The beginning of the journey was silence, because Mozi could see that there was something wrong with the driver's mood, and the taxi drove all the way into the mountains, and the cool breeze in the forest was indeed a little cold. Mozi closed the window as he said, and looked out only through the glass.

Hokkaido's forest coverage is one of the country's most famous, and the lush forests lining both sides of the highway remind her of her own mansion in Shizuoka. And there are only a lot of insects here, and although it is still daytime, there are still a large number of moths dancing and birds chirping on the roadside, so you can imagine what it will be like at night.

Then suddenly, a relatively sparse woodland came into view, and Mozi looked into the depths, as if there were many tombstones hidden in it, and it was actually a public cemetery!

"Little girl, what's your name?"

The driver suddenly asked, and it came very suddenly.

Moko was silent for a moment, and replied honestly, "My name is Miyamoto Moko. ”

Then, distinctly, she heard the driver muttering and shaking his head.

Mozi frowned slightly: "May I ask the driver Sang, why has the orphanage been closed down and has not been replaced by other facilities?" Although it is true that the city of Chitose City is not as good as that of the Honshu area, if it is more than five or six years old, it will always be idle there...... Well, it's really a big topic in the city? ”

Mozi is trying to provoke the topic, she can see that the driver has been in a bad mood since he first knew his destination, and there is a reason. Small places are the easiest places to spread the topic, and orphanages, which are placed in Tokyo and are not cared for at all, are watched by the citizens of Chitose, right?

But I heard the driver ask rhetorically: "Since you came to visit this orphanage, how much do you know about it?" ”

Mozi sighed in her heart and said, "My friend grew up here, but she is also very taboo about this topic, but she simply said that it closed down about ten years ago, and the orphans were scattered and bought by other public facilities in Hokkaido." As for the reason, she didn't explain either, well......"

Mozi can't say too much, because she knows that this eighty percent has nothing to do with Mei Dongsang, but she really doesn't know what's going on. When she came here today, she was still going to ask for information from the people concerned, but she was not being asked.

"Why...... Hehe, I'm afraid it will scare you when I say it, little girl, you know we're here...... Is there a gangster? ”

If it weren't for the driver's honest face, his laughter would be a little scary, but who knows if he knows his face but doesn't know his heart. The driver stared at the rearview mirror to see Mozi's reaction, Mozi looked indifferent, just looked at the winding mountain road and went deep into the mountain forest, and shook his head quietly.

"I don't know, but it's not surprising."

"That's good, little girl, let me ask you again, if you were a gang boss, and the house of one of your distant relatives was burned down, and even everyone died, what would you do?"

“…… Get you back? ”

"Yes, retaliation. So, if the offender is an orphan who has just been adopted, where are you going to spread all your anger? ”

The speed of the car was gradually slowing down, because the destination had already arrived, it was a fork in the road that had passed a curve and sloped up, and through the slightly sparse trees, Mozi had already seen the target. Chunhui Orphanage, a private welfare facility made of red bricks, has a decayed and rusty fence in front of the open space, the iron doors are mottled, the courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and there are even vines rising to the second floor along the root of the wall.

"Driver San, it won't be so scary...... Right? ”

"Haha, that's why I'm just asking a little bit of a question, let's see if you can accept the existence of gangsters. After all, little girl, you look like a very honest girl, so uncle, I won't go on, the place has arrived, or I'll wait for you outside? ”

"That's not necessary, I can walk down the mountain by myself, thank you for sending me all the way."

Mozi said goodbye to the driver, which made the latter inevitably mutter, after all, the situation was indeed quite weird. It should be said that it's not night, a girl who came to visit the orphanage where the accident occurred, obviously located in the mountains, and didn't let the taxi wait in the distance to pick up the repeat customers, this is clearly the rhythm of haunting, right?

Mozi had her own insistence, and after watching the taxi drive away from the end of sight, she turned her head and looked at the orphanage door in front of her, and sighed deeply.

Since the courtyard door was not locked, she was proud to go in and visit, but this place was not a tourist attraction after all, and it was strange that someone could take care of the environment. When Mozi walked into the courtyard, the first thing he did was to prevent mosquitoes, and it seemed that he was inexperienced, so he walked among the grass in a skirt.

She can't ask Midong directly, and she can't directly say to the driver, "Is it Midong Aoyama who caused this place like this?" But looking at the overgrown weeds here, it is true that no one has set foot on it for ten years, and the grass seeds have broken through the cracks in the stone slabs, which can be easily eradicated.

However, when Mozi pushed the door and walked into the building, he immediately noticed a difference.

“…… So clean? ”

It is true that the wooden floors are protected from moths because of the paint, but dust is obviously to be avoided by taking care of it often. The floor, tabletop, and kitchen stove, the scale of the orphanage is not small, so Mozi really needs some energy to walk around, but she keeps looking upstairs and downstairs, inside and outside the house, and really doesn't see any signs of dust!

"The windows are closed, but it has nothing to do with it, and although the outside of the window is weathered, the inside side is still very clean......"

It's not difficult to check this detail, and it's easy to draw conclusions, so it's the question that Mozi needs to deal with - who is cleaning the orphanage on a regular basis? Although the other party has no time or intention or ability to pull weeds, since he can clean the room so neatly......

Finding a room at random, Mozi looked at it carefully.

This is supposed to be the daily activity room for orphans, and it must be under the age of six, and the foam board floor even exudes a strong smell of plastic, not to mention the beautiful paper-cut paintings hanging on the walls. Mozi took a closer sniff, and there was still the smell of glue!

"Not only is it a regular cleaning, but it has only happened recently. While Mito-san went south to Tokyo to earn money to pay off his debts, there were still people who stayed in Chitose City, day after day, taking care of the closed building...... No, people go to buildings where the buildings are empty and the birds are scattered, so the identity of the other party should be ......"

This is a clue, but Mozi knows how to find it, and after thinking about it, he can only go down the mountain to seek help from the city hall!