Chapter VII Banks

  November 4 - Sunny.   The traffic was motionless as usual, and the back seat of the taxi seemed to reek of overnight vomit.   Zi Liang should have said that he didn't like this city ...... in fact he had said it no less than 40 times in the past few months. The foggy night sky, the strange cold gothic buildings, even the bright neon can not hide the darkness of the dirt under the flashy, Gotham's daytime, people are like the walking dead in general, trying to maintain the city on the surface of the good, and then at night, everyone is like waiting for the night of the full moon werewolves, and have bared their fangs.   Zira had stayed in a lot of places, whether it was Stalingrad, which had been picked up by reconstruction in World War II, or Nara Castle in the days of the Meiji Restoration, in short, there was no place that would be as contradictory as this place. It was poor and opulent and sinfully glittering. Desperate, jubilant, twisted, and fragmented, it felt like if a tour group from somewhere else had come here, they might have inhaled two puffs of this place's air and it would have been enough to hiccup.   So once again, Ziliang told himself, he had to hurry up and finish his work and get a new place, or his insomnia might have to worsen again.   ......   Two hours later, the taxi finally stopped in front of the main entrance of 71st Street in the metropolitan area.   Zi Liang paid the money and pushed open the door.   In front of him, was one of the biggest banks on the block, but it wasn't very big, it should only be about 300 square meters, and it only had one floor.   Just right.   So he was satisfied and walked in. At the moment, he was still wearing the wrinkled white coat.   Only, there was an extra leather case in his hand.   The inside of the bank was a little smaller than it looked from the outside. With a quick glance, Zi Liang was able to get a good look. -7 counter windows, 6 staff members, 22 people in line, and three guards, all wearing pistols.   "Happy Halloween." He rushed over to one of the guards and said to the guard with a big smile.   "Haha, Halloween was three days ago." The guard chuckled before brushing past Zira.   But the next second.   He felt a gun muzzle against the back of his head, followed by a lazy, "Freeze!"   ......   ......   "What ah?" The guard literally froze in place for two seconds before his entire body jolted with a jolt of realization.   "Robbery!" These two words exploded in his head as an afterthought.   In fact, it wasn't his fault, because this transformation had really come too fast, too suddenly, like a diarrhea in his sleep, without giving him a tiny bit of preparation time.   Of course, when so many years of security, professionalism is still there, which makes him very strong not to immediately raise his hand ......   Because he just saw this guy who brushed against him, and could see that it was a doctor, and that face shouldn't be a person who often commits evil, so at this moment, he was pondering whether he had a chance to subdue the other party.   However, it was in less than half a second.   The gun seemed to have suddenly left his head, followed by a "bang!" The sound of a gunshot ......   Everyone looked over in shock, people immediately realized what had happened, at that time, all the women were incomparably in line with the atmosphere, crouched down in place holding their heads, and then let out a burst of ear-splitting screams.   Chaos erupted at that very moment.   People realized they were experiencing a bank robbery.   ......   But in the midst of this panic, there were also one or two people who seemed to have discovered a very inexplicable image, they squinted their eyes and looked carefully at the criminal who was holding up the security guard, who seemed to be holding in his hand ...... not a robbery, but ...... a lighter?   What is the situation of this matter?   But although someone found out, but it is already too late, because that guard can not see, he just felt the back of his head was a cold hard thing on the top, in this case, even if you can think of someone will use a lighter on the back of their head, but who dares to really use their own head to try. Back up a thousand steps, even if there is really this kind of in order to work to die in the line of duty of the guts, that also certainly was just that a close to the gunshot scared away.   In fact, when it comes to this gunshot, if you listen to it in a quiet situation, you should be able to distinguish it, and the real gunshot is a little different, but because this is really too sudden, too much in time. So that guard almost immediately raised his hands out of his mind.   And at that very instant, the matching gun at his waist had also been pulled out by the person behind him.   ......   At this time, about two to three seconds had passed since the "Happy Halloween" remark just now, and the other two guards had already pulled out their guns as well.   "Freeze!"   "Drop your guns!"   They were aiming at Zi Liang's position, but of course, there was another one of their companions in front of Zi Liang, so even the most professional security guards would not be able to react as quickly as a sharpshooter within these few seconds and pull out their guns while crossing their companion's body to hit the robber's head with a single shot.   This also led them to shout something stupid like "drop the gun", just like when chasing, the people behind always like to spend effort to yell "stop".   Zi Liang was very bored "tsk" a bit, seems to be disgusted with the useless behavior of the two bodyguards, and then opened the safety of the gun, did not say a word of nonsense, directly rushed to a security guard "Bang! Bang! Bang!" He fired several shots in a row.   Fortunately, these shots are aimed at the lower third, otherwise, this brother is estimated to be this year's Gotham City bank robbery, the death of the guards of the sharpest, he did not even hear the sound of the robbers ......   But honestly, from these few shots, you can actually tell that Zi Liang's marksmanship isn't very good, firing several shots in a row, but only one shot hit the guard's calf.   Of course, there was only one place on a person's body that still didn't hurt after being hit by a bullet, and that was the head, so the man let out a miserable cry and directly fell to the ground, covering his leg in pain, and the gun in his hand slipped out a long way.   At the same time, the entire crowd once again erupted into an even more frantic scream at this instant, and the crowd boiled as if looking around for a place to hide. Some people were even so frightened that they held their heads in place, shouting while looking for something all over the ground, Zi Liang thought that they were probably looking for a hole that they could drill into.   As for the other armed security guard ...... he had received a bit of training anyhow, so he desperately suppressed his inner trepidation and quickly hid behind a piece of service desk.   This is a robbery, more obvious, but only how he can not figure out ...... which there is such a bank robbery, greatly generous, even a stocking are not set.   And generally rob a bank at least need three people, a guard in the car lookout, a loaded money, there is a gun threatening hostages, and alone a person to rob a bank, the success rate is simply zero, and again, rob a bank is the most important thing is not to kill people, quick decision, but this person came up to shoot indiscriminately, it is not directly to their own forced to the end of the road it.   Just when he hid behind the service desk pondering these.   "Bang! Bang! Bang!"   There was another series of gunshots. There was no telling what was being fired, but the screams, which were already rising and falling anyway, were once again raised a K degree higher. The crowd had all squeezed to the very edge of the wall, as if they would be safer if they could stay away from the robber.   At this moment, about 10 seconds had passed since Zi Liang walked into the bank, and in the midst of this chaos, I don't know which brave employee had already pressed the alarm, and all of a sudden, the entire bank was filled with alarm bells, shouts, cries, and screams.   ......   ......