Chapter 54: Negotiations

The bank robbery on Wall Street was immediately transmitted to the police station in New York City through the channel, and for a time the entire police station was like a motor tightening the clockwork, and in just ten minutes, the police car in the bureau ran through an unknown number of red lights and came to the gate of the Bank of New York.

The emaciated police captain got out of the police car and pushed away the crowd and walked to the door of the bank, looking at the closed bank gate and the sound of gunfire coming from time to time, frowning but methodically began to give various instructions to the police officers around him. The crime rate in New York City has always been high, and as a police captain, it is not the first time that he has encountered such a situation, and he has already had a set of procedures to deal with it.

With the issuance of one order after another, the police officers on the scene acted quickly, the snipers came to the building opposite the Bank of New York to find the blocking point, the police officers wearing body armor carried the blast shield to the bank door to become the first line of defense, and some of the police cautiously approached the other exits of the bank, exploring the route that could be assaulted, and finally the police officers around the police captain set up a cordon to block the annoying media from the outside.

"What to do boss, there are a lot of police officers outside!" Through the window of the bank, seeing the police surrounding them in an orderly manner, a robber wearing a baby pig mask said to Daddy Pig in a little panic, "How can it be so fast." ”

The news of his subordinates made a trace of imperceptible anxiety flash on the gloomy face under the mask of the robber Daddy Pig, and the gloomy owl's gaze swept over the hostages in the bank hall, and he smiled coldly, "Hehe, it seems that some of us don't cooperate very well and do some superfluous things." ”

Naturally, it is impossible for the police to know about the bank robbery for no reason, in fact, in the original plan of the robbers, the police who came belatedly after the successful robbery of the bank came here through the public's report, and apparently there was some accident, and the bank's alarm bell was pressed.

On the mask of Daddy Pig, the pink pig still has a simple smile, but the face behind the mask is as cold as ice, accompanied by the hoarse and cold voice of the robber, the atmosphere of the entire bank hall begins to condense, and the hostages have lowered their heads to hide the frightened expressions on their faces as much as possible.

Shrinking his body, the bank manager carefully covered himself with the crowd around him, and he was the one who rang the alarm bell to notify the police at the first time.

"No, Captain!" At the blocking point, the sniper reported over the radio, "There is too much concentration of hostages in the bank lobby to kill the robbers without hurting them......

"What about the assault team, have you found out the exits around the bank?"

"The temporary exits to the bank are sealed from the inside, and if they are violently broken, there is a good chance that they will attract the attention of the robbers." At the exit of the Bank of New York, the assault policeman who was ready to go said regretfully.

Listening to the news that kept coming from his ears, the wrinkles on the police captain's face became deeper and deeper, "Wait for the order first, is the negotiator here, answer the phone in the bank, and see what the robbers ask for before making the next step." The captain's gaze swept over the surrounding flooded media, and a flash of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

These jackal-like media, the police captain can imagine that if there is a little casualty among the hostages in the bank, they decide to make a big splash.

……

In the bank hall, Zhou Ran squatted on the ground with the hostages, and not far from him was his colleague Kelly in the bank, who raised his head slightly and swept over the surrounding crowd, with a look of regret flashing in his eyes. Unfortunately, under his field of vision, he could see the crowd in the hall, a faint gray mist wafting out of them, fluttering and disappearing into the air.

Although he still had the aura of fear that could be seen turning into gray mist, Zhou Ran's body at the moment had lost the ability to absorb fear, and he could only watch as these energies turned into air and dissipated around. It would be good if the system was there, such a thought flashed in his heart, which made him miss the system's ability more and more, if the system was still there at the moment, he could say that these gray mist were absorbed into the body without the fear body.

Sweeping over the masked robbers around him, Zhou Ran didn't look scared at all, if he wanted to, he could get rid of these guys in a few minutes, but at the cost of exposing the information that they had great power.

"You," glancing at the crowd, the robber boss wearing the Daddy Piggy mask easily found the presence among them to inform the police, the dodgy bank manager, who pointed at the crowd with the gun in his hand, "If you don't want any accidents, get out of the way." ”

In an instant, an empty space was vacated around the bank manager, and Zhou Ran looked at the boss whose face was full of horror, but his usual high-minded appearance had long since disappeared, leaving only deep fear, and a thick gray mist drifting deep in him.

"You, you...... You can't do that," the half-bald bank manager stammered in the face of the threat of a cold firearm, trying to stop the robbers' threats with words, "This is the golden ......"

Bang –

"Uh~" The last words of the bank manager were interrupted by the sudden sound of gunshot, and the blood splashed on his body dripped on the surrounding hostages, and he looked at the wound on his chest in disbelief, where the bright red blood spread rapidly, and instantly dyed the originally snow-white uniform scarlet.

With a thud, he lost his strength and fell to the cold ground, blood spreading along the floor.

"Ahh

"Shut up!" The robbers instantly shocked the hostages in front of them, and in the face of the cold and deadly guns and the dead body of the bank manager who had fallen to the ground and lost his breath, they suddenly became as docile as sheep, and Danny lowered his head like an ostrich and shrunk his body as much as he could, his face pale.

Jingle bells. Just when everyone was terrified of the ferocity of the robbers, an untimely bell rang somewhere in the counter of the bank.

"Boss, the police are calling!"

"We will try our best to meet any of your requirements. So be sure not to hurt the hostages in the bank, they are innocent citizens. At the door of the bank, the negotiator said to the robbers on the phone in a calm tone, trying not to provoke them as much as possible.

Taking the phone in the younger brother's hand, the negotiator's reassurance made a mocking smile appear on the face under the mask, and the robber boss said in a gloomy voice, "The initiative is not in your hands now, so put away these boring tricks......"

PS: Regarding the question of why the protagonist did not encounter a bank robbery in Gotham City, in fact, Zhou Ran was just an ordinary international student at the beginning, and it was not long before he said Gotham City. After that, I wore it directly to Arkham to be studied, so basically I didn't have much intersection with the bank, and it was normal to not meet it, so I didn't have to worry too much.