Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 543 There Are So Many Elementary School Students...

Pickman?
Kaito Kuroba narrowed his eyes slightly, his brain was full of thoughts.

Could it be that he created these two paintings for Dad?

Does he know that his father is Kaitou Kidd?
"Okay, mom, go to sleep!"

"Hello? Hello"

Kaito Kuroba hurriedly hung up the phone, turned over and flashed to the desk, and turned on the computer again.

Retiring the search page for Renye Karasuma's Treasure, Kaito Kuroba searched Pickman's information again.

On a knowledge website called Noah's Ark, he found a related knowledge entry:

[Richard Upton Pickman, an American post-impressionist painter in the late nineteenth century, is famous for his weird and fantastic paintings, which incorporate elements of hell and exaggerated realism. 】

[Masterworks: "Ghoul Feast", "Ghouls Eating", "Subway Stories", etc.]

The content of the entry is very simple. Unlike other painters, countless descendants have made various evaluations of his artistic attainments, and history's evaluation of Pickman is almost blank.

However, Kaito Kuroba is not concerned about art, but Pickman's age.

A painter in the late nineteenth century, even if he lived 18 years before his father became Kaitou Kidd, he would be at least a hundred years old.

It is really amazing that a centenarian can create such exquisite paintings.
Kaito Kuroba looked at the painting of Phantom Thief under the moon in front of him, and suddenly noticed that the oil paint on the corners had oxidized and peeled off.

I stepped on the chair and stretched out my finger to rub it for a while, and there was actually a layer of oil paint under the peeled off oil paint.

这 是
Picture in picture!
There is another painting under this one!

Kaito Kuroba frantically found all kinds of tools immediately, and managed to remove the full-length portrait including the frame from the wall.

He was sweating profusely from work, but Kaito Kuroba didn't have time to wipe it off, so he quickly removed the frame and turned to the back of the painting to check.

"This is."

The old canvas reveals some strangely colored oil paints. The colors of these oil paints are in the same position as the front portrait, but the colors of the oil paints used are completely different.

This further confirms Kaito Kuroba's idea that there is a painting under the Phantom Thief under the Moonlight, and the oil paint of the Phantom Thief under the Moonlight is covered on it later.

There are two ways to see the painting below, one is to destroy the oil paint on it, but this also means that the portrait of Phantom Thief under the Moon will disappear forever.

Another method is to use an X-ray scanner dedicated to artworks, which can scan out the original paintings under oil paint.

This kind of equipment is only available in professional art museums.

Qin Zhibo came out of Heiyu Kaidou's house and walked a short distance. He was about to reach out to hail a taxi when the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Now Qin Zhibo carries two phones with him, but the left chest pocket is an old phone, and the right chest is a new phone.

Although the ringtones of the two phones were the same, judging from the vibration of the phone, it was the trembling of the right chest.

It's the black organization's phone number!

Qin Zhibo didn't dare to neglect, so he quickly picked it up to answer the call, and sure enough, he heard Qin Jiu's cold voice from the opposite side.

"9:00 tonight, Nishitama City Municipal Building."

"I got it."

The phone was hung up, and the communication between the two sides was still extremely brief.

Qin Zhibo checked Nishitama City on the navigator, and it is about two hours' drive from Tokyo.

It was already afternoon, and when I drove there, it would be almost evening.

That being the case, it is better to start now.

Qin Zhibo called Toru Amuro, who was still staying in the office, and told him that he couldn't go back before he got off work today, and just asked him to close the door of the office.

After giving instructions, Qin Zhibo stopped a taxi and went straight to Xidama City.

The taxi drove very fast, and less than an hour after driving out of Jianggutian Town, it came to a place that Qin Zhibo was very familiar with.

Longshen Mountain, 99 consecutive bends.

Strictly speaking, entering the mountainous area of ​​Dragon God Mountain is entering the range of Nishitama City.

Qin Zhibo was recuperating in the car seat with his eyes closed, recharging his energy for the night's unknown mission, which was a crime anyway, when the speed of the taxi suddenly slowed down until it stopped.

"How did this happen?"

Qin Zhibo was awakened by the suspicious voice of the taxi driver, and when he looked up, the road ahead was actually blocked by the police.

In the blocked road section, a large crane was working, hoisting a car that had overturned on the side of the road into the air with a steel rope.

At this time, an ordinary policeman came over and explained the situation to the taxi driver.

"There was a traffic accident on the road ahead, and it is being repaired urgently. It will take another 10 minutes to reopen to traffic."

The driver nodded to express his understanding, lit a cigarette in his hand, and said casually: "It must be that some rich kid from somewhere came here to drive a car in pursuit of excitement."

But as soon as the driver finished speaking, the policeman shook his head and denied it.

"Judging from the current situation at the scene, we suspect that this is a traffic accident case. Someone bumped the car from behind, and then the car crashed off the cliff."

The police shared the information selflessly. In fact, they were also quietly observing whether the paint on the taxi was peeled off, but unfortunately there was not.

As the car was hoisted, Qin Zhibo suddenly noticed that the car involved in the accident turned out to be a valuable luxury car, and the brand was BMW.

This made Qin Zhibo think of someone, so he hurriedly asked, "Is the driver still alive? What's his name?"

Social skills (eloquence), activate √

Without even thinking about it, the police picked up the police handbook and read it, and replied: "The driver was dead when we arrived, and his name was Yuichi Watanuki."

Qin Zhibo thought about it, the car thief he met in the nearby factory last night had exactly this name.

The car thief was dead, and it was a hit-and-run case. The murderer was most likely the man who looked like the vodka boy yesterday.

At this moment, the mission prompt also sounded at the right time.

[Sub-task: Find out the murderer of this case]

[Task requirements: 1 hour time limit]

[Task reward: 400 general skill proficiency, 160 social credit]

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When the mission prompt appeared, Qin Zhibo knew that he had to act.

It just so happens that there is still a lot of time before going to Nishitama City to meet Gin at night, so I don't have to rush there.

At this moment, another policeman ran over to talk to the previous policeman and asked, "Where did the reporter go?"

"You mean Detective Mori Kogoro? They have already released it, but I have already left the phone number."

As soon as he heard the name of Mori Kogoro, Qin Zhibo's body trembled immediately.

"Please wait!"

"The Mori Kogoro you are talking about, is there an elementary school student wearing glasses beside him?"

The policeman froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's not just a primary school student, there are many primary school students."

At the same time, Mori Kogoro drove to the wooden villa in Longshen Mountain, took a cold beer and a fishing rod, and was about to go fishing.

Conan, who hadn't fished for a long time, also wanted to be an air force, so he followed suit.

Mao Lilan wanted to take the three little ones with her, but today the three little ones expressed very unexpectedly that she didn't want to go out and just wanted to stay in the house and watch TV.

Mao Lilan had no choice but to tell the three of them not to forget to lock the doors and windows, and left with Mori Kogoro and Conan.

After the adults and Conan left, the three little ones quickly sat around the table, discussing their "free payment" plan excitedly.

"hurry up!"

"Mitsuhiko, did you really unlock the code in the hand of the dead uncle driver?"

"Of course! The answer is in the book I just read!"

　Thanks for the tip from Feather Pillow Splashed with Vinegar!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)