The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

That "brotherhood" remains shrouded in mystery, its true nature and details unclear. The only two times it has taken action were against Miyano Akemi and Sherry, both missions it carried out with Vodka.

The one involving Akemi Miyano was one thing, but there are quite a few suspicious points in this mission.

How did they infiltrate the research institute? Why did they know so much about the police presence inside, and even the location of the bombs he and Vodka planted together?

Furthermore, he had never dealt with those people before, so how could they know his personality so well, and even predict what choices he would make?

More importantly, why did the other party, who could have taken Vodka's life, choose to let him live?

According to Vodka, he woke up a little over a minute before the time bomb exploded and found himself bound to the ground. He escaped the location of the bomb while untying his ropes.

But would those people leave such a flaw?

None of the security personnel who were knocked unconscious or drugged along the way have regained consciousness yet. Even if Vodka's physical condition is much better than that of ordinary people, such a mistake is still too low-level.

Moreover, all the files have now been corrupted by a computer virus, and they are unable to see from the monitoring what exactly happened during those skipped ten minutes.

This is also highly questionable.

If there's some connection between vodka and that so-called "brotherhood," then everything seems to make sense.

But seeing Vodka's cursing and swearing face, Gin couldn't help but wonder, if all of this was a deliberate illusion created by those people to make him doubt Vodka, then wouldn't he have fallen into their trap again?

Just now, he was pointed out by members of that organization as "thinking he can see through everything." Perhaps those people had already predicted that he would have such thoughts, and then plotted against him again.

As Gin continued to think about it, he realized that no matter how he thought about it, it seemed that those people were always one step ahead of him.

"Those bastards..." Gin didn't know how long it had been since he had lost his composure like this.

In the past, he always stood in the shadows, posing a deadly threat to others. But now, the so-called "Brotherhood," whose authenticity is unknown, is hiding in an even darker place, toying with him, while he knows nothing about them.

Even Vodka was seeing his older brother lose his composure for the first time; he never imagined that his older brother was actually questioning his identity.

He was furious with the people who rescued Sherry, and at the same time felt terrible for betraying his older brother's trust, having been ambushed and almost losing his life.

However, this mission has failed. They need to get rid of the unclean things in the research institute before the police arrive, so as not to attract their attention.

He just didn't know why, but when he told Gin that he was going to clean up the clues left behind at the research institute, he felt that his older brother's gaze was a little strange.

.......

Dr. Agasa's home, which also serves as his private research institute, now seems to have become a base for discussing how to deal with the brewery.

Inside the research institute, Dr. Agasa poured each of the returning team members a cup of hot tea as a celebration.

At this moment, Miyano Akemi was giving her younger sister a simple disguise while telling her about Jiang Hang.

Shiho Miyano now knows Jiang Hang's identity; like Shinichi Kudo after he shrunk, he is a detective.

More than a month ago, she accidentally bumped into her sister's situation, which led to her getting involved with the organization.

Upon hearing that Jiang Hang and his team had used the password "White Dove" from her memory card as a clue to gradually uncover the organization's secrets, and that it had taken them nearly a month to find the research institute where she was located, and to rescue her from the institute at the last moment, Shiho Miyano couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

After all, she only set that password after realizing that White Dove Pharmaceuticals was related to the organization. She never imagined that something she had inadvertently left behind in the past would save her life today.

However, when she heard about the foundation behind Jiang Hang, Shiho Miyano seemed a little surprised, as if she remembered something: "The Pioneer Foundation?"

"Have you heard of this foundation within the organization?" Akemi Miyano asked curiously.

Hearing that Shiho Miyano seemed to have some information about the foundation behind Jiang Hang, even Conan couldn't help but come over.

He only learned about the foundation from his father, knowing that it was good at making money and that it had no connection with the Black Organization. Other than that, he didn't know much about the foundation.

Shiho Miyano didn't care that Conan was eavesdropping. She nodded to her sister and said, "I know a little about that foundation."

"I didn't expect that you were able to find out about Karasuma Renya and the Karasuma Group with so little information. In that case, I won't hide it from you anymore. The Karasuma Group is indeed the predecessor of the organization."

Conan's mind was immediately filled with various conspiracy theories: such as the close connection between the Pioneer Foundation and the Karasuma Group in the past, the Pioneer Foundation being initially supported by Karasuma Renya, and the two eventually parting ways due to differences in ideology, etc.

However, what Shiho Miyano said completely surprised Conan.

"Forty years ago, when the Karasuma Group was dissolved and went bankrupt on the surface, the Pioneer Foundation used some unknown method to make a large sum of money from the Karasuma Group at that time, which almost caused the organization to go bankrupt again due to funding problems in the early stages of going underground."

Chapter 170: Chapter 168: The Pioneer Foundation for Exploiting the Karasuma Group

After Jiang Hang successfully outwitted Gin once again, and even planted a seed of doubt between Gin and Vodka, he happily headed to Professor Agasa's house.

But when he stepped into Professor Agasa's house, he felt that everyone was looking at him strangely.

"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Jiang Hang looked at Miyano Akemi and Miyano Shiho beside her.

Conan, with a subtle expression, told him about the pioneer foundation's glorious deeds of almost bankrupting the brewery back then, and how the Karasuma Group was the one who sold off the Karasuma family's assets everywhere, which allowed the brewery to recover.

After hearing this, Jiang Hang's expression also became strange.

Why does your own system keep making a scene here? Didn't I tell him before that the Pioneer Foundation was just a background figure? What kind of background figure could almost bring down the brewery back then?

However, this time the system didn't continue to play dead, and after a while, it informed Jiang Hang:

The Pioneer Foundation is only responsible for providing him with a reasonable source of funding and will not influence global trends.

As the largest conglomerate in Japan at the time, the dissolution and bankruptcy of the Karasuma Group was an inevitable development for the world. The foundation's "money-making tool" saw an opportunity to profit, and then made a fortune by taking advantage of the Karasuma Group's dissolution within the limits acceptable to the world.

It was inevitable that the brewery would face bankruptcy in its early stages and have to sell off the Karasuma family's assets to keep it afloat.

Jiang Hang roughly understood what his system meant: that is, even without the foundation, the wealth left behind when Karasuma Group was dissolved and went bankrupt would be divided up by other conglomerates or forces, and in the end, the brewery would still have to sell off its assets to maintain its operation.

The Pioneer Foundation simply took a small cut from each of the people who were supposed to make money, and at most, made the brewery lose a little more.

Then Jiang Hang couldn't help but complain to himself: "If you deduct a little money from everyone's hands, in the end the Pioneer Foundation will become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Karasuma Group's bankruptcy, and the brewery will also have its eyes on it."

However, according to the system, these are all things from 40 years ago, and the foundation has already properly helped Jiang Hang resolve this matter, so he doesn't need to worry now.

Jiang Hang was very curious to know what kind of "proper" his system was talking about. Did it mean a group of tool-like assassins would rush up the winery's high ground to block the fountain?

However, after Jiang Hang asked this question, his system started to play dead and remain silent as usual.

"Ahem," Jiang Hang coughed lightly in the face of everyone's gaze, "I gave up inheriting that foundation a long time ago, so I don't know much about these things. My only connection with that foundation now is that they occasionally send me some pocket money."

He couldn't explain to this group of people what the inevitability of historical development meant, so he could only put on a regretful look, as if to say that if the foundation had just bankrupted the winery back then, none of this would have happened.

Conan was already used to Jiang Hang's habitual nonsense.

Jiang Hang has been saying all along that he doesn't have much contact with that foundation, but since he came to Japan, that foundation has bought him art museums and tokusatsu companies, which adds up to several billion yen. Does Jiang Hang's allowance come in units of "hundreds of millions"?

Miyano Akemi and Miyano Shiho, on the other hand, seemed to have believed Jiang Hang's nonsense, which made them look particularly regretful.

Shiho Miyano's gaze was now fixed on Jiang Hang. Although she had met Jiang Hang at the research institute, he had been impersonating her at that time. Now, she was seeing Jiang Hang's true face for the first time.

Was it this man who saved her sister and also found the research institute where she worked, saving her before she was about to swallow the capsule that had a 99% chance of causing her death?

Aside from being good-looking, he seemed to be just an ordinary young man, and there was no way you could tell that he was the one who had twice tricked Gin and successfully escaped.

Seemingly noticing Shiho Miyano's gaze, Jiang Hang smiled and nodded at her, then took a USB drive from his pocket and tossed it to Shiho Miyano.

"These are the most important documents about the drugs that you mentioned before, and I've already copied them down."

Shiho Miyano carefully took the USB drive. It contained drug data from her parents' generation to her current research, which spanned over twenty years and was a project that the organization valued highly.

She seemed to want to thank Jiang Hang, but Jiang Hang waved her hand dismissively.

"Instead of saying thank you or anything like that, let's talk about the medication."

After shifting the topic from the Pioneer Foundation to medicine, Jiang Hang could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the conversation had become much more serious.

As a direct victim, Conan had long wanted to ask Shiho Miyano this question, but he had been holding back because Jiang Hang hadn't returned.

"If I'm not mistaken, the drug that turned Conan into this state was developed by you, right?" Jiang Hang asked Shiho Miyano.

He knew that Conan had probably been suppressing his curiosity for a long time, so he simply brought it up directly.

“APTX4869, that’s the name of the drug I developed,” Shiho Miyano explained to Jiang Hang. “I developed it based on data left by my parents twenty years ago, and it’s actually still an unfinished product.”

"Because the organization discovered that this drug could cause people to die quickly, and existing technology could not detect the cause of death, the organization used it as a deadly poison."

Her gaze fell on Conan: "As far as I know, the only person who took that unfinished drug, survived, and whose body regressed to that of a child is you, Shinichi Kudo."

She seemed to know what Conan wanted to ask, and could only shake her head at him: "I know you want to change your body back, but the APTX4869 that made your body like this is an unfinished product, and there is a lot of uncertainty in it. I can only try my best to find a way to make you change back safely."

Shiho Miyano made a less optimistic assessment: "This will probably take several years or even longer, so I hope you are prepared."

Chapter 171: Chapter 169: The Truth About APTX4869

Upon hearing Shiho Miyano say that it might take several years to find a way to turn him back, Conan immediately became somewhat impatient.

He desperately wanted to change back to his original form as soon as possible, even if it meant maintaining his disguise to avoid being discovered by the Black Organization. In his opinion, this was far better than continuing to live as he did, hanging out with a bunch of five- or six-year-old kids in elementary school.

However, Jiang Hang immediately restrained Conan to calm him down, lest this hot-tempered little brother, who gets agitated whenever the distillery is mentioned, say something that would spoil the harmony.

After holding Conan down, Jiang Hang looked at Shiho Miyano.

"Actually, I have some insights into poisons, and perhaps I can help in the process of developing an antidote."

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's words, not only Shiho Miyano, but even Conan, who was being held down by him, cast strange glances at him.

"You really know about poisons?" Conan looked at Jiang Hang suspiciously.

Although Jiang Hang has a habit of talking nonsense, he is reliable in this kind of thing, but where did he learn these things?

"I know a little bit," Jiang Hang said modestly in the first sentence, but he completely changed his tone in the next sentence. "In terms of using poison, I should be at the world's top level. I can probably concoct four or five kinds of poisons that kill people without revealing the cause of death."

Jiang Hang added in his mind: Moreover, he was poisoned to death by various poisons a total of 305 times in the training space. Apart from Shennong, no one in the world should know better than him what it feels like to take those poisons.

While Conan stared in disbelief, Shiho Miyano nodded to Jiang Hang.

She didn't doubt Jiang Hang's words. After all, Jiang Hang was the one who saved her from that nightmarish organization. Since Jiang Hang said he was a master of poisons and wanted to help develop an antidote, she naturally wouldn't refuse.

Jiang Hang appeared very satisfied with receiving Shiho Miyano's approval.

Great, I've successfully snagged the five-star commission that just popped up on the bulletin board: "Develop the antidote for APTX4869".

Anyway, Shiho Miyano will still be in charge of developing the antidote. He can spend most of his time slacking off and occasionally play his part, just making sure he gets the full reward from the system once the antidote is successfully developed.

The discussion about turning Conan's body back to normal didn't last long. After calming down, Conan realized that these things couldn't be rushed.

He is the only person who survived taking drug A. Even Shiho Miyano, the developer of drug A, cannot figure out the specific reason, making it even more difficult to develop an antidote.

After temporarily setting aside Conan's matter, Shiho Miyano explained the effects of the finished product, Drug A, in her imagination.

To manipulate human lifespan at will, to reverse the time of an individual human being.

After taking the drug, people can adjust their age at will. Even a centenarian can turn back into a 20-year-old youth after taking the drug. If they want, they can even go back to their infancy and relive the feeling of growing up.

“Of course, true immortality doesn’t exist, but in my estimation, once this drug is developed, the maximum lifespan of humans could reach thousands of years, and they could maintain their youthful appearance until they die,” Shiho Miyano said to the people in the house.