Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 825 Reasoning?That's science fiction!
Conan's eyes widened slightly, staring at the "Mountain of Madness Part II" in his hand in disbelief

Yes, Conan was dumbfounded.

It was only when he read the end of the novel that he finally understood what the "Shoggoth" was accidentally mentioned by the camp inspector in the previous article on the radio.

Regarding this Shoggoth, Conan also started a discussion with Hattori Heiji.

A person's name, a place's name, or the brand name of an item, which may be an important reminder or the like
But they never expected that all reasonable conjectures would be shattered, and the Shoggoths turned out to be a weird creature!
In "Mountains of Crazy Part II", the protagonist Dr. Dale takes his assistant Danforth deep into the cave with traces of dragging.

Passing through the cave, the two came to the interior of the black crater and found the remains of civilization in it.

The gigantic city is built from giant rocks as dark as the night, and is full of architectural styles that humans have never imagined. The geometric buildings that are distorted to the point of illusion are patchwork, wild and shocking.

In the step-by-step exploration, the protagonist and his assistant followed the traces of the towing, and entered the most conspicuous tower in the center of the city.

And the corridor under the tower leads to the endless abyss.

Through the huge halls occupied by giant albino penguins, the object that has been making trails finally surfaced.

It is the terrifying "Old Man", a strange spindle-shaped life form with wings on its back, axe-footed feet, and a head positioned like a five-pointed star. It is vicious and indescribable.

But without exception, they were all run over by a stronger force, part of their bodies turned into dark green sticky juice, their spindle-shaped bodies were shattered, and their five-pointed star heads were brutally beheaded.

And in front of these terrifying corpses is a deeper, dark abyss.

"Tekeli-li!" was screamed inside, and the same words were repeated one after another, as if possessing a breathtaking and terrifying magic power.

Immediately afterwards, the owner of the voice surged up from the abyss.

It was a nightmarish black amorphous substance that stinks and surges forward like a puddle of living slime.

Inside the disgusting body are tens of thousands of shimmering eyes, which are constantly decomposing and reorganizing like swollen bubbles, which is extremely terrifying.

In the protagonist's self-explanation, or a monologue similar to brain supplementation, the story finally reveals the answer to the mystery.

This is Shoggoth, and it is also the grotesque existence mentioned by the people in the camp.

They were dumb servants created by the Old Ones to take over the decaying cities of the Old Ones.

For hundreds of millions of years, the Shoggoths devoured all possible organisms recklessly, and even raised giant penguins like livestock.

The infinitely expanding body shape lifted the ground, and the uplifted land formed peaks that never covered with snow.

There are no black mountains in the world. If you eat too much and grow bigger, it becomes a mountain range.

In the end, the ending of the story is very standard. The protagonist uses the power of the protagonist's halo and successfully escapes with his assistant.

But the poor assistant went mad shortly after escaping and was admitted to the madhouse in Arkham.

Conan stared at the small black letters at the end of the article, that was the most coquettish stroke.

At the very end, Qin Zhibo actually used the author's God's perspective to explain that he got this precious expedition letter from Miskatonic University by chance.

Dr. Dale, later promoted to professor, died many years ago, but his assistant Danforth is still alive.

Qin Zhibo found him in the lunatic asylum, obtained his consent, and announced to the outside world this great expedition that had to be kept secret at the time.

Unexpectedly, that night, bad news came from the lunatic asylum. Danforth suddenly fell into a daze and died like that.

——I would like to commemorate Professor William Dale with this article, and offer my deepest condolences to John Danforth.

After writing these words, I just need to add a sentence "This story is adapted from real events" at the end.

Seeing the magic here, Conan's scalp tingled and his back felt slightly chilled by the overwhelming sense of reality.

If ordinary readers read it, they may be surprised for a while, but they will soon regain their composure. After all, Conan Doyle would have used this writing technique to increase the sense of reality decades ago.

But Conan, who is not an ordinary reader, knows that Qin Zhibo is really a graduate of the University of Michigan.
And he really went back to the United States a while ago, and the destination was Arkham.

If someone else wrote such a story, Conan would not believe it even if he died.

But Qin Zhibo has some mystical traits, and with the basic conditions here, it is really possible.

Conan: uh
After thinking hard, Conan still decided to ask out the doubts in his heart, pointing to the pages of the magazine and asking.

"Uncle Qin, are the stories in this novel true?"

"Huh?" Qin Zhibo turned his head and subconsciously replied: "Of course, it's all the information I collected from my visits and investigations."

Seeing Qin Zhibo's expression of course and his answer without thinking, Conan was dumbfounded.

What?it is true?
Cities of the Old Ones, and Shoggoths as big as mountains, are these real?

At this moment, Conan unconsciously recalled the picture that subconsciously emerged in his mind when he just read the text, his heart suddenly felt cold, and a layer of goose bumps appeared on his arms.

As if the shoggoth surging forward, the nightmarish body was about to climb onto his back, shouting Teke into his ears
Just when Conan thought so, Qin Zhibo gasped and said, "... I added some artistic processing."

Hearing this, Conan froze for a moment.

Artistic processing?

"Haha." The expression on Conan's face was immediately relieved, and his laughter was bitter and self-deprecating, "I just said~ How can there be 'Shoggoths' in this world?"

Qin Zhibo also put on a smiling face, and echoed, "Ah, yes, yes, anyway, I haven't seen that thing with my own eyes."

Conan then asked again, "How much of the uncle's story is true?"

"Is the case in this camp true? Has the murderer been found out in the end?"

Qin Zhibo was silent for two seconds, then suddenly moved his face closer to Conan, staring at the dazed little face in front of him solemnly.

"Actually, Uncle, in this story of mine, [-]% of the truth is true"

Just when Qin Zhibo was about to say the number, the train suddenly stopped, and everyone on the train shook their bodies in one direction due to inertia.

The horn in the car began to broadcast.

"Shizuoka Prefecture, we're here."

When you arrive in Shizuoka County, you have to take the special train to Mount Tianbu.

Several people bought tickets and continued to get on the train.

During the first half of the journey, Mao Lilan was basically squinting, but in the second half, she was just in good spirits.

Being bored, Mao Lilan looked at Conan's Literary Times magazine and asked, "Conan, have you finished reading it?"

"Yeah." Conan nodded.

"Then let me take a look. It just so happens that Mr. Qin's "Crazy Mountains Part One" has also been read, and I am curious about the development of the story behind it."

Just as Mao Lilan reached for the magazine, Qin Zhibo and Conan said "no" in unison.

Mao Lilan's arms paused in the air, with a puzzled face.

Conan quickly explained with a smile: "Actually, the next part of this novel is a little scary, right? Uncle Qin?"

Qin Zhibo nodded, "Yes, the following content may not be suitable for you to watch."

"Terrible?" Hearing this adjective, Mao Lilan, who had always been bad at it, retreated in her heart, and withdrew her hand embarrassingly.

"Then I'd better not read it, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night."

Seeing Mao Lilan give up the idea of ​​reading, the Qin Ke duo, who were worried about her sleep quality at night, breathed a sigh of relief.

Conan turned the topic back to the novel itself, and asked again: "But uncle, why did you write such a story?"

"If the murderer is... like that, shouldn't it be considered a mystery novel?"

What Conan said is not unreasonable. After all, normal reasoning novels should define the murderer as a human being, not some unknown creature. Such reasoning is meaningful.

If you set a trap for readers with poor information from the beginning, and use information that has never been explained to readers to create the illusion of "using the known to push the unknown", it will be an inferior reasoning work, which is destined to fail to arouse topicality.

Of course, when reading this novel, Conan's thoughts have been attracted by the thrilling and terrifying atmosphere inside, ignoring the matter of reasoning.

It wasn't until the end of reading that the strange excitement gradually faded that Conan realized that "the product is not right".

Facing Conan's doubts, Qin Zhibo explained lightly: "I never said this is a reasoning story."

"Ah?" Conan was stunned for a moment, "But uncle, you are a famous detective."

"Uncle, it's true that I'm a detective, but why do detectives have to write mystery novels? Who made the rules?"

This time, Conan was dumbfounded again.

With the obvious Blizzard Villa mode in the early stage, how dare you say that you are not writing a mystery novel?
"But this isn't a mystery novel? It is"

Qin Zhibo replied: "Don't you know the category of my novel?"

The types of novels collected by Literary Times Magazine are complex, and reasoning is only one of the categories, and other types of articles are also included.

Conan took a closer look at the category of stories in the catalog and was surprised to find one thing.

The classification of "Mountain of Madness" is actually science fiction!

A famous detective who pays attention to the facts and pursues the truth, actually wrote a science fiction novel?
You are not afraid of the collapse of the human design, no one will come to you to entrust!

uh, as expected of you
When Conan didn't know how to evaluate Qin Zhibo's bold and innovative attempt, an old woman suddenly sat next to Qin Zhibo.

The crone, dressed in a blue and white nun's attire, has age spots evenly distributed on her wrinkled skin, and her sunken lips show her only two teeth.

Although she looked like a monk, her kind eyebrows and kind eyes had nothing to do with this old woman, and her demeanor was a little closer to that of Nanny Rong.

"You guys are from Tokyo, right?"

No one talked to her, but the old woman took the initiative to find a topic.

The enthusiastic Mao Lilan responded immediately, "Yes, we plan to go to Tianbu Mountain."

Hearing this answer, the old woman smacked her lips, and said in a gloomy tone, "Tourists? Hmph, they must be going to see the statue of the Celestial Lady on Tianbu Mountain, right?"

"The Venerable Goddess of Tianbu Mountain has been regarded as the most devout belief by the villagers at the foot of the mountain for hundreds of years, and has always blessed the villagers to live a peaceful life."

"For hundreds of years, none of the heresy that offended the celestial goddess ended up well, without exception."

"But now there are some goddamn bastards who dare to dig a tunnel in the rocky mountain where Venerable Tiannv is located, so that the aerial cable car can pass through."

"This is simply an unacceptable crime! In the future, it will definitely be struck by lightning!"

The old woman's tone was suddenly high-pitched, and her demeanor was closer to Nanny Rong, and Mao Lilan was so scared that she shrank her neck as if being pricked by a needle.

Conan's will is relatively high, and his immunity to this kind of old woman is relatively high, so he is not afraid.

Qin Zhibo originally thought that the old woman would be able to introduce the local tourism features as well as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda when she heard that she was a tourist, but the result was completely contrary to expectations.

"By the way, where do you guys plan to go to Tianbu Mountain?" The old woman suddenly thought of this key question.

Qin Zhibo was worried that the old woman would go into a runaway state if he revealed that he and the others were going to attend the opening ceremony of the aerial cable car, so he said casually, "We're just walking around, we don't have a fixed destination."

"Oh." After hearing this, the old woman also stopped and said no more.

However, after hearing what the old woman said, Qin Zhibo probably understood what kind of conflict he would face next.

When economic interests collide with spiritual beliefs, something unpleasant always happens.

And our family paid twice the entrustment fee, maybe they wanted to ask themselves to settle the matter.

But faith is something that is hard to break easily.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many fanatics in this world.

Half an hour's journey passed quickly, and Tianbu Mountain arrived.

When the three of them walked to the exit and Qin Zhibo was looking around, a woman greeted her on her own initiative.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Qin Zhibo?"

Qin Zhibo looked the woman up and down. The lavender workplace attire and melon seeds had light makeup on her face, and her long fluttering hair was combed neatly, giving people a very comfortable feeling.

"Exactly." Qin Zhibo replied.

"Hello, I have been waiting for you for a long time." The woman bowed and introduced herself: "I am the secretary of the vice president of Domoto Tourism Company, Yoshino Ayaka, please give me your advice."

Qin Zhibo glanced at the information above his head, Yoshino Ayaka, professional secretary, 23 years old, the basic information was correct.

Knowing that there may be conflicts in the local area on the train, Qin Zhibo had to be on guard against troublemakers impersonating him.

But now it seems that it should be true.

Next, Mao Lilan and Conan also introduced themselves, and the two sides have known each other.

Walking out of the station, Secretary Yoshino took him to the Toyota Century parked on the side of the road. The stretched luxury car has the air of a boss.

"It is our honor to invite the famous detective Qin Zhibo to the opening ceremony of the aerial cable car held by our company tomorrow."

While driving in the front driver's seat, Yoshino said compliments, keeping the atmosphere in the car from being too quiet.

Qin Zhibo waved his hand, and replied calmly: "Don't be so polite, the main reason is that Maori detective has more face, so I can come here."

Hearing this, Secretary Yoshino couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

After all, the company hired Kogoro Mori at the beginning, so it is really embarrassing to say this now.

And Qin Zhibo is also expressing his position. It is not for the face of their company that he can come to the rescue, but mainly for Kogoro Mori.
No, it's Conan's face.

The sky and the earth are big, and Conan has the biggest face.

(End of this chapter)