Conan Rick's Investigator

"This requires a potion formula: the eyeball of the daughter of Itakuya, the blood of the ghoul, the milk of Ibo-Zitel from the tail of the Nightmare, and the poison gland of the pufferfish..."

"You need to combine them into one potion to restore a corpse to its original state."

Satogua said a series of potion names, and Qin Zhibo took out a small notebook and wrote them down quickly.

Although he thought he had a good memory, in this place, no matter how good the memory is, it is no better than a bad pen.

What's more, Qin Zhibo had never even heard of many of the medicinal herbs that Satogua mentioned.

After Tsathoggua answered the first question, his heavy eyelids drooped slightly.

Qin Zhibo seized the opportunity and asked the second question.

"Please, great Tsathoggua, grant us magic, such as telekinesis, teleportation, resurrection, and the ability to transcend the body! We can even grant us the ultimate magic that transcends time and space."

When Koizumi Hongzi, who was standing behind, heard this question, she was startled. This question was asked on her behalf.

But Tsathoggua paused, and rumbled back in a rough voice.

"You can find all the common magic in this world on the stone pillars here..."

Sathoggua didn't even bother to raise his hand to indicate, but Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi knew that he was talking about the stone pillars supporting the temple, which were engraved with many words.

"But you cannot use the ultimate magic that transcends time and space."

"The time and space of this world are restricted by a powerful force. As the natives of this world, you cannot tamper with them..."

The amount of information provided by Satogua was so huge that Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi were very puzzled.

What does "time and space are restricted" mean?

And what kind of power can even control time and space?

"Excuse me, what kind of power is that?"

Facing Qin Zhibo's questioning, Satogua's sticky eyes flickered, but he did not answer, and rarely chose to remain silent.

It was as if even someone as powerful as him was trapped in this restriction and unable to escape.

Qin Zhibo's question went unanswered, and Koizumi Hongzi next to him couldn't wait to ask, "Satogua, I want to know if my mother has been here. How is she now?"

Koizumi Hongzi didn't use honorifics to address Tsathoggua, but Tsathoggua didn't bother to make a fuss and replied readily, "A woman with the same bloodline as you has been here before."

"If you want to know how she is doing now, you can look for her among those bones..."

"Because I've eaten her."

As soon as Satogua finished speaking, Koizumi Hongzi's brain was struck by lightning.

She froze in place for a moment, then fell to the ground, staring at the dark ground in disbelief.

In fact, after figuring out how to use the Panester fragments, Qin Zhibo didn't want Koizumi Hongzi to ask this question anymore.

It is obvious that anyone who enters Enkai without the Panester fragment will most likely die.

Unless Tsathoggua was full at the time.

But now that no one is willing to offer sacrifices, it is obvious that Tsathoggua rarely has enough to eat.

After answering this question, Tsathoggua's eyelids seemed to be unable to hold up and gradually began to close.

He was about to fall asleep again.

Only a new intruder can awaken Tsathoggua from his statue state.

Taking advantage of this last moment, Qin Zhibo immediately took out the letter paper he brought out from Kunyang Apartment from his pocket and shouted to Satogua.

"Who on earth wrote this letter?!"

Sathoggua took a final glance at the letter in Qin Zhibo's hand, and his rough voice murmured.

"Karasuma Renye..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sathoggua closed his eyes completely and fell into a deep sleep.

Qin Zhibo looked at the letter paper in his hand and murmured the name "Karasuma Renya".

In his brain, a line of logic was vaguely pieced together.

Wuhuan Renye arrived in Kunyang a long time ago and lived there for quite a long time.

But unlike others, Uramaru Renye was not under house arrest in Kunyang, but took the initiative to stay here to study.

He learned the Kunyang people's advanced virtualization technology, and it is even possible that he learned the Kunyang people's technology to overcome natural death.

Until he learned all the techniques, he chose to go to Enkai with the fragments of Panester.

Before he left, he left behind this letter of advice to the new intruders.

The letter emphasized the corruption of the Kunyang people, making the intruders fear their existence, and indicated that the way to escape from Kunyang was Enkai.

But in reality, without the Panest fragment, going to Enkai is a dead end.

And once the new intruder sees the contents of the envelope and becomes resistant to the Kunyang people, it will prompt the Kunyang people to execute the intruder.

In other words, this letter was left by Wuhuan Renye in order to prevent later generations from staying in Kunyang and learning the incredible technology of the Kunyang people.

That apartment should have been the place where the Kunyang people captured and housed outsiders a hundred years ago.

Because only that apartment was built to look very much like a building on the surface.

It was Wuwan Renye who proposed to the Kunyang people to build the palace that was in line with the aesthetics of the people on the ground.

The intruders were then left behind a wall, warning them to flee.

This is a trap set by Karasuma Renya over a hundred years.

……

In the dim temple, everything gradually returned to calm.

As Tsathoggua fell into a deep sleep like a statue, the invisible offspring inside the temple also became much quieter.

They slowly flow back into their own sacrificial basins and stone troughs, as if nothing had happened, quietly waiting for the next sacrifice to come.

Qin Zhibo used a searchlight to illuminate the stone pillars on both sides of the temple and saw the words that Tsathoggua had mentioned that described magic.

It can be seen that these characters are all carved by hand, and the distorted characters record these ancient wisdoms.

It’s a pity that the characters above are not the ones used in modern times, so they cannot be easily learned. It is even difficult to tell what kind of characters they are.

After searching all the stone walls and pillars, Qin Zhibo finally found some familiar words.

This is ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, carved by someone on a stone wall at the entrance of the temple.

Qin Zhibo couldn't understand the ancient Egyptian characters, but Koizumi Hongzi happened to be an expert in this field.

He returned to Koizumi Hongzi and saw her still sitting on the stone floor, staring blankly at the ground.

"Are you feeling better?"

Koizumi Hongzi didn't answer and continued to look at the ground.

If it was just a simple "death on the road", Koizumi Akako would not have suffered such a huge blow.

The pursuit of ultimate magic is always accompanied by great sacrifices. This is the eternal truth of the witch clan.

But Koizumi Akako saw Mr. Clock's miserable condition with her own eyes.

Her mind couldn't help but think and imagine, wondering in what kind of desperate situation her mother died.

Qin Zhibo looked at Koizumi Hongzi and felt very sympathetic towards her situation.

In this situation, it is best for people to have a good cry and vent their emotions.

But as a witch, Koizumi Hongzi's lifelong rule is that she cannot cry, no matter who she is crying for, otherwise she will lose her magic power.

The feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to cry is the most painful.

Qin Zhibo thought for a moment, then turned back to the pile of bones at the entrance of the temple.

The foul smell was so pungent and unpleasant that he had to tie a piece of cloth over his mouth and nose to make a simple mask.

He took out the [Holy Sword of Physics - Crowbar] from the item bar and used the length of the crowbar to rummage through the pile of bones.

If it was fifteen years ago, it shouldn't be too far away...

Probably on this...

Qin Zhibo rummaged through the pile of bones for a while and suddenly saw a dark silver object hanging on a bone.

This is a silver photo pendant, but due to the baptism of time, the outermost layer of silver has oxidized and turned darker.

Opening the lid of the pendant, there is a yellowed oval photo inside.

The photo shows a graceful woman with short red hair and a long red robe.

Qin Zhibo had seen this person at Koizumi Hongzi's home. This was Koizumi Hongzi's mother.

……

In front of the base of the temple, Koizumi Hongzi looked at the ground hopelessly.

Suddenly, a pendant fell from the air in front of her eyes.

The photo inside the pendant is a half-length photo of a woman.

When seeing this photo, Koizumi Hongzi's eyes immediately lit up and she grabbed the pendant in her hand as if it were a treasure.

"Where did you find this?!"

"It's..." Qin Zhibo paused, still not saying in the pile of bones, "On the ground of the temple."

Koizumi Hongzi was shocked for a moment, then held the pendant in her arms with great cherishment.

Seeing that she had regained consciousness, Qin Zhibo told her the information he had just collected.

"I just searched around. There are a lot of incomprehensible characters carved on the stone walls and pillars here, but there are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs at the entrance over there."

Koizumi Hongzi raised her head and her face regained her usual confident smile.

"Then it seems I'm the only one left to do this..."

……

The two came to the stone wall and looked at the contents on it.

In a short while, Koizumi Hongzi figured out the origin of these words.

"These are the words carved here by Theron, the apprentice of the great magician Eibon."

"Um……"

"It says here that this temple has a portal built by Eibon, which can travel directly between Enkai and the outside world..."

Chapter 999: Seizing Bamboo Shoots~

"Portal?"

When Koizumi Hongzi was distracted just now, Qin Zhibo had already explored most of the area in front of the temple and did not find a door of unknown purpose.

If there is a door here, it can only be the back of the temple.

"I'll go take a look, you continue translating."

Qin Zhibo went alone to the back of the temple, behind the base where Sathoggua was.

Passing by Satogua, Qin Zhibo tried his best not to disturb this huge monster.

At this time, Tsathoggua had fallen into a deep sleep again, and his jet-black fur made him look like a basalt or onyx toad statue rather than a living creature.

He crossed his paws in front of him and leaned lazily against the backrest of the pedestal, ignoring the "little ants" passing by him.

Behind the base, there is a pool hundreds of meters long.

In this huge square pool that looks like a swimming pool, there are countless fist-sized black spherical ooze creatures swimming.

They are very similar to the invisible offspring in front of the temple, but there are many differences.

For example, these slime creatures cannot change into various shapes, and there are two tiny yellow dots on the spherical surface.

It is suspected that the yellow dot is the eye of this creature.

When Qin Zhibo walked to the edge of the pool, the small yellow dots on the surface of the spherical mud moved along with his movements.