When everyone's conversation turned to vampires, the first thing Qin Zhibo thought of was the kobold he met earlier.
Although the legendary vampires suck blood and the kobolds eat human corpses and even attack living people, the similarity between the two is not 100%.
But in the long history, some legends will change after being fabricated by later generations.
Just like MI-GO evolved into a monk-like foggy dog, the victim who was attacked by a great being on a blizzard day evolved into an incomparably beautiful snow girl...
In this world, rural legends may not be completely nihilistic. They have just been changed to a different version due to the evolution of time and speculation that ordinary people cannot understand.
Therefore, Qin Zhibo subconsciously rejected Conan's statement that completely denied the existence of "vampires".
"Won't..."
When Conan heard Qin Zhibo's answer, he realized that he had found the wrong foreign aid.
In previous contacts, Qin Zhibo seemed to believe in those gods and ghosts.
This is not detective at all!
Hamura Shuichi, who was sitting across from him, looked at Qin Zhibo with great interest and agreed politely: "Actually, I am also partial to the idea that vampires exist."
"It's just that it's difficult to support this view based on the historical documents and materials that have been left behind."
"Teacher Tokura is an authority in the study of vampires. He has collected a lot of ancient documents. It is for these documents that I often come here to disturb you."
Ancient documents!
When he heard this keyword in his ears, Qin Zhibo immediately became interested.
"Can I go see those documents?"
Seeing that Qin Zhibo was actually interested in the ancient documents here, Hamura Shuichi's face showed a happy expression of meeting "a fellow-minded person".
"Of course, I think Mr. Tokura won't mind, right?"
As he said that, Shuichi Hamura glanced at Tadokoro Toshiya next to him, as if he could enter the library only with the permission of the student Tadokoro Toshiya.
Tadokoro Toshiya, who was standing aside, nodded with a dull expression and said, "It should be no problem. In fact, the teacher himself doesn't often read those ancient documents."
"Because most of those documents are in foreign languages, the teacher can't understand them well..."
"Compared with words, the teacher believes that strong pictures and objects can inspire more inspiration and creative desire."
...
Under the leadership of Toshiya Tadokoro, everyone who had been gathering around the card table just now to play cards came to the library located in the basement of the villa.
"This library contains vampire literature from all over the world, as well as various related ancient documents."
"The teacher calls this place the 'Vampire Library'."
In this space of about ten square meters, two rows of antique bookshelves are filled with books.
The books on one of the bookshelves are relatively modern from the spine, and they are obviously vampire literature collected by Daisuke Tokura.
Looking at the many books in front of her, Mao Lilan couldn't help but sigh.
"It's really amazing, there are so many of them."
In front of the bookshelf, Aso took out a book and was about to flip through it when he was startled by the cover.
The cover of this book is filled with a lot of bright yellow, and scarlet font lines are located in a small area at the top of the cover.
Just these large areas of extremely pure yellow frightened Aso Miki to the point where he let go of his hands and the books fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Shu Hamura next to him had quick eyes and quick hands, and quickly caught the book, and with a smile, he convinced Aso of the value of this book to popularize science.
"This "Dresula" is the first edition in 1897. It is a treasure in the world of vampire literature. It should be the only one in Japan. It would not be good if it fell to the ground..."
After hearing Shuichi Hamura's introduction, Conan felt a little "woohoo" in his heart.
Fortunately, this precious first edition book did not fall to the ground, otherwise Dr. Chengshi would have to lose a lot of money.
However, Aso Minoru, who almost caused a catastrophe, did not react at all to Hamura Shuichi's words, and stared blankly into the void in front of him.
Qin Zhibo, who was on the side, noticed something was wrong with Aso Minori's eyes, and quickly patted Aso Minori's shoulder to call him back from his inspiration.
"What's wrong?" Qin Zhibo asked quietly in Aso Minoru's ear.
Aso Minoru crossed his arms with his hands and trembled as if he had just come back from a very cold place: "I just seemed to see a book slowly opening in front of me..."
"A pornographic book..."
Qin Zhibo, who knew what Aso Minoru might be afraid of: Pornographic books?
Conan, who was standing nearby and eavesdropping: Pornographic book?
Mao Lilan happened to only hear the second half of the sentence: Huang...H book?
...
Toshiya Tadokoro took Minoru Aso, who was feeling unwell, to rest in the bedroom of the villa, and Shuichi Hamura introduced him to everyone.
"In addition to the precious first edition of "Dresula" just now, "Interview with the Vampire", "Vampire Lestat", "The Vampire Queen", "The Story of the Body Thief" are all available here..."
"Everything you can think of about vampire literature can be found here."
Hamura Shuichi was mainly introduced to Qin Zhibo, because Qin Zhibo had just expressed his opinion on the possible existence of vampires, and he was considered a like-minded person to him.
However, Qin Zhibo was not interested in these fabrications by later generations.
After bypassing the first bookshelf, Qin Zhibo came to the second bookshelf.
The spines of the books on this bookshelf are obviously older.
Qin Zhibo's eyes only glanced briefly and saw the investigation point on one of the spines.
I knew it!
Qin Zhibo quickly stepped forward and pulled out the book from the bookshelf.
When he first started reading it, Qin Zhibo felt the full weight of this book.
It is bound with dark leather, and on the right side is an iron book buckle with a light layer of rust, which seems to tell the age of this book.
At a glance, Qin Zhibo was familiar with the hot-stamped words on the dark leather, but he couldn't figure out what it meant.
【Survey√】
[The Secret of Worms: This book was written in 1542 by the Belgian magician Ludwig Purin.
The first half of the book talks about the existence of ghosts and zombies, while the second half contains Pu Lin's travel records and spells to summon and control various "demons", and even records the magic potion formula that allows people to travel beyond time and space.
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The cannibal cult of Cornwall, the cult of the crocodile god Sebek, the legend of the Dark Pharaoh of Egypt...
This book is a first edition in Latin, published by Eucarius Severconus]
[Lost 6~12 will points after reading this book, mysterious mythology knowledge and skill proficiency + reading loss of will points x 100]
[Language barrier, unable to read]
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After the investigation was completed, Qin Zhibo was speechless.