Chapter 677: A Strange Day

The three banks were robbed, and the big people who deposited the money were so righteous and so resolute to save the bankrupt banks, as if it was really arranged by God, so that they did not deposit a large amount of money on the first day, so that they left this money to save these doomed banks.

When Jonathan and Henry saw this scene, they were moved, and they were more relaxed in their hearts. If there is someone to protect the bank, there will be no tide of withdrawals, and panic will not spread, so that there will be no turmoil in the concession, and there will be time to continue to arrest the robbers for the time being.

But none of them noticed that the three robbed banks were so coincidental that all of them had large depositors who failed to save money on the first day, and the next day they did not hesitate at all, and they were generous and did not hesitate to use their own blood to protect these three banks. There are good people in the world, and most of them are still the majority, but such a coincidence is a bit too much to say.

Actually, this is really a coincidence, but it was deliberately arranged.

Originally, Dong Ku planned to wait for the withdrawal to appear, that is, to deposit the money in the bank today, and tell the robbed bank that his money is not in a hurry, and can be used for withdrawal, so as to stabilize the situation and let the outside world not understand how much the bank has lost. After all, tens of millions of funds and hundreds of catties of gold are enough to support the problem of withdrawal.

But the concession moved quickly, directly blocked the road, and blocked the bank, although it can wait for the bank to open before depositing, but the governor may not be able to survive a few days, they will commit suicide. This is not what Dong Ku wanted to see, so he arranged for these three groups of people to find their own way, go to the door to put out the fire, let the bank stabilize first, and then raise funds in the name of some factories to deal with the compensation.

As for the valuable items that were robbed, Dong Ku has stored them according to the records, and if these people are still alive when the concession recovers them. Then he will return them one by one according to the message, but he will not show up. And the compensation they received, even if it was for them to make a profit, anyway, the money was from a foreign bank, and he didn't have to pay for it.

These were not noticed by Jonathan and will not be noticed by them. What they are concerned about is the situation, the stability of the situation in the concession, and as for how the banks will tide over the difficulties, with their military attachés, they will not fund the rescue of these banks, and they cannot afford it.

Just as these were settled one by one, the president of the bank was in the excitement of escaping death and not having to die, and even more exciting news appeared again when Jonathan and the others did not leave.

Zhongnan Bank. The sleeping bank clerks, along with the equally sleepy policemen around them, woke up one after another in the bank hall.

It was as if they had slept for a while, but their heads were slightly drowsy, and they didn't feel any other discomfort, and they didn't know what was going on.

Seeing these people wake up, Jonathan's heart suddenly brightened. Banks don't go bankrupt, people don't die. In a way, it's just a false alarm.

The people there at Zhongtong and the Central Bank also woke up one after another. The symptoms are similar, there is no discomfort, at most it is a long sleep, feeling a little groggy and tired.

This phenomenon has kept the foreign doctors who care for them busy, checking their physical conditions. See what the after-effects, or adverse reactions. Several people were taken out of the bank and headed to the hospital to cooperate.

Of course, these were the ideas of the military circles, and Smolley had seen the reactions of these people. His first reaction was that once this smoke-like thing was used on the battlefield, it would be an irreversible slaughter, and the liberator only needed to use a dagger to separate the enemy's throat, without worrying about the enemy resisting.

It's just that his idea is right, where is the preparation of this kind of thing so simple? Even in the later generations, with advanced equipment, it may not be possible to dispense potions through residues, let alone the technology that will do so, at best, it is impossible to understand what substances are in the end, but there is no possibility of figuring out how these substances are produced.

It's busy, and the surrounding residents are starting to wake up.

They either collapsed in their living room, or collapsed in the corridor, or fell asleep in bed, and woke up, feeling strange without discomfort, and the doors and windows were so good that they didn't have much reaction except for feeling strange.

On the streets, there are more people here. At first, the streets were deserted, and no one walked around the bank, not really under martial law, but they were all sleeping, and they were all caught in ylang-ylang or poisonous flower mist, etc., resulting in lethargy. And the time they wake up is ten hours after falling asleep, and they wake up naturally.

They woke up in a daze, and they didn't know that something big was going on except that they had overslept. However, this will be the robbery of three Chinese banks, this is not mainland news, except for the police and soldiers who participated in last night's operation, and then the bigwigs of the concession, as well as Dong Ku, the outside world does not know.

Knowing that the people who were asleep had woken up, Jonathan and Smolley, Henry and others were completely relieved. Immortality, which prevents panic from forming, and does not make the concession a mess.

"Strictly guard the major banks to prevent robberies from happening again, and if the robbers are not caught, the bank's vigilance should not be relaxed!!"

Jonathan ordered after leaving the Central South Bank and learning that the surrounding residents had walked out of their homes and no one had noticed any reports of anomalies.

His order can be regarded as the highest order at this time, because the actions of the army in the concession are temporarily under his command, so he still has the ability to give orders.

With his orders, those banks stationed were more cautious, and no one was allowed to approach them.

At first, the people in the concession didn't feel anything, they just thought that it was because of the arrest of the robbers two days ago that they were so strict, but as time went by, they felt more and more strange.

Banks were blocked, and some people were unable to deposit their money in the bank, and they discovered the oddities after they were evicted close to the bank.

The blockade of the bank was understood to be for security reasons, but the bank's employees were not informed, and when they arrived at the bank, they were dispersed by soldiers with loaded guns and were not allowed to enter the bank.

This looks like a prison for the bank, and all the bank employees have not been notified so that they can still come to work without knowing it.

In addition, the blockade of banks is not the same, the doors and windows of foreign banks are closed, and the curtains are covered, tightly, I don't know what is going on inside the road.

The banks in China are much better, but the ones on duty are not allowed to leave, and the clerks who are walking around can be seen in the windows. There aren't even so many guards outside. It seems that the defense level is different.

The Bank of China is not all like this, the three largest banks, Zhongnan Bank, China Commerce Bank, and the Central Bank, are also closed with doors and windows closed, and the curtains are closed. I don't know what happened inside the road, except for a few trucks that came out at ninety o'clock, there was no movement.

That's not all, those factories and trading houses were surrounded by soldiers with loaded guns one by one, shops, warehouses, all of them were searched, and there was no face at all. Both Chinese and foreign countries are no exception, and even embassies are within the scope of the search.

This phenomenon was absolutely absent earlier, especially in the British and American industries, where there was absolutely no police to search, but this time, their Chinese workers watched as groups of soldiers gathered everyone in the open space with loaded guns. Supervisor's, or boss. With a room-to-room search, there is no dissatisfaction with the preference.

How so?

All Chinese are a little unable to turn a corner.

Foreigners in the concession are upper-class, even if they are vagabonds. Their property will not be searched.

It's not an exaggeration to jump chickens and dogs, those entertainment venues, those restaurants, all the houses that can be seen. There are soldiers who enter and search, some three, six, nine, etc., and at this moment, their human rights are truly embodied, and they are no longer divided into races.

The results of the search. There were conflicts, some hidden places that had not been searched before, and some unidentified ones were also taken away, but the movement was not too big, and it was impossible to see what these soldiers and police were looking for.

In the morning, it was close to noon, and the streets were a little looser, because most of the areas were searched, which also led to a looser inspection of the streets.

As the number of pedestrians grew, the horse-drawn carts and donkey carts that were collecting manure and urine from the night-time pot toilet for fertilizer also drove into the streets and began to collect these things from house to house.

At that time, there were no sewers, or most Chinese did not have these facilities, so they had to be made by these specially cleaned wagons and donkey carts.

Since it can indeed reduce the smell in the house, it has also led many foreigners to do the same, so that these horse-drawn carts and donkey carts have entered the city, and business has boomed.

These people who collect feces are very diligent, as long as people come, they pour in feces and urine, scrub the toilet and night kettle, and pour dirty water into the grass on the side of the road, in the landscape trees.

This is normal, and of course no one notices. It's just that everyone ignores a point, these people are rarely diligent, they used to be just good to their families or subordinates, they will help roughly brush the night pot and toilet, where like now, door-to-door to help brush, especially near the bank, but also brush several times in a row, so that those residents and people feel embarrassed, too dedicated, too enthusiastic.

Another thing that people don't notice is that when the water in their toilet pot runs out, they will leave, return to their dwelling with a manure tank, and start all over again. Of course, they can't transport these out in a short time, but this is not delayed, they will fill the city with a large pond with a layer of soil, a layer of feces and urine, and a piece of grass and dead leaves in the middle, which will be used to make fertilizer, and will only be transported to the ground in the spring, or sold for money, which can be regarded as an early fertilizer, but it is just organic.

In the concession, these wagons and donkey carts were the most numerous, and they were everywhere, starting at noon and until two o'clock in the afternoon, they could be regarded as cleaning up the overnight night pot or something, and disappeared into the streets.

These wagons and donkey carts were extremely regular, they did not approach those forbidden areas, they were far away, dozens of meters apart, especially those foreign banks, they were even farther away.

This also caused the soldiers guarding the bank to ignore them, leaving them to fertilize the landscape trees and flowers around the bank.

After lunch, except for the unexplained closure of the concession, the rest of the concession was not greatly affected, and order was slowly restored, and the shops and shops that had been searched also began to open.

With the increase in the flow of people, trucks and cars are slowly appearing on the streets, and the concession is recovering some vitality at this moment.

To Jonathan's dismay, there was no substantial progress in those searches, and no robbers were found, or suspicious people were not sure whether they were robbers or not, but there was one point, the stolen goods were missing.

They are strange, not to mention that the concession has turned upside down, but it is almost the same, why didn't they find those large quantities of looted materials? That's not half a point, preliminary statistics will have more than a dozen trucks away, just gone?

The entry and exit of the concession have been completely blocked, and at night the river and the port are patrolled back and forth by the searchlights of the small steamers of the advance army, and there is no need for the advance army to say, and the policemen and soldiers of the concession who are watching from the shore also know that no one or goods will leave, and they have not found anything unusual in the light column of the searchlight.

They can't see anything of these bright faces, and they don't know what they know about the banks, those foreign banks, all the people inside have been turned into corpses, and just after lunch, they have completed the changing of the guard, and the people in the banks are either bleeding and dying, or they die peacefully, or they stop breathing with a strange smile, and the way of death is strange, and none of the banks are the same. These banks are the most influential and the largest in the concession, and they have deposited the most goods in recent days.

But the policemen and soldiers standing guard outside the house did not know what was going on inside the bank, because the doors and windows were closed, because the curtains were drawn, and there was not a trace of movement from the people inside.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, three trucks drove in front of the HSBC bank in the United Kingdom. They had warrants to enter the bank, and the three people driving were all foreigners, and they were all soldiers, which also made the inspection not too harsh, and the curtain was not lifted, and the truck drove up to the gate that had been opened from the inside, and then closed.

It was nothing, but less than three minutes after the truck entered, suddenly, with a crisp gunshot, the window near the bank gate suddenly shattered, and a figure fell on the window.

"Not good!!"

"There was a problem with the car that entered the bank just now!!"

Hundreds of soldiers on the periphery rushed to the bank amid the roar.

As they pounced, all the windows facing the street were smashed with the sound of glass shattering, followed by the clatter of gunshots, tongues of fire erupted from behind the fluttering curtains.

The unprepared soldiers were shot one after another, screaming, falling behind the landscape trees, and firing back at the windows.

The intense gunfire immediately intensified as the fire was returned, causing chaos among the people in the streets, who rushed to their homes for fear of harming the fish in the pond.

"What? There are robbers in HSBC!! ”

The concession bigwigs, who were studying how to move next, were shocked when they heard the report. (To be continued......)