A different Gotham

Just as Ziliang expected, a group of police officers arrived at the scene, nearly ten police cars directly surrounded the bank, an officer walked to the front of the crowd, picked up a megaphone, shouted at the bank: "Listen to the people inside, this is Gotham police, you have been surrounded, put down your weapons, come out and surrender."

These words are the most classic nonsense, like a child saying "no crying" when the injection, when chasing people shouting "stop", said no use, do not say and always feel that something is missing, and this behavior also clearly tell the robbers. "Look! I am the head here!" .

Then from the point of view of criminals, this kind of loud speaker shouting behavior is simply a mockery plus an insult to intelligence, if the bank inmates want to resist, then the first to be set on fire is properly this take the speaker, no run.

After a while, seeing no movement inside, the sergeant signaled the back of the riot squad to prepare for a possible forced break-in.

But just then, the bank's window was taped with several pieces of paper, on which was written - "Stop shouting, this is my phone." And there was actually a string of phone numbers left underneath.

The sheriff froze for about a second: "Shit, what the hell." He cursed, but put down the speaker, pulled out his phone and dialed.

Soon, the call was answered.

"Hello! This is Gotham Police, you are surrounded, drop your weapons and come out and surrender!" He repeated the opening statement he had just made.

However, just as the words left his mouth, a timid voice came over the phone, "I ... I am a hostage ..."

"Huh?" The sheriff was again stunned: "Where are the robbers?"

Just then, the phone seemed to be handed over to another person.

"Hi, I'm the person you're looking for, may I ask which one ... you are?"

This voice sounded very calm, and should be the robber.

"This is Sheriff Tom Hill."

"It's an honor to speak with you, you can just call me Ziliang."

Sheriff Tom Hill frowned slightly: "Well then, Mr. Ziliang, you don't sound like you're too alarmed, so I'll define you as a somewhat experienced veteran for now, so you should have understood your situation, you're surrounded, so ..."

"So there is only one way for me to choose now, and that is to obediently open the door of the bank, walk out and surrender, is that right." Zi Liang 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, now to save time, I'm going to say something 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 in my hands, they are lucky, all of them are alive, there is a guard shot in the leg, but no large blood vessels rupture, to put it bluntly, he can not die for a while, and just now I have asked his companions to bandage him to stop the bleeding. Do you know what this means?"

Sergeant Hill again froze, one is the other party's speech is a bit fast, he had to buffer a second or two to fully react, the second is this kidnapper is obviously a very professional veteran, because he knows very well what the police are most concerned about.

But such a veteran, why would he put himself in such a retreat?

Zi Liang saw that the other party did not say anything: "Well, then let me explain to you, what I just said shows that I am a kidnapper with a conscience, I did not kill any hostages, and the people here are not in any danger now, which means I did not give you any reason to storm the bank with violence, so if I find that you want to cut off the bank's power and want to send a bomb squad to secretly remove the guardrail next to the door, or throw smoke bombs through the vents, in short, do anything I'm not too happy about, I'll start shooting people hostage, now I have three guns and 55 rounds of ammunition, I'm confident I'll kill more than half of the people here in the time between when I notice something is wrong and when you subdue me."

Zi Liang deliberately slowed down a bit to make every word clear: "I think I've made myself clear enough this time, and a friendly reminder that all the hostages in the bank heard these words, I turned on the recording from the time the call came in, believe me, if you disobeyed and forced to break into the bank, or made a smart move to try to do something small, I have 100 ways for the family of the deceased to hear this conversation we have, afterwards you police to face what, you should know very well."

Sergeant Hill cold sweat are down, he hid the tone of tension: "What do you want"

"What do I want? Hahahahaha-" Ziliang suddenly let out a creepy laugh: "You have too many questions, and I don't like the sound of your voice, I want to talk to Chief Gordon, right here, you have about 10 minutes to get him over here, if the next call I hear anything other than Commissioner Gordon's voice, I think I'll do something I'll definitely make you regret!"

After saying that, the phone was immediately a busy tone, not even a little time for questions and explanations for Chief Hill.

"Damn it!" Hill cursed: "Contact Chief Gordon, go! Say there's a big situation here!"

He shouted at a police officer next to him ... at the same time, a very ominous feeling appeared in his heart ... because the robber called Ziliang gave him a feeling of déjà vu, a feeling that had not occurred in many years.

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Zi Liang hung up the phone very sharply, then threw it to a hostage in the corner, not forgetting to yawn while saying thank you. Afterwards, he sat down on the chair again like nothing, took out that notebook and began to flip through it.

He had been in the city for three months, and it was only in the past few days that this notebook finally fit in with the city, and some information slowly began to surface on the pages. Although still fragmented, but in these simply do not know what the information, Ziliang still deduced some things.

That is the city called "Gotham", is no longer known as the capital of sin, although it is still evil, but there is a big difference is that there have been no so-called super criminals here for a long time.

In one night seven years ago, something happened, but no one knows exactly what happened, in short, from that night onwards, all the super criminals all disappeared ... some say they were put into Arkham Asylum, some say, they all died, but no matter what, from that day onwards, Gotham City has become a different look.

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Even the night cloaked, known as "Batman" strange man also never appeared again.