The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

"Speaking of which, Conan should still be in first grade this year, right? Did his family let him watch Sherlock Holmes so early?" He asked Jiang Hang with some curiosity.

“After all, his name is Conan. Just hearing that name tells you how much his family loves Sherlock Holmes,” Jiang Hang explained to Hattori Heiji. It seemed that Hattori Heiji had begun to suspect Conan.

At the same time, he also thought to himself that Conan always revealed his true colors the moment he saw Sherlock Holmes.

He watched as Hattori Heiji rested his chin on his hand, seemingly deep in thought, but didn't say much. After all, this guy wasn't a bad person, and Conan should just let him worry about his own problems.

With that thought in mind, he followed Hiroyuki Kanaya to his room.

Upon entering the room, Jiang Hang immediately noticed a surveillance camera mounted on the wall.

Seeing that Jiang Hang had noticed the camera on it, Jin Gu Yuzhi quickly offered an explanation.

"This test doesn't allow reading or using your phone to look up information, because I'm worried about cheating. So I've installed cameras in every room. But Mr. Jiang, don't worry, these are fake cameras. I'm just using them to fool them. You can just rest as usual. Of course, please don't tell anyone about this."

Jiang Hang used his eagle eye to confirm and found that the other party was indeed not lying.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about these things."

After seeing Hiroyuki Kanaya out of the room, he looked at Conan again and found that the other man was already sitting at his desk and writing furiously.

He worked from 10 a.m. until 7 or 8 p.m., and by the time the main group of people for the gathering arrived, Conan had almost finished all 1000 questions!

"We've already completed 950 questions. The remaining ones are all obscure ones, and I need to think about them a bit before I can remember them."

"Speaking of which, the questions that uncle asked were really interesting. If it were just an ordinary person who had read Sherlock Holmes, without being able to consult any materials, they probably could only answer a few dozen easy questions at most," Conan said to Jiang Hang as they left the room to meet the other participants of the gathering.

"Even if they were to use their phones to find the information, a whole day might not be enough for them to find all 1000 answers. Only readers who truly understand Sherlock Holmes could possibly finish this test in a single day!"

Looking at his beaming face now, you'd never guess he'd locked himself in his room and spent the whole day doing problems.

Conan was so engrossed in his conversation that he completely failed to notice another high school detective standing at the door of the room.

"Oh, Conan, you've already solved over nine hundred questions? At your age, you're probably the most knowledgeable first-grader about Sherlock Holmes in the world, right?"

When Heiji Hattori's voice came over, Conan froze. After a while, he looked at Heiji Hattori with an embarrassed expression and said, "Hattori-nii, so you're here too?"

"Haha, it's because I have Brother Jiang Hang by my side. Whenever I encounter a problem I don't know how to solve, I go and ask Brother Jiang Hang... Thanks to Brother Jiang Hang, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to solve many problems, right, Brother Jiang Hang?" Conan answered Hattori Heiji's question with a dry laugh.

When things are going well, Conan just calls himself Jiang Hang, but now that he's in trouble, he remembers to add "Big Brother" after Jiang Hang's name.

Heiji Hattori's gaze lingered on Conan, a look that made Conan feel a little uneasy.

After a long while, he looked at Jiang Hang next to Conan, and judging from his expression, it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"Everyone downstairs has arrived. Mr. Jin Gu asked me to call you down to meet everyone."

Chapter 123: Chapter 122: Holmes's Obsessive Fan

When Jiang Hang and his group arrived downstairs, the innkeeper, Jin Gu Yuzhi, had already sent out the thousand questions about Sherlock Holmes to everyone.

In addition, to prevent everyone from using cheating methods while doing the questions, he also collected everyone's cell phones and the Sherlock Holmes books they had brought.

According to him, the participants in each gathering were carefully selected Sherlock Holmes fans, and if they couldn't even answer these questions, he would have to ask them to leave his hotel.

As Jiang Hang and his two companions walked up the stairs, everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to them.

Jin Gu Yuzhi noticed the gazes of the crowd and introduced Jiang Hang's identity to them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this gathering is different from the previous ones. This gentleman is none other than Detective Jiang Hang, the Eagle Eye Detective who has recently become famous for solving several major cases." Jin Gu Yuzhi said with a smile on his face.

"Some people online are already calling him the 'Sherlock Holmes of the new era,' and it is an honor for us to invite Mr. Jiang Hang to this gathering!"

Immediately, everyone's gaze towards Jiang Hang changed, and several whispers came from the side, as if they were discussing the cases Jiang Hang had solved recently.

Even Conan's gaze towards Jiang Hang was a bit strange. "The Heisei era's Sherlock Holmes" was clearly his goal, but now it seems that this guy Jiang Hang is going to steal it away.

Jiang Hang himself felt that the title of Sherlock Holmes was not suitable for him. He knew his own limitations and decided to let Conan take the role.

He waved to Hiroyuki Kanaya: "Sherlock Holmes is a world-renowned detective, while I am just a novice who has just started out."

Jiang Hang didn't care about fame, and was just being modest. But as soon as he said that, an untimely voice came from the side.

"To be fair, Mr. Jiang Hang is indeed quite intelligent, but I have already read the details of those cases."

"Even if it were me, I could easily solve those cases. It seems that Mr. Jiang Hang has some self-awareness."

"Sherlock Holmes is not someone that just anyone can compare to. Lately, I've heard of quite a few such guys, like that 'Sleeping Kogoro,' and that 'Shinichi Kudo' who seems to have recently disappeared. Some people actually compare them to Sherlock Holmes, which I find utterly ridiculous!"

"In my opinion, they probably can't even beat Watson, who's right next to Holmes."

The speaker was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties. Judging from his attire, he was probably a college student.

Jiang Hang also learned from his self-introduction that he was a senior student in the Department of Chemistry at Kyoto University, and also the president of the Kyoto University Reasoning Research Association, Kento Toto.

The woman beside him was his girlfriend, Ayako Oki, who was also a member of the Mystery Association.

As top students at Kyoto University, they seem quite confident in their reasoning abilities.

Hearing his words, Jiang Hang looked at Conan, whose expression had changed slightly.

Conan, who aspires to be the modern-day Sherlock Holmes, is now being told that he can't even compare to Watson. He probably wants to stand up and protest right now.

Noticing Heiji Hattori standing right next to Conan, seemingly lost in thought, Jiang Hang reached out and pressed Conan's head down to calm him down.

This man is clearly the kind of mad dog that can't be avoided in any circle.

He had already observed the other party with eagle eyes.

The chemistry student could tell from the calluses on his hands that he had practiced boxing, and perhaps even fencing for a period of time. The marks on his neck also indicated that he regularly practiced the violin.

Jiang Hang even found a thick book called "The Complete Book of Six Laws" in the suitcase behind Hu Shiyan, indicating that the other party might be minoring in law while studying chemistry.

These are all hobbies that Holmes displays in the stories, as well as the knowledge he possesses.

The fact that the other person had been praising Sherlock Holmes to an extreme degree while speaking just now indicates that he is a die-hard Sherlock Holmes fan. He is trying to get close to the Sherlock Holmes in his mind by various methods and hates all detectives who want to get close to Sherlock Holmes.

In comparison, although Conan also likes Sherlock Holmes, he is quite rational in his personal hobbies, aside from the knowledge needed to solve cases. He doesn't blindly study Sherlock Holmes and can be considered a very rational Sherlock Holmes fan.

"Can't you tell? This guy is just a die-hard Sherlock Holmes fan. There's no point in arguing with him." He whispered to Conan.

After listening to Jiang Hang's words, Conan calmed down a lot. However, he was now determined to completely defeat Kento Toto in the reasoning quiz the next night.

Hiroyuki Kanaya has now explained the itinerary for the next two days, and he also had the hotel staff carefully take out the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet" and show it to everyone who came to see it.

It can be said that apart from Jiang Hang and Hattori Heiji, all the other participants showed great enthusiasm.

However, Hattori Heiji walked up to Jiang Hang at this moment: "It is said that Mr. Kanaya's questions are very difficult every year, and no one has ever been able to solve them. Jiang Hang, are you interested?"

It seems he wants to challenge Jiang Hang in the reasoning and questioning segment with Hiroyuki Kanaya.

Jiang Hang glanced around and saw that everyone's attention was focused on the book "A Study in Scarlet," so he said to Hattori Heiji in a voice only he could hear, "My museum recently acquired a first edition of 'A Study in Scarlet' with Conan Doyle's signature, and it will be on display soon, so I'm not very interested in this one."

Seeing the look of astonishment on Hattori Heiji's face, Jiang Hang continued, "Speaking of which, I also got a copy of the 'Quinn Manuscript.' Although it's not extremely valuable, it contains the brothers' thought process and ideas when creating the 'National Names Series.'"

"If you can solve Mr. Jin Gu's problem as early as tomorrow, I can show you the manuscript."

Hattori Heiji, a die-hard fan of Queen, widened his eyes in surprise, and even his breathing became rapid.

Chapter 124: Chapter 123: Another fierce general joins the army of toolmen

For Jiang Hang, diverting the attention of high school detectives like Conan or Heiji Hattori is a very simple matter.

Whether it's Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" signed by Conan Doyle or Quinn's manuscript, these are items given to you by the system after the museum's level is upgraded.

Jiang Hang didn't know if it was a coincidence or if the system had deliberately arranged it this way. In any case, there were quite a few items related to detective work among that batch of artworks and cultural relics, but the first edition of The Study in Scarlet and the Quinn Manuscript were the most valuable.

The Beika Art Museum is currently planning to hold a small mystery exhibition to enhance its reputation and attract mystery novel enthusiasts in Tokyo to visit the museum.

Seeing that Hattori Heiji had now focused all his attention on the reasoning quiz segment tomorrow night, Jiang Hang was quite satisfied with his attitude.

He usually solves cases using Hawkeye, and his own reasoning ability is definitely not as strong as Conan's or Heiji Hattori's.

The question that Jin Gu Yuzhi will set tomorrow will obviously not be the kind that Jiang Hang can see the answer to at a glance, so he naturally won't go and embarrass himself.

Let's leave the deduction and quiz to Conan and Heiji Hattori.

As for whether Conan will stand out too much in the deduction quiz and arouse suspicion from Hattori Heiji, that's none of his business.

More than the deduction quiz tomorrow night, Jiang Hang is now concerned about whether any of the Sherlock Holmes fans who have come to the party look like the murderer.

If it were just Conan alone, he felt there was an 80% chance of a murder at the gathering. But after seeing Heiji Hattori arrive, that possibility skyrocketed.

He no longer needs to worry about whether there will be a murder here; he only needs to consider who will kill whom.

After turning his gaze away from Hattori Heiji, he turned his attention to the other members of the party.

At each gathering, there aren't many people who actually come. This time, including Jiang Hang and his two companions, there are only nine people in total. If you include Jin Gu Yuzhi, the organizer of the event, there are exactly ten people.

According to Hiroyuki Kanaya, 8-12 people are more than enough for a gathering; any more than that would just make things chaotic.

This is also a good thing for Jiang Hang. If dozens of people came at once, it would be too difficult to find the possible murderer or victim among them.

Jin Gu Yuzhi is the initiator of the event and is currently the most suspicious person in Jiang Hang's eyes. This is his territory, and it wouldn't be too difficult for him to do anything he wants.

It's also quite possible that the Sherlock Holmes fanatic is Hu Shiyan. People like him often like to get stuck on trivial details and might argue with others over something that seems insignificant to them.

In addition, Jiang Hang greeted the other participants, exchanged a few words with them, and gained a preliminary understanding of them.

These Sherlock Holmes fans actually have their own forum, and they had known each other online for a long time before coming here.

However, whether they had any conflicts on the forum was something Jiang Hang couldn't ask.

He could only judge the likelihood of these people committing the crime by talking to them.

For example, there was a high school physical education teacher who was very strong. If he wanted to kill someone, the victim probably wouldn't have any chance to resist.

There was also a middle-aged man with a slightly irritable temper. He was a station attendant and also the person who had the best relationship with Hiroyuki Kanaya among those who came to the gathering.

According to him, the book "Irene Adler's Ridicule" was co-published by him and Hiroyuki Kanaya.

It's possible that he and Hiroyuki Kanaya had some private conflict over publishing issues, leading one of them to want to kill the other.

The remaining two are a librarian and a somewhat mysterious fortune teller. Both are women and seem to have no motive for murder, so Jiang Hang temporarily ranks them as the least likely to commit the crime.

After everyone had taken the questionnaire back to their rooms, Jin Gu Yuzhi said goodbye to Jiang Hang and the others before leaving the lobby.

Only Jiang Hang and his two companions remained in the entire hall.

Seeing that Hattori Heiji seemed to be heading back to his room, Jiang Hang stopped him and gestured for him to stay and chat for a while longer.

"Before tomorrow's reasoning quiz begins, would you like to play a little game?"

Hattori Heiji stopped in his tracks and looked at Jiang Hang with great interest.