Although Qin Yu had already considered that the Federal Reserve would definitely attach great importance to this gold theft case, he still underestimated the seriousness of the matter.

At about three o'clock in the morning, in the basement conference room of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York—

Although it was not yet dawn, many bank executives had already arrived.

The head of the Bank of New York, Ratal Joseph, hurriedly walked into the conference room, he was notified to leave home, he should have been very annoyed to be woken up from bed, but at this time his heart was cold, and even felt a chill in the air, the vault of the New York Federal Reserve Bank was robbed, he always thought that this kind of plot would only be played out in Hollywood movies known for its whimsy. Or maybe it's only dreamed in a nightmare in the middle of a deep night.

But now, the nightmare has come true, which makes him a little helpless after experiencing the wind and waves, and he never thought that this kind of thing would actually happen, so he has no clue how to deal with it.

But on the surface, he still habitually showed a confident expression, so much so that when he walked into the conference room, the other executives thought they had finally a savior.

"Thank goodness you're finally here, Mr. Joseph." Everyone stood up, and Joseph waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down, "So what the hell happened?" How could our coffers be robbed? I remember the designers who designed the vault saying that it was impossible to rob it, right, not even the army could snatch a single piece from it. ”

The executives all looked strange, but no one squeaked.

"So who did it? What technology is used? Joseph continued.

"Actually, there were only four of them, and they didn't use any technology, not so much technology as magic." ”

"Magic?" Joseph was, "Are you going to tell me that there's Superman and Batman involved?" Magic - you guys are Harry Potter, right? ”

However, those executives immediately took out the surveillance video, and when Joseph watched the video, he finally couldn't laugh, and the corners of his mouth twitched and squeezed out a sentence, "What the hell, it's really magical......"

His face was very gloomy, and for a while, a trace of doubt appeared in his heart, whether these guys had joined forces to trick themselves with special effects videos.

But he immediately vetoed that possibility, the guys didn't have the guts to do it, and it was a bit unrealistic.

But if it's really magic, then this matter is obviously beyond his control, he can deal with the flying thieves, he can also deal with gangsters, even if it is a government official spy agent, he has a way to deal with it, but magician? It's been a strange year for a long time, a few days ago, the Wyvern appeared, and now the magician has come out again, is it going to return to the era of swords and magic?

He was thinking about it in his head, and after a moment of silence, the executives around him finally couldn't help but ask, "So what are we going to do with the boss?" ”

Joseph made up his mind, and the first priority was to deal with the problem at hand, "What should I do?" First of all, block the news, and never let this matter leak out, all those who know about this matter must immediately conduct special training on confidentiality regulations, Sam, you are responsible for handling it. ”。

"In addition, send more gunmen to guard the vault and let them stay in the vault for the time being, to avoid any further invasions, but this is obviously not a long-term solution, so Mike, go and find the designers of those vaults in the first place, and let them find a way to fill the loopholes.

Henry, you go back to the headquarters as soon as the meeting is dismissed, report this matter to the higher-ups, and ask the higher-ups to send someone. ”

The last sentence is squeezed out, once this kind of thing is reported, it means that they have lost the ability to control the situation, and they will be considered by the above as insufficient, and no person in charge will do this unless it is in case, but at this time, it is no longer the time to protect face.

Six hours later, while Qin Yu and the others were wandering the streets of New York City, a meeting was held again in the conference room of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

This time all the executives arrived, filling the entire hall, and not only that, but there was also a special investigator sent from headquarters.

A huge conference room was packed with the top executives of the Bank of New York. Everyone was grim and solemn, but no one spoke, even Joseph, who had prepared a stomach full of words, didn't know what to say, but he was the person in charge here, and no matter how overwhelmed he was, he could only speak hard.

"First of all, welcome the Special Investigator from Headquarters, Mr. John Smith."

This is obviously not his real name, John Smith is basically the same common name in English culture as Wang Xiaoming, but because of this, it is often used as a pseudonym, but no one here dares to question it.

The investigator named John Smith was dressed like a 'man in black', wearing a black suit, sunglasses, black and shiny hair, very neatly groomed, and looked at the heavy duty present with a blank face.

Joseph swallowed with some difficulty, "I think everyone should know that this time the matter is very serious. Although two tons of gold is not too much, the problem behind it is very troublesome, our Federal Reserve vaults have not been stolen for two hundred years, and if it is known that our vaults have been robbed, then the loss of credibility will be very serious.

Moreover, since the other party can grab it once, it can grab it a second time, and this time it robbed two tons, who knows how much it can rob next time, we must eliminate this danger, and the best way to get rid of the danger is to find this criminal, given that this time the robbers used techniques and means that we could not understand, so we can only ask the headquarters to send someone to help. ”

All eyes were on John Smith, as if expecting an answer, but John Smith remained expressionless.

He glanced at the crowd, "You can all leave and go about your daily work, there's nothing for you here." ”

"Mr. Joseph—you stay."

Ah—Joseph was a little surprised, but the others left the room as if they had been pardoned.

Nasmith looked at Joseph and said expressionlessly, "You handled it very well, we must first ensure the safety of the vault, as for the person who stole the gold, our experts will be there immediately, and they will deal with it." ”

Expert? Joseph was a little surprised, and said that the headquarters is so powerful that there are experts in dealing with magical affairs?

Soon the 'experts' entered the conference room, but soon Joseph discovered that the two experts did not seem to be from the Federal Reserve, because the way the two greeted Smith was very casual, and obviously did not know each other, the older was in his forties, and looked calm, and the younger should be in his thirties, which seemed to be a little more out-of-the-box.

"So now can you tell us what happened to you?" The older agent asked.

Smith nodded at Joseph, who gave an overview of what had happened.

The two listened very carefully, and from time to time they would ask a question or two, and when they were done, they walked aside and muttered.

"Did they send them from above?" Joseph couldn't help but ask Smith.

"To be exact, they're not our people, they're agents sent by the government."

"Agents sent by the government? FBI？ CIA？ ”

At this time, the two people over there had already finished muttering, "We are SDR-Occult Defense Response Strategy Bureau." ”

Joseph shook his head, "I've never heard the name?" ”

"You shouldn't have heard of it, we are mainly responsible for supernatural crime cases, this kind of thing is very rare, but it is not impossible, such as the one you encountered this time, judging from your description, it obviously belongs to the category of supernatural crimes, can you show us the video?"

Joseph nodded, and the surveillance footage was brought up.

The two continued to watch the video, in which the image of the vault was at first, and soon, on the ground, a black figure suddenly came out of the ground.

Joseph noticed that the two agents did not seem to be very surprised by the image.

Immediately after, the black-robed man opened a golden portal, releasing three other black-robed men, and then the four began to carry the gold. Everything is done without sound.

"Didn't you have a recording?" The older agent in his forties asked.

Joseph shook his head, "Only the camera." ”

The scene continues, and soon the gold bricks are done, and the four people enter the portal, and one of them is smashed in the foot, which makes the young agent sneer, but the older agent frowns.

Soon the portal was gone.

"Is that him?" The young agent next to him asked?

The older agent frowned and thought about it for a moment, but nodded anyway, "That's right, it should be him." ”

"Didn't that mean that man had always acted alone?"

"The others may be his newly recruited subordinates, and that teleportation magic can't be wrong."

Joseph next to him couldn't help it, "Who are you talking about?" ”

"It's okay to say it, not long ago, a mysterious magician appeared in New York City, who called himself the Dark Guardian and declared that he would bring a new order to the world.

Sounds hilarious, doesn't it? But his magic is real, he has a powerful mysterious power, he can do many amazing things, and he seems to be performing some kind of mysterious ritual, this ritual is obviously not a good thing, we had two conflicts with him, lost a lot of manpower, and we also made him suffer some losses, but unfortunately he ran away in the end, because he has a unique teleportation magic that can open a golden portal, exactly like in this video, and he also likes to wear black robes, So most likely he is right. ”

Dark Guardian!? Joseph chewed on the name, it sounded a bit like a name in a fantasy story, and Joseph remembered that there would be a few geek classmates in school who liked to play Dungeons & Dragons, and there was a similar name in it.

So how do we prevent this from happening again? I mean, will he come back to steal gold? ”

"It's hard to say, all his actions were obviously carried out for his plan, if the gold he took was enough, then he wouldn't come again, but if not, then he will most likely show up again, so if you don't mind, we want to arrange some ambush in your vault."

Joseph looked at Smith, he didn't have the right to let people into the vault to set traps or anything.

Smith shook his head: "I'm afraid it's impossible for the two of you, we will cooperate with the two of you, but the vault is a very important asset, and we must prioritize the safety of the vault." ”

"That's a shame." The older agent said, "But thank you for your cooperation, and I hope you don't leak information about the Dark Guardians." ”

Smith shook hands with the older agent, "We're not going to leak it, and we hope you two keep the information about the bank theft." ”

"Of course." The older agent spoke, and left with the younger agent.

"Why not fight for it again? We can ask them to cooperate with permissions. The young agent said.

The older agent glanced at the younger agent: "The Fed doesn't care about our rights, if they don't want to cooperate, even if the president comes, it's useless, and the Dark Guardian shouldn't come again." ”

"Why?"

"With the power of the Dark Guardian, he doesn't have to care about the guards with guns, if he wants to, he can kill them all and ransack the vault.

Since he didn't, it meant that he only needed a certain amount of gold, and now he had what he wanted.

Whatever his evil ritual is, it's clear that it will go further, so we'll have to give it our all, keep everyone in the bureau busy, and we'll have to find him before he can start his evil plan. ”

At the same time—

Qin Yu didn't know that his pot was being detained by someone else.

He's going to be shopping in Times Square.

As he walked, he suddenly noticed something that surprised him, and suddenly stopped, looking at the place in surprise.

"Qin Yu, why don't you leave?" Qi Jianfei asked strangely.

Qin Yu pointed not far away, and the three of them all looked in the direction of Qin Yu's gaze, it was a café, but it was not an ordinary café, the name of this café was - Hero Cafe, which was exactly the same as the café run by Stanley in the game.

Not only the name is the same, but even the decoration design is the same, and it looks like it is carved out of a mold, which is a bit strange.

"Oh my God, Hero Cafe? What's the situation? Isn't this the café in the game? Liu Wei shouted in surprise.

The birthplace of the player in the game is Times Square, and almost all of them will encounter that hero café, which is also an iconic place in the Marvel Universe, but I didn't expect to encounter it in reality.

Qin Yu was not too surprised, there may be many explanations for this, maybe the game was made with reference to the real store, or it may be just a coincidence, or - maybe it was opened by a game enthusiast himself, if that is the case, it would be interesting.

He smiled, "Just go in and see." With that, he took the lead and walked in.