area51novel Chapter 285
Chapter 285
Upper East Side, 70th Street.
Several FBI agents and serious crime unit agents waited for a long time, but still did not see Xiao Ran's shadow.
The convoy that sent Elaine and them over stopped at the door of the apartment building, without the slightest intention of leaving.
Sam and they stood scattered around several cars, chatting and chatting on guard.
Seeing this scene, those FBI and Major Crime Unit agents itched their teeth.
"Where the hell did that bastard Sean go? Did you go across the Hudson River and get in trouble with the Dekavalkant family?
An FBI agent asked curiously.
Another agent sitting in the co-pilot's seat shook his head helplessly.
"Probably not, it is said that Sean's bastard shook hands with the De Kavalkante family and made peace" "The De Kaval Kante
family paid a certain price, but what this price is, no one knows
" "Sean, this bastard is really powerful, and ruthless enough, can actually force a mafia family to bow down
" The words did not fall, and the FBI agent who was driving the car had already said:
"Those mafia bosses are very desperate, meet such a crazy super-rich, do they dare not bow their heads?
"Tell me about us, have you been guarding here?" Or drive to search for Sean's bastard
" "Judging by his behavior, he brought people to New York, I'm afraid there are more important targets"
The FBI nodded.
"This should be certain, and those guys under him have already started to act, but no one noticed
" "Sean's bastard used himself as bait, attracting all attention to himself, but letting his subordinates move around, it can be described as very smart
" "Until today, that guy started acting alone, it is estimated that it is the most critical time
" "Let's just report this situation and see how to deal with it, Let's just follow the order,"
said the guy, took out his mobile phone and began to call his boss to update him on the situation.
In another SUV not far behind, two detectives from the New York Police Department's Major Crime Unit were doing the same thing.
It's just that they didn't think so much, compared to the FBI, the serious crime team didn't know much.
Their focus was also on the death of Wilson and his accomplices by a car and the fire on 23rd Street that shook the United States.
Something deeper, they can't touch yet.
Because of the $5 million that Xiao Ran donated to the New York Police Union.
Emotionally, they all tend to Xiao Ran, and the enthusiasm for solving the case is not high!
Anyway, those who die are scum, one less dies!
At this time, Xiao Ran was a few blocks away
, like a tourist or architecture student, looking at the top apartment building in front of him.
It is a Renaissance-style building that looks a little newer relative to several apartment buildings on the left and right.
And the apartment building is larger, with four entrance doors and hundreds of windows on the street-facing side.
According to the information gathered by Nick, there are twenty top-of-the-line duplex apartments in this building, each with an area of more than 300 square meters.
The market value of these top apartments is around tens of millions of dollars, and they are only rented but not sold, and rents are constantly rising.
That is, this year, because of the special situation, the market is depressed, and rents have stagnated.
The owner is an elderly billionaire who originally lived in this apartment building.
Seeing that New York has turned into hell, in order to take refuge and save his life, he has now moved to a suburban mansion on Long Island.
It is precisely because of the current situation in New York that the market is depressed, and his position has been loosened and he has a little intention to sell.
Xiao Ran first scanned the façade of the apartment building as a whole, secretly calculating whether to take this apartment building and treat it as a fixed asset.
Buying a house and land when you have money is an eternal obsession in Chinese's heart, and he is no exception!
This apartment building was built in the post-war fifties, and although it is in the antique Renaissance style, it looks relatively new and very sturdy overall.
The various carvings and ornamental patterns outside the building are relatively well preserved, and there is basically no damage.
This is also normal, and the situation is similar to other apartment buildings nearby.
Since the Civil War, the United States has never experienced a war.
And this is the Upper East Side, where some of the richest people in the United States live.
Any riots and riots that occur in the United States will not affect here, even if the Black Lives Matter movement is now!
Because of this, the buildings here are very well preserved and have not been damaged by outsiders.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Ran had finished scanning the façade of this apartment building.
Immediately afterwards, he secretly turned on the perspective and looked through the situation inside the apartment building.
The next moment, a set of luxury apartments with different styles appeared in his eyes.
Some of these luxury apartments are inhabited and some are vacant.
There are quite a few vacant apartments, adding up to a full third.
This is one of the reasons why the owners are interested in selling this apartment building.
Because of the perfect security system, those vacant apartments do not have to worry, they are occupied by homeless people and addicts.
In the luxurious apartments where people live there, there are artists, celebrities, Wall Street financial elites, corporate owners, and so on.
However, these are not Xiao Ran's concerns.
He is more concerned about the antique artifacts and works of art that are collected in those apartments.
In several of these luxury apartments, he saw several top-quality antique artifacts and works of art of astonishing value.
However, he just looked at it, and did not move any crooked thoughts.
After scanning the situation in the apartment building, Xiao Ran began to look through the basement of this apartment building.
His gaze instantly penetrated the wall and into the basement below the side.
It's a utility room, not a small area, with some old furniture, sofa cabinets and things like that.
Although it is old furniture, the condition is actually very good.
And they are all privately ordered high-end furniture, which still has a certain value.
Underneath and behind these pieces of furniture are the walls and floors in the neoclassical decorative style.
That said, the architectural style of the basement and this apartment building is not uniform.
Or rather, this Renaissance-style apartment building was built on the basis of the original neoclassical style building.
In order to save costs and save trouble, the foundation of the previous building was not touched.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Ran immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"As long as the foundation is not moved, in that case, the secret passage hidden under the foundation will basically not be exposed"
That's right, this is Xiao Ran's real goal, the building he is looking for.
In the basement of this apartment building, there is a hidden tunnel that leads deep underground.
At the end of the tunnel, it is the long-abandoned subway.
As for what secrets or treasures are hidden in that abandoned subway, it is unknown for the time being.
To find that hidden secret or treasure, you have to take the apartment building and the corresponding underground rights,
but this is not so easy.
In particular, you can't scare the grass and snakes, so as not to fall short.
Because of this, Xiao Ran has been in New York for a while, but he has not moved, just laying out in secret.
Without the slightest obstruction, his gaze penetrated directly through the floor and walls, seeing the situation deeper into the ground.
What follows is a solid foundation.
Only cold cement and stones, no expected secret passages and secret rooms.
In a moment, Xiao Ran had thoroughly looked through this basement facing the street, and found nothing.
His gaze then extended forward, penetrating into another basement inside.
That basement was converted into an equipment room, which contained the central air-conditioning main unit, which was not small.
The apartment building relies on this central air conditioner for cooling and heating.
New York has no central heating, but winters are cold, and heavy snow lockdowns happen.
Residents living in apartment buildings rely on central air conditioning for heating.
In this basement, Xiao Ran also found nothing.
He can only continue to look through the next basement connected to it, hoping to get something.
But it backfired.
In the basement of the next room, which was converted into a power distribution room, he still did not find the secret passage he was expecting.
In the blink of an eye, several basements on the west side of the apartment building under the first entrance door and on the street side were thoroughly seen through by him.
Unfortunately, he found nothing, not even the shadow of the secret passage.
Several basements located on the inside of the apartment building, Xiao Ran could not see for the time being.
Limited by his ability to see, he could only see the middle of this underground space at the farthest distance, and the inner half of the basement could not be explored for the time being.
If you want to see that half of the basement, you can only find a way to enter the apartment building, or go around the back of the apartment building to see through.
For Xiao Ran, this is not a problem at all.
He could sneak into the apartment building in minutes without knowing it.
Even if there are many monitoring probes on 64th Street, and there are many monitoring and complete security systems inside and outside the apartment building, it is difficult for him.
Whenever necessary, he would not hesitate to sneak into this apartment building and take a closer look.
In fact, as long as he could get to the back of the apartment building, he didn't have to go inside to see through the inner half of the basement.
In that case, it is obviously safer and basically does not attract anyone's attention.