The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Upon hearing the voice coming from the walkie-talkie, Gin focused his gaze on the surveillance screen in front of him, which had returned to normal.

Although he desperately wanted to get rid of all these useless programmers, before that, he needed to rely on them to find out Shirley's whereabouts.

At that moment, he felt that he should have been tougher on the organization back then, and at least he should have laid a few snipers in the vicinity to avoid the current situation.

As for vodka?

A flicker of emotion crossed his mind, but given the choice between completing his mission and pursuing the "Brotherhood" (whose authenticity was uncertain) and searching for Vodka, who might have already been murdered, he chose the former almost without hesitation.

To kill the enemy and live, or to be killed by the enemy—that is the future for people like them.

He had this realization many years ago.

After the monitoring returned to normal, many more things appeared on the screen.

In one of the surveillance videos, you can even see a security guard lying on the ground, his life hanging in the balance.

If there's time, simply speeding up the playback of this surveillance footage starting ten minutes ago will reveal how those people infiltrated the research institute.

But this can only be checked later, because Gin has now spotted Sherry on the surveillance footage in front of him.

He watched as Sherry, right under the camera's lens, swaggered out of the research institute by entering her password at the main entrance and swiping her fingerprint.

Beside her was a mysterious hooded man who followed her out of the research institute. It seemed that this hooded man was a member of the "Brotherhood" who had rescued Sherry.

Even Gin was surprised that they would choose such a provocative way to leave the research institute.

However, just before Sherry and the hooded man left the research institute, Gin's keen eyes noticed that something resembling a walkie-talkie seemed to be sticking out of the pocket of the white lab coat worn by Shiho Miyano, whose face could not be seen.

"We just received information that 'Sherry' has passed the fingerprint verification at the research institute. She has now left the institute," the programmer next to him also received the departure information of Shiho Miyano from the fingerprint lock access list at the same time, proving that what Gin just saw was real.

Beside Gin, several organization members who had been reassigned to act as security personnel also looked rather grim.

These people are not important members of the organization. Without code names, their skills are certainly not as good as Gin and Vodka's, but since they have joined the organization, they are certainly not good people.

When they arrived, they had already arranged for personnel to patrol various parts of the research institute. Now, the other party just walked out of the main gate openly and honestly. Obviously, the security guards guarding the main gate had been dealt with at some point.

Thinking about the possible punishment from the organization if they failed their mission, these people couldn't help but ask Gin anxiously, "Should we go out and hunt her down now?"

Gin looked at the person who had spoken: "I'll leave the task of hunting down the person impersonating Sherry to you. I'll go find the real Sherry."

When Gin revealed that the "Sherry" who had just left openly was actually an imposter, the members of the organization seemed somewhat suspicious, but seeing Gin's current demeanor, they dared not ask any further questions.

Gin sneered as he watched the group go out to chase after "Sherry".

If that organization truly exists, then these people probably won't be able to return alive.

With that in mind, Gin turned his gaze to the programmers who were still sweating profusely, trying to figure out where they had come from.

This group of people didn't even know when they were hacked; such trash doesn't deserve to continue living in the organization.

Leave the remaining security personnel in the monitoring room to watch the programmers' movements. If they make any noise, take them out immediately.

After finishing this task, Gin went straight to Sherry's office.

Since those people were able to hack into the research institute's internal network unnoticed and infiltrate the institute silently, they would naturally have even more covert ways to leave the institute.

But the fact that the other party left through the main entrance so casually, without any attempt to conceal it, is itself highly suspicious.

In addition, he noticed the walkie-talkie in "Shirley's" pocket, and the person who had just been talking to him on the walkie-talkie with vodka might be the other person.

During Miyano Akemi's last mission, he had already witnessed that the members of that "organization" possessed considerable disguise abilities, which is why Gin made this judgment now.

If the real Sherry hasn't left the research institute yet, and everything just now was a disguise, then those people probably did all this to lure him out to hunt down "Sherry," so they could steal the organization's important secrets from the research institute and then leave at their leisure.

Making him choose between Sherry and vodka was probably a trap deliberately set by those people to disrupt his rationality.

He was almost fooled by that group.

With that thought in mind, Gin rushed to Sherry's office.

He had already prepared to detonate the nearby explosives if the organization had too many members.

However, when he saw Shirley sitting in front of the computer, copying data to a USB drive plugged into the computer, a sense of unease flashed through his mind.

Because Shirley was the only person in the room.

If that so-called "organization" really came to rescue Sherry, then they would never have left Sherry alone here to copy data!

In other words, the Shirley here could very well be an imposter created by those people.

Gin aimed his pistol at "Sherry" sitting in front of the computer, maintaining a distance of three meters from her as always.

After Gin came in, "Sherry," who was sitting at the computer desk, did not seem nervous at all. She simply took the USB drive out of the computer immediately.

"Where did you hide the real Sherry?" Gin aimed his pistol at the "Sherry" in front of him, seemingly certain that she was an imposter. The real Sherry would never have been so calm when she saw him.

The person impersonating Sherry explained the situation to him using Sherry's voice.

"Of course, she was taken out through the main entrance by our organization in a perfectly legitimate manner. For someone like you who thinks he can see through everything, this method is enough to fool you."

Chapter 166: Chapter 164: You're Free (You are free)

Even after leaving the research institute without any incident and getting into her car, far away from the institute where she had lived for two years, Shiho Miyano still seemed a little dazed.

Is leaving an organization really that simple?

About half an hour after Conan left the garbage dump, just as she was wondering if the other party would wait until late at night to make their move, a person who looked exactly like her came over and opened the door to the gas chamber for her.

The other party quickly removed her handcuffs, then said to her, "You are free," and let her leave the research institute's entrance openly with the hooded man.

She questioned the person who was impersonating her, saying that the organization would not let her go so easily. However, on her way out, she could tell from the unconscious security personnel that the other party's infiltration method was "simple and brutal".

Under normal circumstances, the alarms throughout the entire research institute would have gone off long ago. But somehow, no one chased after her until she successfully left the institute.

Shiho Miyano looked at the people who were now in the car.

The driver was the hooded man who had just brought her out; he hadn't said a word since.

In the passenger seat sat Shinichi Kudo after he shrunk, who is now Conan Edogawa.

"Who exactly are you people?" Shiho Miyano was filled with curiosity. Ever since leaving the research institute, she had been unable to suppress her doubts.

The next moment, her familiar voice came from the driver's seat.

"Looks like my disguise skills are pretty good. Even you, Shiho, didn't notice."

Shiho Miyano was slightly stunned. She was all too familiar with that voice. In fact, for the past month, she had dreamed about the scene of the other person talking to her.

The hooded "man" who was driving also took off his hood and then removed the disguise from his face with one hand, revealing his true appearance.

Through the rearview mirror inside the car, Shiho Miyano could clearly see that the "hooded man" who led her out of the research institute was none other than her older sister, Akemi Miyano, who had been missing for more than a month!

"Sister...?" She looked at Miyano Akemi with disbelief.

Conan, who was standing nearby, turned to Shiho Miyano and explained.

“Originally, we didn’t plan to involve your sister in this rescue operation, since it was indeed quite dangerous. However, after we confirmed that the only powerful figure in the research institute was Gin, and since your sister kept saying she wanted to ‘personally take you away from the organization,’ we finally agreed to let her participate and let her take charge of the final step of getting you out of the research institute.”

It seems that because of Jiang Hang's influence, Conan is now able to use the word "that's all" when describing Gin, who has turned himself into this state.

Akemi Miyano looked embarrassed: "I didn't expect Jiang Hang to actually agree to let me participate. He even helped me clear out the security along the way. Plus, Jiang Hang's friend helped us hack into the research institute's internal network, so we were able to leave the research institute so easily."

Shiho Miyano was also quite surprised by what her older sister Conan said.

It was only then that she remembered that the person who had rescued her had not yet left the research institute. Judging from what her sister had just said, the person who had rescued her and impersonated her was named Jiang Hang? And the person had even hired a hacker to infiltrate the research institute's internal network?

It was already incredible that she was able to escape right under Gin's nose. Shiho Miyano was now more worried about the safety of the two people. They seemed to still be in the research institute, trying to copy all of her research data from the past few years. If Gin found out, wouldn't they be in danger?

"Aren't they in danger since they're still inside the research institute?"

Upon hearing this, Conan's expression turned somewhat strange.

“Jiang Hang had already tricked Gin once before and successfully escaped, and his ‘friend’ wouldn’t be much worse at escaping.”

Before the operation, Jiang Hang had mentioned that he had asked for outside help. When Conan questioned the person about his identity, he learned from Jiang Hang that the person was a "helpful and kind thief".

Conan could naturally guess that the person Jiang Hang was talking about was the Phantom Thief Kid. After learning this, Conan couldn't help but feel a strong urge to make sarcastic remarks.

Jiang Hang had previously agreed to cooperate with Suzuki Jirokichi to capture Kaito Kid. Suzuki Jirokichi had even contributed some effort to finding Shiho Miyano. However, Jiang Hang turned around and went to find Kaito Kid to be his teammate, and for some reason, Kaito Kid actually came to help.

However, now is not the time to consider whether Jiang Hang and Phantom Thief Kid have some kind of secret "special relationship".

After realizing that someone from the research institute should be coming after them, Conan continued speaking to Shiho Miyano.

"Instead of worrying about those two, you should worry a little more about us."

As he said this, Conan looked at Akemi Miyano and said, "It's about time now."

While Shiho Miyano was still wondering what Conan and the others were talking about, Akemi Miyano pressed a button on the dashboard.

The two cars used for the escape were personally modified by Professor Agasa; Jiang Hang had asked Professor Agasa for help a few weeks ago.

And the amazing Professor Agasa certainly didn't disappoint him.

The special function of this car is very simple. Anyone who has seen the movie "Taxi" will know that it is just a matter of changing the form of your car.

However, that movie was modified for better car chases, while this car, modified by Professor Agasa, was designed to better conceal itself.

Originally, this car was an ordinary silver Toyota sedan, but after pressing the button, it transformed into a gold Toyota Crown, a common sight on the streets of Japan.

The reason it is said to be ubiquitous is because it is also the preferred model for the vast majority of taxis in Japan.

Even now, a taxi sign has been added to the side of the car. During the day, the modifications might be noticeable, but now that it's nighttime, the two cars look like ordinary taxis to others.

Although the car model hasn't changed, the huge difference between the two makes it impossible for a normal person to associate this taxi with the silver sedan from before.

If it were Gin chasing after them, this tactic might have been noticed by a suspicious person. However, it was precisely because Conan confirmed with the "helpful thief" disguised and lurking in the monitoring room that Gin had not chased them out of the research institute that they used this trick.

By the time a ubiquitous "taxi" slowly disappeared into the bustling streets around 7 or 8 p.m., the organization members who were busy searching for the silver sedan had long since vanished.

Chapter 167: Chapter 165: You guys are easier to deal with than Inspector Nakamori.

In the research institute's monitoring room.

Gin ordered the remaining security personnel to stand behind the group of programmers and observe their computer operations.

Although these few uneducated people didn't quite understand what the computer programs meant, as soon as they saw a programmer stop working, they would directly question that programmer, and even pull out guns to threaten him.

This action left the programmers furious but unable to speak out. They could only frown and stare at the long string of code in front of them, trying to figure out how the hacker had managed to intrude into the research institute's internal network from the outside.

What they didn't expect was that during their lunch break today, one of their companions had been secretly replaced by a master thief skilled in various hacking techniques.

After that, he secretly sent messages to Conan and Jiang Hang from the monitoring room, changed the monitoring settings, adjusted the alarm settings, and cleaned up the traces of his tampering with the program so that no one would notice.