Chapter 859

Kaitou Kid ran up flatteringly 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 body 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 was too lazy to care about it.

The group of people took the car and headed down the mountain.

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

It came to 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 unkind.

The figure frowned and made an aged sound.

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

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

With a squelch, he smashed the crow into a pile of meat paste.

A black mist rushed out from the meat paste 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 really... too great!"

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

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

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

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

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

"There is no worry about 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 is no progress at all."

"But we who were invited are happy and free; under the current situation, it is not easy to find a job with a stable income, and everyone does not want to end the work of cracking the code too early and lose this hard-won job."

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

"It seems that he anticipated this situation would happen; Karasuma Renya brought more than a dozen burly men in black this time than the last time we met."

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

"Under the pressure exerted by Karasuma Renya, the remaining scholars had to start cracking the code. So did I. The range 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 Renya met us on time to ask about the progress of cracking the code. Compared to the meeting last month, his body seems to be worse; he keeps coughing in his mouth, seemingly ready to die at any time."

This time there were more men in black following him; 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 of us planned to protest this inhumane behavior to Karasuma Renya together, but more men in black suddenly moved into Twilight Villa. They were armed with live ammunition, and we didn't dare to resist at all."

"Twilight Villa fell from heaven to hell in an instant; the pressure of survival made us have to try every possible way to crack the code so that we could leave here intact and reunite with our families."