The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

"The body of the deceased we saw today was hung from a beam to create the illusion of suicide. To pick up the body of an adult male and put him in a pre-prepared knot to make it look like suicide is no ordinary feat."

"In other words, the murderer must have needed a high enough place to support himself when he did all this, and this table was a good choice."

"Similarly, this table also reveals your biggest weakness."

He pointed to the barely noticeable footprints on the table: "You said these footprints were left when you were repairing the lights. Does that mean your hotel doesn't clean for months at a time?"

Fearing that the goodwill his hotel had worked so hard to build up would be instantly tarnished by Masao Jinbo, a high-probability criminal, Yoshiro Toda quickly explained to Jiang Hang, "Our hotel is extremely clean, and there will absolutely be no hygiene problems. You can rest assured about that. If there are footprints on this table, they must have been left by him in the last couple of days!"

At this point, Yoshio Toda seemed to realize that he could not save Masao Jinbo, so he decisively abandoned this long-time employee who had worked for him for several years.

However, he remained calm: this guy probably got the job at his hotel just for this briefcase.

If he hadn't kept the briefcase so carefully, and if no one else had known where it was, he probably would have been killed by Masao Jinbo and run away with the briefcase.

As for Jiang Hang, he wasn't interested in dwelling on this issue too much. After all, things had progressed to this point, and the suspect had already emerged: there might be Masao Jinbo's fingerprints on the lampshade, but Jiang Hang only glanced at it from afar and knew that the lamp, which no one could usually touch, probably hadn't been cleaned for a month or two. Even if fingerprints were left on it, the footprints on the table that were only a few days old were not so easy to explain either.

As long as Masao Jinbo cannot explain how the footprint appeared there, he is the prime suspect in this case.

By this point, Masao Jinbo was already sweating profusely.

He even blamed himself for speaking out of turn.

Originally, Jiang Hang had only slightly doubted his identity after ruling out the other employees as suspects.

However, his talkativeness may have drawn everyone's attention to him, and after gradually taking control of the situation in Jianghang, he unknowingly became the prime suspect in the case.

He doesn't even know how to explain himself to clear his name of suspicion.

Chapter 467: Chapter 463: The Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain

After realizing that everyone's eyes were on him, Masao Jinbo was already sweating profusely.

Even so, he still had no intention of confessing. In fact, the more dangerous the situation, the clearer his mind became.

Although things have come to this point, it is not a dead end.

After all, all Jiang Hang has said so far is just speculation, and cannot prove that he killed the man who died in the room, let alone prove that he also killed the long-haired man from five years ago.

Specifically, Jiang Hang currently lacks any "ironclad evidence" to prove that he is the murderer in these two cases.

Even if it was just a footprint, it only proves that he had entered the room in the past two days; it doesn't necessarily mean that he killed the person.

Masao Jinbo's mind raced. His previous self-righteous actions had increased others' suspicions of him, but that was all they had to do with it.

Without evidence, even if the police take him back for questioning, they can only detain him for a few days at most if they can't produce any evidence.

"As long as I refuse to admit it to the death, they can't do anything to me," Jinbo Masao thought to himself.

"I was hoping to use these detectives to find out what that despicable guy meant by leaving behind this newspaper, but now it seems I have no choice but to give up on this matter," Masao Jinbo thought to himself.

Despite having killed two people in an attempt to keep the money for himself, he still couldn't get what he wanted. Now, for the sake of his freedom, it seems he has no choice but to give up for now.

Moreover, at least he now has a clue. As long as others can't figure out the answer, he will still have a sliver of a chance after escaping this crisis!

Masao Jinbo spread his hands toward Jiang Hang, still indicating that he did not kill anyone and that the footprint was probably just an accident.

"I genuinely had never met any of the guests in this room before today, and I knew absolutely nothing about the long-haired man from five years ago. I suspect that this is a frame-up attempt by the real murderer. If you don't believe me, then there's nothing I can do!"

Seeing the murderer still stubbornly denying his crimes, Jiang Hang rubbed his head and shook his head.

His verbal skills were indeed ineffective. He had already said so much, but the other party was still unwilling to admit their guilt and was still trying to put up a stubborn resistance.

If it were Conan, he might already be in the classic scene of crying, kneeling, and confessing his sins.

To be honest, this kind of resistance might be useful for ordinary people, but for Jiang Hang, it just adds a few more steps.

While the motive for the crime cannot be analyzed at the moment, evidence of the crime is arguably the easiest thing to find in his eagle eyes.

Masao Jinbo might have felt that while his methods left many problems, he had managed to conceal the identity of the deceased well, without revealing their communication.

This afternoon, Masao Jinbo killed the imposter Kogoro Mouri. He most likely took a cell phone from the imposter, then went to the women's bathroom to find some long hair to put in his briefcase to fool people. After that, to avoid suspicion, he worked in other places and didn't have much time to deal with the cell phone.

Therefore, the phone was either thrown into some corner where it wouldn't be easily discovered, or it's still in his room and hasn't been disposed of yet.

According to feedback from Altaïr, since their arrival, Masao Jinbo has not left the hotel except for the time he spent parking for Kogoro Mouri and his group.

In other words, if Masao Jinbo wanted to get rid of the phone, that period was his best opportunity.

But this isn't a bustling city center; it's a hotel near the forest, the only inhabited place in the vicinity.

If this were a city full of skyscrapers and electronic devices, even with eagle eyes, finding a cell phone would require a lot of effort. But in this forest, finding an abandoned cell phone among a pile of leaves and bushes would be a piece of cake for Jiang Hang.

Once we find that phone, everything will be solved.

And Jiang Hang did not spend too much time on this.

In less than fifteen minutes, Jiang Hang found a cell phone at the garbage dump behind the hotel parking lot.

The phone's lock screen password was exactly the same as the password on the deceased's other phone.

This phone just has a lot more contact options.

When Masao Jinbo saw that Jiang Hang had found the phone, his expression completely lost its luster.

That document contained the contact records between that guy and him, and everything he had just said was instantly overturned.

Faced with such irrefutable evidence, he finally lost all hope of turning the tables and could only honestly tell Shan Cuncao and Jiang Hang about his situation.

Five years ago, he and the long-haired man worked at a candy factory. By chance, they learned about some of the factory's shady dealings and secrets.

Using this leverage, they successfully extorted 100 million yen from the candy factory. However, because the candy factory eventually called the police, they had to change their identities and go into hiding. They didn't even dare to use the money casually, but instead let the long-haired man take the money and leave first.

They then agreed to meet in the vicinity and figure out how to get rid of the money.

According to Masao Jinbo, the long-haired man also wanted to keep the money for himself and even threatened him, so he had to kill the long-haired man. In the end, he found that the long-haired man did not bring the money with him, but had left a briefcase at the hotel earlier.

He believed that the long-haired man had put the money in the briefcase, and in order to find the briefcase, he had sneaked into the hotel and stayed there for more than four years.

But even after the long-haired man's body was discovered, he still couldn't find out the whereabouts of the briefcase from the hotel owner, Yoshiro Toda.

It was only when he overheard Yoshiro Toda planning to pay the famous detective Kogoro Mouri that he came up with this plan. He found someone who looked somewhat like Kogoro Mouri to impersonate him and steal the briefcase.

But he never expected that the briefcase contained not money at all, but just a newspaper from five years ago.

He couldn't understand any of the coded messages in the newspaper. Furthermore, the man impersonating Kogoro Mouri, seeing that he couldn't get the money, said a lot of nasty things to him and even said he would go to the real Kogoro Mouri to expose what he had done. Left with no other choice, he could only kill the man and then stage it as a suicide scene.

By stuffing hair into the newspaper, he wanted to create a cursed atmosphere at the suicide scene, making people connect this suicide case with the recently discovered long-haired corpse. If it became a rumor of a curse, that would be best; even if such a rumor didn't spread, it wouldn't arouse suspicion about him.

But who would have thought that Jiang Hang, the famous detective, had such a sharp eye? Not long after the imposter's body was discovered, Jiang Hang had already locked onto him, and the series of evidence he presented afterwards was too much for him to handle.

Masao Jinbo "honestly" recounted his psychological journey, but Jiang Hang couldn't help but shake his head when he heard the obvious attempt to exonerate himself in his words.

“You said you thought the long-haired man might not want to share the money with you, but if he really didn’t want to, he wouldn’t have come here to meet you in the first place.”

A look of disdain appeared on Jiang Hang's face.

"Meeting someone in this place, which was only recently rumored to be a suicide hotspot, probably means you were planning from the beginning to kill the man after getting the money and then keep it all for yourself."

"You just didn't expect that the long-haired man might have anticipated your actions, so he made preparations in advance and didn't bring the money with him. I guess he also told you that he put the money in this hotel."

"That's why you were so annoyed when you killed that man and came to the hotel to see the letter from him cursing you."

"If that's the case, then you probably never intended for this imposter Kogoro Mouri to live from the beginning, otherwise you wouldn't have prepared the props for his suicide in advance."

"But you still didn't expect that this time you would not only be tricked by the long-haired man from five years ago with this newspaper again, but also by this fake Kogoro Mouri with a cell phone. You found the cell phone on the other person, but you didn't expect that the other person had another cell phone on him. It was because that cell phone only had one person's contact information that I was able to confirm that the cell phone on this person's body must have been switched like the items on that corpse."

After Jiang Hang ruthlessly exposed him, Jinbo Masao's expression turned ferocious again. He had already confessed and tried to save some face, but Jiang Hang ruthlessly exposed him.

Even though there were many people around, he still wanted to rush to Jiang Hang's side and teach him a lesson.

Anyway, he has already killed two people. Even if he is not sentenced to death, he will probably spend most of his life in prison.

Rather than that, he might as well be even more unrestrained.

But clearly, he chose the wrong target again.

Jiang Hang has been proficient in Bajiquan for some time now, but he has never really found a chance to use it.

The arsonist who killed the man last time didn't get his chance, but this time he finally did.

Watching Masao Jinbo break free of Misao Yamamura's restraints with a ferocious expression, he lunged towards his position.

Jiang Hang bent his body slightly downwards, assuming a fighting stance, and faced Jinbo Masao head-on.

Even though Jinbo Masao had already killed two people, he should have been the one with the stronger killing intent. However, when he saw Jiang Hang facing him like a man-eating beast, he couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.

No matter what, he was still just a human being. Even if he killed many people, his murderous aura was still too weak in the face of wild beasts that relied on instinct to survive and had to hunt countless times in their lives.

From Yamamura Misao's perspective, he only felt that after Jiang Hang exposed Jinbo Masao's embarrassment, he angrily broke free from his grasp.

Then, just as Jinbo Masao lunged at Jiang Hang to attack him, Jiang Hang countered with an unusually fierce elbow to the shoulder and another punch to the chest, directly subduing the originally aggressive Jinbo Masao.

To be precise, the word "uniform" is too mild.

Because Masao Jinbo was knocked unconscious on the spot by Jiang Hang's punch.

Seeing that Masao Jinbo had completely lost his ability to fight, Jiang Hang put away his fists and gained a preliminary understanding of the fighting power of this Bajiquan style from Master Li on the next moon.

The essence of Bajiquan, which is also Li Shuwen's strongest technique, Fierce Tiger Climbing the Mountain, should originally involve two punches and one elbow. However, when facing an enemy of this level, he had already tried to restrain the force of the punch and elbow and did not aim at the opponent's head or chest.

Even so, the guy should have broken one or two ribs by now. If that last punch really lands, he'll probably be killed on the spot by Jiang Hang's one move.

"Although his combat power is strong, he uses too much force. It's clear that he can't be used as a regular tactic," Jiang Hang couldn't help but sigh to himself.

Looking at the entire Conan universe, probably only Makoto Kyogoku, with the highest combat power, could relatively smoothly block the first two blows of this fierce tiger climbing the mountain. Even Shuichi Akai and Tooru Amuro, two formidable figures, would probably have a hard time withstanding it.

But even for Makoto Kyogoku, it probably wouldn't be easy to withstand that final punch from the tiger climbing the mountain.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Hang's newly learned Bajiquan can indeed be considered a dragon-slaying technique that is not very useful in this world.

"Under normal circumstances, ordinary fighting techniques are perfectly sufficient. Let's keep Bajiquan as a trump card. Otherwise, every time I use it, I'll have to kneel down in front of those suspects and beg them not to die in front of me."

Jiang Hang muttered to himself as he quickly went to the side of the unconscious Jinbo Masao to check on his condition.

After taking that punch and elbow, the other person will probably have to stay in the hospital for half a month.

Of course, Jiang Hang is a man of great martial virtue. Since he was the one who caused this, he is certainly willing to pay the medical expenses.

At worst, we can just take one percent of the reward from this commissioned task.

As for Masao Jinbo, he might have to thank him too.

Because for at least the next two weeks he can enjoy high-level patient treatment in the hospital.

Once his injuries have healed somewhat, he will have to undergo police interrogation and detention. For a long time to come, he probably won't be able to enjoy a more comfortable life than these two weeks in the hospital.