After all, the King in Yellow is an existence in human form. He communicates verbally with people and has a condescending attitude. Even when executing an execution, he will not lose his proper grace.

If God with clear rewards and punishments really exists, maybe this is what he looks like?

Qin Zhibo imagined various scenes in his mind, and suddenly realized that it had been a long time since the stage ended. Why was he still sitting in the theater?

Qin Zhibo shook his body, but he was still trapped by some invisible chain, as if someone had forced him to his seat to watch the curtain call.

But there is nothing on the stage.

Just when Qin Zhibo thought so, a faint yellow halo appeared on the dark stage.

This light spread out quickly like a carpet on the slope, and actually laid out a "golden avenue" leading to Qin Zhibo!

This is not a flat effect on stage, this is 3D!

On this golden road with a halo, a yellow figure slowly floated towards him.

He is almost exactly the same as the King in Yellow on the stage just now, but his arrival at this moment can be seen more realistically from Qin Zhibo's perspective.

He actually came out!

Qin Zhibo's fingers trembled slightly, his back was stretched as if it was fixed by some kind of shackles, and his eyes were staring straight at the King in Yellow who floated out from the stage.

The tattered clothes on the King in Yellow's body are windless, and his hands hang quietly on both sides of his body, revealing the elegance of an extraordinary creature.

He didn't make any unnecessary moves until he floated in front of Qin Zhibo.

Under the majesty of the king, Qin Zhibo had to raise his head to the limit to see that aloof face.

At this time, the face of the King in Yellow was not the one covered with yellow silk on the stage, but another kind of pale mask with unclear facial features and expressions.

He raised his finger and pointed at Qin Zhibo's head like he was executing someone who deserved to die on the stage.

At this moment, a kind of familiar panic swept through Qin Zhibo's body.

An electric shock-like pain suddenly arose all over his body, causing Qin Zhibo to scream subconsciously.

Almost at the same moment, Qin Zhibo felt that the restraints on his body were suddenly loosened, and his back was able to dodge freely.

He quickly dodged his body to the side, trying to escape the finger of void.

Then, there was a loud bang.

Qin Zhibo fell to the ground

Qin Zhibo's eyes widened in surprise, looking at everything around him.

There is a familiar desk, a boss's chair, and a glass window with blinds drawn behind it, with the words "Zhibo Detective Agency" stuck on the glass.

There is no doubt that this is my own detective agency.

After sitting on the ground and calming down for a while, Qin Zhibo stood up again holding the boss chair next to him and looked at "The King in Yellow" on the table.

Before I knew it, I had turned to the last page of "The King in Yellow".

When I lowered my head and looked closer, I saw this sentence written on the last line of the last page.

[You have long suspected that Hastur will corrupt the soul; and when you read this book, you have already been corroded]

Qin Zhibo's eyes moved slightly and he sat back in his seat.

Hastur is undoubtedly Hastur. The proper noun "Hastur" is also mentioned many times in "The King in Yellow".

However, at the beginning of the script, Hastur seems to be a place name, and Iti is just a country among Hastur.

But when the King in Yellow came, He answered for everyone. Hastur is not the name of a place, but his name.

King in Yellow, Hastur

Qin Zhibo recalled his experience on Moon Shadow Island again, the yellow glow from Aldebaran.

"The Great Being on Aldebaran"

"The King in Yellow, Hastur?"

Qin Zhibo murmured to himself, and suddenly, a system prompt appeared.

[Reading completed, total loss of 8 will points]

[Acquire 800 Mysterious Mythology Knowledge and Skill Proficiency]

800 points of mysterious mythological knowledge skills have been added to Qin Zhibo's skills, but this is not the end.

[Main mission: The test of the "King in Yellow"]

[Task requirement: Find the real "Pale Mask" and bring it to MI-GO]

[Task reward: 4000 general skill proficiency, 400 mysterious mythological knowledge skill proficiency]

[Mission countdown in progress]

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With the completion of reading "The King in Yellow", a new task came out as usual.

Looking carefully at the mission content, there are nothing more than two key points, one is to find the "Pale Mask", and the other is to bring it to MI-GO.

In "The King in Yellow", the "Pale Mask" is an important prop, its role is second only to the "Yellow Seal", and it has appeared many times.

In the play, the members of the "Brotherhood" who claim to serve the real person always wear the "pale mask" until they are hanged by the queen with a winch, and the mask never takes off.

In Act 1, scene 2, the princes and nobles at the palace masquerade also wore various pale masks to participate in the ball.

In addition, at the end of the scene, the King in Yellow also floated out of the stage wearing a "pale mask", just like in "The Ghostly General".

According to Qin Zhibo's recollection, these pale masks are each different.

As for the second key point of the mission, currently the only MI-GO Qin Zhibo knows and can find is Mr. Clock.

Do you want me to bring the "Pale Mask" to it?

Although the content of the mission was not stated directly, Qin Zhibo guessed that this was the meaning.

Like the previous mission, this mission still marked a red dot on the navigator, indicating that it was the mission location.

Judging from the position of the red dot, the marked mission location is still far away from the city.

The next day, Qin Zhibo finished breakfast and watched the morning news. He did not open the door for business, but went to the car rental agency to continue renting a car.

This time when he rented a car, Qin Zhibo changed the car model and rented it for a week.

In the car rental contract, Qin Zhibo specifically requested that the term for the number of days of the rental be removed and the term for the return time of the vehicle be added.

Today is Wednesday, the time to return the car is Wednesday next week, and you need to call me to inform yourself in the morning that you need to return the car.

Although the people at the car rental agency didn't understand the difference between renting for seven days and renting for one week, after all, Qin Zhibo was an old customer, so they agreed to modify the car rental contract for Qin Zhibo alone.

Taking advantage of the time to print out the new contract, the manager of the car rental agency introduced to Qin Zhibo the other Mazda models that the dealership had recently purchased.

"This one is the newly arrived Mazda RX-7. It uses a rotary engine, a sports car shape, 265 horsepower and a streamlined body to make you go faster and faster."

Qin Zhibo took a look at this stylish Mazda sports car and shook his head.

Although sports cars are fast and stylish, they also require very high driving skills.

With my current Level 4 car driving skills, there seems to be a gap in driving this kind of sports car. At least Level 5 is required, and more than half of the experienced drivers will be able to do so.

If you rent a sports car but don't dare to drive it at full power, isn't it the same as renting an ordinary car?

Moreover, this RX-7 only has two seats, which always feels less practical.

The practicality is poor, the speed is not useful, and the rental price is almost twice as expensive. It is really unnecessary.

So, Qin Zhibo politely declined: "Let's do it next time. Let's talk about it next time."

After Qin Zhibo signed the new contract, he drove the fourth-generation Mazda 929 out of the car rental shop and went straight to the mission location.

In fact, the Mazda 929 was positioned as a high-end luxury sedan in Japan in the 1990s, and it was not the kind that ran around on the streets.

The same name as it is the Toyota Crown next door.

As for Qin Zhibo's purpose of getting a new car rental contract this time, it is because the car may be used frequently in the next few days.

Instead of paying it back in a few days, it is better to rent it for a week. The middle of the week will happen to span a week, and you will also be stuck in the world time bug.

Anyway, Qin Zhibo doesn't feel guilty for cheating on a car rental company where he had a good life.

The weather conditions have become stable recently, and it is still winter.

Qin Zhibo drove a Mazda 929, turning from the open road into the winding mountain road.

The mission location this time was still in the suburbs near Tokyo. Qin Zhibo was driving while admiring the snow-covered scenery along the way.

But as he drove deeper into the mountains, Qin Zhibo felt something was wrong.

Because I saw that my position was getting closer and closer to the mission location on the navigator. It was already less than two kilometers away, but the winding mountain road still had spacious roads open to traffic.

this means.

After driving the last two kilometers from the mission location, Qin Zhibo entered a straight road, and the end of the road led to a large luxury villa.
To be continued...