Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1014 Phantom Thief Kidd in Las Vegas

From Minase Yomeng's description, Qin Zhibo learned that the place where the "Black Crow in the Night" was stored was in a place with strong light.

This made Qin Zhibo think of the stealing conditions given by the Nine Angels Organization, and the storage conditions of the Starry Sky Casino, all pointing to the "light".

This light is not an ordinary weak light source, let alone a cold light source.

It seems that ensuring that the light source can shine on the stone should be the most important factor in stealing the stone.

Qin Zhibo asked Minase Harumo some security details.

"There are not many security guards there, but there are people in important positions. There are also strips of infrared rays in the elevator shafts and ventilation ducts..."

Qin Zhibo knew that what she was talking about was the infrared warning device.

"Then if you want to enter the vault from the outside, you can only break in openly..."

In order to ensure that the light shining on the gemstone is sufficient, it is not advisable to cut off the power supply and disable the infrared warning.

But Kaito Kuroba didn't know about this news.

According to his personality, using disguise to enter the scene, cut off the power supply, and escape from the scene through the ventilation duct is already a common trick.

If Kaito Kuroba cuts off the power this time...

……

A few hours later, the grandfather and grandson came out of McCarran Airport with their luggage, and met Chikage Kuroba who came to pick him up.

"Fight!"

Kuroba Chikage opened her arms, hugged her son's head into her bosom, and after a meal, looked up and down at Kuroba Kaito.

"Did you eat well recently? Let me see if you have grown taller!"

"Yo! It seems a little taller than when I just left home?"

Facing the pampering of his mother whom he had not seen for two months, Kuroba Kaito seemed a little uncomfortable, his face was slightly red, and he glanced at the passers-by around him with some embarrassment.

"Mom, don't be like this~ passers-by are giving you strange looks..."

Only then did Chikage Kuroba let go of her hand, but she still smiled and said, "What's the matter? The mother and son who haven't seen each other for a long time are finally reunited overseas, so of course we have to have a good time..."

After finishing speaking, Chikage Kuroba looked at Konosuke Terai who was standing behind with a gratified look, and bowed slightly.

"Mr. Terai, you have worked hard during this time."

"It's all right ma'am, this is what I should do."

Later, Terai Huangnosuke put his luggage into the car driven by Kuroba Chikage.

"Okay, let me act as a tour guide and take you to appreciate the charm of the casino!"

Kuroba Chikage happily sat in the driver's seat, while Kuroba Kaito next to him opened the co-pilot's door and was about to get into the car when his heart trembled suddenly.

He suddenly turned his head and looked back, staring at the various passers-by at the airport exit.

It seems that someone is watching...

Kaito Kuroba frowned, feeling this way in his heart, but he didn't find any suspicious person in his field of vision.

At this time, Kuroba Chikage, who was already sitting in the car, tilted her head and asked.

"What's wrong? Kaito?"

"……nothing……"

Maybe it's an illusion?

Kuroba Kaito comforted himself in this way, and got into the car.

……

This time Kuroba Kaito and Terai Konosuke came to Las Vegas under the banner of tourism, and they contacted Kuroba Chikage on their own initiative.

Because Kaito Kuroba wants to ask the doubts in his heart face to face, what if the answer to the question is by his side?
Not long after sitting in the car, Kaito Kuroba, who was leaning on the window with one hand, suddenly asked casually.

"Mom, have you ever heard of the Phantom Thief Crow?"

Chikage Kuroba controlled the steering wheel with both hands, stared at the straight road in the desert in front of him, and introduced: "I've heard that he is very popular in Las Vegas, it's like being resurrected in the modern Yasen ·Luo Ping..."

"Even my heart was almost taken away by him for a moment~"

Kuroba Chikage's face flushed, very red.

As a son, Kuroba Kaito watched his mother's reaction sideways, it didn't look like he was acting.

Is it true that the strange thief crow is not his mother, but someone else?

Seeing this, Kaito Kuroba went straight to the point, telling the real purpose of this trip.

"Actually, when I came to Las Vegas this time, I just wanted to meet this phantom thief crow."

"This person leaves black feathers every time he commits a crime, and he is dressed very much like Kaitou Kidd. Maybe he has something to do with Dad..."

"Oh?" Kuroba Chikage restrained her joking expression, "Then your plan is..."

Kaito Kuroba looked at the scenery from the front window of the car, and said with a small smile, "I want to challenge the Kaitou Crow and steal his next target—the Crow in the middle of the night."

This time, Kuroba Kaito's goal is unprecedentedly firm, and it is also a long-lost time to face an even-matched opponent.

Before coming, he had carefully watched every video of the strange thief Crow committing the crime, and confirmed that this person's theft strength was not inferior to his own.

The key is that this person's routes are very similar to his own, and even the hang gliding equipment is not similar, which is really strange.

Kuroba Kaito had a premonition that this person must have a great relationship with his father.

But he never imagined that the so-called "Strange Thief Crow" was sitting next to him quietly observing his son's reaction.

Kuroba Chikage glanced at her son's eyes and expression while driving the car.

poker face...

Before leaving home, Kaito Kuroba, as the son of a magician, enjoyed the thrill of magic performances very much, so he always looked frivolous and relaxed.

But now, she could actually faintly see Toiichi's shadow from Kuroba Kaito.

It seems that Kaito has made great progress in the past two months as a thief...

But I won't let you pass the test so easily~
……

Arriving at the Starry Sky Hotel, Chikage Kuroba gave her son and Konosuke Terai a separate room.

Kuroba Kaito didn't understand it at first, but while eating in the restaurant, Kuroba Chikage told Kuroba Kaito that he was a casino security consultant.

"The owner of the Star Casino learned that I am the wife of a genius magician, so he wanted me to be a security consultant."

"It's just right, I also want to chase stars at close range~"

"So now I have a special status, and I can't live with you, Kaito~"

Chikage Kuroba's explanation is very ingenious, and it can be explained clearly by staying in Las Vegas for the past two months.

But Kaito Kuroba turned his eyes and suddenly thought of a plan.

"Mom, can I use your identity to sneak into the vault?"

"Me?" Kuroba Chikage was startled, pointing at her nose, "You want to disguise yourself as me?"

Hei Yu Kaidou gave a smirk, "Of course, anyway, I want Yi Rongcheng to get in alone anyway, so it must be Yi Rongcheng's mother who is the most reliable~"

"But I still want to chase stars..."

"Is it more important to chase stars or to be a son? I am your own son!"

"But chasing stars..."

"Blood is thicker than water!"

"Chasing stars..."

"The love between mother and son is deep!"

"Chase……"

"My son!"

"..."

Kuroba Kaito directly brought out the trump card - moral kidnapping, which made Kuroba Chikage speechless for a while.

In the end, Kuroba Chikage had no choice but to compromise.

"Okay, I will lend you my identity..."

"OK! Thank you, mom!"

After receiving permission to use his identity, Kaito Kuroba smiled smugly, and the poker face also forgot.

snort!Now let's see what you Phantom Thief Crow will use to fight me!

……

"What? That kid wants to disguise himself as you and enter the casino vault?"

On the other side of the phone, Kuroba Chikage said in an apologetic tone: "I can't hold back that child, and if I refuse, my identity may be suspected..."

Qin Zhibo was a little helpless. Originally, Kuroba Chikage was acting as an internal agent to cooperate with him in breaking into the casino vault.

But now that Kuroba Chikage's identity has been taken away by Kuroba Kaito, there will be no internal support, and all the heavy responsibilities will be on her own head.

"I see, I'll think of a way."

Another fake girl...

Qin Zhibo hung up the phone, and took out the structural drawing of the casino given by Chikage Kuroba from the drawer.

If he wanted to enter the casino, he could also be like Kaito Kuroba, find another person with an identity card, kidnap him on the day of the operation, and disguise himself as him.

But the casino owner seems to have experience in this area. This time, there are not many people on site to protect the gemstones. Other staff are not allowed to enter the vault, and the information on the identity card will be updated to the latest on that day.

And everyone's identities are kept secret from each other, even Kuroba Chikage doesn't know who else will appear in the vault at that time.

So the only way now is to sneak into the casino vault without anyone noticing.

Qin Zhibo's fingers drew the route to the underground vault on the map. Except for the elevator shafts and ventilation ducts equipped with infrared devices, the most convenient route for him to enter was to enter through the corridor like a normal person.

The surveillance camera in the corridor can be avoided with [Lord of the Rings], but the problem is that there is no key card, how to enter the backstage of the casino and the elevator directly to the vault.

Qin Zhibo sat on a chair thinking, and suddenly thought of a method.

Particle!
Particleization allows the body to pass through doors.

But the problem is that my current particleization is not proficient enough. It is okay to pass through an ordinary wooden door, but it is impossible to pass through a steel door like an elevator door.

"..."

Qin Zhibo thought for a while, and it seemed that he had to practice temporarily.

This skill will be used sooner or later, why not practice it now.

As for the training method, naturally it is to pass through the door. As long as you continue to practice through the door, you can improve your proficiency and then your level.

Now there are less than two days before the preview of the strange thief crow, so I have to step up my training.

"it is good!"

"Start training!"

Qin Zhibo came to the door of the toilet, and first tried to pass through the wooden door in front of him with his own body.

With the rotation of the mind, the tall body gradually became transparent and blurred, and for a moment it became bloody and bloody, and finally turned translucent.

In this state, he easily passed through the 4cm thick wooden door in front of him.

Looking at the proficiency again, 60 points were added.

Now for Qin Zhibo, it is not too difficult to pass through ordinary wooden doors, and the added proficiency is much less than when he first tried.

He wears the Lord of the Rings again, performs particleization in front of the mirror, and carefully observes the invisibility state during the particleization process.

The good news is that the invisibility can be maintained both before and after the particle state, as long as the ring is worn.

The bad news is that during the particleization process, there is a moment when the body loses the invisibility protection of the body that has not been particleized due to the particleization of the Lord of the Rings.

That is to say, the invisibility ability of the Lord of the Rings will only act on one target, and the particleized Lord of the Rings will only make the particleized body into an invisible state.

Body parts that have not been particled lose their invisibility during that time.

But Qin Zhibo is still unable to maintain a particle state like the Kunyang people. It would be great if he can practice the iron gate in a limited time.

"Looks like we need to find a way..."

Qin Zhibo thought hard in front of the mirror, and soon came up with a solution that was not a solution.

That is to let the finger wearing the Lord of the Rings finally enter a particle state.

Right now, he still can't put his whole body into a particle state at one time, but the entity is definitely much more conspicuous than the translucent body after particleization.

When one of the two must be exposed, I would rather expose my translucent body.

Qin Zhibo made up his mind, and summoned the [Substitute Messenger].

As his own "shadow", the stand-in messenger can train the same skill nearby when he is training a certain skill himself.

And the acquired proficiency will double into your body.

In this way, Qin Zhibo and the stand-in messenger found a toilet door and a room door respectively, and began to train particleization.

……

On the other side, Kaito Kuroba and Konosuke Terai were not idle either.

They opened the luggage they brought, which contained various paraglider parts, poker gun parts, rope gun parts and so on.

In order to pass the inspection of the customs, the master and the servant dismantled all the parts of the utensils into trivial parts, and then told the customs that these were fishing equipment and magic show props.

Of course, these props were designed to facilitate customs clearance at the beginning of their design.

Working until night fell, Kuroba Kaito successfully assembled all the props, put on the white top hat on his head, and turned into Kaito Kid.

"The magnificent Phantom Thief under the moon will also appear in the sky above Las Vegas~"

Taking the notice letter prepared by Terai Konosuke and putting it in his arms, Kaito Kidd came to the balcony of the hotel, jumped down and disappeared under the balcony railing.

Konosuke Terai immediately ran to the edge of the balcony to check worriedly, but in the next second, the white flying wings that unfolded swooped upwards and flew towards the distance.

"Master..."

……

Kaitou Kidd is flying slowly in the sky, like a big white bird wandering in the black ocean.

Soon, the citizens of Las Vegas saw an existence that could not be ignored in the night sky.

"what is that?"

"UFO?"

Las Vegas is very close to Area 51. People here subconsciously thought it was a UFO and took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

But soon, people used binoculars to observe the figure, and found that it was actually a human being roaming the sky.

"It's a person!"

"That turned out to be a person!"

"It seems to be... Phantom Thief Kid!"

A citizen who is familiar with the international thieves said the name.

Kaitou Kidd showed a satisfied smile as he watched more and more passers-by below. His goal had been achieved.

The next step is to go to the police station to send a notice letter.

(End of this chapter)