Ten minutes later.
"Stab la la"
With the sound of electric current and the bursting of light bulbs, a dark tunnel that looked like a historical relic immediately appeared in front of Xiao Ran's eyes.
In fact, this is indeed a historical site.
Although the electric lighting system here is still working, no one has been here for at least fifty or sixty years.
After a long journey and suppressing nausea, Xiao Ran finally arrived at this abandoned subway deep underground on 64th Street.
Everything here is run down.
The ground was full of dust, the air was densely covered with spider webs, and there were rats scurrying everywhere. The environment was extremely harsh.
The rails and sleepers in the tunnel are still there and have not been demolished due to abandonment, but all the rails are rusty.
It can be seen that Xiao Ran's previous guess was correct.
Although this subway is abandoned, it is still used as a backup line and preserved.
"go!"
Xiao Ran, who was standing on the steps to check the situation in the tunnel, suddenly raised his foot and kicked forward.
Following this movement, a big black mouse that had just climbed onto his feet flew directly into the tunnel.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran jumped off the subway and walked straight to the Park Avenue on the west side along this subway that had been abandoned for hundreds of years.
Because there is light shining on it, although it is not very bright, it is better than nothing.
It is these pale lights that make this place look less like hell and more like the world.
This section of the subway has no traps and is relatively safe.
Before entering here, Xiao Ran confirmed this through perspective, so he dared to get off the subway with confidence.
The guy who hid the secret or treasure in this subway was smart and didn't do something stupid like this.
If he sets a trap in this subway, it may be triggered by the subway staff entering here.
That is tantamount to telling the New York subway company that there may be some secret or treasure hidden here.
Next, the New York Subway Company will definitely send people to search the place thoroughly to find treasures and eliminate safety hazards.
In that case, the secrets or treasures hidden here are likely to be found and fall into the hands of the New York Subway Company.
Of course, the guy who buried the treasure might also have set up some deadly traps.
The location of these traps should be near the treasure, which is the last line of defense.
Although there are no traps in the subway, there are many small animals such as rats and cockroaches.
While walking, Xiao Ran could only keep tapping the rails with his hiking pole to scare away the rats with the tapping sound.
The banging sound echoed in the tunnel, which also brought a bit of popularity to the place, preventing it from being as dead as a ghost!
You can only stand on the sleepers with your feet, and you have to keep waving your hiking poles to open up the spider webs in front of you. That's a lot of work!
Fortunately, these were all near misses, and although the traveling speed was relatively slow, it was still smooth.
After a while, Xiao Ran was near the intersection of 64th Street and Park Avenue, but it was deep underground.
While walking, he suddenly stopped and turned to look to the right side of the tunnel.
On the right wall of the tunnel, there is an upward step close to the wall, which is no more than fifty centimeters wide.
Going up the steps, at a height of 1.23 meters from the ground, there is an iron door covered with dust and moss, with a wall lamp on each side of the door.
The moment he saw the iron door, Xiao Ran's eyes immediately flashed with joy.
No need to ask, this is the place he is looking for.
The unknown hidden treasure is hidden behind this iron door.
Above this area is the six-story Renaissance-style apartment building.
Xiao Ran was not in a hurry to step forward to investigate, as that would leave his own footprints in front of the iron gate.
Even if you erase your footprints, there will still be holes left.
Although the possibility of this flaw being discovered is very slim, it must be guarded against.
Caution is the boat!
Especially at such a critical moment and location, no mistakes can be made.
Xiao Ran casually took out a handheld navigator from his backpack and checked the coordinates.
After confirming that the coordinates were correct, he put away the navigation device.
Then he looked at the situation around the iron gate, and then turned on the perspective, preparing to explore the secrets hidden behind the iron gate.
What exactly is this secret or treasure? It has been bothering him for a month or two.
The answer is now in front of us and will be revealed soon.
The next moment, the iron door covered with dust and moss immediately appeared in Xiao Ran's eyes.
This is an equipment room, it clearly says on the door.
Behind the iron door is a room of more than ten square meters, which contains some tools and equipment for maintaining the subway, such as road spikes and wrenches.
These things are packed in crates and covered with a thick layer of butter for protection.
After decades or hundreds of years, the butter has solidified and formed a hard shell, but the equipment and tools are intact.
Just wipe off the butter and it's ready to use like new.
These things were not what Xiao Ran wanted to see.
He quickly looked through the entire equipment room, but found no hidden secrets or treasures.
"Did you look in the wrong place? You shouldn't!
"Or has the treasure hidden here been discovered a long time ago and was discovered first?..."
Xiao Ran muttered something in a low voice, confused.
As soon as he said this, he stopped abruptly.
Immediately afterwards, a bright smile broke out on Xiao Ran's face.
Under perspective, the secret hidden here is finally revealed.
Behind the north wall of this equipment room, there is actually a very hidden secret room.
There was only a wall separating the secret room from the equipment room, but the wall was half a meter thick, and there was no door between the two.
There is not even a secret door. There is only one way to enter the secret room from the equipment room!
That is to smash open the wall on the north side of the equipment room and forcefully take out a door.
Fortunately, that wall was made of red bricks and had a special structure, so it was not difficult to break open.
Or should I say, that wall is a door left by the treasure hider.
But in order to avoid being accidentally discovered, it was blocked with red bricks.
The secret room behind the wall was thirty to forty square meters in size, and it was filled with things, including boxes of various sizes.
The moment his sight penetrated the secret room, Xiao Ran's eyes immediately flashed with a bright and colorful light.
Seeing this scene, he was stunned for a moment and dumbfounded.
Immediately afterwards, he waved his fist vigorously in ecstasy.
However, when he saw the situation in the secret room clearly, he took a breath of cold air and was terrified!
After calming down a little, he began to carefully explore the secret room deep underground.
During the investigation, he quickly figured out one thing.
The guy who hid these treasures in the secret room should be the designer and builder of this subway, or the construction contractor.
He lived in the apartment building above ground, so when the subway was being built, a secret underground room was built.
The secret room is located at the above-ground exit, in the basement of the apartment building, and is very hidden.
With this subway being abandoned, this secret room deep underground is undoubtedly the perfect place to hide treasures!
…
In the blink of an eye, it was already around four o'clock in the afternoon.
Elaine and Fang Yufei finally returned to the Plaza Hotel after spending half a day in Swift's top mansion.
Swifty did not follow, but stayed at her home.
But this is only temporary, she will come here again tomorrow.
When Elaine and the others walked into the presidential suite, Xiao Ran was already sitting in the living room, checking the information collected by his employees.
As soon as she entered the living room, Elaine asked expectantly:
"Honey, have you found the building where the treasure is?"
Xiao Ran looked at the two beauties and nodded proudly.
"Yes, I have locked the target. It is time to buy that building and the corresponding underground rights."
"After taking care of these things, we can dig out the treasure."
"Until this unknown treasure is unearthed, it must be kept strictly confidential."
"marvelous!"
Elaine and Fang Yufei cheered directly, both excited.
Then, they nodded in unison and said:
"Don't worry, dear (Xiao Ran), we will keep it a secret."
After saying that, the two of them went to the bathroom to wash and disinfect.
About half an hour later, David also returned to the hotel.
Immediately afterwards, he was called to the study by Xiao Ran to discuss the next move.
After entering the study, David first reported the news he had found out.
"Sean, I got in touch with people related to the New York Subway Company through a New York real estate lawyer I know."
"It is certain that the New York Subway Company is willing to sell the underground rights of that block, and the specific price can be negotiated."
"Great! As long as they are willing to sell the underground rights, the price is easy to negotiate!"
Xiao Ran said happily.
David nodded and then changed the subject.
"But they have some conditions. The underground rights of the tunnel where the abandoned subway is located will not be sold."
"Although that subway is abandoned, it is a backup line and also serves as an air raid shelter during wartime."
"The underground rights that can be sold are limited to the area beyond five meters on both sides of the tunnel."
"Any owner who purchases underground rights cannot affect the structure and safety of the abandoned subway when carrying out underground operations."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Ran nodded immediately and said:
"No problem, I can accept these conditions"
"Now we can start, this is our goal, a total of two apartment buildings."
With that said, he handed over the prepared information.
