Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

"Cough cough cough—"

Robin covered his face with his cloak and stepped back from the fog of tear gas.

About ten seconds later, the effect of the tear gas gradually faded, and only then did Robin put down the cloak covering his face.

The effect of the tear gas seems to have been deliberately reduced a lot. Basically, the effect will not be significant after Robin quits. However, even if the tear gas bombs that GCPD often use are out of the gas range, the effect will still last for about ten minutes before it starts to decay.

Robin looked at the gray fog that would take a few minutes to completely dissipate in front of him, and he was silent. He knew in his heart that if he wanted to catch up with the Kaitou Kidd at this time, there was little hope.

"There is still a good show at the auction..."

Recalling what Phantom Thief Kidd said just now, Robin narrowed his eyes and withdrew to return to the venue.

Before leaving, I did not forget to bring the hotel manager Cicero who was spread out in the corridor.

Soon after, in the auction venue.

As soon as Robin walked in through the door, he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Thanks to the efforts of Gordon and a group of GCPD police officers, the chaos was brought under control and order was restored.

Strangely, everyone returned to the auction seats at this time, and the GCPD policemen surrounded the outside, all looking at the host platform, just like the scene during the auction.

It's just that Cicero, who was originally standing on the podium, was replaced by an unexpected woman.

Golden elegant big waves, capable and concise workplace attire, mature and intellectual face.

Gotham Gazette's signature reporter, Vicki Weir!

Beside Vicki Weir, Lak and Grey Tad were handcuffed and stood there without saying a word. There were several policemen standing behind them, and Gordon was among them.

This grey-lettard is clearly genuine.

"Is this the good show Kaitou Kidd is talking about?"

Robin snorted softly in his heart, he probably knew what kind of trick Kaitou Kidd was playing.

He dragged Cicero into it, and threw the latter over to Laque and Gretad.

"You're back, Robin, how's it going?"

Gordon saw Robin come back and asked hurriedly.

"Sorry, let Kaitou Kidd run away again."

Robin shook his head slightly.

"Forget about that thief, now there are more important things that need to be revealed to the people who don't know the truth. Thank you for bringing Cicero here. We happened to be talking about him just now."

Vicki interrupted the conversation between Gordon and Robin, and said solemnly.

"If you come in twenty seconds later, I'm afraid I'll have to borrow two men from Commissioner Gordon to fetch Mr. Cicero."

"So, what's going on now?"

Robin looked at Gordon and asked.

"Miss Weir said she had some inside information about the 'Pink Fantasy' diamond, claiming that it was related to an illegal transaction with a huge amount of money behind it."

Gordon replied, "She said that everyone present has the right to know the truth, so she chose to announce it here publicly. She just said that Cicero fell in the corridor and wanted me to send someone to pick him up, and then you said Appeared."

Hearing this, Robin nodded knowingly, thinking silently in his heart.

"So that's it. In the last sentence of Kidd's notice letter, Hermes is not referring to Kaito Kidd himself, but Vicki Weir, a reporter who is dedicated to exposing the truth."

Hermes is the messenger of the gods, and the meaning of the existence of the profession of journalist is not to be the messenger who delivers the true voice to the world?

Although journalists who have always kept their hearts are rare nowadays, this does not change the essence of the identity of a 'journalist'.

At least Vicki Weir was a conscientious reporter.

I saw Vicky walked to the center of the host stage, picked up the microphone and said to everyone: "Everyone who came to the auction today, I am Vicky Weir from the Gotham Gazette. Some people may have heard my name, or maybe No."

In fact, these words are a bit modest. Vicki Vale's reputation is still very big in Gotham, and almost all of the hundreds of bidders in the audience don't know her.

"I know you have a lot of doubts in your heart, and maybe you still have resentment towards Kidd, the phantom thief who disrupted the auction process, but I want to tell you that today's auction hides a dirty illegal transaction!"

"And the props for this transaction... is the finale of this auction, 'Pink Dream'. This diamond is artificially fake!"

As soon as this remark came out, the audience immediately began to discuss, many of them came for the name of the world's largest pink diamond.

As for some gossip about fake diamonds, they basically couldn't hear it at their level of status. Even if they heard it, no one would take it seriously without evidence.

But right now it was Vicki Weir, the leading reporter for the Gotham Gazette, who was speaking with considerable force.

Vicky pointed to Cicero, and continued: "Joy Cicero, as the host of the auction, not only agreed to let fake diamonds participate in the auction, but also prepared a series of appraisal certificates for 'Pink Dream', Through bribery, threats, blackmail, etc., the appraiser has to stamp the certificate!"

"I know accusations without proof are meaningless, so I'm going to ask you to look at this!"

Vicki dug out a transparent sealed bag from her bag and displayed it in front of everyone on a big screen.

The bag is densely filled with all kinds of diamonds, crystals, red, blue, and green gemstones, which are gorgeous and colorful, and each one is in excellent condition. If you carve it carefully, it is worth a fortune. It is a waste of money to stuff it into a plastic bag like this.

However, Vicky's next sentence shocked everyone's jaws.

"These were all found in Cicero's manager's office, hidden in a hidden compartment, and every gem in this bag is fake!"

These words are quite shocking, but after thinking about it, there still seems to be some problems.

"Cicero hides so many counterfeit gems, is he going to auction them off in large quantities? Isn't he afraid of revealing his secrets someday? And isn't 'Pink Dream' auctioned by Grey Tad? Why is Cicero Will there be a lot of fake gems hidden there?"

There is a more important question - why did Kaito Kidd steal a fake diamond?

"Robin, do you think Kaito Kidd's motive is..."

Gordon turned his head to look at Robin, wanting to ask the latter's opinion, but the questions that came out of his mouth stopped abruptly.

"I knew it……"

Looking at the empty space around him, Gordon couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.

Vicky looked at everyone with firm eyes. She didn't know if she would be retaliated if she said this, but if she didn't say it, she would be sorry for her work over the years.

"The purpose of these fake gems was not to realize cash through auctions from the very beginning!"

"It's for money laundering!"

"Cicero, Gray Tad, and Lark are all just pawns responsible for using the 'Pink Dream' to launder the money. The person behind everything is Oswald Copperpot!"

"Penguin!"