Conan Rick's Investigator

Theoretically speaking, the "Yamada" who woke up should be the Yamada in the parallel world.

The Yamada of this world is still in the ancient era of the earth where the Yith race lives.

After returning home, he entered the dreamland again for the first time in a long time.

In the dreamland, Kuroba Kaito has boarded the black three-story multi-oared sailing ship at the port of Dilas-Lin.

This dreamland seems to have a character switching mechanism similar to that in the game.

That is to say, most of the time in many games, players can only control one character, and other characters follow them as team members and can switch when they need to fight.

In the dreamland, as long as a few dreamers enter the reality and form a team during the adventure, the action of one of them is equivalent to the action of the others.

Kuroba Kaito boarded the ship while Qin Zhibo did not enter the dreamland. When Qin Zhibo entered the dreamland again, he would also wake up on the ship.

This explains why Conan was still able to reach Dilas Lin without following the caravan in Usa Town.

However, during this period of time, Conan did not enter the dreamland again.

After all, in Conan, the fantasy world is just a dream, and subconsciously there is no need to come in every day.

According to Kuroba Kaito, the black ship sailed extremely fast on the sea, and the sailors and oarsmen below the second-story cabin were gliding almost non-stop day and night.

And no matter it was day or night, no sailors were ever seen coming to the deck.

Qin Zhibo advised him not to worry too much and to get off the ship when he reached the mainland north of Fantasyland.

As long as you find the underground passage in the northern continent, you can go to the Tombs of Sin where the ghouls live.

Then use the Night Dire controlled by the ghoul to go to the legendary secret realm of Kadath, and maybe you can find the Black Feather Thief.

……

One day later, it was another ordinary morning.

Behind the office desk on the second floor, Qin Zhibo was staring at the computer in front of him seriously, rolling the mouse wheel with his right hand from time to time.

At this moment, he was searching the Internet for legends and information about "Cthulhu" and "The Old Ones".

Qin Zhibo had previously searched for the term "Old Ones" on the "Noah Knowledge Website".

The Noah Knowledge website is a variety of knowledge summarized by the artificial intelligence Noah's Ark by learning big data on the Internet.

This knowledge was originally the database of Noah's Ark.

But Noah's Ark made this knowledge available to the public for search, which can be regarded as satisfying Sawada Hiroki's desire to benefit mankind.

This is a bit like the future of ***, but with artificial intelligence.

However, as the accident at the "Cocoon Conference" was exposed, people realized that the development of artificial intelligence posed a serious threat to humans, and began to resist the technology.

The already large-scale Noah Knowledge website was also banned as a result.

However, Qin Zhibo still remembered that before this website was banned, a series of gods including the King in Yellow, Cthulhu, and Cthugha were all called "Old Ones."

Qin Zhibo also asked Sawada Hiroki how he obtained this knowledge.

Hiroki Sawada said that this kind of knowledge is rarely circulated on the Internet, but in some private forums, a small number of people are still discussing these myths.

The program of Noah's Ark is the knowledge summarized based on the discussions of these people.

It’s a pity that Hiroki Sawada doesn’t dare to connect to the Internet easily to conduct a large-scale search, so as not to attract a “green signal”.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo could only search one by one.

After a whole day of investigation yesterday, Qin Zhibo really discovered some interesting content.

First of all, Cthulhu’s full name is “Great Cthulhu”, which is “Greatcthulhu” in English.

Some people also call him "the sleeping god", "the sea god", and "the lord of R'lyeh".

Secondly, Cthulhu is sleeping in a place called "R'lyeh".

R'lyeh is a huge city under the sea, built from extraterrestrial rocks that do not belong on Earth.

Some people who claim to be "esotericists" claim on the Internet that their consciousness has been connected to this city and they even saw the indescribable huge shadow.

In addition to human followers, Cthulhu also has followers of non-human creatures.

The most numerous and loyal among them are the Deep Divers.

The deep diver is an old friend of Qin Zhibo. He has fought several battles in the sea. It is a creature similar to a fishman.

In history, deep divers once almost occupied a town near the seaside and built a reef city on the bottom of the sea near the mouth of the sea.

However, the authorities later sent out troops to suppress the incident and blocked the news, and it has been difficult to find any evidence of the existence of this creature to this day.

Qin Zhibo knew this town, it was Innsmouth in the United States.

Finally, Cthulhu is not a lone god.

Cthulhu has his own father, mother, wife, brothers, and children. In theory, he has a relatively rich family life.

A kind of god.

Not only Cthulhu, most of the powerful Old Ones have their own "families".

Even when a sufficient number of Old Ones are grouped together, they can form a grid similar to a "family tree", as if everyone can be related to anyone else in the family.

This is quite different from Qin Zhibo's imagination.

At first, Qin Zhibo thought that gods like "Zeus" with decadent private lives were just the vulgar imaginations of ancient people.

But I didn't expect that these old rulers would also come for real.

Of course, the so-called "family tree" may also be some interesting creations of mythology enthusiasts.

After all, most people do not believe that the Old Ones are real, and treat them as a subculture, thus creating various creations with personal intentions.

For example, some people say that Cthulhu and Hastur are brothers, which makes Qin Zhibo feel ridiculous.

These two have nothing in common in appearance, color, etc. How can they be brothers?

The only similarity between the two is that they both have tentacles.

In Cthulhu’s own family, Qin Zhibo found the most widely circulated version, which is——

Cthulhu has four spouses, and these four have given birth to countless offspring for Cthulhu.

The most powerful and special of all the descendants are three sons and one daughter.

The reason why Qin Zhibo believes in this version is because one of the four descendants of Cthulhu is really familiar.

Ghatanothoa, the eldest son of Cthulhu.

During the Twin Towers incident in Nishitama City, Qin Zhibo found the fragments of the "Ratan Castle Textbook" in the home of the Japanese painting master Kisaragi Hosui.

After giving it to Koizumi Anko for translation, the name Gatanothoa was derived.

Gatanothoa is the king of volcanoes. Once summoned successfully, it will trigger a series of disasters such as volcanic eruptions.

Because Kisaragi Hosui had painted Mount Fuji all his life, but had never painted the scene of Mount Fuji erupting, he summoned Gatanotoa to realize his wish.

Eventually, Mount Fuji did erupt, causing a massive eruption throughout Nishitama City.

However, the magma in Mount Fuji soon subsided, and Nishitama City is gradually returning to its former prosperity.

This is not the only ability Gatanothoa has.

But Qin Zhibo remembered that there was a yellow light in the sky at that time, shining on the volcanic ash erupted from the crater...

This is enough to prove that Ghatanothoa is real.

The second son of Cthulhu is called Isogoda.

The third son of Cthulhu is called Zoth Ormog.

There are different opinions about the image of the above three descendants. Each of them is very abstract, and it is even difficult to describe and define their existence in terms of earthly creatures.

However, Cthulhu's youngest infant daughter, named Xira, is explicitly described as an octopus.

Of course, this octopus also has three pairs of eyestalks and hooks, as well as an octopus monster with wings behind it.

But this is much more concrete than the descriptions of the first three sons.

Compared with the first three eldest brothers, Keshira's ability is not powerful, but he is an extremely special one.

According to rumors on the Internet, most of Cthulhu's descendants are in a sealed state like their father.

Only Ksheela, perhaps because she is too weak, still has freedom and is closely protected by Cthulhu believers...

Some people claiming to be insiders revealed that the flood at Miskatonic University 16 years ago was related to Ksheela.

Qin Zhibo did the math and found that the original owner of the body happened to be studying at the University of Michigan 16 years ago.

It's a pity that I don't have the memory of that time.

Of course, these are the more noteworthy contents that Qin Zhibo found on the Internet, and they are not necessarily true.

But it can also be seen from this that Cthulhu's influence is indeed more profound than imagined.

In ancient times, the legends of these Old Ones could only be spread through paper books, which was very inefficient.

Sometimes they were sanctioned by those in power at the time for promoting heretical gods and ideas.

However, in modern times, people generally believe in science and no longer believe in these stories about gods and ghosts. Naturally, such ideas are let go as "legends."

Coupled with the fuel of the Internet, some knowledge that should be very secret has gradually been publicized.

It’s just that the characteristic of the Internet is that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and the source of information is not transparent.

……

As he watched, Qin Zhibo's eyes gradually became tired.

He put down the mouse, placed his hands neatly on the table, and started doing eye exercises.

Just as I was doing the eye-scratching, the phone on the table rang.

Qin Zhibo could only pause his movements and pick up the phone.

"Hello?"

"I'm Rena Mizunashi."

"Eh?"

Qin Zhibo was stunned. He didn't expect that Shui Wu Liannai would take the initiative to call him.

Could it be that the cruise ship, the organization she was asked to investigate last time, had news so soon?

But the next second, Mizuno Reina gave a negative answer.

"I'm calling to tell you that the kid named 'Conan' who came to my house last time has come to my house with a dark-skinned boy..."

A dark-skinned boy?

Qin Zhibo frowned and immediately recalled Conan's interpersonal network to see which boy had dark skin.

Could it be...

"That boy's name is Hattori Heiji, a famous high school detective from Kansai."

"Conan convinced Buseiji that he's my fan, but the two of them kept asking me all sorts of questions. I felt like their real purpose was to test my identity..."

"I'm worried that Conan might have heard our conversation in the bathroom that night?"

Reina Mizuno on the other side of the phone spoke a little quickly, but her voice was not low.

Qin Zhibo judged that Conan and Hattori Heiji had already left Rena Minami's home.

But why did these two people suddenly go to Shui Wu Lina's house?

Something is wrong with this matter...

"okay, I get it."

"But is it okay for you to make a phone call like this? Isn't your residence and phone number being tapped by the organization?"

On the other side, Mizunashi Rena explained, "I haven't been under surveillance for a while since Gin's death."

"Just recently, all the bugs in the house disappeared..."

Chapter 1227. What an unlucky name this is...