Bob turned off the alarm, and the world finally quieted down. The manager nodded with satisfaction and no longer had to listen to the annoying ringtone.
He had only taken a few steps when he heard the faint sound of a car braking behind him. He turned around and looked towards the sound, only to see several police officers getting out of the car.
"damn it……"
The manager cursed secretly and put on his professional smile again to greet him.
"I'm sorry, the subway explosion caused our alarm to be abnormal, and it always gave false alarms. I'm really sorry..."
Several police officers walked into the bank with expressionless faces, as if they had not heard what he said. When they passed through the security checkpoint, the metal detector sounded a beep beep beep.
The security guards wanted to stop them, but the leading policeman looked at the manager, who immediately explained: "But I have asked someone to temporarily turn off the alarm, so there will be no more false alarms..."
Hearing the manager's reply, the police officer smiled for the first time, and the manager also smiled with him.
"But we still have to check it..."
"Of course, I understand."
The manager led the police toward the bank. He just wanted to send these police away as soon as possible.
The manager led the way, but there was a strange "pop" sound behind him. When he turned around, he saw several security guards lying in a pool of blood.
"You...who are you? This is the Federal Reserve..."
The manager questioned the visitor with some lack of confidence. Several policemen looked at each other and smiled, and the leader said: "It's fine if it's the Federal Reserve. I'm afraid I'm in the wrong place."
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In the subway tunnel, the rumbling boring machine was still advancing. The originally hard granite became fragile under the action of the chemicals sprayed from the nozzle, and was scraped off layer by layer by the drill bit.
The person operating the tunnel boring machine was Winter. Under his control, the tunnel boring machine had already created a long passage. If anyone knowledgeable here would have discovered that the direction the tunnel boring machine was heading was actually the underground vault of the Federal Reserve.
Within the Federal Reserve, with the manager as a leading party, Lane's progress was extremely smooth, and he unexpectedly slaughtered the staff here along the way.
The staff of the underground vault felt the vibration on the ground and picked up the phone to notify their superiors. However, when they picked up the phone, they found that the line was not working at all.
Two minutes ago, a syndicate used a chainsaw to cut off the communication lines. The entire New York branch of the Federal Reserve became an island in the sea, completely losing contact with the outside world.
…
Inside the vault, the staff stared dumbfoundedly at a wall. A huge drill bit came out of the wall, and the wall was torn apart, revealing the huge thing behind it.
The boring machine finally drilled through the granite wall and completely opened the passage between the outside and the vault. Several staff members were shot and killed by Winter one by one. The boring machine gave way to the passage, and behind them, a convoy of forklifts and trucks entered the vault one after another.
The yellow gold bricks are stacked neatly in various areas of the vault. The entire underground vault is about half the size of a football field. It is surrounded by the hard rocks of Manhattan Island and is divided into 122 warehouses. The largest warehouse can store about 107,000 pieces of gold.
The ingots are stacked 3 meters high, 3 meters wide and over 5 meters long, with a market value of more than 15 billion US dollars.
There are two shapes of gold bricks. The rectangular ones were cast before 1986, and the trapezoidal ones were cast after 1986. The casting location, number and purity are engraved on the gold bricks. The purity of all gold bricks is controlled at 99.5% to 99.9%.
Among them, there is no 100% pure gold. This is mainly because pure gold is too soft and is not conducive to storage and transportation.
In order to increase the hardness, copper, silver and other metals are added to the gold bricks. Therefore, the gold bricks are not always golden in color, but are a little red or white. Cold gold is like bricks, and some gold bricks have cracks on the surface.
The hole passed through.
There is a number on each iron gate, which represents the country or institution where the gold bricks are stored. Which countries store gold here is strictly confidential, and only a few senior bank officials know it.
But none of that mattered now. The steel gate was violently broken open by an excavator, and the gold bricks inside were like free construction waste. They were loaded into the truck one by one with a forklift.
Everyone in the syndicate had crazy expressions on their faces. No one had ever seen such a huge amount of gold. The underground vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York stores gold worth 90 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for about a quarter of the world's official gold reserves. The vault
All the gold in it weighs more than 7,000 tons.
Lane and others also saw the scene of forklifts shoveling shovels of gold into the vault through internal surveillance in the Federal Reserve. Some people couldn't help but cheer. The entire Federal Reserve had been slaughtered by them, and not a single person was left alive.
After some operations, the solid steel cylinders between the Federal Reserve and the vault were connected. Lane and others finally met Winter, and everyone hugged each other.
The Federal Reserve's vault has no door at all, but a solid steel cylinder that is 2.7 meters high and weighs 90 tons. The outside of the steel cylinder is reinforced with a reinforced concrete wall weighing 140 tons. There is a narrow channel 3 meters long in the center of the steel cylinder.
By gently operating the switch, the steel cylinder can rotate 90 degrees to expose the passage for people to enter and exit. The entire steel cylinder system is manually controlled, so even if there is an emergency such as a power outage, the opening and closing will not be affected.
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On the ground, Dom's motorcade arrived in time. In order to eliminate the impact of this incident, Tony specifically allowed the media to follow and shoot. In the sky, a media helicopter was conducting live aerial photography.
Seeing Owen opening the bus and waving to them, Dom's voice rang in the communication channel: "Guys, it's time for our performance."
"for freedom……"
The channel was filled with everyone’s excited shouts.
"Mia, Giselle, turn on the jammer and go to your designated location."
Dom gave the first order.
Compared to others, Mia and Gisele's driving skills are inferior, so their job is to block the signal. Both of them have jammers on their cars.
The two agreed, flipped the switch together, and activated the signal jammer. To be on the safe side, CTU used full-channel shielding, blocking all other channels except for their own channels.
In the sky, live helicopter footage shows a Toyota Supra and a Lexus LFA accelerating away from the convoy. One is parallel to the front wheels of the bus, and the other is synchronized with the rear wheels.
At this moment, those guys in the bus who thought they were going to die soon and were having final calls with their loved ones were shocked to find that none of their calls could be reached.
"calm down……"
Sarah Fisher immediately calmed everyone's emotions. Owen glanced at the girl and felt a hint of appreciation in his heart. Fortunately, she was Sam Fisher's daughter, and she remained calm in the face of danger.
Yes, Irving investigated Sarah Fisher. The surname Fisher is not common, and what he knows is that there is an ace agent named Fisher in the third echelon. Irving once fought against him.
After investigation, it turned out that the two were related.