A dozen men in straw hats were running hurriedly in the alley, led by Pan Zhuzi from the third company. Two of them were carrying sacks filled with various rags looted from the police force.
There were gunshots in the middle of the town, as loud as a storm. Pan Zhuzi knew it was about the money house incident and had nothing to do with him. What he had to do now was to leave. His expression seemed a little anxious.
Xinglong Town is located on the north-south road. If you want to leave the town, you must either go north or south. However, there are security forces deployed tightly outside the town on both the north and south sides, making it impossible to get out. Now he is leading the team westward, intending to leave this dangerous place through the wilderness.
What I didn’t expect was that there was no road to the west, but there were actually security forces patrolling and monitoring.
At this point, Pan Zhuzi realized that he didn't need to try the east anymore. There were nearly a platoon of security forces in each direction, and the rest must be in the east. That company of security forces had all left their lair and had completely blocked off Xinglong Town.
He couldn't understand it, and neither could his men behind him. When something happened in the town, it was reasonable to block the main roads, but why block it so tightly? Besides, the bank had already been surrounded. They didn't know that it was they themselves who betrayed them, and the phone they had looted from the sack. Unfortunately, none of them knew that thing was called a phone.
If they tried to break through the checkpoint in broad daylight, even if they succeeded, they would immediately become prey of the security forces. Pan Zhuzi gritted his teeth for a long time but failed to give the order.
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The sound of gunfire was so violent that it gave Captain Caoba a headache. He didn't dare to lie on the window to watch anymore, because someone in the bank started to fight back, and also because... the bodies outside the bank's gate were lying with their eyes open.
At this moment, he still felt that he was a kind and innocent person. Everything he did was forced by the circumstances and his duty. Because the first shot was fired by the sinister detective captain, not him, the stupid policeman. He just issued the order to kill without mercy afterwards. He didn't fire a single shot. He didn't have the heart to shoot innocent people. This was evidence that he still thought he was kind, which was very important.
Another policeman rushed in in a panic. He was afraid of being hit by a stray bullet and didn't dare to stand at attention in front of him. After entering the teahouse, he huddled against the wall by the door and gasped: "Captain, I went back to check, and what the security army said was right. Our police force has really been wiped out!"
The incompetent captain who had just sat down in the chair raised his eyebrows: "Took it? Who took it?"
"I don't know. Old Liu, who was on duty, was strangled to death. Every room was turned upside down."
If he had heard the news earlier, he would have fainted from anger. But now he really didn't think it was that bad, because a mountain of gold was right in front of him. What did the police's den mean to him? What did this police hat mean to him? When everyone in the bank was dead, he would have everything! He killed those who walked out of the bank to surrender because he was afraid that there were bank shareholders among them. This was the Xiulong Bank, not a formal and famous bank. As long as everyone who should die was dead, nothing could be explained.
"Alright, alright. I got it."
The policeman who was reporting at the door stared at his idiot captain in a daze, not understanding how this idiot could remain so calm after hearing the news. Is this still him
"Don't just stand there, pass the order down. Attack! Go to the bank! Kill without mercy!"
There was no preparation for the attack, no organization and coordination, no backup plan. This is why he is called a fool. He does not understand these things at all. Of course, as long as there are more people, more guns and more troops, he does not think it is a big deal. The police always use the majority to defeat the minority when catching thieves. Knowing those so-called tactics is useless.
Then he picked up the tea bowl on the table again. This time, his hands stopped shaking and he could hold it steadily. He drank his tea with sweat on his forehead again. He continued to think that he was too soft-hearted and too kind because he could not bear to shoot innocent people. He continued to curse the detective captain inwardly for being too cruel and inhuman.
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Su Qing, who fell down due to a head-on collision with Hu Yi, had not yet struggled to stand up again when she felt a huge force hit her back hard, causing her to roll sideways and slide. As the world spun around, she finally realized that it was because Hu Yi, who was lying behind her, kicked her hard. She was kicked away from the door and slid far away under the whistling trajectory, coughing awkwardly and painfully.
Because of their initial hesitation, Su Qing, Ma Liang and Shi Cheng were the last to arrive. Just after they took a few steps out of the door, something unexpected happened. Only the three of them who were at the end had a chance to return to the door alive.
Until this moment, the blued m1932 came out of the holster, and the cold metal flashed.
Hu Yi rolled sideways on the ground, rolled to the other side of the door, then quickly got up, stuck close to the door and tried to stick his head out, which immediately attracted a hail of bullets.
"He won't come back!"
Ma Liang on the other side shouted to Hu Yi because Hu Yi was not in a hurry to close the half door on that side.
The heavy door of the bank finally closed with a bang, blocking out the light again. It was still being hit by bullets, making strange "thump thump thump" sounds, occasionally accompanied by the sound of penetration and bullet holes in weak places.
There was blood on Ma Liang's body and face. He felt a drop of heat slowly sliding down his cheek and passing the corner of his lips.
He knew that the blood was not his, but he still stretched out his tongue and licked the drop of blood into his mouth.
The blood was very bitter, so bitter that it made his heart tremble; it was very astringent, so astringent that his throat could not make any sound; this was blood made of stone, and Ma Liang’s entire body was covered with blood made of stone.
Because Shi Cheng was limping in front of him at the time, when the storm suddenly came, Shi Cheng turned around suddenly, knocked down Ma Liang and Su Qing, and then fell horizontally in front of them like a sandbag.
Ma Liang said that he would never come back, and he didn't want to say that he was dead, because he always said that he could not die, and that he still had debts to pay, so it was impossible for him to meet the elders of Qingshan Village.
He slid down the cold wall beside the door little by little and sat on the ground. Even though the door continued to be hit and light from bullet holes continued to shine through from time to time, it did not prevent Ma Liang's breathing from returning to normal. He was just a little dazed, staring blankly at the ground in front of him, half of his face covered in blood.
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Compared with the first floor of the money house, the situation on the second floor was not very good. Xiao Hongying's angry counterattack prompted Kan Jiu and several other Zhu Bajie who were on the second floor to rush to the windows and fire outside.
Unfortunately, they were the focus of attention of the light machine gun, which swept through every window on the second floor over and over again. One of them, Zhu Bajie, had his skull cut off on the spot and died under the window, still twitching. They were so scared that they all hid behind the wall pillars between the windows, watching the breakable objects being broken one by one, listening to the screams of the bosses in the conference room, and had no idea what to do next.
The only person who had a gun but didn't fire a single shot was Luo Fugui. When he heard the sound of the machine gun, his head was in a mess and he wanted to get as far away from the window as possible. Xiao Hongying cursed him again and again in anger amid the noise of the shooting, but he pretended not to hear and instead began to crouch and run towards the corridor.
He had to go downstairs to confirm that Boss Hu was still there, otherwise he couldn't stay here any longer, as every second seemed too long.
Outside the window, on the street below, policemen and detectives were rushing out of their hiding places, some slipping along the walls, some climbing up the walls, ready to start their righteous cause...