Chapter 0703 - Follow-up (1)
When the sun rises again, the night passes.
The bustling city fell silent, and the lively streets and alleys were sparsely populated. Citizens hid at home to watch the news reports on radio and television all night long, and peeked out through the cracks in the doors and windows to pay attention to the tense atmosphere of the streets.
Under the sun, the city was filled with military police sent by the British. Survive the difficult night, and it is not until there are many people that they have the courage to come out on duty again.
Trucks and armored vehicles transport soldiers to the streets non-stop. A large number of heavy construction machinery was brought in to act as a roadblock, hoping to withstand the onslaught of the tanks.
The city went under martial law, and the gangsters searched from house to house. The poor sit in the coffin room listening to the radio, and the rich and powerful cling to the telephone and radio to contact the world.
Whether you have money or not, the night was not easy.
The vicinity of the Hung Hom Tunnel is the busiest traffic lane in HK. There was a constant stream of traffic here every day, but it stopped at the moment.
On the surrounding high-rise buildings, thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the scorched black ground at the entrance and exit of the tunnel, which was covered with more than a dozen huge craters, with mixed feelings.
It wasn't until after dawn that the rescue team cautiously appeared. In the face of the tragedy, some people hugged their heads and cried. Outside the tunnel is like an entrance to hell, littered with corpses and damaged vehicles.
Last night, the area was heavily shelled, and it was like a catastrophe. After World War II, the British have not been bombarded with heavy artillery. Hundreds of British officers and Gurkha soldiers were defenseless, hundreds were killed on the spot, and more than half were seriously wounded.
Even if there is a survivor with a big life, he will have a nervous breakdown afterwards. They cry like newborn children, and they are at a loss when they talk about shelling. In the future, setting off a firecracker during the Chinese New Year will allow them to hide under the bed.
There used to be some green belts around the tunnel, but now there are no more. Broken corpses can be found everywhere. The city's cleaners drove in, and the collectors had to cover their mouths and noses, and in horror they razed the ground with flesh and earth.
Scattered vehicle parts flew up to a kilometer away, and the surrounding buildings were littered with craters of shrapnel sputtering. Some of the buildings were intact on one side, while the other was shattered as if it had been gnawed by a dog.
A cordon was set up at the scene. Someone wanted to take pictures but was stopped by the sirs who blocked it, and the photos that had been taken were forcibly confiscated.
The media only said that some robbers drove tanks and ransacked HSBC's vaults last night.
Nothing else.
The host even deliberately downplayed the robbery of the thrilling ball, and instead broadcast some other trivial social news and celebrity gossip.
The direction of Hong Kong Island was also blocked, and many buildings that had been shelled were covered up. On the same day, a construction team was called in to carry out repairs, trying to erase all traces.
HK's Stock Exchange and Futures Exchange announced a three-day technical closure of business, with all trading temporarily suspended pending the resumption of market stabilization.
Elites and officials have also jumped out, saying in the media that HK has the ability to maintain market prosperity and will not let small fluctuations in law and order affect future expectations.
Under all kinds of whitewashing, only the road surface that was crushed by the tracks could not be covered, and the potholes were tooth marks. This can only be done by setting up temporary maintenance signs, which are prohibited from traffic for the first time.
As for the direction of Kowloon Bay, where the incident occurred, no church members entered the church with white flags until the afternoon of the next day. They tried to negotiate a 'solution' with the robbers.
But the Kowloon Bay area was quiet, no robbers were found, and no tanks were seen. Except for a few places where there are traces of firefighting, the road is very safe.
It was determined that the robbers had disappeared before the British officials dared to appear. With heavy sadness and anger, they visited the stadium where heavy machine guns had been fired, and also saw armored vehicles destroyed by grenades, and Gurkha soldiers strewn through the streets.
In the past 400 years, the British Empire has set sail for the sea, pioneered and explored, footprints all over the world, and created the pinnacle of human civilization.
Not to mention, it's the first time I've seen a tank rob a bank.
The HSBC man arrived, and when he entered the vault, he burst into tears—there was a strong sour and rancid smell in the vault, which was left by the black pudding monster. All the cash that could not be taken away was corroded and dissolved, leaving behind a large pile of sticky banknote slag.
Just a pile of scum, it was a billion dollars before.
These are large deposits made by large corporations and institutions at HSBC, and now they are gone – not a big hole that can be filled by simply pulling out the accounts.
The central bank, which does not issue the currency, will recognize the account, let alone fill it up to HSBC.
And that's not even the worst of it.
In addition to the monitoring system, all the facilities in the vault are still functioning properly. The elevator into the ground does not show any signs of vandalism.
Although all five staff members of the underground are dead. But there was not much evidence of violence at the scene, not even the door of the underground vault where the gold was kept.
If the robbers used explosives, everyone at HSBC could understand that. But it's not normal for them to rob the triple-digit tonnage of gold, and the triple-digit dollar in '100 million' for nothing.
Excluding all possibilities, there is only one answer.
There are inner ghosts!
The robbers entered the underground so easily, opened the vault with multiple insurances, and removed huge amounts of gold and cash, which is definitely a ghost.
This is not an ordinary inner ghost, not one or two inner ghosts, not an ordinary inner ghost.
No wonder the robbers were able to drive out the tanks to rob the banks, and they were not afraid of the garrison. With enough powerful resources, what weapons and equipment can't be obtained?
Shady, there are definitely many shady scenes behind this shocking case.
It's as if President Kennedy of the United States was shot. Who would have thought that the president of a country who should have been closely protected would be killed by a mentally ill person with a small rifle before the case?
The mentally ill also died soon after, leaving no clues. Is this something that the average person can do? What kind of secret is hidden behind this?
How similar is this big case now!
The same tank ran out without warning, and the tank was rampant all night. The next day the tank was gone, as if nothing had happened.
The hearts of those who participated in the preliminary investigation were clouded and heavy. The scene was chaotic, and many clues should have been left. But in fact, the people of all parties immediately fell into a predicament - there was no way to check it at all.
Theoretically, the robbers should have hundreds of people to cooperate to complete such a complex crime, and it is normal for a few to be killed or injured in last night's firefight. But in fact, the robbers disappeared so completely that nothing was left.
The investigators even found a detail - the vault's elevator capacity is limited, and it is absolutely not enough to move three-digit gold and three-digit cash in one night.
The elevator cannot be moved 24 hours a day.
So it's a bold guess that the contents of the vault were removed before the robbery. There are not many robberies that have been shown to the world, and even the tip of the iceberg of its disclosure.
Wow, this train of thought is opened.
Just like a granary fire, how many holes in the accounts can an earth-shattering vault robbery erase?
Don't say it's impossible, this kind of thing is all too common. It's just that this time the hole is particularly large.
Everyone is counting the various bigwigs in HK, especially HSBC's own top brass and even the Governor, who are in the realm of suspicion - the only thing that can explain the situation is that these bigwigs are doing their own tricks.
Wow, this is destined to be the unsolved case of the century!