Lou Xi was stunned by the question raised by Lou Yi, but before he could think more deeply, three gunshots "bang bang bang" interrupted his thoughts!
As if by instinct, he turned around and ran over.
Lou Yi also caught up almost at the same time.
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One street away from the hotel is the busiest pedestrian street in the city center. Ye Xingchen walked aimlessly with Shu Rao. The afternoon sun was a bit dazzling, making people want to cry.
There were many pedestrians on the street, coming and going, passing each other, the sounds of footsteps, voices, eating... all kinds of sounds, deepening the noise in my heart.
Passing by the row of gold shops, the two of them stopped suddenly.
Shu Rao pointed to one of them and said hoarsely, "I originally wanted to come here to buy a wedding ring, but it's a pity..."
Ye Xingchen slowly raised his head, looked in the direction of Shu Rao's finger, and was suddenly startled, I do!
Why are things in the world so unreasonable? Shu Rao wanted to come here with Xiang Fan to buy wedding rings but failed, but she and Lou Xi quickly cut through the trouble and bought a pair here.
It is said that it takes five hundred times of looking back in the past life to get by once in this life, and it takes five hundred years of begging before the Buddha to get one sight on the Naihe Bridge. The Buddha also said, how much love can be left in the world?
, to welcome thousands of changes in the floating world.
What exactly is fate? What exactly is marriage?
People were coming and going, and a pair of elderly people supported each other and walked slowly past them. Their backs were already stooped and their hair was gray. The hands they held each other were covered with the lines of time.
Growing old together, the passage of time, and a lifetime of dependence on each other.
Bang bang bang——
Three gunshots were fired.
Ye Xingchen and Shu Rao were startled at the same time, and the crowd on the street screamed and fled in all directions. Ye Xingchen and Shu Rao were pushed away by the crowd, and finally they were pushed to an unknown corner.
"Robbery, robbery...help..." The panicked shouts of the clerk suddenly came from the gold shop next to I Do.
"Shut up! Call me again and I'll shoot you in the head!" the robber threatened fiercely.
Ye Xingchen's expression changed greatly, and he held Shu Rao's hand tightly. Even though they were dozens of meters away, they could still clearly feel the dangerous atmosphere in the gold shop.
Through the wide floor-to-ceiling windows of the gold store, she saw four robbers inside, wearing black clothes and black trousers, tall and tall, with black hoods on their faces. Each of them had a gun in his hand, and three of the robbers used
After the gun shattered the counter glass, it quickly swept away the valuable jewelry in the gold store, and then successfully escaped from the back door of the gold store. The police on duty on the pedestrian street arrived quickly, leaving one robber trapped in the gold store.
But he had hostages in his hands. Several clerks were squatting on the ground with their hands raised, and a woman who looked like a customer was held tightly in front of her by the hostages, with the gun pointed at her head.
The police did not dare to act rashly, and the door of the gold store was instantly surrounded. The other three robbers had already escaped, but for a short time, so they were probably still nearby. In order to prevent them from hijacking passers-by, the police surrounded the crowd of 100 meters.
Protected, Ye Xingchen and Shu Rao were among them.
"Xingchen... I'm so scared..." Shu Rao said with a trembling voice. She had already suffered too many accidents today.
"It's okay, Rao Rao, the police will protect us." Although Ye Xingchen was also very scared, she still tried to comfort Shu Rao, holding her hand tightly and staring straight ahead.
Suddenly, a familiar figure broke into her sight.
Lou Xi!
Ye Xingchen opened his eyes even wider and subconsciously tightened his breathing.
Lou Xi walked forward calmly and showed his ID to the policeman at the scene. The policeman's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had seen a savior, and then he described the situation at the scene to him.
"There are now five hostages in the store, four of them are clerks, two men and two women, and one female customer. The female customer was pointed at the head with a gun by the robbers. The situation is the most dangerous. The kidnapper's gun was an M1911. The three previous shots
It was shot by his accomplice, so he should have enough firepower in his magazine."
Hearing this, Lou Xi stared slightly. The M1911 automatic pistol has been the standard pistol of the US military for more than 70 years. It is still produced by many companies and provided to the military, law enforcement agencies, security personnel and civilian enthusiasts. It adopts the short recoil working principle of the barrel.
, the shooting mode is semi-automatic, firing 0.45-inch Colt pistol bullets, and using 7-round magazines to feed ammunition. The biggest feature of this pistol is its simple structure, few parts, easy disassembly and combination, and reliable mechanism action and good safety.
Low failure rate.
According to the current situation, it is not easy to rescue all the hostages safely, because the hostages are inside and they are outside. The exterior glass of the gold shop is bulletproof, and the robbers have lowered the curtains, so they cannot see at all.
The situation inside makes it useless to use a sniper. We can only find a way to get into the gold shop to carry out the rescue.
He thought for a moment and asked in a deep voice, "Do you have a floor plan of the gold shop?"
"Yes, here it is." A policeman handed the drawing to Lou Xi.
Lou Yi also lowered his head to watch together.
This gold shop is next to I Do, so the layout inside is the same, but the placement of the counter is slightly different. Lou Xi quickly scanned it and understood it clearly.
He glanced at Lou Yi, and Lou Yi glanced at him, and the two nodded tacitly, as if they had reached some kind of agreement.
Then the two acted separately. Lou Yi quickly and powerfully directed the police on the scene to divert and disperse the crowd to prevent the kidnappers from suddenly rushing out and hurting more passers-by. Lou Xi took the gun from a policeman and aimed at the gold store.
The location of the door is approaching step by step.
Ye Xingchen's heart suddenly rose to her throat. Although she knew that Lou Xi was always on target, but now he couldn't see the robbers inside, but the robbers inside could see him!
What if the robbers were impatient and aimed at him from inside and then shot, then... wouldn't he...
"No..." She shook her head subconsciously, fear stuck in her throat.
Lou Xi walked cautiously ten meters away from the door of the gold shop. Suddenly he caught the curtains in the shop moving slightly. He stopped suddenly. As expected, the kidnapper inside shouted in the next second, "People outside, stop! Take another step closer.
I will shoot all the hostages immediately!"
Lou Xi was not frightened, but he still stopped calmly. He had faced similar situations countless times. According to criminal psychology, the robber was more nervous than him at this time, and his emotions were more likely to collapse. It was like losing his mind.
A person who has fallen into a dry well is eager to struggle out, and as long as he gives the other party a little light of hope, he is likely to make the other party shaken, and he can take advantage of him unprepared and turn defeat into victory!
He moved his lips, deliberately lowered his posture, and said in a gentle tone of negotiation, "People inside, listen, we just want to ensure the safety of the hostages. As long as you don't hurt the hostages, everything can be discussed!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was sudden movement inside. It seemed that the hostages had moved. The robber shouted, "Don't move! Otherwise I will shoot you immediately!"
The hostage quickly became quiet again, and the kidnapper began to answer Lou Xi's question, "I want a car! You can't set up roadblocks, let alone track me, until I leave Yunchuan!"
"Okay, I agree to your conditions and will send someone to prepare the car now. However, you have five hostages. To be fair, should you release one hostage first? Only then can I trust you!"
"No!" The kidnapper refused to give in.
Lou Xi continued to persuade patiently, "It's a good deal for you to exchange one hostage for one car. If you have other requirements, we can discuss it later. You just need to release one hostage first, and I can confirm the hostages inside."
Is it still safe so that we have the need to continue talking? Please think about it for a minute!"
As long as the door is opened and a hostage is released, he can take the opportunity to observe the situation in the gold store, where the kidnapper is standing, how far he is from other hostages, etc., and the released hostage can also explain in more detail
What's going on inside.
Time passed by second by second, and Ye Xingchen's nerves were almost broken. She clutched Shu Rao's hand tightly. It was clearly Shu Rao who was scared at first, but now she was shaking even harder than Shu Rao.
, his lips were clenched and his face was pale.
"You still have ten seconds to think clearly!" Lou Xi spoke again, deliberately disrupting the kidnapper's thoughts.
The kidnapper took the bait and said, "Okay, I'll release one hostage first, and you go prepare the car right away!"
"Can!"
Soon, the door of the gold shop slowly opened, but there was only a very small gap. Lou Xi stood ten meters away. The possibility of rushing in and ensuring the safety of the hostages was zero, so he had to continue to wait for the opportunity.
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Slowly, slowly, the door of the gold shop opened a few tens of centimeters, allowing only one person to pass by. Lou Xi narrowed his eyes in an instant and stared sharply inside.
Not only him, but also Lou Yi and everyone else looked over at that moment, as did Ye Xingchen.
Even though she was far away, she still saw the smiling expression on the hostage's face.
Smile?
Who would smile in such a situation and still smile so beautifully?
Ye Xingchen's eyebrows frowned subconsciously, and then she saw Lou Xi's shocked eyes for a moment, and Lou Yi's equally surprised expression. They... seemed to know the hostage?
Before she could think any more, a male clerk in the store was pushed out by the robber, and then the door of the gold store was quickly closed, and the kidnapped woman disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant.
The male clerk crawled to Lou Xi's side. Lou Xi supported him with one hand and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on inside?"
The male clerk replied with lingering fear, "I... and three colleagues were squatting in front of the counter. The woman kidnapped by the robbers was a customer... When the robbers broke in, there was a mother with a child in the store.
She was trying to give the baby a bracelet... The woman quickly pushed the mother and her baby out, but she... was caught by the robber, and was held captive with a gun pointed at her head."
Hearing this, Lou Xi's eyes darkened slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
Ye Xingchen's heart was clenched tightly, and he didn't even dare to take a breath. Shu Rao pulled her hand, but she didn't feel it. Her whole mind was focused on Lou Xi. The air was tense to the extreme, as if it made her feel uncomfortable.
People suffocate.
Suddenly, Lou Xi responded, but it was beyond everyone's expectations. Ye Xingchen's breathing tightened again and his face turned pale.
He actually put down his gun, raised his hands high, and walked towards the door of the gold store step by step. As he walked, he said, "People inside, listen, I am not a policeman. You see, I am not wearing a military uniform. I just wanted to confirm the status of the hostages.
Now I am sure that the woman you are holding hostage is my girlfriend. She has a heart disease and cannot be frightened. She just had an illness a few days ago. The doctor said that if the attacks continue, her life may be in danger at any time. I
I know you are just asking for money and don’t want anyone’s life involved, so you let her go and I’ll take her place as a hostage, okay?”
Everyone thought Lou Xi was acting like this and just wanted to find an opportunity to enter the gold shop to save people, but only Ye Xingchen felt something was wrong. The woman's intuition told her that he knew the hostage inside!
She would not mistake his surprised look when the door opened just now, as well as Lou Yi's expression, which all pointed to one problem, they all knew that woman!
girlfriend?
Something suddenly surged in her heart, which was different from the previous tension, and there was a dull feeling in her chest.
Who is that woman?
At the same time, the woman who was held hostage by the robbers in the gold store was no longer so nervous. From the moment she heard Lou Xi's first voice, she was no longer afraid. She believed that he could rescue her safely. They had known each other for so many years.
, she has loved him for so many years, and she believes in him too much.
She is Jing Sa.
When Jing Sa heard that Lou Xi wanted to exchange her as a hostage, she felt moved. She began to cooperate with what he said, and suddenly covered her chest with one hand, making a look of discomfort. She was a postdoctoral fellow in cardiothoracic surgery, and she knew all about heart attacks.
What kind of illness should I have at that time? My breathing starts to become rapid and slow, and I am on the verge of suffocation.
"I... feel so uncomfortable... I... can't... I can't..." She gasped weakly, as if she was going to faint in the next second.
The robbers were shocked. Is this true?
Yes, he was just looking for money, and he didn't want to involve human lives as a last resort, but if this woman had a heart attack, he would be doomed!
However, how could such a coincidence happen?
The robber was still suspicious and shouted at the top of his lungs, asking Xiang Lou Xi, "What evidence do you have to prove that she is your girlfriend?"
"Do you still have a fake girlfriend? No evidence is needed!" Lou Xi replied calmly.
"I do not believe!"
Lou Xi frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and then said, "There is a red birthmark on the palm of her left hand, in the shape of a plum blossom!"
birthmark?
Ye Xingchen was stunned and waited with bated breath.
The kidnapper pointed a gun at Jing Sa's head and ordered, "Extend your left hand!"
Jing Sa cooperated, stretched out his left hand, and in the palm of his hand was a small plum blossom, which bloomed extremely brightly.
Lou Xi began to urge again, "Did you see it? Let her out quickly. Her heart disease is very serious. We can't delay it any longer. She needs to go to the hospital immediately!"
"I...I...can't breathe..." Jing Sa began to perform even harder, and she even secretly pinched her palms. The pain caused cold sweat to break out on her forehead.
The robber was a little panicked, so he agreed to Lou Xi's request in a hurry, "Okay, I promise you! I'll count to five seconds, you come in alone with your hands raised, and I'll let her out!"
"5——"
"4——"
"3——"
"2--"
"1--"
With the final sound, the door of the gold shop opened a small crack again. Lou Xi raised his hands in front of the door. When Jing Sa saw him through the thin crack in the door, his eyes suddenly became hot, as if he was crying with joy.
"Lou Xi..." She murmured affectionately.
Among the crowd, Ye Xingchen's heart "thumped" and sank deeply, and then unknown pain spread, as if something was breaking.
She bit her lip hard and squeezed her palms so hard that it hurt, but she still didn't notice.
"Xingchen, what's wrong with you? Xingchen?" Shu Rao asked worriedly.
She didn't answer.
At this time, Lou Xi still raised his hands, and the robber held a gun against Jing Sa with one hand. With the other hand, he checked whether Lou Xi was carrying a gun. After confirming that he was not carrying a gun, he motioned for him to come in.
His tall body disappeared into the crack of the door little by little, walking from the bright world outside into the sealed darkness, and disappeared from Ye Xingchen's sight little by little.
The next second, Jing Sa was pushed out of the gold store by the robbers. She staggered, and Lou Yi quickly ran over and helped her, "Are you okay?"
Jing Sa shook his head and turned to look at the gold shop again.
The door is closed again!
People outside were isolated again and could not see anything inside.
With the "bang" sound of the door closing, Ye Xingchen's heart suddenly felt as if it had sunk to the bottom of a valley, so deep.