After breakfast, everyone still decided to split up.
Bai Heqing and Mary came to Kevin's room to look for clues. The others divided into several groups and tried to search for his whereabouts inside and outside the annex.
Kevin's room was almost the same as the one they saw the day before. The desk in the corner was still lighted. Bai Heqing walked over. There was a wrinkled piece of paper pressed by a pen on the desk.
He picked it up and took a look. There were extremely scrawled graffiti on the paper. The whole thing looked like the Chinese character for "山" turned upside down.
Although it was a bit abstract, he could barely tell that what was drawn on the paper should be the floor plan of the annex.
This graffiti has been crossed out in many places, except for the circle on the far right.
Looking at this somewhat inexplicable graffiti, Bai Heqing suddenly remembered that Mei Ling had mentioned to him before that in the middle of the night a few days ago, she would sometimes see Kevin wandering around the annex alone.
Could the place marked on this graffiti be the place that Kevin investigated?
[First floor of the annex. 】
This word suddenly flashed in Bai Heqing's mind.
The rooms on the second and third floors of this annex are all completely open to the public. If there were any secrets in these rooms, everyone would have found them out long ago. There is no way they are still waiting for Kevin to investigate one by one.
Only the first floor of the annex was sunk in the water.
What Mei Ling saw before was Kevin who went to the first floor of the annex to investigate alone in the middle of the night.
It's just...that guy is so good at water?
Behind Bai Heqing, Mary looked down at the oxygen bottle placed against the wall, squatted down and glanced at the instrument above.
【Already empty. 】
No, when she and Bai Heqing came to this room the night before yesterday, the oxygen bottle was not empty.
Confused, she picked up the oxygen bottle and reached out to touch the bottom of the bottle.
[The bottom of the bottle is still wet. Someone must have used it within at least a few hours. 】
"Bai He, this oxygen bottle is empty." Mary turned around and gestured to Bai Heqing with the oxygen bottle in her hand.
"I actually forgot about it..." Bai Heqing looked back and nodded lightly.
"This oxygen bottle is indeed the best evidence that Kevin has been conducting investigations on the first floor of the annex in the middle of the night these past few days."
"Do you think that batch of inheritance was hidden on the first floor of the annex by Eijiro Tone?" Mary asked.
"Not sure, but judging from the fact that Eijiro Tone immediately renovated this annex when he bought it fifteen years ago, even if there is no inheritance on the first floor of the annex, there must be clues about the whereabouts of the inheritance. .
And Kevin may have discovered this clue during his secret investigation in the past few days. "
"What are you going to do next? Is it possible that we have to go into the water to see for ourselves?"
"That's not necessary."
Bai Heqing shook his head, and the two walked out of the room together.
"Not to mention that the injury on my shoulder has not healed yet, in fact, my water resistance is not good, and I will easily turn into a water ghost after going down...
Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s no solution at all. I think that the water accumulated in this annex fifteen years ago was definitely not brought in by the construction team at that time.
There must be some device on this island that can pump in seawater from outside the island and keep the water level in the annex unchanged at all times.
In this case, this device must be able to pump out sea water again. As long as we find this device, we can go to the first floor of the annex. "
"As for anyone who might know where this device is..."
Mary touched her chin and thought for a moment, then snapped her fingers, looked at Bai Heqing, and said with a smile: "That must be the person who was in this annex fifteen years ago!"
After deciding on their next move, the two of them left Kevin's room and headed straight to the kitchen of the annex.
There, the two of them saw the old housekeeper Kurahashi Motoaki and the housekeeper Ouri Sumiko who had already begun preparing for lunch.
"Good morning, Butler Cangqiao." Bai Heqing spoke first and said hello.
"Are they two?"
Kurahashi Motoaki, who was washing the dishes, looked back, and a kind smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"Have you found Mr. Kevin already? Or are you two hungry?"
"We've almost found it. We came here to ask where is the device for controlling the water level in this annex?" Bai Heqing asked.
"Is it a device that controls the water level? You two should have seen it before, it's the water tower behind the annex.
The water level in the annex has always been controlled by the machine in the Water Tower, but..."
Having said this, Kurahashi Motoaki sighed softly.
"Only Mr. Eijiro knows how to control the Water Tower, and even I don't know... But if you really want to know, you can go to Mr. Eijiro's room and look for it. I think there may be records there."
"..."
In this way, after getting the room key to Eijiro Tone's bedroom from Kurahashi Motoaki, Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary hurried over together.
Different from the guest rooms where everyone lives, Tone Eijiro's room is more luxuriously decorated, but neither of them is in the mood to appreciate it now.
After entering the room, the two divided their labors in a tacit understanding and started searching from the left and right sides of the room.
Whether it was Shirakawa Kiyoshi, a police officer, or Mari, an agent, they were both extremely skilled in this kind of behavior. The two of them searched every corner of Eijiro Tone's bedroom at extremely fast speeds.
In the end, only Shirakawa Kiyo found a handwritten schedule in a book stacked by Tone Eijiro on the bedside table.
"Is this... a timetable?" Mary came over and took a look, looking confused.
On this timetable, the capitals of several important countries in the world are written line by line, and their different hourly times are also written behind them.
"No, it should be the time difference."
Looking at the watch in his hand, Bai Heqing frowned slightly.
"If I remember correctly, the times marked later correspond to the time difference between the capitals of these countries and Tokyo."
In this time difference table, the top is the zero time in Tokyo, and the bottom is the time in London, England.
Looking carefully at the capitals and time differences on this table, Shirakawa Kiyo suddenly remembered a piece of information that Kurahashi Motoaki inadvertently revealed to him and Mary the night before.
During his lifetime, Eijiro Tone had a hobby of collecting clocks from other countries. Therefore, many rooms in the annex are filled with clocks produced from all over the world. Just adjusting these clocks every day would take up a lot of Kurahashi Motoaki's time. time……
"I see……"
A guess suddenly popped up in his mind. Bai Heqing turned to look at Mary and asked, "What time is it now?"
"It's almost noon, what's wrong?" Mary looked at the time on her watch and asked curiously.
"Time is running out, come on, I know how to activate the water tower."
Saying this, Bai Heqing quickly left the room with Mary.
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(End of chapter)
