"It's not how long you live, it's how well you live."
- Martin Luther King
The rushing water pouring down the pipe grew larger and larger, forcing Firefly to lower himself.
'It is impossible for a normal fire sprinkler system to have this high water pressure!'
Firefly realized that the Phantom Thief must have tampered with it.
'Damn it! What are Penguin's henchmen even doing? They were supposed to cut off the water supply from the fire sprinklers, but they didn't notice that the water pressure had changed. And Penguin had the nerve to tell me that everything was ready?'
Firefly was frustrated.
Two hours earlier, when Dean arrived at the museum for his final move, he found himself in a place filled with multiple red pipes through the ventilation ducts, which was the water valve center of the entire Cultural Exhibition Hall.
It is connected to the water tower on the roof.
At that time, Dean discovered that all the water valves in that area had been manually closed, and there was no work being done that needed the valves to be closed temporarily.
This shouldn't have been possible.
If a fire were to break out in the museum, the fire sprinklers wouldn't work, allowing the fire to spread.
It was too dangerous, and there was definitely something fishy going on.
Dean didn't know that Penguin had sent Firefly to deal with him.
All he was aware of was that Penguin had set out the Dragon Egg Ruby Necklace as a bait to draw him in.
Therefore, at first, Dean thought that Penguin might blow up the entire Exhibition Hall or kill himself by setting fire to a large area.
So Dean got rid of all of Penguin's henchmen and then adjusted the water pressure and the sensitivity of the fire sensor so that Penguin and others would not find out in advance that the fire system had returned to normal and go back to do it again.
Only when the flames came close to the fire sprinkler sensor would the water flow start, and the increased water pressure would burst the pipes.
Although Firefly was pushed back a few steps by the high water pressure, it was ridiculous to say that he couldn't move at all due to the pressure.
However, He managed to stand up and walk out of the flowing water.
But the time he wasted due to the cold shower allowed Phantom Thief to slip away easily.
"Hmph! Do you think you can escape that easily, Phantom Thief? Penguin's got more people than just me after you."
Looking at the dark corridor that had lost its light due to the burning fires, Firefly smirked.
He shook the water off the flamethrower and adjusted the fuel proportion, then pulled the trigger.
A small flame, about a foot long shot out.
Firefly had waterproofed the flamethrower so it wouldn't break down when water was poured on it.
After confirming that the weapon was working properly, Firefly walked towards a corner in the corridor about twenty meters away, scanning his surroundings left, right, up, and down.
Soon, Firefly reached the corner and saw a figure emitting a faint green light moving deeper into the exhibit not far away.
It turns out that Firefly has installed an infrared night vision lens on the hood so that he can see the surroundings clearly, even in the dark Exhibition Hall.
This is why he wasn't worried about the Phantom Thief using smoke bombs to hide—he could easily see through the smoke using night vision.
In the eyes of Firefly, Phantom Thief's movements were clear.
Shhhhhh!
A fiery tongue shot out from Firefly's flamethrower, shooting toward Phantom Thief, who was about ten meters away.
The fire lit a large area in the corridor.
There were four doors in total, two on each side of the separate path.
One of the doors was located just three to five meters away from the Phantom Thief.
The Phantom Thief, who saw the flames, immediately understood that Firefly had launched an attack.
Without hesitation, he quickly took a step forward, opened the door, and went inside.
In an instant, the red flames flashed by where Phantom Thief had been standing just moments ago.
"Quite fast, isn't he?"
The Phantom Thief quickly scanned the surroundings of the room.
This was another Exhibition Hall filled with different replicated masterpieces from the Renaissance period.
As for why it is so clear that they are replicas, the paintings weren't carefully framed and protected with high-strength glass.
Instead, they were displayed around the entire exhibition hall on painting stands without any protective measures.
There are even world-famous paintings in it, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
As everyone knows, the original Mona Lisa was kept in the Louvre Museum in France, and it is impossible for it to appear here.
There is no other explanation for it than replicas.
Phantom Thief didn't stop moving at all and quickly placed a dummy in the first place Firefly could see when he entered the door to attract Firefly's attention.
After that, he quickly hid himself behind a row of painting stands to hide.
To be honest, it wasn't the best hiding spot, but there was nothing else in the Exhibition Hall that could be used as a better cover.
Bang!
With a loud noise, Firefly kicked open the door and walked in, and saw a figure not far away at a glance.
A bloodthirsty curved up from under his mask as he glanced at the Phantom Thief's fake dummy before immediately looking away.
Because in the image of the infrared night vision device, according to the temperature of the object, the displayed depth is different.
The temperature of the dummy was far lower than that of a human body, so even if the appearance is the same, Firefly can still tell at a glance that it is not a human.
Firefly looked around the Exhibition Hall and soon spotted the Phantom Thief's hiding spot.
Whoosh!
A burst of fire shot in that direction and burned dozens of paintings in an instant.
Phantom Thief had sharp eyes and immediately knew that he would be exposed since Firefly ignored his dummy.
He prepared himself in advance to dodge.
When the Firefly fired flames towards the other side, Phantom Thief immediately rolled over to the side, staying out of the Firefly's night vision range.
Although he temporarily lost sight of the Phantom Thief, Firefly remained calm and didn't deliberately search him.
"Phantom Thief, this exhibition hall only has one door behind me. If you hide in here, you're walking into a death trap!"
Firefly stood at the doorway and continuously shot flames into rows of paintings as if he were waiting for the Phantom Thief to jump out by himself.
In the blink of an eye, all the paintings in the Exhibition Hall were burned, and the raging fire spread rapidly.
Firefly continued to release flames, and the temperature inside the room rose rapidly.
At this moment, Firefly found the figure of the Phantom Thief behind a painting...
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A/N: Guys, we didn't reach 2000 power stone, I will give you all a chance if we reach 400 power stones. I will release an additional chapter.
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