50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 370 First Look at the FBI
The moment the phrase "selling out the embassy" was uttered, it was met with fierce opposition from everyone in the meeting room.

"Stop arguing, let me finish. I don't really want to sell these properties."

“We can sell these houses to Senator Bailey Goldwater, who has been supporting us, for $1, and put them under the name of the Free China Friends Association, which he chairs.”

"In this way, these properties will no longer belong to us, and we won't have to worry about them being seized by the mainland."

"Once things have calmed down, we can have the association use the excuse of cash flow problems to force us to buy them back."

As soon as this idea was proposed, the entire meeting room fell silent as everyone considered its feasibility.

"Think about it, as long as the property rights are legally transferred to the hands of the people of the United States, the mainland will be unable to cause us any trouble."

"Moreover, these properties are only nominally no longer ours; in reality, we continue to use these buildings."

"Then, how can you guarantee that Bailey Goldwater won't go back on his word?"

"Everyone, Bailey Goldwater can still be trusted."

"Or we could ask Mr. Thomas Cochrane to vouch for us. He was Roosevelt's chief advisor and has always supported us."

"Then let's do it this way. This needs to be done as soon as possible, and we should try to complete the transaction before the delegation arrives," the meeting moderator decided.

“However, one dollar is too cheap. Let’s offer 20 dollars.” Everyone agreed.

Thus, an absurd deal was hastily decided, setting a precedent on Earth for selling one's own embassy.

Afterwards, the discussion in the conference room continued regarding plans to cause trouble during the visit.

What's remarkable is that none of these plans involved actual assassinations; they only included threats, harassment, and protests – all rather harmless actions.

This is completely inconsistent with the ruthless and decisive style of the former Dual Bureau, which shows that these guys have also chickened out.

The meeting didn't end until after 11 p.m., and several documents were produced in the end.

The document clearly outlined the time, location, personnel, budget, and operational details, eliminating the need for Sun Zhiwei to search for it further.

He waited underground for a while, and after the meeting, the documents were locked in a safe.

He then retrieved the document using his spatial storage, completed the photographing and copying process inside the tunnel, and then put the document back in its original location.

After finishing the work, Sun Zhiwei began to wrap things up. He refilled and restored the tunnel, and also restored the floor of the carpentry workshop.

Finally, he climbed over the fence at 33rd Street, got into his car, and drove away from Double Oaks.

The next day at noon, the photos taken the night before were sent to the mall's water tank.

The delegation hasn't arrived yet, so there's plenty of time, and he hasn't personally delivered it to the embassy.

Anyway, if it goes through the secret mailbox, it will arrive at Lao Han's place by nightfall at the latest.

As for walkie-talkies, he would never take them out to use in his residence or shop.

The FBI's electromagnetic wave location equipment is quite advanced, and he certainly didn't want his activity areas to be monitored by them.

Tonight he will be visiting the FBI headquarters—the John Edgar Hoover Building.

Because he didn't know the KKK's address or details, but the FBI certainly did, as they had conducted numerous operations against the KKK in the past.

Hoover Building is a rugged reinforced concrete building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, one kilometer east of the White House. Although its style has often been ridiculed in later generations, it was actually a popular architectural style in the United States during the 1950s and 60s.

The building's exterior walls are all constructed of poured concrete, prioritizing sturdiness and durability, although the building's floor area is indeed not large.

With an ever-increasing number of tens of thousands of FBI headquarters employees, the building, which has been in use for less than five years, is already struggling to keep up with the demands.

The main reason is that a large number of documents are stored here; it is said that nearly half of the rooms inside the building are used to store various paper documents.

After lunch, Sun Zhiwei went to the store to check it out. After confirming that he didn't have anything to do that day, he drove to Pennsylvania Avenue to scout out the terrain.

The results of the investigation were very disappointing. The area around Hoover Building was full of various buildings, and no abandoned buildings or large forests that could be used were found.

This created an obstacle for his nighttime operations; he couldn't very well start digging a tunnel from several kilometers away.

He had no choice but to open up the space and search the surroundings.

He finally concluded that they either had to dig through the Washington tunnels, which were a kilometer away beneath the White House, or they had to go through the sewers.

Washington’s underground drainage system is decent but not advanced enough to prevent ordinary flooding.

One of the main roads passes not far from the basement of Hoover Building, and the Hoover Building's drainage system is connected to this underground main road.

To test the feasibility of poaching talent from the White House, he drove from Hoover Building along Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House.

Along the way, he mainly investigated the underground pipeline network, and the results were not optimistic.

There is a network of pipes and underground passages connecting various federal government agencies, located more than ten meters underground.

There was almost no more space available for him to dig a one-kilometer-long tunnel, which would inevitably involve digging through various pipeline networks along the way.

At deeper places, underground water veins begin to appear, inevitably resulting in a water pit being dug out.

After much deliberation, he had no choice but to use the second option: going down the sewer.

Since he was going through the sewers, there was no need to wait until night. He drove directly to a secluded corner nearby and parked at a manhole.

Then, he changed into a rubber diving suit in the car, and after confirming that no one was around, he parked the car, put away the manhole cover, went down into the manhole, and closed the manhole cover in one smooth motion, arriving at the Washington underground.

Afterwards, he used the space to check the ground buildings to confirm his direction, followed the dirty sewer branches into the main line, and then used the main sewer line to arrive at a place not far underground of the Hoover Building.

Even though he was wearing diving gear and breathing oxygen from an oxygen tank, he could still smell the stench that entered his lungs.

It was truly a nightmare. After confirming the direction, Sun Zhiwei quickly dug a small underground passage leading to the bottom of the Hoover Tower.

The stench lessened considerably after entering the tunnel he had created. He quickly extended the tunnel to the base of the building, where the space could completely cover the entire structure.

It was then that he realized that there were indeed many rooms in the building used for storing documents.

The densely packed paper documents were piled up everywhere, and finding information about the 3K organization among so many documents was a huge undertaking.

But he couldn't find anyone else familiar with the place to ask about the arrangement of the documents, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and search room by room.

Fortunately, these rooms where files were stored still had a master directory, so he only needed to check the master directory to know the general contents of the files in the rooms.

(End of this chapter)