Chapter 348

Everyone shone their flashlights over.

I don't know when, but the crow statue's head had already been raised, although its eyes were still closed.

Several flashlights flickered on the crow's face.

Suddenly, its eyes opened, emitting a cold, ghostly light under the illumination of the flashlights.

The eyeballs turned slowly, looking at everyone.

A chill rose from the bottom of everyone's hearts.

"Go, leave here immediately."

Akaso Kaze waved his hand toward the back.

No one refuted, no one hesitated; everyone turned around and ran up the stairs.

Only Akaso Kaze stood in place alone.

He had no flashlight and soon disappeared into the vast darkness.

Several people escaped the entrance and were stunned.

In front of them was a lush forest.

Looking back, behind them was the broken bridge, and on the other side of the broken bridge was that terrifying Twilight Villa.

They had actually escaped the danger.

From afar, they saw the entire villa shaking violently.

The outer bricks and stones collapsed, revealing a golden light.

"It really is all cast from gold!"

Kaitou Kid couldn't help but say.

They saw that the golden surface was not smooth, but engraved with strange patterns, as well as murals and text.

Just as everyone was about to distinguish carefully, the entire villa suddenly sank downward.

"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"

Gunta Ikumi screamed, "Lord Akaso, it seems he hasn't come out yet."

"He, he should be fine," Kaitou Kid said uncertainly.

Whoosh.

A series of fine sounds.

From the middle of the villa, countless black shadows flew up, like arrows, scattering in all directions and shooting into the dense forest across the mountains and plains.

"Were those just now... feathers?"

Everyone was a bit confused when they suddenly heard dense cries ringing out all around.

Caw, caw.

Mournful and terrifying.

It was as if thousands of crows were calling at the same time.

Then came the sound of flapping wings.

Countless crows flew up from the forest.

They flew toward the Twilight Villa as if summoned, circling above it and emitting mournful cries.

Rumble.

The ground in the middle of the entire villa collapsed.

Revealing the bone platform that was originally underground.

Akaso Kaze still stood in place, as if he had never moved at all.

In front of him, the dozens-of-meters-high crow statue had shattered into pieces, leaving only a head, opening its huge crow beak toward the sky, seemingly emitting a silent cry.

The crows in the sky formed a huge vortex; they spiraled and rushed toward Akaso Kaze below like a tornado.

Akaso Kaze looked up.

Countless vines suddenly stretched out from the ground around him, like long whips, whipping away all the crows flying down.

More and more crows gathered in the sky.

More and more vines appeared on the ground.

Suddenly, all the crows called out at the same time and flew into the high sky.

They gathered together to form a huge crow shape, just like the statue underground.

Every feather was a crow.

The huge crow flew into the high sky, turned around, and whistled down toward Akaso Kaze.

On the ground, Akaso Kaze smiled coldly.

Absorb magic power.

Boom.

The surrounding space shook.

The entire villa lit up.

On the houses and walls, those mysterious patterns emitted a brilliant light.

Massive magic power poured into Akaso Kaze's body continuously.

"Monster, let me show you the true power of intermediate plant-manipulation magic!"

Magic power surged out, and the magic was cast.

The entire mountain began to collapse.

The golden buildings and courtyard walls of the villa were shattered into pieces.

A tooth-aching creaking sound rang out, and two wooden arms dozens of meters high stretched out from under the cliff, grabbing onto the top of the mountain.

Supported by them, a huge treant over a hundred meters tall and more than ten meters in diameter climbed up.

It stood on the top of the mountain, its dense branches stretching into the air against all reason, firmly entangling the crows rushing down.

The surrounding vines also climbed up along its tree body, layer by layer, circle by circle, like a spider catching prey, wrapping the crows entirely inside to form a huge sphere.

Then, the vines and branches tightened simultaneously.

Countless muffled screams came from the middle of the sphere.

Black blood flowed down through the gaps in the branches, filling the depression formed by the villa's collapse, almost like a small lake.

At this time, Akaso Kaze had already flown into the sky.

He pointed his finger.

The treant sank the sphere wrapped in vines into the depression on the mountaintop, and then inserted its dense root system into it.

It gradually sank into the ground, slowly becoming still, and returned to being an ordinary towering tree.

The Twilight Villa on the mountaintop had disappeared.

In its place was a rare, huge tree.

The ground was covered in tangled vines, and the original appearance could not be seen at all.

Everything that once was seemed to be only in memory.

Akaso Kaze smiled slightly and looked at his soul space.

There, on a mountaintop, a hundred souls were carrying pieces of golden bricks and stones, rebuilding the Twilight Villa.

The golden house worth over a hundred billion was thus collected by Akaso Kaze into his own space, becoming his private property.

Akaso Kaze landed in front of everyone.

The famous detectives were still standing there with their mouths wide open, keeping a dumbfounded look.

Their hearts were all screaming wildly.

What kind of world is this?

How could there be such a crow monster?

And such a huge treant.

This is too unscientific.

That treant was actually controlled by Akaso Kaze.

Is this guy a god?

"Everyone, the matter is finished; it's time to go down the mountain~."

After saying that, Akaso Kaze waved his hand, and a luxury car appeared in front of him.

"Lord Akaso, let me drive."

Kaitou Kid ran up fawningly and opened the car door.

Akaso Kaze looked at him puzzled and got into the car.

Kaitou Kid sat in the driver's seat, and the others looked at each other and squeezed into the back row one after another.

Mogi Harufumi, who was at the end, was about to get into the car when his figure suddenly shook.

A black shadow darted out from behind his head and instantly drilled into the dense forest.

A fish that slipped through the net; Akaso Kaze couldn't be bothered to care about it.

The group drove down the mountain in the car.

The black shadow flew day and night and finally arrived at a secret location.

It came before a figure and drilled into the crow in front of him.

The crow's eyes turned red, and it emitted a cawing sound toward the figure in front of it, seemingly saying something, and the tone was still very unfriendly.

The figure frowned and made an old voice.

"Is that so? He was actually able to do such a thing; it is... too good!"

He suddenly waved the iron staff in his hand and struck the crow heavily.

With a squelch, he smashed the crow into a pulp of flesh.

A black mist rushed out from the flesh and flew toward the door.

However, its body seemed to be tied by invisible threads, and it flew into the person's hand involuntarily.

Sizzle.

A soft sound.

The black mist disappeared.

The black shadow took a deep breath.

"This is truly... too good!"

In the car returning to the city, Senma Furuyo found a notebook in the leather bag left by her father.

At the request of the detectives, she read it out.

"I received an invitation from the tycoon Karasuma Karasuma Renya to come to a place called Twilight Villa to help him find the treasure his mother left in the villa. Also invited were capable people from other fields."

"Karasuma Karasuma Renya met us in the villa; he was a centenarian, sitting in a wheelchair, needing servants to take care of him at all times."

"Karasuma Karasuma Renya announced the puzzle his mother left behind, which was a code: Two travelers in a hurry, looking up at the celestial phenomena at night... the earth changes color."

"As expected of a tycoon in Japan today, even though many people came, he could still provide a considerable amount of money as a reward for everyone invited every day."

"There is no shortage of food and clothing here, and there are servants to take care of us. Not joking, I even wanted to stay here forever."

"The only unpleasant thing is that there are many crows in the forest around the villa, calling 'caw caw' every night, which feels very annoying."

"The progress of cracking the code is very slow; compared to half a month ago, it can be said that there has been no progress at all."

"But we invited people are happy and free. Under the current circumstances, it is not easy to find a job with a stable income, and everyone doesn't want to end the code-cracking work too early and lose this hard-won job."

"Karasuma Karasuma Renya met us for the second time; his physical condition seemed worse than when we met last month. He asked us about the progress of cracking the code, and we all stammered and couldn't say anything."

"Seeming to have anticipated that this would happen, Karasuma Karasuma Renya brought more than a dozen burly men in black this time than last time."

Karasuma Karasuma Renya's fingers slid over our heads, seemingly randomly pointing out a linguist, and let two men in black take the person away."

"Under the pressure exerted by Karasuma Karasuma Renya, the remaining scholars had to start cracking the code. I am the same. The scope the code can refer to is too large, and many days have passed, but we still have no progress."

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"I wrote a letter to my friend telling him about my encounter and situation here. He learned of my encounter and even jokingly said that he would also place a puzzle in his own Blue Castle in the future for future generations to reveal; this is true romance."

"But I can feel that everything happening in Twilight Villa may have nothing to do with romance."

"Karasuma Karasuma Renya met us on time to ask about the progress of cracking the code. Compared to meeting last month, his body seems to be worse, coughing incessantly in his mouth, as if he would die at any time."

There were more men in black following him this time. After learning that our code-cracking work still had no progress, he directly ordered people to take away five people this time."

"The remaining scholars planned to protest this inhumane behavior to Karasuma Karasuma Renya together, but more men in black suddenly moved into Twilight Villa. They were heavily armed, and we didn't dare to resist at all."

"Twilight Villa suddenly fell from heaven to hell. The pressure of survival forced us to try every possible way to crack the code, in order to be able to leave here intact and reunite with our families."