Conan's grammatical investigator

As soon as Minase Harumi was summoned, she realized that something was wrong with the surrounding environment.

"This is... the wild land?"

"Are you going to fight 'field battle' with me?"

"No - she's still a girl!"

"Yamey!"

Harumi Minase protected her chest with her arms, and her body hanging in the air twisted like a cicada pupa, so pretentious.

Qin Zhibo's eyelids drooped, and this guy fell ill again.

Minase Harumeng was shaped by nearly a hundred Tulpa believers with their thinking power. God knows that those believers with insatiable desires have installed a few small movies of T in her mind!

"Even if you call your throat broken, no one here will be able to find you... Let's come and have a look below."

"what?!"

Harumi Minase let out a cry and made a frightened expression.

"You actually asked a beautiful girl to show you the following!"

Looking at Minase Harumi who floated farther away, Qin Zhibo gritted his teeth, if he couldn't touch her body now, otherwise he would have to teach her a lesson!

"No kidding, I'll let you see what's under the ground."

"Cut~~~Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Harumi Minase flew over with a somewhat disappointed expression, and her slightly transparent body burrowed into the gravel ground.

But a second later, she popped her own head again.

"Are you sure you're only looking at the underside of this?"

"Go down you!"

Qin Zhibo went down with a big foot, and Minase Harumi immediately burrowed into the ground like a gopher, and disappeared without a trace like a Tu Xingsun.

While Minase Harumi sneaked into the ground to observe the situation, Qin Zhibo also observed the surrounding situation.

This is an ordinary wasteland, except for the scattered bushes, there is no marijuana planted in it.

Running Bull said that since the expedition fever passed, the ghost of the Indian with the blue torch disappeared.

Decades ago, it was possible to often see those ghosts, guarding the hills like sentinels, and there were men and women among the ghosts.

After a while, Minase Harumi flew back with news.

"There is a passage below!"

"There is a dead man in the passage! No hands, no feet, it's too scary!"

Harumi Minase talked and gestured, describing the following situation.

"what--!"

The two were communicating, and Koizumi Hongzi's scream was heard not far away.

Qin Zhibo and Minase Harumo ran immediately, and found that Koizumi Hongko was facing a huge cube machine, and there was a white man standing beside the machine.

Qin Zhibo recognized this white man as one of the images of Mr. clock.

"Mr. Clock, why are you here?"

Mr. Clock looked at Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi, with a stiff smile on his face, and replied, "Mr. Qin, we meet again."

"And this young lady, is that the companion you mentioned to bring?"

Mr. clock's eyes fell on Koizumi Hongzi, and Koizumi Hongzi's heart felt a little terrified.

Even though Qin Zhibo didn't say anything, she could feel something chilling down her spine under that human skin.

"Yes." Qin Zhibo didn't deny it, but turned back to the topic and asked, "Why are you here?"

Mr. clock opened his unblinking eyes, and there was a strange light in the light blue false eyes.

"I'm here to make some preparations."

"What to prepare?"

"To prepare for entering Kunyang, just rely on this machine..."

Mr. clock directed Qin Zhibo's attention to the cube machine next to him. Each side of this machine is 6 meters long, which is very huge.

Each side of the machine is dotted with small irregular bay windows, especially inlaid with opaque and opaque glass.

Just because Koizumi Hongzi saw this machine, she walked over to check it curiously, but was startled by Mr. clock who suddenly jumped out.

Qin Zhibo looked at it, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have seen this machine before.

In the previous Valentine's Day chocolate murder incident, a Mi-GO mine was located in the mountains near the Fudu Mountain Villa where he lived at the time.

Under that mine, there is such a huge machine.

Mr. Clock stood next to the machine and introduced: "This is called an earthquake mining machine, and it is one of the great inventions of our race."

"As long as we use it, we can be transported underground quickly and unscathed."

With that said, Mr. clock was about to reach out to start the machine.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo hurriedly stopped.

"Wait a moment!"

"We just came to investigate this place in advance, and have no plans to go underground immediately."

"And we plan to enter Kunyang from another road..."

This remark surprised Koizumi Hongzi, but seeing Qin Zhibo's unusually firm eyes, he didn't ask the reason right now.

"is it?"

Mr. Clock remained expressionless, and continued to persuade: "This machine is very safe, it can pull any material to a depth of four miles underground, as long as you use it, you can quickly reach the underground."

"And as far as I know, there are no other roads into Kunyang near here..."

Faced with Mr. Clock's invitation, Qin Zhibo still shook his head, "I said yes, you can enter Kunyang first, and we will enter within one day at the latest."

"Finally we meet above the depths of Enkai."

Qin Zhibo was trying to test Mr. clock, but at the same time he was also on guard against it.

Ever since the Angel's Pavilion incident, Qin Zhibo knew that the other party was trying to trick him, so he let him steal the fake Panest fragments.

Since then, the two are no longer in a cooperative relationship, but objects that need to be guarded against each other.

The advantage of Mr. Clock is that he knows how to use the Panest fragments to enter Enkai safely, and most of the Panest fragments are in his hands.

And Qin Zhibo's advantage is that in the incident of the Angel's Pavilion, the real fragments have been replaced with fake fragments, and Mr. clock didn't know about this, thinking that he got all the real fragments.

Therefore, from now on, Qin Zhibo must beware of all the roads laid by Mr. clock, which may be traps aimed at himself.

Mr. Clock was silent for a while, and sighed in a stiff tone, "That's all I have to do, I'll go downstairs first."

"Mr. Qin, we are friends, right?"

Mr. clock stared at Qin Zhibo suddenly, showing a rare "sincere" smile.

"Yes, forever friends..."

Qin Zhibo also responded with a "smile".

……

After leaving the hill and returning to the hotel, Qin Zhibo told Koizumi Hongzi his concerns.

Including how I cheated Mr. clock under the instructions of the mask before, and Mr. clock may have noticed it and wanted to take revenge.

Therefore, I can't place my hope on the machine prepared by Mr. Clock. If it is a trap, the two of them will be doomed.

Minase Yangmeng said that there is a passage under the hill, but it is several meters deep underground, and it will take a long time to dig it by manpower alone.

In addition to this road, there is only another road that Running Bull said.

Qin Zhibo knocked on the running bull's room on the first floor, explaining that he wanted him to lead the way, just like the old gray eagle 15 years ago.

Of course, there is also a reward, a full $5000.

But Benniu directly rejected Qin Zhibo's proposal.

"No, it's too dangerous there, I can't guarantee what will happen next."

Running Bull's refusal was very decisive.

Qin Zhibo saw that money could not move him, so he changed his strategy and began to move him with emotion.

"Don't you want to know how your father is doing? In case he's still alive?"

This made Benniu hesitate for a while, but his attitude remained unwavering.

"The dead are like this..."

"No matter what happens to my father now, his soul will always exist in this land, with the stars, with the sun and moon, and with me."

Qin Zhibo was a little annoyed seeing Benniu's reluctance, but he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing.

"Even if you can't send us in, it's always okay to take us to that entrance?"

"As long as we can come out alive after we go in, and tell you something about the underground, isn't this a worthless business for you?"

Qin Zhibo's words made Ben Niu ponder for a while, and then nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I can take you near the entrance."

"When are you leaving?"

"Just tomorrow."

Qin Zhibo said so.

……

On the next day, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi put on all their equipment and headed to the entrance of another passage in a Bullrunning pickup truck.

The other passage is not on the plain, but in the valley at the end of the plain, about 40 kilometers south of the town of Binger.

After bumping for more than half an hour, the pickup finally arrived at the valley on the edge of the plain.

According to Benniu, this place was also the residence of Indians hundreds of years ago. Later, for some reasons, people migrated to live on the plains.

Under the leadership of Ben Niu, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi went deep into a steep valley.

There are luxuriant trees growing in the valley, and the lush scenery is completely different from the red soil plain outside.

Standing on the hillside, Running Bull reached out and pointed towards the bottom of the valley.

"That entrance is somewhere at the bottom of the valley."

"I don't know exactly where it is, so I can only rely on you to find it yourself."

Qin Zhibo and Ben Niu discussed the meeting place after returning, and they parted ways with Ben Niu, and went deep into the valley with Koizumi Hongzi, while Ben Niu walked back along the hillside alone.

There are almost no traces of human activities in this valley, so there are no roads. Qin Zhibo, who has to walk in front, keeps opening the road with a short knife.

Koizumi Hongzi followed with difficulty, and after a while, fine beads of sweat covered his forehead.

For this eldest lady who has been pampered and pampered since birth, such a primitive path is naturally a great test.

And after going deep underground, I still don't know what kind of environment I will face.

When he was in the hotel yesterday, Qin Zhibo tried to dispel her idea of ​​going down to that mysterious abyss with him.

That place must be close to death, he should be able to learn magic and so on, knowledge can be passed on, and he can teach it to her after he comes out.

But Koizumi Hongzi very firmly stated that he must go down.

"It's not just about the magic, it's about mom..."

Seeing this scene, Qin Zhibo couldn't persuade him any more.

……

The two came to the bottom of the valley and kept searching in the lush bushes.

In the end, Koizumi Hongzi took the lead in discovering an unusual place.

It was an entrance hidden among several huge pieces of sandstone, which was extremely narrow at the beginning and only accessible to people.

On the sandstone surface next to the entrance there are some traces of carvings, which once had some patterns, but are now unrecognizable by the erosion of rainwater.

In addition, there are traces of drilling in the sandstone that served as the lintel, suggesting that a hinged gate once existed here.

"Looks like it's here."

Qin Zhibo's inner intuition is very certain that this is the entrance to the underground world—Kunyang.

Koizumi Hongzi stretched out her hand to caress the carvings on the sandstone, her eyes thoughtful.

The two of them finally checked the equipment on their bodies, making sure that it was enough for a week of adventure in the underground world, before they stepped into the unknown entrance.

Compared with the narrowness of the hole, the passage inside is wider than the hole itself.

Walking through a natural path of primitive sandstone, the cave is transformed into an artificial tunnel made of stone slabs.

After countless years, these stone slabs have been severely corroded in the humid air, and there is a sound of gravel rubbing on them.

On the walls and ceiling on both sides of the stone road, there are some disgusting grotesque patterns, most of which have been preserved.

Using the light of the searchlight, the two discovered that the themes of these patterns were a snake-shaped lizard man and a monster with an octopus head.

Qin Zhibo looked at the octopus-headed monster, its bloated image perched on the pedestal maliciously, and immediately reminded him of what it was.

Cthulhu.

Are there followers of Cthulhu in this place too?
Qin Zhibo couldn't believe it, could it be those people from Innsmouth?
And Koizumi Hongzi recognized where the image of the snake-headed lizard man next to him came from.

"This should be 'Ig', father of snakes."

"This is a very evil god. According to legend, it once cursed those half-snake people who didn't believe in themselves."

From here, the two gradually began to feel the evil and weirdness here.

The tunnel in the darkness has been extending obliquely and endlessly in a certain direction, some of which are similar to the stairs in the dreamland, except that there are no steps here, all are slopes.

Once you accidentally fall, it is very likely to slide all the way down the slope.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo, the leader, was very careful and did not rush to catch up with the progress.

Mr. clock said that if you wait for yourself in front, you will definitely wait for yourself.

After all, the two are "friends"...

……

After walking down like this for more than three hours, Qin Zhibo finally felt some changes in the air quality around him.

Although there was no difficulty in breathing during the journey just now, a decaying smell could be smelled in the air, even in the huge cave that passed by.

But gradually, Qin Zhibo felt an unprecedented freshness in the air, deeper underground where carbon dioxide should be deposited.

It was at this time that the tunnel finally ushered in a turning point, changing from a downhill path to an uphill step.

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi stepped over the rough stone steps, and the light of the searchlight with sufficient power became dim instead.

At the top of the steps, there is a huge stone door.

Passing through the stone gate, the vision suddenly opened up.

Behind Shimen, there is a boundless plain!

[Congratulations on reaching the lowest peak in the world - Kunyang! 】