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"I drink pure coffee like Kevin, without adding anything." The second young master Tone Kosuke replied, and the sturdy man named Kevin nodded at Baihe Qing.
"I added milk and sugar."
Finally, the cheongsam-wearing woman named Mei Ling leaned on the back of the sofa and said with a smile:
"The boss and I did the same thing. He also added milk and sugar. It's really strange. The boss and I added the same things, so why was the boss the only one who was poisoned to death in the end...
By the way, detective, just like coffee, whether it is adding milk or sugar, we get them ourselves. "
As she said this, Mei Ling pointed to the coffee table placed against the wall not far away. On the two plates on it were piles of sealed packages of milk and sugar.
Everyone chose their own coffee, and the milk and sugar were all in uniformly sealed packages, and everyone got them themselves. It would be extremely difficult for the murderer to accurately poison everyone with these three things.
If we rule out the possibility that the murderer killed randomly, that means there must be something that Yang Douxin did that the others didn't do...
"spoon."
Suddenly, Mary, who was standing next to Shirakawa Kiyoshi, touched her chin and spoke.
Chapter 424 Snowstorm Villa Mode Started
"The spoon. The murderer poisoned the spoon."
In the lounge, Mary looked down at the spoon that fell at Yang Douxin's feet, touched her chin, and spoke.
"spoon?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Heqing bent down, picked up the spoon, took a look at it, then suddenly turned around to look at the cheongsam women Mei Ling and Kitakami Kazuhiko.
This kind of stirring spoon is not needed when drinking pure coffee. Among the five people who drank coffee, except Yang Douxin who had been poisoned, only these two people added anything to the coffee.
"Have you ever used a spoon to stir coffee before?" asked Qing Baihe.
“No.” Kitakami Kazuhiko shook his head and replied, “Although I added milk, I always like the ripples produced when milk is poured into coffee, so I never stir it with a spoon.”
"Neither do I." Mei Ling followed suit and said, "After all, both coffee and milk are specially made for making coffee. Even if you don't stir them, they will melt quickly. There's no need for that, right?"
"So, among you, Mr. Yang is the only one who used the spoon just now, right?"
"Yes, the boss always likes to stir his coffee..."
Mei Ling stopped talking halfway through, with an expression of disbelief on her face.
"Did the murderer poison the spoon? No, wait, the boss took the spoon himself. How did the murderer know which spoon the boss was going to take?"
Hearing her question, Bai Heqing walked to the coffee table, took out a few spoons from the long tube full of stirring spoons, walked to the window, squinted his eyes and took a look in the sunlight.
"I think there is a possibility that the murderer coated every spoon with poison." Bai Heqing replied.
With his extraordinary eyesight, he could clearly see in the sunlight that there were very subtle marks on these spoons, similar to those left by liquid after drying.
"What? How is this possible?!" Kitakami Kazuhiko was shocked when he heard this and asked back, "If everyone was poisoned, wouldn't the murderer be worried that others would be poisoned as well?"
"Of course the murderer won't worry." Turning around and putting the spoon back, Bai Heqing explained: "After all, the murderer also knows very well that among you, only Mr. Yang is used to using a stirring spoon."
"That is to say, the murderer who poisoned Mr. Yang is actually among you."
Mary continued what Shirakawa Kiyoshi said.
"Before the two of us arrived at this villa, you should have stayed here for several days, right? The murderer had a clear understanding of your habits through observation over these few days. He was sure that only Mr. Yang would use a stirring spoon when drinking coffee, and finally used this method to accurately poison you."
"If this is true, then why did the murderer poison Mr. Yang? Could it be... for my father's inheritance?" asked the eldest young master Tone Takahiro, frowning.
"Huh? Is there any other reason besides this?"
Clyde sneered when he heard this and looked at Bai Heqing and Mary.
"So, according to what you said, the murderer must be among us, right? Then who is he?"
"The specific identity of the murderer still needs further investigation."
It was Mary who answered him.
"Next, before the police arrive, please don't..."
"No need to go through so much trouble!"
Clyde interrupted Mary impatiently. He stood up and walked directly towards the confused Kazuhiko Kitakami. He stretched out his old and skinny hand and tightly clasped Kazuhiko Kitakami's arm.
"If you ask me, the murderer must be you!"
"Mr. Clyde?"
"The three of us are all heirs to the estate. Now that Yang is dead, I'm the only one left. When I die, you can take all the estate for yourself. Am I right?!"
"You...I...please stop talking nonsense! Mr. Clyde!"
Clyde's completely idealistic speculation made Kitakami Kazuhiko dumbfounded. He shouted angrily:
"I've said it before! I don't care about the inheritance at all! It doesn't matter to me even if the inheritance can never be found! How could I kill Mr. Yang for such a reason?!"
"Humph! You say what you think. Who knows what you are thinking in your heart?"
However, Clyde seemed to be certain that Kitakami Kazuhiko was the murderer and did not believe his story at all.
"In my opinion, for our own safety, it would be better to lock you up in the basement before the police arrive!"
"This is totally unfounded suspicion!"
The two men quarreled again in the hall. Bai Heqing took the opportunity to glance at the other people in the hall, but found that not only were these people not surprised, but they all looked helpless, as if similar quarrels had happened many times before...
[Is there any grudge between these two people? ]
This thought suddenly popped up in Baihe Qing's mind.
[No, it’s not just these two people who deserve attention…]
Bai Heqing suddenly recalled the previous communication between Yang Douxin and Clyde.
The tone of their conversation at the time was more like that of acquaintances who had known each other for many years than that of strangers who had just met for a few days...
Moreover, when Yang Douxin died of poison, Clyde was the first person to react...
Shirakawa Kiyoshi vaguely realized that there might be some special relationship between the three heirs chosen by Tone Eijiro?
"Oh no!"
At this moment, the door of the hall was pushed open, and the old housekeeper Kurahashi Motoaki, who had gone to the corridor to call the police, hurried in.
"It seems that the telephone lines of the annex have been cut off! I just tried to make several calls but couldn't get through!"
"What did you say?" Young Master Takahiro Tone was stunned when he heard this. "I was able to fight back this morning, why is it that now... Damn it! Could this also be the work of the murderer? What on earth did he want to..."
"boom!"
Suddenly, there were bursts of huge explosions outside the villa, and the explosions came from far away and got closer. Bai Heqing listened carefully and quickly turned his head to look outside the window in the direction of the cave tunnel in the southern part of Beidao.
[The sound came from over there, could it be...]
"Oh no! White River! That viaduct!"
Mary reacted immediately, turned around and ran out of the hall quickly, followed closely by Baihe Qing.
That viaduct was the only passage from the North Island to the outside world. Now the telephone line of the annex had been cut, and they had lost the means of contacting the outside world. If the bridge was blown up again...
"Damn it! Did someone blow up the bridge?!"
After Mary and Shirakawa Kiyoshi, the two young masters of the Tone family and the strong man named Kevin also rushed out.
The five people quickly ran to the outside of the villa, boarded the speedboat parked outside, left the villa, ran up the hillside in the south of the North Island along the stone road, and after passing through the cave tunnel, they finally arrived at the viaduct connecting the North and South Islands.
"hateful!"
However, what appeared before the five people was an overpass that had been completely blown apart, with smoke and dust still emitting from the broken parts on both sides.
"Who did this?!"
Now, they are really trapped on this island.
Chapter 425: What an Excellent Teammate
"It seems that we are now trapped on this isolated island..."
Standing at the broken viaduct on the North Island, the sturdy man named Kevin spoke.
"Damn it! Who did this?!" The eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, clenched his fist and hammered the guardrail next to him.
"Could he be the murderer who poisoned Mr. Yang?" asked Tone Kosuke.
"Who knows? Maybe they are from outside?" Kevin shrugged and said, "They were hired by someone on this island to trap us on this island..."
In front of the three people, Bai Heqing squatted down, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked carefully at the broken part of the viaduct.
"Are there any explosives stored on this island?" he suddenly asked.
"Hmm? Oh, yes, they were left over from the reconstruction of the annex, and they are still kept in the warehouse..." Tone Takahiro replied.
"Detective Shirakawa, do you also suspect that this bridge was blown up by people on the island? Are they the murderers who poisoned Mr. Yang?" Tone Kosuke asked hurriedly.
"It's definitely possible."
Bai Heqing stood up, his eyes still looking at a certain place on the broken bridge. Mary beside him followed his gaze and found a small red wire wrapped around the railing of the broken bridge.
Normally there would be no wires tangled in such a place, with one possible exception.
[Could it be the circuit of the bomb timing device? In other words, the murderer might have been in the hall when the explosion occurred and detonated the bomb through remote control? ]
Of course, Bai Heqing did not tell the three people behind him about this discovery. After all, he was not sure about the murderer's identity, and he did not want to be targeted by the murderer as soon as he arrived on the island.
"Who did this? Did he also set his sights on my father's inheritance and want to trap us all on this island and kill us?"
"Alright, alright, Master Guiyang, there's no point in thinking about this now. Let's go back and explain the situation here to everyone..."
Compared to the excited Takahiro Tone, Kevin on the side seemed much more relaxed. He just shook his head and sighed, then turned and walked into the cave tunnel.
"Then I'll go back first. Really, now we can't ask the people outside to bring us cigarettes..."
"Damn it! Kosuke! Go back!" After hammering the guardrail again, Takahiro Tone also turned and left.
"Master Kosuke, how many daily necessities are left on the island?"
Shirakawa Kiyoshi called out to Tone Kosuke who was about to go back, and the three of them walked into the cave tunnel side by side.
"Don't worry about that, the two of you. The island has enough supplies for us to live on for at least a week."