Phantom Thief Kidd

Chapter 1 The Phantom Thief's Announcement Letter
"On the night of the full moon, with the curtain of the setting sun falling, I will take the Stone of Destiny under the first ray of moonlight."

"Phantom Thief Kidd, come on!"

GCPD, the headquarters of the Gotham City Police Department, received a strange letter today.

To be precise, it should be a notice letter.

The letter paper is of high quality, hard to the touch, like a piece of cardboard but much thinner than that, and the words on the letter are typed, so there is no way to tell who wrote it by the handwriting.

In the lower right corner of the text, a cartoon head is drawn, wearing a top hat and a monocle.

The Stone of Destiny is another name for sapphire, and it is one of the most precious gemstones in the world.

Coincidentally, just three days later, the Gotham City Exhibition Hall will exhibit the largest sapphire in the world - Adam's Star!
The valuation is 1.7 million US dollars.

And that day happened to be full moon day.

Judging from the content of the notice letter, a thief probably took a fancy to the Star of Adam, planned to steal it on the day the gem was exhibited, and sent a notice to the police station...

joke!

There is no thief in the world who will notify the police before stealing, unless he is crazy.

Therefore, this notice letter did not attract the attention of the police, except for him...

Jim Gordon, Gotham Police Chief.

Adam's Star is a national treasure gemstone, and the security work is entirely in charge of by the GCPD. More than 100 police officers were originally scheduled to be dispatched.

However, just after receiving the notice letter, Gordon immediately mobilized nearly one-tenth of the police force in Gotham City to protect Star Adam.

"Director, is there too much manpower assigned to the exhibition hall?"

Aaron Cash arrives at Gordon's office.

He discovered the notice letter and reported it, but his attitude towards the notice letter was completely dismissive.

"Aaron, don't you think the past few years have been too peaceful?"

Gordon's eyes were deep, as if he was thinking of the past.

"Oh, my God, why do you want me to think of those strange guys from the past, since they have all been batted..."

"Don't say that name, he's gone!"

"Okay Chief, I won't say. But what I must say is that Gotham has changed since the incident eight years ago. It's no longer the city of sin it used to be."

Aaron pointed out something.

"I know, but... this notice letter makes me feel uneasy."

"You think it might be another madman?"

"Aaron, you have experienced those things with me. You should understand that this city will never lack lunatics... no matter how many years it has been quiet."

In this city where prosperity and crime coexist, no matter how glamorous the high-rise buildings are, there will always be a dirty and dark alley behind them, even GCPD is no exception.

In the dark alley behind the Gotham Police Station, Maggison Feng came out.

Maggison is an Asian youth whose parents died early. He is 20 years old this year and a sophomore at Gotham University.

The incoming Phantom Thief Kidd.

That's right, he sent the notice letter to GCPD not long ago.

"Other traversers are all kinds of gold fingers, why do I only have a strange thief system?"

Leaving the police station, Maggison thought gloomily as he walked home.

Since traveling to this world ten years ago, he was shocked to find that this place is called Gotham, and there is a super rich man named Wayne.

When he thought this was the DC universe, he saw a report that the legendary inventor Tony Stark slept with a certain cover girl again...

Good guy, DC is already dangerous enough, why don't you come to Marvel?
Thanos dances with Darkseid?
Infinity Gauntlet VS Anti-Life Equation?

The earth is afraid that it will restart infinitely!

"If there were only Marvel, I could still bet on the other half, but there is really no way to hide from the anti-life equation."

After years of observation, Maggison determined that the world he was in was based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with some parts of the DC Cinematic Universe mixed in. For example, there is Gotham but there is no Metropolis, that is to say, there is only Batman but no Superman.

As for the number of other DC heroes that may still be hidden, Magison is not sure.

In terms of timeline, Gotham should be before the Nolan version of The Dark Knight Rises begins, while in New York, Stark just announced that he is Iron Man.

The New York War has a far-reaching impact, but it has little to do with Gotham. It may not affect Gotham until the Age of Ultron.

So McKesson still has a lot of time to develop.

Whenever he thinks about how dangerous this world is, Magison laments that he is probably the hardest traveler in history.

I admit that Kaitou is handsome and pretentious, but what can he do in this world?

What's even more frightening is that this system has no other functions except for a novice gift package that includes the Phantom Thief Kidd's skill collection and props making manual.

There is no explanation and no one-click mastery.

It's all up to him to teach himself!
It took a full ten years to master all of Kidd's skills. Not to mention very strong, one-vs-[-] is not a big problem.

Based on the principle of not wasting one's abilities, Maggison decided to be bold. Perhaps the system will be fully activated only when he truly becomes a strange thief.

Anyway, the past few years have been rare and peaceful days in Gotham. Scarecrow and other super criminals have all been arrested, and Batman has retired.

Before Bane came to Gotham, there were basically no particularly difficult people here.

Only Gordon can be regarded as an opponent.

There's never been a better time for Kaitou Kidd to debut.

Soon, three days passed, and finally the day of Kidd's announcement came.

On this day, Gordon and Aaron led a team of police officers to the Gotham City Exhibition Hall early, and were frightened by the turbulent crowd.

I saw that the gate of the exhibition hall was crowded with people, blocked by more than a dozen policemen who were assigned to guard the gate.

Because it's not time to open...

"What the hell is going on, why are there so many people here?"

Gordon asked, frowning.

"That... I don't know, sir."

Aaron was also dumbfounded.

Although the Star of Adam is precious, except for the upper class, it should not be so attractive to ordinary people.

At first glance, I am afraid that there are nearly 300 people besieging the entrance of the exhibition hall, and people come every minute.

You must know that it is only seven o'clock in the morning, and the exhibition will not start until two o'clock in the afternoon, and will last until two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, and the museum will not be closed halfway.

"Could it be?"

Gordon suddenly thought of a possibility. Could it be that these people came for Kaitou Kidd?
How is this possible? GCPD did not disclose this matter to the outside world. Only the exhibition party and the police station knew about it...

"Look, it's Jim Gordon!"

At this time, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd, and immediately dozens of people squeezed out of the crowd and surrounded Gordon and Aaron.

There are men and women in this group, some are carrying cameras, some are holding microphones, they are obviously reporters from major media.

As soon as they showed up, they started asking Gordon questions, each with their own questions, and Gordon was almost stunned by the flood of them.

"Director Gordon, do you know the real identity of Kaitou Kidd?"

"Director Gordon, will Kaito Kidd really come to steal Adam's Star today?"

"I heard that you made an exception and mobilized one-tenth of the GCPD's police force to protect the exhibition hall. As far as I know, the value of Adam's Star does not seem to require such a large police force mobilization."

"To target a criminal, so many police officers need to be mobilized, and it only appeared during the turbulent period eight years ago. Don't you think that Kaito Kidd will be another super criminal in Gotham after eight years?"

"shut up!"

Gordon roared, and the reporters immediately shut their mouths, but still stared at Gordon expectantly.

"Before I answer your questions, what I need to know is why do you know Kaitou Kidd, and why do these civilians gather here?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the reporters looked at Gordon with weird eyes.

"Don't you know Kidd's notice letter? Just last night, people in most of Gotham's urban areas picked up the notice letter from Kaito Kidd, saying that he will take away the Stone of Destiny today."

"This matter has been spread on the Internet, you probably don't know about it?"

The reporter who asked the question was wearing a peaked cap, which was pushed down so low that his face could not be seen clearly.

Gordon turned to Aaron.

"Hey, sir, look at what I do, everyone knows I'm not good at social networking or something."

Gordon: "..."

(End of this chapter)