Chapter 316

Chapter 316

Naomi returned to the Green Residence. She closed the gate and immediately started looking for “the

hidden compartment”.

She searched all the rooms, even the gazebo in the garden, but she couldn’t find it,

Finally, she found a safe in her father’s study.

“Could it be in the safe?” Naomi muttered as she leaned over the safe and turned the gears to try to

open it.

Click–

The safe was finally opened, and she found a delicate wooden box inside, but the box was also locked.

Naomi picked up the box and sniffled it. It smelled faintly of incense. The wooden box had exquisite

carvings on it. It looked mysterious.

‘Is it the hidden compartment that Cayden mentioned?’

‘How do I open it?’

She searched the entire study, but she couldn’t find the key.

Naomi was so anxious that she wanted to smash the box!

But she was afraid of destroying the contents in the box.

Eventually, she snapped to attention the shape of the lock hole.

“Uh… Why does it look so familiar? I think I’ve seen it somewhere before!”

The next second, she realized that it was exactly the shape of her mother’s Ocean Star!

Naomi immediately took the box to her room. She picked up the Ocean Star from the dresser. The

diamond fit the lock hole perfectly!

Click–

The lock was turned, and Naomi opened the box.

Inside was an old letter and a parchment scroll.

Naomi read through the letter paper, which was a string of Morse code diary entries on it.

From the date of the journal, it was written ten years ago before her mother’s accident!

But she didn’t have the decoding book, so she couldn’t translate the contents of the journal.

And what was recorded on the parchment scroll was even stranger!

It said that a hare equaled two.

A turtle equaled five.

Then there were different animals, each equaling different numbers.

‘What do they represent?’

Naomi spent hours looking through all the books in the house but couldn’t find a single book decoding

her mother’s journal. It was late at night, and Naomi sat at the desk, pondering. She accidentally

caught a glimpse of a plastic ring on the bookshelf.

‘It was from Mister Long Legs. Mister Long Legs, I used to think I was smart, but now I feel so dumb.’

‘Shannon, are you Mister Long Legs?’

Suddenly, her cell phone rang in a special tone.

It was Nine.

“Nine, you didn’t call me for a long time.” Naomi raised an eyebrow.

“Lord G, I learned about a good deal. Someone offered $100 million for the core data for Hough Corp’s

e-commerce system. Did that tickle your fancy?” Nine teased. Naomi rolled her eyes. “Do you think I’d

be tickled?”

“Wow! Becoming Mrs. Hough, you’ve got a bigger appetite. You don’t care about $100 million

anymore?”

“Are they too boring?” Naomi hissed. ‘Why do they always intend Mister Daddy’s business?’

“What are you going to do about it?

“What am I going to do?” Naomi sneered. Then she turned on a highly sophisticated computer.

“Of course, I’m going to make those bastards cry on their knees!”

‘Consider it as my gift to Mister Daddy. I’ll protect Hough Corp’s core data.’

“But the client appointed you to get the data. If the money isn’t enough, he can give more…” Nine

added, and Naomi was surprised.

‘Appointed me?’