Conan Rick's Investigator

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Qin Zhibo felt that he had made a mistake in not realizing that this creature had a certain level of intelligence.

At this time, Koizumi Hongzi also came back from the depths of the temple and said that there was no other exit in this place.

Qin Zhibo had expected this a long time ago, because there was no investigation point here, which meant there was no secret door.

The bolted gate in front was the only entrance and exit.

After thinking about it, Qin Zhibo decided to open the door actively to avoid angering the other party.

There is a lever on the inside of the temple. When it is pushed upwards, a complex hinge system will slowly raise the heavy stone door.

Just as Minase Yangmeng said, there were about twenty people standing outside, all riding on animals, surrounding the place.

Being surrounded, Qin Zhibo felt oppressed.

But at the same time, he also discovered that these people's bodies are currently physical, which means that their bodies can switch between physical and virtual.

They are not ghosts, but living people.

One of the people standing next to the livestock spoke first. He was the one who had just entered the temple to communicate with Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi.

He was dressed slightly differently from the others. His yellow robe was more elegant, and he seemed like a small leader.

He spoke a lot of words in Spanish, and Koizumi Hongzi translated his words to Qin Zhibo.

"He said his name was 'Hassaji' and he was the leader of this sentry unit."

"He once again invited us to visit their city, 'Sato.'"

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo was not a fool.

They were sentries, not tour guides for the sightseeing group, so naturally they were not invited to be guests, but to become their captives.

But even so, Qin Zhibo looked around at the twenty or so opponents. Each of them was strong and powerful, and with their ugly mounts, it would be difficult for them to break out from here.

Even if they could break through, the other party didn't know how to notify other sentries nearby, causing even greater trouble.

"Tell them that obedience is worse than respect. We are willing to go."

Koizumi Hongzi expressed their willingness to obey in Spanish, and the leading Khashoggi captain nodded with satisfaction.

Hasaji turned around and silently ordered his men to separate two animals for Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi to ride.

Letting the two men ride on livestock, on the one hand, can bring people back to Sato quickly; on the other hand, they can control the movements of the livestock to prevent the two men from deviating from the direction and trying to escape.

Qin Zhibo saw this, but he had no way to refuse.

He chose one of the horned beasts and rolled over to straddle the monster's broad back.

Although this monster called "Gai Ai-Yousi" is very ugly, it is not a big deal for Qin Zhibo, who has seen more strange things.

He even rode a Mi-Go, so brave, right?!

But for Koizumi Hongzi, this extremely ugly mount was beyond her acceptance. She shook her head and refused to get on it no matter what.

There was no other way, Qin Zhibo could only let her ride on the same animal with him, while another animal carried the backpacks of two people.

In this way, the team continued to move towards an unknown direction.

……

On the way, Qin Zhibo did not remain silent, but took advantage of the other party's at least superficially friendly attitude to inquire about the information here.

In this regard, Hassaji had nothing to hide and told Qin Zhibo many things generously.

First of all, strictly speaking, these Kunyang people do not have a language, or they have gotten rid of the shackles of language on communication thousands of years ago and can communicate with each other using telepathy.

This method is not only used among Kunyang people, but also applies to "outsiders" like Qin Zhibo.

When Qin Zhibo wants to speak, he only needs to stare into the other person's eyes and think of the words he wants to express in his mind.

As for the words that Khasaj said when he knocked on the door just now, since telepathic communication could not be used through the door, he tried several languages to communicate.

Most of these languages were learned from outsiders on the ground.

With this convenient way of communication, Qin Zhibo no longer needs to rely on Koizumi Hongzi to act as an interpreter to communicate with Kazakhstan.

In his description, these Kunyang people living underground are a very ancient race, coming from an extremely distant planet in the universe with a physical environment similar to that of the Earth.

Of course, this is just an ancient legend, and the people of Kunyang today don’t know where their hometown is.

They were able to come to Earth because the legendary "Tulu" brought them here.

Khasaji said, "Tulu is a great being with an octopus head, just like what you saw in the temple just now."

Only then did Qin Zhibo understand that what the Kunyang people called "Tulu" was "Cthulhu".

But then a disaster happened.

The people of Kunyang believed that it was a terrible disaster caused by the "tyrannical devil" in the universe, which caused Cthulhu and a large area of ancient continent to sink into the ocean, and Cthulhu was sealed in an icy underwater tomb.

After the disaster, only a small number of Kunyang people survived, and they have lived underground since then until now.

The Kunyang people lived in this underground place for a long time and remained highly vigilant for a long time, regarding foreign invaders as spies of those "devils".

It was not until the last few hundred years that the people of Kunyang realized that the outside world had undergone earth-shaking changes and began to become "friendly" to outsiders.

……

On the way to Sato, Hasaji told Qin Zhibo, an outsider, most of the origins of their "Kunyang people".

This made Qin Zhibo feel somewhat favorable towards them, as if this was an upright race.

Although they believe in "Tulu", that is, Cthulhu, they do not worship it as fanatically as the people of Innsmouth.

In addition to the octopus-headed god, Hasagi also introduced that they also believe in many other gods.

Tulu, Yig, Tsathoggua, Shub-Niggurath, and the Nameless One...

Qin Zhibo was a little surprised. The beliefs of the Kunyang people were indeed complicated. They even believed in the Nameless One, the Yellow King Hastur.

But what concerned him more at the moment was the "Satogua" mentioned by Hassagi.

In Koizumi Akako's magic book, the "Toad God" Tsathoggua lives in the abyss beneath Enkai.

According to legend, this god taught the great magician Ebon the powerful magic that transcends time and space, and is therefore sought after by many magicians.

The destination of this journey is Enkai, who is home to Tsathoggua.

So at this moment, Qin Zhibo wanted to know more about Sathoggua.

"Excuse me, how can we get to the place where Tsathoggua is?"

Qin Zhibo looked directly at Hassaji and conveyed his thoughts to him.

But the moment Hasaji received this idea, his eyes changed and he let out a sharp cry.

He shouted loudly and then communicated with Qin Zhibo through telepathy.

"No, you can't go."

"That's not a place anyone can go..."

Chapter 992 A letter

The tone of Hasaji, the captain of the Kunyang Sentinel Team, was full of strong warning.

Qin Zhibo certainly knew the danger of Abyss Enkai, otherwise why would Mr. Clock collect the fragments of Panester?

But Qin Zhibo was also very sensible at the moment. Since the other party said it was not allowed, he did not mention it again.

……

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi followed the Kunyang sentry team along the ancient road and reached a low hill on the other side of the plain.

From here, everyone could overlook the entire desolate landscape, including the deserted city on the plain.

The sentry captain, Hasaji, introduced to Qin Zhibo that the Kunyang people had experienced hundreds of millions of years of long evolution and had realized that a dominant race that could control nature and opponents did not need too many people.

Therefore, the Kunyang people gradually lost their desire to have children, and they no longer had children unless it was for some kind of experiment.

This also means that they once had several huge cities in the vast underground world, but now only the last one, "Sato", remains, and all the Kunyang people live there.

The misty city on the plain is the lost city that was abandoned due to population decline, as well as the temple.

Although the Kunyang people conquered aging and death thousands of years ago and have unlimited lifespan, they now refuse to live that long and will choose to die after a "period of time".

"Look at us, the youngest among us are at least 500 years old. I am the oldest among them and I am 1500 years old."

“Although we use our most intelligent brains to find the joy in life, it is also an infinite torture to consciousness…”

"Unlike you humans, who can enjoy a short yet wonderful life, I always feel the urgency of not having enough time..."

"really not bad!"

Hassaji "expressed" this to Qin Zhibo with a smile, which made Qin Zhibo feel a strong sense of Versailles.

It seems that Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to the wrong place. It is right to come here...

The sentry team went up the hillside along the narrow ancient path until they reached the top of the mountain. The light blue clouds in the sky seemed close enough to be touched.

At this height, Qin Zhibo looked to the other side of the hill and finally saw a majestic and magnificent scenery.

It was still a man-made landscape, a populous and vibrant metropolitan city.

Looking down the hillside, there are suburban-like farmhouses and pastures, scattered temples, water channels and artificially planted trees, as well as a checkerboard road leading to the metropolis.

At the end of the road, Qin Zhibo couldn't help holding his breath and observing the center of the "Sato" city through a telescope.

There were low buildings densely stacked together, and several towering towers were closely connected, with huge silver cables hanging on golden pillars.

This place seems like a metropolis that only appears in cyberpunk movies, except that it is always daytime and there is no need for neon lights and light pollution. But this is enough to illustrate the technology and aesthetics of the Kunyang people.

Qin Zhibo pondered inwardly that the people of Kunyang already possessed all the characteristics of a highly developed society: infinitely extended lifespans, densely populated cities, and technology that humans had yet to master...

If the Kunyang people wanted, they could counterattack the humans on the ground at any time and occupy the "new world" for them.

However, they seem to have some kind of ancestral commandment that prohibits them from living on earth forever.

Unless Cthulhu returns.

……

Following the checkerboard basalt road, Khasaggi led Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi into this huge and strange "Almighty City".

The two of them were like country people coming to the city, constantly looking around at everything strange and new around them.

In this unknown environment, Koizumi Hongzi unconsciously and nervously hugged Qin Zhibo with her arms.

The Kunyang people on the roadside also stopped from time to time, staring at the two people as if they were a new species.

Khashoggi, in a show-off manner, kicked the belly of the four-legged animal under his crotch in a show of power, and stood at the front of the team, accepting the crown of the people's gaze.

Among the people, Qin Zhibo saw some strange humanoid creatures working without even raising their heads.

Their movements are mechanical and stiff, and they look like zombies in Lin Zhengying's movies.

Hasaji seemed to have noticed Qin Zhibo's doubts and introduced himself.

"This is Imo-Bihe. They are dead creatures that we have revived using nuclear energy and our minds. They are machines that can perform various tasks like slaves."

Hassaji introduced it as a "machine", but in Qin Zhibo's eyes, it was a person, a person in a dead body state.

Their eyes are hollow and their skin is lifeless, resembling the "resurrected corpses" of voodoo.

This shocked Qin Zhibo, and he couldn't help but worry whether the next fate of these two outsiders would be to be made into this kind of "Imo-Bihe".

Qin Zhibo felt that Koizumi Hongzi behind him might also be a little uneasy, because her arms around him tightened a little.

……

On the way to a certain place, Hasagi stopped again to introduce some noteworthy temples to Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi.

These temples are closely arranged on the side of the road and, in accordance with Kunyang custom, are surrounded by dense groves.

Each temple is dedicated to a different deity, including Cthulhu, Yig, Nag and Jeb, Shub-Niggurath, and the Nameless One.

"That temple was once dedicated to Tsathoggua."

"But after some terrible adventures, the temple's owner was replaced by Shub-Niggurath, the Mother of All Creation and wife of the Nameless One."

Hasaji sat on the livestock and casually introduced the origin of the temple to the two.