Chapter 498: Bamboo Basket Fetching Water
There are more and more people in the exhibition hall. Li Qi originally did not agree to increase the number of appraisers, but there was a legal problem. If it is now identified as a fake, it means that the real thing may have been stolen. It is the insurance company that compensates. If you find out that it is a fake after returning home, the insurance company will not pay attention to you.
Two thieves were caught that day. Every professional needs a workbench, which is not available in the pavilion and can only be carried from the outside. Israeli IZO agents intercepted a pair of young men who were carrying their desks away. Secret Service officers pried open the table and found two oil paintings inside. This is a joyful thing, but it is also a disturbing thing. Because no one found out when these two paintings were stolen.
The police chief later told the media: "This is a disaster, we should have ended the art exhibition early." But we didn't. ”
The artworks in the restoration room have not escaped the clutches, and the artworks in the restoration room are more valuable works of art. In the French Pavilion, for example, four security guards were required every time an artwork was sent to and taken from the restoration room, which indirectly contributed to the lack of staff in the exhibition hall. But even so, Cézanne's paintings, which attracted the most attention, were stolen.
Two special detectives of the Federal Ministry of the Interior went to the restoration room with their documents and announced that they were going to check the identities of all police officers and security guards. Because they received messages that someone was posing as a police officer and security guard. Check the police and security first, then the staff of the repair room. Everyone was quite cooperative. After two plainclothes police officers left, the restorers found that the oil painting of Cézanne, which was about to be restored, was missing.
The alarm sounded, and two plainclothes detectives were caught by the police at the door. The good news is that there is enough evidence to accuse them because they are not police officers at all. Rather, he pickpocketed the documents of a police detective of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The bad news is that they can only be accused of impersonating the police. No evidence of theft was found on them. Obvious. The oil painting is no longer in their hands. They face up to one and a half years in prison. But the paintings they stole were enough for them to spend the rest of their lives in luxury.
An FBI special agent commented that there is only one reason why art thefts are becoming more frequent: the risks and benefits are disproportionate. This interest not only leads to outsiders coveting artworks, but also makes many insiders, even the police, become thieves.
Zhao Yun watched from a distance with a telescope as the person posing as a police detective was arrested, and then his attention shifted to a woman. He doesn't stare at paintings, he only stare at people. He had been eyeing this woman for three days. On the surface, this woman is a technician in an art gallery, mainly engaged in oil painting materials, oil painting maintenance, frame selection and other convenient technical knowledge. But is it not?
Zhao Yun noticed this woman when he was observing the periphery, to be exact, the car driven by this woman. The price of this car is more than half a million dollars, which is obviously not a price that an ordinary technician can afford. After observing it for a few days, he was more certain of this idea. But only suspicions. Because Zhao Yun didn't find out that she had taken the oil paintings out of the exhibition hall. Perhaps because there was no such behavior, the police never noticed her.
In the exhibition hall, Zhao Yun had the same idea, in just ten minutes, where did two thieves pretending to be police detectives hide the paintings?
The police retrieved the surveillance video and began to verify, the exhibition hall is very large, and it is inevitable that there will be dead corners in some places. According to the surveillance, the two men stayed in the public passage for about 30 seconds, and it is believed that the oil painting was hidden in that section. The police began to search the area, as well as third parties who went to the area, from the afternoon to the evening. Still nothing. Cézanne's oil paintings just disappeared.
"It must be hidden." Li Qi and Xun Xuan are also studying the surveillance video, but they really can't see where it is hidden. Xun Xuan said: "What does that person think? ”
That person was referring to Zhao Yun. Li Qi shook his head: "I haven't been in touch with him for many days. ”
said Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun called. Li Qi answered the phone: "Hey! ”
"I know where Cézanne's painting is, but I can't get it, can you help me?" Zhao Yun asked.
"I can't." Li Qi looked left and right and suppressed his voice and said, "I am a soldier now, and you are a thief." This is a breach of professional ethics. Don't tell me where the painting is, I'll assume you didn't call. ”
Zhao Yun hung up the phone helplessly, if this was China, he would definitely find a suitable identity to pretend to be in. But the problem is that I can only speak Chinese, and when people ask me, I will be exposed. I can't get in or out. We can only wait until the last day to carry out.
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The last day of the exhibition is on the weekend, and there are many visitors. Zhao Yun is also among the tourists. The theft of Cézanne's oil paintings has made the news, and everyone has rushed to see the empty walls that are now only nails. Zhao Yun followed the crowd and visited the French Pavilion. In order to appear that he is very ordinary, judging from the surveillance, he seems to have been talking to the people around him, and it seems that he has come in company. The surveillance screen is not a movie, as long as you don't stand out in the frame.
Zhao Yun slowly walked to the area where he stayed mysteriously for thirty seconds without surveillance. The reason for the lack of surveillance here is that there are restrooms. Male left, female right. Zhao Yun walked slowly, and then took advantage of the fact that no one around was paying attention, and dodged into the women's toilet.
But Zhao Yun didn't know, because the police suspected that the oil painting was still in the area, so they secretly installed three monitors. He didn't attract the attention of the police originally, but he dodged into the women's toilet with great agility and caught the police's eye at once. The person in charge of the police ordered not to alarm the other party, and made sure that the other party had an oil painting in his hand before doing it.
Zhao Yun entered the women's bathroom, and a bewitching woman was touching up her makeup in the mirror. Zhao Yun walked forward without hesitation, and then entered the inconvenient toilet. It is inconvenient for the toilet to be sitting, Zhao Yun reached into the toilet and fished it down, and sure enough, there was. This is the picture and internal structure of the toilet that he saw from the computer in the woman's home. The hole in the ordinary toilet bowl is very small, and it is difficult to fit into an oil painting. However, this toilet was damaged before the exhibition and replaced with a new one. It is believed that the theft syndicate had been planning to use the toilet to store oil paintings in the early days.
This toilet can also be used normally, there are two pipes underneath, and there are still relatively few disabled people. Zhao Yun's hand couldn't be fully extended, but he grabbed something with his two fingers, slowly pulled it up, and then pulled out an oil painting wrapped in a waterproof and fully sealed soft shell from the toilet hole. He wasn't quite sure if it was Cézanne's painting. Zhao Yun took out a cloth cover from his bag and put the oil painting into the cloth cover. A ruthless folded oil painting and stuffed it into a backpack.
But when he was about to leave, he realized that something was not quite right. He used Li Qi's usual trick to pull the bathroom open and stuff a small mirror out. In the mirror, he saw heavily armed SWAT officers following behind a plainclothes officer, who was waiting twenty meters away.
Li Qi was taking care of the exhibits to be sent to the auction when the phone vibrated and answered: "Hey! ”
Zhao Yun said: "Brother is surrounded. ”
"Damn, then you remember to destroy the card, otherwise people will know that you called me."
"Wait for your help." Zhao Yun said: "I'm in the women's bathroom, and the police outside are waiting for me to go out." ”
"Cézanne's painting is hidden in the women's bathroom?"
"Yes, in the toilet." Zhao Yun said: "There are two pipes inside...... That's not the point, how do I get out? ”
Li Qi smiled bitterly: "Big brother, I can do it, but I'm not so capable." But...... All toilets are ventilated. You look at whether you use ventilation vents, or exhaust fans. ”
"Exhaust holes. But it can't be drilled. Too small. ”
"I can only put the painting back."
"Big brother, even if I can't find the oil painting, I will be listed as a suspect. When the camouflage on my face is removed, I will be completely exposed. ”
Li Qi asked: "Is there anyone else in the toilet?" ”
"Wait." There are three rows of toilets here, Zhao Yun walked slowly, heard the sound of flushing, and suppressed his voice: "Yes." ”
"Cutting the flesh and planting the stolen goods."
"That is all there is to it?"
"Yes."
Zhao Yun was helpless, hung up the phone and dodged to the side, and a young woman walked out of the bathroom. Zhao Yun was in the bathroom on the side. He peered over the bathroom, waited for the woman to walk by, and hung the cloth bag with the painting on the woman's shoulder bag. The woman walked to the mirror in front of her, washed her hands first, and then looked at herself in the mirror and brushed her hair.
The woman opened the bathroom door and was about to step out, when the oil painting stuck on the door and fell to the ground. The woman was puzzled and picked up the cloth cover and stepped out of the bathroom. And then...... Then the police stopped her with gunfire. She was also inexplicable. It wasn't until the police came forward to ask her that she repeatedly defended herself that she had picked up this thing on the ground.
The woman was taken by the police for questioning, and plainclothes police officers went into the bathroom. He pushed the doors open and inspected. However, this hand did not work against Zhao Yun. He was in the bathroom of the third row when plainclothes police searched the first row. Then go around to the restroom in the first row. Peek-a-boo, he's good at it.
Why does a women's restroom have so many small restrooms that are divided? Take a look at the peak domestic tourist season to see why. During the peak domestic tourist season, there are only two or three people queuing up in the men's restroom. There was a long queue in front of the women's restroom. Setting up more women's toilets in such public places is a kind of humanistic care.
finally got out of danger, and Zhao Yun was afraid of this almost miss. Reflect on your mistakes and find that you have made low-level mistakes. The most important thing is to break in without careful environmental reconnaissance. There is also the fact that he underestimated the German police. Finally, learning English is important, very important.
The police announced the good news at noon, and Cézanne's painting was completed. Although a suspect was detained, the police did not find her guilty. Although Zhao Yun couldn't understand German, he could understand the picture. When the police were seen pulling the painting out of the cloth cover at a press conference, a glass heart shattered. Also heartbroken with him was the female technician, who was trapped in two people to steal the oil painting, which was gone. It's even more crazy that I don't know how it didn't. Not to mention her, even the police are a little inexplicable. It wasn't until the surveillance staff compared the people who entered the bathroom that they found out that the real suspect had been hiding in the bathroom.
Zhao Yun did some work, and of course some basic makeup was needed to enter the women's bathroom. Foundation, lipstick, shoulder bag, blonde wig are a must. Zhao Yun's height of 1.73 meters is a little stout, but European women are generally stout.
However, modern technology is not simply disguised, and Zhao Yun's skull ratio has been included in the archives. (To be continued......)