"Hangping, you may need to come over here in advance."
Early in the morning on the 23rd, Kuroki Jin was awakened by a phone call from Jiangcheng Dahe. He answered the phone in a daze and waited for a few seconds before asking, "What happened?"
Jiang Chengdahe said in a serious tone, "There is something in your mailbox."
Kuroki suddenly woke up. He jumped up from the bed and his tone changed by one tone: "What did you say?!"
Over there, Jiangcheng Dahe was not surprised by Kuroki Ren's reaction. In fact, he had the same reaction when he found out when he was cleaning the room just now.
"I don't have the key, and I can't open your mailbox, so you'd better come here as soon as possible."
"I understand, I'll go talk to the children."
Kuroki hit the road as quickly as possible. He set off at seven o'clock in the morning and arrived in Gunma County before nine o'clock.
The destination is a mountain in Gunma County. That mountain is considered a semi-barren mountain. Except for the surrounding residents who sometimes go for an outing on the mountain, there are few people there the rest of the time.
It is said that this mountain is haunted. Every full moon night there will be ghosts and ghosts who will take away the children who are still in the mountain to pay tribute to the mountain god.
Of course, the haunted legend was deliberately spread by Kuroki Jin and others in order to prevent too many people from going up the mountain and discovering their secrets.
There is a small village three kilometers away from the barren mountain. There are some old people staying behind. The young people have long left the mountains to work outside, and few come back all year round.
Heimuren did not pass by the village. He quietly went up the mountain from the trail they had opened earlier on the other side, hid the car in the dense forest in the mountain, and walked down to the end of the village where no one lived.
There is an old house here that has been abandoned for a long time. From a distance, the roof is scattered with some thatch piled up. It seems that the roof leaked when it rained and I was too lazy to repair it, so I just made do with it.
The front door of the abandoned house was locked. Although Kuroki had the key, he still entered through the back door in order not to be noticed.
The house is actually quite large, covering an area of more than 100 square meters, excluding the front and back yards. It looks a bit shabby on the outside, but it's actually quite clean on the inside.
This is all the result of Jiang Chengdahe, who has been waiting in the house for a long time.
Seeing Kuro Muren skillfully climbing through the window, Jiang Chengdahe couldn't help but feel helpless. He pointed at the breakfast left on the table and said, "Eat something first."
Judging from Kuroki Jin's urgency, he must have gotten up directly from the bed and flew here immediately after saying hello. It was impossible to eat.
Kuroki picked up a piece of bread, threw it into his mouth in two or two bites, chewed it twice and swallowed it.
"I'm going to check the mailbox."
Not only Kuroki Ren was curious, but Jiangcheng Dahe was also curious. The two walked to the next room together and opened the door to enter.
This room is smaller than the main hall where I just stayed. When you enter the door, you are facing a row of beds, which are bunk beds. There are also such beds on the left and right sides.
Preliminary estimates suggest that it can accommodate more than 20 people.
The bed is smaller than a normal adult's bed, only about one meter long and only one shoulder wide, the same as a child's.
If Kuroki lay down on it now, he might not be able to lie flat on it, but could only lie sideways on it.
This is where they lived when they were children. And this dilapidated house was the orphanage where Fukasui Hinata's adoptive family died.
Kuroki skillfully found his bed. There was a white mailbox hanging on the bedside. It looked like it was old, and it was almost damaged.
There is an almost rusty lock hanging on the mailbox. The two people present can pick it with ease. Even if you don't know how to pick the lock, you can easily break the mailbox by just taking it off and throwing it on the ground.
But Jiangcheng Dahe would rather let Kuromu Ren leave half a day early, and Kuro Muren would rather really leave half a day early, and they would not destroy the mailbox.
Kuroki Jin pulled out the rope hanging around his neck with his hands. There was a bag similar to an amulet hanging under the rope. He opened the bag and poured two things out of it.
One is a rusty iron piece. It can be seen that it was originally the tip of something, but with constant wear and tear, the iron piece has long been dulled.
The other one is a key. Judging from its size, it should be used to open the lock.
Kuroki struggled to open the lock and opened the mailbox door. Sure enough, there was something inside.
"Is this... a USB flash drive?"
Kuroki Ren was a little confused. He put the USB flash drive in his palm and opened it to look at it. "The style is quite new. Who put this down?"
Because I come back here every year to check, this USB flash drive didn’t exist last year. I think it was only during this period that it was stuffed into the mailbox.
"You'll know after you open it and take a look." Jiang Chengdahe didn't expect it to be a USB flash drive. "You brought a computer, right?"
"In the car." Heimuren said, "I'll get it, Brother Dahe, you..."
"I'm going to take a look around here." Jiangcheng Dahe said, "I'll pick up Airi by the way. We'll meet up at the villa on the mountain later."
Kuroki locked the mailbox, climbed out of the window, and returned to where he parked his car. There were overgrown weeds on the barren hills. He hid the car in the forest. It was difficult to distinguish it without looking carefully.
After taking out the car and tidying up the scene, Kuroki drove up the mountain. From the foot of the mountain to where he parked his car just now, there is a small road. It is a small road that is difficult to walk, but after that, there is an asphalt road that is open to traffic.
The purpose of this is to prevent outsiders from going up the mountain and make it easier for them to go up the mountain.
Driving to the top of the mountain, a villa hidden in the dense woods appeared and appeared. This was the location of each of their gatherings.
The inside of the villa was cleaned very well by Jiang Chengdahe, who came in advance. All the daily necessities were in good condition, and they were all prepared for nine people.
Kuroki Ren had no time to check the villa inside and outside carefully. He took out the computer from the car, entered the living room, sat on the sofa, turned on the computer, and inserted the USB flash drive.
I don't know what was in the USB flash drive. Kuroki Ren's computer had a seamless blue screen after booting up, and then a white reading bar flashed, and then asked to enter the password.
Kuroki Ren was at a loss when faced with the password. He took off the USB flash drive and looked up and down, but found no hidden hints.
What's the point of asking you to enter your password directly? What should he lose?
Kuroki Ren was even more confused. He tried his best to calm down and think. He first tried to lose from one to eight, and got a prompt that the password was wrong.
"You can enter it once more..."
Kuroki Jin frowned slightly. The person who set this password only gave him one chance to try. Is he so sure that he can lose the next time?
Kuroki Jin looked at the input box on the computer screen and thought that this USB flash drive was placed in his mailbox at the orphanage. Apart from unforgettable people like them, no one in that orphanage would remember it.
And it is no accident that so many mailboxes are placed in his place.
