Chapter 1457 — Setting Out
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"Mm..." Tang Zhi nodded. She would have to study harder — at the very least, she could not let the young miss and Little Shu look down on her!
Wu Chengtian was lodging for the time being in the guest room of the Gu family villa, serving as its temporary bodyguard. He was quite well behaved about it: he said nothing all day, took the meals Uncle Qing brought, carried his own portion back to his room to eat, and took no part whatever in the affairs of the young miss and her circle.
Yet on the very night Wei Zhao left, another robbery struck a bank. The suspect who robbed it was once again driving a Land Rover with no license plates, and once again he wore a mask — only this time he seemed not to care in the least that the surveillance cameras were recording his every move, as though the police learning his height and build could affect him not at all.
Otherwise, with this man's skills, wrecking the bank's surveillance cameras would have been no more than the lift of a hand — truly, one raised arm, a coin or a pebble tossed idly, and they would have been shattered.
What was new this time was the target: the robber had chosen a bank that stayed open twenty-four hours. Until now he had always worked in daylight; striking at night was a first.
Qiu Lingshan was going to go mad. What manner of man was this? She had already pulled the files of every registered cultivator and compared them one against another, yet had not found a single person who resembled him...
"Captain Song, the other side is cunning indeed — there is no pattern to speak of in where or when he strikes!" Liu Wangli said in some vexation.
This was precisely what gave Qiu Lingshan a headache as well: today the robber hit this district, tomorrow he struck another; he might go for days without a single job after one, or he might rob a bank on this side of town and a shop on that side in the same breath. In short, you had no idea what he was going to do next!
Qiu Lingshan had no other course open to her. Having reported to Yang Huaijun, she was forced to post large numbers of police in stakeouts and patrols around every bank in the city. This time, at least, it worked: no further bank robberies occurred...
But even as Qiu Lingshan breathed a momentary sigh of relief, one night the robber struck more than ten luxury star-rated hotels in succession and made off with enormous sums of cash.
And the man's skills were formidable indeed — the speed of his robberies was simply beyond belief, as though the location of every hotel's cash had been cased in advance. Once inside a hotel he did not utter a single word before beginning; he tore open the cash drawers and safes by brute force, and if anyone tried to stop him, one violent punch sent the man flying, grievously wounded.
By now, even when such a robbery unfolded before them, the hotel staff dared not resist. Everyone knew this robber was terrifying — a single punch could cripple a man. Who would dare provoke him?
With no other way out, Qiu Lingshan once again sought instructions and requisitioned large numbers of officers from neighboring cities to patrol luxury hotels, shopping malls, gold dealers, luxury boutiques, property sales offices — everywhere a great deal of cash changed hands.
Clearly, the robber had eyes of his own watching the police's every move. The moment they reinforced their patrols, he changed his method and went straight to robbing armored cash-transit vans!
And so van after van was robbed across the city, the method identical every time: he blocked the van's path by force, knocked the driver senseless with a single punch, climbed aboard and began his looting. Before the armed guards could even react, their guns had been kneaded into scrap iron in the robber's hands!
Against such violence there was truly nothing to be done.
An Liwen gazed at his swiftly mounting wealth and smiled until his whole face bloomed.