Occasionally, good things happen, and not all cases have a bleak ending.

In fact, only two hours after Hugo revealed the full truth of the case, the crisis caused by the destruction of the famous painting was resolved.

Here's how it is –

With the joint advice of the detective and the police officer, Mr. Yati finally decided to deal with the mess in front of him in the most unpretentious way: generously admit his mistakes and try to make amends.

So, the group came out of the Feiyun Gym and went straight to the art museum. Yadi took the initiative to find the director of the Feiyun Art Museum, sincerely apologized to the middle-aged man, and confessed what he had done in the past two days, as well as the grim fact that the Feiyun Dao Museum was about to be transformed into an art exhibition hall and attract the audience of the art museum.

"I'm so sorry that the museum has suffered a loss, but I will be responsible for all the costs incurred by this incident. If you agree to exhibit my paintings after this event, I would like to create four, no, ten new paintings for the museum! I can't change the fact that the limelight of the museum has been stolen by the renovated gym, but I think it will make up for it. ”

The great artist memorized the lines completely and fluently according to Officer Serra's prior instructions, and even increased the amount of compensation, and bowed deeply ninety degrees, apologizing with extremely upright posture and sincere words.

This set of actions is too standard, right......

Recalling the way Serra gave Yati a lesson, Hugo on the side couldn't help but glance at the expressionless female police officer beside her, what did she go through to sum up such a profound life experience?

"The police are not only Pokémon fighters, and the police academy has a course dedicated to teaching us how to deal with civil disputes. Don't underestimate our expertise. ”

The policewoman noticed the detective's gaze, pushed her glasses and said: "Generally, after such a set of procedures, both parties can successfully end the case privately - at least it will not escalate the conflict." ”

Things turned out just as Serra had expected.

"Uh...... Mr. Yati, I haven't figured out your intentions yet, but since the destroyed painting was yours, there's no loss...... Needless to say, art museums are not institutions that exist on the basis of handouts from artists. ”

The middle-aged curator, who had no characteristics, was unexpectedly easy to speak, and accepted Yate's apology without saying a word. It's just that his voice was obviously confused, and it seemed that he couldn't figure out the full picture of the case.

Just when Serra and the detective thought that the incident was about to end, the curator continued to speak—

"Mr. Yati, to tell you the truth, even if your gym is not remodeled, this art museum will be about to fail."

"What?" This was a surprising revelation, and the artist gasped exaggeratedly, and he was really shocked, "What's going on?" ”

The middle-aged man sighed and poured bitter water on the artist-

"Let's take this morning as an example, the museum only had one visitor this morning, the ticket revenue could not balance the operating costs, and the art subsidy issued by the Elf Alliance had not been increased for a long time, and the price had been rising...... How can such an art museum be sustained? Your Four Virtues is indeed a masterpiece, but it was also made ten years ago, and the number of visitors attracted by these four works alone is limited. In fact, I had the idea of renovating the Feiyun Art Museum for a long time. ”

"Transformation? You're going to make the roof movable, too? Hugo raised half of his eyebrows, couldn't help but make a joke, and looked at the curator with interest.

"No, no, no, I plan to change the way I do business and transform the Feiyun Art Museum into a gallery."

"Does it make a difference?" Officer Serra asked curiously, "The art gallery and the gallery sound like the same, both are places where art is exhibited?" ”

"It's different." The detective shook his finger and was very happy to see that he would have a chance to drop his book bag.

However, this joy was soon interrupted, and the museum director, who was more familiar with the difference between the two, took the initiative to explain-

"Art museums are non-profit organizations that are open to the public. It integrates social functions such as collection, research, display, education, and promotion, and can obtain a certain amount of funds from the Elf Alliance for the purchase and acquisition of artworks, but the main operating expenses still come from the tickets of tourists.

"Galleries, on the other hand, are geared towards the art market. Galleries can acquire artworks directly from artists, discover emerging artists through representation and collaboration, and then introduce them directly to collectors and buyers in the form of exhibitions, so as to sell them. Of course, the gallery will also regularly exhibit some artworks to the public to increase the visibility of the works, the painters, and the gallery.

"After transforming the Feiyun Art Museum into a gallery, although the alliance will no longer give subsidies, it will be able to participate in the intermediary transaction of artworks, and the profits of art transactions are not comparable to tickets and subsidies, and there will be no worries about operating costs."

That's all over...... The detective watched with regret as the middle-aged man uttered a whole bunch of artistic terms, and then objected with a vengeance-

"Mr. Curator, if the renovation is carried out according to the plan you said, then how should the ownership of those artworks in the museum be calculated? Which ones were deposited by artists, which were purchased with alliance subsidies, and which ones were collected by art museums through theory? It's not easy to tell the difference, so you don't plan to use them all as museum possessions, do you? ”

"How is this possible, the museum's collections are all inherited in an orderly manner, and there is no possibility that the ownership of artworks is unknown."

Mr. Curator had a serious expression on his face and waved his arms to show that he was absolutely law-abiding-

"I've been working on these things in my office every day for the past month, and now I've basically sorted them out, and 30% of the works are owned by the museum, which is enough for a large gallery to operate."

Officer Serra recalled the scene of the "Perspective Room" and couldn't help but realize: "I see, that's why you were in the office with the door closed at the time of the crime." ”

"Maybe it's better." "The change to a business model will allow galleries without ticket pressure to exhibit more paintings by emerging artists, which is good news for the art world as a whole." It's so exciting! ”

"And that's not all the good news for artists." Hugo turned around and said to Arti in a serious manner, "After the events of the morning, I began to pay special attention to filaments such as insect silk, and guess what I found when Mr. Curator waved his arm just now?" ”

Arti and Serra looked closely, and saw that there seemed to be a worm silk floating on the side of the sleeve of the middle-aged man.

"Could it be the remnants of ...... Four Virtues?" The artist's eyes almost lit up, and he remembered that the museum could not directly dispose of the remains of the paintings as waste, but would still carry out some tentative restoration.

The leader of the gym walked up to the curator with an arrow, startling the latter.

"Those threads, are they still there?"

"After all, it's a work stored in an art museum, and even if it looks like that, you can't just throw it away." Mr. Curator scratched his head. "The threads are in the office, and before you arrived, the experts I brought in were trying to restore them to their original shape, but unfortunately although the threads of the four works were separated, they were not able to turn the threads back into works of art like Mr. Yati did."

"You don't have to fix it, the silk thread is enough!" Arti was very happy, and his hair swayed with a sense of presence—

"They will be the raw material for my latest work! I want to give new meaning to things that have lost their shape, just as a green caterpillar has to melt all its organs in its pupal shell before it grows into a butterfly, and finally it can turn into a butterfly and fly, and the collision of meaningful materials and beautiful forms will definitely produce new value, which is the true meaning of regeneration! I believe that whether it is my new work or the future Feiyun Gallery, it will definitely be reborn! ”

"You're thankful that after the museum was converted into a gallery, no one would go to such great lengths to restore the paintings."

The detective rolled his eyes and reminded very realistically-

"Be careful, Feiyun Gallery, which exhibits cutting-edge artists, or Feiyun Gym, which exhibits a collection of old works by Yati, may be more popular in the future."

"I can't ask for it." So says the artist.