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At this time, Kevin spoke again.
“It’s just that the accumulated water above the annex was drained by you guys before, causing the water level here to rise and flood that platform.
By the way, there are more treasures on the ship than what you have just seen. There are only a few on the deck, and most of them are stored in the cabin..."
"Treasures! These are all my father's treasures!"
While he was speaking, Takahiro Tone climbed aboard with great effort and rushed towards the wooden boxes on the deck that were filled with gold, silver and jewelry.
"elder brother!"
Behind him, Tone Kosuke helplessly jumped into the water and swam onto the boat.
Chapter 440 I'm Not a Good Man
Unlike the eldest son Takahiro Tone who has already started embracing treasures everywhere, his younger brother Kosuke Tone is obviously much calmer.
After swimming aboard, he first went to the cabin to find a suitable wooden board, and placed it on the railing of the small cargo ship and the walkway on the stone wall, so that the people behind him could get on board directly without swimming.
"Thank you very much, Second Young Master~" Walking to the deck, Mei Ling winked at Kosuke Tone and thanked him.
"Don't say that."
Tone Kosuke looked at everyone, then turned back to look at his brother who was still immersed in the treasures, and said helplessly:
"My brother is always impatient, please don't take it too seriously..."
"Well... don't worry, I think most of us won't care. After all... we are not the ones who can truly inherit these treasures, right?"
Mei Ling replied with a smile, and at the same time gave Kitakami Kazuhiko a meaningful look.
Among the three heirs designated by Tone Eijiro, he is the only one still alive. If nothing unexpected happens, according to Tone Eijiro's will, these treasures will eventually belong to Kitakami Kazuhiko.
Well, if nothing else happens...
"Don't say that, Miss Meiling." Kitakami Kazuhiko shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have said before that no matter what the final result is, I will not inherit these inheritances, this will not change..."
"Master Yiyan..." The old butler Kurahashi Motoaki, who had been following everyone, raised his head and looked at him blankly after hearing what he said.
While these people were talking, Shirakawa Qing and Mary entered the cabin of the small cargo ship.
The two did not forget the purpose of their coming to this island.
The boxes on the deck were filled with gold, silver and jewelry, but not the cultural relics that Black Rose wanted, so the two of them had to go to the cabin to look for them.
"I didn't expect that I could actually find the treasure." Mary said with a smile as she opened a room and walked in.
"And it was boxes of treasure just like in the legends. It was really surprising... But then again, the way Tone Eijiro got these treasures was not clean. He had been hiding them very well for the past fifteen years, so he didn't encounter any trouble.
But now, it is not so easy to inherit a batch of treasures of unknown origin..."
Although Mary did not say it explicitly, her meaning was very clear.
There is no way to inherit the treasures left by Tone Eijiro through normal legal channels. The two young masters of the Tone family could not explain the origin of these treasures.
Or maybe there is no way to explain it. After all, these treasures were stolen by Tone Eijiro. They do not belong to him. From a historical perspective, they do not belong to Singapore. It can even be said that they do not belong to the British Empire...
If we have to say, they should belong to those colonial countries that were once plundered by the British Empire. But times have changed. Now, more than a hundred years have passed. Unless they are well-marked cultural relics, who can tell which country the rest of the gold, silver and jewelry belong to?
Of course, this is not something Bai Heqing should worry about.
Anyway, this inheritance has nothing to do with him, and he is not the one who should be worried and sad. He just needs to do what he should do.
But no matter what, if there really are cultural relics on this ship, he will definitely find a way to preserve them for Black Rose.
As for the emotional eldest son of the Tone family... Shirakawa Qing did not consider his opinion.
After all, he is not a good man, and his moral bottom line has always been flexible. As I said before, on this isolated island, he and Mary are basically invincible in terms of combat power.
The only thing Baihe Qing had to think about was how to contact Black Rose afterwards.
Before landing on the island, Baihe Qing had made an agreement with Black Rose that Black Rose would come to the isolated island to pick him up the next day.
The reason why it is tomorrow is because tomorrow is exactly the seventh day since he came to London and it is also the last day of his visa expiration.
Regardless of whether Bai Heqing finds the whereabouts of the inheritance by then, he will choose to leave.
Of course, this also means that he lost the deal with Black Rose. He has to accept the defeat and he will no longer ask Black Rose for the lost cultural relics from Japan.
Although there is still an option to use his strong background to expedite the issuance of a visa, Bai Heqing will not do so.
Seven days was long enough. Huizi's health had been getting worse over the past few years. He had to go back quickly...
But now it seems that he is the winner.
He opened a wooden box in the room, which was filled with cotton and straw to cushion the impact. Bai Heqing reached in and grabbed it, then pulled out a porcelain vase.
This porcelain vase is very beautiful, and the patterns on it are also very artistic. Unfortunately, Bai Heqing does not understand these things and finds it difficult to appreciate them.
Even so, since they are placed on this ship and preserved so carefully, it seems that they should be the cultural relics that Black Rose wants.
After silently putting the porcelain bottle back, Bai Heqing noted the location of the box and turned to open another box.
Anyway, he only needs to be responsible for writing it down. As for how to identify the countries to which these cultural relics belong later, that is Black Rose's business.
"I remember that Black Rose agreed with us that she would pick us up by boat tomorrow. How are we going to take these things away then?"
At this time, Mary suddenly asked.
After the two of them checked a room tacitly, they quickly left and went to the next room.
"Mary, did you notice that gate when you came down before?" Bai Heqing did not answer her directly, but asked back.
There was a man-made gate on the stone wall of the underground cave in front of the small cargo ship. He had specially observed it before and found that the height and width of this gate were just enough for the small cargo ship to pass through.
The only problem was that the gate was not located at the same level as the water level in the underground cavity, but was several meters higher.
But this is not a big problem. As long as they can control the water tower on the island to continue pumping water into this underground cavity and let the water level inside continue to rise, the small cargo ship can smoothly leave this underground cavity and go outside.
When the time comes, they will meet the boat brought by Black Rose, and Baihe Qing's mission will be completed.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
Just as the two were discussing, a fierce quarrel suddenly broke out on the deck, and it sounded like it was the eldest son of the Tone family.
【Something happened?】
Shirakawa Qing and Mary looked at each other and finally decided to go to the deck.
Chapter 441: Crazy Young Master
"Hahahaha! No wonder dad hasn't worked since he came to England!"
On the deck of the small cargo ship, the eldest son Takahiro Tone knelt in front of the wooden boxes. He picked up the gold, silver and jewelry in the boxes with trembling hands, laughing loudly with a crazy look on his face.
"With so much treasure, what kind of life can't get it? Hey! Kurahashi!"
Suddenly turning around, Tone Takahiro shouted to the old butler Kurahashi Motoaki who was standing respectfully beside him, "Go back and prepare! Don't be frugal tonight! Use your best cooking skills to make the best dishes!"
"Yes, Master Guiyang." After nodding, Kurahashi Motoaki turned and left.
"Our young master seems quite excited..."
Looking at Takahiro Tone who was still laughing wildly, Mei Ling held up her hands, leaned against the railing of the small cargo ship, and said with a smile.
"Well, that's no wonder. After all, I've been having a lot of bad luck these past two days. Now that I've finally found the inheritance, I should be happy... Don't you think so? Master Yiyan?"
Changing the subject, Mei Ling looked meaningfully at Kitakami Kazuhiko beside her.
"I always feel that Miss Meiling likes to make fun of me about this matter..." Hearing her words, Kitakami Kazuhiko shook his head and sighed, smiling bitterly.
"After all, Master Kazuhiko, you are the only one who is still alive among the heirs designated by Tone Eijiro. I really want to know, after seeing these treasures, will your thoughts change a little?"
"You think too much, Miss Meiling." Kitakami Kazuhiko shook his head. "My thoughts have never changed. No matter what, I will give up inheriting these inheritances."
"What a noble character! You are worthy of being an intellectual who can be a university teacher."
At this time, Kevin, who had just come out of the cabin, walked over with an opened bottle of red wine in his hand.
Judging from the packaging of the bottle, this bottle of red wine is probably a product of a hundred years ago. I don’t know if it will upset my stomach after drinking it.
"I just don't know if your initiative to give in, university teacher, can make the murderer spare your life..."
Walking to Kitakami Kazuhiko's side, Kevin was also leaning against the railing, holding the bottle of red wine in one hand and patting his shoulder with the other.
"Mr. Kevin, what do you mean?" Kitakami Kazuhiko looked at him puzzled.
"I mean... the murderer of Mr. Yang and Clyde hasn't been found yet, right?"
Kevin said this and pointed at Takahiro Tone, who was laughing excitedly in front of the pile of treasure, and Kosuke Tone, who was restrained but also looked extremely excited.
What Kevin wanted to express to Kitakami Kazuhiko was obvious. He suspected that the two brothers of the Tone family planned and killed the other two heirs. Their motive was naturally for the treasures left by their father.
And Kitakami Kazuhiko is very likely to be their next target.
"Speaking of which..." Before Kitakami Kazuhiko could respond, Mei Ling immediately spoke up, "Would someone like Tone Eijiro, who broke his promise, betrayed his friends, and used all kinds of schemes to seize treasures, really decide to completely abandon his son and leave all his inheritance to outsiders?
"Who knows?" Kevin shrugged and said, "Maybe his conscience was condemned before he died? Or maybe there is a bigger conspiracy? But no matter what, these are things that have nothing to do with me..."
"Don't say that, you two."
Kitakami Kazuhiko couldn't help but interrupt the conversation between the two.
"I don't think these two young masters will be the murderers..."
"Oh? Then who do you think the murderer is?" Kevin asked back immediately.
In response to his question, Kitakami Kazuhiko remained silent and did not answer.
"Hey! What are you doing?! What's that in your hand?!"
At this moment, a rough shout interrupted the conversation between the three people. They looked up and found that Tone Takahiro, who was still crazy, suddenly walked towards them aggressively.
Judging from his posture, he seemed to be coming towards Kevin.
"Me?" Kevin pointed at his face in confusion.
"Where did you get the red wine in your hand?!" Walking up to him, Takahiro Tone asked loudly.
"Oh, you mean this? Of course it was taken from the cabin." Kevin shook the red wine in the bottle and said with a smile: "Although it has been more than a hundred years, it still tastes good. I suggest that we can take a few bottles upstairs when we have dinner tonight..."
"Stop! How can you touch my father's inheritance at will!" Tone Takahiro roared almost like a roar.
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