The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

"That person has already taken the bag." After confirming that he hadn't misread it, the plainclothes officer near Gate 18 quickly relayed this crucial information to Inspector Megure. "He's definitely not with anyone else. Inspector, should we make our move now?"

Inspector Megure didn't hesitate. They had already prepared their ambush, and even if it was just one person, they would still make their move. Perhaps after subduing this criminal, they could learn the identities of the other criminals from him?

With that in mind, Inspector Megure made a decisive judgment: "Let's do it! Grab him before he can react!"

Almost the instant Inspector Megure gave the order, four plainclothes police officers who had been lying in wait rushed forward and blocked the bag-carrying robber's movement route from four angles.

Before the assailant could react, Miwako Sato swiftly and cleanly tackled him from behind, pinning him to the ground.

After the assailant lost his balance, she skillfully used grappling techniques to lock his hands and neck, leaving him lying on the ground with no room to exert any force.

When Inspector Megure saw the criminal being subdued, he jogged over from a distance, loudly directing his men to find the guns on the criminal's body.

However, after quickly searching the assailant's body, the well-trained officers found no trace of a firearm.

"No, no handgun?" The officer who had been searching the suspect looked at him suspiciously. "Where did you hide the handgun? Tell me!"

To everyone's surprise, even though the criminal was now completely under control, he showed no sign of panic on his face, as if he had already anticipated that the police might appear.

Immediately afterwards, a somewhat muffled voice came from the restrained hands of the thug.

"Don't touch my companion again! Let him go right now, or I'll start shooting all the spectators!"

It was only then that Miwako Sato noticed that the assailant she had subdued was holding a hands-free cell phone in his hands.

Clearly, the perpetrator maintained a phone call with the police while collecting the money, and whenever he spotted any trace of the police, his accomplices inside the stadium would threaten to shoot spectators to blackmail them.

Despite being threatened by the assailant on the other end of the phone, Sato Miwako hesitated for only a moment before letting go of the assailant.

The thug, who had been briefly subdued, slowly rubbed the painful areas on the ground for a while before slowly standing up.

Although the sunglasses and mask prevented them from seeing the assailant's expression, they could imagine that he must have had a disgustingly smug look on his face.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone, another thug expressed his dissatisfaction with the TV station in a sarcastic tone: "So the TV station did call the police after all. They really didn't take my warning to heart at all."

"In that case, do you want me to kill someone in front of you as a gesture of respect?"

"It's a pity it's halftime now, and all the players are in the locker room. Otherwise, if I shot and killed their favorite player in front of the fans, I'd definitely make the headlines in tomorrow's papers, right?"

Hearing the increasingly intense threat coming from the other end of the phone, Inspector Megure gritted his teeth, took a few steps back, and whispered into the walkie-talkie, trying to find out if the plainclothes officers in the room had identified the target among the suspects.

The information transmitted back from the other end of the walkie-talkie gave Inspector Megure a headache.

The suspects they had painstakingly identified were not making any phone calls, indicating that they had failed to identify the other perpetrator at all.

"Damn it, where are this guy's accomplices hiding..." Inspector Megure gritted his teeth. So many police officers were deployed, and the most cumbersome method was used to patrol the entire stadium. In the end, it was still useless?

On the other end of the phone, the criminal talked for a long time, and finally probably realized that he could only guarantee the safety of himself and his accomplices if he didn't fire his gun.

If he actually fired, it might actually dispel the police's concerns and force them to take drastic measures against him and his accomplices.

So after threatening and disgusting the police over the phone, he continued to arrogantly present his conditions to the surrounding officers.

"However, I am a kind person, and I have decided to give you a chance to make amends."

“Since Nichiri TV broke our agreement first, we originally only wanted to take 50 million and leave, but now, 50 million is not enough.”

Seemingly pondering how much money he should ask for, after a pause, the person on the other end of the phone uttered a familiar number.

"One billion yen, as an apology, Nichibukai TV will offer one billion yen as compensation. There are still ten minutes left before halftime, and if we include stoppage time, there will be about an hour left in the game."

"Before this match ends, keep the 1 billion yen here at Gate 18. If I don't see the money by then, I will kill a spectator and then tell the newspaper that an innocent citizen died because the higher-ups at Nichiuri TV refused to pay."

One billion yen—that's the amount of money Akemi Miyano stole from the bank when she robbed it.

This amount of money is certainly substantial—in fact, it's enough for Gin, the distillery's most hardworking employee, to make an appearance more than ten times over.

The money is still kept at Professor Agasa's house. Conan and Professor Agasa certainly won't touch it, Jiang Hang has no interest in it, and Shiho Miyano and Akemi Miyano wouldn't have any designs on the embezzled funds. Therefore, the 1 billion yen is intended to be returned to the bank privately after everything has settled down.

"Oh right, there's one more thing I almost forgot. You must have planted quite a few plainclothes police officers in the audience area, right? I saw their actions clearly. If you don't want to provoke me, you'd better make them leave as soon as possible."

Seemingly to prove he wasn't joking, the criminal on the other end of the phone immediately started talking about the plainclothes police officer he had spotted.

"First, there's the man smoking in the left aisle of the main stands, then there's the woman in the second row below the central aisle who's covering her eyes with a newspaper and looking around, and then there are two men leaning against the armrest on the upper right side of the stands. I think I'm right, they're all police officers."

"Heh...it seems I've left you speechless. Now, let my accomplice take the money and leave. You are not allowed to follow him. If I find out from my accomplice's phone call that you are following him, I will shoot the people in the arena directly."

Listening to the words of the thug in the stadium, the thug holding the bag looked at the group of police officers around him who had apprehensive expressions on their faces and couldn't help but smugly hummed. Then he straightened his clothes and swaggered out of the stadium in front of the group of police officers.

He even turned around halfway through his journey and provoked the police, as if to say, "Are you really not going to arrest me? If you don't, I'm leaving."

This kind of unpunchable action made Officer Mumu's teeth itch when he saw it. If he wasn't afraid of the gangster in the arena getting angry, he really wanted to punch the man in front of him right now.

Even a good-natured person like Inspector Megure couldn't stand it, let alone the straightforward Miwako Sato.

Watching the thug she had so easily subdued now leave so brazenly, her eyes seemed to burn with fury.

Then, just as the assailant stopped for the second time, standing at the very edge of the stadium exit and continuing to provoke the police, the phone in his hand suddenly emitted a series of noisy sounds.

The thug's heart skipped a beat, but he only relaxed again when the familiar, dull sound returned after the noise subsided.

"You haven't gone far, have you? I just remembered something about the 1 billion yen. I need to give those police officers a good reminder."

Listening to his accomplice's words, the criminal didn't think much of it. He was almost completely out of the police's encirclement when he took a few steps back with his phone in his hand and casually placed it in front of Inspector Megure, who was clearly in charge.

"What else do you want?" Suppressing his dissatisfaction, Inspector Megure asked the assailant on the other end of the phone in a deep voice.

"The person speaking is Inspector Megure, right?" On the other end of the phone, the thug seemed to recognize Inspector Megure's voice, which not only surprised Inspector Megure but also stunned the thug holding the phone.

What's going on here? This wasn't mentioned when the extortion plan was discussed. Didn't that guy only have a conflict with Nichiuri TV? How did he suddenly get involved with a policeman?

“I am Inspector Megure. If you have any further requests, I can make a decision directly.”

However, the next sentence spoken by the "criminal" on the other end of the phone caught everyone present off guard.

"In that case...then you should arrest my accomplices first."

The thug holding the phone was dumbfounded. He had barely received the money when he was about to be double-crossed without any warning.

However, Miwako Sato, who was standing to the side, didn't care about any of that.

Upon hearing the thug's "demand" on the other end of the phone, she didn't hesitate and immediately replicated how she had subdued him in front of everyone.

After the thug was subdued again, he started cursing into the phone: "What the hell do you want, you bastard? Even if you want to keep all the money for yourself, this is no joke! I'm going to expose everything you've done and see if you can leave here with the money!"

The next moment, a voice unfamiliar to him came from the other end of the phone: "It seems you've got that thug under control, Inspector Megure. I'm on the track right in front of the stands, so I should be pretty conspicuous if you look closely. I've taken care of the thug. Before the second half starts, send a few guys over to take him away."

The voice was unfamiliar to the criminals, but it was all too familiar to Inspector Megure and his fellow police officers.

"Brother Jiang Hang, as expected, we still need you at crucial moments. You've really helped us a lot this time. I'll call someone over right now!" Inspector Megure said, while letting out a heavy sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Jiang Hang, the Metropolitan Police Department consultant who had everything under control, was there; otherwise, who knows how far this incident would have gone!

Chapter 400: Chapter 396: This time the criminals are even more heavyweight.

Standing at the edge of the track, he stayed by Jiang Hang's side the entire time.

First, they led him behind the prisoner, making him realize that the prisoner wasn't in the stands, but rather just a few meters away from the stadium, the focal point of the entire audience's view, yet even more inconspicuous, outside the stadium's running track, accessible only by staff.

After all, under normal circumstances, who would suspect that a photographer standing on the runway, wearing a headset, whose job is to use a camera to capture the highlights of the event, would extort a huge sum of money from his own company?

After that, it was entirely Jiang Hang's turn to shine.

According to Conan's plan, now that the identity of the culprit has been confirmed, all he needs to do is throw a tranquilizer dart at him to take him down.

But Jiang Hang didn't do that. After all, based on the current clues, no one could be sure that there wasn't a third criminal on the field besides the one who went to get the money and the one who was fiddling with the camera lens.

Therefore, after walking to the stands behind the photographer, he did not act immediately. Instead, he activated all his auxiliary skills, such as Assassin's Footsteps and Aura Concealment, and once again entered the "invisible" state in front of Conan, making him easy to overlook. He patiently observed the photographer's movements from behind.

With this almost surreal ability, not only the thug who arrogantly demanded more money from the police and Nichiri TV, but even Conan behind him had to keep a close eye on Jiang Hang, afraid that if he wasn't careful, he would lose Jiang Hang's whereabouts in the blink of an eye, just like he did in Kyoto not long ago.

It wasn't until he heard the thug threatening the police on the phone, and judged from the tone of his extortion that the thug didn't seem to have a third accomplice, that Jiang Hang quietly attacked the thug in front of him while the thug at Gate 18 was about to openly run away with the money. He used a tranquilizer dart to send the thug a minimum of ten years in prison.

As for his subsequent use of voice-changing techniques to disguise the criminals' voices and lure their accomplices back into the police encirclement while the criminals were unconscious, there's nothing particularly noteworthy about that. This kind of trick has already been used countless times by the two masters of disguise, Kaito Kid and Vermouth.

Hopefully, the criminal who was ripped off will learn a lesson and, if he wants to continue in this industry after being released from prison more than ten years later, he will learn from this experience and not make the same mistake again.

After dealing with the photographer and taking a pistol and three or four magazines full of bullets from him, Jiang Hang quickly recalled the truth behind the crime committed by the criminal.

Jiang Hang originally thought that this thug had worked for Nichibumi TV for many years and then suddenly decided to extort money from his company, which is why he did this.

But as the past of the thug flashed before his eyes, Jiang Hang realized that the thug's past and motives were far more outrageous than he had imagined.

It turns out that this criminal had only joined Nichiri TV a year ago.

Before this, he was actually a convicted robber who planned to rob a bank, make a fortune, and then live a carefree life abroad.

What's even more outrageous is that this guy had been planning to rob the bank for three whole years. In addition to his accomplices who were with him this time, he also dragged his ex-girlfriend into the plan.

It took three years and countless plans to finally complete the robbery, during which he spent all his savings on buying firearms and devising escape strategies.

However, plans can change. On the very day they decided to carry out their robbery, they happened to run into an event held by the bank that Nichiuri TV station had planned to rob. The event featured many popular celebrities, attracting the attention of a large number of passersby and ultimately causing their robbery plan to fall through.

Because of this unexpected incident, his ex-girlfriend lost her confidence in robbing the bank. Not only did she back down first, but she also committed suicide due to excessive anxiety in the following months.

From that moment on, the thug harbored a deep grudge against Nichiri TV.

In order to get revenge on Nichiri TV, he went through many hardships to get a job as a cameraman at the TV station, and then continued to instigate his accomplices to carry out their revenge plan against Nichiri TV.

Originally, the planning stage of this project might have lasted for several more years before it could be implemented. However, the murder case at the TV station recently, while generating a lot of discussion at the time, also brought a lot of criticism to the station's executives.

Ultimately, he decided to speed up the plan and then chose this football match.

The 50 million yen wasn't actually that important in their plan. If the TV station hadn't reported it to the police, they would have taken the 50 million yen and then continued to look for opportunities to extort money from Nichiri TV, using this method to repeatedly torment the executives of Nichiri TV.

If the TV station calls the police, that's exactly what they want. They'll demand an exorbitant sum from the TV station and the police—enough to cover their expenses for the rest of their lives—and then, before the competition ends, quietly kill someone and leave Japan using the escape plan they devised a year ago before the police can react.

When Jiang Hang's vision returned to this point, his inner吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical comments) could no longer be contained.

Do you guys need three years to plan a bank robbery? Akemi Miyano only needs a quarter at most to find partners and carry out her plan.

You guys, on the other hand, prepared for three years, made all the necessary arrangements, even staked everything on it, and were all ready to open champagne on the plane to go abroad, but in the end, you didn't even confirm the schedule with the bank before you took action.

Moreover, they had been preparing for three years and everything was going well, but a bank event disrupted their plans, causing them to back down and even commit suicide, leaving Jiang Hang completely bewildered.

If you have such a bad mentality, you shouldn't be robbing banks. Robbing a bank is a life-threatening act. The fact that you failed once and didn't get caught is enough to make those bank robbers in jail cry foul.

Detective Conan has been serialized for so many years, and there have been quite a few bank robbers in it, but only this one is so bizarre.

The fact that this man blamed everything on Nichiri TV after his ex-girlfriend's death, and even went so far as to learn photography techniques to successfully get a job at Nichiri TV, is even more significant.

People usually take down a tiger with a sliding tackle when they're extremely angry, but you, in a fit of rage, spent several months teaching yourself photography skills to get a job as a cameraman at the TV station, all to get revenge on Nichiuri TV. And in just a few months, you're already in charge of filming high-profile games.

If you have this ability, why do you spend all your time thinking about robbing banks to make quick money?

After reviewing the criminal's past, Jiang Hang felt that among all the cases he had solved this year, this criminal's motive was the most intriguing.