The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Later in the medical record, Danforth continued to elaborate on his "conjectures."

Danforth: We emerged from the gallery and followed the trail of the sled to a crypt. Walking into the crypt, there is a huge space with ugly penguins about the same height as an adult.

(Nihilism-Penguin, what symbolic meaning may it have?)

Danforth: Going further inside, we saw Gedney's body, the body of the Ancient One, and there was a sound in the bottomless black hole!

Tekili-li!

Tekili-li!

The entire crypt and the entire mountain range are shaking! We run away at all costs!

The cave is full of scary things! That black, damned amorphous creature!

Shoggoth! They're all Shoggoths!

Eye! Countless eyes are rolling!

It has swallowed up all the Penguins, except us!

…

The conversation ended abruptly. It was obvious that Danvers was out of control.

However, Qin Zhibo summarized the rest of the story from this intermittent conversation.

Danforth and Professor Dale entered the Mountains of Madness, discovered a city of the Ancients, and met the Shoggoths in the core of the city.

Regarding Shoggoth, Qin Zhibo happened to know its information, thanks to the Mysterious Myth skill that he had just upgraded to level 4.

Shoggoth is an amorphous protoplasmic swell. The cells of this creature can be deconstructed and reorganized into various forms and organs in an instant.

He is both a creature of the Ancient One and a slave of the Ancient One.

Was.

With these "inspirations", Qin Zhibo also knew how to write the puzzle chapter of "Crazy Mountains".

Although these contents are a bit shocking, writing is a complete job for Qin Zhibo, and he doesn't care anymore.

Qin Zhibo closed the medical record, stood up and handed it back to Herbert West.

"Thank you, Dr. Herbert."

The little Herbert West raised his hand to take the medical records, with a strange smile on his lips.

"It's okay. If you want to check your medical records, you can come back often in the future."

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, feeling that Herbert looked at him a little strangely.

This kind of look is a look of interest in something. Qin Zhibo once saw it from Matsumoto Ryohei.

Qin Zhibo: "..."

Can eating people make people younger?

Qin Zhibo didn't want to have too much communication with Arkham's weird doctor, so he quickly turned around and left, leaving Herbert West alone standing there watching Qin Zhibo's back from a distance.

After leaving Arkham Hospital, Qin Zhibo took the bus back to town.

Qin Zhibo still remembers the new main mission he got in the Arkham Successful People Club yesterday, which is to investigate two members of the Silver Twilight Church.

Carl Sanford is one, and there's still one left to go.

Qin Zhibo tried to fight with his left and right hands, but the task completion reminder was not triggered. This may be because he is not a formal member of the Silver Dusk Church, or his head cannot be counted.

However, Qin Zhibo still remembered another member of the Silver Dusk Church he met yesterday, Diana Stanley.

Through inquiries from Mr. Clock yesterday on the way back to the hotel, Diana ran a boutique called "Amy" on Miskatonic Avenue in the center of town.

"So you want to have an 'in-depth communication' with Diana?"

Mr. Clock spoke expressionlessly about the color accents it learned on Earth, and Qin Zhibo had to admit that the scene was a bit strange.

The bus stopped in the center of the town. Qin Zhibo used the navigator in his brain to find Amy's Boutique without asking passers-by.

Pushing the door open and entering, the brass bell hanging at the entrance jingled.

jingle--

Diana Stanley, who was sitting behind the counter and watching TV to kill time, stood up and was about to greet the guests when she saw Qin Zhibo's face.

"So it's you"

Diana's tone was not that she was happy that the customer came to the door, but more of surprise.

Qin Zhibo glanced at Diana's oval face, which had no positive emotions at all, and then looked at the counter, swiping his fingers in front of the glass on the counter, "Let me see if there are any products that I am interested in."

"You can look at it as you like."

Diana's reception was not very warm, which made Qin Zhibo wonder if he had left a bad impression on her yesterday.

In this case, we can only see if we can reach a deal first to open up the topic.

There is a dazzling array of products on the counter, most of which are the ones often seen in antique markets.

Purple clay teapots, strange-shaped stones, abstract human face sculptures, animal tooth necklaces, and unknown metal cylinders.

Among these products that were completely inconsistent in form and function, Qin Zhibo saw something somewhat familiar.

It was a metal disc, made of silver, that was big enough to fit in the palm of one's hand.

On the disk is a twisted five-pointed star symbol, etched with twisted lines like fire, which is almost identical to the symbol on the Miskatonic University badge in Qin Zhibo's wallet.

"This is" Qin Zhibo asked, pointing to the disc under the glass cabinet.

Diana glanced at it and introduced it lukewarmly: "This is an item to ward off evil spirits and control the house. It can be hung on the door or window."

"Oh? Can you take it out and let me take a look?"

Diana opened the glass cabinet and took out the disk. Qin Zhibo took it with both hands and looked at it.

There are no words on the front and back of the entire disk, but the small mottled and pitted marks on it seem to imply that the years it has experienced are not too shallow.

"This." Qin Zhibo pointed to the symbol on the disk, "What does this mean?"

"Old seal, a symbol that can exorcise evil spirits." Diana's explanation was still extremely simple.

"Old seal."

Qin Zhibo nodded thoughtfully, now he understood what was engraved on his university badge.

"Is it useful?" Qin Zhibo asked again.

"I don't know." Diana shook her head.

"Then I bought it, how much does it cost?"

Qin Zhibo's straightforward attitude made Diana stunned for a second, and she took a second to react before telling the price.

"$270."

The price made Qin Zhibo feel a little pained. Converted to Japanese yen, 270 US dollars was almost 40,000 yen, so he bought a metal plate.

However, in order to reach a deal, Qin Zhibo did not make a counteroffer.

"A very fair price, a deal."

With that said, Qin Zhibo stretched out his hand to express his approval of the transaction.

Diana glanced at Qin Zhibo doubtfully again, and after hesitating for half a second, she still extended her hand.

When two palms touch together, an investigation begins.

【Survey√】

[Current progress: (2/2)]

[Congratulations on completing the main mission]

[Acquire 3000 general skill proficiency]

A mission prompt came from the system, indicating that the investigation mission of the Silver Twilight Church has been completed.

3000 general skill proficiency has arrived, and Qin Zhibo's skill proficiency now exceeds 10000, which means that he can start purchasing.

At this time, Diana also found $30 for Qin Zhibo's $300 and handed the money to Qin Zhibo.

Just as Qin Zhibo reached out to grab the 30 dollars, Diana suddenly pulled back the hand holding the banknotes, causing Qin Zhibo to look at the beautiful oval face with some confusion.

"The club is not what it seems, everything is different."

"Including me"

Diana Stanley's words had a warning tone, and she was obviously warning Qin Zhibo, a newcomer who had just joined the club.

"Thank you for your advice."

Qin Zhibo showed a gentleman's smile, stretched out his hand to take back the $30 change, walked to the door and opened the store door.

jingle--

"But maybe the reality I have is not the face you see?"

"Didn't Sartre have a saying?"

"Hell is other people."

Diana's body trembled suddenly as she looked at Qin Zhibo's back as he smiled and left gracefully.

For some reason, at that moment, I felt that the man in front of me was unfathomable.

Coming out of Amy's boutique, Qin Zhibo: -$270, metal circle with old seal +1, general skill proficiency +3000.

Qin Zhibo held the disc in his hand and looked at it carefully. Although it felt like it had some history, it also felt like it was artificially aged.

Buying antiques in the United States, emmm

Qin Zhibo shook his head and didn't have much hope for the monetary value of this thing. He could only take it back to think about it and hang it on the door of his office.

Arkham night is coming, and Qin Zhibo returns to his birthplace before the hotel dinner stops being served.

The food in the restaurant is more varied than in the morning, including soup, bread, vegetable salads, hamburgers, and chicken legs, and they are all hot.

Qin Zhibo made a simple burger using the available ingredients and chewed it while watching the TV hanging from the ceiling of the restaurant.

The news that was playing on the TV happened to be about the serial killings in Oklahoma.

After a day of investigation, the police unearthed a total of 37 corpses from the yard of the murderer William Lee Childress' home. These corpses are enough to prove that they are inextricably linked to the long-standing disappearances along the river in Oklahoma.

Not only that, but Officer Cole Rasco, who was in charge of the case, also uncovered a big melon.

The cousin of the murderer, the Scarface Man, was the sheriff who dismissed the case of the missing little girl from Fontenot.

The scar-faced man’s father and the head of the local church were cousins, and the people who were killed were basically the parishes controlled by the head and the church schools he sponsored.

Regine LeDoux, who was previously shot to death as a murderer, was cousins ​​with the governor of Oklahoma, and they were also cousins ​​with the church leaders.

These people essentially all have the surname "Tuttle", or can be called the "Tuttle family".

The police will subsequently investigate whether other members of the Tuttle family who are currently "not guilty" colluded with each other.

Later, some reporters chased to interview Billy Lee Tuttle, the head of the Church of Light of the Tuttle family, the cousin of the scar-faced man’s father, but they were all turned away.

As for the higher-ranking governor, no reporter dared to harass him.

Looking at the reports on TV, Qin Zhibo snorted coldly.

They are all cousins, so they fit the title of "brotherhood".