50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 284 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
Sun Zhiwei only began to take action after confirming that it was safe.

He quickly cut open an inner wall in the corner of the basement, connecting the tunnel to Professor Meng's basement.

At this time, Professor Meng and his family were already resting in their pajamas on the bed in their second-floor bedroom. As expected, Professor Meng did not tell his family that he was leaving that night.

His wife, Evan, and daughter, Anna, were already asleep, but Professor Meng himself lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, waiting anxiously.

Suddenly, he heard a soft knock on the door.

Professor Meng immediately woke up. He quickly got up and opened the bedroom door, where Sun Zhiwei was standing.

Sun Zhiwei, however, was not in a hurry. Instead, he said softly, "Professor, are you ready? Change into your outdoor clothes, pack your luggage, and we'll leave right away."

"Please wait a moment," Professor Meng said immediately.

Mrs. Evans had been awakened by the noise and, seeing Professor Meng speaking at the door, she got out of bed as well.

Professor Meng then returned to the bedroom and explained to Mrs. Evan.

Mrs. Evan didn't say much. They had already discussed it, and Mrs. Evan had agreed to the family's plan to return to China. It was only because of the FBI's obstruction that the trip didn't happen.

Hearing that they were leaving soon, she immediately went to change her clothes. They didn't wake the sleeping child, but instead carried the child downstairs.

They were originally planning to go out together to the garage to get their car, but Sun Zhiwei led them down to the basement instead.

To their surprise, a dark, one-meter-high passageway had appeared in a corner of the basement.

Sun Zhiwei took out a flashlight he had prepared beforehand and handed it to Professor Meng, letting him walk in front.

"Professor Meng, this is a straight line. You can just walk straight ahead."

"Don't go out when you reach the exit. Wait for me to come find you. I need to stay behind and tidy up the room."

“Okay, let’s set off then.” Professor Meng wasn’t one to hesitate; he knew that at this point, it was time to follow orders.

So he led the way into the tunnel, with Mrs. Evan carrying the child close behind.

Sun Zhiwei stayed behind last, first installing the original cut-off inner wall, and then moving the refrigerator from the side to block the location of the tunnel cut.

Although the cutting lines on the interior wall are very fine, they can still be seen upon close inspection. Using the refrigerator to cover them can delay the time it takes to be discovered.

He then began to remove soil and stones from the surrounding ground to block the tunnel section by section. After blocking about 100 meters, he stopped and sped up to catch up with Professor Meng and his family.

At this moment, Professor Meng and his group had just arrived at the park's exit.

When Sun Zhiwei arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked towards the exit, which was blocked by a large rock.

Sun Zhiwei stepped forward and exerted force on the stone, which moved aside. After the four people exited the tunnel, Sun Zhiwei moved the stone back to block the entrance.

Meanwhile, he had already removed a lot of soil and stones from the surrounding underground, blocking the tunnel that was blocked by the stones for more than ten meters.

The four of them came out of the grove and came to the roadside, where a pickup truck was already parked. They assumed that Sun Zhiwei had driven the truck there.

Actually, Sun Zhiwei had just taken the pickup truck out of his spatial storage and placed it far away on the roadside where no one was around.

Otherwise, in America, if a car is parked in a remote place in the middle of the night, it would probably be dismantled and sold within a few hours.

It's only 50 kilometers from here to Long Beach Pier, a half-hour drive at night. But the gambling ship doesn't depart until 10 a.m. tomorrow, and Sun Zhiwei is a little worried about the time in between.

Now they can only take it one step at a time. He has also prepared a backup plan if the gambling ship has trouble sailing.

Actually, the roads in Los Angeles are very interconnected. The safest thing to do would be to take Professor Meng to a remote, impoverished place and stay there for ten days or half a month until the storm has passed before leaving.

He had been given a task and a deadline, so he could only send the person away as soon as possible.

Yesterday, he spent most of the day away from Professor Meng's house; he didn't just steal a few cars.

He also contacted a ship to meet him on the high seas and bought a mobile phone. These have become quite popular in the US these days, and having a mobile phone will make things more convenient for him.

He then went to Los Angeles Airport and bought three plane tickets to Hong Kong Island for Professor Meng's family; he also went to Long Beach Passenger Terminal and booked three ferry tickets to Mexico.

In addition, with the extensive road network surrounding Los Angeles, Professor Meng had far too many possible routes to leave.

The gambling ship they were preparing to board was located at the commercial pier in the direction of the Friendship Bell, but the passenger pier was in the direction of Long Beach.

There's a container terminal and a military base between them, and it's a distance of more than ten kilometers to go around them.

If the FBI really wants to find Professor Meng's whereabouts, they need to block all land, sea, and air routes to Los Angeles.

This is no easy task; the mayor of Los Angeles is unlikely to agree to block all city traffic just to help the FBI find someone.

According to Americans, the mayor of Los Angeles is not the mayor of the FBI, and the FBI will not provide him with the citizens' votes. He can cooperate with them or ignore them.

After all, the current president of the United States, Ford, is a Republican, while Los Angeles has always been a stronghold of the Democratic Party, and the mayor of Los Angeles has mostly been a Democrat.

Moreover, if the citizens of Los Angeles knew that the current mayor had rejected the FBI's lockdown order for the sake of the citizens' well-being, his re-election next year would be a sure thing.

With so many favorable conditions, Sun Zhiwei decided to take a gamble.

So he drove his pickup truck around, changing vehicles several times in different underground parking lots.

Finally, park the car at the last underground car drop-off point, which is only 1 kilometer away from the commercial dock.

Then came the waiting time. He told Professor Meng to sleep in the car for a while and to wake them up when it was time to board the ship.

He himself went outside the parking lot and kept watch over the only road leading to the commercial dock.

Meanwhile, the FBI agents outside Professor Meng's house only drank a small amount of the drug, which only lasted for a little over an hour. They all woke up before 1 a.m.

However, none of them suspected anything about the coffee; instead, they continued their surveillance mission.

It wasn't until 6 a.m. that they realized something was wrong, because normally Professor Meng's wife would get up at 6 a.m. to make breakfast, but today there was no movement in the house.

To avoid making a mistake, they waited another hour, until 7 a.m., and when no one in the house got up, they finally realized there was a problem.

So one of them got out of the car and went to Professor Meng's house to knock on the door, but no one answered. When the FBI broke down the door, they found that Professor Meng's house was empty.

Subsequently, several FBI vehicles arrived at Professor Meng's house to search for clues, but they found nothing.

It's not their fault. It's not common to make holes in walls, and the tangent is so fine that it's not easy to spot unless you look closely.

(End of this chapter)