Conan's grammatical investigator

"Here is..."

"Kunyang..."

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi murmured, both of them couldn't help being shocked by the underground scene in front of them.

This is a bizarre world, with countless peaks hanging upside down in the sky, like stalactite pillars in a cave, but they are more than a hundred times larger.

What illuminated all of this was the light blue arc-like radiance floating in the air, as gorgeous as an aurora, but it flickered strangely.

Under such a bright sky, searchlights seemed useless.

And at the foot of the mountain where the two were, there was a plain shrouded in light blue clouds.

Looking at this scene, Qin Zhibo suddenly remembered the "Xin's Tombs" in the dreamland he had been to. There are many similarities between here and there.

For example, there will never be a "sky" that changes day and night, but Xin's tombs are green, and Kunyang is light blue.

……

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi did not rush down, but first waited and watched the situation here on the hillside.

Due to the shroud of light blue clouds and fog, the field of vision of the telescope cannot see through the clouds and fog, but can only see what is on the nearby plain.

Soon, Qin Zhibo found a group of livestock wandering in the dark field of the plain.

These four-legged beasts looked neither horses nor bison, but evil monsters with hideous flat faces on their heads.

On the fur backs of these livestock, some bronze-colored saddles can be seen, as if they are some kind of riding tools.

But within the range of his vision, Qin Zhibo has not found where their masters are guarding them. It seems that they are grazing freely.

Qin Zhibo checked the electronic map of the navigator again, but unfortunately, this place was regarded as a whole by the electronic map, collectively referred to as "Sato".

Except for the uncertainty in the light blue cloud and mist on the plain, most of the other places are deserted plains.

Qin Zhibo took out the real Panest fragments again, but the fragments did not respond, and they were still the same as on the ground.

"It seems that we can only go forward..."

While Qin Zhibo was observing, Koizumi Hongzi also took out a crystal ball for divination.

The crystal ball, who always knew everything without saying anything, played the game that silence is golden at this time, even though Hongzi Koizumi asked no matter how she asked, she would not answer.

"Hey! Tell us how to go next?"

The crystal ball was silent.

"If you don't speak again, I'll smash you!"

Koizumi Hongzi raised the crystal ball high, as if about to hit the ground, the crystal ball hurriedly spoke in a high-pitched voice to save her life.

"Master Hongzi! Please wait a moment!"

"It's not that I don't tell you, it's that I really don't know... Think about it, how many magicians have been to that place since ancient times? I have never made the crystal ball of the great magician Eibon, how could I know?" How to get to Enkai?"

"But I can feel that there is a very powerful force hidden under the ground of this place, so powerful that it is unimaginable, it is too terrifying~~"

"If you insist on going down, please put me where others can pick me up, thank you."

Koizumi Hongzi was so angry at the last sentence of the crystal ball that she wanted to be a "traitor", she raised her hand and was about to throw her to the ground.

But Koizumi Hongzi changed his mind and put the crystal ball back into the package with a smile.

The crystal ball screamed quickly, and the light blue light group scrambled wildly in the wall of the crystal ball.

"Lord Hongzi, let me out! I don't want to die together!"

"Woooooooo..."

The sound of the crystal ball disappeared into the backpack, as if the mouth was forcibly covered.

Koizumi Hongzi patted the dust on his palm, and said indifferently: "Forget it, this guy is unreliable, we have to find the way by ourselves."

Qin Zhibo nodded, he already knew this would be the result.

If the crystal ball is so easy to use, there will be more than one great magician Eibon in history.

……

The two descended from the dark gray basalt hillside without vegetation, and stood on the boundless plain.

The vast plains are mostly fertile black soil mixed with crushed stones, and there is nothing distinguishable on the land, except for the clouds and mists that glow blue and change their shapes from time to time.

In order to restore their strength and lighten their load, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi first ate some of the food they brought, including compressed biscuits, chocolate, and raisins.

After eating, I hid the day's supplies under the steep hillside, and piled up a striking small stone pile to mark the location of the supplies.

After repairing, the two walked towards the place where the clouds and mists were densest, because according to Qin Zhibo's observation, there must be something hidden there.

These clouds are like the crack generators of the Allies in Red Alert 2. They are always in a condensed state, probably to hide something important.

Perhaps it is the legendary Enkai Abyss entrance.

……

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi walked on the barren plain for three hours, and it was already past 6 o'clock.

Although it was dusk in the outside world, there was no sign of darkness here, and the blue sky above was still bright.

But fortunately, the two had reached the position where Qin Zhibo saw a herd of livestock on the hillside before, which was not far from the area where the clouds and fog were most concentrated.

At this time, the livestock had disappeared, leaving only some weird footprints.

These huge and eerie footprints don't look like hooves, hands, or feet, and they don't exactly look like claws.

Look carefully, although the soil is very fertile black soil, but there is no vegetation growing.

That is to say, those four-legged livestock just now were not grazing, but might be hunting some invisible small animals on the plain.

They may be carnivores.

This made Qin Zhibo feel a little vigilant, and he must be careful about their existence next.

Moving forward, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi found some even more unbelievable traces.

This is a wide avenue, the road extends straight to the direction of the hillside entering Kunyang, and the other end of the road stretches into the dense clouds and mist.

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi looked at each other, feeling more and more strange in their hearts.

First of all, the saddles on those livestock show that they have owners.

The second is this ancient road that has been artificially leveled, which is also something that only advanced civilizations can do.

There are various indications that there really are "people" in this underground world.

At this time, Koizumi Hongzi found a shiny thing half-rolled into the soil on the road.

"what is that?"

Hearing the sound, Qin Zhibo walked over, pulled it out with a machete, and found that it was a metal coin similar to a badge.

It was cast from an unknown metal with a darker color and a luster between gold and copper, and both sides of the metal coin were engraved with eerie complex patterns.

There are bloated octopus heads, fat toad bodies, giant snake heads spitting snake letters...

The image on the metal coin reminded Qin Zhibo that Running Bull mentioned that his father had an amulet, and the pattern on it might be like this.

Qin Zhibo felt that he should not be so coincidental that he just picked up the amulet of Ben Niu's father.

So it is more likely that this "talisman" itself was mass-produced.

Combined with the fact that there may be advanced civilizations here, perhaps the functional essence of this "talisman" is "currency".

The currency minted by the general country will choose an image that is of great significance to the country to portray on the currency, such as the famous British Queen's penny coin.

But this place inscribes these evil images on coins with superb craftsmanship.

The madness of this place can be seen by choosing a way of worship like brainwashing.

……

Walking along the avenue towards the cloud and mist, the world composed of barrenness and silence finally ushered in some turning points.

In front of me appeared some trees, shrubs, and a small river surrounded by rocks.

On the small river in front of you, the avenue is connected to a basalt stone bridge on the small river. Behind the stone bridge, you can vaguely see the shadow of a town in the clouds.

Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi glanced at each other, neither of them spoke, but they both saw the answer in each other's eyes.

Over!
Walking across the stone bridge, the town in the clouds became more clearly visible.

Standing among the sparse vegetation by the river, the two carefully observed the town.

This place is not as lively and warm as Uzzah, and everything in front of him is filled with lifelessness and a weird sense of terror.

There are many old and dark stone buildings scattered in the town, and no living things can be seen on the light foggy streets, until the checkerboard grid roads extend to more distant and invisible places.

This is a dead city?
Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi are not sure, but they cannot rule out this possibility.

Because Running Bull said it had been decades since the last time people saw Indian ghosts.

If those so-called "Indian ghosts" are Kunyang's underground civilization, they may be extinct, or they have all migrated to other places.

But if this is the case, how to explain the saddled monsters on the plain.

Why should they abide by the rules of the herd if their owners have been gone for decades?
Where are they now?
All kinds of doubts lingered in Qin Zhibo's mind, which made him dare not venture into this strange town to explore.

Coupled with the fact that it is getting late outside now, although there is no difference between day and night here, the human body has limits.

Time to find a place to rest...

The two walked along the river, wanting to find a hidden place, which could not only ensure their own safety, but also observe the situation in the town.

As he walked, Qin Zhibo found that he had already walked out of the town without knowing it.

Observing the plain here, you will find that this plain is not endless, but covered by clouds and mist, which makes it look unpredictable.

In fact, about the same distance from the town to the other direction, there are also towering mountains.

There was a dark chasm between the mountains over there, like a pass into some other dark space.

In the sky, a few flying white birds flew past in the never-ending blue day, making Qin Zhibo more sure that the biodiversity here is enough to accommodate the survival of a certain advanced civilization.

Continuing to move forward, passing a grove of trees and thorn bushes that squirmed from time to time, the two saw a crumbling old building.

This ancient building is also made of stone, with no windows, only an indescribable gate.

On the stone surface of the building, there are a large number of bas-relief carvings, and the content of the carvings are many different scenes and creatures, such as the sea that should not appear here.

These bas-reliefs seem to be telling an ancient story to those who come here, and Qin Zhibo just understood a little bit.

That sea was their origin.

They came to this world together with the gods with octopus heads, lived on the earth since the "star age", and even established a powerful civilization.

Later, the ancient continent of the primitive earth sank, making them no longer believe in the outside world, and began to migrate to live underground.

This dead city is their refuge.

In addition to introducing their origins, the reliefs also include some civilization evolution processes, such as currency casting.

They used an extremely rare synthetic metal for coinage.

This metal also followed the octopus-headed gods and the stars to the earth from outer space. The murlocs once used these metals to create statues of the octopus-headed gods to express their worship.

This particular metal would cause unnecessary trouble by being magnetic to its kind, so their currency contained only a small amount of it.

Just as Qin Zhibo was concentrating on observing the bas-reliefs on the wall and pieced together ancient stories in his mind, Koizumi Hongzi tugged at his sleeve beside him.

"look……"

Koizumi Hongzi's voice was low, motioning Qin Zhibo to look aside.

Qin Zhibo followed his gaze, only to realize that those strange livestock that he had seen on the plain had appeared in the bushes ten meters away since at some point.

They stared at Qin Zhibo and Qin Zhibo with their ugly facial features as flat as a millstone.

This made Qin Zhibo's heart tense, his body stiffened and he did not dare to move, but his hands had already quietly touched the machete on the side of his thigh and the Colt python revolver on his waist.

Koizumi Hongzi's fingertips also ignited a flame, ready to fight at any time.

The eyes of the two sides met, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.

But ten seconds later, the animals turned their heads, their robust bodies like cattle turned to the other side, and quietly left.

Qin Zhibo narrowed his eyes slightly, guessing in his heart, could it be that he had wrongly blamed them, they were indeed herbivores.

But no matter what, although this animal looked extremely ugly, it still did not pose a threat to him.

Qin Zhibo thinks so now, but soon he doesn't think so...

……

After the animals left, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi walked in through the open gate.

There are no windows inside and it is so dark that you have to turn on the searchlights to see clearly.

Under the illumination of modern light sources, everything inside can be seen at a glance.

This place does not look like an ordinary residential building, but a temple that resembles a ceremony.

There are a large number of water basins and braziers of different shapes in the building, as well as the mysterious altar sunken in the middle.

But these utensils are now covered with a thick layer of dust and cobwebs, which shows that this place has been abandoned for a long time, longer than the guest rooms of the "Indian House".

Qin Zhibo took a rough look around and came to a conclusion.

"This place is very suitable as a shelter, let's live here tonight..."

As soon as he finished his words, before Hongzi Koizumi could answer, there were a lot of noisy sounds outside the temple.