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

These words are the most classic nonsense, just like a child who says "don't cry" when he gets an injection, and shouts "stop" when chasing someone. I'm the head here! ”。

So from the criminal's point of view, this kind of behavior of shouting with a loudspeaker is simply like a mockery and insult to IQ, if the prisoner in the bank wants to resist, then the first person to be set on fire is this one with a horn, and he didn't run away.

After a while, seeing that the people inside did not move, the sergeant signaled the anti-riot team behind him to prepare, and after a while, he might force his way in.

But just then, several pieces of paper were taped to the window of the bank, which read——— "Stop shouting, this is my phone." "And there was really a string of phone calls underneath.

The sheriff was stunned for about a second: "Damn, what the hell." He cursed, but put down the horn, pulled out his phone and dialed it.

Soon, the call was connected.

"Hey! This is Gotham Police, you guys are surrounded, lay down your arms and come out and surrender! He repeated his opening remarks.

However, as soon as the voice fell, a timid voice came from the phone: "I...... I'm a hostage......"

"Huh?" The sheriff was stunned again: "What about the robbers?" ”

At this moment, the phone seems to have been handed over to another person.

"Hey, I'm the one you're looking for, may I ask who you are ......?"

The voice sounded very calm, it should be a robber.

"I'm Tom. Sheriff Hill. ”

"It's an honor to talk to you, you can call me Ziliang directly."

Tom. Sheriff Hill frowned slightly: "Okay, Mr. Ziliang, it sounds like you don't seem to be too panicked, so I'll define you as a veteran with a little experience for the time being, then you should have understood your situation, you are already surrounded, so ......"

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

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

"You don't need to know, now to save time, I'm going to say 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 in my hands, they are very lucky, all of them are alive, there is a guard who was shot in the leg, but there is no large blood vessel rupture, to put it bluntly, he will not die for a while, and just now I have asked his companion to bandage him to stop the bleeding." Do you know what that means? ”

Sheriff Hill was stunned again, first, the other party's speech speed was a bit fast, and he had to buffer for a second or two to fully react, and second, the kidnapper was obviously a very professional veteran, because he knew very well what the police were most concerned about.

But why would such a veteran put himself in such a situation from which there is no return?

Ziliang saw that the other party did not say anything: "Okay, then let me explain to you, what I said just now shows that I am a conscientious kidnapper, I did not kill any hostages, and there is no danger to the people here now, that is to say, I did not give you any reason to rush into the bank violently, so if I find that you want to cut off the power of the bank, and want to send a team of explosion-proof teams to secretly remove the protective railing next to the door, or throw smoke bombs from the vent, in short, do anything that I am not satisfied with, I will start shooting hostages." Now I have three guns, 55 rounds, and I'm confident that I'll kill more than half of the people here from the time I noticed something was wrong until you subdued me. ”

Ziliang deliberately slowed down the speed of his speech a little, so that every word was clear: "I think what I said this time is clear enough, and I would like to remind you that all the hostages in the bank have heard these words, and I have turned on the recording since the call came in, believe me, if you don't listen to the dissuasion and force yourself to break into the bank, or if you want to make a small move smartly, I have 100 ways to let the family of the deceased hear our conversation, and you should know very well what you police will face afterwards." ”

Sheriff Hill broke out in a cold sweat, and he hid the nervousness in his tone: "What the hell do you want to do?"

"What do I want to do? Hahahaha-" Ziliang suddenly let out a creepy laugh: "You have too many questions, and I don't like your voice, I'm going to talk to Director Gordon, right here, you have about 10 minutes to call him over, if the next call I hear is not Director Gordon's voice, I think I'll do something that will definitely make you regret it!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a busy sound on the phone, and he didn't even leave any time for Sheriff Hill to ask questions and explain.

"!" Hill scolded, "Contact Director Gordon, go!" Say there's a big deal here! ”

He shouted at a policeman next to him...... At the same time, there was also a very ominous premonition in my heart...... Because this robber named Ziliang gave him a sense of déjà vu, which had not been felt in many years.

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Ziliang hung up the phone very neatly, and then threw it to a hostage in the corner, not forgetting to yawn and say thank you at the same time. Then, he sat down in his chair as if nothing was wrong, took out the notebook, and began to flip through it.

It had been three months since he had been in the city, and it was only in the past few days that the notebook had finally fitted into the city, and some information had begun to slowly emerge on the page. Although it is still fragmentary, in these pieces of information that he doesn't know at all, Ziliang still speculates about something.

The city of Gotham is no longer the city of sin as it is known, and although it is still full of evil, there is a big difference that it has been a long time since there have been those so-called supercriminals.

One night seven years ago, something happened, but no one knew exactly what happened, and from that night on, all the supercriminals disappeared...... Some say they're all locked up in Arkham Asylum, others say they're all dead, but either way, from that day on, Gotham City was a different place.

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Even the strange man who wore a cloak and was called "Batman" that night never appeared again.