Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 409 Excited Mr. Clock
On the return trip, Qin Zhibo was still driving, and Koizumi Hongzi sat on the co-pilot and played with the Xiaobu mask in his hand.

"Are you sure this is what you call the 'Pale Mask'?"

Qin Zhibo, who was driving, glanced at the navigator in his brain, and the red dot of the task on the electronic map was moving with him.

"Yes" Qin Zhibo replied indifferently as he turned the steering wheel and turned a sharp bend.

"But this mask doesn't look like anything special, does it?"

Koizumi Hongzi leaned her head closer to the inside of the mask and observed carefully, but from Qin Zhibo's perspective, it seemed as if she was about to put on the mask herself.

"Don't wear it!"

Koizumi Hongzi was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "I'm not a three-year-old child, so of course I wouldn't wear such a mask of unknown origin on my face, what if I can't take it off like in "Mask in disguise"? "

For the movie in 94, Hongzi Koizumi in 96 knew that it was reasonable.

"But there seems to be something engraved on the mouth of this mask, isn't it?"

Koizumi Hongzi handed the mask to Qin Zhibo's side, and tapped the blood-stained place on the inside of the mask with her fingertips, and there was indeed a string of inconspicuous small characters engraved on it.

Qin Zhibo looked intently, but couldn't recognize the words on it.

Koizumi Hongko judged after careful observation for a while: "It seems to be Me volvió loco in Spanish."

"He drove me crazy."

Schoble is a Spanish sculptor, and his use of Spanish is normal.

However, this "he" can be understood as the elder brother who ruined Xiao Boolean's reputation, and it can also be understood as other existences that make him crazy.

Having played enough with Xiao Bo's mask, Koizumi Hongzi threw the mask on the back seat of the car, and said seriously: "What are you going to do next? Send the mask directly to MI-GO?"

Qin Zhibo looked at the mission time, and the countdown ended in less than 14 hours.

"Well, the mask must be delivered within today."

Koizumi Hongzi put her arms around her chest, looked at the snowy scenery outside the car window, and said casually, "Do you want me to go with you?"

Faced with Koizumi Hongzi's concern as a friend, Qin Zhibo was a little moved.

In addition to being a little arrogant, willful, and narcissistic, Koizumi Hongzi's essence is quite good.

but
"Don't worry, Mr. Clock won't do anything to me."

Qin Zhibo comforted in a relaxed tone: "It once said that modern human civilization is developing rapidly, and even their race is not willing to easily get into unnecessary trouble."

Faced with Qin Zhibo's insistence, Koizumi Hongzi had no choice but to give up arrogantly.

"Then it's up to you."

"But I will watch your situation in the crystal ball at any time."

Qin Zhibo sent Koizumi Hongzi to the junction of Mihua Town and Jianggutian Town, and the housekeeper was already waiting beside the extended Maybach.

The two looked at each other deeply, and then the two cars parted ways.

When visiting Mr. Clock this time, Qin Zhibo is of course on guard. There is a sprayer that can kill MI-GO in the trunk of the car.

The content of the mission is to bring the "Pale Mask" to MI-GO, but Qin Zhibo doesn't know what the consequences of bringing it over are?
The name of the task is "The Test of the King in Yellow". According to the previous tasks about the King in Yellow, it seems that he is not friendly to creatures like MI-GO.

So would the Pale Mask irritate Mr. Clock?

After the sun went down, Qin Zhibo finally drove into Dongdu Valley.

Originally, Qin Zhibo wanted to make an appointment with Mr. Clock to meet during the day, but Mr. Clock insisted that Qin Zhibo wait until evening to come.

The Mazda 929 drove into the deep mountains at night, looking at the deep and secluded forest outside the car window, Qin Zhibo thought of the characters who had appeared in this area.

An art museum curator with cannibalism, a nagging old woman in a blue castle, a MI-GO disguised as a human
The keywords of these people are all related to camouflage, one is disguising from personality, the other is disguising from appearance, and the other is disguising as a human from all aspects of personality and appearance.

They are really more talented than each other!

Mr. Clock, or Nakamura Cao's villa is in the deepest part of Dongdu Valley, and Qin Zhibo drove for more than an hour before arriving.

The lights of the villa were on, Qin Zhibo put on the "pale mask" and went to knock on the metal lion knocker on the door.

clang, clang, clang-

"Come in, the door is unlocked."

From behind the door came the voice of a human woman, Nakamura. The voice was harmonious and natural, and it was completely indistinguishable from human beings.

Qin Zhibo turned the doorknob, first checked the dining room and living room, but there was no one there.

So Qin Zhibo went to the study again, and saw Mr. Clock who was writing at his desk.

"Just sit there and wait a minute, I'm writing my novel."

"Mystery novels are really complicated things. You have to consider setting puzzles and how to decrypt them at the same time. How can human beings be stumped by the problems set by their own kind? It's really hard to understand."

"If possible, I very much hope to get a 'brain in a vat' of a reasoning writer to help me complete this complicated work"

Mr. Clock was talking in human language, and the pen in his hand never stopped, swishing at a writing speed that is far beyond the reach of human beings.

After waiting for about 10 minutes, Mr. Clock put down his pen and sorted out the thick stack of manuscripts on the desktop.

"You wrote these all today?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"Yes."

Mr. Clock put the manuscript into the drawer, showed a professional smile, and said: "The human thinking in my brain is still relatively fragile, so forgive me for not allowing you to interrupt me during the day. You humans call it ' Inspiration' stuff."

"Then Mr. Qin, may I ask why you came to see me?"

Qin Zhibo cut straight to the point, "Actually, I came here to let you identify this thing, I don't know if you know it"

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo took out the "pale mask" from his arms and put it on the table.

The moment the "Pale Mask" was placed in front of Mr. Clock, the system immediately issued a notification sound.

[Congratulations on completing the main task of the challenge]

[Mission exploration level: 100%]

[Get 4000 general skill proficiency]

[Gain 400 Mysterious Myth Knowledge and Skill Proficiency]

The mission prompt appeared so simply that Qin Zhibo had no time to react.

At this moment, Mr. Clock had already held up the "Pale Mask" with trembling hands.

"It's it. It turned out to be it!"

"The Mask of Us Tragon!"

Although the expression on Mr. Clock's face was still stiff, showing no excitement at all, on the skin that shaped the female face, bumps were arching disorderly.

This disgusting-looking ups and downs is precisely because the tentacles on MI-GO's oval-shaped head are trembling crazily!
"My star! You found it!"

Mr. Clock spread the mask on both hands, trembling in front of him, as if admiring the mask.

At this time, Qin Zhibo was also surprised to find that the original wooden mask, which was relatively simple in workmanship, had completely changed its appearance.

It turned into a platinum mask!
(End of this chapter)