Conan Rick's Investigator

The two moved to the front of the carriage and found the carriage driver to chat.

It turned out that during the time when the two of them were "asleep", the carriage had been traveling for almost two days.

The time in the dreamland is not synchronized with the real world. Sometimes you fall asleep at night in the real world, and it is night when you enter the dreamland, and sometimes it is daytime.

But the only thing that is certain is that time passes faster in dreams than in the real world.

But now, the sky outside has just entered dusk.

When the last ray of sunset disappeared from the earth, the ringing of horse bells along the way gradually stopped, and the team decided to camp for the night by the River Skye.

Dazzling bonfires lit up the riverside, the darkness was dispelled, and people began to take a rest after a busy day.

The traders made a fire to cook, and Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito also joined them, doing what they could, such as collecting firewood nearby.

Gradually, wisps of fragrant smoke rose above the bonfire.

"okay!"

"Come and eat!"

The cheerful voice resounded throughout the camp, and the hungry vendors hurriedly carried their food bowls to the place where food was distributed.

Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito also carried the tableware prepared in advance with great interest, preparing to receive the food.

Although hunger in the dreamland will not kill you, eating food is always a pleasure.

Just as Kuroba Kaito was happily lining up behind Qin Zhibo, he suddenly heard the person in front shouting.

"Today I'm making fish soup!"

Upon hearing this, Kuroba Kaito's face immediately dropped, turned around and left.

"Hey! Why don't you eat anymore?" Qin Zhibo asked.

Kuroba Kaito: "I don't eat fish."

Chapter 1184 Despicable Stranger

"Don't eat fish?"

"What's wrong with you?"

Qin Zhibo made a complaint and went off to make fish soup.

By the time Qin Zhibo came back from the fish soup and was about to feast on Black Feather Kaito with the aroma, the boy was very self-aware and had already entered the caravan to sleep in advance.

After dinner, the vendors gathered in groups of two or three, sitting around under the stars, listening to the boatman's singing from time to time in the calm river, and sharing anecdotes from their previous journeys with each other.

Qin Zhibo sat among the vendors and took the opportunity to ask them about the "Secret Realm of Kadath", but most of the vendors said they didn't know.

Only one or two elderly traders knew about it, but they were limited to ancient legends passed down by word of mouth.

Until late at night, the traders dispersed and went back to their caravans to sleep. Except for a few bonfires burning alone, no one stayed to watch.

In the fantasy world, no one will actually starve to death due to hunger, which eliminates the most common reason for disputes in the real world.

Qin Zhibo also returned to the carriage, looked at Kuroba Kaito who was sleeping on his side, and covered him with a felt cloth next to him.

……

Over the next few days, the traders' carriages traveled south along the River Skye.

This journey was very peaceful, and there was not even a single attack from bandits or beasts.

Although the technology in Dreamland seems to lag behind the real world, probably at the level of the real world in the Middle Ages, many prerequisites determine that there will be no major disputes here.

In addition to starving to death, this world seems to be free of bacteria.

This results in a world where there are very few diseases, surgery does not require sterilization, and food does not rot.

This is why traders in Usa dare to transport cabbage and other crops grown in Usa to the south for sale without taking any preservation measures.

However, the world will not be left with mountains of garbage and unmanageable human and animal corpses and feces just because there are no "decomposers".

First of all, burials are popular here.

Cremation was only suitable for those infected with the plague or those who had committed serious sins.

People regard the plagues in this world as punishments sent by the gods. They cannot be cured except by some mysterious means and can only wait for death.

If it is a burial, then the ghouls will steal and eat the body buried under the soil.

Secondly, the world is extremely vast, and there are many places to dump "garbage".

Based on Qin Zhibo's exchanges among vendors these days, he also determined that the scope of this world is not much weaker than that of the earth.

The ocean area of ​​this world is much larger than the land area, but the continent area is relatively concentrated and not as scattered as the earth.

Among them, the western continent is the most populous, which is the continent where Qin Zhibo is currently located.

As for other continents or islands, they are basically inaccessible and wild places. Only human travelers would go to such places.

In addition to these, huge ships can go directly from the sea to the moon.

It's just that the moon is also a forbidden place for humans, a place where even human travelers have no reason to go.

In short, the physical laws of this world are very different from reality, just like a child's childish dream. If you take it seriously, you will lose.

During these two days in the real world, Qin Zhibo entered a dreamland every night to keep company with these vendors.

In addition to gathering information, the countryside scenery along the way is also a rare treat.

Green fields, green hedges and woods are dotted with steeple farmhouses and octagonal windmills.

This is a dreamlike wonderland, which inevitably reminds Qin Zhibo of the Shire, the hometown of the short hobbits in "The Lord of the Rings".

But no matter how beautiful the journey is, it will eventually come to an end.

On the seventh day starting from the town of Ultha, the River Skye stretching towards the horizon rose up to a hazy black city like smoke.

Dilas-Lin, to

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Compared with the scenery of the journey, this place seems to have no charm.

In addition, it was a cloudy day when we arrived at Dilas-Lin, which made this already uninteresting city even more boring.

Among the dense buildings near the port, there are several tall towers made of black basalt. The spiers of the towers stand in the dark clouds, and crows surround this lifeless scene in the clouds.

Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito separated from the Usa merchants who planned to sell goods first, and headed towards the port.

Walking in the gloomy streets between the black towers, neither of them wanted to talk, so they just walked straight along the stone alley.

From time to time, residents wearing strange robes looked at the two of them with strange eyes.

This look Qin Zhibo recognized was the look he was looking at a stranger.

The two of them were dressed too strangely in this city. They were wearing modern windbreakers and school uniforms, so it was strange that they were inconspicuous.

"It's too conspicuous. I should go change my clothes first..."

At Qin Zhibo's suggestion, the two came to a tailor shop.

A tailor shop is not like a modern clothes shop, where customers need to buy fabrics and then have them made into clothes by the hands of a tailor.

Although ready-made clothes can also be bought, Qin Zhibo just took a casual look and found that the quality and style of these clothes were very average, and they were all junk used by tailor apprentices to practice their skills.

Some of them were still patched and had a musty smell, so they might have been ripped from the dead.

"Let's make a new one. What kind of fabrics do you have?"

At Qin Zhibo's request again, the owner of the tailor shop took Qin Zhibo to several types of cloth and introduced them lukewarmly.

"This kind of cloth is produced in Dilas-Lin. It is extremely valuable, costing one gold coin per piece."

"This kind of cloth comes from the city of Ibu further south. It's even more valuable, costing two gold coins per piece."

"This cloth comes from Owen Island across the sea. It's the most valuable thing I have here, and I pay five gold coins per piece."

"Which one do you want?"

Qin Zhibo touched these kinds of fabrics with his hands. The quality of the fabrics increased with the price, but the most intuitive difference was still in the color.

The cheapest one from Dilas-Lin is undyed flax.

Ibu City in the south is light blue, and the most expensive Owen Island is dark black.

Among these colors, Qin Zhibo still preferred black, so he pointed to the most expensive cloth.

“That’s it…”

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, the owner of the tailor shop showed some disdain in his eyes.

"Do you have that much money?"

After all, it is not that Dilas-Lynn has never received strangers, but when these strangers leave, they often leave behind a title - despicable strangers.

But at this point, the tailor shop owner really underestimated Qin Zhibo.

"Who are you looking down on?"

"I'm rich!"

Qin Zhibo took out his heavy money bag from his arms, and just shook it slightly through the black cloth, and there was a crisp sound inside.

Worried that his boss wouldn't believe it, he opened his pocket, took out a gold coin, and slapped it on the table.

"Look at this! Is it fake?"

The tailor shop owner quickly took it in his hand, weighed it, and said with a smile, "It's true~ It's true~"

"Then hurry up and serve!"

Under Qin Zhibo's stubborn attitude, the owner of the tailor shop did not dare to neglect any more and immediately arranged for apprentices to come and measure Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito.

Just as the two of them opened their arms like "Jesus" and let the tailor measure them, a short figure passed by the door of the tailor shop.

Qin Zhibo was standing near the store entrance and just happened to see it when he turned his head.

"Conan?!"

Conan, who was passing by the door, also froze in place, turned his head and met Qin Zhibo's eyes in the store.

"Dad?"

……

When Conan walked into the tailor shop, he was stunned when he saw "himself" and "dad" being measured in the shop.

“What are you doing…?”

"This is a tailor shop, and we're planning to make a new dress."

Conan glanced at the furnishings in the store, which indeed looked like a tailor shop.

"All right……"

Conan's expression and eyes revealed a speechless emotion, because this was a dream. How could anyone change his classic skin in a dream?

At this time, Kuroba Kaito, who had taken the first step in measuring his body, squatted down and looked at Conan, asking, "Why are you here again?"

"You think I want to?"

Conan angrily retorted to himself.

In fact, in the past few days, he had deliberately taken off his earplugs and suppressed his dreaming thoughts with the sound of Kogoro Mori's snoring, just to see if he would be able to escape from this dream when he dreamed again after a few days.

At first, when he saw this strange city at the intersection, he thought he was in a new dreamland.

But the more he strolled, the more he felt something was wrong.

First, he saw Uzzah’s wagon train in the trading market, selling crops and wool brought from Uzzah.

Secondly, he looked into the distance from the black tower and saw the huge black dhow docked at the port, which was exactly the same as what Elder Ulsa Attar described.

Finally, as he continued to stroll in the city, he met the lingering Qin Zhibo and "himself" again.

According to the plot of the last dream, the group planned to go to this port city called "Dilas-lin".

Now, I am dreaming again, and I have arrived just in time.

Is this really a continuous dream?