Conan Rick's Investigator

If you look closely at the tips of these tail barbs, you will see an inward-facing structure similar to a suction cup.

The Nightmare cannot eat and can only use its tail to suck the milk of Ippo-Zitel.

Although Qin Zhibo didn't know what "Ibo-Ztel" was, he was now very close to the first potion ingredient.

With the arrival of the Nightmare, the ghouls crawled out of the burrows one after another, all gurgling with excitement.

All the ghouls gathered at a place close to the night nightmares. The elder ghouls said a few words in ghoul language to the night nightmares, and those night nightmares bent their bodies and let the ghouls ride on them.

This is the classic battle formation of Ghoul + Nightmare, with one Ghoul riding on the back of a Nightmare and another Ghoul being held by a Nightmare, allowing for effective air strikes on the ground.

Before going into battle, Qin Zhibo made a request to the elder-level ghoul through Matsumoto Ryohei.

I just hope that the Ghoul Elder will tell Nightmare that he wants to study its tail.

Although the Ghoul Elder was puzzled, he still conveyed Qin Zhibo's request to Nightmare.

The Nightmare did not answer, but instead placed its whip-like tail, which was shaking continuously, on the ground, which was considered as tacit consent.

Qin Zhibo walked to the front of the tail, picked up the sharp spike on the tail and studied it.

The surface of these spikes is moist, and there is a tiny depression at the tip, which may be the place where milk is absorbed.

He took off the empty water bottle prepared around his neck and wanted to squeeze the remaining milk into the water bottle like milking a cow.

But after trying it, Qin Zhibo found that this method didn't work.

The hardness of this spike is harder than imagined, and it is impossible to pinch it with human hands.

He looked at the indentation on the spiked head, his eyes lost in thought.

At this time, the zombies standing around waiting to go out were also watching Qin Zhibo's every move.

They looked at Qin Zhibo's unusual behavior and whispered to each other, thinking it was some ancient and mysterious human marching ritual.

But the next second, they saw Qin Zhibo put the sharp end into his mouth and suck something inside.

At this moment, all the zombies were stunned, and they wanted to collectively send out "oh——!" emoticons.

Qin Zhibo sucked hard with his mouth and actually sucked out some liquid from the spikes.

This is a sticky juice with salty and fishy taste. The taste is a bit weird to the human taste system and it is something you definitely don't want to drink.

After taking a quick taste, Qin Zhibo quickly spat the juice into the kettle, then spat out the remaining juice mixed with his saliva on the ground and cleaned his mouth with clean water.

Only then did Qin Zhibo realize that the juice was not white, but black, like a thinner black sesame paste.

Under the criticizing gazes of many zombies, Qin Zhibo, worried that the amount was not enough, took another sip of the juice and spit it into the kettle.

After taking several sips, a noticeable amount of water had accumulated in the kettle, and Qin Zhibo left "satisfied".

At this time, the ghoul, a scavenger creature, looked at Qin Zhibo with more admiration.

Because there was once a playful zombie who did this, and was immersed in terrible nightmares for days, and eventually fell into endless madness.

……

With the completion of Qin Zhibo's mysterious expedition ceremony, all the ghouls formed a battle formation with the nightmares.

As agreed, Qin Zhibo, as the vanguard, was caught by a Nightmare, while Matsumoto Ryohei was the rider behind the Nightmare.

The Nightmare's body is too small to fit into the burrow, so it can only take a long way around and dive into the underground from the abyss some distance away from the camp.

Qin Zhibo was caught by the Nightmare's wet, rubbery claws, with a whistling wind and a gray-green scene rapidly receding around him.

This made Qin Zhibo feel like the beautiful woman in Avatar riding a Banxi beast and soaring into the sky.

In the wilderness, the breath of freedom is blowing in your face.

But this feeling soon disappeared. With a dive of the Nightmare Army, all the Nightmare and Ghoul dived into the dark abyss.

In the darkness that plummeted downward, dozens of night terrors dived, dived, and dived endlessly.

It was not until Qin Zhibo felt dizzy and his eyes were swollen due to brain congestion that the Nightmare Army made another 90-degree turn and flew parallel to the ground, which relieved some of the uncomfortable feeling.

They flew through the gate of the abyss guarded by winged lions and entered the dungeon that was exiled by the gods of dreams.

……

When the Nightmare suddenly descended upon the dungeon, the Gog was still lazily resting in the dungeon.

They were scattered in various corners of the city, and it seemed that they had never expected that the zombies would retaliate against them so quickly this time.

Dozens of battle formations of Nightmares and Ghouls took the lead and flew towards the Gug Giants that they could see. Matsumoto Ryohei and Qin Zhibo also selected a Gug Giant as their target of attack.

When the Nightmare grabbed Qin Zhibo and swooped to the ground, the slow-moving Guge giant had just crawled up from the ground, with its bloody mouth piercing through its head, opening towards the Nightmare in the sky.

The Gugs cannot make any sound and can only express their anger to their enemies in this way.

But Qin Zhibo was faster. He took out the [Oath-Keeping Sword] and chopped it hard at the head of the Guge giant.

With one slash of the knife, the pink eyeball on the right side of the Gug giant was chopped off, and the protruding bones around the eyeball were also chopped into pieces.

The smelly blood splattered in the air, and the Gug giant, in pain, immediately went crazy, grabbing the air above his head with his arms and four hands.

But Qin Zhibo had already been taken by the Nightmare into the air where the Gog Giant could not catch him, and was observing the situation from afar.

When the Gug Giant's movements slowed down a bit, Qin Zhibo asked Matsumoto Ryohei on top to order Nightmare to dive down again.

This time, Qin Zhibo found the right position and chopped off the eye on the other side of the Guge giant's head with one knife.

Having lost all his light, the Gog giant went completely insane, unable to make any sound. He could only rely on his arms to grab the air around him to vent his anger.

The mad giant in this state is even more difficult to approach.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo didn't plan to attack from the air anymore, and directly asked Nightmare to let him down.

"After I go down, you continue your feint attack in the air!"

The Nightmare slowly descended to the ground, put Qin Zhibo on the ground, then rose back into the air, continuing to dive towards the Gug giant again and again.

If the target is a human-sized creature, the Nightmare can directly grab the target into the air and then throw it to the ground to kill it.

But the Gog Giant was too big, not only could he not be caught, but even Nightmare himself could be caught if he wasn't careful.

While Matsumoto Ryohei and Nightmare were attracting the Gug Giant in the air, Qin Zhibo, holding the Oathkeeper Sword, went around the Gug Giant and quietly approached it.

Taking advantage of the giant's unpreparedness, Qin Zhibo held the sword in both hands and cut off the tendons behind the giant's feet.

Having lost the strength to support its body, the heavy figure of the Gug giant swayed and finally fell forward.

The Gug giant was still struggling, and the four hands that split from his two arms were trying to grab Qin Zhibo.

But how could he just sit there and wait for death?

Qin Zhibo held the sword in both hands and stabbed it hard between the legs of the Guge giant.

At this moment, the giant Gug knew what "the pain of having one's eyes opened wide" was.

It could not make any sound and could only pound the ground in pain, leaving a large area of the ground stained red with smelly blood.

Despite having many wounds on its body, its strong vitality prevented it from dying easily.

But even so, its lower body was unable to move.

Seeing that the opportunity was good, Qin Zhibo first went to the heel of the Guge giant and cut off a piece of the thick nail.

The second ingredient, get it!

After doing all this, Qin Zhibo was caught by Nightmare again and taken into the air to help the zombies in other places.

……

The battle lasted for more than an hour and ended with the ghouls' great victory.

In this battle, three Gug giants died and more than a dozen were injured to varying degrees.

Nearly a quarter of the Ghoul members were injured, one died, and one Nightmare was slightly injured.

According to the ancient customs of the ghouls, the ghouls would kill and eat those wounded in battle.

But in recent history, the ghouls have gradually abolished this bad habit at the call of a ghoul sage.

From the perspective of casualty ratio, Qin Zhibo thought that this battle was not particularly well fought, but the zombies were extremely happy and believed that they had won a great victory.

Ryohei Matsumoto explained that this was because the number of Ghouls was small, and with the same number of casualties, the Ghouls would definitely have the advantage.

This campaign successfully rescued three captured ghouls and severely damaged the morale of the Gog Giant.

For the next period of time, the ghouls could enter and exit the dungeon freely, and the Gogs did not dare to have any thoughts of resistance.

In other words, he was defeated.

This is definitely good news for Koizumi Hongzi, because if the Guge Giant still doesn't behave, she will have to take off her clothes like Qin Zhibo and Hondou Eisuke did when they sneaked into the dungeon last time...

……

After returning to the zombie camp, Qin Zhibo told Koizumi Hongzi the news of the successful expedition.

Koizumi Hongzi immediately jumped up happily and asked if she could leave.

Ever since Qin Zhibo said that her face was vaguely developing into that of a zombie, Koizumi Hongzi looked at herself in the mirror in the cave for a long time and even used a magic crystal ball to tell her fortune.

But that's how it is. The more you care about it, the more you think you've been affected, and it becomes a mental illness.

At the strong request of Koizumi Akako, Qin Zhibo had no choice but to refuse the zombies' celebration party and packed his luggage to leave.

When Matsumoto Ryohei came to see him off, Qin Zhibo took out another small bottle and asked Matsumoto Ryohei to get some pure ghoul blood.

Although Matsumoto Ryohei has now begun to transform into a ghoul, neither his bloodline nor his blood is pure. Qin Zhibo is worried that it will affect the final effect of the potion.

Soon, Matsumoto Ryohei obtained the blood of the ghoul from the ghoul that died in battle.

At the celebration banquet tonight, the ghouls will enjoy not only the meat of the Gog giants they brought back, but the dead ghoul will also become food for their companions.

……

After everything was packed up, the zombies gathered in front of the cave entrance and held a grand farewell ceremony for Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi.

During the ceremony, the zombies were mumbling something, but Qin Zhibo couldn't understand anything. Koizumi Hongzi was praying in her heart that she could leave here quickly.

After the zombies finished their muttering, the two finally set out on their journey home.

Chapter 1004 The Triple Meaning of "Mimi"

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi discussed it and decided to return to New York first.

The reason why she didn't go back to Japan directly was that Koizumi Akako still had some important luggage at the Indian Bull Run Inn in Binger, Oklahoma.

The two planned to go back to New York to recuperate first, and asked Benniu to send their luggage to New York by express delivery.

After getting their luggage, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi flew back to Japan.

Of course, the one who returned to Japan with Koizumi Akako was the fake "Qin Zhibo" played by Minase Harumi.

The real Qin Zhibo needs to carry some dangerous contraband, such as the Kunyang people's pistols, the milk squeezed from the nightmares, and the nails of the Gug giants.

These are things that are difficult to explain clearly to customs, and they must be "smuggled" into Japan through the Dreamland channel.

Now that he has it, Qin Zhibo has the ability to slay demons and evil spirits in dreams. Naturally, he is not afraid of those demons and ghosts, and it is much easier for him to enter and exit the dreamland.

Once I return to Japan, I must keep my promise to save Hiroki Sawada.

……

The process of returning this time is the same as last time. You need to choose a suitable cave to enter the ash space, and then return to the waking world from the dungeon of the Gug giant.

Although the exit is still at the top of the tower in the Giant City of Guge, theoretically we should return to the back mountain of the Suzuki family villa, the same as last time.

But the entire Ash Space can be regarded as a space transfer station. It doesn’t matter where you exit the Ash Space. What matters is where you choose as the access point, and that’s where the output will come from.

The burrows are the different access points.

The countless caves on the plains may lead to anywhere in the world. Even the ancient ghoul clan only knows the details of a small part of these caves.

For example, the hole that Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi crawled out of this time, the zombies didn’t know before that the hole led to Yousi.

Led by an elder-level zombie, Qin Zhibo and others came to the underground cave leading to New York.

The ghoul elder stopped in front of the cave and spoke in the ghouls' unique language.

"Guling, Migubang..."

Matsumoto Ryohei translated for the two, "From here on out is the territory of the heretic ghouls, so be careful."