Conan Rick's Investigator

Qin Zhibo clapped his hands excitedly. This thing was much more powerful than a pistol and could be called a powerful weapon.

Now, he was more confident about his actions that night.

……

At 11 o'clock in the evening, a large crowd gathered in front of the Starry Sky Hotel.

"Kid! Kid!"

“Kid——”

The crowd held up makeshift light signs of various colors and shouted towards the sky, forcing the Las Vegas police to repeatedly maintain order at the scene.

Kuroba Kaito stood on the balcony, looking down with satisfaction.

Since his debut as the second-generation Kaito Kid, he has never performed a "magic show" outside of Japan.

In other words, these are the original fans accumulated by the first generation Kaito Kid, Kuroba Toichi.

In comparison, the support group for Kaito Crow was much smaller, huddled at the edge of the square downstairs, holding scattered light signs.

After so many years, Kaito Kidd still has absolute popularity in the world of thieves.

This shows how outstanding Kuroba Toichi was in the past, and he is worthy of being the person I admire most in my life.

"It's almost time, Master."

Terai Konosuke behind him reminded him, and Kuroba Kaito retracted his body, took the bag handed to him by Terai Konosuke, and set off on his journey.

He first went to the bathroom in the lobby on the first floor to change into the hotel waiter's clothes, then went to the kitchen to get a food cart and headed to the top floor of the hotel.

All of this was recorded by the surveillance cameras in the hotel corridor.

In order to avoid suspicion from Kuroba Chikage, Kuroba Kaito had to act out a complete show, making it look like he kidnapped Chikage and then replaced her with him.

Arriving at Qianying's room, he knocked on the door normally.

"Ma'am, room service."

"Come in..."

Kuroba Kaito pushed the cart into the room, and Kuroba Chikage immediately looked at his son who was cosplaying as a waiter with a smile.

"Kaito, you look so handsome even in this outfit~"

"Don't be ridiculous, Mom."

Kuroba Kaito used his white-gloved hands to take out a bag from under the food cart. There was a rope inside the bag. He took out the rope and was about to tie up Kuroba Chikage, but Chikage smiled and shook her head.

"No need. When the time is right, I'll pretend to break free and go to the corridor to ask for help."

"...Okay, then you can take charge of it yourself."

Kuroba Kaito ignored his mother and went to the bathroom to change his clothes.

After a while, another "Hei Yu Qianying" walked out of the toilet.

Hei Yu Qianying looked at his other self with an expression of surprise on his face.

"Kaito, your disguise skills are getting better and better! Even your mother can't see the flaws~"

"Of course. Don't you see whose son I am?"

Kuroba Kaito shook his hair with the confident look that Kuroba Chikage often uses, looking both cool and charming.

"Okay, I'll leave first."

"Wait a moment."

Just as Kuroba Kaito was about to go out, Kuroba Chikage, who was sitting on the sofa with her arms crossed, called him.

"Any thing else?"

"Well... remember, Kaito, don't let that stone be kept away from light no matter what."

Looking at Kuroba Chikage's serious expression, Kuroba Kaito frowned slightly and hesitated for a moment.

After a few seconds, he nodded.

"I remember."

After saying this, Kuroba Kaito left the room.

Hei Yu Qianying looked at her son's back as he left, worry showing in her eyes.

……

Soon, Kaito Kid used the identity of Kuroba Chikage and the identity authentication card to go to the backstage of the casino.

Led by two staff members, Kaito Kidd passed through the maze-like corridor and was taken to the elevator.

He inserted his ID card into the machine for confirmation and passed the test easily.

The iron door in front of the elevator opened and an elevator appeared in front of us.

The two staff members stayed where they were, and Kaito Kidd entered the elevator alone, which went directly to the deepest vault underground.

After a non-stop elevator descent, Kaito Kidd arrived at the vault.

The Star Casino has many vaults, each corresponding to the storage needs of different customers.

Kaito Kidd looked around at the tightly closed vault doors. Each and every door and back door here was enough for a person to spend several lifetimes on.

However, his target was not these, but the open vault at the innermost part.

Passing through the round vault door, there is an extremely bright room inside.

The lighting in the vault room itself is pure white in all directions without any blind spots, and this room has more than a dozen spotlights installed.

All of these spotlights coincidentally shone on the gem on the central table of the vault.

Kaito Kidd's eyes were immediately attracted by the gem, and he couldn't help but walk forward to admire it.

This was the most special gem he had ever seen.

All the gems before, even Pandora, the stone of life, would reflect brilliant and beautiful light under the illumination of light.

This is the characteristic of gemstones, and it is also the reason why people are crazy about them.

But this gem is completely different. It is extremely pure black, and even if the brightest light shines on it, it does not reflect any light.

The oval diamond, which is about 4 inches in size, has 38 irregular facets, each of which is pure and smooth black without any impurities.

Kaito Kidd stared at the "Black Crow in the Night" closely, and his mind was unconsciously attracted by its beauty.

He slowly raised his hand, and his gloved palm gradually approached the black diamond that seemed to have magical powers.

It’s so beautiful…

I want to keep it for myself, hide it somewhere, and enjoy it alone...

Kaito Kidd's eyes widened, and this thought flashed through his mind like a demon.

When the hand was about to touch the metal box containing the gem, Kaito Kid's eyes flickered, as if he thought of something, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

call……

It was so dangerous, I almost did it.

Kaito Kidd remembered that it was not yet 12:00 midnight, and stealing things before the expected time was unsportsmanlike and a sneak attack.

If I say I will steal at midnight, then I will steal at midnight.

One minute earlier or later, it is not midnight.

Kaito Kidd stopped and looked around, only to find that there was no one in the vault except himself.

Huh? Not here yet?

According to Hei Yu Qianying, the people responsible for protecting the gems today do not know each other's identities and keep it secret from the outside world, but they shouldn't be so slow, right?

Kaito Kidd looked down at the ladies' watch on his wrist, but heard the friction sound of metal shafts behind him.

not good!

Kaito Kidd immediately became alert and turned to run out the door, but the vault door closed first, tightly.

Fell into a trap!

Kaito Kidd gritted his teeth and realized that he had fallen into a trap set by the casino.

They already knew that they had disguised themselves as Hei Yu Qianying!

But why?

How could the casino staff be so sure that they would disguise themselves as Kuroba Chikage? And not someone else...

Kaito Kidd's thoughts were racing.

But no matter how he speculated, he could not have imagined that his old rival was standing in the casino security control center at this moment.

……

At the same time, the casino security control center.

A group of people were standing on the checkered floor tiles, watching the miserable appearance of "Hei Yu Qianying" in the vault.

"It seems this is the Kaito Kidd. I was right..."

A man with a thick beard, a brown top hat and a brown windbreaker was looking at the screen in front of him with a proud look, his beard shaking with excitement.

Behind him stood some younger brothers in brown windbreakers.

If Kaito Kidd were here, he would recognize these people as members of the Beast Brotherhood, led by Snake.

But how could the members of the Beast Brotherhood appear openly in the control center of the casino?

Snake stared at the screen, and the smile on his lips became increasingly ferocious.

"Kaito Kidd is the former genius magician Kuroba Toichi. If he were to announce that he had stolen this gem, he would definitely use his wife's connections..."

"Hey, I expected this."

Snake grinned twice, took out the pistol from his waist, and called his younger brothers to go forward.

"Guys! It's time to go catch Kidd!"

"That gentleman said, no one will be left alive!"

Snake and his men were about to rush out of the control room when a voice stopped them.

"and many more."

Snake stopped and turned his gaze to the other man in the control room.

The man was extremely muscular, and even his oversized suit couldn't completely hide his exaggerated muscle lines.

"Mr. Lloyd? Anything else?"

"If we wait any longer and the Phantom Thief escapes through the ventilation duct, I'm afraid that Master will be unhappy..."

Even Snake, who often acts like a big brother, seems much more docile in front of this man named Lloyd, who even deliberately brings out "that adult" from the Beast Brotherhood to suppress him.

This is because he is the behind-the-scenes boss of the Star Casino and the leader of the Star Wisdom Church, Lloyd Blake.

"Although I agreed to cooperate with the Baron to capture Kaito Kidd, it doesn't mean I need to obey your orders..."

"Besides, do you think the human wave tactic will work on Kidd?"

Snake was stunned for a moment, "But if we don't rush in, how can we catch him?"

"Humph……"

Lloyd sneered and ordered, "Turn off the lights."

The staff in front heard the order, put his hand on the power control button and pressed it. The monitoring screen of the vault immediately went dark.

Seeing this, Snake immediately became anxious.

"Hey! Turn off the lights. We can't see what's going on inside!"

"What if he really gets through the ventilation..."

Snake was shouting, but Lloyd calmly raised a finger and made a shushing gesture.

"Shh-"

"Just watch quietly..."