Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

But at this moment, he saw the man suddenly turn around and kick hard on a pile of waste next to him! !

"Bang!!!"

The sudden change frightened Rabbit so much that he almost thought his whereabouts had been discovered. But soon, he found that the man was not looking at him, but at the system pop-up window - because he was not a teammate, Rabbit could not see the content of the pop-up window clearly.

"Tsk..."

The man seemed to be trying hard to suppress something, and the muscles on his slightly swollen face were trembling. His eyes were so gloomy that they were frightening, and the way he looked at the pop-up window was like looking at a disgusting enemy.

After a few seconds, he retracted his foot, straightened his clothes as if nothing had happened, his expression returned to normal, and he strode forward.

"........."

The rabbit looked at the man's back and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He hesitated for a moment, but finally followed him.

They came to a door with "Dressing Room" written on it, and the man opened it directly.

……

Inside the house, a young woman in a black suspender skirt was sitting in front of a dressing table applying makeup. Her cool clothes revealed a large area of ​​white skin on her neck and shoulders.

Hearing the noise, she turned her head and frowned when she saw it was a man.

The rabbit that followed her in hid in the shadow beside the door, looked at her carefully, and thought that she might be Hojo Toika.

——The reason why I said "maybe" was because her face seemed a little different from the photo, and with the heavier makeup on, he couldn't recognize her.

"Bai Jiu, why didn't you knock before coming in?" she said dissatisfiedly.

Bai Jiu did not apologize for not knocking on the door. Instead, he frowned and stared at her exposed skin. His expression was like a man who saw his wife dressed up and left her to go to a nightclub to drink alone.

"You're only in high school, why are you wearing such heavy makeup?" Bai Jiu said without even looking at her face carefully.

Hojo Toika rolled her eyes: "It's none of your business. I was in college before I traveled through time, so I was already an adult." She straightened her hair and adjusted the position of the choker on her neck: "Did you catch her?"

……she?

The rabbit was puzzled.

How did this "she" appear again? Who is she?

At this moment, Rabbit felt like he was possessed by Conan's halo - just now he could find the key person with just a casual look; now he could hear others conspiring loudly about secrets that should have been discussed behind closed doors, in voices that they wished everyone could hear.

"Already here. In the building opposite."

Hojo Toika raised her chin, giving people a feeling of superiority: "I told you, I can definitely fish her out, but you didn't believe me."

"It's my fault." Baijiu said, "I just didn't expect you to really do this."

"It's all her own fault." Hojo Toika began to apply lipstick. "In the original novel, the fact that the Red Sect didn't keep in touch with each other was already criticized enough. Now she, a time traveler, actually did the same thing. Does she think there aren't enough Riddlers?... Don't forget what you promised me!"

The rabbit finally understood.

They...are going to capture another Red player?!

"...Of course not." Baijiu's mouth twitched. "By the way, how did you lure her here?"

"That's easy." Hojo Toika smiled proudly, "I told her that the novel I wrote was noticed by the organization and I also received anonymous threatening letters. They might kill me at the book signing event, so I asked her to save me. She believed it, she believed it completely~"

"Such a stupid person can actually be an undercover agent. Only a water plant full of traitors can accommodate her, right?"

The rabbit was completely dumbfounded.

He stared at them blankly, not knowing how to react, only a feeling of fear and nausea kept rising up in his stomach.

Because he was too shocked, he didn't pay any attention to what Bai Jiu said next. He crawled out from under the room, swaying in the air, his mind blank.

What should I do next?

Should I tell my teammates about the red team players fighting each other and the passers-by players taking advantage of their kindness to try to arrest people?

This observation was completely different from what the rabbit had expected, and it suddenly lost its direction.

"...Then I'll leave first."

A voice came from behind, and the door of the dressing room suddenly opened, and the light inside suddenly shone on the rabbit who had not left yet.

——He collided head-on with Baijiu.

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The next two chapters are the stories of other players.

This article is a semi-group portrait + non-relief article, and not all players are likable.

At the same time, the butterfly effect caused by the player will save some people, but will also cause some people to die earlier.

Chapter 25: The Sin of Jealousy (Part ) (Two in One)

The rabbit felt his body falling continuously, and a kaleidoscope of things flashed around him.

He thought it was his own memory and was about to look at it, but the image flashed by so fast that he didn't see it clearly.

"Tie……"

The rabbit opened his mouth and was surprised to find that he could speak. He asked hurriedly: "System, what is going on?!"

The three-headed demon with purple skin appeared in front of him and held up a sign smaller than the pop-up window: [You are entering a player's memory.]

"what?"

Rabbit was startled for a moment, then realized what he was doing.

[Dark Storm] The method of reading and deleting other people's memories is to invade their brains with black fog.

The man named Baijiu just bumped into him head-on, causing him to completely blur the other person's face.Maybe at this moment, he accidentally touched his brain.

“Why can’t I see clearly around me?”

[The black player's skills are naturally restrained by the red player, and can only exert 50% of their original power. You cannot choose a specific memory, and can only randomly see the few sections where he has the strongest emotions. ]

"…It's not good to read memories without permission, right? Can I quit?"

The rabbit was scared, because he was afraid that the other party would come after him after knowing it. The head-on collision was just an accident, and he didn't mean to spy on his memory at all.

Faced with this question, the three-headed demon did not answer. The three heads, the human face, the cow face and the sheep face, actually smiled at the same time, almost to the roots of their ears.

The rabbit was startled and felt dizzy again. He staggered and finally landed heavily on solid ground.

——He looked up and found himself standing at the door of a restaurant.

The three-headed demon lazily held up another sign.

[This is his memory before he traveled through time. ]

……

The restaurant entrance was full of people, many customers were holding small white menus in their hands, waiting for the waiter at the door to call their numbers, and new customers kept coming in during this time.

Rabbit doesn't like queuing for meals and has no interest in those Internet celebrity restaurants that have long queues at meal times.

But now he didn't feel that way at all. The advertisements on the wall, the menu in front of him, the noisy guests around him and the words they were saying all made him feel particularly at home.

...I didn't expect that this red player was a compatriot.

Rabbit should have been happy, but when he thought of the other party's action of kicking something in the aisle just now, the sinister expression on his face at that time, and the plan discussed with Hojo Toika, he felt no joy at all.

He looked down at his hands, which were completely translucent. At this moment, a guest walked over and passed straight through his body - he was now invisible and untouchable to others.

"…Why do you want me to see his real memories?"

[You and he are not natives of Conan's world, you are travelers. For travelers, the memories of the real world are the most important. Where you were born and grew up is the root of your soul.]

"..."

That's true, but isn't this really an invasion of other people's privacy... Rabbit muttered to himself, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He raised his hand, his fingers trembling slightly, he touched his neck, and soon touched the familiar jaw.

……head!

He has a head again!!

Unexpectedly, when he entered other people's memories, he could not only speak, but also regained his brain!

The rabbit was ecstatic. He looked around, trying to find a mirror to see what he looked like. He noticed a mirror inside the transparent wall of the restaurant and walked over to it.

But he didn't see his current appearance, but noticed the guests sitting over there eating.

One of the people sitting against the wall looked to be in his early twenties, with small eyes and single eyelids, and prominent brow bones. He looked extremely aggressive and was not someone who was easy to mess with.

Looking at such a familiar face, the rabbit immediately realized that this was the white dove!

There were five people sitting at Baijiu's table. He was sitting at the same table with a woman whose hair was half white but who was smiling very happily, and sitting opposite him was probably another family of three.

Although there was a wall between them, he could still hear their conversation clearly.

"You should celebrate your admission to such a great university!" The mother of the family of three across the street said with a smile, "It wasn't easy for you either. You raised him all by yourself. When he graduates from university, finds a good job, and starts a family, you can enjoy your life!"

After that, she patted her son who was sitting next to her and said, "Look at you, and then look at your cousin. He was able to get into a 985 university with his conditions. Your father and I have paid for you to enroll in so many cram schools. If you can't get into a good one, we will beat you to death!"

Her son responded with "hmm" and "oh" while continuing to play games on his mobile phone.

At this time, the waiter came over, his face full of apology: "Sorry, the basil pot you ordered is temporarily out of stock, do you want to change to something else?"

Rabbit looked down at the bill. They ordered a spicy hot pot and a basil hot pot. After all, there were five of them, all adults, so ordering just one was not enough.

"Then change..."

Bai Jiu was about to speak when the woman sitting next to him twisted his leg hard and gave him a look, signaling him to shut up.

Baijiu said nothing, and the woman said to the waiter, "Then please return it, and bring the remaining one quickly."

The waiter looked at the five of them, nodded without saying anything, and left.

The couple sitting across from each other didn't interrupt the whole time, they just looked at each other.Although they didn't speak, their eyebrows and raised corners of their mouths seemed to convey something.

"I think one is enough. Too many would be a waste." The woman explained.

"It's okay, it's okay." The wife on the other side waved her hand. She looked at her son, then looked at Bai Jiu and said, "You are still polite. You know not to play with your phone when you go out to eat with adults."

Baijiu smiled awkwardly.

Rabbit standing outside could see clearly that Bai Jiu was holding a mobile phone in his hand under the table. The phone case was dirty and there was a crack on the screen. It was incomparable with the cousin opposite.