Chapter 29 Cultural Relics Exposition
Carter and Li Yan's current situation is very bad, because the two appeared at the crime scene earlier than the consulate's convoy, and at the same time, they could not give any explanation in the face of the corpses in the back alley of the Fuzhou Hotel, plus their appearance disturbed the kidnappers and made the kidnappers flee in advance.
As a result, Li Yan was sent on a plane back to Hong Kong by Consul Han because of his unfavorable actions, and Carter was suspended by the New York City Police Department to go home for reflection and was not allowed to continue to participate in the case.
Let's not mention how embarrassing the current situation of these two guys is.
Frank Morgan, a veteran CIA agent, began asking the New York City Police Department to help investigate who the owner of the white SUV Nissan Toyota X-Trail was damaged and riddled with bullet holes at the scene.
Unfortunately, this is an unlicensed car, and the dealer is found according to the metal nameplate in the engine compartment, and the news is that it is a stolen vehicle, which should be sold on the black market, and Frank Moses immediately realizes that this clue may not find the owner.
Since the real identity of the owner cannot be found in this simple way, it can only be viewed through surveillance from the traffic management department in New York City - which is the most complex and least efficient method.
As the world's largest city, New York's road monitoring has always been very comprehensive, but because it is so comprehensive, the workload of the traffic supervision department has increased exponentially.
Even if the New York City Police Department wanted to check the surveillance, it would take a long time to wait for them.
However, although the uncles of these traffic management departments can put on a show in front of the police, in the face of state violence organs like the FBI, especially the department in charge of national security affairs, they can only be forced to advance the progress and launch an investigation as soon as possible, and search for the surveillance video at the scene of the crime.
It doesn't matter if you check this, although the surveillance in the back alley of the Fuzhou Hotel has been destroyed, they really found the surveillance screen when Lin Cheng drove over, and also found out where the white van went after leaving.
The priority must be the whereabouts of the van, but following the surveillance video, in the end, the FBI agents found only an empty car, and Nakajima and Han Surong must have changed to other cars and abandoned the van.
And the white SUV, since they have got the driver's photo, with the help of the police database, they really found Lin Cheng's identity information and put the personal file on Frank Moses's desk.
Frank Moses took Lin Cheng's information and looked at it over and over again, frowning.
The photo in the archive is of a bespectacled Asian named Lu Xia, a Chinese immigrant to the United States who is now a librarian at the City Library of New York.
The file also contained the person's immigration certificate, green card information, driver's certificate, credit card information, and other things, but as a seasoned CIA agent, Frank Moses could tell at a glance that the identity file was fake, because the person's background and experience were too clean.
His profile is as clean as a law-abiding citizen, but would a law-abiding citizen drive a vehicle full of bullet holes into a crime scene where a dozen people died?
"No, this person's identity is fake, who is he, and why is his fake identity in the government's database?"
Lin Cheng didn't know that there was already a CIA agent eyeing him, he had just received a text message from the little rich woman Elena, since Nakajima drove away with Han Surong, Lin Cheng had already contacted Elena and asked Elena to help.
After all, that little girl has amazing hacking skills, although she may not be really powerful, but she can still help look at the monitoring records of the traffic management department and investigate the whereabouts of Nakajima.
In order to help Lin Cheng track down the whereabouts of the van, the little girl took two Christian Science classes that were meaningless to her, ran to her rented safe house off campus, hacked into the surveillance probe of the New York City Department, and began to look through the surveillance footage of Chinatown in the past 24 hours.
The white van had driven away before the police arrived in Chinatown, passing by the police car, and Elena followed the van all the way to see it drive to Uptown Manhattan, parked in the underground garage of another apartment building, and never reappeared.
When Elena noticed that the five-star hotel across the road from the apartment building was hosting a Chinese Cultural Relics Exposition tonight, and that the artifacts on display were from a Hong Kong smuggling boat, she immediately realized something.
So she quickly contacted Lin Cheng and told him what she thought.
FBI agents thought that Nakajima had left with Han Surong in a different car, so they continued to track down the suspicious vehicles in the surrounding area, but Elena suspected that they had changed their way of moving on foot, and the purpose was the antiquities fair.
And as it turned out, Elena's suspicions were correct.
"Cultural relics fair, it seems that there is such a thing?"
Among the transnational antiquities smuggling cases that Li Yan led people to crack, there was indeed one less cargo ship that smuggled cultural relics, and no departure record was found, and it was later stopped by the federal police in San Francisco, and then it was discovered that the cultural relics had been sent to the eastern United States.
In the end, it was the FBI that came in to recover the artifacts.
After the kidnapping case, the U.S. government realized that the cultural relics belonged to the Nakajima gang, and that the two failed arrests might cause the kidnappers to directly tear up the tickets, so they simply handed them over to the Chinese Consulate General in New York in advance as compensation for the failure of the rescue mission.
Since these cultural relics belong to China, they must be sent back to China, but as a diplomatic mission in the United States, the Chinese side has decided to hold a cultural relics fair in Upper Manhattan before returning to China to promote people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, and then ship them back to China after the exhibition.
Therefore, as the consul general, Han Ping must attend the opening ceremony and deliver an opening speech.
Therefore, Lin Cheng knew that Elena's suspicion was right, and this expo was the final stage selected by Nakajima.
He finally remembered that the only movie he remembered was where Uncle Long fell from the ceiling and slid down on the big red cloth took place, at the hotel's heritage fair.
After confirming the information given by Elena, Lin Cheng was ready to act.
"What, an invitation to the fair?"
Lin Cheng blocked the fox in the room, and after hearing Lin Cheng's request, the expression on the fox's face was really surprised.
She had some difficulty understanding Lin Cheng's brain circuit.
Obviously, he had just come back from the death line, but the first thing he did when he found him was to ask him to help him get an invitation to the China Cultural Relics Expo, which made the fox somewhat wonder if Lin Cheng was broken by Carlos.
"Yes, that's important to me."
"I can't guarantee you'll get it, maybe you'll have to figure it out yourself."
"Try your best."
Although Lin Cheng's request was very sudden, as the head of the intelligence management department of the Assassin Alliance, the fox still agreed to him.
However, given that the Cultural Relics Expo will be held tonight, there is not much time left for her, and she needs to contact the intelligence network immediately, so that she can get the invitation letter that Lin Cheng needs.
At the same time, Lin Cheng's urgent need for an invitation letter also made her interested in Lin Cheng's motives.
Is there anything special about this fair, is it that he must go?