Conan's grammatical investigator

Is it shoggoth?
I'm afraid so.
Qin Zhibo couldn't help asking and answering in his heart, to relieve the fear he got from that ball of black "slime".

Due to witnessing the existence of "fish and birds" and using the magic ring that devours will, his will is now only 39, which is lower than ordinary people.

Those black and bright amorphous substances are almost the same as described by the crazy assistant Danforth, but the shape is not as exaggerated and terrifying as the literature processing, and there are no eyeballs in the wriggling body.

But Qin Zhibo's intuition believed that it was Shoggoth.

And it's the purple quality that I caught myself.
On the viewing platform, several black substances fell from the place where the "fish bird" was steaming.

The believers and villagers were already a little scared by the scene in front of them, but fortunately, the black substance was bubbling like hot asphalt. Apart from being a little weird, it seemed harmless.

But at this moment, a sharp-eyed villager discovered something.

"Oh my god! It's moving!"

Villagers pointed to the bubbling black substance with horrified faces.

"what?"

Shen Shanjing and others came forward to observe, and the black substance was slowly wriggling on the floor tiles, similar to an amoeba.

But suddenly, the mass of matter jumped onto the body of a villager with astonishing explosive force.

"what--"

The screams immediately resounded on the viewing platform, and the black substance began to climb on the villagers, and the target was his head.

The villagers were so frightened that they quickly reached out to grab it, but the black substance was like a pool of living glue, or brown sugar, which couldn't be torn off no matter what, and it was still all over their hands.

Self-rescue to no avail, the villagers could only reach out to others for help.

"Help me! Help me—"

But the surrounding villagers had already been scared out of their wits by the scene in front of them, their eyes were staring in horror, and they all retreated tremblingly.

But at this moment, several groups of black substances around them also jumped onto the villagers' bodies one after another, and began to wriggle and climb towards the exposed parts of their bodies.

For a while, the screams in the square were endless.

Shen Shanjing looked at the villagers who were swallowed by the black matter, and still shouted: "Don't refuse! This is a gift from the Lord God!"

"Don't refuse!"

Looking at the believers and villagers who were screaming in pain, she could still say such words, but she didn't notice the black substance slowly wriggling around her feet.

Shen Shanjing was short in stature, before she could react, the mass of black matter jumped up in an unknown way, just wrapped her old face, like a face-hugger in Alien.

"Ugh-"

At first, she just let out a dull whimper, a protest of suffocation.

But when the tearing pain came from her face, she realized why those villagers were afraid.

"what!"

A hoarse scream sounded, but was instantly drowned out by louder voices.

The huge "fish bird" hovering in the sky suddenly let out a strange cry, which cannot be described by any sound known to human beings, it is high-frequency and piercing.

Qin Zhibo covered his ears, but he didn't dare to look up.

Because compared to those Shoggoth individuals on the ground, "Fishbird" seems to be more unable to look directly.

At this time, the "fish bird" in the sky turned its body, pointed its head straight at the viewing platform, and swooped down at a high speed.

The magnificent bird-like body crashed into the viewing platform, and in an instant, the sky fell apart!

The loud noise swept across the square accompanied by flying sand and rocks. The hard rock was vulnerable to the impact of the rod-shaped bird's beak, and instantly produced huge cracks, just like an earthquake.

Since the viewing platform was originally an aerial cable car tunnel, the hollow structure caused instability, and the huge impact force from the sky directly crushed the rock structure above, and the entire viewing platform began to collapse.

"what"

Before the subconscious screams of the villagers came out of their throats, they were swept into the torrent formed by the broken rocks together with the feeling of weightlessness.

Shen Shanjing, Domoto's eldest son, none of them survived, they were all involved in the collapse, as well as Shoggoth.

Qin Zhibo's location was at the very edge of the viewing platform. Although it was not the center of the impact, the rock shelf had been destroyed, the rocks had become fragile, and the entire mountain spine was about to collapse.

The huge ground fissure quickly reached Qin Zhibo's position like the tentacles of a terrifying demon.

He quickly turned around and ran wildly, his instinct for survival made him jump down several steps in one jump, and the sound of falling gravel behind him was like music urging him to die, playing in his ears.

However, the speed of the collapse was faster than a person's running speed no matter what. Qin Zhibo had exploded to the extreme as soon as possible, but he still couldn't escape the collapse and was about to be overtaken.

At this moment, an "Elephant Bird" made a strange crowing sound and flew over from the rear at a low altitude.

Qin Zhibo seized the opportunity and jumped like the protagonist of a movie, his hands just grabbed the thick toes of the "Elephant Bird"'s single leg.

The solid steps that Qin Zhibo had stepped on just a moment ago were immediately drawn into the cave-in. If it was even a moment at night, he would fall into the abyss that would never be restored.

Clutching the toes of "Elephant Bird" with both hands, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, Qin Zhibo, who was still in shock, looked down.

The huge collapse continued towards the bottom of the climbing steps, as if vowing to swallow the entire mountain before giving up.

This time it was a big mess.
Qin Zhibo's feet were hanging in the air, and the stretching of his body caused a dull pain from the old abdominal injury.

But now he didn't have time to pay attention to the pain on his body, because of the skin contact, he actually understood some obscure and ancient knowledge.

This knowledge is presented in Qin Zhibo's mind in the form of inspiration. They may be false and unrealistic delusions, but these inspirations can only appear when the will is low.

And Qin Zhibo's current will just meets the conditions.

"Elephant bird" is not "elephant bird".

They are called "star anglers", and they are bird-like creatures that live on the moon and serve as loyal servants of "Gros Gorka", the god of black stones.

Eternal ages ago, Gros Gorka was defeated by the Old Gods and bound to the Antarctic "Black Ridge".

But the God of Black Stone has long anticipated this future, laying his "eggs" all over the world in advance, and with the help of an extremely rare polar black stone on the Antarctic Aintectors Mountain, he can return to life with glory.

For a long time, fishermen in the starry sky have been looking for this kind of polar black stone, and no matter how the times change, they are secretly protecting the "eggs" laid by the God of Black Stone.

Thousands of years ago, they built the city-state of Zimbabwe against the last king of Egypt's third dynasty.

Hundreds of years ago, they built statues of goddesses to expel foreign shogunate forces.

Star anglers use human rights and beliefs to establish human agents, always protect the "eggs", and hold various mysterious summons and worship ceremonies, with the purpose of liberating their masters.

And the huge "fish and bird" summoned from the statue of the goddess is the God of Black Stone - Gros Gorka.

"Starry Sky Fishing Rod" is actually the polar black stone on Mount Aintectors, and it is also an important prop to awaken the God of Black Stone.

As for the Shoggoth, it was a coincidence.

The reason why Gross Gorka is called the God of the Black Stone is not unrelated to his being sealed in the Antarctic "Black Cone".

But why are the mountains in Antarctica black?

It was a mountain formed by the uplift of Shoggoth, the "Mount of Meat".

The old gods sealed Gros Gorka in the mountain formed by Shoggoth, and let him bear the bite of Shoggoth forever, just like Zeus punished Prometheus.

But the shoggoths could not devour Gros Gorka's body despite the countless years that passed.

The body of the God of Black Stone is made of extraordinary matter, although it can be destroyed, it can never be destroyed
Qin Zhibo's brain is accepting these crazy knowledge.

Immediately, a system prompt popped up in his brain.

[Ding, get 1000 Mysterious Myth knowledge skill proficiency! 】

[Looking directly at the gods +1]

[Achievement Reward: Obtain 3000 general skill proficiency! 】

The system prompt is very gratifying, but at this moment Qin Zhibo's brain can no longer handle such high-end information.

"Blackstone. Starspace. Shoggoth."

"Swallow."

He was babbling obsessively, with dry branches gradually protruding from the edge of his vision, or some kind of sharp tentacles, slowly covering his vision.

After a while, Qin Zhibo's brain was awakened by the painful feeling of falling to the ground, and he was freed from the nightmare-like illusions and knowledge.

The shackles of vision could not be untied for a while, and he could only grope around blankly while lying on the ground.

The soft ground seems to have returned to the ground.

At this moment, human voices rang out again.

"earthquake!"

"It's an earthquake!"

At the same time, Conan in the hotel suite suddenly woke up from the bed after hearing a loud noise.

The loud rumbling noise accompanied by the slight vibration of the ground surprised him, and he hurriedly pushed Mao Lilan who was sleeping next to him.

"Xiaolan! There's an earthquake!"

If it was an ordinary earthquake, Conan would have been used to it for a long time. Anyway, in Japan, there will be earthquakes every three days.

But for that rumbling noise, something must have collapsed to cause such a loud noise.

It is definitely not an ordinary earthquake that can cause a collapse, and must be taken seriously.

Shaking woke Mao Lilan, and the two hurriedly got under the bed and waited quietly according to the earthquake resistance training they had grown up since childhood.

The tremor on the ground lasted for more than a minute and then ended.

Seizing the opportunity, the two quickly climbed out of the bed and ran to Qin Zhibo's room.

"Mr. Qin!"

"Earthquake! Run outside!"

According to the experience of earthquakes, generally after the first wave of earthquakes ends, there is a period of golden escape time before the arrival of the second wave of aftershocks.

If the floor is not high and you can run out of the building in time, you can consider moving to an open area outside at this time.

Fortunately, the highest resort hotel here is only three floors, which is really not high.

But Mao Lilan patted the door twice, but no one responded.

It was Conan who was decisive, unscrewed the doorknob, and broke into the room, only to find that there was no one on the bed.

Conan's eyes sharpened, and he quickly ran to the bed and reached out to touch the blanket, it was already cold.

Looking back at the coat hanger, the brown windbreaker on it was gone.

"Uncle Qin has already gone out, let's run too!"

When the two ran downstairs holding hands, more hotel personnel had already gathered downstairs, all looking in the direction of Tianbu Mountain in surprise.

"My God! What happened to Tianbu Mountain?"

"What happened?"

"Look at the statue of the goddess! The statue of the goddess!"

Everyone was amazed, and Conan and Mao Lilan also moved in that direction.

Under the bright moonlight, the symbol of Tianbu Mountain - the head of the statue of Tiannv disappeared.

Halfway up the mountain, on the straight body of the goddess, there is no holy head.

The mountain spine on which the Tiannv Statue rested was also the place where the viewing platform was built, and more than half of it collapsed. Countless rolling stones rolled down the hillside and scattered around the hotel.

Conan just took a glance, but suddenly found a brown figure lying on the grass.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Qin Zhibo.

"Sister Xiaolan! Uncle Qin is over there!"

Shocked, Mao Lilan forcibly looked away from the headless goddess statue, and ran towards Qin Zhibo.

"Mr. Qin! What's wrong with you?"

The two quickly helped Qin Zhibo up, only to find that Qin Zhibo's eyes were tightly closed, as if he couldn't see.

"Mr. Qin, what happened to your eyes?"

"Shoggoth... seems to be blinded by sand and stones."

Based on the voices of the crowd, Qin Zhibo judged that he was around the hotel at the foot of the mountain, so he made up a reason on his own.

In fact, now his eyes are bound by those mysterious branches and tentacles, and he cannot open them for a short time.

Mao Lilan didn't care about Qin Zhibo's nonsense, and quickly helped him to the restaurant, saying that he needed water to wash his eyes first.

Conan looked at the limping Qin Zhibo with narrowed eyes out of professional habit.

The windbreaker on my body has a lot of dust, it doesn't look like it was hit by an earthquake just after I came out
What is he doing out so late?
Just when Conan wanted to follow Mao Lilan and test Qin Zhibo by the way, the surrounding hotel staff suddenly screamed.

"what--!"

"There are dead people!"

Conan's eyes changed, and he hurried over to watch.

On the grass of the hotel, Domoto Eizo was lying on it with a face full of horror, and his back was bloody and bloody after being brutally hacked countless times by some kind of sharp weapon.

Not long after, a large number of police and firefighters rushed to the foot of Tianbu Mountain, and rescue vehicles crowded the parking lot.

The police immediately inspected Domoto Eizao's body, and found that the marks on the body were not made by smashing rocks, but were constantly stabbed or even bitten by some kind of sharp weapon?
In addition, Domoto Eizo's body suffered from comminuted fractures all over his body and multiple impact injuries. Therefore, it is guessed that the grass behind the hotel was not the scene of the first crime, and the specific circumstances need to be further investigated.

This strange way of death immediately spread throughout the country.

In addition, although nearby villagers and people in Tianbu Mountain insisted that an earthquake occurred, according to the news from the Seismological Bureau, no relevant data was monitored before the earthquake occurred.

An earthquake happened, but it didn't?
And what is even more frightening is that the head of the goddess statue is missing.

It is very strange that the boss of Lianhe Tangben Tourist Company died unexpectedly.

For a while, people were panicked, and all kinds of speculation spread like wildfire.

But the most widely circulated theory is the curse of the goddess.

At the price of sacrificing her own head, the goddess punished the sinner who blasphemed herself.