Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

"If I remember correctly, the FBI seems to have a branch in Gotham. Who is the agent in charge? I don't have much impression."

Dean reached out and touched his chin, thinking in his heart.

Gotham is a very strange city. Don't look at the FBI's appearance in the United States, but they are no different from a little transparent in Gotham.

Regardless of how everyone in Gotham looks down on the GCPD, in fact the combat power of the GCPD is far stronger than the police force in ordinary cities, and even stronger than the army in some street fighting situations, and there is only a gap in weapons.

In other places, the local police may assist the FBI in handling cases, but in a place like Gotham, the GCPD will always dominate.

In fact, it's not just in the city of Gotham, but in any city where superheroes and supervillains get together, the situation is basically similar.

Like Metropolis, Central City, Seaside City, Midway City, Star City, etc., it is difficult for federal organizations such as the FBI to intervene, which means that these cities have relatively higher autonomy.

As the number of super criminals around the world is increasing year by year, the status of traditional organizations such as the FBI and even the CIA is becoming more and more embarrassing. It is difficult for them to deal with those super criminals. Only human and material resources can solve it.

Therefore, these traditional spy organizations are gradually being replaced by emerging anti-superpower departments.

But the federal government is not stupid. They know that the overall situation in the world is changing. There are more and more super criminals in the country. They are most worried about the Justice League.

The power of the Justice League is too powerful and uncontrolled, and it also has terrifying social influence. It is a far more terrifying deterrent than nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the federal government has established two major departments, the Sky Eye Society and the Super Investigation Department. Their powers are probably similar to those of the original CIA and FBI. One is external and the other is internal, but they are limited to supernatural events.

The work within the normal range is still done by the FBI and the CIA.

But it doesn't mean that they have nothing to do with supernatural events at all. After all, many things do not seem to involve superpowers on the surface. You can only fight.

The advantage of this is that the FBI itself does not have many means to deal with supernatural crimes, but it has a large number of supernatural criminal files. At most, the details are not as comprehensive as those of the Super Investigation Department.

Isn't this the best place to investigate for Dean who wants to explore Cassandra's past?

"Although the FBI branch has no sense of presence in Gotham, their defense facilities are probably not bad. After all, I have only heard of GCPD being bombed by a certain person, but I have never heard of an FBI branch being bombed."

Dean returned to his base camp while thinking.

"Sneaking into an FBI bureau takes a lot of planning."

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the other side.

Gotham, Janus Makeup Company.

Roman Sionis returned to his company with anger that he didn't know where it came from.

Along the way, all the employees were too frightened to speak when they saw the black face of the boss. As soon as Roman passed by, he quickly lowered his head and went about his own business.

"Damn Bruce, do you think I can't see what you really think? You pretend to want to help, don't you just want to take the opportunity to buy my company?"

He speculated darkly in his heart.

During the year that Roman managed the company, Janus lost money on makeup every month, forcing Roman to take out the gray income of the family and go to the Penguin to wash it off, so as to save the emergency.

Aristocrats with a long history will basically have many shady properties, which is normal. Even the Wayne family had a lot of black income before Thomas' generation.

Roman didn't think there was anything wrong with his way of doing business. Instead, he believed from the bottom of his heart that it was the fault of others. Either the people under him were obedient and failed to do what he explained, or the hostile company was making small moves.

In particular, the cosmetics subsidiary of the Wayne Group, originally a mediocre small company, suddenly grew during the year of Janus' decline, encroaching on many of Janus' markets.

Roman stubbornly believes that Wayne is engaging in malicious competition.

"Damn Wayne, damn Bruce, everyone, just like you!"

"Damn Wayne, damn Bruce, everyone, just like you!"

In the office, Roman growled ferociously.

When he said the last sentence, his eyes unconsciously looked at a portrait hanging in the corner of the wall.

What was painted on it was an elderly couple, which were Roman's parents.

Yes, deep down, Roman hated his parents because of the endless domestic violence in his childhood and the vanity that made him sick.

The Sionis couple had the typical character of masters, they looked down on the poor very much, they only allowed Roman to get along with the aristocratic class, and asked him to deliberately have a good relationship with Bruce.

This made Roman complain about his parents since he was a child, and by the way, he didn't like Bruce.

Later, like that old-fashioned love story, Roman fell in love with some ordinary girl, and then was firmly resisted by his parents.

The filial Roman accepted the arrangement of his parents and severed ties with the girl.

Then his parents died, in a raging fire.

Then, Roman, who inherited the Janus makeup company, began drastic changes.

He has added a large number of weird mask elements with unknown meaning and terrifying appearance to the company's products, which is completely opposite to the previous product image.

Why did Roman make these changes, because he has a certain unusual hobby for masks. After he got the inheritance of the Siennis family, he spent a lot of money to buy countless masks from all over the world.

They were all grotesque and terrifying masks, which Roman thought from the bottom of his heart were the best works of art in the world.

How could anyone not like masks?

As for the results, it's clear that consumers aren't buying it, and Roman refuses to believe it.

He invested the money he laundered from the Penguin into the development of new products, yes, almost all of it into development, and ignored the current negative public opinion of consumers on Janus Cosmetics.

Roman hoped that this new product would save the company, and he believed in it.

To be honest, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such fearless courage.

"Everyone is questioning my decision, what do they know? Wait and see, time will prove me right!"

Roman thought angrily.

"Bruce, you can't take my company from me! I'll make Janus great again!"

Boom! Boom!

At this time, the office door knocked suddenly.

"Come in!"

Roman growled in dissatisfaction.

"Old...boss, the director of...the research department said that the experiment of new products has made great progress...I would like to invite you to visit."

A young man dressed as a secretary opened the door tremblingly, and said cautiously.

He seemed to be very afraid of Roman, and he didn't even dare to go in. He just half-closed the door and reported to Roman with half of his body exposed.

Hearing this, Roman's face was filled with joy, and the gloomy expression eased a lot.

"Very good, take me there!"

(I took the train for nearly thirteen hours yesterday and didn’t sleep much. I’m too tired today, so I can only ask for a leave of absence. I’ll catch up on my sleep tomorrow at midnight.)