Benedict...

Dude, Dude——

The extremely unpleasant flute sound spread destructively toward the forest below the hill.

The originally monotonous flute sound was like a devil's howl, but with the help of a loudspeaker, it was sublimated into the roar of countless amorphous stupid flute players.

This is not a deliberate performance, but more like a performance for a stroll.

The unpleasant noise spread over the mining area, and then covered the soldiers who were ambushing in the surrounding grass. Everyone couldn't help but look embarrassed.

What song is this?

It's ugly, it's really ugly...

The soldiers complained secretly in their hearts that they did not know the purpose of the "mysterious man" playing this tune. It was not a charge trumpet anyway.

Could it be that they want to use noise to lure aliens out of the ground?

It seems impossible. If those ugly aliens could hear this song, they would probably just hide deeper in the mine...

Unlike the soldiers, although Lupine III and others knew Qin Zhibo's plan, they did not know that the music he was going to play was so ugly.

This is completely nonsense!

Including Conan, if he hadn't already known that Qin Zhibo had an "absolute sense of pitch", he would have suspected that this piece was played completely wrong.

Just when everyone was skeptical, there was a rustling sound in the dark forest.

Countless trivial sounds gradually became denser and louder, overpowering the unpleasant flute body and attracting the soldiers' attention.

A soldier looked back and saw that the trees behind him and the lower grass were shaking strangely.

The soldier stared at the darkness and unconsciously swallowed the drool secreted from nervousness.

They were ordered to remain stationary no matter what happened unless they received a formal order to fire.

Soldiers have the duty to obey orders.

The soldiers could only stare nervously and uneasily, wondering uneasily what was coming behind them, and they did not even dare to turn the muzzle of their guns.

This is the terrifying sound made by some kind of animal moving quickly...

This is...a mouse!

The soldier's eyes widened in surprise as he saw the four-legged beast, known as the "rat", rushing out of the bushes.

They come in groups, constantly emerging from dark hiding places, and their four little legs are fidgeting in the grass at extremely fast speeds.

When the soldiers saw this incredible scene, no matter how determined they were and no matter how fearless they were of rats, they could not help but scream in horror.

But the targets of these rats were not them. One by one, the pitch-black and small figures directly bypassed each prostrate soldier, running like crazy towards the direction where the flute sounded the loudest.

…

On the hill, Qin Zhibo played to his heart's content.

Just like Conan didn't realize that he was tone deaf when he sang, Qin Zhibo, who played, didn't realize how bad his playing was.

When he finished playing a piece of music by himself, he turned around and looked behind him, and saw that mice had climbed all over the hill.

The mice are like a dark, three-dimensional layer of lichen that "dyes" the originally green hills black.

Under the illumination of the moonlight, this layer of "lichen" is given a beautiful black luster.

Are these all the rats that [The Magic Flute] can summon so far?

Qin Zhibo took a quick look and was quite satisfied with the number of rats here. Sure enough, there were many rats in the wild.

But when the number of rats increases, even the air they breathe has a strong fishy smell.

But Qin Zhibo doesn't care about that.

Unmoved, he put away the substitute and the loudspeaker into his backpack.

When the mice are all gathered together, there is no need for loudspeakers to amplify the sound.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Zhibo picked up the magic flute again, put it in front of his mouth and blew it.

Benedict——

Although the flute sound this time is much quieter than the one played just now, it seems to be more beautiful because the scale has become clearer?

The mice all raised their heads and stared closely at Qin Zhibo who was standing on the hill.

Qin Zhibo turned his head, jumped up, and slid down the slope of the hill.

Immediately afterwards, the mice that climbed all over the hill also jumped down from the hill.

Countless dark shapes jumped from the edge of the hill, rolled down the slope, and jumped, as spectacular as a downpour or a raging mountain torrent.

The soldiers looked at the hill and when they saw this scene, their eyes widened in disbelief.

This is... a miracle!

The bottom of the hillside is exactly at the edge of the mining area, and the wire protection fence here has been cut in advance.

Qin Zhibo bent down and got into the protective net while playing the magic flute.

The rats behind them rolled down the hillside one after another, their bodies turning over nimbly, like the waves caused by waves crashing on the rocks.

After only slightly delaying the progress, the mouse that landed on the ground continued to follow Qin Zhibo.

In the sight of everyone, Qin Zhibo was walking slowly in the mining area.

Behind him was a large, black mass of huge rodent legions arranged in a triangle shape.

"This is……"

At the command center 300 meters away from the mining area, Yusaku Kudo, Kogoro Mori and "Conan" saw Qin Zhibo appearing in the mining area.

What is even more eye-catching is the thing that follows him like a "dark carpet" behind him.

The resolution of the surveillance cameras wasn't clear enough to see what the "carpet" was made of, but based on pre-war meetings, they knew it was rats.

Tens of thousands of rats…

The eyes of the three people were full of shock, and the two soldiers in charge of communications were even more stunned.

They didn't expect the scene to be so spectacular.

They never expected that Qin Zhibo actually successfully controlled the mouse...

…

In the mining area, Qin Zhibo played his flute and guided the countless rats behind him, slowly approaching the center like a wave on the sea.

He didn't stop until he reached the entrance of the dark underground mine.

Immediately, his fingers blocking the air holes of the bone flute changed, and the tune immediately followed.

The boring tune that was so gloomy and terrifying just now suddenly turned into a high-pitched howl like a beast, and the scream was extremely harsh.

This stupid flute sound seems to disturb the minds of mice, and the dark and round eyes of all mice are filled with a layer of bloody mist.

Suddenly, the army of rats spread out their four pointed claws and rushed towards the dark mine ahead.

Countless rats poured in one after another, like black sea water pouring in.

In other words, the mine was like a bottomless abyss, mercilessly devouring the mice.

During this period, Qin Zhibo could hardly move because there were rats in front, back, left and right. If he moved even slightly, he might step on these crazy rodents.

After waiting like this for more than a minute, all the mice finally got into the mine.

Inside the mine, the "swishing" sound of the rats moving gradually became distant, as if they had already penetrated deep into the mine.

I guess I'll meet you soon...

Qin Zhibo didn't care to continue listening to what was going on below, and quickly ran out of the mining area and behind the defense line set up by the soldiers.

"Hey! You're really good~ I didn't expect you to really be able to control mice..."

Seeing Qin Zhibo running back, Lu Bang III took the initiative to go up and talk to him.

During the observation just now, Lupine III concluded that the flute in Qin Zhibo's hand must be a big treasure.

In the past, Lupine III saw a kind of psychedelic powder that could hypnotize and control humans. That thing was a consumable, and it was already worth the same price as gold.

If I could get this big treasure, I wouldn’t be able to take off!

Lupine the Third opened his arms, pretending to embrace Qin Zhibo, but in fact he wanted to wait until he got close to him and steal the flute with the skillful hands of a monster thief.

However, Qin Zhibo saw Lupine III's little thoughts and bent his body to avoid Lupine III's hands.

cut……

Lupine the Third felt a little disappointed in his heart. The money-shaped police station next to him saw Lupine deflated, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Qin Zhibo returned to Conan, "father and son" looked at each other, and the former climbed up the big tree next to him to observe the situation in the entire mining area.

Without the sound of the flute and the mice, the forest fell into silence again.

Including the mine entrance, there was no movement at this time.
To be continued...