The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Chapter 468: Chapter 464: The Rotting One Hundred Million Yen

Although Jiang Hang's attack was somewhat heavy-handed, the man he knocked unconscious, Masao Jinbo, was a serial killer who had already murdered two people. In the end, Jinbo only managed to break free from the clutches of police officer Misao Yamamura and attempt to attack Jiang Hang, which is why Jiang Hang swiftly and decisively subdued him.

Jiang Hang, after all, held the position of advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department, and he was not short of money. He directly covered Masao Jinbo's hospital expenses, so even if this matter reached the ears of the upper echelons of the Gunma Prefectural Police Department, it would not cause any ripples at all.

As long as Mrs. Jinboya is still alive and doesn't appear to be disabled, that's fine.

After the officers from the Gunma Police Station drove the unconscious Masao Jinbo to the hospital in a police car, Jiang Hang didn't even need to go to the police station with them. He just needed to stay in Gunma for the next few days and be able to get to the police station as soon as possible if anything happened.

This is the advantage that Jiang Hang's current identity as a famous detective brings him.

Jiang Hang is quite satisfied with this convenience.

As for Yamamura Misao, he gained a great deal of merit in his short police career because of Jiang Hang. Although it was a mistake to let Jinbo Masao break free from his grasp and attack Jiang Hang, overall, as a policeman, he successfully captured the murderer Jinbo Masao during a follow-up visit, so his merits definitely outweighed his mistakes.

However, Yamamura Misao still seemed to have some sense of shame; despite his dereliction of duty, he maintained his dejection for at least half an hour.

But once he regained some of his composure, the first thing he said to Jiang Hang made Jiang Hang almost lose his composure.

"Teacher Jiang Hang, can I become your apprentice and learn the kung fu you used to deal with that guy just now?"

Looking at Shan Cuncao's idol-like gaze, Jiang Hang suddenly felt a headache coming on.

He really didn't expect that Yamamura Tsao was actually a kung fu enthusiast.

According to him, he developed the idea of ​​becoming a policeman when he was a child after watching a crime drama starring Yukiko Fujimine.

In addition, he was born during the last golden age of Hong Kong kung fu and martial arts films. If those kung fu moves hadn't looked so exaggerated and surreal, he might be dreaming of becoming a martial arts actor now.

Having just witnessed Jiang Hang's boxing skills, even in a brief glimpse, Jiang Hang's strength displayed in that instant completely won him over. Now, all he wanted was to stay by Jiang Hang's side, build a good relationship with him, and see if he could learn anything from Jiang Hang.

Originally, Yamamura was supposed to go back with the other police officers from the police station, but because he wanted to get closer to Jiang Hang and build a good relationship, and because he had been forced to drink a lot of alcohol by Kogoro Mouri in the afternoon and was still not completely sober, he decided to stay at the hotel tonight and return to the police station to report for duty tomorrow morning.

For someone in his professional group, this kind of thing is nothing. As long as Yamamura Misao can continue to complete his work, he won't be in any trouble if he takes a short rest.

Jiang Hang was a little unaccustomed to Shan Cuncao's sudden attentiveness towards him.

"You probably used Bajiquan on that guy just now," Conan couldn't help but complain to Jiang Hang after finally getting rid of Yamamura's flattery. "I've heard that Bajiquan is one of the most ferocious martial arts styles in China. The Bajiquan master Li Shuwen from the last century even had the saying 'No two punches can be hit twice with a single punch.' I didn't quite believe it before, but now that I've seen how you just made your move, I'm starting to believe it."

"But when did you learn Bajiquan? I've never seen you use it before." Conan's judgment was still very accurate. Some of the fighting techniques Jiang Hang learned in the system space were assassin's fighting techniques, and some were free fighting techniques. They were indeed quite different in style from Bajiquan, which is a fast-paced and wide-open style of boxing.

"Actually, I've been practicing all along, but I was always at the beginner level before. To avoid embarrassing myself by using it, I didn't dare to use it. In the last few months, I've made some progress and can barely get to the beginner level, so I thought I could give it a try." Jiang Hang casually made up a story, then shook his head at Conan.

"However, the power of this fist technique is much higher than I thought. It seems that I won't be able to use this fist technique to fight people casually in the future, otherwise I might really kill someone if I'm not careful."

This kind of boxing technique is obviously not something that can be taught to just anyone.

In his previous life, there was a saying in Bajiquan: "One year of Bajiquan can kill a person." This refers to the fact that when people practice Bajiquan for the first year or two, they cannot yet control their movements freely and their attacks are not gentle or forceful enough. In actual combat, they are prone to losing control of their strength and causing death or injury.

Yamamura Misao, who doesn't seem very reliable, is even less suited to learning a martial art like Bajiquan.

Conan nodded in agreement. Although he hadn't practiced any martial arts, Ran and Kogoro Mouri were experts in karate and judo, respectively. Having been exposed to these skills since childhood, he could still discern quite a bit from them.

Jiang Hang had clearly held back at the last moment, but even so, Jinbo Masao was beaten to the point of being half-dead. If Jiang Hang hadn't held back, it wouldn't have been surprising if he had killed him with one blow.

This move is fine as a last resort, but using it as a regular method would be too risky and exciting.

"I don't want to see you get arrested by the police one day for killing someone while fighting back too hard," Conan reminded Jiang Hang at the end. "As for that village police officer, you can teach him some grappling techniques if you want. A policeman needs to have some fighting skills. I'm a little worried that if he encounters other cases, he might be used as a breakthrough by criminals."

That concludes our discussion of Bajiquan.

After finishing talking about Yamamura Misao and Bajiquan, Conan suddenly brought up another matter with Jiang Hang: "Oh right, there's one more thing, which is that newspaper in that briefcase."

Upon hearing Conan mention the newspaper, Jiang Hang's expression turned serious.

According to what Masao Jinbo said before he fell into a coma, that newspaper was indeed the code left by the long-haired man five years ago. If we can find a way to decipher the code, we can probably find out where the hidden 100 million yen is.

Unfortunately, Jiang Hang knew absolutely nothing about Japanese sumo culture, let alone what problems he could find in this newspaper that recorded sumo.

Moreover, Jiang Hang has always been accustomed to thinking in the worst possible way.

If this newspaper contains a code, that would be easy; we just need to figure out how to decipher it.

Anyway, he's a foreigner and doesn't understand these Japanese customs. He already said this from the beginning, so it's not surprising that he can't solve the mystery for a while.

But if this newspaper was also something the long-haired man deliberately placed there to annoy Masao Shinbo before he died, then their investigation would be completely stalled.

Jiang Hang had already mentioned this at the beginning, but judging from Conan's words now, he seems to still think that this code is not simply a way for the long-haired man to vent his dissatisfaction about reunion.

That's why Conan is now holding his breath, eager to reveal the code in front of Jiang Hang and find out where the hidden 100 million yen is.

"Have you found anything?" Although the police took the newspaper back to the police station as evidence, Jiang Hang still had the photo on his phone.

Jiang Hang looked at the newspaper again but still couldn't find anything useful.

"After eighteen years of rigorous training, Akagi Maru has emerged victorious in his first tournament... What secret code is hidden within this victory?"

Conan probably already had some ideas in mind, so he seemed much more relaxed: "I have an idea, let's go take a look now."

It was already night, and the sight of two people, one adult and one child, heading to the Head God Forest, a suicide hotspot, with some hoeing tools, all without notifying anyone else, seemed rather eerie and terrifying.

However, Jiang Hang and Conan hadn't really thought about such a thing at all; right now, they just wanted to find that 100 million yen as soon as possible.

As they walked along the road, Jiang Hang's expression grew increasingly serious as he watched them venture deeper into the forest.

In any case, the 100 million yen that the long-haired man extorted from the candy factory was in cash, and that 100 million yen has not circulated in the market to this day. In other words, the long-haired man had absolutely no chance to exchange the money for something of value and then hide it.

The most likely scenario is that he dug a hole and buried the 100 million yen, and then sealed it off for five years.

Five years is a very insignificant period of time for antique gold and will not have much impact on its value.

But paper money is different. Even with some simple insulation measures, it is still not an easy task to keep it safely in the ground for five years.

"I hope those banknotes don't all rot and get moldy. But if I do see that, I'll have to take a picture and go to the hospital. Then I'll personally show the picture to Masao Jinbo so he can see the result of all his years of hard work. In the end, all he got was a pile of useless pieces of paper."

This fact is obviously more entertaining than the fact that Jinbo Masao almost got the money.

Listening to Jiang Hang's deduction, Conan himself wasn't too sure either.

However, as a detective, what he needs to do is actually very simple: to find the truth based on the existing clues. As for what the final truth is, that's none of his business as a detective.

After a brief silence, Conan began to explain his reasoning to Jiang Hang.

To be honest, Conan's deductions aren't that complicated, and they don't actually have much to do with sumo wrestling. You just need to know a little about the rules of sumo wrestling.

Conan's reasoning is based on Akagi-maru's position in the team during the victory five years ago.

"It says here that Akagi-maru was ranked fiveth in the 'Eastern Army' in the sumo tournament, and he only lost once on the eighth day of the half-month-long tournament."

Conan talked about things that Jiang Hang didn't know much about, and then made his final deduction.

"In the Tou Shen Forest, when we came here this afternoon in Officer Yamamura's car, he mentioned a place called 'Front-down Ksitigarbha,' where a statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva lying on the ground is enshrined. I think that is the location indicated by the newspaper with the code."

At this point, Jiang Hang had a pretty good idea of ​​what the code was all about.

"So, Akagi Maru is one of the first five targets of the Eastern Army, and our destination is five steps to the left of the statue where the destination is located?"

Listening to Jiang Hang's explanation, Conan nodded and added: "Then the rankings in the newspapers are from the West Army down to the East Army. The winning games are hollow circles, and the losing games are solid circles. Only Akagi Maru lost only once in the half-month competition, on the eighth day."

"Judging from the direction, you should first walk five steps to the east, and then eight steps to the north. That's probably where the deceased buried the money."

After listening to Conan's description, Jiang Hang simply shook his head: "A person who felt he might be killed didn't think about leaving before he died. Instead, he actually left a code for someone to decipher the money he had hidden... I'm starting to doubt their original intention in extorting that candy factory after they did something like that."

After thinking it over, Jiang Hang could only come up with the phrase "You're so gentle" to describe this man, whose brain was probably also missing a screw.

When they finally arrived at the location of the fallen Jizo statue, Jiang Hang, without Conan's guidance, had already used his Hawkeye ability to find the place where the man had buried the money five years ago.

The burial site wasn't too deep; Jiang Hang dug out a porcelain jar from the ground in about twenty minutes with a hoe.

As Jiang Hang had anticipated, the outcome of this money was not ideal.

Even though the long-haired man used two layers of protection—a ceramic jar and a plastic bag—he probably never imagined that the money would have been buried underground for a full five years.

Over such a long period of time, in a humid environment without proper moisture-proofing measures, more than half of the 100 million yen in cash had rotted and become completely unusable.

Of the remaining small portion of banknotes that were not completely rotten, more than half need to be exchanged for new currency at the bank before they can be used again, while the others need to be dried in the sun for a day before they can be reused.

Jiang Hang did a rough calculation and concluded that of the 100 million yen, probably less than 20 million would be usable in the end.

For this money, Masao Jinbo killed two people. I wonder if he felt even a little bit of remorse after learning about it in the hospital.

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As for what to do with the money, it was naturally handed over to Yamamura Misao to take to the police station later.

One hundred million yen sounds like a lot, but the largest denomination of yen is ten thousand yen. One hundred million yen is actually only one hundred stacks, and it only weighs about ten kilograms, which Conan can easily lift.

As for Jiang Hang, he had already extracted over 80 million yen in mission rewards from the system just from this Samsung commission, and it was all completely legal income. This was much better than this bag of extortion money that was mostly rotten and difficult to sell.

Shan Cuncao had originally planned to make more of a good impression on Jiang Hang, but when he saw the bag of money Jiang Hang brought back, he knew that the money needed to be sent back to the police station as soon as possible. So he quickly called a few more policemen late at night to come and take the money back to the police station with him.

But the "I'll be back" look in his eyes as he left gave Jiang Hang a headache.

"I never expected that this village police officer would be such a die-hard kung fu fan," Mu Chun Yuno remarked beside Jiang Hang. She then tentatively asked Jiang Hang, "Actually, I grew up watching kung fu movies from Hong Kong. Could you teach me a little bit of your kung fu?"

In fact, Jiang Hang had been teaching Yoshino Kiharu and Shizuka Sakaki some simple and practical grappling and fighting techniques. After all, Jiang Hang had a cheat that could speed up their skill proficiency. He wouldn't say that they could reach the level of Ran or Miwako Sato in a short time, but it would be no problem for them to catch up with Takagi.

Jiang Hang treated his two assistants like disciples, teaching them as well. As long as they had the talent, he wouldn't be stingy with them.

However, Bajiquan, a powerful and fierce style of boxing where a single strike can result in death or serious injury, is indeed not suitable for two girls to learn.

If he manages to obtain Wing Chun, a martial art originally created by women, from the system again in the future, he could actually teach it to them.

"You should focus on building a solid foundation first. If you don't build a strong foundation in kung fu, you might never even get the basics down in your entire life." Jiang Hang offered Mu Chunyuno a rosy picture for now, but when it would actually come to fruition depended on how well the system worked.

After solving the case, Jiang Hang did not forget his real purpose for the trip: to investigate whether the hotel was colluding with suicide websites, and to take the opportunity to drive his AE86 down Mount Akina a few times.

For Jianghang now, this kind of intelligence gathering work couldn't be easier.

In the early hours of the morning, disguise yourself and sneak into the hotel owner's room. Bring them a colorless and odorless spray that can improve sleep quality. Finally, openly investigate their phone and computer browsing history in their room.

If it were Conan, he definitely wouldn't agree to use this method, but Jiang Hang never minded using such methods.

As long as he wasn't discovered, it's as if he never did it.

After some investigation, Jiang Hang did indeed discover some clues.

The boss's web browsing history did indeed show traces of suicide websites, and these websites appeared to be suicide websites specifically targeting Gunma residents.

This website is not much different from those other websites that Jiang Hang discovered before that skirted the edge of legality; they all ostensibly claim to be anti-suicide sites but actually do the opposite.

On the surface, Toushen Forest is recommended as a place for "tourism and relaxation," but if you look closely at the comments on these websites, you'll see that people intentionally steer the conversation towards the idea that "dying in such a beautiful place wouldn't be so bad."

However, although the hotel owner knew about these things, judging from his browsing and posting history, he did not actively incite people to commit suicide online. Most of the time, he simply remained silent and did not express any opinion.