The White-Hooded Man from Urban Legends

But today in the car, I heard Jiang Hang mention some of the world's little-known secrets.

Supernatural powers, Eden Artifacts, gems of immortality, elixirs of rejuvenation, and the magical device Jiang Hang mentioned to them that allows them to experience the memories of legendary assassins throughout history.

At this moment, prompted by Jiang Hang, she seemed to finally realize some problems.

Could it be that the reason her learning ability improved so much under Jiang Hang's tutelage was because Jiang Hang used some special item on her?

Shizuka Sakaki widened her eyes and looked at Jiang Hang in front of her, asking him a question.

"So, it's because of your help, Jiang Hang, that we were able to master these skills so quickly?"

"You have this talent first. What I did was shorten the time it would have taken you years or even longer to realize your talent to just a few months."

Jiang Hang looked at Shizuka Sakaki.

When Jiang Hang unlocked the Industry Template, he was already able to see the talents of his employees and help them quickly improve their abilities in these areas.

For those employees who typically have only five or six potential points above the intermediate level, and most don't even have a single high-level potential point, Jiang Hang naturally wouldn't give them the fastest promotion speed right away. Usually, a 30-50% bonus would be enough.

At the same time, Miyano Akemi was asked to periodically compile statistics on the work attitude of the employees, helping to inspire the talents of those who worked harder.

Of course, the system didn't give him any attributes like trust or loyalty.

However, when his employees leave the company, Jiang Hang can choose whether to transfer the abilities they gained through the system to himself in the form of skill books.

In fact, if Jiang Hang were a capitalist enough and also had a wicked sense of humor, he could recruit some ambitious and proactive individuals and have them frantically level up his skills. Then, when they choose to leave, he could extract their abilities as compensation.

However, Jiang Hang is not that unethical. As long as his employees do not cause any outrageous incidents, and they have a normal work handover or have found better jobs, he will generally not make things difficult for them.

Besides, given the benefits offered by his company, in a world with a sluggish economy and high crime rates, very few people would actually resign.

As for Shizuka Sakaki, as a main female character in the anime, she has more than fifteen intermediate-level or higher potentials, five of which are advanced-level.

This basically exceeds 99% of ordinary people.

Normally, it would take Shizuka Sakaki about three or four years of experience to gradually become a top-tier voice actress before she could realize her potential as a high-level actress.

However, with the added support of Jiang Hang's Level 4 Detective Agency, in just six months, Shizuka Sakaki has already improved her acting skills in all aspects to the intermediate level, and her voice-changing skills alone are already very close to the advanced level.

In addition, she has mastered many detective-related skills in the past six months.

Jiang Hang said this, and then spoke to Shizuka Sakaki.

"I've already told you about the Eden Artifacts. Of course, I'm not qualified to know the whereabouts of those things that have been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years, but the Foundation still has quite a few special items."

"When I came to Japan, I still secretly brought some good stuff over."

Jiang Hang pointed to his eyes.

"I can roughly see a person's talent, and I can indeed use some items to speed up the process of you realizing your talents."

"When I was interviewing you, I interviewed about a dozen candidates. The brilliance you and Yuno exuded was the reason I chose you. And in fact, you have not disappointed me in the past six months. You have become a fully qualified detective assistant."

Upon hearing this, Shizuka Sakaki was taken aback.

"My talent?"

She was a little unsure, feeling as if Jiang Hang was trying to comfort her.

"Don't underestimate yourself. Your potential already surpasses that of the vast majority of people in this world. Even within our Foundation, you are considered a rare talent."

"Otherwise, why would I choose you?"

Hearing this, Shizuka Sakaki felt a little embarrassed.

When she first became Jiang Hang's assistant, she did have some doubts about whether Jiang Hang wanted to do something to her and Yuno.

So Jiang Hang had his eye on my talent from the very beginning?

"It's just that you've been dealing with overly dazzling people all the time in the last six months, which is why you're starting to doubt your own abilities."

Conan, Kaito Kid, Heiji Hattori, the Miyano Sisters...

These guys are incredibly talented; Conan has the potential to become the Sherlock Holmes of the new era, Heiji Hattori will most likely take over his father's position in the police force in the future.

Kaito Kid's father is now considered a legendary assassin of the new era, so his potential as a son is naturally not lacking either.

The Miyano sisters: Miyano Shiho developed Apotoxin 4869, while Miyano Akemi, though slightly less capable, had previously concealed her abilities to protect her younger sister and had not fully revealed them.

Now that she has left the organization and freed herself from its constraints, she has also demonstrated her talent in management.

Currently, most of the companies under Jiang Hang's name are managed by Miyano Akemi.

Leaving aside the two elite lawyers Eri Kisaki and Chihiro Ayasato, even Ryūichi Naruhodō, who usually seems unreliable, is now almost a lawyer who can stand on his own.

In addition, she would occasionally encounter other detectives with outstanding talents or other people favored by Jiang Hang, which made Shizuka Sakaki somewhat insecure, feeling that she was still far behind these geniuses.

So, if only she had half of Koharu Yoshino's confidence in this regard.

What Jiang Hang needs to do now is to help Shizuka Sakaki regain her confidence.

"But those people have received this kind of training since they were young. They were already realizing their talents before you met them, so naturally they will progress faster than you."

"Both you and Yuno have great acting talent, but your voice talent is much greater than Yuno's."

"That's why I taught you voice changing and disguise techniques, and your performance has exceeded my expectations."

"In my original thinking, even if you have talent, it would take you about a year to reach this level."

That's not entirely a lie.

After all, these two girls really train very hard, practicing for several hours at home almost every day after they get home.

Don't underestimate their acting skills just because they're only at an intermediate level. In the system's assessment, intermediate level is already the limit that an ordinary person would need to strive for their entire life.

When Jiang Hang unlocked the intermediate level of disguise, he could easily impersonate others. Unless high-tech methods were used for comprehensive detection, the human eye would be absolutely unable to distinguish him.

His intermediate-level fighting skills allow him to take on ten people at once.

His intermediate riding skill is roughly equivalent to that of Takumi Fujiwara at present.

Hearing Jiang Hang's praise, a glint seemed to flash in Shizuka Sakaki's eyes.

Previously, she was worried that her abilities were limited, and that after learning so much, she would not be able to help Jiang Hang in the future and would gradually become a useless mascot.

But Jiang Hang's encouragement has given her a lot of renewed energy.

Of course, in some ways, she also felt some regret.

After all, Jiang Hang valued her abilities, not her appearance.

However, she quickly dismissed this thought from her mind.

After spending the past six months living together day and night, Shizuka Sakaki was able to discern Jiang Hang's personality.

A guy who can smile like an idiot while watching romance anime is definitely not problematic in terms of his sexual orientation.

It's just that the other person's mind is probably still focused on helping others and those anime characters, and they haven't had such thoughts about real girls yet.

Therefore, she cannot back down so quickly.

Thinking about how Aoi encouraged her when she was at a gathering with her friends, Shizuka Sakaki secretly cheered herself up.

Seeing that Shizuka Sakaki's expression finally brightened, Jiang Hang nodded in satisfaction, while continuing to offer her promises so that she could continue working with peace of mind.

"Thanks to everyone's hard work, my private TV station will be able to start operating after the New Year, and Ultraman will probably be officially broadcast around that time. If the response is good, the film and television company may expand next year, and maybe we will even acquire some animation companies."

"If the opportunity arises, it might actually be possible to reunite your high school hobby club and get you all working together again."

Although he broke up the main characters in the Sakura Quest, he can still reassemble the five members of the Shirobako group.

His reputation in the film and television industry is growing, and there are always many film and animation companies that want to collaborate with him.

While it's impossible to completely acquire Musashino Animation, they've gradually softened their stance after being questioned by Miyano Akemi. Jiang Hang should be able to become a shareholder without incurring much cost.

After all, Musashino Animation hasn't been able to catch its breath since that defeat a few years ago.

Even though we finally landed a new animation project this year, the pressure within the company is still immense.

Before Jiang Hang became famous, they were able to refuse Jiang Hang kindness.

However, as Jiang Hang's reputation grows, Musashino Animation still has some connections and can find out about his activities. Naturally, they are willing to sit down and talk to Jiang Hang about investment again.

It can only be said that Musashino Animation changed its mind early, otherwise Jiang Hang, who now has another billion yuan in his hands with nowhere to spend it, would be targeting other animation companies.

Chapter 529: The White-Clad Hooded Man of Urban Legends

This helped Shizuka Sakaki regain some confidence, and Jiang Hang waved to her, telling her to go back and rest early.

After being out and about for so many days, I haven't watched the latest animations and haven't gotten my first win in several days.

It's time to let those newbies on the Japanese server, and those who want to smurf on the Japanese server, experience the pain of being smurfed again.

Of course, Jiang Hang wasn't solely focused on going back to play games.

After returning to the office and packing up his luggage, he also took the opportunity to find out if any major cases had occurred in Tokyo during the days he was away.

The truth is that banks in Tokyo, that wretched place, have indeed had a lot of troubles.

Just a few days later, another bank robbery occurred.

I wonder how those bank executives will deal with the unrecoverable stolen money.

He still has a billion yen of embezzled money stored with Professor Agasa.

It was because when he saved Miyano Akemi, he couldn't easily hand over the embezzled funds, so he kept the 1 billion yen hidden away.

However, so much time has passed now, and his relationship with the Black Organization has changed considerably. Perhaps he can find a way to return the stolen money to them.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be done openly.

"Speaking of which, the bank where Miyano Akemi used to work is the Tokyo Central Bank from Hanzawa Naoki, isn't it?"

So after a bank robbery, the solution those in charge probably all came down to was to kneel in repentance.

Jiang Hang muttered this to himself.

However, he didn't really know much about the banking industry, nor did he know what stage the plot of Hanzawa Naoki's story had reached.

But if there's a chance, I can meet him and see if he and that undefeated 91-point lawyer have any resemblance in appearance.

In short, this bank robbery was not at Tokyo Central Bank, but it was still a classic case of a robbery gang that is still at large.

However, the Japan police did come in somewhat useful this time.

During the pursuit of the robbers, the police successfully wounded one of their accomplices and took him into custody.

It seems he doesn't even need to handle this case. The police only need to interrogate this accomplice who was abandoned by the gang, and they should be able to confirm the situation of the robbers.

While muttering to himself, Jiang Hang didn't spend too much time on these news items. Instead, he played games and stomped noobs while watching the newly updated anime series.

That evening, Miyano Shiho called first to ask if he had returned from out of town.

"I just got back to Tokyo at noon today and I'm still at the office. Your information is quite up-to-date."

He thought it was one of his employees who had noticed his car parked below the office.

Miyano Shiho's answer was quite concise.

"Because your assistants have already updated their Twitter and LINE accounts with photos of your trip."

Shizuka Sakaki still has the identity of a voice actress, and Jiang Hang is considered one of the most popular detectives in Tokyo today.

In this era of high crime rates, a popular detective who is also good-looking can be quite popular with the public.

Although Jiang Hang doesn't like to appear on camera with his real face, and his appearance on TV is even slightly different each time, this has actually earned him the nickname "Chameleon Detective" in addition to his previous nickname "Eagle-Eyed Detective" on the internet recently.

Some people even seriously compared Jiang Hang with other masters of disguise like Kaito Kid on the forum, trying to figure out whose disguise and makeup skills were better.

Currently, about 70% of people support Kaito Kid, since his quick disguise skills have almost never failed him. He can change his appearance in a crowd in just two or three seconds.

Jiang Hang, on the other hand, has not demonstrated this ability, so his approval rating is naturally much lower.

Jiang Hang muttered to himself, deciding to take some time to further improve his disguise skills so he could perform a lightning-fast face-changing act next time he appeared on television.

In short, because Jiang Hang doesn't usually tweet or give interviews, unlike some "famous detectives" who appear on shows and do interviews every few days but are actually just empty shells, the popularity naturally fell to his beautiful assistant, Shizuka Sakaki.

After gaining fame, she would regularly post tweets to explain Jiang Hang's recent schedule and her own.

Of course, she still carefully selects her schedule related to the case and won't post sensitive content online.

Just like the actor murder case they experienced yesterday, which would definitely cause controversy among the actors' fans if it were made public, Shizuka Sakaki didn't mention it much. She only briefly mentioned that with the joint efforts of Kogoro Mouri and Jiang Hang, they quickly solved a case.

Koharu Yoshino is also the type to like posting photos and showing off on LINE Moments. It's estimated that their experiences over the past few days have already spread throughout their social circle in just one afternoon.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hang smiled at Miyano Shiho and said, "Thank you for the Mermaid Island matter. Without your help, I might have stayed there for a few more days."