The Asylum of All Worlds

Chapter 9 A Different Gotham
Just as Ziliang predicted, soon, a group of police officers arrived at the scene. Nearly ten police cars immediately surrounded the bank. A police officer walked up to the crowd, picked up a loudspeaker, and shouted at the bank. Said: "Listen, people inside, this is the Gotham police, you have been surrounded, put down your weapons, come out and surrender."

These few sentences are the most classic nonsense, just like a child saying "don't cry" when getting an injection, or "stop" when chasing someone. The behavior also clearly told the robbers: "Look! I am the leader here!".

So from the criminal's point of view, this kind of behavior of shouting with a loudspeaker is simply mocking and insulting IQ. If the criminals in the bank want to resist, then the first one to be caught is the one with the loudspeaker, and he didn't run away. up.

After a while, seeing that there was no movement from the people inside, the police chief signaled to the anti-riot team behind to get ready, and they might force their way in later.

But at this moment, a few pieces of paper were pasted on the window of the bank, which said—"Stop shouting, this is my phone number."

The police chief was stunned for about a second: "Damn, what the hell." He cursed, but still put down the horn, took out his mobile phone and dialed the number.

Soon, the call was connected.

"Hey! This is the Gotham police. You are surrounded. Put down your weapons and come out and surrender!" He repeated his opening remarks just now.

However, as soon as the words fell, a timid voice came from the phone: "I am a hostage"

"Ah?" The sheriff was taken aback again: "Where's the robber?"

At this moment, the phone seemed to be handed over to another person.

"Hi, I am the person you are looking for, who are you?"

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

"I'm Sheriff Tom Hill."

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

Sheriff Tom Hill frowned slightly: "Well, Mr. Ziliang, it sounds like you don't seem to be panicked, so I will define you as an experienced veteran for the time being, then you should have understood your own Situation, you are surrounded, so."

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

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

"You don't need to know. In order to save time, I am going to say something you want to hear." Ziliang said quickly: "I have no companions, and I am the only one in the bank. Now I have a total of 31 hostages in my hands. They Fortunately, all of them were alive. One guard was shot in the leg, but there was no major blood vessel rupture. To put it bluntly, he will not die for a while, and I have asked his companion to bandage him to stop the bleeding. You know what that means Well?"

Sergeant Hill was stunned again. Firstly, the other party’s speech was a bit fast, and he had to buffer for a second or two before he could fully react. Second, the kidnapper was obviously a very professional veteran, because he knew very well that what the police were most concerned about was What.

But such a veteran, why would he put himself in such a situation where he could not retreat?
Seeing that the other party didn't say a word, Ziliang said, "Okay, then let me explain to you. What I said just now shows that I am a conscientious kidnapper. I didn't kill any hostages. The people here are not in any danger now, that is, Said I didn't give you any reason to violently break into the bank, so if I find out that you want to cut the power to the bank, want to send a bomb squad to secretly remove the protective railing next to the door, or throw smoke bombs from the vents, anyway Do anything I'm not too happy with and I'll start shooting hostages, now I have three guns, 55 rounds, from the time I realize something's wrong until you guys subdue me, I'm confident I'll kill more than half of the people here .”

Ziliang purposely slowed down his speech to make each word clear: "I think what I said this time is clear enough, and as a friendly reminder, all the hostages in the bank heard these words. I turned on the recording when the call came in. Believe me, if you don’t listen to dissuasion and try to break into the bank by force, or if you want to play tricks, I have 100 ways to let the family of the deceased hear our conversation. You should be very clear about what your police will face afterwards."

Sergeant Hill broke out in cold sweat, he concealed the tension in his tone: "What the hell are you trying 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 want to talk to Director Gordon, right here, You have about 10 minutes to call him over, and if I don't hear Commissioner Gordon's voice on the next call, I think I'll do something you absolutely regret!"

After speaking, there was a busy tone on the phone immediately, and Sheriff Hill didn't even have time for questions and explanations.

"Damn it!" Hill scolded, "Contact Director Gordon, hurry up! Say there's a big situation here!"

He shouted at a policeman next to him, and at the same time, a very ominous premonition appeared in his heart. Because this robber named Ziliang gave him a feeling of deja vu, which had not appeared for many years.

Ziliang hung up the phone quickly, and then threw it to a hostage in the corner, not forgetting to say thank you while yawning.Then, he sat on the chair as if nothing had happened, took out the notebook, and started flipping through it.

It has been three months since he came to this city, and it was not until these days that this notebook finally fit the city, and some information began to slowly appear on the page.Although it was still fragmentary, Ziliang still deduced some things from the unknown information.

That is, this city named "Gotham" is no longer the city of sins that people are familiar with. Although it is still full of evil, there is a big difference that it has not been seen for a long time. So called super criminals.

One night 7 years ago, something happened, but no one knew what happened. In short, since that night, all the super criminals have disappeared. Some say they were all locked in Arkham In the lunatic asylum, someone said that they were all dead, but no matter what, from that day on, Gotham City has become a different look.

Even the cloaked eccentric known as "Batman" never appeared again.

(End of this chapter)