Conan Rick's Investigator

"You invented the perpetual motion machine!"

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Chapter 979 Meeting

"Perpetual motion machine?"

Hondou Eiu was stunned for a moment, "But my physics teacher in junior high school said that perpetual motion machines don't exist in this world."

Qin Zhibo slapped his forehead, speechless.

This guy actually took it seriously.

However, the topic of perpetual motion machines may really exist.

If gods don't need to consume energy, then gods themselves are perpetual motion machines...

At this time, Koizumi Hongzi noticed the file box that Qin Zhibo brought, which contained a thick pile of documents.

"What are these 'papers'?"

"It's a case file I handled previously. I just got it back from the Investigation Bureau."

Hondou Eisuke was shocked. "Investigation Bureau? Is it the FBI?"

"Yes, I used to be an FBI investigator."

"Wow!" Hondou Eiyou was so surprised that he jumped up and was about to stand up, "So Mr. Qin is... Aiyou!"

Hondou Eisuke cried out in pain. It turned out that he jumped too hard and his knee hit the edge of the table.

Koizumi Akako was not too surprised by Qin Zhibo's identity, as if she had known it for a long time.

She just glanced at the tarot cards on the table, a look of surprise in her eyes, and then looked up at Hondou Eisuke who was in trouble.

Qin Zhibo took out these files, spread them out on the table, and started looking from the case closest to the person who left.

I have to say that the original owner of this body has an impressive resume.

As an FBI federal agent, the cases he handles are not limited to New York State, but the entire United States.

From New England to New Mexico, the original owner had investigated cases ranging from serial murders to cross-border drug trafficking.

In terms of seniority, the original owner is no less experienced than Inspector Megure, who only started to "make a name for himself" as a Death God in the past two years.

Moreover, the cases that require the FBI's intervention are often major cases that cannot be solved by a simple "three-choice" reasoning.

……

Hondou Eisuke excitedly turned around in the documents, and it was obvious that he was very interested in these files.

"Mr. Qin, can I take a look at these?"

"Okay, just don't mess it up." Qin Zhibo did not refuse.

Koizumi Hongzi beside him tugged at Qin Zhibo's arm and whispered, "I have something to tell you, come here..."

The two of them walked to the corner of the living room, where Hondou Eisuke couldn't hear them, and then Koizumi Akako spoke.

"That child, maybe someone used 'magic' on him."

Qin Zhibo frowned, "What do you mean?"

"His fate was not to exist in this world, but someone used some kind of 'magic' to allow him to be born."

"I'm not sure if that was done by magic, but it's a little weird..."

Koizumi Hongzi said these words seriously, which surprised Qin Zhibo a little.

Hondou Eisuke is actually a "magic" creation?

"Are you sure?"

Koizumi Hongzi nodded and said proudly, "Of course, this is the result of the tarot reading. My divination is never wrong."

In order to practice divination and pass the Witch's Seven Formations test, Koizumi Akako secretly used tarot cards to tell fortunes for Hondou Eisuke.

The result is that Hondou Eisuke's divination result is non-existence. From a numerology point of view, this person should not exist in this world.

But in fact, Hondou Eisuke does exist.

Combined with what the magic crystal ball said, it was probably someone who forcibly reversed his fate of dying in the womb, allowing him to survive.

As for the price of doing so, it is a lifetime of bad luck, but it will not reach the lethal dose.

Great fortune must be returned with equal misfortune.

"It seems like it's a miracle that this kid is still alive..."

The number of people who are only 10% lucky and the unlucky people who are at the level of the law of causality are not made up out of thin air.

……

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi agreed not to tell Hondou Eisuke about this.

Because even if I tell him, Koizumi Hongzi has no solution.

The situation of Hondou Eisuke is different from that of Okino Yoko. The "bad luck" he suffered was to repay the "luck" of being born safely, and the two have offset each other.

Apart from being a little unlucky, he is a normal person now.

But who exactly is using "magic" on Hondou Eisuke?

If Hondou Eisuke was destined to die from the time he was a fetus, perhaps only his parents would know about it.

Could it be that his father or mother gave him extra life?

Qin Zhibo collected his thoughts and returned to the table to organize the files.

With the help of library skills, he quickly found the information he wanted.

In other words, it was the last case handled by the original owner before leaving the FBI.

When he opened the file, the title of this case immediately alerted Qin Zhibo.

Dagon?

Qin Zhibo had never heard of this name, but he was very sensitive to the word "cult group".

Opening the file, it shows the original owner's handling of the case.

The original owner's investigation into the Dagon cult did not begin in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in Innsmouth, not far from Boston.

Innsmouth is the birthplace of Dagonism.

The Church of Dagon has a long history in Innsmouth, which can be traced back to the early 19th century.

At its peak, Dagonism controlled almost the entire Innsmouth, from the economy to the local government, and at least 90% of the city's residents believed in Dagonism.

This situation continued until 1927, when the situation in Innsmouth was reported by a stranger.

The following year, the FBI and the Marines stormed Innsmouth and arrested more than 2000 Innsmouth residents.

However, due to insufficient evidence and other reasons, these Innsmouth people did not receive too severe punishment.

The final result was that most residents were forcibly expelled from the area and dispersed to major port cities across the United States.

As the largest force in Innsmouth, the Marsh family, which owns the metallurgical industry, was also forced to transform into other industries under pressure.

Since then, Innsmouth has become a complete ghost town, and many modern maps do not list it as a city.

The Dagonism in the New Orleans area originated from the descendants of the Innsmouth residents.

Although they moved to a foreign land, they did not give up their faith and continued to preach secretly in the local area.

……

These are the Dagon religion backgrounds that the original owner investigated.

The original owner followed the clues reported by local residents and with the cooperation of the state police, he arrested more than 30 Dagon followers.

These believers were charged with first-degree murder, illegal assembly, promiscuity and other crimes, and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five years to life imprisonment.

In addition, the FBI also confiscated a considerable number of cult items.

These items include but are not limited to some illegal books, stone tablets, statues, gold jewelry, gunpowder guns, etc.

At the end of the file, photos record the confiscated evidence.

Among these photos, Qin Zhibo saw the stone slab at first sight.

The stone slab looked very familiar. Although it was a stone slab, its surface was covered with traces of clay sculptures.

The clay tablet is engraved with crooked and deformed characters that look like English, but if you look closely, you will find that it is different from any commonly used language by modern humans.

But Qin Zhibo knew and had seen this kind of text.

This is exactly Lalaye language!

Since he had not yet mastered the Lalaye language, Qin Zhibo could not understand the meaning of the words on the clay tablet.

But if this is consistent with the source of the stone tablet found in the home of the murderer Ruyue Fengshui in the Twin Towers case, this is also very likely.

Comparing the two, the one with pictographic annotations by Yuefengshui was partially understood by Koizumi Hongzi.

This stone tablet only has Lalaye language written on it, without any annotations, and the history of the clay tablet also seems to be older.

"This... looks familiar?" Koizumi Hongzi next to him also looked over.

Qin Zhibo handed the photo to her, hoping that she could see some clues, while he continued to look at the remaining photos.

Among these photos, Qin Zhibo saw something familiar again.

This is a statue with vaguely human features.

It has an octopus-like head, a face covered in tentacles, a body covered in scales, and a bloated, demonic body.

It has huge claws on its front and back feet, and long, narrow wings similar to those of a bat on its back.

The monster stalks with disturbing malevolence atop a pedestal of ashlar stone, the stone vaguely covered with obscure symbols.

Seeing this image, Qin Zhibo was stunned, and a tingling sensation like an electric shock spread across his scalp.

It’s... a foreign Bodhisattva!

Qin Zhibo had seen this image before. It was the statue created by the Japanese sculptor Mamoru Akutsu after he suddenly went insane.

This statue was so blasphemous that it ruined Akutsu Mabuki's reputation throughout his life, and he was even admitted to a mental hospital in his later years.

Later, after experiencing a series of events, Qin Zhibo learned the real name of the statue.

Cthulhu!

Seeing this kind of statue again, Qin Zhibo was shocked and unbelievable at first.

The second is a deep feeling of disgust, and I even feel my gastric juices moving, my throat itching, and I want to vomit.

Snapped!

He quickly closed the file and looked out the window.

Even Qin Zhibo himself didn't know where this feeling of disgust came from, but in short, he hated everything related to Cthulhu.

Perhaps it was when I first came into contact with the statue of the Ocean Bodhisattva that I felt the relationship between this being and the sea water.

I just happen to hate sea water very much, and sometimes I even feel scared.

Although Qin Zhibo has overcome his fear of sea water through props, he still feels disgusted.

Seeing the statue of the foreign bodhisattva is like someone forcing seawater down my throat...

In short, it's very uncomfortable.

"call……"

Qin Zhibo's chest was gasping for breath as he tried to calm down the pain in his heart just now.

Koizumi Hongzi, who was standing nearby, also returned the photo of the clay tablet and said, "This should be the same thing as the stone tablet you showed me last time."

"This should be an ancient and forbidden secret book. If I can obtain more such stone tablets, perhaps I can translate these words..."

"Translation?" Qin Zhibo was a little surprised. Can he even do this?

Seeing Qin Zhibo's questioning look, Koizumi Hongzi proudly pinched her waist and said proudly: "Of course, don't underestimate the witch's language talent!"