Conan Rick's Investigator

But when facing an alien race like Mr. Clock, which is full of unknowns, it would be too superficial to just ask for money.

There are many ways to make money, but Mr. Clock's existence is beyond the earth, and his abilities are almost completely unknown.

For this kind of existence, the way to maximize benefits is not to make a choice in a hurry, but to wait and see, and let him appear when you need him in the future.

"If I help you find that fragment, you'll owe me a favor..."

Mr. Clock was silent for two seconds, then asked, "Favourites are the favours between people, right?"

"You think I'm human?"

It is obvious that Mr. Clock knows the meaning of human feelings, but he has objections to Qin Zhibo defining himself as a human being.

"Of course you are not a human..." Qin Zhibo explained, "but you are an alien."

"I'm not a human, I'm an alien..."

Mr. Clock was silent for another two seconds. "That's it, I owe you a favor..."

In this way, the deal between Qin Zhibo and Mr. Clock was reached.

Judging from the deal between Mr. Clock and Mon Shiro, the alien Mr. Clock has a pretty good spirit of contract, and he has indeed helped Mon Shiro achieve what Mi-Go believes to be "immortality".

But Qin Zhibo didn't know how Mr. Clock removed the human brain from the original body and kept it active.

Maybe this is alien black technology...

……

Qin Zhibo first returned to his car, put the sprayer back into the suitcase in the car, and then held it in his hand.

Otherwise, when facing Mi-Go, Qin Zhibo always had an inexplicable urge to start the sprayer and throw it in Mr. Clock's face.

Back at the mansion, Qin Zhibo began to reason.

"Monshiro knows that you are very familiar with human society. When you can't find that thing yourself, he should be able to guess that you will hire a detective."

"So he deliberately set up a puzzle to mislead the detective, pointing the answer to the watch in the pigeon clock instead of what you really need."

"Perhaps the thing you're looking for is hidden somewhere very obvious, but your alien mind can't perceive it..."

Qin Zhibo looked around the interior furnishings of the villa, his brain trying hard to recall the differences between the Mi-Go alien race and humans.

Higher intelligence, crustacean appearance, fungal organisms...

Qin Zhibo recalled his last experience in the Mist Tengu incident and suddenly thought of a very big difference.

Humans don't have wings, but Mi-Go does!

If I had wings...

Qin Zhibo suddenly turned around and asked, "Mr. Clock, can you drive?"

Mr. Clock was too lazy to open his mouth: "No, I have wings, I don't need to learn driving skills."

"That's right!" Qin Zhibo's tone suddenly rose. "There should be a car near this villa, right?"

Mr. Clock: "There is indeed an abandoned car by a nearby lake..."

……

Under the guidance of Mr. Clock, Qin Zhibo came to the lake less than 200 meters away from the villa.

The bright moonlight shone on the lake, emitting ripples, making Qin Zhibo vaguely feel that the scene was somewhat familiar.

Looking into the distance and opening the telescope, Qin Zhibo saw a dome similar to a spire in the forest across the lake.

Blue Castle!

The blue castle of the Mamiya family stands on the other side of the lake. No wonder this lake feels so familiar at night.

Mr. Clock pointed to the empty space on the lakeshore and said, "There used to be an abandoned car parked here, but I pushed it into the lake."

Qin Zhibo was puzzled, "Why do you do this?"

Mr. Clock replied succinctly with two words, "An eyesore."

"There's nothing we can do." Qin Zhibo spread his hands to show that he was helpless. "The thing you're looking for is very likely hidden in that abandoned car. If..."

Before Qin Zhibo could finish his words, Mr. Clock walked straight into the lake.

After waiting for five minutes, the calm lake surface suddenly rippled. First, Mr. Clock's body emerged from the water, followed by the abandoned car.

Mr. Clock grabbed the front bumper of the car with one hand and pulled the car out of the lake!

Qin Zhibo didn't expect that Mr. Clock's power was so strong. This power was almost the same as Superman!

The abandoned car was pulled back to the lakeshore. Mr. Clock shook his body like a dog. A layer of green fluorescent mesh was suddenly activated, and all the water on his body was shaken off. Mr. Clock's body returned to a dry state.

"Where is that thing?"

Qin Zhibo looked at Mr. Clock and became more alert.

Although the spray can cause fatal damage to Mi-Go, in a close-range head-on confrontation, Mi-Go's racial advantage is far greater than that of humans.

Qin Zhibo put down the suitcase in his hand temporarily, raised his hand to take out the holy sword of physics in the system - the crowbar, and began to pry the somewhat rusty trunk of the car.

In front of Mr. Clock, Qin Zhibo showed his ability to easily create system props out of thin air without any hesitation.

After all, to him, Mr. Clock is something mysterious, and to Mr. Clock, it is also good for him to have some mysterious attributes.

At least it can serve as a deterrent.

When Mr. Clock saw Qin Zhibo produce a crowbar out of thin air, his head shook, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Qin Zhibo aimed the crowbar at the gap in the trunk lid, inserted it, and then pried it down hard, and the lid popped open automatically.

In the trunk, a black wooden box that had been deformed by water was quietly placed there.

"Hopefully, what you're going to find is waterproof..."

Mr. Clock hurried forward, held the black wooden box in his arms, and roughly opened the lid with his other hand.

Under the lid, a black diamond-shaped fragment of basalt-like material lay quietly at the bottom of the box.

The edges of this diamond-shaped fragment are very regular, and it looks like it took high-tech cutting and polishing to create such a beautiful shape.

And in the center of the fragment, there is a substance emitting dark green fluorescence embedded in it.

Mr. Clock took the fragment in his hand, looked at it for less than three seconds, then quickly opened his mouth and swallowed the fragment whole.

However, even though Mr. Clock acted quickly, Qin Zhibo still completed the investigation.

[Panester Fragment]

[Enter the Dark Abyss Unharmed - N'kai's Key]

[Obtain the main achievement task: Go to the New World]

Chapter 315 Enkai and the Lord of Tsatol

[To the New World]

[Mission Objective: Enter the dark abyss of the underground world - Enkai]

[Task requirements: no time limit, no location limit]

[Quest Reward: 30000 Skill Proficiency, 1-Strike Draw x]

Underworld? Enkai?

Qin Zhibo had never heard of such a place, but the mission reward was very tempting to him. It was the most generous mission reward Qin Zhibo had ever seen.

However, Qin Zhibo could neither carry out this task nor ask Mr. Clock what Enkai was.

Judging from Mr. Clock's attitude, this fragment is very important to him.

What if Mr. Clock is an extreme secretive person who wants to kill anyone who discovers his secret? Wouldn't that mean I'm walking into a trap?

So now Qin Zhibo chose to remain silent.

After accepting the Panester fragment, Mr. Clock bowed deeply to Qin Zhibo in a human way to express his gratitude.

"I owe you a favor now, Mr. Qin Zhibo."

"If you need my help with anything, you can call me anytime. I will remain a human for a while..."

Qin Zhibo looked at his personal network of relationships, and Mr. Clock appeared on it.

But it’s not a friend area, it’s a cooperation area.

……

After returning to the office, Qin Zhibo immediately called Shinna Xiang Baoli to ask her how she met Nakamura So.

"Nothing special. She's also a mystery novel writer, and we got to know each other as colleagues."

"But we'd only been exchanging letters before, and we were planning to meet for the first time today, but this happened..."

From the evening news, Shinname Kaori had already seen the news that two gangsters kidnapped a woman named "Nakamura So" in a villa.

What Xin Mingxiang Baoli said reminded Qin Zhibo of the two fat and thin gangsters in the morning.

According to their own account, they belonged to a gang of thieves called "Swift Wind Fairies", and the entire gang consisted of 8 people.

A while ago, the leader of the thieves' gang, Mr. Mon Shilang, announced that he was suffering from terminal cancer and would not live long, so he wanted to disband the thieves' gang and distribute most of the stolen treasures to his subordinates.

However, the two thieves were still coveting the jewel-encrusted watch, so they came here to look for it, but they happened to run into "Nakamura Cao" who had moved into the villa at some point in time.

In fact, "Nakamura Sou" is Mr. Clock's disguise in human society. With his superhuman strength, he is able to subdue the two gangsters.

However, there was a famous detective coming to visit later, and Mr. Clock had to maintain his human identity, so he did not choose to reveal his identity, but instead acted out the normal reaction of an ordinary human woman when encountering a gangster.

It is even possible that when Qin Zhibo himself approached the villa, Mr. Clock sensed the presence of another person at the scene, so he was not in a hurry to expose his abilities to deal with the two criminals.

In fact, his disguise was indeed excellent. If it were not for the investigation of the second type of contact, Qin Zhibo would not have been able to detect it.

"Do you plan to meet her later?" Qin Zhibo asked on the phone.

"Of course, is there anything wrong?"

"Nothing..." Qin Zhibo said meaningfully, "But it's better to invite her to your place, and then..."

"Be careful..."

Qin Zhibo did not tell Xin Mingxiang Baoli about the existence of Mr. Clock, but just gave her some brief instructions.

Mr. Clock is an alien who is dedicated to hiding in human society. He will not reveal his identity unless there is an extremely special reason.

……

In the next few days, Qin Zhibo continued to work as a detective and learn Latin.

Without the skill training acceleration card, the progress of learning Latin is not very fast.

In addition, as the reputation of the famous detective Qin Zhibo gradually grew, the office was no longer as deserted as before, which directly led to Qin Zhibo having to delay some of his study time every day due to his daily work as a detective.

In his free time, Qin Zhibo visited the witch's house of Koizumi Hongzi.

Although Qin Zhibo had not visited the Witch's House for a long time in his sense of time, he now had a new way to replenish his magic.

But in Koizumi Akako's sense of time, Qin Zhibo was just making a routine visit this week.

"What kind of magic do you want to learn today? Tell me about it."

Whenever Koizumi Hongzi is in a good mood, she will take the initiative to teach Qin Zhibo some magic.

And Qin Zhibo did have an idea.

"Is there any magic that can prevent other creatures from peeping into my inner thoughts? Something like anti-telepathy magic..."

Qin Zhibo made this request because he hoped to have more means of self-protection when facing Mr. Clock.

Although he knew that Mr. Clock's ability might only vaguely sense his mental fluctuations rather than accurately read his thoughts, such an ability was fatal to someone like Qin Zhibo who possessed the ability of invisibility.

This means that the ring that can make people invisible is useless in front of Mr. Clock.

Koizumi Hongzi put her finger on her chin and thought for a while, then shook her head.

"I don't remember this type of magic in Red Magic..."

"But can you tell me why you need this magic?"

Qin Zhibo thought about it for a moment.