Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"Just one year ago, he was still an unknown person. Why has he become the boss's most trusted confidant?"

Dean had something in his mind, but he didn't know whether to say it or not.

According to Lark, she had been working under the Penguin for ten years, but she still behaved so brainlessly, thinking only about fighting and killing.

On the other hand, Okiervi, regardless of how big his talent is, can come up with ideas that dazzle the Penguin in a gang war, which proves that he at least has a brain.

The status of a ten-year veteran has been climbed up in just one year. Shouldn't you reflect on yourself?

Dean couldn't help but shook his head inwardly. As the saying goes, a young and Dangerous boy will remain a Young and Dangerous boy for the rest of his life without using his brain.

But for Dean, it was a good thing that this person had no scheming intentions. From the time he entered the auction site to now, Dean used Gray Letard's skin to constantly trick him out of Lark.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Dean's eyes moved and he looked down at the first row.

I saw that the seat in the middle that belonged to Dick Grayson had become empty at some point, leaving only Alfred sitting in his original position.

(Brothers, if you have any opinions, you can raise them. If there is anything wrong with the writing, just point it out. If you need to scold them, scold them, if you need to criticize them, you should criticize them. Don’t delete the book and leave.)

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Chapter 23 Investigation and Monitoring

Dean rolled his eyes and quickly guessed where Dick was now.

Then he stood up from his seat.

"Where do you want to go?"

Luck beside him couldn't help but asked strangely when he saw "Grey Tard Ethan" getting up for no reason.

"Oh, I just need to... go to the bathroom, you know, I just ate a little too much."

Dean said with a sneer.

"That's why you're always so fat that it's hard to even walk."

Lark glanced at Dean with disgust, sat on his seat and opened his legs slightly to the right, because only in this way could "Grey Tard" walk through the aisle that was not actually narrow.

Fortunately, the two of them were in the outermost corner, and Dean passed by Lark and reached the outer steps.

After coming out, Dean quietly left the auction venue.

Just after Dean left the side door of the auction venue, another person in the venue also left...

On the other side, the kitchen on the first floor of Gotham International Hotel.

While everyone was busy working, there was a sudden clang on the kitchen door.

The sudden sound startled everyone, and they turned to look at the door.

A young man wearing a red tights, green tights and an eyepatch on his face walked in.

On his shoulders was a young man wearing only a thin shirt and shorts, who was sleeping soundly.

When the staff in the kitchen saw the young man on the boy's shoulder, the expressions on their faces became even more surprised.

"Isn't that Tom! Is the person behind his back Robin?"

"I remember that Tom was sent to the 18th floor to serve dishes. How could he fall asleep and be brought here by Robin?"

"and many more!"

At this time, an employee who was cutting salmon suddenly shouted, "Do you still remember that GCPD said that Kaitou Kidd would disguise himself as someone else? The person in front of us may not be Tom! Maybe Robin caught him Kaito Kidd disguised as Tom!"

"It seems to make sense, but how can we be sure that Kaito Kid is pretending to be Tom? Maybe Robin is Kaito Kid in disguise!"

Another employee who was grinding meat asked rhetorically.

Robin didn't explain too much. He just put the sleeping Tom on the ground and said lightly, "I found him on the rooftop of the hotel. Phantom Thief Kidd knocked him out."

After saying that, Robin turned and left the kitchen.

Soon after, the control room on the twentieth floor of the hotel.

GCPD Chief Jim Gordon and several elite subordinates from the intelligence team stayed here, staring intently at the dozens of surveillance images on the entire wall.

"It's been more than an hour since the auction started, and I haven't found anything unusual at all. Will Kaitou Kidd really come?"

One of the subordinates blinked his dry eyes, picked up the brewed coffee on the table and took a sip.

"Don't be careless. It's not midnight as Kidd predicted. Anything can happen in the meantime."

Gordon's face darkened and he alerted his subordinates.

"You're right, and in fact, Kaito Kidd has already sneaked into the hotel."

At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind Gordon.

"who!"

Several policemen in the surveillance room turned around instantly, took out their pistols and pointed them at the person behind them.

"Robin?"

Gordon looked at the visitor in surprise, and just when his expression was about to calm down, he suddenly remembered that Kaitou Kidd could disguise himself, and stared at Robin warily.

"How are you going to prove that you are not Kaitou Kidd?"

Robin was silent for a moment, and then took out a golden badge from somewhere with the word law engraved on it.

"Do you still remember this? When Batman took me to the Bat-Lamp appointment for the first time a few years ago, you personally gave me this souvenir. You also said it was a symbol of our partnership."

Seeing the badge, Gordon's face looked much better, and he almost believed Robin in his heart, but he still had the last trace of doubt.

"Maybe you stole this from the kid. Not many people know about the badge, but there are still a few people in Gotham who can find out. You have to tell something that only the two of us know. At least I have to tell you something."

Gordon said forcefully.

"Okay, let me think about what to say..."

Robin shook his head helplessly, then touched his chin and said, "What about the pipe? Director Gordon, you used to like to smoke ordinary cigarettes like everyone else, but later because Batman often appeared behind you, you always It will startle you so much that the cigarette in your mouth falls to the ground, and then you switch to a pipe and keep smoking with your hand."

"Oh - I was just talking about how the director started smoking with an antique pipe like that for no reason. At first I thought he started to like retro styles, but I didn't expect that the real reason was this!"

A policeman next to him showed a look of realization and said to his colleagues beside him.

Gordon glanced at him expressionlessly and didn't say anything. He just glanced at him lightly and then turned back to look at Robin again.

"You successfully proved your identity, Robin, so what did you mean when you said that Kaitou Kidd had infiltrated?"

"I found an unconscious man on the rooftop of the hotel. His name was Tom and he was a staff member in the kitchen on the first floor, but before I found Tom who was unconscious, the people in the kitchen had been working with 'Tom'. "

Robin concealed the fact that Kidd had temporarily issued a personal challenge to him, and only told the process of discovering Tom.

"Apparently, Kaitou Kidd disguised himself as Tom and sneaked into the hotel. I am here to investigate 'Tom's' movement through surveillance."

"Quick! Assemble surveillance and push the time forward!"

Gordon immediately issued an order to his subordinates.

The matter was so important that several other police officers immediately started operating the monitoring station.

The surveillance footage began to move forward, until about two hours ago, a man who looked exactly like Tom came out of the kitchen on the first floor and pushed a cart full of ingredients into the elevator.

Robin stared attentively, watching every move of 'Tom' on the screen.

Then something strange happened. In the surveillance record, 'Tom' was seen quietly looking left and right while pushing the car.

The movement of his head was so slight that it would not have been noticed if one had not observed carefully. Gordon and others were facing dozens of surveillance images at the same time, so it was normal that they did not notice it at the time.

Continue to view monitoring records.

After working as a waiter in the restaurant on the 18th floor, 'Tom's behavior became even more bizarre.

(PS: Just a quick reminder, I previously set the auction to start at 7pm, but later I felt that 7pm was a bit too early, so I changed the previous time to 9pm, and I’d like to explain it to the old readers here. )

Chapter 24: Surprised or not? Unexpected?

In the surveillance footage, every once in a while, Kaitou Kidd dressed as 'Tom' would leave the restaurant and appear in the corridor. Each time he appeared in a different location. This time he was in the corridor on the left, and that time he was in the corridor on the left. Ran to the corridor on the right.

Moreover, he is always accompanied by another person or even several people. It is basically difficult to see him wandering around alone.

So much so that the policemen in the surveillance room watched the surveillance for most of the day, but they couldn't see anything wrong.

Tom was wearing a restaurant waiter's overalls, and there were so many people wearing the same clothes that he couldn't even count them as they walked up and down the corridor.

In addition, he has been following other people's actions and has never done anything obviously suspicious.

If he hadn't known in advance that there was something wrong with this 'Tom', it would have been difficult for anyone else to find out what was wrong.

The coverage of one surveillance camera is limited. A total of fifteen cameras are installed on the entire eighteenth floor to monitor the most important passages and locations.

That's right, Nuoda's auction venue only has a symbolic surveillance camera installed in the public entertainment area, but there is not even a surveillance camera in the bidding venue.

The reason is simple. The hypocritical upper-class elites in Gotham attach great importance to privacy issues. They don't like surveillance very much, and they don't like having a large group of policemen in police uniforms standing in their sight.

So if Gordon wanted to know what was going on inside, he could only rely on the dozens of plainclothes policemen inserted inside.

Only key locations in each passage and corridor are monitored. After all, this is a hotel, not a prison. It was impossible to consider installing 360-degree surveillance at the beginning of establishment.

"Here, here, and here, go back seven minutes, twenty-two minutes, and seventeen minutes respectively."

Suddenly, Robin pointed at three of the surveillance images.

"Do as he says."

Gordon said immediately.

Several police officers quickly adjusted the three pictures to the corresponding time points.

You can see that 'Tom' exists in these three pictures.

"Please pay attention, although these are images taken by three surveillance cameras from different angles, they are actually at the same location."

Robin prompted.

"Yes, this is a corner location. The three cameras are located in the middle of the two corridors and at the top of the corner."

Several policemen said in unison.

"Looking at Kaitou Kidd in these pictures, he appears in different positions, but at a certain moment, he is vaguely looking at the same position in the three pictures. He passes this corner three times in a row, and his eyes are focused. In one direction, isn’t that weird?”

Robin's eyes were deep and he said, "Is there anything there that he needs to confirm again and again?"

"Notify the patrol team nearby and go immediately..."

Gordon reacted quickly and was immediately ready to order his men to check the corner.

"No, Director Gordon, I can go alone."

Robin stopped Gordon's action and solemnly said: "We are not sure whether Kaitou Kidd will set up a trap there. It would be too dangerous for GCPD people to investigate!"

"You are still a minor, and it is even more dangerous for you to go alone!"

Gordon frowned and retorted.

"Don't underestimate me. The monsters I have dealt with are beyond your imagination."

Robin smiled slightly, patted his chest and said.

"And you have more important things to do. The situation at the bidding site is unknown. I suspect that Kaitou Kidd may have sneaked in in disguise. If we conduct a large-scale screening of the people in the venue now, there may be hope to force Come out Kaitou Kidd."

After saying that, Robin rushed out of the monitoring room without looking back.

"Wait, Robin!"

Gordon hurriedly chased out.

However, when he rushed out of the monitoring room door, Robin was nowhere to be seen.

The whole process lasted only two or three seconds, and Robin was out of Gordon's sight in just a blink of an eye.

"Shet! It's like this again..."

Gordon couldn't help but uttered a curse word, how on earth did the people of the Bat family develop such a skill that they could disappear in a blink of an eye?

He even asked Batman privately if he had the power to teleport. Batman didn't speak at that time, and Gordon didn't ask further.

Because the former's look as if looking at a fool had already told Gordon the answer...

"The current time is 23:35, and there are still twenty-five minutes before the time predicted by Kaito Kidd. If he is a punctual person, then I still have time."