Conan Rick's Investigator

"Mr. Jian?"

When he tried the third name, Danforth's eyelids twitched.

This tiny beat gave Qin Zhibo a glimmer of hope, and he struck while the iron was hot, "I'm Mr. Jian, do you remember me?"

"I am Mr. Jian..."

After a five-second delay, Danforth's eyelids twitched and his head slowly turned towards Qin Zhibo.

The extremely old face is full of traces of time, and the bags under the eyes that have been stretched due to sagging skin are covered with age spots.

His Adam's apple twitched slightly under his shriveled skin, and he said in a dry and weak voice, "Mr...?"

It was obvious that Danforth still remembered what happened in the expedition team more than 60 years ago, which was a very good signal to Qin Zhibo.

"Yes! I am..."

Qin Zhibo tells lies without thinking, to deceive! A 90-year-old man...

Danforth blinked his cloudy eyes lightly, remained silent for two seconds, and then shook his head.

"you are not……"

After saying that, Danforth turned his head back and continued to look at the scenery outside.

This made Qin Zhibo a little disappointed. It seemed that Danforth was not completely senile yet.

However, Qin Zhibo still has a way to remedy the situation. He is now wearing Michael Bay's human skin mask, and his image is that of a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner.

Danforth had the impression that Mr. Mamiya was a Japanese, so he could tell him at a glance.

So Qin Zhibo looked back at the ceiling of the room and found no camera, then he took off his human skin mask.

The stuffiness under the mask was instantly released, making Qin Zhibo feel much more comfortable.

Although Qin Zhibo himself is not a pure-blooded Japanese, he still has many Japanese features in his appearance. In addition, Danforth is old and his eyesight is blurry, so it should be difficult to tell.

In this way, Qin Zhibo continued to deceive the 90-year-old comrade.

"I am Mr. Jian, look at me again..."

After scoring twice, Danvers turned his head and glanced at Qin Zhibo.

This time, Danforth did not deny it.

Since he had already passed the facial recognition, Qin Zhibo was not surprised and immediately asked, "How much do you remember about what happened during the Antarctic expedition?"

Danvers tilted his head and stared at Qin Zhibo for more than a minute before finally speaking.

"We sailed from Boston Harbor aboard the Arkham... and the Miskatonic..."

Danforth began to recall that this was both good news and bad news for Qin Zhibo.

The good news is that Danforth still remembers what happened more than sixty years ago.

The bad news is that Danforth's voice is like a kite in the sky whose string may break at any time, intermittent and erratic.

This made Qin Zhibo feel anxious, and he quickly asked, "I know all this. Have you forgotten? We are all in the same boat..."

"I want to know what happened in the cave when you and Professor Dale entered it?"

As soon as Qin Zhibo mentioned the word "cave", Danforth's pupils suddenly shrank.

Then, something seemed to stimulate Danforth's throat, and a lot of weird nonsense came out of his mouth.

"A dark pit... a carved edge... a primordial shoggoth... a windowless, five-dimensional entity..."

"Nameless columns...ancient beacons...Yog-Sothoth...primordial white jelly..."

"The colors of outer space... the winged ones... the eyes of the planet... the stairs to the moon..."

"Origin, eternity, immortality, chaos!"

Danforth's voice became increasingly high-pitched from the initial whisper, and Qin Zhibo immediately felt that something was wrong.

Oh my god! I’m sick!

Qin Zhibo quickly put on his human skin mask and went out to find Dr. Caroline to come and see him.

Upon hearing the news, Dr. Caroline hurried over following Qin Zhibo, but when they returned to the ward...

Danforth is dead...

Chapter 509: Sheriff "Justice"

As soon as Qin Zhibo opened the door, he saw the investigation point above Danforth's head.

He knew exactly what this meant.

Dr. Caroline didn't know what was happening and immediately went forward to check.

Danforth's body was slumped on the armrest of the wheelchair, his eyes were wide open, and his face was always fixed in fear.

Caroline took out a flashlight and checked the child's hole, which was already scattered.

"Gone……"

"Hopeless?"

"Hopeless……"

Caroline looked at Qin Zhibo with a scrutinizing look in her eyes.

Danforth's physical condition has always been poor, and Caroline, his attending physician, knows it. In addition, as his relatives and friends who can speak have passed away one after another, his mental state is also extremely unstable.

To be honest, Caroline would not be surprised if the elderly man died on any sunny morning.

It's just that the timing is too sensitive. Why did Danvers die as soon as the man in front of him came to visit?

"What did you do to Mr. Danvers?" Caroline suddenly demanded.

Qin Zhibo shook his head innocently and said, "I didn't do anything. I was just chatting with him."

"chat?"

Caroline didn't hide her suspicion at all, but there was no surveillance in the ward to prove anything.

"Anyway, you can't leave yet. Wait until the police arrive."

Caroline's tone was firm, and Qin Zhibo knew that he was being "debunked".

……

Arkham police are not as fast as Tokyo police in responding to the scene.

While waiting, Qin Zhibo walked to Danvers with deep sorrow and collected the skills dropped from his body.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of deceased: Danforth Jefferson]

[Time of death: 5 minutes ago]

[Cause of death: Cardiac arrest caused by excessive shock]

[Corpse investigation completed, congratulations on obtaining the skill: Mysterious Myth Skill]

[Gain duplicate skills and convert them into 1000 general skill proficiency for that skill]

1000 skill proficiency points were added, and Qin Zhibo's mysterious mythology knowledge skill was also upgraded to level 4.

As his skill level increased, some strange knowledge suddenly emerged in Qin Zhibo's brain.

The stars of outer space... the primordial Shoggoth... the key to the gate—Yog-Sothoth...

These messages occupied Qin Zhibo's brain in an instant, and countless fantasies churned in his mind, disrupting Qin Zhibo's understanding of the real world.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo felt that he had transcended the limitations of his physical body, with only the thoughts in his brain roaming in the deep space of the universe.

An image full of absurd nihilism flashed through his mind: a sphere of billions of brilliant lights...

They shimmered, merged and split apart, and like a rainbow, the ocean balls squirmed under the influence of invisible forces, stirring up layers of waves...

Eventually, they blended together to form a brilliant rainbow of light that lingered around the brain, flickering, expanding, and shrinking.

Strange knowledge increased!

……

"Mr. Michael?"

After an unknown amount of time, it was Caroline's voice that pulled Qin Zhibo back to reality from this wonderful state of mental storm.

Qin Zhibo looked stunned, staring at Caroline.

Caroline frowned in confusion, raised her finger and pointed at Qin Zhibo's nose, "Your nose..."

Qin Zhibo stretched out two fingers and dipped them, and bright red blood flowed from his fingertips.

"Oh~"

Qin Zhibo took out Kudo Shinichi's handkerchief and wiped the blood from his nose.

During this process, Caroline stood by and observed Qin Zhibo's appearance.

Suddenly, without warning, he went into a daze and started bleeding from the nose. He was an old friend of a mentally ill patient who hadn't been discharged from the hospital for over 60 years, and he ended up talking to someone and causing their death...

All signs indicate that the man in front of me is a psychopath!

Qin Zhibo, who was standing aside, didn't know what Caroline thought of him, but silently checked his willpower.

70...

Just by watching a strange VCR and some incomprehensible knowledge as if his soul had flown out of his body, he lost 20 points of willpower.

Qin Zhibo had never deliberately improved this mysterious mythological knowledge skill, and it was the first time he found this skill on a corpse.

But by chance, this skill was upgraded to level 4.

At this time, the local police in Arkham finally arrived.

The local sheriff walked up to the body, took a look, and then asked Caroline about the situation and immediately made a judgment.

"It's obvious, Michael, that you are now a serious suspect in the murder of Mr. Danvers... Please come to our police station."

As he spoke, the sheriff took out the handcuffs from his waist and prepared to handcuff Qin Zhibo.

This vigorous and decisive style of handling cases made Qin Zhibo exclaim "What?"

“What the f**k!?”

"What evidence do you have that I murdered Danvers?"

Qin Zhibo began to defend himself, and the sheriff glanced at Danforth and immediately gave an easy-to-understand reasoning.

"That's simple, since he was in the same room with you at the time of Mr. Danvers' death."

"Plus, the expression on his face clearly shows excessive fear. You must have made a face or something..."

This……

Qin Zhibo felt that he had seen this rough and imaginative style of reasoning somewhere before.

You guys learned from Kogoro Mori, right?!

"Just making a face can kill people? How can I have such great magic power? How can Danvers be so fragile?"

"You might as well just say that I created a poison gas that can release fear in people's hearts, and used it to scare Danvers to death..."

When Qin Zhibo mentioned this, the sheriff seemed to have a flash of inspiration and gave a direct response that left Qin Zhibo dumbfounded.

"Oh? You did that?"

"Jack! Yin Sen! Hold him down, I'm going to search him!"

Seeing that these people had no idea about normal reasoning, or had no interest in it at all, or even just wanted to find a scapegoat and quickly close the case, Qin Zhibo knew that he could not continue to explain.

When a scholar meets a soldier, he can't explain himself even if he is right!

So at this time I can only look for the "Captain"...

"I know Carl Sanford!"

……