(PS: New author, didn't know how to write in the early stages, currently working hard to improve, please bear with me.)
(PS: For the early chapters, please don't take it too seriously...
Guangyou casually pushed open a door. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about the room; it was a very simple guest room.
The guest rooms are simply furnished, but what is striking is the decoration. From the doorknobs to the bed, you can often see a half-crouched crow on everything.
The crow had its eyes closed, but Guangyou felt as if something was watching him. He looked around the room and then saw a faint crow pattern on the ceiling, though the color of the pattern was similar to that of the wall.
The crow's eye on the ceiling was positioned right next to the light source that mainly illuminated the entire room. After a careful inspection, Guangyou breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that the pattern was purely decorative and that his earlier feeling of staring at it was probably just his imagination.
Even a regular guest room has two bedrooms and a living room, one master bedroom and one secondary bedroom, and the ensuite bathroom is no different from the others, except for the ubiquitous crow pattern.
Guangyou knew that the villa owner's family crest was a raven, but it turned out that almost everything in the house was custom-made and had raven patterns. Even the toilet seat had a raven pattern, and even the flush button on the toilet had a raven pattern.
Apart from that, there was nothing else unusual. Then, Guangyou opened the doors of the other rooms and searched them in the same way, but found nothing.
The house looks big, and it really is big. There aren't many rooms, but each room is quite spacious. Apart from a few rooms that have a piano or a drawing board, it looks just like the home of a wealthy person who owns a house in a mine—extremely ordinary.
It's nothing more than carpets with gold trim, bed sheets and pillowcases with gold trim, a custom-made grand piano with gold decorations, and other things that exude an aura of wealth.
The piano is a Yamaha high-end custom grand piano, which also features a raven pattern.
On the black-bodied piano with gold trim, a raven with gold trim is depicted with lifelike detail. The strings are also gold, though Guangyou doesn't know if they are pure gold. He only knows that this piano is very expensive, ridiculously expensive.
Having been neglected for so many years, the piano was otherwise untouched except for a layer of dust.
Perhaps it's because of its very low usage rate, or perhaps it's due to the craftsmanship of this piano; the pitch difference is actually not significant, and it only requires minor adjustments to be usable.
Of course, it's possible now, but it would sound a bit strange. If it were any other time, Guangyou would definitely play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to liven things up, but right now, business is more important.
Guangyou is currently on the second floor. Most of the rooms on the second floor are guest rooms, except for one room which is completely empty, with only a computer placed in the center of the room.
Only in this room is there a mechanism on the doorknob. As long as you turn the handle, the door lock will open, and a needle will appear in a gap on the handle. Guangyou can clearly see that the needle has been poisoned.
The needle made Guangyou sense danger. Obviously, the poison on it was not an anesthetic. It should be enough to kill an elephant. After smelling it, Guangyou concluded that the poison on the needle was potassium cyanide again.
Guangyou couldn't help but wonder if potassium cyanide was so easy to obtain in Japan that anyone could get it. He reasoned that potassium cyanide accounted for the majority of the drug-related cases he had encountered so far.
Guangyou is just an ordinary person, at most a slightly stronger ordinary person. If he were poisoned, he would still die without question.
If the King of Hell summons him to report, even if he refuses, it's useless; he'll still die.
The villa is mostly two-story, but there is a unique third floor and a small attic at the main entrance.
The computer room is located next to the stairs connecting the second and third floors, facing the main entrance.
Guangyou went up to the third floor. The room still looked normal, except for one part of the ceiling that was different from the surrounding area. This part of the ceiling was recessed.
Upon closer inspection, one can see handprints on a section of the ceiling. He believes that since no one has maintained the ceiling for so many years, there must be dust on it, and the handprints must have appeared recently.
A few minutes later, Guangyou finally entered the secret room. The door to the secret room didn't have any special mechanisms; you just had to push it to the side.
The room was dark, with only the monitor screen emitting a faint blue light. There was a computer next to the monitor, and nothing else.
The villa had many cameras—on the paintings, on the lamp stands—and Guangyou had initially thought that the feeling he had just been watching was because of these cameras.
But after carefully reviewing each frame, he couldn't find the room he had just been in. Most of the cameras were in the lobby, dining room, piano room, and near the main entrance.
The most unusual one was a room on the second floor that only had a computer; it wasn't the room that Guangyou had taken us to earlier.
After searching the secret room, Guangyou left, still finding nothing.
Guangyou had searched almost the entire villa, so he went out to the garden in the center of the villa.
There is a fountain in the center of the garden, and the rest of the garden is planted with flowers, which have grown somewhat haphazardly because no one has taken care of them for many years.
These flowers weren't particularly attractive, so Guangyou headed straight for the fountain.
Only after standing in front of the fountain could Guangyou properly examine it closely.
In the center of the circular fountain is a stone pillar, and on the platform in the middle of the pillar are four stone sculptures of crows with outstretched wings as if about to take flight.
The four stone crow sculptures face outwards with their beaks wide open. Among them, Guangyou can see the nozzle. His outstretched wings support the small circular platform at the top, just like the stone pillars supporting the platform. It also has a nozzle that can spray water.
Although it has been unmaintained for decades, it is still in operation. The water jets from the top are umbrella-shaped, and the water flows down the platform. It seems that due to the structure of the top, the water jets flow down the gaps between the four crow stone sculptures.
The circular fountain's surrounding wall is also decorated with a ring of patterns, and there is a raven relief in each of the four directions. What intrigues Guangyou is that the raven relief facing the gate has its eyes open, while the other three have their eyes closed.
Guangyou crouched down to examine the unique raven relief closely. His intuition told him that there was definitely something there!
The crow's eyes were a startling red, so red it seemed almost undecorative, but when Guangyou tried pressing them, there was no response.
Guangyou was not discouraged. After all, if it were that simple, it wouldn't be Karasuma Renya's villa. He then turned his head to wonder why the relief was depicted with open eyes, or if the relief could make him close his eyes.
It was already dark. Although Guangyou could see in the dark, no matter how hard you looked, you couldn't see as clearly as you could during the day. You could only see the trajectory of movements and make simple distinctions.
If one could see in the dark as if it were daytime, then their eyesight would have already surpassed that of ordinary people.