Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

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

He initially thought that Kaito Kidd's criminal plan was to swap a certain auction item in advance and replace it with the latter's own thing, which was the wooden box in front of him.

This wooden box will most likely be some kind of remote control mechanism or timer mechanism. For example, if you press the remote control or reach a fixed time point, the box will release a large area of ​​hypnotic smoke, tear gas, or even deadly poisonous gas.

Of course, based on Kaitou Kidd's previous crime habits, Robin believed that he would most likely not use extreme means like killing people, but after all, precautions must be taken. No one can be sure whether Kaitou Kidd is someone who likes to hide his true nature. Perverted murderer.

Robin speculated that Kaitou Kidd had calculated the time in advance. This wooden box would definitely be put up for bidding before twelve o'clock. When the host introduced the competing products, the switch would be triggered. At that time, Kaitou Kidd would be in commotion. Stealing "Pink Dream".

This may sound like fantasy, but there is actually room for maneuver.

Kaitou Kidd had sneaked into this room where the auction items were temporarily placed, which meant that he knew the quantity and serial number of the auction items in advance.

Then he can deliberately raise a high price in the audience to scare other bidders from quickly switching to the next competing item, or increase the price a little bit to prolong the bidding time, in order to achieve the purpose of controlling the duration of the auction.

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

What's more, Kaito Kidd may directly disguise himself as the auction host and personally control the rhythm of the entire auction.

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

This was what Robin thought until a few minutes ago. Here he solved Kaitou Kidd's trap, and Gordon and others began to investigate everyone in the venue, and finally found out Kaitou Kidd's true face, and everyone was happy.

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

Therefore, the police force had to be dispersed everywhere, and now most of the police force is concentrated on the eighteenth floor, and the entire auction venue has been surrounded by GCPD.

In this situation, even Kaitou Kidd cannot fly even if he has wings.

But it turned out that Kaitou Kidd did not leave any mechanism here, which meant that Robin's reasoning was wrong.

Uh, no, really speaking, this is actually a mechanism.

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

In the surveillance recording, Kaito Kidd glanced at the vent in the blind corner three times in a row, seemingly casually but in fact very deliberately.

It was this detail that normal people would hardly notice that misled Robin, making him mistakenly believe that this was the key to cracking Kaitou Kidd's plan.

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

"The trap was triggered."

At the same time, Dean, who was hiding somewhere, looked at the display bar that popped up on his mobile phone and showed a triumphant smile, "Humph, Dick, Dick, I know that even if you are smart, you can be misled. This is called smart. Instead, he was misled by his cleverness.”

"The countdown has begun."

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

"Kaitou Kid misled me to come here, so his real plan is... bad! The time is already 23:58!"

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

He immediately rushed out of the room and walked through the curtain to the bidding site.

Then Robin saw that the upper class people who were bidding one by one a few minutes ago were suddenly lining up to leave the venue.

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

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

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

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

Robin looked at the crowd in front of him and thought to himself.

"He probably can't do the blackout thing either. According to the surveillance videos of the past few days, apart from the mechanism that misled me, Kaitou Kidd probably didn't have time to set up other traps."

It’s just...why do I always feel like something is not quite right?

boom!

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

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

"What! How is this possible?"

Robin looked at the suddenly dark venue in disbelief.

"I've checked all the hotel's surveillance records in recent days. It's impossible for anyone to have the opportunity to tamper with the power supply equipment... Wait, could it be that-"

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

Time difference! It’s all about time difference!

Sending the card from the restaurant made Robin realize that Kaitou Kidd was probably disguised as a waiter. All Kidd's preparations were to create a time difference.

Knowing that Kaitou Kidd has infiltrated, Robin will definitely want to catch him before Kidd takes action. If he cannot find any clues, Robin can only take the initiative to look for traces that Kidd may leave behind.

That is, the waiter 'Tom'. By tracking the 'Tom' disguised by Phantom Thief Kidd, it is possible to find Kidd's flaw.

In this way, Robin will naturally investigate all the surveillance records of 'Tom', and 'Tom' has appeared in almost all areas on the 18th floor at various times, which means that all surveillance pictures on the 18th floor will Adjust back.

When collecting surveillance records, it means that for a period of time, the 'current' surveillance footage cannot be seen in the monitoring room, because they are looking at the 'past' surveillance footage!

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 anyone in the surveillance room. As long as he moves quickly enough, he can create a perfect time difference.

Thinking of this, Robin couldn't help but be shocked by Kaitou Kid's boldness. If Robin had discovered the vent before Kid finished tampering with the power supply equipment, the surveillance records would have returned to normal time...

Then all of Kaitou Kidd's plans came to nothing.

At this moment, a spotlight suddenly lit up and shone on the center of the hosting platform.

"Ladies~and~Gentlemen!"

A flawless and gorgeous figure appeared in this light.

"It's show time!"