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Chapter 400 Reading "The King in Yellow" (chapter with ten thousand characters, please subscribe)
Iti's queen, Kasiruda, has three children and has the right to inherit the throne at the same time.

The eldest son, Tyre, was named after "Tyre", the patriarch of the kings of Iti, and should have been the heir to the throne.

However, Taier worshiped the high priest Nautauba as his teacher, followed him to learn various spells in the temple, and believed in the high priest's prophecy of the end.

The second daughter, Camilla, was sentimental.

The third son, Wachter, was young and accomplished nothing.

In addition, Kasiruda has an ambitious older brother, Adonis.

He has always coveted the position of the king, and hopes that when he becomes the king, he can implement severe punishment laws and correct the loose discipline of the royal guard.

As for the relationship between members of the royal family, Qin Zhibo learned about it through Adonis' self-report.

The first scene of the first act of "The King in Yellow" is also how Adonis realizes his conspiracy to usurp the throne.

In the Iti Palace in the middle of the night, Adonis first drove away the guards and secretly met with the third prince Wachter.

Under the advice of Adonis, the third prince stole the seal of the kingdom and affixed the seal on the heir document that Adonis secretly forged.

Adonis lied that Queen Casiluda was too obsessed with the ball and was unable to handle the affairs of the heir to the throne, so she made the choice for her sister as her elder brother.

But after sending the third prince away, Adonis asked the second princess Camilla again, saying that the third prince had stolen the seal, and ordered him to forge the documents of the heir to the throne, and he had to obey.

Adonis suggested that the second princess secretly arrest the third prince, and the second princess accepted the suggestion.

After the people left, Adonis said to himself all his plans, which was to let the second prince arrest the third prince, and then he would send someone to secretly kill the third prince in prison and plant it on the second prince.

When the replacement guards arrived, Adonis also left the stage.

However, all of this was bumped into by the high priest Nautauba and the eldest prince Tyre who happened to be out for a walk.

The two used invisibility spells and quietly hid nearby, overhearing all of Adonis' plots.

Tire wanted to save his younger sister and younger brother, but the high priest felt that these were irrelevant things. As long as the king in yellow came, Iti would be under the control of their theocratic agents.

Whoever wants to be released or executed at that time is all at their own discretion.

And the most important thing for them now is to find the yellow mark before the lost Carcosa disappears.

Thus, the First Prince and the High Priest left the stage.

Afterwards, the captain of the guard designed to arrest the third prince who "premeditatedly usurped the throne".

But at this moment, a group of strangers came from afar. They all wore white robes embroidered with black circles and yellow marks, and their voices were piercing, like the buzzing of insects.

The leader among them communicated with the captain of the guard, claiming to be from the city of the Supreme King, and came to find a new home.

The captain of the guard ordered him to take off the pale mask on his face, but the stranger declined the request, saying that only members of the "Brotherhood" could wear the pale mask.

Afterwards, Queen Kasiruda came to meet these Brotherhood members and arranged accommodation for them.

The second princess Camilla looked at the "pale mask" on the faces of these strangers, and suddenly had the idea of ​​holding a masquerade party tomorrow, and everyone had to wear this "pale mask" to attend.

Kasiruda agreed to her daughter's request.

Act one, scene one, end.

The content in the first act is a bit like a palace fighting drama, but there are some mysterious elements mixed in it.

The only thing that touched Qin Zhibo a little were those strangers who called themselves "Brotherhood".

Neither their voices nor the way they spoke were human, which reminded Qin Zhibo of creatures like MI-GO.

Act one, scene two.

The curtain opened again, and a dance scene that needed to be dressed up slowly appeared.

Casiluda, Queen, sang a song in which "Carcosa" was mentioned.

This caused the high priest to panic, and sent the eldest prince Tyre to ask Cassiruda if he saw "Carcosa".

But Tell found nothing, returned to the High Priest, and talked with Adonis.

The two sides showed each other, Adonis bluntly said that the last language and the king in yellow are illusory illusions, but the high priest firmly opposed
The two sides separated, and Adonis found the captain of the guard and asked him to arrest the eldest prince on the grounds that the eldest prince slandered him for plotting rebellion.

However, the captain of the guard had an affair with the eldest prince. During the conversation, the eldest prince used an invisibility spell and left.

After another trifle, the stranger who came to Itti only yesterday came to the ball.

They brought a message from the Supreme King, and after a resemblance of chanting, the whole ball entered a chaotic climax.

Everyone had to take off the pale mask on their faces to confirm the true identity of the people around them.

However, everyone took off their masks, only the stranger from the fraternity ignored it and did nothing.

When others asked him why he didn't take off his mask, this was his answer.

"I have no mask"

"I am real."

"Keep these words in mind, for they will echo forever in the streets outside when the city is returned to Carcosa. There is no release, no end, no future."

The second princess let out a scream, and then
She is crazy.

Act one, end of scene two.

In a ball of intrigue, the appearance of a stranger broke the peace on the surface of the ball, and just a few short messages reset the San value of the second princess to zero.

To sum it up, that's about it, Qin Zhibo still doesn't feel anything special.

And what follows is the second act of "The King in Yellow", which is said to be full of taboos and madness.

Qin Zhibo on the seat shrunk his hand holding the armrest, held his breath, and prepared to welcome the opening of the second act, but found that the other seats in the theater were full of people since no one knew when.

These people are all dressed in modern costumes, their bodies are translucent, and some seem to be in the state of ethereal souls.

Qin Zhibo glanced back, and found that not far from where he was, a pair of familiar figures were sitting on the seats.

Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran!

Qin Zhibo squinted his eyes and confirmed that it was Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan, especially the "horns" on Mao Lilan's head were so recognizable.

Both of them stared at the stage with serious faces.

Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi stood up from his seat and looked at the stage in surprise.

Judging from the shape of his mouth, he might have said "La Ni".

Then, the curtain on the stage opened again, and Qin Zhibo's perspective was forcibly adjusted back to the stage by an invisible force.

Act Two, Scene One.

The dimly lit cell has a huge space, in which there are various execution instruments, torture beds, wooden cabinets, etc.

Queen Casiluda and her brother Adonis appear from the right side of the stage,
The beginning is a conversation between Kasiruda and Adonis. Adonis believes that the person who needs to be dealt with to maintain the rule of the royal family is the high priest.

In order to prevent the untouchables in the city from flocking to him under the "demonic words" of the high priest, Adonis suggested that the prisoners in the city should be executed immediately in order to establish the royal prestige, and that the masked monsters who appeared on the stage should be brought here. Torture.

Casillada agreed one by one.

Adonis personally supervised the execution of the prisoners, and Kasiruda was in charge of torturing the weirdo
There is an inner monologue of Cassilda in the middle, which probably means that she knows that her brother and the high priest are very scheming, and what she wants to do is to break free from the fate that everyone has set for herself, and prove that these people are wrong of.

To do this, she needs to first torture the weirdo at the ball and understand the conspiracy of the high priest.

The queen thought that the weirdo was sent by the high priest to make trouble.

The strange man was taken by the guards, but the pale mask on the strange man's face could not be removed, and Kasiruda could only order someone to put on the hood for execution.

Kasiruda began to whip the weirdo continuously and asked him his name.

But no matter how the execution was executed, the weirdo replied "I am the truth".

Casiluda asked again if the strange man served the high priest.

The weirdo replied: "The truth serves those who know the truth, but priests are not among them."

The queen's demeanor gradually fell into madness, and the method of execution of the weirdo became more and more vicious, but no matter how much interrogation, the weirdo insisted on his own set of rhetoric.

Until the monster's body was torn apart by the huge torture device, and white blood oozes from it.

At this time, the crazy second princess opened the door and broke in, looking for Huang Yin.

Kasiruda comforted the second princess to go back to the palace first, but the second princess suddenly saw the faded robe on the strange man's body, and recognized the yellow seal embroidered on the front as the "yellow seal".

In the end, the crazy second princess raised her arms and shouted: "Celebration! Great joy! The yellow seal is in my hands! The end is coming!"

Act two, scene one, end.

In the first scene of the second act, Qin Zhibo's impression after watching it is still flat.

Adonis is still scheming, while Kasiruda loses the queen's lofty demeanor and punishes the weirdo crazily.

If the will can be investigated, Kasiruda should also be gradually going crazy.

As for the blood oozing from the weirdo is white, it means that the weirdo is not a human being, but some other kind of creature.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of MI-GO again. A white liquid would flow out of the seemingly dead MI-GO body, and this white liquid would quickly fade over time until it turned into an almost transparent oily substance.

After a short thought, Qin Zhibo took advantage of the time when he could turn his head freely during the intermission, and hurriedly looked at the seats where Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan were sitting just now.

However, there was no one there at this time, not only that, but the seats in the entire theater were also empty.

In the soul-like helpless audience, Qin Zhibo saw a familiar person again.

Kanami
Kanami sat on the third row of seats, her body leaned forward slightly, her beautiful eyes were fixed on the pitch-black stage that was temporarily closed due to the intermission.

At this moment, the curtain on the stage opened again, and Qin Zhibo's gaze was forcibly transferred to the stage again.

The end begins.

Act two, scene two.

It begins with an inconsequential conversation between two guards, and then Queen Kasiruda enters the scene.

She fell into infinite grief, because she already knew that it was her order to execute the prisoners in the city that killed the third prince who was imprisoned for forging documents.

Kasiruda collapsed on the throne in pain, while Adonis continued to slander, saying that the third prince was arrested under the order of the second princess, and she was undoubtedly a traitor.

As for the person behind the instigation of Camilla, it was the high priest. The high priest took a fancy to the second princess's tendency to act emotionally, so he wanted to control the innocent girl to seize control of the kingdom.

Instigated by Adonis, Kasiruda revised the law, allowing the royal guards to rush into the sacred and inviolable temple and capture the high priest from it.

Ceremony breaks and music breaks, and it begins here.

The captured high priest began to angrily expose Adonis' lies and deceit, and Adonis also accused the high priest of being a nihilistic fantasist, fantasizing about the god "King in Yellow" who did not exist at all.

Cassiluda is caught between the two, and her will gradually shakes.

At this moment, the eldest prince Tire, who had been offline for a long time, finally came back, but his eyes were blind and bleeding.

Just because he walked out of the battlements and saw the terrifying beauty outside the city, that beauty belonged to the future, and it was about to be staged in the city.

Adonis thinks that the eldest prince is bewitching the public and wants to order the captain of the guard to arrest him, but the captain of the guard has an affair with the eldest prince and refuses to obey the order.

Kasiruda, who had begun to distrust Adonis, also rejected Adonis's suggestion and allowed the captain of the guard to take the blind prince out of the city to flee for his life.

At this time, Adonis remembered that the eldest prince said that there was a battle flag outside the city, and quickly ordered the guards to hold the gate and not let anyone in.

The crazy second princess entered the stage at this time, holding the "yellow seal" in both hands, and told that she was ordered by her uncle (Adonis).

Adonis, who couldn't listen anymore, grabbed the guard's musket and shot and killed the second princess.

Queen Casiluda finally determined that Adonis was a traitor, and asked him to raise his sword, and the two had a one-on-one duel.

The younger sister Kasiruda's swordsmanship is obviously superior, and she easily defeated Adonis in a duel while communicating, and knocked down the sword in his hand.

However, just as Kasiruda was about to deliver a fatal blow, the stage suddenly burst into light.

This kind of light doesn't seem to come from any kind of light in the known world, it's an almost magical purple-red light.

The moment the light bloomed, the royal flags on both sides of the throne also changed abruptly, replaced by banners with yellow seals.

Everyone turned pale with fright, Kasiruda dropped the sword in his hand in fright, Adonis quickly picked it up, but he didn't dare to act rashly, and looked around in surprise.

The wall set representing the city wall and the palace began to collapse, smoke spewed from the cracks, and the infinite sound of gongs surrounded the stage.

Until the yellow light replaced the gradually subsiding smoke, a tall figure gradually appeared.

The king in yellow, he has appeared!
The king in yellow was about three meters tall, his tattered robe and hood rippling in the air with his figure.

His face is hidden behind a surging yellow silk veil, and his hands are covered with yellow silk gloves of infinite majesty.

Every time he took a step forward, the surrounding rags fluttered with the wind.

He spoke to his surroundings in a deep and commanding tone.

(to Cassileda): Did you see that?Do you see the truth now?

(to the High Priest): You long for the revival and continuation of the empire, I assure you that our empire will last forever, and you will never see the end.

(to Adonis): Your dynasty has devoured its own children, and will never rule this place again. What has your reason and faith brought you?
When the king in yellow pointed his finger at Adonis, Adonis became hysterical and cried incoherently.

"No! No! It's mine! Mine!"

"I won't be snatched away by you again! Don't even think about it! Everything is mine!"

He raised the sword in his hand and swung it towards the king in yellow clothes, but the moment the sword body touched the yellow clothes, it quickly bounced and twisted, and instead he cut himself.

Adonis died instantly.

Seeing this scene, the high priest was so frightened that his faith collapsed, and he wanted to cast an invisibility spell to escape, but the king in yellow also pointed his finger at the high priest.

"You long to witness the beginning of a new age, and I assure you we are the new age."

"Of course, we have King's Landing, but we don't need priests, because the eternal dead will serve us. Where will your fanaticism and belief send you?"

The moment the king in yellow spread his hands, the high priest died instantly, and gray smoke came out of his body.

The King in Yellow looked at Kasiruda for the last time, and promised that Kasiruda would survive.

But Kasiruda insisted that it was the king in yellow who killed his child, and believed that finding the eldest prince would continue the dynasty's rule.

The King in Yellow: "Tyre is the ancestor of all kings, and I am the last of all kings."

Kasiruda: "I won't give way!"

The King in Yellow: "You have abdicated."

Kasiruda: "You will conquer the whole land of Hastur?"

The King in Yellow: "We are Hastur, and we are the ones who liberated Iti from the suffering of mankind. Those who continue to parasitize here, we acquiesce."

Kasiruda: "Iti is not your city, but Carcosa is!"

The King in Yellow: "Now, here is Carcosa, and Carcosa has come upon all of you."

Kasiruda knelt on the ground and begged, "Don't fall on us! O king! Don't!"

The lights on the stage suddenly went out, and the theater was plunged into darkness.

finale.

Qin Zhibo stared at the silent stage, feeling that "The King in Yellow" was nothing more than that.

Comparable to other mythological classics, Qin Zhibo even felt that "The King in Yellow" was too gentle, like a weird palace fighting drama covered in occultism.

It begins with the struggle for the heir to the throne and ends with the arrival of the final heir to the throne.

The scheming Adonis believed in reason and insisted on the belief that Iti should be ruled by a dynasty.

In the end, he never expected that his scheming was nothing in front of the king in yellow, just like an ant playing tricks in front of humans.

Do humans care what plots the ants are planning?

But at the end, the scene where Adonis frantically attacked the King in Yellow reminded Qin Zhibo of Hideo Kawashima who shot at Aldebaran on Moon Shadow Island.

They are all true braves!
Nautauba, the high priest with fanatical beliefs, was a staunch defender of the prophecy of the end at the beginning, and firmly believed in the coming of Carcosa and the King in Yellow.

But when the king in yellow really came before him at the end of the day, he flinched in fear and was given death.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of an idiom, Mr. Ye loves dragons.

Perhaps his fate was doomed from the first scene of the second act, because the messenger of the king in yellow did not recognize the so-called "serving" of the high priest.

As for Queen Casiluda, there is no firm stand, a shaky ruler.

She sometimes believed in the rule of the dynasty, and sometimes believed in the prophecy of the end, which indirectly led to the death of her two children.

The king in yellow "compassionately" let her survive. She refused to obey at first, but when death came, she knelt down and begged for mercy.

The eldest prince was stabbed blind, and escaped from the royal city with his lover, but there is no one in the world but the "king" soil.

The second princess went mad and was shot and killed by her uncle.

The third prince was the worst. He never showed up after the first scene of the first act, and was ordered to be executed by his biological mother inexplicably.

All members of the royal family of a dynasty ended badly. The collapse of reason, the collapse of faith, and the insignificance of human beings under supernatural power are vividly displayed in this script.

But what else?

Qin Zhibo felt that although the second act had a lot of meaning, that was it.

Originally, what should bring people the most madness should be the part where the King in Yellow Appears, but when the King in Yellow Appeared, Qin Zhibo didn't feel any discomfort.

Even kind?
After all, the king in yellow clothes exists in human form. He communicates with people verbally, and his attitude is high and high. Even during the execution, he will not lose his due demeanor.

If there is a God with clear rewards and punishments, maybe this is what it looks like?
Qin Zhibo imagined various scenes in his brain, and suddenly realized that it had been a long time since the stage closed, why was he still sitting in the theater?

Qin Zhibo shook his body, but he was still trapped by some kind of invisible chain, as if he was forced to sit on the seat to watch the curtain call.

But there is nothing on the stage.
Just when Qin Zhibo thought so, a faint yellow halo appeared on the dark stage.

The light quickly spread out like a carpet unfolding on a slope, unexpectedly paving a straight "Golden Road" leading to Qin Zhibo!
This is not a flat effect on the stage, this is 3D!
On this golden road with halos, a yellow figure floated slowly.

He is almost exactly the same as the king in yellow on the stage just now, but his arrival at this moment can be seen more realistically from Qin Zhibo's perspective.

He actually came out!

Qin Zhibo's fingers trembled slightly, his back was straightened as if fixed by some kind of shackles, and his eyes were fixed on the king in yellow floating out of the stage.

The ragged clothes on the King of Yellow Clothes were windless and automatic, and his hands were quietly hanging on his sides, revealing the extraordinary elegance.

He didn't make any unnecessary movements until he floated in front of Qin Zhibo.

Under the majesty of the king, Qin Zhibo had no choice but to raise his head to the limit in order to see that lofty face.

At this time, the face of the king in yellow was not the one covered with yellow silk on the stage, but another pale mask with indistinguishable facial features and expressions.

He raised his finger, and pointed at Qin Zhibo's head like executing a damned person on the stage.

At this moment, a familiar panic swept Qin Zhibo's body.

There was an electric shock-like pain all over his body, which caused Qin Zhibo to subconsciously scream.

At almost the same moment, Qin Zhibo felt that the restraints on his body were suddenly loosened, and his back was able to dodge freely.

He hurriedly dodged to the side, trying to escape the finger in the void.

Then, there was a loud bang.

Qin Zhibo fell to the ground
Qin Zhibo widened his eyes in surprise, looking at everything around him.

Familiar desks and boss chairs, behind him are the shuttered glass windows, with the words "Zhibo Detective Agency" pasted on the glass.

There is no doubt that this is his own detective agency.

Sitting on the ground and calming down for a while, Qin Zhibo stood up again with the boss chair next to him, and looked at "The King in Yellow" on the table.

Before I knew it, "The King in Yellow" had been turned to the last page by myself.

Looking down, the last line on the last page reads this sentence.

[You have long suspected that Hastur corrupts the soul; and when you read this book, you have already been corrupted]

Qin Zhibo's eyes moved slightly, and he sat back in his seat.

Hastur, there is no doubt that it is Hastur, and the proper noun "Hastur" has been mentioned many times in "The King in Yellow".

It's just that at the beginning of the script, Hastur seems to be a place name, and Iti is just a country in Hastur.

But when the king in yellow came, he answered for everyone, Hastur is not a place name, but his name.

The King in Yellow, Hastur
Qin Zhibo remembered his experience on Moon Shadow Island again, the yellow glow from Aldebaran.

"The great presence on Aldebaran"

"The king in yellow, Hastur?"

Qin Zhibo muttered to himself, and suddenly, a prompt appeared in the system.

[After reading, a total of 8 willpower points will be lost]

[Gain 800 Mysterious Myth Knowledge and Skill Proficiency]

800 points of Mysterious Myth knowledge skills have been added to Qin Zhibo's skills, but this is not the end.

【Main task: The test of the "King in Yellow"】

[Task Requirement: Find the real "Pale Mask" and bring it to MI-GO]

[Task reward: 4000 general skill proficiency, 400 mysterious myth knowledge skill proficiency]

[Mission countdown in progress]

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With the completion of reading "The King in Yellow", a new task came out as usual.

Looking carefully at the mission content, there are nothing more than two key points, one is to find the "Pale Mask", and the other is to bring it to MI-GO.

In "The King in Yellow Clothes", the "Pale Mask" is an important prop, its function is second only to the "Yellow Seal", and it has appeared many times.

In the play, members of the "Brotherhood" who claim to serve the real world wear "pale masks" until they are strangled by the queen with a winch, and the masks are never taken off.

In the second scene of the first act, the princes and nobles at the masquerade ball in the palace also wear various pale masks to participate in the ball.

In addition, at the end of the act, the real king in yellow also floated out of the stage wearing a "pale mask", just like "Ghosts will be reflected".

According to Qin Zhibo's recollection, each of these pale masks was different.

As for the second key point of the mission, the only MI-GO that Qin Zhibo knows and can find is Mr. Clock.

Should I bring the "Pale Mask" to it?

Although the content of the task was not stated directly, Qin Zhibo guessed that this was probably the meaning.

Like the previous missions, this mission is still marked with a red dot on the navigator, indicating that there is the mission location.

Judging from the position of the red dot, the marked mission location is still far away from the city.

The next day, Qin Zhibo didn't open for business after eating breakfast and watching the morning news. Instead, he went to the car rental company to continue renting a car.

This time when renting a car, Qin Zhibo changed the rented model and rented it directly for a week.

In the car rental contract, Qin Zhibo specifically asked to remove the clause on the number of days the car was rented and add a clause on the time to return the vehicle.

Today is Wednesday, and the time to return the car is Wednesday next week, and I have to call to inform myself on the morning when I need to return the car.

Although the people at the car rental company didn't understand the difference between renting for seven days and renting for a week, Qin Zhibo was a regular customer after all, so he agreed to modify the car rental contract for Qin Zhibo alone.

Taking advantage of the time to print out the new contract, the manager of the car rental company introduced to Qin Zhibo the other Mazda models that the car dealership had just bought.

"This one is the newly arrived Mazda RX-7. It adopts a rotary engine and a sports car shape. It has 265 horsepower and a streamlined body that allows you to drive faster and faster."

Qin Zhibo took a look at this stylish Mazda sports car, shook his head and thought it was not good.

Although sports cars are fast and stylish, they require very high driving skills.

With his current level 4 car driving skills, it seems that there is still some gap in wanting to drive this kind of sports car, at least level 5, more than half of the old drivers can do it.

If you rent a sports car but don't dare to drive it at full power, isn't that the same as renting an ordinary car?

Moreover, this RX-7 only has two seats, and it always feels a little less practical.

The practicality is poor, the speed is not available, and the rental price is almost twice as expensive. It is really unnecessary.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo politely declined: "Next time, let's talk about it next time."

After Qin Zhibo signed the new contract, he happily drove the fourth-generation Mazda 929 out of the rental car dealership and went straight to the mission location.

In fact, Mazda 929 was also positioned as a high-end luxury car in Japan in the 90s, and it was not the kind that ran around all over the street.

It is as famous as the Toyota Crown next door.

As for Qin Zhibo's purpose of getting a new car rental contract this time, it is because the car may be used frequently in the next few days.

Instead of paying it back in a few days, it is better to rent it for a week, and the middle of the week happens to span a week, and I also get stuck with a world time bug.

Anyway, Qin Zhibo didn't feel guilty about pitting a car rental company that lived a good life.

The weather conditions have stabilized in the recent period, and it is all winter.

Qin Zhibo drove the Mazda 929, turning from the open road to the winding mountain road.

The location of this mission was still in the suburbs near Tokyo. Qin Zhibo was driving the car while admiring the snow-covered plains along the way.

But as he drove further into the mountains, Qin Zhibo felt something was wrong.

Because seeing that my position is getting closer and closer to the mission location on the navigator, it is less than two kilometers, but there are still spacious roads that can be opened to traffic on the winding mountain road.

this means.
After driving the last two kilometers from the mission location, Qin Zhibo entered a straight road, and the end of the road led to a luxurious villa.

"A villa in the mountains."

Qin Zhibo in the car murmured.

Qin Zhibo turned the Mazda 929 into a side road next to him, parked the car, and went to explore alone.

The cold wind outside the car was like a sword, Qin Zhibo wrapped his brown windbreaker tightly around his body, and quietly leaned near the villa.

This is a very grand and luxurious villa, even bigger than the big villa in Gana that I visited just the day before yesterday.

The entire villa adopts a symmetrical design, with a huge door opening leading to the backyard in the middle, and the main entrance of the villa is on both sides of the door opening.

There are two main entrances?
The outside of the villa is protected by iron fences, so Qin Zhibo can only lean on the iron fence to quietly observe the situation inside.

Suddenly, the two main doors of the villa made the sound of door shaft driving at the same time, and two maids came out of the house respectively.

Qin Zhibo subconsciously shrunk his body down and took a closer look. The two maids who came out from the same two doors were actually exactly the same.

Same clothes, same hairstyle, same face, same body
Ram Ram?

But there is no difference in hair color between the two maids.

Qin Zhibo frowned, but he quickly found a very intuitive difference.

The maid who came out from the door on the left had Shimokasaho Nami floating above her head, and the maid from the door on the right was Shimokasaho Naho.

these two names.
Does Qin Zhibo feel a little familiar, and the two maids have already met in front of the huge doorway in the middle of the villa.

The two first got together and whispered a few words to each other mysteriously, and then ran away together towards the backyard of the villa.

Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Qin Zhibo finally remembered why he had a feeling of déjà vu.

Isn't this the twin maid in Sowa's house in the first case he solved?

Qin Zhibo still remembered that it was because of the reminder of the twin maids that he realized that there might be some problems with Matsumoto Ryohei.

It turned out that these two people came here to get a job again.
In the cold wind, Qin Zhibo, who squatted for another five minutes, felt that the temperature on his body was passing faster, and returned to the car.

According to the instructions on the navigator, the mission location is in this luxurious villa.

This was the first time Qin Zhibo encountered such a situation, and the task location was directly assigned to someone else's home.

The goal this time is to find the "Pale Mask", so Qin Zhibo guessed that there may be two situations.

The "Pale Mask" was buried under the foundations of the great villa.

The "Pale Mask" itself is a collection of the owner of the villa.

Regardless of the two possibilities, Qin Zhibo needs to enter the villa to determine what to do next.

So at present, the task of finding the "Pale Mask" alone needs to be divided into two steps.

Enter the villa.

Find "Pale Mask".

Entering the villa can be done openly, or sneaked in quietly.

But if possible, Qin Zhibo still wants to be aboveboard, after all, he is not a professional thief.

If it is really necessary to infiltrate, then you need to rely on the power of the professional thief - Kuroba Kaito.

But at present, it is necessary to know the identity of the owner of the villa first.

For this reason, Qin Zhibo felt that he could start with the twin maids.

Back in Mihua Town, Qin Zhibo went straight to the Medieval Art Museum.

Matsumoto Ryohei specifically explained to the ticket office in front that when Qin Zhibo enters the hall, he can pass through directly without buying a ticket.

So Qin Zhibo walked through the exhibition halls, came to the curator's office, and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Qin Zhibo opened the door and entered, and Matsumoto Ryohei was reading a book in his busy schedule, a book about the history of world food.

"Oh~ a rare guest is here."

Matsumoto Ryohei's tone was a little excited, and he stretched out his hand to signal Qin Zhibo to sit down.

The two sat on the sofa and chatted about the situation when they came in, and Qin Zhibo began to get down to business.

"When you were the butler at Sowa House, do you remember the twin maids?"

Ryohei Matsumoto thought for a moment, and replied, "You mean the Shimokasa sisters, right? I do remember. What happened to them?"

"Can you still contact them now, I want to know who they are working for now."

Who the twin maids work for is naturally the owner of that villa.

However, just when Qin Zhibo thought that Matsumoto Ryohei might need to make a phone call to inquire, he replied without thinking: "Working in Su Fang Hongzi's villa."

"How did you know?"

"Because they were introduced there by me."

Qin Zhibo: "."

Lamented by Matsumoto Ryohei's strong connections, Qin Zhibo seriously doubted that his social credit evaluation during his time as a housekeeper seemed inaccurate.

"Who is this Su Fang Hongzi?" Qin Zhibo continued to ask.

A look of surprise flashed across Matsumoto Ryohei's face, but he still introduced: "She was a big singer decades ago and was known as the 'Dongyang Canary'. rarely appear on stage.”

Hong Yanyan acts as a brokerage company.
Why not call it Hongtongtong?

Qin Zhibo suppressed the complaint in his heart and continued to ask: "If I want to go to her house, can you introduce me?"

After thinking for a while, Ryohei Matsumoto replied: "Recently, she is organizing a charity gala to raise funds for children in car accidents. With your current social status, you can definitely go to the gala."

"Of course, the place where the party will be held is at her home."

"But may I ask, why did you go to her house?"

Matsumoto Ryohei is not an outsider, at least he will never reveal his secret, so he replied directly: "I want to find a mask there."

Matsumoto Ryohei was taken aback by Qin Zhibo's words, and a funny smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Then you may have to look for it for a long time, because as far as I know, there are a lot of masks in her house."

"How many?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"It's hard to say but it's a lot."

Under the recommendation of Ryohei Matsumoto, Qin Zhibo successfully obtained the qualification to participate in the charity gala.

However, after getting the qualifications, Matsumoto Ryohei gave Qin Zhibo a piece of advice, that is, don't donate too much money at the party.

Because he suspected that there was some shady scene in the charity gala, he himself declined Su Fanghongzi's invitation.

Su Fang Hongzi sent her secretary to the office to contact Qin Zhibo, and informed that the party would be held next week.

next week?

What a fart next week!The mission time has passed.
Just when Qin Zhibo thought it was still necessary to sneak in secretly, the panting secret technique said that the charity party needs to rehearse the procedure in advance, and will invite some important guests to attend a banquet in the host's villa tomorrow.

　Thank you Kai Omachi for your tip!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)