Miss Moriarty wants to save Mihua Town today too

Manaka looked back at Kubota, "You should be that Kubota, right? I've heard your rumors, you guys need to hurry up and collect the money! Hahahaha!"

Hearing Zhenzhong's laughter, Kubota was so angry that he smashed the helmet he had just picked up on the delivery cart.

Seeing this, Winnet speculates that Kubota's purpose of finding Masaka in private failed.The hatred he showed can also be used.

On the other side, Conan, who was witnessing the whole thing, saw this scene and thought it was coming again—the angry roar of Director Ochiai.However, contrary to his expectations, Kubota's action of dropping his helmet did not offend Director Ochiai.

You were so angry just now...why?

"The insatiable guy..."

Conan heard the whisper and looked up to find Winnet standing behind him.Although the expression was smiling, it gave him a chilling feeling, as if the cold front wrapped in the old scabbard had exposed a corner.

too horrible.

Conan's back turned cold, and he thought of Xiaolan's angry appearance was also very scary.Can't help but sigh in my heart, women are really terrible creatures.

Seeing Xiaolan's high spirits, Conan also knew that it would be impossible to leave the art gallery for a while, and began to watch it with Mori Kogoro.Each exhibition hall is basically built in a roving circle, and the four of them are not close together. Occasionally, Winnett and Mao Lilan have a few words to discuss their views on artworks.

"It's so religious."

In the exhibition hall "Between the Sky" Mao Lilan said with emotion.

"No, this is about the content of ancient Greek mythology." Winnet said, "I'm not sure, but it should be the story of the captivity of Nemedes. He was captured by Zeus and became the wine served by the gods. Tong...these reliefs should show the scene where the eagle captures Nemedes."

Winnet didn't say the second half, but Zeus had an almost absurd love for Nemedes.

She didn't bother to talk about those vulgar and unclean contents, like a half-guide accompanying the three of them to browse the exhibition hall.

"Sister Winnet, you know a lot..."

After Conan experienced the influence of heraldry, classical mythology, local customs, and maritime history, he also developed a feeling of admiration for Winnet, which stems from her erudition.

"Well, maybe it has something to do with my love of reading in peacetime. People of the older generation always say that 'modern theology is fundamentally heresy', so during college, I mainly focused on reading and studying miscellaneous studies."

"Ah ha ha……"

Hearing this from a pastor of a modern church with a degree in theology, Conan smiled awkwardly.

Winnet felt that although Conan was a young adult, he hadn't shown the sharpness and intelligence before. She thought to herself, it might be the result of a wrong attack.

Kogoro Mori was a little surprised when he heard that Winnett had graduated from college, "So Miss Moriarty, you have already graduated from college. I can see that you are about the same age as my daughter."

"Mr. Maury, it's easy for people to mistake this kind of words as flirting." Winnet said with a smile, "However, some people have indeed said that I look younger than my actual age. Thanks to this, in children In the middle, I’m quite popular.”

After all, Winnet looked at Conan with a smile.The latter shook his shoulders, touched the back of his head and laughed dryly.

After the viewing of the exhibition hall of the sea came to an end, the four of them went to the next place together.The entire art museum is like a radiating circle with several branches, each leading to an exhibition hall.In front of the road where they are now, there is a sign "No entry except for related parties".

"No entry," Mao Lilan muttered, and opened the tour brochure, "There should be another room in front of this."

"Okay, don't worry about this, let's go around quickly." Mori Kogoro urged.

Winnet could see that he and Conan were getting impatient.However, the sign in front of her made her feel very concerned.As Mao Lilan said, it is indeed written in the manual that there is a "Between Hell". If it is for temporary maintenance, there should be a special mark on the notice board of the museum.

She felt something was wrong.

When conflicts intensify and abnormal situations arise, some special purposes can naturally be associated.Turning off specific scenes is a frequently used modus operandi.

Could it be that?

"Miss Winnet, we are going to the next exhibition hall." Mao Lilan called Winnet on the way back.

"I'm going to the bathroom, you go first."

Winnet pushed Mao Lilan away, and when the footsteps faded away, she crossed the "No Entry" sign and walked towards "Between Hell"-the exhibition hall was not turned on, and the interior looked very dark. Winnet's eyesight Slightly affected—she had a hard time seeing the artwork in the gallery.In the entire exhibition hall, there was only the sound of her footsteps.

"Did you guess wrong? Or is it not time yet?"

Winnet continued to go deeper into the exhibition hall, her shoes making a loud sound, like a test.

She stopped and calmed down.

There is the sound of breathing...

……

203 Flower of Conviction

As she paced forward again, her breathing became more rapid.This time, she clearly felt that the voice came from the outline of the armor directly in front of her.

Armor?

Holding the sword in the hand of the armor, Winnet only thought of one possibility, and then let out a deep and nervous laugh.

Curator Ochiai, who was staying in his armor and waiting for Manaka to come to the appointment, became annoyed when Winnet approached.He didn't think Winette was an unruly guest, but it was, and she had entered the temporarily closed exhibit hall, and would sabotage his plan to kill Zhenzhong.

Winnet's laughter was extremely piercing in his ears.

Why laugh?

The curator Ochiai couldn't find the reason, the hell exhibition room was full of serious exhibits, and there was no funny content at all.

He fell into a sudden silence, his lips twitching, thinking of a solution.He hoped that Winnet would leave, but Winnet didn't do that, she just stood in front of him, as if those godless eyes had pierced through him in this armor.

"I have heard a story."

Winnet didn't see through the person in the armor, she just talked about it on her own.

"In ancient legends, there is an extremely terrifying monster. A person who is injured by a monster will have a curse that will travel throughout his body, making him eventually turn into the same monster."

"The protagonist of the story, in order to save an important person, was injured by a monster. The curse infiltrated him, making him violent and terrifying, but he tried his best to kill the monster completely; he succeeded, but gradually lost in the curse .”

Director Ochiai understood what Winnet said.What is implied in it is that he and Zhenzhong, the little girl with impaired eyesight in front of him, can see through his thoughts and actions.

Poor eyesight, but has a keen heart like a mirror.

"What is waiting for him is to have important people kill him." Winnet said, "It is not only this art gallery that needs to be protected, but also people who trust you."

Director Ochiai still didn't reply.

"It seems that you have realized that I am too ignorant... But don't worry, this art gallery will continue to operate."

Winnett left.

Curator Ochiai also heaved a sigh of relief, there were less than 10 minutes left before the time he had agreed with Manaka.

In the end, he was relieved when he heard what Winnet said. He knew that his actions were very evil—but he had no choice—the museum was about to be rebuilt, and it was impossible for him to listen to someone who had nothing to do with him. The remarks of the orator girl easily gave up the long-planned plan.Everything was just as he expected, she came forward and shook her head in front of him.

Zhenzhong didn't see that the person who invited him didn't come, so he turned around and looked at his watch to confirm the time.

Curator Ochiai, who was hiding in the armor, jumped up violently. With all his strength in his old body, he swung the sharp sword high, venting all his anger and unwillingness on Shinaka.

call!

The long sword slashed at Zhen Zhong's body.

Director Ochiai was old, and despite his high willpower, the vertical chop with full power only left a wide and long wound on Manaka's body, and did not cut off his arm.

He turned his back to Zhenzhong, deliberately leaving space for Zhenzhong to breathe.

"Look behind you..."

Hearing Director Ochiai's voice, Manaka knew who the person in the armor was, but he was sweating profusely from the pain; he looked to the wall behind him, and there was a note on it.The note was removed from the wall, and Zhenzhong saw the name "Kubata" written on the note, and there was a ballpoint pen on the table.

Manaka took the ballpoint pen subconsciously, and was about to write the name of Ochiai Curator on the note, but his plan failed—the ballpoint pen on the table couldn’t write.

"hateful!"

He recognized this fact after scribbling a few strokes randomly, driven by anger and despair.Zhenzhong threw the pen to the ground, trying to escape from the scene, but it was too late——

Curator Ochiai turned around and slashed at Manaka who was trying to stand up again. He grabbed Manaka's neck and, with all his strength, lifted him up with one hand, piercing his throat with his long sword.

The majestic blood sprayed out like a blooming flower of condemnation.

After everything was over, curator Ochiai tried his best to leave the camera range, found the prepared package, carefully took off the armor, put it in the sack, and then found the ballpoint pen thrown by Manaka, and replaced it with the one he carried.

In this way, the police will not find that the handwriting on the note is not genuine.

And Winnet, who left the hell, didn't know all this.

When she said those words at the time, she was actually facing Iijima, not Director Ochiai.

She thought that Iijima was determined to kill Zhenzhong with his own hands.Because the entrustment to her is delayed, and the real action can no longer be placed on an unknown website by him.Although Winnet suspected that the person among them might be Director Ochiai, she quickly denied it—how could an old man over seventy wear such a heavy armor and swing a sword at a strong middle-aged man.

Even if the wearer is not an old man, it may not be able to stably kill the opponent in a state of resistance.

Winnet subconsciously ruled out this possibility.

Having guessed most of the crime process, she already knew that the purpose of "Iijima" was to blame Kubota for the entire murder incident. On the edge of the counter under the armor, there was a ballpoint pen, and on the wall, there was a piece of paper strip.Knowing these, she has room to operate.

Typically, craftsmen don't carry heavy, high-value ballpoint pens with them.

She found Kubota's room and sneaked in after confirming that there was no one there.

Sure enough, in Kubota's personal belongings, she found the exact same ballpoint pen as inside the crime scene.

She took the ballpoint pen away.

Then hide in the corner of the corridor.

To her surprise, the person pushing the cart was not Iijima, but Director Ochiai.

"conspiracy?"

"No... neither of these two people should have the personality to drag each other into it. Is the curator Ochiai in the armor?"

If you had outstanding physical fitness when you were young, and you often exercised when you were old, it is indeed possible to support that armor...Winette still finds it incredible, so she has to classify it as spiritual and emotional strength.This is not idealism, and even something as simple and monotonous as excitement can work beyond imagination when driven by strong emotions.

Winnet knew this firsthand, so it's not hard to understand.

After Director Ochiai entered the room, Winnet walked through the corridor and returned to the circular chair in the center of the hall as if nothing had happened.After a while, the Maoli family came out from the previous pavilion.

"I'm so tired, sister Xiaolan. Let's go back."

"I am hungry."

……

204 Heaven's Punishment

One small one, one big two began to complain, and Mao Lilan said speechlessly:

"You two are really bad, you can't stand it after just a few laps."

Immediately, she saw Winnet who was waiting, and beckoned:

"Has Miss Winnet finished shopping too?"

"Um……"

"That……"

Just as Mao Lilan was about to say the words "Go back", she suddenly found that the "No Entry" sign that had been placed between the hells was gone, and she regained her interest, "Miss Winnet, the exhibition hall over there seems to be open. , shall we go and have a look together?"

That direction is...

between hell.

Winnet was a little distressed. If she really wanted to go in, she would probably see a bloody corpse in a somewhat dark and weird exhibition area. She felt that [-]% of the time, the girl Mao Lilan would leave a psychological shadow when she saw it.

It doesn't matter if it's just like this, the problem is... Winnet glanced at Kogoro who was resting.

With a detective on hand, Winnet thinks things will get even more troublesome.However, the people present were recalled anyway, and the process was doomed. Even if Mao Lilan was sent away, it would be meaningless. Thinking ahead, Winnet agreed to Mao Lilan's invitation; Mao Lilan smiled happily, and then turned to the back-to-back resting Combination of size, "Since we have a special look, let's go to the last room to take a look."

"Hey!" The two yelled in unison.

"It doesn't matter if you want to go back first," Mao Lilan said, "However, you have to cook your own dinner."

Watching this family drama, Winnet found it very interesting.If she and Shirley really live together, there may be times when she is lazy and wants to rely on each other. If the person being threatened is herself, she must be led by the nose, but this kind of coercion is somewhat warm, like Like a real family—that's what Shirley gave her.

"How much, it's a bit whimsical."

Winnet followed Mao Lilan, smiled at the "father and son" who complained about "really bad", and walked into the hell.The light outside the door is like a carpet, guiding visitors in.

This time, Winnet watched it carefully, and it was basically a monster model created from some gothic horror and mythology.She looked in the direction of Mao Lilan, and suddenly saw a painting that she hadn't seen when she came in last time——

Curse.

"This title, Heaven's Punishment... It is said that it depicts a knight of justice who seals off the devil." Mao Lilan read to the title.