The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

After a fruitless search, Kuroba Kaito stepped on the steps to leave the dungeon.

The steps are very long, dozens of them.

The end of the steps was like the exit of a long cave, shining with dazzling light like the sun.

But this does not mean that the stairs and the dungeon are dark underneath.

On the contrary, although there are no lighting objects such as torches on the wall below, it still does not affect the line of sight.

It’s not so much that it’s darker below, but it’s that it’s too bright above.

Kuroba Kaito took a slightly heavy step, his eyes fixed on the exit leading to the outside world, and he did not dare to relax for a moment.

He reached the top of the steps and was immediately shocked by the sight in front of him.

This is a pale room with an extremely large space.

Its hugeness is almost beyond description in words, and it exceeds all human cognition and imagination.

The ceiling and walls of the room were so far away that they almost disappeared in a thin billowing white mist.

This huge size makes this room almost indistinguishable from the vast space in the wild.

It's like putting a shining sky and earth into the room.

This shining light continues to shine.

Compared with this smooth room, even Kaitou Kidd's exclusive white shirt looks like a slightly dull gray rather than white.

Battle robe?

Kuroba Kaito was suddenly startled, and then he realized something was wrong.

He's actually wearing Kaitou Kidd's shirt now?

Just now, I was focused on opening the cell door and looking for my father. Plus, I usually wear this outfit a lot, so I didn't care.

Kuroba Kaito lowered his head and looked up and down his body.

White top hat, white suit, white cape... just missing the telescopic glider device and monocle.

How is this going?

Kuroba Kaito was wondering when he suddenly heard soft sobs.

Woo, woo, woo...

The sobs were not clear at first, and they couldn't even identify their direction in this huge room.

But soon, the voice became extremely real, as if the owner of the voice was very close.

Kuroba Kaito quickly looked around, and was shocked to find a little girl in coarse linen clothes standing twenty meters away.

The girl with her head lowered kept wiping her hands in front of her eyes. Her back was slightly arched, like a machine specially designed to produce sobs.

Woo, woo, woo...

Seeing that there were other people here, Kuroba Kaito was shocked and suddenly felt a lot of intimacy.

Out of the human habit of getting together in unknown environments, or the purpose of inquiring about information here, Kuroba Kaito's subconscious behavior was to shout in the direction of the girl.

"Hello!"

This sound seemed to frighten the girl, who just looked up at Kuroba Kaito blankly, and then ran away.

"Hello!"

"Don't run! I'm not a bad person!"

Kuroba Kaito added another sentence, but not only did it have no effect, the girl's escape speed seemed to be faster.

He had no choice but to lean forward and quickly chase the girl.

However, although the girl looks short, she runs extremely fast.

In addition, the light in this room is a bit too bright. As long as you look into the distance, you will feel that your eyes are completely white.

If I stay here for a long time, I might go blind...

As Kuroba Kaito ran, he pressed the top hat on his head hard so that the brim of the hat could create some rare darkness.

"Hello!"

"Stop!"

Kuroba Kaito shouted from behind, but the little girl seemed to have entered berserk mode and didn't listen at all, and didn't even look back.

As a last resort, he could only run with all his strength, even risking his body to hit the little girl because he couldn't stop in time.

The distance between the two parties got closer and closer, until Kuroba Kaito's forward palm grasped the little girl's shoulder, causing her to stop.

"Huhu..."

The little girl finally stopped, but Kuroba Kaito himself was out of breath.

It's not that his physical fitness is not good, but that he is not very good at such sustained movements.

But on the other hand, the little girl was looking at him blankly, as if questioning why this big brother was so weak?

"W-why are you running?"

"Brother, I'm really not a bad person..."

Kuroba Kaito asked while putting a hand on the little girl's shoulder to prevent her from running away again.

"Now let me ask you, where is this place?"

Originally, Kuroba Kaito wanted to perform a magic trick, first to make the children relax their vigilance, and then to trick the children.

But now that he has no magic props on him, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, so she can only ask directly.

The little girl's skin is yellowish, with freckles on her face. Her small face is not delicate, and she has average appearance.

After reacting for a second, she replied with a dull expression: "It's the master's castle..."

"castle?"

Kuroba Kaito looked around. This place looked much bigger than the castle. This room alone was enough to accommodate a castle.

"Is this Kadasi?" he asked again.

The little girl hesitated for two seconds and nodded.

Kuroba Kaito was not surprised, he had already analyzed this in the dungeon just now.

"Then who is the 'master' you are talking about? Are they the gods of dreams?"

The little girl didn't hesitate this time and nodded quickly.

"So what do you do here? Are there any other humans?"

Faced with this problem, the little girl hesitated.

Seeing this, Kuroba Kaito quickly showed the warm smile of the big brother Sunshine and comforted: "It's okay. Actually, big brother, I am just like you. I just came here today, so I am not familiar with it yet..."

Although he didn't know how the operation mechanism worked here, Kuroba Kaito decided to tell a little lie.

After all, the other party is a child, a woman, and he is so handsome, so he can always fool him.

Sure enough, the little girl hesitated for a moment and then answered.

"We are slaves serving our masters..."

They?

Does that mean there are others here?

Maybe his father, Kuroba Toichi, is among them!

Thinking of this, Kuroba Kaito's eyes immediately became extremely serious, and he put his hands on the girl's shoulders, "Then do you know a man named 'Kuroba Toichi'?"

The girl's eyes thought for a moment and her head nodded slightly.

This slight movement made Kuroba Kaito's heartbeat suddenly accelerate by 0.5 times.

Father...is still alive!

My father, who has been "dead" for eight years, is still alive!

This huge feeling of joy made Kuroba Kaito forget about expression management.

The corners of his mouth were raised with joy, and he almost cheered.

But he quickly regained his senses and quickly grabbed the little girl's shoulders, "Quick!"

"Take me quickly! Find Kuroba Toichi!"

After staring at Kuroba Kaito for a second, the little girl turned and ran towards the corner of the huge room.

Seeing this, Kuroba Kaito quickly followed.

…

Kadasi, outside the Onyx City.

Qin Zhibo was running on a large pale battlement.

Although his legs maintained the fastest non-explosive speed, the road ahead still did not decrease significantly.

The visual inspection that once only took half a day to reach the top may now seem like a luxury.

Fortunately, the city was completely silent. There were no guards or doors to obstruct passage.

Except for some paths in the city that are designed to be a little anti-human, it can be considered to be accessible in all directions.

While running, a trumpet sound suddenly came from a distant place without any warning.

Qin Zhibo immediately stopped and tried to identify the direction from which the sound came.

The next second, he looked up at the tall tower at the end of the battlements.

The sound of the trumpet came from the top of the tower, which almost reached the clouds, so the sound sounded very ethereal.

First there was a long-lasting trumpet sound, followed by three loud gongs that penetrated the heaven and earth.

Qin Zhibo was forced to cover his ears by the deafening sound.

After a while, a new voice came from the top of the tower.

This is a horn solo full of rhythm and rhythm, and the intoxicating sound seems to reveal all the miracles and beauty in the world.

Every note in the air is filled with passion and a slightly weird exotic feel.

Amidst this sound, Qin Zhibo's eyes gradually became blurred, and the hand covering his ears slowly loosened.

Fortunately, at the moment when he was about to let go completely, his brain suddenly regained its sanity, and he quickly covered his ears harder, which allowed his brain to regain consciousness.

He stared at the top of the tower, not understanding what was happening.

Was he discovered by the dream gods in Kadasi?

Only gods can explain this strange power...

He turned around and looked around, trying to find a place to hide, but the battlements were so clean that not even a cockroach could hide.

At this moment, the thin clouds and mist at the top of the tower suddenly began to change strangely, like huge steps descending from the sky.

The steps formed by clouds and mist exude colorful mist on one side and diffuse downwards on the other.

At the top of the steps, a pair of black men with colorful silks wrapped around their waists walked out from a place where they couldn't see clearly.

These black men were tall and burly, with muscles on their chests like knives and axes, and their heads were tied with shiny metal by leather straps.

They held a golden aromatherapy stove in one hand and a crystal cane in the other hand. From the mouth of the stove, streams of smoke with a purple luster filled the air.

These people are...

Qin Zhibo narrowed his eyes and saw the slightly inconspicuous golden shackles on the feet of these black people.

Is it a slave?

These black slaves filed out from the top of the invisible tower, lined up in two columns, and walked solemnly and uniformly along the steps formed by the clouds and mist.

The bottom end of this step is less than 10 meters away in front of Qin Zhibo.

Qin Zhibo wanted to escape quickly before they got down, but it was too late.

A fragrant smell filled the air at some point, making his body unable to move, and he could only wait calmly for his next fate.

The black slaves arrived at the bottom of the steps quickly.

They were less than 10 meters away from Qin Zhibo, and Qin Zhibo's body was still unable to move at this time.

However, they did not continue to move forward and stopped at the right time.

With the sound of a trumpet, hundreds of black slaves turned towards the center at the same time, forming two welcoming columns.

But Qin Zhibo knew that they were not here to greet him.

I saw a tall and thin figure walking down with solemn steps.

The figure had a handsome face like that of an ancient pharaoh when he was young. He was wearing a colorful robe and a double crown of natural glittering gold.

That arrogant and elegant manner and black face seemed to possess the magical power that only fallen angels or dark gods possess.

He stood opposite Qin Zhibo, but around his eyes there were sparks of weariness shining with unpredictable humor.

Even when he spoke, his voice was like the soft music played by the waters of the River of Forgetfulness, with waves of ripples in the mellow tone.

"Qin, you have overcome many obstacles to come here, hoping to meet the gods of dreams."

"But mortals are prohibited from meeting them. This is a rule set by the demon king who lives deep in the ultimate void and whose name no one dares to reveal, and the foreign gods entrenched around him."

"Even if you have overcome everything in the Earth's Dream and are burning with curiosity to seek knowledge, you will still be excluded from the palace of the Dream Gods in order to abide by the rules."

"Unless you can personally go to the Lord of the Ultimate Void and convince him to change this rule."

"Now, I prepare a Shantak bird for you, which will carry you across the vast galaxy to the ultimate void where no one knows where it is."

"In front of the throne, you will once again turn into a bird that can speak and speak to your heart's content..."

The tall man in the robe waved his hand, and Qin Zhibo felt that his body was light and airy.

It was as if his body was no longer under his control, and he actually sat on a Shantak bird that appeared from nowhere.

Once again, he sat on this ugly horse-headed giant bird, but the difference was that this time Qin Zhibo could not move his body and could only maintain the riding posture.

Even his mouth seemed to have been sewn shut with a needle, and no sound could come out.

Holy shit!

Gonna be sent away!

Qin Zhibo's eyes widened and he watched helplessly as he was lifted up by the Shantak bird and rushed straight into the sky above Kadath.

The sky was like a false curtain, with a huge hole torn open by the bat wings of the Shantak bird.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo saw the inside of the curtain.

The starry sky in the universe is emitting an icy blue shimmer.

The stars danced as if in mockery, changing their alignment from time to time, as if they were combining into some pale portent of destruction.

He also saw that the universe filled with ether was like a stormy sea, roaring and stretching out amorphous tentacles.

There were also those giggling and shrill screams, as if mental patients were lingering around their ears.

In the deepest part of the dancing stars and the roaring ether sea is a palace filled with the ultimate darkness outside the universe.

Invisible flutists and trumpeters played chaotically around the palace.

In the center of the palace, the demon king named "Ultimate Chaos" was sitting on the throne.