The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Chapter 1012: Genetic Hell Joke

Kuroba Kaito's eyes widened for a moment.

Tang Ze did get various materials related to the performance of Kuroba Toichi from him, including but not limited to existing videos, related images taken by many media reporters, etc., just after he learned clearly from Bai Batan that the shadow chasing behind Kuroba Toichi was also related to the death of Tang Ze's parents.

Tang Ze said he would study it, and then nothing happened.

He thought that this guy couldn't research more detailed information, and felt that the information he had collected over the years was comprehensive enough, so he didn't mention it...

After being shocked for a moment, he quickly adjusted his expression and looked at Tang Ze subtly.

"If there was such a thing, why didn't you mention it earlier? I remember that your memory was extraordinary because of your previous illness. This shouldn't be the case..."

Tang Ze looked at him again as if he was a fool. "I remember you boasted to me that you had taken an IQ test and that you have a very high IQ, didn't you? You don't understand this? Your father disappeared a few years ago?"

Kuroba Kaito opened his mouth and immediately realized what Tang Ze meant.

Eight years ago, Toichi Kuroba had an accident during a public magic show and then "died".

At that time, Tang Ze had not yet recovered from his autism thanks to his parents' treatment, and was still completely unaware of the outside world.

"So, you hadn't been cured at that time..." Kuroba Kaito murmured, his voice lowering, "You were at the scene that day."

The death of Kuroba Toichi was a nightmare for Kuroba Kaito for a long time.

It was more than just losing a father.

Because of his father, he was full of admiration for magicians. The magic tricks performed by Kuroba Toichi with infinite imagination were like a window, allowing him to glimpse into dreams.

But that day, he woke up from his beautiful dream and lost the most beautiful dreams of both his father and his child.

Although he did not witness the scene, or even those who were watching the performance probably did not have the opportunity to witness what happened to Kuroba Toichi - after all, Kuroba Toichi "died" in the sea of ​​fire - the imagination of the performance scene still lingered in his mind, making him toss and turn for a long time at night.

After a few seconds of silence, Kuroba Kaito looked at Tangze's phone, who was frantically uncovering other paintings in the gallery out of disbelief, trying to find Takeyori Ishikawa who could prove that these paintings were all conspiracies and fakes. After seeing enough of his panic, he asked again.

"You took the initiative to bring this up with me. You must have found something. Tell me what you want to tell me."

"Hmm..." Tang Ze organized his words, slightly put away the teasing expression on his face, and said seriously, "You have been investigating for such a long time, I don't need to go into details. I really don't have any memory of that performance. But you know the conclusion of the investigation of the incident at that time."

"Well, I guess it's because of a new assistant and the invitation of live audience to cooperate with the performance, which led to unfamiliarity with the use of stage equipment. The circuit was triggered by mistake, and an explosion occurred after the firework box was ignited..." Kuroba Kaito almost blurted out.

He didn't even need to recall it carefully; the contents of these investigations would automatically and spontaneously emerge in his mind.

He has been studying these things for too long.

"Just you know. In fact, I should have been the one chosen by Mr. Toichi Kuroba to perform the magic show as his partner." Tang Ze pointed at himself.

"Where did you get this information?" Kuroba Kaito tilted his head back. "How could you have traveled so far? Could you have used mind reading to interpret it?"

He knew that many of the Heart Thief's abilities were very magical, but even the word "should have" came out...

"My parents said so themselves." Tang Ze was a little speechless when he said this, and couldn't help but raise his eyelids, "You know, your father's performance style."

Kuroba Toichi is a very powerful top magician, but even top magicians will not make a big fuss about their stage performances.

The main visual effect of his live performances is the manipulation and transformation of objects, and the interaction with the audience is basically the introduction to his poker magic.

He would use some common simple projects such as card mind reading and asking the audience to write on the cards as an introduction, and then make some unexpected developments. For example, after drawing a card and the audience confirms that it is the one they chose, he would let the card spontaneously combust in the audience's hand, and when the other party was startled, he would draw a rose or something like that from the flames.

He manipulates the audience's emotions almost at will and can always capture everyone's attention, which is also a reflection of his ability as a top performer.

Kuroba Kaito definitely knows more about this kind of thing than Tang Ze, so there is no need to elaborate.

So Tang Ze continued: "At that time, my autism was not cured yet. I could understand simple instructions, but I couldn't give any response. My parents, they..."

"...I want to see how my dad reads the mind of a high-functioning autistic person." Realizing the reason for Tang Ze's difficult tone, Kuroba Kaito's mouth twitched.

"At that time, I had been diagnosed for seven or eight years, and they would occasionally joke about this kind of thing." Tang Ze laughed.

Letting his autistic son cooperate with the magician's performance, wanting to see the magician's confused look, how should I put it, reminded Tang Ze of some stories he had heard in his previous life, about Shi Tiesheng and his friends...

The Tangze couple have a talent for making hell jokes, and they are truly biological children.

Both of them were silent for a while because of this operation, and then Tang Ze continued to explain.

"After the accident, not long after, I got better and recovered, and my parents were discovered and controlled by the organization. After that, our family never had the opportunity to go out and play together again. So later, when we met, my parents talked about this matter with me and expressed their feelings. If they had really succeeded in changing the lottery number and chosen me, maybe the magician would not have done that..."

"It seems unlikely now. If the accident was really caused by my father himself in order to avoid his enemies, then it would be the same no matter who we choose." Kuroba Kaito shook his head.

"I didn't think of it before because I didn't think about it that way. I found some clues in the live video you gave me, and then I suddenly realized that I had watched that performance, although I didn't remember it myself." Tang Ze touched his chin, "I now think that your father's situation may be a little complicated."

"Why do you say that?" Kuroba Kaito knew that he was about to get to the crucial point, so he became serious.

"He wanted to fake his death and escape, which might be true. The zoo is a group of tricky guys. Although they don't have special abilities like us," Tang Ze pointed to the live broadcast on his phone, indicating what abilities he was talking about, "but they are not ordinary people. Your father wanted to get rid of them and make them believe that he was dead. Maybe they discovered the identity of Kaito Kid. This forced him to take some risks and create an accident during a public performance..."

Kuroba Kaito nodded, agreeing with Tang Ze's statement.

This coincides with the direction of his investigation. He has always felt this way, but lacks evidence to support it.

If she had not informed her mother in advance, she would not have acted so indifferent about Kuroba Toichi's death.

"But I think there must have been a real accident in this 'escape magic'." Tang Ze said the really important information.

He touched his collar.

The golden K-shaped brooch appeared as he touched it.

"X-alloy, you are investigating this stuff because it is related to your father's death. At this stage, your research on it and the situation we have confirmed through our cooperation have shown that the magicians' public performances over the years have invisibly met certain conditions, causing the props they often use to be transformed into X-alloy." Tang Ze said this and spread his hands, "But the magicians themselves don't know!"

Kuroba Kaito followed Tang Ze's thoughts and his eyes widened again.

"That is to say, the explosion at that time..."

"It's X-alloy." Tang Ze nodded, "He, without knowing it, detonated the X-alloy..."

After saying this, he himself was a little speechless.

The birth of X-alloy is related to human subjective consciousness, but it is not artificially created. It is inseparable from cognitive science and is a special metal that has a clear relationship with human mind and projection.

Even the organization that broke up the X-alloy for research had never done something as suicidal as directly detonating it.

"So do you think something has happened to my father?" Kuroba Kaito tightened his fingers.

"Something must have happened, but there shouldn't be any deaths. X-alloy is not a deadly thing. It is born in the human mind and can only act on the human mind. It is difficult to hurt anyone physically. However, no one has ever directly touched it..." Tang Ze curled his lips, "No one can predict the consequences it causes. Maybe your father has undergone some changes that ordinary people can't imagine."

For example, Kuroba Toichi was affected by the explosion, and although he was not dead, his soul left his body. Or, his existence itself was covered by the X-alloy, so he was not dead, but was forced to become psychologically invisible, so that no one could see or find him...

Or maybe the X-alloy awakened the sodium aluminate, or maybe it was directly blasted into the cognitive world...

"In short, as long as he's still alive, he'll inevitably attract the organization's attention." Tang Ze concluded, "That's a rare sample that has faced the X-Alloy explosion. To the organization, it might be more valuable than me."

Kuroba Kaito was speechless: "..."

The two people fell silent at the same time because of the magical operations of each other's fathers and looked at each other. On the phone, Takeyori Ishikawa, who had been silent for a long time, finally made a little sound.

Noah designed a circular corridor for him.

Utilizing the special space distortion effect of the palace, this is actually a circular corridor. People standing in it cannot perceive the curvature with the naked eye. The actual experience is that you cannot see the corners at all, but it becomes a loop as you walk, which is very embarrassing.

At this moment, he had walked back to the first painting he had uncovered.

What caught his attention and made him exclaim in surprise was not just the strange structure of the gallery.

He kicked a paintbrush under his feet.

Oikawa Takeyori is very familiar with this brush.

Painters all have their own favorite painting tools, and the one that Takeyori Ishikawa uses most often is this brush, which he is very familiar with both in terms of color and size.

Therefore, he could tell at a glance that the bumpy marks on the brush were not the shape of the brush itself or normal wear and tear.

He bent down, picked up the dark blue paintbrush from the blood-colored carpet, held it in his hand, and turned it to observe.

Soon, Takeyori Iikawa came to the conclusion.

"Those are teeth marks, right?" Kuroba Kaito saw Noah move the camera to a close-up and came to the same conclusion, "Is this a hint you gave Haruhito Kanhara by imitating his brush?"

"No, that's Kanhara Haruhito's paintbrush." ​​Tang Ze shrugged. "There are many more of these paintbrushes in his room. We just took one from the middle."

In theory, if you want to paint with a paintbrush in your mouth, you need some special customized equipment. After all, paintbrushes are designed for hands and there is no space reserved for the mouth.

However, Haruhito Kanhara was worried that what he was doing would be discovered by Takeyori Oikawa, so he could only choose the most common paintbrush in the studio to avoid arousing suspicion.

"Huh, it looks like he understands it too." Kuroba Kaito looked at Oikawa Takera in astonishment and shock, which soon turned into disbelief, and then slowly put on an expression of regret. He held his chin and commented, "You guys' move was quite cruel."

There is no need for any verbal prompts from others, nor are there any sensational passages.

The Phantom Thieves didn't do anything unnecessary. They just processed Kanhara Haruhito's exercises and placed them quietly in front of Oikawa Takeyori, which immediately defeated this man whose character had become somewhat extreme due to setbacks and hardships.

He was not an ungrateful evil person. In fact, it was the love and family affection that forced him to sell paintings for a living because he could not let go.

Therefore, if he could only figure out what his father-in-law was doing, it would be enough to make Takeyori Iikawa feel extremely remorseful.

"This is the emotion he should bear." Tang Ze said lightly, "He deserves it."

This is why, even though the problem could be solved by giving the two of them a chance to sit down and have a good talk, Tang Ze still insisted on forcing Takera Ishikawa into Noah's Hall to cause trouble.

He has been married to his wife for forty years, and has been dealing with his father-in-law, Haruhito Kanhara, for forty years as well.

He might misunderstand the other party's intentions, but as long as he took good care of the old man, there was no reason why he wouldn't notice something wrong with Kamiya Haruhito.

This misunderstanding can be easily resolved by simply walking into Kanhara Haruhito's bedroom and observing carefully, or asking the servant who takes care of him.

The pain made him close his eyes and his heart, and he became cold and paranoid. He chose to impersonate Kaito Kid to solve the painting that he could never start. It is not surprising that he finally embarked on the path of killing people because of misunderstanding.

"You two, what are you discussing..."

Conan walked out of the studio and saw Karasawa and Kitagawa Yusuke huddled together looking at their phones and whispering something. He couldn't help but frown.

It's true, when he thought about this rare situation where two people didn't know each other but knew each other's true identities, so that Conan didn't need to disguise his identity at all, he felt something was quite strange the moment he opened his mouth.

"Let's discuss Mr. Oikawa's affairs." Tang Ze didn't have any guilty conscience, and he didn't even subconsciously put away his phone to cover his face. He looked back calmly, "I mainly think that the painting "Qinglan" is quite strange, so I want to discuss it with Mr. Kitagawa. Do you think a painter whose wife died in a tornado would really choose to use "wind" as one of the themes of his series of paintings?"

"I think it's hard to say." Kuroba Kaito instantly got into character, "His wife is indeed dead, so it's okay to end the series with this theme."

Conan feels like there is something hellish going on: "..."