Blockade of a neighborhood is no small matter, and Scotland Yard will maintain the siege until dawn tomorrow at most.

When daybreak comes, the police will no longer be able to hinder the normal operation of London City in order to arrest a murderer.

And I want to find someone in a neighborhood in just a few hours without knowing basically any information about the other person.

This is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

It sounds like an impossible task.

But Conan's analysis made Lin Xinyi suddenly wake up:

This is a virtual game world after all.

If you think of Noah's Ark as a player.

Then the fun, or purpose, should be to appreciate the performances of gamers like them.

But Haihara Ai has a photographic memory, and even remembers every detail of the Jack the Ripper case in history - and the plot settings in this game are completely restored from history.

This is equivalent to being born with a "game guide".

Players took the game guide and cleared the level at light speed. The long-awaited "game live broadcast" of Noah's Ark has only started for half an hour and is about to end in a simple and crude way.

This is definitely not what the "audience" wants to see.

So it secretly increases the difficulty of the game.

"But it's like giving test papers to students..."

"The questions are too simple and cannot test the students. Naturally, the 'question maker' is not satisfied."

"If the questions are too difficult and students have no hope of getting them right, it also violates the original intention of the 'question maker'."

"so..."

By trying to figure out what the person who asked the question meant, Lin Xinyi gradually gained confidence:

"This question is definitely not unsolvable!"

"There must be some way for us to find Jack the Ripper from this neighborhood!"

So, how to find it?

You still have to put aside the logic of real-life investigation and use the thinking of a strategy game to find the clues left by the "question maker".

"A game, unless there is a bug..."

"Otherwise, it would be impossible not to leave clues for players to pass the level."

"And this kind of clues are usually hidden in the game process that players have experienced——"

Lin Xinyi began to use the creator's thinking to solve the problem in reverse:

Just like at the beginning of the game, the NPC patrolman's shout reminded Conan of "go find Officer Lestrade".

The clues that promote the plot of the game are usually designed like this and given directly to the players.

"It is impossible for game designers to let players wander aimlessly in such a large open world and look for clues without any prompts."

"It's such a waste of time and it's not fun."

"So, the clues should have been given to us inadvertently!"

"What we have to do now is find it from 'side'!"

After analyzing this point, Lin Xinyi and Conan both vaguely realized something:

They only played the game for half an hour.

I didn't see Jack the Ripper's face, let alone his identity.

When Jack the Ripper fled from the scene in a hurry, he left no traces for tracking.

Therefore, the only clue that the player has now that can be related to Jack the Ripper is...

"Corpse."

"The body of Lady Elizabeth."

Lin Xinyi returned his attention to the victim who died in the "opening CG":

He had just performed a "space autopsy" based on historical data, and he was anxious to bring people over to ambush Jack the Ripper.

He didn't touch the body at all.

Nor was an autopsy conducted according to standard procedures.

If we go back and do a more detailed inspection now, we might be able to find some clues from the body that was ignored by everyone at the beginning.

"That's right."

Hui Yuan Ai also nodded in approval.

She helped Lin Xinyi analyze:

"Actually in real history:"

"The victim we first encountered, Lady Elizabeth, had something very special about her:"

"Elizabeth's death was not only the only one among the five cases where there were witnesses at the time of the crime."

"And there are other eyewitness claims:"

"A few hours before the incident, Elizabeth bought grapes at the fruit shop."

In London in 1888, grapes were still a very valuable fruit.

It is a luxury product that only the elite can afford.

Grassroots manual workers like Elizabeth, who are still working in slums in their 40s, are obviously not qualified to enjoy "grape freedom."

And the customers she usually receives are all poor people.

It would be nice to be able to get paid quickly after work is done.

It is impossible to be so generous as to give Elizabeth a large amount of spare money to buy grapes——

In this era when people are as cheap as grass, her worth is even lower than that of grapes.

In this way, Elizabeth's behavior of buying grapes during her lifetime seems very worthy of attention.

Later generations have always suspected that the financial sponsor who gave her money to buy grapes was Jack the Ripper himself.

"If that's the case..."

"That shows that Jack the Ripper did not simply randomly pick targets on the street, at least, not in this case."

"He probably first pretended to be a wealthy customer to approach Elizabeth and deceive her into trusting her."

"I waited until late at night before luring her drunken woman to the place I chose to commit the crime."

Haihara Ai tells the story of people's speculations about the truth behind the Elizabeth case in real history.

Lin Xinyi heard what Huihara Ai really wanted to express:

If Jack the Ripper really spent some time with Elizabeth during her lifetime.

Then he would have greater possibilities and more opportunities to leave traces on Elizabeth.

And these traces may be the problem-solving tips they are looking for.

Thinking of this, Lin Xinyi immediately turned around and walked to Lestrade:

"Officer Lestrade."

"Please take us back to the scene of the crime just now. I need to take a closer look at the body of Ms. Elizabeth."

"Master, do you want to go back?"

Officer Lestrade was still thinking about Master Lin's intention for doing this.

But the young patrolman who came with Jiang Shou on the side hesitated and gave a surprising message:

"Master Lin, there is no need to go back."

"We have already loaded the body into a truck and transported it over."

As he spoke, the young patrolman pointed to several carriages parked outside the alley behind him:

One of them was a corpse truck carrying corpses.

It turned out that when Lin Xinyi and others came over to set up an ambush, the police officers responsible for surveying the scene had already loaded Elizabeth's body into a truck and were preparing to take it back to Scotland Yard for the forensic doctor to perform an autopsy.

Because we happened to be on the way, while sending Jiang Shouhang and other primary school students over to "find the master," the corpse truck also drove over.

"this..."

Lin Xinyi and Conan were both stunned.

A look of surprise immediately appeared on their faces:

Did the body just happen to be delivered?

This "clue hint" is too obvious.
To be continued...