication records between Gin and the R&D department, from which she found clues about the music box at the Karasuma Group headquarters - Gin's final instructions were hidden in the mechanism of the music box.

The internal structure and operating mechanism of the music box are closely related to the patented technology of Karasuma Group three years ago.

Vermouth knew that this information was extremely important to Kudo Yuki and the others, and might be the key to turning the situation around. After a little thought, she wrote an encrypted message and sent it to Kudo Yuki:

Fine wine, Gin's final instructions are hidden in the music box at the Karasuma Group headquarters. Be careful of the mechanism behind the gears. - Vermouth: Absinthe

After sending the text message, she leaned back in her chair and looked out the window at the night, as if looking forward to the exciting show that was about to come.

Just as Vermouth was leaning back in her chair, looking out the window at the night, expecting the show to begin, in the laboratory, another encrypted message from Vermouth popped up on Kudo Yuki's phone without warning.

Fine wine, beware of the eyes behind the secret door! ——Vermouth: Absinthe

Conan grabbed Kudo Yuki's wrist fiercely, and the cold sweat on his palm quickly soaked through his sleeves. His pupils behind the glasses shrank sharply: "Sister! The system protection program has an abnormality, like a runaway train. If we don't find a solution, the other party will completely lock the data!"

Kudo Yuki looked at the sweat on Conan's eyelashes and his white knuckles, and her heart ached suddenly - these hands should have been holding a football, not playing death on the keyboard. She gently stroked the bulging veins on the back of his hand, as if touching the little boy who always liked to hide behind her in her childhood.

"Don't be afraid, just like before, sister is here." Her voice tightened, thinking of the countless late nights when they curled up in the quilt to share mystery novels, Conan's bright eyes reflected the moonlight. At this moment, the alarm in the laboratory was like a death warrant, but she had to be his shield that would never fall.

Conan looked at his sister, and the memory of listening to stories in childhood flashed through his mind. At that time, she always said, "Holmes will protect Watson." At this moment, her fingertips were still warm, like the firelight of a winter fireplace. He took a deep breath, gripped the keyboard again, and his fingertips moved more steadily - he must not let his sister down.

Toru Amuro's cell phone suddenly vibrated, breaking the suffocating and tense atmosphere in the laboratory.

The screen lit up with an encrypted message. After he quickly glanced at it, his originally stern expression suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice: "The public security insider has received news that Gin has activated the third-level destruction procedure.

There are only 83 minutes left before the data is completely erased. Every second is precious. Once the time is up, all our efforts will be in vain.”

Huiyuan Ai injected the reagent into the instrument, looking anxious: "Sister Xue, the simulated brain wave signal has been generated, but it is not stable yet. The parameters must be readjusted!"

Kudo Yuki tapped the surface of the analyzer.

The blue light on the screen suddenly surged, and the genetic map overlapped perfectly like a puzzle.

Noah's Ark tried its best to crack the code based on the clues sent by Vermouth.

In an instant, all the alarms stopped.

A dazzling white light flashed across the projection screen, and a line of scarlet words slowly emerged:

Welcome to the Karasuma Group core database.

"It's terrible! Gin has logged into the server! He can directly delete all the files we downloaded!" Noah's Ark's electronic voice was unusually urgent, "ES Dark Amber Project data download is only 47 minutes away. If this continues, all our efforts will fail!"

The alarm sounded suddenly and the red warning lights in the laboratory flashed wildly.

The instrument emitted a high-frequency buzzing sound, which mixed with the alarm sound, making people's temples throb.

The purple reagent on the test tube rack shook wildly with the vibration, hitting the wall of the tube and emitting pungent smoke, which rolled strangely under the pale light.

Ai Huiyuan stared at the code that kept jumping on the screen, and her hands quickly operated the instrument. Although she tried to stay calm, her slightly trembling fingertips still exposed her inner tension.

This "data battle" with Gin has reached a white-hot stage, and every second matters to success or failure.

In the high-end hotel suite, Vermouth leaned lazily on the leather sofa, the dark red liquid in the goblet swaying gently with the tapping of her green nails.

The floor-to-ceiling windows cut the neon lights of the city into pieces, but they were reflected in her eyes with a coldness - those lights could never shine into the dark corners of her heart.

Vermouth's fingertips stroked the wall of the cup, and her thoughts drifted away involuntarily. The image of Miyano Akemi lying in a pool of blood overlapped with the image of herself struggling in the laboratory of the winery organization.

"Gin, you think you are in control of the overall situation, but you don't know that there are other players in this game." She raised the corners of her mouth, and her smile hid the pleasure of twenty years of forbearance and revenge, and the tail tone drifted in the air like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue.

At the same time, in Dr. Agasa's laboratory, the alarm suddenly became more shrill.

"Gin's operation instructions have been detected! The other party is starting the ultimate deletion program!" Noah's Ark's voice was accompanied by a sharp electronic tremor, "Remaining download time: 42 minutes!"

Huiyuan Ai's fingertips quickly tapped on the keyboard, and the instruments on the lab table hummed harshly. She stared at the distorted waveform on the screen: "Sister Xue, the brain wave simulation signal is starting to become unstable! We must find the balance point of frequency calibration immediately!"

Kudo Yuki stared at the distorted gene map on the projection screen. The continuous high-intensity work made her vision blurry. She rubbed her sore eyes and suddenly noticed a constantly flashing node that attracted her attention like a magnet.

"The pattern of this frequency fluctuation... why does it feel so familiar?" Kudo Yuki subconsciously pressed the analyzer to try to enlarge the image, and her eyes inadvertently swept across the magician's divination cards in her hand.

The gold-plated portrait on the card seemed to be staring at her strangely, and her memory suddenly flashed back - Kudo Yusaku once mentioned that the encryption system of the Karasuma Group likes to use concrete symbols to metaphorically represent mathematical models.

Just as she was thinking, the magician's divination cards that she had been holding in her hand suddenly slipped, and the portrait on the card happened to overlap with a certain area of ​​the map.

Kudo Yuki's pupils suddenly contracted - those seemingly irregular arrangements of symbols actually showed a strange synchronized rhythm with the fluctuation frequency of the genetic map.

"Wait! The fluctuation frequency and card symbol of this node..."

Conan came over immediately and said, "Sister, are there any clues hidden in the fortune-telling cards?"

Amuro Toru held the divination card, his eyes sharp: "It's exactly the same as the encrypted pattern in the patent drawing three years ago!"

Zhu Fu Jingguang quickly flipped through the notebook to the page with the patent code. "If these symbols are part of the key, then we may be able to use them to lock the weakness of the last layer of the firewall!"

Dr. Agasa pushed open the door of the laboratory, holding up the yellowed drawing and panting: "I found it in the old data! The encryption system that I studied with Yusaku in the early years used similar symbols!"

Kudo Yuki placed the divination cards on the analyzer, and the symbols on the cards perfectly overlapped with the genetic map on the screen.

Noah's Ark's voice suddenly became excited: "Homologous encryption signal detected! The final key is being parsed!"

All the screens in the laboratory suddenly went black and the alarms stopped abruptly.

Huihara Ai looked up suddenly: "It's an electromagnetic pulse! Gin is interfering with our signal!"

Amuro Toru's phone vibrated again, and the encrypted message showed that Gin had arrived at the core area of ​​the server. His eyes instantly turned cold: "We don't have much time."

Kudo Yuki picked up the test tube containing the purple potion, her fingers trembling slightly, "Ai, use this to enhance the analog signal! Noah's Ark, once the key is parsed, immediately download all the transaction records of fund flows!"

As the purple potion was injected into the instrument, the lights in the laboratory came back on and the data on the screen scrolled wildly again.

Noah's Ark's voice was filled with the joy of victory: "The key analysis was successful! Start downloading all the fund transaction records of the ES Dark Amber Project!"

Kudo Yuki's phone vibrated in her pocket. She took it out and saw a text message from Kuroda Hei:

Hiroki Sawada has been sent with a laptop for support. He has mastered the latest encryption cracking technology and should be able to help.

Kudo Yuki breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied with the address.

Almost at the moment the text message was sent, Hiroki Sawada's phone rang.

Noah's Ark automatically transferred the call and turned on hands-free mode: "The current download task has 37 minutes left, and the interference intensity is 68%."

"Sister Xue, I'm Hiroki Sawada. I'm on my way. Manager Kuroda asked me to prepare a special cracking program." The boy's clear voice penetrated the radio waves. "This program is optimized for the encryption system of the Karasuma Group. It can automatically adjust the cracking plan according to the opponent's defense strategy."

Kudo Yuki tightened her fingers on the analyzer slightly, her eyes swept across Amuro Toru's tense profile and Haibara Ai's hands rapidly tapping the keyboard: "Hiroki, we are in Dr. Agasa's laboratory. Gin is destroying the fund transaction records, the download progress of Noah's Ark is blocked, and the other party is still interfering."

"I understand! I have analyzed some of the data in advance. Their firewall uses living brain waves to generate passwords." Sawada Hiroki spoke quickly, "The algorithm model I brought can reverse simulate the matching neural frequency through the sample gene sequence. However, it still needs on-site data for calibration."

Amuro Toru suddenly looked up, and his fingers tapped out a string of rapid codes on the keyboard. The interference ripples on the screen subsided briefly: "Tell him that Dr. Agasa has complete B-07 sample data here, which can be used for calibration!"

Kudo Yuki added into the phone: "Hiroki, Dr. Agasa has the complete B-07 sample data, you need..."

"We have received the data transmitted synchronously by Noah's Ark." Sawada Hiroki interrupted, "Sister Xue, be ready to receive my model file. I will complete the preliminary optimization before arriving to minimize the adaptation time."

Noah's Ark suddenly sounded an alarm: "Gin's ultimate deletion program will be activated in 35 minutes, and the current data download progress is 62%! The interference signal strength continues to rise, and the remaining capacity of the backup line is 19%!"

Haibara Ai's sweat on her back soaked through her lab coat, and she pushed another tube of reagent in: "Sister Xue! The brainwave signals are messed up again!"

Conan's glasses slipped down in panic: "Hiroki! Can you just use your algorithm to replace the current cracking program?"

A quick keyboard sound came from the phone: "Connecting! There is a problem with the firewall verification, and brain wave growth data is needed!"

Kudo Yuki grabbed a notepad and wrote down the data: "Noah's Ark, pass it to Hiroki! Tell him that the symbols on the divination cards are related to the key!"

Her fingertips brushed over the mysterious figure on the divination card, and she suddenly remembered what Kuroba Touichi said when he handed the card to her: "The essence of magic is to find order in chaos."

Hiroki Sawada spoke quickly: "Got it! Reconstruct the algorithm... Oops, Gin is injecting a virus! Mr. Amuro, quickly open the firewall's underlying protocol!"

Amuro Toru had already clamped his phone between his neck, his fingers leaving afterimages on the keyboard: "The passage is open! Hurry!"

His tie hung loosely around his neck, and the first button of his blue shirt collar had been undone at some point, revealing the taut blue veins beneath his cold white skin - it was an almost fierce fighting posture that Kudo Yuki had never seen before.

Haibara Ai pulled down the cooling fan, and the sound of metal colliding was piercing: "The electromagnetic pulse is going to burn the circuit board! Mr. Amuro, cut off the non-essential power supply!"

Amuro Toru's tie was already askew, and he yanked open the collar of his shirt, revealing the veins on his neck. His fingertips slid rapidly across the keyboard, and the laboratory ceiling light suddenly went out, leaving only the cold light of the operating table casting a shadow on everyone's face: "The backup power supply has been activated! Hiroki, virus removal progress!"

Hiroki Sawada's voice was mixed with the noise of electricity: "67%! But Gin is constantly injecting new interference codes... Sister Xue, there are hidden frequency bands in the encryption pattern of the magician card! Put the card face on the spectrum analyzer quickly!"

Magician Kudo Yuki's divination cards were placed on it, and the moment the cards came into contact with the instrument, the genetic map on the screen suddenly burst into a dazzling red light.

The alarm on Noah's Ark was so sharp that it almost tore the eardrums: "The homologous quantum key has been detected! But Gin has broken through the seventh firewall. There are 28 minutes left before the ultimate deletion program is activated!"

Conan suddenly grabbed Kudo Yuki's wrist, and his pupils behind the lenses shrank violently: "Sister! The brain wave frequency of the B-07 sample is resonating with the card surface! This is not a coincidence, Kuroba Tou knew it all along..."

"Hiroki! Use the resonance frequency to build a reverse tracking program!" Amuro Toru suddenly put the phone to his ear, and the conversation with the Public Security Technology Department mixed with the background noise, "Yes, lock Gin's IP address! He is now in the server room of the Capital Tower!"

Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly connected the biometric device to the analyzer, and the blue light of the chip and the symbols of the divination card intertwined into a strange pattern: "The sensor of this device can amplify the resonance signal! Huiyuan, increase the catalyst amount of the improved sample of APTX4869 by 20%!"

Huihara bit her lower lip and nodded. The moment the purple potion was injected into the instrument, the floor of the laboratory suddenly shook.

Noah's Ark turns on voice mode: "It is detected that Gin has started the self-destruct program! The core area of ​​the server is being filled with liquid nitrogen, and all data will be permanently frozen in 23 minutes!"

To be continued...