Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

When Robin turned around the corner, he suddenly bumped into something soft.

Immediately afterwards, a female exclamation sounded from the corridor.

Robin took a closer look and saw Vicki Weir falling down and sitting on the ground, rubbing her head for no apparent reason.

"You...you are Robin?"

Vicky, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly became happy when she saw that the person in front of her was Robin. She was not in a hurry to stand up immediately, but instead pointed behind her.

"Kaitou Kid suddenly ran over just now. I was going to catch up and stop him, but I didn't expect you to follow behind and knock me down."

Looking in the direction of Vicky's finger, one could indeed see the back of Kaitou Kidd in the corridor, which had already run some distance away.

"When he ran over, he threw this thing to me. It looked like a recorder. I didn't know what it meant."

Vicky raised her hand to show Robin. It was a small, slender black box. The overall size was very small, not much larger than an ordinary lighter.

Robin looked at Kaito Kidd and then at Vicky.

"I'm sorry, Miss Weir."

Without thinking, he reached out and grabbed Vicki's face to check whether she might be Kaitou Kid in disguise.

At the same time, don’t forget to apologize in advance.

"Oh! What are you doing?"

Vicki, who was caught off guard and had her face grabbed, exclaimed.

It's a real face, Vicky is not Kaitou Kidd.

But...why would Vicki Vale appear in this place at this time?

And the recorder that Kaitou Kidd threw to her, what does it mean?

He was obviously being hunted, why did he do this? What was the content of the recorder?

Even before the auction started, when Robin met Vicki Vale in the restaurant as Dick, she seemed to have been looking for Gray Letard Ethan, who later became the Phantom Thief Kidd. Disguise your identity, is there some connection between these two things?

After confirming Vicky's identity, not only did it not solve the problem, but it caused more questions in Robin's mind.

It's just that he has no time to think about these questions now.

"We can't let Kaitou Kid escape!"

Robin temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and ran after Kaitou Kid's back.

Vicky looked at the two people walking away one after another, her eyes suddenly became serious, she stood up and started taking action.

However, she had no intention of following Kaitou Kidd and Robin. Instead, she turned the corner to the corridor in front of Kaitou Kidd and Robin.

That is the corridor leading to the door of the auction venue.

Tread, step, step!

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Kaitou Kidd glanced back and said in a helpless tone: "Here we go again! Why are you so stubborn about catching me?"

"If you really want to hear an answer, then I have to say, yes!"

Robin said firmly.

"is it?"

Kaitou Kid looked ahead and saw that the stairs were less than fifteen meters away on the right, and he suddenly had a plan in his mind.

"It seems that if I don't deal with you here, you are going to bite me to death!"

Kaitou Kid froze his body, turned around and said coldly to Robin. At some point, a strange-looking silver-white pistol appeared in his hand.

The first time he saw Kaitou Kid using a pistol, Robin's eyes suddenly changed, not because of fear or nervousness, but because he couldn't believe it.

"He wants to kill me? Are my previous views on Kaitou Kidd wrong?"

Robin was on alert, observing the movements of Kid's hands. Unlike Batman's suit, his uniform also used good bulletproof materials.

But in order to maintain light mobility, Robin's uniform does not use a large amount of heavy Kevlar hybrid titanium alloy armor like the Bat suit. Instead, it does more lightweight processing, and at most it is added to the original uniform. There are some arm armor, leg armor, knee pads and the like, which makes the overall bulletproof effect of Robin's uniform not ideal.

If Robin were to wear a uniform similar to the Batsuit, he would not be able to move flexibly and lightly. This is due to the physical difference between Robin and Batman.

boom!

Just hearing a gunshot, Kaitou Kidd actually shot Robin.

However, what was shot out of the gun was not a bullet, but a playing card. The shooting speed of the playing card was also slower than the pistol bullets.

Robin, who was well prepared, dodged naturally, as if following some kind of instinct.

"Ok?"

Robin didn't quite understand what the gun was for a while, and subconsciously turned his body sideways, letting the playing cards fly past.

"Poker pistol?"

Robin, who had avoided the playing cards, reacted and immediately felt dumbfounded.

Kaito Kidd's weapons look weird, and they're even weirder when used.

Who on earth would want to make a pistol that shoots playing cards as bullets?

Goo, goo, goo!

At this moment, a cylindrical object suddenly rolled in front of Robin, and then puffed out a cloud of gray mist, which quickly spread and enveloped Robin.

The fog was not too thick and the view was not greatly affected.

"Did Kaitou Kidd forget that I'm wearing a gas mask?"

Robin raised his eyebrows, not paying much attention to the gray mist, and continued to approach Kaitou Kidd on the opposite side.

Then, he saw Kaitou Kidd showing a weird smile.

Whoosh!

I saw Kaitou Kid's hand that wasn't holding the gun suddenly move, and the playing card that originally flew past Robin flew back and inserted directly into the gap between the gas mask and Robin's cheek. Part of the mask strap was cut off.

"what!"

At this moment, Robin saw an extremely thin transparent silk thread wrapped around the playing cards!

Without giving Robin a chance to react, Kaitou Kid's hand holding the thread suddenly pulled back.

With a click, the gas mask on Robin's face was pulled off, and Robin immediately inhaled part of the gray mist.

"Ahem! Is this...tear gas?"

Robin immediately squatted down while holding his breath, covering his mouth and nose with one hand, and tried to grab the gas mask that fell on the ground with the other hand.

Snapped!

Another playing card shot over, knocking the gas mask farther away.

Goo, goo, goo!

At the same time, three tear gas canisters rolled over, and gray fog suddenly filled the corridor.

"Goodbye, Wonder Boy, if you hurry back to the auction venue now, you still have a chance to watch another good show."

Kaitou Kidd smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to cover his whole body with his cloak.

The white cloak gradually fell to the ground under the influence of gravity, and Kaito Kidd's figure had long since disappeared.

Chapter 31 The truth revealed

"Cough cough cough-"

Robin covered his face with his cloak and retreated from the gray fog of tear gas.

After about ten seconds, the effect of the tear gas gradually faded, and then Robin put down the cloak covering his face.

The effect of tear gas seems to have been deliberately reduced a lot. Basically, it will have little effect soon after Robin exits. However, even if the tear gas bombs frequently used by GCPD are out of the gas range, the effect will still last for about ten minutes before starting to decay.

Robin stared at the gray fog in front of him that would take a few minutes to completely dissipate in silence. He knew in his heart that there was no hope of catching up with Kaito Kidd at this time.

"There is another good show at the auction venue..."

Recalling what Kaitou Kid had just said, Robin narrowed his eyes and walked back to the venue.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to take Cicero, the hotel manager, who was spread out in the corridor.

Soon after, inside the auction venue.

As soon as Robin walked in through the door, he felt something was wrong in the atmosphere.

With the efforts of Gordon and a group of GCPD police officers, the chaotic situation was well controlled and order was restored.

The strange thing is that everyone returned to the bidding seats at this time. The GCPD police officers formed a circle outside and all looked at the host table, just like the scene during the bidding.

However, the original Cicero standing on the hosting stage was replaced by an unexpected woman.

Big and elegant golden waves, smart and simple workplace attire, and a mature and intellectual face.

Gotham Gazette's signature reporter Vicki Vale!

Next to Vicki Weir, Luck and Graytard were handcuffed and stood there without saying a word. Behind them were several police officers, including Gordon.

This Gray Letard is obviously genuine.

"Is this the good show Kaitou Kidd said?"

Robin hummed in his heart, he probably knew what kind of trick Kid was playing.

He dragged Cicero in and threw the latter to Lac and Greytard.

"You're back, Robin, how's it going?"

Gordon asked hurriedly when he saw Robin coming back.

"Sorry, Kaitou Kidd ran away again."

Robin shook his head slightly.

"Don't worry about the thief for now. There are more important things that need to be revealed to the people who don't know the truth. Thank you for bringing Cicero here. We just happened to talk about him."

Vicki interrupted the conversation between Gordon and Robin and said solemnly.

"If you had come in twenty seconds later, I'm afraid I would have had to borrow two people from Director Gordon to fetch Mr. Cicero."

"So, what's going on now?"

Robin asked looking at Gordon.

"Miss Weir said she had some inside information about the 'Pink Fantasy' diamond, claiming that there was an illegal transaction involving a huge amount of money behind it."

Gordon replied, "She said that everyone here has the right to know the truth, so she chose to announce it publicly here. She just said that Cicero fell in the corridor and wanted me to send someone to pick him up, and then she Appeared."

Hearing this, Robin nodded understandingly, thinking silently in his mind.

"It turns out that in the last sentence of Kidd's notice letter, Hermes is not referring to Phantom Thief Kidd himself, but Vicky Vale, a reporter dedicated to exposing the truth."

Hermes is the messenger of the gods, and isn’t the purpose of the journalist profession to be the messenger who conveys true voices to the world?

Although journalists who have always maintained their true nature are rare these days, this does not tamper with the essence of the identity of a 'journalist'.

At least Vicky Weir is a conscientious reporter.

Vicky walked to the center of the host stage, picked up the microphone and faced everyone and said: "Everyone who came to participate in the auction today, I am Vicky Vale from the Gotham Gazette. Some people may have heard of my name, and some may have heard of me. No."

In fact, this was a bit modest. Vicki Vale's reputation was still very high in Gotham, and almost all of the hundreds of bidders in the audience knew about her.

"I know you have a lot of doubts in your hearts, and maybe you are resentful of Kaitou Kidd who disrupted the auction process, but I want to tell you that today's auction hides a dirty and illegal transaction!"

"And the prop for this transaction... is the finale of this auction, 'Pink Dream'. This diamond is artificially fake!"

As soon as this statement came out, the audience immediately started talking about it. Many of them came here because of the name of the world's largest pink diamond.

As for some gossip about fake diamonds, at their level, they basically cannot hear it. Even if they hear it, no one will take it seriously if it is unsubstantiated.

But now it was Vicki Vale, Gotham Gazette's leading reporter, who was saying these words, and her words were quite influential.

Vicky pointed to Cicero and continued: "Joy Cicero, as the host of the auction, not only agreed to let fake diamonds participate in the auction, but also prepared a series of appraisal certificates for 'Pink Dream'. Use bribery, threats, blackmail, etc. to force the appraiser to stamp the certificate!"

"I know accusations without evidence are meaningless, so I'm asking you to take a look at this!"

Vicki dug out a transparent sealed bag in her bag and displayed it in front of everyone on the big screen.

The bag is densely filled with all kinds of diamonds, crystals, reds, blues, emeralds and the like. They are gorgeous and colorful, and each one is in excellent condition. If you carve them carefully, they are worth a fortune. It is a waste to stuff them all into a plastic bag like this.