Chapter 11: Desperate Situation
The orange school bus ignored the red lights, left three or four cars colliding at the intersection, and drove towards the edge of the city.
In the carriage, a group of clowns put plastic anti-falling self-locking pull loop ropes on the wrists and ankles of the five hostages, including Li Ang, which they could never untie on their own.
Needless to say, most of Gotham City's surveillance cameras were called urgently, and countless images were transmitted to the large screen of the police station through cables, closely monitoring the direction of the school bus.
It was impossible to escape, and although there was no sign of the police car in sight, Bucky knew that the strips had already set up barricades at the exit of the surrounding roads, just waiting for them to fall into the net.
"To Sullivan Island." Bucky commanded.
The driver silently accelerated, and the street scene outside the window quickly receded, and the high-rise buildings reflecting the sunset gradually faded away from view, and finally came to a sea-crossing bridge.
Gotham City is known to be a natural port city, made up of several islands, each connected by bridges and underground tunnels.
The natural topography of the islands is divided into different urban functional areas, from north to south are the wealthy New Town and Sheldon Campus, the Narrow Island where the Arkham Asylum is located, the Upper East Side, and the Penguin-controlled fashion district, which is labeled as the boutique business district, Old Gotham, Civic District, and financial district.
The Gotham Police Station, built on a triangular headland, is located in the southwest corner of the city, separated from Sullivan Island and across the sea from Hermon Island, where felons are held.
Sullivan Island is an important gateway to the port on the south side of Gotham, and gangsters rule the island like emperors, constantly smuggling tobacco, alcohol, cars, and even powder, child prostitutes, organs, guns and ammunition.
No one dared to touch this lawless place, and even the officers of the Gotham Police Department had to hide in bulletproof cars when they were on patrol, for fear that bullets flying from nowhere would blow their skulls.
If I had to use an adjective, Sullivan Island would be associated with "crime-ridden" on a level as appalling as a drug-ridden Mexican city.
"Stop them before you enter the island," Gordon, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a police car, said over the intercom.
More than a dozen police cars had been parked in front of the bridge, blocking the entrance in a dense airtight manner, and the policemen who had hidden their bodies behind bulletproof doors watched nervously at the school bus that was slowly parked on the side of the road.
"Hey, superhero, what do you think those strips are going to do?"
Bucky smiled and pressed the gun to Leon's cheek and asked in a classical operatic aria.
"I, I don't know."
Li Ang replied with tears in a rather cooperative voice, "Please, don't kill me....."
"From what I know about Gotham, these civil servants who receive dead salaries will not come forward in person, and will turn around and call for S.W.A.T (meaning Special- Weapons -Attack -Team) for support."
Bucky pointed a pistol at his forehead and said, "So how did S.W.A.T solve this situation?" ”
There was silence in the carriage, and out of the corner of Leang's eye, he saw a white girl beside him who was also being held hostage, bowing her head and sobbing silently.
Didn't anyone answer? What a pity. ”
Bucky rubbed his hands together and said, "They will hide in the grass, yes, that grass, with spears and short artillery battering rams on their backs, bent over their waists, waiting for their time like those lioness on the African savannah......."
He dragged his tail notes, unzipped a package at his feet, and took out two cans of spray cans commonly used by American youth street graffiti.
What is this for?
Leon frowned slightly, but saw Bucky stick the gun back into his waist, holding the spray canister left and right, and smearing black spray paint on the car window.
In a matter of seconds, all the windows of the entire school bus were completely sprayed and the Gotham police officers outside could no longer see through the binoculars.
Bucky dropped the spray canister on the floor of the carriage, stood up and stretched, and said, "When all the footage is blocked, those SWAT officers are as helpless as kittens with their faces covered by plastic bags - do you watch those cute pet videos on Youtube?" ”
No one answered, and Bucky shook his head and sighed as he pulled out five pairs of gas helmets with pig-nosed respirators from inside the package.
Li Ang's pupils contracted suddenly, and he recognized at a glance that this was the British S9 mask body, which was made of an air-cushion tube airtight frame structure that made the wearer's facial contours fit seamlessly with the air-cushion tube, minimizing the infiltration of dust, heavy smoke, fog droplets, poisonous gases, and poisonous vapors.
In addition, the mask's window is made of impact-resistant polycarbonate and coated with an anti-fog and anti-scratch ink wipe coating that ensures light transmission and minimizes damage to the wearer from strong sunlight.
Is it necessary to get such a thing as a bank robber?
Leon's mind was in a hurry, and he saw Bucky hand out the gas helmet to several other clowns, and only after they all put them on did he continue in an urn: "First of all, the S.W.A.T, who has lost the source of intelligence, will use shock grenades and tear gas to carry out the first wave of impact, which can not only discourage the bandits' combat effectiveness, but also protect the hostages.
Secondly, like us, wearing gas masks, they will climb the engineering ladder, smash the window glass with a conical hammer, and fish in.
In the end, the S.W.A.T SWAT officers used rubber-coated batons to sweep down the bandits who had lost their ability to resist, successfully rescuing the hostages, which made the headlines of the Gotham Times the next day. ”
Bucky clapped his hands in joy and laughed like a child amused by a talk show: "It's a pity that I'm a clown, a unique and different clown, a courtier who will always be indispensable on the stage!" ”
He finally took out a silver tray commonly used in luxury hotels from the package, handed it to the girl next to Leon, and said, "Guess what's inside?" ”
The blonde girl sobbed and shook her head frantically, and Bucky laughed maniacally as she opened the lid of the tray.
Tick, tick.
A time bomb wrapped in black tape with a scarlet number panel on it.
"I'll set a time for it first, don't start it now, and start the timer when the time comes."
Bucky smiled and set the time bomb to 20 seconds, taping it firmly to the girl's shirt.
"Do you really think I'm robbing some hundreds or tens of millions of dollars from the Gotham National Bank?"
He reached out and pinched the red foam clown ball on the tip of his nose, shook his head and said, "No, I want more, I want to tell the world in front of the eight million citizens of Gotham City, with dollars, hostages, and the ashes of S.W.A.T, that the Gotham Port renovation project is doomed." Those officials who want to make political achievements, as long as they dare to stretch out their hands to Gotham Harbor, they are doomed to be hit like thunder. ”
Leon asked expressionlessly, "If this is a bomb, how do you escape?" ”
"Hmm.... That's a good question. ”
Before he could finish speaking, a tiny syringe suddenly fell out of Bucky's sleeve and injected an entire tube of medicine into Leon's neck with lightning speed.
"There's a lot of barbiturates (hypnotics) and chlorzoxazone (muscle relaxants) in it, and I'd better be careful with a teenager who can break his arm 90 degrees."
After just one breath, Li Ang felt that all the strength of his body was withdrawn, and every muscle could not gather strength, so he could only slump on the ground and stare.
"As for how to escape, you don't have to worry about that." Bucky smiled and kicked away a large stack of canvas bags, revealing the steel plate in the center of the carriage.
The plate was inlaid with a pull ring handle, and when Bucky bent down and pulled it, the steel plate was lifted up, revealing the sewer manhole cover that had long been opened underneath the school bus.
"You see, the ancient Oriental sage was called 'Sun Tzu', and he once said: 'Plan and then act, know and get it'."
Bucky shook his head and said, "According to the plan, now as long as those SWAT officers shoot the shock grenade into the car window, I will press the timer button of the time bomb with a gas helmet on, and jump into the sewer with my men to escape, and when the time is up, those S.W.A.T SWAT officers and you hostages who have just rushed into the car, as well as these dollar bills, will be blown up into the sky with a bang." ”
As if scripted, the S.W.A.T. SWAT officers who were ambushed in the grass by the side of the road climbed up, shouldered a cylindrical launcher on their shoulders, and the shock grenade fired from the black cannon barrel swirled through the windows of the school bus.
The fuse engager strikes the bumper, squeezing the reload support and cover plug, triggering a magnesia stun reload.
Leon, who lost his ability to control his body, was attacked by the strong light of 8 million candles and a huge noise of about 170 decibels, because of the picture retention effect of human visual cells, he will lose about 5-10 seconds of vision, and because of the noise, the eardrum ruptured and hemorrhaged, both ears lost hearing, and the semicircular canals were impacted, and the body could not maintain balance.
The stun grenade didn't have much effect on the clowns, as Bucky's men jumped into the sewer pipe through the steel plate at the bottom of the car, while tear gas was thrown into the car, and the SWAT officers outside the car had already begun to charge.
"Hahahaha, the game is on! The game is on! ”
Bucky laughed maniacally, pressed the time bomb stuck to the girl's placket in the smoke of tear gas, and jumped into the sewers.
Countdown, 20 seconds.