Conan Rick's Investigator

"Are you going to have a 'field battle' with me?"

"No! I'm still a girl!"

"Ami!"

Minase Yangmeng protected her chest with her arms, and her body suspended in the air twisted like a cicada pupa, so naturally pretentious.

Qin Zhibo's eyelids drooped. This guy is sick again.

Minase Yomu was created by the thought power of nearly a hundred tulpa believers. God knows how many small movies those believers with confused desires have installed in her mind!

"Even if you scream your throat out, no one here can find you... Why don't you come over and take a look below?"

"what?!"

Minase Yangmeng screamed and made a terrified expression.

"You actually let a beautiful girl show you her private parts!"

Looking at Minase Yangmeng who was floating even further away, Qin Zhibo gritted his teeth. If he could touch her body now, he would definitely teach her a lesson!

"No kidding, I'll show you what's under the ground."

"Tsk~~~ Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Minase Yangmeng flew over with a somewhat disappointed expression, and her slightly transparent body drilled under the gravel ground.

But a second later, she popped up again.

"Are you sure you just want to look at the underside of this?"

"Go down, you!"

Qin Zhibo kicked down with a big kick, and Shuise Yangmeng immediately burrowed into the ground like a mole and disappeared without a trace like Tuxingsun.

While Mizuase Yangmeng was diving underground to observe the situation, Qin Zhibo also observed the situation nearby.

This is just an ordinary wasteland. Apart from scattered bushes, there is no marijuana growing there.

Running Bull said that since the exploration craze passed, the ghosts of Indians holding blue torches have also disappeared.

Decades ago, ghosts could be seen frequently, guarding the hill like sentinels, and among the ghosts were both male and female.

After a while, Minase Yangmeng flew back and brought news.

"There's a passage down there!"

"There's a dead person in the passage! No hands, no feet, it's so scary!"

Mizuse Yangmeng described the situation below by speaking and gesturing.

"what--!"

As the two were talking, a scream from Koizumi Hongzi was heard not far away.

Qin Zhibo and Minase Yangmeng ran over immediately and found that Koizumi Hongzi was facing a huge cube machine with a white man standing next to the machine.

Qin Zhibo recognized that this white man was one of Mr. Clock's images.

"Mr. Clock, why are you here?"

Mr. Clock glanced at Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi, a stiff smile on his face, and replied, "Mr. Qin, we meet again."

"And this young lady, is she the companion you mentioned?"

Mr. Clock's gaze fell on Koizumi Akako, which made Koizumi Akako feel a little uneasy.

Even though Qin Zhibo didn't say it, she could feel that there was something chilling under that human skin.

"Yes." Qin Zhibo did not deny it and turned back to the topic, asking, "Why are you here?"

Mr. Clock opened his unblinking eyes, and a strange light emanated from his light blue fake eyes.

"I'm here to make some preparations."

"What preparation?"

"To prepare for entering Kunyang, we just need to rely on this machine..."

Mr. Clock directed Qin Zhibo's attention to the cube-shaped machine next to him. Each side of the machine was 6 meters long and it was very huge.

Each side of the machine is dotted with irregular small convex windows, inlaid with mosaic and opaque glass.

It was because of this machine that Koizumi Hongzi saw it just now that she walked over to check it out out of curiosity, but was startled by Mr. Clock who suddenly appeared.

As Qin Zhibo watched, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have seen this machine before.

In the previous Valentine's Day chocolate murder case, a mi-go mine was located in the mountains near Fukito Villa where we lived at the time.

There is such a huge machine underground in the mine.

Mr. Clock stood beside the machine and introduced it, "This is called a seismic mining machine. It's one of the great inventions of our race."

"As long as we use it, we can be quickly transported underground without any harm."

As he said this, Mr. Clock was about to reach out to start the machine.

Qin Zhibo stopped talking immediately upon seeing this.

"Wait a moment!"

"We just came here to survey the place in advance and have no plans to go underground immediately."

"And we plan to enter Kunyang from another route..."

These words startled Koizumi Hongzi who was standing next to him, but seeing that Qin Zhibo's eyes were extremely determined, she did not ask the reason right away.

"is it?"

Mr. Clock remained expressionless as he continued, "This machine is very safe. It can pull any material four miles underground. Using it will allow you to quickly reach the underground."

"And as far as I know, there is no other way to enter Kunyang nearby..."

Facing Mr. Clock's invitation, Qin Zhibo still shook his head. "If I say yes, then yes. You can enter Kunyang first, and we will be there within a day at the latest."

"We will eventually meet above the Enkai Abyss."

Qin Zhibo was testing Mr. Clock, but he was also wary of it.

Ever since the incident at the Angel's House, Qin Zhibo had understood that the other party was trying to trick him into stealing the fake Panester fragments.

From that time on, the two were no longer in a cooperative relationship, but rather objects that needed to be wary of each other.

Mr. Clock's advantage is that he knows how to use the Panest fragments to safely enter Enkai, and most of the Panest fragments are in his hands.

Qin Zhibo's advantage was that he had replaced the real fragments with fake fragments in the incident at the Angel's House, but Mr. Clock didn't know about this and thought he had obtained all the real fragments.

Therefore, from now on, Qin Zhibo must be wary of all the roads paved by Mr. Clock, as they may be traps for him.

Mr. Clock was silent for a moment, then sighed stiffly, "That's all I can do. I'll go downstairs first."

"Mr. Qin, we are friends, right?"

Mr. Clock suddenly looked at Qin Zhibo and showed a rare "sincere" smile.

"Yes, friends forever..."

Qin Zhibo also responded with a smile.

……

After leaving the hill and returning to the hotel, Qin Zhibo told Koizumi Hongzi about his concerns.

Including how he had previously deceived Mr. R. Clock under the instructions of the mask, he might have already noticed it and wanted to retaliate.

Therefore, they cannot pin their hopes on the machine prepared by Mr. Clock. If it turns out to be a trap, the two of them will be doomed.

Minase Yangmeng said that there was a passage under the hill, but it was several meters underground and it would take a long time to dig with manpower alone.

Apart from this road, there is only the other road that Benniu mentioned.

Qin Zhibo knocked on Benniu's room on the first floor and expressed his hope that he would lead the way, just like Old Gray Eagle had done fifteen years ago.

Of course, there is a reward, a full $5000.

However, Benniu directly rejected Qin Zhibo's proposal.

"No, it's too dangerous there. I can't guarantee what will happen down there."

Benniu’s refusal was very decisive.

Qin Zhibo realized that money could not impress him, so he changed his strategy and began to appeal to his emotions.

"Don't you want to know how your father is doing now? What if he is still alive?"

These words made Benniu hesitate for a moment, but his attitude remained unchanged.

"Time flies..."

"No matter what my father is like now, his soul will always exist on this land, with the stars, with the sun and the moon, and with me."

Seeing that Benniu was stubborn, Qin Zhibo was a little annoyed, but he could only settle for the next best thing.

"Even if you can't send us in, you can at least take us to that entrance, right?"

"As long as we can come out alive after going in, and can also tell you something about the underground, isn't this a no-cost business for you?"

Qin Zhibo's words made Benniu ponder for a while before he nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I can take you closer to the entrance."

"When will you leave?"

"Just tomorrow."

Qin Zhibo said.

……

The next day, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi put on all their equipment and took a Benniu pickup truck to the entrance of another passage.

The other passage is not on the plain, but in the valley at the end of the plain, about 40 kilometers south of Binger Town.

The pickup truck bumped along for more than half an hour and finally arrived at the valley on the edge of the plain.

According to Benniu, this place was once inhabited by Indians hundreds of years ago. Later, for some reasons, people moved to live on the plains.

Led by Benniu, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi went deep into a steep valley.

The valley is covered with lush trees, and the lush greenery is like two completely different worlds from the red soil plains outside.

Standing on the hillside, Benniu stretched out his hand and pointed towards the bottom of the valley.

"The entrance is somewhere at the bottom of the valley."

"I don't know exactly where it is, so you'll have to find it on yourselves."

Qin Zhibo and Benniu agreed on the meeting place after their return, and then parted ways with Benniu. Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi went deep into the valley, while Benniu walked back along the hillside alone.

There are almost no signs of human activities in this valley, resulting in no roads. Qin Zhibo, who has to walk in front, constantly uses a dagger to open up a path.

Koizumi Hongzi followed behind with difficulty, and after a while, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.

For this young lady who has been pampered since birth, such a primitive road is naturally a huge test.

And once you go deep underground, you don’t know what kind of environment you will face.

Yesterday at the hotel, Qin Zhibo tried to dissuade her from going down into that mysterious abyss with him.

That place must be a life-or-death situation. He should be able to learn magic and other things. Knowledge can be passed on, and he can teach it to her after he gets out.

But Koizumi Akako was very determined to go down.

"It's not just about magic, it's also about Mom..."

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo was in no position to persuade him any further.

……

The two came to the bottom of the valley and kept searching in the lush bushes.

Finally, Koizumi Hongzi was the first to discover an unusual place.

It was an entrance hidden among several huge sandstones. It was very narrow at first and only wide enough for one person to pass through.

There are some traces of carving on the sandstone surface next to the entrance. There used to be some patterns on it, but now they have been eroded by rain and are unrecognizable.

In addition, there are traces of drilling on the sandstone that serves as the lintel, suggesting that there was once a hinged door here.