"Spoon, the murderer was poisoned on the spoon."
In the lounge, Mary looked down at the spoon that fell at Yang Douxin's feet, touched her chin, and said.
"spoon?"
Hearing this, Bai Heqing bent down to pick up the spoon and glanced at it, then suddenly turned back to look at the cheongsam female Mei Ling and Kitakami Kazuhiko.
You don't need this kind of stirring spoon to drink pure coffee. Among the five people who drank coffee, except for Yang Douxin who had been poisoned, these two were the only two people who had added anything to the coffee.
"Have you ever used a spoon to stir coffee before?" Bai Heqing asked.
"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."
"Me neither." Mei Ling followed up and said: "After all, both coffee and milk are specially made for making coffee. Even if you don't need to stir them, they will melt quickly. There is no need for that. Isn’t it..."
"So, among you, Mr. Yang is the only one who used a spoon just now, right?"
"Yes, the boss always likes to stir his coffee..."
Just in the middle of her words, Mei Ling stopped abruptly, with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Did the murderer put poison on the spoon? No, wait, the boss also took the spoon himself. How did the murderer know which one the boss wanted to take?"
Listening to 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 and looked at them one by one in the sunshine.
"I think there is a possibility that the murderer put poison on every spoon." Bai Heqing replied.
With his extraordinary eyesight, he could clearly see in the sunlight that these spoons had extremely inconspicuous traces, similar to the subtle marks left after the liquid dries.
"What? How is this possible?!" Kitakami Kazuhiko heard this and asked in shock: "If they were all poisoned, wouldn't the murderer be worried that other people would be poisoned as well?"
"Of course the murderer won't be worried." Turning around and putting the spoon back, Bai Heqing explained: "After all, the murderer also knows very well that among you, Mr. Yang is the only one who is used to using a stirring spoon."
"In other words, the murderer who poisoned Mr. Yang is actually among you guys."
Mary took up what Bai Heqing said.
"Before the two of us arrived at this annex, you must have stayed here for several days, right? It was through these few days of observation that the murderer clearly understood your habits and determined that only Mr. Yang would stay here Use a stirring spoon when drinking coffee and end up poisoning it with precision this way.”
"If this is true, then why did the murderer poison Mr. Yang? Could it be... for his father's inheritance?" the eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, asked, frowning.
"Huh? Is there a second 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 requires further inquiry."
It was Mary who answered him.
"Next, until the police arrive, please don't..."
"No need to go to such trouble!"
Clyde interrupted Mary impatiently. He stood up and walked directly towards the confused Kitakami Kazuhiko. He stretched out his old and skinny hand and clasped Kitakami Kazuhiko's arm tightly.
"If you ask me, the murderer must be you!"
"Mr. Clyde?"
"The three of us are all heirs to the inheritance. Now that Yang is dead, I am the only one left. When I die too, you can monopolize the inheritance by 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 that inheritance at all! It doesn't matter to me even if the inheritance is never found! How could I kill Mr. Yang for this reason?!"
"Hmph! You say what you think, but who knows what you are thinking?"
However, Clyde seemed to believe that Kitakami Kazuhiko was the murderer and did not believe his story at all.
"In my opinion, for the safety of us people, it's better to lock you in the basement before the police arrive!"
"This is simply baseless suspicion!"
The two people quarreled again in the hall. Bai Heqing took the opportunity to glance at the other people in the hall, but found that not only did these people not have any accidents, but they all had a look of helplessness, as if they had been there before a similar quarrel. That has happened many times...
[Is there anything going on between these two people? 】
Bai Heqing suddenly had such an idea in his mind.
[No, it’s not just these two people who are worth noting...]
Bai Heqing suddenly recalled Yang Douxin's previous exchange with Clyde.
The tone of their conversation at that time was more like acquaintances who had known each other for many years than strangers who had only known each other for a few days...
Moreover, when Yang Douxin died of poison, Clyde was also the first one to react...
Shirakawa Kiyoshi vaguely sensed that there might be some kind of special relationship between the three inheritance heirs selected by Tone Eijiro?
"Oh no!"
At this moment, the door to the hall was pushed open, and the old housekeeper Kurahashi Motoaki, who had gone to call the police in the corridor, hurried in.
"The phone lines in the annex seem to have been cut off! I just made several calls and couldn't get through!"
"What did you say?" The eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, was stunned when he heard this. "You could still fight out in the morning, but now... Damn it! Could it be that this was also done by the murderer? What on earth did he want..."
"boom!"
Suddenly, there were loud explosions outside the annex. The explosions came from far to near. Bai Heqing listened carefully and quickly turned his head to look out the window in the direction of the cave tunnel in the southern part of the North Island.
[The voice came from over there, could it be...]
"Oops! Baihe! That viaduct!"
Mary reacted immediately, turned around and ran out of the hall quickly, followed closely by Bai Heqing.
That viaduct is the only passage from this North Island to the outside world. Now that the phone line of the annex has been cut off, they have lost the way to communicate with the outside world. If that bridge is bombed again...
"Damn it! Did someone blow up the bridge?!"
After Mary and Shirakawa Kiyoshi, the two young masters of the Ligen family and the strong man named Kevin also rushed out.
The five people quickly ran outside the annex, got on the assault boat parked outside, and left the annex. They ran along the stone road up the hillside in the southern part of the North Island. After passing through the cave tunnel, they finally arrived at the building connecting the North and South Islands. In front of the viaduct.
"hateful!"
However, what appeared in front of the five people was a viaduct that had been completely broken by the explosion, with smoke and dust still rising slightly from the fractures on both sides.
"Who did it?!"
Now, they are literally trapped on the island.
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(End of chapter)
