Ch72 - Please die!

Translator-Rhapsodite

Editor- PerpetualMreow, Proofreader-Ghostie 

Bei Quan gently touched his head as he would a child’s, and Wei Fuyuan inexplicably felt embarrassed.

With a straight face he said, “I think the gunmen outside must have been invited by one of the other three heirs.”

He paused and added, “If I had to guess the most suspicious person, it would be Daniel.”

Bei Quan’s eyes curved into a crescent shape, “You’re right.” 

Daniel did behave strangely tonight.

Wei Fuyuan, in particular, paid greater attention to the expressions of everyone on the scene after receiving the secret signal from Bei Quan in the dining room, and naturally observed more clearly.

Daniel’s motives were easy to guess.

Chen Dafa’s will said that as long as any successor loses his inheritance qualification, that person’s share would be divided into three, which would be inherited by the other three, and so on.

Because of this, if Daniel wanted to monopolise the assets, he only had to kill the other three heirs.

The problem was that simply killing everyone was not enough if Daniel wanted to safely secure the inheritance; He also had to avoid any suspicion of being involved in this deliberate murder.

The easiest way to do this was to hire people to commit the homicide.

Unfortunately, in America, which was rife with guns, it was not difficult to track down a few outlaws armed with firearms if you knew where to look. 

As long as the gunmen disguised themselves as burglars and killed the other three heirs, the $1 billion which originally belonged to Daniel, would turn into $4 billion in an instant.

Moreover, as a business school student, Wei Fuyuan also had a little knowledge of laws pertaining to inheritances.

Anyway, the gunmen had to execute such a  plan very carefully.

If Daniel didn’t want the three billion dollars to fall into the hands of his three “brothers”, he had to first murder the three heirs and then murder Chen Dafa— who was lying in the hospital bed battling death— and there had to be a witness. 

“Well, no wonder…”

After figuring out the plan, Wei Fuyuan touched his chin thoughtfully, “The killer who ran after us just now deliberately missed the shot.”

If Wei Fuyuan guessed well, Daniel must have described the characteristics of the targets to the gunmen.

When the group of people scattered as they ran away, Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan, who were black-haired Asians, were the easiest for the bandits to pick out, so the bandits came after them first. 

Unfortunately for them, the lawyer also chose the same direction as the two.

Furthermore, the lawyer was a little overweight. Thus, while sprinting in the narrow hallway, it was easy for him to obstruct the course of the gunman’s firing, which irritated them.

Daniel also needed an innocent person to testify for him, and this person had better not have direct interest contact with him. This person’s position has to be neutral and persuasive enough. After thinking about it, among all the people at the scene, only lawyers were the most suitable.

Before starting this plan, he must have told them in advance that they mustn’t harm the lawyers. 

Therefore, although the bandits fired in their direction, they deliberately missed in order to avoid making a mistake. Instead, they opted for intimidating them and killed people around the lawyer, so that he could be a witness.

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After hearing Wei Fuyuan’s analysis, Bei Quan smiled and asked, “Do you know Daniel has another accomplice?”

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Wei Fuyuan held up his mobile phone and took a picture of the room.

It was a bare, unused room, and a white cloth was draped over all of the furniture. There was no telephone in sight.

Bei Quan turned around, closed the door, and continued walking forward. As he walked, he said, “This room’s layout is as intricate as a maze. I’m afraid it’ll be impossible to figure out the structure of this mansion, right?”

Wei Fuyuan, “You’re right!” 

His reasoning was that he had been here for more than a day and a night, yet he still couldn’t figure out the internal construction of this mansion; therefore, Bei Quan’s concern was reasonable.

After breaking in through damaged windows, the bandits scattered and attempted to assassinate specific people. They appeared to be quite knowledgeable about the interior structure of the house– which suggested that someone familiar with the house might have supplied the bandits with a map of the mansion ahead of time.

However, Wei Fuyuan raised his question, “But how can you be sure that the accomplice is Mary?”

Bei Quan smiled, “Because I saw Daniel and Mary occasionally look at each other unconsciously.” 

He pointed to his eyes, “When people are nervous, they can’t help looking at people they know well, especially those who know their secrets.”

Then Bei Quan reached out and patted Wei Fuyuan on the waist, “Just like I often look at you.”

The speaker said this with pure intention, but the listener’s heart skipped a beat.

Wei Fuyuan’s face turned red. 

He could not help but think of how often he and Bei Quan sought each other and found that it was so frequent.

They had grown a profound mutual understanding between them, and always, unconsciously, sought each other at all times. Then, there were those moments where they were so close together that they could breathe in each other’s…

——What the actual fuck!

Wei Fuyuan turned away and pinched himself. 

——Don’t think about that!

——He’s just my boss! Just my boss!

While talking, Bei Quan checked two more rooms and came to the end of the corridor.

There were two L-shaped stairs, one leading to the third floor and the other deep down into the basement instead of the first floor. 

Bei Quan quickly went through the mansion map in his mind.

“There’s no need to go into the basement.”

He pointed to the third floor, “There should be a staircase that leads to the second floor on the third floor. Then we’ll go to Chen Dafa’s master bedroom.”

Wei Fuyuan nodded. 

“There must be a phone in the master bedroom.”

“More than that.”

Bei Quan added with a smile, “If it’s convenient, I’d also like to ask Chen Dafa where he hid the ‘prisoner God’.”

Wei Fuyuan: “?” 

But wasn’t Chen Dafa lying in the hospital bed and waiting to meet God?

He didn’t think Bei Quan could ask anything from an unconscious dying old man.

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At the same time, Daniel, Akihiko Yamamoto, and Mary, who chose to run in a different direction, ran towards a room.

This time, instead of climbing back to the patio, they rushed into a room at the end of the corridor and closed the door with a “Bang”.

Akihiko Yamamoto placed both  hands on the door to support himself, bent down to take a breath, and then looked at the surrounding environment quickly. 

After all, he had lived in the mansion for some time before. Even if he had been away for many years, he felt he could still recognize 60% or 70% of the place.

Akihiko Yamamoto quickly remembered that this used to be the room where the servants lived.

He saw the phone in the corner cabinet at a glance, rushed over, and picked up the receiver.

There was no sound. 

Akihiko Yamamoto thought it was because the phone was not plugged in, and quickly lowered his head to check.

The telephone line was well plugged in, but there was no sound.

“Shit!”

His face suddenly changed, “Those people must have cut the telephone line!” 

Akihiko Yamamoto’s suspicion was reasonable.

Since the bandits could think of using mobile phone signal jammer devices to prevent them from calling the police, they would naturally think of cutting off the line of a fixed telephone.

“くそ！”

Akihiko Yamamoto slammed down the receiver and let out a swear word in Japanese. 

“Wait!”

He raised his hand and pressed at his temples, trying to recall the memories of when he’d lived here, “I remember, if we go around from the left corridor we should come across the backyard, right?”

Akihiko Yamamoto pointed to the south wall and said to the other two, “We have to get out of here and call the police…”

“Yes, yes! That’s right!” 

Daniel nodded hard.

“Well, I… I’ll look outside!”

He turned to Akihiko Yamamoto and Mary, and said, “I drove here. The car was parked in the yard… Yes, I can drive out and call for help!”

Akihiko Yamamoto’s face was still as pale as paper. 

“But we don’t know how many of those people there are, and they have guns!”

“Well, we can’t just wait to die here!”

Daniel patted his chest hard and looked awe-inspiring, “Otherwise, when those people find us, everything will be over!”

Akihiko Yamamoto thought it over and could only nod. 

“Be careful. Don’t be too brave.”

He looked at Mary, the maid shivering on the side, “Miss Mary and I will find a place to hide until the police come.”

“Ok, that’s it.”

Daniel exchanged a look with Mary while Akiko Yamamoto was not paying attention. 

All the cowardice and helplessness disappeared from Mary’s face in that instant, and she nodded back lightly.

Then Daniel opened the door, with the expression of an American tragic hero who was going to die bravely, and rushed into the corridor.

Akihiko Yamamoto closed the door and looked around. He soon saw a low cabinet in the corner.

“What are you doing?” 

Mary saw Akihiko Yamamoto stooping to move the cabinet, and immediately shouted.

“Let’s block the door with it so that it can deter the intruders from entering this room for at least a little while!”

Akihiko Yamamoto answered without looking back.

The cabinet was much heavier than he thought. Akihiko Yamamoto was the shortest and thinnest of all the people there. He couldn’t move it, so he had to bite his teeth and drag it forward. 

As an accomplice, Mary certainly didn’t want him to block the door.

After all, Daniel had promised to marry her when he got his inheritance.

The huge sum of 4 billion dollars was enough for her to jump from a maid of a poor family in a small town to a rich lady of high society envied by everyone. She must not let any of the three heirs go.

So Mary picked up a glass ashtray on the sundry rack and quietly approached Akihiko Yamamoto’s back. 

Akihiko Yamamoto was still dragging the heavy cabinet and didn’t notice what the other person behind him was planning.

——I’m sorry!

Mary raised the ashtray high, and said in her heart,

——But please die!