Chapter 22: The Murder in the Art Gallery I

"Still worried?" Seeing Conan coming to him, Harukawa knew what was on his mind.

"Xiaolan, she doesn't know yet!" Conan asked knowingly, apparently still expecting something.

"What do you say?" Harukawa glanced at him and asked rhetorically.

"Ugh!" Conan was speechless.

"Be careful next time, if it weren't for the kidnapping of that little brother that made us all worried, otherwise you would have been debunked by Xiaolan, although Xiaolan would not ask, but in that kind of situation that is already clear, Xiaolan will definitely demolish you, that is, ......" Harukawa leaned against the desk and looked at Conan.

"Got it, I'll be careful next time!" After a pause, Conan spoke, although it was very uncomfortable, but he already knew the answer, and it was not so unacceptable.

Although he already knew the answer, Conan didn't want to see this, Conan wanted Xiaolan to reveal his identity, but now, he and Xiaolan were destined to be childhood sweethearts, but nothing else.

"Let's go back together, Xiaolan will be worried!" Harukawa took a document from his desk and walked out of the building with Conan.

Returning to the office together, Xiaolan seems to have forgotten her previous suspicions, after all, for Kudo, Xiaolan only cares about it as a friend.

On the morning of the second day, after breakfast, the few people had nothing to do, Xiaolan stayed in the bedroom, Maori, Harukawa and Conan stayed in the office and sat boredly, and Harukawa secretly practiced the mental method.

It didn't take long for Mori to dress up, as if she was going out, and told Mori that there was something terrible about an art museum, Mori and Conan wanted to escape, but they were frightened by the power of Ran's karate, and Mori Kogoro regretted letting Ran learn karate, so he had to go to the museum with Ran.

"Wow, the paintings here are so beautiful!" Xiaolan looked at a painting in front of her and exclaimed.

Mori Kogoro and Conan turned their backs to Ran speechlessly, and Harukawa looked at Ran with a smile on his face.

"Miss, you like this painting very much! I also love this painting, no, I should say all the works in this museum, I love it, they are like my children, they are so cute! An old man suddenly appeared behind Xiaolan and said with a sigh.

"Excuse me? Who are you? Xiaolan turned around and wondered.

"It's rude! Hello! I'm the director of this art museum, and I'm contemptuous of Ochiai. Director Ochiai's voice carried a sense of loneliness.

"Oh! It turned out to be Mr. Curator, sorry! Xiaolan smiled and said to the curator.

"That's it! Please enjoy it slowly! Director Ochiai said happily, and was ready to turn around and leave.

"Wata, I've said it a few times, wear gloves when handling the work!" As soon as he turned around, the curator shouted angrily at an employee who was taking down the painting, and the man who was scared almost got the painting to the ground.

"I'm sorry!" That Mr. Kuwata had apparently been told many times by Director Ochiai.

"You don't have to do it, Iijima, I'll leave it to you here!" Director Ochiai said to a man who was carrying it.

"Okay!" Iijima replied.

"Humph!" Mr. Kuwata went to carry other works.

"Curator! There are still as few people here as ever! Two men suddenly walked from outside the museum, and the man walking in front said.

"Hello, Boss Manaka!" Director Ochiai obviously doesn't have much respect for this boss.

"Anyway, this art museum will be demolished in ten days, so I will trouble you to take care of these broken copper and iron, haha!" Boss Manaka said mockingly.

"Mr. Designer, where's the blueprint?" Boss Manaka said to the designer behind him.

"Yes! Be! With that, he followed Boss Manaka away.

"Is this museum going to disappear?" Xiaolan said euphemistically, a little lost.

"Yes! The previous boss went bankrupt, so he sold the museum to the boss of Manaka! There was no expression on Ochiai's face, but the faintly curved back revealed his mood.

"That's because the boss of Manaka is willing to continue to run the museum, so he sold the museum to the boss of Manaka, and I can't imagine that guy, and soon, he plans to renovate the museum into a hotel!" Iijima said angrily.

"Boom!" There was the sound of iron clashing, and when I looked back, I saw that Mr. Kuwata had accidentally knocked off a pair of medieval armor helmets.

As soon as Mr. Watada picked up the helmet, Boss Manaka stood not far away and said, "You should be that Wata, I've heard your rumors, but ah, hurry up and get the money!" Hahaha! After saying that, he smiled and left with the designer.

"Damn!" Mr. Kuwata smashed his helmet with one hand on the cart where the armor was pulling.

"Here we go again!" Conan looked at Kuwata in surprise.

"That's it! Take your time! Director Ochiai walked out of the hall with Iijima and went to the other rooms.

"How about him?" Conan didn't understand.

"Because it's a fake, maybe it's a fake because of other displays!" Harukawa stood behind Conan and said slowly.

"I see!" Conan suddenly realized.

"Brother Qingchuan, let's go to other exhibition halls!" Xiaolan said in a low voice.

"Good!" The exhibition hall walked by one after another, Xiaolan's mood was a little depressed, and she became relaxed again, she had seen these social ups and downs for a long time, and she was not so worried, but she was disappointed by the old curator.

Xiaolan has a great interest in these works, and it seems that these works are like flowers in her eyes, but the three of them don't understand how to appreciate them, and they can't see what there is to see in these 'works'.

Qingchuan looked at Xiaolan patiently, Xiaolan seemed to have no him in her eyes, only those works, and walked to the passage of the exhibition hall of the Hell Pavilion, Maori and Conan were already weak, and they just wanted to go home in a circle immediately.

No entry!

"Strange! There should be another room here, how can there be a sign prohibiting entry? Xiaolan looked at the brochure of the art museum in her hand, looked at the map on it and wondered.

"Sister Xiaolan, let's go back then!" Conan already wanted to hug his pillow.

"There are a few more rooms ahead, let's go around!" Xiaolan didn't seem to hear Conan's coquettishness, and walked straight past Conan.

"Ahh Conan shouted together with Mori Kogoro.

The sun was about to set, and under the setting sun, it was the sound of Conan and Maori sitting down at once.

Conan and Mori rested back to back, 'admiring' a lap, and Haruka and the others returned to the passage of the Hell Mansion.

"Sister Xiaolan, I'm so tired! Let's go home! "Conan doesn't seem to have any energy.

"Xiaolan, my stomach is already hungry!" Maori is also powerless.

"You're really bad!" Xiaolan's face was very bad.

"Alas! That sign is gone, let's go check it out! You can go first, but make your own dinner! After saying that, he pulled Harukawa into the Hell Mansion.

"Xiaolan is really bad!" Conan and Maori said in unison, looking at Xiaolan who seemed to be a demon resurrected, but they had to follow.

"It's so dark in here!" , Xiaolan was scared and held Qingchuan's hand.

"Because this is the House of Hell!" Conan explained.

"Wow! That's a big deal! Lan looked up at a huge painting.

"It's really hell!" Maori sighed.

"This painting is called Heavenly Punishment, and it is the story of a righteous knight who kills a demon!" Xiaolan looked at the explanation under the painting.

"It's the real boss!" Several people heard the sound of dripping water, looked back, but jumped.

"Ahh At this moment, Xiaolan showed the panic that a girl should have when she was scared.

The moon had come to the sky, and Officer Twilight walked into the scene with the police, and when he saw Maori, he was surprised, "Why are you again?"

"Of course it's me, Officer Twilight, no one has vandalized the scene yet!" Mori didn't seem to hear Officer Twilight's helplessness, and pointed to the corpse of Boss Manaka.

"Have any of you seen what happened!" Officer Twilight said as he walked over to the art gallery officer.

"Mr. Officer, I have already inquired, but no one has seen it." Director Ochiai said.

"Mr. Officer, I think that security camera should have captured the incident!" Iijima pointed to the security camera in the corner.

"Oh! Then go and see what the clues are. Officer Twilight said to a few people.

Several people watched the tape, and halfway through it, Officer Twilight pressed a pause.

"This picture!"

"It's like that painting!" Conan continued Maori's words.

"The painting?" Officer Twilight wondered.

"It's the huge painting called Heavenly Punishment in front of the deceased! I think the prisoner designed it like this to imitate that painting! Maori explained.

"Oh! But the prisoner is very bold! Pretending to be like this, it is easy to cause a commotion! Officer Twilight said solemnly.

"That's why there was a no-entry sign!" Xiaolan said as she took Qingchuan's hand behind Conan and the others.

"What?" Officer Twilight was surprised.

"Xiaolan, I remember it should have been half past four!" Maori Road.

"Hmmm! But when I got there at five o'clock, the sign was gone! "Little Landau.

"It should be that the prisoner was placed there, and after luring people away, he sneaked in to kill the boss of Manaka!"

"Anyway, the time of the crime should be around half past four!" Officer Twilight said.

"The prisoner is very familiar with the art museum, and it should be done by someone inside the art museum!" Pore says so.

"Look, Officer Twilight!" Conan pressed the rewind and said, pointing to the paused screen.

"Little ghost, don't just reverse the tape, huh! Boss Manaka seems to have written something on that piece of paper! On the screen, Boss Manaka took down a piece of paper on the wall and wrote something with a round pen.

"It should be the boss of Manaka who found out who the prisoner is and wrote down the prisoner's name!" Maori reasoned.

"That piece of paper is still in the hands of Boss Manaka!" Maori exclaimed.

All immediately returned to the scene of the crime.