Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

This time the picture freezes for longer than before.

Because of this, she completely saw what Mrs. Hojo on the screen had become.

The two legs were twisted at an unnatural angle, and the peeling fingernails were stuck to the flesh and were about to fall off at any time. The exposed arms and shoulders were torn, and the skin was charred, and blood-red flesh burst out under the charred skin...

The whole body was rotten.

It means "rotten", just like meat that is completely rotten, disgusting at first sight and needs to be thrown away immediately, just like the first time she saw her father's face in the game... This is the most intuitive and real feeling.

——However, the object that conveys this feeling at this time is a person.

The extremely strong feeling of nausea continued to surge, and Hojo Tooka bent over and vomited it out.

Maybe it was fear, maybe nausea, maybe both, or maybe it was something else. She was vomiting so much that she was trembling all over.

Along with the vomit came tears. She quickly vomited the contents of her stomach, but she continued to retching, as if she was trying to spit out blood and internal organs.

In the end what happened?

Why is this happening?

……

Toyoka Hojo's past life could be described as smooth.

She lives in a peaceful country and a peaceful society. She has only heard of some murders and vicious incidents, but no accidents have happened to her.

She has never been seriously ill or injured since she was a child. The most serious one was when she fell down while running in gym class and broke her knee. Her parents never scratched her surface and were not even willing to scold her.

She rarely pays attention to the sacrifices of people in some positions in reality, and rarely pays attention to the casualties and rescues in disaster accidents. Those things are too heavy and she doesn't like it.

After she was admitted to college, she completely relaxed. Her parents were not around and they gave her a lot of living expenses every month. She could do whatever she wanted without even hearing a tactful advice.

It was a really fun time.

She turned on her mobile phone and computer, logged in to her social media account, and clicked on various software. What popped up were all the things she liked, and she met people with similar interests. She devoted all her energy to the celebrities she liked.

They make various lists, criticize and criticize people, quarrel with the other party when they encounter opinions that they don’t like, report something they don’t like, and ask their colleagues to work together when they are not good enough. The sense of achievement of successful reporting is satisfying.

Until that time when she gave a support gift to a Korean star, she had a big fight with her boyfriend, and then...

...what happened after that?

Tojo Hojo couldn't remember.

Just like she couldn't remember why she was afraid of water or why she was so reactive to online violence, she also couldn't remember what happened before she traveled through time.

Hojo Toyoka was sitting on her knees on the ground, unable to see the picture on the TV, but her ears were still receiving the screams, cries, pleas, and the indifferent questioning voice of a male voice.

"You really won't tell me anything?"

"I have no idea!!"

"I don't know Kuroiwa and Kawashima at all! I've been away from there for a long time! Believe me... I really don't know!"

"Why did your daughter write that novel? You had no idea?"

"Yuanxiang...Yuanxiang has always been a good girl who loves reading. That was just a coincidence! Don't arrest her!"

"By the way, Yuan Xiang... where is she? Have you captured her?! Don't hurt her... Please, don't hurt my daughter. We don't know anything. You can kill me and let my daughter go." Come on, please..."

"Do your other family members also know?"

"My husband...my husband may know something! He has been an undercover before! He abandoned us all at that time!...You can go and catch him!"

"Go get him!! He definitely knows something!"

Hojo Toyoka vomited again.

She vomited stomach acid and her throat burned.

She squeezed her eyes shut and covered her ears. Her phone fell to the ground, touched an APP on the home page, and a document jumped out.

She wrote the ending of the police academy team extra, and she wanted to post it in the chat room after completing the rescue of Jing Guang.

The page was stuck right at the end of where she last wrote.

——The simple squad leader did not encounter a driver who was driving tiredly. The bomb disposal policeman returned safely from the scene. The undercover agent ended his lurking and left the darkness, returning to the sunshine to receive the courtesy of a hero.

——There is no shortage of five-petal cherry blossoms. The perfect ending without any regrets.

At the same time, on the TV screen, Zhufu Jingguang stabbed the knife into Mrs. Hojo's neck again.

The screen jumps to the beginning again, forming a loop.

Hojo Toyoka looked at this ending, and those painful sounds rang in her ears again. All of this was mixed together, making her unable to distinguish between reality and games for a moment.

She stayed there for a long time, her chin still stained with dried saliva from her spit. She breathed in slowly, slowly, her face twisted with tears as she grinned.

"Don't blame him."

"Were you forced? I don't blame him."

"It's not his fault."

"I forgive him..."

she kept repeating.

Outside the window connecting the living room to the courtyard, a small snake retracted its head and sat silently as if thinking about the life of the snake.

----

Aoyagi Binguang left the bar with an umbrella.

There was still a dull pain in his neck near the carotid artery, so he walked forward slowly.

A section of ankle skin was exposed under his trousers, and the electronic shackles were no longer on it. Only the snake-shaped tattoo was still firmly entrenched there.

It was rare that there was no smile on his face at this time.

“Ahhhhhh——!!!”

When Aoyagi Binguang passed by a convenience store, a scream came from inside.

He looked back and saw a clerk behind the checkout counter, holding his head in his hands and pushing him to the ground. His screams startled another clerk next to him and the customer who was checking out.

Chapter 160 Goal Three (Part )

"What's going on here?!"

"Oh my god, is he epileptic? Do you need to call an ambulance?"

"This symptom is not like epilepsy, it should be another disease. I have never seen anything like this..."

"Eh? Then are there germs on the things he touched?!"

Outside the convenience store, more and more people were watching.

Aoyagi Binguang stood in the crowd and looked at the miserable clerk behind the checkout counter.

His brows furrowed slightly, and there was no sympathy, worry, or gloating about seeing someone in trouble in his eyes. He just observed carefully and without any emotion.

Soon, he guessed why the clerk fell to the ground. The girl he saw last time in the restaurant who poured acid on his father had exactly the same symptoms as this person now.

This is the person who was controlled by Tojo Hojo's skills. When she encounters mental stimulation, all of them will be affected again.

Meeting this clerk was an accident. But this kind of thing happened within the expectation of Qingliu Binguang.

……

Aoyagi Binguang is the only aboriginal in this game.

For other players, the six other travelers who are said to be from high-dimensional worlds and have learned about this world through reading comics/animations, his feelings are very subtle.

This feeling is a bit like the uncanny valley effect. It is difficult for Aoyagi Binguang to regard them as the same human beings as himself. At the same time, he knows very well that they may have similar feelings towards other people in this world.

Aoyagi Binguang doesn't like time travelers, and he doesn't hate them so much that he wants to kill them all. He only cares about whether they will affect him.

So in addition to testing the protective aura and trying to change the plot of this operation, his third goal was related to them.

——He wants to send away players who have dangerous skills and personalities that can easily cause trouble.

Aoyagi Binguang used the same method as the last red-haired serial murder case, to mentally attack the places they were concerned about or afraid of.

The first one is Baijiu.

The bomb trap was not only designed to allow Tojo Hojo to brainwash Shirogaba so he could test the protective halo, but the act of hurting his parents with his own hands was a huge stimulus to him.

In addition, Aoyagi Binguang also made arrangements for the bomber.

The car was very sturdy, not only protecting the snake, but also the people inside.

If the rescuers dug responsibly to the bottom, it would be several days later, and the cowardly guy did not have the willpower to last until then. They will find a relatively complete body and then check his identity.

Aoyagi Binguang checked the address of the bomber when he took him away. Afterwards, he disguised himself as him, went back once in front of his neighbors, and left a "suicide note" on his computer, indicating that he had planted the bombs in the hospital and apartment.

Baijiu once secretly imprisoned this bomber and secretly made bombs. Aoyagi Binguang could more or less guess what he planned to do - to blow up Matsuda Jinpei, or to ruin Matsuda's reputation and let the bomber take the blame.

So Aoyagi Binguang borrowed the script to rewrite a few paragraphs, changed the starring role, and returned it to Baijiu.

He wanted others to think that the bomber set up such a terrible trap to retaliate against a police officer who had secretly detained him, so that some people who originally had reason not to blame Baijiu would also point the finger at him.

Previously, Baijiu used his girlfriend as bait, which was a bad thing, but it actually had little impact. After all, only a girl who foolishly sacrificed for her boyfriend died. Some passers-by would condemn it, but most would just watch the fun, and everyone would forget about it after a few days.

But this time is different.

A hospital that treats illnesses and saves lives is home to hundreds of residents. This is a place that is closely related to everyone. If a bomb is planted in such a place, the influence and attention will be greater, and the person who caused the case will become the target of public criticism.

Baijiu, who cares about face and has strong self-esteem, will completely "die" on the social level, and everyone will condemn him. This can severely damage his willpower.

As a result, Aoyagi Binguang used too much force.

Baijiu did quit the game as he thought - after stabbing his parents. None of the subsequent arrangements were used, and he collapsed early.

The second one is Tojo Hojo.

Qingliu Binguang didn't dare to be rough with her directly, because he always remembered those two paragraphs.

——[When her emotions are strong, the power of ‘Mirror Flowers, Water Moon’ will increase, which can break the defense and make people who have been hit by the skill before but have expired be affected again. 】

——[This skill has a flaw. If her emotions are too strong, it can easily cause the active skill to go out of control. The system doesn't say what happens when it loses control. 】