Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 404 The Invisibility Spell in "The King in Yellow"

"How could this be! Where are the masks?"

Looking at the empty mask racks around, Koizumi Hongzi and Qin Zhibo were very surprised.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo remembered that Shimokasaho Nami had told him not to come out at night easily, because Xiao Bo's mask would cause trouble at night.

Every time after dawn, these masks were either tilted left and right, or fell directly to the ground.

Is it true what the maid said?
Qin Zhibo: Will -2
Red Koizumi: Will -4
"Forget about this, you use magic to detect the position of the 'Pale Mask' first."

"Um"

Both of them are people who believe in metaphysics, the speed of recovering calm is not bad, and the will has not dropped too much.

Koizumi Koko took off the necklace around her neck, grabbed the chain, and let the red crystal pendant hang under her right hand.

As Koizumi Hongzi concentrated, a wave of light red magic power visible to the naked eye floated out of her body and slowly gathered on the red crystal necklace.

Driven by magic, the pendant slowly drew circles in the air, then suddenly changed its movements, and began to swing back and forth violently, twisting like a snake.

After waiting for a few more seconds, the pendulum-like pendant finally fixed to a certain direction on the west side of the villa.

"It's near here, it should be in a room on the third floor on the west side."

Koizumi Hongzi judged decisively. At the same time, he put away the necklace in his hand, put it back around his neck, and continued: "The third floor on the west side is only lived by a woman named Su Fang Hongzi. Could it be in her room?"

"Maybe"

Just when Qin Zhibo was thinking, there was a sudden violent sound of the doorknob being turned from the door on the east side of the Mask Hall, and at the same time, Mouri Kogoro's shout sounded outside the door.

"The door here is locked!"

"Xiao Lan, Conan! Hurry up and wake up the maid to open the door!"

Mori Kogoro's voice was hurried, as if something very urgent had happened.

"Will the detective find us?"

Koizumi Hongzi subconsciously moved closer to Qin Zhibo, and the two leaned close to the window.

Qin Zhibo frowned, remembering that when he left the room, Mori Kogoro was snoring, it was unlikely that he woke up so thoroughly suddenly, and rushed to the mask hall as soon as he woke up.

There should be other things.

But now Qin Zhibo didn't have time to analyze what happened, because the time was passing by every minute.

When the maid brought the key to open the door, seeing these disappearing masks, he and Koizumi Hongzi were at a loss for words.

Now the east door is guarded, and the west door is locked from the outside. The only way is to go back through the ventilation duct.

But just when Qin Zhibo wanted to take Koizumi Hongzi to escape through the ventilation duct, he looked up and found that the iron grid on the ventilation duct had been covered at some point.

Qin Zhibo remembered that the second Koizumi Hongzi who jumped down also jumped down Erlian, so he didn't have time to cover the iron grid.

This made Qin Zhibo immediately realize that someone passed by the ventilation duct just now.

If the two of them climbed in together now, they would definitely meet the person in the pipe.

"What should we do now?"

The voice at the door fell silent, Koizumi Hongzi became even more frightened, and leaned close to Qin Zhibo.

And Qin Zhibo's brain was quick, and he immediately thought of a countermeasure.

"I learned an invisibility spell from a book. Try it and it might work."

When Koizumi Hongzi was about to complain about how the invisibility spell that he saw casually could work, Qin Zhibo had already started to chant the spell.

Of course, the Maoli family was not woken up by Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi's petty actions, but an intercom call to the Maoli family's room.

The voice on the intercom was thin and weird, saying that he was the messenger of the Cursed Mask, and that the Cursed Mask was eager to drink blood now, and it would be too late if he didn't hurry up.

Due to the judgment during the day, Conan and Mori Kogoro immediately thought that the target of the other party was probably the host of the charity party, Ms. Su Fang Hongzi.

So, the Maoli family rushed to the west wing to rescue people.

But when he rushed to the mask hall that was connected, he found that the door was locked.

This time the Maori family did not choose to break the door violently, but went to find someone to get the key honestly
In the east wing, Mourilan and Conan followed Mori Kogoro's instructions and went to the first floor to find the maid.

In the darkness where they could barely see their fingers, neither of them turned on the light because there was no need for that.

Wearing slippers, Mao Lilan jumped directly from more than a dozen steps, and easily jumped to the ground on the first floor.

As expected of Xiaolan, she is very skillful!
Conan admired in his heart, jumped several steps, not to be outdone, and finally landed in a handsome posture.

Mao Lilan, who was on the first floor, had already knocked on the door of the maid's room. Conan felt that there was no need for another person to knock on the door, so he ran to the door to try the door of the entrance.

He stepped on the chair and turned the doorknob. The door was locked tightly, indicating that the criminals were probably in the villa.

When Mao Lilan woke up the sleepy maid, the three of them went to the kitchen to get the keys and ran to the third floor together.

When passing by the second floor, Conan glanced at Qin Zhibo's room.

How could such a loud noise not wake him up?
Conan was a little puzzled, and was about to knock on the door, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was a great opportunity for him to get ahead of Qin Zhibo.

If something really happened, if I started investigating and reasoning a few minutes earlier, I might be able to reason out the truth earlier than Qin Zhibo.

Qin Zhibo looked frustrated
As a "scheming frog", Conan turned around and continued running to the third floor.

A double chant sounded in the Hall of Masks.

"No one can see me because I am hidden in Lost Carcosa."

"No one can see me because of me."

"A tattered mist hides me, blinding all who pass by me."

"Ragged Mist"

When Qin Zhibo finished singing first, his body actually entered the invisible state for an instant.

Qin Zhibo looked at his transparent body in disbelief, and was very surprised in his heart.

Originally, Qin Zhibo didn't intend to really rely on this spell to become invisible, but used this spell as a cover, quietly put on the magic power extractor, and entered the invisible state with the magic ring after the spell was finished.

But unexpectedly, this is actually a real invisibility spell.

"Where did you go?"

"Where are you? Don't leave me alone."

Koizumi Hongzi stood there trembling, looked around in bewilderment, and shouted softly.

Qin Zhibo's sudden disappearance, coupled with the possibility of opening the door of the mask hall at any time, made the witch lady a little flustered.

Qin Zhibo didn't know how to release his invisibility for the time being, so he could only reach out to touch Koizumi Hongzi.

But just as the palm of his hand was stretched into the shadow that the moonlight could not reach, a hand wrapped in the sleeve of a blue-black pajamas was exposed.

(End of this chapter)