Conan's grammatical investigator

Qin Zhibo spread the three diamond-shaped fragments on the ground one by one, counting their origins in his mind.

The first one is the shard obtained by Mr. Clock from Carl of the Arkham Achievers Club.

The second one is a shard obtained by trading with Belmode.

The third one was obtained from the Pavilion of Angels based on the information from the organization boss.

Among them, the fragment of the transaction with Belmode is the only one that the boss of the organization has no way of knowing.

This secret deal was reached because he took advantage of Belmode's concern for the safety of Mao Lilan and Conan.

The boss of the organization should have no reason to know that his favorite woman, Belmode, has adopted a child outside.

That is to say, if the organization boss takes advantage of the information gap and puts fake fragments in his own hands, he can only choose one of Carl's fragments or Rum's fragments.

Just now Mr. Clock has tested Karl's fragments and Belmode's fragments, and some of them are fake.

Then, Carl's shard is fake!

Or there is a desperate possibility that all three fragments are fake...

……

"My waiting is limited, have you thought about your decision?"

There was a rumbling sound in the temple, and Satogua's voice was like a magic sound, causing the invisible heirs around the base to stop the body and bow to him again.

Qin Zhibo knew he was running out of time, so he could only look up at the phosphorescent eye slits on the huge toad's head, and decided to take a gamble.

At this moment, he has completely ignored luck and so on.

He kicked out Carl's fragments and reassembled Belmode, former Rum's fragments, and other fan-shaped fragments into a complete Panest disc.

"This is the proof! We are your most devout believers!"

"And what you have digested just now is the sacrifice we brought to you!"

This is a last-ditch effort.

After saying this, Qin Zhibo stared at the huge body on the pedestal.

Satogua sat lazily on the pedestal, staring at the disc in Qin Zhibo's hand with half-closed eyes, and slowly wriggled his plump lips for a long time.

"Yes, I recognize that you are the holders of this disk."

"I recognize that you are the sacrificers, not the sacrifices themselves..."

As soon as the rumbling sound came to an end, Qin Zhibo's widened eyes relaxed, his body swayed with the trance of his brain, and he almost fell to the ground.

Now it was Koizumi Hongzi's turn to support Qin Zhibo so that he would not show his timidity in front of Satogua.

Qin Zhibo looked up at Satogua on the pedestal, and continued: "In addition to offering sacrifices for you, I would also like to ask you to meet some trivial requirements for you..."

Satogua's black face was aimed at the two humans below, and one of its huge eyes was closed.

He lazily said: "If you have any requirements, I can satisfy you. This is a thank you for your sacrifices to me."

"Bring it up, before I fall asleep."

Satogua was drowsy, which fully proved what it means to "sleep after eating, and eat when you wake up".

Time was running out, so Qin Zhibo immediately asked the first question.

"Please tell me, the great Satogua, how to revive dead human corpses."

This was the first question Qin Zhibo thought of, which was to revive Shuichi Akai.

The original plan was to make Koizumi Hongko the Supreme Witch, and then order the witch with the ability to restore life to resurrect Akai Shuichi's body.

As for Akai Shuichi's soul, it is still in the glass bottle, so as long as the body problem is solved, there is a high probability that it will be successfully revived.

But instead of seeking help from other witches, it is better to seek help from the real god here.

Moreover, after experiencing the life-and-death moment of choosing Panest's fragments just now, Qin Zhibo understands the importance of one more choice.

Often one more choice is the key to survival.

Facing Qin Zhibo's first question, Satogua on the pedestal tilted his head lazily and responded with a rough voice.

"This requires a potion formula, the eyeballs of the daughter of Itakua, the blood of ghouls, the milk of Ipo Zitel in the tail of Dire, the poison glands of puffer fish..."

"You need to fuse them into a potion to restore a corpse to its original state."

Satogua said a series of medicine names, and Qin Zhibo took out a small notebook and quickly wrote them down.

Although he thought he had a good memory, in this place, no matter how good a memory is, it is worse than a bad pen.

What's more, Qin Zhibo has never even heard of the medicinal materials that Satogua said.

After Satogua finished answering the first question, his heavy eyelids sank slightly.

Qin Zhibo seized the time and asked the second question.

"Please the great Satogua give us magic, such as teleportation, teleportation, resurrection, ordinary magic of out-of-body magic! There are even ultimate magic that transcends time and space,"

Koizumi Hongzi behind heard this question, her face was startled, this question was asked for her.

But Satogua paused, and responded with a rough voice.

"You can find all the common magic in this world on the stone pillars here..."

Satogua didn't even bother to raise his hand to give instructions, but Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi knew that he was talking about the stone pillars supporting the temple, with many words engraved on them.

"But you cannot use the ultimate magic that transcends time and space."

"The time and space of this world has been restricted by a powerful force. As the aborigines of this world, you cannot tamper with them..."

Satogua gave a lot of information, which made Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi very puzzled.

What is "time and space are restricted"?
And what kind of power can even control time and space?
"Excuse me, what kind of power is that?"

Facing Qin Zhibo's questioning, Satogua's viscous eyes flickered for a while, but he didn't answer. He rarely chose to remain silent.

It was as if someone as powerful as him was also trapped in this restriction, unable to escape.

Qin Zhibo didn't get an answer to this question, and Koizumi Hongzi next to him couldn't wait to ask, "Satogua, I want to know if my mother has been here before, and how is she doing now?"

Koizumi Hongzi didn't use honorifics to Satogua, but Satogua didn't bother to care about anything, and replied happily: "A woman with the same blood as you has been here before."

"If you ask her how she is now, you can go to that pile of bones and find out..."

"Because I've eaten her."

As soon as Satogua's words fell, Koizumi Hongzi's brain was struck by lightning.

She froze in place for a while, then fell straight to the ground, staring at the dark ground in disbelief.

In fact, after he figured out how to use the Panest fragments, Qin Zhibo didn't want Koizumi Hongzi to ask this question.

Obviously, anyone who enters Enkai without Panest fragments will most likely end up dead.

Unless Satogua was in a state of fullness at the time.

But today, when no one offered sacrifices, Satogua obviously seldom had enough time to eat.

After answering this question, Satogua's eyelids seemed to be unable to hold on, and gradually began to close.

He was going to sleep again.

Unless there is a new intruder, Satogua can only be awakened from the state of the statue.

Taking advantage of this last moment, Qin Zhibo immediately took out the letter paper he brought from Kunyang's apartment from his pocket, and shouted at Satogua.

"Who is the person who wrote this letter?!"

Satogua glanced at the letter paper in Qin Zhibo's hand for the last time, and murmured in a rough voice.

"Karasuma Renye..."

After the words fell, Satogua completely closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Qin Zhibo looked at the letter paper in his hand, and repeated the name "Karasuma Renye" ​​in his mouth.

In his brain, a logical line was vaguely pieced together.

Renye Karasuma arrived in Kunyang a long time ago and lived in Kunyang for quite a long time.

It's just that unlike others, Renye Karasuma was not under house arrest in Kunyang, but stayed here to study on her own initiative.

He learned the advanced virtualization technology of the Kunyang people, and he may even have learned the technology of the Kunyang people to overcome natural death.

Until he learned all the techniques, he chose to take the fragments of Panest and head to Enkai.

And before he left, he left behind this letter advising the new intruders.

The letter focused on the depravity of the Kunyang people, made the intruders fear the existence of the Kunyang people, and pointed out that the way to escape from Kunyang was Enkai.

But in reality, without the Parnest shards, going to Enkai is a dead end.

And once the new intruder sees the contents of the envelope and resists the Kunyang people, it will prompt the Kunyang people to execute the intruder.

In other words, this letter was left by Renye Karasuma, with the purpose of preventing latecomers from staying in Kunyang and learning the incredible skills of Kunyang people.

That apartment should have been the place where Kunyang people captured outsiders and resettled them 100 years ago.

Because there is only that apartment, which is built very much like the building above the surface.

It was Renye Karasuma who proposed to the Kunyang people to build the apartment that conformed to the aesthetics of the people on the ground, and then left the letter advising the intruders to escape voluntarily behind the wall of the apartment.

This is a trap set by Renye Karasuma over a hundred years.

……

In the dim temple, everything gradually returned to calm.

As Satogua fell into a deep sleep like a statue, the invisible heirs inside the temple also subsided a lot.

They slowly flowed back into their own sacrificial basins and stone troughs, as if nothing had happened, quietly waiting for the next sacrifice to come to the door.

Qin Zhibo used a searchlight to illuminate the stone pillars on both sides of the temple, and saw the words that described magic that Satogua said.

It can be seen that these characters are all carved by humans, and the distorted characters describe these ancient wisdoms.

It's a pity that the characters on it are not the characters used in modern times, so they cannot be easily learned, and it is even difficult to distinguish what kind of characters they are.

After searching all the stone walls and pillars, Qin Zhibo finally found some familiar words.

This is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, carved by someone on a stone wall at the entrance of the temple.

Qin Zhibo couldn't read ancient Egyptian characters, but Koizumi Hongzi happened to be an expert in this field.

He returned to Koizumi Hongzi, only to see that she was still sitting on the stone floor, staring at the ground absently.

"Is it better?"

Koizumi Hongzi did not answer, still looking at the ground.

If it was just an understatement of "death on the road", Hongzi Koizumi would not have suffered such a huge blow.

The pursuit of ultimate magic is always accompanied by huge sacrifices, which is the eternal truth of the witch family.

But Hongko Koizumi witnessed the tragedy of Mr. Clock with her own eyes.

She couldn't help thinking, imagining, and imagining what kind of desperate situation her mother died in.

Qin Zhibo looked at Koizumi Hongzi and sympathized with her experience.

In this situation, it is best for a person to cry aloud to vent their emotions.

But Koizumi Hongko, as a witch, has a lifelong rule of not crying, no matter crying for anyone, otherwise she will lose her magic power.

This feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to cry is the most uncomfortable.

Qin Zhibo thought for a while, then turned and went back to the pile of bones at the entrance of the temple.

The stench was pungent and unpleasant, so he had to tie a piece of cloth around his mouth and nose to make a simple mask.

He took out the [Holy Sword of Physics—Crowbar] from the props bar, and used the length of the crowbar to rummage through the pile of bones.

If it was 15 years ago, it shouldn't be too far away...

Probably right up here...

Qin Zhibo rummaged through the pile of bones for a while, and suddenly saw a dark silver object hanging on one of the bones.

This is a silver photo pendant, but due to the baptism of time, the outermost layer of silver has been oxidized and blackened a lot.

Open the lid of the pendant, inside is a yellowed oval photo.

In the photo is a graceful and luxurious woman with short fiery red hair and a fiery red robe.

Qin Zhibo met at Koizumi Hongzi's home, and this was Koizumi Hongzi's mother.

……

In front of the pedestal of the temple, Koizumi Hongko looked at the ground hopelessly.

Suddenly, a pendant hung in the air and fell in front of her eyes.

The photo inside the pendant is a bust photo of a woman.

Seeing this photo, Koizumi Hongzi's eyes immediately brightened, and she grabbed the pendant into her hands like a treasure.

"Where did you find this?!"

"It's just..." Qin Zhibo paused, but still didn't say what was in the pile of bones, "on the ground of the temple."

Koizumi Hongzi was shocked, and then hugged the pendant in her arms with great cherishment.

Seeing that she had regained her senses, Qin Zhibo also told her the information he had just collected.

"I searched around just now. There are many incomprehensible characters engraved on the stone walls and pillars here, but there are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs at the entrance over there."

Koizumi Hongzi raised her head, her face regained her old confident smile.

"Then it looks like I'm the only one to do it..."

……

The two came to the front of the stone wall and stared at the content above.

After a while, Koizumi Hongzi saw the origin of these words.

"These are the words carved here by Theron, the apprentice of the great magician Eibon."

"Um……"

"It says that this temple has a portal set up by Eibon, which can directly travel between Enkai and the outside world..."

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