Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

"There is no one in these rooms." Peter stood on the wall and looked in through the transparent window.

"How about we go to other cities and have a look?" Gwen shouted.

"Agreed." Hope transformed into a helicopter.

"Come here." Peter jumped down and entered the plane lightly.

As Lucas started the plane, several people also began to discuss various aspects of this palace.

"This is so strange. We haven't seen the shadow in Wilson Hall even once." Peter said.

Hope's voice came from the radio, "But this is impossible. The subconscious mind wandering unconsciously in the spiritual world will definitely be attracted by the palace of twisted desires."

"You mean...it's just that we haven't encountered the shadows yet?"

"Yes, and the number of shadows attracted by such a large palace must be terrifying." Hope's voice was deep.

"To put it this way, although I didn't feel anyone's presence in the house, judging from the placement of some objects inside, it seems that there are people living in the house, at least in the near future." Peter added.

He just observed outside the window, but he still found some clues.

"Is there someone?!" Gwen opened her eyes wide.

Lucas: "We will understand everything here sooner or later."

As soon as he finished speaking, Peter looked in one direction, "Lucas, is there anyone fighting over there?"

Lucas looked in the direction Peter was pointing, and could vaguely see rising smoke and some flickering firelight.

"Is there anyone else who won't enter the hall?" Gwen said.

"Just go over there and take a look." Lucas flew the plane in that direction.

White and black faceless people began to surround them. Facing the strange scene, Mindy was frightened, but she could only fight now.

However, Mindy discovered that the bullets she fired did not cause harm to these strange creatures, but instead angered them.

The shell of the faceless man suddenly exploded, and a mud-like monster opened the body from the inside.

"What the hell kind of monster is this!" Mindy couldn't help but cursed.

"You are the monster!" Shadow retorted.

"You can still talk?" Mindy opened her eyes wide.

If Lucas and others were present, they would recognize that this is a mud monster with physical resistance. Its weakness is fire, and only flame magic can break its defense. Although it is only a level 10 demon, it is quite difficult for Mindy to deal with without a persona.

Mindy soon discovered that the monster in front of her was quite difficult. She could not effectively damage it with guns or bombs. What was even more frightening was that there were other faceless people getting closer and closer to her.

hateful! She won't stop here!

Mindy clenched the gun unwillingly. It was not until she faced the possibility of death that she realized that she didn't want to die at all.

Dad...

As the mud gradually swallowed her consciousness, Mindy's father appeared in front of her eyes again.

sorry……

When her consciousness was about to blur, Mindy vaguely saw a figure falling from the sky.

"Wake up!" Hope was treating Mindy, but the little girl never opened her eyes. The injuries on her body were obviously healed, but she was unconscious as if she was asleep.

"Could it be that shadows can cause harm to people without personas that we don't know about?"

"What should we do?"

"How do I know! After entering the hall, didn't you all obtain a personality mask?"

Mindy felt as if her whole body was soaked in warm water. It was warm and very comfortable, so comfortable that she didn't even want to get up.

"But do I still need to continue the treatment? The wound has healed. Even if there is some unknown mental damage, there is probably no point in continuing the treatment." Hope said, "It will only waste my energy."

Treatment... Mindy vaguely heard a boy's voice.

Thank you very much, stranger.

Just then, she heard a more familiar voice.

"Okay, please stop the treatment first." Lucas said.

Lou...Lucas? !

Mindy's head suddenly came to her senses. She moved her fingers, and her body was gradually returning to her control.

Mindy came to this strange place and the mud-like monster after hearing the conversation between Lucas and others.

Mindy had so many questions in her mind and couldn't wait to ask Lucas.

"Huh? Her fingers seemed to be moving. Are she about to wake up?" Hope noticed Mindy's little movements with sharp eyes.

"Oh? Is Mindy going to wake up?" Gwen came over.

"Uh...uh..." Mindy struggled to tremble her eyelashes and finally opened her eyes.

When she saw everything in front of her clearly, she suddenly fell into silence.

One of them was wearing a black trench coat, which was low-key yet revealing a certain flamboyance, while the other one was even more exaggerated, wearing a white tutu, which looked really good-looking, but the clothes on the stage were extremely incompatible with the surrounding scene.

"Great! I finally woke up!"

The boy's voice sounded from the wall.

Mindy lowered her head silently.

"Wow... wow." Mindy looked at the strange creature at her feet that seemed to come out of a comic in shock, "Bird... bird monster?!"

"It's not a bird monster! I'm a human, I would really be angry!" Hope said excitedly, "You are still as rude as before. I am Hope, and you call me Hawk in the hall."

"Oh...I'm sorry." Mindy apologized subconsciously, and then realized that wasn't the name of Lucas's bird?

"Wait, you're Hope?!"

Lucas sighed and took a step forward, "Yes, Mindy, I am Lucas, you can call me Self here."

"I'm Gwen, remember to call me Swan in the hall." Gwen said.

"So...where's Peter?"

Although little is known about the current situation, Peter apparently shares a secret with them.

"Peter went outside to investigate the situation." Gwen said with a smile.

The persona requires physical strength to use. Since Peter became Spider-Man, his physical strength has increased dozens of times. The persona in his hands is almost unrestricted by physical strength. He only needs to eliminate mental fatigue.

"Okay." Mindy nodded and asked calmly: "So, who can explain to me what is going on?"

"Before that, I want to ask, did you come back after you left?" Lucas asked.

Suddenly asked about what happened in reality, Mindy was stunned and looked away from Lucas. Her lips wriggled and finally said: "After saying those words, I regretted it. , I plan to come back and apologize, my only friends are you, I’m sorry.”

Peter, who had just come in through the window, happened to hear Mindy's apology and asked inexplicably: "What's going on?"

"I'm apologizing. I was impulsive before," Mindy said.

"Oh...oh." Peter was a little confused.

"It's okay." Gwen sighed and looked at Lucas, "It seems that the reason Mindy entered the hall is the same as mine."

Sure enough, when you enter the palace, it will affect people within a certain range.

"We really have to be careful when using the Different World APP." Lucas said helplessly.

At that time, no one realized that what Lucas casually said was the correct answer. The timing of entering the hall was indeed very sudden, and they did not expect that Mindy would go and come back, just in time for them to enter the hall. point.

"Let me explain briefly. This area is called the Palace, which represents someone's twisted desires."

"People with extremely strong and twisted desires will regard or see certain places as something. Now the place we are in includes the entire New York. This is actually a quite abnormal place." Hope said.

Mindy frowned, "I don't quite understand... I do feel that this place is very similar to New York, but so what? Isn't it normal to imagine a world?"

Mindy really didn't understand it very well. What she understood was that this was someone's fantasy world.

"Although I don't quite understand why consciousness can determine will, you must have understood it wrong. This is Jin Bin's palace." Peter said.

He began to describe what he had just discovered.

"Did you see a strange building being constructed by faceless men who looked like slaves?"

Mindy nodded and said in a weird tone: "Is this Kingpin's fantasy world?"

She thought of a certain movie that was popular all over the world, "So, repentance means that you modify Kingpin's subconscious like in "Inception" and make him a good person?"

Several people looked at each other.

Gwen said hesitantly: "It seems...that's true?"

"That's not right! We stole Wilson's twisted desires! Doesn't this modify the subconscious...?" At the end of the sentence, Hope was a little unsure.

"It's okay if you understand it this way." Lucas didn't mind. He saw this matter clearly. They were indeed reforming bad people, and repentance definitely changed their inner will.

You can say that this incident can completely change a bad person and it will never cause future troubles, which is very satisfying, but you can also say that this incident is against common sense and violates the human rights of others.

But Lucas can guarantee that all those in the Phantom Thieves who repent are guilty.

My heart and conduct are as clear as a clear mirror, and everything I do is righteous.

"In that case, add me!" Mindy said, "I want to reform this bastard myself! Give an explanation to the mother who was killed by him!"

"Huh? What's going on?"

This was the first time Mindy said this, so everyone was a little shocked.

"Wilson...killed your mother?" Gwen asked.

"Yeah." Mindy nodded, "Dad noticed Jin Bing's infiltration of the New York Police Department when he was a policeman. He had been secretly looking for evidence to expose him, but the bastard noticed this and warned him Dad, Dad wanted to catch him at that time and did not stop investigating, so my mother...died in an accident."

Mindy's voice gradually became lower, and her memory of her mother gradually became blurred, but she still vaguely remembered that she was a kind and gentle woman who was very kind to her and her father.

So even if she can barely remember her mother's face, even if it's for her father, Mindy will still punish Jin Bin with her own hands.

"What happened to your mother..." Gwen looked sad, "Does my father know about it?"

"I don't know." Mindy shook her head, "But dad and your dad should know each other. Dad asked me to stay away from you just to protect you."

"I'm sorry, I...just...don't want to lose friends like you."

"It doesn't matter, I also want to be friends with Mindy." Gwen smiled reluctantly, her thoughts still on Sheriff Stacey, who was suspected of being surrounded by undercover agents.

"So, my father is also very dangerous..." She murmured, "He has been hidden for so many years, how many people around him can be trusted?"

The worst-case scenario is here, the New York Police Department is about to be infiltrated into a sieve by the Kingpin.

"As long as we repent of Wilson Fisk, everything will be fine." Peter comforted Gwen.

"That's right, we must repent of him!"

Lucas looked at Mindy and stretched out his hand, "So our cooperation will continue?"

"Okay." Mindy intertwined hands with Lucas.

"Say in advance that everything in the palace must obey our command. You cannot act at will. Those shadows are fatal to you." Lucas said.

"I understand." After Mindy finished speaking, she was silent for a few seconds, "...thank you."

[I am you, you are me.

Here you gain a new bond.

As the saying goes, the wings of salvation free from bondage.

I, the mask of the Hanged Man, was born in the wind of blessing, and added strength to the invitation to salvation...]

Lucas was stunned, Mindy...

"Okay, let's go take a look at that strange building now," he said.

Peter led the way, and the group soon arrived near the strange building.

"It's almost finished! So fast!" Mindy whispered in surprise, "When I came here before, they were at least half finished."

"The look of those shadows... aren't they slaves?"

"This is probably what Wilson saw as the people of New York." Lucas looked at the faceless people wearing collars who worked hard and built without complaining. "He didn't even want to know what they looked like."

"Damn it!" Gwen cursed in a low voice.

"So do you want to go in and see what's inside?" Peter asked.

"Let's take another look," Lucas said. "Don't you think this building looks like a signal tower? This may help you detect some of the rules of this palace."

As soon as he finished speaking, the faceless people in black underneath began to cheer, seemingly celebrating the successful completion of the building.

Lucas narrowed his eyes and stared at the scene below.

"coming."