Chapter 2553: Xiao Xiao Down (XI)

Chapter 2527 Xiao Xiao Down (XI)

Gordon knew that this damn robber was hinting to him that the hostages he released might have bombs on them. This experienced detective knew that this was a common tactic used by robbers.

Many professional robbers often do not take all the people in the bank as hostages at once, because too many people are difficult to manage and more people are needed to watch over them. The plot of dozens of people tied up and sitting on the ground as shown in movies and TV dramas is not realistic.

In reality, the number of hostages is generally around 5 to 12. The specific number depends on the size of the bank, the local police force, and mainly the strength of the local news media. If the strength is relatively strong, fewer people can be sent. Anyway, they will also publicize it as a disaster for five families to put pressure on the police.

The police will cooperate with their actions more when they are under pressure. Anyway, as long as the hostages are rescued in the end, their work has reached the passing line. Whether the money can be recovered or not is another matter. This increases the probability of the robbers escaping.

There are also some rules for releasing those extra and unnecessary hostages. These hostages can usually delay the police for a while, and the robbers usually release one hostage every once in a while.

First, the police need to understand the situation in the police station through the person who is released, and questioning is essential, which will divert their attention. Second, they do not completely trust the person who is released, and must check whether there are any dangerous items on him.

Because some robbers with more cruel means will let these people be human bombs. As long as this person explodes in the crowd, it will inevitably cause great commotion and attract the attention of the police.

Even the fact that the person who came out may have a bomb on him will cause panic, and the police must work hard to appease him, which can be regarded as achieving the robbers' goal.

So Gordon's handling is very professional. He immediately blocked the channel for releasing the hostages and took the hostages who had already come out for isolation and inspection. At the same time, he did not tell other robbers that the hostages might have bombs on them to avoid panic.

But this did cause some trouble for the police, because hostages who usually feel that they have escaped death will not be willing to let the police search them. They feel that they are also victims, why should they be so guarded, and some have even completely collapsed in the high-risk and high-pressure environment. Once they make a fuss, the reporters' cameras will turn around, and the police will be restricted in their search.

Even in some larger bank robberies, the kidnappers will even come out among the hostages, and the police dare not search them carefully, which naturally becomes a good route for the robbers to escape.

Schiller has no time to put bombs on the hostages. He did this just to prevent the people on the second floor from running away. But to be honest, the second floor is so low that they will not die if they jump down without an air cushion. At most, they will sprain their feet. Removing the air cushion is not enough to completely block the hostages from jumping down. It depends on what Gordon will do next.

Gordon took the loudspeaker and came to the balcony where the employees were. He chose to appease the employees with words, but he didn't expect that this trick would really work.

The main reason is that Gordon, as the sheriff who has always persisted in Gotham, has really led the people of Gotham to a new and better life. He has been conscientious in maintaining public order and has never made any mistakes. The public's trust in him is surprisingly high, and has even completely deviated from the trust that the American people should have in the American police, reaching the point where the police and the people are one family.

Gordon told them to wait before jumping, and they really did wait before jumping. The main reason is that they also heard Schiller's broadcast just now. If someone really has a bomb on him, it may not be safe to jump down and be taken to those people.

After most people returned to the room, Schiller began to think about countermeasures. First of all, even if the robbers did have a car to pick them up, it should be parked far away. How to let them pass is a problem.

It is unrealistic to ask the police for a car like in the movie. Schiller dares to bet that if he dares to ask for it, Gordon will dare to install a row of bombs on it. At that time, they will have to drive wherever Gordon tells them to go. This city has always treated special cases specially. Reporters are used to it and there is no public pressure at all.

So running away directly is not an option, or slipping away in the open is not an option. Schiller thought about it and realized that there was indeed another way for them to leave the bank, but it was a little troublesome.

Schiller adjusted the surveillance screen again and found that two robbers were about to leave the underground vault. They probably found some movement upstairs and wanted to come up to check.

It was really stupid, Schiller thought. They didn't even know the location of the sniper, but they dared to go upstairs so openly. They would be shot in the head if they came up.

Schiller left the monitoring room, walked quickly through the corridor, and waited at the stairs on the first floor above the basement.

As soon as the two robbers with strange sacks on their heads turned the corner, Schiller grabbed one of them. The other was about to draw his gun when he was knocked down by his companion who had just been thrown over.

Schiller knocked out the two people who fell to the ground. After looking at their body shape and tattoos, he found that they might have been the lowest-level gangsters in the past, and it was basically impossible for them to be professional robbers.

There are several physical characteristics of professional robbers. The first is that they cannot be too strong, or the team cannot be composed entirely of particularly strong people. One or two people are enough to carry heavy objects, and the rest need to do things like sneaking through doors and picking locks, or driving chases. They all look like Schwarzenegger, and they cannot curl up and hide when they are shot while driving to escape, and they will not survive for long.

After taking off the hood of one of them, Schiller took a look and found that it was a brown bread paper bag with a cross on the surface, which might have been picked up from a breakfast shop.

Schiller originally wanted to wear the robber's hood, but he found that the position of the eyes of this DIY hood was completely inappropriate, so he could only take the gun from the robber and wake one of them up.

"Listen to me now. Do you see the second office in front? Go in and hang around the window."

The man was a little confused, but looking at the black muzzle of the gun in Schiller's hand, he had to raise his hand and said, "Okay, don't shoot, I'll go now."

The man pushed open the door of the second office. It was a large office. It seemed that there should be people inside, but because there was no balcony, those who wanted to jump out ran to other offices.

When the robber walked to the window, Schiller stood at the door with a gun and stared at him. The robber walked past several windows one by one. Just when he was about to walk to the third window, Schiller shouted to stop.

Under Schiller's guidance, the robber walked back and forth between the two windows on the far left.

"Is it ok?" the robber begged, "The sniper will blow my head off!"

"No, at least not now." Schiller said, "Don't you look out the window? How can the sniper aim at you?"

The robber turned his head and saw a huge sycamore tree outside the window. Although it was already autumn, the leaves had not completely fallen off. The leaves of the sycamore tree were originally dense, and the gardener hired by the bank also took good care of it. To be precise, the gardener hired might be Pamela, so the tree grew large and lush.

Although the robber was terrified, from the outside, his figure was completely looming in the leaves. More importantly, because the leaves were too dense, he could not see the situation of the hostages in the house clearly. If he missed the target, it would be fine if he didn't kill the robber, but it would be troublesome if he hit the hostage.

Gordon's sniper order was very conservative, not to kill the robber at all costs, so the sniper did not dare to act rashly, and reported to Gordon as soon as he found the robber's figure.

Gordon went to the roof to check the situation and found that it was indeed as the sniper said, with the tree there, it was difficult to aim.

And those who jumped down also began to describe the situation inside and summarize their information one after another. In addition to checking the surveillance of the road before, Gordon found that the robber group was unexpectedly large, maybe six or seven people.

Generally, the robbers would be controlled within five people, because they could just take a car to leave. Once the number exceeded this, there was no way to evacuate in one car. When they came, four people took a car and two or three people walked.

However, according to the people who jumped down, they only saw a suspicious figure upstairs-in fact, this suspicious figure was Schiller, but the employees did not know Schiller and thought he was in the same group with the robbers.

And Schiller moved very quickly, the employees could not see clearly, they only said that he was tall and moved quickly.

The robber that Schiller pointed his gun at happened to be about the same height as Schiller, about 1.87 meters. He was swaying between the leaves, and the sniper and Gordon could not see his specific body shape.

Gordon knew that if the other party adopted the most traditional cutting method to open the door of the vault, it would definitely require a lot of people to watch from below.

Unlike directional blasting, which is like pressing a button and rushing in to get the money, directional blasting requires a long preparation period and requires extremely professional technical means, while cutting does not require too much preparation in the early stage. The process is longer and there are more things to operate.

Either there are similar talents among the robbers, or they will simply kidnap a technician. Gordon speculated that this group of people is the latter, otherwise they would not have so many people.

And from the images in the surveillance camera, it can be seen that these people do not look like professional technicians, but more like gangsters who are hot-headed for a while, which is more likely to be kidnapping.

In addition to helping with the operation, they also have to watch the hostages, which means that most of them will be delayed. It is very likely that there will be one or two people watching the hostages on the second floor, or simply one person.

If it is one person, it will be much easier. After killing the robbers on the second floor by sniping, rush in and rescue all the hostages. This group of robbers is gone, and the hostages will definitely not be able to escape.

The problem now is that Gordon needs to make sure if there is only one robber upstairs, because if he opens fire, he can only fire one shot. If he fails to kill all the enemies after one shot, the remaining one will definitely attack the hostages.

At this time, Schiller's deliberately low voice sounded again on the radio, asking the police to cooperate, but Schiller himself was not there now. This was the recording he left before.

Gordon didn't know this. He thought there was still one in the monitoring room, so now there were only five people on the other side, minus a kidnapped technician, and there were still four people.

Either two are underground and two are on the second floor, or three are underground and one is on the second floor.

Gordon is more inclined to the latter, because judging from the time, they have not evacuated yet, which proves that the cutting machine they use is not very advanced, and more manpower is needed.

It is right for one person to watch the technician and two to operate the machine. If one person watches the technician and one person operates, there is a high possibility of problems, and then there will be only one person left upstairs.

Although he is not completely sure, Gordon is not lacking in the decisiveness of taking a gamble at a critical moment. He immediately ordered, "Cut down the tree that blocks the view and snipe the robber on the second floor!"