Chapter 9 A Different Gotham

　　Just as Zi Liang expected, soon, a group of police rushed to the scene, nearly ten police cars directly surrounded the bank, a police officer walked to the front of the crowd, picked up a megaphone, and yelled at the bank: "Listen to the people inside, this is the Gotham police, you have been surrounded, put down your weapons, come out to surrender." 　　These words are the most classic nonsense, like a child's injection said "do not cry", when chasing people shouted "stop", said nothing, do not say and always feel that there is something missing, and this behavior also clearly tell the robbers: "Look! I am the head here!" . 　　Then from the criminal's point of view, this kind of loudhailer shouting behavior is simply a mockery plus insulting intelligence, if the bank inmates want to resist, that the first to be set on fire properly is this take the horn, did not run. 　　After a while, see inside the people did not move, the sheriff signaled the back of the riot squad to prepare, a moment may be forced to break in. 　　But just at that moment, the bank's window was labeled with a few pieces of paper, on which was written - "Don't shout, this is my phone." And there was literally a string of phone numbers left underneath. 　　The sheriff froze for about a second: "Shit, what the hell." He cursed, but put the speaker down, pulled out his cell phone and dialed the number. 　　Soon, the call was answered. 　　"Hello! This is the Gotham Police, you are surrounded, drop your weapons and come out and surrender!" He repeated the opening line from earlier. 　　However, as soon as the words left his mouth, a timid voice came from the phone, "I ...... am a hostage ......" 　　"Huh?" The sheriff froze again, "Where are the robbers?" 　　Just then, the cell phone seemed to be handed over to another person. 　　"Hi, I'm the person you're looking for, may I ask which ...... person you are?" 　　The voice sounded very calm, so it would be the robber. 　　"This is Sheriff Tom Hill." 　　"It's an honor to speak with you, you can just call me Zira." 　　Sheriff Tom Hill frowned slightly, "Well then, Mr. Zi Liang, you don't sound like you're too alarmed, so I'll define you as a somewhat experienced veteran for the time being, so you should already understand your situation, you're surrounded, so ...... " 　　"So I only have one path to choose from now, and that's to obediently open the door of the bank and walk out to surrender, is that right." Zi Liang interrupted the other party and said, "But unfortunately, I don't want to do that." 　　"Then what do you want to do?" Hill asked. 　　"You don't need to know, now to save time I'm going to say something you want to hear." Zi Liang said quickly, "I don't have any companions, I'm the only one inside the bank, right now I have a total of 31 hostages in my hands, they're lucky, all of them are alive, there's a guard who was shot in the leg, but there's no rupture of a major blood vessel, to put it bluntly, he can't die for a while, and just now I've already let his companion bandage him to stop the bleeding. You know what that means?" 　　Sergeant Hill froze again, one, the other party's speech was a bit fast, he had to buffer for a second or two before he could fully respond, and two, this kidnapper was obviously a very professional veteran, because he knew very well what the police were most concerned about. 　　But why would such a veteran put himself in such a situation where he could not retreat? 　　Zi Liang saw that the other party didn't say anything: "Alright, then I'll explain it to you, what I said just now shows that I'm a kidnapper with a conscience, I didn't kill any hostages, and the people here aren't in any danger right now, which means that I didn't give you guys any reason to storm the bank with violence, so if I find out that you guys want to cut off the bank's power supply, and you want to send a team of explosion-proofing teams to secretly unload the protective railing next to the door, or throw smoke bombs through the vents, in short, just do anything that doesn't sit well with me, I'll start shooting hostages, and right now I've got three guns and 55 rounds of ammo, and I'm confident that I'll kill more than half of the people in here in the time between when I realize that something's wrong and the time that you guys overpower me." 　　Zi Liang purposely slowed down his speech a bit to make every word clear: "I think I've made myself clear enough this time, and just a friendly reminder, all the hostages in the bank heard these words, I turned on the recording of this call from the moment it came in, and believe me, if you guys don't listen to me and force yourselves to break into the bank, or try to pull a little stunt if you're smart, I've got a 100 ways for the family of the deceased to hear this conversation of ours, and you should know very well what you police are going to face afterwards." 　　Sergeant Hill broke out in a cold sweat, hiding the tension in his tone, "What the hell do you want" 　　"What do I want? Hahahahaha-" Zi Liang suddenly let out a creepy laugh, "You're asking too many questions, and I don't like the sound of your voice, I'm going to have a conversation with Chief Gordon, right here, you have about 10 minutes to get him over here, if the next call I hear anything other than Director Gordon's voice, I think I'm going to do something that you will absolutely regret!" 　　With that said, there was an immediate busy signal on the phone, not leaving Sheriff Hill even the slightest bit of time for questions or explanations. 　　"Shit!" Hill cursed, "Contact Chief Gordon, quickly! Say there's a big situation here!" 　　He shouted at a police officer next to him ...... At the same time, a very ominous premonition appeared in his heart ...... because this robber called Zi Liang gave him a sense of déjà vu, a feeling that hadn't appeared for many years. 　　...... 　　...... 　　Zi Liang hung up the phone very sharply and then threw it to a hostage in the corner, not forgetting to yawn while saying thank you. Afterwards, he sat down on the chair again as if he was nothing, pulled out the notebook, and started flipping through it. 　　It had already been three months since he came to this city, and it wasn't until these past few days that the notebook finally fit in with the city, and some information slowly began to surface on the pages. Although it was still fragmentary, Zi Liang still deduced something from the information that he didn't even know what it was. 　　That is, the city called "Gotham" was no longer the city of sin that people knew, although it was still full of evil, but there was one big difference, there hadn't been those so-called super criminals here for a long time. 　　On a certain night seven years ago, something happened, but no one knows exactly what happened, in short, from that night onwards, all the super criminals disappeared ...... Some people say that they were all locked up in Arkham Asylum, some people say that they all died, but no matter what, from that day onwards, Gotham City became Gotham City became a different place from that day on. 　　...... 　　Even the strange man who wore a cape at night and was known as "Batman" never appeared again.