Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

"I have to get back to the meeting right away," Schindler said, looking seriously at the figure sitting in front of the computer. "Let me be frank. How much are you going to sell me for the DNA tracking system developed by Hiroki?"

"Actually, I have no intention of blackmailing you." The man sitting in front of the computer was none other than Kenmura Tadaki, the person in charge of the development and research of Cocoon "073".

Schindler's face was solemn and he said nothing.

"I just hope..." Kenmura Tadaki sighed, turned around the swivel chair under him, faced Chairman Schindler, and said in a light tone, "You can atone for what you did two years ago..." When he said the last few words, Kenmura's tone suddenly became serious.

Chairman Schindler's mouth twitched slightly.

"After all, what Hiroki knew back then..." Jiancun's tone became more severe, even with a hint of coldness, "but it was enough to destroy the Schindler Empire that you were so proud of!"

"But without Hiroki's help, the artificial intelligence couldn't be completed." Jiancun looked at Sindora with an increasingly stern gaze. "So you forced Hiroki to work even harder, and Hiroki, pushed to his limit, believed that after completing the artificial intelligence, you would kill him!"

At this point, a trace of regret flashed in Jiancun's eyes, "So, after he released the Noah's Ark, which was equivalent to his own clone, he chose to jump off the building and commit suicide!" At this point, Jiancun's voice was already a little hoarse.

Thomas Schindler remained silent, but the inexplicable look in his eyes became even stronger.

"After a while, my computer was hacked by files from the DNA tracking system." Jiancun took a deep breath. "That was the work of Noah's Ark, which inherited Hiroki's will. I think," Jiancun said with a hint of melancholy, "that was Hiroki's soul calling out to me."

"I will atone for my sins." Schindler stood there expressionlessly, as if moved by Jiancun's words. He said in a low voice, "I will make everything public. No matter what kind of punishment I receive, I am willing to accept it. But before that..."

"Can you let me see the DNA tracking system Noah's Ark gave you?"

"Okay." After taking a deep look at Thomas Schindler, Jiancun slowly turned his chair and tapped softly on the keyboard. Then, countless codes appeared on the computer screen like flowing water.

Looking at Jiancun's back, Chairman Schindler's face showed a trace of difficulty, but in the end he gritted his teeth, slowly took out a rubber glove from his pocket, slowly put it on his hand, and then, a cold light suddenly flashed from his sleeve!

It was a dagger! And it was exactly the same dagger that was knocked off by the young man Moroboshi at the venue!

Looking at Jiancun who was concentrating on typing code, Schindler's face showed a fierce look, and he slowly walked towards Jiancun's back.

Jiancun was completely unaware of this and continued to concentrate on the code on the screen until a dialog box with a fingerprint pattern appeared on the screen, and then he slowly stopped his finger.

"This is the undead spirit that traveled across time and space, transported to modern London by Noah's Ark..." Jiancun slowly turned his chair, but his eyes suddenly widened. Sindora, a frantic figure, rushed toward him. The next moment, Sindora's sharp dagger plunged deeply into Jiancun's chest.

Jiancun only managed to utter "Uh..." before he fell silent.

Seeing Jiancun fall silently into the chair, Schindler breathed a sigh of relief and carefully drew his dagger. He then took out a CD from his pocket and inserted it into the computer's CD drive. The computer then displayed a deletion warning, but it was of no use.

After the DNA tracking system was deleted, Schindler pulled out two pieces of tissue paper to wipe the dagger in his hand, threw the tissue paper behind him, and walked away.

He didn't know that after he closed the door and left, Kenmura Tadaki, who was thought to be dead, moved his hand slightly, and then opened his eyes with difficulty, with a look of deep unwillingness in his eyes.

I... I can't die yet... This devil... I haven't avenged Hongshu yet!

Jiancun raised his blood-stained hand with difficulty, and tremblingly pressed the three English letters "J", "T", and "R" on the keyboard behind him. After seeing the three bloody words engraved on the keyboard, his head drooped heavily.

The office returned to its previous silence.

Suddenly, the computer, which had been dark, lit up again. Then, the light switches on the mainframe computers in the room lit up in rows, until the entire room was illuminated, as if countless small lights were flickering... Then, a young man's voice, with a mechanical voice, came indifferently from the room.

"My name is Noah's Ark!"

in the venue.

In the dim light, no one noticed that Chairman Schindler, who had left earlier, had returned to the venue again.

"Director Kenmura! Mr. Shiro Suzuki said he wants to see you!" Outside the basement door, the staff member who was called by Shiro Suzuki to inform Kenmura knocked on the door gently, but there was no response.

"Director?" Seeing no response, the staff knocked on the door again.

Considering that Suzuki Shiro was obviously impatient, the staff member opened the door directly, "Director, excuse me... Director?! Director!!"

When the staff approached, they found that Jiancun was dead.

The staff hurried back to inform Shiro Suzuki, but Shiro Suzuki had already entered the game cabin with others.

With the help of the staff, all game participants were ready for the game.

Except for the three adults, Shiraizumi Masushi, Yukiko, and Suzuki Shiro, the rest were children, a total of fifty people.

"Fifty people, all on board."

"Brain wave transmission device, installed."

"Capsule lid, close."

As the metallic voices echoed, Quan Yi felt the scene in front of him darken slightly, and then the lid of the "cocoon" slowly closed. Yukiko and Ai's capsules were located on either side of his capsule, and the children and Conan's capsules were also nearby.

"0.3 Main hardware starts connecting..."

"Enter region code..."

"Connecting the linker..."

"Coordinate axis, start fine-tuning..."

"Punctuation correction completed, locked..."

"The screen starts, the system starts..."

"Energy setting completed..."

"Games start!"

As the mechanical sound ended, the lights in the entire venue suddenly dimmed, leaving only the space where the fifty cocoons stood. A faint, eerie blue light slowly illuminated the space from top to bottom, and the fifty cocoons were like fifty giant eggs, absorbing the moonlight.

Suddenly, a burst of colorful light came from the main machine in the middle and radiated in all directions of the venue, like a huge laser source, releasing energy in all directions.

After a slight vibration, a flash of white light passed by, and everything in front of everyone slowly disappeared.

437. Betting on Life

In the void of darkness, a single beam of light suddenly shone. Then, one after another, more beams of light followed. If you counted carefully, there were exactly fifty. These fifty beams of light gradually brightened, finally converging into a bright space.

"Is this... the space where the 'Cocoon' game begins?" Quan Yi slowly opened his eyes, and in less than a few seconds, he dispelled the confusion in his eyes.

He first glanced around, and when he saw that Yukiko, Ai and everyone else were fine, he breathed a sigh of relief. He began to look for Suzuki Shiro, but found that Suzuki Shiro had disappeared.

He surveyed the surrounding space. Aside from the gleaming ground beneath his feet, the entire space beyond was pitch black, with nothing visible. If he were to look from above, the "ground" beneath his feet would appear to be a giant circle.

"How amazing?" Yukiko slowly walked over and looked at Izumi with a hint of wonder in her eyes. "This space... is really real."

"Indeed!" Izumi nodded, squeezed Yukiko's hand, and ruffled Ai's brown hair. "It feels exactly the same as outside."

"How can this be real?" Xiao Ai rolled her eyes and broke free from Quan Yi's evil hand. "In the game, all our senses—touch, hearing, sight, taste, smell—are controlled by machines. If you think about it, isn't that terrifying?"

Yukiko and Yukiko both smiled awkwardly, Izumi and Conan looked at each other, full of helplessness, and the children touched themselves in fear.

"For those of you experiencing Cocoon for the first time, the game has begun!" At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out above the children. It was the same voice as Noah's Ark from earlier. Then, with a loud rumbling noise, five stone gates suddenly appeared in the surrounding darkness. Behind these gates, five paths lay quietly, seemingly awaiting the arrival of challengers.

"The game... has started?" Quan Yi's eyes showed some excitement.

"My name is Noah's Ark." Looking at the young men and women of all ages below, Noah's Ark's cold, mechanical voice seemed to have a hint of emotion. "Please give me your guidance."

"Please give us your guidance!" When the children below heard this, most of them smiled and shouted to the sky.

"This Ark of Promise is quite humanized." Conan said to Quan Yi with a low laugh, "It looks like a real person."

"Next, I'm going to play promotional videos of five scenes." Noah's Ark's voice once again sounded slowly from above the crowd, "Please choose the world you want to play in, but there is one thing you must remember..." At this point, Noah's Ark's voice paused slightly, and then his tone slowly changed, which made Conan suddenly feel a little surprised and suspicious, and Izumi felt more and more uneasy.

"This isn't just any video game...but..."

"This game concerns your lives!"

"A game that concerns our lives?" Quan Yi and Conan narrowed their eyes suddenly.

"That's right." Noah's Ark's voice was slightly cold. "If you are eliminated in the game world, there will be no way for you to return to the real world!"

Noah's Ark's words could be heard not only in the space where the children were, but also outside the real world. Suddenly, the faces of all the adults became anxious.

"So, you have to play this game seriously," Noah's Ark said with a hint of sarcasm. "This concerns your lives."

The audience outside the venue were frightened when they heard Noah's Ark's words, but they didn't take it too seriously because they thought it was just a game routine.

However, Noah's Ark's next words made everyone shudder.

"For those who are eliminated, I will release special electromagnetic waves to destroy your brains!" Noah's Ark's voice became stern. "In other words, this is a game where your life is at stake!"

"Are you kidding me..." Maori Kogoro shouted, "Noah's Ark, what do you mean by this?"

"Looking at you, you'll probably become dirty politicians in the future. The son of a doctor who only cares about making money will probably become that kind of doctor in the future!" Noah's Ark's calm voice resounded across the two worlds. "If we want Japan to change for the better, we must sever this connection once and for all!"

"That's enough!" Maori Kogoro's previous relaxed expression completely disappeared when he heard this. Shuangshui pounded the table hard and roared at the computer, "Do you have the right to toy with human life?"

"I didn't." Noah's Ark's voice was still calm, but anyone could hear a hint of deep hatred and unwillingness to give in. "Just like adults have no right to play with Hongshu's life!"

Hearing this, Schindler couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth again. Soon, he was surrounded by the children's parents, who asked him what was going on.

Schindler was confused and could only say perfunctorily, "This is just part of the game's realism. Don't take it too seriously."

However, Schindler's explanation obviously did not dispel the parents' doubts, and everyone became nervous.

"Okay, no more small talk, the game is about to begin, and the kids must be can't wait." Noah's Ark seemed to have lost interest in talking to the adults, "It's almost time to start the game! The first scene..." Then, above the first stone door, a light screen suddenly lit up.

"First up, the first stage is Pirates! You'll become pirates, travel across the seven seas, and challenge various adventures with your strong will and courage."

"The second stage is the Paris-Dakar Cross Country Race! Join famous racers from all over the world and fight for the championship in this rigorous competition."

"The third stage is the ancient Roman Colosseum! Find powerful weapons and armor, then test your skills in the Roman Empire! Defeat the brave warriors of gods and demons!"

"Next up is the fourth one - Solomon's Treasure! You will play the role of treasure hunters and go looking for Solomon's treasure buried around the world."

"Next up, the final one—London of yesteryear! Here, you'll experience a thrilling adventure and suspense story. In 1888 London, in the real world, the legendary serial killer, Jack the Ripper, remains unsolved! It's up to everyone to bring him to justice!"

After the video finished playing, the screen disappeared. Looking at the disappearing screen, Quan Yi and Conan fell into deep thought.

Of course, after watching the video, most of the children at the scene fell into panic and fear.

"It's not like I want to be my parents' child..."

"Me too……"

“I might not be able to survive…”

"No matter who it is, please save me!" Even children in the crowd burst into tears.

Of course the kind-hearted Yuki073 couldn't stand this situation. It was not an easy task to begin with, and if the children lost confidence, they would be unable to complete the game.

"Everyone, cheer up! Don't give up easily!" Yukiko immediately comforted loudly.

"That's right, it's just a simple game. Noah's Ark is just trying to scare you!" Conan immediately followed his mother's footsteps.

"Just choose some stages that you are good at." Seeing that both of them were talking, Quan Yi also gave instructions to the children.

The children looked at each other, finally made up their minds, and divided into different groups and walked towards different stages.

"Looks like we'll just have to fight it out." Zhu Xing, standing by, walked towards the game's entrance. Jiang Shou and the other three hurriedly followed. For some unknown reason, the four of them had chosen a setting similar to that of old-fashioned London. Coincidentally, at that very moment, the three members of the Junior Detectives also arrived at the game's entrance. When the two groups met, sparks flew, and a strong smell of gunpowder permeated the crowd.

"Why are you here?" Yuantai looked unhappy when he saw these people.

"Don't hold us back!" the boy named Takizawa immediately retorted.

Shiraizumi Masu, Yukiko, Conan, and Ai naturally chose the foggy city of London.

"Okay, now that you've chosen your space, the game is about to begin." Seeing that each child had chosen their stage, Noah's Ark's voice echoed slowly overhead. "By the way, in each scene, there's a character who will help you. Finding that character will be extremely beneficial to your game! Now, the game begins!"

438. The game scene is London, the "fog city"

Chairman Schindler had not expected such an emergency to occur. He had no idea what to do and immediately invited Dr. Agasa, one of the developers, to handle it.

Countless data and information about the 'Cocoon' were running on the computer in the control room. Dr. Agasa was sitting in front of the computer, staring intently at the various data about the 'Cocoon' on the computer.

"How is it, Doctor?" Schindler bent down and asked seriously.

"The 'cocoon' does store a large amount of energy," the doctor's face turned serious, "and this energy is indeed enough to destroy the brains of fifty people..."

"I'm too lazy to waste time with you!" A man in the crowd finally couldn't stand it anymore and stood up and shouted, "I want to take my son back!"

This action immediately aroused the response of several people. They pushed away the blocking staff, passed through the inspection door, and rushed directly to the front of the "cocoon", trying to forcefully pry open the capsule compartment shell of the "cocoon".

"Danger! Stop them quickly!" The doctor was shocked and shouted hurriedly.

However, before the staff could rush over to organize them, strong electric currents were released directly. Blue and white arcs of electricity suddenly flashed across the surfaces of several people's bodies. Suddenly, several people screamed and fell to the ground.

"I absolutely will not allow anyone to interfere with the game!" Noah's Ark's majestic voice slowly came, "I just gave them a little shock just now, next time, I won't show any mercy!"

"Damn it!" Maori Kogoro slammed his hammer on the table. "How could there be such a bad computer!"

Not long after, Inspector Megure arrived with his men. After understanding the situation, he seriously questioned Thomas Sindra.

"By the way, Chairman Schindler, why did the artificial intelligence developed by Hiroki get so out of control?"

"This is because..." Schindler's face darkened.