Chapter 19

You never know what you might find in your mailbox.

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Angelica's biological clock is malfunctioning.

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"Mommy-Mommy-"

At seven o'clock in the morning, Kongtiao Xu Lun, who had played all night, knocked on Angelica's door.

Angelica was still vaguely dreaming when she heard the knock on the door. Fortunately, she was very concerned about her daughter's voice and finally came to her senses after a struggle.

The first time she woke up, Angelica turned her head and looked at the electronic clock beside the bed: How could that be? ! It's long past six o'clock!

In fact, Angelica's biological clock is not innate.

When she was in middle school, Angelica was just one of millions of ordinary students - just as busy, just as tired, just as eager to sleep until dawn forever.

I actually...if Xu Lun hadn't called me, I would have slept until I woke up naturally, right?

Angelica reluctantly pushed herself up and sat up, feeling a little dizzy, but she still responded to the child outside the door: "I'm awake, Xu Xu."

"Mommy will be out soon."

An Jelica got out of bed to wash up. The weather in early spring was still quite cold. When she wore slippers with bare feet, she was still a little uncomfortable:

Sure enough, she still had to buy a pair of winter slippers that were fluffier and thicker.

"If you want to come in, just come in."

Although Xu Lun Kujo is a child who is very attached to her mother, when there are many guests at home, she is embarrassed to insist on sleeping with Angelica: she always feels that she has to give The younger siblings set a good example - even if the younger sister is not the younger sister, the younger brother seems unwilling to be the younger brother.

Now Angelica's house has two guest children inexplicably, and each one has a mysterious identity.

Fortunately, the villa arranged by the "family" is large enough, so there is no need to worry about how many more children there are. Angelica was lamenting that her home was a little empty two days ago, but now her considerate fate has arranged her home to be lively and lively. , never have a moment to spare.

Whether it is Kujo Xu Lun, Haibara Ai, or Nakahara Chuuya who just arrived yesterday, Angelica treats them all equally in terms of room arrangements: single rooms, and the later decoration and planning of the rooms are also all done by They make their own decisions and will never interfere in the slightest.

In order to show his independence and to prevent Angelica's arrangement from falling through, Xu Lun Kujo happily pulled his small suitcase to the room.

As for the real situation...

Little Kong Tiao Xu Lun lay on the bed that night and stared at the ceiling for an hour. The more he looked at it, the more unfamiliar he felt.

"Then I'll come in -" The kid, who hadn't been with Mommy all night, jumped in and opened the door. His hair was draped over his shoulders, waiting for someone with a dexterity to help him style it. "Mommy, it's morning." Okay——!"

She was still wearing pajamas. After all, Kujo Xu Lun would never change out of comfortable home clothes until she went out.

Kutiao Xu Lun blinked his big eyes, grabbed the door frame of the bathroom, and poked out half of his baby-fat face.

"Were you too tired yesterday?"

"Hmm..." Angelica yelled at the toothpaste foam in a very vague voice, "Maybe..."

Think about it carefully... When did I start to develop this behavior? What about the biological clock?

Ever since I went to college and met Jotaro Kujo...I confirmed my relationship, started a family, and gave birth to a lovely child...everything happened so quickly, so quickly. Looking back now, it's like a dream.

but.

Angelica lowered her head and looked at Xu Lun, whose eyes were glistening. This baby is the real deal.

"Mommy - Mommy -" Just as Angelica lowered her head to wash her face, Kujo Xu Lun suddenly shouted, and even stepped forward to pull the corner of her clothes, "Mommy -?"

"What's wrong, JOJO?"

Angelica buried her face in a soft towel, carefully wiped away the water drops, and then raised her head and turned around.

"Mommy - there's something on your neck -!"

Huh?

Angelica subconsciously turned around to look in the mirror, but she didn't see it immediately: "Is there one? Where is it?"

Xu Lun Kujo puffed up his mouth, waved his hand to signal Angelica to squat down, and then She lowered the back of her neck and almost touched the area on her back: "It's right here!"

I don't know how Angelica saw such a tricky place when she was still wearing her pajamas. .

In order to verify Kujo Xu Lun's statement, Angelica simply took off her shirt, pulled up her long hair, and turned her back to the glass mirror on the sink.

Sure enough, it is exactly what JOJO said.

Strange patterns appeared on Angelica's body.

The patterned area was so large that it took up most of her back. The point that Kujo Xu Lun saw before was just a corner of the pattern.

"Mommy - you have a big butterfly on your body -!"

"I like JOJO so much -!"

Saying that, Kujo Xu Lun couldn't help but wave his little hands, wishing that Angelica could squat down immediately Come down and let her take a good look and touch it with her palms.

In order to get a good look at her back, Angelica's posture at this moment was quite awkward.

She endured the pain in her neck and carefully looked at every part of the pattern.

Rather than saying that the pattern was a butterfly, Angelica thought it was more like an [hourglass]

on her back, an hourglass lying horizontally. The upper and lower ends of the hourglass happened to be imprinted on Angelica's shoulder blades. Every time she made a move, it would move up and down - that's why Xu Lun Kujo felt that it was a butterfly.

The reason why Angelica thought it was an hourglass was because - in addition to the frame, the pattern also had "content" like an hourglass.

Located on the upper end of the hourglass on the left shoulder blade, there are four light blue water wavy stripes. They gradually gather to the right, as if after reaching a certain number, they will reverse the order and run from the left to the right - just like the operation of an hourglass.

What is this...

Angelica thought: The four water patterns... the four... could it refer to the four flashbacks she had experienced?

Other than that, she couldn't think of any other corresponding connections at the moment.

Angelica put a hand behind her back, touched the pattern, rubbed it, and finally wiped it vigorously.

No matter what, the pattern remains unchanged and intact.

On the contrary, Angelica herself rubbed the skin on her back until it turned red.

"Hmm... I almost forgot." Of course Angelica couldn't tell her baby that this was some kind of mysterious danger, so she could only find a lame excuse temporarily, "This is the latest trend in Yokohama."

" How about it, JOJO?"

"Mom finally caught on."

Really...? Why don't I believe it?

Kong Tiao Xu Lun rolled his eyes and said sweetly: "So that's it... I know, Mommy!"

"It's really beautiful!"

But what he had in mind was another set of thoughts: Mommy...is there something you're hiding from me?

...Obviously JOJO doesn't hide anything from mommy...!

Kujo Xu Lun felt a little aggrieved as she thought about it. She waved her hand and walked out quietly, pretending that nothing was wrong with her.

But when she walked out of Angelica's room, two little "door gods" were already standing outside the door.

...

"Good morning, Xiao Ai!"

"Good morning, Chuuya!"

Kujo Xu Lun tried to stay active and greeted the two of them still full of energy. To ordinary people's ears, I'm afraid there is no difference.

However, these two are not ordinary people.

"Are you feeling unwell?"

Zhongyuan Zhongya was different from Xu Lun Kujo. He changed into neat regular clothes early after getting up, and even tried to comb his messy hair - but to no avail.

"What's wrong?"

Haiyuan Ai's hair is of good quality and doesn't require much care. It always stays so smooth. Such talent made Zhongyuan Zhongya couldn't help but look at him several times.

"What?" Kujo Xu Lun clasped his hands behind his back and jumped forward, "Wait a minute... Look - there is a big crow outside -!"

Angelica's room is in the second villa. On the first floor, the corridor is designed to be very wide. If you take two steps, you can reach the high railing.

Following Xu Lun's exclamation, the three children looked out the window -

in the courtyard of the villa, on the green lawn, next to the bright red mailbox, an abnormally large crow was circling silently. Gradually move closer to the mailbox.

It was really a pitch-black crow, with its shiny fur reflecting colorful lights. The eyes are piercing, and the beak and claws are also quite sharp.

As it got closer to the lawn, the overly tender grass tips were blown around by the strong wind brought by its wings.

"Crow?"

By the time Angelica walked out of the room, Kujo Xu Lun, who couldn't hold back his excitement and excitement, had already led the other two guests to rush downstairs and flew out of the house. He couldn't wait to pounce out suddenly. Hold that large bird.

[Stare————]

The crow, which only stayed on the mailbox for three seconds, immediately flew away, flapping its wings, and hovered over the mailbox again.

Only this time, it lowered its head and stared at Kujo Xu Lun for a long time with its extremely deep eyes.

"Here, there is actually faith."

Huihara Ai dislikes crows very much, because not only do these creatures have unflattering habits, but they also have one of the most bizarre temperaments.

Of course, the thing that made her dislike crows the most was that crows made her involuntarily think of that organization.

Although she spent most of her time in the laboratory, Haihara Ai still remembered the numbers and order that certain organization members often pressed, and when dialing in that order, the mobile phone sent quite regular calls. Touch-tone.

Haiyuan Ai seemed to have heard that voice vaguely when he was very young, before even a complete memory was formed - he heard a gentle voice humming softly - Qi What a child... Waiting for her...

A popular folk song, "Seven Crows"

Haiyuan Ai didn't even look at the bird. Instead, he stood up on tiptoes and touched the mailbox, and found that there was nothing on the door. Lock.

Is this... no real intention to use it in the first place?

That’s right, this kind of mailbox installed in the garden is mostly just decoration. Even if they really want to receive letters, each household has a unified mailbox on the outer wall.

In this case...

Haiyuan Ai tried her best to reach out and touch inside, but due to her current height, she could indeed feel something inside the mailbox. Her fingertips had obviously touched it, but she couldn't feel it out.

[Huh——]

"Huh?"

Just when Haiyuan Ai felt that her arms were already sore from exerting force, the items in the mailbox seemed to be suddenly blown by the wind, and floated out on their own initiative, and were caught by her quick eyes and hands. .

wrong!

Was it windy just now?

"So many letters——!" Before Haibara Ai could think about such an anomaly, Kujo Xu Lun had already put her big head next to her, "Who sent it?"

Who sent it?

Angelica also wants to know this question.

Just as Haihara Ai guessed, the red mailbox in the courtyard was just a decoration - after all, it was impossible for the postman to fly over the fence and jump into the garden to stuff the letters in.

The letters that appeared together with the strange crows were basically "abnormal letters" of unknown origin

. There were five letters in total.

Each one was in a different envelope, but each one was unsealed.

Because of this, Angelica touched it casually and the contents of one of the letters fell out.

What fluttered on the carpet was a photo.