Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 56 Firefly

In the book exhibition hall, one of the thirteen exhibition halls of the Gotham Museum of Natural History, there are more than 25 volumes of books related to natural history collected from all over the world.

The book exhibition hall is located on the west side of the cultural relics exhibition hall. The distance between the two exhibition halls is very close, and they are connected through the air corridor on the third floor.

Similar to the situation in the Gotham Municipal Library, there are very few visitors in the book exhibition hall, and there are few pedestrians on the corridor, only two or three patrolmen passing by.

Above the ceiling of the corridor, Dean kept crawling forward, his movements were light and fast, and he barely made a sound.

Dean was wearing a pure black tights, which blended into the night.

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!
In the sky, two helicopters circled back and forth among the thirteen exhibition halls, and a round of searchlights swept around every corner.

As Dean crawled forward quickly, he carefully avoided the searchlights of the helicopters. Fortunately, there were only two helicopters, and the range that the searchlights could illuminate was not large, so there was quite a lot of room for Dean to move around.

Not long after, he came to the end of the air corridor.

At this moment, Dean, who was lying on the 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 spotted by a helicopter to act 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 exhibition hall where the dragon egg ruby ​​necklace was located.

And the location of this vent is just at the top of the air corridor.

Dean opened the vent, slid into the air duct, and continued to push 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 still stayed here, lighting a match boredly, and lit a new match after it was extinguished, one after another.

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

"What's the matter with the old man? I think he's almost used up a whole box of matches, but he hasn't lit that cigarette until now."

The group of people hiding in the corner whispered while peeking at the shadowy man.

"Who knows, maybe there's something wrong with him, maybe we should call the hospital."

"Hush—don't let him hear it. If you guessed it right, then this guy is definitely a dangerous person. I don't want to be hacked to death by a lunatic."

At this moment, the door of the smoking room suddenly opened.

"Oh, I didn't expect there were so many people in here."

A short, fat, pointed-nosed man in a tuxedo walked in.

The moment they saw this person, everyone in the smoking room couldn't help but stop their heartbeat for a moment, and panicked expressions appeared on their faces.

An atmosphere called fear spread among the crowd.

In Gotham, no citizen can keep calm when he sees this strange-looking man in front of him, because his name is Oswald Copperpot.

They didn't even dare to move, for fear of offending the Gotham king of the underworld.

"I'm sorry to disturb your time to enjoy tobacco, but I have something urgent to discuss with this gentleman, so can you please avoid it for a while."

With a kind smile on his face, Penguin said to the people in the smoking room.

"No problem! Mr. Copperpot, we will go now."

Hearing Penguin's words, the dozen or so smokers immediately slipped out of the smoking room as fast as they could.

Only the man with a gloomy face and the penguin are still here.

Apparently he was the one to discuss with the Penguin on that important matter.

"time is not up yet."

The shadowy man suddenly said something thoughtlessly, and the penguin immediately understood what he meant.

"But it's almost here, Lynn. I'm here to inform you that you can start making preparations, such as putting on your uniform."

Garfield Lynn, the super criminal code-named Firefly, is the super criminal who faced Batgirl's debut battle, and had just escaped from the Black Gate Prison not long ago.

Since he escaped from prison, GCPD and Batgirl have been tracking the whereabouts of Firefly, but they found nothing. Firefly seems to have evaporated from the world.

Unexpectedly, Firefly had reached a cooperation with Penguin.

"Let me confirm it for the last time. As long as you kill the Kaitou Kidd, you can get 50 US dollars, right? I hope you can personally admit it."

Firefly asked blankly.

"Please forgive me, Mr. Coppert. In Gotham, breaking a contract is as common as eating and drinking, but you are different. I have heard of your reputation, but I need a guarantee."

"You're right, Lynn, there is almost no concept of credibility in Gotham, but there are always exceptions in the world. I am a businessman who speaks integrity."

Penguin promised Firefly.

"I promise you, as long as you get rid of Kaito Kidd, I will pay you $50 in cash, and it's still clean cash."

"Thank you for your generosity, Mr. Copperpot, but I have one last question to ask."

Before the firefly could ask, Penguin answered directly as if he knew what he wanted to ask in advance.

"I know what you want to ask, don't worry, my people have made all the preparations, and you can show your abilities without any scruples."

Hearing this, the corners of Firefly's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a weird smile.

"Have a nice hunt, Firefly."

After a while, Dean quietly removed the iron fence above his head and climbed up from under the pipe.

This is a relatively empty room with a lot of red pipes and water valves, but no one is in it.

"Huh? That's it?"

Dean looked at some of the pipes and always felt that something was wrong...
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Boom!

There was a sound of thunder, and the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have finally finished charging and began to rain.

At first, it was still light rain, but it soon became heavier and heavier, so that the citizens in the square had to hold up umbrellas.

Those who didn't get the umbrellas either had the cheek to rub against those who had umbrellas around them, or rushed to the nearby pavilions to hide from the rain.

Cultural relics exhibition hall, in the central exhibition hall on the top floor.

Dick stood by the window looking at the sudden rain outside, with a serious expression on his face.

"It's less than 5 minutes from zero, what method will Kaito Kidd use to steal the necklace?"

At this last moment, everyone cheered up.

Especially the dozen or so special police officers who surrounded the dragon egg ruby ​​necklace seemed to put all their energy on protecting the necklace at this moment.

5 minutes passed by in a flash.

It's midnight!

(End of this chapter)