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Chapter 3 Welcome to the Cognitive World

The next morning, Lai Qixiao was sent to high school by Dr. Agasa for reporting. As a juvenile offender who was under observation, he did not have the right to choose high school on his own. In the end, he kindly accepted his "troubled" high school, Didan High School, also located in Mikacho.

"My name is Lai Qixiao. I just transferred here. I hope I can get along well with everyone in the next days!"

In Class B, Didan High School, Lai Qixiao stood on the podium and introduced himself. The audience was filled with fear and curiosity and kept circling on him. I think that his criminal record had been spreading.

While the high school students in the audience were scrutinizing Lai Qixiao, Lai Qixiao was also scrutinizing them secretly. His gaze was quietly moving away from the girl wearing a hairband below the audience, and drifted over to the other side with a beautiful face and a little worried about her face.

Suzuki Yuanko and Mori Ran, so the empty space next to it is Kudo Shinichi?

Lai Qixiao retracted his gaze and walked towards the empty seats in the back row according to the teacher's arrangement.

Initially speaking, there is not much difference between this high school and the Didan High School in the animation and comics, and only the characters related to Conan appear. Characters such as volleyball teachers who corporal punishment students, bald principals with big belly, and student presidents who have serious appearances and wild hearts do not exist.

He opened his schoolbag and planned to take out the books from it to pack the students. However, at this moment, he found a strange note book in his schoolbag

The note is the size of a palm, and the cover with a red base is printed with a weird eye pattern with black ink, and nothing else is special.

"This pattern... isn't this the 'Normal World Navigation App' in P5?" Lai Qixiao suspiciously flipped the note book. In Persona 5, the protagonist relied on the Novel World Navigation App to travel to the inner world of human beings, stealing the "heart" of the evil people and making them repent. This note book may be a substitute for the Novel World Navigation App. After all, there is no concept of a smartphone in the Kexue world at present. Although judging from the situation of this world, smartphones will become popular in about one or two months...

So the question is, how should this note be used? Lai Qixiao spread the note book on the table and uneasyly pressed the ballpoint pen in his right hand continuously. In the game, if you want to steal a person's "heart" and make him repent, the first thing you need is the name of the target.

Perhaps, I need to write the name of the evil person who committed the crime? Lai Qixiao recalled the method of using the app in P5 and made such a speculation.

The evil man who committed the crime, what was the case that happened after Conan became smaller? It seemed to be a case where a rich girl was kidnapped... No, this case should have been resolved last night.

So what is the next case? Which female star is related to in my impression... Yes! It was Yoko Okino! It was Yoko Okino's boyfriend who committed suicide!

But what is Okino Yoko's boyfriend's name?

After finally seeing hope, Lai Qixiao immediately became angry. Although he was impressed by this case, he was not so profound that he could write down the prisoner's name. Without a name, he would most likely not be able to use this note.

I was indeed a fake fan... He listlessly wrote the line of words "Yoko Okino's boyfriend" on the note book, but he did not respond at all.

"Alas, in this era of underdeveloped information technology, it is still too difficult to find a popular female idol's love history. You can only rely on some gossip tabloids and gossip news... Hum? gossip news?!"

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After school, Lai Qixiao bought a gossip magazine at a newspaper booth near the campus, and then read it carefully on the roadside. However, his purpose was not to find Yoko Okino's love history - there is no gossip in this regard at present - but to find the name of another female star.

That's right, what Lai Qixiao wanted to find was the actress who followed Okino Yoko in the original case.

"I debuted at the same time as Yoko Okino, and my popularity is lower than her, and I have a bad relationship with her... I found it! The heroine of the TV series was replaced by Yoko Okino, and you are right!"

Lai Qixiao's eyes stopped on the photo of a beautifully dressed actress, and her name was written under the photo - Yuko Ikezawa.

"Then now, let's try it!" Lai Qixiao took out the note book and wrote the name "Yuko Ikezawa" on it nervously.

At the moment when the last stroke fell, Lai Qixiao suddenly felt dizzy, forcing him to close his eyes to relieve his confusion.

When he opened his eyes again, the world suddenly changed again - the originally bright clear sky was now low at this time, and the clouds were drooping, and the shrill wind whistled past from all directions, and the sighs of men and women mixed in the wind, echoing in the sky and under the ground.

Lai Qixiao stood on the side of the dark road, looking at the lifeless crowd in front of him who was covered by darkness and was temporarily affected by this gloomy environment, and couldn't help but hang down his shoulders and feel depressed.

But after a long time, he woke up again, calmed his mind in the strong wind and sighs, and no longer shook him by the outside world. He looked down at his palm, and the note book that was originally lying in it was replaced with a map, with a distinct exclamation mark and a red mask logo.

"Sure enough, the way to use the sticky note is to write the name of the target on it. So, this should be the 'cognitive world'!" Lai Qixiao waved his fist excitedly, and his guess was not wrong!

"It seems that the exclamation mark on this map should represent the location of Yuko Ikezawa, and this mask sign is my location."

"So, the next thing I have to do is to find the heart of Yuko Ikezawa who lives here?"

Lai Qixiao glanced around again and saw a telephone booth standing alone on the dim roadside, but there was no clouds covering it, which was a bright scene. Lai Qixiao folded the map and walked towards the telephone booth.

As he expected, when he entered the telephone booth, he returned to the bright real world.

"So that's it. The 'exit' is very different from the surrounding environment. In this way, there is no need to worry about being lost in the cognitive world." Lai Qixiao used the note book again and entered the cognitive world again, ensuring that he had no worries and planned to further explore this unknown world.

Lai Qixiao took out the "weapons" prepared in advance from his schoolbag - a sharp dagger and a pistol. In the real world, they are just ordinary toys, but in the cognitive world, they will become truly lethal weapons.

According to Lai Qixiao's memory, he knew that there was a monster called "shadow" in the cognitive world. He had not yet awakened his power like the original protagonist, and he could only rely on such weapons to protect himself.

"If I could find Yuko Ikezawa, maybe what Iger said was hidden in my body, "the talent that can subvert everything" and I could awaken... No, even if I couldn't wake up, I would have to find her!"

"There is no way. The thing I hate the most is that the boat reaches the bridge but does not act!"
Chapter completed!
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