The Gotham Museum of Natural History's book gallery, one of the thirteen major exhibition halls, has a collection of more than 250,000 books related to natural history from all over the world.

The Book Pavilion is located on the west side of the Heritage Pavilion, and the two pavilions are close to each other, connected by a sky corridor on the third floor.

In a similar way to the Gotham City Library, there were very few visitors to the book gallery, and the corridor was sparsely populated, with only patrols passing by.

Above the ceiling of the corridor, Dean kept crawling forward, his movements light and fast, barely making a sound.

Dean was dressed in a pure black bodysuit that blended in with the night.

Tata Tata!

In the sky, two helicopters circled back and forth between the thirteen pavilions, and a round of searchlights swept around every corner.

Dean crawled forward quickly, while carefully dodging the helicopter's searchlight, fortunately, there were only two helicopters, and the range of searchlights was not large, and the gap between Dean's activities was not small.

It didn't take long for him to reach the end of the Sky Corridor.

At this moment, Dean is lying above the corridor between the third and fourth floors of the heritage exhibition hall.

As for why he risked being spotted by a helicopter on the top of the corridor, it was because there was a vent in the wall between the third and fourth floors of the Heritage Gallery, which led directly to the exhibition hall where the dragon egg ruby necklace was located.

And the location of this vent is right at the top of the sky corridor.

Dean opened the vent and drilled into the vent and continued to push forward.

At the same time, in a smoking room in the heritage exhibition hall.

The shadowy man with a cigarette in his mouth but never lit it still stays here, boredly lighting matches, and then lighting new matches again when they are extinguished, one after the other.

In addition to this man, there were more than a dozen people smoking in the room, and it was better to stand far away than huddle together, not daring to get too close to him.

"What the hell is going on with that dude? I think he's almost run out of matches, but he hasn't lit the cigarette until now. ”

The group of people hiding in the corner whispered as they peeked at the shadowy man.

"Who knows, maybe there's something wrong with him, maybe we should call the hospital."

"Shhh

Just then, the door to the smoking room suddenly opened.

"Oh, I didn't expect there to be so many people here."

I saw a short, stocky man with a sharp nose in a tuxedo walk in.

The moment they saw this person, everyone's heartbeat in the smoking room couldn't help but stop for a moment, and a panicked look appeared on their faces.

An atmosphere called fear spread through the crowd.

In Gotham, no citizen can remain calm when he sees the strange-looking man in front of him, because his name is Oswald Copote.

They didn't even dare to move, for fear that they would provoke the king of the underworld in Gotham.

"I'm sorry to disturb your time enjoying tobacco, but I have an important matter to discuss with this gentleman right now, so could you please excuse yourself for a moment."

The penguin man smiled kindly and said to the people in the smoking room.

"No problem! Mr. Copote, let's go now. ”

Hearing the penguin man's words, the dozen or so smokers suddenly seemed to be pardoned and slipped out of the smoking room as fast as they could.

Only the gloomy-faced man and the penguin man are still here.

Apparently he was the Penguin's point of inquiry.

"The time hasn't come yet."

The shadowy man suddenly said something out of his head, and the penguin man immediately understood what he meant.

"But it's almost here, Lynn, I'm here to inform you that you can start preparing, like putting on your uniform."

Garfield Lynn, codenamed Firefly, is a super criminal who has just escaped from Black Gate Prison not long ago.

Since he escaped from prison, GCPD and Batgirl have been tracking down the whereabouts of the fireflies, but nothing has been found, and the fireflies seem to have evaporated from the world.

Unexpectedly, the fireflies actually reached a cooperation with the penguin people.

"I'll make sure one last time, if you kill Kidd the Monster Thief, you'll get half a million dollars, right? I would like to be acknowledged by you personally. ”

Firefly asked expressionlessly.

"I beg your pardon, Mr. Copote, breaking a contract in Gotham is as common as eating and drinking, but you're different, I've heard of your credibility, but I need to be assured."

"You're right, Lynn, the concept of credibility almost doesn't exist in Gotham, but there are always exceptions in the world, and I'm a businessman with integrity."

The penguin man promised the fireflies.

"I promise you that as long as you get rid of Kidd, the thief, I'll pay you half a million dollars in cash, and it's clean cash."

"Thank you for your generosity, Mr. Copote, but I have one last thing to ask."

Before the firefly could ask, the penguin man gave a direct answer as if he knew in advance what he wanted to ask.

"I know what you want to ask, don't worry, my people are ready for everything, and you can show your abilities without any scruples."

Hearing this, the corners of the firefly's mouth hooked up slightly, revealing a strange smile.

"Happy hunting, Firefly."

After some time, Dean quietly removed the iron fence above his head and climbed up from under the pipe.

It was a relatively empty room, with lots of red pipes and a water valve, but no one was in it.

"Huh? What is that? ”

Dean looked at a few of the pipes and felt that something was wrong......

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Bang!

A thunderclap passed, and the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have finally finished accumulating their strength and began to rain.

At first, it was a drizzling rain, but soon it became heavier and heavier, so that the citizens in the square had to take up their umbrellas.

Those who didn't get an umbrella either cheekily approached someone with an umbrella nearby, or they all ran to a nearby pavilion to escape the rain.

Cultural relics exhibition hall, in the center exhibition hall on the top floor.

Dick stood by the window and looked at the sudden rain outside, his face solemn.

"It's less than five minutes until midnight, how the hell will Kidd the Monster Thief steal the necklace?"

At this last moment, everyone was in good spirits.

Especially the more than a dozen special police officers who circled around the outside of the dragon egg ruby necklace seemed to be putting all their energy on protecting the necklace at this moment.

Five minutes flew by.

It's time for zero!