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Liang Xi asked: "Is there any record of unlocking at abnormal time?"

Bobby replied, "No."

Fuck!Things were not stolen from the vault, not during the exhibition hours, but on the way from the vault to the exhibition hall?

Liang Xi said: "Ask again if there is any abnormal situation. Also, can the monitoring of the vault be used?"

Bobby replied: "Yes, there are almost no dead ends. However, there are a lot of monitoring, and the police have not yet sorted out this part of the information. The technicians are checking whether there is a possibility that the monitoring has been invaded. It is estimated that there will be results this afternoon." After all, it depends on how many Several days of surveillance recorded by ten cameras.

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After understanding the basic situation, in order not to disturb the order of the museum, the three left the museum and drove to a nearby coffee shop.Chris has been waiting for Liang Xi's opinion. In order to get Liang Xi to express his point of view, he spared no effort to explain the whole case.After all, it is also his nature, which is brought into full play.

Never thought that Liang Xi's being cited for analysis made Chris feel chills.

Liang Xi said: "Artworks, especially such high-value works of art, are very difficult to sell. There are usually two ways. The first way is that someone steals the work of art and is looking for a buyer. The second way is that the buyer finds someone Stealing art."

Bobby looked confused, "Is there a difference?" The scarf killer saved Dai Nu, which made Bobby proud for a day, but was finally killed by Liang Xi, which made Bobby very unhappy.

Liang Xi explained: "The first way is usually by the way. For example, I am a museum worker and I find a security risk, or I accidentally discover that there is an opportunity to steal artworks easily. In this case, because of the artwork's High value, it may tempt him to sell. There are also professional art thieves. There are many European works of art, and there are many valuable ones. Every year, billions of stolen works of art are bought and sold around the world. In the professional art thieves industry, they There is an unspoken rule: do not touch the top artwork. Like the Mona Lisa's smile. One reason is that it is difficult to sell, because the whole world knows that the woman's smile is stolen. Many daring collectors can't afford it Such a high price. Because of the characteristics of art, bold and wealthy collectors may not like to smile very much."

Liang Xi said again: "There is another reason why the police will intervene with a high profile, and the whole society will also pay attention to this theft. It is definitely not a good thing for art thieves. In addition, the ceiling-level artworks like Smile have very strict security. Stealing is very difficult, and professional art thieves will not touch ceiling-level artworks when there are many uncertain factors, and it may not even be possible to get rid of them.”

Liang Xidao: "Based on this case, I think it should be the second way. Some collectors want Junku and find professionals to steal Junku. Why do you say that? Let's look at the list of artworks, there are many Valuable works of art are not as valuable as Junku. But the risk and difficulty of stealing them are much lower than Junku. If Bifenda’s oil paintings are the first-level security, then the works of art exhibited by Bifenda’s contemporary masters in museums are the most important. Mostly only level two security."

Liang Xi continued: "An oil painting worth 300 million pounds is enough for greedy people. If only this oil painting is lost, the insurance company and the police will not intervene on a large scale, and the news media will not report it. The media still don't know It was the theft of Junku, and once it is announced, I guarantee that the news will spread all over the world within an hour. To sum up, regardless of whether the ghost is inside or outside, I think there must be a collector contacting a professional team to steal Junku.”

Liang Xi said: "The target is the handsome collector, the target is the handsome theft team, their grade must not be low. Such a high-level team will definitely want to find an insider. At the same time, they also have to worry about one thing, Many people working in the museum have great love for artworks. Once they contact the other party, if the other party refuses to do anything, they will probably explain to the police or the museum. The insurance company will definitely take tough precautions after receiving the warning. Therefore, the theft gang It is necessary to understand the three views and financial situation of museum staff."

Liang Xi said: "The news of Junku's exhibition in the museum should have been released early, and the thieves have plenty of time to check out the site and get to know the people in the museum. Bobby, your bodyguards are also idle, let them watch the surveillance. The museum closes at [-]:[-] p.m. Ten days to three days ago, whether there are suspicious people and cars appearing near the museum this week. Those who check the spot should observe the people in the museum, and getting off work is a good opportunity. To get in touch with quasi-inner ghosts, They may drive to follow the quasi-inlaw, looking for opportunities to contact the quasi-inlaw. Even by calling the quasi-inlaw, the thieves will watch the quasi-inlaw and call, so that they can know whether the quasi-inlaw is reliable."

Bobby: "Got it, we will arrange it later."

Chris' palms were sweating, but he remained calm. Fortunately, he had Sierra, who had already processed a few minutes of video from the surveillance camera.

"Now we have to look at the situation at the vault monitoring side." Liang Xi said: "I suggest that the insurance company send people to focus on people who can enter the museum vault, not to find clues and oil paintings, the purpose is to scare them from going here. Shot during the period. The insider should have no criminal record and has a bad criminal mentality. As long as he finds someone following him, even if he knows that the other party is an insurance company, he will have concerns and dare not act rashly. Before the insider steals, he should find A safe place to stash. All we can do now is stop the transaction. Or maybe the transaction has been done, it was done before yesterday."

Before the museum closed last night, the curator discovered the fake, and then all the staff gathered in the museum for investigation.The police sent personnel to take notes overnight. There was no chance last night, or the chance was not great.All the staff are at work today, and as long as they send someone to watch, they can stop the transaction.But if it was stolen before yesterday, the oil painting may have reached the buyer's hands by now.

For now, Liang Xi believes that the information and clues are too complicated, and most of the information has other possibilities.For example, the oil painting may have been transferred during the day yesterday to an accomplice pretending to be a tourist.

The case is urgent, the sooner the ghost is found, the lower the theft rate of Junku will be.The longer the delay, the greater the chances of the collector completing the transaction.

Analysis by Chris: "The ghosts are divided into three categories, museums, insurance companies and security companies..."

Fuck, I came to you to give you opinions on the artwork, and to take you out as a friend, not for you to reason and add confusion.People from insurance companies and security companies dare to touch artworks?Putting your fingerprints on it could get you fired.However, it is not ruled out that the security company may drop the package during the escort.However, before the artwork is put into the vault, it is appraised by several experts.

Chris's analysis is reasonable, but it is biased. The biggest problem is that there is no core focus.Chris classified the possibility of people stealing Junku from three departments, and nine times were classified from the three departments.Nine times, three departments, and two locations, Chris proposed 5 possibilities within 54 minutes.What's amazing is that this guy spoke for 7 minutes in one breath, his sentences were fluent, and he didn't even swallow his saliva.

It's a pity that this time it's the gangster Wen, otherwise Chris might lose his tongue.

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The information is collected one after another. The first part of the information: the surveillance has not been invaded, there is no problem with the two full-time Junku guards guarding the exhibition hall, the camera has never been blocked, and there has been no accident in the exhibition hall.This means that it is impossible for someone to steal Junku from the exhibition hall during Junku's exhibition.Basically, it can be determined that it was done by the ghost.

The second part of the information, the vault monitoring found some suspicious problems.

According to the plan, Junku will participate in the exhibition on the first day, but the insurance company received unconfirmed early warning information from the police.Considering safety issues, under the persuasion of the insurance company, Junku was replaced with a counterfeit two days ago.At seven o'clock in the morning on the first day, the deputy curator, the curator and four staff members were all preparing the exhibits in the vault of the oil painting exhibition area.Because the exhibits have been in the warehouse for more than four days, they have to remove the frame to restore the elasticity of the edges of the canvas, because during the next seven days of exhibition, the exhibits will not return to the vault and will be hung in the exhibition hall for seven days.

At around [-]:[-], the curator, who was in charge of Junku together with the deputy curator, was called to the door of the vault by the person in charge of the insurance company, and had a discussion with the person in charge of security.The person in charge of security told the curator that he had received some unreliable information that someone might sabotage and attack Bifenda's oil painting.It is proposed not to exhibit three high-value oil paintings by Bi Vinci including Junku on Thursday and Friday.The curator agreed to the proposal and ordered someone to go to the storage room next door to get three fakes.

The fakes in the museum have very obvious characteristics, and even the museum's 'hot dog' is directly printed on the front of the oil painting, which is given to celebrities who visit the museum and sold to tourists.

Chapter 2 and One: Cool ([-])

While the curator was communicating with the insurance company personnel, the surveillance filmed that the deputy curator, who was operating alone on the table, moved abnormally.The deputy curator is 1.8 meters five, weighing 98 kilograms, and has a huge body.His body blocked several cameras, but some cameras still captured some of his hand movements.Judging from his movements, he rolled up the oil painting with his fingers and stuffed it into the left sleeve of his coat.Pull out an oil painting from the right sleeve and spread it on it.

Liang Xi and others watched the process of shooting with three cameras, but did not see the oil painting being replaced.The camera only captured the edges of the left and right hands, and the other parts were blocked by the huge body of the male deputy curator.

Liang Xi said: "If he took the oil painting, then he must be prepared to fight fast and act as soon as possible before he finds the fake, so that the police will not be able to catch evidence of his crime. Or he is confident in hiding the oil painting until the weather calms down."

Bobby asked, "Is this action replacing the oil painting?"

Liang Xi and Chris looked at it twice, shaking their heads together: "I don't know." You can explain that his movement is smoothing the oil painting with both hands, or you can explain that his movement is curling the oil painting canvas.My left wrist was itchy, and I scratched it a few times with my right hand.The right hand was itchy, and the left hand reached into the sleeve and scratched a few times.

Liang Xi said: "If he is a thief, he must have practiced and practiced specifically for the environment. If the deputy curator is a thief, there is one biggest problem that cannot be explained. You..."

When the exam questions came, Bobby and Chris immediately responded to the challenge. Bobby deserved to have used his brains in the case of the scarf killer, and rushed to answer: "How did the deputy curator know that the curator would leave when he checked Junku with him?"

Liang Xi: "Eight points."

Chris added: "Junku and other three oil paintings are of high value, and the curator and deputy curator have been in charge of them personally since they were put into the warehouse, which means that they will be in charge together on the first day of exhibition. If the ghost is the deputy curator, then It shows that the deputy curator's switch is premeditated, and he must ensure that the curator will leave the console at a specific time."

Liang Xi gave a thumbs up and said, "That's right. Does the curator have any personal contact with oil paintings?"

Bobby thought for a while: "The curator personally picked up the plane at the airport, and checked the integrity of the three Bifenda oil paintings brought in by air at the airport. After confirming that there were no bumps, the security personnel put them in a safe and escorted them to the museum. To the museum Afterwards, several experts dismantled the painting frame for identification and confirmed it to be a real painting. The curator’s pick-up at the airport was his only chance to touch the oil painting alone.”

Liang Xidao: "Several experts reappraised in the museum, indicating that the curator could not drop the bag. No one touched Junku after that, and Junku was kept in the vault. Until the first day of the exhibition, the curator and The deputy curator touched Junku. Then yesterday, on the third day of the exhibition, the curator and deputy curator touched Junku again, checked together, and sent the oil painting to the exhibition hall to hang. Then the problem came again.”

Chris quickly answered, as a person who is good at finding faults, he found the problem: "Before the curator closed on the third day, the naked eye found that the handsome cool hanging was a fake. It shows that the curator is very professional. But on the third morning, the curator I inspected Junku with the deputy curator, but we didn’t find it to be a counterfeit. We also ruled out that it was stolen during the exhibition on the third day, so it’s not justified here.”

Liang Xi said, "The video from the third morning."

On the morning of the third day, the deputy curator took Junku out of the explosion-proof glass cabinet and put it on the stage, because they had disassembled the picture frame on the first day. Today they did not disassemble the picture frame, but only checked the situation of Junku.The curator took out his reading glasses from his pocket and just put them on, when a sound came from an operating table five meters away, and another oil painting by Bi Vinci fell to the ground.The operator is a 30-year-old female staff member.

It can be seen that the curator is very angry, but his first reaction is to go quickly and pick up the oil painting frame that fell on the ground. As a 65-year-old man, his speed is more amazing than everyone thinks, which reflects the curator's attitude at that time. Feeling.The curator and the staff member took apart the picture frame, checked the condition of the canvas, and replaced a picture frame.At this time, the deputy curator had already checked Junku, and put Junku on the small trolley specially used for transporting oil paintings.

Bobby answered quickly: "On the third day, the curator did not participate in the inspection of Junku. He was attracted by the staff's mistakes. If the deputy curator stole something, the staff must be the associate of the deputy curator. On the first day, the staff She was already preparing to cover the deputy curator, but it happened that the curator had to leave, so she didn't carry out the plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain."

Liang Xi watched the video and asked, "What's the name of the staff?"

Bobby called and asked: "Kurt, a Londoner, an Italian art student, applied to work in the museum two years ago. The detailed information will be sent to us later. Liang Xi, should we pay more attention to the deputy curator, oil painting It is likely still in the hands of the deputy curator."

Liang Xi replied: "The deputy curator is under the watchful eyes of the insurance company, and it is enough to prevent him from delivering goods. Kurt, Kurt, looks good and has a good figure. After a day, the case has not made any progress. Let's find a reason to chat with the beauty." Nice chat too."

Chris smiled without saying a word, picked up the coffee and took a sip: Sorry, you are not qualified to chat with beauties.

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"What?" Liang Xi asked in surprise, "The deputy curator and Kurt are rivals? Will they deliberately quarrel over the theft of oil paintings?"

The chief bodyguard replied: "No, I asked someone from the museum. The deputy curator is in his 40s this year. He was accused of harassment by Kurt a month ago. The details are relatively bad. Both the police and the labor union are involved in the investigation. There is a recording evidence, claiming that Kurt seduced him, after he left, the two kissed me in the small room for a while, Kurt took off his clothes, tore his socks, and rushed out of the room, claiming that the deputy curator bullied her."

The head of the bodyguard: "I found someone to understand the specific situation in depth. Both the deputy director and the director have part-time jobs. The director was a professor at a local university in the early years. After becoming the director, he is still a visiting professor at a local university. Very famous. The deputy curator and Kurt are from the same alma mater in Italy, and the deputy curator is a visiting professor at his alma mater. Every two months, he goes to his alma mater to give lectures, so he got to know Kurt."

The head of the bodyguard said: "It was the deputy curator who recommended Kurt to work in the museum, specializing in the daily storage and repair of oil paintings. Since Kurt has the working conditions and the museum lacks people, the curator agreed."

The two had a good relationship at the beginning, but because the deputy curator had a wife, they never communicated publicly.This year, a graduate student temporarily went to the museum as a tour guide. After meeting Kurt, the two fell in love.Kurt alienated the relationship with the deputy curator, but he never thought that the deputy curator would quit. He was already discussing the details of the divorce with his wife, so the deputy curator and Kurt had a dispute, which led to a farce.After the graduate student learned the truth, he left sadly.Since then, Kurt and the deputy curator have been strangers.

Two months ago, Kurt had the opportunity to work in the British Museum. The curator generously congratulated her, and even called his student, a director of the British Museum, to praise Kurt.Unexpectedly, Kurt received a rejection call from the British Museum. After understanding, he found out that it was the deputy curator who said a lot of bad things about Kurt, which caused Kurt not to get the job.

So there was the harassment case a month ago.The curator is 65 years old this year, and was originally scheduled to retire in the second half of the year. The deputy curator should have been the most suitable successor, so this incident caused him to be excluded from the list.As a result, the deputy curator cursed Kurt many times in public, and the two almost had physical conflicts several times, but fortunately, colleagues stopped them.Faced with this situation, the curator has done some personnel work. Due to the curator’s network and Kurt’s strength, Kurt will leave the London Museum shortly after the end of the exhibition and go to the Albert Museum to take up management work.

The Chief of Bodyguards concluded: "I do not think it is very likely that the two men would have colluded with each other."

Does that mean the deputy curator is innocent?Kurt is not an accomplice, and her behavior of attracting the curator's attention is purely accidental?Deputy curator using accidental crime?

Liang Xi said: "I've been talking for a long time, but I haven't seen a handsome photo yet." If he didn't understand this question, he jumped out first.

Bobby: "There are a lot of them on the Internet."

Liang Xi asked, "Is it genuine?"

Bobby took out his mobile phone: "There are genuine products."

Liang Xi took the mobile phone to look at the photos. There were many cool pictures, and there were even shameless websites with watermarks, claiming to have electronic copyrights, and they had to pay for downloading the pictures.One of the pictures is a photo of Junku’s owner, Prince Saud’s office. The prince smiled kindly. The camera captured Junku hanging behind the wall. This should be the real Junku.

Chris turned his head and saw this photo together, hesitantly: "Hmph!"

"how?"

Chris said: "Oil paintings with a history of hundreds of years are not suitable for hanging on the wall. Too much light will damage the oil paintings. The most terrible thing is that you can see that the ashtray in front of the prince still has half a cigar, which has been smoked for a long time. Even the walls will change color, let alone an oil painting. It is not a big problem to say that it has been smoked for a hundred years, but the artwork is not left to our contemporary people, but to be passed on to our descendants. Like a tree, if no one Hurt it, and it will keep growing. Every person who passes by picks off a leaf from it, it seems that it doesn’t hurt it too much, and over time, even if the tree survives, it will not be as healthy as it used to be.”

Liang Xi interjected: "Listening to what you said, Chris, I think of Thresh. Thresh will definitely say that the greatest value of artwork is to sell it to the idiot, and use the money of the idiot to help the poor. The last time I met with Hammer Shi, the idiot, debated for a while, and felt that he had become an idiot. If you are close to vermilion, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black."

Chris asked curiously: "This Thresh is the Thresh from the Orphan Association?"

Liang Xi nodded: "We talked."

Chris asked, "What the hell did he do?"

Liang Xi said: "That's a long story. Besides, it's just a swordsman, so there's nothing to say."

Bobby was not interested in Thresh's topic, so he asked, "Liang Xi, do you think he did this handsome thing?"

Liang Xi pondered for a while: "I don't know. But if he did it, I don't think we can catch up with Junku. Thresh and sword return to sword, but he has a plan in doing things. He is very good at killing people with a knife and enjoying the benefits."

Bobby paid more attention to Junku. After all, the insurance company had to pay [-] million in compensation. Bobby said, "Can you confirm whether the deputy curator has taken Junku?"

Liang Xi said: "I can't be sure. The deputy curator has no criminal record. Maybe he can hide Junku very well, but he certainly can't control his emotions and behavior. Bobby, it's four o'clock in the afternoon. Install something in the curator's home, and we can observe the life of the deputy curator at night, and we should be able to get the correct answer."

Chris reminded: "This is against the law."

"I never do anything illegal." Bobby glanced at the chief bodyguard, who nodded slightly, and left the coffee shop to arrange work.Bobby said to Chris: "And I don't care about other people doing illegal things."

Shameless!Chris said something in his heart.

The deputy curator is currently the only suspect and the one most likely to recover Junku.If the deputy curator wasn't the thief, Joon-ku would be over.

Bobby was a little annoyed when he thought of this: "The swordsman Thresh must be killed, and the [-] million will be gone immediately."

Chris asked, "Did Thresh do it?"

Liang Xi said: "It doesn't matter if he is right or not, it counts as hammering the stone."

Bobby agreed: "At least you can find someone to vent your anger on."

Falk oil!Chris agreed: "It's okay to vent your emotions. It's very scientific. Hehe."

……

The insurance company told Bobby that the curator would hold a press conference the morning after tomorrow to inform the public that Junku had been stolen.The curator must fulfill the regulations. When the artwork is stolen and cannot be recovered as soon as possible, the stolen party will inform the thief how to properly keep the artwork through the media.Avoid unnecessary damage during carrying.

Time was running out, but the two young people began to argue, and Bobby asked to go to his mansion to monitor the deputy curator.Liang Xi asked to go to the detective agency to watch the surveillance footage.Bobby's reason is that he has made great contributions to the Scarf Killer, he is the boss of the detective agency, and this case is closely related to his Clement family.

Liang Xi's reason: You are going to die.

Bobby: No monitoring signal for you

Liang Xi: You go to die again.

Bobby: How can you stay in that shitty place for one night?

Liang Xi: Your home is not destroyed, but your people are.

Back and forth, the two started pushing and shoving on the side of the road. Chris couldn't stand it anymore: "Hammer and cut cloth!"

Poppy: "Two out of three."

Liang Xi said proudly: "Five rounds, if you win one round, you win." Play hand movements with a magician, and let my brother teach you how to behave.

Bobby said angrily, "Come on."

Then Bobby lost all five rounds, and began to play tricks: "You are slow."

Liang Xi sneered: "Return to the patriarch? Talking is nothing?"

Chris smoothed things over again: "Back to back, hands up to the sky."

Liang Xi said indifferently: "He must have returned the hammer." Turning around.

Falk!Poppy won't be coming out right away.what?He looked at the head of the bodyguard standing five meters away, and raised his eyebrows at the head of the bodyguard.The bodyguard vomited blood for a long time, and he didn't want to participate in this shit.

Under Chris's order, the two back to back, the chief bodyguard quietly made a gesture of cloth, and Bobby, who was originally holding his fist, immediately turned into scissors.Never wanted to turn around and look, what Liang hit was a hammer.

Bobby looked at the head of the bodyguard sadly, and the head of the bodyguard: I will let you make cloth.

Bobby threw his arms around his shoulders and walked towards the car: "Do you want to replenish your library?"

Liang Xi said: "There is no place to put it."

Bobby said: "I bought the coffee shop and restaurant downstairs of the detective agency and made it into a dome library,"

Liang Xi looked at Bobby: "As for it? Just one night."

Bobby: "Why don't we go to your house? The detective agency is too small and depressing."

Liang Xi said, "I feel very comfortable."

The chief bodyguard opened the car door for the two of them, and said, "Mr. Liang, if you can make a pot of good tea when you are bored watching the surveillance, the long night will not look too boring."

Bobby understood what the chief bodyguard meant, and said, "Dajiling, Qimen, Ceylon tea, that's enough."

Liang Xi knew that the three names mentioned by Bobby were the three brands of high-fragrant black tea.You can also buy it every day, but most of them are not authentic.Bobby's identity should not allow him to buy counterfeit tea.When Liang Xi was hesitating, Bobby pushed him into the car, and greeted Chris by the way: "Go, get in the car. Let someone prepare dinner, order as you like, we are all friends."