Of course, the beheading of a goddess is not only a punishment for blasphemous sinners, but will also punish the insensitive local residents.

According to the Bible, once the gods are offended, there will be a plague of blood and floods, a plague of frogs, a plague of lice, a plague of flies, a plague of livestock, a plague of boils, a plague of hail, a plague of locusts, a plague of darkness, and a plague of the firstborn.

The sudden unknown earthquake in Tianbu Mountain is the beginning of disaster and the precursor of divine punishment.

People in the Tianbu Mountain area were panicked for a while, and capable villagers went out to seek refuge from the disaster. The remaining villagers who were unable to leave gathered in front of the Domoto Hotel to hold a larger-scale protest.

However, the police definitely cannot use "Goddess Punishment" to end the case, after all, it also involves obviously man-made deaths.

Fortunately, with the help of Qin Zhibo, the "truth of the matter" was restored.

At noon the next day, Qin Zhibo rested a little better and his willpower returned to 70, and he was questioned by Henggou Zhenwu.

Qin Zhibo was still a little puzzled. After asking carefully, he found out that Conan had "betrayed" him while he was sleeping.

"Uncle was not in the room last night, he must know something."

Originally, Qin Zhibo didn't want to get too involved in this matter, but after what Conan said, he had to explain some circumstances to avoid arousing suspicion.

In order to reasonably explain why he was out in the middle of the night, Qin Zhibo said that when he got up at night, he accidentally noticed a group of people sneaking up Tianbu Mountain.

After I put on my clothes and followed him, I found out that the villagers and believers led by Shenshan Shizu had held Domoto and his son hostage, saying they wanted to punish them.

The wounds on Eizo Domoto's body were caused by believers using pickaxes.

Later, there was an earthquake. I was only focused on escaping for my life and didn't know anything else.

Henggou Sengo immediately asked his men to confirm, and sure enough he learned that some people in the village were missing, including Kato Shizu from the temple.

"Kato Shizu?" Qin Zhibo was confused.

"Yes." The policeman in the village nodded, "The nun in the temple's real name is Kato Shizu, and Kamiyama Shizu is her monastic name."

Next, Henggou asked his subordinates to inform the families of the missing persons about what Qin Zhibo said, in order to prevent these people from continuing to spread rumors and say that they were "hidden" or something like that.

In the hotel lobby, Hengo Sango personally told Domoto Shio and Domoto Rina what happened to Domoto Eizo and Choo.

After receiving such bad news, Domoto Rina was so frightened that he fainted immediately. The expression on the second son's face was also very complicated, both sad and unwilling.

Although both of them could not understand their father's tough behavior and quarreling with their eldest brother, they would not suffer such terrible revenge.

"Please grief."

Henggou Zhenwu replied in a very standard manner, and just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by a hotel employee on the side.

"Mr. Police Officer, I saw it"

Henggou's face lit up, thinking that there was another witness, so he quickly asked: "Oh? What did you see?"

"I was sleeping in my room at midnight last night and saw a particularly huge bird flying over the top of Tianbu Mountain. It was so big that it could almost cover the entire Tianbu Mountain!"

The hotel employee was gesturing with his hands as he spoke. He probably wanted to describe the image of the bird, but he didn't know how to express it.

Hearing this, Henggou Senwu's face darkened, and he almost said, "You are making fun of me, right?"

But out of courtesy, Henggou Zhenwu still looked at Qin Zhibo next to him, "Mr. Qin, did you see a "big bird" last night?"

Qin Zhibo shook his head without conscience, "No."

Compared to the hotel employees, Henggou Senwu was definitely more willing to trust a famous detective with a social credit of 8,200, so he impatiently persuaded him: "You must have gotten lost in the lake while sleeping and mistakenly saw the clouds in the sky as birds."

"Impossible!" the hotel employee said with a serious face, "I heard from the village this morning that many people saw it last night!"

"That's all

I fell asleep in the lake." Henggou Shenwu waved his hand and left.

What's wrong with birds? He is so worried that he doesn't want to care about bird affairs now, he just wants to solve people's problems.

Moreover, the largest bird known to mankind is the ostrich, which is only slightly larger than a human. How could a bird similar to a mountain exist?

If there really was such a big bird in the world, and it would be like a small hill when it landed on the ground, it must have been discovered long ago.

However, Conan frowned and felt that the problem was not that simple.

According to past experience in handling cases, some seemingly unscientific situations are often key techniques related to cases.

He quickly ran over, raised his head and asked in a childish voice: "Brother, what does that 'bird' look like?"

The question-answering skill was activated, and the hotel staff immediately bent down and explained carefully.

"Slender head, flat body, no wings, and the body is slightly shiny."

Conan actively mobilized his imagination and natural science knowledge, but still couldn't figure out what kind of species this was.

First of all, it’s strange enough that it doesn’t have wings. How can a bird not have wings?

But would it be reasonable if it was not a bird, but a specially made kite used to commit crimes?

Conan expressed his conjecture, but the hotel staff rejected the idea.

"I'm pretty sure it's not a kite, it's a living thing."

"And that bird is so big, its body is at least two kilometers long!"

Conan looked shocked. If it was a two-kilometer-long kite, it would indeed be a bit beyond common sense.

Whether it's a kite or a bird, such a big thing flying in the sky will definitely not be ignored.

But Qin Zhibo said he didn't see it.

At least one of the hotel employees and Qin Zhibo is lying. Who is it?

Conan held his chin up, as if contemplating, when a pair of white jade hands suddenly picked him up from under his armpits.

"Conan, don't wander around."

"It's quite chaotic right now. What if you get lost?"

Being held in Mao Lilan's arms like a mascot, Conan could only pause and think.

In the afternoon, Henggou Zhenwu reported the situation to his superiors and requested that the ruins be excavated and the bodies of all the victims found.

This application was quickly approved by the higher authorities, but encountered great resistance during implementation.

First of all, the collapse of Tianbu Mountain was located on the mountain vertebra halfway up the mountain. Excavators could not drive up the mountain and had to be excavated manually.

However, for such a large-scale search operation, the manpower of the police alone is not enough. The most important thing is to rely on local residents.

After experiencing the "Curse of the Goddess Statue" incident, all the nearby villagers were afraid of the decapitated Goddess Statue and did not even dare to approach it, let alone dig it themselves.

Some villagers even believed that Domoto was punished for building construction work next to the Statue of Goddess. If the police excavated, they would also be punished, so they protested to the police indignantly.

As for the families of the victims, it seems that they have reached a collective consensus after one night, completely denying the police notice of "harming others and causing death in the earthquake", and collectively believe that it is "divine hiding".

The phenomenon of "divine hiding" refers to being hidden by gods and monsters, or abducted, kidnapped, or entertained, so their whereabouts are unknown.

The phenomenon of "divine disappearance" has occurred since ancient times. In fact, it is called disappearance now.

The families of these victims unanimously believed that the disappeared victims had performed meritorious deeds in punishing evildoers, and after completing their meritorious deeds, they were entertained by the gods and "hidden" from the gods.

Since he is a "divine hidden" person, why bother looking for him?

Therefore, all the family members gave up searching for the body and even joined the team that blocked the exhumation of the body.

Henggou Zenshuo had no choice in this situation. After all, the law does not punish the public.

Without the manpower support of the local people, coupled with the unfavorable public opinion and the families of the victims,

The family members gave up the search, and the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Department finally had to announce that it would give up the search for the bodies buried in Mount Tenbe.

When Qin Zhibo, who was far away in Tokyo, heard the news, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

If the ruins of Tianbu Mountain are really to be excavated, the few Shoggoths released by the "God of Black Stone" may appear.

Qin Zhibo didn't know much about Shoggoth. After all, he only heard about it from a lunatic in a lunatic asylum. The wonderful description in "Mountains of Madness" was a part of himself or the substitute messenger's imagination.

But there is no doubt that it is a terrifying creature that goes beyond human common sense.

But as long as those things remain buried in the ruins, there should be no chance of them leaking out, and they may even starve to death due to lack of food.

After this incident, Domoto Company was almost bankrupt, and no further excavations were possible.

As for whether a tourism company will take over the development of Tianbu Mountain in the future, Qin Zhibo feels that the possibility is not high.

After all, with lessons learned from the past, no company should be in trouble again.

"Shoggoth"

Qin Zhibo was lying on the boss's chair, thinking about his "not very successful" fishing this time.

Qin Zhibo thought he was lucky when he caught something of purple quality for his first fishing trip.

But the Shoggoths caught were a bit unsatisfactory.

Apart from eating people and scaring people, this thing seems to have no other purpose.

This made Qin Zhibo think of a funny four-frame comic.

A fisherman was fishing on the shore, and suddenly a fish bit the bait, which made him very excited. But when the fisherman pulled on the fishing rod, a big shark rushed out of the water and swallowed him up.

When he got into the shark's belly, the old fisherman discovered that there were already many old fishermen in the shark's belly. He was not the first, nor the last.

This cartoon is perfect for describing Qin Zhibo’s “fishing” situation this time.
To be continued...