The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

The queen of Iti, Cassiluda, has three children in total and also has the right to inherit the throne.

The eldest son, Tyre, was named after Tyre, the ancestor of the kings of Iti, and was supposed to be the heir to the throne.

However, Tell became a disciple of the high priest Nautauba, followed him to learn various spells in the temple, and believed in the high priest's prophecy of the end.

The second daughter, Camilla, likes to be emotional.

The third son, Wachter, was young and accomplished nothing.

In addition, Cassilda also has an ambitious brother, Adonis.

He has always coveted the position of king, and hopes that after becoming king, he can implement severe punishment laws and correct the lax discipline of the royal guard.

Qin Zhibo learned about the relationship between members of the royal family through Adonis's self-report.

The first act, scene one of "The King in Yellow" also unfolds how Adonis realizes his conspiracy to usurp the throne.

In the Iti Palace late at night, Adonis first drove away the guards and met secretly with the third prince Wachter.

With the advice of Adonis, the third prince stole the kingdom's seal and stamped it on the document of heir to the throne that Adonis secretly forged.

Adonis lied and said that Queen Cassilda was too obsessed with the ball and was unable to deal with the matter of the heir to the throne, so he made the choice for his sister as an elder brother.

But after sending the third prince away, Adonis invited the second princess Camilla, saying that the third prince had stolen the seal, and ordered him to forge the documents of heir to the throne, which he had to obey.

Adonis suggested that the second princess secretly arrest the third prince, and the second princess accepted the suggestion.

After they left, Adonis told himself his entire plan, which was to let the second princess arrest the third prince, and then send someone to secretly kill the third prince in prison and frame it for the second princess.

When the replacement guard arrived, Adonis also left the stage.

However, all this was caught by the high priest Nautauba and the eldest prince Tell who happened to be out for a walk.

The two used invisibility spells, quietly hid nearby, and overheard all of Adonis's conspiracy.

Tyr wanted to save his sister and brother, but the high priest felt that these were irrelevant matters. As long as the King in Yellow came, Eti would be under the control of these theocratic agents.

At that time, whoever you want to release or execute will be at your discretion.

The most important thing for them now is to find the yellow mark before the lost Carcosa disappears.

So, the eldest prince and the high priest exited.

Afterwards, the captain of the guard team planned to arrest the third prince who "premeditated to usurp the throne."

But at this moment, a group of strangers came from the distance. They were uniformly dressed in white robes embroidered with black rings and yellow marks. Their voices were loud and harsh, a bit like the buzzing of insects.

The leader among them communicated with the captain of the guard and claimed to be from the city of the Supreme King and came to find a new home.

The captain of the guard ordered him to take off the pale mask from his face, but the stranger declined the request, saying that only members of the "Brotherhood" could wear the pale mask.

Later, Queen Cassilda came to receive these brotherhood members and arranged accommodation for these people.

The second princess Camilla on the side looked at the "pale masks" on the faces of these strangers, and suddenly came up with the idea of ​​holding a masquerade party tomorrow. Everyone must wear such "pale masks" to attend.

Cassiluda agreed to her daughter's request.

Act one, scene one, end.

The content in the first act is somewhat like a palace battle scene, but mixed with some mysterious elements.

The only thing that Qin Zhibo felt a little bit about was the strangers who called themselves "Brotherhood".

Both their voices and the way they spoke were a bit unhuman, reminding Qin Zhibo of creatures like MI-GO.

Act One, Scene Two.

The curtain opened again, and a dance scene that required dressing up slowly appeared.

Cassiluda, the queen, sang a song in which "Carcosa" was mentioned.

This caused the high priest to panic, and he sent the eldest prince Tyr to ask Cassilda if he had seen "Carcosa".

However, Tyre found nothing and returned to the high priest to talk to Adonis.

The two sides showed off their cards. Adonis bluntly stated that the final language and the King in Yellow were all illusions, while the high priest firmly opposed it.

The two sides separated, and Adonis found the captain of the guard and asked him to arrest the eldest prince on the grounds that the eldest prince had slandered him for conspiring to rebel.

However, the guard captain and the eldest prince had an affair, and the eldest prince used the invisibility spell during the conversation and left.

After some more trivial matters, the stranger who had just arrived in Iti yesterday came to attend the dance.

They brought a message from the Supreme King, and after a chant-like content, the entire dance entered a chaotic climax.

Everyone had no choice but to take off the pale masks on their faces and confirm the true identity of the people around them.

But everyone took off their masks, except the stranger from the fraternity, who turned a deaf ear and did nothing.

This is what he said when others asked him why he didn't take off his mask.

"I have no mask"

"I am the truth."

"Please remember these words, for when this city is lost to Carcosa, these words will forever echo in the streets outside. There will be no relief, no ending, no future."

The second princess burst out with a scream, and then

She is crazy.

Act one, end of scene two.

In an intriguing dance, the appearance of a stranger broke the apparent tranquility of the dance. Just a few short messages reduced the second princess's sanity to zero.

To sum it up, Qin Zhibo still didn't feel anything special.

What follows is the second act of "The King in Yellow" that is said to be full of taboos and madness.

Qin Zhibo, who was sitting in his seat, shrank his palms holding the armrests. He just held his breath and prepared for the opening of the second act, but found that the other seats in the theater had been filled with people from unknown time.

These people are all wearing modern clothes, their bodies are translucent, and some of them look like ethereal souls.

Qin Zhibo glanced back and found that not far from his position, a pair of familiar figures were sitting on the seats.

Kudo Shinichi and Maori Ran!

Qin Zhibo squinted his eyes and confirmed that it was Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan, especially the "horns" on Mao Lilan's head that were really easy to identify.

Both men stared at the stage with serious faces.

Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi stood up from his seat and looked at the stage in surprise.

Judging from the shape of his mouth, he may have said "La Ni".

Then, the curtain on the stage opened again, and Qin Zhibo's perspective was forcibly adjusted back to the stage by invisible force.

Act II, Scene I.

The dimly lit cell is a huge space, equipped with various execution instruments, torture beds, wooden cabinets, etc.

Queen Cassilda and her brother Adonis appeared from the right side of the stage,

It begins with a conversation between Cassilda and Adonis. Adonis believes that the person who needs to be dealt with to maintain the rule of the royal family is the high priest.

In order to prevent the untouchables in the city from all flocking to him under the high priest's "monster words", Adonis suggested that the prisoners in the city should be executed immediately to establish the prestige of the royal family, and bring the masked weirdo who appeared on the stage here. Tortured.

Cassiluda agreed one by one.

Adonis went to personally supervise the execution of the prisoners, while Cassilda was responsible for interrogating the weirdos.

There is an inner monologue from Cassilda, which probably means that she knows that her brother and the high priest are very scheming, and what she wants to do is to escape the fate that everyone has set for herself, and prove that these people are all wrong. of.

To do this, she needs to first torture the weirdo at the ball and understand the high priest's conspiracy.

The queen believed that the weirdo was sent by the high priest to cause trouble.

The strange man was brought by the guards, but the pale mask on the strange man's face could not be removed. Cassilda could only order someone to put the execution hood on him.

Cassilda began to whip the weirdo repeatedly and asked the weirdo his name.

But no matter how he was executed, the weirdo always replied, "I am the truth."

Cassilda asked again if the weirdo served the high priest.

The weirdo replied: "Truth serves those who know truth, but priests are not among them."

The queen's demeanor gradually fell into madness, and her execution methods against the weirdo became more and more cruel. However, no matter how she was interrogated, the weirdo insisted on her own story.

Until the weirdo's body was torn open by the huge torture instrument, and white blood oozed from inside.

The crazy second princess pushed the door open and broke in, looking for Huang Yin.

Cassilda comforted the second princess to return to the palace first, but the second princess suddenly saw the strange man's stripped robe and recognized the yellow mark embroidered on the front as the "yellow mark".

Finally, the crazy second princess raised her arms and shouted: "Celebrate! Great joy! The yellow seal is in my hand! The end is coming!"

Act 2, scene 1, end.

In the first scene of the second act, Qin Zhibo's impression after watching the film was still dull.

Adonis is still scheming, while Cassilda has lost her aloof demeanor as a queen and punishes weirdos crazily.

If one could investigate the will, Cassilda would also be gradually entering madness.

As for the white blood oozing out of the weirdo, this means that the weirdo is not a human being, but some other creature.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of MI-GO again. A white liquid would flow out of the seemingly dead MI-GO's body, and this white liquid would quickly fade over time until it turned into an almost transparent oil.

After thinking for a short time, Qin Zhibo took advantage of the intermission to move his head freely and hurriedly looked at where Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan were sitting just now.

However, there was no one there at this time. Not only that, the seats in the entire theater were also many empty.

Among the helpless audience, Qin Zhibo saw another familiar person.

Ghana beauty release

Kanami sat on the seat in the third row, leaning slightly forward, her beautiful eyes fixed on the dark stage that had temporarily come to an end due to the intermission.

At this time, the curtain on the stage opened again, and Qin Zhibo's eyes were forced to the stage again.

The finale begins.

Act 2, Scene 2.

It begins with an insignificant conversation between two guards, and then Queen Cassilda appears.

She fell into infinite grief, because she already knew that it was her order to execute all the prisoners in the city that killed the third prince who was imprisoned for forging documents.

Cassilda collapsed on the throne in pain, while Adonis continued to slander, saying that it was the third prince who was ordered to be arrested by the second princess, and there was no doubt that she was a traitor.

As for the person behind the scenes who instigated Camilla, it was the high priest. It was the high priest who saw that the second princess was prone to being emotional, so he wanted to control the naive girl to gain control of the kingdom.

At the instigation of Adonis, Cassiluda revised the law and asked the royal guards to rush into the originally sacrosanct temple and capture the high priest from inside.

This is where the collapse of rituals and music begins.

The captured high priest began to angrily expose Adonis's lies and deception, and Adonis also accused the high priest of being a nihilistic fantasist, imagining the non-existent god "The King in Yellow".

Cassilda was caught between the two, and her will gradually wavered.

At this moment, the eldest prince Tyre, who had been offline for a long time, finally came back, but his eyes were blind and leaking pus.

Just because he walked out of the battlements and saw the terrifying beauty outside the city. It was a beauty that belonged to the future and was about to be staged in the city.

Adonis believed that the eldest prince was deceiving the public with his lies and wanted to order the captain of the guard to arrest him, but the captain of the guard had an affair with the eldest prince and refused to obey the order.

Cassilda, who had begun to distrust Adonis, also rejected Adonis's suggestion and allowed the captain of the guard to take the blind eldest prince out of the city to escape.

At this time, Adonis remembered that the eldest prince had just said that there were war flags outside the city, and quickly ordered the guards to block the city gate and not let anyone in.

The crazy second princess entered the stage at this time, holding the "Yellow Seal" in both hands, and told that she was instigated by her uncle (Adonis).

Unable to listen any longer, Adonis grabbed the guard's musket and shot the second princess dead.

Queen Cassilda finally determined that Adonis was the traitor and asked him to raise his sword, and the two engaged in a one-on-one duel.

Sister Cassilda's swordsmanship was obviously superior, and she easily defeated Adonis in a duel while communicating, knocking the sword out of his hand.

However, just when Cassilda was about to deliver the fatal blow, the stage suddenly burst into light.

This light does not seem to come from any kind of light in the known world, it is an almost eerie purple-red light.

At the moment when the light bloomed, the royal flags on both sides of the throne suddenly changed and were replaced by banners with yellow seals.

Everyone was shocked. Cassiluda was so frightened that she dropped the sword in her hand. Adonis quickly picked it up, but he did not dare to act rashly and looked around in surprise.

The wall scenery representing the city walls and palaces began to collapse, smoke erupted from the gaps, and the infinite sound of gongs surrounded the stage.

Until the yellow light replaced the gradually subsided smoke, and a tall figure gradually appeared.

The King in Yellow has appeared!

The King in Yellow is about three meters tall, with his ragged robe and hood rippling in the air.

His face is hidden behind a flowing veil of yellow silk, and his hands are covered with yellow silk gloves of infinite majesty.

Every time He took a step forward, the rags around him flapped in the wind.

He spoke to those around him in a deep and commanding tone.

(To Cassiluda): Did you see it? Do you see reality now?

(To the High Priest): You long for the revival and survival of the Empire. I promise you that our Empire will last forever, and you will never see the end.

(To Adonis): Your dynasty has devoured its own children and will never be able to rule this place again. What has your reason and faith brought you?

When the King in Yellow pointed his finger at Adonis, Adonis became hysterical and cried incoherently.

"No! No! This is mine! Mine!"

"I won't be robbed by you again! Don't even think about it! Everything is mine!"

He raised the sword in his hand and swung it hard at the King in Yellow Clothes. However, the moment the blade of the sword came into contact with the strand of yellow clothes, it quickly bounced off and twisted, and hit himself instead.

Adonis died instantly.

Seeing this, the high priest was so frightened that his faith collapsed, and he wanted to cast an invisibility spell to escape, but the king in yellow also raised his hand and pointed at the high priest.

"You long to witness the beginning of a new era, and I assure you we are the new era."

"Of course, we have come to the throne, but we don't need priests, because the eternal dead will serve us. Where will your fanaticism and belief send you?"

The moment the king in yellow spread his hands, the high priest died instantly, with gray smoke emitting from his body.

The King in Yellow looked at Cassilda one last time and promised that Cassilda would survive.

But Cassiluda insisted that the King in Yellow killed his child, and believed that finding the eldest prince would allow the dynasty to continue its rule.

The King in Yellow: "Tyr is the ancestor of kings, and I am the last of them."

Cassiluda: "I won't give up!"

King in Yellow: "You have given up your position."

Cassilda: "Will you conquer all of Hastur?"

King in Yellow: "We are Hastur, and it is we who liberate Yiti from the suffering of mankind. We acquiesce to those who continue to be parasitic here."

Cassiluda: "Iti is not your city, Carcosa is!"

King in Yellow: "Now, here is Carcosa, Carcosa has come to all of you."

Cassiluda knelt on the ground, wailing and begging, "Don't happen to us! King! Don't!"

The lights on the stage suddenly went out, and the theater fell into darkness.

Finale.

Qin Zhibo stared at the silent stage, feeling that "The King in Yellow" was nothing more than that.

Compared with other mythological classics, Qin Zhibo even felt that "The King in Yellow" was too mild, like a weird palace battle drama with occult colors.

It begins with the struggle for the heir to the throne and ends with the arrival of the final heir to the throne.

The scheming Adonis believed in reason and insisted on the belief that Iti should be ruled by a dynasty.

In the end, he never expected that his scheming would be in vain in front of the King in Yellow, just like an ant playing tricks in front of humans.

Do humans care what the ants are planning?

But the final scene of Adonis madly attacking the King in Yellow reminded Qin Zhibo of Hideo Kawashima who shot Aldebaran on Moon Shadow Island.

They are all true braves!

Nautauba, the high priest with fanatical beliefs, was a firm defender of the prophecy of the end of the world at first, and firmly believed in the coming of Carcosa and the King in Yellow.

But when the King in Yellow came to him at the end, he cowered in fear and was sentenced to death.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of an idiom, Ye Gong loves dragons.

Perhaps his fate was sealed from the first scene of Act 2, because the messenger of the King in Yellow did not approve of the so-called "service" of the high priest.

As for Queen Cassilda, she had no firm stance and was an unsteady ruler.

She sometimes believed in the rule of the dynasty and sometimes believed in the prophecies of the end of the world, which indirectly led to the death of her two children.

The King in Yellow "compassionately" allowed her to survive. She refused to obey at first, but when death came, she knelt down and begged for mercy.

The eldest prince was blinded in both eyes and fled the royal city with his lover, but the whole world was not the "king".

The second princess went crazy and was shot and killed by her uncle.

The third prince was the worst. He never appeared again after the first scene of the first act. He was inexplicably executed on the order of his biological mother.

All the royal members of a dynasty met a bad end. The collapse of reason, the collapse of faith, and the insignificance of human power under the influence of supernatural forces are all vividly demonstrated in this script.

But what else?

Qin Zhibo felt that although this second act was very meaningful, that was all.

Originally, the part that should bring people madness the most was the scene where the King in Yellow came on stage, but when the King in Yellow came on the stage, Qin Zhibo didn't feel any discomfort.

Even a little friendly?

After all, the King in Yellow is an existence in human form. He communicates verbally with people and has a condescending attitude. Even during executions, he does not lose his proper grace.

If a God with clear rewards and punishments really exists, maybe this is what he looks like?

Qin Zhibo imagined various scenes in his mind, and suddenly realized that it had been a long time since the stage ended. Why was he still sitting in the theater?

Qin Zhibo shook his body, but he was still trapped by some invisible chain, as if he was being forced to his seat to watch the curtain call.

But there is nothing on the stage.

Just when Qin Zhibo thought so, a faint yellow halo appeared on the dark stage.

This light spread out quickly like a carpet on the slope, and actually laid out a "golden light avenue" leading to Qin Zhibo!

This is not a flat effect on the stage, this is 3D!

On this golden road with a halo, a yellow figure slowly floated towards him.

He is almost exactly the same as the King in Yellow on the stage just now, but his arrival at this moment can be seen more realistically from Qin Zhibo's perspective.

He actually came out!

Qin Zhibo's fingers trembled slightly, his back stretched straight as if fixed by some kind of shackles, and his eyes stared straight at the King in Yellow who floated out from the stage.

The tattered clothes on the King of Yellow Clothes were windless and his hands were hanging quietly on both sides of his body, revealing the elegance of an extraordinary creature.

He didn't make any unnecessary moves until he floated in front of Qin Zhibo.

Under the majesty of the king, Qin Zhibo had to raise his head to the limit to see that aloof face.

At this time, the face of the King in Yellow is not the one covered with yellow silk on the stage, but another kind of pale mask with unclear facial features and expressions.

He raised his finger and pointed at Qin Zhibo's head like he was executing someone who deserved to die on the stage.

At this moment, a kind of familiar panic swept through Qin Zhibo's body.

An electric shock-like pain suddenly arose all over his body, causing Qin Zhibo to scream subconsciously.

Almost at the same moment, Qin Zhibo felt that the restraints on his body were suddenly loosened, and his back was able to dodge freely.

He quickly dodged his body to the side, trying to escape the finger of void.

Then, there was a loud bang.

Qin Zhibo fell to the ground

Qin Zhibo's eyes widened in surprise, looking at everything around him.

There was a familiar desk and boss chair, and behind him was a glass window with blinds drawn, with the words "Zhibo Detective Agency" plastered on the glass.

There is no doubt that this is my own detective agency.

After sitting on the ground and calming down for a while, Qin Zhibo stood up again holding the boss chair next to him and looked at "The King in Yellow" on the table.

Unknowingly, I had turned to the last page of "The King in Yellow".

When I lowered my head and took a closer look, I saw this sentence written on the last line of the last page.

[You have long suspected that Hastur will corrupt the soul; and when you read this book, you have already been corroded]

Qin Zhibo's eyes moved slightly and he sat back in his seat.

Hastur is undoubtedly Hastur. The proper noun "Hastur" is also mentioned many times in "The King in Yellow".

It's just that at the beginning of the script, Hastur seems to be a place name, and Iti is just a country among Hastur.

But when the King in Yellow came, He answered for everyone. Hastur is not the name of a place, but his name.

King in Yellow, Hastur

Qin Zhibo recalled his experience on Moon Shadow Island again, the yellow glow from Aldebaran.

"The Great Being on Aldebaran"

"The King in Yellow, Hastur?"

Qin Zhibo murmured to himself, and suddenly, a prompt appeared on the system.

[Reading completed, total loss of 8 will points]

[Acquire 800 Mysterious Mythology Knowledge and Skill Proficiency]

800 points of mysterious mythological knowledge skills have been added to Qin Zhibo's skills, but this is not the end.

[Main mission: The test of the "King in Yellow\