50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 251 Heading to Washington

Soon, the train sounded its final whistle, the attendants began closing the doors, the conductor blew his whistle, and the train started moving.

The parents who were seeing the train off rushed toward it, but thankfully they remained rational and did not break through the train station staff who were trying to stop them.

As everyone watched Sun Aiguo recede further and further away through the car window, even the usually cheerful Sun Hongying fell silent.

Seeing that his family members were all a bit down, Sun Zhiwei had to try to distract them.

"I already made arrangements for Hongying yesterday, and she will start her internship at the Translation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tomorrow."

"tomorrow?"

Sun Hongying could no longer care about her foolish younger brother. Going to the internship was a matter of vital interest to her, and she couldn't be more concerned about it.

"Don't be nervous. Your dad has many acquaintances in the translation office. I have a good relationship with Su Yong'an, the head of the English group. I'll take you there tomorrow."

"Thank you dad."

The group talked as they walked, and soon followed the crowd and left the train station.

The next morning, he took Sun Hongying into the English translation group and handed the girl over to Group Leader Su to take care of.

They also introduced her to several people from the same group as Ren Dongmei, asking them to help take care of her.

Ren Dongmei and the other three are now able to go on missions independently, although they are not in the same group, they are still in the same department.

The interpreting team is a very powerful group, and the newcomers are now calling them "sisters." They can easily look after Sun Hongying.

He himself went to the intelligence department's logistics department to collect the supplies for his departure: including miniature cameras and film, various medicines, silenced pistols, listening devices and other special equipment.

In addition, he also received some paper currency and foreign exchange from the finance department.

The amount is small, only a few hundred US dollars. This is just the initial capital, and it's far from enough to complete the task.

Therefore, in the agent's learning plan, there is a course called "Business Thinking".

The goal is to allow agents to earn money anytime, anywhere, in order to make up for the shortage of funds.

This is a problem that the government or relevant departments cannot solve in the short term.

They are neither the CIA nor the KGB, and they do not receive substantial funding.

Especially foreign exchange; in recent decades, both domestic and foreign exchange have been very tight, and he never even considered it.

He had heard before that when we were building the liaison office in the United States, the government allocated $800 million, and more than $600 million was spent just on the house used as the office.

That's a lot of money! Actually, he has even more money in his spatial storage, but it's all kept secret.

He left the intelligence office with a whole box of equipment. He realized that this trip might take several months, so he needed to clear out some space first.

He still has over 100,000 antiques stored in his space, all of which he acquired in London.

However, these antiques are of dubious origin, and it is not the right time to give the ones with names and identities to the museum.

The real worry is that the current leaders might try to be magnanimous and not take the stolen goods, perhaps even subsidizing the shipping costs to return them. If that happens, he'll be in real trouble.

However, it's really hard to find a safe place to store antiques.

The museum doesn't even have a temperature-controlled storage room, so he really doesn't dare entrust many of the easily damaged cultural relics to them.

Besides the already identified treasures, he also acquired an entire room full of unorganized antiques. Those weren't afraid of being exposed, since they had no evidence anyway. He roughly estimated that the two unorganized warehouses contained over 27,000 antiques from China, of various kinds, and he didn't have time to authenticate them all.

So on his way back, when he passed by the museum, he left these things in an empty room in the museum and deliberately broke the lock and left them on the ground.

The museum's security personnel conduct regular patrols, and I believe they will discover these things soon.

The space still contains 70,000 to 80,000 foreign antiques, as well as several hundred Chinese antiques that are difficult to expose.

He didn't care about the foreign ones, and instead picked out the less easily damaged ones like gold, jade, pottery, and stone, and piled them all into the storage room in the basement of the neighboring hospital.

Seeing that most of the space was now empty, he was no longer worried about not having enough space and went home satisfied.

This time, he still planned to leave Hong Kong Island, using the same identity he had used in his previous transaction with Mr. Huo: the grain merchant Sun Wei.

Sun Wei also has an account with £350 million in HSBC.

This is no small sum; if this money were put to good use, it could potentially leverage ten times the amount of capital.

Two days later, Sun Zhiwei boarded a plane from Hong Kong Island bound for Washington, D.C. This time, his destination was the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.

Newport News Shipbuilding is a ship supplier for the U.S. military. In its early years, it built battleships for the U.S. military, and now it is building a variety of submarines and aircraft carriers.

The latest Los Angeles-class attack submarines are being built here.

Based on his speculation, the unknown submarine that was recently seen patrolling the outskirts of the Qingdao base should be this Los Angeles-class H submarine.

We are currently in the testing phase of the Los Angeles-class destroyers, which will soon be in service.

If I remember correctly, there are currently five ships that have been built, launched, and are undergoing testing: the USS Los Angeles, the USS Baton Rouge, the USS Philadelphia, the USS Memphis, and the USS Omaha.

The submarine reported by the Qingdao base should be one of these five test submarines.

In addition, six more are under construction, bringing the total number of vessels planned for the first batch to 18.

A day later, Sun Zhiwei arrived in Washington.

The first thing he did upon arriving was to withdraw money. He only had $5000 on him, which he had seized from spies years ago. After all these years, it was finally going to come in handy.

After leaving the airport, he took a taxi directly to the HSBC branch in Washington, D.C.

He had assumed that Washington, D.C., as a special district, would be very safe, but once he got into a taxi, he realized that the safety was only relative.

Compared to other cities in the Bald Eagle, the public security is relatively good, but in reality, it is incomparable to that in China.

Like the driver of this taxi, who is probably a gang member, he has strange tattoos on his neck.

Shortly after the car left the airport, several motorcycles passed by. Sun Zhiwei saw the driver make a few strange hand gestures to the motorcyclists.

This must be the unique street culture of the Bald Eagles. Each different gang has its own specific tattoos, street graffiti, gestures, and gait.

They can express various internally agreed-upon codes, such as whether there are police present, whether it is easy to make a move, and so on.

The rise of motorcycle gangs has also made motorcycle culture a part of their culture; most of the motorcyclists in the Bald Eagles are associated with gangs.

After realizing he might be being watched, Sun Zhiwei immediately used his spatial ability to check the taxi.

He then found numerous firearms on the driver, in the glove compartment, and in the trunk. Several motorcyclists who had passed by earlier also had firearms on them.

(End of this chapter)