Mu Qingyang reached out to the top floor of the bookshelf, took out a heavy book, confirmed the title of the book "Phantom Beast Demon Insect Daquan" and handed it to Li Qing. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Qing's eyebrows and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, took the book she had been looking for, and was about to open the inner page, when the movement of her hand suddenly stopped.

"Stephen? Kim must hate spiders. ”

"I remember that in his works, the embodiment of evil appears in the form of spiders."

"What about you? Are you scared when you see spiders? ”

"Won't ......"

Humans are said to be divided into two types. If someone roars aloud: "Ruler and ruled!" "So this person should be with Adolf? Hitler was like-minded. There are two main categories of nasty animals, namely "spider-haters" and "snake-haters". That is, there are two categories: "hating those who have many legs" and "hating those who have no legs". Surprisingly, no one "hates both", and that's the weirdest thing.

Mu Qingyang is a "person who hates snakes", to be correct, compared to snakes, Mu Qingyang hates small creatures without feet, such as earthworms, parasites, etc., just mentioning it will give him goosebumps all over his body, but Mu Qingyang has no feeling for spiders at all.

"Don't worry, Mu Qingyang is not afraid of spiders at all."

"Really? Maybe this will be your first horror experience in your life. ”

Li Qing said as she flipped through the inside pages with her fingertips, and she had hands big enough to be a nail polish advertising model. As her finger movements stopped, an illustrated title jumped into Mu Qingyang's eyes.

"Stone Scorpion"

Mu Qingyang remembered that Mu Qingyang had seen this thing, that is, the pattern on the wall of the corridor, I am afraid that it was also the black shadow that was glimpsed from the torn carpet gap, and the correct color could not be judged from the black and white illustrations, but Mu Qingyang was sure that there was nothing wrong with this shape.

"What the hell is this?"

Mu Qingyang's question was not answered directly.

"Do you know the kingdom of Pergamon?"

"I remember that there is a ...... in the textbook of world history"

"It's nerve-wracking, it's really painful to have such an uneducated subordinate."

Even with the words on her lips, Li Qing still began to explain. The Kingdom of Pergamon is the name of the northwestern part of the peninsula of Asia Minor, which is currently part of the Turkish territory, and was once a powerful state at the end of the fourth century BC, that is, 2,400 years ago. From ancient Greece to the Roman Empire, it was not only rich in resources, but also had outstanding development in culture, art and science, so the country's strength spread far and wide. In the marble-made city, theaters, libraries, gymnasiums, and public bathhouses are lined up one after another. The library has a collection of 200,000 volumes, which are said to have been plundered by the Roman general Antony after his conquest of Pergamon and presented to Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Since paper had not yet been invented, books were made of the famous Pergamon parchment.

The remains of Pergamon were later excavated by a German survey team, and all the valuables excavated are housed in the Berlin Museum, especially the large reliefs depicting Greek mythology gods fighting giants ...... the most famous.

"Ah, it's really a conversation with you, it's better than reading a book for ten years."

"Why deliberately change the topic, now it's time to get to the point."

In 1931, Adolf? Two years before Hitler became a dictator, a member of the German Archaeological Society, Joseph? Hagmaier found a stele at the site of the excavation of the ruins. The inscription, written in ancient Greek, known as the "Hagmaiya Inscription", was later transported to Berlin. Hagmeier devoted himself to the study of the inscription on his own, but was persecuted by the Hitchen government because of his Jewish ancestry, and was taken away by Nazi secret detectives in 1940 and never heard from again, and the stele was moved to the National Institute, which was razed to the ground in 1945 by the bombing of the United Nations army.

After the war, Hagmeyyah's bereaved family collected his fragments of his notes and published them as "Preface to the Study of Hagmeyyad Inscriptions", which was not highly rated for its description of the flora and fauna of Pergamon because it was too fragmentary and unsystematic, and because it described creatures that did not exist in reality, it was considered "not like a treatise, but rather like a fantasy novel".

The demon insects that inhabit the stone are tentatively classified as a type of scorpion, but they have not been verified by modern biology. The scorpion was originally a general term for an animal that belonged to the arachnid web of arthropods, with a pair of pincers and four pairs of legs, four pairs of eight in total, exactly like spiders.

Mu Qingyang looked at the illustration of the inside page of the book in Li Qing's hand again, and didn't feel that there was anything terrible, probably because the picture was static. It's disgusting to imagine a creature wriggling eight legs in front of you.

"In other words, is this worm the culprit for tonight's series of events?"

Mu Qingyang confirmed with Li Qing. The term "prisoner" is not correct, it should be called "prisoner".

"Ninety percent likely."

Li Qing replied cautiously.

"Finally, I must ask Chairman Gao Pei clearly, it should be this worm that is doing trouble, and you can also compare the legend of Mithridates VI."

Mitra ...... What the? ”

"Mithridates VI, king of the kingdom of Pontes in the first century BCE."

“……”

"I know, this time it's going to be a long story short, please don't put on that face. The kingdom of Pontes, also located on the peninsula of Asia Minor, had long struggled with the Roman Empire for graupel, and Mithridates VI was an excellent general and a linguistic genius, fluent in the languages of twenty-one countries. ”

I want to know that he is definitely a suspicious person who likes to swagger around, Mu Qingyang concluded in his heart, although he didn't know what kind of evaluation specialized historians made of this character.

Mu Qingyang's boss quickly read his thoughts, she took the illustration on the inside page that was spread out, looked at Mu Qingyang's face and smiled.

"Being proficient in 21 Chinese may sound powerful at first glance, but in fact, there is nothing unusual."

"You yourself are assigned to an international detective agency because you are proficient in French."

"It's not just French."

Mu Qingyang's boss made a brief announcement.

"Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, at least conversation is not a problem."

Mu Qingyang, who heard "I can't do anything except Japanese", was only dumbfounded.

"How did you learn so many languages?"

"It's simple, start with Latin."

"Isn't Latin the hardest language to learn?"

"That's why you need to learn first, after learning Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese are all derived from Latin, the grammar is the same, and the vocabulary is similar, so you can easily learn it at once."

"Easy......"

At this moment, Mu Qingyang didn't even have the strength to be jealous, and he would think that the practice of learning Latin first was not at all within the reach of ordinary people like him.

It's a bit off topic, originally talking about the story of what king Mitra was.

"There are many legends about this figure, who was said to have committed suicide in 63 BC after the defeat of the Roman army, but there is another theory that it was his stand-in who committed suicide, and that he himself fled to Persia."

"So, the king......"

Mu Qingyang personally hopes to get as far away from the topic of ancient history as possible.

"Did you leave a record of monsters? Or was he cursed or evil, and turned into a stone or a scorpion? ”

"Styloid Scorpion."

The linguistic genius put on a stern attitude.

"All in all, the Stone Scorpion is a monster that inhabits marble, extremely evil, sexually strife, and bloody."

When it comes to being evil and aggressive, it is also appropriate to describe Mu Qingyang's boss, of course, he can't say it, so he continued to listen to Li Qing's explanation.

The legends about the scorpion are all concentrated in the northern part of the peninsula of Asia Minor, in other words, on both sides of the Black Sea.

Although this area was later included in the sphere of influence of Islam, due to the influence of Greece and Rome in ancient times, marble was widely used in architecture, and unexpectedly there were monsters lurking in the marble.

Marble is originally a crystalline metamorphic rock produced by the metamorphism of limestone, and there are monsters inside that can freely shuttle between the main ingredient calcium carbonate in the air, this monster will shoot poisonous needles from the wall to attack people, and people leaning on the wall will suddenly be pierced in the back and fall to the ground and die; In addition, they will knock down stone statues on the floor, overturn beds, and crush people to death, causing people to panic. If a monster is outside the wall, it can be burned with fire or slashed with a sword, and once the ground escapes into the marble, the only way is to shatter the whole stone.

The Hagmaiya Inscription contains several legends about the "scorpion", but according to Jewish scholars, after the kingdom of Pergamon was conquered by the Roman Empire, the neighboring king of Pontes, Mithridates VI, soon got rid of the "scorpion" with the following words: "The blessing of olives has restored peace to us."

“…… What does that mean? ”

Mu Qingyang intuitively asked questions, but Li Qing's answer was not as bright as usual.

"I think it's probably like catgrass does to cats, olives or olive oil can lure monsters out, but that's just my guess, and I came up with this legend when I learned that the marble came from Turkey."

"Oh......"

"How? Do you believe in the existence of monsters? ”

"I believe it."

Mu Qingyang replied from the bottom of his heart. Since there is a "monster queen" in reality, Mu Qingyang certainly does not deny that monsters will hide in the walls.

"You'll help me, won't you?"

"Of course."

"Then tell the chief and the superintendent about this, and let's go."

Li Qing and Mu Qingyang returned to the venue after the party ended.

Where is the scorpion hiding? Mu Qingyang's gaze unconsciously swept in all directions, and it seemed that he had not broken into this venue at present. At this time, Du Ming, who was tight-skinned, came uninvited again, and he came over to tell Mu Qingyang that there was another victim.

"I wanted to open the door manually, but it failed and caused casualties, and the ones suddenly 'touched!' The ground came down with a thud, 'Click! Crushed my head with a bang, and I couldn't help it, 'Evil!' 'I almost threw up......"

"Sir, you have too much onomatopoeia."

Mu Qingyang was like a nagging Chinese teacher teaching students, and after speaking, he found that the police commissioner with a face that resembled a long-haired shepherd was nowhere to be seen.

"The chief is escorted to the infirmary."

"Sir's injured?"

"No, I heard that I fainted because of a seizure......"

At this time, there was a fierce argument between women, and I knew who the owner of the voice was, of course, it was Mu Qingyang's boss and Du Ming's boss.

"Your so-called bold assumptions are completely unfounded delusions!"

"Oh, hehe, hehe—of course I have proof."

"If you have it, take it out!"

"According to my knowledge and cultivation, I have clearly seen through the truth of the incident and the true face of the prisoner, to be precise, the prisoner is not a human being, in short, only I can have such a clever calculation."

Liu Mei'er put on an expression that almost breathed fire, while Li Qing sneered maliciously, and then looked at the police superintendent who was sitting on the floor without saying a word.

"I don't have time to pay attention to the minor role, Director, could you please listen to me?"

"Hey, everything has a sequence, and we will talk about it after passing through me beforehand."

The police minister who acted as the deputy was indifferently reprimanded by Li Qing.

"I don't want to waste time on unnecessary procedures, I've already said that the situation is urgent."

“…… You say. ”

The director stood up, although his height was shorter than Li Qing's, his body was much wider. Li Qing led the director to look like this - walked to the corner of the venue and explained the details. After about ten minutes, the two of them returned to the place where everyone was, and the director was half-open in front of everyone, he had never seen him look so bad, it must be because he had just heard the explanation about the monster.

"Okay, I'll take care of it."

This sounded like he had given up on enjoying his old age, and the director finally made a final decision, which made Li Qing satisfied.

"Then, please ask the guards to lend Xiao Mu the pistol, along with the bullets."

The superintendent turned his head and gave orders one by one. A guard who was about the same height as Mu Qingyang, but whose body was twice as wide as Mu Qingyang, and who could be called a big man, walked towards Mu Qingyang, and reluctantly handed over the pistol.

"Detective Mu, you are really a man with a belly."

"Huh?"

"The boss is a woman and the boss is younger than you, no matter which side is unbearable for men, and you bear both, hey, you are really a man with a big belly."

If it was Mu Qingyang ten years ago, he might have regarded these words as a compliment, but unfortunately, Mu Qingyang had already lost this innocence.

"Where. My belly is not as big as you think, and even if I can tolerate the fact that my boss is a woman and that my boss is younger than me, it doesn't mean that I can tolerate an incompetent and bad boss. ”

Shouldn't it stop there? Mu Qingyang thought to himself, but his mouth couldn't stop.

"If I meet this kind of boss, I can't help but be fierce and beat him up. Probably under someone's bad influence! Recently, I have often heard people say: I have been close to ink for a long time, and I have been polluted, which really causes me a lot of trouble. ”

The Minister of Police's face turned pale, and it seemed that he didn't expect Mu Qingyang to fight back.

"It doesn't matter if you punch him, Xiao Mu."

The boss who is far more dangerous than Mu Qingyang picks this kind of moment to fan the flames.

"If you are unfortunately dismissed from your post, you can come to the "Blue Shield", and I will make you the section chief, and when the police minister retires and is employed for the second time, I will send him as the secretary to the section chief, and you can enjoy the fun of sending him. ”

The Chief of Police's face, which was originally as white as bleached, turned red this time.

"What nonsense, what nonsense! It is not uncommon for me to be employed for the second time in "Blue Shield", and my superiors have already assigned me to transfer to a full-time consultant at Keihin Kyodo Bank after retirement! ”

Only then did he realize his gaffe, and the police chief hurriedly gagged his mouth, this time the air in the room was bleached, and he saw the police chief pull down his face and stand up from the floor.

The superintendent didn't even look at the embarrassed police minister, and asked directly to Mu Qingyang:

"Ah, you're Detective Mu, are you a detective?"

"Yes."

"That's right."

The director is like a horn dog who has been punished by his owner and is not allowed to eat, showing a sad expression on his face.

"It seems that you are a talented person, after this incident, I will immediately promote you to be the chief of the police department, now work hard, come on."

Sheng Mu Qingyang as the chief of the police section? Mu Qingyang is currently an agent, and being promoted to the chief of the police department is equivalent to jumping two levels in a row, which means that he should die in the line of duty.

"I can't afford it."

Mu Qingyang wanted to try to speak more wittily, but unfortunately he had more than enough heart and strength, and at this time, his "female boss younger than Mu Qingyang" spoke. (To be continued.) )