100: Get to the bottom of bank robbery

Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah!!

As Gao Ze fired the first two shots, two terrifying sonic booms erupted, causing the hostages throughout the bank lobby to shriek one after another, clutching their heads, squatting down, and covering their ears.

The two robbers standing at the entrance of the lobby fell to the ground with a thud, their bodies turning into cold corpses.

The robber standing next to the money bags was startled by this scene and, seeing Gao Ze open fire, frantically raised his gun and fired two shots at Gao Ze.

One shot whistled past, missing its target, and the other, if not for the robber Monkey's body blocking it, would likely have struck Gao Ze's abdomen.

But he no longer had a chance.

Gao Ze fired two more shots instantly.

Similarly precise trajectories, like the Grim Reaper's scythe claiming lives, shot dead the robber who had raised his gun, and another robber, frantically drawing a gun from his waist, also gained a bullet hole in his forehead, his hand tightly clutching pink banknotes.

Ah! Ah! Ah!!!

Gunshots rang out one after another.

Lili squatted down, clutching her head, urine unconsciously flowing from her crotch.

But she was oblivious, her eyes still fixed on Gao Ze.

She would never forget the scene that had just unfolded.

Gao Ze, having received her unspoken signal, instantly transformed from a gentle and refined man into a ferocious beast, crushing one villain with a single hand and shooting another robber with a single shot.

Boom!

Just then, the bank's anti-theft steel door let out a huge explosion, and a large group of armed Police Officers in bulletproof vests quickly flooded in.

The situation seemed to be resolving, coming under control.

"Gao Ze, you're not dead?"

Shen Gang led his team in first, and after seeing a man holding a gun in the bank lobby, he immediately raised his gun and aimed, then, upon realizing it was Gao Ze, he was both surprised and delighted:

"How do you have a gun? Were you the one firing in the bank lobby just now?"

"Did you kill all these robbers?"

Seeing his acquaintance Shen Gang, Gao Ze's mood also relaxed a bit, and he said:

"When I helped Team Leader Liu of Huangpu District arrest Li Chunsheng, the culprit in the serial teenage girl murder case, I applied to the Municipal Bureau for a firearm."

"I was lucky, I managed to hold out until now!"

Lucky?

Shen Gang and the elite armed Police quickly scanned the bodies of the robbers lying on the ground, secretly clicking their tongues.

The bullet holes in the robbers were all through their foreheads, headshots, showing that Gao Ze's Gunmanship was so precise that not a single shot missed.

"Guards, evacuate the hostages! Police, secure the robbers!"

"Gao Ze, now is not the time for pleasantries. You're inside the bank lobby, do you know the robbers' deployment?"

Shen Gang quickly asked, "Are there only five robbers inside the bank?"

"More than that, there are over ten!"

Gao Ze said, "The robbers robbing the bank, five are guarding the bank hostages, there should be one or two at the bank's back door, and the other robbers are on the second and third floors of the bank!"

"I suspect the robbers are deliberately stalling for time, they might have other plans, we must act quickly!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a loud explosion erupted from inside the bank, making the entire building tremble.

"What's with that explosion?"

Shen Gang's expression changed slightly, feeling very strange. The robbers were clearly surrounded, so why were they still using explosives? At this point, under siege, shouldn't they be negotiating?

"Oh no, the robbers probably have another escape route!"

Gao Ze suddenly realized the robbers' intention to stall for time, perhaps wanting to escape through an underground passage.

The system intelligence had shown that this was a large criminal gang of 12 people, with meticulous planning for the bank robbery, so it was hard to say they didn't have other backup plans.

Indeed.

When Gao Ze and Shen Gang and others led the armed Police to the second floor of the bank.

The several hundred square meters of bank office space here was already devoid of any robbers, with five or six hostages huddled under office desks, clutching their heads.

Following the stairs down from the second floor, towards the end of the fire escape, there was a hole two people wide blown out by explosives. Looking through this dark hole, one could see an artificially dug tunnel inside.

Scattered pink hundred-yuan banknotes were still lying in the tunnel, apparently dropped by the robbers in their hurried escape.

"This tunnel was probably dug by the robbers for one or two months!"

Gao Ze sighed as he looked at the tunnel.

"We must pursue and eliminate this group of robbers; as long as they are alive, they pose a huge hidden danger to the safety of Donghai City citizens!"

Shen Gang frowned deeply, looking at the hole, about to jump into the tunnel to pursue them.

But at this moment.

Gao Ze's gaze caught a red flickering object thrown from the dark hole.

"Oh no, it's a detonator!"

Gao Ze lunged at Shen Gang, who was closest to the hole, and almost simultaneously, with a loud bang, a powerful shockwave blew dust and smoke from the tunnel, causing them to fly out like scattered fairy flowers.

"Cough, cough!"

Gao Ze propped himself up with his hands. He was not seriously injured, but the close-range exposure to the residual shockwave felt as if he had been heavily punched in the chest.

"Brother Gao, are you hurt?"

Shen Gang looked at Gao Ze's face twitching in pain, covered in dust and looking disheveled, and his eyes immediately reddened: "You saved me just now, otherwise I would have been dead or crippled!"

The situation just now was indeed dangerous.

He hadn't expected the fleeing robbers to have laid an ambush inside the tunnel, throwing a detonator.

If he had rushed in, and if Gao Ze hadn't tackled him, he probably would have died.

"I'm fine!"

"First, count the number of robbers inside the bank."

Gao Ze waved his hand and said, "As for how to pursue and eliminate the fleeing robbers, I have a plan!"

Shen Gang did not insist on pursuing the robbers through the tunnel. At this point, other armed Police Officers poured in, bringing intelligence.

"Shen Team, there were two robbers at the bank's back door; we've killed one and injured one!"

"There was one robber on the third floor of the bank; he was killed by us while guarding the bank staff. During the process, three hostages suffered bomb injuries and have been sent to the hospital."

Upon hearing this, Shen Gang immediately asked, "Can we get the exit of the staircase tunnel from the injured robber?"

"The injured robber was shot in the internal organs and is bleeding heavily, in a state of severe coma, so he probably cannot be interrogated!"

"Damn it!"

Shen Gang punched the air, his expression filled with bitterness.

The Police's operation this time, injuring and killing eight bank robbers, successfully rescuing the hostages without any fatalities, could already be considered a successful case.

However, at least two robbers had escaped through the dug tunnel.

Such armed and desperate criminals posed an extreme danger to the citizens of Donghai City, and once their money ran out, they were very likely to commit crimes again.

"Old Shen, don't worry!"

Liu Wenzhong and other Criminal Police Captains walked into the bank, and while evacuating the hostages, comforted Shen Gang, saying, "Director Zhao, knowing that robbers had escaped, has already notified the bomb disposal team to go down the tunnel. We will find out where the robbers escaped to."

"By the way, where is Brother Gao?"

"This time he is a great hero in the bank robbery case, saving more than thirty hostages' lives!"

"Brother Gao was just by my side!"

Shen Gang turned his head and scanned around him, but didn't find Gao Ze's figure: "How did he disappear?"

"Oh right, when Brother Gao saved me just now, he said he knew how to eliminate those fleeing robbers."

"Old Liu, do you think Brother Gao went after those robbers?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, the Criminal Police Captains who had entered the bank widened their eyes. How did Gao Ze know the robbers' escape direction?

And if Gao Ze single-handedly pursued at least three or four robbers, would he be in mortal danger?

Gao Ze had been injured when he tackled Shen Gang to save him from the explosives.

He couldn't afford any mishaps!

Otherwise, if the entire bank robbery case were to be investigated, the Municipal Bureau and the citizens of Donghai City would not forgive the outcome of a hero's sacrifice.

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Outside Xingsheng Bank.

Gao Ze walked out, mixed in with the crowd of hostages.

He indeed knew where those robbers from this bank robbery case had fled.

Because when he re-examined the abnormal suspicious points in the entire robbery case, he discovered an overlooked detail.

That was, the robbers were not just those vicious-looking armed bandits; there were probably also robbers inside Xingsheng Bank, meaning an inside man.

"Manager Feng, I've been with you for so long, where else do you plan to go?"

Gao Ze's pistol was already pressed against the man's lower back.

This man was none other than the bank manager Gao Ze first saw being threatened by robbers with a gun to shut down the bank's security alarm, and then following the robbers to the bank vault.

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