Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 145 Looking for "Snow Maiden"

"what!"

"This, this is!"

Seeing the strange pattern of faint fluorescent lights on the ground, Sakae Yamagishi backed away in fright, and barely stood up until his body leaned against the wall.

It is naturally difficult for an ordinary person like Sakae Yamagishi to accept something completely unexpected.

Koizumi Hongzi, who had already guessed that there should be some kind of mysterious side thing here, also widened her eyes in surprise, and stared at the ritual array under her feet in disbelief.

The entire ceremonial array on the floor is painted with fluorescent paint, which only becomes visible when exposed to ultraviolet light.

The police had apparently not found this ritual array during their previous survey of the scene.

Qin Zhibo put the magic power extractor on his hand and tried to touch the ritual array on it, but he couldn't extract any magic power from it.

Koizumi Hongzi lowered his head and carefully studied the content on the ritual array, then turned his head and asked, "Did that man hold Yoko Okino's avatar when he died?"

"Avatar?" Sakae Yamagishi was puzzled.

In the magician's world, a clone refers to a person's personal items or body tissues.

However, Koizumi Hongzi said this kind of technical term to a pure layman. It seems that this lady witch with only 45 will was frightened, and she was a little bit mentally retarded.

So Qin Zhibo put it another way and asked, "Did Fujie Akiyoshi hold onto something when he died?"

"Something." Ei Yamagishi thought about it, and thought of it all at once, "It is true that he is grabbing something! It is Miss Yoko's hair!"

That's right.

Akiyoshi Fujie is the one who cursed Yoko Okino!

Judging from the fact that Fujie Akiyoshi used suicide techniques to frame Okino Yoko while imposing the ritual array, he himself should not be convinced that this curse ritual of self-sacrifice can take effect.

So he chose two methods at the same time.

The location of the suicide is also the location of the curse ceremony. Holding Okino Yoko's hair in his hand is not only to determine the target of the curse, but also to lead the murder suspicion to Okino Yoko.

He really has a plan.
Next, Qin Zhibo found a reason to send Eiji Yamagishi away, so that he could discuss it with Koizumi Hongzi a little more happily.

"Can this curse of death be lifted?"

Koizumi Hongzi's answer was straightforward: "No."

"Although I don't know how he learned about this curse ceremony, this death curse is exactly the double curse I guessed before. Since the party of the double curse has paid the price of life, the curse will not stop, and no external force can interfere with it. conduct."

However, Hongzi Koizumi also gave other solutions.

"If you use curse magic of the same level, maybe you can offset the original curse effect."

"Tackling poison with poison?"

"It's almost the same reason." Koizumi Hongzi nodded, and then said: "However, to counteract this life-sacrificing curse, the curse magic to be cast must be quite advanced."

"It is necessary to prepare a potion with the help of the soaring magic power on the night of the full moon, and then give the potion to the cursed person."

"The night of the full moon will be this weekend, but there is still one ingredient missing for the preparation of the potion."

"What material?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"Snow water on Snow Maiden's body."

Koizumi Hongzi said so solemnly.

At the same time, an alert is triggered

[Learn about the existence of mysterious creatures, trigger the main task]

[Main task: go to the target location to find the target creature]

[Task requirements: 72 hour time limit]

[Task reward: 3000 general skill proficiency, 400 strange myth knowledge skill proficiency]

[Mission countdown begins]

【71:59:59】

"what happened to you?"

Koizumi Hongzi put her face in front of the dumbfounded Qin Zhibo, and said doubtfully, "You must be too surprised to know about the existence of Xue Nu, right?"

"No, how could it be?"

Of course Qin Zhibo would not be surprised.

Even the "foggy dog" exists, and the existence of "Snow Girl" is not surprising.

only.
"By the way, Hongzi." Qin Zhibo changed the subject and asked suddenly, "Have you heard of MI-GO?"

"M, dog?"

Koizumi Hongzi raised her head and thought for a few seconds, then shook her head, "I don't know, what is that?"

"I don't know."

"Anyway, I will be responsible for finding Xue Nu, and I will be back before the full moon."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, he remembered his bad sense of time.

Although Koizumi Hongzi said that this weekend is the night of the full moon, but which day is the weekend?

Forget it, you can only resign yourself to fate.

Koizumi Hongzi was surprised and asked Qin Zhibo where he planned to find Xue Nu.

Qin Zhibo took it for granted, "The Finding Curse, you taught it."

Koizumi Hongzi was full of helplessness, and looked at Qin Zhibo with the expression of looking at a fool.

"Are you serious?"

In the end, Qin Zhibo "ignores" the warning that the object-finding spell cannot be used to find mythical creatures.

Of course Qin Zhibo knew that the Finding Object Curse would not be able to find Xue Nu.

If he used the object-finding spell, Qin Zhibo guessed that there was a high probability that he would find a snowman. If he was lucky, the snowman might even be wearing a wig for women.

But Qin Zhibo with the guidance of the main task is completely different.

On the electronic map of the navigator, Qin Zhibo clearly got a place name called Sanri Town.

Sanka Town, located about 300 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, is the furthest place Qin Zhibo has been to so far.

This is a small town that calls itself a hot spring town. Since there is no direct transportation such as the Shinkansen, Qin Zhibo chose to rent a car.

Starting in the morning and driving until the afternoon, the signboard welcoming you in Sanri Town finally came into view.

After more than four hours of driving, Qin Zhibo increased his proficiency in driving skills by almost 150 points.

From the clean road starting from Tokyo to the snow-covered road outside Sanri Town, Qin Zhibo's car drove slower and slower.

Among these, Qin Zhibo also discovered a pattern.

That is, when you are in a hurry and drive faster, your proficiency will increase faster.

On the contrary, if you drive a "snail car", the rate of proficiency increase will be much slower.

After officially entering Sanri Town, Qin Zhibo discovered that the target location was still some distance away from Sanri Town. It was actually near a hot spring village around Sanri Town.

Qin Zhibo then drove a rented car to the hot spring village, where he found a homestay that was closest to the destination.

Yuanbei の accommodation.

Pushing open the door, Qin Zhibo stood at the entrance and greeted him, and the boss and his wife immediately came out to greet him.

"welcome!"

"Excuse me, do you have an appointment?"

Qin Zhibo took a look inside, it seems that the popularity here is not so high that you have to make an appointment in advance, right?

"Is it necessary to make an appointment in advance to check in here?"

"No, no, no"

The boss wearing glasses hurriedly waved his hands and explained with a smile on his face, "Actually, there will be two waves of guests coming from Tokyo to our store today, I just want to confirm."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo's mind couldn't help thinking of the faces of those old acquaintances.

Seems like luck?
(End of this chapter)