Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"If I remember correctly, the FBI seems to have a branch in Gotham. Who is the agent in charge? I don't have much impression."

Dean reached out and touched his chin, thinking to himself.

Gotham is a very strange city. Even though the FBI seems to be very cool in the United States, in Gotham they are no different than a transparent person.

Despite the fact that every Gothamite looks down on the GCPD, in fact the combat effectiveness of the GCPD is far more powerful than the police force in ordinary cities. In some street fighting situations, it is even stronger than the army. The only difference is in terms of weapons.

In other places, the local police may assist the FBI in handling cases, but in a place like Gotham, it is always the GCPD who takes the lead.

In fact, it is not just in the city of Gotham, but in any city where superheroes and super villains gather together, the situation is basically similar.

Like Metropolis, Central City, Beach City, Midway City, Star City, etc., it is difficult for federal organizations such as the FBI to get involved, which means that these cities have relatively higher autonomy.

As the number of super-powered criminals around the world increases year by year, the status of traditional organizations such as the FBI and the CIA is becoming more and more embarrassing. It is difficult for them to deal with those super criminals. Even those with not very strong super powers need to consume a lot of money. Only with manpower and material resources can we solve it.

As a result, these traditional spy organizations are gradually being replaced by emerging superpower departments.

However, the federal government is not stupid. They know that the overall situation of the world is changing. Not to mention that there are more and more super criminals in the country. What they are most worried about is the Justice League.

The Justice League's power is too powerful and uncontrollable, and it also has a terrifying social influence. It is a far more terrifying deterrent than nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the federal government has established two major departments, the Sky Eye Society and the Super Investigation Department. Their powers are roughly the same as those of the original CIA and FBI, one for external affairs and the other for internal affairs, but they are limited to supernatural events.

Work within the normal scope is still completed by the FBI and CIA.

But that doesn't mean that they are completely out of touch with supernatural events. After all, many things don't seem to involve superpowers on the surface. They won't be exposed until after in-depth investigation. Then they will notify the Super Investigation Department to come and help, and then the FBI will All we can do is start.

The advantage of this is that the FBI itself does not have many means to deal with supernatural crimes, but it does have a large number of files on supernatural criminals. At most, the details are not as comprehensive as the information of the Super Investigation Department.

For Dean who wants to explore Cassandra's past, wouldn't this be the best place to investigate?

"Although the FBI branch has little presence in Gotham, their defense facilities are probably not bad. After all, I have only heard of the GCPD being blown up by someone, but I have never heard of the FBI branch being blown up."

Dean thought as he returned to his base camp.

"Sneaking into an FBI branch requires careful planning."

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the other side.

Gotham, Janus Cosmetics.

Roman Sionis returned to his company with anger that he didn't know where to come from.

Along the way, all the employees were too frightened to speak when they saw the boss's dark face. As soon as Roman passed by, they quickly lowered their heads and did their own thing.

"Damn Bruce, do you think I can't see what you really think? You're pretending to want to help, but don't you just want to take the opportunity to acquire my company?"

He speculated darkly in his mind.

During the year that Roman took charge of the company, Janus Makeup could be said to have been losing money every month, forcing Roman to use the family's gray income to go to the Penguin to launder it as a way to save money.

It is normal for nobles with a long history to have many shady properties. Even the Wayne family had a lot of black income before Thomas's generation.

Roman didn't think there was anything wrong with his way of running the business. Instead, he believed from the bottom of his heart that it was everyone else's fault. Either the people under his command were acting against the will and failed to do what he told them to do, or the hostile company was making small moves.

Especially the cosmetics subsidiary of Wayne Group, which was originally a mediocre small company, suddenly grew in size during the year of Janus's decline and occupied many markets of Janus.

Roman stubbornly believed that Wayne was engaging in malicious competition.

"Damn Wayne, damn Bruce, damn everyone, just like you!"

In the office, Roman growled with a ferocious expression.

When he said the last words, his eyes unconsciously looked at a portrait hanging in the corner.

What was painted on it was an elderly couple, who were Roman's parents.

Yes, deep down, Roman hated his parents because of the endless domestic violence in his childhood and the vanity that made him sick.

The Siannises are typical people who look down on the poor, only allow Roman to get along with the aristocracy, and require him to deliberately build a good relationship with Bruce.

This made Roman resentful of his parents since he was a child, and he also disliked Bruce.

Later, just like that old-fashioned love story, Roman fell in love with an ordinary girl, and then encountered firm resistance from his parents.

The filial Roman accepted his parents' arrangement and severed ties with the girl.

Then his parents died, in a raging fire.

Then, Roman, who inherited the Janus Makeup Company, began drastic changes.

He added a large number of weird mask elements with unknown meanings and terrifying appearances to the company's products, which is completely opposite to the previous product image.

Why did Roman make these changes? It was because he had some unusual quirks. After he obtained the inheritance from the Sionnis family, he spent a lot of money to buy countless masks from all over the world.

They were all grotesque and terrifying masks, and Roman believed from the bottom of his heart that these were the best works of art in the world.

How could anyone not like masks?

As for the results, it was clear that consumers didn't buy it, and Roman refused to believe it.

He invested the money laundered from Penguin into the development of new products. Yes, almost all of it was invested in development. He ignored the current negative public opinions of consumers towards Janus Cosmetics Company.

Roman was hopeful that this new product would save the company, and he had no doubts about it.

To be honest, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such fearless courage.

"Everyone is questioning my decision. What do they know? Just wait and see, time will prove that I am right!"

Roman thought angrily.

"Bruce, don't even think about taking my company away from me! I will make Janus great again!"

dong dong!dong dong!

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the office door.

"Come in!"

Roman growled dissatisfied.

"Old...boss, the director of the research...research department said that the experiments on new products have made great progress...and would...like to invite you to come and visit."

A young man dressed as a secretary opened the door tremblingly and said cautiously.

He seemed to be afraid of Roman and didn't even dare to go in. He just left the door ajar and went into the room to report to Roman with half of his body exposed.

Hearing this, Roman's face lit up with joy, and his gloomy expression relaxed a lot.

"Very good, take me there quickly!"

(I took a train for nearly thirteen hours yesterday and didn’t get much sleep. I’m really exhausted today, so I have to take a leave of absence. I’ll update tomorrow when I catch up on some sleep.)