"What's he doing?" Li Chen couldn't quite understand Xu Mo's actions.
Wasn't he supposed to go in and negotiate with the robber?
What was he doing now?
Playing with gold bars? Toying with the robber??
To be honest, Xu Mo's method of using gold bars to attract the robber's attention was good.
And judging by the robber's reaction, he was definitely interested in the gold bar in Xu Mo's hand.
If Xu Mo continued along this path,
He could use the gold bar as an excuse to get closer to the robber, then subdue him quickly when he wasn't paying attention.
But now, no one could understand what Xu Mo was doing.
The robber was clearly interested in the gold bar, so he should keep deceiving him in this situation!
What was the point of just tossing the gold bar around?
Wouldn't this behavior risk angering the robber?
What if the robber felt Xu Mo was playing him and hurt someone in a moment of agitation?
However, what they couldn't have anticipated was yet to come.
"You should be able to distinguish the sound of gold from iron. So, do you believe now that what I'm holding is a real gold bar?" Xu Mo said to the robber, "If you want the gold bar, put down the knife, release the hostage, and walk outside. You'll see for yourself, the ground is covered with gold bars. Just pick up a few, and it'll be enough for you to spend for a long time!"
The police officers: "??"
For a moment, they couldn't tell if they had gone mad or if Xu Mo had.
What kind of negotiation was this?
Wasn't this just treating the man like a complete idiot?
Put down the knife, release the hostage, and you'll get gold bars? Could the robber possibly believe such nonsense?
At this point, even Han Fei began to feel that letting Xu Mo go in to negotiate with the robber was a complete mistake!
Negotiation? What negotiation!
Xu Mo's approach could easily provoke the robber's dissatisfaction.
If things went wrong, the robber might harm someone again!
Just as everyone was on edge, worried that the robber might be provoked by Xu Mo and hurt someone again, something completely unexpected happened.
The robber's eyes lit up as he stared at the ground outside the bank.
He kept muttering, "Gold bars... gold bars... Hahaha, I'm rich!"
With a "clang," the robber dropped the knife in his hand.
He released the hostage and walked straight towards the exit.
During this time, the robber's eyes were fixed on the ground outside the bank, as if he had seen a mountain of gold.
At this moment, the police officers were dumbfounded.
What the hell was going on?
Had the robber... gone mad??
What was he thinking, dropping the knife and releasing the hostage to run outside?
Didn't he know there were police officers everywhere outside? Wasn't he afraid of being caught?
The robber ran outside the bank and knelt on the ground.
He cupped a handful of air with both hands, laughing hysterically like a madman.
He even grabbed a fistful of air, bit into it, and then examined that part of the air.
"Hahahahaha, gold... it really is gold!"
The police officers: "??"
They couldn't understand what the robber was doing, but they were shocked.
How could someone who seemed normal just moments ago suddenly go mad?
And what gold... where was the gold?
"What are you looking at? Cuff him!" Han Fei slapped Wang Dachuan on the head.
"Yes, sir!" The latter immediately grabbed the handcuffs and scurried over.
He cuffed the robber who was still going crazy over thin air.
After being handcuffed, the robber became even more frantic.
"Don't touch me! My gold... don't any of you try to steal it from me!"
"Heh, there's no gold, but you do have a limited edition pair of 'silver' handcuffs," Wang Dachuan sneered as he pushed the robber towards the police car.
At that moment, Xu Mo shouted from inside the bank.
"The negotiation expert isn't dead yet, he's still breathing!"
He then took out his phone and called for an ambulance.
Hearing this, Han Fei immediately ran into the bank.
He placed his hand on the negotiation expert's nose and found that he was indeed still breathing, albeit very weakly. It seemed he had passed out due to excessive blood loss.
Fearing the man might not last until the ambulance arrived, Han Fei performed some basic first aid to help stop the bleeding.
After doing all this, Han Fei looked at Xu Mo with a puzzled expression.
"What happened just now? How did the robber suddenly go mad?"
Han Fei believed that the robber's sudden madness couldn't be a coincidence; it must have had something to do with Xu Mo.
But how Xu Mo had made the robber go mad, Han Fei didn't know.
"He's not mad," Xu Mo shook his head. "He was just hypnotized. Psychological suggestion. He'll be fine in a bit."
"Hypnosis? So when you were playing with the gold bar earlier, it was to hypnotize the robber? You know hypnosis?"
"Mm, a little bit."
"That can't be easy to learn, who taught you?"
"Uh... I read it in a book, learned a bit from there."
Han Fei: "??"
Again with the 'read it in a book'. How come everything was from books? Was Xu Mo's knowledge really that broad?
Suddenly, Han Fei remembered something.
"Back in Jiangcheng City, did you use the same method to make that criminal confess?"
Xu Mo gave a vague answer.
"More or less, same idea."
At this time, the Lobby Manager walked over to Xu Mo and Han Fei.
He kept thanking Xu Mo profusely.
"Thank you, thank you so much. If you hadn't saved me, I... Never mind, I won't say anything more. To repay you for saving my life, if there's anything I can help with in the future, just let me know. As long as I can help, I won't hesitate!"
Xu Mo looked at the gold bar in his hand, then at the Lobby Manager.
"Does your bank accept gold bars? The bank's investment gold bars."
The Lobby Manager also looked at the gold bar in Xu Mo's hand, then nodded.
"Yes, we do! Do you have a certificate?"
"Well..." Xu Mo scratched his head. "I didn't grab the certificate at the time, I was too busy grabbing the gold bars."
Then he turned to Han Fei.
"Captain Han, I want to sell this batch of gold bars. As you know, every gold bar I have was legitimately robbed from a bank. Their source is absolutely clean. Can you help me prove this, maybe give me some kind of official police stamp?"
Han Fei: "..."
Lobby Manager: "??"
Legitimately... robbed from a bank?
And the source is absolutely clean??
Are you sure there's nothing wrong with what you just said?
How come it sounds more like something a bandit would say, not a police officer!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
