hotmtlnovel Chapter 2527: Xiao Xiao Down (1)
Chapter 2527: Xiao Xiao Down (1)
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. The experienced detective knew that this was a common tactic used by robbers.
Many professional robbers tend not to take everyone in a bank hostage at once, because too many people are difficult to manage and more people are needed to watch over them. The scenes shown in movies and TV dramas where dozens of people are tied up and sitting on the ground are not realistic.
In reality, the number of hostages is usually around 5 to 12. The exact number depends on the size of the bank, the local police force, and mainly on the strength of the local news media. If the strength is relatively strong, there can be fewer hostages. Anyway, they will publicize it as a disaster for five families to put pressure on the police.
The police will cooperate more with their actions when they are under pressure. Anyway, as long as the hostages are rescued in the end, their work has passed the test. They can then worry about whether the money can be recovered or not. This increases the probability of the robbers escaping.
There are also some considerations on how to release those extra and unnecessary hostages. These hostages can usually delay the police for a while, and the robbers usually release one hostage at a time.
Firstly, the police need to understand the situation in the police station through the person who was released, so interrogation is necessary, which will divert their attention. Secondly, they do not completely trust the person who was released, and they must check whether he has any dangerous items on him.
Because some robbers with more brutal means will use these people as human bombs. As long as this person explodes in the crowd, it will inevitably cause great chaos and attract the attention of the police.
Even the mere fact that the person who walked out might have a bomb on him would cause panic, and the police would have to work hard to calm people down, which would have achieved the robbers' goal.
So Gordon handled the situation very professionally. 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 causing panic.
But this does cause some trouble for the police, because hostages who usually feel they have escaped death are not willing to let the police search them. They feel that they are also victims, so why should they be so guarded against? Some of them have even completely collapsed in the high-risk and high-pressure environment. Once they start to make a fuss, the reporters' cameras will turn to them, and the police will be unable to search them.
Even in some larger bank robberies, the kidnappers would blend in with the hostages, and the police would not dare to search them thoroughly, which naturally became a good route for the robbers to escape.
Schiller didn't have time to plant 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 was so low that they wouldn't die if they jumped down without the air cushion. At most they would sprain their ankle or something. Removing the air cushion would not be enough to completely stop the hostages from jumping down. It depended on what Gordon would do next.
Gordon took a loudspeaker and came to the balcony where the employees were. He chose to calm 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 towards a new and better life. He has been diligent in maintaining public order and has never made any mistakes. The people's trust in him is surprisingly high, and it has even completely gone beyond the level of trust that the American people should have in the American police, reaching the point where the police and the people are like one family.
Gordon told them to wait before jumping, and they really did wait. The main reason was that they had heard Schiller's broadcast just now. If someone really had a bomb on him, it would not necessarily be safe if he jumped and was 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 pick-up car, it should be parked far away. How to let them pass was a problem.
It is unrealistic to ask the police for a car like in the movies. Schiller dares to bet that if he dares to ask for it, Gordon will dare to install a row of bombs on it. Then they will have to go wherever Gordon tells them to go. This city has always treated special cases specially. Reporters are used to it and there is no pressure from public opinion at all.
So it was impossible to just run away, or to slip away in the open. Schiller thought about it and realized that there was indeed a way for them to leave the bank, but it was a little troublesome.
Schiller checked the surveillance footage again and found that two robbers were about to leave the underground vault. They probably noticed some movement upstairs and wanted to come up to check.
It's so stupid, Schiller thought. He didn't even know the sniper's location, yet he dared to walk upstairs so brazenly. He would be shot in the head as soon as he got up.
Schiller left the monitoring room, walked quickly through the corridor, and waited at the stairs leading to the first floor above the basement level.
As the two robbers with strange sacks on their heads turned the corner, Schiller grabbed one of them. The other one 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 lying on the ground, and after looking at their body shapes and tattoos, he discovered that they might have been low-level gangsters in the past and were basically impossible to be professional robbers.
There are several physical characteristics of professional robbers. The first is that they cannot be too strong, or in other words, the team cannot be composed entirely of particularly strong people. One or two of them are enough to carry heavy objects, and the rest are needed to break into houses and pick locks, or engage in car chases and the like. They all look like Schwarzenegger, and if they are shot while driving away, they cannot curl up and hide, and they will not survive for long.
Schiller took off the hood of one of the men and took a look. It was just a brown paper bag with a cross drawn on the surface. It might have been picked up from a breakfast shop.
Schiller originally wanted to put on the robber's mask, but he found that the eyes of this DIY mask were not in the right position. He could only take the gun from the robber and wake one of them up.
"Now listen to me. See that second office up front? Go in and hang out by 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 right away."
The man pushed open the door of the second office. It was a very large office. It looked like there should be people inside, but because there was no balcony, those who wanted to jump down ran to other offices.
When the robber walked to the window, Schiller stood at the door and stared at him with a gun. The robber walked past several windows one by one. Just when he was about to reach the third window, Schiller shouted stop.
Under Schiller's guidance, the robber walked back and forth between the two windows on the far left.
"Is that all right?" the robber pleaded. "The sniper will blow my head off!"
"Not really, at least not now," Schiller said. "You don't even look out the window? How can a sniper aim at you?"
The robber turned around and saw a huge sycamore tree outside the window. Although it was autumn, the leaves had not yet completely fallen off. The leaves of the sycamore tree were naturally lush, and the bank had hired a gardener to take good care of it. To be precise, the gardener might have been Pamela, so the tree grew big and lush.
Although the robber was terrified, his figure was completely hidden in the leaves when viewed from the outside. More importantly, the leaves were too dense to see the situation of the hostages in the house clearly. If he missed the target, it would be ok if he didn't kill the robber, but it would be troublesome if he hit the hostage.
The sniper order given by Gordon was very conservative. It was not to kill the robbers at all costs, so the sniper did not dare to act rashly. He reported to Gordon as soon as he saw the robbers.
Gordon went to the roof to check the situation and found that it was indeed as the sniper said. The tree made it difficult to aim.
Those who jumped down also began to describe the situation inside and summarize their information one after another. Combined with the surveillance footage of the previous road, Gordon discovered that this robbery group was unexpectedly large, perhaps six or seven people.
Generally, the number of robbers is kept within five, because that is just enough to fit in one car. Once the number exceeds this, it will be impossible to evacuate in one car. When they come, four people ride in the car and two to three people walk.
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 cahoots with the robbers.
Moreover, Schiller moved very quickly, and the employees could not see clearly. They could only say that the man was quite tall and moved very quickly.
The robber that Schiller was pointing his gun at was about the same height as Schiller, about 1 meters. He was swaying among the leaves, and neither the sniper nor Gordon could see his exact size.
Gordon knew that if the other party adopted the most traditional cutting method to open the vault door, it would require a lot of people watching from below.
Unlike directional blasting where you just press a button and rush in to get the money, directional blasting requires a long period of preparation and extremely professional technical means, whereas cutting does not require much preparation in the early stages, but the process is longer and requires more operations.
Either there was a similar talent among the robbers, or they simply kidnapped a technician. Gordon speculated that this group was the latter, otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them.
Moreover, from the images in the surveillance cameras, it can be seen that these people do not look like professional technicians, but more like gangsters who acted impulsively, which makes it more likely that they were kidnapping.
In addition to helping with the operation, they also have to keep an eye on the hostages, which means that most of them will be tied up. It is very likely that there will be only one or two people, or just one person, watching the hostages on the second floor.
If he was alone, it would be much easier. After killing the robbers on the second floor through sniping, he could force his way in and rescue all the hostages. Now that the robbers were gone, the hostages would definitely not be able to escape.
The problem now is that Gordon needs to make sure whether there is only one robber upstairs, because if he opens fire, he can only fire one shot. If all the enemies are not killed after one shot, the remaining one will definitely attack the hostages.
At this time, Schiller's deliberately lowered voice sounded again on the radio, and the general idea was still to ask the police to cooperate, but Schiller himself was not there at the moment. This was the recording he left before.
Gordon didn't know this. He thought there was still one person in the monitoring room. So there were only five people left on the other side. Minus the kidnapped technician, there were still four people left.
Either two are in the basement and two are on the second floor, or three are in the basement 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 machines they use are not very advanced and they need more manpower.
It is correct to have one person watching the technician while two people operate the machine. If one person is watching the technician and the other is operating, the possibility of problems is very high, and then there can only be one person left upstairs.
Although he was not completely sure, Gordon was decisive enough to take 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!"
(End of this chapter)