After leaving Eijiro Tone's room, Shirakawa Kiyoshi took Mary to the kitchen again, and learned the locations of all the clocks in the annex from Kurahashi Motoaki.
After seeing the time difference table, an extremely exaggerated idea suddenly appeared in Bai Heqing's mind.
The inheritance from fifteen years ago was indeed hidden by Eijiro Tone on the first floor or even lower of the annex.
In order to prevent anyone other than him from discovering the whereabouts of these inheritances, Eijiro Tone set up many mechanisms on the way through these inheritances that only he knew the solution to.
This includes the water tower that can control the water level in the annex.
The activation mechanism of the Water Tower is not a specific device, but the imported clocks scattered throughout the annex by Eijiro Tone out of interest.
On that time difference table, the time in Tokyo, Japan is zero, and the times marked in the capitals of all countries after that are the time difference from Tokyo time.
According to Bai Heqing's speculation, as long as the time of these clocks from all over the world is adjusted back to the time of their original countries, the water tower may be activated.
Thinking of this, Bai Heqing and Mary split up again and went to the rooms with clocks in the annex to start adjusting the time.
Bai Heqing's guess was gradually confirmed in the process.
Perhaps Eijiro Tone was worried that after a long time, he would not be able to remember which clock belonged to which country, so the imported clocks in each room had nameplates that clearly marked their country of production. This was true. It provided great convenience to Bai Heqing and Mary.
Among them, the clock made in England is in Eijiro Tone's room, and the clocks imported from other countries are also found in different rooms. Only Japan, which is at the top of the time difference table, has never been found.
This is also in Shirakawa Kiyoshi's prediction. It can be seen from this time difference table that Tone Eijiro uses Tokyo time as the basis to determine the time difference in other countries.
In this case, the only clock that represents Tokyo time is the water tower behind the annex.
When everyone went to the back mountain to look for Clyde's body, Mei Ling also mentioned to Bai Heqing that there was a time device inside the water tower, and it would ring every hour.
Now, it's almost twelve o'clock noon.
In Eijiro Tone's room, Shirakawa Kiyoshi stood in front of this British-made clock and set its time back to eight o'clock in the evening according to the time difference between Tokyo and London.
"Click!"
As soon as the hour hand stopped here, a soft sound of a mechanism suddenly sounded inside the clock, and at the same time, the hour hand above stopped completely.
"clang!"
At the same time, the time finally came to twelve o'clock. The melodious bell rang on time from the Water Tower behind the annex. Several fountains sprayed from the nozzles on the top of the tower to all directions, and the water mist formed in the sunlight. A beautiful rainbow.
The bell rang, and the surroundings of the annex fell into silence again, but the silence did not last long. Half a minute later, as if the old machine reluctantly started to operate, bursts of sounds suddenly came from the ground around the annex. An earthquake-like sound.
"boom!"
Along with this loud noise that made the entire annex tremble, several drainage outlets were gradually opened on the ground in the courtyard outside the annex, which was flooded with water.
Through these drainage outlets, the water that was originally several meters deep in the courtyard began to drop rapidly, forming one whirlpool after another on the water surface.
"What happened?!"
On the back hill outside the annex, the people who were originally looking for Kevin's whereabouts immediately noticed the situation inside the annex.
"The water...is falling?" The eldest young master Takahiro Tone looked at this scene with an extremely shocked expression.
"What on earth is going on?" Kitakami Kazuhiko also looked at this scene blankly.
"Could it be Detective Baihe and the others..."
"That's awesome, little detective..."
Mei Ling quickly recovered from her daze and walked quickly down the mountain.
"Go back quickly. It seems that our two detectives are about to find the whereabouts of the inheritance."
"..."
"You guys are so fast."
When everyone returned to the annex, the water inside and outside the annex had already drained away from the drains. Shirakawa Kiyoshi, Mari and Kurahashi Motoaki stood on the first floor of the annex, looking up at everyone.
Perhaps because it has been soaked in water for fifteen years, even though some waterproofing protection may have been done, the walls on the first floor of the annex are still somewhat blackened by water, and aquatic plants even grow in many places.
"You, what did you do? Why is all the water gone? Did you find the inheritance?!" The eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, looked at the three people below and ran down the stairs quickly, his tone anxious.
"We just found a way to activate the water tower and release the accumulated water in the annex. As for the inheritance... we haven't found it yet, but we will soon." Shirakawa Qing replied.
"What do you mean soon? Where is the inheritance?!"
"Come with me."
After giving him a deep look, Bai Heqing turned around and came to a corridor on the right side of the first floor of the annex based on the marks on the graffiti he had seen in Kevin's room.
On the wall at the end of this corridor is a metal map of the world. On this map, the model of the British Isles protrudes outward.
Bai Heqing thought for a moment, then raised his hand and pressed the protrusion in hard.
"Kaka!"
Behind, there was another heavy sound in the hall on the first floor. Takahiro Tone quickly turned back and found that a secret door suddenly opened on the huge pillar that originally stood in the center of the hall on the first floor.
Inside the secret door is a staircase leading down, which is pitch black and bottomless. Among them, under the gaze of everyone, a figure staggers up the walkway.
"Kevin?!" Looking at him, the two young masters of the Ligen family couldn't help shouting.
This figure was none other than Kevin. He seemed to have just been soaked in water. He was soaked to the skin and his clothes were scratched everywhere. He looked quite embarrassed.
"Although I thought you would find my whereabouts soon, I never expected that you guys could find a way to drain all the water in the annex. This is really... so much water pouring in at the same time , I almost drowned under you just now..."
After walking out of the passage, Kevin sat down on the ground and looked up at everyone, still with that hearty smile on his face.
It seemed that he didn't care at all that he had left everyone behind to find the inheritance alone.
Of course, he didn't care, but someone did.
"You guy!" The eldest young master Takahiro Tone rushed forward, grabbed him by the collar, and asked in a ferocious tone: "Is father's inheritance down there?!"
"Okay, okay, don't get excited, young master. You can find out what's down there if you go down and take a look, right?"
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(End of chapter)
