When the police re-circulated the main exhibition hall with flashing warning lights, the white-haired killer in ninja attire had already fled.
The scene was full of traces of Pokémon using chopping and slashing skills. The leader tore the booth carefully set up by Detective Hugo and Deputy Curator Muli into pieces, but left without taking anything with him.
The policemen looked at the chopped-up iron sheets and iron filings, as well as the remains of some kind of electronic product similar to a video recording device, and they were all confused. I don’t know if tonight’s mission was a success or a failure.
"Hugo, is this display cabinet base the safe you and Muli prepared to store the Founding Stone? Did the gangster retreat because he got the treasure?"
Curator Aloe followed the detective through the wall of people and came to the front of the wreckage.
"How is it possible? The real founding stone of the country is still in this museum." The detective opened his arms and looked around at the crowd, and began his detective speech in the middle of the night surrounded by thousands of people.
"Where is that stone?" It was the detective assistant Bilan who asked in cooperation. "We will have the prisoners lead the way to recover the cultural relics later. Now is not the time to waste time."
"Don't worry about this." Junsha from Qibao City appeared out of nowhere, pushing aside her colleagues and greeting the detective, "Fortunately, the people demonstrating outside have dispersed, and the police have mobilized their strength to recover cultural relics. Compared to Regarding things outside, I’m even more curious about where Hugo hid the founding stone?”
“There are three main ways to hide an item perfectly.”
Hugo was not surprised at all by the development before him, waving his fingers as if he was about to begin his concluding speech.
"The first is to use surprise. The most dangerous place is the safest place. Hide things in places where others can easily think of them, so that they can easily think that they have searched that place and miss the interrogation. There is another strategy to this strategy. One way to use it is to generously give the enemy something he wants to hide, and then do everything possible to imply that it is a fake, and then make the enemy obediently return the treasure."
"Are you saying that the one stolen this morning is the genuine Founding Stone?" Junsha's eyes widened as she didn't know why.
"Of course that's not the case. Plasma is not that easy to trick." Hugo shook his head regretfully, then raised his second finger——
“The second best way to hide something is to hide something in the woods. The best place to hide a branch is a forest, the best place to hide a dagger is a battlefield, and the best place to hide a murder is The best thing is a series of serial murders.”
"I will remember your words next time there is a serial murder case." Seeing that Hugo would not tell the truth immediately, the police officer only responded feebly this time.
"From this perspective, the best way to hide the Founding Stone is to put it in a pile of identical imitation stones and then randomly shuffle the positions so that no one knows which stone is the real one. .”
Aloe made a cross with both arms and explained to Junsha: "The Qibao Museum will never do this. We firmly resist the act of concocting fakes. The Founding Stone that was previously imitated to prevent theft was also marked with text to avoid confusion with Genuine mixed up.”
Hugo ignored the curator's protest and continued to explain: "Similarly, placing treasures among a pile of treasures is also a hiding method based on similar logic. Excessive quantity will hide the value of the individual. This is the core of the theory of hiding trees in the forest. .”
"But...the plasma group stole all the collections. Not to mention the trees, even the woods were cut down."
It was Bilan who still gave sharp opinions. She was combing Eevee's fluffy tail while combing through the detective's speech. Judging from the sharp comments she could make immediately, she must have gained a lot.
The detective did not directly answer Bilan's confusion, but continued his anti-theft lecture, because he knew that the answers to all questions were in the following narrative.
"The third principle is to take the initiative to attack. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves remembering. When the thing you want to hide is targeted by a specific person or people, we should not use a passive defensive attitude to protect what we want to hide. Instead of hiding things, we should take the initiative to find ways to deal with those who have bad intentions."
Bilan spoke cooperatively: "It's like letting the plasma group fall into a trap today."
"Yes, in fact, my anti-theft design for Qibao Museum is based on the above three principles, so it can avoid the most dangerous things from happening under any circumstances."
"How do you say this?" Junsha asked.
"It's already past midnight, so yesterday morning, the plasma group inhumanely looted most of the museum's collections. They thought they had stolen the founding stone of the country and completely emptied the entire museum, so they left without mercy. Left. But they didn't expect that when designing the anti-theft plan for the museum, I replaced the most important dark stone with a fake." Hugo pointed to himself.
"If I, as a detective, had not been able to arrive at the museum in time, then this layer of design would have functioned smoothly as a safety device. Even if the plasma group took away all the cultural relics, they would never be able to find the most important goal of their trip— —The legendary stone that can awaken the black dragon, the mythical creature in the Unova region—it would be troublesome if they really succeeded."
"But it's just a myth, right?" Museum Director Aloe frowned dissatisfied, "You are equivalent to using our entire collection as a shield for the founding stone of the country. I really can't agree with this approach."
"Fortunately, your husband, Mr. Muli, doesn't think so. He has studied the history of the founding of the United States and believes that this dark stone is crucial. The attacks from the plasma group yesterday during the day and night also proved that the founding stone is indeed Of unparalleled value to that ambitious religious community.”
"However, after the counterfeit plan was successful, you discovered that the Plasma Group was still entrenched in Qibao City, and the crisis in the museum was still not resolved. So you decided to take the initiative in accordance with principle three and release the information that the real product was in the museum, so that the robbers who coveted the Dark Stone could They threw themselves into a trap and caught them." Bi Lanyan concluded concisely and concisely.
"That's right!" The detective snapped his fingers.
"By the way, recover the cultural relics." Junsha emphasized the word "by the way" and winked at Aloe Vera.
While Aloe was still angry, Hugo quickly stopped these people from inciting dissension: "But in fact, only this method can recover the museum's losses to the greatest extent. If it is replaced by other unprepared museums, whether it is stones or other The entire collection has long been looted by a robbery of that scale."
At this point, Hugo's plan was already clear, but Bilan still didn't understand the last part, so she directly asked the detective: "But since you can use the real thing to lure the plasma group here, why can you pat your chest and guarantee it?" The stone was not stolen and is still in the museum? How did you do this? In other words, where did you hide the founding stone?"
The detective had an expression of "I've been waiting for you to ask this" and snapped his fingers again: "Just to deal with this situation, Deputy Director Muli and I prepared a back-up plan."
Opening his arms, Hugo showed everyone only the fragments in front of him.
Aloe was a little puzzled: "I know this is the display cabinet where the fake Founding Stone is placed in the exhibition room. You also agreed at the time that visitors would see the legendary Founding Stone with their own eyes in some way. But it is now gone. It was demolished and there’s nothing inside.”
"That's what surprise is all about." Hugo smiled enigmatically and walked to the wall that controlled the lighting effects of the museum.
In front of the detective, a row of light buttons of different sizes were arranged adjacent to each other. Each switch controlled the lighting effect of a certain place in the exhibition hall.
"At first glance, each switch can only control the status of one lamp." Hugo said while pressing the button.
The lights in the showroom came on one after another. Some have been destroyed by plasma clusters, flickering a few times before going out with the sound of a short circuit, and some cannot light up at all, but most of the lights are lit normally as usual.
"The design that Mr. Muli and I designed is that when the lighting effect is lit according to the conditions of the Founding Stone exhibition at that time, a mechanism will be triggered..."
Hugo pressed the switch of the last light according to his memory. At this time, the main light was extinguished. The glow of the side lights like fireflies highlighted the magnificent creation mural on the ceiling of the exhibition hall. The God of Creation was clothed in glory with three stripes of black, white and gray. The figures of dragons and gods complement each other, and even if it is just a copy of a famous painting, it is still shocking. The light surrounding the ceiling mural is the lighting effect specially designed for the exhibition of the Founding Stone.
"That... that's it!" The sharp-eyed blue pointed at the exhibition cabinet where the Founding Stone was originally located. A vague shadow appeared on the empty space of the mural and the empty ceiling.
"This is the founding stone. Could it be said that the real stone is here?" The curator Aloe showed a look of sudden realization and looked at the ground where the display cabinet was originally.
Amid the mess, there was a small, glowing hole.
A small hole that is projecting an image upward.
"What a pity. It would have been clearer through the curved mirror hidden in the display cabinet." Hugo was a little picky and sighed dissatisfied, but then he cheered up and continued to introduce to everyone loudly -
"Dear tourists, please take a look. The place where the fake founding stone was originally placed is being shrouded by a strange shadow. That shadow is the image projected by the real dark stone after refraction through the mirror. If you are lucky enough to be there, When you look at this collection during the day, what you see will not be a pure fake or an authentic product, but a collection of shadows that intertwine true and false, both real and illusory."
The police officers and gym trainers stared blankly at the blurry image on the ceiling. With the atmosphere, it actually looked like that.
The detective's voice continued to echo in the hall: "This is also a great compromise made by the Qibao Museum between the safety of cultural relics and the rights of the audience. It combines the dream of ideals with the hardness of reality, even if Zekrom and Reshiram Appearing here at the same time, they will also be amazed by the ingenuity and ingenuity of this hidden trick."
Hugo bowed deeply to everyone like a magician at the end of his performance.
