Late at night, a restaurant named after an iceberg.

"Where's the emperor penguin?"

Batman asked in an emotionless tone as he grabbed a waiter by the collar and lifted him against the wall.

On the ground around him, a dozen waiters and cooks with bruised noses and swollen faces lay one after another, all unconscious.

"No...... I don't know...... The boss has ...... For several days...... None of ...... have ever appeared."

The waiter, with his feet on the wall, struggled to speak.

Boom!

As soon as he finished speaking, Batman hit the waiter unconscious.

Batman wasn't skeptical of the waiter's answer, as he had already run through the Penguins' main territory in the previous hours, and the results were very different.

The emperor penguin is gone.

Ever since he told Batman about Francine Langstone's presence with Mr. Mosaic, he has disappeared without a trace, and no one knows where he has gone.

This is not good news.

Leaving the Iceberg Restaurant, Batman was about to return to the Batcave, when a familiar voice suddenly sounded from the side.

"Are you confused right now, Batman?"

Batman followed the prestige and saw a stocky old acquaintance come out of the shadows.

Despite his haggard face, bloodshot eyes, and a completely ill-fitting tuxedo, he tried his best to maintain his graceful demeanor.

"Copote, you're still alive."

What appeared in front of Batman was the Penguin Man who was previously believed to have died in the attack of the mutant man!

Batman was not surprised by the Penguin Man's "resurrection", after all, he had not found the Penguin's body for so long, and with his understanding of his old rival, it was by no means so easy to die.

"It must be very uncomfortable to be betrayed by your most trusted cronies, and looking at your current appearance, it is better to serve your sentence in the Black Gate Prison, at least you will get a set of well-fitting prison uniforms."

Looking at the down-and-out penguin man, Batman sneered mercilessly.

"Humph!"

Penguin Man snorted coldly with an ugly face, and he didn't refute Batman, because it was the truth.

O'Kilvi took all his possessions and forcibly took control of almost all the criminal organizations in the city with a thunderbolt, and the penguins did not dare to show their heads.

The Penguin Man can't even afford to buy himself a set of clothes that fit, and now he is wearing the only remaining subordinate by his side, Mr. Combustible.

Mr. Burn was tall and thin, and his clothes were not only tightened on the penguin's body, but the sleeves were a lot longer than his hands, which looked funny.

"Do you want to know O'Kilvie's whereabouts, Batman?"

Penguin Man took a deep breath, stared into Batman's eyes, and asked in a deep voice.

——

The next day, at noon.

"The defense is really tight, and it is almost impossible to find a dead corner to enter, and it is the first time I have seen GCPD so serious, even the most inconspicuous little policeman looks like he is waiting for it."

Dean, dressed as an ordinary gambler, looked at the iceberg casino in front of him, which was blocked by the GCPD and couldn't even get into it.

This time, the police's control of the teaser scene far exceeded any previous crime committed by the strange thief Kidd, not only prohibiting everyone from entering and leaving the iceberg casino, but even those who were just close to the casino were detained as suspects.

One can imagine how many complaints GCPD will receive after this incident, but at this moment they have no time to think about the future.

Unlike Kidd the Thief, the Rogue is a thorough danger, and who knows what he's going to do to defeat Kidd the Thief, maybe his plan is to blow up the entire casino with Kidd the Thief.

In such a situation, no policeman would joke with his own life.

"The one called the Monster Thief Crow said he was going to challenge you, but I don't know where that guy hid the Jeai Blue Stone, and I'm not even sure if he's in it."

At this moment, a pleasant voice sounded from Dean's side.

I saw a young girl wearing black-rimmed glasses standing there, wearing a blue suit and skirt, a red bow tie pinned to her chest, her skin was fair, and she looked very cute.

"He must have been waiting for me inside."

Dean guessed.

"But I'm more worried about your first performance than that?"

He asked, turning his head to look at the girl.

"Don't you believe I'm up to the task?"

Kassandra blinked.

"What if I say yes?"

Dean asked rhetorically.

"Then you're lying, I can see it."

Kassandra smiled and clasped her hands.

That's right, the young girl who appeared next to Dean was none other than Kassandra Cain, his little assistant who had lived with him for a while.

Not long ago, Dean meticulously disguised and cross-dressed, and also put a hidden inner height in her shoes.

Kassandra's appearance is not exactly the same as before, but irrelevant.

As for why she was suddenly able to speak, it was all due to the red bow tie.

Although Dean and Kassandra are able to communicate in sign language, this method of communication is too inconvenient in action, and the particularly prominent trait of "muteness" is easily associated with their real identities.

So Dean redeemed a bow-shaped voice generator in the system, which can allow people who can't speak to speak normally, and it also comes with a voice changing function, which can perfectly simulate the sounds of more than 13 million different creatures, including many alien species.

"I can see that you're not nervous, and I believe in what you're capable of, but sometimes it's better to show a little bit of urgency."

Dean shook his head slightly.

"Kasan, not everyone can read through other people's minds like you, so the change in facial expressions and eyes is especially important, you can't act stress-free just because you see that the other person has confidence in you, that can easily change people's perception of you."

"When it comes to infiltrating, this happening will directly lead to the failure of the plan."

Kassandra nodded in understanding.

However, Dean didn't expect her to become a facial expression management master like himself immediately, and this operation didn't require Kassandra to infiltrate.

The reason why he told Kassandra this was to teach her how to be a real thief assistant.

"GCPD is quite powerful when it is serious, in my opinion, it should be impossible to sneak into the iceberg casino by common means, we have to find another way."

Dean put his hand on his forehead and looked around the Iceberg Casino.

"I can get their attention, and then you can sneak in."

Kassandra suggested next to her.

“…… It's going to make things easier, but it's not a rogue show, we need to minimize the frequency of being in front of other people's eyes, and your presence as a decoy will prematurely expose the fact that Kidd the Rogue has a helper. ”

Dean was silent for a few tenths of a second before rejecting her plan.

The proposal was ineffective, and Kassandra was not discouraged and immediately came up with a second plan.

"It's very simple, as long as we knock all the guards guarding the door unconscious, no one will know that we are in."

She said things that made people sweat as if nothing had happened.

"No, that's not the way to blame thieves."

Dean shook his head repeatedly, and in order to prevent Kassandra from coming up with another simple and crude plan, he immediately explained his thoughts.

"The Iceberg Casino is the penguin's lair, and there is definitely more than one secret escape passage hidden in it, and we only need to find one of them to get inside the casino without alerting anyone."

Looking up at the sky, there was still a lot of time before the sun set.

"There's still plenty of time, as long as we find the secret passage before dark, as for that monster thief crow, as a challenger, he hasn't moved yet, so we don't need to rush in."

Dean moved his arm and walked slowly away.

"By the way, when the operation starts, we can't call our real names anymore, we want to call them codenames, you already know my code name, yours ......"

Kassandra's eyes lit up, and she turned her head to look at Dean expectantly.

"Let's call it Conan!"

(End of chapter)