Chapter 10: Hostages

Li Ang raised his hands and shouted with a nervous look of sincere fear: "It's not me who called the police, I swear!" ”

The bandits snatched Leon's phone, flipped it through it for a moment, and then smashed it to the ground, mercilessly crushing it with the heel of his leather boot.

The clown, nicknamed Pennywise Wise, climbed up to the second floor of the bank and looked out, turning his head and shouting, "Boss, those strips have surrounded us!" ”

"!" Bucky the Clown let out a roar of rage and casually slammed the butt of his rifle at Leon's forehead, smashing a long blood groove on the latter's forehead.

Can't get your hands on it yet.... The corner of Li Ang's eyes swept over the surveillance cameras around the bank wall, snorted cooperatively, and fell to the ground.

The twins' sobs seemed to cause Bucky to be displeased, and he fired several shots into the air, shouting to the panicked screams of the crowd, "me, be quiet!" ”

He stretched out his big hand and forcefully grabbed Elizabeth by the collar from Leon's arms, and lifted her up.

Bucky's thigh-thick arms completely ignored Lori's joking kicks and punches, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the Gotham National Bank in three or two steps, showing the hostages to the police outside.

The cold touch of the muzzle of the Ruger SR1911 pistol from her temples made Elizabeth burst into tears, and the sheriff, hiding behind the door of the police car, shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Don't shoot, do you hear clearly?" The other side has already taken hostages, snipers, don't shoot yet! ”

The skinny sheriff with a brown beard was named Jim Gordon, a righteous man, a noble man, and a man detached from low tastes.

Decades ago, when he was transferred from the Chicago Police Department and donned the Gotham Police Department badge, he vowed to bring justice to every dark corner of the vice city.

However, he failed.

Politicians and gangsters are in collusion, and triad bosses engaged in selling powder, prostitution, human smuggling, and organ trafficking go out to play golf with the heads of the city hall for three days and two days, and hand the bureaucrats seven-figure bank checks to the cheers of hole-in-one.

The justice system is largely paralyzed, and the day after the first case is tried by any prosecutor who wants to make a difference, the head of his family dog will appear on his bedside table, and the strong smell of blood will have to be removed with three or five tubes of air freshener....

Even the Gotham Police Department is bribe-taking, corrupt and rusty from top to bottom, and those who are serious about arresting suspects are outliers who are ostracized.

The ordinary people did not believe that these strips could protect their lives and property, and the rich knew what kind of virtue they had, and even the Gotham police themselves generally believed that this was a fat gap with plenty of oil and water to fish in troubled waters.

Gordon is just an ordinary man, he has no extraordinary ability to fly to the sky, no demagogic rhetoric, he can only clumsily do the dirty work that others can't understand, silently guarding the city like a lighthouse.

Now, for example, Gordon gritted his teeth and pondered a countermeasure.

He knew the identities of the bandits, the Joker's fanatical followers, who thought they had been abandoned after the Joker's disappearance, hiding in Gotham Harbor, doing something darker and uglier for the other gangsters, while turning their heads and frantically disgusting the Joker.

Gordon pursed his lips, he was familiar with this kind of person, who grew up in a slum, came from a humble background, had no relatives and friends, had no purpose in life, lost his soul and was at a loss, as long as there was an introduction, he could quickly fall into the darkness.

Bucky indifferently lifted Elizabeth above her head, hiding herself behind her, and shouted, "Move all the police cars out of the way, or I'll shoot!" ”

To make his threat even more powerful, Bucky aimed Elizabeth in the jaw with his gun, pressing her face against the glass, showing the cops the girl's face twisted by fear.

The other policemen turned their eyes to Gordon, who suppressed the anger in his chest and said coldly, "Do as he says." ”

The police car silently backed away, making way for the orange school bus as the brakes sounded.

"Hahaha, that's right."

Bucky laughed presumptuously, slowly retreated back to the hall with Elizabeth in his arms, and said to his subordinates: "Hurry up, load all the money in the car, and take a hostage when you leave, hide yourself behind the hostage, or wait to be shot in the head with a sniper rifle." ”

Elizabeth flapped her calves and struggled, but the palm of the other's hand tugging at her collar was as firm as an iron hoop. Annoyed by her struggle, Bucky grabbed her by the neck, causing Elizabeth to blush from the lack of oxygen.

"Let her go."

Leon struggled to get up, the wound on his forehead was still bleeding, "I'll be a hostage." ”

"Huh?" Bucky turned his head and yelled irritably, "Who the are you?" ”

Li Ang swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice: "Look, this girl is too small to be a flesh and blood bunker, and she will struggle to escape, if I come as a hostage, I can completely help you cover it." ”

"Heh, you're her brother?" Bucky asked with interest, his grip on Elizabeth slowed, and the girl burst into tears and coughed violently, as if she were going to cough out all the alveoli.

"Sort of." Li Ang said with a bitter face: "I'll be a hostage, will I make a deal?" ”

"Nope." Bucky laughed, "Why should I hold an adult man like you hostage, what if you resist when the time comes?" ”

Leon was silent and placed his left arm flat on the counter, picking up the ceramic solid puppy sculpture on the wooden table under Bucky's puzzled gaze, and slamming it down on his left elbow.

The sound of a crack resounded in the hall, his left arm twisted nearly ninety degrees under the impact, the tips of his fingers could reach his shoulder without bending, and the protruding bone spurs poked even the skin into sharp shapes.

The intense pain made Leon's forehead flow into cold sweat, and he suppressed the trilling sound in his throat and said to Bucky, "I can't resist this time, can I?" ”

Bucky was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing maniacally, "Hahahaha, interesting!" I especially appreciate a madman like you. ”

He dropped Elizabeth with his hand, made the girl fall on the cold marble floor, grabbed Leon by the neck, and dragged him into the school bus.

Bang, Leon was thrown onto the canvas bag with money along with several other hostages, and before he could get up, Bucky jumped into the car and pressed his face against the window.

The school bus engine starts slowly, tires rubbing against the ground, and it drives into traffic as Gotham police watch.

"Listen to the strips outside, no helicopters are allowed in the sky, and no police cars are allowed to approach on the ground, otherwise I will kill all these hostages one by one!"

After yelling out the window, Bucky hid himself behind Leon and said to him, "You'd better stay still, 'superhero,' or I'll be sure your skull will be pried open by my bullets before the snipers shoot me." ”