With the quarrel between the eldest young master Takahiro Tone and Kevin, it was difficult for the remaining people to stay on the small cargo ship full of treasures.
After Kevin left, everyone also left the underground cave and returned to the annex.
As for the secret door leading to the cave, Takahiro Tone found a lock from the warehouse and locked it completely.
"Everyone, I'm sorry."
When it was time for dinner, everyone except the eldest young master Takahiro Tone gathered in the hall again from their respective rooms.
Among them, the second young master Tone Kosuke suddenly put down the knife and fork in his hand and said:
"What my brother said this afternoon is indeed a bit excessive..."
"Oh? Is the second young master coming to apologize for the eldest young master?" Mei Ling looked at him in pretended surprise.
"Yes, especially I want to apologize to Mr. Kevin." Looking at Kevin, Tone Kosuke said apologetically: "I'm sorry, brother, he has always been this kind of character, and I feel helpless many times. I'm sorry..."
"Huh? That's not necessary."
Kevin glanced at him, his hearty smile still on his face.
"I don't have the qualifications to care about this myself. If you really want to say it, the person who should apologize the most to the spoiled young master should be our university teacher, right?"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Kitakami Kazuhiko, who was named, seemed to be a little distracted. He was stunned for a moment before he realized that everyone's topic had turned to him again.
"I was just talking about you. What was Master Yiyan thinking about just now?" Mei Ling asked with a smile.
"Ah, I was thinking about the murderer of Mr. Yang and Mr. Clyde..."
Seeing everyone looking over, Kitakami Kazuhiko hesitated for a moment and then said, "I'm a little worried whether the murderer will continue to act..."
"It is indeed something that we should be worried about. After all, we still don't know the identity of the murderer. Who knows if the murderer will continue to kill for what purpose..."
"Detective Shirakawa, Detective Mary." Suddenly, Kitakami Kazuhiko turned to look at Shirakawa Qing who was eating quietly, and asked, "What are you going to do tonight?"
"After dinner, I will go to the Water Tower behind the annex to investigate."
Putting down his chopsticks, Bai Heqing said in a calm tone: "I have observed the underground cavity before. If we can control the water tower to fill the cavity with water, we should be able to let the small freighter leave the cavity and go outside. Then we may You can leave now.”
Of course, what Bai Heqing said was not the truth. There was only one reason why he wanted to fish out the small cargo ship from the underground cavity, and that was to facilitate Black Rose's arrival tomorrow to take away the cultural relics on the ship and complete the transaction between them. .
"Why go to all this trouble." Hearing this, Kevin cut the steak and said with a smile: "Wouldn't it be nice to leave by helicopter with me tomorrow?
I don’t know how many years have passed since that little cargo ship, but the key accidentally sank on the way, so I’ll have to feed the sharks! "
After hearing his words, Bai Heqing was silent for a moment and finally nodded.
"Okay, thank you."
[Then let’s go to the Water Tower to investigate again tomorrow morning. It’s all the same anyway. 】
In the current situation, if he acted too obviously, he would be suspected by everyone.
"Mr. Kevin, then my brother and I..." Hearing Kevin talk about the helicopter again, Tone Kosuke couldn't help but speak, looking at him expectantly.
"Ah, we'll just go together then." Without any intention of rejection or sarcasm, Kevin waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Although I hate that brother of yours, I'm not such a petty person, anyway. There are just two more people, they are all the same..."
"Thank you, Mr. Kevin..."
After receiving his answer, Tone Kosuke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"By the way, Kevin." After the two people finished speaking, Bai Heqing suddenly said: "You should be the one who cut off the phone line of the annex and blew up the viaduct, right?"
"ah?"
After his words fell, everyone in the hall, including Kevin, was stunned for a moment.
But soon, Kevin reacted and laughed: "It's really amazing, Detective Baihe, when did you find out?"
His words directly acknowledged Bai Heqing's speculation.
“As a retired soldier, you know how to use the gunpowder in the warehouse, and you have the ability to make homemade bombs.
After stealing the gunpowder from the warehouse, you made the bomb in the tunnel. At that scene, Mary and I found cigarette butts that were thrown away after smoking. These cigarette butts were the same as those we found in the trash can in your room. The cigarette case is a brand.
At that time, I thought you were the one who blew up the viaduct, but there was always a lack of evidence to prove this.
It was when you said on the small cargo ship that a helicopter would pick you up tomorrow that I finally confirmed this.
You arranged the helicopter in advance because you planned to blow up the bridge and trap everyone on the island from the beginning. As for the motive, it was to buy enough time to find the heritage hidden on the island, right? "
"Everything is correct, Detective Shirakawa."
After listening to Bai Heqing's words, Kevin nodded and approved his reasoning.
"Yes, these two things were indeed done by me. After all, the young master's move to invite you to come to the island to investigate the inheritance really surprised me.
As a reporter who is very curious, I am really afraid that our eldest young master will find more people to come over and find out the island's heritage before me. That would be really unsatisfying... …”
"So, even though Kevin blew up the bridge, he was not the murderer who killed the boss and Clyde? The murderer was actually someone else?" Mei Ling asked curiously.
"Yeah." Bai He counted his head.
"Then Detective Shirakawa, who is the real murderer?!" Kitakami Kazuhiko couldn't help but ask.
But Bai Heqing did not answer his question.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed outside the dark window, followed by a deafening thunder.
"Crash!"
Before anyone in the hall could react, the sound of rain quickly sounded outside the window.
"It's getting late. Everyone, please rest early."
After wiping his mouth with a napkin, Bai Heqing stood up and said.
"After tonight, we can leave this island tomorrow."
After leaving these words, Bai Heqing turned around and left the hall. Behind him, Mary quickly followed.
"White River."
The two left the hall side by side. It was not until they walked into the corridor outside that Mary suddenly asked:
"Do you think something will happen again tonight?"
"Why do you ask?" Bai Heqing stopped and turned to look at her.
There were no lights on in the corridor, and it was pitch dark all around. The two of them stood by the window that was rattled by the rain. Mary said:
"intuition."
She raised her hand and pointed at the location of her heart.
"I felt like there was something wrong with your tone when you said that sentence just now."
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(End of chapter)
