Conan Rick's Investigator

But in the long run, the Yellow King's dreams are like a thorn in the flesh. If they cannot be completely eliminated, those dominating dreams will sooner or later reduce a person's sanity to zero.

But how can we completely eliminate the dream of the King in Yellow?

At this point, Qin Zhibo temporarily stopped thinking and thought about going to check on Mao Lilan's condition first.

……

ICU.

Ran Mouri was lying comfortably on the new hospital bed, but more vital signs monitors were placed on her body to keep track of her condition at all times.

After conducting a series of physical examinations, the doctor still could not come to any reliable conclusion.

During the examination, all of Mao Lilan's vital signs returned to a stable state on their own, but her thinking remained active.

After analyzing the EEG, the doctor speculated that Mao Lilan's brain might be continuously dreaming.

This is the only explanation for why the cerebral cortex remains active after a person goes into hibernation.

In other words, the situation just now might have been a false alarm.

But to be on the safe side, Mao Lilan needs to stay in the intensive care unit for a while, at least until she wakes up.

Qin Zhibo pushed open the door of the ward and saw Kogoro Mouri and Conan waiting by the bed.

Although the two forced themselves to calm down, worry still showed on their faces from time to time.

Seeing Qin Zhibo coming in, Maori Kogoro turned around and faced Qin Zhibo and bowed standardly.

"Thank you for that."

Qin Zhibo was puzzled and asked doubtfully, "Thank me for what?"

"Thank you for notifying the doctor promptly."

In the past, due to their rivalry, Kogoro Mori and Tomohiro Qin always had unilateral conflicts with each other.

But at this moment, Kogoro Maori expressed his formal gratitude to Qin Zhibo as a father.

Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand why this was worth mentioning separately, perhaps this was a manifestation of the heavy fatherly love in Kogoro Mouri.

"It doesn't matter, this is what I should do."

Maori Kogoro nodded and said, "I'll make a phone call..."

After saying that, Kogoro Mouri went out to report to Eri Kisaki.

Conan looked at the sleeping face of Mouri Ran with a serious face, his mind full of thoughts.

Although this was not the first time he had looked at the sick and unconscious Ran Mouri like this, he could vaguely feel that this time was different from before.

Xiaolan...

Qin Zhibo looked down at the affectionate Conan, without interrupting him, and also silently looked at Mao Li Ran.

Her willow-like eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and Mao Lilan's brain seemed to be going through something.

Qin Zhibo has no idea what it is now.

However, from the dream he had just seen, Qin Zhibo had some guesses about the silver-haired highway demon.

The silver-haired road demon must be Sharon Wynyard.

Sharon Wynyard is proficient in disguise and voice changing, but neither of these two skills is perfect.

For example, when a person is in a sudden and extremely panicked situation, the subconscious actions of the brain are most likely to reveal their original voice.

When the railing that the road demon was leaning on broke, she was suddenly frightened by the loss of weight and subconsciously let out a soft cry.

The person involved may not be able to hear the sound clearly, but Qin Zhibo, as a bystander, can hear it clearly.

It was not a man's voice, but a woman's.

In addition, when Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan grabbed the Highway Devil's clothes, the Highway Devil reached out and grabbed the railing, and jumped back to the platform with agility.

At that time, the Highway Demon's sleeves had slipped down a little because his arms were raised.

Qin Zhibo remembered that the two wrists were very slender, and it didn't look like the arms that could easily pull up his entire body with just his arms.

Among the techniques of disguise, the thickness of arms and legs is the most difficult to disguise.

Although it is possible to put a circle of imitation arm guards on the outside of the arms, it will greatly limit the flexibility of the limbs and make it even more weird.

Therefore, when completely disguising themselves as another person, the disguised person will generally pass over this part and choose to cover it with concealing clothes.

Of course, this is all based on Kaito Kidd's experience.

And Sharon Wynyard apparently did the same, without disguising her arms.

Another important reason is that Sharon Wynyard used Sheriff Radisseau's human skin mask outside the theater.

The human skin mask was made in advance, and Qin Zhibo could roughly guess its use.

Disguised as Sheriff Radishu, he escaped from the police encirclement.

This kind of escaping trick is also a common method used by Kaito Kidd.

In addition, Sharon also knows the inside story of the troupe.

Although he was an outsider visiting the troupe for the first time, he knew all the gossip in the troupe.

And she once said this after Mao Lilan was injured -

"If there were a god who showed kindness to humans, you wouldn't be hurt..."

This shows that Sharon is very likely aware of Rose's abnormality and knows that Mao Lilan risked getting hurt to save a murderer who was about to kill someone.

Looking back at Rose's killing method, the only subtlety is that Rose had to let Keith use Stage Naraku in order to kill people in this way.

Originally, the height of the mirror was just enough to block Keith, who was 1 meters tall, so the stage mirror was never used in previous performances.

But Rose secretly smashes the top of the mirror, which is considered the troupe's mascot.

In order to prevent the actors from noticing the damage to the mascot, the troupe had to secretly cut off the damaged part at the top of the mirror.

As a result, the mirror that was originally able to block Keith could no longer do so.

Therefore, Keith had to use Stage Naraku instead, providing Rose with an opportunity to kill.

During this process, most of the actors and troupe members were unaware that the mirror had been damaged, nor did they know that the performance had been changed to use stage mirrors.

This is also why the New York police investigation did not find the obvious clues on the stage at the beginning.

But if it was the boss behind the troupe, one could guess that Rose might kill someone by looking at the mirror being destroyed and the golden apple given by Rose.

All signs indicate that Sharon may be the boss behind this troupe.

When I was researching Sharon's resume on the Internet, I found out that her debut performance was in this troupe, in the play "The Golden Apple".

Since Sharon is a killer of the Black Organization, the organization also intends to train her to become a female star who can come into contact with the upper class.

It is not difficult to guess that Sharon was made famous by the Black Organization, and her first performance was most likely promoted by the organization.

With the support of a black organization, it is not surprising that Sharon gradually became the behind-the-scenes boss of the troupe.

But Sharon is a member of the Black Organization, so the real boss behind the troupe should be the boss of the Black Organization.

However, in this way, Karasuma Renya actually just sent "The Yellow King" to his own theater troupe, asking the theater troupe to reinterpret the story of the Yellow King.

As early as forty years ago in Twilight Annex, he used the story of "The King in Yellow" to create puzzles for scholars to decipher.

Now "The King in Yellow" has been brought to the Broadway stage.

It seems that Karasuma Renya has a special liking for the story of "The King in Yellow"...

But this also proves another thing.

If we exclude the coincidence that the two previous Black Organization bosses had a hobby in "The King in Yellow", then it is -

Karasuma Renya is still alive.

……

It was nearly midnight.

In the silent intensive care unit, time seemed to have stopped, and only the electrocardiogram monitoring Mao Lilan's heart was beating evenly.

Qin Zhibo looked up at the time. The hour hand and minute hand were about to overlap at the 12 position, and he was just waiting for the second hand to return.

Two travelers in a hurry, looking up at the sky that night...

The clock was about to strike midnight, Qin Zhibo slowly stood up from his chair and walked straight out of the ward.

Kogoro Mouri and Conan on the other side of the bed glanced at Qin Zhibo's back and didn't ask anything, just thinking that Old Qin was going to the bathroom.

Standing by the window in the hospital corridor, Qin Zhibo looked at the bright moon and sparse stars outside and waited quietly.

10...

9...

……

3...

2...

1...

[Mall items are being refreshed...]

[Refresh completed]

Qin Zhibo looked at the prompt that popped up in the upper left corner of his vision and for some reason he breathed a sigh of relief.

A long week has finally passed...

Qin Zhibo couldn't wait to open the mall and check out the mall items for sale this week.

Qin Zhibo has some expectations for these props.

Maybe there are some props in it that can help Ran Mouri get rid of the entanglement of the nightmare.

This week is the same as the previous weeks, with a total of 6 items refreshed, 5 of which are props and 1 is a skill.

The first prop gave Qin Zhibo an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

【Coin of Destiny】

[Secret Treasure from the Unspeakable Abyss Era]

[It is the incarnation of angels and demons, or a joke of both good and evil]

[Redemption? Or destined death?]

[50-50 probability]

【Throw it out blindly and foolishly, and leave the rest to fate! 】

[Once thrown, even the will of the gods cannot change it]

[Price: 200 General Skill Proficiency]

Chapter 732 New props

Coin of destiny.

Whenever he heard this word, Qin Zhibo always felt that some dead memories were attacking him.

However, this "coin of destiny" does not simply add or deduct blood, but truly changes destiny.

50% probability...

Once thrown, even the gods cannot change it...

Qin Zhibo thought about it. Although this item was cheap, for him whose luck was only 35, there was no "salvation", only "destined death".

If it's Mao Lilan's good luck, maybe...

Qin Zhibo looked back at Mao Lilan in the ward, thinking that it would not be too late to use it if the dream erosion of the Yellow King really reached a very critical point.

I just don't know if I'm the only one who can throw the [Coin of Destiny]...

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