"I want you to steal two pairs of sunflowers..."
"Yeah, although this message won't spread too widely, I'm not sure if I'm the only one who can receive it."
Kuroba Kaito shrugged, spread his hands, and raised an expectant smile on his lips:
"Didn't it happen before? Someone pretended to be my identity. If the paintings that appeared in that sunflower exhibition were stolen in advance, causing the exhibition to be unable to be held, Father Terai would definitely be very disappointed. So, I plan to advance in advance. Just 'borrow' it and return it to Mr. Suzuki before the exhibition."
"oh……"
Ye Gengyi responded, pressed the start button, and played the message several times again.
[Kaitou Kidd, I implore you to steal "Ashiya Himawari" and "Fourteen Withered Sunflowers"...]
The woman's voice... was very young, and she had not inhaled helium. However, the sound quality of the recording was average, and the duration was only a few seconds. The possibility of using a voice-changing tool cannot be ruled out.
Terai Huangnosuke said: "Master Kaito is considerate of me and does not want me to travel long distances. Therefore, I have to entrust Mr. Ye with this mission."
Ye Gengyi responded succinctly: "Yes."
Suddenly, Kuroba Kaito shouted eagerly: "Wait a minute! Brother, you misunderstood!"
Ye Geng turned his eyes and looked over.
Kuroba Kaito showed a helpless expression: "This time it's because we happened to be on the way, and it's not difficult. Brother, just act as your assistant and let me make the plan."
I understand, it is the inherent rebellious stage of a 17-year-old child... Well... Fortunately, he is also a capable child... Ye Gengyi nodded slightly: "It's up to you, but the plan of stealing the painting directly will not work."
"The plan to steal the painting doesn't work?" Kuroba Kaito asked puzzledly, "Why?"
"Look at this." Ye Geng tapped his fingers on the keyboard a few times.
After Kuroba Kaito, Terai Kinosuke and Miyano Akemi, who were standing nearby and did not participate in the discussion, finished pouring the coffee, they all came over to watch.
After Ye Gengyi narrowed down the recording window, he opened a search engine that he could use with basic Internet knowledge and typed in the keywords "Van Gogh" and "Sunflower".
The search results are very concise.
In addition to a personal profile of the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh, there are six extant sunflower locations that he painted.
Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan...
"I know this. It's either in a museum or collected by a wealthy person." Kuroba Kaito said.
"Well, plus the seventh one on display at the auction, even if Suzuki Jirokichi can successfully take the photo, there will only be two in Japan."
Ye Gengyi said: "And the Recklock Art Museum, which is specially built to exhibit sunflowers, has eight floors. It takes so much effort... I judge that it is impossible to only exhibit two paintings by Van Gogh."
Hearing this, Kuroba Kaito was startled at first, and then suddenly realized: "So that's it..."
Terai Huangnosuke and Miyano Akemi looked at each other, intuitively feeling the confusion in each other's eyes.
After a while, Miyano Akemi asked: "Well... Saraichi, with Suzuki's consultant's financial resources and connections, there should be a way to borrow the rest of the sunflower paintings before the exhibition starts, right?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand."
Ye Geng picked up the coffee and took a sip: "... Just live happily."
Miyano Akemi: "..."
Shiho must be bullied every day if he lives with this man!
"Well……"
Terai Huangnosuke's question was slowed down by half a beat, and he stood there a little embarrassed... Has Mr. Ye's mouth always been so sharp?
Kuroba Kaito saw the embarrassment of the two of them and explained with a smile: "Hey, what the bastard brother means is that no matter what agreement the curators and collectors of the museum originally made with Mr. Suzuki, once I am at the auction The admiral stole the "Ashiya Sunflowers", maybe... no, they will definitely hesitate or even cancel the idea of loaning it out."
"Um."
Ye Gengyi nodded slightly and added:
"Most of Kaito's targets are the Suzuki Foundation's gems, especially since they will return the gems afterwards. Once the painting is stolen, it will be hard not to think of the relationship between him and Suzuki Jirokichi. After all, the scope will be expanded to all In the eyes of the world, especially those with strong assets, cash that will continue to depreciate can never be worth more than those collections that are equivalent to currency."
"ah!"
Miyano Akemi covered her mouth and exclaimed: "What should we do? If they misunderstand that this art exhibition is to use liquidated damages to collect all the sunflowers, won't it be impossible to hold it?"
Kuroba Kaito: "..."
If I hadn't known that Miss Mingmei, you didn't have this intention, I would have suspected that you were answering the call on purpose... The bastard brother was obviously using the word 'bastard' when I called him back in response. I really don't want to suffer at all.
Bastard brother, bastard brother, bastard brother... hum...
Glancing at a man named Ye who was drinking coffee and not explaining anything at all, Kuroba Kaito cursed a few words in his heart and said helplessly:
"Brother is only talking about the worst development. Besides...as long as the economy doesn't collapse and money doesn't suddenly turn into a pile of waste paper, so no matter how precious the sunflower is, they can use ridiculously high liquidated damages to restrain this kind of situation occurs.”
"So, then again, whether I can borrow those paintings still depends on old man Suzuki's determination, and I really can't steal the paintings directly at the auction to make it more difficult for him..."
"However, we still have to be careful if others want to take the opportunity to steal the painting. It would be great if we could find the owner of the message. She must know something."
"Have you tried tracking?" Ye Gengyi asked.
"I tried it. It's the one you helped me improve before, brother. Unfortunately, the time to leave a message is only a few seconds. I only know that the other party is in New York, USA." Kuroba Kaito shrugged.
Although signals in optical fibers can propagate at a speed close to the speed of light, which is approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, network delays are actually subject to a series of problems including network congestion, signal processing, routing, etc.
This result is also expected...
Ye Gengyi nodded slightly: "Well, let's wait for this information... give me the address of your fan website first."
"Got it." Kuroba Kaito responded and pointed at the browser: "Favorites, the third one."
"besides."
Ye Gengyi added while planning: "Don't contact the other party rashly. Doing so will only alert the enemy. For people who leave messages asking you to steal paintings... it's better to rule out that the other party is an ordinary fan first."
"Oh," Kuroba Kaito nodded subconsciously, and suddenly reacted: "Eh!? Wait a minute! Why is it you, brother, who is arranging this again!"
(End of chapter)
