Conan Rick's Investigator

"In my dream, she promised me that if I prayed sincerely, she would one day lead me to the lost Carcosa and make me her people!"

Rose clasped her hands together, her voice high and pious, but her eyes suddenly became fierce.

"But this guy Keith actually gave up playing the Yellow King for another movie contract!"

"He once had the opportunity to play the role of a god, to become the body of an old god, but he voluntarily gave up this opportunity..."

"This is an act of betrayal!"

"I can't forgive him!"

"I must make him carry the image of the Yellow King on his back forever!"

Rose roared on the stage, and her amazing performance shocked everyone, including Kudo Shinichi.

If I were to use one word to describe Rose now, it would be "crazy".

Kudo Shinichi could see that the enthusiasm in her eyes was not acting, but her true inner thoughts.

She was truly hopelessly "in love" with the King in Yellow.

A void image...

……

When the two policemen controlled Rose's arms, Rose finally regained some of her sanity.

When she was about to be taken away by the police, she turned around and looked at Mao Lilan who was standing there in a daze.

"It turns out that the Yellow King also allowed me to destroy the fake body that betrayed her..."

"Otherwise, when the armor fell off and I was accidentally hooked by a nail, no one would have saved my life."

Rose and Ran Maori looked at each other, and their eyes met in an instant.

Mao Lilan, who didn't know English very well, then realized that Rose was talking to her.

"I also want to thank you, Miss Japan, who came all the way here."

"No, perhaps you are the Yellow Seal Messenger sent by the Yellow King to help me fulfill my wish..."

"Hahaha!"

Rose arrogantly left the stage with the same magical smile as the magic fairy Xiaoyue, but Mao Lilan, who was not very good at English, was still confused.

"Miss Rose...are you saying something to me?"

Kudo Shinichi's English is very good, so of course he understood everything. He glanced at Rose's back with disdain.

"I'm not talking about you, she's just lost her mind..."

In order to protect Ran Mouri, Kudo Shinichi chose to tell a white lie.

However, there was a complicated look in Mao Lilan's eyes, and there was some sadness in the complexity.

Although Mao Lilan's English is not good, you can still feel it from Rose's expression and simple spoken English.

She was thanking herself...

Thank you for saving her, the murderer...

Chapter 730 The Dream Ends, Yellow Clothes Arrive

After the case was resolved, the drizzle continued over New York.

Having satisfied her desire to talk, Yukiko naturally felt obligated to go to the police station to cooperate in recording her statement.

"This is the room card for the Hilton Hotel."

"Call a taxi and go back to the hotel."

Shinichi Kudo took the room card, but he didn't realize his mother's good intentions.

Yukiko smiled playfully, rolled down the window while sitting in the police car, and warned: "Oh, by the way, you must be careful of that road demon... I heard he is a Japanese with long hair."

"understood."

Kudo Shinichi responded weakly. As soon as Yukiko left, he complained helplessly, "Really? You always treat me like a child..."

Qin Zhibo looked at the only room card in Kudo Shinichi's hand and felt that Yukiko did not treat him as a child.

Due to the original owner's identity, Qin Zhibo roughly knows the age of consent in various states in the United States, which is generally over 16 years old, or based on the age difference between the parties involved.

But no matter what the situation is, neither Kudo Shinichi nor Maori Ran is breaking the law.

……

The two took a taxi on the roadside.

Taxis in the United States have glass separating the middle, so it is not convenient to talk between the front and back seats, so the two of them sat in the back seat together.

In the taxi, Kudo Shinichi played the role of a straight man and kept praising Holmes.

However, Mao Lilan's eyes were a little complicated, as if she was worried about something, and she didn't listen at all.

This made Kudo Shinichi think that Ran Mouri understood what Rose had just said, and he quickly asked if she had heard anything.

Mao Lilan came back to her senses after being asked, "Huh? Did she say something just now?"

"She spoke English too fast, so I couldn't hear clearly..."

"Haha..." Kudo Shinichi could only laugh and deal with it casually, "Forget it if you didn't hear it, it's not a big deal anyway."

"By the way, you'd better close the window. It would be terrible if you caught a cold. Didn't you complain of a cold this morning?"

Mao Lilan shrugged and smiled, "If I had a cold, I would have recovered long ago."

"Besides, if I close the windows, I won't be able to see the night view of New York..."

As she spoke, Mao Lilan turned her head to the window, and the colorful shop windows slowly passed by the street.

Suddenly, the shop windows became as dark as the abyss.

In the darkness that seemed not to belong to this world, a figure draped in yellow clothes floated by.

The head of the figure could not be seen clearly, but the tattered robes fluttered in the wind, revealing a sacred aura far beyond anything in the mortal world.

Ran Mao Li opened her eyes slightly wide and looked at the window in disbelief.

But after the taxi passed a bus stop, everything in the window seemed to be refreshed and returned to normal.

Mao Lilan tried hard to look back, but the window remained the same until it was completely out of sight.

That seems to be...

"Xiaolan, what's wrong with you?"

Kudo Shinichi's voice interrupted Mouri Ran's thoughts, and Mouri Ran quickly came back to her senses.

"It's okay, I think I saw it wrong..."

Shinichi Kudo on the side also noticed that Ran Mouri was not in a good condition today. Who could bear two consecutive murders?

So, Kudo changed the subject again and said that it would be better to close the windows to prevent the rain outside from blowing in and wetting the seats, which made the driver unhappy.

"Don't worry, I've wiped all the wet spots with a handkerchief..."

Mao Lilan smiled and held up the only trophy of this trip to the theater, a pink handkerchief.

This handkerchief belongs to Sharon, who gave it to Mao Lilan to wipe the scratches she had caused while saving someone.

Although there is no signature on it to prove its value, it is already very important to Mao Lilan.

But even such an important handkerchief, when Mao Lilan raised it to the window, her fingers unconsciously loosened, and the handkerchief floated out of the window with the wind and flew towards the street behind her.

"Eh?"

Even Mao Lilan herself was surprised by the sudden loosening of her fingers, as they were clearly holding on very tightly.

She stretched her head to look back, then quickly asked the driver in the front seat to stop the car.

“Stop! Please!”

Mao Lilan's broken English successfully stopped the taxi, and the two quickly got out and went back to look for it.

……

After walking back for a while with umbrellas, the two finally found the handkerchief.

The handkerchief was blown by the wind onto the railing of the fourth-floor escape stairs of a building, like a pink flag.

"Don't move around here. I'll get it back for you."

Kudo Shinichi left behind a father-like back, went through the dark rolling door, and broke into the abandoned building.

While waiting, Mao Lilan recalled the scene she had just seen in the window, and her eyes became a little dazed.

Qin Zhibo, who could only see the scenes in Mao Li Ran's memory, naturally knew what Mao Li Ran saw in the window.

The yellow robe is slightly different from the Yellow King played by actor Chris, and does not seem to be a spiritual product imagined based on reality.

Is it true?

The situation was a bit dangerous, but Qin Zhibo was not too anxious.

Since this is a memory from the past and Ran Mouri is safe and sound now, it means that the Yellow King did not do anything to Ran Mouri.

According to Qin Zhibo's understanding of "The King in Yellow", this script is not just text, but a medium for contacting the King in Yellow, similar to spiritualism.

After reading "The King in Yellow" in any form, the reader will unconsciously establish a connection with the King in Yellow.

The King in Yellow will continue to send dreams of domination, and eventually drive the reader to madness.

Perhaps the King in Yellow has some purpose in dominating humanity, but this purpose itself is often not something ordinary people can bear.

Only someone like Qin Zhibo himself, who possesses high willpower, can understand the Yellow King's intentions and carry out some tasks of hunting down MI-Go.

This magic, similar to that of contact with a medium, is also possessed by the abridged version of "The King in Yellow", but it is milder than the original.

From my previous reading survey on "The King in Yellow", I could tell that there were Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan in the theater.

When you are watching "The King in Yellow", the King in Yellow is also watching you and recording you...

The reason why Mao Lilan can see the figure of the Yellow King may be that her willpower is low and her inspiration is strong, which makes her more susceptible to the influence of the Yellow King.

Before, Mao Lilan always had an inexplicable feeling that there were some "dirty things" in the surrounding environment, such as the medieval art museum where Konggui's paintings were once hung.

Ran Mouri's physique makes it too easy for her to be exposed to the "truth" of this world, but because of her physical condition, she cannot be exposed to these terrifying "truths."

She is a lucky goddess with double A in strength and speed. She always has a healing smile on her face, but she is the one who needs care the most.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo felt a little pity for the little girl with horns on her head.

……

In the dim alleys, on the rain-soaked roads.

Ran Mouri was holding a black umbrella, standing silently at the door of the abandoned building waiting for Shinichi Kudo.

Just when Mao Lilan was full of thoughts, a tall figure gradually approached.

This is a human being, and the black windbreaker he wears proves it.

Hearing the sound of shoes stepping on rainwater, Mao Liran turned her head and saw the figure in surprise.

He raised his eyes from bottom to top, his gaze fixed on the yellow-skinned face.

His angular face had handsome features and his cold expression had a hint of murderous intent.

Behind that black knitted hat is waist-length hair.

When she saw this person, Mao Lilan was shocked and thought of Yukiko's warning just now.

Japanese, long hair... all the right things...

Ran Mao Li, who had just been frightened, was frightened again. She stood there in a daze, unable to move for a while.

However, Qin Zhibo took a quick look and thought for a moment, and recognized the man as Akai Shuichi.

Qin Zhibo had seen this man in the previous bus hijacking case, and later learned through eavesdropping on Teacher Judy that this man was called Shuichi Akai and was an FBI agent.

Strictly speaking, this is still a former colleague of mine.

……