Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 175 The Dutiful Son of Gotham

"If I remember correctly, the FBI seems to have a branch in Gotham. Who is the agent in charge? I don't have much impression."

Dean reached out and touched his chin, thinking to himself.

Gotham is a very strange city. Even though the FBI seems to be very cool in the United States, in Gotham they are no different than a transparent person.

Despite the fact that every Gothamite looks down on the GCPD, in fact the combat effectiveness of the GCPD is far more powerful than the police force in ordinary cities. In some street fighting situations, it is even stronger than the army. The only difference is in terms of weapons.

In other places, the local police may assist the FBI in handling cases, but in a place like Gotham, the GCPD will always dominate.

In fact, it is not just in the city of Gotham, but in any city where superheroes and super villains gather together, the situation is basically similar.

Like Metropolis, Central City, Seaside City, Midway City, Star City, etc., it is difficult for federal organizations such as the FBI to intervene, which means that these cities have relatively higher autonomy.

As the number of super criminals around the world is increasing year by year, the status of traditional organizations such as the FBI and even the CIA is becoming more and more embarrassing. It is difficult for them to deal with those super criminals. Only human and material resources can solve it.

Therefore, these traditional spy organizations are gradually being replaced by emerging anti-superpower departments.

But the federal government is not stupid. They know that the overall situation in the world is changing. There are more and more super criminals in the country. They are most worried about the Justice League.

The Justice League's power is too powerful and uncontrollable, and it also has a terrifying social influence. It is a far more terrifying deterrent than nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the federal government has established two major departments, the Sky Eye Society and the Super Investigation Department. Their powers are probably similar to those of the original CIA and FBI. One is external and the other is internal, but they are limited to supernatural events.

Work within the normal scope is still completed by the FBI and CIA.

But it doesn't mean that they have nothing to do with supernatural events at all. After all, many things do not seem to involve superpowers on the surface. You can only fight.

The advantage of this is that the FBI itself does not have many means to deal with supernatural crimes, but it has a large number of supernatural criminal files. At most, the details are not as comprehensive as those of the Super Investigation Department.

Isn't this the best place to investigate for Dean who wants to explore Cassandra's past?

"Although the FBI branch has no sense of presence in Gotham, their defense facilities are probably not bad. After all, I have only heard of GCPD being bombed by a certain person, but I have never heard of an FBI branch being bombed."

Dean thought as he returned to his base camp.

"Sneaking into an FBI bureau takes a lot of planning."
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the other side.

Gotham, Janus Makeup Company.

Roman Sionis returned to his company with anger that he didn't know where it came from.

Along the way, all the employees were too frightened to speak when they saw the black face of the boss. As soon as Roman passed by, he quickly lowered his head and went about his own business.

"Damn Bruce, do you think I can't see what you really think? You pretend to want to help, don't you just want to take the opportunity to buy my company?"

He speculated darkly in his mind.

During the year that Roman took charge of the company, Janus Makeup could be said to have been losing money every month, forcing Roman to use the family's gray income to go to the Penguin to launder it as a way to save money.

Aristocrats with a long history will basically have many shady properties, which is normal. Even the Wayne family had a lot of black income before Thomas' generation.

Roman didn't think there was anything wrong with his way of running the business. Instead, he believed from the bottom of his heart that it was everyone else's fault. Either the people under his command were acting against the will and failed to do what he told them to do, or the hostile company was making small moves.

Especially the cosmetics subsidiary of Wayne Group, which was originally a mediocre small company, suddenly grew in size during the year of Janus's decline and occupied many markets of Janus.

Roman stubbornly believes that Wayne is engaging in malicious competition.

"Damn Wayne, damn Bruce, everyone deserves to die, just like you!" Roman growled with a ferocious face in the office.

When he said the last sentence, his eyes unconsciously looked at a portrait hanging in the corner of the wall.

What was painted on it was an elderly couple, which were Roman's parents.

Yes, deep down, Roman hated his parents because of the endless domestic violence in his childhood and the vanity that made him sick.

The Sionis couple had the typical character of masters, they looked down on the poor very much, they only allowed Roman to get along with the aristocratic class, and asked him to deliberately have a good relationship with Bruce.

This made Roman resentful of his parents since he was a child, and he also disliked Bruce.

Later, just like that old-fashioned love story, Roman fell in love with an ordinary girl, and then encountered firm resistance from his parents.

The filial Roman accepted the arrangement of his parents and severed ties with the girl.

Then his parents died, in a raging fire.

Then, Roman, who inherited the Janus Makeup Company, began drastic changes.

He has added a large number of weird mask elements with unknown meaning and terrifying appearance to the company's products, which is completely opposite to the previous product image.

Why did Roman make these changes? It was because he had some unusual quirks. After he obtained the inheritance from the Sionnis family, he spent a lot of money to buy countless masks from all over the world.

They were all grotesque and terrifying masks, which Roman thought from the bottom of his heart were the best works of art in the world.

How could anyone not like masks?
As for the results, it was clear that consumers didn't buy it, and Roman refused to believe it.

He invested the money laundered from Penguin into the development of new products. Yes, almost all of it was invested in development. He ignored the current negative public opinions of consumers towards Janus Cosmetics Company.

Roman hoped that this new product would save the company, and he believed in it.

To be honest, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such fearless courage.

"Everyone is questioning my decision. What do they know? Just wait and see, time will prove that I am right!"

Roman thought angrily.

"Bruce, don't even think about taking my company away from me! I will make Janus great again!"

dong dong!dong dong!
At this time, there was a sudden knock on the office door.

"Come in!"

Roman growled in dissatisfaction.

"Old...boss, the director of the research...research department said that the experiments on new products have made great progress...and would...like to invite you to come and visit."

A young man dressed as a secretary opened the door tremblingly, and said cautiously.

He seemed to be very afraid of Roman, and he didn't even dare to go in. He just half-closed the door and reported to Roman with half of his body exposed.

Hearing this, Roman's face was filled with joy, and the gloomy expression eased a lot.

"Very good, take me there!"

(I took a train for nearly thirteen hours yesterday and didn’t get much sleep. I’m really exhausted today, so I have to take a leave of absence. I’ll update tomorrow when I catch up on some sleep.)
(End of this chapter)