Conan Rick's Investigator

Although the result of the psychic reading is that Danvers is still alive, it is also possible that the psychic reading is talking about other Danvers.

So Qin Zhibo planned to let Dongtian confirm whether Danvers was still alive to avoid making a wasted trip in the future.

Dongtian's figure disappeared at the boarding gate. Qin Zhibo was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he stood in front of the railing in the airport hall, looking at the refreshing runway.

……

At the same time, Dongtian, who was standing in front of two men at the boarding gate, handed his passport and plane ticket to one of the men from his arms.

The man had light blond hair and a healthy wheat-colored complexion.

Standing next to this man was a man wearing glasses, dressed like a civil servant and looking very capable.

After handing the passport and plane ticket to the light blond man, the man with glasses next to him raised his head, and the two men in suits standing behind him walked forward and handcuffed Mr. Higashida's outstretched hands.

He covered the handcuffs with clothes and took out a hood from his arms and prepared to put it on Dongtian's head.

When the black hood was about to cover Dongtian's head, Dongtian seized the opportunity to say one last word.

"The detective who cleared me of suspicion yesterday is in the airport lobby. He asked me to inquire about a 90-year-old man named Danvers at Arkham Asylum."

"Oh?"

The man with short blond hair showed an interested expression on his face.

"I see……"

Chapter 319 Reading "The Secret of the Worm"

Handcuffed and hooded, Higashida walked out of the boarding gate like a criminal who was about to flee the country and was intercepted by the police at the boarding gate.

Seeing this, the other people boarding the plane stepped back, allowing the two public officials carrying Dongtian to pass through smoothly.

"Mr. Furuya, the detective the informant mentioned is the one you secretly commissioned yesterday, right?"

"Yeah." The man named Furuya nodded and turned to walk towards the boarding area. "That man really didn't disappoint me..."

"It just so happens that we're going to Arkham Asylum, so it wouldn't hurt to ask around for him."

The man next to him, Yuya Kazami, followed Furuya as he boarded the plane and asked, "But I don't understand why Mr. Furuya would use his identity as an informant to buy a plane ticket to the United States?"

Fūya smiled slightly and explained, "The person we're trying to bring back this time is a high-ranking member of the Public Security Bureau, an important figure who knows about the organization's existence."

"Of course we have to be cautious with such people."

"And I've already had the unfortunate experience of my identity being leaked due to international flights..."

"Welcome aboard..."

In response to the stewardess's greeting, Jōgō showed a sunny smile, which made the stewardess with a ponytail blush.

Sitting in the economy class seat with Yuya Kazami, Furuya finally said:

"When we return to Japan, we might even have a new direct supervisor..."

Regarding this, Yuya Kazami had a face full of question marks.

A boss who walked out of a mental hospital?

……

It was another calm day. Qin Zhibo did not open the office for business. Instead, he pulled down the blinds and pretended that no one was in the office. In fact, he was concentrating on studying Latin.

Because after ten days of study, the Latin learning progress bar is finally about to be filled up today.

When Qin Zhibo finished reading the last part of the Latin material, the skill proficiency requirement of 8000 was finally met.

【Congratulations! You have successfully mastered the language (Latin)! 】

The corresponding prompt appeared in the system, which made Qin Zhibo very pleased.

At this point, Qin Zhibo has mastered five languages, namely English, Japanese, Chinese, French and Latin.

English is the language that the original owner, a Hawaiian, possesses.

Japanese is the language that the original owner, a Japanese-American, speaks.

Chinese is a gift from Qin Zhibo that he passed down from his previous life.

French and Latin were both learned for the purpose of reading special books.

If you want to learn a new language, the proficiency requirement for full mastery will reach 16000.

So if Qin Zhibo finds new books to research, he hopes that the language will be one that he already knows.

Aren't there any books that can be investigated written in the Chinese language of our great country?

……

Feeling a little tired, Qin Zhibo took out the "Secret of Worms" which he had treasured for a long time from the drawer.

From a scientific point of view, Qin Zhibo obtained this book from Dracula's villa just last week.

But for Qin Zhibo, that happened almost last month...

In order to read and investigate this book, I went through some hardships that cost human lives.

But now, Qin Zhibo can finally read this book.

The Secret of the Worm: This book was written by the Belgian magician Ludwig Prin in 1542.

The first half of the book describes the existence of ghosts and zombies, while the second half contains Principal's travel records and spells for summoning and controlling various "demons", and even records the formula for a magic potion that can allow people to travel beyond time and space...

[Reading this book will reduce your Willpower by 6-12 points, and your Mythology Knowledge and Skill Proficiency + the Willpower lost by reading it × 100]

【Language communication, can read】

【Do you want to read? 】

Qin Zhibo confirmed that his willpower value was a very sufficient 90 points, and he confirmed it silently in his heart.

【Read√】

The moment he confirmed the reading, Qin Zhibo's brain immediately entered a magical state.

Thousands of stars flew past his eyes, and Qin Zhibo was immersed in the scene described in the book.

At the beginning, these scenes were relatively "mild".

The first is the existence of ghosts and zombies.

Ghosts generally refer to those human souls that have nowhere to go. These ghosts are sometimes witnessed by some people with high inspiration, but if you want to actively see these ghosts, you need some summoning techniques.

Through Ludwig Prin's perspective, Qin Zhibo saw the magic circles and spells needed to summon souls.

Qin Zhibo carefully observed the contents on the magic circle, which were different from the psychic skills Qin Zhibo mastered.

When the spell was finished, a faint white ghost slowly emerged above the magic circle.

It has almost no human outline and cannot answer even a single question. The only difference is that people can see its existence.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo felt that his own spiritual skills were more advanced.

Besides the ghosts evolved from human souls, there are also some non-human souls that cannot be recorded in detail...

As for zombies, there are no zombies in the world.

The so-called zombies are actually a form of corpse control mastered by the voodoo sect that is popular in Africa.

Voodoo wizards would feed their enemies pufferfish toxin, causing them to enter a strange state of suspended animation, turning them into "zombies" who would work tirelessly like slaves.

The god believed in by Voodoo is called Baroness Samedi. She is the intermediary between life and death and a god of death with powerful dark power.

From Ludwig's perspective, Qin Zhibo saw with his own eyes that at the call of the voodoo wizard, a black man with strange patterns painted on his face walked out from between the tombstones.

She was wearing a tall black hat and holding a cane, and her long black tailcoat glided over the thorn bushes beside the tombstone without any drag, like silk passing over smooth marble floor.

The moment Baron Samedi appeared, the expressions of the surrounding Voodoo believers became dull and wooden. Only Ludwig Prin still maintained his body autonomy after shaking his body a few times.

Ludwig Prin pulled a roll of cigars from his pocket and presented a case of rum.

The tall Baron Samedi looked at Ludwig Prin, and after a few seconds he raised his dark hand, took the lit cigar from Ludwig Prin, and put it to the short nose to smell it.

A strange scene happened. When Baron Samedi was smoking with his nose, a large amount of white smoke suddenly came out from the burning end of the cigar and poured into Baron Samedi's nostrils.

With just one puff, the entire cigar burned out, slipping away in the dark palm like a withered life.

Then Ludwig Prin knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Baron Samedi.

"Ah! Great Lord of the Grave! Avatar of Nyarlathotep!"

"I ask you this in the name of the Black Star and the Toad God Tsathoggua!"

“Is the great Black Pharaoh of ancient Egypt one of your incarnations?”

Chapter 320: Challenge (zuo) (si) Main Quest

From Qin Zhibo's perspective, Ludwig Prin kowtowed repeatedly.

Baron Samedi slowly lowered his dark hand and covered Prin's shoulder.

The moment his palm touched his body, Pu Lin's breathing stopped and his body began to tremble.

The power of the Dark Death was sucking away Pulin's vitality. Pulin raised one of his hands and saw that the skin on it was aging and wrinkling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Brown age spots gradually appeared on the wrinkled palms, and the strong blood vessels that were slightly protruding from the skin just now immediately contracted.

At this moment, the surrounding voodoo believers dressed as African natives suddenly became aggressive.

In an instant, they became extremely active, as if they were participating in some kind of life sacrifice ceremony.

On the dark faces, the mouths were pulled back to an extremely exaggerated angle by some unknown force, forming crazy smiling faces that looked like "clowns".

Under the fatal contact of Baron Samedi, Prin's body fell to the ground, his whole body began to twitch, and an indescribable black light emitted from his face.

A metal disc slipped out of the arms of the fallen Prin and fell in front of Baron Samedi.

Engraved on the metal disc is a twisted five-pointed star with an eye in the center.

When Baron Samedi saw the metal disc, he suddenly withdrew his dark hand and took half a step back with a very contemptuous attitude.

As the palm contact disappeared, Pu Lin's breathing resumed, and even the wrinkles on his skin began to smooth out.

Baron Samedi glanced at Prin with an unfathomable gaze, then wrote something on the sand with his cane.

Afterwards, Baron Samedi disappeared into the gloomy cemetery like vanishing smoke.

Pu Lin lay on the ground gasping for breath for a long time before he gradually got up.

He walked awkwardly to the sand where the words were written. There was a crooked handwriting on it: Ita

……

Qin Zhibo, who is proficient in Latin, knows that "Ita" means "yes" in Latin.

Baron Samedi answered the question raised by Prin just now, that the Black Pharaoh of ancient Egypt was one of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep.

According to the records in the book, Nyarlathotep is the messenger of chaos in the universe, and her millions of incarnations carry out the will of the "Lord of All Things" and the "Origin of the Universe" in the vast space.

She is known as the "God of a Thousand Faces" and the "Crawling Chaos."

Not only Baron Samedi, who believes in Voodoo, but also the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known as the "Black Pharaoh", they are all incarnations of Nyarlathotep on earth.

The only way to meet Baron Samedi is in the cemetery, where one can offer him cigars and rum as a token of respect.

And any contact of Baron Samedi is fatal. Her touch can take the life of any creature unless it has enough vitality or other means to resist her touch.

Old seals are a good way to do this.

Qin Zhibo remembered the pattern on the metal disc that slipped out of Pu Lin's arms. The logo on it was very similar to the pattern on the back of the school badge in his wallet.

Could that be the old seal?

……

In addition to the various forms and appearances of Nyarlathotep, Prien also visited a cannibal cult in Cornwall.

The cult conducts some taboo experiments within itself, mixing humans with animals and hunting living people.

There is also the father god "Yinge", a scaly half-snake, half-human, who is called the "Father of Snakes" or "Bad Medicine".