Han Fei was a bit puzzled.
Recently, the number of cases had suddenly increased!
He didn't know why...
After all, including today, he had only been back in Ram City for two days.
Who would have thought that these two days would be non-stop work.
There were people using excavators to dig up ATMs, others tampering with barbecue seasoning, and now a bank robbery?
This crime rate... why was it shooting up so quickly?
And all of this seemed to happen after Xu Mo came to the police station...
Thinking of this, Han Fei couldn't help but glance at Xu Mo.
He wondered if this guy had the legendary "Conan syndrome".
Of course, Han Fei didn't have time to ponder this now. He had to get to the scene immediately, without a second's delay.
"Xu Mo, we've got work to do. Stop practicing and come with me."
Meanwhile.
At the bank.
"Hurry up! I want money! Give me all the money, or I'll stab him!" The agitated robber had a fruit knife pressed against the Lobby Manager's throat, forcing the teller to hand over the money.
"I know, please calm down. We're getting the money for you right now!" The teller tried to soothe the robber's emotions while retrieving the money.
At this moment, a middle-aged man with short hair, wearing a black jacket, was standing opposite the robber with his hands raised, attempting to communicate with him.
He was the police's Negotiation Expert.
Coincidentally, he happened to be in the bank when the robbery occurred.
As a Negotiation Expert, he knew how to communicate with robbers.
He felt it was his duty to step up at this moment and save ordinary people from danger!
Negotiating with robbers was his specialty.
He believed that by revealing his identity as a Negotiation Expert and stating that he could represent the police, he could make the robber lower his guard, or even give up the idea of hurting people.
"Sir, hello, I am..."
However, to the Negotiation Expert's surprise, the robber didn't wait for him to finish speaking before taking action.
The robber immediately withdrew the knife from the Lobby Manager's throat and, without a word, slashed across the Negotiation Expert's chest.
"Hello my ass! Did I ask you to speak?"
Fortunately, thanks to the protection of the ribs, the robber only slashed once instead of stabbing, so the vital organs like the heart were not harmed.
Only the outermost layer of skin and flesh was cut open.
Of course, while there was no life-threatening danger,
Bleeding and pain were inevitable.
The blood flowed quickly, soon soaking through the Negotiation Expert's clothes.
After losing a large amount of blood, the Negotiation Expert's lips began to turn pale, his body shaking uncontrollably. He soon went into shock and fainted, collapsing to the ground.
After slashing the Negotiation Expert, the robber immediately pulled back the bloodied knife and continued to point it at the Lobby Manager's throat, then shouted:
"Don't think I won't kill someone. Hurry up and get me the money! Otherwise, I'll kill you all!"
Seeing how deranged this robber was, actually daring to use his knife, the bank staff were all terrified.
Some of the more timid ones had already gone weak at the knees, unable to move even if they wanted to.
The few braver ones quickly moved the money they had taken out earlier to the counter and placed it on the ground.
"Brother, we've brought out the money for you..."
"Pack it up properly! Find something to put it in! How the hell am I supposed to carry it like this?" the robber yelled.
Hearing this, the teller went to find a large travel bag and packed the money from the ground into it.
After filling it up, they zipped it closed: "It's packed."
The robber greedily licked his lips, looking at the large travel bag full of money on the ground.
"If you had cooperated like this from the start, it would have been so much easier, damn it."
With that, he immediately released the Lobby Manager and went to grab the travel bag from the ground.
He picked up the bag and was about to run out.
However, at that moment, the police cars arrived.
Several police vehicles immediately surrounded the bank entrance, blocking any escape route.
Countless officers stepped out of the cars.
At this point, the robber hadn't managed to run out of the bank doors yet.
Seeing the officers arrive, he immediately put down the travel bag and turned to take the Lobby Manager hostage again.
There was no way he could escape now.
The officers who had come to handle the bank robbery outside definitely had guns. If he went out now, it would be like asking for death.
Taking a hostage and negotiating with the police was the best solution.
After all, that's how it always happens in TV dramas...
The Lobby Manager, who had just been released, hadn't had time to run away before being taken hostage again.
Feeling the cold touch on his neck again, he felt so bitter inside.
Couldn't this guy take someone else hostage?
Why did he always target him?
Outside the bank.
Han Fei had just stepped out of the police car when he heard the robber's voice from inside.
"Listen up, all you cops outside! Don't try anything funny, or this knife of mine won't be just for show!"
"We won't do anything rash. Don't get excited. Let's talk this out. You can state your conditions, and we'll try our best to meet them. Just don't hurt anyone, alright? How about we send in a Negotiation Expert to hear your demands?" Han Fei shouted back through a megaphone, responding to the robber.
"Hurry up, my patience is running out."
Hearing this, Han Fei took out his phone and started calling the police Negotiation Expert.
However, the call wasn't going through.
At the same time, a ringtone started playing inside the bank...
Han Fei looked into the bank and was stunned.
The Negotiation Expert he was trying to reach was lying in a pool of blood!
What a coincidence!
Han Fei put down his phone, his face grave.
"This is bad... The person lying on the ground is the Negotiation Expert. The robber has stabbed him."
After thinking for two seconds, Han Fei decided to negotiate with the robber himself.
"I'll go in and talk to the robber. You all wait out here."
As soon as he said this, Chen Ke objected: "No, Captain Han, this robber is too volatile. It's dangerous. He's already injured one person. Who knows what he might do if you go in there."
"It's fine, I can handle it. Besides, as you said, this robber is emotionally unstable. If I don't go in, he's more likely to hurt someone else," Han Fei said.
Then he turned to the SWAT Team Leader.
"Are the snipers in position?"
"They're ready."
"Good. I'll leave it to you then. I'm going in now. If the robber does anything out of line, open fire. We can't let him hurt anyone else."
"Alright..." The SWAT Team Leader had just agreed when he suddenly called out to stop Han Fei: "Wait!"
The reason was that the Sniper's voice came through the wireless earpiece.
A moment later, the SWAT Team Leader looked at Han Fei: "The robber seems to have guessed that we have snipers. He's almost completely hidden behind the hostage. The angle isn't good for a clean shot. We can't stop him from hurting people."
"Captain Han, how about... let me try?" Xu Mo suddenly spoke up from the side.
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
