Noticing Gao Yuan's condition at this moment, Mitarai Munexu couldn't help but ask. At the same time, after putting away the cross-shaped gem he received in his hand, he stepped forward and checked Gao Yuan's condition——
"fine……"
In this regard, Gao Yuan, who felt his body was extremely weak and knew that the side effects of his "power" were taking effect, forced himself not to just rest and fall asleep, so he couldn't help but explain:
"I just spent too much effort and am a little tired."
After all, using that iron rod, especially the force used to break the short sword blade at the end of the duel with Mitarai Muneaki, was a power that was completely impossible for me to use originally.
"Really……"
In response to this statement, Mitarai Munexu nodded, because he could see that Gao Yuan's current state indeed seemed to consume too much——
"But I really didn't expect that Detective Akechi, in addition to having a good level of swordsmanship, also has skills in throwing weapons, right?"
Mitarai Munexu was somewhat impressed by Gao Yuan's last two-handed throw that blocked Kid's throw.
In response, Gao Yuan just smiled lightly without explaining——
Using the knowledge given by the "magician", you can indeed throw things accurately.
But in fact, apart from the accurate aim, in terms of lethality, the two hits just now are nothing to worry about.
If all the scenes just now were not rehearsed by me and Kaitou Kidd, and without the cooperation of Kaitou Kidd, it would have been impossible to keep Kaitou Kidd behind by throwing the broken blade twice.
Then again, this rehearsal was deliberately done just to arouse doubts about the cross-shaped gemstone.
With Kaitou Kid's previous account of this gem's past in front of Mitarai Souhau, it is now easier for Gao Yuan to use this as a starting point to start questioning——
"By the way, Mr. Zong Xu. About that gem..."
Looking at Mitarashi Zongxu, Gao Yuan was thoughtful and couldn't help but ask:
"It just so happens that I have something to ask about that gem. Mr. Zong Xu, I can ask you about everything about the agreement just now, right?"
Hearing this, he took out the cross-shaped gem and looked at it. Mitarai Zongxu thought about it, then nodded towards Gao Yuan and affirmed:
"It's natural."
In response to this, Mitarai Munexu received such a response, Gao Yuan nodded slightly, and then began to ask:
"The phantom thief just now said that this gem was bought by Mr. Zong Xu at an auction in the United States twenty years ago. However, the gem inlaid on it now is not the gem that was auctioned twenty years ago.
It’s a gem, the one inlaid on it. Is this true?”
Faced with this problem, Mitarai Munexu thought for a moment, then nodded and said:
"That's right. The biggest gem on top has been taken down and replaced by the gem on top since it was taken from the auction."
"why is that?"
Hearing this, Gao Yuan asked in confusion.
"this matter……"
Faced with such an inquiry, Mitarai Munexu hesitated slightly.
In response, Gao Yuan tilted his head, feeling confused.
However, after waiting for a while, when Mitarai Munexu seemed to have finished thinking, he said very solemnly:
"Detective Akechi... Regarding the gems you asked about, and even the previous things about Xiaocai's child... in the final analysis, all of this is related to what happened more than twenty years ago. In this case, why not, I will tell everything
What do you think, I tell you everything exactly as it is?"
Hearing Mitarai Munexu say this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel very surprised, but faced with such a statement, Gao Yuan naturally couldn't refuse, so he nodded seriously and responded:
"Okay. Please say..."
So, Mitarai Munexuo began to tell:
"As I said before, Xiaocai's pregnancy was caused by her gambling professor. Originally, after we stopped their marriage, that guy tried to find Xiaocai several times.
Xiao Cai completely gave everything for him.
"But how could we, who already knew everything, let him get his wish? Therefore, during that period, my brother kept Xiao Cai at home to prevent that guy from having any access to Xiao Cai. And, after we learned about it,
After the issue of his debt, with the power of the Mitsubishi Foundation, we asked the institutions that lent him the debt to put pressure on him. In the end, it felt that he could not withstand the pressure, so he chose personal bankruptcy and resigned.
He lost his original job and just left our sight."
Saying this, Mitarai Munexu felt that what he said seemed a bit cumbersome, so he changed his words and continued:
"Of course, as mentioned before, we originally thought that he couldn't stand the pressure of repayment and debt collection, so he chose that approach. But in fact, after he went through personal bankruptcy and resigned, we didn't know where to get it.
I got a new identity and wanted to use this new identity to get closer to Xiao Cai——
"After all, it is certain that Xiao Cai is pregnant with his child. He thought that as long as the child was still there, Xiao Cai would sooner or later help him for the sake of the child.
"For this reason, although we discovered his plan, several times in succession, especially after Xiaocai gave birth, he began to frequently change his identity to approach us, and the number of times became more and more frequent, and he was very difficult to guard against, which made my brother and I several times.
I have wanted to end this matter completely every time. But..."
Speaking of this, Mitarai Zongxu's face showed a trace of helplessness:
"He always finds a way to escape. We organized our efforts several times but failed to catch him. So later, thinking that his only support now was the child, when I was discussing with my brother, I even thought about it..."
At this point, Mitarashi Zongxu did not continue speaking, but first looked at Mitarashi Rui beside him.
At the same time, after hearing this, Mitarashi Rui suddenly seemed to remember something and said hurriedly:
"I...I remembered! At that time, I seemed to have heard my second uncle talking to my father about my sister's child...I remember, it seemed to be something...'the child is dead'. I didn't understand it at the time.
What was the situation? But I knew that what my second uncle told my father was about my sister, so I went to find my sister and told her what I heard..."
Speaking of this, Mitarashi Rui suddenly seemed to understand something and started to retreat——
"You were too young at the time and didn't understand anything. Moreover, your sister had just given birth to a baby and was grounded at home by us for a long time. Her mentality changed too much, which led to the tragedy that happened later..."
In this regard, Gao Yuan was slightly puzzled as he watched the conversation between the two people in front of him, but there seemed to be a faint guess——
"Detective Akechi, let me continue..."
After Mitarashi Zongxu saw that Mitarashi Rui's mood was stabilized by his words, he continued:
"At that time, after the child was born, due to the identity of the child, we did not let Xiaocai take care of the child, but found a nanny to take care of the child. Therefore, Xiaocai's mentality at that time, after experiencing such an incident, the whole person
Her state was very unstable, so after she heard what Xiao Rui mentioned to her about my conversation with my brother, because of what Xiao Rui said was unclear and Xiao Cai’s mentality, it was inevitable that she would move towards something bad.
Think about the direction——
"At that time, Xiaocai thought that my brother and I wanted to get rid of the child completely, so we didn't let her have contact with the child.
"In any case, although the father of the child is a scumbag, it was Xiaocai who was born in ten months of pregnancy. Therefore, when she thought about it like this, she went crazy and rushed out of the room where she was confined.
He had the child, and seemed to want to protect the child, so he snatched the child from the nanny, and ran away with the child in his arms...
"Then the accident happened."
Having said this, he lowered his head silently, and Mitarai Munexu seemed to be regretful about this.
After hearing this, Gao Yuan roughly understood what was going on, and he couldn't help but think of a mother who was about to be driven crazy, hugging her child, and escaping from the cage in which she was under house arrest——
However, although Gao Yuan himself could imagine such a scene, he couldn't really understand the feeling.
But then again, if the mother in that picture in my mind was my mother in this body, I wouldn't be able to feel that emotion at all now.
It's as simple as listening to other people's stories, and you feel a sense of sympathy and pity, but it has nothing to do with you.
So, Gao Yuan thought in his heart and couldn't help but feel a little cold, but then he curiously asked:
"So, the child died after that?"
In response to this, Mitarai Soxu pondered for a moment, then nodded and affirmed:
"That's right."
Then, after thinking for a moment, Mitarai Munexuo began to explain:
"At that time, Xiaocai snatched the child and escaped from the villa... which is the villa in the suburbs now."
After specifically emphasizing the location, Mitarai Munexuo continued:
"There, even now after leaving the villa, is a large area of countryside with no human habitation at all. So when Xiao Rui saw Xiao Cai running out like crazy, Xiao Rui was so frightened that he cried and came to tell
He killed my brother and me. So at that time, I chased him out.
"However, when she saw me chasing her, Xiaocai thought I was here to catch her and her children, so she kept running away. Finally..."
After saying this, Mitarai Munexu looked regretful, closed his eyes, and said with deep remorse:
"On the edge of a cliff, when I was about to catch up with Xiao Cai, Xiao Cai, who didn't listen to my explanation at all, just jumped off the cliff...
"At that time, I only had time to catch Xiaocai, but the child in her arms fell off the cliff and died..."
Saying this, Mitarai Soxu raised his head, looked at the cave where he and others were now, and then said sadly:
"It's near this cave..."
"That's why you buried the child's body here?"
When Gao Yuan heard this, he immediately figured out what the text written under the base of the spiritual tablet was about, so he asked.
"Um."
Nodding, Mitarashi Munexu showed regret, but at this moment he still calmly replied:
"From the perspective of the Mitsubishi Consortium, as the eldest lady of the consortium, the birth of that child cannot be told to anyone. Although it is very cruel to say this, after seeing the child die like this, my brother and I first
Time, what I want to think about is to erase all traces of this child's existence, in order to hide Xiaocai's unbearable past.
"And, after doing this, even if that scumbag wants to tell this kind of thing, he will not let anyone believe it because there is no evidence. Probably, that guy will choose to disappear later and no longer be entangled in the small world like before.
Is it because Cai knew that the child was dead?
"Moreover, at most he can only know that the child is dead, but he cannot possibly know how the child's body was disposed of..."
"Then what does this matter have to do with the gem? Besides, you didn't say the gender of the child?"
After hearing this, Gao Yuan thought about it for a long time, and then asked.
"gender?"
Faced with this problem, Mitarai Munexu couldn't help but said:
"It's not important. Even Xiang and Yun didn't know the gender of the child, and we didn't even let anyone else know what happened next. Except for my brother and me, we only had the little one who chased him out together.
Rui, knows the place where the child fell off the cliff, and knows the existence of this cave.
"Therefore, when we saw my brother mentioning the cave in that letter, Xiao Rui and I immediately thought of this cave and wondered if my brother planned to make everything public after his death...
"But for the sake of the reputation of the Mitarai family of the Mitsubishi Consortium, even if it goes against my brother's last wish, we don't want others to know about it, so we came here in advance to see what my brother left here."
In this way, Mitarai Munexuo roughly explained that they would be able to find this place after seeing the cave mentioned in the letter.
"As for that gem..."
Muttering, Mitarashi Munexu recalled the past and continued:
"After the death of the child, Xiao Cai was decadent for several months. Then, one day, when all of us no longer had the strict restraint on Xiao Cai, Xiao Cai took advantage of us not paying attention.
, took the family’s money and ran away from home...
"Later, when we found her again, she was with Taro... her later husband, and the damage caused to her by that unfortunate past seemed to have been healed after meeting Taro.
.
"As for that gem, Xiao Cai later begged us to help take a picture, and removed the blue diamond originally inlaid on it, which was also made by Xiao Cai... But as for the reason for doing this, Xiao Cai did not tell us
Said."
"Run away from home? Then saw her again with her later husband?"
Gao Yuan was a little puzzled by this statement:
"Didn't you look for Ms. Cai's whereabouts during this period?"
"I have looked for it, of course I have."
Mitarai Munexu nodded and responded:
"Originally, during the period after Xiao Cai ran away, the Siling Consortium used various means to find Xiao Cai's whereabouts. Finally, we found out that Xiao Cai had gone through the procedures to go abroad and was preparing to take a passenger ship at Muroran Port.
America. However, just when we learn this clue and we are going to find Xiaocai...
"That day, a sudden typhoon hit Muroran Port without warning, blocking our progress. And afterwards, no one at Muroran Port expected that such a horrific tragedy would happen there..."