Upper East Side, 70th Street.
Several FBI agents and homicide detectives waited for a long time, but still saw no sign of Xiao Ran.
The motorcade that sent Elaine and the others over was parked at the door of the apartment building, showing no intention of leaving.
Sam and the others stood scattered beside several cars, laughing and chatting while being alert.
Seeing this scene, the FBI and homicide detectives were all itching.
"Where did that bastard Sean go? Did he go to the other side of the Hudson River to find trouble with the DeCavalcante family?"
an FBI agent asked curiously.
Another agent sitting in the passenger seat shook his head helplessly.
"Probably not. It is said that that bastard Sean has made peace with the Decavalcante family."
"The Decavalcante family paid a certain price, but no one knows what that price was."
"This bastard Sean is really powerful and ruthless enough to actually force a mafia family to bow its head."
Before he finished speaking, the FBI agent driving the car continued:
"Those mafia bosses are very precious about their lives. How dare they not bow their heads when they encounter such a crazy super rich man?"
"Tell us, are we always here to guard? Or should we drive to search for that bastard Sean?"
"Judging from his behavior, he may have a more important goal in bringing people to New York."
The other FBI nodded.
"This should be certain, and those guys under him have already started taking action, but no one noticed it."
"That bastard Sean used himself as a bait to draw all the attention to himself, but let his men move around. He was very smart."
"Until today, that guy started acting alone. It is probably the most critical moment."
"Let's just report this situation and see how the superiors respond. We can just follow orders."
With that said, the guy took out his cell phone and started calling his immediate boss to update him on the latest situation.
In another SUV not far behind, two detectives from the New York Police Department's Major Crime Squad were doing the same thing.
It's just that they didn't expect so much. Compared to the FBI, the crime team didn't know much.
Their focus was mainly on the death of Wilson and his accomplices by a car and the fire on 23rd Street that shocked the United States.
The deeper things are beyond their reach.
Because of the $5 million that Xiao Ran donated to the New York Police Union.
Emotionally, they all tend to Xiao Ran and are not very motivated to solve the case!
Anyway, those who died were all scum, one less one would die!
At this time, Xiao Ran was a few blocks away,
He was like a tourist or an architecture student looking at the top apartment building in front of him.
This is a Renaissance-style building that looks newer than the apartment buildings on the left and right.
Moreover, this apartment building is larger, with four entrance doors and hundreds of windows on the street side.
According to the information collected by Nick and the others, there are twenty top-grade duplex apartments in this building, each with an area of more than 300 square meters.
The market value of these top-level apartments is around tens of millions of dollars, and they are only for rent but not for sale, and the rents are constantly rising.
That is to say, this year, due to special circumstances and a depressed market, rents have stagnated.
The owner is an elderly billionaire who originally lived in this apartment building.
Seeing the hell New York has become, he has now moved to a suburban mansion on Long Island in order to seek refuge and save his life.
It was precisely because of the current situation in New York and the market depression that he relaxed his position and had some intention to sell.
Xiao Ran first scanned the entire facade of the apartment building and secretly considered whether to take over the apartment building and use it as a fixed asset.
Buying a house and land when you have money is an eternal obsession among Chinese people, and he is no exception!
This apartment building was built in the post-war 1950s. Although it is in an antique Renaissance style, it overall looks relatively new and very solid.
The various carvings and decorative patterns on the outside of the building are relatively well preserved, with basically no damage.
This situation is considered normal, and the situation in other nearby apartment buildings is similar.
The continental United States has not experienced a war since the Civil War.
And this is the Upper East Side, home to some of the wealthiest people in America.
Any riots and riots that occur in the United States will not reach here, even the current Black Lives Matter movement!
Because of this, the buildings here are well preserved and have not been damaged by external forces.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Ran had scanned the facade of the apartment building.
Immediately afterwards, he secretly turned on the perspective and looked inside the apartment building.
The next moment, a series of luxurious apartments with different styles appeared in front of his eyes.
Some of these luxury apartments are occupied, while others are vacant.
There are quite a few vacant apartments, a third of them in total.
This is one of the reasons why the owner is interested in selling the apartment building.
Because there is a complete security system, those vacant apartments do not have to worry about being occupied by homeless vagrants and drug addicts.
Those luxury apartments inhabited by people include artists, celebrities, Wall Street financial elites, company bosses, etc.
However, these are not what Xiao Ran cares about.
In comparison, he cares more about the antique artifacts and works of art collected in those apartments.
In several of the luxury apartments, he saw several top-notch antiques and works of art of astonishing value.
But he just looked at it and didn't have any evil intentions.
After scanning the situation inside the apartment building, Xiao Ran began to look through the basement of the apartment building.
His eyes instantly penetrated the wall and looked into the basement below.
This is a utility room, which is quite large. There are some old furniture, sofas and cabinets in it.
Although it is old furniture, it is actually in good condition.
Moreover, they are all customized high-end furniture and still have a certain value.
Underneath and behind these pieces of furniture are walls and floors decorated in a neoclassical style.
That said, the basement and the apartment building are not architecturally consistent.
Or should I say, this Renaissance style apartment building was built on the basis of the original neoclassical style building.
In order to save costs and trouble during construction, 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, that way, the secret passage hidden under the foundation will basically not be exposed."
Yes, this was Xiao Ran's real goal, the building he was looking for.
In the basement of this apartment building, there is a secret tunnel that leads deep underground.
At the end of the tunnel is the long-abandoned subway.
As for what secrets or treasures are hidden in the abandoned subway, it is currently unknown.
If you want to find the hidden secret or treasure, you must take over the apartment building and the corresponding underground rights.
However, it's not that easy.
In particular, you should not act in a hurry to avoid defeating the purpose.
Because of this, Xiao Ran has been in New York for a while, but he has been holding back and just making plans secretly.
Without any obstruction, his sight penetrated directly through the floor and walls, and saw the deeper situation.
What emerged next was a solid foundation.
There was only cold cement and stones, and there were no secret passages or secret rooms as expected.
In a moment, Xiao Ran had thoroughly looked through the basement facing the street, and found nothing.
His line of sight immediately extended forward, penetrating into another basement inside.
The basement was converted into an equipment room, which contained a large central air-conditioning unit.
All cooling and heating in this apartment building rely on this central air conditioner.
There is no central heating in New York, but the winter is very cold, and heavy snowfalls often close the city.
Residents living in apartment buildings can only rely on central air conditioning for heating.
In this basement, Xiao Ran also found nothing.
He could only continue to peer into the next basement connected to it, hoping to find something.
But it backfired.
In the next basement, which was converted into a power distribution room, he still couldn't find the secret passage he was expecting.
In the blink of an eye, he had thoroughly looked through the basements below the first entrance door on the west side of the apartment building and on the street side.
Unfortunately, nothing was found, not even the shadow of the secret passage.
Xiao Ran couldn't see the several basements located inside the apartment building yet.
Due to the limitation of his clairvoyance ability, he could only see the middle part of this underground space at the farthest, and the inner half of the basement could not be explored for the time being.
If you want to see the situation in that half of the basement, you can only find a way to enter the apartment building, or go around to 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 anyone noticing.
Even though there are many surveillance cameras on 64th Street, as well as many surveillance cameras and complete security systems inside and outside the apartment building, it still can't trouble him.
Whenever necessary, he would not hesitate to sneak into this apartment building and investigate carefully.
In fact, as long as he could get to the back of the apartment building, he could see through the inner half of the basement without going in.
In that case, it is obviously safer and will basically not attract anyone's attention.
