usatvline Chapter 349 Lakeview Village (Part 1)
Chapter 349 Lakeview Village (Part 1)
Chapter 349: Lakeview Village (Part )
"Remember what the professor said?"
"Someone in Lakeview Village has impersonated the name of an adult in the manor..." Cameron thought.
Judy was one step faster than Cameron: "Wait, is this gentleman referring to the King in Yellow mentioned here?"
"Maybe, but we have to wait until the festival begins before we can find out." Shuichi Akai put the poster back intact.
"But, their sacrifices won't really be living sacrifices, right?" Cameron was a little wary.
"I've asked about this before. It seems that the practice of human sacrifices only began in the village after the goddess was sacrificed. Later, most human sacrifices were replaced by various large fish." Judy explained.
"Deep-sea fish?"
"Probably."
Soon, Conan returned to Lakeview Village with three agents and Darren. Seeing the sudden appearance of three people, Eugene and Marjorie became obviously much more nervous.
"Little brother, who are these?" Eugene looked at the three agents with confusion.
"These three uncles came with us, but they went to camp somewhere else first. We only notified them to come with us after we arrived at the village." Conan explained the three later agents.
The three agents had already hidden their guns and radios. Although Eugene scanned the three of them several times, he still let them into Lakeview Village after finding nothing unusual.
Conan noticed that there was something wrong with the uncle named Eugene, so he took the initiative to chat with him.
"Is uncle a fisherman?"
"Yes, alas, I had a lovely little niece at home. I went out to sea early every day so that she could grow up steadily. But she ran away with a clown when the circus came to perform."
Conan looked shocked and asked, "Uncle, is your niece called Natasha?"
"Yes, how do you know? Have you met her?" Eugene suddenly became excited.
Conan felt embarrassed because the dancer seemed to have never mentioned her origin at all. He figured out the dancer's original name was Natasha from a few words from the acrobat.
Later, Conan also got more accurate information from Eugene's words. At the beginning, the dancer Natasha longed for life in the big city outside. After meeting Sergei, the smiling clown in the circus, she had the idea of escaping.
The dancer's Uncle Eugene and Aunt Marjorie strongly opposed this, and after learning of the dancer's escape plan, they locked her in the attic.
However, the dancer got some "tranquilizing salt" from the circus, which turned out to be arsenic. After adding the drug to the fish soup for lunch, the dancer successfully drugged her uncle and aunt and escaped.
"Hmph, this heartless little thing. We adopted her, but she wanted to harm us with arsenic!" Eugene said at the end with some anger.
Conan, however, felt that the dancer had no courage to harm anyone. Back when she was at the Oredis Manor, she had acted very timidly and had never intended to harm anyone. Furthermore, Eugene had said that the dancer was locked in the attic, which meant that she had no access to drugs.
Then the so-called "tranquilizing salt" has only one source, the smiling clown Sergi.
Well, Conan had previously thought that the Smiling Clown's actions were limited to domestic violence, bullying, and persecution, but this incident could be considered as incitement to crime or attempted murder. However, Serge had already been killed by the Weeping Clown, so there was no point in saying more now.
"Sister Natasha is now a leading actress and is living a good life outside. She probably doesn't want to come back here." Conan explained to Eugene.
"I knew this guy was impossible to tame. It would have been better if I had just..." Eugene seemed to be stuck here and stopped talking.
"Um..." Conan noticed that Eugene's words seemed to reveal some information, so he asked about the professor. "Uncle, do you know anything about Professor Luchino?"
"Yes, he was a researcher at that hospital back then. He even came to our village for a field study, but then he disappeared," Eugene said hesitantly. "There's a strange rumor in our village about him."
"After the hospital was abandoned, someone saw a humanoid lizard wearing a white coat that belonged to Mr. Lucchino. The lizard was covered in blue crystal minerals."
"Of course, no one believed the drunk at the time. They all thought he was money-crazy after seeing the gold unearthed from the Glittering Gold Grotto next door. Now that Professor Lucchino is back, isn't he still a normal person? How can he look like a lizard?"
Conan wiped the cold sweat from his head, because he had really seen the professor turn into a lizard, and there were indeed a lot of blue crystal minerals attached to his body at that time.
"By the way, what was unearthed from the Glittering Gold Grotto wasn't real gold, but pyrite, cheap fool's gold. That drunkard couldn't even tell the difference, huh."
Conan's pupils dilated. He didn't expect to hear news about Fool's Gold here, but this should just be a coincidence.
"And the little girl Professor Luchino brought here this time is said to have a strange skin disease. But after examining her for a long time, the scales on her body look more like snake scales, while those of the people in our village look more like fish scales. I wonder if Mr. Luchino can find a solution."
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. The sacrificial ceremony should start soon."
Conan was a little surprised: "Didn't it say it would start at midnight?"
"Starting at midnight means offering sacrifices to the sea god at midnight, not starting preparations at midnight." Eugene said and left.
After Conan and others successfully met up with Shuichi Akai and the others, they discussed how to deal with this sacrificial activity.
"So, Professor, do you have any impression of this emblem?" Shuichi Akai showed the professor the pattern he had photographed on the back of the poster.
The professor examined it carefully for a moment, puzzled, and said, "The King in Yellow? That's indeed the title of that lord, but this pattern... this pattern is completely wrong. This pattern symbolizes the god that Miss Fiona believes in."
"Let's not even talk about whether there are any true believers in this village. Judging from this alone, their attitude towards faith is definitely perfunctory. If Miss An knew there were such people, she would definitely nail them to the cross and expose them to the sun."
"Ms. An? Cross?" Conan recalled the cat god believer who once killed a person with a cross on the skyship.
"Miss An believes in the Cat God. The full name of her sect is 'Dark Eyes.' It's an organization that worships science, but they haven't given up on exploring the realm of God."
"Doesn't this fit your current pursuit? Why don't you join this sect?" asked Shuichi Akai.
"Unfortunately, I can't join them as I already have the blessing of another god. Honestly, perhaps the Cat God is the most gentle god in the manor."
Darren grabbed the professor's shirt and said, "Uncle Luchino, are you saying bad things about Mother?"
"No, I don't mean to belittle the Witch."