Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 857 Believers and Fanatics
As the believers restored the encirclement, a man in black came out and stood among the believers.

Minase Harumi looked at the man in black in disbelief, because that was Aunt Lin who had been his neighbor before.

At this time, she raised her arms high and announced loudly.

"The stars return to their places, the time has come."

"hold a ceremony!"

With a shout, a huge portrait slowly descended from the ceiling of the dome, tied by steel cables.

The painting is a gray mist, and in the midst of the mist, a slender figure looms.

Seeing this painting, Minase Harumi's brain trembled suddenly, and sporadic images flickered in his mind.

And these memories are all mixed with this painting, as well as the naked self lying on the marble floor of this temple, surrounded by a large number of believers.

At this moment, just as at that moment.

Minase Harumi covered his head, his eyes were wide open, his pupils were trembling, and he couldn't believe the images in his mind.

Aunt Lin stood in front of the girl and explained, "This is the truth. You are actually the shell we created."

"It is our thoughts that created you. You are an ethereal thing that does not exist, but now you will be given meaning."

"It is to become a container to receive 'My Lord'!"

Aunt Lin was suddenly in high spirits, pointing to the huge painting hanging behind her.

The two believers next to him forcibly pushed Harumi Minase's head on the misty painting. Although the girl struggled hard, she still couldn't hold back.

In the visual remnant, the slender figure in the mist is moving faintly.

"what--!"

"Yes, I reported that a group of people have taken hostages and are holding an illegal cult ceremony. Please come and enforce the law."

"The address is Mihua 24-chome [-], remember to bring more people."

"It's not convenient to leave your name, goodbye."

Walking out of the telephone booth on the side of the road, Qin Zhibo looked at the western-style church building across the street, which was the so-called "PONTIFEX INSTITUTE".

Under the guidance of the object-finding spell, Minase Harumeng should be here, and so is Matsumoto Ryohei.

Although it is now clear that Minase Harumi is the Tulpa made by these people, it is not clear what their specific purpose is.

It is true that Minase Harumi has some "superpowers", but it is far from the god-shaping introduced by Tulpa.

To use the power of Tulpa to shape a god, it is not enough to rely on the thinking power of their believers.

There are also believers "acting" in front of Minase Harumi again and again, what is the reason for?
So their purpose should be more than that.

He ran quickly across the deserted street and tried to pull the handle of the wooden arched door, which was locked.

But Qin Zhibo couldn't be bothered, he opened the lockpicking tool kit he had prepared, put it into the keyhole and tried a few times, and finally opened this ordinary door lock.

This is the front hall of the "Pontifical Research Institute". There are two rows of resting benches beside the dark corridor, and a series of arched domes extend inward.

And in the deepest part of the corridor, the faint light seems to be a guide, attracting lost people to go there.

Qin Zhibo put on the [Lord of the Rings], entered a state of invisibility, and approached there cautiously.

I saw as many as hundreds of believers of the Bridge Priory gathered here, forming a circle to watch the open space in the middle, so that Qin Zhibo on the outermost side could not see anything.

Since these believers were shoulder to shoulder, Qin Zhibo couldn't squeeze in even if he was invisible, so he had to find another way.

But at this moment, the girl's heart-piercing cry reached his ears.

"what--!"

Qin Zhibo's heart twitched. Although he knew that he was a person shaped by his thoughts, after getting along with him for this period of time, he had already regarded Minase Harumi as a real person.

He didn't have time to think about it, and quickly cast a [Guard Totem], and placed his eyes on the roof of the hall, overlooking the situation in the hall.

Accessing the vision of the guard totem, I saw two believers forcibly turning Minase Harumi's head to the painting hanging in the air, forcing her to watch the content above.

Not far away, there are two believers supporting Matsumoto Ryohei, who seems to be dying.

"Look, this is your real body!"

"Thoughts generate dreams, dreams turn into power, and power builds bridges!"

"The ancient gods at the center of the universe are coming from the bridge... show up!"

Aunt Lin shouted loudly, but even so, Minase Harumi was still struggling, and her eyes still couldn't get rid of the emotions of a human girl—struggle, fear and anxiety.

Aunt Lin's eyes were a little disappointed, but she was not discouraged, she just said lightly, "Isn't that enough?"

The tulpa created by believers with their thoughts will inevitably possess human rationality, but this is a taboo for the Advent Ceremony.

Those ancient gods did not appreciate human reason.

Reason is a bondage, madness is freedom.

If you want the ancient gods to descend on the Tulpa created by humans, you must also make Tulpa fall into a state of extreme madness!
When the sanity drops to the lowest point, it is the best moment for the ancient gods to descend.

Therefore, in order to drive this Tulpa into madness, the believers designed an exquisite human identity for it, Teidan high school student Harumi Minase.

The Jiudaomen apartment and the school files of Didan High School are all nothing but an ingenious lie.

Getting Tulpa to accept himself as a human, and then driving Tulpa into madness under extreme circumstances, is the ultimate goal.

But the believers of the church tried all kinds of cruel methods, but they still couldn't make Tulpa go crazy, including kidnapping, torture, imprisonment, and abduction.
Every time, Tulpa can see through the tricks of the believers at critical moments, understand that everything is false, and refuse to fall into madness.

Believers of the sect can only use "memory obfuscation" to make Tulpa forget again and again, and then try again and again.

Different scenes, different characters, and different plots are just to drive Tulpa completely crazy.

But with the latest attempt, a twist occurred.

Someone other than the believer rescued Tulpa and treated Tulpa like family.

With this turning point, the believers wondered whether they could create an emotional bond between Tulpa and people outside the sect, and then wait until the time was right to use this bond to drive Tulpa into madness.

Right now is such a good time.

Aunt Lin glanced at the two believers next to her, and the two immediately understood, and put Matsumoto Ryohei's body up.

"Look clearly, is this your companion?"

A believer raised his fist and punched Matsumoto Ryohei on the cheek.

"Uncle Matsumoto!"

Minase Harumi let out a heart-piercing cry, but in exchange for more vicious beatings, he punched and kicked Matsumoto Ryohei.

Aunt Lin kept provoking Mizose Yangmeng with words, "Do you want to save him? Just go completely crazy!"

"As soon as you get mad, you have the power to stop it!"

"As long as we're insane, we'll worship you as 'my Lord'!"

It was another punch and kick, and Matsumoto Ryohei was completely beaten to the ground. It seemed that he could only breathe out but not breathe in when he fell to the ground.

But Minase Harumeng still just cried anxiously towards Matsumoto Ryohei, without any sign of madness.

Aunt Lin froze for a moment. Could it be that the bond between the two is not deep enough, and she was too hasty?

But logically, since this man rescued Tulpa that day, there has been enough time to establish a bond, right?

Aunt Lin didn't know that there was another person who rescued Minase Harumi that night in the Jiudaomen apartment.

Just when she didn't know what to do next, Matsumoto Ryohei who was lying on the ground suddenly burst into a rage, and rushed towards Aunt Lin like a wild beast.

Before Aunt Lin could react, a bloody mouth had already bit her ear, and when she tore it hard, the flesh burst open instantly, and a few traces of blood streaked across the air.

The two believers next to him realized this and quickly pulled Matsumoto Ryohei away, but he had already put the fresh human ear in his mouth, grinning like a falcon that had successfully preyed on it.

"what!"

Aunt Lin covered her ears in pain, with blood flowing down her fingers, looking a bit tragic.

Seeing the scene of the bad guys suffering, the corners of Minase Harumi's mouth curled up, revealing an inappropriate smile.

This made Aunt Lin very humiliated and screamed immediately.

"Ears! Get my ears here!"

The ear-piercing voice commanded the believers, and the leader, Pharaoh, rushed forward, reaching out to snatch Matsumoto Ryohei's ears from his mouth.

But at this moment, a loud voice in the hall suddenly stopped everyone.

"Don't move all!"

All the believers shook their bodies and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a man with gauze wrapped around his head appearing outside the hall at some point.

He held an improvised explosive with two detonators tied together in his hand, and a lighter in his other hand, aiming at the fuse of the explosive.

As long as the lighter flame touches the lead wire, you can imagine what will happen next-boom!

"If you move again, I'll blow you up!"

"Don't move if you don't want to die!"

The believers were overwhelmed by the man's words, especially the two detonators in his hands, which were really irresistible, very convincing.

Although these people have faith, they have not reached the level of fanatics.

The man maintained the posture of detonating the explosives at any time, walked through the path subconsciously evacuated by the believer's body, and came to Minase Harumeng's side.

Minase Harumi looked at the man with gauze wrapped around his head in surprise, and felt a little familiar in his heart. When he looked at the brown windbreaker on his body, he knew it immediately.

"Big"

Without waiting for her to speak, Qin Zhibo quickly ordered in a low voice, "Follow me."

Minase Harumo nodded, obediently followed behind Qin Zhibo.

The man walked up to Ryohei Matsumoto again and asked if he could still move.

Matsumoto Ryohei vomited Aunt Lin's ears aside, nodded as well, and slowly got up from the ground with the support of Minase Harumi.

"Get out of the way, let's see who is right in the end if you are blown to death!"

"Whoever dares to come up will not even want to live!"

The man with the gauze head spoke harshly. Even though he was surrounded by people dozens of times larger than himself, his aura was still not weak. The tone of his death-defying tone seemed to ignite the fuse of explosives in the next second.

Under the threat of death, these believers stepped back slowly, opening the encirclement that had just been sewn together.

Minase Harumo supported Matsumoto Ryohei and staggered towards the main entrance. Qin Zhibo was behind, holding a bomb in his hand, preventing believers from following.

I have already called the police, basically as long as I can leave the building, I will succeed.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly shouted among the believers.

"You can't go!"

Qin Zhibo looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a man with well-groomed hair and elegant glasses on his face.

Although his appearance had changed a bit compared to before, Qin Zhibo still recognized that this person was Akira Kato.

"Kato, if you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood, so don't worry about it."

Aunt Lin covered her ears with one hand and scolded angrily.

In her mind, Tulpa is a product of the church, as long as it exists, the church can find it, so the retreat at this moment is nothing, as long as it survives, there is still a chance.

But Akira Kato didn't care what she said, and continued to stare at the gauze-haired man in the corridor, "Hmph, I already know who you are."

"Hey! You didn't hear me"

Aunt Lin yelled at Kato angrily, but before she finished speaking, Akira Kato shot suddenly, the speed was so fast that only an afterimage was left, and it was inserted into Aunt Lin's chest.

The huge power itself is unimaginable, but what is more frightening is not this, but what pierces Aunt Lin's chest is not a human arm, but a black and shiny pointed vertebra.

Aunt Lin's body collapsed forever with the momentary shock when she came into contact with death.

Akira Kato, who had just executed his companion, just flicked the sharp arm lightly, blood splashed on the marble, and immediately, the black and shiny substance turned into a human arm again.

"I know who you are, you can't go"

As he said that, Akira Kato put his posture on the ground, kicked his feet on the ground, and rushed towards Qin Zhibo quickly.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo was also shocked. This guy even dared to charge forward when he saw that he had a bomb in his hand.

He's crazy!
The flame from the lighter in his hand ignited the fuse of the explosives, Qin Zhibo swung vigorously, threw the explosives towards the hall, turned around and lay down in the other direction.

The believers panicked immediately, but they didn't have much time to react.

Less than two seconds after the explosive fell to the ground, the fuse was burned out, and the extremely dangerous chemical substances reacted quickly inside.

boom--

The luxurious hall made of marble trembled violently, and the marble floor of the entire church seemed to tremble several times.

The explosives exploded among the crowd, and many believers who were too late to get down became living targets to test the power of the explosives, and the splashed limbs were the price they paid.

Qin Zhibo, who was lying on the marble floor, slowly raised his head, his ears were almost deaf from the explosion of the explosives, and his brain was buzzing.

Fortunately, the emergency evasion was done in a timely manner. There was no trauma on his body, but his whole body was sore.

Qin Zhibo clutched his abdomen and slowly got up. Just as he was about to check on the situation of the two people in front of him, his heart suddenly trembled.

Terrible murderous aura struck from behind, Qin Zhibo had just twisted half of his body when a black shadow swiftly knocked him to the ground.

His body, which was already in a very bad state, fell heavily to the ground. Qin Zhibo only felt that his stomach was full of meat and vegetables, and he was about to vomit even his dinner.

But before he tilted his head to spit something out of his mouth, Kato Akira had already walked over and lifted Qin Zhibo up with one hand.

(End of this chapter)