The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

However, no change in circumstances occurred.

After the clock struck the ground, there was absolutely no movement in the mansion.

The "real treasure" she was waiting for didn't appear even after several minutes.

Instead, a rhythmic knocking sound came from the restaurant door, drawing everyone's attention.

"It seems I've come back at the wrong time. Is everything already finished on your end?"

The one speaking was Mogi Harufumi, who had previously said he would find another way out of the mansion. He now had a cigarette in his mouth and was still wearing his top hat.

However, he involuntarily emitted a scent of Tiger Balm.

"Why are you back?" Ikumi Gunta asked him. "Did you find a way out of here?"

As she said this, she also smelled the scent of Tiger Balm on Haruto Mogi and frowned slightly.

"Of course not. I drove around this area for about an hour and a half, but I still couldn't find a way out." He patted his hat as he said this, but there was no embarrassment on his face at all.

He sat down in a chair nearby, quite relaxed, and then thanked Jiang Hang.

"The mosquito repellent you gave me is quite useful in the wild, saving me a lot of trouble. It's just that the smell is a bit too strong. If I use this stuff when I go back to the United States, I'm afraid that when I'm fighting those gangsters, the smell on my body will give me away before I even get close to my target."

Hearing what this guy said, Jiang Hang's lips twitched involuntarily.

What kind of life did Harufumi Mogi lead in the United States? Was it really just gunfights every day?

After expressing his views, Harufumi Mogi also learned the full extent of the current situation from Saguru Hakuba.

Looking at Senma Kazuyo, who was kneeling beside the pure gold clock, he couldn't help but say to her, "So it was you, old lady Senma, who invited me this time? It seems you guys were quite efficient while I was out scouting!"

A bitter smile flashed across Chima Kazuyo's face as she looked at the golden clock in her hand and sighed, "Ah... it's me. I've really done too many stupid things for this so-called 'treasure'."

"Treasure?" Harufumi Mogi looked at the clock in Kazuyo Senma's hand.

"You mean this silly-looking clock is a 'treasure'?"

As he said this, Harufumi Mogi couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Ha, how could this be a real treasure? This isn't the real 'Twilight Villa.' At most, it's just a new villa that was rebuilt by later generations in the style of the original Twilight Villa. The real 'Twilight Villa' probably disappeared from this world decades ago!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the gazes of the people present turned strange.

"What do you mean?" Due to her shock, Chima Kazuyo's speech became somewhat incoherent. She stood up, staring at herself, trying to understand what was going on from Mogi Harufumi.

Harufumi Mogi simply spread his hands out.

"The name of this mansion is 'Twilight Villa,' but didn't you notice that it's located on the eastern side of this mountain? Although you can see the sunset there, it's not as good as the other side in every way. So when I found out about this, I found it a bit strange."

"So I used the excuse of leaving to find other roads to run to the other side of the mountain. Although it was well covered up and there was almost no problem, I still found some traces of the road. I'm afraid that the road that brought us here was mysteriously changed here by someone."

"Although this is just my guess, it is basically certain that several decades ago, the exact time is unclear, but it seems to be more than twenty years, and at some point within half a century, the real Twilight Villa was completely destroyed. The house we are in now is just a 'fake' that perfectly replicates the Twilight Villa."

"It can't be called a 'fake,' since many things in this house are genuine. They were probably moved here from the original Twilight Villa by that person."

Harufumi Mogi clapped his hands and made a summary: "Although we don't know who that person is or why he did such a thing, if there really was some treasure, the person who did this decades ago would probably have already taken it and left."

He looked at everyone present. He originally thought that no matter what had happened before, or how much effort the other detectives had spent investigating the truth, as long as he gave this groundbreaking answer, he would definitely be the MVP of this gathering.

To his surprise, after he shared his discovery, everyone's gaze turned to Jiang Hang, who sat calmly to the side.

Chapter 294: Chapter 292: The Assassin System's Adaptability

Based on the combined information gathered by all the detectives present, the following conclusions can be drawn:

According to Senma Kazuyo's account, her father was invited by Karasuma Renya to the Twilight Villa forty years ago, six months before Karasuma Renya was declared dead, to search for the treasure his parents left him in the 19th century. However, several months later, her father was eventually killed by Karasuma Renya.

Then, it was discovered by Hakuba Saguru that the Pioneer Foundation completed the acquisition of Twilight Villa a year after Karasuma Renya's "death," and according to Jiang Hang's explanation, Twilight Villa had already been transferred by them twenty years ago.

Finally, it was Mogi Harufumi who went out for a stroll. He discovered that the real Twilight Villa had actually been destroyed decades ago, and almost all traces of the real Twilight Villa had been erased. The mansion they were in now was probably just a replica.

According to Harufumi Mogi, the real Twilight Villa was destroyed more than twenty years ago, but no more than half a century ago. So the question is: among the Karasuma family and the Pioneer Foundation, who exactly did this?

There are no fools among those present. On one side is the Karasuma family, which has been in decline since Karasuma Renya's death and even had to sell its assets to survive, and has now completely disappeared from everyone's sight. On the other side is the foundation that suddenly rose to prominence half a century ago, accumulating astonishing wealth in ways unimaginable to ordinary people, yet has always maintained a low profile.

Any normal person would probably think that the Pioneer Foundation found the "treasure" of the Twilight Villa, but for some special reason did not want to publicize it, so they simply built another "Twilight Villa" near the original one to cover their tracks.

Feeling the gazes of everyone present, including his assistant Yoshino Kiharu, Jiang Hang started mentally spamming his own system.

"So, you actually demolished Twilight Villa decades ago, took all the gold, and then rebuilt a new 'Twilight Villa' to prevent the world from changing?"

After a brief silence, the system finally gave this reply: "Congratulations to the host for successfully deducing the truth of this case. The mission rewards will be settled after the case is closed."

"Successful deduction my ass! At this point, who wouldn't figure out the truth? This damn system of yours is too cunning! I asked you a question and you only gave me a few words. If you had told me about this earlier, I wouldn't have come to this gathering at all!"

He had previously asked his system if the Twilight Mansion was an asset under his name, and the system hadn't lied to him. But who would have thought that the mansion was actually rebuilt by the Pioneer Foundation itself, and that they had even transferred it back to another company? In the process, they not only took away the original gold from the mansion, but they might have also inflated the price of the Twilight Mansion, and incidentally ripped off those buyers who came for the "treasure" title.

Even now, it has still managed to ruin its host.

Jiang Hang originally came here just to see the sight of the hundred tons of gold, but who would have thought it would turn out like this?

"You're truly a genius system," Jiang Hang couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Hearing Jiang Hang's "praise," the Assassin System also seemed quite innocent.

What can it do? This is all the work of that lousy "money plugin" in the system, and it was completely unaware of it!

A while ago, when it checked its system files, it found that its "operation log" had a lot of messy "interference timeline" records.

It only took a brief look and discovered that the plugins were interfering with timelines from three thousand years ago to five years into the future. Even it didn't know when it had granted those plugins such extensive permissions.

It spent most of its energy just dealing with these things to prevent the plugins it created from completely ruining the world.

It had no time to delve into the details of a small twilight villa. When Jiang Hang questioned it, it simply used its built-in search system to find out who owned the villa and then told Jiang Hang the answer. Who knew that so many troublesome things would follow!

But at this point, as a professional system, it certainly wouldn't admit to its own mistakes.

After some thought, the Assassin System quickly found a reason to cover up the matter.

"Please maintain respect for this system. All of this system's actions are intended to help you grow into an excellent assassin/detective more quickly. However, due to your laziness, you have not left Tokyo for the past three months since you came to this world."

"A detective who stays in one place can never become the world's top detective. With that in mind, this system has decided to issue a long-term challenge mission to the host."

"Every month, the host needs to leave Tokyo at least once to complete a case elsewhere. Every six months, the host needs to leave Japan once to complete a case. As long as the host can complete the task, he/she will receive a generous extra reward."

Upon hearing about the extra reward, Jiang Hang blinked: "Is this mission included?"

After receiving a positive response from the system, Jiang Hang nodded slightly: That's right. He just wanted his system to show some appreciation, and now the system gave him a reason that seemed to make some sense, and then created a new challenge for him.

Even though the atmosphere in the restaurant was a little awkward, the thought of getting a new reward made the slight embarrassment nothing.

With that thought in mind, his gaze returned to the restaurant.

In the awkward atmosphere, he coughed softly.

"Well... as I've already said before, I don't manage any affairs of the Foundation at all. I'm just a detective out of interest, and I've never heard of anything that happened before I was born."

"Now that the matter here has been resolved, I think everyone should wash up and go to bed early. We need to catch a helicopter tomorrow morning!"

Chapter 295: Chapter 293: Conan's Speculations and Speculation

Faced with a group of detectives who were quite interested in the true nature of the "treasure," Jiang Hang's reply was rather perfunctory.

But being the refined detectives they were, after Jiang Hang had said all that, they couldn't press him any further about what the "treasure" of the mansion really was.

Even Chika Kazuyo, after her plan was exposed, had no face to ask Jiang Hang about it.

However, Yoshino Kiharu was a little curious and secretly asked Jiang Hang about it, but all she got in return was a shrug from him.

He wouldn't mind telling Yuno Kiharu when they got back, but right now, facing a group of famous detectives, Jiang Hang was genuinely worried that Yuno Kiharu might not handle their questions well and leak some information.

Hundreds of tons of gold—just mentioning such a treasure would make many people faint with excitement. Although this group of famous detectives seems quite refined, apart from Ikumi Gunta, the former forensic pathologist, and Kogoro Mouri and his group, they almost all have their own stances.

Senma Kazuyo and Ogami Shuzen are both people whose minds have been clouded by the treasure. Senma Kazuyo has calmed down now and is doing a little better, but Ogami Shuzen, who slept soundly all night and completely missed everything, still wants to kill everyone and take the treasure for himself. If he finds out about this, who knows what extreme things he might do at that time.

Harufumi Mogi developed his career in Hollywood, and according to him, he frequently clashed with American gangs. He claimed that he was backed by either the FBI or Interpol.

Hakuba Saguru's father is the Superintendent General of the Japanese Police Department, one of the most powerful figures in the country. Given the involvement of billions of yen in gold, Hakuba Saguru would likely have told his father about it.

At least Jiang Hang was unwilling to let these people know the truth about the treasure. As for what they might think, that was their own business. As long as Jiang Hang himself didn't admit it, that was fine.

Just like Conan is right now staring at Jiang Hang with a suspicious look.

Conan had some suspicions that the Pioneer Foundation had already found the treasure.

Conan, who had dealt with Jiang Hang for several months, knew quite a bit about the Pioneer Foundation. Forty years ago, they almost bankrupted the newly established winery. If there really were rumors of a treasure at Twilight Mansion, then it was possible that the Pioneer Foundation, which had already made a lot of money from the Karasuma Group at that time, could directly use the money transferred from the Karasuma Group to purchase Twilight Mansion at a low price.

Before that, when he secretly asked Jiang Hang if he had guessed the answer to the riddle, Jiang Hang had already told him that he knew what the treasure of this mansion was.

Even the answer to the riddle that he was able to come up with later was only after Jiang Hang picked up a deck of cards in the lounge and even talked about the history of playing cards, which made him suddenly realize it.

In Conan's eyes, Jiang Hang's act of taking out the playing cards was definitely not a coincidence, but a deliberate act to remind him that the key to solving the riddle lay in the playing cards.

What troubled Conan was whether Jiang Hang knew about Senma Kazuyo and the others' purpose before he came here, and also knew the answer to the riddle.

If Jiang Hang only learned about the riddle after arriving here, and solved it in such a short time, then Conan would have to admit that Jiang Hang far surpassed him in the art of solving riddles.

Besides this, Conan also realized something else: more than 30 years ago, after the Pioneer Foundation acquired the original Twilight Mansion, in order to cover up the secret that the treasure had been discovered, they actually spent a lot of effort to recreate a new Twilight Mansion that was almost flawless.

If it were just an ordinary treasure, the Pioneer Foundation wouldn't have needed to take such action.

Therefore, there is only one possibility for this situation: if this so-called "treasure" is probably extremely valuable, and if he is not mistaken, the so-called treasure should be quite substantial, taking it would either leave an indisputable mark on the original villa, or he would simply destroy the villa. Otherwise, the Pioneer Foundation would not have gone to such great lengths to rebuild a Twilight Villa.

"Is it a large amount of precious metals?"

As Conan thought this, he couldn't help but look at the pure gold clock that was placed aside, encased in a thick outer shell, making it difficult to see what was inside.

Could it be that somewhere in the real Twilight Villa, there are tons or even more of gold hidden?

It must be said that Conan's guess was quite accurate, but it was still a bit too conservative.

The interior walls of the real Twilight Villa are inlaid with a layer of gold bricks. Although the figure given by the system is less than the two or three hundred tons that Jiang Hang had previously estimated, the gold hidden in a single Twilight Villa still exceeds one hundred and fifty tons.

Japan's official gold reserves are only 700 tons, and there are only about 30 countries in the world with gold reserves exceeding 100 tons. It can be said that the gold hidden in this Twilight Villa alone is enough to be compared with that of other countries.

Of course, this large amount of gold had already been secretly transferred out over the past few decades by the "tools" created by the system plugin, and no outsider would know about the whole process.

As things progressed to this point, even though it was late at night, the famous detectives who came to the gathering seemed to have no signs of fatigue, and would occasionally come over to test Jiang Hang.

Chika Kazuyo was implying to Jiang Hang that the treasure was the culprit that caused her to lose her father and was also her nightmare for so many years. Although she did not crave to obtain the treasure, she hoped to know what it was so that she could feel at ease.

Meanwhile, Mogi Harufumi somehow managed to get his hands on a few bottles of red wine. While drinking with Jiang Hang, he chatted idly about the cases he had encountered in the United States, seemingly still wanting to invite Jiang Hang to go to the United States with him to develop his career.

Even Ikumi Gunda seemed to be staring at Jiang Hang out of curiosity, making Jiang Hang feel a little uncomfortable.