Hattori Shizuka, Mao Lilan, and Conan sat in a row, reading "At the Mountains of Madness" in the magazine, while Qin Zhibo sat silently on the sofa opposite, using psychological skills to read the expressions on the three people's faces.
As the editor-in-chief commented at the time, the first half of the story was calm and even relatively mediocre.
From the perspective of an expedition leader who is a university professor by profession, the process of an expedition team from preparation to setting sail to entering Antarctica is recorded, which is professional yet boring.
For readers, the only thing that can be felt is the sense of reality that hits their faces.
It's just that not everyone can appreciate this sense of reality, such as Mao Lilan.
As a young girl in adolescence, some romantic love stories or plots with some cool pictures are more suitable for her brain waves.
Even if you are watching a detective drama with a relatively heavy theme, you should watch something like "Detective Zuomonji", where the protagonist is a handsome man who often carries a wooden sword on his shoulder to look cool.
However, the protagonist of the expedition is a highly respected university professor. Even if he does not need to describe his age and appearance, Mao Lilan will not have any unrealistic illusions about this person.
Therefore, the character design of this story will not poke fun at Mao Lilan in the first place.
Qin Zhibo could tell this from Mao Lilan's occasional frown and the way his fingers pinched the next page, always ready to turn the page.
Hattori Shizuka, who was sitting on the left side of Mao Lilan, didn't react much. He just treated it as a normal narrative article that could no longer be normal. Although there were many good things to say, he could still read it patiently.
Conan, who is sitting on the right side of Mao Lilan, is slightly different from the others, because right at the beginning of the story, Conan discovered something.
Most of the members of the expedition team in the story are teachers or students at Miskatonic University, and Conan knew that Qin Zhibo also graduated from Miskatonic University.
Thinking about it this way, Conan can also understand where the sense of reality in the article comes from. After all, Qin Zhibo did once stay in that university.
Conan made a bold guess in his heart, and the following plot was probably about the expedition team encountering some kind of storm in Antarctica, and then Professor Dell, the leader of the expedition team, overcame various difficulties and obstacles and led the expedition team back safely and successfully.
This kind of American personal heroism story is relatively old-fashioned. Conan seriously suspects that Qin Zhibo inserted himself into the world in the book, changed his identity from a student to a professor, took everyone on adventures, and then acted as a hero.
Old YY.
In the first half of the story, the expressions of the three people were as calm as the story itself.
The second half of the story is like a storm.
When seeing the plot about the coming storm, Conan even made a helpless smile and said to himself: "I knew it."
But just when the story shifted from Professor Lake's perspective back to Professor Dell, and Conan thought that this character who symbolized "Qin Zhibo" himself was going to lead everyone on how to get out of trouble, the discovery in the expedition team's camp made the plot take a turn for the worse.
The expected sales members were not trapped, but all of them died!
This is a rescue hammer!
The article describes the extremely bloody scenes in detail without hesitation, and readers who are good at imagining can even construct the shocking scenes in their brains.
The people in the camp were brutally slaughtered, even the sled dogs were not spared.
The murderer who killed the expedition members piled the mutilated corpses of people and dogs together, making it difficult to tell how many limbs and arms there were and who they belonged to.
Just by piecing together this picture in her mind, Mao Lilan felt her stomach squirming, and Hattori Shizuka next to her also frowned.
Only Conan was relatively calm, looking at the words on the page calmly and thoughtfully.
Conan speculated that someone in the expedition team might have been a traitor, who brutally killed other people and used their bodies to vent his anger.
However, judging from the amount of work that was done to vent the anger on the corpse, the traitors were at least two people who cooperated to kill the other members.
The corpses were piled together with the dog carcasses in an inexplicable way so that later people would not be able to detect who else in the expedition team was still alive.
Because the person who is not dead must be the murderer!
Just when Conan made this reasoning, another surprising discovery advanced the plot.
A five-pointed star-shaped grave was discovered near the camp, and strange creatures that had never been seen before were dug out from it.
They have a barrel-like body, with shell-like ax legs below, a five-pointed star-shaped head above, and leathery flesh wings on the back.
This strange description stimulated Conan's memory, and he recalled the remains of a pink creature he had seen at the foot of Shanni Temple.
So far, Conan has not found any description or explanation of that kind of creature, that kind of unspeakable strange shape, in any scientific reference book.
Conan:Will-3
Unlike the experienced Conan, Mao Lilan and Hattori Shizuka were not stimulated to have any unique memories after seeing this description. They just felt that the follow-up of the story was even more unpredictable.
Until traces of misappropriation of sleds and messy drag marks were found in the camp, leading everyone to a black cave under the mountains.
This article is over.
When the finished characters of this story appeared at the bottom of the page, Mao Lilan subconsciously turned the page and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the title of another story at the back.
For some reason, this story made her feel inexplicably depressed, and this feeling reached its peak in the tragic situation in the camp.
Mao Lilan: Mentality-2
It is said that articles can often reflect a person's character. Is it possible that Mr. Qin is such a heavy and depressed person in real life?
Conan did not try to figure out and analyze the author's character traits from an article. Instead, he took the magazine directly from Mao Lilan's hand, flipped forward a few pages, and prepared to read it again to look for clues.
From Conan's point of view, this is undoubtedly a detective story, and the mode should be the famous Blizzard Villa mode, but the style is a bit weird.
According to the conventional routine of detective stories, the next chapter will reveal the murderer, and the clues must be hidden in this chapter.
As long as you can discover the real murderer before the reveal chapter is published next week, it will be equivalent to defeating Qin Zhibo!
The more Conan thought about it, the more excited he became, and he immediately started reading again.
"How do you feel? Everyone?" Qin Zhibo asked at this time.
Mao Lilan nodded quickly, "I think Mr. Qin's writing style is very good, no less than that of professional writers. Although the story feels a bit depressing, it shocked me greatly."
Mao Lilan's reaction after watching the movie can be summed up as "I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked."
Hattori Shizuka's reaction after watching the movie was relatively simple and clear, "I'm very much looking forward to next week's mystery chapter, but if it's convenient, can you reveal the answer to it now?"
As soon as Shizuka Hattori finished speaking, before Qin Zhibo could reply, Conan, who was watching it for the second time, shouted.