The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

"So, should we look for other suspects after this?"

"No need. I've gotten a lot of information from him, and I have a pretty good idea of ​​what's going on, so let's deal with the immediate problem first."

"Trouble?" Shiho Miyano was taken aback, wondering what kind of trouble she might be facing now.

"Ah, that kid must have used his reasoning skills to figure out our location. They're on their way now."

Jiang Hang glanced at his phone.

Conan's cell phone signal has just entered Kitazawa Village and been detected by the device he left there.

Now that Conan and his friends have arrived...

So it's easy to imagine that Sonoko Suzuki has probably already rushed over in a fierce manner, ready to continue causing him trouble.

What a hassle.

But I still have to go over and remind them not to make too much noise.

So Jiang Hang immediately sent a text message to Conan.

Meanwhile, Conan, after being reprimanded by Ran, finally realized on his way there that he hadn't thought things through.

No matter what, he was a vicious bomber. Jiang Hang's decision to leave Suzuki Sonoko behind made his stance clear from the start.

By bringing the garden into the fray, he's essentially leading everyone into a fire pit.

Even if we trust Jiang Hang's abilities, we really need to discuss it with him first.

After receiving Jiang Hang's text message, he only glanced at it before wiping his forehead again.

Well, Jiang Hang has indeed discovered that they're coming.

They were also told to keep a low profile and not provoke the prisoners.

Looking at the seemingly normal smiling emoji at the end of the text message, Conan couldn't help but break out in a sweat.

Chapter 581: Analyzing the Case

Upon seeing the message Jiang Hang sent him, Conan knew he was definitely in for trouble.

Sonoko Suzuki, on the other hand, was already in trouble.

She arrived in Kitazawa Village a little earlier than Conan.

After waiting for Kogoro Mouri and his group to arrive in Kitazawa Village, she is now checking in at the inn's reception desk.

After receiving the room key, Sonoko Suzuki looked at the waitress in front of her.

She was about to ask if they had hosted any guests today whose situation matched that of Jiang Hang and his group.

Just as she was about to voice her question, a loud "snap" was heard in the hotel lobby, and the entire hotel lost power.

"Ah, it might be a power outage, but don't worry, our hotel has a backup power supply. I'll get an electrician to check it right now."

While Tono Mizuki, who was serving the guests, found it a little strange that the power was out at this time, he wasn't particularly surprised.

After all, Kitazawa Village is located in a mountainous area, quite a distance from nearby cities. Before the old Kitazawa Village was relocated, power outages were common.

Now that the area has been moved to Shin-Kitazawa, the situation has improved somewhat, but problems still tend to arise after snowfall in winter.

Just as Mizuki Tono was about to remind Sonoko Suzuki not to worry too much and that she could just wait in the lobby for a while,

To her astonishment, the girl who had just been standing before her suddenly vanished without a trace.

"Ms. Suzuki?"

She called out the other person's name, but there was no response.

"Did she just get back to her room? I thought she seemed to have something she wanted to tell me." Tono Mizuki muttered to herself, then looked at the stairs leading to her room behind her.

It's not evening yet, but the lobby is dark because the power is off, but there's still some visibility.

So she wasn't worried about anything happening to Sonoko Suzuki; she would just wait for the phone to come back on and then go to the other person's room to check.

But Sonoko Suzuki felt completely differently.

At the moment the power went out, she instinctively wanted to scream.

Before she could utter a sound, a wet handkerchief was placed over her mouth the moment the power went out.

Before her body could react reflexively, the unknown figure had already easily taken control of her.

Then, before anyone noticed them, he was carried away by that person without any struggle to her room.

Even though the power was off, the other person still opened the door quite easily and threw her onto the bed in the room.

Sonoko Suzuki didn't get a chance to see the other person's face until the door was closed.

Just as Sonoko Suzuki was filled with fear and panic, the other person finally drew back the curtains, revealing his appearance.

"It seems you still haven't listened to me, Miss Suzuki. If you want to become a detective, your vigilance is still too low. It wouldn't be good if someone tried to kidnap you in the future," came the voice.

Jiang Hang carried a stool to the window and sat down with his back to the light, so that Suzuki Sonoko on the bed could not see the expression on his face.

Sonoko Suzuki wanted to ask Jiang Hang what he was trying to do.

But he found that he seemed to have completely lost his strength, and he didn't even have the strength to sit up in bed and talk.

"Speaking of which, I've recently been considering whether to offer an emergency survival and self-defense course for young ladies like you. If you'd like to pay me tuition, I'd be quite happy to do so."

"In short, this case is not something a young lady like you should get involved in. I have received your 'kind offer' to help me, but you should just take a nap here first. When you wake up tomorrow, you can go out and have a good time in the neighborhood, and then return to Tokyo happily. This kind of case is not a problem for me."

After Jiang Hang finished speaking, seeing that the slow-acting anesthetic was about to take effect, he waved to the other person and said goodnight.

Then Sonoko Suzuki fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Hang remained seated in the room, took out the human skin mask he was holding, and stuck it on his face until a few minutes later, the power was restored to the hotel.

A few minutes later, Tono Mizuki from the front desk came over to check on Suzuki Sonoko's situation, but Jiang Hang, who was disguised as Suzuki Sonoko, easily fooled her.

Then Conan and his group arrived at the hotel and went to Sonoko Suzuki's room.

"Is Sonoko alright?"

Seeing that Xiaolan was still a little anxious about her best friend's situation, Jiang Hang waved his hand, indicating that she should go and change Suzuki Sonoko's clothes later.

"I'm not some kind of devil, I wouldn't do anything too outrageous to a high school girl, I just put her to sleep, just remember to explain the situation to her when she wakes up."

“But the perpetrator in this case has planted quite a few bombs around here, so just to be on the safe side, let’s not cause any unnecessary trouble,” Jiang Hang said, then shook his head. “However, it shouldn’t matter much; I’ll probably be able to solve this case and leave tonight.”

He looked at Xiaolan: "Anyway, she might be a little emotionally unstable after she wakes up, so I'll have to trouble you to calm her down."

Ran learned about the culprit's plan from Sonoko and Conan, and knew that it was Sonoko's strong-willed personality that led to it, so she naturally had no complaints against Jiang Hang.

"I understand. Jiang Hang, just focus on handling the case. I'll explain things to Yuanzi for you."

Jiang Hang nodded, and then took Conan out again.

"You idiot, you should at least tone down your showing off your intelligence a bit. Do you even know how much gunpowder is in this place?"

Jiang Hang pointed in the direction of the dam and the other side of the village, where there was a signal base station nearby.

The prisoner had already planted bombs in these places in advance, and as soon as things went wrong, he would probably detonate the bombs immediately, thus bringing his plans to a halt.

If Sonoko Suzuki had just mentioned the names Kogoro Mouri and Jiang Hang at the front desk, one famous detective might be considered a coincidence, but two famous detectives could easily spark speculation.

If the prisoner notices this, and the signal station is destroyed, Jiang Hang will have to resort to satellite signals to prevent the bomb from exploding.

Jiang Hang doesn't want to cause such a big commotion right now; it's better to resolve things quietly and quickly.

Conan is now completely at your mercy.

Indeed, it was his subconscious habit, and when facing Sonoko Suzuki, he couldn't help but blurt it out.

"I'll be more careful in the future, but for now, let's hurry up and deal with those bombs," Conan tried to change the subject slightly.

"You said the case should be solved tonight, so do you already know who the culprit is?"

"It's pretty close," Jiang Hang said, carrying Conan outside.

Although this is at the foot of the ski resort, it has recently snowed quite a bit, and there is still a layer of snow outside that has not yet melted.

"The perpetrator of the bombing is actually quite easy to deal with, but I feel there are still some issues here. You can investigate and find out the truth later."

Jiang Hang said this, and then casually tossed Conan onto the snow.

Conan shivered and got up from the snow.

He quickly shook off the snow that had gotten into his neck, then asked Jiang Hang, "What else is going on?"

"It's not really anything particularly troublesome, I'm just a little worried, but I can't really say for sure."

As he said this, Jiang Hang first pointed to the hotel, and then pointed to a small courtyard near the hotel.

"There aren't many young people left in Kitazawa Village now."

"The people here who are hosting us, and the nurse staying over there, are all people who came back to Kitazawa Village from big cities after some things happened."

When he asked Tono Mizuki about these things before, he naturally didn't get the answer, and the other party wouldn't reveal such private matters.

However, through the rather "straightforward" Muto Takehiko, many things were connected.

Conan pricked up his ears, wanting to hear Jiang Hang continue.

“I don’t know the specific truth yet, but one thing is certain: eight years ago, when the dam was just being built and the residents of Kitazawa Village had not yet moved here.”

Several things happened at the same time one night.

"The younger sister who served Mizuki Tono at the inn was in a car accident and died from her injuries."

"The person who caused the car accident was her elementary school classmate, Keisuke Yamao. At the time, he owed a gambling debt and then drove drunk and without a license in a negative state, which led to the tragedy."

"A few kilometers away from the accident site, Fuyumi Tachihara, who was also a primary school classmate of Mizuki Tono, lost her 7-year-old son who fell off a cliff and remains in a coma to this day."

Hearing about what happened back then, Conan couldn't help but frown.

Is there any connection between the two?

"Anyway, the police investigation at the time concluded that there was no contact." Jiang Hang shrugged. "After that, one of them resigned from his original position at the hospital and returned to the small hospital in Beize Village to work as a nurse."

"Another person also quit his job in another city and returned to Kitazawa Village to become a waiter at this inn."

"As for Keisuke Yamao, who was drunk and killed someone in a car accident, he was sentenced to eight years and was just released from prison this summer."

Conan tries to connect these people, but it seems that something is still missing.