There was a hut not far from the ruins, and the girl nodded slightly, motioning for me to enter. I hesitated, then pushed the door open.

Directly across from him sat an old man of about thirty years of age, and I don't think I was using the wrong word, it was a young old man, at least that's how I felt at first glance.

The man gently stroked the two black boxes on his legs with both hands, and when he saw me, he just nodded and said, "You're here." Good, faster than I thought. ”

"Who are you?" I sat down unceremoniously in the chair in front of him and asked in a deep voice.

"Everyone calls me Junki Ito, and I'm a novelist who is not very well-known."

"Junki Ito? What a familiar name! ”

I furrowed my eyebrows and suddenly exclaimed, "I remember, you once wrote a very famous horror novel. The novel seems to be based on the true story of Dr. Tomokichi Fukurai, then supplemented with brilliant fantasy and suspense, and finally adapted into a movie. ”

"Hmph, is that really my fantasy in that novel?" Junki Ito smiled bitterly, and his eyes began to become hollow as he stared blankly at the ceiling.

"I've read your novel."

I smiled, and a thought crossed my mind, and I felt my whole body stiffen.

I suppressed my heartbeat, and said in a hoarse voice as calm as I could, "However, I am more interested in your 1952 book "Chronicles of Superpowers." That book is interesting, don't you? Mr. Takanagaoyoshi? ”

Junki Ito's hands that were about to take the tea stopped suddenly, and his whole body was motionless, and after some time, he laughed, laughing louder and louder, and finally almost fell to the ground.

"How did you guess that Junki Ito was me?" Takanagaoyoshi looked up at me.

"It's just a whim and a hunch." I replied honestly, "I feel that Takanagao Yoshiyoshi and Junki Ito have a few vague similarities.

"First, Junki Ito's research on superpowers can definitely be regarded as a grandmaster, which can be seen from his novels. And Takanagao Yoshichi has a fanatical desire for superpowers, which only needs to be known by a little investigation of his life.

"Second, Junki Ito was born in 1953, which coincides with the time of Takanaga's death, and most importantly, about Dr. Tomoyoshi Fukurai.

Whether it is in Takanaga's "Chronicles of Superpowers" or Junki Ito's novels, whenever Dr. Fukurai is mentioned, he can't help but use honorifics, revealing a kind of adoring emotion. I used to read your novels and it was strange that this information would be a very useful clue. ”

I paused and said, "Of course, all of this was purely my guess, so I took a gamble." I didn't expect you to admit it so readily. ”

"Haha, you're such an interesting person." Takanagao Yoshichi laughed again, "How much do you know about the black box?" ”

"It's not too much." I thought for a moment, "I know that there is more than one black box, and each one has different magical powers, and the way to use them is also different. I've been investigating for a long time, and I only know that those black boxes are related to you, your mentor Fulai Yukichi, and two Chinese scholars, Lu Ping and Li Shuren. ”

I licked my lips, "You all seem to have gotten the ability to be immortal from the black box. Later, for some reason, Lu Ping and Li Shuren each returned to their hometown with a black box, and then did something that I couldn't understand.

"I also know that the box was made in 1938 and that the place of manufacture was Usa, which is somewhere in Takayama City. I don't know exactly how you created this horrible thing, but I'm sure it had something to do with Dr. Fukurayukichi's third experiment. ”

Gao Nagao was slightly surprised, "I didn't expect you to know so much!" ”

I smiled slightly: "This is really not much, Mr. Gao Yong died by fraud in 1953, right?" You use suicide as a pretext, and then at the age of seventy-three, you come back to your old age and go into hiding to live another life with someone else. Li Shuren and Lu Ping are almost the same as you, maybe Fulai Yuji also lives somewhere in this world. ”

"That's not right." Takanagaoyoshi's expression was a little gloomy, "The doctor did die in 1952. He didn't want to accept that ability, saying that it was against the laws of nature, in fact, I knew that the doctor was unwilling to bear that kind of pain, eternal existence is a heavy fate, and after accepting that ability, he also endured the strong resentment and fetters of those girls! ”

"Resentment? Fetters? ”

I was so foggy that I couldn't figure out what he meant.

Takanagao Yoshicho sighed, staring blankly at the ceiling and whispering, "We were all born in a strange era. On the surface, there was a quest for something new, but in reality it was one thing to pursue it, and quite another to have those stubborn intellectuals accept it......

"Do you know about the Shadow Phenomenon? There are often some normal photos of unnecessary people or things, and some people call them supernatural photos, which is actually a typical phenomenon of imagery.

"Back in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century, when photography first entered public life, it was hyped up in the media and of great interest to many people, and my mentor, Dr. Fortune, was one of the most prominent of the time.

He began by proposing the theory that some people with special abilities could print some characters on the negative, or even make only the middle one of the three layers of film sensitive, and the upper and lower two sheets unaffected.

"In 1911, in the city of Marugame in Shikoku, Japan, the Doctor found a forty-year-old judge's wife, Ikuko Nagao. Under his auspices, a series of experiments were carried out. ”

I nodded, "I know that Dr. Tomokichi Fukurai published the results of his research in his 1913 book "Perspective and Mind Photography". Moreover, after the death of Nagao Ikuko, in order to prove his theory, in 1931, he found Hikaru Mita, a special functioner in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and asked him to successfully take two pictures of the far side of the moon from the negatives on the second floor of Dr. Fulai's house, which was located 40 kilometers away. ”

"Yes, the Doctor did take great pains to study the anomalous abilities." Takanagao sighed again.

"But does the Shadow phenomenon have anything to do with the black box?" I asked, confused.

Gao Nagaoyoshi nodded, and shook his head slightly, "The research of the black box really starts with the third experiment of the doctor, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, everything in that experiment was carried out in secret.

"The subject is a person with special abilities called Sadako Takahashi, who has the superpower of displaying words on white paper with her mind, and in that experiment, Dr. Fulai, Lu Ping, Li Shuren, and I were divided into two factions because of their different research directions.

Lu Ping and Li Shuren believe that people with special functions have a spiritual power that is different from ordinary people, so strong that they can be diffused and attached to something at will according to that person's will. According to this theory, if that force is further amplified, then it should be possible to change the molecular arrangement, or even to the point of changing the material.

"They believe that using their minds to display words on white paper, or to develop them on film, is fundamentally a process of changing the molecular structure and energy transfer, and that further research should be done on how to expand this ability!

"And the Doctor and I think they've gone mad. Although there was some truth in the theories they proposed, their behavior was too crazy, so the four of us broke up and conducted our own research in Takayama City......"