Conan Rick's Investigator

The snake people in the underground world - Kunyang regard "Yinge" as their father god, and even some Kunyang people regard "Yinge" as a belief.

Together with the dark "Khan" and the snake-beard "Byatis", she is known as the "God of Prophecy".

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In "The Secret of the Worm", Qin Zhibo saw the word "Kunyang" again.

In addition to the Kunyang people, there are also snake people in Kunyang...

It seems that if I go to Kunyang in the future, I should bring some snake repellent powder.

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The book also introduces the crocodile god Sebek, the spider god Atlach-Nakea...

These incredible beings often establish close connections with their statues or portraits. By using these statues or portraits, it is possible to communicate with these beings or even summon them.

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When Qin Zhibo's thoughts came back from the scenes described in the book, he looked up at the clock on the wall and found that more than six hours had passed.

This book is much longer than the "Ceremony of Corpse Eating" that I read before, so six hours is considered relatively fast.

Qin Zhibo tried to stand up from his boss chair, but his body was completely numb and he needed to relax for a while.

At this moment, a prompt appeared on the system.

[Reading completed, total loss of 10 points of willpower]

[Obtain 1000 mysterious myth knowledge skills]

[Congratulations on completing the hidden mission and obtaining the challenging main mission]

[Main Quest: Explore the Spider's Lair]

[Mission Requirements: Go to the designated location alone, enter the spider's lair and successfully escape]

[Quest Reward: 8000 General Skill Proficiency, +2 Lottery Draws, 700 Mythical Knowledge Skills]

[Mission countdown begins]

【72:00:00】

【71:59:59】

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As Qin Zhibo expected, this reading session once again brought him a challenging (zuo) main task.

Judging from the generous rewards of the mission, this mission should be much more difficult than the previous Cemetery Survival Night.

Qin Zhibo turned on the navigator and found the location of the mission mark. It was not in Tokyo, but in a place called "Kuppet Ridge" in Tottori Prefecture.

It's getting late now, Qin Zhibo definitely can't set off immediately, so he can only prepare supplies for survival in the wild first.

Because judging from the map, this Puppet Ridge is a deserted place.

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Zhibo Detective Agency.

"Today's morning news program has ended. Thank you for watching..."

"See you tomorrow."

Qin Zhibo turned off the TV, locked the door of the office, hung the appointment book he had prepared in advance at the door, and set off.

Driving a rented Mazda, Qin Zhibo raced along the sparsely populated mountain road.

Kuileiling is some distance away from Tottori Prefecture, which is equivalent to the eastern suburbs of Tokyo and belongs to the suburbs.

As we all know, the suburbs of this world are a good place to hide filth and dirt, and they always give rise to some strange legends.

On the undulating mountain road, the woods on both sides were moving backwards quickly.

Qin Zhibo's Mazda drove straight to the target location marked on the electronic map.

Although there is a countdown for this mission, there is no specific time period indicated, so Qin Zhibo plans to carry out the mission during the day.

This can at least provide some psychological comfort.

Drive the car to the mountain road near the mission location, and then you will need to take the narrow forest path into the depths of the forest.

Qin Zhibo had good physical strength and quickly arrived at a place less than 100 meters away from the mission location.

At this time, Qin Zhibo saw a figure standing in front of a tombstone in the open space in the woods, mourning silently.

Qin Zhibo, hiding behind a tree, looked at the name above the man's head.

Robert Taylor

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Chapter 321 Hattori Heiji: So I’m the cheapest…

Foreigner?

Looking at the blond and blue-eyed young man in the woods, Qin Zhibo was a little surprised.

It would be fine if it was an international metropolis like Tokyo, but I didn't expect that there would be foreigners in such a remote place.

Judging from his attire, the man named Robert was wearing an orange bomber jacket, carrying a mountaineering backpack, and had a camera slung around his neck. He looked like he was on a trip.

But at this moment, he stood still, staring at the somewhat lonely tombstone in the open space in the woods, with infinite sadness in his eyes.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, as if blowing a grain of sand into Robert's eyes.

Robert raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, his eyes immediately became firm, he turned away from the tombstone, and went down the mountain along the forest path in another direction.

After Robert walked away, Qin Zhibo came out of the woods and walked forward to check the contents on the tombstone.

[Daughter of the Takeda clan - Tomb of Misa Takeda]

The specifications of the tombstone are not very high, and there are no memorial items on the tribute table.

However, judging from the moss around the tombstone and the traces of rain erosion on it, this tombstone has definitely been erected for no more than five years.

There are no other graves around here, so it looks like he was buried here alone.

Generally speaking, this means that the deceased's family lives nearby, and they buried the grave here separately for the convenience of future memorial services.

Could it be that there are people living in these desolate mountains?

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Qin Zhibo temporarily withdrew his thoughts and continued to move towards the mission location.

There are quite a few spiders here. It's easy to get those annoying spider webs on your face after just a few steps.

But the goal of this main mission is to "explore the spider's nest", so Qin Zhibo believes that it should at least be a cave or dungeon that humans can enter.

But Qin Zhibo searched within a fifty-meter radius of the mission site and did not find such a place.

There was an extremely huge banyan tree that made Qin Zhibo marvel.

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After searching for several rounds, he didn't find any place similar to the "Spider's Nest". As the sun was setting, Qin Zhibo had to call off his search for the time being.

After walking down the forest path, Qin Zhibo returned to where he parked his Mazda, but saw a young couple and a man looking into his car window.

One of them was a dark-skinned high school student, holding a newly bought motorcycle in his hand, and next to him was a girl with a ponytail.

And that man was none other than the foreigner he met on the mountain a few hours ago - Robert Taylor.

"Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha..."

Hearing Qin Zhibo's murmurs, Hattori Heiji quickly raised his head and saw an exciting figure.

"You! It's Uncle Qin!"

"What a coincidence!"

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It is certainly no coincidence that Hattori Heiji appears here.

Just a few days ago, Hattori Heiji received an anonymous letter of commission, which said:

[I hope you will arrive at the Takeda family home in Tottori Prefecture's Kuroko Ridge before nightfall next Saturday, or a living puppet will be killed by the spider.]

Attached to the letter was a commission fee of 20 yuan.

Hattori Heiji was not a high school detective for profit, so he wanted to return the money in person.

However, ever since the Osaka power outage caused by Kaito Kid, when he was caught speeding on the sidewalk by his father, the police chief, and his motorcycle was confiscated by the traffic police, Hattori Heiji has not been driving a motorcycle.

Without his motorcycle, the Will-O-Wisp boy is like he has lost his soul.

So Hattori Heiji couldn't help himself and spent part of the commission fee to buy a new blue motorcycle.

This time, Hattori Heiji planned to return the remaining commission fee to the client first, and consider the money for buying the motorcycle as a loan, and then solve any possible cases by the way.

When we came here, Toyama Kazuha insisted that she was as familiar with Tottori Prefecture as her own backyard and insisted on coming along.

As expected, I got lost.

When they were lost, they met Robert Taylor, an enthusiastic American who spoke good Japanese.

At first, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha thought Robert was a little suspicious and didn't want to pay any attention to this stranger who suddenly appeared. They continued to discuss their plan to camp together.

But after some communication, the three of them happened to have the same destination, so they walked forward together for a while and came across Qin Zhibo's Mazda parked on the side of the road.

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Toyama Kazuha, who had met Qin Zhibo before at the Suzuki Museum of Modern Art, walked up to him and asked, "Mr. Qin, do you know where the Takeda family is?"

Qin Zhibo shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm not going there..."

Hattori Heiji was a little surprised and asked, "Uncle, didn't you come here because you received a letter of commission from the Takeda family?"

Qin Zhibo shook his head hesitantly.

This answer made Hattori Heiji feel a little complacent. After all, the client chose to send the letter of commission to him, which meant that he recognized his detective skills.

In other words, in this case, he is the only officially designated detective!

Just then, a loud car horn sounded from behind everyone.

drip-

Everyone looked back and saw a head sticking out of the car window, with two carefully trimmed beards twitching twice.

"Why are you guys?"

It’s actually Kogoro Mouri!

The two groups looked at each other, surprised at how complete the characters were this time.

Only Qin Zhibo saw Conan in the arms of Mouri Ran through the front windshield of the truck.

This wave is stable!

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After a brief conversation, everyone found out that Kogoro Mori was formally commissioned by the head of the Takeda family, Shinichi Takeda, to investigate the incident, and there was a deposit of 50 yen included in the letter.

"That's weird, why is there only 20 in my letter of authorization?"

Hattori Heiji felt a little strange, but Mori Kogoro immediately understood what he meant and showed a tongue-sticking smile that only venom could produce.

"Haha! The client must have felt that your reasoning ability wasn't even half as good as mine, Kogoro Mori, so they only gave you 20!"

Hattori Heiji, whose skin was originally dark and now became even darker: "..."

At this time, Conan looked up at Qin Zhibo and asked in a childish voice: "Then why did Uncle Qin come here?"

Qin Zhibo smiled and touched Conan's head, saying softly: "Uncle, I'm here for a trip..."

Faced with the expected answer, Conan showed half-moon eyes and said "Ahaha" twice.

After the conversation, everyone decided on their next itinerary.

The Osaka duo and their motorcycle, which had run out of gas, took the Maori family's truck, while Robert got on Qin Zhibo's Mazda and followed behind the truck.