Following Mona's finger to the computer screen, Roan saw a record of spending at a high-end restaurant.

"Four days after the sixth bank robbery, Elken and his family had a big meal at this Michelin-starred restaurant."

Mona moved her fingers slightly, and the surveillance video of the lobby of the Michelin-starred restaurant appeared on the computer screen, adjusted slightly, and a moment later, the video of the Elken family's meal that night appeared in the eyes of the two.

Obviously, this was a family celebration for Elken's daughter to get a letter of recommendation and go to college, during which Elken even allowed her daughter Serena to drink a little less wine.

During the whole meal, the Erken family was warm and harmonious, and they were happy.

After watching the surveillance video, Luo An next to the computer scratched his head, Mona shrugged her shoulders, a touch of envy flowed in her eyes, but her tone said without emotion:

"It's important for my daughter to go to college, and it's normal to come to this kind of restaurant to celebrate."

I don't know if it's because of sympathy for the life experience of the Elken family, or because of envy of Serena, in short, Mona's mood is very complicated now.

"Let's go to the scene and investigate."

Before the truth is investigated, Luo An will not say anything.

Lacey hasn't come back yet, and Ryder is lying in the hospital, so this time it's only Mona who goes out with him.

Seeing that Luo An was again in the configuration of a set of combat clothes + plate armor vest + smoke grenades + shock bombs + two Glock 18 + ten extended magazines, Mona covered her forehead and sighed very speechlessly.

She was now pretty sure that Luo An's lack of security was unusually severe.

——

The pitch-black SUV sped down the roads of New York and soon arrived at the laundry in Queens.

Jingle Bell –

Pushing open the door of the laundry, Roan walked in with Mona.

Several machines in the laundry were busy, and one of them seemed to be malfunctioning, and a skinny white woman was kicking the machine and muttering curses while preparing to make a call.

“FBI！”

After entering the laundry, Roan pulled out the FBI's gold badge and showed it to the skinny white woman, then asked:

"Where's the owner of this laundry?"

"I am!"

Seeing the heavily armed Luo An, the corner of Zoe, a skinny white woman, twitched at the corner of her mouth, and she took a step back, her face a little nervous:

"What are you looking for me for?"

"You're the boss?"

The words of the woman in front of him made Luo An frown:

"The owner of this shop, isn't it Erken?"

Hearing that Luo An was not here to find him, Zoe suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, crossed his hands on his waist, raised his eyebrows and began to scold Elken:

"You're right, Mr. Detective, the previous owner of this shop was Elken, but he sold the laundry to me the night before for a low price.

I've known Elken for many years, and I thought Elken was an honest man, but I didn't expect that the laundry he sold me had a lot of faults with the machine, and I had been repairing the machine since the morning."

Hearing the woman's words, Luo An and Mona glanced at each other, and both noticed that something was wrong, so they hurriedly waved their hands to interrupt each other:

"Elken sold the store to you the night before yesterday, why?"

"How do I know?"

The corners of Zoe's mouth hooked down, and her face was full of unhappiness:

"Maybe it's because his daughter is going to a college in another state, so he's not going to work here."

Did you take this opportunity to run away from New York?

Mona turned her head to look at Luo An, and just wanted to ask, Luo An's eyes moved, and he continued to ask:

"How was Elken looking when he sold the shop to you? In a hurry? ”

Luo Anxin had some other conjectures.

Zoe shook her head, saying that she had a bakery at the end of the street, and that when Elken came to look for her the night before, she was not anxious, and the two sides had negotiated the price of the store for a long time.

Hearing this, Luo An frowned, and the thoughts in his heart were dispelled.

"OK, thank you for your cooperation."

After casually asking a few words again, seeing that they couldn't find any other useful information, Luo An and Mona didn't talk nonsense, and turned around and left the laundry directly.

With one foot on the accelerator, the SUV rushed out of the road.

On the co-pilot, Mona's ten fingers flew on the keyboard, her brows furrowed:

"There is no record of Elken's family buying a ticket to leave New York, and there is no record of Elken's family car leaving at NYPD checkpoints on highways around New York."

"So they should still be in New York."

Luo An nodded, he originally thought that Elken was in a hurry to sell the laundry because of some kind of coercion, but the state of Elken described by Zoe just now did not look like he was coerced.

——

The SUV soon arrived in the neighborhood where Elken's home was located, an old building.

Taking the elevator to the third floor, Roan and Mona walked down the hallway to the door of Elken's house and began knocking.

Knock knock!

"Is anyone home?"

Luo An shouted, but no one in the room answered.

Seeing this, Mona tilted her head, and was just about to speak, when Luo An's nose moved, her face changed slightly, and she hurriedly waved her hand to signal Mona to hide to the side.

The two took out their weapons, looked at each other and counted down to three, Luo An decisively kicked the door open, and shouted:

“FBI！”

With guns in their hands, Roan and Mona quickly inspected every room in the house in a vigilant posture, and after confirming that there was no one there, they said in unison:

"Safety!"

"Safety!"

Putting the pistol back in their pockets, Ann and Mona walked to the living room with solemn faces.

The living room is not big, a TV and a sofa.

But at this time, the left side of the yellow-brown sofa had been dyed black by the red blood.

"What the hell is going on here?"

Mona frowned and looked around, although there was blood left in the living room, it didn't look messy overall, it didn't look like a murder had happened.

Luo An also looked solemn, and checked several bedrooms in the house, and found that the clothes in the closet of the parents and daughter were neatly organized, and the beds were also clean.

But the room of the two old men was very messy, and it was obvious that they had not been cleaned up, and when they opened the wardrobe, the clothes inside were also ripped everywhere.

When I went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, I found that there was no short-term food in it, it was all food that could be stored for a long time.

"It seems that Erken is planning to send his daughter to college with his wife."

After a brief observation, Luo An walked back to the living room, clasped his hands in front of his chest, frowned and thought and muttered:

"The two old men stayed to watch the house because it was inconvenient for them to go downstairs to buy things, so Elken left them a lot of food."

Hearing Luo An's analysis, Mona nodded and didn't say anything, she also made this judgment after observing it for a week, but she was still a little puzzled, what was the blood on the sofa?

"I don't know."

Luo An shook his head, the first time he saw the blood, he wanted to call his colleagues from the trace laboratory department to come here for examination.

But after thinking about it, he and Mona were secretly operating this time, and it might not be appropriate to call the trace testing department.

"Go back to the car and check the surveillance footage of the surrounding roads to see where Elken's car went."

After being silent for a long time, Luo An rummaged around the room several times, and indeed found no clues, so he turned to Mona and said:

"I didn't see Erken's car downstairs just now, and it was most likely driven away by the Erken family."

“OK。”

Mona nodded, got up and prepared to leave with Ann.

As soon as the two of them walked out of the door of Elken's house, and when Roan was about to fix the door again, the elevator not far from the corridor opened, and two white young men walked out of it.

Seeing the heavily armed Roan and the white FBI written on Mona's body armor, the two white young men were stunned, glanced at each other, and walked towards the stairs not far from the elevator.

Roan, who had just fixed the door, tilted his head to see this scene, quietly took out Glock 18, protected Mona behind him, and shouted loudly:

"Two, don't leave ...... yet"

In the next second, the two white youths who had just walked to the door of the stairs decisively pulled out their guns, and pulled the trigger in the direction of Luo An and the others without aiming.

Just as the two white youths stretched out their hands into their arms, a cold light flashed in Luo An's eyes, and while he forcefully pushed Mona back into Elken's house, he raised his hand and shot it in the center of the back of the white youth on the left.

Bang!

Bang! Bang!

"Ahh

“FU-K!”

Three gunshots rang out, and Luo An hid sideways into the room unharmed.

The two white youths screamed and fell down the stairs with their heads down, and the other hurried down the stairs with a big scolding, ready to pick up his companion and take him to run away.

"Luo An, are you alright?"

Mona, who was pushed to the ground by Luo An, quickly got up from the ground, her face was full of anxiety, Luo An turned her head and grinned:

"I'm fine! Feel relieved. ”

The moment he fired the gun just now, Luo An felt that although his reaction speed was not as fast as when he was in the basement, it was also a little faster than before.

Thinking of this, Luo An no longer hesitated, and decisively rushed out with Glock 18 in a fighting posture.

Seeing this, Mona followed closely, but what shocked her was that she and Luo An had gone out less than two seconds apart, but as soon as she walked out of the room, Luo An had already rushed to the end of the corridor.

"Shit!"

Mona scolded in her heart: "Why is Luo An so fast? ”

Mona's thoughts Luo An didn't know, and at the moment of rushing to the staircase, Luo An decisively threw a shock bomb at the corner of the staircase.

Boom!

At the moment when the stun bomb exploded, the eyes of the two white young men were white, their ears were in sharp pain, and their heads were dizzy.

Seeing this, the corners of Luo An's mouth raised slightly, raised his hand and aimed Glock 18 at the arms of the two white youths, and pulled the trigger directly without hesitation.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Ahh

The arm was hit by a bullet, and the pistols in the hands of the two white youths fell to the ground instantly, and they were subconsciously about to pick it up, but Luo An had already rushed in front of them in the disbelief of the two faces.

A gust of wind hit, and the two white youths were hit hard in the face, the bridge of their noses collapsed, and they fell directly to the ground with their heads on their backs.

By the time Mona rushed to the staircase with a gun, Roan had already handcuffed the two together.

Mona: ". FU-K！ ”

The author was sent on a business trip today, and now immediately board the plane o(╥_╥)o

In the last week or so, the update time has been temporarily changed to 8 pm, and after returning from a business trip, it will be changed to 12:30 pm, so I'm sorry!

2023.06.03

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