50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 419 Cutting out the roots
Gunshots rang out, and large amounts of shrapnel flew towards the robbers. Amid a series of synchronized screams, several nearby robbers were shot down to the ground.

The other bandits immediately returned fire in the direction Sun Zhiwei had fired. The bandit responsible for blowing up the car door was still not giving up and continued to install explosives.

Sun Zhiwei wasn't stupid. After firing one shot, he immediately hid behind another car and moved to a new location. Guerrilla warfare, after all, was a traditional skill.

Taking advantage of the smoke screen, he fired one shot and moved to another location. In less than five minutes, he had taken down more than a dozen robbers.

Only then did he call the security inside to inform them that it was safe outside and to have a few people come out and get into his car.

The security guards inside the train carriage were just about to return fire as soon as the doors opened, but instead they were met with a barrage of gunfire from outside.

They only learned from the call from their employer that the robbers outside had already been dealt with.

This made everyone wonder just how incompetent these robbers were that they were wiped out by their employer, a wealthy man, all by himself.

They understood what the employer meant on the phone: as security personnel, they were allowed to fire their weapons, but the employer did not have that right.

So, a few security guards were to get into the employer's car in the back to act as the ones shooting the robbers. This was free credit, so the security captain sent three security guards out of the car.

Sun Zhiwei immediately went up to them and asked for 17 bullets.

He just fired 17 shots in total. Now the security guard needs to match the number of bullets in his hand with the number of bullets on the ground.

Then he had the three security guards each fire a few shots to warm up their guns, and they checked each other's statements to avoid any slip-ups.

After the scene was arranged, the security captain called 911 to call the police.

Finally, the security captain called the security company and asked them to send another vehicle to pick up the goods, as the tires of the two armored vehicles were ruined.

Once everything was arranged, Sun Zhiwei handed his car over to three security guards and made a phone call to the new store while making his escape.

He knew all too well what kind of people the police in Country M were like. The best course of action was to leave the scene and pretend he had never been there, rather than cause trouble.

He explained the situation to the store manager, Theodore Ellis, over the phone, and told them to wait inside the store, as it might take a while.

The police arrived shortly after Sun Zhiwei left, not because they were efficient, but because passersby had already called the police when the gunshot rang out.

He doesn't need to worry about any of that; the security company will handle the police.

The new shop wasn't far from here; he arrived at the shop in less than ten minutes on foot.

Half an hour later, two new armored vehicles carrying the store's goods arrived at the store entrance.

As the shop assistants helped unload the goods, Sun Zhiwei asked about the security team leader from earlier.

The team leader spoke frankly, saying that they were very familiar with the police. After explaining the situation, the police released them and then sent people over to clean up the area.

If any of the robbers are still alive, they might be able to get some information out of them later.

Sun Zhiwei also hoped to get some answers from the questions.

He has no enemies here, and his identity has not been exposed. The only possible enemy is his former business rival who fought against Toby Bradley.

There is currently no evidence, and it is unlikely that there will be any direct evidence.

Toby had told him that the rival jeweler was a medium-sized jewelry store called Starry Night Jewelry. Starry Night Jewelry's store used to be not far from Magnificent Jewelry, but they were unlucky and couldn't rent a store on 'Billionaire Street'.

Now that Sun Zhiwei has withdrawn from 'Billionaire Street' with Magnificent Jewelry, they should be happy. Hiring someone to attack Magnificent Jewelry's transport vehicle at this time seems a bit redundant.

He didn't quite understand the other party's purpose. Was it just to vent his anger? If so, then the owner of 'Xinghai Jewelry' was rather narrow-minded.

After the security company's escort vehicle left, the store immediately began to be set up, and opened for business as soon as the setup was complete.

That's the downside of Old M's business; there's no opening ceremony or speeches from leaders, so the boss doesn't feel like he exists at all.

In the afternoon, the police came to investigate the situation. Sun Zhiwei didn't say anything, but he did say that the police had obtained information about the robbers.

The hospital only managed to save one of the robbers, but he was seriously injured and will probably have to spend the Lunar New Year in the hospital. As for the mastermind behind the robbery, they were never found out.

The police had already found out the identities of the robbers; they were from the East Side's Mo gang, one of the larger gangs in New York.

However, the police currently have no direct evidence to identify the leader of the Mo gang as a participant.

The police wanted evidence, but Sun Zhiwei didn't. Seeing that the jewelry store was running smoothly in the afternoon, Sun Zhiwei went straight home.

That night, he emerged directly from the monastery's secret passage and rushed to the Mo Gang's stronghold in the eastern district. He wiped out all 44 core members of the Mo Gang's headquarters.

It's not the theft itself that's scary, but the fact that the thief has his eye on it; to cut the weeds, you must nip them in the bud.

The higher-ups in the Mo Gang already knew about the situation at his shop and how many men he had lost. They knew he would definitely come back again, so he decided to strike first.

As for the mastermind behind it all, it's most likely Xinghai Jewelry. The police suspect them, but they have no evidence.

He couldn't retaliate immediately, as that would attract the attention of the police. He decided to wait until things calmed down before dealing with it.

The Rose Jewelry store has opened in the Tribeca district, but its brand awareness is relatively limited, so it should do an advertising campaign.

His shop's main product is gold jewelry, but gold prices have been rising, so Sun Zhiwei doesn't plan to do any special promotions to increase sales, because the more he sells, the more he loses money.

He had another way to make Magnificent Jewels famous: create a promotional campaign for Magnificent Jewels.

The next day, sections of the sidewalk in front of the Rose Jewelry store were fenced off by construction barriers.

The plot of land was only 3 meters by 3 meters, a total of 9 square meters, and workers were already digging the ground there.

Sun Zhiwei has purchased this 9-square-meter plot from the city hall, and he has registered the land use as the purpose of creating a high-end public art sculpture.

Although Sun Zhiwei did not specify what the land was intended for, New York City Hall does not levy property taxes on land used for the construction of public facilities.

He bought the 9-square-meter plot of land at a very low price and is now having workers dig a pit.

At the same time, he also contacted the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, rented a small induction melting furnace from them, and purchased 70 tons of ordinary steel ingots from the shipyard.

In the first week, the workers dug a two-meter-deep pit on the nine-square-meter plot of land and then laid a one-meter-thick layer of reinforced concrete underneath.

In the second week, the induction melting furnace began melting steel ingots on-site, laying a 1-meter-thick layer of pure steel on a 9-square-meter concrete surface.

(End of this chapter)