Chapter 632 Substitute + Puppet (4k)(1/2)
Since Qin Zhibo is a regular customer and eats takeout from this restaurant more than ten days a week, the meals are quickly delivered to Zhibo Detective Agency.
The dumplings in Japanese Chinese restaurants are not boiled, but fried. The spring rolls are also deep-fried and mixed with mango juice.
Qin Zhibo first ate the junk food and solved the problem of food and clothing, then called Koizumi Hongzi and explained the reason for the late night disturbance.
"Voodoo doll?"
Koizumi Hongzi thought for a while, "I have some impressions, please wait while I look for them first."
When in doubt, turn to the book first.
Qin Zhibo didn't know what Koizumi Hongzi's academic performance was in the class, but from the looks of it, the exams involving open books should not be bad.
Because in less than five minutes, Koizumi Anko returned to the phone.
"I found it!"
"How?" Qin Zhibo asked.
Koizumi Anko cleared her throat and said solemnly: "The voodoo doll is an evil magic medium in voodoo. It is mostly used in rituals of revenge, hatred, and harm."
"There are many ways to make them. Straw, paper, cloth, etc. all have the same effect. However, there are also voodoo dolls made from parts of living people. Such voodoo dolls have stronger curse effects and magic power."
"With this kind of voodoo doll, the soul of the victim will be imprisoned in the voodoo doll, and a life needs to be sacrificed at intervals to prevent the soul from going to hell."
"Or the voodoo doll will take evil-minded people to hell and resurrect another soul in the voodoo doll. As long as you wait for a suitable body, you can reshape your life."
"In short, voodoo dolls are an extremely evil method, and voodoo itself is also an evil religious sect."
"You should know this, we have met before."
With Koizumi Hongzi's reminder, Qin Zhibo's brain also recalled those somewhat distant memories.
I once solved some problems for the popular actress Okino Yoko.
During that time, Okino Yoko was very unlucky. She fell down the stairs, fell from the ceiling in the toilet, and dropped a flowerpot while walking upstairs, causing injuries all over her body.
It was Koizumi Anko who noticed something strange about her body and asked to go to her home to take a look. Only then did she discover the magic circle that Okino Yoko's ex-boyfriend had left with fluorescent paint before committing suicide.
After searching for information, it was determined that this magic circle was a voodoo spell originating from voodoo.
As long as the target is held by the hair when dying, the target will be affected by this technique no matter where they are.
Since her ex-boyfriend sacrificed his life, Okino Yoko must also pay the price with his life.
It's just that this process is not an instant death, but a period of torture. Maybe some bad luck will kill Okino Yoko.
In the end, Koizumi Anko used magic to prepare a fatal potion and asked her agent to give it to Okino Yoko to drink.
When the forces of two different systems exist in the same body, they will compete with each other for the power to kill the target, which is regarded as fighting fire with fire.
"Is it the voodoo one? The one from Okino Yoko's ex-boyfriend."
"You finally remembered, it hasn't been long." Koizumi Hongzi complained about Qin Zhibo's memory.
But in fact, for Qin Zhibo, that incident has indeed passed a long time ago.
Koizumi Hongzi continued: "Voodoo originated in West Africa. It is a primitive religion that combines ancestor worship, animism and spiritualism. Voodoo in Voodoo means 'soul' in Fang language."
"It is for this reason that most voodoo spells in voodoo are centered around the soul."
"In addition to voodoo dolls, there is also a kind of 'resurrected corpse' that is also a feature of voodoo. People can be put into a state of suspended animation by taking tetrodotoxin, making them unconscious and able to work.
A 'living dead' who can be controlled by his master."
Koizumi Anko is like a teacher who proposes after-school development for students, and also mentions "resurrected corpse".
But Qin Zhibo was more concerned about voodoo spells at this time.
"Voodoo spells can curse others from countless distances. So is there any voodoo spell that can kill a person instantly without leaving any traces?"
"Similar to heart paralysis"
Koizumi Hongzi on the other side of the phone was silent for a while and said in a weak tone: "How do I know?"
"But there probably will be"
Qin Zhibo thought for a while, if the deposit Fangxiong died of voodoo spells, then everything would be much more reasonable.
Yoshio deposits his wish to the Curse of the Dead, and the Curse of the Dead provides him with the identity of his enemy and the method of making voodoo dolls.
However, when Yoshio Jin was caught by the police, he was killed by the "curse of the dead" people using voodoo spells to prevent the police from following the clues and tracing them.
There is also Okino Yoko’s ex-boyfriend. The channel through which he obtained voodoo spells should also be the “curse of the dead.”
Qin Zhibo looked at the chat history on the computer screen and saw that the time pointed to midnight.
It seems that the only way to log in to this website is at midnight.
But before midnight, Qin Zhibo still had 4 hours to do other things.
Qin Zhibo disposed of the food waste on the table, closed the blinds on the second floor, and summoned his [Substitute Messenger].
There are no secondary lines and no cool light effects.
The dark substitute messenger sneaked out from Qin Zhibo's body and stood behind Qin Zhibo.
The main function of this stand-in is to learn. Qin Zhibo summoned it, of course, for the purpose of learning.
But before that, Qin Zhibo still had an idea to verify.
The substitute cannot be seen in the mirror, which means that other people's eyes cannot see the substitute.
However, the actions performed by the stand-in can indeed affect actual objects, but these actions are often slow and clumsy.
Therefore, Qin Zhibo guessed that the substitute messenger should be a semi-material or energy body between material and non-material.
Just like the Royger encountered by the Twin Skyscrapers, it is usually invisible to the human eye.
If this is the case, is there any way for a substitute to sneak into a certain body and control its actions?
It just so happens that Qin Zhibo's tool list has something that can be called a "body" - a puppet.
Qin Zhibo summoned the puppet, and a proportional puppet exactly like Qin Zhibo stood next to Qin Zhibo with his butt sticking out.
Qin Zhibo has never studied this thing carefully.
Just touch it with your fingers, whether it's the texture of the clothing or the touch of the skin, it's like a real person.
It's just that this thing can't move and can only stand like a fool, making humans or other animals unable to help but have the desire to hammer it.
"If you weren't so handsome, I wouldn't be able to help but beat you."
Qin Zhibo complained to the speechless puppet, and then began to control the substitute and walk towards the puppet.
When the two came into contact, an incredible scene happened.
The dark body of the stand-in soaked into the puppet's body like ink, causing a layer of black ripples on the surface.
Immediately afterwards, blackness sank beneath the surface of the body, and the entire stand-in completely disappeared.
However, from the status of the props in the prop inventory, Qin Zhibo knew that the substitute had not been taken back, but existed in the body of the puppet.
"go ahead."
The puppet took a step forward.
"Back off."
The puppet took a step back.
In fact, Qin Zhibo does not need to use words to command the substitute, he only needs to express his thoughts silently in his heart.
After mastering the skills a little, Qin Zhibo ordered the stand-in user to control the puppet to make more complex movements.
"Get me a glass of water."
The substitute walked to the table, poured the water from the kettle into the water cup, and then brought the water cup to Qin Zhibo.
Although this movement is a bit stiff and the hands and feet feel like they have just grown, they are at least usable.
It is difficult for a stand-in to complete actions alone, and slightly more complex actions, such as pouring water, are almost impossible tasks.
Unless you start to learn a certain skill, the stand-in user's movements can become proficient.
But why is it so much easier to perform actions alone after putting on a puppet?
Qin Zhibo thought for a while and felt that the original setting of the Stand-in Messenger should never change. Its characteristic is double zero power and speed.
Perhaps, the combination of Stand User + Puppet Doll takes advantage of the Stand User's high growth potential?
Qin Zhibo browsed through the skills he had so far. If the substitute wanted to learn, he could only choose one of these skills to learn.
Suddenly, a skill came into view——
Arts and Crafts (Puppetry)
This skill was acquired by Qin Zhibo at the Spider House in Tottori Prefecture.
The Takeda family there is a family that makes puppets. The deceased Takeda family boss dropped this skill, which allows him to create and control puppets.
However, Qin Zhibo felt that this skill was useless and he had not trained it specifically, so he kept putting it aside.
Could it be that this skill works?
To be continued...