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After figuring this out, Jiang Hang and Fujiwara Bunta exchanged a glance and nodded knowingly.

With Jiang Hang's reminder, Shan Cuncao, though somewhat unfamiliar with the procedures, still accurately issued various instructions to the police on site.

After that, the next step is to find other witnesses who may have seen the fleeing car in order to pinpoint the approximate direction in which it left.

Jiang Hang doesn't need to worry about these tasks. If the Japanese police can't even do a good job of searching, then all they'll probably have to do every day is hold press conferences to apologize to the entire Japanese public.

After chatting with Yamamura Misao for a while about the direction of the investigation and the criminal investigation approach, gradually guiding Yamamura Misao in the right direction, Jiang Hang was able to rest for a while, and also take Fujiwara Bunta to get dinner.

They originally set off in the afternoon, planning to get a massage and chat before having dinner. However, due to the case, it was already completely dark when they arrived at the hotel.

At the dinner table, the two of them tacitly avoided discussing the case they had just been dealing with, and instead casually chatted about their experiences with various types of high-speed driving.

Meanwhile, the female driver, Yoshino Kiharu, would occasionally act as a straight man, asking Bunta Fujiwara, the former big shot, for advice.

After riding in Jiang Hang's express car, she felt that her driver's license, which she had worked so hard to learn all summer, was like a primary school student meeting a college student in front of Jiang Hang. The two of them were not on the same level.

Fujiwara Bunta is even more impressive; he's at least a professor-level expert. Jiang Hang even admitted at the dinner table that he's still far behind Fujiwara Bunta in terms of driving skills.

"Fast cornering is real speed. Everyone can accelerate on a straightaway. Right now, it's too early for you to brake and accelerate or drift. If you really want to improve your skills, practice your cornering movements more. Once you can do cornering well, you'll have made a big improvement."

Afterwards, Fujiwara Bunta casually mentioned a few words about driving posture and attention, and just as Kiharu Yuno was about to take out her notebook to write them down, a high school student who looked about 18 years old and seemed a little listless appeared in front of them.

Jiang Hang recognized him at a glance: this was Takumi Fujiwara, the protagonist of Initial D, who had been driving without a license every night since junior high school to deliver goods for his unscrupulous father.

Takumi Fujiwara's gaze swept over Jiang Hang and Yuno Kiharu, two handsome young men and beautiful women who looked to be around the same age as him, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

His father's social circle was already quite strange, but his cronies were usually middle-aged men in their thirties or forties. This afternoon, after receiving a message from his father asking him to come over for a free meal after school, he didn't think too much about it, assuming it was just another one of his father's rich friends treating him to dinner.

I didn't expect the person who treated us to dinner this time to be so young...

With his top-notch racing talent, Takumi Fujiwara quickly observed Jiang Hang and Yuno Kiharu.

Jiang Hang doesn't show any useful features, which is naturally due to his talent for concealment, which he can control at will. Not to mention Fujiwara Takumi, if he wanted to hide, even genius detectives like Conan and Hattori Heiji wouldn't be able to find the slightest flaw in his body or face.

However, it was Yoshino Kiharu who made Takumi Fujiwara glance at her a few more times. He subconsciously compared her to Natsuki Mogi, whom he had secretly admired for a long time.

Among high school students, Natsuki Mogi is one of the more precocious girls who already knows how to radiate her charm.

While Yoshino Koharu may not look as mature as Natsuki Mogi in terms of her attire, her appearance is in no way inferior to Natsuki Mogi, and may even be more refined. The "elite" and capable feeling she exudes is even more impactful.

Such a beautiful girl, and she seems so respectful to her father. Could her father be some kind of business tycoon who has been hiding for many years and is finally going to confront her now that she is 18?

This thought involuntarily popped into Takumi Fujiwara's mind.

Chapter 478: Chapter 474: Extending an Olive Branch to Takumi Fujiwara

Although Fujiwara Bunta did indeed have a secret identity that his son was unaware of, and Jiang Hang came to Mount Akina precisely because of this secret identity.

Unfortunately, Bunta Fujiwara is now just an old man who once dominated the racing world for a few years before retiring for love. Although he doesn't have much to worry about financially and can earn extra money by taking on some private jobs at car modification shops around Mount Akina using his connections from his racing days, he is far from being a true tycoon.

Having drunk a little alcohol, Fujiwara Bunta couldn't help but adopt a nonchalant attitude after sensing his son's surprised gaze.

"Let me introduce you properly. This is Jiang Hang, the famous detective from Tokyo, and this is his assistant, Yoshino Kiharu. You should have heard of them, right? They came here to ask me for help."

Although Jiang Hang's appearance has rarely appeared on television, and even when it has, it has been in disguise, his name still frequently appears in various news reports after he took on several major cases and repeatedly defeated the famous Phantom Thief Kid. There are also some rumors about him on the internet.

Although Takumi Fujiwara doesn't usually care about these things, he still lives in this information age. Even if he just sits in his seat and daydreams when he goes to school, his classmates or friends around him will always bring up some current hot topics when they chat.

In a world where crime rates are soaring, famous detectives, who seem so distant yet are more accessible than celebrities, are practically protagonists in themselves.

In addition, each region has its own so-called famous high school detectives, such as Shinichi Kudo from Kanto and Heiji Hattori from Kansai. These two are naturally the most famous, but other regions naturally wouldn't let Tokyo and Osaka steal the limelight and overshadow them. So they also promote and hype up their own region's famous high school detectives. Therefore, even among high school students, this kind of topic still enjoys considerable popularity.

It could be said that the proliferation of high school detectives is precisely why Nanatsuki Koshimizu has been unable to find out who the high school detective was who caused her best friend's death by making a wrong deduction.

Regardless of the relative abilities of the high school detectives, Takumi Fujiwara had certainly heard of Jiang Hang's name.

After hearing his father's introduction, the expression on his face became even stranger.

It's one thing if my own father isn't some hidden tycoon, but how did he suddenly get involved with a famous detective in Tokyo?

Could it be that my father has accidentally gotten involved in some troublesome case? Otherwise, why would this great detective need my father's help?

Fujiwara Takumi thought about it and realized that his father usually associated with all sorts of people. Could it be that someone had really caused a big problem, and some clues had ended up with his father?

In an instant, Takumi Fujiwara began to conjure up a suspense masterpiece in his mind.

Jiang Hang noticed the confusion on Fujiwara Takumi's face and took the initiative to explain his situation to him.

"Being a detective is just one of my identities. I actually came to Mount Akina for something else..."

After learning from Jiang Hang that being a detective was just a hobby and a part of his life, and that he was actually a member of a foundation with an incalculable market value and multiple properties around the world, and that his current trip to Mount Akina was just to pursue some investment projects, Takumi Fujiwara's mind completely went blank.

Jiang Hang's explanation only made things worse, as it only made things more confusing for Jiang Hang.

Why would a famous detective, instead of focusing on solving cases and searching for criminals, suddenly come to Mount Akina to make investments?

Even if it's true, what does that have to do with his father?

Thinking about it this way, his father's identity seemed to have transformed into that of a reclusive master.

However, this time, his doubts did not last long, as Jiang Hang immediately explained Fujiwara Bunta's identity to Fujiwara Takumi.

Although Bunta Fujiwara never told his son about this, he didn't really hide anything when he was teaching Takumi Fujiwara to drive. It's just that Takumi himself never asked about it in detail and never showed much interest in racing, so this matter has been kept secret until now.

It wouldn't be right for him, as a father, to boast to his son about his past heroic deeds; that would be too shameful. Fujiwara Bunta is a man of some stature; he wouldn't do something so disgraceful.

But now that Jiang Hang, a person of high enough status, has stepped forward to explain to his son, then there is no problem.

Therefore, Fujiwara Bunta simply held a glass of wine in his hand, squinted his eyes, and listened to Jiang Hang's explanation without making any attempt to stop him.

He also wanted to know how his son, who had never expressed any interest in driving, would react after learning his identity.

As expected, Jiang Hang's explanation surprised Fujiwara Takumi once again.

This guy, whom he remembered as always being beaten and scolded, and who made him drive to deliver tofu at three or four in the morning since junior high school, was actually a big figure who almost rewrote the history of Japanese racing twenty years ago.

Nowadays, Gunma Prefecture is full of street racers every night, and his father deserves a lot of credit for that.

Even Jiang Hang, the famous detective, showed considerable respect to his father at this moment.

He glanced at his father suspiciously, and seeing the smug look on his father's face, which was usually as lazy and expressionless as his own, he was momentarily speechless.

“I’ve heard your father mention that you learned to drive very early and have a good talent for it. If you want to work in this industry in the future, I can help you.” Seeing that Fujiwara Bunta didn’t object, Jiang Hang directly extended an olive branch to Fujiwara Takumi.

However, with so much information being absorbed at once, Takumi Fujiwara's mind was in complete disarray, making it impossible for him to make any judgments.

After all, a teenager who has just turned 18 and hasn't left school yet rarely thinks about his future path.

In Takumi Fujiwara's subconscious mind, inheriting his family's tofu shop after graduation was the most logical thing to do.

Although he had been driving for several years before getting his driver's license and was very confident in his speed, he never imagined that he would be on the path of racing in the future.

He hesitated for a moment and had not yet responded when Jiang Hang suddenly received a call from Shan Cuncao, interrupting their conversation.

Chapter 479: Chapter 475: Extending an Invitation to Takumi Fujiwara

Jiang Hang answered the phone, and Shan Cuncao on the other end immediately told Jiang Hang about the current situation in a hurried tone.

On the phone, Yamamura Misao proudly boasted to him that during the search, he found tire tracks on a hidden mountain road that matched the crime scene, and then they followed the tire tracks to successfully find the smuggling group's headquarters.

Listening to Yamamura Misao's tone on the other end of the phone as he recounted how he discovered the smuggling ring's whereabouts, Jiang Hang coughed lightly and then offered a moderate amount of praise to Yamamura Misao.

In fact, although Jiang Hang is not present at the scene, he made many arrangements before leaving.

The area that Yamamura Misao is currently searching was determined under his control, and he had specifically instructed Yamamura Misao not to slack off.

Later, the tire tracks that Yamamura Misao discovered were also caused by him using Altaïr in the sky to make some noises at specific times to attract the attention of Yamamura Misao and his group.

If it were a detective of Conan's or Heiji Hattori's caliber, they would probably realize immediately that Jiang Hang did this intentionally. However, if it were Conan and his friends, Jiang Hang wouldn't need to use this method to give them a warning.

Jiang Hang used this simple and straightforward method to remind Yamamura Misao precisely because the other party was Yamamura Misao. If Yamamura Misao could actually notice the problem, he might even be happy.

Unfortunately, Yamamura Misao didn't seem to notice anything unusual and took all the credit for it.

Jiang Hang didn't expose this over the phone. He'd let Shancun Cao be happy for a while, and then tell the silly boy the truth when he reviewed the case with him after it was over.

But this case is far from over.

According to Yamamura Misao, although the police found the smuggling ring's whereabouts, the group seemed to have sensed something was amiss. Before the main police force arrived, the criminals hurriedly left the stolen and smuggled vehicles at the hideout and drove off.

Because Jiang Hang was on speakerphone, both Fujiwara Takumi and Fujiwara Bunta, who were standing next to him, could hear Yamamura Misao's explanation of the case.

Fujiwara Bunta personally experienced the entire process of the case that afternoon, and during that afternoon, he also realized Jiang Hang's terrifying observational abilities. Therefore, he was not surprised that the police found the smuggling group's hideout so quickly.

As for Takumi Fujiwara, this was truly his first time being so close to a crime scene. After all, he was a young man, and he couldn't help but look forward to what Jiang Hang, the famous detective, would do next, so that he would have something to talk about with his friends at school in the future.

Jiang Hang also understood the subtext from Shan Cuncao's side.

He has a legendary former race car driver on his side. In his introduction to Yamamura Misao this afternoon, he mentioned that Fujiwara Bunta was the fastest legend on Mount Akina. Now that he's in this situation, Yamamura Misao probably wants to ask Fujiwara Bunta for help.

Jiang Hang glanced at Fujiwara Bunta, whose face was slightly flushed from drinking quite a bit of alcohol.

While Bunta Fujiwara himself has a number of dangerous driving behaviors, such as drifting while smoking and letting junior high school students drive at night without a license, it's fine to talk about these things in private. However, when it comes to dealing with the police, he definitely needs to be more formal.

It's definitely not appropriate to let Bunta Fujiwara, who's been drinking, drive now.

As for letting him drive?

Jiang Hang glanced at the beer glass in front of him. Although he didn't drink much normally, he would still have some red wine or beer at parties.

Right now, the only ones who can drive on the field are Yoshino Koharu and Takumi Fujiwara.

Yoshino Kiharu's driving skills are at the level of an average driver. Under normal circumstances, they are sufficient, but in this kind of pursuit operation, it would be considered good if she could perform even half of her driving skills on the relatively complex mountain roads of Mount Akina.

His gaze then fell upon Takumi Fujiwara.

Anyway, his purpose in coming here was to recruit Takumi Fujiwara. If the kid was willing now, he could also see how much of his father's driving skills Takumi had.

Fujiwara Bunta also noticed Jiang Hang's gaze; he had known all along that Jiang Hang had his eye on his son's talent.

In fact, he had a fairly good impression of Jiang Hang. If the other party really had a foundation worth hundreds of billions of US dollars and was really planning to enter the racing industry in the future, then it wouldn't be a problem for his son to work with him.

The only problem is that the other party is now more famous as a detective, and the kind of detective who seems to encounter murder cases wherever he goes. He is really worried that his son might encounter some danger if he goes with the other party.

However, Takumi Fujiwara is now 18 years old. Although he is not yet of legal drinking age in Japan, he is past the legal marriage age and can be considered an adult who can make his own decisions.

Moreover, to be honest, the racing industry, especially underground racing, is also quite dangerous.

Although Bunta Fujiwara had been cultivating his son's racing skills since he was a child, he couldn't force his son's choice if Takumi Fujiwara didn't want to.

He pondered for a moment, raised his wine glass, squinted at his son, and then shook his head at Jiang Hang, indicating that he couldn't drive now.

Jiang Hang then looked at Fujiwara Takumi, who was standing behind Fujiwara Bunta, and deliberately asked a question.