Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 926 The Brain in a Vat
Taking advantage of Minase Harumi floating in the sky, Qin Zhibo let the stand-in messenger enter the body of the decoy doll, and pressed the stone brick on the wall.

The stone bricks sank into the wall, and the sound of a huge mechanical device rumbling behind the wall.

Following this sound, the stone wall in the middle of the wall descended, opening a passage into the interior of the angel's pedestal.

Qin Zhibo was not the first to step in, but let "Qin Jibo" go in first to see if there were any traps.

But the inside is very flat, without any decorations, and the area as far as the eye can see is ordinary stone ground.

Just when Qin Zhibo was about to go in to find out, the minute hand on the wall suddenly jumped to the next small scale.

With the arrival of 12:01, the clock and minute hands staggered again, and the stone wall that was lowered to the ground level slowly rose.

Oops!

Qin Zhibo stepped back quickly to avoid being crushed into meat by the rising stone wall.

But "Qin Jibo" who had already walked in had no time to get out, and was locked behind the stone wall with a bang.

At this time, Minase Harumeng just floated back, and his eyes were full of addiction.

"This place is so beautiful! If only I could live here..."

"By the way, uncle, did you ask me to come out just to see the scenery?"

Qin Zhibo hurriedly told Minase Harumi that his "brother" was in it.

Minase Harumi narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Why is this so difficult?"

She circled up and down in the air, made a posture of accumulating power, and then rushed straight into the wall.

In fact, even if she doesn't charge or sprint, she can pass through walls. After all, she is "A Piao", but she just wants to put on a good-looking pose.

Qin Zhibo waited outside for a while, and Minase Harumi floated out of the stone wall again.

One of her "superpowers" is night vision, which allows her to see even when there is no light source inside.

"It's so boring here, there's nothing there, only a glass bottle on the ground, and a small black stone in the glass bottle..."

The speaker was unintentional, but Qin Zhibo, the listener, was interested, and hurriedly asked, "What does that stone look like?"

"It's...it seems to be triangular, a little long..." Minase Harumeng suddenly thought, "That's right! It's very similar to the stone you asked me to take out of the locker yesterday!"

Panest Shards!

Qin Zhibo's first reaction was this.

I didn't expect that there were Panest shards in this place, and I was so lucky that I found it right away.

Didn't the organization boss lie?

Qin Zhibo didn't dare to jump to conclusions, so he had better get the fragments first.

But now the stone wall of the angel pedestal has been completely closed, and the investigation points on the wall have also emerged, indicating that the wall has been connected to high-voltage electricity again.

If you want to go inside again, at least wait until this time tomorrow, 12:00 noon.

Or maybe 12:00 midnight can also turn off the high-voltage electricity and turn on the stone wall. Qin Zhibo is not sure about the specific mechanism of this mechanism.

Anyway, it's going to be a while.

Minase Harumo next to him saw that Qin Zhibo wanted to get the stone, so he floated back into the base and attached himself to the decoy doll.

I tried it, but the glass bottle was stuck to the ground and couldn't be picked up.

Faced with this situation, she could only pull out the cork of the glass bottle and take out the black stone inside.

But at this time, some mechanism on the ground seemed to be triggered, and there was a mechanical rumble.

Then, the ground suddenly opened from the middle to the sides, revealing the pitch-black abyss below.

"what--!"

Minase Harumeng screamed in fright, but in fact it was just the decoy doll that fell by itself, and she was still floating where she was due to the lack of gravity.

She quickly floated down to check the situation, and then floated out to tell Qin Zhibo.

"Is there room below? How big is it?"

"It's huge! It's like an underground labyrinth!"

Qin Zhibo thought for a while, the Twilight Annex also has an underground space, maybe this Isekawa Gozo really referred to Karasuma Renye's Twilight Annex in many places.

But the basement of Renye Karasuma's annex is actually a place where the Shaggai Zerg used to hold crazy sacrifices, and the temple of the Shaggai Zerg was embedded in the soil.

"Then can you manipulate the puppet to come out?"

"It should work, let me try..."

Minase Harumi flew underground again and began to attack the maze.

Qin Zhibo on the ground was not worried about Minase Harumi's ability at all. After all, she had the ability to pass through walls, so it was easier to find the way.

The reason why Minase Harumo came out with the doll was because Qin Zhibo wanted to recover the decoy doll and fragments.

The bait doll can only be placed naturally until Qin Zhibo can't touch it until he dies.

Seeing Minase Yangmeng flying away, Qin Zhibo found a hiding place in the nearby grass and hid.

……

Half an hour later, the figure of Minase Harumi appeared faintly in the sky.

Qin Zhibo stood up from his hiding place in the grass to greet him, and Minase Harumi immediately lowered his height.

"Phew - I was scared to death~"

"How is it? Have you found the ground exit?"

Minase Harumi nodded, "The exit is found, but there is a human corpse in the underground passage!"

"There's still a human head in a jar in the house, it's horrible..."

Harumi Minase gestured in the air, and finally waved his hands indiscriminately, saying hello.

"I don't even know how to describe it! Uncle, hurry up and take a look!"

Qin Zhibo realized that the situation was a bit unusual, so he also had a serious expression, and quickly followed Harumi Minase.

Passing through several stairs and gardens, Qin Zhibo followed Harumi Minase to the annex guarded by the Eastern Angel.

Going around to a window at the back of the annex, "Qin Jibo" stood obediently facing the glass window like a three-dimensional mobile Gundam.

Harumo Minase penetrated into the glass, controlled "Qin Jibo" to open the window, and let Qin Zhibo in.

After recovering the bait doll, Qin Zhibo observed the surrounding situation.

This is a room similar to a living room, with seats and sofas, and a sitting golden bull ornament placed above the fireplace.

Considering the wealth of the owner's family, the cow is likely to be pure gold.

At this time, Minase Harumi pointed to the darkness inside the fireplace, "I walked out from there..."

"But look at this, what is this!"

Qin Zhibo looked in the other direction pointed by Minase Harumi, and found the things on the solid wood cabinet.

It was a metal cylinder with a height of about 30 centimeters and a diameter close to 30 centimeters. There were two strangely shaped machines next to it. They were connected by triangular and circular slots and cables.

Although this set of machines is very comprehensible to humans, Qin Zhibo still has an impression of them.

This is the brain container shown by Mr. Clock!
And what's even more weird is that a pink brain is soaking in the green solution of that brain storage tank!

Judging from the size of the brain, there is reason to believe that it is a human brain.

Here is Mi-GO!

Qin Zhibo's brain reacted immediately, and subconsciously looked around.

However, everything around is calm, except for the instruments placed on the cabinet, it is just an ordinary room.

Qin Zhibo walked carefully to the cabinet and carefully observed the set of instruments.

When Mr. Clock was about to take out Belmode's brain, Qin Zhibo briefly understood the principle of this machine.

The brain container is a life support device, and the green solution inside can be used as a nutrient solution to protect the brain inside from death.

The other two mechanical devices are used in conjunction with the storage container. As long as the correspondingly shaped slots are connected together with cables, they can respectively realize 3 functions, a total of 6 functions.

The unit on the cabinet is clearly all wired up and even used.

Qin Zhibo subconsciously stretched out his hand and turned the knob of one of the machines, and the structure similar to vacuum tubes and speakers on the machine made a "huhu" noise.

He pressed a button on another machine, and a human face was projected from two lenses at the top of the machine.

"what!"

Minase Harumo screamed, but Qin Zhibo was already mentally prepared.

Just seeing this device in action with my own eyes still feels weird and chaotic.

The human face projected in the lens is similar to a 3D projection, but it is not very beautiful. The black and white color is accompanied by a little snowflakes.

"Hello, do you need any help?"

The machine with another speaker structure emits metallic reverberation, and the tone is lifeless, which is very in line with the characteristics of the sound of the machine.

"My God! The machine is talking?"

Minase Harumeng screamed in fright, while Qin Zhibo remained calm.

He tentatively asked, "You... are the master of this brain?"

The face in the lens keeps a stiff smile, or a smirk, "Yes."

Qin Zhibo looked at this face carefully. If it is not a unified virtual image, then this face should be the appearance of the brain owner "before he was alive".

Some natural curly hair, between 25 and 30 years old, handsome and handsome.

"Yang Meng, you go outside and watch, I will have a private conversation with this gentleman..."

In order to prevent the owner of this machine from coming back anytime, Qin Zhibo sent Harumo Minase out to keep an eye on it. Anyway, her staying here is not conducive to the communication between him and the brain.

Qin Zhibo asked after Minase Harumo floated out from the door.

"Can you see me?"

"In theory, as long as you activate a certain function of one of the devices, I can see you through the electronic vibrator."

The voice from the brain is neither happy nor angry, without emotion at all, just like Mr. Clock when he is not pretending to be a human.

Mr. Clock wanted to contain Belmode's brain and asked about the whereabouts of Panest's fragments.

This shows that once MI-GO accommodates the human brain, there will be a way for a large class of brain to exist in the form of a "machine", which can call the knowledge in the brain at any time through the form of question and answer.

In other words, the brain in front of me is now in a state of "knowing everything without saying anything".

"What's your name?"

"Yoshito Matsunaka."

"Why did you appear in the Pavilion of Angels?"

"I am the steward of the Angel House, and I am also the secretary of Mr. Isekawa Gozo... Master Isekawa entrusted me with his will before he died, and I will stay here until the will is completed."

Such a young secretary?
Qin Zhibo was a little puzzled, but he also knew that his "brain" would not lie.

Qin Zhibo asked again: "What is the content of the will?"

The brain replied flatly: "It's a puzzle. The master left a riddle. He asked all the descendants who have property inheritance rights to come and decrypt it in order of inheritance. Whoever solves the puzzle will get all the property of the master."

puzzle?

Just as Qin Zhibo was about to ask what the content of the puzzle was, Harumi Minase suddenly flew back through the wall.

"someone is coming!"

After receiving the report, Qin Zhibo quickly turned off the machine, returned all the buttons of the machine to their original state, and without saying a word, turned around and got into the passage of the fireplace.

Considering that the opponent might be Mi-GO, and the Mi-Go family has telepathy, there is no way to hide people nearby, and it is useless to hide, so Qin Zhibo simply ran into the passage.

But after running for a while, he saw something on the ground. It was so dark that he couldn't see it clearly, but there was a light on it, which just reminded Qin Zhibo that there was something there.

"This is the corpse I'm talking about!" Harumi Minase, who has night vision ability, reminded at the right time.

Qin Zhibo stopped, took out his nuclear lighter and observed carefully.

It was a body full of bones, with its head facing the exit of the passageway fireplace.

【Investigation√】

[Completion of the corpse is less than 70%, unable to investigate]

The failure of the investigation may be due to the fact that the corpse is already highly boned.

But according to Qin Zhibo's observation, although the corpse was completely bone-shattered, the clothes wrapped around it didn't look very worn out, as if it had been left for at least a few years.

Moreover, there is no hair left behind on the corpse, and the normal decay of the corpse will not completely disappear even the hair.

The nuclear lighter moved closer, and Qin Zhibo saw that the skull of the corpse was completely divided into two halves.

This is not a natural crack, but a man-made incision. The incision is quite flat, and there is not even a bit of frustration.

"This corpse..."

Qin Zhibo muttered in his mouth, guessing in his heart that the identity of this corpse was probably the "brain" just now, Yoshito Matsunaka.

Judging from the incision of the skull, the precision of human surgery cannot reach such a smooth incision, which is almost the same as a plastic model.

"Yang Meng, have you seen what the person who came just now looks like?" Qin Zhibo got up and asked.

Minase Harumi shook his head, "I came back as soon as I heard the voice, but I didn't see the face..."

"Then go up and see who that person is."

Qin Zhibo took away the apiao, Minase Harumi, again to collect information, while he himself studied the corpse underground.

After a while, Minase Harumen floated back, shouting.

"I can see clearly!"

"That person turned out to be the 'person' released from the machine just now!"

Minase Harumo's expression was not accurate, but Qin Zhibo understood.

The person above is "Yoshito Matsunaka".

But considering that the real Yoshito Matsunaka has only one brain left, the above should be Mi-GO, disguised as Yoshito Matsunaka.

"Is that 'person' still up there?"

"No, he packed all the machines and brains into boxes and drove away..."

Ok?
Qin Zhibo was a little puzzled. This guy not only knows the racial skills of surgery and disguising humans, but also the human skills of driving.

I'm afraid it's just a MI-GO with a high rank...

Could it be it?
(End of this chapter)