The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

It would be normal for only one or two audience members to react this way, but it seems rather strange when a group of people react this way.

When he entered the movie theater, the first thing he saw was the somewhat messy front desk of the ticket office, and the front desk staff looked indignant.

Jiang Hang glanced to the side and quickly noticed two thugs being pulled apart not far away. It seemed that the two of them had just had an argument in the movie theater, and even fought over it.

Those audience members who left were probably there because of those two thugs.

Jiang Hang glanced at the two thugs who were pulled away but still kept talking, then walked to the service desk, identified himself, and inquired about the two thugs.

After learning that Jiang Hang was the owner who had recently booked an entire theater to play Gomera on a loop, the waiter became quite nervous, as if he was afraid of saying the wrong thing.

"Mr. Jiang Hang, please rest assured, our cinema has just called the police, and these two thugs will be taken away by the police soon."

She explained this to Jiang Hang, and also told him that the cinema would return to normal after the two thugs were taken away by the police.

Jiang Hang had only casually inquired about the movie theater and perhaps hoped to earn a small commission from the system, but now, hearing the waiter's somewhat nervous assurances, he sensed something was amiss.

If there's nothing wrong, why is she so anxiously emphasizing this to herself?

Soon after receiving a report from the movie theater, the police arrived. Since this was just a regular fight, it was unlikely that Inspector Megure and his team of officers who were always busy dealing with murder cases would be the ones to handle it.

Jiang Hang also met with the owner of the cinema, who was explaining the cause and course of the incident to the police.

The police officers who responded to the call didn't seem to have any impression of Jiang Hang. At least, when their eyes swept over him, they didn't show any particular expression. They probably just regarded him as an ordinary moviegoer.

On the contrary, when the police came and took the two thugs away, Jiang Hang could clearly notice the waiter's hesitant expression.

It seems that this movie theater has encountered something more troublesome than these two petty thugs fighting.

Chapter 253: Chapter 251: I heard your movie theater is for sale? (4000 words)

After the police took the two thugs who were fighting in the movie theater away, the movie theater owner, Akio Muramatsu, learned Jiang Hang's identity from a movie theater employee.

He asked the waiter to clean up the mess the theater had made because of the fight between the two men, and then he gave Jiang Hang an apologetic explanation.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Jiang Hang, I'm sorry to show you something unpleasant. You must have come here to check on the re-release of Gomera, right? I'll take you to the screening room now."

Jiang Hang, however, looked at the spot where the two thugs had just fought and asked Muramatsu Akio, "This shouldn't be the first time your movie theater has encountered something like this, right? Were you deliberately causing trouble?"

Faced with Jiang Hang's sudden question, Muramatsu Akio's expression changed slightly: "So, Mr. Jiang Hang, you came here because you knew about this matter?"

He couldn't help but sigh: "Did you come here to terminate your contract with us?"

This movie theater is small, with few screening rooms. It's not easy to get popular movies shown. The screening contract that Dabao Films signed with them is one of their rare sources of income this year. But now that Jiang Hang has discovered the situation at the theater, he probably thinks Jiang Hang is here to terminate the contract.

At this moment, the man, who was already over sixty years old, looked exceptionally aged.

However, Jiang Hang did not have such thoughts. He shook his head at Muramatsu Akio: "I saw the way those police officers spoke to you after arresting those two thugs. It seems that this is not their first time here. Also, I noticed that a lot of the decorations here in the movie theater were recently replaced. They must have been replaced because they were damaged by those thugs who came to cause trouble before."

Jiang Hang shared his analysis, and then, to the other party's somewhat surprised look, took out a business card from his detective agency.

"Let me also introduce myself. I'm Jiang Hang, and my main profession is a detective. DaBao Films is just something I acquired out of personal interest; it's really just a side business."

"If you encounter any problems, I think I might be able to help your cinema."

Akio Muramatsu seemed a little taken aback when he saw the words "Pioneer Detective Agency" written in beautiful font on the business card.

He had heard of Da Bao Films, after all, it had been running a movie theater for over thirty years, and Gomera's movies had been shown in the theater before. Although the box office results were not very good, the fan base had always been relatively stable.

However, he was not very clear about the recent change of owners at Dabao Films.

Moreover, as a man in his sixties, he was unaware of Jiang Hang, the famous detective who was currently enjoying great popularity.

The waiter next to him seemed to recognize the name Jiang Hang. After hearing Jiang Hang's self-introduction, he remembered Jiang Hang's identity and exclaimed in surprise.

"You're that famous Hawkeye detective?"

Jiang Hang nodded to the waitress, acknowledging his identity.

Seeing that her boss didn't seem to know anything about Jiang Hang, the waitress immediately went up to him and started telling him about Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang vaguely heard the name of the Phantom Thief Kid, and after listening to the waitress's explanation, Muramatsu Akio looked at Jiang Hang with some hesitation.

He seemed to be still debating whether to tell Jiang Hang, the seemingly wealthy detective, about the troubles their cinema had recently encountered.

"If it's Mr. Jiang Hang, he'll surely be able to find some evidence to prove that those thugs hired by that person came to cause trouble at our cinema," the waitress advised her boss.

“It might not be that person who did it... You'd better not say anything like that before you're sure,” Akio Muramatsu waved his hand at the waitress.

"Even if it wasn't that person, we still need to find out who those guys were sent," the waitress said indignantly. "Because of these things, the movie theater's business has been getting worse and worse lately. If this continues... that person will probably make even more outrageous demands. Boss, we can all understand if you want to sell the movie theater, but now your own interests are being harmed!"

Perhaps her words awakened Akio Muramatsu, because after hesitating for a moment, he still told Jiang Hang about the movie theater.

After running the cinema for over thirty years, the elderly Akio Muramatsu was preparing to retire. His children did not want to take over the cinema, so not long ago, he prepared to transfer it to someone else.

Actually, the location of his movie theater is quite good. If it were just a matter of selling the movie theater, it wouldn't be difficult to find a suitable buyer. However, Akio Muramatsu, who has spent many years working on this movie theater, is still somewhat hesitant about this matter.

He wanted to find a buyer willing to continue operating the cinema so that it could continue to exist.

However, since it is an old movie theater from thirty years ago, it is not only somewhat old, but also only has three screening rooms, so it is not easy to find someone willing to take over.

Not long after he conceived the idea of ​​transferring ownership of the cinema, a buyer appeared.

The buyer's name is Zhang Tianzhengci, the owner of a real estate agency. He had his eye on this piece of land and wanted to buy it at a low price and then resell it to someone else at a higher price.

Akio Muramatsu naturally had no liking for such a person, and after learning that the other party had no intention of continuing to run the movie theater, he rejected the other party's acquisition offer.

What he didn't expect was that after he rejected that man, all sorts of problems started to arise at the movie theater.

Initially, some audience members were making a lot of noise in the theater during the movie screening, causing discomfort to other audience members. Later, the issue escalated to the claim that there was something wrong with the drinks sold at the cinema, leading to a disturbance at the service counter.

Recently, those thugs even started fighting right inside the movie theater. Even though they called the police, the police were unable to extract any valuable information from them after taking them back to the police station.

Jiang Hang now knows that the waitress's name is Yuri Yuriko, and she is currently telling Jiang Hang why they suspect Zhang Tianzhengji.

"Not long after we called the police for the first time, the man came to our cinema again, saying that he still wanted to buy the cinema. After the owner refused him again, he told us that he knew our cinema's business had been bad recently and that if we didn't sell it soon, we might encounter more trouble."

"That man even said that if the cinema's business is worse when he comes back next time, he won't be willing to buy our cinema at the previous price." Yuri Yuri told Jiang Hang indignantly about that guy. "The price he offered was already very low, and it seems he wants to lower it even further. Moreover, I heard that he seems to have connections with some violent gangs. This whole thing is most likely related to him."

"The real estate agency wants to acquire the land at a low price..." Jiang Hang muttered to himself, while simultaneously resting his chin on his hand and looking at Akio Muramatsu beside him. "Speaking of which, you want to transfer ownership of this movie theater, right?"

Jiang Hang had been thinking about setting up a movie theater specifically for advertising, but he never expected that he would actually come across a movie theater that wanted to be transferred just by taking a casual stroll around.

Although it was much smaller than the cinema he had originally envisioned, the screening room had been renovated a few years ago, and a batch of seats had been replaced. The facilities were not too outdated, and after the acquisition, he didn't have to worry about the daily maintenance expenses thanks to the industry model.

Thinking about this, even Jiang Hang couldn't help but feel a little tempted.

Although he had just acquired Yingdu, the former boss's amazing actions saved him a lot of money. If he really needed money, he could just borrow some from the system and then work hard to pay it back.

Even if Conan criticizes him for buying the movie theater afterward, there are fewer than 400 movie theaters in all of Japan. If he doesn't want to buy land and start his own movie theater, he doesn't know when he'll find a ready-made movie theater again.

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's question, Muramatsu Akio, who had been sighing, paused for a moment.

He only wanted Jiang Hang, the famous detective, to help him find evidence that Zhang Tianzheng had hired those thugs to cause trouble at the cinema. How did the other party start talking to him about acquiring the cinema?

If Muramatsu Akio hadn't known that Jiang Hang was the boss of Dabao Film and Television, he would have suspected that this was some new conspiracy orchestrated by Zhang Tianzhengji.

"If Mr. Jiang Hang is prepared to continue operating this cinema and has written that into the contract, I can transfer the cinema's facilities to you at a low price, and I can also offer you the land for a price lower than the market price."

It's clear that this man in his sixties doesn't have a strong interest in money. He's simply too old to continue managing the cinema, and he had no choice but to transfer ownership when his children were unwilling to take over.

If no one is willing to take over the movie theater, he probably won't be able to hold on for long and will have to sell it to someone else and let them demolish it.

Jiang Hang nodded to Muramatsu Akio: "I'll have my lawyer talk to you about the specifics of the acquisition, but let's put that aside for now. I need to take care of those thugs first."

Since he was planning to acquire the cinema, he certainly couldn't ignore the cinema's troubles.

Yuri Yuri suspects that the owner of the agency, Zhang Tianzheng, is the mastermind behind this incident, and she plans to start her investigation from him.

After the two thugs were taken away by the police, Yuri Yuri cleaned up the mess. The later moviegoers were unaware of what had happened.

This was originally a very normal thing. Jiang Hang used his eagle eye to look around the movie theater and confirmed that there was nothing seriously wrong with it. Because he had visited several movie theaters in the afternoon and spent a lot of time in this one, he didn't realize that it was getting dark.

To Jiang Hang's surprise, as he was about to leave, a somewhat familiar face caught his attention.

The night before last, he was conducting a drug deal with a Thai guy, but due to a mole in the Metropolitan Police Department, the police failed. After being detained for 24 hours, he was released last night. He is an important member of the Muddy Sankai and also the first generation of the Oda Group, Oda Taisei.

At this time, Oda Taisei was wearing a mask and did not bring any of his underlings with him.

After arriving at the movie theater, he cautiously checked behind him to see if anyone was following him.

If Jiang Hang hadn't possessed the MAX-level observational ability of Eagle Eye, he probably wouldn't have been able to so easily discover that the person who came was Oda Taisei.

After confirming that there were no problems, Oda Taisei walked to the front desk and said the name of a movie that had been released less than half a month ago in a cold tone.

Yuri Yuriko wasn't curious about Oda Taisei at all. In her mind, Oda Taisei was just an ordinary customer, and she wouldn't equate him with any important figure in a yakuza organization.

After Jiang Hang met Oda Taisei here, he put aside his investigation of Zhang Tianzhengji's side.

Zhang Tianzhengji's side is at most a few small-time thugs with whom he has a good relationship, while Oda Taisei is the head of an important organization in the Mud Ginseng Association. He was just released by the police due to insufficient evidence, and the next day he sneaked into this movie theater alone. He must have some ulterior motive.

Just as Jiang Hang had expected, shortly after Oda Taisei entered the screening room to wait for the movie to start, another somewhat familiar face appeared at the cinema.

He was the man with a cast on his hand who tested the quality of drugs for Oda Taisei.

The man was equally cautious, and only after confirming several times that Oda Taisei was not in the cinema lobby did he carefully enter the cinema.

He randomly chose a recently shown movie and went into the screening room to look for Oda Taisei.

However, he was unaware that when Oda Taisei smashed his plaster cast at the nightclub, someone at the scene had already guessed his undercover identity based on a strong sense of déjà vu.

"If they're really playing the Infernal Affairs game, does that mean there's a mole in the police force at this movie theater?" Jiang Hang, who was using a full-map cheat, couldn't help but mutter as he watched the two men's actions.

I wonder if the mole here also wants to be a "good person".

Chapter 254: Chapter 252: Undercover Agent and Traitor

Jiang Hang, who originally planned to have a "life talk" with the real estate agent who was trying to acquire the cinema using underhanded methods and tell him what "pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth" meant, stayed in the cinema after discovering Oda Taisei's whereabouts.

For the female staff at the cinema, Jiang Hang's identity has transformed from the boss of another company into a recently famous detective, and in the near future, he may very well become the new owner of the cinema.

A famous, young, good-looking, and seemingly warm-hearted wealthy person—this combination of attributes makes him an SSR-level rare individual. Therefore, the waitresses were quite enthusiastic towards Jiang Hang.

Yuri Yuriko was now asking Jiang Hang, the famous detective, about the cases he had solved, with a rather gossipy air. After Jiang Hang reluctantly answered some questions, she cautiously inquired about his opinion on Kaito Kid, a formidable opponent.

Upon hearing this question, Jiang Hang instinctively sensed something was amiss. Looking at the other waitresses, who seemed to be waiting for his answer with equally curious expressions, he felt uneasy, wondering if these waitresses had also read some strange doujinshi.

After leaving a "no comment" message, Jiang Hang, who didn't like being surrounded by people, found an opportunity to slip away to the movie screening room.

The cinema's projectionist, Minoru Furuhashi, seemed to be a middle-aged man who took his work very seriously. Even though he knew that Jiang Hang might soon become the owner of this cinema, he was still very cautious, even somewhat impolite, in making Jiang Hang keep a certain distance from the projection equipment in the projection room.

However, compared to the discomfort of being surrounded by a group of girls, Jiang Hang felt that it was much easier to deal with people like this.

Jiang Hang could even imagine that after he slipped into the screening room, the group of waitresses were probably still discussing some "topics" about him.