All Worlds Madhouse

Just as Ziliang expected, a group of police officers arrived at the scene soon. Nearly ten police cars surrounded the bank. A police officer walked to the crowd, picked up a loudspeaker, and shouted at the bank. He said: "People inside, listen, this is the Gotham Police. You have been surrounded. Put down your weapons and come out to surrender."

These few sentences are the most classic nonsense, just like a child saying "Don't cry" when getting an injection, or shouting "Stop" when chasing someone. It is useless to say it, and if you don't say it, you always feel that something is missing, and this kind of The behavior also clearly told the robbers: "Look! I am the leader here!".

From a criminal's point of view, this behavior of shouting with a loudspeaker is simply a mockery and an insult to one's intelligence. If the criminal in the bank wanted to resist, the first person to be targeted would be the one with the loudspeaker, who did not escape. .

After a while, when there was no movement from the people inside, the police sergeant signaled the riot team behind to prepare and might force their way in later.

But at this moment, several pieces of paper were pasted on the bank's window, which said - "Stop shouting, this is my phone number." And there was actually a series of phone numbers left underneath.

The police sergeant was stunned for about a second: "What the hell?" He cursed, but still put down the speaker, took out his mobile phone and made a call.

Soon, the call was connected.

"Hey! This is the Gotham Police. You have been surrounded. Put down your weapons and come out and surrender!" He repeated his opening remarks.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a timid voice came from the phone: "I, I am a hostage."

"Ah?" The police chief was stunned again: "Where are the robbers?"

At this moment, the phone seemed to be handed into the hands of another person.

"Hi, I am the person you are looking for. Who are you?"

The voice sounded very calm, and it must be the robber.

"I'm Sheriff Tom Hill."

"It's an honor to talk to you. You can just call me Ziliang."

Sheriff Tom Hill frowned slightly: "Well, Mr. Ziliang, it sounds like you are not very panicked, so I will temporarily define you as a veteran with some experience, then you should have understood your The situation, you’re surrounded, so.”

"So I only have one choice now, and that is to open the door of the bank obediently, walk out and surrender, right?" Ziliang interrupted the other party and said, "But unfortunately, I don't want to do that."

"Then what do you want to do?" Hill asked.

"You don't need to know. In order to save time, I'm going to tell you what you want to hear." Ziliang said quickly: "I have no companions. I am the only one in the bank. Now I have a total of 31 hostages. They Fortunately, they are all alive. One guard was shot in the leg, but no major blood vessels were ruptured. To put it bluntly, he will not die for a while, and I just asked his companions to bandage him to stop the bleeding. You know what this means Well?"

Chief Hill was stunned again. First, the other party spoke a bit too fast, and he had to buffer for a second or two before he could fully react. Second, the kidnapper was obviously a very professional veteran, because he knew very well that the police were most concerned about What.

But why would such a veteran put himself in such a hopeless situation?

Ziliang saw that the other party did not say anything: "Okay, let me explain to you. What I just said shows that I am a conscientious kidnapper. I did not kill any hostages. The people here are not in any danger now. That is, Say I didn't give you any reason to violently storm the bank, so if I find out you want to cut off the power to the bank, send a bomb squad to secretly remove the protective railings next to the door, or throw smoke grenades through the vents, whatever. If you do anything that I am not satisfied with, I will start shooting and killing the hostages. Now I have three guns and 55 rounds of ammunition. From the time I found something wrong to the time you subdued me, I am confident that I can kill more than half of the people here. .”

Ziliang deliberately slowed down his speech to make every word clear: "I think what I said this time is clear enough, and as a friendly reminder, all the hostages in the bank have heard these words. This phone call started from I turned on the recording when the call came in. Believe me, if you don't listen to the dissuasion and forcefully break into the bank, or you are smart and want to do something small, I have 100 ways to let the family of the deceased hear our conversation. You should know very well what the police will face afterwards."

Sheriff Hill broke into a cold sweat. He concealed the nervousness in his tone: "What on earth do you want to do?"

"What do I want to do? Hahahaha -" Ziliang suddenly let out a blood-curdling laugh: "You have too many questions, and I don't like your voice. I want to talk to Director Gordon, right here. You have about 10 minutes to call him over, and if I hear someone other than Commissioner Gordon’s voice on the next call, I think I will do something that you will definitely regret!”

After saying that, there was a busy tone on the phone immediately, leaving no time for Chief Hill to ask questions or explain.

"Damn it!" Hill cursed: "Contact Director Gordon and go quickly! Say there is a big situation here!"

He yelled at a policeman next to him, and at the same time, he also had a very ominous premonition in his heart. Because this robber named Ziliang gave him a feeling of déjà vu, which had not occurred for many years.

Ziliang hung up the phone neatly and threw it to a hostage in the corner, not forgetting to yawn and say thank you. Then, he sat on the chair as if nothing happened, took out the notebook, and started to flip through it.

It has been three months since he came to this city. It was only in the past few days that this notebook finally fit in with the city, and some information began to slowly appear on the page. Although it was still fragmentary, Ziliang still speculated on some things from the information that he had no idea what it was called.

That is this city called "Gotham". It is no longer the city of sin that people are familiar with. Although evil is still everywhere here, one big difference is that there have not been those people here for a long time. So called super criminals.

One night 7 years ago, something happened, but no one knew what happened. In short, from that night on, all the super criminals disappeared. Some said they were all imprisoned in Arkham. In the lunatic asylum, some people said that they were all dead, but no matter what, from that day on, Gotham City became something else.

Even the weirdo who wore a cape at night and was called "Batman" never appeared again.