Chapter 15 Chapter 15 In vain

Since the bank had just opened, there were very few customers.There are a few staff sitting outside the counter, and only four or five customers are sitting on the guest sofa. The welcoming door at the main entrance opened automatically.The guard wearing the welcoming armband saluted respectfully.Mizuno let Shibata go ahead and walked through the door with Mizuno. Sanbo had a windbreaker on his right arm, tightly holding the pistol under the windbreaker. Shibata, who staggered ahead, stopped under the window of the safe. A thirty-two or three-year-old employee with wide-rimmed glasses smiled flatteringly:

"Good morning! Welcome!" "Good morning!" Shibata's Adam's apple was rolling up and down violently, his Adam's apple seemed to be blocked by phlegm, and his arms were heavy as if filled with lead. He took out the key and seal of the safe from the bag with difficulty. "I'm Shibata, please!" "Understood!" After comparing the photo on the document with Shibata's face, the staff returned Shibata's seal. "Please wait." As he said that, he opened the counter door and came out. He held two keys in his hand, one belonged to Shibata and the other was spare from the bank.

"Please……" The staff nodded and bowed and led the way.Sanba and Mizuno walked last with pistols on Shibata's back. At the entrance to the basement, the clerk turned around and asked Shibata: "The guest you brought is..." "It's the counterparty of the transaction. They said they wanted to see the ledger, so they brought them together." "well……" The clerk subconsciously agreed and knocked on the basement door. After a while, the peephole on the door opened, and the face of the basement guard was exposed inside. He nodded after seeing the staff's face clearly.

The lock rang for a while, and the door opened.The guards in uniform, with batons around their waists and sirens around their necks, bowed their heads respectfully. At the entrance to the basement, there is also a small reception room.At the end of the entrance is an iron door, which may be an underground vault. "I'm really sorry, please wait here." The staff pointed to the sofa for Mizuno and Sanami. "According to the bank's regulations, no one is allowed to enter the underground vault except the renter. Please bear with me on this point." "..."

Sanba's face immediately showed anger, and Shibata's body shook involuntarily. Mizuno immediately made preparations for battle. "Okay, just wait here for a while, just take a look at the account book, don't worry." After Mizuno finished speaking, he sat down on the sofa. "But……" Mitsuba moaned, looking like he really wanted to kill Shibata right away. "Okay, okay, don't worry." Mizuno said commandingly. "..." Sanba cursed harshly, and sat down next to Mizuno helplessly. "What are you doing?" He looked at Mizuno questioningly with anger in his eyes.

"It's up to them." Mizuno and Sanbo bit their ears. The guard unfastened the chain of keys from the belt around his waist, removed a key, and prepared to insert it into the silver keyhole of the vault door. Shibata stood stiffly, standing beside the guards, as soon as the door opened, he rushed in and closed the door, and he could escape from Sanbo's grasp. The guard's key is inserted into the hole and the door begins to open. At this time, Mizuno jumped up suddenly, watching Mizumi closely and also stood up. Mizuno sprinted and cornered the guards.Sensing danger, the guard grabbed his baton and turned his head.

It was too late, but soon, Mizuno took out the pistol from the liner of his suit, and hit the guard hard on the head. The guard instinctively raised his left wrist to protect his head, and the barrel of the gun that was thrown down quickly made a sound of wind. Judging by the momentum, his arm would also be broken. The guard's left arm was hit by the gun, and he couldn't move at all. When he endured the pain and pulled out half of the baton with his right hand, his jaw was shattered by Mizuno. Blood and teeth spat from the guard's cracked lip as he slammed into the door and fell slowly to his knees, face to the ground, unable to move.

Almost at the same time, Sanbo lifted the windbreaker on his right arm, revealed a pistol, and rushed towards the staff. The clerk opened his mouth wide, bewildered.Still clutching the key tightly in his hand.But at this time, Shibata, who grew up in the underworld, suddenly hugged the employee from behind, and pushed him towards the rushing Sanba, and bumped into Sanba. Sanbo didn't have time to pull the trigger, and fell to the ground, with the distraught staff on top of him, Shibata came up to hold them down. The back of Sanbo's head hit the ground, and he struggled desperately, dropping the gun in his right hand to the ground.

Shibata aimed at the pistol and rushed towards it.However, he suddenly fell to the ground, his hands and feet trembling slightly, unable to move for a while.It turned out that Mizuno hit him on the head with the butt of a gun. "It's so dangerous. If you accidentally let the gun go off, the higher-ups will hear about it. Be careful." Mizuno said to Sanbo with a smile. "My ear hurts to death. If you don't come to help me, I will be killed by Shibata." Sanbo answered, picked up the gun, and stood up. The blood from the guard's mouth flowed to the ground. In the quiet basement, it sounded like rain hitting the ground.Mizuno wrapped the chain of keys on the door with a handkerchief, turned it a few times, and the lock was unlocked.

They pushed the door open with their shoulders, and the vault was as sinister as a columbarium.Rows of safes like armoires lined the three walls.In the center of the room, there were about ten writing desks, all separated by cloth, and three stools with feet. Mizuno dragged the guards, the fainted staff, and Shibata into the vault, and locked the door from the inside. Shibata, who has a strong vitality, was the first to regain consciousness, struggling to stand up while bleeding from his nose.It seemed that the blow to the back of the head was not light. At this moment, his legs were weak, and he was about to stand up when he fell down again.Mizuno pulled the safety of the gun, deliberately making the sound rattle.

"Don't shoot! I usually come alone, so I really don't know anything about the regulations that people other than the renter are not allowed to enter the vault." Shibata groaned. "Okay! I believe you, but I don't have time to listen to your nonsense now, but to open your safe." Mizuno snatched the key from the fallen employee and handed it to Shibata. "I really can't stand up." Shibata begged. "It's really their trouble!" Sanba cursed, grabbed Shibata by the neckline, and a guy picked him up.Shibata then stood up unsteadily. The safe that Shibata rented was No. 115, the tenth row from the left.The safe like a large wardrobe was divided into several layers, and Shibata's safe was right in the middle. The door of the safe is 30 centimeters high and 70 centimeters wide, with two key holes. Shibata was a tall man. He covered his bleeding nose with his left hand, inserted two keys into the holes one by one with his right hand and turned them, the locks made a dry sound, and the cabinet door was opened. Shibata opened the door of the safe, and with a "hey" sound, he thrust his hand into the safe. "Stop! Don't move!" Mizuno screamed. But it was impossible for Shibata to listen to Mizuno's orders at this time.A black and blue revolver is hidden in the upper compartment of the cabinet.The pistol has a short barrel, a fast rate of fire, and is easy to use. The moment Shibata held the pistol in his hand and turned around to shoot, Mizuno hesitated and didn't shoot, because the sound of the gun would alarm the people in the bank. But at this time, Sanba's reaction was extremely quick. He pushed the muzzle of the gun into the flesh on Shibata's back, and pulled the trigger of the Colt pistol. There was a flash of fire on Shibata's back, and at the same time there was a dull gunshot.Shibata slammed into the safe like a dog, and fell slowly. The bullet passed through his chest, leaving a large wound on his chest. "For Shibata, this is the last chance to struggle, and he almost succeeded. This time I have to thank you..." Mizuno nodded slightly to Mizumi, and kicked Shibata's revolver away. "Each, each other, then let's hurry up, maybe the alarm bell will ring." Sanbo replied. They pulled out two drawers from the safe and it fell to the ground, but most of them were securities and the like, and very little cash. "Bastard, is that all? What a bastard, he actually said there are 40 million yen." Sanbo cursed loudly while holding two packs of 1 million-yen instant tickets in his left hand. "Using securities will give away one's flaws. All you can use is cash. It's a waste of effort." Mizuno sighed while wiping the fingerprints on the drawer. "Well, it's a depressing dream, even if it's a dream in vain. I reckon I'll open the other safes too. Just put five or six bullets in the lock and it'll break." Saying that, Sanbo aimed his gun at the keyhole next to him. "Wait, run away before the people above come to find out. Open other safes, there are no two or three bullets that can't solve the problem. Moreover, I don't know if there is any money in it. If you open the security check one by one The ammunition will run out soon. At that time, it will be all over as soon as the alarm bell rings." Mizuno reminded. "Okay, then hurry up and divide the money, maybe your life will be lost soon." Sanbo handed Mizuno a bundle of money, and Mizuno put it in his back pocket. Go out, then, calmly, without arousing suspicion. Mizuno left his travel bag behind when he left. After leaving the underground vault, Mizuno locked the door from the outside, and then walked up the stairs with Sanami as if nothing had happened.Needless to say, the pistol was concealed in the hem of the suit. When the two appeared on the first floor, the guard who was welcoming guests still bowed his head and saluted with a smile on his face.The walls of the underground vault are very thick, and there are iron doors, so the sound of gunfire may not be heard from above.Besides, the two of them were empty-handed again, so the guard let down his vigilance. The two walked straight to the gate. The guard repeated the same words to every guest in a well-trained tone. When they walked out of the gate, the two of them passed by two men walking across.Looking at the two men in old coats and shaved heads, Mizuno's sixth sense told him that they were plainclothes policemen. Three Waves seemed to feel the same way.He turned away and hurried to the parking lot. In the driveway facing the bank gate with a no-parking sign, an old black Chevrolet was parked.The antenna sticks out unnaturally, and the microphone is visible from under the crash panel.It was obvious at a glance that this was a modified police car. After getting into the Crown sedan, Sanba cursed in a low voice, and before Mizuno closed the door tightly, he had already backed the car towards the road. The highway was so crowded with motorists that they honked disapprovingly at the parked Chevrolet before scurrying around it. After a lot of trouble, Sanbo backed the car onto the road and cut into the traffic, and the car behind it honked its horn.Mizuno opened the car window, stared at the driver in the car behind with hatred, and the man immediately looked away cowardly and became honest. After Sanbo squeezed the car into the road, beads of sweat emerged from his nose.He put the rearview mirror in the car at the right angle, and looked directly at the Chevrolet in the rearview mirror.So much so that he almost hit the car in front, but fortunately Mizuno stepped on the brakes in time. When the Crown Bridge car was about to turn from Muromachi 3-chome to Shinjoban Bridge, I saw in the rearview mirror a plainclothes man running down from the main entrance of Sanyo Bank and sticking his head into the car. "Oops! Things have been exposed!" Three waves called in a low voice.The Chevrolet doesn't look like it's started, maybe it's communicating? The Crown car turned left, exited Shinjoban Bridge, passed Marunouchi and Shinbashi, and arrived at Jingu Prayer Road after 40 minutes, and parked in the parking lot of Sanba Apartment.There are thousands of iron-blue Crown bridge cars in Kyoto, and when they were near the bank, Ben Nong didn't know the number of the car, so the two of them escaped safely. In the corner of the apartment parking lot, parked a gray-brown Blue Bird car, which Mizuno borrowed from Yamato Xingxing. "Then, goodbye!" "Okay! See you at the office, be careful." The two shook hands and said goodbye. Mizuno drove back to his own house in Shibuya, went up the third floor by the spare stairs, and returned to the room. The room was still the same, five million dollars and the thirty-two-shot pistol were still lying in the wastebasket. He turned on the switch of the coffee cup, and lay heavily on the gauze with his face facing the sky. Fatigue and drowsiness hit him all of a sudden, and he didn't even bother to move. Almost asleep. Just when he was about to fall asleep, the smell of boiling coffee pierced his nose, Mizuno opened his eyes, snorted as if forcing his voice out of his chest, and managed to stand up. But after three cups of strong black coffee, the drowsiness faded away. He took the five million yuan bill out of the wastebasket, combined it with the one million yuan in his butt pocket, wrapped it in a furoshiki, put it in a paper bag, and walked up the spare stairs. go outside. He hailed a taxi on the street and returned to his residence in Shimoochiai, where he hadn't visited for a long time.After opening the door, he looked at the mailbox, which was full of advertisements and the like. He made his way to the garage along a path of weeds and unpruned saplings.There, a Conqueror TR3 sedan was covered in a thick layer of dust. Like the fraudulent banknotes hidden in the hands of Zhang Ben's mistress Zuo Hezi, Mizuno pulled out a brick from the brick wall in the garage, took out a flashlight from the toolbox, took a photo of it in the crack of the wall, and snatched it from Zuo Hezi. Neither the money that came nor the money fraudulently obtained by Onodera has been touched. He put the paper bag and furoshiki containing 6 million yen in the crack of the wall, and the remaining 100,000 yen was used for pocket money. Mizuno didn't have time to go into the house to have a look, so he went straight out of the gate after leaving the garage - Zhang Ben might have already hung up the phone at the apartment, so he had to go back quickly. Half an hour later, Mizuno was already lying on the bed in the Shibuya apartment. He left the microphone empty and fell asleep. After a while, he was woken up by an air-raid siren on the receiver.Mizuno will listen to Jane to hang up the phone again, and just go back to sleep. He didn't know how long he had been asleep, but suddenly, a loud knock on the door woke him up. The knock on the door continued, and Mizuno took out the automatic pistol from under the pillow sleepily, and quickly jumped out of bed. He was close to the door, clinging to the wall, in a shooting position. "Who?" Mizuno asked sleepily. "it's me." This is the voice of the big boss Saitian, who came as a representative of Zhang Ben as before. Mizuno opened the door, and Saita walked in as usual, gasping for breath and wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.Saita closed the door behind him. "What happened? I made several calls and the line was busy. I came because I was worried." He angrily asked Mizuno. "I'm sorry, I'm too tired and afraid of being disturbed by the phone, so I just..." Mizuno followed carefully, and inserted the gun back into the strap of the pajamas. Saita sat down on the chair with armrests. "Forget it then, I'm thirsty, give me something cold to drink." As he spoke, he wiped his sweat again with his palm. "Cold drinks...I live alone, how about some cold beer?" "Just kidding, the doctor told me to drink in moderation." Saita went on to say: "However, it's okay to drink less, just add a little whiskey to the ice cubes." Mizuno went to the kitchen, took out ice cream from the refrigerator, put it on a plate, and took out two Italian sausages and a bottle of White Horse whiskey.Arrange on a tray and carry into the living room. Saitian just said that he should drink in moderation. After he tasted the whiskey mixed with ice cubes, Lilang lost his self-control. He took the wine bottle and poured a full glass into the drinking glass. Mizuno drank very little, but concentrated on eating the dry and hard Italian sausage. After Saitian poured himself three cups, he gradually talked more. "The identities of Chi Shan and the others who were killed in Spring and Autumn Garden have been questioned by the police, and the police are pestering the manager for questioning." "What did the manager—Zhang Ben say?" "Zhang Ben said: 'I admit that the corpse is indeed an employee of my company, but what does it have to do with me? After get off work, all activities are under their own responsibility.' He flatly rejected the police's questioning." "In this way, no matter how wordy the policeman is, he will have nothing to say. Then, what is the identity of Shixiu Shibata?" Mizuno deliberately asked Saitian. "It was also found out, but there are more interesting things behind. Shibata was still alive this morning. I heard that two men took him to the Nihonbashi Bank. But when he came out, there were only those two people. It was later discovered Shibata died in the underground vault, the safe has been opened and turned into a mess. Who are these two men?" Saita glanced at Mizuno with his eyes reddened by alcohol.