Conan Rick's Investigator

After seeing these detailed introductions, Qin Zhibo scratched his head.

"Are you sure this is a crystal ball of prediction and not a crystal ball of doom?"

The predictive ability of this thing itself is very questionable, and it may also bring disaster. Qin Zhibo will definitely not have any thoughts about this kind of evil thing.

Next item.

【shroud】

【It’s actually a sleeping bag】

[It is guaranteed that the thing sleeping inside will sleep like a corpse]

[Perhaps there is a corpse inside? —An unknown undertaker]

[No, it could also be a pot of plants? —Another undertaker]

[Price: 1000 General Proficiency]

"This thing is great for kidnapping..."

However, Qin Zhibo, a five-good young man, had no idea what he wanted this thing for.

Let’s take a look at the next one.

An indestructible faith

[Foolish humans! Having faith means maintaining sanity]

[Of course, fanaticism itself may also deprive you of your sanity]

【Spread! Choose!】

[Was it voluntary surrender or forced submission? ]

[Price: 10000 General Proficiency]

Putting aside the introduction that sounds like a scam, even the price of 10000 general proficiency is out of reach for Qin Zhibo now.

[Character Skills, Arts and Crafts (Beauty and Hairdressing): Mastering this skill will improve your beauty and hairdressing skills.]

[One of the mysterious powers from the East]

[Brother! Can you get a card?]

[Price: 1000 General Proficiency]

"Last time it was an excavator, this time it's a beauty salon..."

Qin Zhibo muttered to himself, and in his mind he had already guessed the skills that would most likely appear when the mall was refreshed next time.

However, Qin Zhibo is very satisfied with his current job and income and has not considered changing careers.

After looking at this week's mall refresh, Qin Zhibo found that there was not a single item or skill that caught his eye at first sight.

It’s also possible to get back the X-ray glasses from last week!

Qin Zhibo was shouting in his heart, but the system could not hear Qin Zhibo's shouting.

Qin Zhibo had no choice but to close the mall interface and start reading the "Corpse Eating Ritual" in his hand.

Although it is called reading, it actually only requires you to fully master French and meet the conditions for continuing to investigate this book.

Now, when Qin Zhibo looked at the book, the words that appeared on the book were slightly different from before.

[The Canon of Corpse Ritual: By the 16th-century French nobleman Count de Rêt…]

[Reading this book will lead to loss of willpower...]

[Languages ​​are compatible and can be read]

【Do you want to read? 】

Qin Zhibo: Of course I have to read, otherwise why would I spend “a week” learning French?

【Read√】

As he began to read, the passages in the book that should have been lifeless suddenly came into Qin Zhibo's mind like swimming fish.

In Qin Zhibo's mind, these words were not displayed in a language with modified words.

The words turned into vivid pictures.

……

On the narrow unpaved streets, feces, urine and garbage are dumped everywhere. Dirty and chaos are synonymous with this place.

The perspective changes again, and in a dark space where sunlight can hardly penetrate even during the day, a group of people of various shapes and sizes, wearing black robes, gather together and perform some kind of mysterious ceremony.

They placed the raw meat on a huge tray and held it high up, similar to a Catholic mass, and prayed in complex language.

These strange mumblings were indeed mainly composed of French, but perhaps because of the accent or the mixture of other obscure languages, Qin Zhibo could only understand part of it.

"…eat his flesh and sleep on his skin…"

"...Ghouls gather here, those who eat flesh are protected by the Mother Goddess..."

"...travel through the catacombs and into the void..."

"…reason is bondage, madness is liberation…"

Then, all the men in black robes took out daggers from their pockets, lined up one by one, and cut pieces of raw meat from the huge tray and shared them to eat.

In Qin Zhibo's first-person perspective, "Qin Zhibo" himself walked to the tray with half of the raw meat left on it and took out an exquisite silver dagger from his black robe.

But when the silver dagger was about to fall on the raw meat, it stopped, as if hesitating.

Suddenly, "Qin Zhibo" threw away the dagger in the first perspective, grabbed all the raw meat with both hands, put it in his mouth and chewed it frantically.

Blood dripped onto the black robe, and Qin Zhibo's perspective began to rotate. Under the black hoods around him were human faces of different ages and genders.

These people were still shouting in French with a lisp, saying "What shall we eat?"

Among them, only the black-robed man who had just read the prayer clapped his hands happily and even danced.

Because he jumped too high, the black hood slipped off his head, revealing the canine-like head inside.

……

【Reading completed】

Although I never opened the book "Corpse Eating Ritual", the system has already prompted that I have finished reading it.

After reading the entire book, Qin Zhibo felt almost no emotion.

That's it?

After a busy week just to watch a movie?

I looked up at the clock on the wall and it was indeed two o'clock. From midnight to now was almost the length of a movie.

Qin Zhibo now feels dizzy, but this is also because he has been following the first-person perspective in the book.

While reading, Qin Zhibo saw many dark and blasphemous things.

The Parisian catacombs, strange séances, and kobolds?

Just when Qin Zhibo was wondering, a long list of new prompts appeared in the system.

Chapter 48 A Survival Challenge Mission

[Reading completed, total loss of 4 points of willpower]

[Acquire 400 points of mysterious mythological knowledge and skill proficiency]

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

[Main Mission: A Night in the Cemetery]

[Mission Requirements: Go to the designated location alone and survive until dawn the next day, time limit: 72 hours]

[Quest Reward: 5000 General Skill Proficiency, +2 Lottery Draws, 500 Weird Mythology Knowledge Skill Proficiency]

[Mission countdown begins]

【72:00:00】

【71:59:59】

……

When Qin Zhibo saw the task description, he had a bad feeling.

This was the first time Qin Zhibo heard of such a term regarding challenging main quests.

Since it is a challenge-type main quest, the biggest difference between it and the main quest is that it has a time limit.

On the positive side, having a time limit means that at most the task will time out and fail, and there will be no situation where a main task cannot be completed and subsequent tasks are stuck.

On the negative side, time limits mean increased difficulty of the task.

As for the mission location...

Qin Zhibo opened the electronic map of the navigator, and sure enough, a red coordinate that had not been there before appeared on the huge map.

The red coordinates are about 70 kilometers away from Qin Zhibo's current location in a straight line. Strictly speaking, it is not very far, but it is far beyond the scope of Mihua City.

What Qin Zhibo cared about most were two words in the task description given by the system.

One is "graveyard" and the other is "survival".

cemetery.

Obviously, the location designated for the challenge mission is a cemetery.

survive.

This means that if you stay here for one night, you may encounter some kind of threat, even to the level of survival.

"Spending a night in a cemetery, and still trying to survive..."

"I'll have to think about that."

Qin Zhibo began to pace back and forth in the office, thinking about whether he should choose to accept this task.

Staying in the cemetery for a night is nothing. Qin Zhibo, who has an iron will, does not feel any psychological pressure at all.

But what does this survival mean?

Is it simply survival in the wild, or is there something else “dirty” going on?

After experiencing the main mission in the art museum last time, Qin Zhibo understood one thing.

Maybe, perhaps, there are some supernatural beings in this world.

They rarely appear in the world, they are isolated from the world, and they are otherworldly.

In the common perception of human beings, they should only be a page of sketches in a fantasy work, or an unknown painting by an unknown painter, or a vague legend passed down by word of mouth by the older generation.

They shouldn't exist.

But they do exist.

Perhaps, as a famous saying goes, human beings live on an island called "ignorance", surrounded by a black ocean full of unknowns.

But should I set sail this time and face the "unknown"?

Qin Zhibo: Huh? Whose famous quote is this? How would I know that?

After a rational analysis, Qin Zhibo felt that 72 hours was relatively ample time for the mission.

Although I have to spend a night in the cemetery, I still have two days and one night to prepare in advance.

Even if you feel things are not going well after you get there, it should be okay to choose to quit.

So... just do it!

……

When he woke up in the morning, Qin Zhibo quickly hung a sign in the office saying it was temporarily closed and went out to prepare various supplies.

The mission location shown on the navigator is a deserted mountain, so you must at least purchase various wilderness survival supplies first.

Tent, camping lamp, compressed food, flashlight, water bottle...