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His question made Kevin confused, and the hearty smile on his face gradually disappeared.
"It's really strange... Young Master, why do you sound like you are talking about your own business? If I remember correctly, you are not the heir to this estate, right?"
"Humph! The estate has not yet been officially inherited! Two of the three original heirs have passed away, and the remaining one is planning to give up the inheritance. As your father's son, I am now naturally qualified to protect the estate!"
After saying these words shamelessly, Takahiro Tone glared at Kevin without showing any weakness, and a faint smell of gunpowder gradually spread between the two of them.
"What happened?" At this moment, Shirakawa Qing and Mary, who heard the noise above, also walked up from the cabin and asked.
"You've come just in time, Detective."
Seeing the two, Mei Ling waved with a smile and said, "Come quickly, it seems like a fight is about to happen here..."
"Don't make sarcastic remarks at a time like this, Miss Meiling!"
Kitakami Kazuhiko saw this and quickly stepped forward to block between Tone Takahiro and Kevin, saying, "You two, you..."
"Hmph, forget it."
Just as he was about to speak, Kevin raised his hand to push him away, walked forward and forcefully stuffed the red wine in his hand into Takahiro Tone's arms.
"elder brother!"
He was very strong, and Tone Takahiro was caught off guard and staggered back a few steps. He was able to stand firm again with the help of Tone Kosuke.
"I originally wanted to take you with me tomorrow, but now it seems... forget it!"
Kevin waved his hand and turned away.
"What did you say? What do you mean take us with you?" Tone Takahiro asked loudly.
“Nothing, I just made an appointment with my former brothers in the army before coming to this island, and they will send a helicopter to pick me up tomorrow.
Of course, there is no share for you now. You two brothers should just hold these treasures on this island and wait for rescue which may come at an unknown time. Or maybe... you can also try to see if this wrecked ship can still be moved?
Hahahaha! I hope you two brothers can leave this island alive before the murderer continues to attack!"
"You guy!"
"Brother! Calm down!"
Chapter 442 Something will happen tonight
Following the quarrel between the eldest son Takahiro Li Gen and Kevin, it became unfeasible for the remaining people to stay on the small cargo ship full of treasures.
After Kevin left, everyone left the underground cave and returned to the villa.
As for the secret door leading to the cave, Tone Takahiro locked it completely with a lock he found in the warehouse.
"Everyone, I'm sorry."
When it was time for dinner, everyone except the eldest son Takahiro Tone came out of their rooms and gathered in the hall again.
Among them, the second young master, Tone Kosuke, suddenly put down his knife and fork and said:
"What my brother said this afternoon was indeed a bit excessive..."
"Oh? Is the Second Young Master going to apologize on behalf of the First Young Master?" Mei Ling looked at him in pretended surprise.
"Yes, especially I want to apologize to Mr. Kevin." Looking at Kevin, Tone Kosuke said apologetically: "I'm sorry, my brother has always been like this. Many times I am helpless. I'm sorry..."
"Hmm? That's not necessary."
Kevin glanced at him, still with that hearty smile on his face.
"I personally don't have the qualifications to care about these things. To be honest, the person that the spoiled young master should apologize to the most is our university teacher, right?"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Kitakami Kazuhiko, who was named, seemed to be distracted. It took him a moment to realize that the topic had turned to him again.
"I was just talking about you. What were you thinking about just now, Master Yi Yan?" Mei Ling asked with a smile.
"Ah, I was thinking about the murderer of Mr. Young and Mr. Clyde..."
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Kitakami Kazuhiko hesitated for a moment, but still spoke up: "I'm a little worried that the murderer will continue to act..."
"It is indeed something we should be worried about. After all, we still don't know the murderer's identity. Who knows if the murderer will continue to kill people for some purpose..."
"Detective Shirakawa, Detective Mary." Suddenly, Kitakami Kazuhiko turned to look at Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was eating quietly and asked, "What are you going to do tonight?"
"After dinner, I will go to the water tower behind the annex to investigate."
Putting down the chopsticks, Bai Heqing said calmly: "I have observed the situation of the underground cave before. If we can control the water tower to fill the cave with water, we should be able to let the small freighter leave the cave and go outside. Then we may be able to leave."
Of course, what Bai Heqing said was not true. The only reason why he wanted to fish the small cargo ship out of the underground hole was to make it convenient for Black Rose to take away the cultural relics on the ship when she arrived tomorrow and complete the transaction between them.
"Why bother?" Kevin heard this, cut the steak, and said with a smile: "Why don't you take a helicopter with me tomorrow?
I don’t know how many years that small cargo ship has been here. If the key accidentally sinks on the way, it will be fed to sharks!”
After hearing what he said, Bai Heqing was silent for a moment, and finally nodded.
"Alright, thank you."
[Then let's go to the Water Tower to investigate tomorrow morning. It's the same thing anyway.]
In the current situation, if he behaves too obviously, he will be suspected by others.
"Mr. Kevin, then my brother and I..." Hearing Kevin talking about the helicopter again, Tone Kosuke couldn't help but speak, looking at him expectantly.
"Ah, we'll go together then." Kevin waved his hand nonchalantly without any intention of refusing or mocking, and said, "Although I hate your brother, I'm not such a petty person. It's just two more people anyway, it's all the same..."
"Thank you, Mr. Kevin..."
After getting his answer, Tone Kosuke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"By the way, Kevin." After the two men finished speaking, Bai Heqing suddenly said, "The one who cut off the telephone lines of the annex and blew up the viaduct should be you, right?"
"what?"
After he finished speaking, everyone in the hall, including Kevin, was stunned.
But soon, Kevin reacted and laughed, "That's amazing, Detective Baihe. When did you find out?"
His words were a direct acknowledgement of Baihe Qing's speculation.
“As a retired soldier, you know how to use the gunpowder in the warehouse, and you have the ability to make your own bombs.
After stealing the gunpowder from the warehouse, you made the bomb in the tunnel. At the scene, Mary and I found cigarette butts thrown away after smoking. These butts were of the same brand as the cigarette boxes we found in the trash can in your room.
At that time, I thought you were the one who blew up the viaduct, but I just lacked evidence to prove it.
It was when you said on the small cargo ship that a helicopter would come to pick you up tomorrow that I finally confirmed this.
You arranged the helicopter in advance because you planned to blow up the bridge and trap everyone on the island from the beginning. As for your motive, it was to buy enough time to find the heritage hidden on the island, right?"
"Everything is correct, Detective Shirakawa."
After listening to Bai Heqing's words, Kevin nodded, agreeing with his reasoning.
“Yes, I did these two things. After all, the young master’s move of inviting you to the island to investigate the inheritance did surprise me.
As a reporter with a strong curiosity, I am really afraid that our young master will find more people to find the island’s heritage before me. That would be really unsatisfying..."
"So, although Kevin blew up the bridge, he was not the murderer of the boss and Clyde? The murderer was actually someone else?" Mei Ling asked curiously.
"Yeah." Bai Heqing nodded.
"Then Detective Shirakawa, who is the real murderer?!" Kitakami Kazuhiko couldn't help but ask.
But Baihe Qing did not answer his question.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed outside the dark window, followed by a deafening thunder.
"Crash!"
Before the people in the hall could react, the sound of light rain soon began to fall outside the window.
"It's getting late, everyone should go to bed early."
After wiping his mouth with a napkin, Bai Heqing stood up and said.
"After tonight, we can leave this island tomorrow."
After saying this, Bai Heqing turned and left the hall. Behind him, Mary quickly followed.
"White River."
The two of them left the hall side by side. Only when they reached the corridor outside did Mary suddenly ask:
"Do you think something will happen tonight?"
"Why do you ask?" Bai Heqing stopped and turned to look at her.
There was no light in the corridor, and it was pitch black. The two stood by the window where the rain was hitting the window, and Mary said:
"intuition."
She raised her hand and pointed to her heart.
"I felt that there was something wrong with your tone when you said that just now."
Chapter 443 No matter how you look at it, it feels like a big problem
Something is bound to happen again tonight.
Although "we can leave this isolated island tomorrow" has become the consensus of everyone in the annex, Shirakawa Qing did not let down his guard.
The conflicts on this island have not yet been completely resolved.
Like the university teacher who looks the most harmless, Kazuhiko Kitakami. Just now during dinner, this person suddenly asked about Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary's plans for tonight.
Although Kitakami Kazuhiko concealed it very well under the circumstances, how could Shirakawa Kiyoshi, who had already experienced countless cases, not hear the trace of nervousness and panic hidden in his tone?
The fact that this university teacher was concerned about his and Mary's actions tonight meant that this person was most likely planning to do something that he didn't want the two of them to know about...
In addition, there is also a problem with the Feng Shui master Mei Ling from Singapore.
In the past two days, Baihe Qing vaguely noticed that Mei Ling seemed to have a special interest in Kitakami Kazuhiko. Of course, it was not the kind of love between men and women... Rather, it seemed that she wanted to investigate something on Kitakami Kazuhiko?
Bai Heqing felt familiar with her, but he was too lazy to think about it any further. After all, Bai Heqing had already done everything he needed to do on this island, and he didn't want to create any more trouble at this last moment.