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"Well... I'm not sure, because I knocked on the door but there was no response, so I opened the door and took a look, only to find that there was no one in the room..."
"Could he have gone to some other place in the museum?" Kevin asked.
"No, I have already searched everywhere in the museum, but I can't find it..."
"Could it be that Mr. Clyde has already died?!" Kitakami Kazuhiko's face suddenly changed.
"Is there anything strange in the room?" Bai Heqing asked.
"No, not really. It seems that Mr. Clyde went out on his own..." replied Motoaki Kurahashi.
"It is also possible that he has been killed by the murderer." Kevin interrupted.
"Everyone!" The second young master, Tone Kosuke, immediately stood up and said to everyone, "Now is not the time to make a judgment! Mr. Clyde may just want to go out on the island by himself... Anyway! Let's go outside the annex and look around, and find Mr. Clyde together!"
"But it would be dangerous if we split up now, right?" Mei Ling said.
"Just work in groups of two or three, so that you can ensure your own safety as much as possible... I'll go to the back mountain to investigate first, Mary."
After Bai Heqing finished speaking, he put down his chopsticks, stood up from his seat, turned around and left the hall.
Bai Heqing's intuition told him that something was most likely happening to Clyde.
If Clyde's body could be found as soon as possible, it might help him identify the murderer as soon as possible.
"it is good."
Behind him, Mary immediately stood up and followed.
Following Clyde's disappearance, the people in the hall split into several groups and quickly began searching around the villa.
Among them, Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary went to the back mountain to the north of the villa.
Of course, the fortune teller also traveled with them.
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Chapter 430 Only One Left
"Why did you come along?"
On the stone road leading to the back mountain of the villa, Mary opened her eyes wide and stared at the fortune teller Mei Ling who followed her.
"Do I even need to ask this?" Mei Ling raised her hand to cover her mouth, looked at Mary with a smile, and said, "Compared to the other people in the annex, I think you two are more reliable...
After all, judging from the time you arrived on the island, there is no way you two could be the murderer hiding among us, right?"
"You are quite smart..." Mary couldn't help but complain while standing between Bai Heqing and Mei Ling.
"I can't help it. I'm also very afraid of death..."
Sighing softly, Mei Ling suddenly changed the subject, looking past Mary and looking at Bai Heqing, and asked curiously, "By the way, detective brother, do you have any guesses about the murderer who killed the boss?"
The boss she was referring to was naturally Yang Douxin who was poisoned to death yesterday.
"Not yet. The current information is not enough." Bai Heqing replied.
"That's right. After all, the murder method used yesterday can be used by everyone in the villa. If we can't find conclusive evidence, it will be difficult to identify the murderer..." Mei Ling nodded and said seriously.
Bai Heqing glanced at her.
【This woman is approaching him intentionally.】
He could sense that Mei Ling had been intentionally approaching and testing him since this morning.
Bai Heqing didn't think that he had such great charm that could make a woman who had never even spoken to him so devoted to him. There must be something wrong.
But he still couldn't figure out what she was trying to test on him.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
While several people were talking, an extremely loud bell suddenly rang out in front of them.
The three of them looked up subconsciously and saw that the bell sound came from the tall water tower built in the pool behind the villa.
The water tower is conical in shape and several dozen meters high. It is connected to the annex by a bridge. At this time, the circle of water nozzles built around the top of the tower are continuously spraying water into the pool below. The scattered water mist refracts the light, forming a beautiful rainbow in the sun.
"This water tower looks really spectacular." Mei Ling looked up at the water tower and said, "I heard from Cangqiao's housekeeper that this water tower has no other function except that it will ring once every hour.
I don't know what the late Mr. Eijiro Tone was thinking, building such a large water tower here, was it just for the sake of appearance?"
"Who knows? Rich people's habits..." Mary said, her tone suddenly becoming a little angry because she remembered her empty wallet again.
Damn, is this how rich people squander money?
Continuing along this road, the three of them passed the water tower and came to the stairs leading to the back mountain.
Going up the stairs, at the top of the mountain behind is the Tone family cemetery.
This was a very luxurious cemetery, or rather, it was very luxurious for Eijiro Tone. As soon as the three of them entered the cemetery, they could see the super luxurious tomb chamber located in the center of the cemetery, which almost occupied half of the cemetery.
The area of this tomb chamber alone is comparable to the size of an average person's house.
On the tombstone in the front, the words "Tomb of Eijiro Tone" are engraved, and the font is inlaid with gold.
"Tsk..."
Seeing this large and luxurious tomb, Mary curled her lips.
She became even more upset when she thought that the money that Eijiro Tone used to build this luxurious tomb might have come from the inheritance he obtained through improper means.
"Oh? Detective Shirakawa? And Detective Mary?"
Outside the cemetery, the eldest son Takahiro Tone, who had come up from the other direction of the back mountain to search, also walked into the cemetery.
"Have you arrived yet? How is it going? Have you found anything?"
"No." Bai Heqing shook his head and replied.
"I see. It's the same here. We didn't see Mr. Clyde at all..." replied Takahiro Tone.
"Um, Master Guiyang..."
Behind Tone Takahiro, Kurahashi Motoaki, who was in the same group with him, couldn't help but say, "It's getting late. It's time for me to go back and prepare lunch..."
"Hey! Now is not the time to do this, right?!" Hearing this, Takahiro Tone turned around and shouted, "Mr. Clyde's life or death is still unknown, Kurahashi, why are you still thinking about these insignificant things?
The most urgent thing is to find Mr. Clyde first, and as for lunch, we can just make something casual when the time comes!"
"Yes, yes..." After being scolded by Takahiro Tone, Motoaki Kurahashi quickly lowered his head and responded.
But just as he finished speaking, the housekeeper Oiri Sumiko standing beside him suddenly said in panic: "Oh no! It's so late now, Master, we should go back and make lunch..."
"I told you now is not the time to do this!"
“Ah? Yes, yes…”
"Really... I'm sorry, both of you."
After scolding them, Tone Takahiro turned to look at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary and said apologetically, "It may be that their father was too strict in commanding them when he was alive, so it is difficult for the two of them to rely on their own will to judge when to do what.
Having said that, the two of them have done a pretty good job in managing the affairs of this family..."
"Yeah." Upon hearing this, Shirakawa Qing glanced at Kurahashi Motoaki.
Kurahashi Motoaki seemed to notice Shirakawa Kiyoshi's gaze and looked up. The two looked at each other and he gave Shirakawa Kiyoshi a kind smile, like a kind old grandfather next door.
"Brother! There are still a few of you. So you are all here?"
At this time, there was another noise outside the cemetery, and the second young master Tone Kosuke, who had started searching from another direction, came over with a smile and waved.
Behind him were Kevin and Kazuhiko Kitakami, who were in his group.
"How is it? Do you have any clues?"
"No, what about you guys?"
"We don't have any here either. Really, where on earth is Mr. Clyde?"
"Is there anything else on the back mountain that hasn't been searched?" Bai Heqing asked.
"A place that has not been searched?" Tone Kosuke thought for a moment and replied, "Yes, there is one! It is near the windmill power plant! But the road there is difficult to walk on, there is only a dirt road. I don't think Mr. Clyde would go there, right?"
Led by the two young masters of the Toge family, the group returned to the halfway point of the mountain, walked along a not-so-conspicuous dirt path beside the stone road, and finally arrived at the windmill power plant on the island.
"Look! What is that?!"
As soon as they arrived here, everyone clearly saw a body in a bathrobe lying on the grass in the middle of the three wind turbines of the power plant.
There was no doubt that it was the missing Clyde.
"It's Mr. Clyde!"
This is the second victim after Yang Douxin.
Baihe Qing withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Kitakami Kazuhiko who was shocked beside him.
On the second day after arriving on the island, only one of the original three heirs was left.
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Chapter 431 The Flying Corpse
"Your hair and robe are wet. Is that because of the rain that fell at dawn this morning?"
At the windmill power plant on the back hill of the villa, Shirakawa Qing squatted in front of Clyde's body and started doing what he was best at.
He lifted Clyde's head with his gloved hand and looked down at the traces of blood on the crushed gravel and grass.
"There is a small depression on the back of the head, which is about the same size as this piece of gravel. The depression should be caused by falling from a high altitude, but the amount of bleeding is not normal."
Putting Clyde's head down, Bai Heqing reached out and touched the marks on his neck.
"Judging from the strangulation marks on his neck, Mr. Clyde should have been strangled by the murderer elsewhere, then the murderer moved the body here, and then... dropped it from the air."
As if he found it a little unbelievable, Bai Heqing paused in his words. He raised his head and looked at the three wind turbines surrounding Clyde's body.
"Um, Detective Shirakawa..." Kazuhiko Kitakami on the side couldn't help but asked: "When you talk about throwing corpses from the air... do you mean from a windmill?"
Not only him, the others also looked at Bai Heqing with disbelief and suspicion.
The three windmills in the power plant are all over ten meters high. Let's not talk about how the murderer brought Clyde's body from the annex to the back mountain. It's not easy for a normal person to climb these three windmills, let alone carrying a body weighing dozens of kilograms...
This is simply impossible.