Thief Game: Starting with Obtaining the Kidd Card

The next day.

It was early morning.

Chen Feng and his group arrived at the dock in a car sent by the Suzuki Group. After a brief conversation, they were led by Suzuki Shiro's assistant, Nishino, to a cruise ship with the word "Suzuki" on it.

The group arrived at the reception room, where quite a few people were already waiting.

Besides the two hosts, Shiro Suzuki and Sonoko, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy, ​​Sirov Chinnikov, the art dealer Inui Shoichi, the photographer Hankawa Ryu, and the "Chinese" Pu Siqinglan who had met Chen Feng and his group twice were all in the reception room.

Besides them, there was a young woman and an old man sitting nearby.

Upon seeing Chen Feng and the others enter, Sonoko immediately greeted them with a smile.

"Chen, Xiaolan, you're here. Oh, and this little devil came along too."

Hearing Sonoko address him by that name, Conan rolled his eyes but didn't say anything.

"Mr. Suzuki." Kogoro Mouri, who was walking at the front, reached out and greeted Shiro Suzuki.

Chen Feng, Ran, and Conan then politely greeted him, "Uncle Suzuki."

"You've arrived."

Upon seeing this, Shiro Suzuki's face immediately lit up with a smile: "Please sit down. You all know these ladies, so I won't introduce them. This lady..."

Shiro Suzuki pointed in the direction of the unfamiliar woman and introduced her: "This is Miss Natsumi Kosaka, and the man behind her is Mr. Kuranosuke Sawabe, Miss Natsumi's butler. Miss Natsumi's family has a long history with the Easter Egg, and they are here for this reason."

Then he turned to Natsumi Kosaka and said, "Miss Natsumi, these are my guests. These two are Detective Kogoro Mouri and Chen Feng."

Hello...

As soon as Natsumi Kosaka stood up, Kogoro Mouri quickly approached her and grabbed her hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Natsumi. I am the famous detective Kogoro Mouri. I believe you have heard of my name."

"Um... Mr. Mori, hello."

Natsumi Kosaka was clearly not used to Kogoro Mouri's enthusiasm, especially when she noticed his tightly gripping hand, her face showing a bit of awkwardness.

"father!"

Ran angrily stepped forward and pulled Kogoro Mouri away, saying, "That's very rude of you!"

He then looked apologetically in Xia Mei's direction: "I'm sorry, Miss Xia Mei, my father has been a bit hyperactive lately..."

"It's okay."

Xia Mei's face returned to normal, and she smiled and nodded at Kogoro Mouri, making Kogoro Mouri think to himself, "A gesture of goodwill from a great beauty."

Of course, this wasn't shown, otherwise Xiaolan probably wouldn't have been ashamed to stay there.

Chen Feng also stepped forward to greet them, and the group took their seats.

"It's been a day, Miss Pu Si, how are you?"

As soon as he sat down, Chen Feng turned to look at Pu Siqinglan, the "Chinese" person next to him.

With a polite smile, Pu Siqinglan said, "Not bad, Mr. Chen, why do you ask that?"

"It's nothing. I just happened to hear that Miss Pu Si was staying at the hotel that's very close to the castle tower, and it just so happens that something... happened at that hotel last night."

"Oh? What's wrong? I didn't know."

Pu Siqinglan looked at Chen Feng with feigned confusion.

Just then, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open, and Nishino walked in hurriedly.

"President."

Nishino approached Suzuki Shiro and respectfully greeted him:

"The Osaka Metropolitan Police Department just sent us a message saying that a shooting occurred yesterday at the hotel next to the castle tower. The victim was a hotel employee. Officer Hattori from there advised us to stay away from that area if possible."

"Oh? A shooting?"

Suzuki Shiro was somewhat surprised, but it was only a surprise. After all, they were now preparing to leave Osaka, so it naturally had little to do with them anymore.

However, out of politeness, he still said, "Tell Officer Hattori that I understand and thank him for the reminder. I will visit him again when I have the chance."

"Yes, Chairman."

After receiving a reply, Nishino prepared to leave, but Chen Feng called him back as soon as he took a step.

"Mr. Nishino."

Nishino turned his head and looked at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng asked, "Do you have any photos of the scene of that shooting?"

"Are you interested in this case?" Shiro Suzuki asked, puzzled.

Chen Feng replied, "It was just out of a detective's curiosity."

He then looked at Nishino again, waiting for his answer.

"Um, yes, Officer Hattori sent over some photos of the scene. Please wait a moment."

Nishino rummaged through the file folder and then took out several photocopies of photos and handed them to Chen Feng.

Conan also curiously came over.

"This hotel? It's... the one Kidd and Ran went into yesterday!"

Conan thought to himself, and at the same time, he couldn't help but think of the hotel window that shattered and fell from the sky yesterday. He hadn't paid much attention to it at the time, but now that he thought about it, it seemed to be from this dead man's hotel room.

"The deceased was a hotel employee who was shot in the right eye and died instantly..."

Chen Feng looked at the information on the document, muttered something to himself, and then looked at Pu Siqinglan next to him.

“Miss Pu Si, this is what I’m talking about.”

"A gun... a shooting?"

Pu Siqinglan seemed genuinely frightened; her face turned pale, and she turned her head away, unable to bear looking at the photos of the scene.

"I never imagined something like this would happen in that hotel. It's terrifying."

Seemingly genuinely concerned that Pu Siqinglan was frightened, Sonoko quickly stepped forward to comfort her:

"Miss Pu Si, there's no need to worry so much. After all, we're about to leave Osaka now, and for the time being, it's still quite safe here."

"Um……"

Pu Siqinglan nodded, her face pale, while glancing fearfully in Chen Feng's direction.

"I never expected that last night it wasn't just Phantom Thief Kid who was on the move, but also that a murderer took advantage of the chaos to commit a crime."

Seeing her like this, Sonoko offered her more comforting words.

Chen Feng sat to the side, offering words of comfort from time to time, but his eyes were secretly observing the changes in Pu Siqinglan's expression.

At the same time, I have to give this woman a thumbs up for her acting skills.

If it weren't for the fact that Team Q was in the building across the street last night, and after completing their assigned tasks, they observed the hotel staff accidentally entering her room and being shot dead by her, Chen Feng would have doubted that this incident was truly unrelated to her.

……

Chapter 339 Two Eggs of Memories

"Alright, let's not dwell on these things for now," Suzuki Shiro said, then turned his gaze to Natsumi sitting in front of him.

"Miss Natsumi, could you please tell me about the Easter Egg?"

"Ok."

Xia Mei nodded in agreement and said, "My great-grandfather's name was happy Yi. He was a worker in a workshop in Faber-Road. It was during that time that my great-grandfather met and married a Russian woman, who was my great-grandmother."

The year the revolution broke out, my whole family moved back to Japan. However, my great-grandparents passed away not long after, and my parents were in a car accident when I was five years old. So, I was raised by my grandmother from a young age…”

At this moment, the butler, Kuranosuke Sawabe, chimed in: "The old lady also passed away last month, so Miss has been sorting through the old lady's belongings lately."

Xia Mei continued, "It was while sorting through my great-grandfather's belongings that I discovered this blueprint..."

As she spoke, Xia Mei took out a blueprint that had been broken in two. When the two halves were put together, they could be recognized as resembling an egg, and the patterns on them could be roughly compared to the appearance of an Easter egg.

"The Egg of Memories..."

Noticing the words written in the lower left corner of the drawing, Kogoro Mouri muttered to himself, then looked up as if he had remembered something:

"I remember now, didn't Kidd's thief's notice refer to the Emperor's Easter Egg as the 'Egg of Memories'?"

"But... there seem to be some gems on this picture that aren't on the Easter Egg," Sonoko said, puzzled.

Kogoro Mouri stroked his chin and guessed, "Perhaps the gemstone fell off due to improper storage?"

The group chatted casually, and others gathered around to look at the picture.

"Hey, Chen, what do you think?" Sonoko nudged Chen Feng beside her and asked.

Chen Feng held the Egg of Memories, which he had just received from Xiye, in one hand and casually compared it with the blueprint that had been broken in two.

"There should be two Eggs of Memory, right?"

"Ok?"

Conan and the others all looked up at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng laid the Egg of Memories flat next to the blueprint, then placed the top half of the blueprint on top of the Egg of Memories and the bottom half underneath, saying:

"Isn't it much clearer now? The top half of the drawing clearly matches the egg's structure exactly, while the bottom half is quite different."

Furthermore, the eggs on the two drawings are different sizes. If we force the two halves of the drawing to be considered as one, the resulting appearance seems rather unconventional for an art piece. So… perhaps there are actually two eggs.”

"Two eggs..."

Shiro Suzuki nodded after a moment's thought.

The art dealer next to him, Inui Shoichi, also spoke up excitedly:

"If the Easter eggs are indeed a pair, the price is conservatively estimated to be at least 15 billion yen! It could even reach a sky-high price of 20 billion yen!"

As he spoke, Inui turned his gaze toward Suzuki Shiro and bowed deeply: "President Suzuki, please sell us this Egg of Memories. We are willing to pay a high price for it."

Don't listen to him.

Sirius, the first secretary of the embassy of the Polar Bear Kingdom, also stood up. His tall and muscular body was more than half again as big as the little old man, Qian Jiangyi.