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However, the most important information concerns the two earliest suicide cases from three years ago, namely the reasons why Takeda Shinichi's daughter, Takeda Misa, and his wife, Takeda Kinuyo, committed suicide back then.

According to the maid, she and Misa Takeda were friends for many years, and she was introduced to work here by Misa Takeda.

In the period leading up to Misa Takeda's suicide, Shinichi Takeda returned home one day and became very angry with Kinuyo Takeda. When Misa tried to stop him, Shinichi pushed her aside forcefully, almost disfiguring her.

After that, the originally cheerful Misa Takeda became depressed and even quit her job, staying in her room all day and refusing to go out. After a few months, Misa Takeda suddenly chose to commit suicide one day, and Kinuyo Takeda made the same choice.

In the maid's opinion, the reason why Shinichi Takeda and Kinuyo Takeda had a quarrel was probably the trigger that led to their suicide. However, Shinichi Takeda never mentioned that quarrel, so naturally no one knew what happened that day.

The only thing the other person remembered was that when Shinichi Takeda got home that day, he yelled at his wife, "You've been lying to me for so many years!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hang's gaze sharpened.

This development sounds so absurd!

Even if a married couple who have been married for decades argue and bring up old grievances, they shouldn't make such a big fuss.

Judging from Shinichi Takeda's reaction back then, if this argument really was the reason for the two people's suicide, then it is obvious that Shinichi Takeda's wife, Kinuyo Takeda, did something to betray him. To make it even more dramatic, it is possible that Shinichi Takeda's daughter, Misa Takeda, whom he raised for more than 20 years, was not his biological daughter.

That's why Shinichi Takeda showed such anger after learning the "truth," and even treated Misa Takeda, who came to mediate, so roughly.

After learning about her "origins," Misa Takeda became depressed and eventually chose to end her life. Kinuyo Takeda, after witnessing her daughter's suicide, also felt ashamed to continue living and chose to leave with her daughter.

After this analysis, it seems quite likely.

Jiang Hang looked at Shizuka Sakaki and shared his thoughts.

"First, let's confirm if my guess is correct. I think Shinichi Takeda probably went to the hospital for a paternity test to find out about this news. If we could find a way to get his file from the hospital, that would be great."

Jiang Hang said this, and then touched his chin.

If we could find this paternity test, everything that happened in the Takeda family three years ago would be explained: Why did Takeda Misa and Takeda Kinuyo commit suicide? And why didn't Takeda Shinichi hire a detective back then?

But this raises another question—is there any connection between the two suicide cases three years ago and the recent suicide case at Spider Mansion?

The person who committed suicide at the Spider Mansion this time was a business partner who had been doing business with the Takeda family for many years.

If the two are not connected, then why would the other person deliberately choose to commit suicide in the Spider Mansion?

If the two are indeed connected, what is that connection?

Could it be that after a few years, Shinichi Takeda finally realized that the person who had betrayed him was actually his business partner, and so he couldn't help but get rid of the person who had betrayed him?

But the police there have already confirmed it as a suicide case. Shinichi Takeda doesn't need him, the detective, to go and prove his innocence. What motive would he have for doing this?

From this perspective, there are still many doubts surrounding this case.

It seems that becoming an armchair detective is not an easy task. To understand the full picture of this case, he will probably have to go to the scene in person.

Chapter 424: Chapter 420: Hacking Techniques

Because Jiang Hang wasn't the only one who received the letter of commission; Hattori Heiji, who was far away in Osaka, was also keeping an eye on the development of this commission.

Although he had just made some harsh remarks to Jiang Hang not long ago and now had no desire to meet with Jiang Hang, this did not prevent him from sharing the information they possessed through communication with Kazuha and Shizuka Sakaki.

It has to be said that Heiji Hattori's family background is what it is. To be honest, although Shinichi Kudo's parents were a big star and a world-renowned mystery writer, Yusaku Kudo and his wife no longer live in Japan, so they can't get a lot of information right away.

Heiji Hattori, on the other hand, was different. His father's subordinates had treated him like one of their own since he was a child, and they gave him their full support when he chose to become a detective.

There are many things that ordinary people cannot investigate, but Heiji Hattori can basically get his hands on those documents and materials as long as he is willing to ask his father's subordinates for help.

Of course, as Hattori Heiji grew up, he rarely sought help from his father's subordinates anymore, but this request was indeed an exception.

The two suicide cases three years ago, the third suicide case recently, and the client's evasive attitude all indicate that this case is probably not ordinary. If he just leaves it alone, who knows if more deaths will occur.

Moreover, he had been holding his breath, wanting to prove himself to Jiang Hang.

Especially after receiving a call from Jiang Hang, who asked him to help investigate the hospital that Shinichi Takeda had visited a few years ago, and if possible, to find out about the other party's family situation.

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's request, Hattori Heiji reacted just as quickly, almost instantly figuring out what might have been the cause of the two suicides that occurred three years ago.

Hattori Heiji immediately agreed. This was the first time Jiang Hang had taken the initiative to ask him for help, and the matter was indeed quite urgent. If he could figure this out before heading to the Spider Mansion, many things would probably become much easier once they arrived.

"Since you've called directly, let me confirm one more thing with you. The letter of authorization you received clearly states the name of the client as 'Shinichi Takeda,' right?" After finishing the business, Heiji Hattori suddenly brought up the differences between the letters of authorization they received.

Two letters of entrustment, each containing money, fell into the hands of Jiang Hang and Hattori Heiji almost one after the other, and both letters were destined for the Spider Mansion in Tottori Prefecture.

However, the letter of authorization that Jiang Hang received had a proper signature, and the content of the letter was more in the tone of discussion and invitation.

The letter of commission that Hattori Heiji received was not only unsigned, but also carried a threatening tone: "Please arrive at the Takeda family at Puppet Peak before sunset next Saturday, or a new puppet will become bait for the spider."

This letter of authorization seems to suggest that the recent case at the Spider Mansion, which was defined as a suicide by the Tottori Prefectural Police, was actually orchestrated by this mysterious "client."

Judging from his words, if Hattori Heiji doesn't plan to go, then when the time comes, another so-called "suicide" case will occur in the Spider Mansion.

Jiang Hang on the other end of the phone shook his head slightly: "We don't have enough clues right now. Based on the clues we have so far, Takeda Shinichi is obviously the most suspicious person. But if it really is him, he wouldn't need to send you a letter of commission and then openly send me a commission invitation. I don't think he did that to provoke us. So it's very likely that these two letters of commission were sent by different people."

"I've thought about it for a while, but I haven't found a suitable candidate. There must be some important information hidden in this case that we don't know yet. Only by discovering this key information can we proceed to the next step of our judgment."

After a brief discussion with Hattori Heiji, Jiang Hang hung up the phone and scratched his head.

Being an armchair detective is indeed not so easy. He has basically done everything he could in Tokyo. The rest depends on the efforts of Hattori Heiji, the second-in-command, to see if he can find any key information before Saturday.

At the same time, Jiang Hang seriously began to think about whether he should work overtime to add a hacker skill to his character panel.

If he had hacking skills, he wouldn't need to call Heiji Hattori; he could simply find a way to hack into the hospital systems of those hospitals in Tottori Prefecture and investigate Shinichi Takeda's affairs there.

If he could achieve the level of technology shown in the Watch Dogs series, then his intelligence gathering capabilities would truly be completely flawless.

In addition, Animus's technological updates also rely on the support of hacking skills. Jiang Hang is currently just operating the machine by following the manual provided by the system administrator. However, simply reading the manual is enough to make it usable. To fully unleash its capabilities, hacking and computer skills are naturally indispensable.

Moreover, among the people he knows now, there aren't many who have hacking skills.

Shiho Miyano knows a lot, but she's not exactly a top-tier expert. She's probably just someone who's studied computer technology for a few years and has some knowledge of programming and hacking.

To be honest, Dr. Agasa's computer skills can only be considered that of a half-hacker.

Conan... although he seems to know a little bit about everything, ultimately his skills are mostly used to assist in deduction, and his hacking skills are probably similar.

Thinking about it this way, the person he knew who was most skilled in hacking was actually that guy, Kaito Kid, whom he hadn't heard from for a while.

However, since the other party had previously helped him rescue Shiho Miyano from the brewery, he hadn't expressed any gratitude to them. It wouldn't be appropriate for him to go and ask them for help investigating another case now.

After much thought, Jiang Hang decided that rather than troubling others, he should take matters into his own hands. His combat skills were already almost overflowing, and even if he displayed great strength, it probably wouldn't be enough to shock Conan and Heiji Hattori. It was time to use some technical skills to bolster his image.

Chapter 425: Chapter 421: Jiang Hang's Hacking Skills

Although Jiang Hang has not yet met Makoto Kyogoku, the peak of combat power in the world of Detective Conan, he has not seen anyone who can compare with him in terms of combat strength since his fighting skills reached the advanced level and his assassin bloodline was upgraded to the intermediate level, which also greatly enhanced his physique.

After he acquired Bajiquan from the neighboring Moon Studio, even Makoto Kyogoku would obviously be no match for him.

However, in the Detective Conan universe, physical strength is generally only useful in theatrical films; it's not really that useful in regular cases.

Therefore, having already mastered sufficient combat skills, Jiang Hang naturally wanted to develop in the direction of technical expertise in order to facilitate solving cases.

However, with the system constantly feeding him various combat and assassination skills, if he wants to switch to a technical playstyle, he can only rely on himself to slowly grind through the learning space bit by bit.

Jiang Hang had actually been learning hacking skills on his own since the learning space first opened, but his progress was rather slow.

Fortunately, Jiang Hang is not trying to hack into any important database. He just wants to access a hospital's database to investigate a patient's examination report. A hospital in Tottori Prefecture obviously wouldn't use a very advanced operating system, so it's not too difficult for Jiang Hang.

Even though Jiang Hang hasn't added hacking skills to his skill panel yet, as long as he spends a few nights studying and practicing in this area in his learning space, he'll be ready to give it a try.

Just to be on the safe side, Jiang Hang also specifically invited Shiho Miyano to come along.

However, Shiho Miyano couldn't help but look at Jiang Hang with a somewhat suspicious gaze after learning about his plans.

She knew about Jiang Hang's combat skills and crime-solving abilities, but she had never heard of him being a skilled hacker before.

After being rescued by Jiang Hang and his group, Shiho Miyano asked her sister about the clues they used to find her location.

According to Akemi Miyano, she accidentally included an APTX4869 memory card in a letter she sent to her sister. Dr. Agasa cracked the key clue of the memory card's password, "White Dove," which allowed them to gradually unravel the mystery and find her location.

Looking back on this period, Shiho Miyano can't help but marvel at the reasoning abilities and action of Jiang Hang and Conan.

However, according to her sister's explanation, she remembered that after Jiang Hang got the memory card from her sister, he didn't crack the memory card password himself, but went to Professor Agasa for help.

If Jiang Hang had possessed this skill, he wouldn't have needed to seek help from Professor Agasa at that time.

In other words, Jianghang probably didn't have this technology at that time.

It hasn't been that long, and I haven't heard of Jiang Hang researching this stuff during this time. How come he can suddenly show off his hacking skills in front of her now?

When she learned that Jiang Hang had only recently started learning and mastering this skill, Shiho Miyano didn't think much of it.

Having known Jiang Hang for a few months, I know that although Jiang Hang sometimes likes to act like an expert in front of others, he still doesn't joke around when it comes to serious matters.

"But you still don't know where Shinichi Takeda found out that his daughter wasn't his biological child, right? Are you going to check every single hospital in Tottori Prefecture?" Shiho Miyano looked at Jiang Hang with some suspicion, feeling that he wanted her to be his errand boy.

Moreover, if the hospital doesn't use these methods and still relies on old-fashioned paper documents to store patient information, they might spend a lot of time only to find nothing in the end.

Hearing Shiho Miyano's doubts, Jiang Hang shook his head: "The scope is not large. In fact, there is only this one hospital that we really need to investigate."

Jiang Hang opened the website of a public hospital in Tottori Prefecture and explained to Shiho Miyano: "Hattori's identity is still very useful. He used the resources of the Osaka police to quickly find the hospital where Ms. Misa Takeda, who committed suicide three years ago, was born. And this hospital happens to be the one where Ms. Takeda worked after she grew up. If we can't find anything in this hospital, we probably can't find anything anywhere else."

After listening to Jiang Hang's explanation, Shiho Miyano nodded slightly. In fact, this kind of work was not difficult, but she really wanted to see how good Jiang Hang's hacking skills were after practicing in private. So she nodded silently and watched Jiang Hang's operation from the side.

To be honest, Jiang Hang had done a lot of preparation these past few nights for today's practical exercise, such as finding server vulnerabilities, network packet capture, remote intrusion, and a series of other high-level operations, which he has now mastered.

Jiang Hang had made a lot of preparations, even creating several layers of disguise and stepping stones for his IP address to avoid being discovered.

As a result, nearly half an hour was spent on preliminary preparations, leaving Shiho Miyano, who was sitting on the sidelines watching, completely stunned.

Finally, when it came to the actual combat, before Jiang Hang could even put his advanced techniques to use, a brute-force cracking software that he had casually cobbled together while practicing easily granted him access to the hospital's database.

When the brute-force cracking software indicated that the crack was successful, Jiang Hang was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Shiho Miyano next to him with some uncertainty.

Shiho Miyano gave him a strange look: "I think I've confirmed it. You've really just learned your hacking skills. But I'm really curious about who taught you hacking. Didn't they tell you any of this basic stuff?"

In Shiho Miyano's eyes, Jiang Hang's previous series of preparations were indeed quite professional. Some professional hackers might not have been as meticulous as Jiang Hang in terms of his techniques for disguising IPs and finding stepping stones to avoid being tracked.

But using it on a regular public hospital operating system would be a huge waste of its potential. Judging from Jiang Hang's preparations, Shiho Miyano thought Jiang Hang was planning to hack into the Pentagon.

In reality, most "hackers" don't need such advanced operations in most cases. The most common DDoS attack method used by hackers in network attacks is simply a network version of the human wave tactic of using a large amount of traffic and data to attack the target server and paralyze it.

It seems simple and straightforward, but in reality, even the best hackers don't have a very good way to deal with DDoS attacks.

Of course, top hackers won't easily reveal their real IP addresses.

The operating system of the public hospital that Jiang Hang was planning to hack was not a high-end product, and the doctors who used it were not computer experts, nor would they care about the security issues of these public computers.

The doctors' work accounts, which they've used for years, may still be using the default login passwords from the beginning. Coupled with the numerous vulnerabilities in the servers themselves that no one has bothered to fix, there's no need to use any sophisticated techniques to crack these operating systems. Brute-force attacks are the simplest and most effective way to do so.

Jiang Hang was learning the most professional hacking course provided by the system in the learning space. Even though it was just a beginner's tutorial, the homework questions provided by the system were like elementary and middle school math olympiads: although they did not involve advanced mathematics, some of the questions were so tricky that even a university math professor might not be able to figure out how to solve them.