Chapter 400 Read 'The King in Yellow' (10,000-word chapter, please order)
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The queen of Iti, Cassiluda, has three children in total and also has the right to inherit the throne.
The eldest son, Tire, was named after Tire, 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 prophecies of the end of the world.
The second daughter, Camilla, likes to be emotional.
The third son, Wachter, is young and has 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 autobiography.
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.
Under the advice of Adonis, the third prince stole the seal of the kingdom 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 the case on 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 men 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 agents of theocratic power.
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 left the scene.
Afterwards, the captain of the guard team planned to arrest the third prince who was "premeditated to usurp the throne".
But at this moment, a group of strangers came from a 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 guard captain 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 on his face, but the stranger declined the request, saying that only members of the "Brotherhood" could wear the pale mask.
Afterwards, Queen Cassilda came to meet 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 it is 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 costumes to attend 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 and talked with 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 captain of the guard 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 came to 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.
However, everyone took off their masks, except for the stranger from the Brotherhood, 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, because 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, and 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.
And what follows is the second act in "The King in Yellow" that is said to be full of taboos and madness.
Qin Zhibo, who was sitting on his seat, shrank his palms holding the armrests. Just as he held his breath and prepared for the opening of the second act, he 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 they were Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan. Especially the "horns" on Mao Lilan's head were really easy to identify.
Both of them stared at the stage with serious faces.
Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi suddenly stood up from his seat and looked at the stage in surprise.
Judging from the shape of his mouth, he probably said "La Ni".
Then, the curtain on the stage opened again, and Qin Zhibo's perspective was forcibly adjusted back to the stage by an invisible force.
Act 2, Scene 1.
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 all the untouchables in the city from flocking to him under the high priest's "magic 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 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 get rid of the fate that everyone has set for herself, and prove that these people are all wrong.
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To do this, she needs to first interrogate the weirdos 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.
Cassiluda began to whip the weirdo continuously and asked the weirdo his name.
But no matter how he is executed, the weirdo always replies, "I am the truth."
Cassilda asked again if the weirdo served the high priest.
The weirdo replied: "Truth serves those who understand 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 strange man'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 the yellow seal.
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, but Cassilda has lost her aloof demeanor as a queen and punishes weirdos crazily.
If the will can be investigated, Cassilda should 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, with 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 end begins.
Act two, scene two.
It started with an insignificant conversation between two guards, and then Queen Cassilda appeared.
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 had been arrested under the order of 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".
Cassiluda 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 and knocked the sword out of his hand.
However, just when Cassiluda 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 Appears!
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 instantly became hysterical and cried incoherently.
"No! No! This is mine! Mine!"
"I will not be snatched away 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, but the moment the blade of the sword came into contact with the strand of yellow clothes, it quickly bounced away, 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 promise 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 for the last time and promised that Cassilda could 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: "Tyre is the ancestor of kings, and I am the last of kings."
Cassiluda: "I won't give up!"
King in Yellow: "You have already given up the throne."
Cassilda: "Will you conquer all of Hastur?"
King in Yellow: "We are Hastur, and we are the ones who liberated 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, this 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.
Final act.
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 plots 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 of the world, he cowered in fear and was sentenced to death.
This reminded Qin Zhibo of an idiom: Ye Gong loves dragons.
Perhaps his fate has been doomed from the first scene of the second act, because the messenger of the King in Yellow does not recognize the so-called "service" of the high priest.
As for Queen Cassilda, she has no firm stance and is an unstable ruler.
She sometimes believed in the rule of the dynasty, and sometimes believed in the prophecy 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, and he was executed on the order of his biological mother for no apparent reason.
All the members of the royal family 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 is the scene where the King in Yellow Appears, but when the King in Yellow Appears, 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 when executing an execution, he will not lose his proper grace.
If 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 someone had forced him 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 avenue" leading to Qin Zhibo!
This is not a flat effect on 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 was stretched as if it was fixed by some kind of shackles, and his eyes were staring straight at the King in Yellow who floated out from the stage.
The tattered clothes on the King in Yellow's body are windless, and his hands hang 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 was 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 is a familiar desk, a boss's chair, and a glass window with blinds drawn behind it, with the words "Zhibo Detective Agency" stuck 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.
Before I knew it, I had turned to the last page of "The King in Yellow".
When I lowered my head and looked closer, 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".
However, 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 system prompt appeared.
[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"]
[Task requirement: Find the real "Pale Mask" and bring it to MI-GO]
With the completion of reading "The King in Yellow", a new task came out as usual.
Looking carefully at the mission content, there are nothing more than two key points, one is to find the "Pale Mask", and the other is to bring it to MI-GO.
In "The King in Yellow", the "Pale Mask" is an important prop, its role is second only to the "Yellow Seal", and it has appeared many times.
In the play, the members of the "Brotherhood" who claim to serve the real person always wear the "pale mask" until they are hanged by the queen with a winch, and the mask never takes off.
In Act 1, scene 2, the princes and nobles at the palace masquerade also wore various pale masks to participate in the ball.
In addition, at the end of the scene, the King in Yellow also floated out of the stage wearing a "pale mask", just like in "The Ghostly General".
According to Qin Zhibo's recollection, these pale masks are each different.
As for the second key point of the mission, currently the only MI-GO Qin Zhibo knows and can find is Mr. Clock.
Do you want me to bring the "Pale Mask" to it?
Although the content of the mission was not stated directly, Qin Zhibo guessed that this was the meaning.
Like the previous mission, this mission still marked a red dot on the navigator, indicating that it was the mission location.
Judging from the position of the red dot, the marked mission location is still far away from the city.
The next day, Qin Zhibo finished breakfast and watched the morning news. He did not open the door for business, but went to the car rental agency to continue renting a car.
This time when he rented a car, Qin Zhibo changed the car model and rented it for a week.
In the car rental contract, Qin Zhibo specifically requested that the term for the number of days of the rental be removed and the term for the return time of the vehicle be added.
Today is Wednesday, the time to return the car is Wednesday next week, and you need to call me to inform yourself in the morning that you need to return the car.
Although the people at the car rental agency didn't understand the difference between renting for seven days and renting for one week, after all, Qin Zhibo was an old customer, so they agreed to modify the car rental contract for Qin Zhibo alone.
Taking advantage of the time to print out the new contract, the manager of the car rental agency introduced to Qin Zhibo the other Mazda models that the dealership had recently purchased.
"This one is the newly arrived Mazda RX-7. It uses a rotary engine, a sports car shape, 265 horsepower and a streamlined body to make you go faster and faster."
Qin Zhibo took a look at this stylish Mazda sports car and shook his head.
Although sports cars are fast and stylish, they also require very high driving skills.
With my current Level 4 car driving skills, there seems to be a gap in driving this kind of sports car. At least Level 5 is required, and more than half of the experienced drivers will be able to do so.
If you rent a sports car but don't dare to drive it at full power, isn't it the same as renting an ordinary car?
Moreover, this RX-7 only has two seats, which always feels less practical.
The practicality is poor, the speed is not useful, and the rental price is almost twice as expensive. It is really unnecessary.
So, Qin Zhibo politely declined: "Let's do it next time. Let's talk about it next time."
After Qin Zhibo signed the new contract, he drove the fourth-generation Mazda 929 out of the car rental shop and went straight to the mission location.
In fact, the Mazda 929 was positioned as a high-end luxury sedan in Japan in the 1990s, and it was not the kind that ran around on the streets.
The same name as it is the Toyota Crown next door.
As for Qin Zhibo's purpose of getting a new car rental contract this time, it is because the car may be used frequently in the next few days.
Instead of paying it back in a few days, it is better to rent it for a week. The middle of the week will happen to span a week, and you will also be stuck in the world time bug.
Anyway, Qin Zhibo doesn't feel guilty for cheating on a car rental company where he had a good life.
The weather conditions have become stable recently, and it is still winter.
Qin Zhibo drove a Mazda 929, turning from the open road into the winding mountain road.
The mission location this time was still in the suburbs near Tokyo. Qin Zhibo was driving while admiring the snow-covered scenery along the way.
But as he drove deeper into the mountains, Qin Zhibo felt something was wrong.
Because I saw that my position was getting closer and closer to the mission location on the navigator. It was already less than two kilometers away, but the winding mountain road still had spacious roads open to traffic.
this means.
After driving the last two kilometers from the mission location, Qin Zhibo entered a straight road, and the end of the road led to a large luxury villa.
"A villa in the mountains."
Qin Zhibo murmured in the car.
Qin Zhibo turned the Mazda 929 into a side road next to it, parked the car, and went to explore alone.
The cold wind outside the car was like a sword. Qin Zhibo wrapped his body in a brown windbreaker and quietly approached the villa.
This is a very grand and luxurious villa, even bigger than the big villa in Ghana that I visited just the day before yesterday.
The entire villa adopts a symmetrical design, with a huge door opening leading to the back courtyard in the middle, and the main entrance to the villa on both sides of the door opening.
Are there two main entrances?
The outside of the villa was protected by an iron fence, and Qin Zhibo could only lean on the iron fence to quietly observe the situation inside.
Suddenly, the two main doors of the villa made the sound of door shaft transmission at the same time, and the two maids walked out of the house respectively.
Qin Zhibo subconsciously shrank his body downwards and took a closer look. The two maids who came out of the two identical doors were actually exactly the same.
Same clothes, same hairstyle, same face, same body
Remram?
But there is no difference in hair color between the two maids.
Qin Zhibo frowned, but he quickly found a very intuitive difference.
The maid who comes out of the door on the left has the name Shimogasa Honami floating above her head, and the one who comes out of the door on the right is Shimogasa Minaho.
These two names.
Qin Zhibo felt something familiar, and the two maids had already met in front of the huge doorway in the middle of the villa.
The two people first got together and whispered to each other mysteriously, and then they ran away together toward the back courtyard of the villa.
Watching the two people leaving, Qin Zhibo finally remembered why he had the feeling of déjà vu.
Aren't these the twin maids in Shuuha's house in the first case he solved?
Qin Zhibo still remembers that it was because of the reminder from the twin maids that he realized that there might be something wrong with Matsumoto Ryohei.
It turns out that these two people came here to find jobs again.
In the cold wind, Qin Zhibo, who had been squatting for another five minutes, felt that the temperature on his body was passing away faster, so he returned to the car.
According to the instructions on the navigator, the mission location is in this luxurious villa.
This is the first time Qin Zhibo has encountered such a situation. The mission location was directly set at someone else's house.
The goal this time is to find the "pale mask", so Qin Zhibo guessed that there might be two situations.
The "Pale Mask" was buried beneath the foundations of the large villa.
The "Pale Mask" itself is a collection of the villa owners.
Regardless of the two possibilities, Qin Zhibo needs to enter the villa to determine what to do next.
So at present, the one-stage task of finding the "Pale Mask" has to be divided into two steps.
Enter the villa.
Find "Pale Mask".
You can enter the villa openly or sneak in quietly.
But if possible, Qin Zhibo still wants to be fair and aboveboard. After all, he is not a professional thief.
If you really have to infiltrate, you'll need to rely on the power of a professional thief, Kuroba Kaito.
But for now, we need to know the identity of the owner of the villa first.
For this reason, Qin Zhibo thought he could start with the twin maids.
Back in Mihua Town, Qin Zhibo went straight to the Medieval Museum of Art.
Matsumoto Ryohei specifically told the ticket office in front that when Qin Zhibo enters the museum, he can be released directly without buying a ticket.
So Qin Zhibo walked through the exhibition halls, came to the curator's office, and knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
Qin Zhibo opened the door and entered. Matsumoto Ryohei was busy reading a book, a book about the history of world cuisine.
"Oh~ a rare visitor is here."
Matsumoto Ryohei sounded excited and stretched out his hand to signal Qin Zhibo to sit down.
The two sat on the sofa and chatted about the situation before Qin Zhibo got to the point.
"When you were the housekeeper at Shuuha's house, do you still remember the twin maids?"
Matsumoto Ryohei thought for a moment and replied: "You are talking about the Shimogasa sisters, right? I do still remember them. What happened to them?"
"Can you still contact them now? I want to know who they work for now."
Whoever the twin maids work for is naturally the owner of that villa.
However, just when Qin Zhibo thought that Matsumoto Ryohei might need to make a call to inquire, he directly replied without thinking: "Working in Su Fanghongzi's villa."
"How did you know?"
"Because they got there through my introduction."
Qin Zhibo: "."
Lamenting Matsumoto Ryohei's strong connections, Qin Zhibo seriously suspected that the social credit assessment during his time as a housekeeper was not accurate.
"Who is this Su Fanghongzi?" Qin Zhibo continued to ask.
A trace of surprise flashed across Matsumoto Ryohei's face, but he still introduced: "She was a big singer decades ago, known as the 'Dongyang Canary'. After retirement, she focused on running an entertainment agency called 'Hongyanyan', almost very
Don’t appear on stage anymore.”
Hongyanyan interpretation agency.
Why not call it Hongtongtong?
Qin Zhibo suppressed his inner complaints and continued to ask: "If I want to go to her home, can you introduce her to her for me?"
After thinking for a while, Matsumoto Ryohei replied: "Recently she is organizing a charity party to raise funds for children in car accidents. With your current social status, you can definitely go to the party."
"Of course, the party will be held at her home."
"But can I ask, why did you go to her house?"
Matsumoto Ryohei is not an outsider, at least he will never reveal his secrets, so he directly replied: "I want to find a mask there."
Qin Zhibo's words made Matsumoto Ryo stunned for a moment, and an interesting smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Then you may have to look for it for a long time, because as far as I know, she has a lot of masks at home."
"How many?" Qin Zhibo asked.
"It's hard to say, but it's a lot."
With the recommendation of Ryohei Matsumoto, Qin Zhibo successfully obtained the qualification to participate in the charity gala.
However, after obtaining the qualification, Matsumoto Ryohei gave Qin Zhibo a piece of advice, that is, don't donate too much money at the party.
Because he suspected that the charity gala had some shady secrets, he himself declined Su Fanghongzi's invitation.
Su Fanghongzi sent her secretary to the office to contact Qin Zhibo and informed him that the party would be held next week.
next week?
What a waste of fun next week! The task time has already passed.
Just when Qin Zhibo thought he still had to sneak in secretly, Mi Shu, who was gasping for breath, said that the charity party needed to practice the procedures in advance, and would invite some important guests to attend a banquet at the organizer's villa tomorrow.