Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"While spending time with the Titans, I suddenly discovered that being a vigilante with your head covered can also lead to sunshine. I am increasingly doubting whether Batman's approach is correct... I, I know I am wrong to think this way, but I just couldn’t control myself.”

Listening to Dick's narration, Barbara didn't know what to say for a while.

"No, maybe you're right, Dick, but this is Gotham and we're not like them."

Finally, Barbara sighed.

"Ah."

Dick snorted slightly.

"Anyway, when today's things are over, I will go and get the monitor from Dean's house. As for the conflict of ideas between you and Batman, I don't want to be involved at all."

Barbara said.

"no problem."

After saying that, the two of them ended the call at the same time and concentrated on the task in front of them.

Based on the current interpretation of the trailer, Kaito Kidd's target 'Dragon Egg Ruby Necklace' is stored on the top floor of the central cultural relics exhibition hall, and his appearance is in the jungle pavilion next to the cultural relics exhibition hall.

So Dick and Barbara decided to split up, with the former responsible for protecting the necklace, and the latter trying to stop Kaitou Kidd on the way.

In their opinion, Dick's identity as Robin has been exposed to Kaitou Kidd, and letting him guard the jungle pavilion might force Kidd to change his plan and start from other pavilions.

Kaitou Kidd doesn't know Barbara, but is a better candidate.

Meanwhile, in the smoking room of the heritage museum.

A man with a gloomy face had a cigarette in his mouth. He took out a matchbox from his pocket and struck a match.

With a bang, the match burned.

The strange thing is that this man did not use a match to light his cigarette, but just kept looking at the swaying flames on the match in a daze.

Waiting for the flame to go out, he lit the next match and continued to stare at the flame in a daze, repeating this action over and over again.

Everyone who came here to smoke looked at him strangely, but no one came up to talk to him.

Not many people even dared to come within two meters of this man.

This is obviously a mentally disturbed person. In Gotham, you can mess with anyone you want, but it's best not to mess with someone like this.

In the jungle exhibition hall, Barbara's vigilant eyes quickly scanned every passerby. Everyone present might be the disguise of Phantom Thief Kidd, and no detail could be missed.

Once she finds someone doing something suspicious, Barbara will go over and question them.

Her current status is as a temporary advisor to the GCPD. Although her term is only for one day, she is able to exercise her investigative powers liberally during this period.

Without this identity, Barbara would not be able to question the suspicious person face to face as soon as she finds him. After all, not everyone has the aura of being an unreasonable detective.

And she couldn't let Batgirl be too visible.

In addition to Barbara, Gordon is also here.

On the one hand, he was worried about the safety of his daughter. On the other hand, after the "Pink Dream" incident, Gordon realized that just staying in the monitoring center and commanding was not enough.

Kaitou Kidd might try his old trick to mislead them, so Gordon decided to go to the front line in person and arrest Kaitou Kidd where he appeared.

In this way, time passed little by little, and it was soon approaching ten o'clock in the evening.

At this time, Barbara suddenly felt the cell phone in her pocket vibrate.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, took out her phone and opened it.

Dean's bedroom was shown on the screen.

Judging from the picture, Dean should have just walked into the bedroom and was already wearing pajamas.

At the same time, he was holding a book in his hand, a quite remarkable book.

"Blueprint for the Future Development of Computer Technology" is written by Will Magnus, a top scientist at Star Labs. Rumor has it that he is researching the creation of artificial intelligence life forms.

This book can be called the most cutting-edge ideas and concepts in the computer industry. It is almost impossible for normal people to understand it. Even Barbara found many of the contents too obscure when reading this book.

Barbara wasn't surprised why Dean, a magician, would read hardcore books about computer science. Well, in fact, she was very surprised and couldn't even understand it, but she was used to it.

Because he's been reading this book since the first day she spied on Dean.

Chapter 55 I also have a fan club

Dean lay on the bed, picked up the book with a title that no normal person would recognize at the second glance, and read it with gusto.

Within five minutes, Dean suddenly yawned and became sleepy.

The next second he closed the book and threw it aside, lay down and fell asleep, the speed was staggering.

Barbara has watched the same scene no less than ten times.

Many times, she wondered if Dean was reading a book, or was he just using it as a harmless sleeping pill?

Dean was looking through those religious books that no one read in the Gotham City Library. Was his real purpose to find a sleeping pill with better effects? Is it just a coincidence that there is information about Rome on the notice letter?

Every time she saw this scene, Barbara would have this unbelievable thought. It was so unbelievable that she didn't know how to talk to Dick.

If she could, she really didn't want to think in this direction, but looking at Dean's performance, it seemed that... it really made sense?

Although for a high school student, going to bed at just ten o'clock in the evening is a bit too early.

But Dean is obviously an exception.

During the days when Barbara monitored Dean, she discovered that Dean took a different rest time every day. The latest time was 11:59 pm, and the earliest time was even 9:30 pm.

The work and rest time is quite irregular.

What's even more complicated is that no matter what time Dean went to bed the night before, he would wake up at the same time the next day, without oversleeping or getting up early.

Is this some kind of strange way of practicing magic?

Barbara couldn't understand it at all, but fortunately she didn't have to.

Anyway, at midnight today, Kaito Kidd arrived as promised, but Dean was still lying in bed sleeping, which was an absolute alibi.

As long as one of them disappears, Dean's suspicion will be greatly increased.

What she didn't know was that although Dean was still asleep on the screen, in fact he was not.

At this moment, in Dean's bedroom.

Holding the small surveillance system jammer that had just been activated in his hand, Dean calmly got out of bed and changed his clothes.

Under the influence of the jammer, the camera will loop through footage of Dean sleeping on the bed, and the abnormality cannot be detected with Earth's existing surveillance technology.

After changing his clothes, Dean took out the hyper-realistic dummy prepared in advance and placed it on the bed, making it look like he had been sleeping in the bedroom.

After finishing the arrangement, Dean left the bedroom, waiting until he walked out of the door before turning off the jammer and putting it away.

In the ten days before that, Dean had used this method to go to the museum under surveillance and arrange many mechanisms in advance.

"Once today's operation is over, I shouldn't have another crisis of identity exposure for a long time."

Dean thought this way and set off towards the Museum of Natural History.

Soon after.

Dean, dressed as an ordinary person, came to the square of the museum.

It's very late now, and as usual the museum has been closed a few hours ago, but today is special.

应展览会的举办者钱德勒夫人特意要求，不允许在3月10日到3月11日这两天封闭博物馆，必须连续开馆48小时。

It is unclear whether this was her own intention or someone else's attitude.

It's okay that the museum is still open. What's really outrageous is that at this time in Gotham at night, there are still quite a lot of people gathered here.

The entire large square was full of people. A quick look showed that there were at least two to three thousand people, not counting the number of people visiting the more than ten exhibition halls.

"There are more and more spectators, so it's just right. It's not in vain that I spent so much effort on setting up the event in the first ten days."

Looking at so many people in the square, Dean showed a satisfied smile. Next, he would perform a large-scale magic trick in front of these audiences.

Rumble!

At this moment, a burst of thunder suddenly came from the sky.

He raised his head and looked around, only to see that the sky had been covered with dark clouds at some point, and lightning flashed in the clouds.

As soon as the thunder sounded, people in the square immediately caused a commotion. Some people were secretly annoyed, and some people were happy.

"It's really going to rain! The weather forecast was right. Fortunately, I brought an umbrella before going out."

"Shet! There was no sign of rain all day long, but it rained in the middle of the night?"

"Hey! Man, your umbrella is quite big. Can you put it up?"

In addition to caring about whether they have an umbrella, many people are concerned about another thing.

"I heard that Kaitou Kidd can use hang gliders to move in the air. In this weather, we definitely can't use hang gliders. So will Kaitou Kidd still come?"

There was a small group of twenty or thirty young people in the square, each holding a sign that read "Phantom Thief Kidd", and most of them were women.

It seems like he is a fan of Kaito Kidd, and one of them is worried that Kidd won't be able to use his glider.

"Kidd doesn't always use hang gliders. I'm worried that his disguise mask will fall off if it gets wet. If he can't disguise himself and is seen as he is, wouldn't that mean his identity is exposed? The GCPD will definitely arrest him."

"Ah? It's really dangerous to hear what you said. It's better that Kidd doesn't come. I don't want him to be caught in Black Gate Prison."

"Which member of the Phantom Thief fan group wants to see Kidd caught? But his notice letter has been sent out. If he doesn't come, he will be violating his notice, and Kidd's charm will be gone!"

"I want him to come, but I don't want him to come. It's so confusing."

Not far away, Dean eavesdropped on the conversation of these people with a look of surprise on his face.

Although he had known about the existence of this group in the news for a long time, this was the first time he saw his fan group in person.

Dean originally thought that the Phantom Thieves fan group would only communicate with each other online, but he didn't expect that they had developed to the point of organizing offline gatherings.

"It feels good to have someone to worry about, even though your worries never happened in the first place."

Although he really wanted to pretend to be his fan and sneak in for fun, Dean had more important actions to do now.

He looked at the jungle exhibition hall guarded by numerous police officers, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

"As I thought, everyone thought that Caesar's instructions were referring to the Jungle Pavilion. Unfortunately, they guessed wrong."

Looking at the time, there was still more than an hour until midnight, which was enough for Dean to make the final arrangements.

He turned around and left without looking back.

The target is the library exhibition hall located on the west side of the cultural relics exhibition hall, which corresponds to the jungle exhibition hall on the east side of the cultural relics exhibition hall.

Chapter 56 Fireflies

The library exhibition hall, one of the thirteen major exhibition halls of the Gotham Museum of Natural History, collects natural history-related works from all over the world, with a collection of more than 250,000 volumes.

The library exhibition hall is located on the west side of the cultural relics exhibition hall. The two exhibition halls are very close to each other and connected through the air corridor on the third floor.

The situation is similar to that of the Gotham City Library. There are very few visitors in the library exhibition hall, and there are only a few patrol officers passing by in the corridors.

Above the ceiling of the corridor, Dean kept crawling forward, his movements light and fast, making almost no sound.

Dean was wearing pure black tights, blending into the night.

Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta!

In the sky, two helicopters circled back and forth between the thirteen exhibition halls, and a searchlight swept around every corner.

Dean crawled forward quickly while carefully avoiding the helicopter's searchlights. Fortunately, there were only two helicopters, and the range that the searchlights could illuminate was not large. There was still a lot of room for Dean to move.

Not long after, he arrived at the end of the air corridor.

At this moment, Dean, who was lying on top of the corridor, was between the third and fourth floors of the cultural relics exhibition hall.

As for why he took the risk of being discovered by a helicopter and acted on the top of the corridor, it was because there was a vent on the wall between the third and fourth floors of the cultural relics exhibition hall, which could directly lead to the place where the dragon egg ruby ​​necklace was. exhibition hall.

The location of this vent is right at the top of the sky corridor.

Dean opened the vent and crawled into the ventilation duct, pushing forward.

At the same time, in a smoking room in the cultural relics exhibition hall.

The shadowy man with a cigarette in his mouth but never lit it still stayed here, lighting the matches out of boredom, and then lit new matches after they went out, one after another.

In addition to this man, there were more than a dozen people smoking in the room. They would rather have several people crowded together than stand far away and not dare to get too close to him.