The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

The flames burned rapidly on the corpses of the demons and ghosts, forming a wall of fire between the demons and ghosts and Qin Zhibo.

Shocked by the light and heat, the demon did not dare to step forward, and its bloodshot eyes could only look at Qin Zhibo hatefully through the flames.

At this time, the ghoul army also arrived.

Due to the need to travel to the waking world through the ashes space all year round, underground creatures such as ghouls and demons and gug giants are in a state of opposition.

The so-called enemies were extremely jealous when they met. Dozens of ghouls poured down the steps one after another, and immediately roared at the demons through the flames.

Although the demons and ghosts were more dominant in number, they were blocked by the wall of flames, and Qin Zhibo, who had been possessed by the God of War, killed dozens of them. Their momentum was greatly reduced, and soon they receded like a tide and disappeared into the endless waves. in the dark.

Qin Zhibo looked back at the group of ghouls behind him, and a familiar person walked out.

"Mr. Qin, we meet again."

The person who came was none other than Matsumoto Ryohei.

Now compared to the last time we met, his appearance has become closer to that of a ghoul, and his mouth has become particularly prominent, becoming more and more like a "dog".

Seeing Matsumoto Ryohei, Qin Zhibo asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"

Matsumoto Ryohei turned back and pointed to the high steps behind, "That lady found us and said you were in trouble underground..."

Qin Zhibo looked in the direction of his finger, and Koizumi Hongzi was standing there.

It turned out that after Koizumi Anko climbed up, she quickly found the ghouls living in Xin's Tombs.

These ghouls brought people to Matsumoto Ryohei. After Matsumoto Ryohei heard the whole story, he came with a large number of ghouls to support him.

"Okay, this is not the place to talk. Let's go up quickly."

"Gu-Gu Ling!"

Matsumoto Ryohei said something to Qin Zhibo, and then greeted the ghouls. Like a well-disciplined army, many ghouls turned around and returned.

…

Under the gray-green sky, ghouls emerged from the holes in the plain.

Two of the disharmonious figures are Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi.

The two followed dozens of ghouls and returned to the ghoul camp.

It's called a camp, but it's actually a large cemetery made up of tombstones stolen by ghouls from all over the world.

This is an ancient custom among traditional ghouls. If the corpse in the tomb is packed away, the tombstone of the corpse must be brought back together and erected on the Xin Tombs.

Ghouls don't produce tombstones, they just move them.

And now there are countless tombstones standing on this plain, which is enough to show how many corpses the ghoul, as the decomposer of nature, has digested.

In the ghoul camp, the exhausted Qin Zhibo first proposed to take a good rest.

In a world of eternal daylight, he has gradually lost the concept of time. He just knows that his body is very tired now.

The ability of the Oath Keeper Sword to slay evil spirits and heretics is indeed powerful, but even in the dreamland, the consumption of physical strength is very huge.

In addition, the loss of will caused by the meeting with Tsatogua and the various secrets in Enkai Temple has never been replenished.

Qin Zhibo put forward his request, and soon Matsumoto Ryohei arranged a relatively clean cave for the two of them.

If you ignore the small pile of leftover bones at the entrance of the cave and the fishy smell it emits, this is already the most ideal living environment these days.

Koizumi Anko sniffed her arm and was not satisfied with her cleanliness, so she asked Matsumoto Ryohei: "...Is there a place to take a bath here?"

Matsumoto Ryohei showed an apologetic smile, "If you want to take a bath here, it's best to wait until it rains..."

"If you want to take a bath on a non-rainy day, there is a reservoir underground here. It is a public bath for ghouls."

Upon hearing that she had to bathe in the same pool with a ghoul, Koizumi Anko immediately shook her head in fear.

Qin Zhibo himself is a rough guy, and it doesn't matter if he can't take a shower. What he wants to do most now is sleep.

He chose a bed, which was actually a spacious coffin board covered with some soft dry thatch.

Not long after, Qin Zhibo fell asleep lying on the coffin board.

In his sleep, he once again came to the long staircase into the dreamland.

Looking at the familiar stairs in front of him, Qin Zhibo was a little surprised. Can a person who has already entered the dreamland be able to dream again?

Double dream? A dream within a dream?

What Inception?

But right now, I just want to get a better rest, and exploring the dreamland also requires energy.

Therefore, Qin Zhibo refused the invitation to enter the dreamland and fell into a deep sleep.

…

When Qin Zhibo opened his eyes sleepily, he was awakened by the noise outside the cave entrance.

Being disturbed from his rest, Qin Zhibo, who was already exhausted, was in a bad mood. He propped up half of his body to listen to what was going on outside.

There seemed to be a lot of ghouls gathered outside the cave entrance. They kept making weird "gurgling" sounds and seemed to be having a heated conversation.

Qin Zhibo got off the bed, moved his body first, glanced at Koizumi Hongzi, who was still sleeping, and then walked outside the cave entrance.

On the plain, dozens of ghouls gathered together, and three elder-level ghouls were sitting in the center, presiding over the overall situation.

Qin Zhibo found Matsumoto Ryohei, who was still eye-catching among the ghouls, patted his shoulder from behind and asked: "Hey, what's going on?"

Matsumoto Ryohei looked back at Qin Zhibo, a little surprised, "You woke up so soon?"

"It won't work if I don't wake up. I heard your voices in the cave..." Qin Zhibo replied angrily.

Matsumoto Ryohei smiled awkwardly and introduced the reason for the quarrel to Qin Zhibo.

"You should still remember that to get to the waking world from here, you have to pass through the tallest tower in the dungeon of the Gug Giant, right?"

Qin Zhibo nodded, "Remember, what's wrong?"

Matsumoto Ryohei continued: "Just now, we received news that three ghouls were captured by the Guge Giant when they passed through the territory of the Guge Giant."

"The Gug giants have always been a little afraid of the ghouls, so this has never happened before."

"Now we are discussing what to do..."

Matsumoto Ryohei has already listed ghouls as "us" in his words, and it is obvious that he has completely integrated into the life of ghouls.

But the focus of Qin Zhibo's concern is not this, but the word Gu Ge Giant, which he seems to have heard in Enkaili.

He quickly took out the notebook in his arms and flipped through to find a page inside, which recorded in messy handwriting the recipe for the magic potion that Tsatogua told him about resurrecting the corpse of the dead.

The eyeballs of the Daughter of Itakua, the blood of the ghoul, the milk of Ibo Zitor in the tail of the Nightmare, the venom glands of the puffer fish... the nails of the Gug Giant.

At that time, Qin Zhibo was fully focused on distinguishing the hazy and rough voice of Satu Guya and recording the names of various materials. He had no time to think about how to obtain various materials.

But looking at it now, it seems that a lot of materials can be obtained in this dreamland.

The potion formula requires the blood of ghouls, and there happen to be dozens of ghouls here, so just donating some blood is enough.

And the last one is the ancient leather giant nails, which are exactly what the ancient leather giants in the dungeon have.

"So what are the ghouls planning now?" Qin Zhibo asked anxiously.

Matsumoto Ryohei was a little confused by Qin Zhibo's sudden change of attitude, but he understood when he thought that Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi would leave from the underground city next.

"At present, it is mainly divided into two factions, one is the main war faction, and the other is the peace faction."

"The elders are still hesitating, mainly because they don't want to completely fall out with the Guge Giants. After all, they have to continue to use the passages of the underground city in the future, and they cannot drive out all the Guge Giants..."

Before Matsumoto Ryohei finished speaking, Qin Zhibo raised his own doubts.

"Are the ghouls capable of driving out the gug giants?"

From the experience of sneaking into the dungeon last time, he felt that the relationship between the ghoul and the Gug Giant was the mistress and the mouse Jerry in "Tom and Jerry".

Normally the hostess would be frightened by Jerry the mouse, but if it comes down to it, humans are definitely not afraid of mice.

Back to the actual issue, the size gap between the gug giant and the ghoul is an insurmountable gap in the combat power of both sides.

But Matsumoto Ryohei smiled and shook his head, "No, no..."

"If it were a ghoul, it would definitely not be able to defeat a gug giant."

"But ghouls are gregarious creatures, have experience fighting in groups, and form a battle formation with Night Dire. Their combat power is enough to fight against the Gug giants!"

Nightmare? !

Qin Zhibo heard a new term from Matsumoto Ryohei, and it was also included in the potion formula given by Satugua.

"What is Night Dire? Are you familiar with ghouls?"

Matsumoto Ryohei rubbed his protruding chin, "I don't know much about this, but the relationship between Night Dire and the ghoul group is very good. The two are similar to an alliance."

Qin Zhibo nodded, understanding.

In this case, we have to fight.

…

In the camp, the ghouls are discussing whether to attack the Gug giant.

The ghouls below were discussing and expressing their opinions, while the three elder ghouls sitting on the tombstone looked down calmly.

Although the discussion below was intense, it was the three elder ghouls who made the final decision.

At this moment, they are still hesitating.

Although the combat effectiveness of the ghouls in cooperation with the Dire troops is stronger than that of the Gug Giants, they may completely break up with the Gug Giants, making every outing in the future extremely dangerous.

Moreover, the Guge Giant will not sit still and wait for death. The dungeon is likely to have stepped up its vigilance at this time.

While the three elder ghouls were thinking about how to deal with it, a human-colored arm suddenly lifted up from the edge of the ghoul.

The three elder ghouls were stunned for a moment, staring at this unusual arm and its owner.

"Culin?"

"Gugu..."

Two of the elder ghouls communicated and decided to let the human express his thoughts.

"Xin! Xin Gu Gu Xin."

Under the elder's order, all the ghouls booed and made way for Qin Zhibo to lead to the front.

Qin Zhibo and Matsumoto Ryohei walked to the front together.

Under the gaze of many "dog heads", Qin Zhibo made a human voice, and Matsumoto Ryohei acted as an interpreter and spoke out his thoughts.

"Although I am an outsider, as the saying goes, those in authority are confused, but those on the lookout are clear."

"I can tell you a story... There were once seven kingdoms in human history. One of them, Qin, was stronger than any other kingdom. But as long as the six kingdoms unite together, they are enough to fight against the powerful Qin. "

"But the monarchs of the six countries are weak and incompetent. In order to bribe Qin not to attack them, they cut off five cities today and ten cities tomorrow, just to have a good night's sleep."

"In the end, Qin used this method to gradually encroach on the land of the six countries, and became stronger and stronger, defeating and annexing the six countries one by one."

"The lesson that mankind has learned from history is that in the face of such evenly matched collisions, the weaker you are, the easier it is for the other party to bully you, slowly eroding and consuming the strength of the weaker party."

"Today the Guge giant dares to arrest three of you, tomorrow they dare to arrest five, the day after tomorrow seven, and finally..."

Qin Zhibo's words stopped abruptly at this moment.

Because he saw the ghouls below all staring at him blankly, and a pair of green eyes on the dog's head widened.

Forehead……

Qin Zhibo tilted his head and asked Matsumoto Ryohei next to him in a low voice: "Did I speak too profoundly? Or is there something wrong with your translation?"

Matsumoto Ryohei: "Translation is a bit difficult, I have tried my best..."

As a human, Matsumoto Ryohei knew that Qin Zhibo was talking about the history of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, but there was no concept of country or land in the history of ghouls.

Therefore, Matsumoto Ryohei simplified the translation a bit, simplifying the seven countries into seven ghouls, and cutting the land into cutting the flesh.

The last six ghouls had nothing to eat and had to surrender to the most powerful ghoul...

Just when Qin Zhibo felt like he was "playing the piano to the dogs", a "goo" sound suddenly sounded from the "dog group".

Then, dozens of ghouls responded one after another, making deafening "goo" sounds.

Qin Zhibo quickly tilted his head and asked, "What's wrong with them?"

Matsumoto Ryohei breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a smile: "It's like they are applauding your words."

Qin Zhibo was dumbfounded. Is this okay?

At this time, an elder ghoul entrenched on the tombstone also stood up, walked to Qin Zhibo's side, grabbed Qin Zhibo's right hand and raised it above his head.

"Mi Bo! Gu Ling Gu——"

Qin Zhibo quickly asked Matsumoto Ryohei, "What is he talking about?

Matsumoto Ryohei translated: "He is saying that what you said makes sense, and the elders have also decided to crusade against the ancient giant."

Elder Ghoul: "Bah Bah Ling Gu..."

Matsumoto Ryohei: "Since you are smarter than 'us'..."

Elder Ghoul: "Migumigugu——!"

Matsumoto Ryohei: "You will lead the ghoul army."

Qin Zhibo: "???"