The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

House for sale?

The agent hung up the phone, and Qin Zhibo was stunned.

The person on the third floor of the sales office is actually "me"?

Qin Zhibo saw the sale information of this house at a nearby real estate agency before, and thought that someone else was selling the third floor.

I called to inquire and the agent said that the reason for the sale was that the landlord was going abroad recently. I didn't expect that he was talking about me?

For a moment, Qin Zhibo didn't know whether this was good news or bad news.

The good news is that the money I finally saved does not need to be spent. No one will spend money to buy a house that belongs to them.

The bad news is that the living space you have always wanted is yours, but you don't know it.

Knowing that the third floor also belonged to him, what Qin Zhibo wanted most now was to go back and take a look.

It can be regarded as an advance inspection.

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After settling the car repair payment, Qin Zhibo quickly returned to the office in a Ford Mustang convertible.

The building where Zhibo Detective Office is located is similar to Mori's office, also has three floors.

It's just that the first floor is a women's clothing store, and Qin Zhibo is sure that he is not the landlord of this floor.

The second floor is the detective office, while the third floor has always been empty, at least that's what Qin Zhibo thought.

He walked up the steps to the third floor. Since there was no carpet on the floor, Qin Zhibo reached out and groped on the door frame.

Sure enough, after some searching, I got a key.

The original owner's habit was to hide the key near the door after going out, and Qin Zhibo had already mastered this.

But this further proves that during this period, the third floor of the office that I have been thinking about seems to be far away, but in fact it is very close.

Click——

Qin Zhibo used the key to unlock the door smoothly, pushed the door open a gap, and felt a faint musty smell.

As the door was fully opened, a very simple living room was displayed in front of Qin Zhibo.

The TV, the dusty coffee table, and a chair were all gone.

In addition, there are four rooms, and Qin Zhibo is ready to check them one by one.

The first room was a bedroom. The bed in the bedroom was an empty bed board with no bedding on it, and the closet was completely empty.

Although this bedroom is at least twice as big as the bedroom downstairs, the original owner did not choose to live here.

Of course, it may also be because the house is to be sold that the house should be cleared in advance.

Qin Zhibo went to the second room and pushed the door open. It was a relatively clean toilet with no personal items in it.

Qin Zhibo pushed the door open and entered the third room. It was also a bedroom, but it was smaller than the previous bedroom and had the same area as the bedroom downstairs.

When he came to the last room, Qin Zhibo reached out and pushed the door open, but the room was completely dark.

Thick and black curtains blocked the sunlight outside, but Qin Zhibo still found through the thin light that there was no furniture in this room, and it seemed to be an empty room.

It's just that there seems to be some black lines on the wooden floor.

Qin Zhibo took out his nuclear lighter, and the steady flame allowed him to see clearly.

On the wooden floor of this room, there is a huge ritual magic circle!

Qin Zhibo had received basic magic teaching from Koizumi Hongzi and knew that this large-scale formation drawn on a certain cross-section was a ritual magic formation.

Theoretically, only people with magical powers can use magic circles, but ritual magic circles are not required.

The principle of the ritual magic circle is to establish a connection between the caster and the person being cast. The requirement for this connection is that one of the parties is strong enough and has magic power, and the other party does not need to have magic power to cast the ritual magic circle.

Of course, the success rate is still higher if you have magic power.

It's just that this ritual magic circle is much more complicated than some of the magic circles that Koizumi Hongzi has shown. It is full of obscure inscriptions and weird geometric figures.

They are composed stroke by stroke with black paint. Even for a person like Hiroshi Chichi who already has painting skills, it would take at least two days to draw such a standard and huge magic circle.

In the middle of the magic circle, there is a circle similar to that of the spell caster. In the middle is an ancient dagger with blood on the blade.

Qin Zhibo looked at the palm of his left hand, where there was a shallow scar.

In addition to this ritual magic circle, there are four candle piles in the four corners of the room, as well as some papers scattered in various places in the room.

Qin Zhibo picked up one of the papers, and the ink black color on it said:

"My eyes have already seen that Kanaloa is rising in the Pacific. The sleeper is about to wake up, and the world is about to collapse!"

Picked up another piece of paper and it said:

"Transcending time and space, turning things around"

I picked up another piece of paper. There were a bunch of irregular lines on it, and I couldn't see any meaning.

Taking two steps forward, there was another piece of paper with a bunch of lines forming circles of different sizes. I didn't know what the meaning was.

There are other pieces of paper with only one sentence recorded on them.

"I'm going crazy! He's driving me crazy!"

"It's her again, we met in a dream, crazy and crazy, even though I don't want to be like this"

"The distant island of Hawaii is my hometown, but I can never go back."

"I have a feeling that He will devour me as soon as I appear on the sea."

"Damn it! Nothing can stop Him!"

"Before I completely lose my mind, I want to go back and take a look, even if it costs my life."

When the last piece of paper was picked up, Qin Zhibo could tell at a glance that it was not written by the original owner.

The paper is made of parchment, with a simple surface, and the color of the ink on it looks a little dull due to the erosion of time.

What is drawn on the paper is exactly the ritual magic circle drawn on the ground by the original owner, exactly.

Judging from the rough edges on the left side of the paper, this parchment seems to have been torn from a certain reading material.

Since there was only a piece of paper, Qin Zhibo could not determine the source of this thing, let alone use the "reading investigation" function.

Lifting the black curtains, Qin Zhibo scanned the entire room again, making sure that this was the entire room.

Black ritual magic circle, bloody dagger, paper, pile of candles.

For a moment, Qin Zhibo felt that the information content was a bit overwhelming, so he returned to the relatively clean living room, wiped the dust on the coffee table with his hand, sat down on it, and thought about everything.

First of all, the original owner is indeed not a serious detective. In addition to helping the Nine Angels organization to collect antiquities, he also does some research on evil demons and heretics.

Secondly, the original owner seems to be suffering from some kind of mental trouble, and has been troubled by the existence of "him", maybe "Kanaloa"? .

Eventually, the original owner wanted to leave Japan and return to Hawaii.