Conan: The Mechanic

About ten minutes later, in a heavily guarded operating room, Chiba, Haibara Ai, and Conan were sitting on the bench beside them, watching the results of the experts' operations—because it wasn't their business with Kasaka Natsumi. Those who can be involved, so they can only choose to come here to watch the staff's inspection of the [Egg of Memories].

"Really?" Qian Yu murmured to herself, staring at the scene in front of her. "This……"

In front of him, the [Egg of Memories] was disassembled into multiple relatively large parts and more scattered small parts. The degree of disassembly was so great that he even doubted whether this thing could really be recovered.

After all, it's not uncommon to find a screw left for some unknown reason after putting back a disassembled alarm clock, right?

Of course, what Chiyu is surprised is not what the experts in the operating room are looking at—in the hands of an expert, a transparent crystal that was removed from the [Egg of Memories] The film was placed in the light beam of the flashlight, and the light beam projected by the light beam of the flashlight on the chip and on the wall looked a bit abnormal.

Different from the situation where the light shines directly through a homogeneous transparent crystal, the light spot on the wall seems to show the shape of a building.

"This... can we use this thing as a transparent slideshow?" Conan murmured.

"It should be," Qian Yu pouted. "At least I think if you put this thing in a slide projector, it should be able to project more clearly."

While they were discussing this, Shiro Suzuki walked over quickly with Kasaka Natsumi and the others. "Excuse me, what is the [discovery] you mentioned just now?"

"The crystal plate embedded in the [Egg of Memory] is deliberately engraved with complex patterns." One of the researchers pointed to the pattern on the wall and motioned everyone to look there.

The image projected on the wall seems to be a building, but the people present cannot distinguish the specific details of the building.

"Is this... a castle?" Suzuki Shirou murmured.

"It looks like it should be a castle, but it's hard to tell the finer details," explained one researcher. "I think it may have been that the craftsmanship in the past was a little bit incapable of engraving at this precision, and then the erosion of the years has made this even worse."

He said it so confidently that only one of the people present could be sure that it wasn't the same - not because the sculptor didn't make it clear enough in the first place, but simply because the long years had blurred the score.

[Sharpening], this is the image processing service provided by the auxiliary unit, and Chiba used this method to alleviate the damage of the image, so that a much clearer castle image appeared on his retina.

A typical English castle

"The glass is worn, is this really possible?" Fei Yingli asked suddenly. "If I remember correctly, the glass should be very stable and not easy to weather..."

"Generally speaking, glass is indeed very stable, but if the preservation environment is very poor, or even destructive treatment, it will be severely traumatized. After all, glass is not indestructible, which is entirely possible." The expert's own judgment But very sure.

However, just when they were about to believe what the expert said, Kasaka Natsumi, who came with them, objected.

"No, I don't think it's worn, but treated, right?" she said uncertainly.

"Huh?" Everyone looked at her immediately.

"I mean, I seem to know some things in this regard," Kasaka Natsumi recalled after calming down a bit and sorting out her thoughts. "That...the ancestors seem to have been treated, it should be to protect those structures, and a layer of special material with low melting point was applied to the outside of the fragile parts. As long as the layer of material is melted, the inner glass can be exposed, and A clear pattern is revealed."

(In fact, it is a very thin natural light-colored resin material, which is introduced into the gap between the concave and convex glass after heating)

After a layer of material is applied, the refraction coating of the entire glass will be severely damaged, eventually resulting in a complete deformation of the projected picture. But as long as the special material is peeled off, the original imaging ability can be restored.

"Hurry up and see if you can give it a try," Shiro Suzuki said to the staff, who seemed to believe Kasaka Natsumi's words, and the researchers also exchanged some distrust of this strange woman who appeared out of nowhere. After looking at him, he began to carefully inspect the glass to determine if there was really any material covered on the glass.

Then they discovered that it was—although it wasn't obvious, it was covered with a very thin layer of material. Although it is too thin and inconspicuous to be seen, the amount of material covered on it is enough to destroy the texture that could have refracted the image.

Just like a minute later, everyone looked at the glass with a layer of transparent material that had really been peeled off in surprise.

It was a clearer castle, and it made Shirou Suzuki, Natsumi Kasaka and Kasaka's butler show strange expressions.

"This thing is..." Suzuki Shirou narrowed his eyes slightly. "I remember it was the one I saw in the newspaper when I was a child. It has been one of the royal summer resorts since the era of Jiaren..."

"This is our family's castle in Yokosuka," Kasaka Natsumi's self-confidence seemed to have increased a lot at this time - after all, such an image added considerable evidence to her words. "Well, in this case, does it add reliability to what I said before?"

Shiro Suzuki turned his head to look in the direction of Kogoro Mouri and Eiri~www.readwn.com~ and after looking at Eri, Kogoro gave Shiro Suzuki a positive look.

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In the original work, the design used here is the "transparent mirror", which is a design that hits light on the front of the mirror and projects the pattern on the back of the mirror on the refracted image, but I chose to change it to the slide projector mode. It is the way in which the rear light source is projected on the drawn glass plate, and finally the pattern on the glass plate is reflected on the wall from the front end.

The reason for the revision is mainly for two reasons.

1. The lens of this piece of glass is installed at the bottom of the egg, that is to say, it has the function of transmitting light (while the bronze mirror in the era of the invention of the light-transmitting mirror is only responsible for reflection), but if the glass is to assume the responsibility of the light-transmitting mirror, That means that the main result after lighting the glass is reflection, and the two are contradictory in the functions that need to be achieved. Moreover, the working principle of the slide projector has been thoroughly understood before (in contrast, the technology of the light-transmitting mirror has been lost for a long time), so it is a more reasonable way to use the slide projector type instead of the light-transmitting mirror type as the "egg of memory". .

2. The craftsmanship of this egg should be limited to the same level as that of the Faberge colored eggs of the same period, or at least not far beyond the average level of the Faberge colored eggs. With the same human input, the slideshow is a much more convenient mapping solution than the light-transmitting mirror, which is meaningless except that it requires a more complicated procedure, which is not worth it for Russia in World War I (During the First World War, even the Faberge Easter eggs were largely abandoned and simple). For the Faberge Easter eggs, whose production team was broken and displaced due to the war, it is even impossible to achieve such a far-reaching craftsmanship.