Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

"The elevator is out of control?!" Lucas looked at the elevator that pressed the button but had no response.

"Take the stairs!" Tim turned around and ran towards the safe passage.

He directly held on to the handrail and jumped down, descending the stairs on the first floor in less than a second.

When the two arrived at the floor where Bruce was previously, they could only see corpses everywhere.

"Where's Bruce?"

The mottled blood on the ground gave Lucas a bad premonition, especially after seeing the blood-stained glass, this feeling reached its peak.

"Oh my god! He...are they all dead?" Hope stammered.

Tim glanced at the glass with a big hole in it, and the cold wind was blowing into the room. He knelt down to check on the people on the ground.

"Bruce, it fell..." Lucas stared blankly at the bloody glass fragments on the ground. They were a step too late.

"Calm down, Lucas," Tim said. "Trust Bruce."

He knew there was a gargoyle statue in Wayne Tower and he knew Bruce's skills, and he believed Bruce would be fine.

Tim took a deep breath. What he wanted to do now was to confirm whether the people here could still be saved, and... a cold light flashed in his eyes to find clues about the guy who sneaked into Wayne Building.

"...Okay." Lucas came back to his senses and looked at the people on the ground with Tim.

Most people have lost their voice. A knife stabs their heart or head accurately, killing them with one strike. What's even more heart-stopping is that these knives all have owl symbols on them.

"Mr. March is still breathing." Lucas sighed at the faint breath under Lincoln's nose and said quickly.

"Let me take a look." Tim came to Lucas immediately.

Lincoln's condition was not optimistic. Tim quickly injected him with a tube of adrenaline. As for the knife inserted into his body, he did not dare to do it rashly for fear of massive bleeding.

At this time, there was a violent explosion from the bottom of the building.

Lucas and Tim looked at each other at the same time, uneasiness brewing in their eyes. Fortunately, Tim's communication rang in time.

Tim immediately breathed a sigh of relief and connected the communication, "B, are you okay?"

"I...ahem..." Bruce choked on the blood in his throat, and after a few seconds he said, "I'm on the thirteenth gargoyle statue."

"I understand, the rescue team will be here soon." Tim reported quickly, "The only survivor is Mr. March. He lost too much blood. I injected him with adrenaline to ensure that he can survive until the rescue team." arrival."

Bruce relaxed when he heard that Lincoln was okay, but those security personnel who lost their lives...

"Bury the security team members according to the regulations and provide alimony to their families." Bruce said.

"I'll take care of it," Tim said.

Lucas listened quietly to the conversation between the two, and only after the communication ended, he said, "Tim, don't you think it's weird that this guy can sneak into the Wayne Building quietly?"

"Of course it's strange." Tim's eyes were sharp. The Wayne Building was the territory of the Bat family, and it was such a shame and humiliation for outsiders to come in.

He closed his eyes, and the monocle appeared on his face. The persona automatically connected to the system in the Wayne Building, and frames with surveillance cameras appeared around him.

"Specialized personas are really convenient for investigation." Hope couldn't help but sigh.

"But that doesn't mean I don't have the ability to fight." Tim said with ease. With the blessing of the persona, he felt that his brain was like a fast-running computer, ready to process all kinds of information quickly.

Aside from his persona, Red Robin is an excellent superhero, right?

"Found it." Tim drew a screen.

This is the scene in the passage pipe, where you can clearly see the pair of owl-like eyes in the darkness.

"The Court of Owls..." Lucas muttered.

Those eyes gave him the feeling of déjà vu again.

"That's right, I've seen people dressed like this."

When Tim heard this, he couldn't help but look at Lucas, "Have you seen it?"

"Well, I have some impression." Lucas frowned, trying to recall those vague scenes, "But I can't remember it."

"I have an impression but can't recall it?" Tim lowered his head.

It's quite strange that this happened to Lucas. Damian's memories that should be deleted were completely deleted, and the memories that were not deleted were almost remembered again.

"Then let it go for now." Tim kept this doubt in his mind. It was too inefficient to force a person with unstable memory to recall it.

He followed the surveillance and discovered a hidden floor in the Wayne Building.

"A floor that doesn't exist?" Lucas was stunned for a moment.

"Well, the number thirteen was considered an unlucky number by Allen Wayne, who decided to build this building, so the thirteenth floor never existed in the Wayne Building from the beginning, but you see..."

Tim caught all the surveillance cameras that recorded the Owl Assassin before his eyes. "He appeared on the fourteenth floor without any trace, while the first twelve floors recorded nothing at all."

"This means there is a thirteenth floor," Lucas said.

"Well... that means that the assassin has been under our noses before." Tim sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"Let's go take a look together." Lucas said after thinking for a few seconds.

"Well, since the assassin died in the explosion, there should be no one on the hidden floor."

The two of them came to the twelfth floor together, looking for traces of the non-existent floor.

"There is no doorway from the elevator. It will lead directly to the fourteenth floor, so we still have to start with the safe passage." Tim said.

He had been working at Wayne Group for so long that he took the elevator every day without finding any clues. Therefore, if he wanted to find any clues, they must be in the safe passage.

The emergency passage is rarely used by people on weekdays. Although it is not very dirty, it is still covered with a thin layer of dust.

Lucas walked up from the twelfth floor and still reached the fourteenth floor. It seemed that there was no non-existent floor.

"We should have overlooked something." Tim stood on the fourteenth floor and looked down, lowering his head in thought.

Lucas walked back and forth several times, but no matter how he looked, there was nothing wrong.

"Could it be that the assassin used other means to get in?"

"Is it possible?" Lucas asked.

"The Wayne Building is connected in all directions and is located in the city center. There are surveillance cameras at all intersections, and there are no blind spots." Tim shook his head, "And there are no signs of manipulation on these surveillance cameras."

"Maybe it was moved, but not found?" Hope couldn't help but said.

"Impossible." Tim denied. "If the person behind it really had such ability, he wouldn't have been caught on camera in the Wayne Building. If he had to do something, why not do it together?"

"So, there must be something we haven't noticed." Lucas looked down at the steps going down step by step. If there is a floor hidden between the twelfth and fourteenth floors, how could it be perfectly hidden? Woolen cloth.

Lucas slowly counted step by step, "One, two, three...twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five."

When he stood on the mezzanine between the twelfth and fourteenth floors and looked at the twelfth floor, there was really no difference, it was also the twenty-fifth floor.

"Wait, twenty-five?" After listening to Lucas's soliloquy, Tim finally caught the anomaly that had been ignored.

"Is something wrong?" Lucas looked up at him.

"The Wayne Building is a building built according to standards. Logically speaking, there are only twenty steps."

"That is to say...there are indeed ten more steps between the twelfth and fourteenth floors." Lucas stared at the opposite wall.

"No, no, no, it's so scary to think about it!" Hope fluttered her feathers and said in horror, "These employees have no idea that there is a killer hidden under the floor or on the ceiling!"

"Since the killer went to Bruce's floor from the ventilation duct, he must also be able to go to the hidden floor from the ventilation duct," Tim said.

He looked at Lucas, "You... forget it, I'll investigate at night."

Lucas:?

He felt that Tim was looking down on him.

Lucas said speechlessly, "No, I am still a member of the Phantom Thieves after all. How could the Phantom Thieves not drill into ventilation ducts?"

"That's it." Hope couldn't help but say, "Lucas is really good at it."

"Sorry, let's go together." Tim apologized simply.

After all, he had never seriously participated in the activities of the Phantom Thieves. He only fought with them last time, and he only knew that repentance was to steal the treasure.

"So, are you really stealing treasures like thieves?" He couldn't help but ask.

"What do you mean by thief? It's so unpleasant." Hope rolled her eyes, "It's a thief! But if you steal the treasure..."

Hope's expression became strange. It seemed that they had never stolen the treasure unnoticed, but took it directly in front of the hall master. This... is more like a robber than a thief. ?

No no no! Hope shook his head violently. The Phantom Thieves are just, not thieves and robbers!

Lucas looked at Hope who suddenly started shaking his head inexplicably.

To be honest, Tim was not very familiar with the ventilation ducts of the Wayne Building. Who would climb the ventilation ducts of his own company? There was no need for it.

"It seems that this is the so-called darkness under the light." Faced with Tim's mentality, Lucas commented.

"This... I really didn't expect it." Tim said helplessly.

Crawling in the ventilation duct, his suit became wrinkled, but no one would care about this now.

"The area ahead is not recorded on the plan." A structural diagram of the Wayne Building flashed on Tim's monocle.

He kicked open the grating at the vent and jumped down.

"Wow."

What he saw in front of him made Lucas, who came down later, sigh.

In front of you is the owl's nest, with their emblem on the wall, and even photos of their gathering on the table. The dummy next to it is wearing the Owl Assassin's suit.

Tim returned to Wayne Manor with a heavy heart. The identity of the Bat family was not a secret to Lucas, so he took Lucas to the Batcave with him.

Even though he fell from a high altitude, Bruce's superb skills allowed him to avoid most of the damage. Although he was wrapped in bandages, his face looked good.

Dick happened to be there too. He didn't know the seriousness of the situation, so he still joked with Bruce, "I heard that you are in trouble? Is the enemy this time quite difficult?"

Bruce looked at the skull in his hand in silence.

"By the way, what is this skull?" Dick asked.

"This is my ancestor Allen Wayne. He had a strong phobia of owls before he died. He even said that owls were going to attack him when he met people, so he built a statue of gargoyles, as if those gargoyles could really Just like protecting him."

"Is he talking about the Court of Owls?"

"Maybe he believed these lies, but he was just familiar with my family history and just wanted to use the Court of Owls to instill fear."

After hearing what Bruce said, Lucas, who had just arrived at the Batcave, frowned. He was about to say something when he was stopped by Tim.

They did find the Owl's stronghold in the Wayne Building, but Tim wanted to hear Bruce's side of the story.

"Bruce, why do you firmly believe that the Court of Owls is fake?"

"Because I investigated it," Bruce said. "I called it the first case."

"That was when I was very young, and my parents had just been killed. I couldn't accept that their deaths were just accidental, and I couldn't accept that the person who killed them was just an ordinary robber. I stubbornly convinced myself that there must be someone behind the scenes. Dominated all of this. I studied the songs about the Court of Owls in the city and tracked down many clues. Then one night, I finally found the home of the Court of Owls."

At this point, Bruce exhaled deeply and continued, "I am absolutely sure that it is them, the real murderers who killed my parents. However, in my secret room, I found something even more terrifying, that Just... nothing."

For little Bruce, the fact that he was in an empty room, with no answers, and no one behind it, crushed him more than anything.

"I got myself locked in that room for almost two weeks and Alfred saved me when I was unconscious."

Bruce said calmly, "Since then, I have learned one thing, and that is not to let your emotions dominate the case."

Although Bruce made a good point after telling his story, Tim still revealed what he found in Wayne Tower.

"However, Lucas and I found the lair of the Court of Owls assassins in the Wayne Building."

"What?" Bruce's eyes immediately became sharp.

Tim placed a stack of photos in front of Bruce. The owl emblem was clearly visible on the photos. There was also a stack of knives in the room, which were exactly the same as those used by the assassin who came to kill Bruce.