Conan's grammatical investigator

"Perpetual motion machine?"

Hondo Eisuke was stunned for a moment, "But my middle school physics teacher said that there is no perpetual motion machine in this world."

Qin Zhibo slapped his forehead, a little speechless.

This guy actually took it seriously.

But the topic of perpetual motion machines may really exist.

If the gods don't need to consume energy, then the gods themselves are perpetual motion machines...

At this time, Koizumi Hongzi noticed the file box that Qin Zhibo carried, which contained a thick pile of documents.

"What are these 'papers'?"

"It's the case file I worked on before, and I just got it back from the Bureau of Investigation."

Hondo Eisuke was shocked, "Investigation Bureau? Is it the FBI!"

"Yes, I used to be an FBI investigator."

"Wow!" Hondo Yingyou looked surprised and was about to stand up, "It turns out that Mr. Qin is... ouch!"

Hondo Eiyu let out a pain, it turned out that he took off too hard, causing his knee to hit the edge of the table.

Koizumi Hongzi was not too surprised by Qin Zhibo's identity, as if he knew it a long time ago.

She just glanced at the tarot cards on the table, surprised in her eyes, and then looked up at the unlucky Hondo Eisuke.

Qin Zhibo took out these files, spread them out on the table, and started looking for the case closest to leaving the job.

It has to be said that the resume of the original owner of the body is indeed wonderful.

As an FBI federal agent, the area of ​​cases handled is not limited to New York State, but the entire United States.

From New England to New Mexico, whether it is a serial murder case or organizing cross-border trafficking and smuggling, the original owner has investigated.

In terms of seniority, the original owner is no less than Police Officer Megure, who only started to "make his fortune" by the god of death in the past two years.

Moreover, the cases that require the intervention of the FBI are often major cases, which cannot be solved simply by reasoning of "choose one from three".

……

Hondo Eisuke excitedly turned around in the files, obviously, he was very interested in these files.

"Mr. Qin, can I have a look at these?"

"Okay, just don't make a mess." Qin Zhibo didn't refuse.

Koizumi Hongzi next to him tugged at Qin Zhibo's arm and whispered, "I have something to tell you, come here..."

The two walked to the corner of the living room, where Eisuke Hondo could not hear, Koizumi Hongko spoke.

"That kid, maybe someone used 'magic' on him."

Qin Zhibo frowned, "What do you mean?"

"His destiny shouldn't exist in this world, but someone used some kind of 'magic' to allow him to be born."

"I'm not sure if it was done by magic, but it's kind of weird..."

Koizumi Hongzi said these words seriously, which made Qin Zhibo a little surprised.

Hondo Eisuke is actually a "magic" creation?

"Are you sure?"

Koizumi Hongzi nodded, proudly said: "Of course, this is the result of tarot divination, and my divination cannot be wrong."

In order to practice divination and try to pass the exam of the Witch's Seven Arrays, Koizumi Hongko secretly gave Hondo Eisuke a fortune-telling with Tarot cards.

The result was that Eisuke Hondo's divination did not exist. From the point of view of numerology, this person should not have existed in this world.

But in fact, Hondo Eisuke does exist.

Combined with what the magic crystal ball said, it is estimated that someone forcibly reversed the fate of his stillborn to make him survive.

As for the price of doing so, it is a lifetime of bad luck, but it will not reach the lethal dose.

Great luck must be rewarded with an equal amount of misfortune.

"It seems that it is a miracle that this kid is still alive..."

People who are only 10 lucky and have that kind of unlucky causal law are not fabricated out of thin air.

……

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi agreed and decided not to tell Hondo Eisuke about this matter.

Because even if you tell him, Koizumi Hongzi has no solution.

The situation of Hondo Eisuke is different from that of Okino Yoko. His "bad luck" is to repay the "luck" of being born smoothly, and the two have already canceled each other out.

Apart from some unlucky things, he is a normal person now.

But who actually used the "magic" on Hondo Eisuke?

If Hondo Eisuke was doomed to face death from the fetal period, probably only his parents would know about it.

Could it be his father or mother who continued his life?

Withdrawing his thoughts, Qin Zhibo returned to the desk and sorted out the files.

With the help of library skills, he quickly found the materials he wanted.

That is, the last case handled by the original owner before the fbi left.

Opening the file, the title of this case immediately aroused Qin Zhibo's vigilance.

[Records of the 1992 investigation of the "Dagon" cult group in the New Orleans area]

Dagon?

Qin Zhibo had never heard of this name, but he was very sensitive to the word cult.

Open the file, which shows the original owner's case handling process.

The original owner's investigation of the "Dagon" religion did not start in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in Innsmouth, not far from Boston.

Innsmouth is the birthplace of Dagonism.

Dagonism has a long history in Innsmouth, and the beginning of this history probably dates back to the early 19th century.

In its heyday, the Dagon religion almost controlled the entire Innsmouth. From the economy to the local government, at least 90% of the residents in the city believed in the Dagon religion.

This was the case until 1927, when Innsmouth was reported by a stranger.

The following year, the FBI Bureau of Investigation and the Marine Corps stormed Innsmouth and arrested more than 2000 Innsmouth residents.

However, due to insufficient evidence and other reasons, these Innsmouth people were not punished too harshly.

The final result is that most of the residents were forcibly expelled from the local area and scattered in major port cities across the United States.

As the largest force in Innsmouth, the Marsh family, which owned the metallurgical industry, was also under pressure to transform other industries.

Since then, Innsmouth has been completely reduced to a ghost town, and many modern maps will not list the place as a city.

The Dagon religion in the New Orleans area is derived from the descendants of the residents of Innsmouth.

Although they moved to a foreign land, they did not give up their faith and continued to preach in secret.

……

These are the backgrounds of the Dagon religion that the original owner investigated.

Following the clues reported by local residents and with the cooperation of the state police, the original owner arrested more than 30 Dagon believers.

These believers were charged with first-degree murder, illegal assembly, promiscuity and other crimes, and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five years to life imprisonment.

In addition, the fbi also confiscated a considerable amount of cultist items.

These items include, but are not limited to, some illegal books, stone tablets, statues, gold jewelry, powder guns, etc.

At the end of the file, photographs document the confiscated evidence.

Among these photos, Qin Zhibo saw the stone slab at first sight.

That stone slab is very familiar to people. Although it is said to be a stone slab, the surface is full of traces of a large number of clay sculptures.

The crooked and misshapen characters are engraved on the clay board, which looks like English, but if you distinguish carefully, you will find that it is different from any common language used by modern humans.

But Qin Zhibo knows and has seen this kind of writing.

That's exactly Raliyah!

Since he has not yet mastered the Raliyah language skills, Qin Zhibo can't understand the meaning of the words on the clay tablet.

But if this is consistent with the source of the slate found in the home of the murderer Ruyue Fengshui in the case of the twin skyscrapers, this is also likely to be the "Luoyan City Teaching Book".

In contrast, Koizumi Hongzi can understand part of the pictographic annotations on Ruyuefengshui.

And this stone tablet has only Raliyah language on it, without any annotations, and the history of the clay tablet seems to be longer.

"This...looks familiar?" Koizumi Hongzi next to him also cast his gaze.

Qin Zhibo handed her the photo, maybe she could see some clues, while he continued to look at the remaining photos.

In these photos, Qin Zhibo saw another familiar thing.

This is a statue with a vaguely human outline.

It has an octopus-like head, a mass of tentacles over its face, a scaled body, and a bloated, demonic body.

It also has huge claws on its front and rear feet, and bat-like long and narrow wings on its back.

The monster perched with disturbing malevolence on the ashlar base, and the stone was vaguely covered with obscure symbols.

Seeing this image, Qin Zhibo froze for a moment, and a tingling sensation spread across his scalp like an electric shock.

It's... a foreign Bodhisattva!

Qin Zhibo had seen this image before, and it was after the Japanese sculptor Akutsu Shintake suddenly went mad that he created the statue.

This statue was so profane that Akutsu Shintake's reputation was ruined all his life on it, and he himself was admitted to a mental hospital in his later years.

Later, after Qin Zhibo experienced a series of things, he learned the real name of the statue.

Cthulhu!
Seeing this kind of statue again, Qin Zhibo felt shocked and unbelievable at first.

The second is a deep sense of disgust, I even feel my gastric juices are wriggling, my throat is a little itchy, and I want to spit it out.

Snapped!
He quickly closed the file and looked out of the window.

Even Qin Zhibo himself didn't know how this feeling of disgust came from. In short, he hated everything related to Cthulhu.

Perhaps it was the first time when I came into contact with the statue of the foreign Bodhisattva, I felt the relationship between this existence and the sea water.

And I happen to hate sea water very much, and even feel fear when it is serious.

Although Qin Zhibo has overcome his fear of sea water through the prop [Fear in a Bottle], the disgust is still there.

When I saw the statue of the foreign Bodhisattva, I felt like someone had forcefully poured seawater into my throat...

In short, it is very uncomfortable.

"call……"

Qin Zhibo's chest was panting, calming down the palpitation just now.

Hongzi Koizumi next to him also returned the photo of the clay tablet at this time, saying, "This should be the same thing as the stone tablet you showed me that time."

"This should be an ancient and taboo secret tome. If I can get more stone tablets like this, maybe I can translate these words..."

"Translation?" Qin Zhibo was a little surprised, can he even do this?

Seeing Qin Zhibo's questioning eyes, Koizumi Hongzi pinched her waist proudly and said proudly: "Of course, don't underestimate the witch's language talent!"

"Witch?" Hondo Eisuke, who was flipping through the file, was surprised, "What witch?"

Koizumi Hongzi was clicked, and quickly interrupted with a smile.

"You heard it wrong~ It's a girl, a girl!"

"Ho Ho Ho Ho ~"

……

The next day, in the morning.

Qin Zhibo came to the FBI Investigation Bureau with the file box in his hand, and returned the file to Zhao.

But in addition, Qin Zhibo also asked Agent Kamel to see the evidence collected in the New Orleans operation in 92, especially the clay tablet.

Detective Kamel was a little puzzled, but he still took Qin Zhibo to the evidence department.

After informing the evidence management personnel of the appeal, the management personnel went in to look for it.

After 10 minutes, the administrator came back with empty hands.

"That batch of evidence is not here now, I need to retrieve the evidence records..."

After waiting for another 5 minutes, the management staff found the relevant records from a paper file.

"I found it... The last person who borrowed this batch of evidence was Senior Detective Vince Qin."

Kamel outside the barbed wire window looked stunned, and looked at Qin Zhibo next to him in disbelief.

Qin Zhibo who heard the news was relatively calm, "Understood, thank you."

"you are welcome……"

The evidence officer closed the record, unaware that the person standing in front of him was Vince Qin.

As soon as he walked out of the evidence department, Kamel couldn't wait to ask what was going on.

"Mr. Qin, what's the matter?"

According to the rules, for the needs of handling the case, the detective can use the evidence related to the case after the application, and return it after the case is over.

But Qin not only did not return the evidence, but also resigned with the evidence?
What kind of outlaw fanatic is this?
Qin Zhibo smiled, pretending to keep everything in mind, and raised his finger to the top of his head.

"There's someone above me."

Kamel frowned and looked up, but there was no one on the ceiling.

……

After leaving the FBI Investigation Bureau, Qin Zhibo basically figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

Hondo Eisuke's father, Ethan Hondo, wrote a letter thanking him for the fact that the evidence should be brought out from the FBI's Evidence Division.

Those statues and clay tablets are not in his hands now, which means that the original owner has given them all the things.

Handed over to the CIA.

The CIA is also collecting things related to the Dagon religion, which is an accident.

And why did Ethan Hondo insist on going to Japan to know the truth of the matter?
This matter is probably related to the meeting with the CIA personnel in the afternoon.

……

In the afternoon, Qin Zhibo came to a cafe in Manhattan ahead of schedule, ordered a cup of Mocha coffee, and waited to meet with the CIA personnel.

At two o'clock, a white man in a black suit entered the coffee shop, glanced at the shop, and came straight to Qin Zhibo.

"Hello, may I ask that you are Vince Qin?"

The other party cut straight to the point, Qin Zhibo also nodded in response.

"Yes, may I ask if you are..."

"Introduce yourself, your name is Patrick, and you are the person who is in contact with you."

The man who called himself "Patrick" reached out and held Qin Zhibo together.

The moment his hands touched, Qin Zhibo started the investigation without hesitation.

【Investigation√】

Name: John Drake
Sex: Male
Age: 42 years old

Occupation: CIA agent
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