"Why did you come with me?"
On the stone road leading to the mountain behind the annex, Mary opened her eyes wide and stared at the fortune teller Mei Ling who was following her.
"Do you still need to ask?" Mei Ling raised her hand to cover her mouth, looked at Mary's appearance 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're quite smart..." Standing between Bai Heqing and Mei Ling, Mary couldn't help but complain.
"There's nothing I can do, I'm also very afraid of death..."
Sighing softly, Mei Ling suddenly changed the subject, looked past Mary, looked at Bai Heqing, and asked curiously: "By the way, little detective, do you guys have any guesses about the murderer who killed the boss?"
The boss she was talking about was naturally referring to Yang Douxin, who was poisoned yesterday.
"Not yet, the current information is not enough." Bai Heqing replied.
"That's right. After all, the murder method yesterday can be used by everyone in the annex. If no conclusive evidence can be found, 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 feel that Mei Ling had been deliberately approaching to test him since this morning.
Bai Heqing didn't think he was so charming that he could make a woman who hadn't even said a few words treat him so favorably. There must be something wrong with it.
It's just that he still can't figure out what she wants to test on him.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
While several people were talking, an extremely loud bell suddenly sounded in front of them.
The three of them subconsciously looked up and saw that the bell was coming from the tall water tower built in the pool behind the annex.
This water tower is conical in appearance, dozens of meters high, and is connected to the annex by a bridge. At this time, the circle of water spouts built around the top of the tower is continuously spouting water towards the pool below, spreading in all directions. The water mist refracts the light, forming a beautiful rainbow in the sunlight.
"It looks really spectacular, this water tower." Looking up at the water tower, Mei Ling said, "I heard from the Cangqiao housekeeper that this water tower only rings once every hour. It has no other effect.
I don’t know what the late Mr. Eijiro Tone thought about building such a large water tower here. Is it just to look good? "
"Who knows? The habits of rich people..." Mary said, her tone suddenly a little angry, because she thought of her shriveled wallet again.
Damn it, is this how rich people spend their money?
Continuing to walk along this road, the three of them came to the stairs leading to the back mountain after passing the water tower.
All the way up the stairs, at the top of the back mountain is the Ligen family cemetery.
This is a very luxurious cemetery, or very luxurious for Eijiro Tone. As soon as the three of them entered the cemetery, they could see the super large cemetery in the center of the cemetery, accounting for almost half of the cemetery. Luxurious tomb.
The area of this tomb alone is comparable to the size of an average house.
On the front tombstone, the words "Tomb of Eijiro Tone" are engraved in gold.
"Tsk..."
Seeing this large and luxurious tomb, Mary curled her lips.
Especially when she thought that the money Eijiro Tone used to build this luxurious tomb might have come from the inheritance he obtained through unfair means, she became even more unhappy.
"Oh? Detective Shirakawa? And Detective Mary?"
Outside the cemetery, the young master Takahiro Tone, who was searching from another direction in the back hill, also walked into the cemetery.
"Have you arrived? How are you? Did you find anything?"
"Not really." Bai Heqing shook his head and replied.
"That's right. The same goes for us here. We didn't see Mr. Clyde at all..." Takahiro Tone replied.
"Well, Master Guiyang..."
Behind Takahiro Tone, Akira Kurahashi, who was in the same group as him, couldn't help but said: "It's getting late, and it's time for me to go back and prepare lunch..."
"Hey! Isn't this the time to do this?!" Takahiro Tone heard this and turned around to yell: "Mr. Clyde's life and death are still unknown, Kurahashi, why are you still thinking about these insignificant things?
The top priority is to find Mr. Clyde first. As for lunch, we can just do something casual then! "
"Yes, yes..." After being scolded by Takahiro Tone, Kurahashi Motoaki quickly lowered his head and responded.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the housekeeper Oirizumi standing next to him suddenly said in panic: "Oops! It's so late now, young master, we should go back and make lunch..."
"I told you now is not the time to do such a thing!"
"Ah? Yes, yes..."
"I'm really...sorry, you two."
After being scolded, Takahiro Tone turned to look at Shirakawa Kiyo and Mari, and said apologetically: "Maybe it was because my father was too strict with them when he was alive, so it was difficult for them to rely on their own will to judge when to do what. thing.
That being said, the two of them have really done a pretty good job in managing the affairs of this family..."
"Yeah." Bai Heqing glanced at Kurahashi Motoaki after hearing this.
And Kurahashi Motoaki seemed to be aware of Bai Heqing's gaze, and he also raised his head and looked over. The two looked at each other, and he showed a kind smile towards Bai Heqing, like a kind grandfather next door.
"Brother! How many others are there? So you are all here?"
At this time, there was another sound outside the cemetery, and the second young master Tone Kosuke, who started searching from another direction, walked over with a smile and waved.
Behind him were Kevin and Kitakami Kazuhiko who were in his group.
"How's it going? Do you have any clues there?"
"No, brother, where are you?"
"We don't have one here either. Seriously, where did Mr. Clyde go?"
"Is there any place on the back mountain that we haven't searched yet?" Bai Heqing asked.
"A place that has not been searched?" Tone Kosuke thought for a while and replied: "There is one! It is over there at the windmill power plant! But the road there is very difficult to walk, there is only a dirt path, I think Mr. Clyde should not As for where you will go?"
"..."
Under the leadership of the two young masters of the Ligen family, everyone returned to the mountainside and walked along a less obvious dirt path next to the stone road with bumps and bumps, and finally came to the windmill power plant on the island.
"Look! What is that?!"
As soon as they arrived, everyone clearly saw a corpse wearing a nightgown lying on the grass in the center of the three power generation windmills of the power plant.
There was no doubt that it was the missing Clyde.
"It's Mr. Clyde!"
After Yang Douxin, this was the second victim.
Bai Heqing retracted his gaze and turned to look at the shocked Kitakami Kazuhiko next to him.
On the second day after arriving on the island, only one of the original three heirs was left.
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(End of chapter)
