Undercover Agents and Mole / Undercover Agents and Friends

Jiang Hang, however, looked at the spot where the two thugs had just fought and asked Muramatsu Akio, "This shouldn't be the first time your movie theater has encountered something like this, right? Were you deliberately causing trouble?"

Faced with Jiang Hang's sudden question, Muramatsu Akio's expression changed slightly. "So, Mr. Jiang Hang, you came here because you knew about this matter?"

He couldn't help but sigh, "Are you here to terminate your contract with us?"

This movie theater is small, with few screening rooms. It's not easy to get popular movies shown. The screening contract that Daibao Films signed with them is one of their rare sources of income this year. But now that Jiang Hang has discovered the situation at the theater, he probably thinks Jiang Hang is here to terminate the contract.

At this moment, the man, who was already over sixty years old, looked exceptionally aged.

However, Jiang Hang did not have such thoughts. He shook his head at Muramatsu Akio: "I saw the way those police officers spoke to you after arresting those two thugs. It seems that this is not their first time here. Also, I noticed that a lot of the decorations here in the movie theater were recently replaced. They must have been replaced because they were damaged by those thugs who came to cause trouble before."

Jiang Hang shared his analysis, and then, to the other party's somewhat surprised look, took out a business card from his detective agency.

"Let me also introduce myself. I'm Jiang Hang, and my main profession is a detective. Daibao Films is just something I acquired out of personal interest; it's really just a side business."

"If you encounter any problems, I think I might be able to help your cinema."

Muramatsu Akio seemed a little taken aback when he saw the words "Pathfinder Detective Agency" written in beautiful font on the business card.

He had heard of Daibao Films, after all, it had been running a movie theater for over thirty years, and Gomera's movies had been shown in the theater before. Although the box office results were not very good, the fan base had always been relatively stable.

However, he was not very clear about the recent change of owners at Daibao Films.

Moreover, as a man in his sixties, he was unaware of Jiang Hang, the famous detective who was currently enjoying great popularity.

The waiter next to him seemed to recognize the name Jiang Hang. After hearing Jiang Hang's self-introduction, he remembered Jiang Hang's identity and exclaimed in surprise.

"You're that famous Eagle-Eyed Detective?"

Jiang Hang nodded to the waitress, acknowledging his identity.

Seeing that her boss didn't seem to know anything about Jiang Hang, the waitress immediately went up to him and started telling him about Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang vaguely heard the name of the Kaito Kid, and after listening to the waitress's explanation, Muramatsu Akio looked at Jiang Hang with some hesitation.

He seemed to be still debating whether to tell Jiang Hang, the seemingly wealthy detective, about the troubles their cinema had recently encountered.

"If it's Mr. Jiang Hang, he'll surely be able to find some evidence to prove that those thugs hired by that person came to cause trouble at our cinema," the waitress advised her boss.

"It might not be that person who did it... You'd better not say anything like that before you're sure," Muramatsu Akio waved his hand at the waitress.

"Even if it wasn't that person, we still need to find out who those guys were sent," the waitress said indignantly. "Because of these things, the movie theater's business has been getting worse and worse lately. If this continues... that person will probably make even more outrageous demands. Boss, we can all understand if you want to sell the movie theater, but now your own interests are being harmed!"

Perhaps her words awakened Muramatsu Akio, because after hesitating for a moment, he still told Jiang Hang about the movie theater.

After running the cinema for over thirty years, the elderly Muramatsu Akio was preparing to retire. His children did not want to take over the cinema, so not long ago, he prepared to transfer it to someone else.

Actually, the location of his movie theater is quite good. If it were just a matter of selling the movie theater, it wouldn't be difficult to find a suitable buyer. However, Muramatsu Akio has spent many years working on this movie theater, is still somewhat hesitant about this matter.

He wanted to find a buyer willing to continue operating the cinema so that it could continue to exist.

However, since it is an old movie theater from thirty years ago, it is not only somewhat old, but also only has three screening rooms, so it is not easy to find someone willing to take over.

Not long after he conceived the idea of transferring ownership of the cinema, a buyer appeared.

The buyer's name is Harita Seiji, the owner of a real estate agency. He had his eye on this piece of land and wanted to buy it at a low price and then resell it to someone else at a higher price.

Muramatsu Akio naturally had no liking for such a person, and after learning that the other party had no intention of continuing to run the movie theater, he rejected the other party's acquisition offer.

What he didn't expect was that after he rejected that man, all sorts of problems started to arise at the movie theater.

Initially, some audience members were making a lot of noise in the theater during the movie screening, causing discomfort to other audience members. Later, the issue escalated to the claim that there was something wrong with the drinks sold at the cinema, leading to a disturbance at the service counter.

Recently, those thugs even started fighting right inside the movie theater. Even though they called the police, the police were unable to extract any valuable information from them after taking them back to the police station.

Jiang Hang now knows that the waitress's name is Yuri Yuriko, and she is currently telling Jiang Hang why they suspect Harita Seiji.

"Not long after we called the police for the first time, the man came to our cinema again, saying that he still wanted to buy the cinema. After the owner refused him again, he told us that he knew our cinema's business had been bad recently and that if we didn't sell it soon, we might encounter more trouble."

"That man even said that if the cinema's business is worse when he comes back next time, he won't be willing to buy our cinema at the previous price." Yuri Yuriko told Jiang Hang indignantly about that guy. "The price he offered was already very low, and it seems he wants to lower it even further. Moreover, I heard that he seems to have connections with some violent gangs. This whole thing is most likely related to him."

"The real estate agency wants to acquire the land at a low price..." Jiang Hang muttered to himself, while simultaneously resting his chin on his hand and looking at Muramatsu Akio beside him. "Speaking of which, you want to transfer ownership of this movie theater, right?"

Jiang Hang had been thinking about setting up a movie theater specifically for advertising, but he never expected that he would actually come across a movie theater that wanted to be transferred just by taking a casual stroll around.

Although it was much smaller than the cinema he had originally envisioned, the screening room had been renovated a few years ago, and a batch of seats had been replaced. The facilities were not too outdated, and after the acquisition, he didn't have to worry about the daily maintenance expenses thanks to the Industry Template.

Thinking about this, even Jiang Hang couldn't help but feel a little tempted.

Although he had just acquired Yingdu, the former boss's amazing actions saved him a lot of money. If he really needed money, he could just borrow some from the system and then work hard to pay it back.

Even if Conan criticizes him for buying the movie theater afterward, there are fewer than 400 movie theaters in all of Japan. If he doesn't want to buy land and start his own movie theater, he doesn't know when he'll find a ready-made movie theater again.

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's question, Muramatsu Akio, who had been sighing, paused for a moment.

He only wanted Jiang Hang, the famous detective, to help him find evidence that Harita Seiji had hired those thugs to cause trouble at the cinema. How did the other party start talking to him about acquiring the cinema?

If Muramatsu Akio hadn't known that Jiang Hang was the boss of Daibao Films, he would have suspected that this was some new conspiracy orchestrated by Harita Seiji.

"If Mr. Jiang Hang is prepared to continue operating this cinema and has written that into the contract, I can transfer the cinema's facilities to you at a low price, and I can also offer you the land for a price lower than the market price."

It's clear that this man in his sixties doesn't have a strong interest in money. He's simply too old to continue managing the cinema, and he had no choice but to transfer ownership when his children were unwilling to take over.

If no one is willing to take over the movie theater, he probably won't be able to hold on for long and will have to sell it to someone else and let them demolish it.

Jiang Hang nodded to Muramatsu Akio: "I'll have my lawyer talk to you about the specifics of the acquisition, but let's put that aside for now. I need to take care of those thugs first."

Since he was planning to acquire the cinema, he certainly couldn't ignore the cinema's troubles.

Yuri Yuriko suspects that the owner of the agency Harita Seiji, is the mastermind behind this incident, and she plans to start her investigation from him.

After the two thugs were taken away by the police, Yuri Yuriko cleaned up the mess. The later moviegoers were unaware of what had happened.

This was originally a very normal thing. Jiang Hang used his Eagle Eye to look around the movie theater and confirmed that there was nothing seriously wrong with it. Because he had visited several movie theaters in the afternoon and spent a lot of time in this one, he didn't realize that it was getting dark.

To Jiang Hang's surprise, as he was about to leave, a somewhat familiar face caught his attention.

The night before last, he was conducting a drug deal with a Thai guy, but due to a mole in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the police failed. After being detained for 24 hours, he was released last night. He is an important member of the Nisame Association and also the first generation of the Oda Group Oda Taisei.

At this time Oda Taisei was wearing a mask and did not bring any of his underlings with him.

After arriving at the movie theater, he cautiously checked behind him to see if anyone was following him.

If Jiang Hang hadn't possessed the MAX-level observational ability of Eagle Eye, he probably wouldn't have been able to so easily discover that the person who came was Oda Taisei.

After confirming that there were no problems, Oda Taisei walked to the front desk and said the name of a movie that had been released less than half a month ago in a cold tone.

Yuri Yuriko wasn't curious about Oda Taisei at all. In her mind, Oda Taisei was just an ordinary customer, and she wouldn't equate him with any important figure in a yakuza organization.

After Jiang Hang met Oda Taisei here, he put aside his investigation of Harita Seiji's side.

Harita Seiji is at most a few small-time thugs with whom he has a good relationship, while Oda Taisei is the head of an important organization in the Nisame Association. He was just released by the police due to insufficient evidence, and the next day he sneaked into this movie theater alone. He must have some ulterior motive.

Just as Jiang Hang had expected, shortly after Oda Taisei entered the screening room to wait for the movie to start, another somewhat familiar face appeared at the cinema.

He was the man with a cast on his hand who tested the quality of drugs for Oda Taisei.

The man was equally cautious, and only after confirming several times that Oda Taisei was not in the cinema lobby did he carefully enter the cinema.

He randomly chose a recently shown movie and went into the screening room to look for Oda Taisei.

However, he was unaware that when Oda Taisei at the nightclub, someone at the scene had already guessed his undercover identity based on a strong sense of déjà vu.

"If they're really playing the Infernal Affairs game, does that mean there's a mole in the police force at this movie theater?" Jiang Hang, who was using a full-map cheat, couldn't help but mutter as he watched the two men's actions.

I wonder if the mole here also wants to be a "good person".

Chapter 254: Chapter 252: Undercover Agent and Traitor

Jiang Hang, who originally planned to have a "life talk" with the real estate agent who was trying to acquire the cinema using underhanded methods and tell him what "pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth" meant, stayed in the cinema after discovering Oda Taisei's whereabouts.

For the female staff at the cinema, Jiang Hang's identity has transformed from the boss of another company into a recently famous detective, and in the near future, Jiang Hang may very well become the new owner of the cinema.

A famous, young, good-looking, and seemingly warm-hearted wealthy person—this combination of attributes makes him an SSR-level rare individual. Therefore, the waitresses were quite enthusiastic towards Jiang Hang.

Yuri Yuriko was now asking Jiang Hang, the famous detective, about the cases he had solved, with a rather gossipy air. After Jiang Hang reluctantly answered some questions, she cautiously inquired about his opinion on Kaito Kid, a formidable opponent.

Upon hearing this question, Jiang Hang instinctively sensed something was amiss. Looking at the other waitresses, who seemed to be waiting for his answer with equally curious expressions, he felt uneasy, wondering if these waitresses had also read some strange doujinshi.

After leaving a "no comment" message, Jiang Hang, who didn't like being surrounded by people, found an opportunity to slip away to the movie screening room.

The cinema's projectionist, Furuhashi Minoru, seemed to be a middle-aged man who took his work very seriously. Even though he knew that Jiang Hang might soon become the owner of this cinema, he was still very cautious, even somewhat impolite, in making Jiang Hang keep a certain distance from the projection equipment in the projection room.

However, compared to the discomfort of being surrounded by a group of girls, Jiang Hang felt that it was much easier to deal with people like this.

Jiang Hang could even imagine that after he slipped into the screening room, the group of waitresses were probably still discussing some "topics" about him.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hang felt a chill run down his spine.

Meanwhile, after seeing that Jiang Hang Furuhashi Minoru, who might become the new owner of the cinema, respected his work, Furuhashi's attitude towards Jiang Hang improved considerably.

After carefully explaining his usual work to Jiang Hang, he also enthusiastically explained the uses of the various machines in the projection room.

After exchanging a few words with the other party, Jiang Hang began to observe the screening room.

Through the peephole next to the projection window, Jiang Hang could clearly see what was happening in the screening room, and because of the angle, he could observe the every move of the audience in the screening room.

In fact, most screening rooms have such viewing windows to allow staff to observe, but not many people know that they exist.

Beside Jiang Hang, Furuhashi Minoru said to Jiang Hang with some helplessness that some couples who come to see the movie think that no one can see what they are doing in the dark, so they do some inappropriate things in the screening room. In fact, most of their actions can be noticed by the police.

Of course, in most cases, as long as the couples don't disrupt the movie screening and don't actually turn the movie theater into a battleground, the staff will pretend they didn't see anything.

Jiang Hang suspected that this veteran projectionist, who had worked as a projectionist for more than ten years, was up to something, but he had no evidence.

His gaze was fixed on the screening room.

The screening room connected to this screening room is not the same screening room that showed Gomera. The film currently being shown is an indie film, and there aren't many viewers in the entire screening room.

"The attendance at Gomera is actually quite good today. Although it's a movie from a few years ago, there are quite a few old viewers who want to come back to watch it again because of the discount coupons and vouchers." Furuhashi Minoru seemed to want to take Jiang Hang to the Gomera Cinema screening room, but Jiang Hang refused.

After all, Oda Taisei, the leader of the Oda Group, is currently sitting in the front row of this screening room watching the movie.

Because he was sitting relatively close to the front, there was no one else around him.

Meanwhile, the "suspected undercover agent" who followed Oda Taisei to the movie theater is now sitting in the most secluded and inconspicuous spot in the theater, watching Oda Taisei's movements in the darkness.

Neither the undercover agent nor Jiang Hang waited long. About half an hour later, another person walked into the screening room and sat down in the row in front of Oda Taisei, hunching over.

As it turns out, even a Mafia boss like Oda Taisei didn't know about spy windows. If he had, he would never have chosen to conduct secret communications in this place.

Jiang Hang looked at Furuhashi Minoru, who also had experience with this.

"Similar things have happened before, probably secret meetings of some organization. But as long as they don't interfere with the cinema's order and aren't carrying any dangerous items, we generally don't get involved. After all, you probably already know from Mr. Muramatsu that just a rogue real estate agent causing trouble can turn our little cinema into a complete mess..."

Furuhashi Minoru's gaze was fixed on Jiang Hang. He knew that his future boss was a detective, but he didn't know what choice Jiang Hang would make when faced with this situation.

"I know what I'm doing," Jiang Hang nodded, indicating that he was aware of the matter. Even a low-level thug hiring a few hooligans to act in a movie could ruin their small film business, so of course they didn't want to get involved with or have a conflict with that mysterious group that looked like they were not to be trifled with.

He didn't mention that he was investigating Oda Taisei, but patiently watched Oda Taisei talk to the man who appeared to be an undercover Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in the screening room.

The whole process did not last long. After more than ten minutes, Oda Taisei was the first to leave the screening room.

He didn't notice the mole in the secluded corner whom he desperately wanted to get rid of immediately.

However, the person who arrived later, in order to avoid being noticed, left the screening room with a hunched posture more than twenty minutes into the movie.

He certainly wouldn't have known that as he left, two pairs of eyes appeared behind him.

One pair of eyes was behind him, while the other was in the sky.

Jiang Hang remained in the movie theater. Now that he knew the identities of the moles on both sides, there was no need to rush.

Chapter 255: Chapter 253: Undercover Agent and Friend

Moriya Jun, 29 years old, is a member of the Nisame Association of the Oda Group. He is responsible for checking the quality of drugs during drug transactions within the gang.

But in reality, only his superior and a few other people in the world knew that he was actually an undercover agent sent by the Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to infiltrate the Oda Group.

To be precise, in Japan this is called an undercover investigator.

Thanks to Japan's developed adult industry, a significant number of adult men would probably smile knowingly when they hear the term "undercover investigator."

But for Moriya Jun, who graduated from police academy at the age of 20 and has been Mafia as an undercover investigator for almost nine or ten years, this is nothing to laugh about. He even feels a bit uncomfortable when he hears the term now.

Becoming an undercover investigator was initially a very rewarding experience for him. Over the years, he used the intelligence he gathered to help the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department resolve many troublesome gang cases.

But after living among these Mafia for several years, he was inevitably affected.

As a symbol of the Japan Mafia, tattoos are naturally indispensable, along with various bad habits that are considered offensive by the police.

In addition, almost every year he hears stories of the tragic fates of undercover investigators who have been discovered.

Four years ago, he heard that a friend of his from his police academy days had died in the line of duty when his identity was exposed while infiltrating another mysterious organization. Moreover, four years have passed since his friend's death, but that mysterious organization still exists, and another friend of his is still working undercover in it.