Conan Rick's Investigator

What a cruel punishment!

In comparison, if Qin Zhibo is not caught, the "punishment" of losing 120 million to Qin Zhibo is simply too cheap.

"Anyway, I'll wait for you at the Medieval Art Museum at 8 o'clock tonight."

Qin Zhibo: What kind of big brother statement is this?

After the call was hung up, Qin Zhibo also glanced at the date in the lower right corner of the morning news program.

Sunday is exactly Sunday.

So today is Sunday...

It’s not that Qin Zhibo doesn’t take today’s events seriously, but it’s been a long time since they last met.

Qin Zhibo sat in the boss chair, quietly thinking about everything that happened tonight.

In fact, the big gem that Kaito Kidd wanted to steal tonight had already been confirmed by Kidd under Qin Zhibo's secret operation.

That gem wasn't what Kidd wanted.

So tonight was actually a joint plot between Qin Zhibo and Kaito Kidd, with two purposes.

The first is to get rid of the suspicion that "Qin Zhibo is Kaito Kidd."

The second is to catch the international killer - Spider!

Spider, whose real name is Edward Chandler, is a member of the Beast Brotherhood.

The Beast Brotherhood aims to obtain the Stone of Life - Pandora, and has been stealing legendary gems from all over the world for a long time, thus becoming enemies with Kaito Kidd.

The organization also has close ties with the Women's Association in Shanghai.

Qin Zhibo currently knows that the organization has a total of four members.

Baron Hauptmann, the leader of the Brotherhood of the Beast, is a German man who may be over a hundred years old.

Hauptmann Natsumi, formerly known as Kosaka Natsumi, is an international assassin known as "Scooping". She once used the Egg of Memory to trap Kaito Kid and called herself the "Baron's Daughter".

Spider, an international top killer, is proficient in illusion and is currently the main force sent by the Beast Brotherhood to deal with Kaito Kidd.

Snake, apart from having a somewhat disgusting name, should have a lower status than Spdier and Scoob.

And tonight, if nothing unexpected happens, Spdier will be present in person.

By the time……

……

8pm, Medieval Art Museum.

In front of the gem display stand, Officer Nakamori and his men were standing with their hands behind their backs, looking up at a 45-degree angle at a huge pink gem supported by a platform.

"The world's largest pink gemstone...but why is it placed like this on purpose?"

The staff nearby explained, "According to Director Matsumoto of the art museum, this is the request of British collector JP Tana. The exhibits must be designed according to his personal interests."

"Tsk..." Officer Nakamori said with disdain, "This world is truly filled with weirdos. This display is like deliberately attracting Kaito Kidd to steal..."

Just then, a uniformed policeman came running in from behind to report.

"Officer Nakamori, the device we mentioned earlier has been fully deployed."

"Also... a detective was let in from outside."

Chapter 340: A plan to conceal the truth

Before the uniformed police officer could explain in detail, a man in a brown coat walked up from behind the police officer and appeared in Nakamori's sight.

Officer Nakamori looked closely and found that the owner of the brown coat was not a stranger.

"Qin Zhibo! Is that you?"

"Hello, Officer Nakamori."

Qin Zhibo greeted him politely, and Officer Nakamori nodded in appreciation.

But then, Officer Nakamori remembered his duty and quickly asked, "Why are you here?"

"It was the White Horse Agent who invited me here..."

"Entertainment?" Officer Nakamori was a little skeptical about the word.

At this time, a white-horse detective dressed in a Sherlock Holmes costume came up from behind and said slowly, "Welcome, Mr. Qin."

Qin Zhibo nodded in response.

Seeing the two of them so in sync, Officer Nakamori became uneasy and asked, "What's going on? Hakuba? This isn't some kind of party scene."

Bai Ma Tan smiled slightly, with a confident look on his face, "Because I want Mr. Qin to be able to watch Kidd's arrest live."

"Alright, Officer Nakamori..." Hakuba patted Nakamori on the shoulder, "Just follow the original plan to capture Kaito Kid. I'll take Mr. Qin to the monitoring room first."

……

Under the guidance of Bai Ma Tan, Qin Zhibo came to the monitoring room.

Now that he has come here, Qin Zhibo can be said to have revisited the old place.

The former director of the Medieval Art Museum wore knight armor to commit the crime and used the silent surveillance here to fabricate false evidence for himself.

Nowadays, due to the installation of audio surveillance in the museum, the overall monitoring room has undergone significant changes, with many more monitoring displays.

In the monitoring room, Qin Zhibo saw Matsumoto Ryohei.

The two looked at each other tacitly, and then Qin Zhibo walked to the center console under the guidance of Bai Ma Tan.

"Everything that happened tonight can be seen on the monitors, so the two of us just need to watch Kidd being captured from this 'special seat'..."

Bai Ma Tan's confident expression was hidden under the brim of his hat, because the moment Qin Zhibo followed him into the monitoring room, he had already declared victory.

The key points of this operation to capture Kidd are to first catch the "Phantom Thief Kidd" who is stealing, and then catch Qin Zhibo.

According to Hakuba Tan's reasoning, one of these two people is Kaito Kid's substitute, and the other is Kid himself.

In order to prevent one of them from escaping and then using Kidd's identity to commit crimes again to let the other one get away with it, it is very necessary to catch both of them at the same time.

And this monitoring room is the cage that Bai Ma Tan specially chose for Qin Zhibo, the real Kidd.

As long as the surveillance camera confirms that Kaito Kid's substitute has been captured, the police guarding outside will rush in and capture Qin Zhibo.

The ventilation holes in the monitoring room had been completely welded shut the day before, so we only had to guard one door.

As for capturing Kaito Kid's Stand, Hakuba Detective also has a detailed and thorough plan, which is to use the latest high-tech equipment to capture Kaito Kid's Stand.

Hakuba Tan is still a little unconfident if this kind of equipment can be used against Kaito Kid himself.

But if it's just dealing with a substitute, it's more than enough.

After all, it should be common sense that the substitute's strength is not as good as the original.

As for who this substitute is, Bai Ma Detective also had a bold guess after his last Sherlock Holmes journey.

That is Ma Chengshi, the man dressed as a woman next to Qin Zhibo!

While Bai Ma Tan was thinking about the foolproof battle plan, he glanced at Qin Zhibo who was standing next to him.

The truth will eventually come to light, and today I will expose your mask!

……

Time passed by little by little, and it was still one minute away from the 9:00 that Kidd had predicted.

In the ventilation duct above the Medieval Art Museum, a white figure was crawling towards the central exhibition hall.

Kidd climbed through one pipe after another until he could see the huge pink gem on display below through the gap in the baffle, and then he stopped.

Kidd rolled up his sleeves and silently watched the countdown on his watch.

At this time in the past, Kidd's face would be full of excitement, but at this moment, Kidd's face was extremely serious and solemn.

Because the purpose today is not to steal the gems, but to punish a member of the organization that killed his father.

This kind of thing cannot be taken lightly.

When the second hand and minute hand of the watch coincided at 12 o'clock, Kidd immediately removed the baffle and jumped towards the jewel platform below.

……

In the monitoring room, Bai Ma Tan was looking at his pocket watch.

When 9:00 arrived, Bai Ma Tan looked up at the surveillance monitor and saw the figure in white clothes that he had been thinking about day and night.

In the surveillance footage of the exhibition hall, Kaito Kidd jumped down from the ventilation duct, his feet firmly placed on the narrow exhibition stand, and the windless automatic breeze gently covered his graceful figure.

Under the astonished gazes of the police, Kidd easily picked up the pink gem from the display stand and said triumphantly as usual, "Just as the trailer said, I'll take this gem!"

This time, Officer Nakamori at the booth didn't rush forward with his men. Instead, he immediately shouted, "Start!"

A policeman nearby pressed the button in his hand, and dozens of transmitters arranged around him simultaneously launched handcuffs with chains.

These handcuffs are extremely fast. Although you can't hit all of them, hitting some of them is enough.

Card, card, card...

There were several sounds of handcuffs snapping together, and Kidd's hands and feet were tied tightly with these handcuffs with iron chains.

For a moment, Kidd's face showed surprise.

Seeing this scene on the surveillance camera, Bai Ma Tan showed a smug smile on his face.

Through preliminary investigation, Hakuba discovered that Kidd was very proficient in removing handcuffs, with a speed of about 0.7 seconds per handcuff.

This stand's abilities are probably inferior to Kidd's own, so...

Just when Bai Ma Tan was full of confidence and thought he had won, the lights in the museum suddenly went out, including the monitoring equipment using emergency power.

Seeing the dark surveillance screen, Bai Ma Tan widened his eyes in surprise.

However, the pitch-black screen does not provide any answers.

"Hello? Hello!"

Bai Ma Tan shouted into the intercom, but the only response was noise caused by signal interference.

"hateful!"

"Someone go out and confirm the cause of the power outage!"

Bai Ma Tan had just said this when he immediately thought of something and quickly added, "Wait a minute! Don't open the door yet!"

"Qin Zhibo? Qin Zhibo!"

Bai Ma Tan shouted twice, and then a sound came from the darkness around him.

"I'm here……"

Hearing Qin Zhibo's voice, Bai Ma Tan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In Bai Ma Tan's judgment, the power outage was most likely caused by Kidd himself, with the purpose of escaping from the monitoring room and rescuing the substitute.

So what I should do now is to protect Kidd himself and not let Qin Zhibo go out.

After his eyes adjusted to the darkness, Bai Ma Tan confirmed the location of the figure that had made Qin Zhibo's voice in the dark, and then he gave another order: "Someone go out and confirm the cause of the power outage."

At this time, another figure stepped forward, and Matsumoto Ryohei's voice came from the figure's position: "I am the director, I am more familiar with this place, I will go."

Bai Matan thought for two seconds and nodded in agreement, "Then go out. When you leave, tell the police outside that I told you to leave."

When Matsumoto Ryohei opened the door, he saw a large group of fully armed mobile police surrounding the monitoring room.

These policemen were sent by Baima Tan to guard the exit of the monitoring room. As long as the Kidd substitute in the exhibition hall was confirmed to be captured, these people would rush in and capture Qin Zhibo, the real Kidd.

Matsumoto Ryohei relayed what Hakuba Tan said to the mobile police at the door, and after Hakuba Tan inside shouted, "I let him out," the police outside let him go.

"Matsumoto Ryohei" was jogging along the corridor, and suddenly, a golden ring materialized in the heart of his raised right hand.

When the golden ring was put on his hand, the figure of "Matsumoto Ryohei" disappeared.

Chapter 341 Kidd: Fish! What a big fish!