Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

"Conan?"

Kassandra felt there was something strange about this code name, but she couldn't place it.

"What? Don't you like it?"

Dean saw the hesitation on Cassandra's face and chuckled inwardly. He was probably the only one in the world who knew the meaning of that name.

"I can't say I don't like it..."

Cassandra shook her head slightly.

"Okay then, let's go. We have to hurry up. It's not easy to find the secret passage of Iceberg Casino. It would be rude to make Mr. Black Crow wait for too long."

Dean took Cassandra away from the front of the Iceberg Casino and blended into the crowd outside the police circle.

Just as the two were looking for a breakthrough to sneak into the Iceberg Casino, the Otisburg District in the northernmost part of Gotham City welcomed two uninvited guests.

In front of a large, dilapidated factory, Batman and Penguin stopped here.

"ACE Chemical Plant."

Batman looked at the abandoned factory in front of him that held too many memories that he didn't want to remember, and his eyes suddenly became extremely cold.

Although his normal eyes are not much different from this.

"Cobot, you said O'Kilvi was hiding here?"

Batman doubted.

"I said that his important secrets are hidden here, but I didn't say that his people must be here."

Penguin corrected.

"I searched the chemical plant and found no trace of human activity."

"Then I guess you haven't searched here."

The Penguin knocked on the ground twice with his umbrella.

underground?

Batman was shocked. Most of the ACE Chemical Plant was underground, and the Penguin was obviously not referring to that area.

In other words, there are secrets hidden deeper underground in the ACE Chemical Plant that he doesn't know about!

"Do you think you know this place well enough that no one can hide here from under your nose, Batman?"

Penguin asked with a sneer.

"I used to think that I knew my cronies very well. It wasn't until he betrayed me that I realized how many good things he had done without telling me over the years, including secretly building a laboratory underneath the ACE chemical plant."

laboratory……

Batman instantly captured the key word, and this laboratory was probably where Ogilvie used to create the man-bat virus.

"Lightbulb head!"

Penguin suddenly raised his voice and shouted in a certain direction.

Immediately afterwards, a tall and thin man whose head resembled a spherical glass half filled with water appeared in front of the two of them. It was Mr. Inflammable, the eyeliner who had been placed next to O'Kilwe by the Penguin.

"Boss, did you really find Batman?"

As soon as Mr. Combustible saw Batman, he immediately approached the Penguin.

"Aren't you afraid that after he catches O'Kilwe, he will cross the river and catch us both? Cooperating with Batman is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger!"

"...You want to teach me how to do something?"

Penguin glanced sideways at Mr. Combustible.

"Don't dare, don't dare, just follow the boss's orders."

"Take us to the underground laboratory!"

Penguin ordered.

Obviously, O'Kilwe designed it specifically for Batman when he built the underground laboratory. The process of entering the laboratory is not only extremely secretive but also extremely cumbersome, and there are also a lot of black technologies that can avoid scanning.

Even with Mr. Keran as the leader, it still took a lot of effort to open the entrance to the underground laboratory, and this was just the entrance.

Time passed step by step, the sun continued to set to the west, and it was sunset in the blink of an eye.

Back to the focus of the city, Iceberg Casino.

The fact that the thief Black Crow openly provoked the mayor's mansion by bloodbathing the mayor's house has spread throughout the streets and alleys, and countless people are looking forward to the victory of the thief Kidd.

But there were very few spectators who actually gathered near the Iceberg Casino, and they might not even be as large as the number of GCPD guards.

People living here are not stupid. Chasing stars is important, but it is nothing compared to your own life.

"Is it really okay to wait like this, Jim?"

In the Iceberg Casino, Harvey Bullock asked anxiously.

"Otherwise, do you have any good ideas?"

Next to him, Gordon looked extremely ugly.

Bullock was speechless. He really had no way to solve the current situation.

He sighed and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that one day, the GCPD would pin its hopes on a thief..."

The current situation is really too tricky, and the Phantom Thief Black Crow has really posed a big problem for them.

At this moment, Gordon, Bullock and dozens of guards were surrounding a VIP box dedicated to blackjack gambling at the Iceberg Casino.

The Zel'Ai Blue Stone that the Phantom Thief Black Crow used to challenge the Phantom Thief Kidd was now clearly placed on the table in the center of the box, protected by a thin glass cover.

But no one dared to step forward to take back the gems, not even entering the box.

Because there is a bomb buried under the table that can blow up the entire Iceberg Casino. If Kaitou Kidd cannot steal the Zeai Blue Stone before midnight today, the bomb will detonate automatically.

At the same time, there is a gravity sensing device on the floor. As long as someone walks into the box, the bomb will automatically detonate.

There are also more than a dozen pinhole monitors in the box that observe everything in the room from all directions. If Kaito Kidd's method is cracked halfway, the bomb will be detonated manually.

If Kaito Kidd appears and the police don't do their best to stop him from stealing or even assist him in disguise, the bomb will still detonate.

The only way to stop the bomb is for Kaito Kidd to steal the gem before the time limit is up, and then embed the gem into the groove of the detonator, and this process cannot be discovered by Kaitou Black Crow.

The person who made these arrangements was undoubtedly the Phantom Thief Black Crow. As for how Gordon and others knew about it, it was certainly not because they picked up the rules instructions from the ground.

Instead, it came from the loudspeaker in the box, and it was spoken by the Phantom Thief Black Crow himself.

In view of the bloody massacre caused by the Phantom Thief Black Crow in the Mayor's Mansion, no one present doubted his bluff.

All in all, before Kaitou Kidd appeared, Gordon and others could only stay outside the box and watch.

At this moment, Robin and Batgirl were also among them. Batman did not let them intervene in the pursuit of Ogilvy, so they naturally dealt with the matter of the two Phantom Thieves.

"Bomb trap is really an old-fashioned but timeless solution."

Looking at the place carefully laid out by the Phantom Thief Black Crow with bombs, Robin couldn't help complaining that he and Batman had encountered similar encounters countless times.

"It's really nothing new. This also reflects the difference between Phantom Thief Black Crow and Phantom Thief Kidd."

Bat Girl agreed with Robin's complaint, and then changed her words: "But I have to say that the method of the Phantom Thief Black Crow may be the most likely to make Kidd return in defeat."

"Well... having said that, Iceberg Casino is the Penguin's lair, and the people inside have been evacuated long ago. At worst, we will evacuate directly. Even if the Phantom Thief Black Crow blows up the place, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing."

Robin pondered for a moment and then suddenly said.

← To BeContinued(End of Chapter)