detective world detective

Chapter 567 Seeing flowers in the mist
  The painting is fake and has been manipulated!
  Seeing the paintings in front of him that had no flaws at all and could be mistaken for real, Tang Ze's brain began to work rapidly.

The painting was swapped, so when did the crime happen?

Today is the first day of the event, and according to what I learned from a previous chat with Uncle Jiro Yoshi, the paintings should be shipped a day in advance and handed over to the organizer for the layout of the venue.

The art exhibition has just opened in the morning, and no one should be able to change the painting in front of everyone.

In other words, the time when the painting was lost should have been during the time when the painting was handed over to the art museum for storage during the day yesterday.

After determining the approximate time when the painting was lost, Tang Ze did not think about starting to investigate the case immediately.

After all, how to deal with this matter before this is more important.

You must know that this is a much-anticipated exhibition of world masterpieces. If such a big scandal is exposed on the first day, I am afraid it will immediately cause a huge commotion in society.

And more importantly, it might alert the snake. If the criminal discovers it and is targeted, it is not impossible to directly flee overseas with the painting or hide it in a safe and hide it from the light of day.

After all, items are not as easy to lose as people.

Afterwards, Karasawa told everyone around him about the situation and stopped Sonoko from exclamating. Karasawa and a few others quietly found Suzuki Jirokichi who was resting in the VIP room.

"Hey, why are you guys here?" Suzuki Jirokichi saw a few people and said with a smile: "You probably haven't finished the tour since the doors opened right now. If you don't go to appreciate the works, why do you have time to come here and see me, an old man?"

"Uncle Jiroji is not good." Sonoko said in a panic: ""Mirror Lake" has been stolen!"

"Nani!! How is this possible!!" After hearing the news, Suzuki Jirokichi stood up from the sofa and became furious: "Could it be that bastard Kaitou Kid who stole my painting!?"

"No, if he wants to steal the painting, he will definitely send you a notice in advance and steal "Mirror Lake" in an open and honest manner."

Tang Ze shook his head and said: "But the "Mirror Lake" hanging in the exhibition room has been secretly replaced by someone."

"Switched the package?" Suzuki Jiroji was stunned: "How did you..."

Halfway through the words, Suzuki Jirokichi changed his mind: "Is it because the oil paintings taste different? That's why you found out that the paintings had been secretly switched?"

"That's right." Tangze nodded: "When Uncle Jiroji and we went to see the paintings together, the oil paints on them were all natural pigments.

But this time what I smelled was acrylic-based paint, which was obviously a fake that had been swapped. "

Suzuki Jirokichi's face turned livid when he heard this, and he naturally believed in Karasawa's words. He knew about Karasawa's super sense of smell, and since this was his niece-in-law, there was no way he would lie to him.

Then there is only one truth. The painting was lost in the art museum. After all, he watched it be handed over with his own eyes.

But the painting turned out to be fake just one night later, so naturally I had to ask the curator.

At the same time, I also want to inform you that if something like this happens, the police will definitely need cooperation, and they don’t want to cause such a big commotion, so it’s best to deal with it in a low-key manner.

But what the group didn't expect was that the curator, Koji Hashiyama, was convinced that this was the authentic work.

"Our security system is absolutely perfect." The bald Director Qiaoshan vowed, "You can absolutely rest assured on this."

"But Karasawa-kun can't go wrong either." Suzuki Jirokichi frowned. "Are you talking about your niece-in-law?" Curator Qiaoshan chuckled and said, "Although he is excellent at handling cases, he probably has no authority in art.

You see there are so many paintings around, maybe the smell of the works of the new generation masters has drifted to "Mirror Lake" and people have mistakenly smelled it. "

These words made Suzuki Jirokichi frown. Just when he was about to say something, he saw the other party waved his hand to stop him and said: "Well, Mr. Suzuki, since you don't believe it, how about I ask experts from the Bear Country to come over and evaluate it?
  After all, evidence is needed when handling a case. If you say it is unfounded, there is no real evidence to make it credible, right?
  You don’t have to worry about the cost, how about I pay for it? "

"Then let's do it." Suzuki Jiroji nodded and accepted this compromise.

Although the other party's complete refusal to believe what he said made him a little dissatisfied, he could understand it.

After all, if you look at it from the other party's perspective, Director Qiaoshan is understandable in doing this, and it can even be said to be very sincere.

After all, he believed in Tangze's judgment, but others did not believe in a stranger's words, and there was still no evidence, and there was nothing that could be seen or touched at all.

For a stranger to say that the painting was stolen, no matter who was responsible for such a huge responsibility, he would deny it immediately.

The other party did not choose to completely deny it. Regardless of whether it was a compromise method chosen out of consideration for his identity, his approach was respectful enough and left him speechless.

But Tangze looked at Curator Qiaoshan thoughtfully.

His thinking is different from others. If the other person sees things from a two-dimensional perspective, then he sees things from a 2.5-dimensional perspective.

To put it simply, it's like those characters in American comics who can see "outside the wall".

It is known that the case has occurred, so according to "Ke Xue's Law", most of the people who appear in front of him at this moment should be suspects.

Although this makes no sense, Tangze also knows that evidence is needed to solve the case, but that does not prevent Tangze from analyzing the behavior of the key targets, right?

The other party's behavior obviously attracted his attention, and he didn't know if his suspicion of seeing everyone as a suspect played a role, making him always feel that there was something wrong with the other party's approach.

But what exactly was wrong made Tangze a little confused.

There is really nothing wrong with what the other party did, and he also gave Suzuki Jirokichi enough respect.

But in fact, looking at it from another perspective, Director Qiaoshan had a very tough attitude on this matter, denying the fact that the painting was fake without any basis.

If Karasawa determined that the painting was a fake based on his nose's sense of smell, then what did the other party base his judgment on?

But if he completely denied it, then he said that he would invite experts from the Bear Country to evaluate it.

Unless that guy can bribe the experts, this trick will just delay time.

But it is obvious that experts will not damage their own signs. In other words, the authenticity can only be determined after identification. This is very contradictory.

All in all, Tangze now feels like he is seeing flowers in a fog, unable to see anything clearly.

　Thanks to William James Moriarty for the 100 book coins~
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)