No.111 Burglary

Lin Cheng remembered the general plot line of the movie Red Flame Battlefield, but he couldn't remember the details of what happened.

He only knew that the Sunset Red Elderly Secret Service, which was being targeted and killed by the CIA, had been running around the United States to commit crimes, and even forcibly broke into the CIA's headquarters in Langley, but Lin Cheng didn't think it was a good idea to directly follow Frank Moses.

After all, he is also a professional agent, once he gets closer, he may be aware of his tracking, and he may even shoot at the moment, but Lin Cheng does not want such a misunderstanding to occur.

Lin Cheng didn't expect to be in contact with the target at a very close distance, but he still kept a low profile and didn't show any problems, and walked into the Chinese souvenir shop with the little girl Elena, pretending to be a customer who came to buy something.

His acting skills were very skillful and did not arouse the suspicion of the old agent.

Watching Frank Moses disappear outside the souvenir shop with Sarah Rose, Elena gasped for breath, and when she saw the CIA agent, she couldn't help but hold her breath, for fear of being seen that something was wrong...... But she ignored the fact that she was only thirteen years old, and that a little girl wearing the uniform of a church high school girls' school could attract any attention.

Lin Cheng gently rubbed the soft silver hair on the top of her head, set his eyes on the middle-aged woman behind the counter who was secretly wiping her tears, and slowly spoke in Chinese.

"Aunt Chen, I heard about Reporter Chen, please mourn."

This was not the first time he had visited the shop.

It is relatively close to Aunt Lin's old apartment, and the things are relatively complete, so he often comes here to buy some bits and pieces, which are at least much cheaper than those in the supermarket, and he is more familiar with the boss after coming and going.

The owner of the souvenir shop is a middle-aged woman about the same age as Aunt Lin, surnamed Chen, single and divorced, the man in the family ran away before the daughter was born, and the daughter of mixed Chinese and American descent did not follow her father's surname, and Aunt Chen raised the girl alone by making a living in the souvenir shop.

When she grew up, she was also very competitive, and was directly admitted to the journalism department of Harvard University, starting slowly as a reporter in a small newspaper, and finally became a professional reporter by the New York Times.

Until recently, a sudden burglary occurred, and the robber accidentally killed the young reporter Chen.

"Ah Cheng, why are you here?"

Seeing that it was Lin Cheng standing at the door of the store, Aunt Chen immediately wiped her tears and stood up.

"I was investigating a case related to reporter Chen, but I didn't expect this to happen."

Lin Cheng did not forget that his fake identity in Chinatown was a detective assistant of a detective agency, and he used a clever reason to involve himself in this incident.

And when Aunt Chen heard that Lin Cheng was investigating her daughter's matter, her eyes lit up, and she seemed to see hope.

Cases large and small happen every day in New York, and a burglary is not unusual.

The death of her daughter can be said to be like the sky has fallen for a single-parent family, Aunt Chen has lost the center of her life, but the New York police simply filed a case, saying that they would solve the case, and then there was no follow-up.

What's more, Americans have always had a condescending attitude and are very unfriendly to yellow-skinned Asians, even if Reporter Chen is of mixed Chinese and American descent.

The inaction attitude of the police officers in the New York City Police Department made Aunt Chen put her hope on Lin Cheng, after all, Lin Cheng has the identity of a detective, and she believes that Lin Cheng will help find the truth of the matter and let her daughter die a proper death compared to those American police who have done nothing.

"What did the police in New York say, didn't they tell you anything?"

"They said it was just a burglary, promised to solve the case, and then there was no news."

Aunt Chen sighed slowly, her face was full of sadness after losing her beloved daughter, Lin Cheng felt that it was difficult for him to understand what a mother's mood was like at this moment, but it must be very painful and desperate, and her daughter's death must have broken her heart.

"Is there any surveillance footage from the night of the incident?"

Lin Cheng frowned and continued to ask.

He instinctively felt that this should not be the case, New York is a big international city, tens of millions of people live here, and there may be crimes big and small every day, but the police should not ignore everything.

"No, they said they were going to solve the case, but they were all taken away by the police, I asked them for it, but they didn't give it to me."

Hearing this, Lin Cheng set his eyes on the silver-haired little rich woman beside him who was observing the pickles in the sauce jar.

Elena was very smart and immediately understood what Lin Cheng meant, she opened her backpack, took out her new computer, and began to try to hack into the database of the New York City Police Department.

"Ah Cheng, what's the matter with this little girl?"

Aunt Chen looked at the little foreigner girl brought by Lin Cheng who was operating a huge military computer, and the expression on her face was a little dazed.

She ...... Sort of me as my assistant, don't look at her small size, but she's a computer expert. ”

Lin Cheng shrugged his shoulders, and took out three or five White Rabbit toffees from the sugar box that Aunt Chen placed under the counter.

Soon, Elena successfully hacked into the database of the New York Police Department and found the surveillance video records of the souvenir store.

She turned the computer screen to the direction where Lin Cheng was and began to play the video of the night of the crime, Lin Cheng smiled, rubbed her hair, and stuffed her with a toffee, while Elena was stunned for a moment with the white rabbit toffee that Lin Cheng stuffed to her.

She wanted to say that she was past the age of eating candy, but when she saw that Lin Cheng was also chewing the toffee, she finally closed her mouth obediently, peeled off the candy paper and threw the milk candy with glutinous rice paper into her mouth, and then ......

A satisfied expression appeared on her face, as if she liked the taste of milk candy very much.

Lin Cheng focused on the surveillance in the computer screen, the surveillance video in Aunt Chen's store was very clear, and on the night of the crime, Aunt Chen was not in the store, only Reporter Chen was alone in the store watching the store, and there were not many customers that night.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, four or five people dressed in black smashed the glass of the door of the souvenir shop, which had been closed, and shot and killed Chen before she could react.

He then took all the bills from the cash register on the counter and left.

The thugs moved extremely quickly, and the entire process of the crime took no more than five minutes.

Although they disguised themselves as thugs, Lin Cheng still noticed these people for the first time, and the posture of using a gun when killing Reporter Chen seemed to be a veteran who often held a gun, so it was definitely not a burglary, but a murder.