Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 146 The Egg of Memories
After greeting Sonoko's two friends, Xiaolan and Yoko, Suzuki Shiro looked at the last pair of young men and women who entered, and curiously asked Sonoko, "Sonoko, who are these two?"

"They are Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, Dad." Sonoko introduced the two with a smile, "Heiji is known as the famous high school detective in the west, and he is quite famous in Kansai!"

After listening to his daughter's introduction, Suzuki Shiro showed a kind smile and said, "I see, I'll leave it to you."

"Oh, it's on me, old man!" Hattori Heiji promised with a confident smile.

"I said you kid, you dare to call President Suzuki old man!" Mori Kogoro shouted out of anger when he heard the other party's address.

"It's okay, Mr. Mori." Suzuki Shiro didn't think it was disobedient, he turned around with a smile and introduced the people sitting behind him, "Compared to these, let me introduce the other guests today."

"This is Sergey Ovchinnikov, first clerk of the Russian embassy."

"The one next door is the art dealer I specially invited, Mr. Gan Jiangyi."

"This lady is a researcher of the Romanov dynasty, Miss Pusi Qinglan."

"The last one is Mr. Han Chuanlong, an independent producer who applied to come to collect materials for filming."

Shi Ye's eyes quickly swept across the four people sitting on the sofa, and silently marked the murderer Pu Si Qinglan in the original plot, and the two victims Han Chuanlong and Gan Jiangyi in his heart.

In his memory, the two victims were not considered good birds, but they were not guilty of death. It was only because of bad luck that they discovered the identity of the murderer and were silenced.

Since Ishino intends to intervene in the incident in advance this time, the two will escape the fate of being killed, so Ishino looks at each other as if they owe him money, which makes the two feel a little bit uncomfortable when they notice Ishino's gaze. baffling.

As for Pusi Qinglan, a fake Chinese, she didn't seem to know that there was a real Chinese named Shi Ye among the people present, so her poor Chinese immediately attracted the attention of Xia Mei and her two daughters who often listened to Shi Ye speak Chinese. .

However, the few people didn't suspect that the other party had any malicious intentions, they just guessed from the other party's pupils that were similar in color to Natsumi whether she was also a mixed race with Russian ancestry.

After Suzuki Shiro introduced a few people, Mori Kogoro immediately raised a question that everyone was concerned about: "So, what is the value of the treasure after the appraisal by several experts?"

"[-] million yen." The go-getter gave the answer straight away.

"Eight, eight hundred million?!" This number really shocked Kogoro Mouri.

However, in Ishino's view, even adding a zero to the value of this Egg of Memory is not an exaggeration. The art dealer obviously gave an estimate far below the actual value with malicious intentions, hoping to profit from it.

Sure enough, the general changed the subject, looked at Shiro Suzuki and suggested, "If you are willing to part with me, I can buy it at a higher price. How about it?"

The Russian clerk on the side couldn't sit still when he heard the words, and he directly dissuaded him: "President, the egg of memory is a Russian thing. If you sell it to such a profit-seeking businessman, it is better to send it to our Russian art gallery to preserve the exhibition. !"

These words made Ishino, who was still despising Ganjiang Yi just now, call him a good guy, at least he knows that he has to spend money to buy it, this one is good, just ask the other party to give it away for nothing, this face is really big enough .

He obviously noticed that even Xia Mei, who has always been gentle and tolerant, looked a little unhappy after hearing the other party's remarks, so he wrote down the attitude of the Russian embassy in a small notebook in his heart. After all, the current Russian government also He can be regarded as half of the enemy of the Kasaka family, and sooner or later he will make the other party look good.

"Okay, okay, it's really interesting. Compared with shooting that egg, it's much more interesting to shoot people." Han Chuanlong, who was sitting by the side, said sarcastic remarks, and then put on a playful smile to Pusi Qinglan beside him. Said, "You look like you have nothing to do with yourself, but in fact you are the one who wants to get that egg the most, right?"

Pusi Qinglan responded with a struggling expression, "I really want it very much, but... I can't afford [-] million yen..."

"It's true, even I can only scrape together [-] million yen." Han Chuanlong looked at the other party mockingly and said.

Seeing that the emotions of the people present were not right, Suzuki Shiro said in a timely manner: "Okay everyone, in short, we will talk about this egg another day. Everyone has worked hard, so let's go to rest early."

Knowing that President Suzuki didn't mean to give up the eggs of memory, these people left with expressions of regret.

After only Mori and his party were left in the room, Makoto Nishino followed Suzuki Shiro's instructions and placed the box containing the eggs of memories on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa.

Seeing that President Suzuki invited everyone to sit down and enjoy the artwork together, Xiaolan asked excitedly, "Can we see that egg?"

"Of course." Yuanzi explained indifferently beside Xiaolan, "Actually, I don't think this egg is so great, it was used as a toy by me when I was a child who didn't understand anything. "

Conan and Uncle Maori on the side were completely speechless by Yuanzi's sudden Versailles speech, rolling their eyes while complaining in their hearts that rich people really do whatever they want.

When Suzuki Shiro opened the box carefully and displayed this exquisite work of art in front of everyone, everyone who saw the egg of memory for the first time gave out admiration.

It was also the first time for Xia Mei to see the real thing, but she didn't show the surprise of others. Instead, she looked at Ishino with a calm expression, and sent a positive look, and perfectly reproduced the appearance of this memory egg for her husband. The superb craftsmanship expressed recognition.

"Can this be opened?" Conan asked first, relying on his identity as a child.

"That's right, Conan-kun knows it very well." Shiro Suzuki nodded with a smile, then opened the memory egg and explained, "It contains a model of Emperor Nicholas' family made of pure gold, and there is an interesting mechanism in it." .”

Suzuki Shiro said as he took out the matching key, inserted it into the keyhole of the base and twisted it a few times, and saw the internal model slowly rising, and the pages of the book in Nicholas II's hands were also opened evenly, as if He is reading this book with his family.

Conan looked at the movements made by the model, and once again acted like a curious baby and asked, "Why does flipping through a book represent memories?"

This time, without waiting for President Suzuki to answer, Xiao Ai, who had been silent beside him, looked at Conan with a smile on his face and replied: "The books that a family would sit and read together are obviously only photo albums that record precious memories. , Edogawa-kun, you really are a bit stupid."

(End of this chapter)