The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

here it is……

Qin Zhibo slowly raised his body from the floor and looked around him warily.

This is a dark and empty space. Judging from the slippery and slightly shaking floor, this place is still on a black sailboat and should be in a cabin on a certain floor.

It's just that there are no hammocks, wooden boxes, or anyone else...

No.

Someone.

In the darkness, two humanoid silhouettes were holding thick wooden sticks.

The wooden stick was not close to Qin Zhibo, but was spinning round and round with a certain rhythm.

Then, the darkness in his eyes gradually faded, and two rickety figures holding wooden sticks and shaking them appeared.

Those turned out to be two skeletons!

The rickety and broken skeleton held a huge oar in both hands and swayed round and round.

The clothes on the skeleton had rotted into rags, hanging on the ribs and joints, and the bones all over the body made a terrible "crunching" sound.

Crunch, crunch.

For a time, countless such sounds sounded in the cabin.

Qin Zhibo took a closer look and discovered that there were a large number of skeleton monsters lined up on the left and right sides of the cabin.

They are in groups of two or more, swinging the oars slowly but tirelessly.

Most of these skeleton monsters have human characteristics, but some have obvious animal characteristics, such as horns on their heads and hooves on their feet.

Hello!

Is this the inaccessible second cabin?

But how did I get here?

Qin Zhibo remembered that he was just lying in the hammock, and not long after closing his eyes, without even consciously falling into a deep sleep, the person suddenly appeared here.

Is this ship blessed with magic?

It should be these skeleton monsters that provide power for this ship.

No wonder this ship can sail day and night. It turns out that the crew is not human at all...

No, I should have thought of this possibility a long time ago.

After all, this is a dreamland, and anything that violates the physical rules of the real world can happen here.

Just when Qin Zhibo's brain was analyzing the current situation, the skeleton monsters who were rocking the oars suddenly tilted their heads and made a short crunching sound.

Although they don't even have eyes, it can be seen that all the skeleton monsters are looking at the only living person in the cabin!

Qin Zhibo was shocked. He didn't want to announce something!

Thirty-six strategies, walking is the best strategy!

The difference in numbers was so big that Qin Zhibo subconsciously chose to turn around and run away.

But as soon as he turned around, he found that the skeleton monsters at the end of the cabin had put down their oars one after another and moved closer step by step.

This is true on both sides and the capital of the ship.

Skeleton monsters came from all directions in the cabin, like zombies without self-awareness.

In this terrifying sea of ​​skeletons and monsters, Qin Zhibo standing in the middle seemed weak and had no possibility of fighting back.

Gradually, his figure was submerged in the sea of ​​monsters.

Crunch, crunch...

Countless gray skeletons surged like goldfish surrounded by bait in a pond.

At this moment, a sharp cold light flashed among the group of skeletons.

Whoosh!

Along with this sharp sound of breaking through the air, the bodies of several skeleton monsters were cut into two pieces with one knife.

Then, six rays of cold light flashed almost simultaneously.

The heads of more than a dozen skeleton monsters flew outward in a parabola shape, blooming like flowers among the skeleton monsters.

In the middle of the flower stamen is Qin Zhibo.

And what he is holding in his hand is the only item that can be used in the dreamland - [Oath Keeping Sword]

"Roar--!"

Qin Zhibo let out a long roar, and with the help of the roar, his arms exploded to their maximum muscle strength.

The next second, he waved the sword in his hand and spun among the skeleton monsters.

The easiest way to deal with this kind of small spinning top that has no intelligence, slow movements, and relatively fragile body is mindless spinning.

The moment the sharp sword blade touched the skeleton monster, it encountered almost no resistance and chopped the extremely decayed bones into pieces.

A large amount of bone fragments clattered to the floor.

Qin Zhibo seemed to have entered unparalleled mode, frantically "cutting grass" among the skeleton monsters.

After cutting for almost 20 seconds, Qin Zhibo felt dizzy and couldn't bear it anymore, so he stopped.

He inserted the Oath Keeper Sword on the floor, held the hilt and sword grid with his hands, and bent down to lower his center of gravity, thus maintaining his body's balance.

Is it almost done now?

Qin Zhibo squinted his eyes slightly, panting heavily while observing his surroundings in a shaky field of vision.

Now, most of the skeleton monsters have been killed.

But there are still a small number of skeleton monsters standing a little further away, stepping on the bones and debris of their companions without fear of death, and walking towards them.

"hateful……"

"Let's just chop it all down..."

Resisting the dizziness, Qin Zhibo stood up again.

Although these power sources are cut off, passengers need to paddle the remaining distance by themselves, but fortunately, it is less than a day's journey from land.

Qin Zhibo took frivolous steps and was about to approach the last remaining skeleton monsters in the cabin when a strange noise suddenly came from the ground.

When I looked down, I saw that the bodies of those chopped-up skeleton monsters were actually moving!

These bones seemed to be electrocuted, shaking wildly on the floor, and gathered into small piles of bones.

After a while, the bones were put back together into a skeleton monster.

It's just that the reassembled skeleton monster looks very deformed. The arms are leg bones, and the belly is the head... It's a completely messy piece.

But even so, it does not prevent these skeleton monsters from attacking again.

The skeleton monster closest to Qin Zhibo suddenly took action, grabbing the blade of the Oath Keeper Sword with five long and thin fingers.

Since it is bone, the blade itself cannot cut through the bone without a certain amount of strength.

But Qin Zhibo turned the sword with both hands and broke the five fingers of the skeleton monster.

The palm that was finally put together was broken up again.

But the skeleton monster is not discouraged, or this thing doesn't know what it means to be discouraged by failure.

He stretched his arm toward the floor, and the five twisted fingers were tremblingly reattached to his palm.

Can't be killed?

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, a little surprised that these skeleton monsters, which looked like evil creatures at first sight, could not be killed by the Oath Keeper Sword.

In this case, these skeleton monsters are most likely controlled by some kind of existence.

If the controller is still alive, the skeleton monster can naturally "regenerate" infinitely.

But who is the controller?

Where?

While Qin Zhibo was thinking, several skeleton monsters that had reassembled their bodies pounced on him again.

Qin Zhibo quickly retreated, avoiding the slow movements of the skeleton monster.

After staring at these skeleton monsters for a second, he decided not to get entangled with these monsters, which would only waste his energy in vain.

The only way now is to kill the existence that controls the skeleton monster.

The controller is most likely hiding in this layer...

Qin Zhibo ignored the skeleton monster behind him and ran directly towards the end of the cabin.

Since the skeleton monsters were all attracted to the middle, there are no living creatures at either end of the cabin, only the oars extending from the hole to the outside of the hull.

With the moonlight seeping in from the hole, Qin Zhibo ran while observing the surroundings and the ceiling, paying attention to whether there was anything different.

If there is something controlling these skeleton monsters, then there is a high probability that this thing is not human.

There is magic in this world, and humans can also learn magic.

But if it were a human magician, he probably wouldn't do something so unclear.

If it's not a human being, it's probably some kind of intelligent being...

Qin Zhibo was running, but his path was blocked by a straight wall in front of him.

Judging from the disappearing oars and holes on both sides, it seemed that this was the end of the cabin, and there was no road ahead.

But in Qin Zhibo's perception, there should be some space there.

The hull structure of this black sailboat is relatively slender and shuttle-shaped from a bird's eye view.

If the front and rear ends of the interior cabin have straight walls, then there must be a triangular area of ​​hidden space.

It's just like the secret room in the real world, except that Qin Zhibo in this world can't see the investigation point.

What's in the wall in front?

Qin Zhibo stood there, not daring to move forward rashly, and unable to retreat.

Behind them is a group of unbeatable skeleton monsters. If you retreat, you will only be consumed.

The wall in front is an unknown risk. If there is something behind the wall, it is likely that it has noticed itself and is waiting for him to take the initiative to approach.

That thing might sneak up on you at any time.

But even if you stand here and do nothing, the skeleton monster will catch up later.

At this moment, the wall in front of Qin Zhibo suddenly moved.

There were suddenly three cracks in the middle of the huge, straight wall.

Immediately afterwards, there was another crack in the middle of the rectangle formed by the three cracks, and the door made of the wall slowly opened from the middle.

As the door gradually opened, a huge shadow emerged from the darkness.

This is not human.

Definitely not human.

Through the meager moonlight in the cabin, Qin Zhibo could vaguely see the image of this monster.

This is a fat and huge individual, looking somewhat like a distant relative of a toad.

The surface of its skin is gray-white, with a liquid sheen, and it makes a sticky, disgusting sound every time it moves.

But that's not the most incredible thing.

When Qin Zhibo glanced upward, he noticed this monster that was almost as high as the ceiling of the cabin. It had no head.

Without a head, there are no facial features to refer to.

Where the head used to be was the front end of a vaguely blunt snout, with a cluster of short, trembling pink tentacles.

This is……

Qin Zhibo's eyes widened and he couldn't believe the scene in front of him.

In this cabin that seems to be run by human civilization, there is such a terrifying monster!

The ugliness of this thing is definitely not much better than that of Mi Go.

Qin Zhibo's eyes were looking at the monster's body, and he suddenly remembered that on the way from Usa to Dilas-Lingang, he had heard a merchant from Usa say that he should be careful about a certain race.

There is a race in the Dreamland called Moon Beasts.

As the name suggests, this race lives on the moon.

Unlike some other races that live in seclusion or far away from the human world, the moon beast race likes to interact with humans even though they live on the moon.

But if you think that the moon beasts are a very friendly race, you are totally wrong.

Their real purpose in dealing with humans is to take humans as slaves and bring them to the moon.

It is the Moon Beast's bad taste to enslave other races, and humans are the most favored slaves.

They will use various methods to bring slaves back to the moon for a lot of torture and torture as a pastime, seeking spiritual entertainment in the painful wails of other races.

Usa Merchant told Qin Zhibo and Black Feather Kaito to stay away as much as possible whenever they encounter gray-white, toad-like creatures.

It's just that now in human towns, it's hard to see moon beasts operating openly and openly.

Because after the despicable and despicable hobbies of the moon beasts were gradually discovered by people, they moved to underground work.

They began to hire human agents, disguised as ships leading to various places, and quietly carried out slave trading business.

They made an agreement with some tribes in the northern continent, using rubies in exchange for cheap and reliable black slaves to board the ship.

Be careful of moon beasts and pray that you don't encounter one.

Otherwise, it will be worse than death.

Only then did Qin Zhibo realize that he had boarded the Moon Beast's pirate ship from the beginning.

I knocked out a drunk man at Dilas-Lin's dock and took the pass from his hand.

The slave that the moon beast was originally targeting was the drunkard.

And the three people wearing black turbans that I asked about in the bar later should be the human agents of the Moon Beast.

It turns out that from that time on, he had accidentally been involved in the situation arranged by the Moon Beast...

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo's body couldn't help but shudder.

This is really bad luck.

Unexpectedly, he boarded this pirate ship in the place of a drunkard who drank to his death.

But the good news is that the moon beast's conspiracy has been discovered now, and as long as it doesn't reach the moon, it's not too late.

On the contrary, this moon beast has some bad luck, because it just needs the blood of a spiritual creature to complete the spiritual ascension of the illusory world.

As long as we defeat this one in front of us...

Qin Zhibo's eyes quickly calmed down, he held the sword in both hands in a defensive posture, and at the same time carefully observed the behemoth in front of him.

Although in terms of size, moon beasts have an absolute advantage over humans.

But the good thing is that the cabin is relatively narrow, and the larger size is inconvenient. The advantage of the moon beast becomes a disadvantage.

In addition, with such a fat body, it is easy to hit him with his Oath Keeper Sword.

As for the means of the moon beast's attack...

While Qin Zhibo was making plans for the next attack, the shape of the moon beast blocking the center of the cabin suddenly changed.

The gray-white body that was originally like a hill suddenly began to shrink, and even the wrinkles on the skin shrank along with it.

In less than ten seconds, the moon beast's body shrank to almost the same size as Qin Zhibo.

It stretched its hand into the darkness behind it, as if groping for something.

The next moment, a golden spear suddenly stabbed Qin Zhibo!