The moon is bright and the stars are scarce.

Just as the poor Fishman Captain took his last breath, on deck.

Chen Qiang, carrying a black cane, stood not far from the bow of the boat, quietly waiting for the arrival of the guests.

It was three o'clock in the morning.

"Will he really come?" Xiao Yezi, who was beside Chen Qiang, asked uneasily, "Just rely on an unclear letter......

"He will." Chen Qiang said.

【Jon Chan Listening Examination 22/70 Success】

"I think he's already here." Chen Qiang smiled.

The deceased in Hiroyuki Imai's room died from the bite of some unknown beast.

Officer Masayoshi Takeda died in a shooting.

Uncle Xu died of having his throat repeatedly cut with a knife.

Gu Shiyin died at the hands of Shogoth.

At first glance, the causes of death of the deceased varied and there was no pattern to speak of.

Even Chen Qiang, who is proficient in the Cthulhu setting, cannot assert the mythical truth behind this series of events based on these clues alone.

The universe is vast, and 55% of his mythological knowledge and skills are just a drop in the ocean. Who knows how many powerful "obscure" old rulers are hidden in the endless time and space that intelligent civilizations can never know?

However, the system's prompt [Difficulty: Unknow] still pointed out a path to the truth.

……

On the balcony dozens of meters away, Qin Lingxue, who was carrying a night vision device, pointed the rifle he had set up at the shadow that was quietly approaching.

She boasts that her marksmanship is passable, but at this distance, she does not use a special sniper weapon, and even with the assistance of aiming tools, it is difficult for her to guarantee that she can be fatal with one shot.

……

The shadow stopped dozens of meters away from Chen Qiang.

The strange hat, the face with a scar, and the bloated body are none other than Hiroyuki Imai.

"It's you," he said hoarsely, "I knew it was you." Sure enough, you wrote that letter. You say you know my secrets? ”

Xiao Yezi behind Chen Qiang took two steps forward and clenched the pistol in his hand. She is Chen Qiang's "personal bodyguard", once Qin Lingxue misses, she must face the enemy in front of her.

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. When you look at the fear in the mirror, the fear in the mirror will also come to you," Chen Qiang's voice was very calm, "I'm right, right?" Mr. Imai ......"

"No, I should call you Officer Kenhito Uesugi."

“……！”

"Hiroyuki Imai" is solemn. He took off his hat, revealing his blond hair, which belonged to the American-Japanese race.

His physiognomy also began to change. The scar is gone, and he begins to quickly revert back to the appearance of Kenhito Uesugi as a police sergeant.

"Is only the face part a spell......" Chen Qiang nodded.

"If you rely too much on spells, you will let your reason fall into a bottomless abyss," Uesugi Kenhito lamented, "That's what the 'Black Dragon Group' taught me." ”

Replaced by a simple "disguise", Chen Qiang will receive a "Detection Skill Test" prompt from the dice when observing his pretending "Imai Hiroyuki".

"You're already reliant on spells." Chen Qiang said.

"There's no better place to put your feet than to put it down." Uesugi Kenhito said with a smile.

"Don't you wonder, how did I see through you? Don't you want to know, what kind of spell I used? ”

Uesugi Kenhito's expression changed, as if he was hesitant. He was silent for almost thirty seconds before he finally spoke.

"Please. I'm curious. He said.

The system check never sounded. Uesugi Kenhito's answer was fixed from the beginning, and Chen Qiang said in his heart that he was just stalling with himself.

Bosses always die of talking too much - but if a boss with a normal IQ and a non-talkative personality suddenly starts talking nonsense, the answer must not be that he wants to release water, but that he wants to stall for time.

"Sayoko," Chen Qiang said, as if he didn't care about Uesugi Kenhito's scheme, "give him back the ring." ”

Sayoko took out two identical dark gold rings from her pocket with one gun in one hand and the other and threw them in the direction of Kenhito Uesugi.

Uesugi walked over to the two rings that had fallen to the ground, leaned down, and picked them up. In the moonlight, Chen Qiang could barely see that there was a similar ring on his left hand.

"Always with you, my favorite Yingzi."

"Always with you, my favorite Qianren."

Uesugi muttered to himself.

"Let me guess. You and your wife exchanged rings. The one you usually wear on your hand should be the ring that says 'Qianren', and the one that was left at the scene has the ring that says 'Yingzi'......"

“…… It's Eiko, she doesn't need to wear the ring anymore," Uesugi Kenhito said melancholy, "Sure enough, you stole my ring." It's rare that in order not to leave a flaw, I went to a jewelry store to buy a similar gold ring, and then deliberately appeared in front of you. ”

Uesugi plans to throw his ring next to the headless corpse to create the illusion that the deceased is himself.

He did a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect that "Haneda Sayoko", a JK habitual thief, took the opportunity to talk to him in the morning and took away the ring on his hand.

He had to make an impromptu decision to leave his wife's ring at the scene - his colleagues knew the name of Mrs. Uesugi and could mislead everyone about the identity of the deceased.

When he first met Uesugi Kenhito, he glanced at Sayoko with strange eyes: he always felt that he had seen Sayoko somewhere. "Sayoko Haneda" at the time of the theft used her disguise skills to dress up, and Kenhito Uesugi was as shrewd as she didn't recognize it at a glance.

This time, the story is already running before the "game begins" and the player cuts in.

"Your wife Izumishita is knowledgeable, and she will not agree to you throwing her ring on the scene and using it to cheat her to death." Sayoko said.

Uesugi Kenhito scoffed, "It seems that you don't know anything too." Who said Eiko is dead? She just lost her hands and couldn't wear the ring anymore. ”

“……”

The BOSS doesn't play cards according to the routine, and Sayoko is forced to hold back her words.

"Ahem...... Anyway, in the end, we have both of you rings on our hands," Chen Qiang said, "which confirms the fact that the murderer is misleading us about the identity of the deceased." The body that was bitten off was the real Hiroyuki Imai? ”

"He deserves it," Uesugi said, "and Jon-chan ...... You too. ”

But he was secretly anxious in his heart. Based on his experience, the two people in front of him must have been exposed to those disgusting mythical beings. Such a person will soon fall into that bottomless abyss under the magic of the mirror.

It will have to be delayed a little longer......

"It's as if I'm really guilty." Chen Qiang said.

"Who is the person who buys the stolen goods and then immediately resells them?" Uesugi Kenhito sneered, "It's true that you weren't the one who unlocked the seal of the jade mirror, but if it weren't for your greed, the power of the mirror wouldn't have tended to get out of control." ”

"Ah, that's right," Chen Qiang said, "So you're familiar with its power?" ”

"Don't try to trick me," said Kenhito Uesugi, who was interested in prolonging the conversation, "but it doesn't hurt to tell you." The Jade Mirror is a door, and the horror that crawls out of the dark side of our souls awaits on the other side of the door. That's why my wife became disabled. ”

"I thought it was a magic weapon that could only kill." Chen Qiang said. There is still no prompt for the speech verification in the system, and it seems that Uesugi Kenhito is indeed happy to accompany him to tear it down.