Following Mona's finger to the computer screen, Luo An saw the consumption record of a high-end restaurant.
"On the fourth day after the sixth bank robbery, Elken took his family for a feast at this one-Michelin-starred restaurant."
Mona moved her fingers slightly, and the surveillance video of the lobby of the Michelin-starred restaurant appeared on the computer screen. After a slight adjustment, the video of the Elken family eating that night appeared in front of their eyes.
Obviously, this was a family celebration party for Elken's daughter to obtain a letter of recommendation and enter college. During this period, Elken even allowed his daughter Serena to drink a little less wine.
Throughout the meal, the Elken family was warm, harmonious and happy.
After watching the surveillance video, Luo An scratched his head next to the computer. Mona shrugged her shoulders, with a touch of envy in her eyes, but said in a tone without any emotion:
"It's an important thing for my daughter to go to college. It's normal to celebrate in a restaurant like this."
I don’t know whether it’s because she sympathizes with the life experience of the Elken family or she is envious of Serena, but Mona is in a very complicated mood right now.
"It's better to go to the scene and investigate."
Luo An won't say anything more until the truth is investigated.
Lacey hasn't come back yet, and Ryder is lying in the hospital, so Mona is the only one going out with him this time.
Seeing Luo An's configuration of combat uniform + plate armor vest + smoke bombs + shock bombs + two Glock 18s + ten extended magazines, Mona covered her forehead and sighed speechlessly.
She was now very sure that Luo An's lack of sense of security was extremely serious.
——
The dark SUV sped along the roads of New York and soon arrived at the laundromat in Queens.
Jingle Bell--
Pushing open the door of the laundry, Luo An took Mona and walked in.
Several machines in the laundry were busy, and one of them seemed to have some malfunctions. A thin white woman was kicking the machine, cursing in a low voice, and preparing to make a call.
"FBI!"
After entering the laundry, Luo An took out the FBI's golden badge and showed it to the thin white woman, and then asked:
"Where is the owner of this laundry?"
"I am!"
Seeing the heavily armed Luo An, Zoe, a thin white woman, twitched the corner of her mouth and took a step back with a nervous look on her face:
"What do you want from me?"
"Are you the boss?"
The words of the woman in front of him made Luo An frown:
“Isn’t the owner of this store Elken?”
Hearing that Luo An was not here to find her, Zoe immediately breathed a sigh of relief, put her hands on her hips, raised her eyebrows and started to curse Elken:
"You are right, Mr. Agent, the previous owner of this store was indeed Elken, but he sold the laundry to me at a low price the night before yesterday.
I have known Elken for many years. I originally thought that Elken was an honest person, but I didn’t expect that the laundry machine he sold me had a lot of problems. I have been repairing it from morning to now. machine"
Hearing the woman's words, Luo An and Mona looked at each other and realized something was wrong, so they quickly waved to interrupt each other:
"Elken sold the store to you the night before yesterday. Why?"
"how could I know?"
Zoe’s mouth curled up, her face full of displeasure:
"Maybe it's because his daughter is going to college in another state, so she doesn't plan to do it here."
Could it be that he took this opportunity to run away from New York?
Mona turned to look at Luo An. Just when she was about to ask, Luo An's eyes moved and he continued to ask:
"How did Erken look when he sold the store to you? Was he anxious?"
Luo An had some other conjectures.
Zoe shook her head and said that she had a bakery at the end of the street. When Elken came to see her at home the night before yesterday, he didn't look anxious. The two parties talked about the price of the shop for a long time before reaching an agreement.
Hearing this, Luo An frowned, and all the thoughts in his heart were driven away.
"OK, thank you for your cooperation."
After asking a few random questions again, seeing that no other useful information was available, Luo An and Mona turned around and left the laundry without any nonsense.
Pressing the accelerator, the SUV rushed out onto the road.
In the co-pilot, Mona’s fingers were flying on the keyboard, her brows furrowed:
"There is no record of the Elken family purchasing air tickets and leaving New York. There are no checkpoints set up by the NYPD on the roads around New York, and there is no record of the Elken family leaving in a car."
"So they should still be in New York."
Luo An nodded. He originally thought that Elken was under some kind of coercion and was in a hurry to sell the laundry, but the state of Elken described by Zoe just now did not seem to be under coercion.
——
The SUV soon arrived at an old building in the community where Elken's home was located.
Taking the elevator to the third floor, Roan and Mona walked along the corridor to the door of Elken's house and started knocking on the door.
Boom, boom, boom!
"Is anyone home?"
Luo An shouted, but no one in the room answered.
Mona tilted her head when she saw this, and just when she was about to speak, Luo An's nose twitched, his face changed slightly, and he hurriedly waved his hand to signal Mona to hide aside.
The two men took out their weapons, looked at each other and counted down to three. Luo An decisively kicked the door open and shouted:
"FBI!"
Luo An and Mona held guns in both hands and quickly checked every room in the house in a vigilant posture. After confirming that no one was there, they both said:
"Safety!"
"Safety!"
Putting the pistol back into their pockets, Luo An and Mona walked towards the living room with solemn expressions.
The living room is not big, just a TV and a sofa.
But at this time, the left side of the yellow-brown sofa had been dyed black by the red blood.
"What's going on here?"
Mona frowned and looked around. Although there was blood residue in the living room, it didn't look messy on the whole, and it didn't look like a murder had occurred.
Luo An also looked solemn as he checked several bedrooms in the house and found that the clothes in the cabinets of his parents and daughter were neatly packed and the beds were clean.
But the rooms of the two old men were very messy and had obviously not been tidied up. When they opened the wardrobe, the clothes inside were torn everywhere.
I walked to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator and found that there were no short-term foods in it, but only foods that could be stored for a long time.
"It seems that Elken is planning to send his daughter to college with his wife."
After a brief observation, Luo An walked back to the living room, folded his hands in front of his chest, frowned and thought deeply:
"Two old people stayed to look after the house because it was inconvenient for them to go downstairs to buy things, so Erken left a lot of food for them."
After hearing Luo An's analysis, Mona nodded and said nothing more. She made the same judgment after a week of observation, but she was still a little confused. What was going on with the blood on the sofa?
"have no idea."
Luo An shook his head. The first time he saw the blood, he wanted to call his colleagues from the Trace Inspection Department to come here to check.
But then I thought about it, this was a secret operation for me and Mona, so it might not be appropriate to call it the Trace Inspection Department.
"Go back to the car and check the surveillance videos of the surrounding roads to see where Elken's car went."
After a long silence, Luo An rummaged around the house several times and found no clues. He turned to Mona and said:
"I didn't see Elken's car downstairs just now. It was most likely driven away by the Elken family."
"OK."
Mona nodded and stood up to leave with Luo An.
The two had just walked out of the door of Elken's house, and when Luo An was about to re-fix the door, the elevator not far from the corridor opened and two white young men walked out of it.
Seeing the heavily armed Luo An and the white FBI words written on Mona's body armor, the two white young men were stunned, looked at each other, and walked towards the stairs not far from the elevator.
Luo An, who had just secured the door, tilted his head and saw this scene. He calmly took out his Glock 18, protected Mona behind him, and shouted loudly:
"You two, don't leave yet..."
The next second, the two young white men who had just reached the door of the stairs decisively pulled out their guns and pulled the triggers in the direction of Luo An and the two of them without even taking aim.
Just when the two white youths stretched their hands into their arms, Luo An's eyes flashed coldly. While pushing Mona back into Elken's house, he raised his hand and shot the white youth on the left in the center of the back.
boom!
boom! boom!
"ah--"
"FU-K!"
Three gunshots were fired, and Luo An hid sideways in the room without any injuries.
One of the two young white men screamed and fell headfirst down the stairs. The other yelled and cursed and ran down the stairs, ready to help his companion up and run away with him.
"Luo An, are you okay?"
Mona, who was pushed to the ground by Luo An, quickly got up from the ground, her face full of anxiety. Luo An turned around and grinned:
"I'm fine! Don't worry."
The moment he fired the gun, Luo An felt that although his reaction speed was not as fast as it was in the basement, it was still a little faster than before.
Thinking of this, Luo An no longer hesitated and rushed out decisively with the Glock 18 in a fighting posture.
Mona saw this and followed closely, but what shocked her was that the time difference between herself and Luo An was less than two seconds, but as soon as she walked out of the door, Luo An had already rushed to the end of the corridor.
"Shit!"
Mona cursed secretly: "Why is Luo An so fast?"
Luo An didn't know what Mona was thinking. The moment he rushed to the stairs, Luo An decisively threw a shock bomb towards the corner of the stairs.
Bang!
The moment the shock bomb exploded, the two young white men's eyes were filled with white light, their ears were in severe pain, and their heads were dizzy.
Seeing this, Luo An raised his lips slightly, raised his hand and pointed the Glock 18 at the arms of the two white youths, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
boom! boom! boom! boom!
"ah--"
The arms were hit by bullets, and the pistols in the hands of the two white youths instantly fell to the ground. They subconsciously prepared to pick them up, but Luo An had already rushed in front of them with the disbelief on their faces.
A strong gust of wind hit the two young white men. They were hit hard in the face, their noses collapsed, and they fell to the ground.
When Mona rushed to the stairs with a gun, Luo An had already handcuffed the two of them together.
Mona: ".FU-K!"
The author was sent on a business trip today and will board the plane immediately o(╥﹏╥)o
In the past week or so, the update time has been temporarily changed to 8 pm. After returning from a business trip, it will be changed to 12:30 noon. I am extremely sorry!
2023.06.03
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