Conan Rick's Investigator

The smoke just happened to spread to the window at this time, swallowing up all visible images.

"Granny Qianjian, something seems to have happened..." Mao Lilan was a little worried, "Should we go back and save her?"

Qin Zhibo shook his head. "There's nothing we can do. All we can do is pray for her."

The smoke covers the area of the head. As long as "Xia En" wants, he can travel into the head of the old lady Qianjian in an instant. Everything will be too late, and it will be useless no matter how many people go in.

Seeing that Mao Lilan was still a little reluctant, Qin Zhibo comforted her: "Let's go down the mountain and call the police now. Maybe we can still help them when we come back..."

After hearing what Qin Zhibo said, Mao Lilan nodded and obediently followed Qin Zhibo and Hakuba Tan into the forest.

……

In the woods, Conan, who had sprained his ankle, was guarding the unconscious Gunda Ikumi who had been shot, while Kaito Kid had long disappeared.

As soon as he put the two wounded men down, Kidd left immediately, saying that he was going down the mountain to call the police first.

Kidd has a hang glider, so strictly speaking, the cliff can't trap him. He can take off again as long as he finds a sloped place.

Conan felt extremely sad that a thief was going to call the police.

But there is no other way. The only one who can go out quickly to ask for help is Kaito Kidd.

"Hey! Wake up!"

"Hold on! Help is coming!"

Seeing that Ikumi Gunada was about to go into shock and faint, Conan shouted loudly beside her, and finally managed to make Ikumi Gunada's eyes, which were about to close, open a little.

"You..." Gunda Yumi's lips trembled slightly, "You are not an ordinary child..."

"who are you?"

Conan was just about to act cute as usual, but when he saw the weak but sincere look in Gunda Ikumi's eyes, Conan couldn't bear to lie to this person who was struggling on the verge of death.

"When this is all over, I will tell you my true identity..."

Qiangtian Yumei was startled for a moment, raised her eyebrows slightly, and then lowered them weakly, with a somewhat miserable smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.

"is it?"

"Then it seems I have to try my best to live..."

At this moment, a series of strange rustling sounds came from the quiet air, as if something was moving.

Conan immediately became alert and looked around cautiously.

The rustling sound was getting closer and closer, and Conan also identified the direction and type of the sound.

"Qin Zhibo and the others should be out. I'll go find them!"

As he said that, Conan limped and jogged towards the direction where the sound came from.

"Don't……"

Looking at Conan's departing back, Ikumi Gunda wanted to make a sound, but her throat seemed to be knotted and her cry was as weak as it could be.

"don't want……"

After Conan left, rustling sounds were heard again in the gloomy woods.

This time it was not the sound of dense footsteps, but some larger objects.

It dragged its heavy steps, like a broom sliding across the gravel ground, making a long, rustling sound.

Ikumi Qiangtian forced herself to prop up her upper body, and the blood from her abdomen instantly soaked through the belt around her waist.

She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a metallic gray tree standing two meters away from her without any warning.

Just now, when Kidd carried her down, she clearly remembered that this was an open space with no trees around.

This is……

Before Ikumi Gunda could understand what was happening, she felt something thin and dry wrapped around her ankle.

"what--"

……

On the other side, the limping Conan soon reunited with Qin Zhibo, Hakuba Tan and Mao Li Ran.

With Conan, who was unable to move, carried on Ran Mouri's back, the two sides quickly exchanged information.

Kaito Kid went down the mountain to call the police, and Mrs. Chiken didn't have time to escape...

After running for a while, Conan pointed to the open space in front of him from behind Mao Lilan, "That's it!"

But when they arrived at the open space, the injured Ikumi Gunda was not there.

"That's not right! Sister Qiangtian was clearly here just now!"

"There's nothing here either..."

Bai Ma Tan searched the nearby bushes, but also found no trace of Qiang Tian Yumei.

Qin Zhibo felt that something was wrong, so he quickly put on the magic extractor, closed his eyes and cast a locating spell.

Soon, inspiration came to my mind and I found a direction.

Chapter 600 I want your body, Sister Qianjian~

Conan watched Qin Zhibo put on gloves and thought that Qin Zhibo was going to survey the scene, but he actually closed his eyes and entered a state similar to meditation.

This is……

After a few seconds, Qin Zhibo suddenly opened his eyes again.

He called everyone in the open space, raised his hand and pointed in a direction, and instructed them: "If you follow this direction, you will find the way down the mountain."

“Don’t look left or right along the way, and never look back no matter what happens.”

This was the way out that Qin Zhibo found on the electronic map before he decided to confront Old Lady Qianjian, in case Old Lady Qianjian gave up and didn't want anyone to leave alive.

As long as you have a [navigation device], getting lost will not happen.

Mao Lilan glanced in the direction of leaving, and also keenly heard from Qin Zhibo's words that he was not going to leave for the time being.

"What about you, Mr. Qin?" Mao Lilan asked with concern.

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly and stroked Conan's head, "I'm going to find Ms. Gunda and will catch up with you soon."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Bai Ma Tan also asked.

"No need." Qin Zhibo shook his head, "Your mission is to protect Mao Lilan and this little brat."

After saying that, Qin Zhibo turned and left in the other direction.

Looking at Qin Zhibo's back, his brown windbreaker dancing in the wind, Conan felt a little touched.

This uncle is quite handsome!

"Um... let's go quickly. My butler is waiting at the foot of the mountain."

At this point, there was no need for Bai Ma Tan to hide anything anymore, so he revealed that he had a backup plan.

"Um……"

Mao Lilan reluctantly turned her gaze from Qin Zhibo and nodded to Bai Ba Tan, "Okay, Tan-kun."

Bai Ma Tan: “…”

After this incident, the two of them established a revolutionary friendship. In addition, since Ran Mouri has a cheerful personality, it was natural for her to call Hakuba Tan by his name.

Hakuba Tanya understood what Maori Ran meant, but he always felt that this name was weird and not so catchy.

"Well, you should just call me 'White Horse'..."

"...Okay, Hakuba..."

……

On the other side of the forest, Qin Zhibo ran in the direction obtained by the locating spell.

According to Kyosuke Chima's notes, this forest is not an ordinary forest, but is home to plant slaves brought from outer space by the Shagai Zerg.

This plant slave is different from ordinary plants. It is similar to a tree man, active, has low intelligence, and is carnivorous.

Karasuma Renya used these plant slaves to build the Dusk Villa.

They are the craftsmen who created the Dusk Villa, and they have been guarding the area around the villa for about half a century.

Compared to "Shaen" who can penetrate the human brain as long as there is smoke, Qin Zhibo has nothing to fear from this low-intelligence creature.

Maybe they are very powerful, but they still have the magic ring on them. As long as they feel something is wrong, they can just slip away.

In order to increase his movement speed, Qin Zhibo put on the [Gift of the Golden Tree].

After running for about five minutes, Qin Zhibo saw a tree that looked like it was made of gray metal. Apart from its color and texture, it had some shadows of an oak tree, but it was different from any known tree on Earth.

Qin Zhibo recognized that this was the same tree that stood nearby when Bai Ma Tan buried the eagle.

There is a tree hole between the trunk and the top of this tree. At this time, Qiangtian Yumi's waist is stuck at the entrance of the tree hole, and her lower body has entered the body of the tree through the tree hole.

In this scene, the trees are like beasts with their huge mouths opened, ready to devour their food - a human being.

While being dragged by the trees, Ikumi Gunda had already fallen unconscious, but there was no survey point above her head, indicating that she was still alive.

Qin Zhibo ran up to him and casually threw out the [Flying Claw] he had just retrieved. It just happened to hook onto a branch and he wanted to climb up the tree.

But this plant slave is not a dead object. When it senses that there is a foreign object around its body, its originally oval branches suddenly wave like tentacles, baring its fangs and claws, making it impossible for people to climb up.

Qin Zhibo had no choice but to give up the idea of climbing the tree to rescue and think of another way.

First, Qin Zhibo took out the holy sword of physics - the crowbar - from the system and kept hitting the bottom of the alien tree.

But the material of this tree is very strong. After being hit by the stick, Qin Zhibo felt pain in the knuckles of his hands, and only a small white bump was left on the surface of the gray bark.

This alien tree didn't even pay any attention to Qin Zhibo, and wholeheartedly devoured the "food" that was already in front of its mouth.

Physical attacks were useless, so Qin Zhibo changed his mind and decided to use fire attacks.

Qin Zhibo quickly collected flammable firewood around him and soon built a pile of firewood.

Pulling out a nuclear lighter, flames quickly started burning from the base of the alien tree.

The flames roasted the metallic gray bark, making a crackling sound, and the roots floating beneath the ground began to twitch as if in stress response.

But even so, the alien tree still did not give up swallowing the food in its mouth. It opened the tree hole as wide as possible and swallowed up Qingtian Yumei's body.

This alien tree is indeed a low-intelligence creature. Even though its lower body is on fire, its upper body still refuses to give up eating.

After a few minutes, the flames burned the roots of the alien tree to ashes. Qin Zhibo put on a [fireproof suit] and leaned against the trunk with all his strength. He finally pushed the trunk down.

boom--

The alien tree collapsed to the ground with a loud bang. Qin Zhibo quickly ran to the front and pulled out Qiangtian Yumei, who had been swallowed so much that only her shoulders were exposed.

After all this trouble, Ikumi Gunda is still alive, which means she is very lucky.

However, her condition wasn't much better. Her eyes were closed, her pale lips trembling slightly, and the belt around her abdomen that Kaito Kid had wrapped around it was completely soaked in blood.

Qin Zhibo took out the [Shroud] from the system. It was just a strip of cloth that could be used for bandaging.

After treating the wound, Qin Zhibo carried Qiang Tian Yumei on his back and ran down the mountain.

……

The underground space in the center of the Dusk Villa courtyard.

"Mogi Harushi" held a pistol in one hand, followed by a "maid" holding an axe. The two of them took old lady Chima to a square full of dead bones.

Seeing the dead bones scattered all over the ground, old lady Qianjian was so frightened that she fell to the ground with her face distorted with fear.

"This, this, this is..."

"Mogi Harushi" smiled evilly, "This is where we pay homage to the great leader of the demon gods—Azathoth..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the maid next to him suddenly trembled and fell to the ground without warning.

"Mogi Harufumi" walked forward to check and found that the maid's body was completely broken, which was dead in the conventional sense.

The poison needle that old lady Qianjian had set on the door handle took effect and killed the maid.

"Mogi Harufumi" shook his head helplessly, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it with a lighter.