Conan Rick's Investigator

This question is too difficult, even Conan can't figure it out. He can only wait silently and pray that everyone is safe.

……

In Qin Zhibo's vision, the dead hand and the skeleton hand were motionless in the air, as if they were simply holding each other, but they seemed to be engaged in some kind of wrestling.

This is a contest that goes beyond what the naked eye can see, and the burst of physical strength is not the focus.

What is counteracting each other here is a more obscure and profound cosmic force.

Every moment the two forces come into contact, it seems that thousands of stars are crushed into powder and turned into even more insignificant cosmic dust.

But in this contest, the dead hand above his head was gradually retreating, and the yellow sleeves that moved without wind almost disappeared from the edge of his vision.

The Skeleton Hand seems to have the upper hand….

Chapter 668 The Third Hand

In some indescribable struggle of power, the dead hand was retreating and the skeleton hand was advancing.

The dried dead skin retreated above Qin Zhibo's eyelids, and his disguise could be vaguely seen through his pale wrist.

That was not a human arm. Hidden beneath the pale skin were what looked like yellow-brown blood vessels, but they looked more like wriggling tentacles.

However, what Qin Zhibo cared about was not these, but the skeleton hand that was gradually approaching him.

The bony skeleton hand emitted an unpleasant smell of kerosene, which hit my nose.

Then came the cold.

A cold breath spread throughout Qin Zhibo's body, as if he was lying in an icy morgue, causing goose bumps all over his body.

Baron Samedi leaned forward, staring at Qin Zhibo's face with his empty eyes, and snorted softly through his nostrils stuffed with cotton.

This is an unknown tune, which seems to be some kind of folk song.

She hummed this inexplicable tune with a heavy nasal voice. In such a scene, everything seemed very strange.

Qin Zhibo knew that this was a requiem.

She was like an emotionless undertaker, about to bury Qin Zhibo, who was only half dead.

I don’t know whether this requiem tune is a comfort to the soul or a mockery from hell.

Her hand got closer and closer, until the five skeletal fingers hooked Qin Zhibo's neck like a hook from hell.

In an instant, Qin Zhibo felt the terrible feeling of suffocation.

Qin Zhibo had never experienced this kind of feeling before. It wasn't the physical pressure on his neck, but some internal...

It's like taking potassium cyanide, where the respiratory muscles are paralyzed by the cyanide ions.

He couldn't breathe.

70、65、60、55、47……

His willpower was also declining rapidly, but at this moment, this mental damage was no longer as important as the physical damage.

Even if your willpower drops to 0, you can still go to a mental hospital and be a happy mental patient.

People say that the happiest people in the world are those who do not need to be responsible for others, and the mentally ill happen to be such people.

But if your physical fitness drops to 0, you can only go to the morgue.

Although the dead hand is still restraining the skeleton hand, it does not seem to play a decisive role and can only temporarily delay death.

Driven by the will to survive, Qin Zhibo decided to try to save himself.

Although it was an attempt to save himself, it was actually just a physical instinct.

Anyone who is being strangled will offer some resistance if they have both hands and feet intact.

Qin Zhibo moved his fingers slightly, trying to grab the skeleton hand.

However, his body seemed to be controlled by some invisible shackles and he could not move at all.

But the strong desire to survive made Qin Zhibo keep trying.

He wanted to reach out and grab the skeleton hand, remove the damn claw.

At this moment, a black shadow emerged from Qin Zhibo's body.

This was a pure black human-shaped shadow, with bottomless darkness all over its body. It raised its dark arm from the position of Qin Zhibo's palm.

It's a stand user!

Replacing Qin Zhibo's own will to survive, the stand user raised his hand and grabbed the skeleton hand's arm.

The Stand User's palm, apart from being a little black, did not have the structure that defied common sense like a dead person's hand, and was unable to hold Baron Samedi's thick bone stick.

But when it joined in, the situation of the battle changed immediately.

The combination of the dead hand and the black hand instantly pulled the deadly skeleton hand back a distance, and the respiratory muscles began to move again, allowing Qin Zhibo to breathe in a breath of kerosene-smelling air.

Baron Samedi looked at the newly joined dark hand. Although no expression could be seen on the skull face, Qin Zhibo could vaguely feel a hint of emotional fluctuation.

She was startled.

Yes, Baron Samedi was stunned.

Even though the Dead Hand had just intervened out of nowhere, Baron Samedi did not hesitate at all. He completely ignored it and continued to attack Qin Zhibo.

It's like a sumo wrestler weighing hundreds of pounds walking forward, with an ordinary person standing in front of him blocking the way.

There was no need for the sumo wrestler to stop unless she wanted to.

But if it was a wall, it would be different...

The stalemate lasted for a few seconds, and Baron Samedi retreated on his own initiative.

She retracted her skeleton hand in embarrassment, like a thief who had failed to get what she wanted.

The Dead Hand and the Black Hand did not take advantage of the situation and naturally let go of their hands, allowing Baron Samedi to casually pull his hands back and put them back on the skeleton crutch.

When Baroness Samedi resumed her original standing position, a series of heavy nasal sounds came out of her nose.

The strange sound hummed in a nasal tone was a string of meaningful words, and Qin Zhibo happened to understand them quite well.

"You escaped certain death."

"But you have to be careful..."

"Pray to everything, so that you don't encounter my other thousand forms..."

Baron Symedi's body gradually faded and became translucent, until it lost all its luster and dissipated into the air like dust.

The dead man's hand retracted into his yellow sleeve and also disappeared into thin air.

The substitute user returned to Qin Zhibo's body, as if nothing had happened.

Qin Zhibo checked his character card. His physical fitness had recovered to 40, and his willpower was also 40. It wasn't high, but it was enough.

At this time, the system pops up a prompt.

[Protected by the blessing of the Yellow Seal, obtain the main quest - Debts Must Be Repaid]

[Mission Content: Hunting Mi-GO]

[Mission requirements: 72 hours, Tokyo area]

[Task Reward: 3000 General Skill Proficiency, 2 Lucky Draw Opportunities]

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The timing of the mission reward popping up was very subtle. Qin Zhibo didn't have time to read it carefully before he saw a marked red dot on the electronic map.

"Qin Zhibo! How are you?"

Conan's voice became real, and Qin Zhibo completely regained his consciousness in the real world.

"Ahem..." Qin Zhibo coughed twice, and sat up with the support of Mao Lilan, "I'm okay..."

In fact, Qin Zhibo had another half sentence to say, "I didn't die today," but he didn't say it because he was afraid of being misunderstood as having suicidal tendencies.

Next, although Qin Zhibo repeatedly stated that he was fine, Conan and Mao Lilan insisted on waiting for the ambulance to arrive and go to a large hospital for a thorough physical examination.

Qin Zhibo thought to himself that he should really have a comprehensive understanding of his physical condition and treat it as a physical examination, which would not be a bad thing.

In this way, Qin Zhibo got on the speeding ambulance and headed straight to the hospital in Tokyo.

As for the Mustang convertible sports car parked on the side of the road, Qin Zhibo called a tow truck and had it towed back to Tokyo.

……

Lying on the hospital bed, Qin Zhibo is waiting for a physical examination.

In fact, on the way to the hospital, Qin Zhibo was thinking about a question.

Judging from the system prompts, he was under a voodoo curse cast by someone.

but……

When?

Where?

Who?

How?

Why?

Chapter 669 The Mastermind Behind the Chain Scheme

Five questions lingered in Qin Zhibo's mind, and a series of inferences could be generated around these five aspects.

First of all, one of the necessary conditions for casting a voodoo curse is to obtain the "clone" of the cursed target, body tissue or hair.

It is generally difficult to remove body tissues when the person is conscious. Besides, Qin Zhibo did not feel that he was losing a piece of flesh at this time.

So it must be hair.

But the origin of hair...

Qin Zhibo thought about it and realized that he should have been exposed since he took the initiative to go to the Internet cafe to look for "Lucas" last time.

The real "Lucas" is the clerk of that Internet cafe, named Kaneki Houtarou.

It was he who lured the fake Lucas into joining the "Curse of the Dead" and used him to create a resurrected corpse.

At that time, he went to find "Lucas" in person without any precautions, which was enough to arouse his vigilance.

In fact, this person did disappear afterwards.

That is to say, since the arcade incident, the people of "Curse of the Dead" knew that there was a detective investigating them.

But the problem is that after the department store security guard murder incident, the police are also investigating the "Curse of the Dead" website.

After all, it was they who provided the victim's identity information, which allowed Ding Jin Fangxiong to find the target of revenge, or at least the instigator.

Excluding superstition, this reason alone is enough to continue the investigation.

As long as they spent some time, the police would eventually find the internet cafe based on the spokesperson's IP address. He was just one step ahead of the police, which on the surface didn't seem like a significant achievement.

Moreover, this group of people acted relatively low-key. If they had not come into contact with the core secret of the "Curse of the Dead", they would not have killed everyone.

In other words, after the arcade incident, he was not guilty of the death penalty.

So what happened after the game hall incident?

Qin Zhibo thought about it in his mind. It was an ordinary blind date. The two people on the blind date were two policemen, and there was no death.

There is also a ghost incident that seems to have nothing to do with the "curse of the dead" and is just a simple financial dispute.

The only thing left is the "zombie murder" case that happened yesterday.

The resurrected corpse happens to be a unique method of voodoo. Judging from Mao Lilan's testimony, the resurrected corpse happened to be the one that disappeared in the game hall incident.

Someone used a resurrected corpse to kill President Majima, and on the way back to Tokyo, he was put under a voodoo curse.

Before yesterday, Qin Zhibo could not imagine any intersection between him and President Madao, but this man still attacked himself and Madao almost at the same time.