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A cold light came from under the scanning table, illuminating "Phantom Thief under the Moon".

Matsumoto Ryohei went to the computer beside him and started to operate, explaining while operating.

"Many artists reuse their canvases, overlaying one painting on top of another, either to save money or for some artistically specific purpose."

"Traditional X-ray scans can't see another painting hidden under the painting, just like X-rays taken in the hospital, only black and white colors can't let us see what's underneath the painting."

"However, we can use 13 wavelengths, including light from ultraviolet to infrared, to shine on the painting, and then scan the picture with a camera, so that we can restore the lines and paint colors of the previous painting to the greatest extent."

Matsumoto Ryohei adjusted the parameters on the computer for the last time, came to the scanning table again, and pressed the start button.

Light that is completely invisible to the naked eye scans back and forth on "Phantom Thief", and some dull colors appear on the screen.

As the scan progressed, these colors gradually gathered, and the colors continued to show subtle changes, like countless colorful maggots squirming on the screen.

It became clear, and first the moon was outlined.

This round of moon was scanned by Kuroba Kaito at home before, and it is exactly the same as the position of the moon in "Phantom Thief".

But the color is red!

A crimson moon hung in the dark night sky, and beneath it were rolling gray mountains.

And this continuous mountain range just corresponds to the black feather bandit's cloak fluttering in the wind, and the position is exactly the same.

In "Phantom Thief Under the Moon", the white top hat worn by Kuroba Pirates gradually faded, and began to shrink like a piece of meat roasted on a flame.

It became a long, narrow, strangely proportioned head.

The shape of this head is three parts less human and seven parts more dog-like. The mouth protrudes like a canine, and the hideous upper and lower jaws reveal eerie teeth.

Seeing this menacing face, Qin Zhibo's skin stood up, and his brain suddenly recalled a memory from a while ago.

It was in the cemetery near Suzuki Sonoko's villa. I spent an unforgettable night in the coffin and met some "dog-faced visitors", or "kobolds".

At this time, the faces of those "visitors" seemed to be alive, and under the constant changes of the scanning light, the edges of their bodies kept trembling.

The changes on the screen are from top to bottom, and more details are scanned.

Black Feather Bandit's head becomes the kobold's forward neck
The upper body of Black Feather Pirate One becomes the upper body of the Kobold.
Black Feather Pirate One's lower body turned into a messy, twisted mess, revealing a lot of blood.

In the first hand of the original Black Feather Pirate, he is holding the cloak that was originally the uniform of the strange thief, and a corner of the white cloak spins out a regular and elegant vortex.

But after scanning, what was clutched there was not a corner of the cloak, but a human head!
It was a big bald head, and half of the dismal skin on the top of its head had been eaten away, exposing the bloody white bones underneath.

A frightened, distorted human face with a gaping mouth looking down to the throat.

And this image of the kobold replacing Heifeather Bandit is in a certain cemetery, and the starry dots behind Kidd, the original Kaitou Kidd, are replaced by larger cross tombstones.

The invisible light of 13 kinds of waves reveals everything that was originally invisible under the painting. With the scanner stopped working, the hideous image on the screen no longer trembles.

Looking at the scanned results in front of them, Qin Zhibo, Kuroba Kaito, Terai Konosuke, and Matsumoto Ryohei were all amazed.

What's amazing is not only the weird kobold image, but also the superb craftsmanship possessed by the creator of this painting.

The entire painting of "Phantom Thief under the Moon" is almost created by relying on the painting below. All important lines in the painting are a continuation rather than a mere coverage.

The bright moon is turned into a scarlet moon, the cloak of the phantom thief is turned into a gray mountain, the top hat is turned into a dog's head, the swirl corner of the cloak is turned into a half-eaten human head, and the stars are turned into a tombstone.
This unrivaled painting technique seems to come from hell, which is another reason for the picture-in-picture that Matsumoto does not elaborate.

Let the colors and shapes of one painting affect another.

This kind of picture-in-picture is extremely rare, and it requires far more energy than painting a picture, and the skill requirements are very high.

Moreover, there was no X-ray scanning technology in the world before, and no one would waste time painting a painting that was destined to be appreciated by no one.

Qin Zhibo looked at the painting in front of him, and by using the appreciation part of his art and craft (fine arts) skills, he could see that the painting was of superb skill, enough to enter the world-class art hall.

He draws the creepiness so vividly, his precise lines and proportions evoke the viewer's dormant instinct - fear.

Appropriate color contrast and light and shade effects are like spikes dormant on the heart, allowing the viewer to feel a very unusual experience of hairs standing on end.

The strange thief and the kobold, the wonderful and eerie alternation between the themes of the two paintings, can be called
"Miracle!"

Matsumoto Ryohei suddenly raised his arms and shouted, his voice was deafening.

"This is nothing short of a miracle!"

"An unprecedented miracle!"

Ryohei Matsumoto walked to the screen and stroked the image of the kobold with his hand, as if it really existed.

The kobold was gnawing on the human head, as if being prompted by someone to raise his head, his gray eyes were facing the direction of the canvas.

Compared to Matsumoto Ryohei's excitement, Kuroba Kaito's body trembled slightly, his face full of disbelief.

Even if he exhausted his brain, he couldn't imagine that there was such a terrifying scene under the painting depicting his father's heroic appearance.

Kuroba Kaito: Will -15
Konosuke Terai, like Kaito Kuroba, stared at the painting in disbelief, unable to imagine what kind of mentality Mr. Pirate had in order to agree to act as the painter's model.

Konosuke Terai: Will -10
The only person in the room who is relatively calm is Qin Zhibo. Except for the fact that he was a little surprised when he saw the image of the Kobold, the rest is fine.

After all, Qin Zhibo has seen this thing with his own eyes, no matter how realistic the image in the painting is, it's just that.

Qin Zhibo: Will -5
At this moment, the door of the room was pushed open, and Hongzi Koizumi, who had finished visiting the Hell Exhibition Hall, came back.

She looked around the room, and subconsciously looked at the place where everyone's eyes gathered, the computer screen.

"Eh?"

"Isn't this a ghoul?"

Koizumi Hongzi said so.