Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

The moment Robin saw the flag, he realized that he had been misled by Kaitou Kidd.

At first, he thought that Kaito Kidd's criminal plan was to replace a certain auction item with the latter's own thing in advance, that is, the wooden box in front of him.

This wooden box is probably some kind of remote control mechanism or timing mechanism. For example, if you press the remote control or reach a fixed time point, a large area of ​​hypnotic smoke, tear gas or even deadly poisonous gas will be released from the box.

Of course, based on Kaitou Kidd's previous crime habits, Robin thinks that he will most likely not use such extreme methods as killing people, but precautions must be taken after all. No one can be sure whether Kaitou Kidd is a person who likes to hide his nature Perverted killer.

Robin speculates that Kaito Kidd has calculated the time in advance, and this wooden box will definitely be taken up for auction before twelve o'clock, and the switch will be triggered when the host introduces the competing products, and Kaito Kidd will be in a riot at that time. Steal "Pink Dream" from the middle.

This sounds like a fantasy, but there is actually room for manipulation.

The strange thief Kidd has sneaked into the room where the auction items are temporarily placed, which means that he knows the quantity and serial number of the auction items in advance.

Then he can deliberately call high prices in the audience to scare off other bidders and quickly change to the next competing product, or increase the price a little bit to prolong the bidding time, so as to achieve the purpose of manipulating the duration of the auction.

As for whether Phantom Thief Kidd has so much money to bid for the auction, it doesn't matter at all. After all, it is impossible for him to participate in the bidding with his real identity, but he will definitely pretend to be someone else.

What's more, Kaito Kidd may directly pretend to be the host of the auction, and personally manipulate the rhythm of the entire auction.

In short, these are not particularly difficult things for Kaitou Kidd to do.

Until a few minutes ago, Robin thought so. He solved the mechanism of Kaitou Kidd here, and Gordon and others began to investigate everyone in the venue, and finally found out the true face of Kaitou Kidd. Everyone was happy.

This time is different from before. At the museum, no one knew where the Kaitou Kidd would appear from, nor where the Kaitou Kidd would escape.

So the police force had to be scattered everywhere, and now most of the police force is concentrated on the 18th floor, and the entire auction venue has been surrounded by GCPD.

In this situation, Kaitou Kidd can hardly fly even with his wings.

But it turned out that Kaito Kidd didn't leave any organs here, which meant that Robin's reasoning was wrong.

Uh, no, to be honest, this is actually an institution.

It's just that the function of this organ is more like a joke with Robin.

In the monitoring record, the Kaitou Kidd looked at the air vent in the dead corner three times in a row, seemingly casually but very deliberately.

It was this detail, which normal people would hardly notice, that misled Robin into thinking that it was the key to solving Kaitou Kidd's plan.

As a result, Robin fell into the trap designed by Kaitou Kidd.

"The mechanism has been triggered."

At the same time, Dean, who was hiding somewhere, looked at the display bar that popped up on the phone, showing a triumphant smirk, "Hmph, Dick, Dick, I knew that if you are smart, you will be misled, that's called being smart." Instead of being misunderstood by cleverness."

"The countdown has begun."

Suddenly, Robin realized that he had almost overlooked a crucial issue——

"Phantom Thief Kidd misled me to come here, so his real plan is...not good! The time is already 23:58!"

Robin looked at the time on the watch, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

He rushed out of this room immediately, and walked through the curtain to the auction site.

Then Robin saw that the upper-class people who were asking prices one by one a few minutes ago suddenly lined up and left the venue.

The auction is obviously not over yet, why did it suddenly end?

Looking at the rows of GCPD police next to him, Robin immediately understood what was going on.

Gordon brought a large force over to screen the people in the auction, and everyone is currently under the control of the police.

"Now the Kaitou Kidd probably won't dare to act rashly, unless he is not among these people..."

Robin thought to himself while watching the crowd in front of him.

"He probably won't be able to play the game of blackout. According to the surveillance video of the past few days, apart from the mechanism that misled me, Kaito Kidd shouldn't have time to set up other traps."

It's just... why does it always feel that something is not right?

boom!

Just as he was thinking this way, a loud noise sounded without warning.

Immediately afterwards, the lights in the entire auction venue were instantly extinguished, and only the big screen on the host stage was still on.

"What! How is this possible?"

Robin looked in disbelief at the venue that suddenly darkened.

"I have checked all the monitoring records of the hotel in recent days. It is impossible for anyone to tamper with the power supply equipment... Wait, could it be that—"

At this moment, Robin finally understood why the Kaitou Kidd misled him to find that "surprise".

Time difference! It's all about the time difference!

Sending the card from the restaurant made Robin aware that Kaito Kidd was probably disguised as a waiter, and all the preparations Kidd made were to create a time difference.

Knowing that the Kaitou Kidd has sneaked in, Robin will definitely want to catch Kidd before he makes a move, so if he can't find any clues, Robin can only take the initiative to look for traces that Kidd may leave.

That is, the waiter "Tom", by tracking the "Tom" disguised as "Tom" by Kaitou Kidd, it is possible to find Kidd's flaws.

In this way, Robin will naturally investigate all the surveillance records of 'Tom', and 'Tom' has appeared in almost all areas on the eighteenth floor at various times, which means that all surveillance images on the eighteenth floor will be Adjust back.

When mobilizing monitoring records, it means that for a period of time, the 'now' monitoring pictures cannot be seen in the monitoring room, because they are looking at the 'past' monitoring pictures!

Even if Kaito Kidd did some tricks during this period and was recorded by the surveillance camera, the surveillance footage would not be seen by the people in the surveillance room. As long as his movements were fast enough, he could create a perfect time difference.

Thinking of this, Robin couldn't help but be shocked by the boldness of Kidd the Phantom Thief. If Robin found out about the vents before Kidd finished tampering with the power supply equipment, causing the monitoring records to return to normal time...

All the plans of the Kaitou Kidd have come to naught.

At this moment, a beam of spotlights suddenly lit up, shining on the center of the hosting platform.

"Ladies~and~Gentlemen!"

A pure and flawless gorgeous figure appeared in this light.

"It's show time!"