amaotonovel Chapter 3219 The Shadow of Faraines (6)
Chapter 3219 The Shadow of Faraines (6)
Chapter 3219: The Shadow of Faraines (XVI)
The Pale Knight stood in front of the bank.
This was not the first time he stood in front of a bank like this.
But those days are too far away from him now. He has been following the rules for too long, and those crazy memories have been diluted by time and become blurred.
So now he only has one feeling - it's amazing, he saw Batman robbing a bank!
The Batman in most universes look very similar. Although the temperaments of Batman and Bruce in the main universe are completely different, if you look closely, their facial features are very similar. If you take frontal photos from the same angle, they look like photos of the same person at different periods of time.
There is nothing special about the Batman in the universe where the Pale Knight exists. In other words, he looks the same as the classic Batman and is not much older than Bruce. This leads to the Pale Knight's recognition of this face as Batman.
It is true that he is no longer a huge fan of Batman, but don't ask, the answer is he once loved Batman, and he really couldn't accept someone with such a face robbing a bank.
People who have chased stars may understand that many people, when mentioning a star they liked in the past, act as if that star had a cybercrime record, but there are really not many people who are willing to sincerely admit that it was because of their poor vision that they became a fan of such a thing.
The look in the Pale Knight's eyes is indescribable.
Bruce was not affected by him at all. He raised his gun again, pointed it at the counter and said, "Put your hands where I can see them. It's best if I don't see anyone secretly calling the police."
"That one over there!" He turned the gun to the customer at the window and said, "You have an emergency alarm on your phone, right? Throw that thing out right now."
"And you! You took a f*cking step towards the alarm, didn't you? Get back here right now, or I'll blow your head off!"
Because his movements were so quick and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's, no one, whether it was the customers sitting outside handling business or the tellers inside, had time to press the alarm bell. Bruce would notice the slightest movement by the slightest thing.
At first, a few tellers wanted to use the blind spot to press the alarm button under the table, but before they could even move, Bruce turned the gun towards them.
Looking at the black muzzle of the rifle, no one dared to move. After all, they were all here to work, so why risk their lives?
Bruce led the Pale Knight inside with a gun in hand. The Pale Knight lowered his voice and said, "Why don't you find someone to lead the way?"
"What way to lead?"
"Do you know how to get to the vault?"
Bruce snorted coldly and winked to the left. The Pale Knight looked over there but saw nothing.
"The fire escape map," Bruce said. "You can tell where the vault is at a glance."
The Pale Knight took a look.
Nothing was seen.
A normal fire evacuation map would only draw the layout of one floor, but the bank counter and safe could not be on the same floor. How could he tell where the safe was based on the layout of this floor alone?
Bruce opened the door to the stairwell.
"Now I need two hostages." Bruce said, holding up the gun: "Those of you who were born in January, please stand up."
“No one moved.”
Bruce fired a shot directly at the feet of a man who was crouching at a table near the window.
boom!
Tiles flew everywhere, and the bank salesperson and the customer fled in panic. After a long time, the man lying on the ground raised his hands tremblingly and said, "My birthday is January 1th..."
Soon another female teller came forward and said, "I was born on January 1nd..."
"Good, that's just you two. Now crawl towards me on all fours. Everyone else stay still."
The two men didn't dare to resist at all, and crawled over as quickly as possible. The Pale Knight whispered, "How do you know that person's birthday is in January?"
"When we came in, he was holding a custom card, the kind that banks would customize for big clients. The pattern on it was Capricorn, so it was likely that his birthday was in January."
The Pale Knight just wants to say, with your brains and eyes, why are you robbing a bank?
Wait a minute, didn’t he complain before that Batman has so much money and such a high IQ, why is he Batman?
"I'm sorry, I was wrong." The Pale Knight apologized to the Batman of his own universe in his heart. It's better to be Batman, busy and useless. The key is useless.
At this moment, the Pale Knight suddenly realized that if he managed Gotham well, wouldn't Batman have time to spare? !
No, absolutely not, the Pale Knight thought.
It's obvious that the Bruce in front of me has no pressure and is too idle. He is rich, smart, and has no work to do. After being empty for a long time, he must want to find excitement and will inevitably go down the path of crime.
The Pale Knight began to desperately dig up the criminal methods in his memory, cursing as he dug, "How come this special medicine is so effective? How did I commit crimes before?"
But even if I can't remember, I have to think about it. I can't let Batman live in peace for too long. I have to commit some crimes and find him something to do.
After searching his brain for a long time, the Pale Knight couldn't find many useful memories. He was in pain and confusion during the treatment period, and many memories were lost. When he was asked to think about it suddenly, he really couldn't remember much.
It doesn't matter. Although he is no longer capable, Gotham is full of talented people. He can select the best and the most capable and assign them to the right positions. It's time to rebuild the Arkham Union.
In a blink of an eye, Bruce had tied the two men's hands behind their backs. Although their legs were not tied up, it could be seen from the muscle lines of their bodies that they were not martial artists. Their arms could not move and they even staggered when they walked, and the threat had basically been eliminated.
After bringing the two hostages into the stairwell, Bruce directly closed the door of the corridor. Unfortunately, it was a fire door and could not be locked, so Bruce led his men directly downstairs.
The vault is indeed located downstairs, but this is modern times and the security measures of modern banks are very complete. Even for a small city-level bank like this, it is impossible to open the vault door with ordinary means. Even if someone comes eagerly, it will take a long time. What does Bruce plan to use to open the door?
"I... I don't know the password." The female teller suddenly said, "It's useless even if you tie me up. The main warehouse door needs to be opened remotely. No one can open it without authorization."
"Oh." Bruce only responded with one syllable.
The Pale Knight took a look at the teller's face. There was indeed some fear on her face, but not much. There was even a hint of sarcasm, as if she was mocking Bruce for being a stupid thief.
Her reaction is not surprising. On average, American bank employees will encounter 10 to 14 bank robberies in every 15 years of their career. In states with poor public security, this number can even soar to dozens of times, which means that on average, a bank is robbed every two or three months.
However, those who were able to successfully rob the money (success here refers to those who managed to rob large sums of money of more than 10 US dollars) are extremely rare, and those who were able to successfully escape with such cash have basically left their names in history, and their numbers can be counted on one hand.
The whole world knows that banks are places to deposit money, and bankers are not stupid. If they don’t spend money on security, would they leave the money for people to rob?
The Pale Knight took stock of the resources Bruce currently had and felt that the chance of him successfully taking the money out of the bank was zero.
There were no demolition tools, no blasting tools, not even any ordinary cutting instruments, and the only hot weapon they had was a gun. If they could have robbed a bank, the bankers would have gone bankrupt long ago.
I really don't know where he gets his confidence from.
The Pale Knight sighed in his heart. In fact, if Bruce only took some money from the counter, the plan would not be considered a failure.
Although banks now do not allow the deposit of too much cash, there are still several thousand US dollars in cash, which is enough for them. After all, they just need to solve the problems of food, clothing, housing, transportation and gas. The consumption here does not seem to be high. As long as they do not pursue the quality of life, a few thousand dollars will not be a problem to last until the end of the game.
But Bruce seemed to disdain this small amount of money, so the Pale Knight could only wait and see how he opened the vault.
They slowly walked to the fork in the road leading to the vault. The passage on the right led to the door of the vault where the money was stored, and going straight ahead was the stairwell on the other side.
Bruce chose to go straight.
He didn't even turn onto the road leading to the vault door. He just kept walking forward without even looking at the vault door.
When they reached the stairwell opposite, Bruce simply pushed the woman back and walked into the stairwell with the Pale Knight, but left the female teller in the corridor.
Bruce swaggered up the stairwell on this side with the male hostage. Because of the chaos he had caused upstairs before, all the customers upstairs ran away. A group of tellers hid in the safe room, leaving only one waiting for the police at the door.
The entire first floor of the bank was wide open. Although the sound of sirens could be heard faintly in the distance, the two or three minutes of blank period was enough for Bruce to walk out of the side door on the other side of the bank with the hostages and successfully get back to the car.
Bruce threw the man into the back seat.
"Listen, sir. We are from Canada. We are here to do one job and leave. If we really rob a bank and succeed, the police will chase us to the ends of the earth. But if only you are missing, they won't go to such great lengths. You must have a lot of enemies, right?"
The man in the back seat looked as if he was crying.
The Pale Knight then realized, my goodness, you are not robbing a bank, you are robbing a banker.
Now he understood why Bruce could tell that the man was holding a customized horoscope card. It turned out that he had been eyeing him for a long time.
The Pale Knight thought about it again. Judging from the fire layout diagram on the first floor, this bank should not have a VIP reception room. This is not surprising. Generally, only the largest head office in the city will have relatively complete reception facilities, and other branches only have scattered reception desks.
But the man was sitting at a table with the best view in the entire bank, next to the window but not facing the street. There were lush plants outside the window, so the scenery was good and the privacy was also good.
Moreover, the salesperson who received this man was dressed appropriately and had a warm smile. Judging from his overall temperament, he should be an account manager.
Combined with the customized card in his hand, it is obvious that he is a big customer of this bank.