area51novel Chapter 286
Chapter 286
While speaking, Xiao Ran had already walked to the second entrance door.
As he walked, he quickly peered through the basements below the entrance door.
The results were still not found.
He saw only some fine wines and top cigars, some antique furniture stored in the basement and so on.
The secret passage that was expected still did not appear.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran walked towards the third entrance door.
As a result, he didn't take two steps, and he suddenly paused.
At the same time, there was a look of ecstasy in his eyes.
There is no other reason for this performance.
The secret passage that I was waiting for finally appeared.
The secret passage is hidden in a basement on the westernmost side, just below the third entrance door.
The basement was also remodeled into a billiard room.
Inside, there is a top-of-the-line snooker table, as well as an American nine-ball pool table.
This is exclusively for tenants in the apartment building, and the billiards interior decoration is quite luxurious.
However, all these renovations and renovations are superficial.
The walls and floors of the basement are still neoclassical.
All walls and floors, made of large blocks of granite, are very solid and have not been damaged in any way.
After Xiao Ran's vision penetrated into the basement, he easily saw through the surrounding walls and floors.
In those walls, there are no hidden secrets, all solid walls, not even a dark compartment has been found.
Most of the area under the floor is hard cement and stones of various sizes.
But beneath the few stone slabs against the wall on the south side, he found something different.
Under those few stone slabs, there were also many piles of stones, very solid, and it seemed that there was nothing special.
But a closer look reveals that.
Compared to other places underground, the stones are much smaller.
The cement used to pour the stones was only twenty or thirty centimeters thick, and Xiao Ran's vision easily penetrated.
Further down the line of sight was covered by gravel of various sizes, even dirt.
From the distribution of these gravel and soil, it looks like a secret passage with a diameter of about one meter and slopes downward.
The four walls of this secret passage, and the rest of the underground area, are extremely hard cement and granite.
Only the inside of this secret passage is relatively loose, and manpower can be used to dig.
The further down the line of sight goes, the more obvious this becomes.
Unfortunately, due to the limitation of his ability to see, Xiao Ran still could not see through this secret passage.
But that's enough, and the finding speaks for itself.
After checking the situation inside the secret passage again, Xiao Ran readily withdrew his gaze.
At the same time, he figured out the situation.
Know why this secret passage is in this state.
Obviously, this secret passage has existed for a long time.
It should be as old as the abandoned subway underground, or at least about the same.
Soon after the completion of that railway, this unknown secret passage appeared.
Later, I don't know what happened, but the secret passage was secretly buried.
Because it happened suddenly and very hastily.
The person who buried the secret passage did not have time to completely fill the secret passage with cement and stones, so there was no cement poured deep in the secret passage.
Of course, there is another possibility.
That is, the person who filled this secret passage deliberately did it, leaving himself a chance.
The purpose is to return here later, dig this secret passage, and take out the treasure hidden in the secret passage.
Just in case, this guy also elaborated a treasure map.
If you can't return here, future generations can also come back with the treasure map and smoothly raise the treasure.
But how could he have imagined that it was the secret treasure map that led Xiao Ran here.
Thinking of this, a smug smile immediately appeared on Xiao Ran's face.
Before the smile dissipated, he stepped out and continued to look through to see if he could find more surprises.
But it backfired.
In this Renaissance-style apartment building, he found no other surprises.
In the blink of an eye, he had finished exploring the street side of this apartment building.
Along the way, he stops and goes, like a tourist admiring these historic buildings, without anything suspicious.
Some residents in the apartment building, as well as some pedestrians and vehicles passing by on the street, saw him, but no one was suspicious.
Even the two New York policemen who drove by only glanced at it and didn't care at all.
Although he had determined his target and found the secret underground tunnel, Xiao Ran did not turn around and leave, but continued to walk forward.
As he traveled, he continued to admire and explore the apartment buildings on both sides of the street, as well as other buildings.
He wasn't sure if there were other entrances or exits hidden inside the apartment buildings that connected to the abandoned subway underfoot.
After a while, he had already walked more than a hundred meters forward, and he saw that he had reached the third major road junction.
Walking here, he took a quick peek at the luxury apartment building next to him as usual.
Unfortunately, nothing was found, only a few antique artifacts and works of art collected by others.
Then he looked at another apartment building across the street and continued to explore.
When his gaze penetrated into an unused apartment on the fourth floor, he suddenly froze in place as if he had been cast a spell.
Fortunately, his reaction was fast, and he returned to normal in an instant, and did not attract the attention of others.
In his eyes, his eyes were full of surprise.
"Me! Another treasure!
While secretly exclaiming, he glanced greedily at the vacant luxury apartment a few times.
Then he withdrew his gaze and ended the perspective.
"It seems that I have to spend another sum of money and buy one more apartment building,"
Xiao Ran said proudly and secretly, walking forward casually.
Moments later, he had turned the corner and disappeared from 64th Street.
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Ten minutes later, New York Subway Line F.
Xiao Ran descended the graffiti-covered staircase and entered the subway station at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street.
This subway line F is a new line adjusted and built by the New York Subway Company.
After World War II, due to the rapid population growth and rapid economic development, the line was opened.
Line F runs underneath 63rd Street, just a block away from the subway that was abandoned in the thirties.
What the vast majority of people don't know is.
Deep inside the F-Line tunnel, there are several places to access the long-abandoned subway below 64th Street.
Even the vast majority of the New York subway company doesn't know this.
Xiao Ran knew very well where to enter the abandoned subway.
It all depends on that treasure map.
It is very clearly marked that there are several hidden connections between the old and new subways.
The reason why Xiao Ran came here was to sneak into the abandoned subway without knowing it to check the situation of that treasure.
If the treasure is so valuable that it is worth the cost and effort to explore and discover, the subsequent exploration will continue.
If that treasure is of little value, naturally there is no need to waste time and money, just make an excuse to end it!
Due to the special situation at the moment, for safety reasons.
Many people have given up riding the airtight and notoriously dirty New York subway in favor of ground transportation.
At this time, there were only three or four passengers in this subway station, and it was empty.
Even the subway station staff are not on the platform, and those guys are afraid of death!
Unless there's some major accident, those guys won't show up.
This is exactly the situation that Xiao Ran wants to see, and it is just convenient to act.
As for the security issue, it does not exist for him.
It is no exaggeration to say that now he is invincible!
After coming down the stairs, Xiao Ran quickly scanned the situation on the platform, and then walked towards the west end of the platform.
According to the route marked on the treasure map, enter along the tunnel at the west end, go more than a hundred meters, and there is a hidden fork.
Follow that fork to the abandoned subway deep underground on 64th Street.
A few steps forward, two black boys standing on the edge of the platform suddenly walked towards this side.
In today's American society, Asian hatred has intensified.
Especially in the famous dirty New York subway, this kind of thing happens almost every day.
Just a few days ago, a Chinese woman in Flushing was publicly pushed off the platform by a black homeless man and then killed by a speeding train.
The two brats who came towards Xiao Ran obviously had bad intentions.
It is estimated that seeing that he is a Chinese, cleanly dressed, and feels that there is something cheap to fish, these two guys came to look for trouble.
Unfortunately, they chose the wrong target.
As he spoke, the two guys had approached.
Just as they were about to speak, Xiao Ran suddenly cursed in a low voice: "
Get out!" Idiot, don't fucking ask for trouble!
Saying that, he gently lifted his jacket and showed the HK45 pistol inserted in the holster of his waist.
The moment they saw the pistol, the faces of the two black boys changed suddenly, and they immediately raised their hands and retreated.
"Take it easy, man, we're not malicious, don't get me wrong!"
Before the words fell, a battered subway train came from the east and stopped on the platform.
As soon as the door opened, the two black boys immediately rushed into the carriage.
Xiao Ran just sneered and did not get into the car.
A moment later, the subway started again, slowly exiting the platform and entering the tunnel on the west side.
The subway had just roared away, and Xiao Ran, who had come to the entrance of the tunnel at the west end, suddenly jumped off the platform and ran straight into the deep tunnel.
In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared into the depths of the tunnel.
At this time, the platform is empty!