Phantom Kid in the World of American Comics

After waiting for another ten minutes, Phantom Kid still did not show up.

The power outage just now seemed to be just an ordinary short circuit.

It’s alright now. The expectations of the reporters deflated like a balloon.

They all became reluctant, once more, like before.

When they found out that the content they had just excitedly filmed was a switch from Kingpin’s heartfelt speech to pitch-black, they were all disappointed.

Unfortunately, none of the people present paid any attention to them from the beginning to the end.

The party continued.

Kingpin had no intention to relax yet. He is a criminal with ambitions and ideals.

In his opinion, Phantom Kid will definitely not give up easily.

There is still a long time until the end of the party, during which Kid will definitely not leave.

At this time, Mathison had quietly walked into the bathroom.

The bathroom is a good location for people like him.

First, there is no surveillance here.

Second, there are several small enclosed spaces here.

Third, there are special ventilation ducts here.

Fourth, no matter what time of day or occasion, no one will stop you from entering the restroom, as long as you are not continuously going back and forth.

The only bad thing is that you can’t stay inside for too long, but that’s when there are not many people. Not in this case, though; there are 3000 people.

No one would notice the absence of one person or two.

At least, here, Mathison can be sure that no one is watching over him all the time, and that’s enough.

Mathison skillfully removed the wire mesh from the vents and jumped upward.

«I still remember where the location of the system control room is at …»

Sometime later, Mathison climbed to the top of the system control room, located on the ceiling, to the left of the doorway.

There were two monitors in total.

One security camera was on the right opposite corner, facing the doorway in a diagonal line, running through the entire control room.

The other camera is to the right of Mathison, monitoring only the operating console.

Roughly, three blind spots existed, and the closest to Mathison happened to be the range below the camera to Mathison’s right all the way to the corner.

“Why is it my turn to be on duty here today, I am not even allowed to smoke…ugh, kill me already!”

A man on duty was sitting on the chair in front of the operation desk. He seemed to be very impatient, as he kept complaining.

«Only one man on duty, pretty.»

There was no hurry to remove the wire mesh of the vent. Mathison took out a playing card, aiming at the blind spot of surveillance to fling it. With little force, he threw it, and the sound he made was just enough for the man on duty to hear it.

Then, Mathison stretched out his wrist, flipped open the cover of his hand watch and aimed at the surveillance blind spot.

It was the watch-type anesthesia needle.

“What was that?”

The man on duty heard the noise and quickly pulled out his pistol.

There was silence in the control room as if no one was there.

The man swallowed his saliva and, step by step, slowly walked towards the place where the sound came from.

Then, he saw a playing card dropped in the corner.

The watchman thought of something instantly and aimed his gun at the vent as fast as he could.

The barbed wire was intact.

And after a second, nothing happened.

Relieved, thinking he was just overthinking it, the watchman went up and picked up the playing card.

“Thanks!”

The playing card had that word written on it.

The duty man’s pupils shrank, and an unsettling feeling surged in his heart.

“Poof!”

Along with an inaudible sound, the duty officer did not even turn his head back before his eyes went black and collapsed on the ground.

Only then did Mathison start dismantling the barbed wire.

He adjusted the angle and jumped down to make sure he wouldn’t be caught on camera.

Mathison changed into the man on duty’s clothes and put them right under the camera, a position that is absolutely blind to surveillance.

Then, Mathison calmly walked over to the console and briefly adjusted the system.

“Mike, what are you doing? Don’t mess with the console!”

Suddenly, a voice came from the intercom next to the console.

“And what were you doing with your gun just now, are we being invaded?”

Apparently, it was someone from the monitoring room who was speaking.

“I’m sorry, I was a bit bored just now, how dare I really mess with the system? Everything is normal here.”

Mathison replied in the voice  of the man on duty, with a little panic and urgency in his tone.

“You can see the console for yourself.”

Mathison stepped aside, allowing the full view of the console to be exposed within the camera range.

The people in the monitoring room quickly scanned all the important systems aside, and the lights that were on were all green, indicating that everything was normal.

Because the adjustments made by Mathison were indeed normal, he was not so eager to actually touch the central system.

“Well, forget about what just happened. Mike, you can’t mess things around even if you’re idle, or you’ll anger the boss and your whole family will have to die!”

The man in the monitoring room seems to be very familiar with Mike. 

Mathison replied in fear, “I know, there will be no next time. But it’s really too hard to sit here all the time, I want to go for a cigarette, can I?”

Mathison began to complain again.

“Obviously there are you guys watching in the monitoring room, there is no need for people to watch here well.”

“Mike, you’re talking a little too much today… meh, I will cover you up. Your work is indeed boring. But hurry up, and remember to go to the bathroom to smoke!”

After being granted permission, Mathison immediately walked out of the control room, into the bathroom; the rooms were not that far from each other.

Climbing up the ventilation duct again, Mathison returned to the restroom in the party hall.

He re-disguised himself as Phineas and left Mike’s clothes in the ventilation ducts.

After finishing his preparations, Mathison returned to the party as if nothing happened.

As expected, none of them noticed that he had taken a little too long to go to the toilet.

«It should be about to take effect soon.»

Mathison looked at his watch and estimated that the time was almost right and that all the preparations were ready.

“It’s show time!”

Mathison stuffed his hands into his pockets and pressed the remote control that had been prepared for a long time.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” …

Just as the guests present were enjoying the banquet and ball, a series of explosions shook them up.

Gray thick smoke instantly filled the entire venue.

“It’s a smoke bomb!”

“Where the hell did this smoke bomb come from? Did anyone see it?”

“I know, it’s Phantom Kid! He’s still here!”

“As expected of Phantom Kid, he’s really not someone who gives up lightly!”

The reporters became excited again, even in the face of a large area of smoke, they were excitedly filming the scene.

“Mr. Reporter, what are you exactly trying to shoot?”

A familiar voice came out of the smoke in front of the reporters.

An elegant tone, a warm voice, and a mysterious figure in a cloak and top hat was vaguely visible …

“Phantom Kid appeared!”