Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 24 Surprised or surprised? (Please collect! Please follow up!)
In the monitoring screen, at regular intervals, Kaito Kidd dressed as 'Tom' would leave the restaurant and appear in the corridor, each time in a different location, now in the corridor on the left, then ran to the corridor on the right.

And every time he is with another person or even several people, it is basically difficult to see when he is alone.

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

Tom was wearing the overalls of a restaurant waiter. There were too many people wearing the same clothes as him, and there were too many people walking up and down the corridor to count.

In addition, he has been following other people to act together, and has never made any obvious suspicious actions.

If it is not known in advance that there is a problem with this 'Tom', it will be difficult for anyone to find out what is wrong.

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

That's right, in Nuo Da's auction venue, only a symbolic surveillance camera was installed in the public entertainment area, but there was not even a surveillance camera in the auction venue.

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

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

In each channel and corridor, only the key positions are monitored. After all, this is a hotel, not a prison. It is impossible to consider installing 360-degree surveillance without dead ends at the beginning of its establishment.

"Here, here, and here, go back 7 minutes, 22 minutes, and 7 [-] minutes respectively."

Suddenly, Robin pointed to three of the surveillance screens.

"Do as he says."

Gordon followed suit.

Several police officers snapped and operated, and immediately adjusted the three screens to the corresponding time points.

It can be seen that 'Tom' exists in these three pictures.

"Look carefully, although these are pictures taken by three surveillance cameras from different angles, they are actually at the same location."

Robin suggested.

"That's right, 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 the strange thief Kidd in these pictures again, he appeared in different positions, but at a certain moment in the three pictures he looked at the same position vaguely, passed this corner three times in a row, and his eyes were all focused in one direction, isn't that strange?"

Robin said with deep eyes: "Is there anything that needs to be confirmed by him repeatedly?"

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

Gordon reacted quickly, and immediately prepared to order his subordinates to check the corner.

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

Robin stopped Gordon's actions, and said solemnly: "We can't be sure whether the Kaitou Kidd will set up a trap there. It's too dangerous to let the GCPD people go to investigate!"

"You are still an underage child, it is more dangerous to let you 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.

"Besides, you have more important things to do. The situation in the auction site is unknown. I suspect that Kaito Kidd may have sneaked in in disguise. If there is a big screening of the people in the venue now, there may be hope to force Kidd to come out."

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

"Wait, Robin!"

Gordon hurried to chase out.

However, when he rushed out of the monitoring room door, there was no sign of Robin in front of him.

The whole process was only two or three seconds long, and it took only a blink of an eye for Robin to leave Gordon's sight.

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

Gordon couldn't help but swear, how on earth did the Bat family master this kind of movement that disappears in a blink of an eye?
He even asked Batman privately if he could teleport, but Batman didn't speak and Gordon didn't ask.

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

"The current time is 23:35, and there are still 25 minutes before the time announced by Kaitou Kidd. If he is a punctual person, then I still have time."

Robin, who left the monitoring room on the twentieth floor, ran all the way and quickly rushed to the corner shown in the monitoring.

He carefully observed the corner, recalling the location where the Phantom Thief Kidd appeared in the surveillance, and the direction of the latter's gaze.

Combining everything together, Robin found that five steps away from his current position in the direction of nine o'clock, there happened to be a blind spot for monitoring.

Immediately afterwards, Robin raised his head to look at the ceiling in the dead corner of the surveillance system, and suddenly saw that there was a vent there, and the barbed wire mesh of the vent still had obvious signs of dismantling.

On this floor, there are many similar vents, but they are basically within the monitoring range, and only this vent is in a blind spot for monitoring.

"So that's what he was looking for."

Robin thought: "According to the path laid by normal ventilation pipes, the location that can be quickly reached from here is... Could it be!"

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Robin's mind, and he smiled triumphantly, "I see."

At this time, he looked at the time again, and it was 23:40, which was still plenty.

Robin took out the hook-lock gun and shot it at the vent. The barbed wire that had been dismantled once was a little loose, and was pulled off by the hook at once.

Then Robin put away the hook-lock gun, jumped up and kicked the wall, grabbed the vent, and climbed up easily.

A few minutes later, Robin elbowed open the barbed wire of another vent and jumped.

He came to a closed room without lights, doors and windows, and the only light came in from behind a curtain.

I can still hear sounds similar to what once and twice.

"Sure enough, it's here, the place where the auction items are temporarily placed."

Robin looked into the depths of the room, and there were rows of tables with various items sealed in glass cabinets, all of which were auctioned today.

However, Kaito Kidd's target "Pink Dream" is not here, because treasures that are too valuable will be stored in another secret safe house, and will not be brought here until the filming starts.

"Pink Dream" is the grand finale of the auction and will not be offered until the last moment.

"The feast of the nobility was extravagant and noisy, and no one remembered the tragedy of Troy...so that's what it meant."

Robin came to the corner and looked at the second-to-last competitor based on the serial number—a strange wooden box.

The wooden box is not very big, there is no lock, and it looks very new, not like a valuable antique at all.

"This is probably something dropped by Kaitou Kidd, what's in it?"

Robin pondered for a moment, not sure if he should open it.

Without hesitating for a long time, Robin suddenly took out a gas mask to put on himself, and then resolutely opened the wooden box.

boom!
There was an explosion-like sound, and a white flag popped out from the bottom of the box.

The cartoon head of Kaitou Kidd and a striking slogan are painted on the flag.

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"

(End of this chapter)