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Chapter 1850 The Problem with Photos

Qian Jiangyi, that art dealer, this guy really won't give up the various treasures hidden in this castle so easily...

At this moment, after realizing that the rest of the noise came from Qian Jiangyi, Gao Yuan and the others also understood the general reason -

After all, Gao Yuan, as well as Xiao Ai, who also witnessed his actions in the castle today, and the well-informed Kuroba Kaito, all had a clear opinion about Qian Jiangyi. They all knew clearly that he was an unscrupulous black marketeer. This showed that the sources of the artworks he sold might not be clean.

Therefore, the purpose of this person coming here after everyone else has gone back is self-evident.

In this regard, facing this guy, Gao Yuan and others looked at each other and did not speak, because they did not intend to expose the fact that they had actually sneaked into the castle. However, as for this guy, everyone seemed to unanimously feel that they should at least teach him a lesson and not let him steal things in the castle like this.

So, facing this situation, everyone confirmed that Qian Jiangyi went upstairs first after entering the castle. After Kuroba Kaito closed the door again, Gao Yuan couldn't help but analyze in a low voice:

"He should be going to the lady's room upstairs, intending to continue taking the jewels there?"

Because when he first came to the castle today, that guy did this secretly, but was locked by the mechanism left by Mr. Kiichi Kosaka, and ultimately failed.

But at this moment, when he thought there was no one in the castle and he was aware of the existence of the mechanism, it was obviously not impossible for him to take those things away.

Therefore, after Gao Yuan roughly told Kuroba Kaito what Qian Shouyi had done in the castle before, Kuroba Kaito seemed to understand a little bit, so he suggested:

"In that case, let's use other mechanisms in this castle to trap him again, teach him a lesson, let him reflect on his actions here, and then notify the police."

"Notify the police?"

Hearing these words from Kuroba Kaito's mouth, Ai couldn't help but look at Kuroba Kaito with a strange feeling because she knew his identity as Kaito Kid.

In response to this, Gao Yuan said:

"Breaking into a house with the intent to steal... a charge like this probably won't teach them much, right?"

"So while he's trapped in the castle, let's investigate his other crimes!"

Kuroba Kaito seemed to have already thought of this when he said this.

So, seeing that Kuroba Kaito still had such an idea, Gao Yuan thought that he might be a little interested in all the artworks owned by this art dealer, so Gao Yuan didn't say anything -

Indeed, this is also a way.

After all, compared to the ending in the original work where Qian Jiangyi was killed because he discovered Pu Siqinglan's abnormality, this is already a better ending for him.

Gao Yuan had no objection to this, so he let Hei Yu Kaito go out and began to use the ready-made mechanisms in the castle to teach Qian Jiangyi a lesson -

Of course, Gao Yuan didn’t intend to get into the details.

After Kuroba Kaito discovered the pile of handwritten diaries and letters, Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai continued to check the things in the office, but in the end they did not find anything in these books. So, in the end, Gao Yuan once again focused on the photo that seemed to be Karasuma Renya. After thinking for a while, Gao Yuan tried to take the photo off the wall. After checking the entire photo frame that held the old photo, Gao Yuan did not find anything unusual, but he felt a little unwilling -

Looking around at the photos hanging on the wall here, apart from the landscape photos, the portraits are basically photos of Kiichi Kosaka himself, and the rest are photos with other people, such as the photo of Rasputin. It can be seen that the photos were taken during the reign of the Tsar, and the people in the photos with him are basically dressed like Russian aristocrats at the time.

But, this photo that seems to be of Karasuma Renya...

Now when Gao Yuan looks at it carefully, it feels very out of place in this pile of photos.

I noticed this photo immediately. Besides realizing that the person in the photo looked like Karasuma Renya, there seemed to be another reason...

By comparing the other portraits present, in addition to the identity of Karasuma Renya in these photos, there is another reason -

Judging from the direction of Karasuma Renya's gaze in the photo, this does not seem to be a frontal shot of her staring at the camera.

Speaking of which, considering the historical context, in that era, it took a long time for a camera to take a photo, mainly due to the technological limitations at the time.

Early cameras used wet or dry plate photography, which required large, heavy cameras and glass plates and had very high light requirements. Exposure times were long, sometimes taking several minutes or more, so the subject had to remain still to avoid blur. In addition, early photosensitive materials were relatively insensitive to light, which also required longer exposure times to capture images…

In short, even now, more formal photos require the subject to pose in front of the camera for a while, waiting for the photographer to take the picture. In that era, the subject would have to wait longer and hold the pose longer.

In this case, the photographer would normally ask the subject to strike a correct pose for the photo. It would be difficult for the subject to not look directly at the camera, as this is not the artistic photography of today.

This point can be easily found by looking at other portraits here. In other portraits, everyone is looking towards the camera with a proper posture, except...

  But, what is the reason for this?

What I was looking for was evidence of a connection between Kosaka Kiichi and Karasuma Renya, but I was just nitpicking...

In response to this, Gao Yuan shook his head and looked at the photo in his hand. Finally, he thought about taking the photo out of the photo frame to have a look, but Gao Yuan soon discovered that the photo frame was sealed very well, and he had to pry open the nails on the back cover to take out the photo inside. This seemed a bit difficult here without any tools on hand, and even if it was opened, it would be a problem to restore it.

So, Gao Yuan thought about it and came up with a bolder idea -

Take this photo that looks like Karasuma Renya away directly.

Using other photos in the office, he moved a more remote photo of the same size to replace the position of the photo of Karasuma Renya, and then found photos in other rooms that were not hung up and replaced the missing positions, thus temporarily making the photos in the office look normal.

Just like that, after doing all this, Gao Yuan followed Xiao Ai and Kuroba Kaito, taking away the things they found and left the castle together -

As for Qian Jiangyi, he has been trapped by the mechanism inside and cannot escape on his own...

However, when the three learned about the castle fire the next day, everything became murky again.

(End of this chapter)