Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 23 Investigation and Monitoring (Please collect! Please follow up!)
Dean rolled his eyes and quickly guessed where Dick had gone.

Then he stood up from his seat.

"Where do you want to go?"

Lark beside him couldn't help asking strangely when he saw "Grey Tad Ethan" get up for no reason.

"Oh, I just need to... go to the bathroom, you know, I just ate a little too much."

Dean sneered.

"That's why your figure is always so fat that you can't even walk easily."

Lark gave Dean a disgusted look, sat on the seat and opened his legs slightly to the right, because only in this way could "Grey Tad" walk through the aisle that was actually not too narrow.

Fortunately, the positions of the two people were in the most marginal corner, and Dean came to the outer stairs after passing Lark.

After coming out, Dean quietly left the auction venue.

Just after Dean left from the side door of the auction venue, another person in the venue also left...

On the other side, the kitchen on the first floor of the Gotham International Hotel.

While everyone was busy working, the kitchen door suddenly slammed.

Everyone was startled by the sudden sound, and they all turned to look at the door.

A teenager wearing a red tight top and green leggings with a blindfold on his face walked in.

On his shoulders was a young man wearing only a thin shirt and shorts, who was soundly asleep at this moment.

When the staff in the kitchen saw the young man on the teenager's shoulder, the expressions on their faces were even more surprised.

"Isn't that Tom! Is the person behind his back Robin?"

"I remember that Tom was supposed to be sent to serve dishes on the eighteenth floor. How could he be brought here by Robin in a coma?"

"and many more!"

At this time, a salmon-cutting employee suddenly shouted, "Do you still remember that GCPD said that Kaito Kidd would disguise himself as someone else? The person in front of us may not be Tom! Maybe Robin caught Kaito Kidd disguised as Tom!"

"It seems to make sense, but how can we be sure that Kaitou Kidd is Tom in disguise? Maybe Robin is Kaitou Kidd in disguise!"

Another meat grinder employee asked rhetorically.

Robin didn't explain too much, just put the sleepy Tom on the ground, and said lightly, "I found him on the roof of the hotel, and Kaitou Kidd knocked him out."

After speaking, Robin turned and left the kitchen.

Soon after, the monitoring room located on the twentieth floor of the hotel.

GCPD Director Jim Gordon and several elite subordinates of the intelligence team stayed here, staring intently at dozens of surveillance images on the entire wall.

"It has been more than an hour since the auction started, and there is no abnormality found. Will the Kaitou Kidd really come?"

One of the subordinates blinked his dry eyes, took a sip of the brewed coffee on the table and said.

"Don't be careless. It's not twelve midnight as Kidd announced. Anything can happen in the middle."

Gordon's complexion sank, and he alerted his subordinates.

"That's right, and in fact, Kaitou Kidd has sneaked into the hotel."

At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind Gordon.

"who!"

Several policemen in the monitoring room turned around instantly, took out their pistols and pointed them at the person behind them.

"Robin?"

Gordon looked at the person in surprise, and when his face was about to calm down, he suddenly remembered that the Kaitou Kidd would change his face, and Dang Li stared at Robin vigilantly.

"How do you prove that you are not Kaitou Kidd?"

Robin was silent for a moment, and then he took out a golden badge from nowhere, with the word "law" engraved on it.

"Remember this? When Batman took me to the Batlight for the first time a few years ago, you gave me a souvenir with your own hands. You said it was a symbol of our partnership."

Seeing the badge, Gordon looked much better. He almost believed in Robin in his heart, but he still had the last trace of doubt.

"Maybe you stole it from that kid. Not many people know about the badge, but there are still a few people in Gotham who can find out. You have to tell something that only the two of us know, at least one thing."

Gordon said forcefully.

"Okay, let me think about which one to say..."

Robin shook his head helplessly, then touched his chin and said, "How about the pipe? Director Gordon, you used to like smoking ordinary cigarettes like everyone else, but because Batman often appeared behind you, he would always startle you and cause the cigarette in your mouth to fall to the ground. Then you changed the pipe and kept smoking it with your hands."

"Oh—I'm just talking about how the director started smoking with an antique pipe for no reason. At first I thought he started to like retro styles, but I didn't expect the real reason to be this!"

A policeman next to him showed a suddenly realized expression, and said to his colleagues.

Gordon glanced at him expressionlessly and didn't speak. He just glanced at him lightly and then turned back to look at Robin again.

"You successfully proved your identity, Robin, so what did you mean when you said that Kaito Kidd had infiltrated?"

"I found an unconscious person on the rooftop of the hotel building. His name was Tom. He was a staff member of the kitchen on the first floor. But before I found the unconscious Tom, the people in the kitchen had been working with 'Tom'."

Robin concealed the fact that the Phantom Thief Kidd sent him a personal challenge letter temporarily, but only told the process of discovering Tom.

"Obviously, Kaitou Kidd disguised himself as Tom and sneaked into the hotel. I came here to investigate 'Tom''s trajectory through monitoring."

"Quick! Mobilize monitoring and push the time forward!"

Gordon immediately issued an order to his subordinates.

The matter was of great importance, and several other policemen immediately began to operate the monitoring station.

The surveillance screen began to move forward, until about two hours ago, a man who looked exactly like Tom came out of the kitchen on the first floor, and pushed a cart full of ingredients into the elevator.

Robin stared intently, watching every move of 'Tom' in the picture.

Then something went wrong. I saw 'Tom' in the surveillance record quietly looking left and right while pushing the cart.

The movement of his head turning was very slight. If he didn't observe carefully, he would not have noticed it at all. Gordon and the others were facing dozens of surveillance screens at the same time. It was normal for them not to notice it at the time.

Continue to check the monitoring records.

After coming to the restaurant on the [-]th floor as a waiter, 'Tom' behaved even more strangely.

(PS: Just to mention a little bit, the auction was set to start at [-]:[-] p.m., but later I felt that [-]:[-] was a bit too early, so I changed the previous time to [-]:[-], and I will explain it to the old readers who follow me)
(End of this chapter)