The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Furthermore, Kuroba Toichi should have already visited the hidden location of this treasure beforehand, and he should have re-hidden the surrounding environment when he left. It's only been less than ten years. Even if you don't believe in Akie Kubo Saburo, you can still trust Kuroba Toichi's skills.

Jiang Hang didn't use Eagle Eye from the start; instead, he planned to wait until everyone felt a bit involved before using his cheat to help find them.

However, Jiang Hang was overthinking things. Although Kuroba Touichi was indeed much stronger than his son at the moment.

But the two father and son really do share the same penchant for showing off.

Furthermore, if Kuroba Toichi hadn't liked the feeling of being pretentious from the beginning, the identity of Phantom Thief Kid wouldn't have been created in the first place.

In short, everyone had only been searching in different places for less than ten minutes when Phantom Thief Kid had already noticed a suspicious place.

"There seems to be a problem here."

Kaito Kid looked at the trees beside him.

In the darkness, this tree looks just like an ordinary tree.

But as the group walked over and took a look, they could see a not-so-obvious, but still distinct, mark on the trunk of the tree.

It looks like this mark has been there for several years.

The shape of the mark is none other than the avatar that Phantom Thief Kid often uses when sending out announcements.

"Could this be a trace left by my father back then?"

Kaito Kid touched the familiar mark and couldn't help but sigh.

So, my father had already found this place back then?

Did he go inside and confirm what the "treasure" inside actually was?

If his father had been inside and already knew the true nature of the treasure, why would he have made a point of writing it down after returning home?

Could it be that his father felt it wasn't the right time back then, so he entrusted this matter to his son to solve?

Kaito Kid thought to himself, then turned to look at Jiang Hang beside him.

Jiang Hang nodded at him.

"It seems your father must have been inside back then. Should we go in and take a look? Maybe he left something else for you inside?"

Kaito Kid nodded naturally.

Then he turned to look at the lush, grassy, ​​and shrubby hillside behind the trees.

It truly lived up to his father's reputation; even standing so close, he couldn't detect any flaws.

Even after knowing the location, he didn't know where to start.

Jiang Hang, on the other hand, walked to the side of the earthen slope without any hesitation, and then took out tools from his tool bag and started digging a hole.

With his current physique, he could indeed be considered a human-shaped mini excavator for doing this kind of work.

After digging forcefully in one direction a few times, as the outer layer of soil crumbled, a small hole that didn't seem particularly noticeable soon appeared before everyone's eyes.

Then, he quickly brandished his tools and dug the small hole open, quickly turning it into a small hole large enough for one person to pass through.

Seeing this, Kaito Kid no longer wanted to complain about how Jiang Hang had found the entrance to the cave; he just wanted to go and help.

After spending some time clearing away the clods of earth around the entrance, and under the light of a flashlight, one could vaguely see that once one crawled through the opening, which was about a meter wide, there was a secret room inside that looked rather spacious.

Even if you get close enough, you can faintly smell the rotten smell emanating from the room at the entrance of the hole.

Chapter 570: A Treasure Worse Than Scrap Metal

After the air in the room had circulated with the outside air for a while, Jiang Hang turned to Fu Chengsheng and said, "Do you want to go in first? After all, this is the treasure that your Fu Cheng family has been searching for."

Fukushiro looked at the interior of the room illuminated by the flashlight; it seemed there was still a long way to go.

Although he still doesn't know how Jiang Hang found this place.

But to be honest, this place seems more credible than the cemetery that Takuzo Onoe is currently excavating.

He barely hesitated before bowing respectfully to Jiang Hang and said, "Let me do it."

Saying this, he didn't care at all that his clothes were getting dirty from the mud, and simply climbed into the cave with his flashlight.

After he lit up the room, he soon saw a heavy iron door at the far end of the room.

Immediately afterwards, Kaito Kid followed Fukujo Sei through the hole.

"You two ladies can stay outside and keep watch," Jiang Hang said with a smile to Shiho Miyano after they had both gone inside. "Or would you like to come with me to see what this treasure, which is said to be able to change the world's destiny, is all about?"

Shiho Miyano, on the other hand, had no desire to go in after looking at the environment inside.

She waved her hand dismissively.

"Let's forget about it. We didn't have high expectations to begin with. Let's leave this to you."

As she said this, she carefully reminded Jiang Hang of something else.

"Although there shouldn't be any danger, you should still be a little careful. If there's any radioactive material hidden inside, that would be interesting."

Jiang Hang chuckled easily: "Radiation that can threaten me must be quite a high dose. You guys enjoy the night view here. I'll take you to the observation deck up there for a stroll later."

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Hang was the last to pass through the opening and enter the room that had been there for half a century.

After Jiang Hang's figure disappeared from their sight, Shiho Miyano slightly flusteredly tossed her short hair, while her older sister looked at her with a smile.

So far, the treasure hunt we've been on today has been quite successful, both in terms of the process and the results.

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Inside the secret room.

When Jiang Hang walked in, the two people in front of him were already straining against the rusty iron gate.

"This is indeed an old object with some history," the two of them said, struggling together to open the iron gate.

As the iron gate, which had not been opened for many years, was reopened, a cloud of dust rose into the room.

After brushing away the dust with their hands, the group, who had been covering their noses with their hands and clothes, finally saw the truth behind the iron gate.

Immediately, Fu Chengsheng was shocked by the rows of huge machines in the room.

"This...is this?"

Fu Chengsheng stared wide-eyed as he entered the secret room that had bound his father for most of his life, and at the same time bound him for the first twenty years of his own.

He observed these things up close, things he didn't quite understand. He didn't know what they were, but at that time, Saburō Fuewa believed they were weapons that could rewrite the world order, and even went to such great lengths to hide them, not even telling his own descendants.

"This is an old-fashioned cipher machine," Phantom Thief Kid explained from the side.

"It was a tool used to crack codes. During the war, Germany used it to create encrypted intelligence, which caused great losses to the Allies. In the end, it was Turing, the father of modern computers and artificial intelligence, who cracked the code machine. It provided important value in the war and, to some extent, did accelerate the end of World War II."

“This is probably the instrument that Japan copied back then,” Kaito Kid said, looking at the cipher machine in the middle and the other instruments next to it. “The ones next to it should be the corresponding code-breaking machines.”

"During wartime, those military fortresses on Mount Hakodate probably used these machines to decipher the codes of many countries."

From this perspective, if we can intercept sufficiently important intelligence, it could indeed have a significant impact on the world order.

After all, intelligence has always held a very important position in both modern and ancient warfare.

Seeing this, Kaito Kid understood why the military had completely covered up this matter.

"It is likely that Saburo Tokie and the military at the time realized that the other Axis powers were already on the verge of defeat. After Germany's defeat, Japan, which had become the target of everyone's criticism, would probably not be able to escape defeat as well. At the same time, they also believed that these intelligence instruments, which had been manufactured at great cost, might continue to play an important role in the subsequent war. Therefore, in order to prevent these instruments from being wiped out and destroyed by the victorious powers, they secretly hid them."

The rest of the talk was left to Jiang Hang.

"However, no one expected that the atomic bomb would completely destroy people's understanding of weapons. It is likely that after the atomic bombs were detonated in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the military had already given up resistance and had no intention of digging these things out again, so they have remained until now."

"Now that so many years have passed, the advanced instruments that were so precious during the war have long since become scrap metal with the development of computer technology. Not to mention any computer, even today's smartphones far surpass these old relics in terms of computing power. If we were to use these instruments to crack the cryptographic technologies used by various countries today, we probably wouldn't even be able to crack a 4G network."

Upon hearing this fact, Fukushiro stood there blankly, trying to accept it.

However, he is young after all, and his ability to learn is indeed stronger.

"If my father were here, he might collapse upon seeing these things. After all, this is the treasure that he and that Master Fujiang have been searching for their whole lives."

Even the treasure you spend your whole life searching for isn't the point; the point is to confirm whether the treasure truly has that much destructive power after you find it, and then decide whether or not to destroy it.

It seems that this thing really doesn't need to be destroyed, because even if it's taken out, the best outcome would be for it to be displayed in a museum, and it would have no other value.

But if this were to get out, his father's efforts to destroy the treasure for half his life would seem particularly powerless and ridiculous.

Even his earlier determination seemed so naive.

Looking at the scene before him, Fu Chengsheng knew he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

He had absolutely no idea how to explain this to his father.

Giving the other party some space to calm down and think, Jiang Hang then looked at Kaito Kid, who was still groping around in the room.

It seems he has also found what Kuroba Toichi left behind.

A card bearing the Phantom Thief Kid's symbol was placed on a desk next to it, which was covered with numerous records and documents.

There was only one sentence written on it.

"Don't go looking for trouble."

"So what did Dad mean by leaving this card?"

Kaito Kid put the card away, while also trying to find some more clues in the room.

Jiang Hang also activated his Eagle Vision in the room.

He originally just wanted to see if he could find any war documents left over from that time, so he could take them back and display them in an art museum or send them directly to the relevant departments in China.

However, it seems that those documents have already been taken away.

On the contrary, at the location where Phantom Thief Kid was now, he was somewhat surprised to find a familiar mark.

It is the mark of the Assassin Brotherhood that can only be seen from an eagle-eye perspective.

System, what have you been doing behind my back again?

This thing was left behind by an NPC from the foundation you created, right?

As Jiang Hang walked into the fraternity's sign, he questioned his system, which had been rarely showing up lately.

After he had been carefully observing the Brotherhood symbol, which was emitting a faint glow in his eagle-eye view, for almost a minute, the system finally responded.

Then this response also seemed particularly subtle.

"Just think of it as an Easter egg that you can collect."