Competition Between Two Departments

Meanwhile, the two girls were watching from the plane as Jiang Hang, whom they had been longing for, witnessed Takuzo Axe River's hysterical and frenzied reaction after discovering that the treasure his ancestor had hidden was nothing more than a pile of outdated junk.

It seems this guy will need to reserve a long-term bed in a mental hospital in advance.

I just don't know that this guy has paid such a high price for this desperate gamble, and he probably owes even more money now.

I wonder if he can pay off all these debts by selling his assets?

If he can't pay off his debts even after selling all his assets, he probably won't be able to recover peacefully even if he ends up in a mental hospital.

Seeing Jiang Hang's gloating attitude towards the Takuzo Axe River, Miyano Shiho, sitting next to Jiang Hang, rubbed her head helplessly.

Jiang Hang is a very generous person most of the time, but on rare occasions, he can also show signs of holding grudges.

If Takuzo Axe River had followed the normal trajectory, he would probably have just experienced a normal decline in his family fortunes, with no way to reverse the situation.

But with the family fortune left by his ancestors, after selling off the entire company, he wouldn't have much trouble living the rest of his life comfortably with the money, no longer needing to use his brain.

Just because of his initial attitude towards Jiang Hang, and even his plan to beat Jiang Hang up so that Jiang Hang would not covet things that did not belong to him, Jiang Hang also set a big trap for the Takuzo Axe River when he left Hakodate.

Jiang Hang was not disappointed by the Takuzo Axe River's actions.

After learning that his ancestors' treasure was buried in the former controlled areas of Mount Hakodate, he was completely lured by the treasure and placed the last hope of the Fue family on it.

Now look what's happened. All those big moves these past few days have cost him dearly, just to clean up the mess he made. It's dealt a final heavy blow to the already struggling Axe River Group.

Coupled with the blows from Sonoko Suzuki, who rarely gets serious, the Fue Group is now completely on its last legs.

Any external force could easily cause this once-great conglomerate to collapse completely.

At this point, Jiang Hang was fairly satisfied with the outcome for the Takuzo Axe River. So he coughed lightly and, under Miyano Shiho Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

The fact that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department contacted him suggests that this case has caused quite a stir.

"Is this yet another serial murder case?"

Jiang Hang looked at the case information and immediately made a comment.

After all, this series of murders did not occur anywhere else, but in Kamurocho crime rate in Tokyo after Beika City.

Unlike Beika City, Beika is simply a place of outstanding people and abundant resources, where all sorts of murderers keep popping up.

Aside from various murders and kidnappings, Beika City itself doesn't have any major problems, and the overall security situation is relatively stable. It's just that it's unclear why criminals have inexplicably gathered in Beika City.

Jiang Hang knew, of course, that all of this was influenced by the plot power behind Conan, but no one would believe him if he said it out loud.

In comparison, while Kamurocho's crime rate isn't as high as Beika City's, as the headquarters of several Japan gangs and Tokyo's largest red-light district, the crime situation in Kamurocho is actually more worrying.

Various gang fights, underground trafficking of contraband, and illegal human trafficking are among the most common crimes in Kamurocho.

In response, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department established a special Organized Crime Countermeasures Division a few years ago, whose main target was these gangs that were lurking in Kamurocho.

Just like the undercover police officer Moriya Jun whom Jiang Hang knew before, who had been infiltrating the Mafia for nearly ten years and almost lost everything, his active range of activities was almost limited to the Kamurocho area, and he would not go out unless there was something to do.

Because members of the yakuza like them would attract attention in the outside world.

It's fair to say that the fact that a case has become such a sensation within the Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, even in a chaotic place like Kamurocho, indicates that the case has indeed had a significant impact.

The case itself is not complicated.

The first is serial killings.

Secondly, there's the method of the crime.

The perpetrator in this case would gouge out the victims' eyes after killing them, making the corpses look particularly gruesome.

To this day, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has still not identified the perpetrator.

Although this case is currently under the jurisdiction of the Organized Crime Countermeasures Division, due to the significant impact of this case, it is imperative to uncover the truth and apprehend the perpetrator as soon as possible.

So, several superintendents from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who had a good relationship with Jiang Hang the opportunity to greet him, wanting to see if Jiang Hang was interested in the case, and subtly implying the incompetence of the Organizational Countermeasures Crime Division and their distrust of some people in that department.

After discovering that this was yet another five-star commission, Jiang Hang decided to return to Tokyo to take on the more urgent commission first.

After all, he has already activated the teleportation function. Once he returns to his office in Tokyo and activates it, he will be able to teleport freely between Beika City and Asahikawa.

Moreover, because of his previous groundwork regarding the Pioneer Foundation and the Eden Artifacts, he can now confidently assert that it is the Eden Artifacts that he is working on in front of people he knows well.

After all, Jiang Hang will definitely use this function in the future, and he may even teleport others along with him.

These things certainly don't need to be hidden from Miyano Shiho and Shizuka Sakaki.

Author's Note

I've been working on this for four months, and this month I'm starting to focus on writing in seclusion!

Chapter 605: Competition Between Two Departments

By the time Jiang Hang returned to the firm, it was already 10 p. m.

He wasn't in the mood to go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department tonight; he could wait until tomorrow.

Although this serial murder and eye-gouging case was marked as a five-star commission by the system, it means that there should be many shocking truths hidden behind this commission.

However, he is now more concerned about his upgraded agency.

Ignoring the upgraded mission rewards and exploration range for now, Jiang Hang had lost much interest in these purely numerical rewards once he had more than eleven figures in his pocket.

Even if completing a commission would earn him 100 million, it wouldn't be as good as getting a useful skill or item from the system.

After successfully upgrading the agency, the teleportation ability was also successfully activated.

There is no cooldown period; you can use teleportation simply by consuming reputation points.

Meanwhile, a map of Japan appeared on the wall of Jiang Hang's office.

An ordinary person wouldn't notice anything on this map.

But Jiang Hang shifted his focus to the map, and after activating Eagle Vision, he could see two obvious highlights on the map.

These two highlights are the teleportation abilities he has unlocked so far.

First of all, he can teleport back and forth between these two locations.

Secondly, Tokyo is his current headquarters and the location of his main office.

Therefore, this map will continue to update several viewpoints in the Tokyo area.

Besides the agency as a base, he can also use a small amount of reputation points to travel short distances between these viewpoints.

However, after examining the map more closely, he realized that he would have to unlock those viewpoints one by one, even though he had already visited these places when he completed the exploration mission to explore the entire map of Tokyo.

Moreover, it seems that unlocking these bird's-eye view points requires completing some puzzle-type levels.

"System, you really know how to make things difficult for me. Couldn't you just open these free bird's-eye view teleportation points for me? Why do you have to make me go through all this trouble?"

Despite complaining, they still had to visit the designated bird's-eye view points.

Unlocking it all at once might be a bit troublesome, but once it's unlocked, his movement speed in Tokyo will be completely maximized.

I was originally planning to get a good night's rest after getting off the plane before doing anything else.

As a result of unlocking this bird's-eye view point, Jiang Hang didn't go to sleep until three or four in the morning.

Even so, he has only unlocked the viewpoints for five areas in the Tokyo region, and he is still far from unlocking all the viewpoints for the 23 wards of Tokyo and the edge areas of the Tokyo metropolitan area.

The time spent on the escape took up about half; the majority of the time was spent on decryption.

Some of the puzzles are quite simple, consisting of classic mini-games like jigsaw puzzles and Sudoku.

However, some puzzle-solving tasks are just like the mysterious puzzles in Conan, giving you a bunch of seemingly unrelated statements and asking you to find something within a specific range.

Then Eagle Eye won't be able to work at this stage.

Unable to tune his brain to the frequency of a natural puzzle solver like Conan, Jiang Hang could only resort to exhaustive search to deal with these brain-dead riddles.

That's why he set up these few bird's-eye view points.

However, the city center area surrounding Beika City can be accessed via the bird's-eye view. This function may require some camouflage during the day, but it is much more convenient to use at night.

After experiencing the teleportation sensation several times, Jiang Hang woke up after sleeping for less than six hours the next day and decided to continue unlocking other bird's-eye view points.

It was a phone call from Shizuka Sakaki that reminded Jiang Hang that he had arranged to meet with Inspector Kiyonaga Matsumoto of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department at noon that day to discuss a case.

"You don't look like you slept well. You were away for more than a week, and now you're experiencing traveler's diarrhea after returning to Tokyo?"

When Shizuka Sakaki noticed that Jiang Hang looked a little listless at the agency, she couldn't help but ask Jiang Hang this question.

Although Shizuka Sakaki herself felt a little guilty when she said those words.

After all, she and Koharu Yoshino, experiencing the life of a female ninja in the Sengoku period. This way of reviewing that turbulent Sengoku period was a special experience.

If they hadn't known that Jiang Hang had returned last night and arranged to meet privately with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to discuss the case, they would have been staying up late every day these past few days to work on those memories.

Jiang Hang waved his hand and said, "It's not that I didn't sleep well, it's just that I happened to encounter some very troublesome puzzles last night, and it took me a lot of effort to solve them."

In fact, given Jiang Hang's current physical condition, he wouldn't have much of a problem even if he didn't sleep for a few days.

His appearance was truly the result of pondering some puzzles.

"What kind of puzzle could be giving you such a headache for so long? Did you go to the crime scene last night to investigate?"

"No, I was talking about something else. But since you're here, I'll show you around."

As Jiang Hang said this, he began to apply a disguise to Shizuka Sakaki's face.

"Hey, we're supposed to be meeting Inspector Matsumoto later, what are we doing now?" Shizuka Sakaki asked, puzzled.

"You've all been in the Animus for quite a while now, so I think you can sense some of the problems through those memories, right?"

Shizuka Sakaki nodded. "You told us before that for our safety, you deleted all the memories related to the Eden Artifacts from these memories. So in many memories, we only know that we are looking for something, but we don't know what the assassins in the memories are looking for, let alone why they are looking for it."

As she said this, Shizuka Sakaki seemed to realize something and said in disbelief, "I remember you told me you applied to the Foundation for the Eden Artifacts, but they haven't approved your application yet..."

Jiang Hang snapped his fingers, indicating that Shizuka Sakaki had hit the nail on the head.

"That's right. My applications had been rejected before, but during my trip to Hokkaido this time, I discovered a criminal organization run by some antisocial psychopaths, so they finally arranged something to support me."

While saying this, Jiang Hang had already completed his disguise as Shizuka Sakaki, and then quickly changed his appearance.

After all, all they need is a simple disguise so that others won't discover that it's just the two of them for a short period of time.

After completing the disguise, Jiang Hang finally looked at Shizuka Sakaki again.

"I told you before that the Eden Artifacts have power that is unimaginable to ordinary people. Many of the myths and legends from ancient times actually originated from the power of the Eden Artifacts."

"The Eden Artifacts that the Foundation has assigned to me is a functional item that has no offensive capabilities, and its effect is very simple and direct."

As he said this, Jiang Hang grabbed Shizuka Sakaki's arm.

As he tapped his other hand on the map on the wall, the next moment they appeared atop a high-rise building in Shinjuku District.

The sudden change in the surrounding environment almost made Shizuka Sakaki scream.

It was only because she had undergone many trials in the past six months that she was able to suppress the urge to scream.

After the initial shock, she finally realized what she had just experienced.

"Is this some kind of joke?" Feeling the wind blowing against her cheeks from the high-rise buildings, Shizuka Sakaki looked around and quickly determined her location by the landmarks.

Although it's only a few kilometers from Beika City, it normally takes 10 to 20 minutes to drive there.

How could she have moved from the firm to this place in the blink of an eye?

"So, this is the Eden Artifacts that the Foundation sent over?"

Even if this Eden Artifacts is indeed not lethal, its teleportation function alone is enough to drive most people in the world crazy!

Is this the Eden Artifacts that has been secretly kept by the Pioneer Foundation, a mysterious organization that has existed for thousands of years or even longer?

"That's amazing. So, is there a limit to how far it can teleport?"

Jiang Hang shrugged. "Theoretically, no, but with my current level of authority, I simply can't unleash his full potential."

"Currently, its teleportation ability can only be used in places in Japan where preparations have been made in advance."

"I've just set up five nodes in Tokyo, and I think I'll select another 20 to 30 more teleportation nodes in Tokyo to make my travel easier. As for more distant places, with the resources I've applied for, in addition to the nodes I've already set up in Asahikawa Hokkaido, I can probably place three more nodes in Japan."

Jiang Hang briefly explained his plans, and Shizuka Sakaki didn't think there was anything wrong with them.

Of Japan's four main islands, Honshu Island is divided into two parts according to the Kanto Kansai, while the other three islands each have one part. This is indeed the best arrangement.