Nine o'clock in the evening, in the study.
Xiao Ran was listening to reports from two company employees and preparing for the next step of exploration.
"According to our investigation, the apartment building near the intersection of East 64th Street and Park Avenue was built in the late 1950s."
"That apartment building was built on the basis of the original building without disturbing the foundation, but the architectural style is completely different."
"The original building once belonged to a wealthy German businessman. I heard that the wealthy German businessman died in Europe during World War II."
"And deep underground in that apartment building, there is an abandoned subway line. It is said that it was abandoned as early as the 1930s."
An employee introduced the situation.
For the building located on East 64th Street, they were responsible for investigating the details and contacting the owner to find out whether the owner was willing to sell and what the price was.
In addition, they will also go to the New York Central Library and City Hall to inquire and find out more information about the apartment building.
If Xiao Ran finally decides to buy the apartment building, they will be the ones to negotiate with the owner.
At that time, their identities would be employees of a newly established leather real estate company.
All of this is legal and compliant and impeccable.
Xiao Ran looked through the information they collected, and then nodded lightly.
"I know that abandoned subway line. It was abandoned because of unreasonable design and extremely low utilization rate."
"Because of that abandoned subway, the underground rights of most of the buildings along the line have fallen into the hands of the New York Subway Company."
"This is a big trouble for us!"
The two company employees nodded in unison and continued to introduce the situation.
“East 64th Street is located in the core of the Upper East Side. People who live there are rich and wealthy and don’t need the subway.”
"At the beginning of the last century, when that subway line was first built, people living there would occasionally take the subway for fun."
"When the novelty wears off, who will still want to take the dirty and messy New York subway? The utilization rate of that section of the subway will become extremely low!"
"More importantly, during the Great Depression, that subway caused serious security problems for the entire neighborhood."
"At that time, various burglaries and robberies occurred frequently, and there were even several massacres of families!"
"Those thieves, robbers, and murderers mostly take the subway into East 64th Street. After all, there are not so many police patrols on the subway."
"Faced with this situation, the wealthy people living in that neighborhood jointly put pressure on the city government to close that section of the subway and block several subway stations."
"Due to the tremendous pressure exerted by the wealthy people of the Upper East Side, the New York Subway Company had no choice but to close that section of the subway and re-route it."
"But for some reason, the New York City Subway Company and the wealthy people on East 64th Street have ignored the issue of underground rights."
Hearing this, Xiao Ran couldn't help laughing.
"This is not surprising. There is only hard granite under Manhattan Island and there are no valuable resources."
“Even if there are resources, development can’t be done, so people don’t really care about underground rights!”
Next, two company employees continued to introduce the situation.
Soon, they came to the key issue.
"We have contacted the owner of the apartment building and made a request to purchase the apartment building."
"To avoid the owner becoming suspicious, we did not mention the underground rights."
"We learned from the call that the owner was willing to sell the apartment building as long as the price was right."
"We tried our best to find out about the underground rights. The New York Subway Company is not opposed to selling the underground rights in that block, but the asking price is not low!"
Hearing this, Xiao Ran's eyes immediately flashed with surprise.
"As long as the owner is willing to sell the property and the New York Subway Company is willing to sell the underground rights, the price is not an issue!"
"If it weren't for the purpose of avoiding suspicion and causing some legal disputes, we could even bypass the owner and only buy the underground rights of that block."
Before he finished speaking, an employee couldn't wait to say:
"In this case, when will we take action to take over the apartment building and the corresponding underground rights?"
Xiao Ran smiled and shook his head.
"There's no rush. I can't determine the final goal right now, so I can't make a decision right away."
"I still need to listen to reports from other groups of guys and go to the site for inspection before I can finally determine the target."
Although he said this, Xiao Ran felt clear in his heart.
He knew very well where the target building was and where the treasure hidden deep underground was.
However, he sent many teams, each responsible for an area or a certain building, to inquire about relevant information.
The reason for doing this is entirely to create suspicion so as not to leak the secret!
He couldn't guarantee whether anyone was secretly watching his employees.
There is no guarantee that any of these employees will betray themselves and this secret!
Expanding the scope of exploration to the entire neighborhood will undoubtedly increase the safety factor a lot.
Even if someone leaks the secret, it will be difficult for those who learn the secret to find the treasure hidden deep underground.
Not to mention anything else, just the cost of exploring the treasure is unbearable!
You know, that is the Upper East Side, the most expensive housing estate in New York and the United States. How many people can buy the building and underground rights of an entire block?
After a while, this group of employees had finished reporting.
Xiao Ran immediately asked them to leave the conference room and called another duo in to continue to understand the situation.
Next, the other groups were called into the study one after another to report the various news they had heard one by one.
It wasn't until around ten o'clock in the evening that everyone finished reporting.
Later, Xiao Ran called David over and discussed with him for a while.
As for what they discussed, no one knows!
Even Yi Lian and Fang Yufei didn't ask any questions.
…
In a blink of an eye, it's a new day.
It was just after nine o'clock.
Just like the previous few days, Xiao Ran and his team drove out of the underground garage of the Plaza Hotel and drove straight onto Fifth Avenue.
Just when everyone thought they would either go to MOMA or visit the Metropolitan Museum not far away.
Instead, the motorcade drove toward the Upper East Side and soon entered 70th Street on the Upper East Side.
Seeing this scene, many media reporters and FBI agents who followed them realized that they were going to Swift's top-notch mansion on East 70th Street.
After a while, the motorcade arrived in front of a four-story luxury apartment building in the middle of East 70th Street and stopped in front of one of the neoclassical-style apartment buildings.
As soon as the motorcade stopped, Swift got out of the car with Elaine and Fang Yufei, and walked into this top-notch mansion while talking and laughing.
However, Xiao Ran was nowhere to be seen, and it seemed that he did not follow him here.
Faced with this situation, everyone couldn't help but be stunned and confused.
The group of FBI agents responsible for the surveillance, as well as the detectives from the Major Crime Squad, were all dumbfounded.
"Fake! Didn't that bastard Sean go out with these three beauties? Where did he go? Did he disappear out of thin air?"
"Damn it! Swifties and the others are covering for that bastard. That bastard fooled everyone, and we were all fooled!"
The two FBI agents said angrily.
The Plaza Hotel's internal surveillance system has long been under the surveillance of the FBI.
The FBI agent who was responsible for keeping an eye on the surveillance watched helplessly as Xiao Ran, Elaine and the others took the elevator downstairs and went to the underground parking garage.
Through the surveillance camera in the underground parking garage, they also clearly saw Xiao Ran getting into the Escalade President No. 1 bulletproof SUV.
After the motorcade left the Plaza Hotel, it never left the sight of the FBI agents who were following it, so they didn't have the slightest suspicion and were full of confidence.
But who could have imagined that Xiao Ran had already disappeared, evaporating out of thin air!
None of the followers knew when he left, and only Elaine and the others knew the answer.
Thinking of this, both FBI agents and homicide detectives feel a deep sense of frustration!
Just as they were cursing in annoyance, Xiao Ran appeared on the street of 64th Street in the Upper East Side.
At this time, he had changed his appearance. With his curly hair on his head, and the cover of sunglasses and mask, his original image could not be seen at all.
The vehicle he was driving was a 60 to 70 percent new Mercedes-Benz. It was driving on 64th Street at a constant speed. It was nothing short of ordinary.
When the car drove near the intersection of 64th Street and Park Avenue, it suddenly stopped near the side of the road.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran opened the car door, got out of the car carrying a black backpack, and walked forward along the sidewalk.
