After Digging Up a Grave, It's Time to Dig into a Mountain

If Altair were here, upon discovering that the Fue family's treasure was related to altitude, he could have simply sent Altair to wander around Goryokaku for a couple of times and probably found the Mount Hakodate. They could have found the Fue family's pile of "junk" this morning.

In that case, those Takuzo Axe River to cause trouble for them would probably search the entire city of Hakodate and still not be able to find Jiang Hang.

However, thinking about what would happen if they hurriedly found the so-called treasure, only to discover that it was just some World War II junk, Miyano Shiho felt that things were pretty good as they were now.

Because Altair wasn't there, they spent the morning sightseeing near Goryokaku Park, and in the afternoon they were able to take a hot air balloon ride around Goryokaku City. In the evening, after digging up that pile of scrap metal, they would enjoy the night view from Mount Hakodate.

Despite the treasure hunt, the day was quite fulfilling.

So, it's definitely time to get back to serious business.

After composing herself, Miyano Shiho asked Jiang Hang if there was anything she could help with.

"It's alright for now. After all, the criminal hasn't shown up yet. I just had a gut feeling that the criminal would most likely make a move tomorrow, and probably make a big commotion around that time."

"So for tomorrow's opening ceremony, you two don't need to get on the train yet. Just wait for me to come back here in Hakodate."

Miyano Shiho knew that Jiang Hang's sixth sense was much stronger than that of ordinary people, so she did not argue with Jiang Hang about it.

She also believed that no matter what happened, even if all the passengers on the train had an accident, Jiang Hang would definitely be the only survivor.

After chatting for a while about tomorrow's plans, they went down the mountain and back to the hotel.

Meanwhile, at the Hakodate Police Station.

Jiang Hang was temporarily not interested in causing trouble for the Takuzo Axe River, but Takuzo Axe River held a grudge against Jiang Hang.

As Inspector Megure said, even if the Onoe Family is about to die, they still have some connections and influence in Hakodate.

After exhausting his already limited connections to get his lawyer to bail him out, Takuzo Axe River gritted his teeth as he looked at the dozen or so men still locked up in the police station.

Looks like I'll have to sell another batch of old stuff from home today to raise money.

After all, he knew his own abilities and execution were lacking. Without his subordinates, even if he found the treasure, he probably wouldn't be able to maintain his dominant position.

Seeing that he was only one step away from the treasure, Takuzo Axe River and prepare to raise another sum of money to rescue his men.

Moreover, he has now learned from a police inspector with whom he has some acquaintance that the person who reported him to the police was a detective from Tokyo. The detective was reported to the department by several police inspectors who were on a business trip to Hokkaido, which is why the police were able to arrest them so quickly.

Listening to the police officer's explanation, when the name Jiang Hang appeared, Takuzo Axe River felt that his schizophrenia might relapse.

"Jiang Hang, it's still the same Jiang Hang... It seems the lesson he learned wasn't profound enough!"

At this Takuzo Axe River still believes that he has already dealt with Jiang Hang by asking Hijiri Fukujo to take control of the situation.

It's just that Jiang Hang probably found out the location of the treasure from that brainless Sonoko Suzuki, and that's why he deliberately chose to disgust him in this way to get revenge.

Just wait and see. Once he unearths his own family's treasure, we'll make sure to leave him with a humiliation he'll never forget.

However, on the surface, Takuzo Axe River swallowed his anger for the time being.

He still had his eye on the treasure hidden in the cemetery.

Although there are quite a few graves in the cemetery, there aren't too many graves that were built there before and after the war. We can only check all the old graves. We're sure we can find the hidden location of the treasure!

He thought he should rest for a while and wait for his lawyer to raise the money to get all his subordinates out.

Then, after his men were released in the middle of the night, they continued to secretly dig graves in the cemetery. At this time Takuzo Axe River still felt that he had a great advantage and that the Fujie family was only one step away from turning the tide.

Therefore, he put aside his pride and contacted Sonoko Suzuki, selling a lot of items at prices significantly lower than the market price.

Sonoko Suzuki had already heard about the Takuzo Axe River being arrested and then released on bail.

She didn't even consider that it was Jiang Hang who reported it to the police; she just assumed that these guys had dug up the grave too obviously and someone had noticed.

She had already given up on continuing her search for the eerie-sounding treasure in the cemetery. Even the previously agreed-upon three-way division of the treasure was now off-limits, since Conan hadn't yet told her it wasn't there. She figured if there wasn't anything particularly valuable inside, she wouldn't take her share; she'd let Takuzo Axe River and Jiang Hang divide it among themselves.

However, putting the matter of the secret treasure aside for now, she wouldn't let go of these easy opportunities that were being offered to her.

Moreover, the Suzuki family was already acquiring the Fue family's assets, and there are still quite a few Suzuki family professionals in Hakodate checking on those assets.

Sonoko Suzuki only mentioned it to the person in charge, and the other party already understood what their young mistress meant and went to negotiate a steep discount.

"Jiang Hang's treasure hunt this time was really boring, it wasted my whole day. I should have just gone skiing today," Sonoko Suzuki complained to her best friend.

"As a result, because we're still in Hakodate tonight, my father just called and asked me to go with Jiang Hang to the opening ceremony of the Hokkaido train tomorrow. I guess I won't be able to go out and have fun tomorrow. Just thinking about it gives me a headache."

Sonoko Suzuki genuinely dislikes this kind of thing.

But there was nothing she could do.

My older sister found happiness, but it turned out she married someone else.

Although the conglomerate the other party belonged to was not as large as the Suzuki Conglomerate at its peak, it was only one level below it, not enough for the conglomerate's heir to bring the family business into the family.

So now the future of the Suzuki Conglomerate has suddenly fallen on her shoulders.

Not only did she have to study economics courses that she had no interest in at all during her second year of high school, but she also had to attend banquets arranged by her parents, where she was asked to find potential husbands who might marry into the Suzuki family in the future.

Although Sonoko Suzuki is indeed a big fan of good-looking men, she is still quite disgusted by this kind of thing as choosing a husband.

But now she only has two paths.

Either study hard and become a qualified heir to inherit the Suzuki family in the future, then marry someone you like, and at least one or two of your children should inherit the Suzuki family name.

Alternatively, she could continue as before, waiting for a capable husband to come into the family and change his surname to manage the Suzuki Family.

Unfortunately, Sonoko Suzuki, who still wanted to struggle for free love, had to deal with these things on her own and could no longer do as she pleased as before.

Ran comforted her best friend.

Conan, standing to the side, offered a bad suggestion. "Sonoko- neechan, if you don't want to deal with those people, just stand behind Brother Jiang Hang. If anyone wants to chat with you, you'll have to get past Jiang Hang first."

Sonoko Suzuki thought about it and decided that it was a good idea.

Anyway, although she and Jiang Hang weren't particularly close friends, they were practically buddies. Since Jiang Hang had tricked her today, she could use his help as a shield tomorrow.

Thinking this, Sonoko Suzuki apologized to Ran again. "You guys go to the ski resort tomorrow morning. I should be back before noon after attending the opening ceremony."

After finalizing their plans for tomorrow, the group chatted for a while before returning to their respective rooms to rest.

Soon, the night was over.

The person whose emotions were most turbulent that night was undoubtedly Takuzo Axe River.

He was caught by the police before dawn, and he held a grudge against Jiang Hang.

However, after midnight, he secretly gathered his men, made connections with the police, and bribed the cemetery keeper. He thought he had his family's secret treasure firmly in his grasp.

As a result, they dug and dug under the cover of night, even personally leading the team to dig into his own grandfather's grave, but in the end they still found nothing.

As dawn broke, all that remained for this group of people was the exhaustion of a hard night's work and a body covered in mud.

The original site of Nikko Shrine is indeed here, but where did the treasure go?

Just as this large group of people were feeling lost and preparing to tidy up the cemetery a bit before dawn, Hijiri Fukujo, as Jiang Hang had requested, made a phone call to the Takuzo Axe River at around 6 a. m.

"After I got back last night, I thought about it again. During the war, the Nikko Shrine in Hokkaido had already been rebuilt. Perhaps Mr. Fue had put the treasure in the rebuilt shrine and used this cemetery as a smokescreen. If you don't find the treasure in the cemetery, Mr. Fue, perhaps you can go to the shrine to look for it."

Chapter 573: After digging up the grave, it's time to dig up the mountain.

Fucheng, or rather the entire Fucheng family, was never of one mind with the current Fujiang family, even though both aimed to find the treasure.

One of them wanted to use these treasures to make a comeback, while the Fukushiro family, though a bit dim-witted, genuinely hoped that those dangerous things would never reappear in front of the world.

Therefore, after confirming the truth about the treasure, Hijiri Fukujo decisively followed Jiang Hang's advice and prepared to let Takuzo Axe River experience the ups and downs of hope and its subsequent disappointment.

After receiving a reminder from Hijiri Fukujo, Takuzo Axe River gritted his teeth and looked at his men who had been digging all night, thinking that none of these guys had any brains.

When they discovered something was wrong after digging up several graves in the middle of the night, they should have changed their approach and considered whether they were looking in the wrong direction.

In the end, these guys really had no brains at all. They just obediently did whatever he was told to do, unlike Hijiri Fukujo, who helped beat up Jiang Hang yesterday and vented his anger a little. Now, he even came over early this morning to remind him that he might have come to the wrong place.

Unfortunately, Yoshie Fukujo is a stubborn old man. He and his father have trusted each other for decades, but when he wanted the father's son to come to his side and continue the connection between their fathers, the father's side said they had no such idea and resolutely refused to let Hijiri Fukujo get too close to them, as if they thought their place was some kind of bad place.

However, that old guy doesn't have much longer to live.

It's estimated that he's only clinging to life because of his obsession with finding the treasure.

Once they find the real treasure and fulfill the other party's last wish, it should be within the next year or two.

Once the old man leaves, he can still find a way to bring Hijiri Fukujo under his command.

With such a skilled swordsman protecting him, he felt his safety was more assured.

After thanking Hijiri Fukujo over the phone, Takuzo Axe River seemed to remember something and asked Hijiri Fukujo how he had dealt with Jiang Hang the previous evening.

Hijiri Fukujo paused for a moment on the other end of the phone before answering.

"I challenged him to a duel under the pretext of wanting to see if he was qualified to search for treasure."

"He is indeed very strong, but I brought weapons."

Hijiri Fukujo didn't continue speaking, after all, the process of Jiang Hang fighting him was quite simple.

Despite the fact that the other party has revealed Hidden Blade in front of you, they have actually never used Hidden Blade much.

It simply uses the Hidden Blade as the point of release of momentum.

Even if the other party were to fight him empty-handed and without using any killing intent to intimidate him, he felt that he probably wouldn't be able to defeat the other party even once.

The two are now on completely different levels.

The gap in skill levels is so vast that you could probably fit a whole bunch of yourself into that gap.

Although Hijiri Fukujo only said half of what he meant, and his tone seemed a little off, Takuzo Axe River, who wasn't very bright, automatically filled in the gaps in Hijiri Fukujo's thoughts.

He sighed slightly, indicating that Hijiri Fukujo was still too soft-hearted.

Jiang Hang must have been dissatisfied because he didn't suffer a big loss last night, which is why he called the police.

If only Hijiri Fukujo had sent the other guy to the hospital last night.

Takuzo Axe River thought this, he shamelessly asked Hijiri Fukujo on the phone to help deal with Jiang Hang again, this time by being even tougher, and preferably by making that guy lose the will to resist and leave Hakodate as soon as possible.

He also said that he would now find someone to investigate Jiang Hang's whereabouts today, and then Hijiri Fukujo could just go and deal with him.

Hijiri Fukujo Sei wanted to say something more, but before he could, Takuzo Axe River had already hung up the phone.

He has two things on his mind right now.

One is the treasure near the Nikko Shrine.

One is to find Jiang Hang's whereabouts and teach him a painful lesson.

Of course, Takuzo Axe River had already figured out how to find Jiang Hang's whereabouts.

Doesn't that Suzuki family's daughter know Jiang Hang? Since he seems to dislike the treasure being buried in the cemetery and doesn't intend to keep it, why not let him invite them to dinner to thank them for helping him find the family's long-lost treasure, and incidentally get information about Jiang Hang's whereabouts from Suzuki Maruko?

Takuzo Axe River thought this, he even felt that his plan was indeed flawless. Even if Sonoko Suzuki knew about the sordid affair between him and Jiang Hang, she would only think that he wanted to repair his relationship with Jiang Hang, and would not think that he wanted to take revenge on Jiang Hang.

Of course, to avoid upsetting the Suzuki family's daughter by calling too early, he deliberately waited until their group had arrived at the Nikko Shrine from the cemetery and started searching for the possible entrance to the Nikko Shrine before calling Sonoko Suzuki.

"You want Jiang Hang to treat us to lunch?"

Sonoko Suzuki, on the other end of the phone, was already up.

After all, the opening ceremony was at nine o'clock in the morning. As the representative of the Suzuki family, since she had decided to go, she naturally had to get up early to prepare.

After receiving Takuzo Axe River's call, Sonoko Suzuki didn't think much of it, but she also declined the lunch invitation on behalf of Jiang Hang without hesitation.

"We have something to do this morning and probably won't be back until the afternoon, so we won't need to have this meal."

Originally Takuzo Axe River was patiently trying to suggest that if noon wasn't possible, they could reschedule for the afternoon, but Sonoko Suzuki gave a perfunctory reply.

"Alright, I'll tell Jiang Hang when I see him. If he wants to have a meal with you, I'll give him your contact information."

After saying that, Sonoko Suzuki hung up the phone, leaving Takuzo Axe River standing at the entrance of the Nikko Shrine to stomp his foot in frustration.

"This woman doesn't take me seriously at all, how despicable," Takuzo Axe River muttered to himself, while his mind continued to fantasize about what he would be like after obtaining the treasure left by his grandfather and becoming the man who could rewrite the world order.

At that moment, one of his subordinates rushed over to report that a cave leading underground had been discovered somewhere in the shrine.

This immediately brought a smile to the face of the Takuzo Axe River.

It seems Hijiri Fukujo was right; the true location of the treasure is indeed here.

He quickly summoned his other men. Although he wanted to be the first to find the treasure passed down in his family, he was still worried about whether there might be any danger in the cave.

Let's send someone down to check first, make sure it's safe inside, and then he can follow the first group.

After several people entered the cave one by one and confirmed that there were no traps inside, Takuzo Axe River also hurriedly entered the cave through the tunnel, carrying the flashlight he used to dig graves at night, and carefully moved forward inside the cave.

After walking quickly underground for a few minutes, the passage widened considerably. When he saw his men standing in front of a shrine, he stopped, Takuzo Axe River felt a chill run down his spine.

There seems to be no road ahead, but where is the treasure? Why haven't we seen a single trace of our own treasure?