Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"Cough cough cough-"

Robin covered his face with his cloak and retreated from the gray fog of tear gas.

After about ten seconds, the effect of the tear gas gradually faded, and then Robin put down the cloak covering his face.

The effect of tear gas seems to have been deliberately reduced a lot. Basically, it will have little effect soon after Robin exits. However, even if the tear gas bombs frequently used by GCPD are out of the gas range, the effect will still last for about ten minutes before starting to decay.

Robin stared at the gray fog in front of him that would take a few minutes to completely dissipate in silence. He knew in his heart that there was no hope of catching up with Kaito Kidd at this time.

"There is another good show at the auction venue..."

Recalling what Kaitou Kid had just said, Robin narrowed his eyes and walked back to the venue.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to take Cicero, the hotel manager, who was spread out in the corridor.

Soon after, inside the auction venue.

As soon as Robin walked in through the door, he felt something was wrong in the atmosphere.

With the efforts of Gordon and a group of GCPD police officers, the chaotic situation was well controlled and order was restored.

The strange thing is that everyone returned to the bidding seats at this time. The GCPD police officers formed a circle outside and all looked at the host table, just like the scene during the bidding.

However, the original Cicero standing on the hosting stage was replaced by an unexpected woman.

Big and elegant golden waves, smart and simple workplace attire, and a mature and intellectual face.

Gotham Gazette's signature reporter Vicki Vale!

Next to Vicki Weir, Luck and Graytard were handcuffed and stood there without saying a word. Behind them were several police officers, including Gordon.

This Gray Letard is obviously genuine.

"Is this the good show Kaitou Kidd said?"

Robin hummed in his heart, he probably knew what kind of trick Kid was playing.

He dragged Cicero in and threw the latter to Lac and Greytard.

"You're back, Robin, how's it going?"

Gordon asked hurriedly when he saw Robin coming back.

"Sorry, Kaitou Kidd ran away again."

Robin shook his head slightly.

"Don't worry about the thief for now. There are more important things that need to be revealed to the people who don't know the truth. Thank you for bringing Cicero here. We just happened to talk about him."

Vicki interrupted the conversation between Gordon and Robin and said solemnly.

"If you had come in twenty seconds later, I'm afraid I would have had to borrow two people from Director Gordon to fetch Mr. Cicero."

"So, what's going on now?"

Robin asked looking at Gordon.

"Miss Weir said she had some inside information about the 'Pink Fantasy' diamond, claiming that there was an illegal transaction involving a huge amount of money behind it."

Gordon replied, "She said that everyone here has the right to know the truth, so she chose to announce it publicly here. She just said that Cicero fell in the corridor and wanted me to send someone to pick him up, and then she Appeared."

Hearing this, Robin nodded understandingly, thinking silently in his mind.

"It turns out that in the last sentence of Kidd's notice letter, Hermes is not referring to Phantom Thief Kidd himself, but Vicky Vale, a reporter dedicated to exposing the truth."

Hermes is the messenger of the gods, and isn’t the purpose of the journalist profession to be the messenger who conveys true voices to the world?

Although journalists who have always maintained their true nature are rare these days, this does not tamper with the essence of the identity of a 'journalist'.

At least Vicky Weir is a conscientious reporter.

Vicky walked to the center of the host stage, picked up the microphone and faced everyone and said: "Everyone who came to participate in the auction today, I am Vicky Vale from the Gotham Gazette. Some people may have heard of my name, and some may have heard of me. No."

In fact, this was a bit modest. Vicki Vale's reputation was still very high in Gotham, and almost all of the hundreds of bidders in the audience knew about her.

"I know you have a lot of doubts in your hearts, and maybe you are resentful of Kaitou Kidd who disrupted the auction process, but I want to tell you that today's auction hides a dirty and illegal transaction!"

"And the prop for this transaction... is the finale of this auction, 'Pink Dream'. This diamond is artificially fake!"

As soon as this statement came out, the audience immediately started talking about it. Many of them came here because of the name of the world's largest pink diamond.

As for some gossip about fake diamonds, at their level, they basically cannot hear it. Even if they hear it, no one will take it seriously if it is unsubstantiated.

But now it was Vicki Vale, Gotham Gazette's leading reporter, who was saying these words, and her words were quite influential.

Vicky pointed to Cicero and continued: "Joy Cicero, as the host of the auction, not only agreed to let fake diamonds participate in the auction, but also prepared a series of appraisal certificates for 'Pink Dream'. Use bribery, threats, blackmail, etc. to force the appraiser to stamp the certificate!"

"I know accusations without evidence are meaningless, so I'm asking you to take a look at this!"

Vicki dug out a transparent sealed bag in her bag and displayed it in front of everyone on the big screen.

The bag is densely filled with all kinds of diamonds, crystals, reds, blues, emeralds and the like. They are gorgeous and colorful, and each one is in excellent condition. If you carve them carefully, they are worth a fortune. It is a waste to stuff them all into a plastic bag like this.

However, Vicky's next words instantly shocked the jaws of everyone present.

"These were found in Cicero's manager's office, hidden in a secret compartment. Every gem in this bag is fake!"

This statement is quite shocking, but if you think about it carefully, there still seems to be some problems.

"Cicero has so many fake gems hidden away. Does he plan to auction them off in large quantities? Isn't he afraid that the secret will be exposed one day? And wasn't the 'Pink Dream' put up for auction by Gray Letard? Why did Cicero Will there be a lot of fake gems hidden there?”

There is a more important question - why did Kaitou Kidd steal a fake diamond?

"Robin, do you think Kaito Kidd's motive is..."

Gordon turned to look at Robin, wanting to ask the latter's opinion, but the question he blurted out came to an abrupt end.

"I knew it……"

Looking at the empty space around him, Gordon couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

Vicki looked at everyone with firm eyes. She didn't know if she would be retaliated against after saying this, but if she didn't, she would be sorry for her work over the years.

"The purpose of these fake gemstones was not to be realized through auctions from the beginning!"

"But to launder money!"

"Cicero, Graytard, and Lark are all just pawns responsible for using the 'Pink Dream' to launder money. The person behind everything is Oswald Cobblepot!"

"Penguin!"