The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Listening to Randy Hawke's words, Qin Zhibo was suddenly shocked.

When I was watching the performance in the morning, the ghost floating around me seemed to be Minase Yomu.

Can they see it?

Randy Hawke seemed to see Qin Zhibo's doubts and explained: "No, most of us ordinary people cannot see ghosts, unless the ghost wants us to see it."

"Except that one."

Randy Hawke's gaze pointed to the scar-faced man on the other side. He squatted down to pick up the throwing knife on the ground and wiped it carefully.

"It's not convenient to talk here, let's go in first."

Randy Hawke extended the invitation, and Qin Zhibo thought about it and decided to agree.

In the reception room, Randy Hawke made a cup of instant coffee and handed it to Qin Zhibo.

"We only have this kind of coffee here, please don't mind."

"It's okay, it's just what I want."

Qin Zhibo picked up the coffee and took a sip to show respect for his host.

Of course, this is also based on the fact that he carefully observed the process of Randy Hawke making coffee and knew that he was not making any tricks.

Before the conversation officially started, Qin Zhibo glanced at the people in the reception room. In addition to Randy Hawke, there were also the scar-faced man and a woman with an Indian face.

The two men stared at Qin Zhibo warily, with sullen faces, which formed a huge contrast with Randy Hawke, who had a kind expression.

"Mr. Qin, are you also from the United States?" Randy Hawke took the lead in asking the question at the beginning of the conversation.

"Yes, Hawaiian."

"Oh, the beaches in Hawaii are very beautiful! It seems that we can communicate in English." Randy Hawke switched the language and his tone became deeper, "So, are you sent by the Nine Angels?"

Qin Zhibo's eyes narrowed slightly, and Randy Hawke also saw the answer from this subtle change in expression.

"It doesn't matter. This is not the first time that the investigators sent by Nine Angels have contacted us. Non-governmental organizations like ours cannot abide by the rules they set."

Qin Zhibo took the initiative and asked: "So? What did you do?"

Hearing this question, Randy Hawke's expression changed and he leaned against the sofa, "We just do what we should do."

"Different from your nine angels' concept of 'protecting the whole world', we are just a group of soulless people who gathered together to seek revenge against those who harmed us."

"If you received the mission from the Nine Angels, you should have heard of my deeds, right?"

Qin Zhibo nodded noncommittally.

Randy Hoke leaned forward, with his forearms across his knees, looking into the void in front of him, and recalled: "I will never forget the tragic death of my wife Susan, and the tragic deaths of Paul and Ani."

"I originally hoped that the state police would resolve this matter and bring justice to my wife and children."

"But a year later, I was disappointed. The state police only caught a petty thief who betrayed my family's information. The real murderer was still at large, so I found your Nine Angels organization."

"Nine Angels is very prestigious among the wealthy people in New England. It is a righteous charity investigation organization. I was also introduced by a friend and became a major customer of Nine Angels."

"Nine Angels' ability to do things is indeed better than the incompetent state police. In just over a month, I learned that the person who killed my family was a cult called the Blue Petal Order."

"Two months later, Nine Angels told me that the murderer had been identified. I was so happy at the time, thinking that my family's lost souls could finally be comforted."

"But what happened next made me extremely disappointed."

"Because more than a year has passed since the case, a lot of evidence could not identify the specific murderer at that time, and the believers refuted each other that they were coerced and brainwashed. In the end, the state court only sentenced them to a maximum of ten years in prison. .”

"I can't accept this sentence. Even Ms. Amanda Hughes came to persuade me but I still can't accept it."

"From that moment on, I knew that in this world, justice cannot judge everything. Tooth for tooth, eye for eye is the true meaning."

"So I embarked on the road of revenge, used my financial resources to shelter those who had no place to live, and formed this circus."

Randy Hawke told his story without tears or sighs, and even his voice was very calm, as if he was telling an ordinary past event that could no longer be ordinary.

Perhaps his sadness and indignation have already sunk deeply into his heart under the baptism of time and will no longer be easily revealed.

But from his mouth, Qin Zhibo heard a somewhat familiar name.

Amanda Hughes, this name also appears in the Antarctic expedition diary of the former owner of the Blue Castle, Mrs. Mamiya.

The University of Michigan expedition that year was funded by the Amanda Foundation, and the specimens of the ancient corpses brought back from Antarctica were also taken away by Amanda Hughes.

Is it the same person?

"Who is Ms. Amanda Hughes you are talking about?"

Randy Hawke looked startled, as if he didn't understand why Qin Zhibo asked this question, but he still answered: "She is the daughter of one of the nine founders of Nine Angels, and she is a respectable lady."

"But she has enjoyed an extremely noble status and status since she was born, so much so that she doesn't understand the simplest truth, that is, without money, even entrusting the Nine Angels Organization is impossible."

"It is impossible to become a customer or partner of the Nine Angels organization without having enough wealth."

"Is it justice that only rich people can enjoy?"

Randy Hawke chuckled mockingly, seemingly dismissive of the existence of the Nine Angels.

Qin Zhibo thought about it for a moment. The top leaders of the Nine Angels organization that he was currently in contact with, Yasuharu Haneda and Taro Shinname, all had one thing in common, that is, they were rich.

Sure enough, no matter which world, money is the ultimate stepping stone.

"So it's because you have different ideas from Amanda Hughes that Nine Angels have been sending people to investigate you?" Qin Zhibo's tone was like a third party staying out of the matter, as if he was not from Nine Angels.

"No." Randy Hawke shook his head, "She was assassinated 17 years ago. There should be someone else behind the scenes who instructed you to investigate."

Qin Zhibo once again extracted key information from Randy Hoke's words - 17 years ago.

17 years ago, it was the time when I found the life information about Armandi Hughes on the Internet.

In addition, a Japanese shogi player named "Koji Haneda" died in the hotel together with Armandi Hughes.

At present, this is the only information that can be found on the Internet. There is no case details or police handling results.

Now it seems that the "Amanda Hughes" Randy Hawke calls is the person he wants to investigate.

Amanda Hughes turned out to be the top leader of the Nine Angels organization, which can also be understood why the Amanda Foundation funded the University of Michigan expedition to conduct the Antarctic expedition.

The way the Nine Angels organization has always operated is that rich people fund other people to complete various tasks, that is, "we pay and you risk your life."

There is no humanity in such an approach. This is how most industries in modern human society operate anyway.

When Qin Zhibo investigates Amanda Hughes, he also wants to complete the main tasks that have been accumulating before.

Currently, Qin Zhibo has two mainline achievement tasks hanging on his taskbar.

The first one is to enter the underground world of Enkai without any injuries. It has the most rewards, a full 30,000 proficiency and ten draws in a row.

The second one is to see the Ancient One with your own eyes. The rewards are also good and richer than the ordinary main quests.

The key to getting to Enkai is Mr. Clock, and you need to wait for it to obtain the last key fragment to Enkai in the Arkham Successful People's Club, also called the "Panest Fragment".

The key to seeing the Ancient One in person is Amanda Hughes, because it is definitely unrealistic for Qin Zhibo to go to Antarctica himself, and she took away all the corpse specimens of the Ancient One brought out by the University of Michigan expedition.

But now it seems that those ancient corpse specimens are likely to be in the Nine Angels organization, together with other strange items secretly collected by the Nine Angels.

It turns out that I have always had the answer to the question, I just didn’t know it.

Qin Zhibo's eyes were slightly startled, but then he realized that things were still not simple.

With his current status, it is definitely unrealistic to ask to go to the headquarters of Nine Angels to see the Ancient One with his own eyes.

Unless he could become a legendary investigator, the Nine Angels would have the chance to take a high look at him.

Qin Zhibo: "."

Randy Hawke, who was next to him, saw that the guest on the sofa had not spoken for a long time. He thought that his words had touched the other person, so he continued to talk.

"Actually, Jason can see the souls around you because he has some special experiences."

With that said, Randy Hawke looked at the scar-faced man and nodded.

The scar-faced man unbuttoned his collar, exposing his chest underneath the clothes.

This is a horrifying body, with several terrible scars across his body. The chest hair divided by these scars is like an isolated island covered with brown crops.

At the position of his heart, a piece of black flesh was sewn to the surface of the skin, and strange gray blood vessels were exposed on the surface of the muscle and pulsed continuously, seeming to vent its powerful vitality.

After just one glance, the scar-faced man quickly tied up his clothes and turned his body to the other side.

"Jason was kidnapped by cultists and subjected to some very horrific experiments."

"Many years ago, a family in Dunwich raised the son of the evil god. Although the son of the evil god was expelled from the earth by three professors from Miskatonic University, this piece of meat was left behind."

"Somehow, the cultists obtained this piece of meat and tried to create another son of the evil god."

"But fortunately, Jason's will was still able to resist this monster, and he gained amazing physical strength and the ability to see ghosts."

Randy Hawke's explanation surprised Qin Zhibo. He didn't expect that humans could gain power in this way.

It's just that this process is very cruel. When he used the leg lift just now, the scarred man was unmoved, probably because of this inhumane operation.

"Then the purpose of your coming to Japan this time is also for revenge?" Qin Zhibo asked.

Randy Hawke thought for a moment and nodded honestly, "Yes, we must take revenge on a man named 'Aki Kato'."

As soon as these words came out, the Indian woman and the scarred man on the side were a little surprised. Randy Hawke actually told the person who wanted to investigate them their plan.

But Randy Hawke also has his own considerations. They don't have much information about "Akakato" now, they only know that this person currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.

The efficiency of foreigners like them in investigating in Japan is limited. If they can have the help of local detectives, the efficiency can be much higher.

And he felt that what he just said had already touched the man in front of him, otherwise he would not have been silent and thinking for so long.

"If possible, I hope you can help us find out this person's address. He should be in Tokyo."

"Of course, you only need to provide information, and we can do the other things ourselves."

Before Randy Hawke finished speaking, Qin Zhibo suddenly interrupted.

"The 'Akira Kato' you mentioned is actually 'Akira Kato', right?"

"Kato? Akira?"

Randy Hawke hesitated for a moment before he realized that the arrangement of names between Eastern and Western people was different. The Japanese put the last name first and the first name last.

"Yes, his name should be Kato Akira. Do you know him?"

Qin Zhibo nodded, not only did he know him, but he knew it deep in his bones.

This is a literal meaning, because there is indeed only one skeleton left in Akira Kato's body, and all the flesh and blood have been eaten by the Shoggoths.

Seeing Qin Zhibo's affirmative answer, Randy Hawke's face was shocked, and the scar-faced man was filled with anger and was about to explode.

"Where is he?!" The scar-faced man almost yelled.

"You are too late, he is already dead"

"What? Dead?"

"About two days before you came, he died in a terrorist attack. The Japanese police should have announced the list of the deceased, and his name should be traceable."

The three people in the conference room looked incredulous, but Qin Zhibo's expression was sincere and did not look like he was lying.

The scar-faced man trembled and leaned against the wall as if he was exhausted. The Indian woman next to him patted his shoulder comfortingly.

Observing this, Qin Zhibo guessed that the person who had a grudge against Akira Kato should be the scar-faced man named "Jason".

Qin Zhibo was not sure what Akira Kato did before, but when he first went to the apartment where he and Chiba lived, he introduced that he was studying at a university in the United States, Oklahoma State University.

"So what's your grudge against him?" Qin Zhibo asked tentatively.

Randy Hawke glanced at the scar-faced man and replied: "Jason and Akira Kato were college classmates and were kidnapped by Akira Kato in collusion with the cultists."

roommate?

Qin Zhibo looked at the scar-faced man in disbelief. His face had only scars and wrinkles, and his skin color was extremely poor. He didn't look like a man in his twenties at all.

Moreover, the basic information on the scarred man's head is that he is 52 years old. It is estimated that this is because the difference in appearance before and after is too big, and the false identity information was compiled when applying for a new passport.

It seems that transplanting the flesh and blood of the son of the evil god will put a huge burden on the human body and will shorten the life span.

But besides that, Qin Zhibo thought of another thing.

Generally speaking, the beliefs of cultists are very devout and single. They identify which evil god they are and they will not believe in Buddha today and pray to Bodhisattva tomorrow.

This should be especially true for fanatical believers like Kato Akira.

In other words, his beliefs when he was in college in the United States should be the same as those in Japan, and they were all about the same evil god.

So, the evil god Minase Harumu once accommodated and the flesh on the scar-faced man actually came from the same source?