The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Hearing the doctor's words, Mouri Kogoro and Conan looked shocked and ran over quickly.

"I am a family member of the patient, what happened?"

The doctor glanced at Mouri Kogoro, then looked at Qin Zhibo doubtfully, and replied: "The patient's body just had a violent spasm. We have given her a sedative to stabilize her temporarily."

"But now the patient's body temperature is extremely unstable, accompanied by rapid eye movements."

"This situation is unique and we need to do further physical examination to determine the cause."

The doctor's explanation was very vague, because it was the first time he had seen such a case since he had a cold since childhood.

At this time, the emergency cart was sent over.

Mouri Kogoro quickly carried the person from the hospital bed to the cart and followed the nurse out of the ward.

Conan also anxiously followed the emergency cart and left the ward.

In the blink of an eye, Qin Zhibo was the only one left in the huge ward.

Qin Zhibo was still thinking about what happened just now. In Mao Lilan's dream, the King in Yellow suddenly appeared.

The abnormality on Mao Lilan's body should be inseparable from the King in Yellow.

But why did the King in Yellow suddenly appear in Mao Lilan's dream?

According to Qin Zhibo's understanding of the King in Yellow, he will almost never appear in the real world, but he can send dominating dreams to those who have inadvertently come into contact with him.

For example, there is the Yellow Seal in the Haunted Bungalow. The transvestite son became crazy because of exposure to the Yellow Seal.

Another way is through the medium of "The King in Yellow".

Mao Lilan once watched the performance of "The King in Yellow".

Even the abridged version only avoids the impact of the script itself on people, but the connection between people and God has been established.

When Mao Lilan dreams about that past time, watches the stage play again in the dream, and thinks of the King in Yellow he saw in the window, it becomes extremely dangerous.

Dreaming about the King in Yellow is tantamount to summoning the King in Yellow into your dream.

Now the only way to save Mao Lilan is to find a way to "invite" the King in Yellow out of Mao Lilan's dream.

However, it is easier to ask God than to send him away.

Mao Lilan's dream is now occupied by a more powerful being, and even the soul-searching technique can no longer enter Mao Lilan's dream.

Moreover, the function of the soul search technique is only to see other people's memories and dreams, and cannot affect the contents inside.

How to do it?

Qin Zhibo checked his props column to see what useful props there were.

Navigation device, nuclear lighter, flash gun, guard totem, shroud

There are many props, but none that can have an impact on the mind.

It turns out there was a will-enhancing potion, but it was used on Moon Shadow Island in order to help Aso get out of trouble from Aldebaran.

Aldebaran.

Qin Zhibo thought about it. Isn't Aldebaran the symbol of the King in Yellow?

This means that the King in Yellow almost plunged Aso into eternal madness, but the will-enhancing drug was able to save Aso's life.

According to this principle, maybe the will-enhancing medicine is also useful for Mao Lilan?

But after thinking about it for a while, Qin Zhibo felt that something was wrong.

The main symptom of the King in Yellow's effect on Aso is a massive decrease in willpower.

But after being forced out of Mao Lilan's dream, Qin Zhibo checked Mao Lilan's will and found that it had not declined much.

Mao Lilan's initial will was 40, which became 37, and then remained at this number.

This is because although both of them were influenced by the King in Yellow, their principles are different.

Aso is actually affected in the real world. The light of Aldebaran in the real world contains the power from the dark star.

Mao Lilan felt the dominance from the King in Yellow in a dream, not in the real world.

If we make an analogy, Mao Lilan's situation is more like that of Mrs. Garner who was affected by "The King in Yellow" in the "Yellow Fantasy Rhapsody" case.

Mrs. Garner came into contact with "The King in Yellow" when she was abroad and was subtly influenced by this grimoire.

Her willpower did not decline rapidly in a short period of time, but went through a rather long cycle, gradually declining to a level far lower than that of a normal person.

In the end, her will was distorted by the dream, and she killed another person who was controlled by the dream of the King in Yellow, and she was admitted to a mental hospital.

If this is the case with Mao Lilan, there should be no serious problems in the short term.

But in the long run, the dreams of the King in Yellow are like gangrene in the bones. If they cannot be completely cut off, those dominating dreams will sooner or later make people's sanity return to zero.

But what can be done to completely eliminate the dream of the King in Yellow?

At this point, Qin Zhibo temporarily stopped thinking and wanted to check on Mao Lilan's condition first.

ICU.

Mao Lilan, who had a new hospital bed, was lying on it, but more vital signs monitors were placed on her body to keep track of the situation at all times.

After conducting a series of physical examinations, the doctor still could not draw any reliable conclusions.

During the examination, all of Mao Lilan's vital signs returned to a stable state on their own, but only his mind was still active.

After doctors analyzed the brain waves, they speculated that Mao Lilan's brain might be continuing to dream.

This is the only explanation that explains why the cerebral cortex is still active after sleeping.

In other words, the situation just now may have been a false alarm.

But for insurance reasons, Mao Lilan still needs to stay in the intensive care unit for a while, at least until she wakes up.

Qin Zhibo opened the ward door and saw Mouri Kogoro and Conan waiting beside the bed.

Although the two of them forced themselves to calm down, the worry on their faces still showed from time to time.

Seeing Qin Zhibo come in, Maori Kogoro turned around and faced Qin Zhibo and bowed as usual.

"Thank you just now."

Qin Zhibo was a little puzzled and asked: "Thank me for what?"

"Thank you for notifying the doctor promptly."

In the past, due to rivals, Mouri Kogoro and Qin Zhibo always refused to deal with each other unilaterally.

But at this moment, Mouri Kogoro formally expressed his gratitude to Qin Zhibo as a father.

Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand what this was worth talking about alone, maybe this was a manifestation of the deep father's love in Mouri Kogoro.

"It doesn't matter, this is what I should do."

Mouri Kogoro nodded and said, "I'm going to make a call."

After saying that, Mouri Kogoro went out to report to Fei Eri.

Conan looked at Mao Lilan's sleeping face with a serious face, and thought in his mind.

Although it was not the first time that he looked at Mao Lilan who was sick and unconscious like this, he could vaguely feel that this time was different from before.

Xiaolan

Qin Zhibo lowered his head and glanced at the affectionate Conan, without saying anything to disturb, and also stared at Mao Lilan silently.

The willow-leaf-like eyebrows frowned slightly, and Mao Lilan's brain seemed to be experiencing something.

What it is, Qin Zhibo now has no way of knowing.

However, from the dream he had just seen, Qin Zhibo had some guesses about the silver-haired road demon.

The silver-haired road devil should be Sharon Wynyard.

Sharon Wynyard is proficient in the art of disguise and voice change, but neither of them is perfect.

For example, when a person is in a sudden and extremely panic situation, the subconscious actions of the brain are most likely to expose his or her original voice.

When the railing that the road demon was leaning on broke, she was suddenly frightened by weightlessness, and she subconsciously screamed softly.

The person involved may not be able to hear this sound clearly, but Qin Zhibo, as a bystander, can hear it clearly.

It was not a man's voice, but a woman's.

In addition, when Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan grabbed the Road Demon's clothes, the Road Demon reached out to grab the railing and jumped back to the platform with agility.

At that time, the two sleeves of the Road Demon were lowered due to the raised arms.

Qin Zhibo remembered that those two wrists were very slender, not like arms that could easily pull his entire body up with just his arms.

Among the disguise techniques, the thickness of arms and legs is the most difficult to disguise.

Although it is possible to put a ring of simulated arm guards on the outside of the arm, it will greatly limit the flexibility of the limbs, which makes it even weirder.

Therefore, usually when completely disguised as another person, the disguiser will directly pass on this part and choose to cover it up with body-covering clothes.

Of course, this is all Kaitou Kidd’s experience.

And Sharon Wynyard apparently did the same without disguising her arms.

There is another important reason, which is that Sharon Wynyard used Sergeant Radish's human skin mask outside the theater.

The human skin mask was made in advance, and Qin Zhibo could probably guess its use.

Disguise yourself as Sheriff Radish and escape from the police.

This trick of the golden cicada escaping from its shell is also a common method used by Kaitou Kidd.

In addition, Sharon also knows the inside story of the troupe.

He was obviously an outsider visiting the troupe for the first time, but he knew all the gossip in the troupe.

And she once said this after Mao Lilan was injured——

"If there were gods who showed kindness to humans, then you wouldn't be hurt."

This shows that Sharon is likely to have known about Rose's abnormality and that Mao Lilan risked injury but saved a murderer who was about to kill someone.

Looking back at Rose's killing method, the only subtlety is that Rose must let Keith use Stage Naraku in order to kill people with this method.

Originally, the height of the mirror was just enough to block the 1.9-meter-tall Keith, so stage traps were never used in previous performances.

But Rose secretly breaks the top of the mirror, which is considered the troupe's mascot.

In order to prevent the actors from discovering the damage to the mascot, the troupe had to secretly cut off the damaged part at the top of the mirror.

As a result, the mirror that was just enough to block Keith couldn't.

Therefore, Keith can only use stage Naraku to appear, providing Rose with the opportunity to kill.

During this process, most of the actors and troupe staff were unaware that the mirror had been damaged or that the performance had been changed to using stage Naraku.

This is why the New York police investigation did not uncover the obvious clues on the stage from the beginning.

But if he is the boss behind the troupe, he can be destroyed through the mirror. With the golden apple given by Rose, he can guess that Rose may kill someone.

There are various signs that Sharon may be the boss behind this troupe.

When I was researching Sharon's resume on the Internet, she made her first stage performance in this theater company, in the play "Golden Apples".

Since Sharon is a killer of the black organization, the organization also intends to cultivate her into a female star who can contact the upper class society.

It is not difficult to guess that Sharon was promoted by the black organization, and her first performance was probably promoted by the organization.

With the black organization as her backer, it is not surprising that Sharon can gradually become the boss behind the theater troupe.

But Sharon is from the black organization, so the real behind-the-scenes boss of the troupe should be the boss of the black organization.

But in this way, Renya Karasuma actually just sent "The King in Yellow" to his theater troupe, and asked the theater company to re-interpret the story of The King in Yellow.

As early as forty years ago in the Dusk Annex, he used the story of "The King in Yellow" to create puzzles for scholars to decipher.

Now someone has brought "The King in Yellow" to the Broadway stage.

It seems that Renya Karasuma has a special liking for the story of "The King in Yellow".

But this also proves another thing.

If we exclude the coincidence of the previous and later black organization bosses’ interest in “The King in Yellow”, then this is——

Renya Karasuma is still alive.

It's nearly midnight.

In the silent intensive care unit, time seemed to stand still, except for the electrocardiogram monitoring Mao Lilan's heart, which was beating evenly.

Qin Zhibo looked up at the time. The hour and minute hands were about to overlap at the 12 position, and he was waiting for the second hand to return.

Two travelers were walking in a hurry, looking up at the sky at night

The zero o'clock bell was about to ring, Qin Zhibo slowly stood up from his seat and walked straight out of the ward.

Mouri Kogoro and Conan on the other side of the hospital bed glanced at Qin Zhibo's back and didn't ask anything. They just assumed that Lao Qin was going to the toilet.

At the window in the hospital corridor, Qin Zhibo looked at the bright moon and stars outside and waited quietly.

10…

9…

3…

2…

1…

[The mall props are being refreshed.]

[Refresh completed]

Qin Zhibo looked at the prompt that popped up in the upper left corner of his field of vision and breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.

A long week has finally passed

Qin Zhibo couldn't wait to open the mall and check out the mall props for sale this week.

Qin Zhibo has some expectations for these props.

Maybe there are some props inside that can help Mao Lilan get rid of the nightmare.

This week is the same as the previous weeks, with a total of 6 items refreshed, 5 of which are props and 1 is a skill.

The first prop gave Qin Zhibo an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

【Destiny Coin】

[Secret Treasure from the Indescribable Abyss Age]

[It is the incarnation of angels and demons, or a joke of both good and evil]

【Redemption? Or a destined death? 】

[50-50 probability]

[Throw it out blindly and foolishly, and leave the rest to fate! 】

[Once thrown, not even the will of the gods can be changed]

[Price: 200 general skill proficiency]