The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Is it a shoggoth?

I'm afraid so.

Qin Zhibo couldn't help but ask himself questions to ease the fear he got from the black "slime".

Due to witnessing the existence of "fish birds" and using the Will-devouring Ring, his Will is now only 39, which is lower than ordinary people.

Those black, amorphous substances are almost the same as what the crazy assistant Danforth described, except that the shape is not as exaggerated and terrifying as the literary processing, and there are no eyeballs in the squirming body.

But Qin Zhibo's intuition was that it was Shogoth.

And it’s purple quality that I caught myself.

On the observation deck, several more black substances fell from the steamy place on the "Yishiniao".

The believers and villagers were already a little frightened by the scene in front of them, but fortunately, the black substance was bubbling like hot asphalt. Apart from being a little weird, there seemed to be no danger.

But at this moment, a sharp-eyed villager discovered something.

"Oh my god! It's moving!"

Villagers looked horrified and pointed at the bubbling black substance.

"What?"

Shen Shanjing and others stepped forward to observe. Sure enough, the black substance was slowly crawling on the floor tiles, resembling an amoeba.

But suddenly, the mass jumped onto a villager with an astonishing explosive force.

"ah--"

Screams immediately resounded on the observation deck, and the black substance began to climb on the villagers' bodies, and the target was his head.

The villagers were so frightened that they quickly reached out to grab it, but the black substance was like a puddle of living glue or brown candy. They couldn't tear it off, and it was all over their hands.

Self-rescue failed, so the villagers could only reach out to others for help.

"Help me! Help me—"

But the surrounding villagers had already been frightened by the scene in front of them. They stared in horror and backed away tremblingly.

But at this moment, several groups of black substances around them jumped on the villagers' bodies and began to crawl towards the exposed parts of the body.

For a time, screams could be heard in the square.

Shen Shanjing looked at the villagers swallowed by the black substance, and still shouted: "Don't refuse! This is a gift from God to you!"

"Don't say no!"

Looking at the believers and villagers screaming in pain, she could still say such words, but she didn't notice the black substance slowly crawling around her feet.

Shen Shanjing was short in stature, and before she could react, the black substance jumped in an unknown way and just wrapped her old face, like a facehugger in Alien.

"Woo——"

At first, she just let out a dull whimper in protest of being suffocated.

But when the tearing pain came from her face, she understood why the villagers were afraid.

"ah!"

A hoarse scream sounded, but was instantly drowned out by a louder sound.

The huge "fish bird" hovering in the sky suddenly let out a strange cry. This sound cannot be described by any sound known to mankind. It is high-frequency and harsh.

Qin Zhibo covered his ears, but did not dare to look up.

Because compared to those Shoggoth individuals on the ground, the "fish birds" seem to be even more difficult to see directly.

At this time, the "fish bird" in the sky turned around, pointed its head straight at the observation deck, and dived down at high speed.

The majestic bird-like body crashed straight into the observation deck, and in an instant, the sky collapsed!

A loud noise swept across the square along with flying sand and rocks. The hard rock was vulnerable to the impact of the rod-shaped beak, causing huge cracks in an instant, like an earthquake.

Since the bottom of the observation deck was originally a cable car tunnel, the hollow structure caused instability. The huge impact force falling from the sky directly crushed the rock structure above, and the entire observation deck began to collapse.

"ah"

Before the subconscious screams of the villagers could be heard from their throats, they were swept into the torrent formed by the broken rocks along with the feeling of weightlessness.

Shizuru Kamiyama and Nagao Domoto were all involved in the collapse, as well as the Shoggoths.

Qin Zhibo's position was at the very edge of the observation deck. Although it was not the center of the impact, the ledge had been destroyed, the rock had become fragile, and the entire mountain vertebra was about to collapse.

The huge crack in the ground was like the tentacles of a terrifying demon, quickly reaching towards Qin Zhibo's location.

He quickly turned around and ran wildly. His survival instinct made him jump down several steps in one leap. The sound of gravel rolling down behind him was like an urgent music, playing in his ears.

However, the speed of the collapse was faster than a person's running speed. Qin Zhibo reached his maximum speed as soon as possible, but he still could not escape the collapse and was about to be overtaken.

At this moment, an "elephant bird" made a strange crow call and flew over from behind at low altitude.

Qin Zhibo seized the opportunity and jumped up like a movie protagonist, his hands just catching on the thick toes of the one-legged "Elephant Bird".

The solid steps that Qin Zhibo stepped on a moment ago were immediately involved in the collapse. If it were even a moment later at night, he would fall into the abyss of eternal destruction.

Holding the toes of "Elephant Bird" tightly with both hands, as if grasping a life-saving straw, Qin Zhibo looked down in shock.

The huge collapse is still continuing towards the bottom of the climbing steps, seemingly determined to swallow the entire mountain before it stops.

This time it was a big deal.

Qin Zhibo's feet were dangling in the air, and the stretching of his body caused a dull pain from the old injury in his abdomen.

But now he had no time to pay attention to the pain on his body. Because of the skin contact, he actually understood some obscure and ancient knowledge.

This knowledge is presented in Qin Zhibo's mind in the form of inspiration. They may be false and unrealistic delusions, but these inspirations only appear when the will is low.

And Qin Zhibo's current will just meets the conditions.

"Elephant Bird" is not "Elephant Bird".

They are called "Star Anglers", they are bird-like creatures that live on the moon and serve as loyal servants of the Black Stone God "Gross Gorka".

Eons ago, Gross Gorka was defeated by the Old Gods and bound to the Black Spine in Antarctica.

But the God of Black Stone has long anticipated this future and laid his "eggs" all over the world in advance. As long as he uses an extremely rare polar black stone on the Antarctic Aintektos Mountain, he can be reborn in glory.

For a long time, starry sky fishermen have been looking for this polar black stone, and no matter the changes of the times, they have secretly protected the "eggs" laid by the God of Black Stone.

Thousands of years ago, they built the city-state of Zimbabwe to defend against the last king of Egypt's Third Dynasty.

Hundreds of years ago, they built statues of goddesses to expel foreign shogunate forces.

The starry sky fishermen use human authority and belief to establish human agents, always protect the "eggs", and hold various mysterious summons and rituals with the purpose of liberating their owners.

The huge "fish bird" summoned from the statue of the goddess is none other than the God of Black Stone - Gross Gorka.

The "starry sky fishing rod" is actually the polar black stone on Mount Ientectos, and it is also an important tool for awakening the God of Black Stone.

As for the Shoggoth, it was a product of chance.

The reason why Gross Gorka is called the God of Black Stone is not unrelated to the fact that he was sealed in the "Black Vertebral" in Antarctica.

But why are the mountains in Antarctica black?

It was a mountain formed by the Shoggoths uplift, a "mountain of meat".

The Old Gods sealed Gros Gorka in the mountain formed by the Shoggoths, allowing him to endure the bite of the Shoggoths forever, just as Zeus punished Prometheus.

But despite the endless years that passed, the Shoggoths could not devour Gross Gorka's body.

The body of the Black Stone God is made of extraordinary material. Although the body can be destroyed, it can never be destroyed.

Qin Zhibo's brain is accepting this crazy knowledge.

Immediately, the system prompts suddenly appeared in the brain.

[Ding, get 1000 mysterious mythology knowledge and skill proficiency! 】

[Look directly at the god +1]

[Achievement reward: Obtain 3000 general skill proficiency! 】

The system prompts are very gratifying, but at this moment Qin Zhibo's brain can no longer process such high-end information.

"Black Stone. Starry Groth. Shoggoth."

"Swallow."

He was murmuring dreamily, and dry branches or some kind of pointed tentacles gradually stretched out from the edges of his eyes, slowly covering his vision.

After a while, Qin Zhibo's brain was awakened by the painful feeling of falling to the ground, and he was freed from the nightmare-like illusions and knowledge.

The shackles on his vision could not be untied for a while. Lying on the ground, he could only feel around blankly.

The soft earth seems to have returned to the ground.

At this moment, a human voice sounded in my ears again.

"earthquake!"

"It's an earthquake!"

At the same time, Conan in the hotel's large suite suddenly woke up from the bed after hearing a loud noise.

The loud rumbling noise accompanied by the slight vibration of the ground made him look startled, and he quickly pushed Mao Lilan who was sleeping next to him.

"Xiaolan! There's an earthquake!"

If it were an ordinary earthquake, Conan would have been used to it. Anyway, in Japan, there would be earthquakes every three days.

But that loud rumbling sound must have been caused by something collapsing to cause such a loud noise.

Earthquakes that can cause collapse are definitely not ordinary earthquakes and must be taken seriously.

After waking up Mao Lilan, the two hurriedly got under the bed and waited quietly as they had been trained in earthquake prevention since childhood.

The tremors on the ground lasted for more than a minute and then ended.

The two of them seized the opportunity, climbed out of the bed and ran to Qin Zhibo's room.

"Mr. Qin!"

"There's an earthquake! Run out!"

According to earthquake experience, there is generally a golden period of escape after the first wave of earthquakes ends and before the arrival of the second wave of aftershocks.

If you live on a low floor and can escape from the building in time, you can consider moving to an open space outside.

Fortunately, the resort hotel here only has a maximum of three floors, which is indeed not high.

But Mao Lilan knocked on the door twice, but no one responded.

Conan was decisive, unscrewing the door handle and breaking into the room, only to find that there was no one on the bed.

Conan's eyes sharpened, and he quickly ran to the bed and stretched out his hand to touch the quilt. It was already cold.

Looking back at the coat hanger, the brown windbreaker on it was also gone.

"Uncle Qin has gone out a long time ago, let's run away!"

By the time the two ran downstairs holding hands, more hotel staff had gathered downstairs, looking in the direction of Tianbu Mountain in surprise.

"Oh my god! What happened to Tianbu Mountain?"

"What's going on?"

"Look at the statue of the goddess! The statue of the goddess!"

Everyone was surprised, Conan and Mao Lilan were also heading in that direction.

Under the bright white moonlight, the head of the goddess statue, the symbol of Tianbu Mountain, was missing.

Halfway up the mountain, the holy head is missing from the straight body of the goddess statue.

The mountain vertebra on which the goddess statue was leaning, where the observation deck was built, collapsed by more than half. Countless rocks rolled down the hillside, leaving a mess around the hotel.

Conan just glanced at it, but suddenly found a brown figure lying on the grass.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Qin Zhibo.

"Sister Xiaolan! Uncle Qin is over there!"

The shocked Mao Lilan forcibly looked away from the headless goddess statue and ran towards Qin Zhibo.

"Mr. Qin! What's wrong with you?"

The two people quickly helped Qin Zhibo up, but found that Qin Zhibo had his eyes closed tightly, as if he could not see.

"Mr. Qin, what's wrong with your eyes?"

"The Shoggoths... seem to have been blinded by the sand and gravel."

Based on the voices of the crowd, Qin Zhibo judged that he was now around the hotel at the foot of the mountain, so he made up a reason based on circumstances.

In fact, his eyes are now bound by those mysterious branch tentacles and he cannot open them for a short time.

Mao Lilan didn't pay attention to Qin Zhibo's raving, and quickly helped him walk to the hotel, saying that he wanted to find water to rinse his eyes first.

Out of professional habit, Conan narrowed his eyes and looked at the limping Qin Zhibo.

There is a lot of dust on the windbreaker. It doesn't look like it was hit by an earthquake just after coming out.

What was he doing out so late?

Just when Conan wanted to follow Mao Lilan and test Qin Zhibo by the way, the hotel staff around him suddenly let out a scream.

"ah--!"

"Someone is dead!"

Conan's eyes changed and he quickly ran over to watch.

On the grass of the hotel, Eizo Domoto was lying on the ground with a face full of horror, and behind him was a bloody mess that had been brutally hacked countless times with some kind of sharp weapon.

Soon, a large number of police and fire personnel arrived at the foot of Tianbu Mountain, and rescue vehicles crowded the parking lot.

The police immediately examined Domoto Eizo's body and found that the marks on the body were not caused by rocks, but were stabbed or even bitten by some kind of sharp weapon?

In addition, Domoto Eizo's body suffered comminuted fractures all over the body and multiple impact injuries. Therefore, it is speculated that the grassland behind the hotel is not the first crime scene, and the specific situation needs to continue to be investigated.

This strange way of death immediately spread throughout the country.

In addition, although nearby villagers and people in Tianbu Mountain insisted that an earthquake had occurred, according to information from the Seismological Bureau, no relevant data was detected before the earthquake occurred.

There was an earthquake, but it didn't happen?

What's even more terrifying is that the head of the goddess statue is missing.

The boss of Lianhe Domoto Tourism Company died unexpectedly, which is very strange.

For a time, people were panicked, and various speculations spread like wildfire.

But the most widely circulated theory is the curse of the goddess statue.

The statue of the goddess punished the sinners who blasphemed herself at the cost of her own head.