Conan: The Mechanic

On the afternoon of October 28, an insurance company.

"You are Mr. Tachibana, right?" The middle-aged man in a suit walked out of the elevator and looked at Chiba who was sitting on the sofa not far from the front desk. "The one who contacted us before?"

"Yes, I am Tachibana Qianyu." Qianyu nodded. "you are?"

"I'm the person in charge of the damage appraisal of the Satsuki Club song card," the middle-aged man pushed his glasses. "My surname is Tajima."

"Okay, Mr. Tajima, then when are we going to see the remnants of that deck of cards?"

"You can go now, but before that, did Mr. Tachibana also bring what we need?" With that, Mr. Tajima glanced at the strap of the backpack that Chiba was pulling on her shoulders.

"Bring it," Qian Yu shrugged, even shaking the backpack he was carrying. "Is your playback device ready as well?"

"Of course I'm ready," Tajima nodded hastily. "It is about the payment of our huge insurance, and we will definitely go all out to help."

After thinking about the action plan, Chiba decided to cooperate with the insurance company very carefully, because they have very close common interests.

If they finally prove that there are really old traces on the song card, and President Achiha has done a lot to cover up these traces because of this, they can infer that President Achiha wants to make these traces disappear completely. And since President Azhibo hopes that these traces will disappear completely, then he will naturally have the motivation to plan an accident, deliberately destroy the entire deck of songs, and achieve his goal while defrauding high premiums.

It is precisely because of this that insurance companies are willing to reveal their confidential affairs to Kazuya Qianyu, who has important evidence, without paying attention to the privacy of their policyholders - the insurance amount for this song card is really too high, even if there is reinsurance The company's help will surely hurt the insurance company.

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"That's all?" Qian Yu frowned.

In the operation box in front of him, there are 9 complete song cards and the remnants of 15 song cards scattered here and there, and most of them have been damaged lightly or heavily.

He already knew that Satsuki cards were badly damaged in that accident, but he never thought that 100 song cards would be the only ones left.

From these song cards, can he still get the evidence he needs?

"That's all, the damage from the explosion is very serious." Tajima shook his head. "Most of the song cards were destroyed by the fire caused by the explosion. Only some of the cards that were a little further away and some of the broken cards that were thrown after being broken survived. We have checked the song cards as you said. The conclusion is that if the video materials you bring are not convincing enough, it will be difficult for us to complete the proof alone."

"If my observation is correct, we will have enough evidence." Qianyu shook her head, feeling a little helpless about the preservation of the song cards here. "Come on, go to the screening room."

The things he brought were not many in number, only one, but the volume and weight had reached the limit of what the backpack could store - it was a full 35mm celluloid film.

Film photography is one of the best means of image preservation at this stage. This time, Chiba used the means of the Metropolitan Police Department to extract a high-quality copy of the original film and video tape from the Satsukikai archives, as long as it is matched with a larger screening The screen can show an unprecedented high level of picture quality.

In all fairness, Satsuki Club is still just a folk song club in the end, so they can't use 65 or even 70mm film, but can only use ordinary film-level 35mm film. But even so, the extreme picture quality of this video tape fully made Chiba feel the poor picture quality of video discs.

"These guys actually dare to call the images of the discs high-definition," Qianyu snorted coldly while debugging the images projected by the projector on the screen. "Should let them come here with their CDs and use their own eyes to see what's really clear!"

"This video is a work of art, in every sense." Tajima also looked at the picture with a very relaxed expression. "Even if this attempt to find more clues turns out to be fruitless, the clear footage is enough to open my eyes."

"Actually, this is just a videotape of an ordinary movie, right?" Qianyu didn't care about this very much, but focused on the picture. "Although this thing uses film material, the specific picture quality is lower than that of most professional films... Calculate its 5.8K resolution?"

"But in the cinema, we use a much larger screen than this one, so the clarity of this roll of film on the current small screen is much more impactful than the big screen of the movie." Speaking of this, Tajima suddenly remembered business. "By the way, it's still more important to watch the song card... You said before that this video has what we need? Then should we fast-forward?"

"Yes, but since it is of this quality, maybe you don't need to go there at all." Qian Yu said, and suddenly stared at the picture on the screen.

"Wait a minute, isn't this just..."

On the screen, Ooka Hongye was grabbing the 25 song cards he had obtained in his hands in a certain order, and was ready to gradually place the song cards in the way he was most accustomed to.

And what attracted Qianyu's attention ~www.NovelMTL.com~ was the stack of song cards in her hand——

On the edge of the pile of song cards, black flaky traces are clearly visible. Part of the dirt on this is very complete, and the traces on the sides of adjacent song cards can even be connected to form a complete curve, as if they were originally dirty.

"What is this?" Tajima also found the problem. "The edges of these cards... smudges? Why didn't he explain it to us?"

"Does the insurance cover this kind of defacement?" Qianyu approached the screen and looked at the picture here carefully.

"Of course, if he speaks out about this, he can even receive a considerable additional insurance money from us!" Tajima nodded seriously. "According to the content of the contract we signed at the Satsuki Club, the defacement of the card surface and the card body are separated into two parts: ritual and functional. Even if the song card is destroyed, there is no need to compensate the premium for the ritual value. But if it is If the body of the card is defaced, compensation is required even if the structure of the song card itself remains intact.”

"Then, why did they turn a blind eye to such damage?" This was the question that flashed through the minds of Chiba and Tajima, who were present.

It was a phone call from Kudo Shinichi who provided them with the answer.

"Did you say before that there are smudges on the song card, and the Satsuki Club is very resistant to playing up this matter?" Hasty footsteps came from the phone, and it sounded as if he was in some closed corridor. Move quickly.

"Kyosuke Kazuto is the psychiatrist you know. He used to be in charge of Mrs. Satsuki's psychotherapy before she died, and he provided valuable clues!

"He said that Mrs. Satsuki once said that she killed a man who liked him very much because of a misunderstanding!"