The silver-haired housekeeper who had a stroke and had a bruise on his face fell on the young man bathed in the sunset, and the sunlight made the young man's face coated with a faint glow, blurring his face, so that the housekeeper Tanimoto could not see the expression on the young man's face for the time being.

"Yes, I do have a way to contact the main house, and I also have a walkie-talkie, but like you, I haven't been able to contact Miss Takahashi for a few days, and I think maybe the animals have destroyed the repeater station on the top of the mountain, as long as the repeater station is repaired, we can receive signals from the outside world."

Hearing this, Shirakawa rubbed the coffee cup.

The butler didn't have a satellite phone to get in touch with Takahashi's house alone, so there was only one possibility, somewhere on the island that we couldn't see, there was a ship moored that could leave at any time.

This kind of life-saving hole card, it is understandable that the housekeeper of Tanimoto refuses to disclose it.

Drinking coffee, Shirakawa made a third appraisal of Tanimoto's butler, but unfortunately this time he did not identify the location of his hidden ship.

Looks like the only one left to follow him tonight.

Shirakawa is sure that after Tanimoto found out that rooms 3 and 2 were opened by outsiders, he would definitely find a way to leave here and get in touch with the outside world, instead of going to the top of the mountain to repair the repeater, he stayed here, and the danger factor was very high.

Because of the extermination of the wolves, Butler Tanimoto played an important role, so no one bothered Butler Tanimoto after dinner, and tonight was the best time for him to escape.

Until nightfall, the whole island is encircled.

The benefits of sleeping more during the day came to the fore, and he put on tracking glasses, with which he could pull the tracking distance far away, so that Mr. Butler would not take a detour after finding out that someone was following him.

Shirakawa looked at Qianyukiya, who was about to sleep, and offered his own invitation,

"I want to track someone down at night, are you interested in coming along? Miss Night? ”

"If you want to hire me to be your bodyguard, the cost is not low."

Chiyukiya lifted the quilt and looked at Shirakawa.

"You are the eldest lady of a chaebol family, is it appropriate to negotiate money with me?"

Shirakawa shrugged helplessly.

Qianxueye covered her face with a quilt, indicating that she had no money to talk about.

Hey, hey, why do you feel like you're more short of money than Mei?

Well, you're one person in your own right.

Finally found common ground between you and Mei Yi, both trying to save money.

"The prize money of the treasure, I can give you half of it, you know that in the end only one person will get the prize, and that person must be me."

Shirakawa smiled confidently.

"There is no treasure at all, Takahashi Yulan tricked you to solve the case."

Chiyukiya ruthlessly dismantled Shirakawa.

Well, can't fool you.

"Well, the bodyguard costs 4,000 an hour, which is much higher than the bodyguard fee you gave me before."

Shirakawa discussed.

"I'm not of the same magnitude as you before."

Qianxue Ye still doesn't plan to take on the mission.

Shirakawa chose to give up, in short, it was very convenient for him to act alone.

Calling a thousand snow nights is entirely to increase the time spent together, brush up on happiness, and of course, you can also deal with emergencies.

Shirakawa shook his head, changed into his shoes, and walked to the door.

"40,000, an hour."

The cold voice of a thousand snow nights came to his ears.

Obviously, she and Qianxue Yayi are the same person, the same timbre, but because of the different tones, the feeling is completely different.

She doesn't seem to have the option to refuse, and has taken the initiative to open the door for Shirakawa.

If it weren't for the fact that Shirakawa's wallet is bulging now, he wouldn't be willing to accept this proposal that has risen tenfold.

It's more expensive than Kyoko-sama's maid dress, and you have to wear a full set! Otherwise I don't accept it.

After slandering in his heart, Shirakawa still said seriously,

"I'll call you in that moment."

Shirakawa left the room of the thousand snow nights, returned to the next door, and kept watch by the window.

The gate can be seen from this angle.

If Steward Tanimoto were to leave the manor, he would have walked through the destroyed gate.

Shirakawa stepped on the manor, and there was no back door here except for the gate.

However, Shirakawa waited until 12 o'clock in the evening and did not see anyone go out through the gate.

The whole manor was silent, as if it had fallen into a dead sleep.

At 2 a.m., Shirakawa knocked on the door next door.

Qianxue Ye opened the door, obviously having slept for a while.

"Are you leaving?"

"I suspect something happened to the housekeeper."

Shirakawa and Chiyuki went downstairs together and came to the servant's room on the first floor.

Shirakawa knocked on the door, but no one answered.

He was about to violently bang on the door when he was stopped by Chiyukiya.

Chiyukiya took a hairpin from her hair and reached through the keyhole.

After about two minutes, the door unlocked.

Chiyukiya puts the hairpin back on her hair.

Hey, hey, why are you so skilled at picking locks, it's like a repeat offender.

Is this how you got into my room and stole the original diary?

Shirakawa scolded Qianxue Ye a few words and pushed the door open.

Hideyuki Tanimoto, dressed in a tuxedo, hangs from the beams of the room, and at his feet is a bench that has been kicked over.

There was also a scribbled suicide note on the ground.

It looks like suicide.

Seeing the old housekeeper die in front of him, Bai Chuan suddenly felt a little guilty of himself.

He had promised to protect Mr. Butler and had planned to steal his hole cards.

But in order to create an opportunity for him to leave, Shirakawa did not choose to stay with him all the time.

Unexpectedly, this gave the people in the manor a chance to do it.

There are many people who want to kill Tanimoto's housekeeper, and those who are afraid that they will be retaliated against by the Takahashi family if they know the secret, are likely to do something to the housekeeper.

But they are inevitably too anxious, no matter what, the wolf crisis can be regarded as a solution by Mr. Steward.

Shirakawa suddenly remembered what Senyuki had said to Mrs. Hanada before.

Man is more terrible than a wolf.

Mr. Tanimoto did not die from the wolf attack, but at the hands of the guests of the manor.

Shirakawa picked up the suicide note on the ground, a torn page of paper that read, "Guilt and self-blame torment me every day, maybe death is the real relief, I'm guilty." ”

Shirakawa frowned and appraised the suicide note.

[Item: Forged suicide note]

[Identification result: A page torn out of Tanimoto Hideyuki's diary.] 】

[Evaluation: Seek benevolence and get benevolence.] 】

No identification of who the killer was, but since the killer was a page torn from the diary, it is likely that the diary was taken by the murderer.

As long as the diary is found, the murderer should be found, unless the murderer tears off the page and destroys the diary, which is not ruled out.

Shirakawa took Hideyuki Tanimoto's body down and placed it on the bed to examine his body.

The corpse had strangulation marks on its neck, obvious purple marks on its throat, bulging eyes, dilated pupils, and bleeding from the conjunctiva of the eye due to capillary rupture.

Shirakawa opened the mouth of the deceased, and the tongue was purple-black, and there was a wound on the tongue, proving that Tanimoto Hideyuki was forcibly strangled by an external force.

After being strangled, he disguised himself as hanging.

The corpse did not show corpse spots, but it had begun to be cold and stiff, and it was already a little difficult to break open the deceased's mouth, and the joints had begun to harden, proving that the time of death was less than 1 hour.

That's between 1 and 2 a.m.

Shirakawa preliminarily deduced the time of death, looked up, and saw the wall clock on the wall.

It's an old-fashioned wall clock with a bit of an antique feel.

There is a woodpecker in the middle of the wall clock that will jump out on time to tell the time.

Qianxueya seemed to be very interested in this wall clock, and looked at the wall clock blankly, not collecting clues about the deceased like Shirakawa.

She has little interest in solving crimes, and her hobbies are very different from Chiyuki Meiyi.

"The person to be tracked is dead, and it seems that the bodyguard's mission can only be temporarily terminated."

Shirakawa said.

【Thousand Snow Night Happiness -1】

【Thousand Snow Night's Current Happiness 10】

"I was just joking, this island is dangerous, and I still need a good bodyguard."

【Thousand Snow Night's Happiness +2】

【Thousand Snow Night's Current Happiness 12】

It's dangerous.

Shirakawa sighed, feeling that Qianxueye's favorability was even more difficult to brush than Qianxue's beauty.

"What do you need me to do now?"

Chiyukiya looked at Shirakawa with a cold face.

"Go and wake up everyone upstairs, it's time to solve the case."

Shirakawa said that he couldn't forgive the fact that someone killed his stalker, so he had to find out the other party overnight.

"Maybe this manor has really been cursed."

Qianxue said a word quietly, left the housekeeper's servant's room, and went upstairs to knock on the door.

Soon, the guests of the manor were gathered in the downstairs living room.

They are sleepy-eyed, listless, and look in desperate need of a refreshing cup of coffee.

"Miss Meiyi, what is the matter with calling us up so late?"

"Yes, you don't say anything, what are you doing gathering us here?"

"I'm so sleepy, I want to go back and sleep."

The crowd was noisy and shouting.

Qianxueye was reluctant to explain more to them.

It wasn't until Shirakawa appeared that they looked at Shirakawa in a trance.

"Kuraki-kun, are you looking for us?"

"Yes, calling everyone up late at night is actually because there was another murder in the manor."

"What?"

Kojima looked at Shirakawa in disbelief, her little face turning white with fright.

Hanada Shizuru's body trembled slightly, she had only experienced a wolf attack during the day, and it was a murder at night, she really didn't want to stay on the island for a moment.

Dr. Seo hugged her tightly, trying to give his wife courage and strength.

The two have relived their old dreams tonight, and their friendship is strong at the moment.

Kuramoto on the side looked very congested, as if his toys had been snatched away by others.

Shirakawa took everyone to the servant's room and saw the deceased Tanimoto Hideyuki.

"Mr. Butler is dead?"

"How so?"

"Oh my God, who killed him?"

The crowd began to talk, and Shirakawa observed the tone and expression of their voices.

Except for the female anchors Kizuko Kojima and Shizuru Hanada, who seemed to be really surprised, everyone else didn't seem surprised, the expression on their faces was too exaggerated, and the performance traces were serious.

Only three people can now be completely ruled out.

Shirakawa himself counts one.

The Qianxue night next door is counted as one, because Qianxueya has no motive to kill, and her family power will not be afraid of the Takahashi family's revenge at all.

The injured Yoriko Tashiro is not suspicious, because her legs and feet are inconvenient, and she is still lying in bed all the time.

If Yoriko Tashiro wants to kill Mr. Housekeeper, the probability of being killed is as high as 99.99%.

The rest of the people seem to be suspicious at the moment.

It's just that Kojima Kiko and Hanada Shizuru are the least suspicious, and the suspicions of the others are evenly shared.

(End of chapter)