Conan Rick's Investigator

Moreover, zombies do not eat demons, and they will bite the demons in the ash space to death.

"Did you see it?" Qin Zhibo pointed at the holes on the ground. "Many of those holes are space passages leading to various places in the world."

"As long as they pass through these passages, ghouls will appear in places where there are corpses in the real world, such as cemeteries and suicide forests."

"Wow!" Kuroba Kaito exclaimed in disbelief and surprise, and suddenly had a good idea.

"If I use this channel, can't I send out notices and perform magic tricks in different places around the world at the same time?"

Before Kuroba Kaito could get excited about his novel idea, Qin Zhibo poured a bucket of cold water on him.

"Even if you use this channel, it will only make the world think that Kaito Kidd is not just one person, but many people, and it won't achieve the effect of magic."

Kuroba Kaito thought about it and said, "That's right..."

Just then, Matsumoto Ryohei came back with a zombie behind him.

An anxious Kuroba Kaito was about to go up and talk to him, but Matsumoto Ryohei said, "He's not Pickman, just one of the ghoul elders."

"He can take you to Pickman."

Qin Zhibo immediately grasped the key hidden information, "What about you?"

"I'm going to stay here and apply medicine to Miss Nancy who was injured."

Qin Zhibo: "..."

What a shame!

……

Qin Zhibo and others had no choice but to choose a guide, so they headed towards the southwest of the plain under the leadership of the zombie elder.

This zombie cannot speak human language, but Qin Zhibo vaguely remembers that this elder is the one who asked him to join the campaign to fight against the Gug giants.

As the saying goes, old people are wise and old horses are cunning. The same applies to zombies.

After a long journey, they crossed the plains and came to the edge of a landscape similar to the Grand Canyon.

The ghoul elder pointed to one place in the canyon and made a gurgling sound, probably meaning that he wanted several people to go there.

After saying this, the Ghoul Elder left.

So cunning...

Qin Zhibo and his companions had no choice but to continue moving in the direction indicated by the elder.

When they reached the edge of the rock wall, they discovered that this place was hundreds of meters deep.

In the deepest part of the canyon, there are countless animal skeletons piled up.

These piles of bones are made up of countless skeletons of various creatures, including those of ghouls, humans, gogs, and other unknown winged creatures.

Between the empty structures of the bone pile, huge, bloated and fat worms were wriggling disgustingly.

Seeing this scene, Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kōnosuke couldn't help but widen their eyes, and the food in their stomachs kept churning and stirring.

Qin Zhibo pulled the two men, who were struggling to adapt, back from the edge of the cliff and said, "This might be where the ghouls throw away the leftover bones. After all, they eat corpses..."

"Well, let's go find Pickman."

Now it was Qin Zhibo's turn to act as a guide, leading Heiyu and the other two towards the mountain.

The three of them went around to the outer edge of the canyon, and when they got closest to the mountain, they used a rope gun to shoot a grappling hook at the rocks on the mountain.

Click.

The grappling rope was tied firmly to the stone, and the three climbed up one by one.

After climbing another dozen feet, they finally reached the top of the mountain.

Everyone looked over and saw a ghoul drawing on the edge of the mountain.

Chapter 1029 Where Are We Going, Dad?

At the edge of the mountain, next to a standing easel, a ghoul was standing there painting.

At its feet was a small pile of bones, speckled with colour by scattered drops of pigment.

Qin Zhibo, Kuroba Kaito, and Terai Huang Zhisuke slowly approached, and did not interrupt immediately, but instead all set their eyes on the painting on the easel.

It can be seen that the reference object of this painting is the giant pile of bones at the bottom of the canyon.

The ghoul's painting skills are extremely exquisite. With each stroke, he uses colored ink to outline the creepy pile of bones on the canvas.

On the pile of bones, the only living thing - a giant worm - is painted vividly. Every dark area uses appropriate color contrast and light and dark effects to express an unusual feeling of some kind of dormant darkness, which makes people's hair stand on end.

Every line was so precise that it was hard to believe it came from a deformed and ugly hand like a ghoul.

Suddenly, the ghoul in front stopped painting with the pen.

"Are you... coming here to see me?"

This strange scene completely stunned Kuroba Kaito, and Qin Zhibo stepped forward to take over.

"Yes, are you Richard Upman Pickman?"

The ghoul's dog head paused for a moment, and gently placed the palette in his hand on the pile of bones.

"In this world, such a long name is really unnecessary. Just call me 'Pickman'."

This zombie named "Pickman" is different from most of the zombies in the camp. Every step it takes is slow and methodical.

As a long-lived scavenger, the ghoul's body movements are as swift as those of many wild carnivores in the real world. Once it starts moving, it will not slow down too much.

But Pickman's movements were very slow, even slower than Ryohei Matsumoto, who had recently transformed into a ghoul.

Being fast has its advantages, the most obvious of which is that it is more conducive to survival.

The advantage of being slow is that it can better adapt to human activities, such as painting.

Kuroba Kaito also came to his senses at this time, stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, do you know Kuroba Touichi?"

"Thief One?"

"That's a name from a long time ago... well..."

Pickman picked up an unchewed bone from the ground and put it in his mouth to savor it.

Suddenly, Qin Zhibo felt like a zombie again.

Like, so similar.

Pickman's calm answer immediately excited Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kōnosuke.

"Kuroba Daoyi, where is he now?!"

"Well, well... who knows?" Pickman replied, cracking his bones. "Perhaps only the gods know the answer."

Kuroba Kaito did not give up, "Kuroba Toichi is my father, I want to know his whereabouts and the story of his past..."

Hearing this, Pickman looked up at Kuroba Kaito for the first time and stared at him for a while.

After a moment, it walked in front of Kuroba Kaito again, holding a bone with unknown meat residue in one hand and stroking Kuroba Kaito's cheek with the other hand.

A slightly fishy smell lingered on Kuroba Kaito's cheeks, but in order to obtain information, Kuroba Kaito had no choice but to endure it.

"Touichi's child?"

"It looks a bit like that, but how can you prove it?"

Kuroba Kaito was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that this zombie knew how to check household registration.

But the key point is that Kuroba Kaito did not carry with him the documents that could prove that he and Kuroba Touichi were father and son.

But Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of a way and reminded him, "The best way to prove your blood relationship with Hei Yu Daoyi is through magic, isn't it?"

"Perform a magic trick..."

With Qin Zhibo's reminder, Kuroba Kaito also suddenly woke up.

Pickman created the painting "The Phantom Thief Under the Moon" for Kuroba Toichi, so he must know that Kuroba Toichi is a genius magician.

But unfortunately, this time when he went out for adventure, Kuroba Kaito didn't bring those useless magic props with him, except for the playing cards in the playing card gun.

Kuroba Kaito opened the magazine, took out a deck of cards from it, and started playing cards in front of Pickman.

Once upon a time, Kuroba Toichi was a master at playing poker. Kuroba Kaito was brought to the poker table since he was a child, and naturally he was influenced by Kuroba Toichi's poker skills.

Kuroba Kaito first demonstrated the most basic fancy cutting of playing cards. The playing cards of medium size were switched back and forth between his dexterous fingers, showing off various fancy cutting methods.

Next comes the card changing, which is to create a playing card "out of thin air" with extremely fast finger movements.

Of course, the most taboo thing about this little magic trick is that someone stands behind the magician.

Kuroba Kaito produced one playing card after another from his seemingly empty hand, which made Pickman's eyes shine.

"OK OK……"

"I haven't seen magic like this for a long time."

"Actually, I've known for a long time that you're Touichi's son. I just wanted to see some magic that I haven't seen in all these years."

Kuroba Kaito was speechless. What a bad taste.

However, it is understandable that for a proto-human who has lived in the Xin Tomb Group for a long time, there are always some human activities that he does not want to give up.

At this time, Qin Zhibo asked: "Since you know that he is Daoyi's son, has he ever told you these things?"

"Yes." Pickman put down the bone in his hand and picked up another bone with meat residue from the ground. "Daoyi is my good friend. He often comes into my dreams to talk to me."

"He told me a lot about real-life events and magic shows, and we got along very well during that time."

"Entering the dream? Is Heiyu Daoyi the one entering the dream?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"No, he's the dreamer."

Pickman's answer made Qin Zhibo stunned for a moment. Kuroba Kaito beside him quickly asked, "What is a dream maker?"

Qin Zhibo told the concept of dream maker to Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kōnosuke.

Dream makers and dreamers are the two most mainstream ways to enter the dream world, and both are non-physical entries.

But the difference is that the dream maker has a kind of destined ability. Not only is he born with the ability to enter the dreamland, but he can also create real objects in the dreamland, such as palaces, treasures, etc.

The dreamer can undergo acquired training and there are no requirements for physical fitness.

"In other words, your father was born with the ability to enter the Dream Realm."

Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kōnosuke showed an expression of disbelief.

Over the years, Hei Yu Daoyi never told this secret to anyone, including the people closest to him.

But if you don’t see it with your own eyes, who can believe that there is really a world in dreams?

"Kuroba Toichi, is he dead?"

Qin Zhibo asked Pickman this most crucial question.

Pickman nodded and said in a leisurely tone: "You guessed right, Hei Yu Daoyi is indeed dead."

Kuroba Toichi... is dead?

When they heard Pickman say this, Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kōnosuke were struck by lightning.

Is Dad (Master) really dead?

Ever since they found Pandora's Stone last time, both of them thought that Kuroba Toichi was still alive in some corner of the world, but could not show up for some reason.

But now that I have received a definite answer from Pickman, the huge sense of disappointment in my heart is something that outsiders cannot understand.

Shock, loss, sadness, and all kinds of complicated emotions made the two of them stunned for a moment and stopped in their tracks.

Qin Zhibo didn't notice the expressions of the other two people, but continued to ask, "If I remember correctly, after the dreamer's physical body dies in reality, they will be reborn in the dream world, right?"

Pickman nodded. "That's right..."

"After Daoyi died, he was reborn in the Dreamland."

"He should still be wandering in the Dreamlands, searching for the legendary secret realm of Kadath."

Secret Kadath?

Qin Zhibo felt that the name sounded familiar, and then he remembered that he had heard of this place from the wise man in the town of Usa.