Mantis Catches Cicadas, Yellow Sparrow Follows

Two days later, early morning.

Zhou Shen was in his villa in Shallow Bay.

On one side of the table with a map on it sat Zhao Yan and four others, on the other side sat Zhou Shen and five others, eleven people total.

"I already arranged for people to scout out the area around Hua Feng Bank, we'll head out at 8 and arrive just as the bank opens when there are the fewest people there."

"The police are focused on the case of Huo Tianyu's kidnapping right now, they won't expect anyone to target Hua Feng Bank, perfect for us to take action."

"This is the bank's interior layout, this is the vault where that batch of gold is, the nearest police station would take at least ten minutes to provide backup support...let's go over the getaway plan after we succeed."

Zhou Shen held a cigar in his mouth, pointing at the map and bank interior layout on the table while talking nonstop. He looked around: "Does anyone else have any other questions?"

Everyone shook their heads indicating they did not.

"Alright, I'm assigning tasks now. Luo Jiajun, come with me and five others into the bank to move the goods. Da Biao, take two others to provide cover outside."

"If the police catch up to us, Da Biao, don't worry about us. You must take the car and leave with the gold first and we'll meet up at the usual spot later. This operation is for that gold, people can get trapped but the gold absolutely cannot. Even if we get caught there's no death sentence in Lincheng, as long as there's money everything can be fixed. We can even figure out how to break out of prison."

"As long as we have the gold when we get out, we'll still be top dogs."

Weapons were then distributed, grenades were nothing, they even had rocket launchers, the fully armed crew got in the vehicles and sped directly toward Hua Feng Bank.

A little past 9 am, just after the bank opened, a van pulled up at the entrance.

The back doors opened and eight bandits wearing headscarves and holding AKs jumped out.

Zhou Shen’s woman and a underling remained in the cargo hold, Da Biao was also still in the driver’s seat without getting out.

The three of them were responsible for the pickup outside, all Zhou Shen’s people, indicating Zhou Shen was still guarding against Zhao Yan.

However, Zhao Yan was quite gracious, he didn’t say anything about it, instead making Zhou Shen feel rather awkward.

“Brother, don’t misunderstand, your share won’t be shorted after we succeed.” Zhou Shen still explained.

Zhao Yan laughed generously: “I didn’t take it to heart at all, would brother Shen actually scheme against me?”

“Good brother.” Zhou Shen patted him on the shoulder, then took the lead rushing into the bank with gun held high.

The smile disappeared from Zhao Yan’s face as soon as Zhou Shen turned around. Dear brother Shen certainly wouldn’t scheme against him, it was he who schemed against brother Shen.

“Stay together later, follow me in rushing.”

Zhao Yan said in a low voice to the four others.

Then he also led them in a charge into the bank, aiming at the ceiling and pulling the trigger, bang bang bang bang!

"Everyone get down on the ground, we're only here for money not to kill anyone, but don't force us to take action!"

"Ah! A robbery!"

The bank instantly dissolved into chaos, screams immediately arising as everyone hunkered down on the ground.

"Who's the manager?" Zhou Shen shouted.

A fat man got up shaking in fear: "It's me...I'm the manager, don't...don't kill me."

Zhou Shen's underling dragged him directly to the vault where the bank stored gold, then forced him to input the password.

The manager very cooperatively entered the password. The moment the door opened, the dazzling glow of gold inside.

"Hahaha! It's all ours now!"

Zhou Shen laughed wildly, overcome with excitement.

Then everyone started moving the gold out.

Billions worth of gold sounds like a lot, but actually only takes a few crates to contain.

All the gold was loaded into the vehicles very quickly.

It went unbelievably smoothly.

"We really got lucky." Zhou Shen said.

What he didn't know was that it wasn't luck, but because the police had already collaborated with the manager ahead of time.

Zhou Shen guffawed as he aimed his gun up at the sky and fired wildly: "Thank the heavens! Let's get out of here!"

"Buzz Buzz Buzz"

Just then, alarm bells started blaring loudly.

Countless police cars rushed out.

"Dammit! Something's not right!" Zhou Shen's expression changed as he immediately looked toward Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan anxiously said: "I dared to even kidnap Huo Tianyu, how could I be a traitor? No idea what screw up happened, have Da Biao take the gold first and leave, we'll hold them off!"

After speaking, he took the lead firing at the police cars.

"Bang bang bang bang bang..."

Bullets hit the cars throwing up sparks.

"Da Biao, you go first! Follow the plan!"

Facing the threat from the police, Zhou Shen momentarily dismissed his suspicions of Zhao Yan. He changed clips and fired at the police cars to buy time for Da Biao to leave with the gold.

Da Biao slammed the gas pedal.

The two in the cargo hold loading the gold, one of them hefted a rocket launcher and fired it at the trailing vehicles.

Boom!

Many police cars exploded, flames shooting high into the sky.

A lot of the police cars were forced to stop, officers exiting the vehicles to fire at Zhou Shen and the others, on the verge of breaking out into battle.

"Charge charge charge!"

"The bandits have heavy firepower, take cover!"

"Screw your mother!" Zhou Shen angrily cursed pulling out a grenade and fiercely throwing it out.

He swept the area with bursts from his machine gun.

Boom boom!

Gunfire and explosions continuously rang out.

Although the police had greater numbers, their firepower was no match for Zhou Shen and the others. A stalemate formed in the short term.

In that instant, the scene descended into chaos.

Zhao Yan led Da Lei and the other three, firing cover shots as they retreated to the periphery.

Some police noticed and wanted to fire shots to obstruct them, but were stopped by superiors who called out that Zhao Yan was one of their own.

And so, Zhao Yan led the four others in smoothly escaping from the battlefield, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Big brother! Luo Jiajun ran off! The police didn't shoot at him, he really is a traitor!" one underling who took a bullet to the arm shouted red-faced at Zhou Shen.

Zhou Shen looked back and indeed did not see any sign of Zhao Yan: "F*ck! That bastard! If I make it out alive, I'll flay his whole family. Everyone hang on a bit longer to buy Da Biao some time to escape, we'll surrender after he gets away as long as Da Biao leaves with the gold, when we get out of prison we'll still have more money than we can spend!"

"Zhou Shen, you can't get away, surrender..."

"Charge charge charge!"

"Go f*ck yourself asking me to surrender! Keep firing! Blow them away with grenades! Kill these bastards!"

"Boom!"

Fierce combat raged on at the entrance of Hua Feng Bank.

...

On the other side, because Zhou Shen and the others desperately held off the police with heavy weaponry, plus there were rocket launchers in the vehicle, Da Biao and the other two managed to break through the encirclement.

All along the way they kept using explosions to block off roads.

Leaving the pursuing police cars far behind.

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

Accompanied by the roar of engines, a cement truck suddenly charged out from the side. With a loud bang it directly rammed the van and sent it tumbling over.

Then four civilian cars with license plates rushed out, over a dozen people wearing hoods exited wielding guns and wildly shot up the van. Gunfire rang out for half a minute.

These people slowly approached the van, after confirming the two people inside had died, they started moving the gold.

One walked up to the driver's seat and aimed his gun at the bloody but still breathing Da Biao: "Brother Luo asked me to pass along his thanks."

Da Biao's eyes suddenly went wide.

"Charge charge charge!"

Three gunshots rang out, and Da Biao was no more.

Then this group swiftly retreated.

The four identical cars with identical license plates split off in different directions.

A grenade was tossed out from one of the cars onto the overturned van. Then boom! The van and cement truck simultaneously exploded.

Flames shot several meters into the air.

All the police cars pursuing Da Biao were obstructed.

The four cars quickly merged into traffic and disappeared.