Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 512 Buy an Old Seal and Do a Quest (3000)

In the back of the medical record, Danforth continued to elaborate on his "fantasy".

Danforth: We came out of the corridor and followed the trail of the sled to a crypt.Walking into the crypt, there is a huge space with ugly penguins about the height of adults.

(Penguin delusion - Penguin, perhaps what symbolic meaning?)

Danforth: Going further inside, we saw the corpse of Gedney, the corpse of the ancient and the bottomless black hole, there was a sound!

Tekili-li!

Tekili-li!

The entire crypt, the entire mountain range is shaking!We run away desperately!

The cave is full of scary things!That black, damned amorphous creature!
Shoggoth!All Shoggoths!

Eye!Countless eyes are rolling!
It devoured all the penguins, leaving us alone!

……

The recording of the conversation came to an abrupt end, and it was obvious that Danfoss behind was out of control.

However, Qin Zhibo still summed up the latter part of the story from this intermittent conversation.

Danforth and Dale entered the mountains of madness, found a city of the ancients, and encountered Shoggoth at the core of the city.

About Shoggoth, Qin Zhibo happened to know about it, thanks to the fact that the Mysterious Myth skill was upgraded to level 4 just now.

Shoggoth, an amorphous protoplasmic swell, the cells of this creature can be deconstructed and reorganized into various forms and organs in an instant.

Both the creation of the ancients and the slaves of the ancients.

used to be.
With these "inspirations", Qin Zhibo also knew how to write the puzzle-solving chapter of "Crazy Mountains".

Although these contents are a bit shocking, writing is a whole job for Qin Zhibo, and he doesn't care about it anymore.

Qin Zhibo closed the medical record, stood up and handed it back to Herbert West.

"Thank you, Dr. Herbert."

The little Herbert West raised his hand to take the medical records, with a weird smile on his lips.

"It's okay, if you want to check the medical records, you can come often in the future"

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, feeling that Herbert looked at him a little strangely.

This kind of look is the look of interest in something, and Qin Zhibo once saw it at Matsumoto Ryohei.

Qin Zhibo: "..."

Can cannibalism make people young?
Qin Zhibo didn't want to have too much communication with Arkham's eccentric doctor, so he quickly turned around and left, leaving Herbert West standing there watching Qin Zhibo's back from a distance.

After leaving Arkham Hospital, Qin Zhibo took the bus back to the town.

Qin Zhibo still remembered the new main task he got at the Arkham Successful People's Club yesterday, which was to investigate two members of the Silver Twilight Church.

Carl Sanford counts as one, and now he's short of one.

Qin Zhibo tried to fight with his left and right hands, but it didn't trigger the task completion reminder.This may be because he is not considered an official member of the Silver Twilight Church, or his head cannot be counted.

However, Qin Zhibo still remembered another member of the Silver Twilight Church that he met yesterday, Diana Stanley.

I found out from Mr. Clock on the way back to the hotel yesterday that Diana runs a boutique called "Amy" on Miscatone Avenue in the center of the town.

"So you want to have an 'in-depth conversation' with Diana?"

Mr. Clock said expressionlessly the color accent it had learned on Earth, and Qin Zhibo had to admit that the scene was a bit weird.

The bus stopped in the center of the town. With the help of the navigator in his brain, Qin Zhibo found the Amy boutique without asking passers-by.

Push the door and enter, and the brass bell hanging in the entrance jingles.

jingle--

Sitting behind the counter and watching TV to pass the time, Diana Stanley stood up and saw Qin Zhibo's face just as she was about to greet the guests.

"It's you"

Diana's tone was not the joy of the customer coming to the door, but more of an accident.

Qin Zhibo glanced at Diana's oval face without any positive emotions, then turned to look at the counter, and swipe his fingers across the glass of the counter, "I'll see if there are any products I'm interested in."

"You can look at whatever you want."

Diana's reception was not very warm, which made Qin Zhibo wonder if he left a bad impression on her yesterday.

In this case, we can only see if a deal can be reached first, so as to open up the topic.

There are a wide variety of goods on the counter, most of which are the ones that are often seen in antique fairs.

Purple clay teapots, strange-shaped stones, abstract human face carvings, animal tooth necklaces, and unknown metal cylinders.
Qin Zhibo saw something familiar among these commodities whose forms and functions were not uniform at all.

This is a metal disc, made of silver, the size of a palm can just hold it.

On the disc is a distorted five-pointed star symbol, etched out with distorted lines like fire, which is almost exactly the same as the symbol on the Miskatonic University badge in Qin Zhibo's wallet.

"This is?" Qin Zhibo asked, pointing to the disc under the glass cabinet.

Diana glanced at it, and introduced it nonchalantly: "This is an item for the town house to ward off evil spirits, and it can be hung on the door or window."

"Oh? Can you take it out and let me have a look?"

Diana opened the glass cabinet and took out the disc, Qin Zhibo took it with both hands and looked at it.

There is no writing on the reverse side of the entire disk, but the mottled, pitted and small marks on it seem to imply that the years it has experienced are not too shallow.

"This." Qin Zhibo pointed to the symbol on the disk, "What does this mean?"

"Old seal, a symbol that can exorcise evil spirits." Diana's explanation was still extremely simple.

"Old seal."

Qin Zhibo nodded thoughtfully, now he understood what was engraved on his university badge.

"Is it useful?" Qin Zhibo asked again.

"I don't know." Diana shook her head.

"Then I bought it, how much?"

Diana was taken aback by Qin Zhibo's blunt attitude, and it took a second for her to say the price.

"$270."

The price made Qin Zhibo feel a little bit pained. Converting 270 US dollars into Japanese yen is almost 4 yen, so he bought a metal plate.

However, in order to reach a deal, Qin Zhibo did not counter-offer.

"Very fair price, deal."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo stretched out his hand to express his approval of the deal.

Diana glanced at Qin Zhibo again in doubt, and after hesitating for half a second, she stretched out her hand.

When two palms touch together, the investigation starts.

【Investigation√】

【Current progress: (2/2)】

【Congratulations on completing the main task】

[Get 3000 general skill proficiency]

A mission notification came from the system, and the investigation mission of the Church of Silver Twilight has been completed.

3000 general skill proficiency has arrived, and Qin Zhibo's current skill proficiency has exceeded 10000, which means that he can start purchasing.

At this time, Diana also recovered $300 for Qin Zhibo's $30, and handed the money to Qin Zhibo.

Just as Qin Zhibo reached out to grab the 30 dollars, Diana suddenly withdrew her hand holding the banknote, making Qin Zhibo look at that pretty oval face with some doubts.

"The club is not as simple as it seems, everything is different from the surface."

"including me"

Diana Stanley's words carried a sense of warning, obviously warning Qin Zhibo, a newcomer to the club.

"Thank you for your advice."

Qin Zhibo showed a gentlemanly smile, reached out to take back the 30 dollars in change, walked to the door and opened the store door.

jingle--

"But maybe the reality I have is not the face you see?"

"Didn't Sartre have something to say?"

"Others are hell."

Looking at the back of Qin Zhibo who smiled and left gracefully, Diana's body trembled suddenly.

For some reason, at the moment just now, I had a feeling that the man in front of me was unpredictable.

Coming out of Amy's boutique, Qin Zhibo: -$270, metal circle engraved with the old seal +1, general skill proficiency +3000.

Qin Zhibo held the disc in his hand and looked at it carefully. Although he felt that this thing had some history, it also felt like it was artificially made old.

Buying antiques in the US, emmm
Qin Zhibo shook his head, he didn't have much hope for the monetary value of this thing, so he could only take it back to ponder and hang it on the door of his office.

The night in Arkham is approaching, and Qin Zhibo returns to his birthplace before dinner at the hotel stops serving.

The food in the restaurant has more variety than in the morning, thick soup, bread, vegetable salad, hamburger meat, chicken legs, and they are all hot.

Qin Zhibo DIYed a simple hamburger with existing ingredients, and while chewing, he watched the TV hanging from the ceiling of the restaurant.

The news that was playing on TV happened to be about the Oklahoma serial killings.

After a day of investigation, the police unearthed a total of 37 corpses from the yard of the murderer William Lee Childress' home. These corpses are enough to prove that they have an inescapable relationship with the disappearances along the river in Oklahoma.

Not only that, the police officer in charge of the case, Cole Lasko, also uncovered a big melon.

The murderer Scarface's cousin was the sheriff who dismissed the disappearance of the Fontenot girl.

The scarfaced man's father and the head of the local church were cousins, and the people who were killed were basically the diocese controlled by the head and the church schools sponsored by him.

And Regin LeDoux, who was shot dead as a murderer before, was cousins ​​to the governor of Oklahoma, and the two were also cousins ​​to the head of the church.

These were essentially "Tuttles," or what might be called the "Tuttles."

The police will investigate whether other members of the Tuttle family who are currently "innocence" are colluding with each other.

Later, some reporters chased after him to interview Billy Lee Tuttle, the head of the Tuttle family's Illuminati Church, the cousin of the scar-faced man's father, but they were all rejected.

As for the higher-ranking governor, no reporter dared to harass him.

Watching the report on TV, Qin Zhibo snorted coldly.

They're all cousins, and it's strange that they fit the title of "fraternity".
(End of this chapter)