A few hours later.

"Ah, I didn't win!" Ayumi looked regretful.

The computer screen in front of her was showing Jiroyoshi Suzuki shaking his head regretfully among the sunflowers.

"I thought I would be able to draw with the doctor's network!"

"What, no one won the lottery."

"Of course," Kaedehara said, "because you didn't take a shower or change your clothes before you smoked." ”

"What, you didn't win the lottery in Kaedehara."

"Yes, yes..."

"Someone suggested to the doctor that it was best to take a shower before smoking, but he didn't do anything..."Gray Yuan glanced at Kaedehara sadly.

"You didn't win the lottery anyway," Kaedehara replied in a low voice, "It's not fun to go alone." ”

In fact, although he told the doctor so, Kaedehara didn't believe in that kind of unscientific thing, so he didn't bother to toss. Of course, because the gray plain that was drawn first did not win, he really didn't have any ideas.

"Ah, Mr. Detective is so sweet..."

"By the way, Doctor," Mitsuhiko asked, "what would happen if I won the picture?" ”

"The initial registration of the headnote will be officially registered," the doctor waved his finger at the elementary school students, "and then your username and password will be displayed, and the data will be entered into the application screen, and the tickets will be sent in a few days." ”

"Oh..."

"Doctor, you know that." Conan guessed, "Could it be—"

In the inquiring eyes of the elementary school students, the doctor instantly changed to a smug expression, "That's right, I won the draw!" Hahaha..."

"This laugh feels so sinister." Ash Yuan immediately interrupted the doctor's laughter.

"Uh... Ahem. The doctor rubbed his head in embarrassment.

Hearing that the doctor won the ticket, Mitsuhiko couldn't sit still. He stood up, propped his hands on the table and pleaded with the doctor, "Please, doctor, please give me the ticket, I really want to see it!" ”

"I want to too!"

"Ayumi wants to too!"

"No," Dr. Kaedehara refused, "Ms. Fusa-e just happened to get the ticket. ”

"Huh?"

"Ahh It's the super pretty..."

"The Doctor's first love!?"

The elementary school students were stunned for a moment. However, because Fusha is a very famous brand, they immediately recalled it when they came into contact with it, and then they all looked at the doctor in surprise.

The doctor's face turned red instantly, and he defended: "W-What a first love! It's just a playmate when I was a kid..."

Gray Plains cast a disdainful glance at the doctor.

"The Doctor is going on a date," Ayumi said.

"Come on! Doctor! ”

"They've all said no," the doctor continued.

"There's no way around it." Mitsuhiko sat back with both joy and regret.

"It's not impossible," Conan pondered.

……

Although no one except the doctor failed to win, because of the relationship between Conan "Kidde" and Sonoko, the young detectives were able to participate in the sunflower exhibition on the first day.

In order to avoid any surprises, on the first day, the museum only entertained the staff of the Suzuki Foundation and friends from the garden, so the doctor and Ms. Fussa did not come together, and they had to wait for the next day of the exhibition they had booked.

After a brief speech by Sonoko and Jiroyoshi Suzuki, the Sunflower Exhibition in Japan was officially opened.

At the entrance, after Xiaolan, who was at the front, told the staff that they were going through the back door, they entered the Recrook Art Museum with a special invitation ticket.

The nearby garden is waiting to meet them here.

It is worth mentioning that the Recrok Museum of Art was built by the improvement of the stalactite cave under the name of the Suzuki Foundation.

The building has eight floors above ground, with exhibition halls on each floor, and seven sunflowers on display on each floor.

Finally, when the guests gather on the basement floor, the sunflowers, which were originally scattered on each floor, will be moved to the eighth exhibition hall on the top floor with the guests by a special elevator.

So the group followed the order, starting with the first sunflower on the first floor.

After admiring the first sunflowers, they walked through a tubular passage that winds up to the second gallery.

The sides of the tubular passage are covered with sunflower flowers.

"It's so beautiful!" Ayumi said happily.

"But these are fake flowers, aren't they?"

"If you use real flowers, they will wither." Conan said.

"It's okay to fake flowers," Yuan Tai pinched his nose, "If only the taste could be a little more fragrant." ”

Kaedehara also leaned in and sniffed.

"It's really strange, I remember that Miss Natsumi didn't say that she would add flavor when she proposed it." Sonoko pointed his chin with his index finger and thought for a moment, "Regardless of that, let's go and look at the second sunflower held by our Suzuki Foundation." ”

The group walked again. However, they didn't walk very fast, so Conan approached the flower bed and sniffed it, and then noticed that there were a large number of surveillance cameras hidden in the fake flowers.

didn't have time to think about it, he heard Xiaolan greet him and hurriedly ran forward.

Kaede Hara replied and glanced ahead, still slightly behind.

Coming to the flower bed again, Kaedehara fanned the air over there towards him, and then couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.

"What's wrong?" Gray Yuan leaned around Kaedehara and looked at him with some curiosity, "Did Mr. Detective find something wrong again?" ”

"Hmm... Don't you think there's a strange smell? ”

"yes, there's a smell of rosin," Gray Hara glanced at the flower bed, "probably to make fake flowers feel more real?" ”

Kaedehara thought for a moment.

“… Don't you think that's right? Gray Yuan Wai then asked.

"Well, just now the garden said that it was proposed by Miss Natsumi, and it is said that she likes Van Gogh's sunflowers very much, so she shouldn't be mistaken about the taste, right?"

"She likes paintings, not flowers..."

"That," Kaedehara stretched out his finger and dipped some strange liquid on the dirt on the flower bed, "what about this?" ”

Chemist Gray Yuan was slightly stunned, and then he leaned on the edge of the flower bed like Kaede Yuan and looked inside.

Gray Yuan's face changed slightly, "Turpentine? ”

……

When he arrived at the second exhibition room, Conan realized that Kaedehara and Gray Plains had disappeared for some time.

Because Maple Yuan and Gray Plains often fall behind the back of the line, Xiao Lan and the elementary school students who were a little dizzying when they walked in front didn't notice this for the time being. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that these two might have deliberately left behind and went to the world of two, so Conan didn't take it to heart.

"Look, there it is!" The garden leading the way in front gestured to the sunflowers hanging on the wall.

"Really!"

"That's amazing!"

"I've always wanted to see this." Mitsuhiko looked excited.

The garden walked towards the painting, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure just leaving. Before she had time to think about it, she immediately turned back to Xiaolan and shouted, "Xiaolan! Come on, Shinichi is here too! ”

"Liar!" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment and hurriedly ran over.

Conan's face also changed drastically, and he followed.

"Garden, where's Shinichi?" Xiao Lan looked around.

The room was divided in half by sunflower flowers, and the other half was just out of sight. It's just that when she ran over, she didn't see Shinichi Kudo.

"I'm sorry, I lost him." The garden was a little embarrassed, she just turned her head, and the man seemed to have disappeared.

"Did he really come?" Conan asked.

"Huh?" Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, "When you asked me like this, I only saw it with my eyes." ”

"Could it be that I read it wrong?" Xiaolan made a guess.

"But, it could be..."

Conan pondered for a moment.

Security checks are very strict when entering the museum, and there are not only detailed checks on personal belongings, but also X-ray checks, so it is almost impossible to enter the museum with a disguise.

So it's likely that Kidd came in again disguised as someone who looked exactly like him for some unknown reason...

As he thought about it, he noticed a card falling on the floor.

He hurriedly ran over and picked it up, noticed something strange written on it, flipped it over, and found that it was a Kidka.

Kidd is here, and he has to remind Officer Nakamori that they can...

Glancing up, when he was about to say something to Kaedehara, he remembered that Kaedehara and Gray Plains were gone. Glancing at the elementary school students who were still looking at the paintings, Conan ran over and fooled them to find the two Kaedehara who should be not far behind them, and then turned around and ran towards Xiaolan and Sonoko, who were still looking for Kudo Shinichi.

"It doesn't seem to be here." Xiao Lan, who had been walking around the neighborhood, said to the garden.

"I'm sorry, but I guess I'm wrong."

"Sister Xiaolan, Sister Yuanzi!" Conan shouted.

"Conan, be quiet."

"Hurry up and take me to the control room!"

"Huh?" Xiaolan and Yuanzi were stunned for a moment.

"This is Kidka!" Conan showed the two of them the card he had picked up, "Kidd the Strange Thief has now blended in with Recklock!" ”

……

Meanwhile.

"I said, can't you just change your disguise?"

In the dead corner of a camera, Kaedehara complained to Kidd in front of him.

This isn't the first time Kidd has dressed up as Shinichi Kudo.

As I said before, Kidd looks exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi, but there are some differences in hairstyle, so he only needs to adjust his hairstyle, and he is exactly what Kudo Shinichi looks.

Ash Yuan Ai looked at Kidd twice and lost interest, and stood aside to listen to the two of them.

"How?" Kidd raised an eyebrow, "Don't you just want to see me pretend to be you?" ”

"What do I look like?" Kaedehara blinked innocently.

"You guy really can't get in the oil and salt," Kidd glanced at Gray Yuan Ai beside Kaedehara, "I have already agreed to you learning cross-dressing techniques, how do you think you are also my junior now?" ”

He is the son of the Black Feather Thief, and Yukiko Kudo is his father's student, so these two should be his juniors.

That's what Kidd thinks.

"I haven't learned yet." Kaedehara argued.

"But she learned. You don't want to be the elder of this beautiful young lady, do you? ”

"Each has its own opinion," Kaede's original face did not change, "I'm calling Sister Aoko?" ”

“… Forget it," Kidd's eyelids jumped, "what the hell are you calling me for?" ”

Putting down Kidka and about to explore the way, he noticed his microphone vibrate. That's why he chose to meet the other party here.

In fact, because Kudo has Kiko, he is already very sure that the guy in front of him is Kudo Shinichi.

Of course, he still thinks that the one named Edogawa Conan is also Kudo Shinichi, but this is too outrageous, and he still refuses to think about it further, and does not put the two speculations together.

"Ask what exactly you're going to do." Kaedehara replied.

Rather than guessing like Conan did, he thought it would be better to ask Kidd himself, so he called. Moreover, there could be danger here, and he didn't have time to guess and guess.

……

In the control room, Jiroyoshi Suzuki and his right-hand man, Mr. Goto, as well as Officer Nakamori, Seven Samurai, Ran, Sonoko, and Conan, gather here to watch Kidka.

On the back of the Kidka is written two lines of cipher:

[14=(11 people + 1 person) + 2 people]

[15=(11 people + 1 person) + 2 people + 1 person]

"What the hell does this mean?" Uncle Maori wondered.

"If you have anything to do with sunflowers," said Officer Charlie, "then Van Gogh must have painted fifteen sunflowers." ”

"The fourth, fifth, and sixth paintings," Miss Keiko took over, "are fifteen sunflowers." ”

"Is there a painting of fourteen flowers?"

"There shouldn't be a painting like that."

"No," said Miss Natsumi, objecting, "there is a theory that Van Gogh's sunflowers are fourteen and fifteen of the same painting, and that he wrote fifteen sunflowers in his letter to his brother Theo. ”

"Let's say it's pointing to the number of sunflowers," said Jiroyoshi Suzuki, "and what does the number after that mean?" ”

"If Van Gogh thinks there are only fourteen sunflowers in the painting," replied Mr. Toyuji, "there is a theory that it may represent the twelve disciples of Jesus, plus Theo and Gauguin." ”

"yes, it must be like that!"

"What does that mean?"

Miss Natsumi explains:

"Please go back to the card, the words eleven plus one person refer to the twelve disciples of Jesus, plus two people refer to Theo and Gauguin, so that the total number is fourteen. Then if it is interpreted as fifteen flowers, plus one person, then it refers to Van Gogh himself. ”

"Even if that's the right explanation." "The question is, what does this equation mean?" ”

Sonoko sighed, "Why did Lord Kidd make the notice so difficult to understand?" ”

"The first thing to sort out is that the kidka is really a teaser letter?" Xiaolan also expressed her opinion.

"Well, no matter," said Jiroyoshi Suzuki, "whatever this Kidd card is previewing, just catch that kid and ask him directly." I'm going to lock Kidd in Lakerock. ”

As he spoke, Jiroji Suzuki looked at Officer Nakamori, "I'm going to trouble you to help." ”

"Okay."

"Goto," Jiroyoshi Suzuki then instructed Mr. Goto, who was in charge of the console, "to let all the guests and staff leave." ”

"Yes."

"Don't be that troublesome." The door to the control room was suddenly pushed open, and a somewhat familiar voice came from the doorway.

The people in the room looked towards the door and were surprised to find "Shinichi Kudo" leaning against the door, looking at them.

(End of chapter)