Chapter 28 27. The Crazy Detective

"What nonsense are you talking about? Nothing was stolen at all. Just now, I personally inspected the exhibition room. Besides, there are fifty police officers around the museum. My men are not blind!" the police chief stared. Looking wise, he roared angrily. "The problem is that he stole all the things. Twenty Faces performed its magic again. If you don't believe me, why don't you all go to check it together?" Wisely replied calmly. "Well... You said it was indeed stolen? Okay, then let's go check it again. Curator, let's go to the exhibition room first and see if what he said is true or not."

Zhizhi really doesn't seem like a liar, so the director also thinks he should check it out. "This is the best way. Come, Mr. Kitakoji, you can go too." Zhizhi smiled at the old curator with white beard and hair while urging. So, the four of them walked out of the curator's room in a file, and entered the exhibition hall of the main hall along the corridor.Akechi seemed to be taking care of the old and frail curator Bei Xiaoji, and walked in the front with his hand. "Mr. Sensible, you are not dreaming, are you? There is nothing unusual!" the Minister of Criminal Affairs yelled as soon as he entered the exhibition hall.

As the minister said, the national treasure Buddha statues are well displayed in the glass display case, and nothing is missing. "this one?" Zhizhi pointed to the Buddha statue display case, looked back at the head of the criminal police meaningfully, and turned to tell the guard standing beside him: "Open this glass door for me." The guard didn't know Kogoro Akechi, but the curator and police chief were both present, so he obeyed immediately, unlocked the lock with his key, and then rattled open the huge glass door. Then, the next moment, something weird happened.

Ah, isn't the wise detective crazy?I saw him walking into the spacious display cabinet, approaching the largest ancient wooden Buddha statue, and abruptly tore off the lifelike arm of the Buddha statue. His movements were unusually quick.The three present were stunned, and they couldn't even remember to stop it.While still at a loss, Detective Wisely dismantled the five national treasure Buddha statues one by one in the same display cabinet. In the blink of an eye, the national treasure became an irreparable waste. Some had their arms broken, some had their heads twisted, and some had their fingers ripped off. It was a horrible sight.

"Smart, what are you doing? Hey, no! You can't stop!" Zhizhi turned a deaf ear to the yelling of the chief inspector and the criminal minister, jumped out of the display cabinet as if nothing had happened, and ran to the old curator as before, holding his hand and grinning. "Hey, wise, what the hell is going on? There should be a limit to nonsense. These are the most precious national treasures in the museum!" The Minister of Criminal Affairs was flushed with anger, and he raised his fist and waved it, as if he wanted to jump on Zhizhi immediately. "Hahaha... You said this is a national treasure? Where did your eyes go? Look carefully at the cross-section of the Buddha statue I broke just now. Please examine it carefully."

The wise and confident tone reduced the anger of the Minister of Criminal Affairs, so he approached the Buddha statue and looked at the cross section. As a result, guess what?The cross section of the twisted neck and arm reveals a fresh and tender light white wood section, which does not match the blackened ancient tone at all.It is impossible to use such a new wood for carvings in the Nara period. "So, do you think this Buddha statue is a fake?" "That's right. If you have a little bit of appreciation, you don't need me to make this kind of section to recognize it as a fake. It's a fake made of new wood and painted from the outside. Disguising it as an old Buddha statue. As long as you find a craftsman who specializes in imitation, it is a piece of cake." Zhizhi explained calmly.

"Mr. Beixiaoji, what the hell is going on? How could the exhibits in the Imperial Museum be fake..." the police chief asked the old curator. "It's unbelievable, it's just unbelievable." The old doctor, who was supported by Zhizhi, stood in a daze, embarrassed, and his words flickered. At this time, hearing the commotion, three librarians hurried over.One of them was an expert in the inspection of ancient works of art, and he was a section chief. He only glanced at the fragments of Buddha statues scattered all over the floor, and immediately let out a loud cry as if he had noticed something.

"Ah, these are all counterfeit products! But, this is strange. As of yesterday, all the original products were placed here. I went into this display cabinet yesterday afternoon, and I can't go wrong." "In this way, it was still genuine until yesterday, but it suddenly became a fake today? That's weird. What's going on here?" The director was confused and looked around at the crowd. "Don't you understand? In other words, this museum has been emptied." Zhi Zhi said, pointing to another display case opposite. "You, what are you talking about? So, you mean..." The Minister of Criminal Affairs couldn't help but screamed.

The previous librarian seemed to understand the meaning of Zhizhi's words, and immediately strode towards another cabinet, pressed his face against the glass, stared at the blackened Buddha painting hanging inside, and then called out. "Ah, this one too, this one too, and that one too, curator, curator, all the paintings here are fake. All of them are fakes." "Go and check the other lockers. Quick! Quick!" Before the Minister of Criminal Affairs gave the order, the three librarians were already yelling like crazy, checking one cabinet after another repeatedly. "It's a fake. The most precious works of art are all counterfeit!"

Then they stumbled down to the exhibition hall downstairs. After a while, when they returned to the second floor, the number of librarians had become a dozen.Also, everyone was flushed and out of breath. "It's the same downstairs. The rest are not very valuable. Everything that is more expensive has become fake... But, curator, I talked to you just now, and this is really incredible. , everyone in charge can guarantee that all of them were genuine when we checked yesterday afternoon. As a result, in just one day, hundreds of works of art turned into fakes like magic!" The librarian beat his chest and stamped his feet, shouting regretfully.

"Sensible, we seem to have been put together by that guy again." The director looked back at the famous detective in pain. "Yes. The Museum has been ransacked by the Twenty Faces. That, as I said at the beginning." Among the crowd, only wise, not only did not show panic at all, there was even a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.Moreover, holding the curator's hand tightly, it seems that he is cheering for the curator who can't even stand still after suffering a huge blow.