Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

Dean knows that Robin and Batgirl are both good people.

And good people are very empathetic.

If they see that the secret room is full of the Sastons' belongings, and then think of Dean's tragic experience of losing his parents at a young age, they will naturally feel compassion.

At the same time, the dust on the floor also proves that it took Dean a long time to enter the secret room, which means that this secret room has nothing to do with Kaitou Kidd.

Maybe even guilty of doubting Dean.

As for whether it's possible that the person who doubts Dean's identity is not a superhero, but a supervillain who lacks empathy...

Dean believes that if this happens, then he should consider not how to conceal his identity, but how to ensure that his house will not be suddenly bombed.

In the secret room, Dean strolled to a wall in the corner.

I saw a newlywed portrait of the Sustons hanging on it.

Dean knelt down and looked at the lower right corner of the portrait where the frame fit the wall, about five centimeters upward from the bottom.

A thin black hair is sandwiched between the frame and the wall.

Seeing that the hair that had been put up in advance was still there, Dean smiled.

"Sure enough, as I thought, Bat Girl didn't see through the truth behind the illusion. I thought she would give up her doubts about me when she saw the secret room, but I didn't expect that she installed surveillance cameras in the house in the end. It's really not easy."

Dean reached out and lifted the frame back and up, then tilted it thirty degrees to the left.

When a click was heard, the portrait was fixed on the wall at the current angle.

The chamber itself appears to have remained unchanged.

But on the other side, the wall in the basement corresponding to the secret room slowly opened inward, revealing the entrance to the second secret room.

This second secret room is Kaitou Kidd's base of operations!

"There is less than a week left before March 3th. In order to deal with Dick and Barbara these days, I have no time to check out the points. I will not be able to work hard in the next few days."

After carrying all of Kaito Kid's common equipment, Dean closed both secret rooms and quietly left home.

"It's half past eight in the evening, and there is surveillance in the bedroom. If you go to bed too early or too late every day, it will look suspicious... I am very tight on time, so I have to act quickly."

Thinking of this, Dean rushed to the Natural History Museum as quickly as possible.

Nearly three hours later.

A bedroom on the second floor of an old-style house in Gotham's old town.

Barbara sat in front of her computer, staring at the monitor.

She wasn't watching a movie or playing a game.

Instead, I'm looking at a bedroom.

A bedroom with no one in it, not a still picture.

Yes, Barbara was watching the live feed from Dean's bedroom.

And she has been watching it for more than an hour and a half.

"Barbara, what are you doing? How long are you going to do this senseless thing?"

After watching it, Barbara finally couldn't bear it anymore and kept asking herself in her heart.

"Why should I install a surveillance camera in Dean's house? He obviously has no motive to become Kaitou Kidd, and I didn't find any clues in his house."

"Just because someone happens to read a book about Roman religion, do I suspect that he is Kid the Phantom Thief? God, I must have been infected by Batman."

Just as Barbara was about to shut down her computer and go on night patrol to calm down, Dean entered the bedroom.

"Wow!"

Barbara's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but say.

Chapter 53 Month 10

A week later.

3 month 10 day.

This is a special day for the Gotham Museum of Natural History.

Because at midnight on this day, Kaito Kidd will come to steal the priceless treasure "Dragon Egg Ruby Necklace".

On this day, almost all the media in Gotham sent reporters and photographers to the Museum of Natural History. As long as they could take a close-up of Kidd, their subsequent newspaper sales would increase by more than ten times.

Vicki Vale's exclusive news about Kaito Kidd had already made Gotham Gazette a huge profit, and other media outlets, large and small, were naturally jealous.

On the surface, the reporters greeted each other with smiles, but in fact, they were secretly gearing up.

Everyone wants to take the most perfect picture. Every reporter present is a competitor, and they may even deliberately block other people's shots.

Even if you can interview Kaitou Kidd in person, that would be an excellent opportunity to become famous.

No journalist wants to give this opportunity to anyone else.

The GCPD team also had a solemn atmosphere and firm eyes. They entered the museum earlier than everyone else to replace the vigil police officers from last night.

Since Barbara deciphered the contents of the notice letter, there were only a few police officers guarding the museum between March 3 and 1, about fifty people.

Today, Gordon brought more than 400 guards and set up a dragnet around the cultural relics exhibition hall and the jungle exhibition hall, just waiting for Kaito Kidd to show up.

In order to ensure that Kaitou Kidd could be successfully captured this time, Gordon even called in more than a dozen special police officers from the SWAT unit. This unit is the elite ace of the GCPD and can be called one of the most powerful armed forces in Gotham City... one.

This unit is generally only used when dealing with particularly difficult super villains.

This shows how determined Gordon is to capture Phantom Thief Kidd as soon as possible.

In addition to reporters and police, the people of Gotham were equally positive.

They seemed to be very interested in Kaitou Kidd, a high-profile thief, especially after the Pink Dream money laundering scandal came to light.

For most Gotham citizens, counterfeiting of diamonds is irrelevant, since they can't afford it anyway.

But the nature of black money laundering is different, because the black money is likely to be obtained through drug dealing, the black market for organs, arms smuggling and even human trafficking.

As far as Gotham's environment is concerned, it can be said that it is closely related to the people at the bottom, seriously endangering their personal safety.

As a thief, Kaitou Kidd has become a key player in exposing the money laundering industry chain. How can such a strong contrast not make people curious?

Especially the young people in the new era of Gotham, they believe that Kaitou Kidd is not only a simple criminal, but even a hero, using his own way to expose the darkness of society and help those who really need help.

Although from a legal perspective, Kaitou Kidd is an out-and-out criminal, not everyone regards legal principles as truth.

In short, no matter how Kaitou Kidd is characterized, it cannot change the fact that thousands of ordinary citizens gathered at the museum at this moment just to see Kaitou Kidd with their own eyes.

In the cultural relics exhibition hall, the 'Dragon Egg Ruby Necklace' was covered by a transparent glass cover and placed alone in the middle of the exhibition hall. It was separated by a cordon within a radius of three meters and no one was allowed to approach.

The glass cover that protects the necklace is made of the world's most cutting-edge bulletproof glass technology, with strength comparable to titanium alloy and hardness no weaker than chromium, but it is not produced by Wayne Group.

The company that makes this glass cover is Lex Group.

Before today, the blockade outside the necklace was actually only one meter. It was not until the day announced by Kaitou Kid that it was expanded to three meters.

Outside the blockade, a dozen heavily armed SWAT police officers stood side by side in a complete circle, leaving no gaps in the middle. There was no vent even on the ceiling here.

Gordon gave them a death order. No matter what happened, whether it was a power outage or a fire, they were not allowed to leave without permission from him.

Even if you go to the toilet, you must ensure that at least two people go together.

You are also not allowed to believe the orders coming from the walkie-talkie. You can only obey his instructions if you read the code in front of you and confirm that it is not Gordon pretending to be Kaitou Kidd.

Make sure no one has access to the necklace throughout the night.

"I don't believe that Kaitou Kidd can still steal the necklace with this arrangement."

Harvey Bullock glanced at the encirclement in front of him and thought triumphantly.

"If he wants to get close to the necklace, he has to fight against more than a dozen heavily armed SWAT police at once. Who can do this except Batman?"

Yes, the personal protection solution for this necklace was proposed to Gordon by Bullock.

At first, Gordon thought this was a bit too extreme and not very efficient. He was just competing for time with Kidd, the thief.

But then I thought about it, Kaitou Kidd often likes to play cards out of the box, and using this simple and crude method might actually have a miraculous effect.

After all, no matter what tricks Kaitou Kidd pulls off, he is still here to steal the necklace.

So Gordon waved his hand and agreed to Bullock's proposal, and also asked the GCPD's strongest special police to protect the necklace at close range.

"Do you really think that method will work?"

At the same time, Dick looked at Bullock and the encirclement from the corner of the exhibition hall, pressing his earphones with one hand and whispering.

On the other side, in the jungle exhibition hall, Barbara came to a place with few people and also pressed the earphone to respond.

"You mean Bullock's plan of holding hands and forming a circle? I can only say that if it were me, I would never use such a stupid plan."

"Then why don't you tell your father? I remember that you are not the temporary consultant of the GCPD in this incident?"

Dick asked.

"Please, don't you really think that my father will listen to me? Besides, I didn't say that the method was bad. I just thought it was too stupid. Maybe it actually works?"

Barbara curled her lips and said.

"Okay, then you can tell me now, what did you see when you monitored Dean's house for so many days?"

Dick turned to ask another question.

"……nothing."

"nothing?"

"nothing!"

"really?"

Dick asked suspiciously.

"If you haven't found anything suspicious until now, doesn't that prove Dean's innocence? Why don't you go and take back the monitor?"

Barbara had a hesitant look on her face, and it took her a while to speak.

"The last day, today is the last day! As soon as the Phantom Thief Kidd incident is over, I will go get the camera back."

I recommended a friend’s book. It’s a great historical masterpiece. Both the writing and the conception are much better than mine.

Chapter 54 Dick's Little Thoughts

"Dick, I really don't understand why you are so emotional now? I know you believe that Dean is not Phantom Thief Kidd, and I don't want Phantom Thief Kidd to be your friend, but I believe it cannot prove Dean's innocence!"

Barbara's serious words reached Dick's ears.

"Today is the last day. As long as Dean is still at home when Kaito Kidd takes action, that is the best way to prove his innocence. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"Not only when it comes to Dean, but also on daily night patrols, you are becoming more and more emotional. This is not a good thing. Have you ever thought about what would happen if Batman came back and saw you in your current state? think?"

Barbara said in a serious tone.

"A few months ago, you were not like this when you persuaded Batman to give me a second chance. What happened to you? Did your two defeats against Kidd make you feel stimulated?"

"..."

Dick was silent for a moment and replied: "I...I just can't help but think that maybe we can change it another way."

"Batman is used to treating everything in front of him with suspicion, so he asks us to do the same. Just like Dean, do we really have a solid basis to accuse him of being Kaitou Kidd? Rather than just rely on an almost intuitive feeling. Doubts?"

"No, we didn't! There was no motive, no evidence, no witnesses, no clues, but under such circumstances, we sneaked into his house as a matter of course, and even installed surveillance in his home! We seemed to think that we were wantonly infringing on other people's rights. Privacy is right, as long as the results are right!”

"Is this really the right thing to do?"

Dick looked up at the ceiling, more like asking himself than Barbara.

Barbara was stunned, she didn't expect Dick to say these words.

"I used to regard Batman's words as truth, and I tried my best to imitate his words and deeds. But as time goes by, and I don't know why, I feel more and more... I feel like I am living in Batman's world. in the shadow.”

Dick recalled, "You know I helped create the Teen Titans, but you can never imagine what I was thinking when I first met the Titans."

“Donna was the first to greet me, then Wally came over to shake my hand, Roy made a joke about my name, and Garth was quiet but cold-hearted and warm-hearted. I will never forget the sincere smiles on their faces. "

"But what have I done? On the surface, I went crazy with them and got into trouble, but secretly I was thinking about how to defeat them all the time, taking advantage of their character weaknesses and their trust in me."

Dick shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Because that was the task assigned to me by Batman, and that day happened to be my fourteenth birthday."