After reaching the first floor, Xiao Ran asked Elaine and the others to leave the piano store, but he stayed in the hall.
When Elaine and the others walked out of the music store, he immediately asked Sam to inform everyone to leave the music store immediately and go to the street outside.
Not only that, after leaving the music store, everyone must keep a certain distance from the building for safety.
After receiving the order, Sam and the others took action immediately.
At the same time, many FBI agents and Philadelphia police outside also began to evacuate the crowd gathered around the music store to watch the excitement.
Other floors and shops in the building where the piano store is located, as well as several adjacent buildings, also began to be evacuated simultaneously.
This sudden change made everyone outside confused and didn't understand what was happening.
At this moment, Frank and the others happened to come out of the music store.
Seeing them, many media reporters immediately began to ask questions loudly.
Frank and Scott didn't hide it, they told the reporters and the crowd.
In the basement of this piano store, a piano bomb was found that was powerful enough to blow up the entire building.
After listening to their introduction, everyone was shocked.
The people who were originally reluctant to evacuate showed no signs of hesitation and hurriedly walked towards both ends of the street, each one walking faster than the other.
The other people in this building, as well as the people in several adjacent buildings, were all even more frightened.
As evacuations began, the streets became chaotic.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long, and soon people moved away from the building and stood behind the renewed police cordons at both ends of the street.
In the piano store.
Xiao Ran directed Nick and the others to move out all the paintings and antique musical instruments stored in the vault.
These things are of high value and must not be destroyed in possible violent explosions.
Although Xiao Ran knew that the probability of an explosion was extremely low, the performance was still necessary.
And he didn’t know what the level of bomb disposal experts at the FBI and Philadelphia police was.
If those guys were just cheating and accidentally detonated the piano bomb in the basement, we would be in big trouble!
In a short time, Nick and the others had moved all the paintings and antique musical instruments in the vault.
Those valuable stolen works of art were packed in painting bags of different sizes.
Those musical instruments signed by celebrities are packed in musical instrument boxes or aluminum alloy suitcases.
After moving the designated paintings and antique musical instruments, Nick and the others left the basement, including Marvin and the others.
Xiao Ran quickly looked through the painting bags and boxes placed on the floor, not missing any of them.
After confirming that there was no problem, he immediately said:
"Sam, you can notify the armored convoy to come and move all these paintings and antique musical instruments into the escort vehicle."
"Then you will lead a team to escort these things to the art museum and put them together with the treasures that were transported before."
"After completing the transfer work, everyone left the music store and could not return until the bomb was defused."
"Okay, Sean."
Sam and the others responded in unison, and immediately took action.
After arranging these things, Xiao Ran walked out of the music store with Peggy and the others and went to the street outside.
Just as they came out, the armored escort convoy that had been parked not far away was rushing towards them.
Also arriving were several FBI and Philadelphia police armored vehicles.
Xiao Ran quickly took a look at the heavy escort convoy, and then nodded to Sam.
Immediately afterwards, Nick and the others began to carry out painting bags, boxes, and various musical instrument boxes.
After moving these things out, they counted the number again, and then loaded these treasures into the armored escort vehicles.
Live video was taken of the entire transfer process.
Seeing this scene, the eyes of the onlookers and media reporters standing at both ends of the street turned red quickly.
"Fake! This bastard Sean has copied a lot of treasures from this music store again. He plundered it so cleanly!"
"There is no doubt that this bastard can make a lot of money. Ingres's "Girl in the Bath" alone is said to be worth more than 250 million US dollars."
Just when people were talking about it, Xiao Ran had already led Peggy and the others away from the entrance of the piano store and walked towards where Elaine and the others were.
In a moment, they had arrived near the police cordon on the left side of the street and stood with Elaine and the others.
As soon as they stood still, many security team members under Xiao Ran immediately surrounded them, watching the surrounding situation warily.
Not only that, these guys also drove over with several bulletproof SUVs.
Using the tall bodies of these bulletproof SUVs, two strong protective walls were built on both sides of Xiao Ran's and others' positions.
In this way, neither the gunmen hiding in the crowd nor the guys hiding in the buildings on both sides of the street could directly attack Xiao Ran.
Even if someone opens fire, Xiao Ran and the others can immediately get into several bulletproof SUVs to avoid the attack.
Seeing this scene, almost everyone present was a little frightened.
Is this bastard Sean too careful? As for that?
Even if the President of the United States comes to Philadelphia, the security will not be so exaggerated, right?
However, when people think about Miles who was beaten to death on the hospital bed yesterday, it is not surprising.
The media reporters standing behind the cordon would never let go of such a good opportunity, and they began to ask questions loudly at the top of their lungs.
"Good morning, Sean, I'm a reporter for The New York Times."
"I heard from Director Frank of the FBI that you discovered the piano bomb hidden in this music store. Can you tell us about the discovery process?"
A beautiful reporter asked loudly.
Before he finished speaking, another white male reporter asked:
"Good morning, Sean, I'm a reporter from the Washington Post and I'm happy to interview you."
"Everyone can see that you have found a lot of things in this music store and are moving them to the escort vehicle."
"Can you tell me what these things are? What kind of stolen antiques and art are they?"
Hearing these questions, Xiao Ran smiled softly, then turned to look at the media reporters not far away.
The next moment, he smiled and said loudly:
"Dear friends from the media, thank you for your attention. Regarding the piano bomb in this music store, it is very sensitive for me to say anything more."
"If you want to know more about the situation, you can go to the two directors of the FBI and the Philadelphia Police, or the spokespersons of the FBI and the Philadelphia Police."
"As for the things we found in this music store, we can say that there are both antique works of art and some interesting antique musical instruments."
"In the vault, we found some musical instruments signed by celebrities, mostly guitars, including guitars signed by U2 lead singer Bono and John Denver, etc...."
Next, he briefly introduced the situation of those antique musical instruments.
But he didn't say anything about discovering Jimmy Page's legendary Gibson double-headed piano.
He also did not mention the paintings that McCann had forged.
While talking, the transfer work at the piano store has been completed.
The painting bags and boxes containing paintings and antique musical instruments, as well as numerous musical instrument boxes, were all transferred to the armored escort vehicles parked at the entrance of the music store.
At the same time, two helicopters from the FBI and the Philadelphia Police also flew over the streets.
Then, Sam, who came out of the music store, nodded to Xiao Ran and got into a bulletproof SUV.
The next moment, the armored escort convoy started with a bang, slowly drove away from the entrance of the piano store, and drove straight towards Xiao Ran and the others.
When the motorcade passed them, Xiao Ran smiled and nodded.
In the crowd not far away, many people with ulterior motives stared at the escort convoy with blood-red eyes.
These guys want to start immediately and loot this escort convoy.
However, the large number of heavily armed FBI agents, police officers, and security team members at the scene made them extremely fearful and did not dare to act rashly.
Those extremely strong armored escort vehicles in the escort convoy cannot be opened by them with light weapons.
While these guys were weighing and hesitating, the escort convoy passed through the safe passage opened by the police and headed towards the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Soon, the escort convoy was far away and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Those in the crowd who were ready to make a move could only gnash their back teeth and stomp their feet in regret.
However, they did not leave, they all stayed.
Everyone knows it now.
In the piano store on the street, in addition to the terrifying piano bombs, there are also greater secrets or treasures hidden.
In this case, naturally no one wants to leave.
After a while, several police cars and armored vehicles suddenly drove up from the other end of the street.
Several of the armored vehicles parked directly in front of the piano store.
Then, some guys wearing heavy body armor got out of those armored vehicles.
No need to ask, the FBI and Philadelphia police bomb squad are here.
The next moment, Marvin and the others who stayed in the music shop went out to meet him.
After the two parties exchanged a few words, they walked into the piano store together.
The guys from the bomb disposal team also brought a lot of bomb disposal equipment.
Seeing this scene, the crowd immediately started a commotion.
"Wow! It was such a huge battle, and two bomb squads from the FBI and the Philadelphia police came. It seems that the amount of explosives hidden in that music store is amazing."
"God bless! Fortunately, this piano bomb was not detonated, otherwise we would not be able to escape, and we would all be blown up to the sky!"
People started talking, each one excited and frightened at the same time.
Especially the people who were in the same building as the music store all felt like they had narrowly escaped death and were extremely lucky.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.
The piano store, which had been quiet for a long time, finally started to move.
Two FBI agents took off their heavy body armor and walked out of the music store.
They each carried a box in their hands, which looked very heavy.
After coming out of the music store, they took the two boxes straight to one of the armored vehicles.
Immediately afterwards, Marvin also walked out of the music store with two Philadelphia police officers.
The two policemen also carried two boxes in their hands.
Marvin's hand was empty, nothing.
The next moment, his voice suddenly came from the intercom.
"It's done, Sean, all the C4 explosives hidden in the Steinway grand piano have been removed."
"That guy Miles is so crazy. He actually stuffed three hundred kilograms of C4 plastic explosive into that piano."
While reporting the situation, he also made an OK gesture in the air.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood.
The terrorist bomb hidden in the music store has been safely defused.
After confirming this, everyone let out a sigh of relief and finally relaxed.
