Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

The library exhibition hall, one of the thirteen major exhibition halls of the Gotham Museum of Natural History, collects natural history-related works from all over the world, with a collection of more than 250,000 volumes.

The library exhibition hall is located on the west side of the cultural relics exhibition hall. The two exhibition halls are very close to each other and connected through the air corridor on the third floor.

The situation is similar to that of the Gotham City Library. There are very few visitors in the library exhibition hall, and there are only a few patrol officers passing by in the corridors.

Above the ceiling of the corridor, Dean kept crawling forward, his movements light and fast, making almost no sound.

Dean was wearing pure black tights, blending into the night.

Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta!

In the sky, two helicopters circled back and forth between the thirteen exhibition halls, and a searchlight swept around every corner.

Dean crawled forward quickly while carefully avoiding the helicopter's searchlights. Fortunately, there were only two helicopters, and the range that the searchlights could illuminate was not large. There was still a lot of room for Dean to move.

Not long after, he arrived at the end of the air corridor.

At this moment, Dean, who was lying on top of the corridor, was between the third and fourth floors of the cultural relics exhibition hall.

As for why he took the risk of being discovered by a helicopter and acted on the top of the corridor, it was because there was a vent on the wall between the third and fourth floors of the cultural relics exhibition hall, which could directly lead to the place where the dragon egg ruby ​​necklace was. exhibition hall.

The location of this vent is right at the top of the sky corridor.

Dean opened the vent and crawled into the ventilation duct, pushing forward.

At the same time, in a smoking room in the cultural relics exhibition hall.

The shadowy man with a cigarette in his mouth but never lit it still stayed here, lighting the matches out of boredom, and then lit new matches after they went out, one after another.

In addition to this man, there were more than a dozen people smoking in the room. They would rather have several people crowded together than stand far away and not dare to get too close to him.

"What's going on with this guy? I think he's almost used up a whole box of matches, but he hasn't lit that cigarette until now."

The group of people hiding in the corner secretly glanced at the shadowy man and whispered.

"Who knows, maybe there's something wrong with him. Maybe we should call the hospital."

"Hush - don't let him hear it. If you guess it right, then this guy is definitely a dangerous person. I don't want to be hacked to death by a madman."

Just then, the smoking room door suddenly opened.

"Oh, I didn't expect there were so many people in here."

A short, fat man with a pointed nose in a tuxedo walked in.

The moment they saw this person, the heartbeats of everyone in the smoking room stopped for a moment, and panicked expressions appeared on their faces.

An atmosphere of fear spread among the crowd.

In Gotham, no citizen can remain calm when they see this weird-looking man in front of them, because his name is Oswald Cobblepot.

They didn't even dare to move, for fear that they would offend the underworld king of Gotham.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your time to enjoy tobacco, but I have something urgent to discuss with this gentleman, so can you please step aside for a moment?"

Penguin said to the people in the smoking room with a kind smile on his face.

"No problem! Mr. Cobot, we're leaving now."

Hearing Penguin's words, these dozen smokers suddenly felt like they were being amnesty and slipped out of the smoking room as quickly as possible.

Only the man with the gloomy face and the Penguin were still here.

Obviously he is the person Penguin is discussing about this important matter.

"time is not up yet."

The shadowy man suddenly said something carelessly, and Penguin immediately understood what he meant.

"But it's almost there, Lynn. I'm here to tell you that you can start getting ready, such as putting on your uniform."

Garfield Lynn, the super criminal codenamed Firefly, is the super criminal faced by Batgirl in her debut battle. He just escaped from Blackgate Prison not long ago.

Since he escaped from prison, the GCPD and Bat Girl have been tracking the whereabouts of Firefly, but they have found nothing. Firefly seems to have disappeared from the world.

Unexpectedly, Firefly actually reached a cooperation with Penguin.

"Let me confirm for the last time, as long as you kill Kaitou Kidd, you can get half a million dollars, right? I hope to get your personal confirmation."

Firefly asked expressionlessly.

"Please forgive me, Mr. Cobot. In Gotham, breaking a contract is as common as eating and drinking, but you are different. I have heard about your credibility, but I need to be guaranteed."

"You are right, Lynn. The concept of credibility almost does not exist in Gotham, but there are always exceptions in the world. I am an honest businessman."

Penguin promised Firefly.

"I promise you that as long as you kill Kaitou Kidd, I will pay you half a million dollars in cash, and it will be clean cash."

"Thank you for your generosity, Mr. Cobot, but I have one last thing to ask."

Before Firefly could ask, Penguin answered directly as if he knew what he wanted to ask in advance.

"I know what you want to ask, don't worry, my people have made all preparations, and you can show your abilities without any worries."

Hearing this, the corners of Firefly's mouth raised slightly, revealing a strange smile.

"Happy hunting, Firefly."

After a while, Dean quietly removed the iron fence above his head and climbed up from under the pipe.

This is a relatively empty room with a lot of red pipes and water valves, but no one is in it.

"Huh? That is?"

Dean looked at several of the pipes and felt that something was wrong...

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Boom!

There was a thunder, and the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have finally finished accumulating strength, and rain began to fall.

At first it was a light rain, but soon it became heavier and heavier, forcing citizens in the square to hold up umbrellas.

Those who didn't get an umbrella either shamelessly looked for someone with an umbrella next to them, or they all ran to a nearby exhibition hall to hide from the rain.

Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, in the central exhibition hall on the top floor.

Dick stood by the window and looked at the sudden rain outside, his face serious.

"There are less than five minutes until midnight. How will Kaito Kidd steal the necklace?"

At this last moment, everyone was in high spirits.

Especially the dozen special police officers who surrounded the dragon egg ruby ​​necklace seemed to be focusing all their energy on protecting the necklace at this moment.

Five minutes flew by.

It's midnight!