Chapter 46
All of New York was in motion.
Less than half an hour after the six ORPHEUS nodes went dark, the New York map lit up again.
This time, what lit up was not spiritual contamination.
It was the industrial nodes of the Fisk Corporation.
Real estate companies.
Underground warehouses.
Ability user detention points.
Charitable foundations.
Private hospitals.
Arms transfer stations.
Law firms.
And several safe houses registered under other people's names.
Inside the command room of Dawn House, the entire wall had turned into a huge network of relationships.
Yelena stood at the very front.
"Whatever we've found, whatever can be moved, let's move everything tonight."
Lin Yao looked at the map.
"Divide into zones."
Matt spoke first.
"I'll handle the evidence and the courts."
"Any ledgers, servers, or documents you get, prioritize sending them to me."
Jessica pointed toward Hells Kitchen.
"I've kept an eye on these three companies."
"On the surface, they do community reconstruction; underground, they transfer money to Kingpin."
Luke crossed his arms.
"I'm familiar with those two safe houses in Harlem."
Danny looked toward the underground lines.
"Leave the old The Hand tunnels to me and Maya."
Maya raised her hand and made a few gestures.
Jean translated for her in the psychic channel.
"She says the four tunnels on the east side used to transport weapons."
Peter looked at the other side of the map.
"I can handle the data center."
Ned immediately chimed in.
"I'll coordinate remotely."
Kate picked up her bow.
"Then I'll go with Yelena."
Yelena glanced at her.
"Don't step on the alarm wires."
"You were clearly the one who stepped on them last time."
Sam raised his hand and tapped the tabletop.
"I'm responsible for coordinating with the police, fire department, and federal emergency lines."
"Don't expand the scope of operations to irrelevant personnel."
Frank had been leaning against the wall.
He only spoke upon hearing this.
"Give me the port arms line."
Lin Yao swept his gaze across everyone.
"Alright."
"Remember three things."
"First, save the people first."
"Second, don't destroy the evidence."
"Third, if Fisk shows his face tonight, tell me immediately."
The command room door opened.
Everyone left one after another.
Half an hour later.
New York was like having a dozen lids lifted off it at the same time.
Hells Kitchen.
Jessica kicked open the office safe.
It was stuffed with charity fund ledgers.
Matt said through his earpiece:
"The third drawer."
"Someone's heartbeat has accelerated."
Jessica turned her head.
A financial executive had just reached out toward the shredder.
She grabbed the person by the back of the collar directly.
"Sit down."
On the other side.
Luke smashed open the iron door of an underground detention point.
Inside were locked up seven ability users.
Two of them had been injected with suppressants for a long time and could barely stand.
Luke squatted down.
"Who can still walk?"
A teenager raised his hand.
"Me."
"Then help the person next to you first."
Harlem street corner.
The ambulance had already arrived.
Sam had cleared all the medical routes in advance.
Meanwhile.
Danny and Maya entered the old The Hand tunnels.
Just as three guards raised their guns, Maya was already close.
Elbow strike.
Disarm.
Turn around.
Danny's iron fist smashed into the ground.
Golden shockwaves spread along the floor.
The hidden door was shaken open directly.
Behind the door were a full twelve boxes of DODC suppression equipment.
Jean's voice came at the same time.
"There are still people behind that wall on the left."
Danny punched the wall open.
Two bound test subjects collapsed inside.
Manhattan.
Peter hung upside down from the ceiling of the server room.
Over a dozen technicians had all evacuated.
Ned's voice came from the earpiece.
"The third group of server racks."
"Give me ninety seconds."
Peter landed.
"You said ninety seconds last time too."
"This time it's real."
"Then what about last time?"
"Emotional value."
Peter was silent for two seconds.
"I'm starting to understand why MJ always found you annoying before."
"She finds me annoying now too."
"Then I'm balanced."
The server progress bar rose rapidly.
A large number of Fisk Corporation emails were copied.
Political donations.
Ability user rosters.
Underground procurement.
Media contacts.
All entered backup.
The port direction was much simpler.
The first delivery truck carrying weapons had just started.
An armor-piercing shell directly blew out the front tire.
Frank walked out from the shadows.
The second truck wanted to back up.
Another shot.
The rear axle was ruined.
The driver raised his hands.
"I'm just delivering goods!"
Frank walked over.
"Then tell me the recipient."
Tonight, all of New York was in motion.
And Lin Yao stayed in the most core position all along.
He didn't run around chasing small fries.
Super Brain simultaneously processed dozens of information streams in the command room.
Which line was about to break.
Which line might be a decoy.
Which company was worth keeping.
Which warehouse should take priority for evidence.
Command after command was issued precisely.
Shuri stood aside and watched for a few minutes.
"You're increasingly acting like you're managing a real war."
Lin Yao said:
"What Kingpin is fighting isn't just a single building to begin with."
Just at this moment.
A golden portal suddenly appeared in the command room.
Doctor Strange walked out.
Floating behind his red cloak was a charred ORPHEUS personality module.
"Found underground."
He placed the module on the table.
"The spiritual contamination hasn't completely dissipated yet."
Jean approached a few steps.
Fragmented whispers immediately came from inside the module.
The voices of dozens of people were mixed together.
Doctor Strange raised his hand.
Golden chains instantly wrapped around the module.
The sound vanished.
"This kind of thing cannot continue to be placed in an ordinary warehouse."
Lin Yao looked at him.
"How do you plan to handle it?"
"Take it back to the New York Sanctum."
"There is a space dedicated to sealing soul-type items there."
Danny also walked in.
He glanced at the magic chains on the module.
"Dangerous?"
"Leaving it alone will only make it more dangerous."
Doctor Strange said, "The personality fragments inside have already begun to fuse with each other."
Shuri checked the equipment once.
"The hardware is basically burned out."
"Can the data still be read?"
"I will preserve it."
Doctor Strange replied.
"Once the contamination is completely stabilized, it can be handed over to you for analysis."
Lin Yao nodded.
"Take it away."
Right now, there is no evidence in hand to prove that Doctor Strange has a problem.
And keeping this module in Dawn House indeed poses a risk.
Doctor Strange raised his hand and put the module into a golden space.
Turned and left.
The portal closed.
Yelena happened to come in through another door.
"Something doesn't match up."
She threw the tablet onto the tabletop.
"Fisk's ORPHEUS equipment outbound records."
Lin Yao looked over.
Three batches.
All showed that outbound processing was complete.
Time span: four days.
The weights were respectively:
Four point seven tons.
Six point two tons.
Nine point one tons.
Shuri frowned.
"Such large equipment requires at least heavy-duty vehicles."
"That's the problem."
Yelena brought up the warehouse surveillance.
"During the corresponding time period, there were no trucks at the entrance."
"What about the port?"
"Checked."
"There are no these three batches of goods."
"Airport?"
"Checked too."
"Cargo flights, private flights, the military runways, none of them match up."
Sam had just returned to the command room and stopped upon hearing this.
"Railroads?"
"None."
"Underground transport?"
"The weight is too heavy."
Yelena zoomed in on the warehouse interior surveillance.
In the footage.
Three huge metal boxes were still sitting in the center of the warehouse.
Time skipped forty-seven seconds.
The surveillance recovered.
The boxes disappeared.
The ground was intact.
The walls were intact.
The rolling shutter door remained closed the entire time.
Shuri replayed it once.
"The data has been edited."
"Can it be recovered?"
"Partially."
Ned dialed in remotely.
"Give me ten minutes."
Yelena looked at Lin Yao.
"I've checked all of Fisk's conventional transport routes."
"These three batches of things seem to have evaporated directly from the warehouse."
Lin Yao didn't speak.
Super Brain had already pulled out the three outbound times.
And cross-referenced them with the ORPHEUS procurement records.
The first batch.
V-Max personality matrix.
The second batch.
High-purity Vibranium resonator.
The third batch.
Keel core equipment.
Exactly the three core materials on V.D.'s procurement list.
Lin Yao's gaze darkened slightly.
"I want all the original warehouse surveillance."
"Bring the server back as well."
Yelena nodded.
Just at this moment.
The city relationship network on the wall suddenly began to turn gray in large areas.
Jessica took down three companies.
Luke rescued seven ability users.
Danny and Maya took down two underground warehouses.
Peter copied Fisk's core server.
Frank cut off the port arms line.
Matt already had enough evidence in hand to apply for a new round of asset freezes.
A system prompt immediately popped up.
[The core network of the Fisk crime syndicate continues to collapse.]
[Faction check-in progress increased: 57%]
Lin Yao looked at those red dots that were still lit.
Kingpin's web had already been torn in half.
But what truly concerned him were those three batches of equipment that vanished into thin air.
Twenty-ton-class things.
The warehouse door wasn't opened even once.
And the goods were gone.
Lin Yao saved the three disappearance times into Super Brain separately.
Then looked up.
"Keep tearing it down."
"Before tonight ends, I want to know how much more Kingpin has left to hide."
Chapter 47: Kingpin Loses His Final Layer of Skin
9:00 AM.
Washington Interim Hearing Room.
Sam threw a stack of documents onto the table.
"You sent the Thunderbolts to Dawn House based solely on this risk report?"
Sitting opposite were representatives from Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Superhuman Affairs Committee.
On the large screen at the top, the New York Citygovernment and federal investigators were also connected.
An official said in a deep voice:
"Dawn House holds a large amount of DODC classified equipment and is preparing to launch a cross-state attack against Orpheus Medical Technology Company."
Sam picked up the remote control.
The screen switched.
The first photo.
The ORPHEUS underground mainframe.
The second.
The dragon bone, Vibranium resonance columns, and V-Max personality matrix.
The third.
One hundred twenty-seven thousand illegally collected personality data sets.
"This is the medical technology company you speak of."
The hearing room instantly fell silent.
Sam continued to switch the slides.
"Last night, six psychic nodes simultaneously affected New York."
"Citizens experienced auditory hallucinations, fear, and memory disorders."
"Some superhumans lost control in the streets."
"The cash flow of the Orpheus factory directly connected to the frozen secret accounts of Fisk Corporation."
The final image.
Policy consultants.
Foundations.
Fisk charitable network.
Special Executive Order.
The four lines were connected together.
Sam looked at the officials who had signed the order.
"Now tell me."
"Who originally designated Orpheus as a legitimate target?"
No one answered immediately.
In the public gallery.
Matt slowly stood up.
"Representing the DODC victims and Dawn House, I formally submit an emergency motion."
He handed the documents to the staff.
"Requesting a suspension of the Special Executive Order."
"At the same time, investigate the source of the risk report, the financial relationships of the consultant's office, and the actual controller of Orpheus Medical Technology Company."
On the other side.
Walker was sitting in the witness stand.
His expression was grim.
"My action briefing only stated four things."
"Recover federal assets."
"Prevent cross-state armed attacks."
"Confirm high-risk superhumans."
"Detain Lin Yao if necessary."
He looked up at the committee.
"No one told me that underneath that so-called medical company was a psychic weapon capable of affecting all of New York."
Bucky was sitting next to him.
"Ghost's stabilization permissions weren't written in either."
With those words,
Valentina's expression turned cold.
Ghost was sitting at another table.
A new local stabilizer was attached to the inside of her wrist.
"After the mission started, I entered the Dawn Housedatabase."
"Then my remote calibration permissions were revoked."
Someone in the committee immediately looked at Valentina.
She spoke:
"That falls under operational disciplinary measures."
Bucky turned to look at her.
"You call that discipline?"
Red Guardian cursed directly from the back row.
The official presiding over the hearing tapped the desk twice.
"Maintain order."
Yet Sam had already taken the Special Executive Order into his hands.
He glanced at the final detention authorization.
Then he tore it down the middle.
The sound of the paper tearing was very faint.
Yet the hearing room instantly fell silent.
"This order is built on manipulated intelligence."
"Continuing to execute it will only make the government help Wilson Fisk deal with his enemies."
The presiding official frowned.
"Wilson Fisk himself has not yet been officially designated as the mastermind behind Orpheus."
Matt raised his hand.
"Then let's look at the new evidence."
New York.
Dawn House command room.
Peter had just finished recovering the last batch of data from Fisk's core server.
An encrypted project popped up on the screen.
[Mysterious Relay Project]
Seeing the name, Lin Yao walked over immediately.
Yelena had already opened the payment records.
The first transaction: 18 million dollars.
The second: 26 million.
The third: 41 million.
The payer was split across six companies.
Ultimately originating from Fisk's underground fund pool.
The recipient field entered the diplomatic immunity settlement system.
Shuri quickly traced it.
"The destination is hidden."
"How much can be recovered?"
"Wait."
Dozens of seconds later,
A previously overwritten internal code reappeared.
[LV-01]
Yelena raised her head.
"It's that again."
Lin Yao continued reading downwards.
The project's purpose was stated in only one sentence.
[Establish a special asset transfer channel with no physical transportation records.]
The time this record appeared happened to precede the disappearance of the three batches of ORPHEUS equipment.
Over twenty tons of equipment.
The warehouse doors were sealed the entire time.
No traces could be found at ports, airports, or railways.
Now there was finally another direction for explanation.
Lin Yao sent the file to Matt.
The large screen in the hearing room was quickly updated synchronously.
Matt said:
"Fisk Corporation paid over 80 million dollars for a special asset transfer channel."
"The payment went through the diplomatic system."
"Internal code LV-01."
"At the same time, three batches of ORPHEUS core equipment vanished from the sealed warehouse."
People in the committee began to talk in low voices.
A Department of Justice official spoke up on the spot:
"I apply for additional asset preservation measures against Fisk Corporation's affiliated companies."
Another person chimed in:
"Orpheus Medical Technology Company is to immediately enter federal criminal investigation proceedings."
The Special Executive Order that had originally weighed down on Dawn House began to crush Kingpin instead.
Sam sat back down.
"Does anyone else think we should arrest Lin Yao first?"
This time, no one answered.
Ten minutes later,
The interim ruling was handed down.
The forced asset recovery against Dawn House in the Special Executive Order was temporarily suspended.
The unified registration of high-risk members was suspended.
Cross-state operation restrictions were changed to case-by-case reviews.
Lin Yao's temporary detention authorization directly became invalid.
Another new order was signed at the same time.
Fisk Corporation's related assets, the Orpheus factory, underground funds, and political donation networks entered a joint investigation.
When the news was transmitted back to New York, a cheer erupted in the command room.
After finishing the ruling, Lin Yao casually placed it on the table.
Yelena leaned back in her chair.
"Kingpin just spent an entire government system trying to suppress you."
"A few hours later, the order smashed back onto his own head."
Lin Yao looked at LV-01 on the screen.
"There are still a few layers left."
Jean walked up to his side.
"You're thinking about those three batches of equipment?"
"Mm."
At this moment, a golden portal appeared in the command room.
Doctor Strange walked out from inside.
He had just rushed over from the New York Sanctum.
A copy of the [Mysterious Relay Project] file synchronously shared by Matt had also been sent to him.
Doctor Strange looked at it for dozens of seconds.
His gaze lingered on the words 'no physical transportation records'.
"Spatial transfer."
Shuri asked:
"Have you seen a similar method?"
"I have."
Doctor Strange enlarged the file.
"The Hand once mastered a portion of spatial rituals."
Danny immediately looked at him.
Doctor Strange continued:
"They have long been in contact with dragon bones and have also researched psychic and life energies."
"If Kingpin took over the residual resources of The Handand used a ritual to move the equipment away, it makes sense technically."
Danny pondered for a moment.
"The Hand indeed has similar records."
Doctor Strange nodded.
"I will check around New York for any residual spatial traces."
This explanation was smooth.
And the timeline matched up.
Kingpin had taken over assets of The Hand.
Dragon bones and related ritual materials had also been discovered in the underground network.
Lin Yao looked at Doctor Strange.
He said nothing.
Yet the Super Brain saved this remark separately.
[Inference on abnormal equipment transfer: Spatial ritual of The Hand.]
[Proposer: Stephen Strange.]
[Pending verification.]
Doctor Strange quickly opened a portal and left.
Jean looked at Lin Yao.
"Do you think he's wrong?"
"It's impossible to judge right now."
Lin Yao closed the file.
"Keep it for now."
At that exact same time,
On the top floor of Fisk Tower,
The television in front of Kingpin was broadcasting the hearing live.
The latest news scrolled across the bottom of the screen.
[Orpheus Medical Technology Company enters federal criminal investigation.]
[Fisk's affiliated assets expand freeze scope.]
[Special Executive Order suspended.]
[Multiple government consultants under investigation.]
Kingpin reached out and turned off the television.
The phone on the desk immediately rang.
The first political contact refused to answer.
The second bank requested a re-examination of the funding sources.
The third lawyer stated they needed to withdraw from representation.
The fourth underground warehouse had just been seized by the police.
He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
The entirety of New York was still brightly lit.
Yet the web he had cultivated for years was snapping strand by strand.
The door behind him opened.
A subordinate hurried in.
"Sir."
"The evacuation plan is ready."
"Also, Bullseye—"
"He is rushing toward the basement levels of the tower."
Kingpin turned around.
"Have him come back."
The subordinate was stunned for a moment.
"Now?"
"Now."
Kingpin walked toward the desk.
He took out a black clearance key from the drawer.
His political identity was starting to fail.
His financial network was collapsing.
What could save his life next were only those things hidden underground.
Meanwhile, on the other side of New York,
Lin Yao raised his head at the same time.
The aura marker left on Bullseye—
Moved.
Direction.
Fisk Tower.
Chapter 48: Tonight, Entry Only for This Building
When Bullseye's aura signature entered the second basement level of Fisk Tower, Lin Yao was already standing on the roof across the street.
In the earpiece, Yelena reported the final set of numbers.
"The door to Pier 37 of the underground parking garage is closed, and the east employee passageway is beginning to clear out."
"The servers are being transferred."
"Kingpin is preparing to retreat."
Lin Yao looked up.
Fisk Tower was brightly lit.
Lawyers, security guards, and corporate employees were still entering and exiting through the front entrance, but underground, it had already shifted into a wartime state.
"Begin."
Jean's telepathic communication instantly connected to everyone.
Peter entered from the west side of the building.
Kate went to the server level with Yelena.
Luke and Danny descended along the old passages of The Hand.
Maya was responsible for identifying the internal routes of Fisk.
Bucky intercepted the parking garage evacuation exit.
Frank guarded the port's backup passageway.
Matt stayed behind in the perimeter command vehicle.
Every piece of evidence obtained would be uploaded in real-time to judicial backups.
Lin Yao stepped off the roof.
His entire body fell directly toward Fisk Tower.
Boom!
The reinforced ceiling slab above the underground parking garage was stomped through by him.
As the six armored guards just raised their weapons, Conquerors Haki already swept across the corridor.
Three of them collapsed limply on the spot.
The other three had clearly undergone mental enhancement and were still able to stand.
Lin Yao raised his hand.
Three streams of Qi simultaneously snapped out.
The gun barrels deflected.
The armor joints jammed.
Just as the last man wanted to press the alarm, his fingers were already pinned by Lin Yao.
"Where is the underground core?"
The man gritted his teeth.
Lin Yao glanced at his name tag.
Logistics Security Director.
He had clearance value.
Jean's voice entered the man's consciousness.
A dozen seconds later.
"Below B7 requires a black clearance key."
"Kingpin has one in his hands."
"And another is on the underground security director."
Lin Yao let go.
"Hand him over to the police."
He continued downward.
Starting from the fifth floor, the building's structure completely changed.
The ordinary office building decor disappeared.
Behind the walls were entirely reinforced alloys.
The surveillance adopted independent circuits.
Every thirty meters, there was a DODC-level blast door.
Danny and Luke had already converged from the other side.
Luke looked at the sealed elevator shaft.
"Just how many things did this old guy build underground?"
Maya raised her hand and gestured.
Jean translated synchronously.
"She says there are four more floors."
"The lowest level used to belong to The Hand."
Lin Yao looked ahead.
The aura signature left behind by Bullseye was moving deeper.
"Follow him."
The group continued to descend.
The sixth floor.
The powered individual detention area.
Twelve rooms.
Five rooms still had people inside.
Peter rushed over from another passage and directly started picking the lock.
"Leave this to me."
Lin Yao glanced at the people inside.
Suppression collar.
Infusion tubes.
Ability recording screen.
"Rescue them first."
Peter nodded.
The seventh floor.
Weapons armory.
Vibranium-mixed ammunition.
Twenty-three sets of DODC suppression armor.
Three gene-resonance devices.
And two sets of disassembled V-Max amplifiers.
Shuri remotely accessed through the tactical terminal.
"Don't smash the Vibranium equipment yet."
"For you."
Lin Yao swept his hand.
Twelve boxes of core components directly entered the system space.
Shuri paused for a moment.
"Just how big is your storage space?"
"Ten times bigger than before."
"Lend it to me to study when you have time."
"Get in line first."
The eighth floor.
They finally saw the ORPHEUS logo.
However, Bullseye's aura continued downward.
Lin Yao stopped.
On the right side of the corridor was a silver-gray vault door.
There was only a serial number on the door.
[O-P]
Shuri's voice immediately quickened.
"Go in and take a look."
Danny clenched his fists.
"I'll open it."
"Wait."
Lin Yao reached out and touched the door lock.
The lock cylinder was intact.
The hinges were intact.
The pressure seal on the door frame was also there.
The Super Brain rapidly compared the wear and tear.
The last time this door was opened normally was at least a day ago.
Matt asked through the earpiece: "What is it?"
"An unopened vault."
Lin Yao took out the clearance card he got from the underground security director.
Then he entered the six-digit dynamic key recovered from Fisk's servers.
Click.
The door opened.
Inside, there was only an empty circular pedestal.
Its diameter was close to four meters.
Connected around it were twelve energy lines.
On the ground, traces left by heavy equipment being pressed down for a long time could still be seen.
Shuri stared at the scan screen.
A few seconds later, she spoke.
"A mother core was placed here."
Danny looked at the empty pedestal.
"Where is the thing?"
"That's the problem."
The vault had limited volume.
The only exit was the door behind them.
The door lock logs showed that it had never been opened from eighteen hours ago until now.
The ventilation duct was only as thick as an arm.
The wall thickness exceeded one meter.
The equipment weighed at least a dozen tons.
Yelena said in the communication channel:
"Disappeared again?"
Lin Yao glanced around the vault.
"Pull up the surveillance."
Ned immediately accessed it.
The footage from eighteen hours ago appeared.
The mother core was still on the pedestal.
Time progressed normally.
Three fourteen and twenty-seven seconds in the morning.
A layer of noise suddenly appeared on the screen.
The next frame.
The entire screen was washed white by a golden light.
Immediately afterward, the surveillance recovered.
The mother core had vanished.
Ned said: "Less than a second is missing."
"Specifically."
"Zero point seven seconds."
Lin Yao stared at the frozen frame.
"How much can be recovered?"
"I'll try."
The Super Brain intervened simultaneously.
Surveillance compression.
Color separation.
Light source direction.
Shadow edges.
Every frame was forcibly split apart.
A small arc-shaped edge gradually appeared within the golden light pollution.
Sparks.
A ring.
And a spatial distortion zone only half a meter wide.
Lin Yao's gaze sank bit by bit.
This kind of light—he had seen it many times.
Every time Doctor Strange opened a spatial gateway, identical golden sparks would appear in the air.
Danny also recognized it.
"A portal?"
"Looks like it."
Shuri asked: "Can you confirm it's Strange?"
Lin Yao glanced at her.
"The evidence is still far from enough."
There were far more than just one person in Kamar-Tajwho mastered portal arts.
Other mages, magical artifacts, and spatial technologies could similarly produce similar phenomena.
This fragment of frames was currently only enough to confirm one thing.
The mother core most likely left via spatial means.
As for the person who opened the door, they were still hidden in the fog.
"Seal the original video."
"Keep all color layers, spectrums, and time errors together."
Ned began to back up.
Lin Yao looked toward the corner of the wall again.
There was a very faint layer of black scorch marks there.
Aura perception swept across.
The residual energy was close to dissipating.
The Super Brain archived it alongside the data of the six ORPHEUS seals.
Keep the evidence first.
Just at this moment.
Jean's voice suddenly rang out.
"Bullseye has stopped."
His location was right at the lowest level.
At the same time, news came from Yelena's side.
"The core servers have been secured."
"And a list of powered individual controls."
"Kingpin is initiating evacuation clearance."
Matt followed up by adding:
"The judicial freeze order has already covered the building's underground assets."
"From now on, any act of destroying or transferring evidence will incur additional criminal responsibility."
Luke twisted his neck.
"Then what are we waiting for?"
Lin Yao walked out of the vault.
The silver-gray heavy door behind him closed again.
The mother core was already gone.
Kingpin was still here.
Bullseye was also here.
Deeper inside, there were still three local backups of the DODC data cores.
Lin Yao looked up at the alloy door leading to the ninth underground level.
"Tonight, entry only for this building."
"Anyone who wants to get out, ask me first."
The next second.
A gunshot came from behind the door.
The bullet continuously crashed through three metal walls.
Finally, it veered toward Lin Yao's glabella.
He raised two fingers.
Snap.
The bullet stopped between his fingers.
At the end of the corridor.
Bullseye slowly stepped out of the shadows.
He stood there alone.
Chapter 49: The End of Bullseye and Kingpin
The bullet stopped between Lin Yao's two fingers.
At the end of the corridor, Bullseye had already raised his second gun.
Bang!
The gunshot rang out again.
This round hit the left wall, ricocheted toward the ceiling, and bounced off the metal pipe once more.
Finally, it shot toward Peter behind Luke.
Lin Yao flicked his finger.
The bullet he had just caught was reflected back.
Clang!
The two bullet heads shattered upon impact in mid-air.
Bullseye turned and ran.
"He is heading to the tenth underground floor."
Jean's voice directly entered everyone's consciousness.
Lin Yao took a step forward.
His aura burst forth.
The entire corridor instantly seemed to shrink.
Just as Bullseye rushed through the security door, Lin Yaohad already appeared behind him.
Three metal cards were flicked out simultaneously.
Left and right walls.
Ground.
Three ricochets.
All of them surged toward the side of Lin Yao's neck.
Observation Haki captured the trajectory in advance.
Lin Yao tilted his head.
The first card grazed past his ear.
His right hand was covered in Armament Haki.
The second card was pinched to pieces between two fingers.
Just as the third card turned the blind spot, a Qi blade had already cut it in half.
Bullseye's footsteps paused slightly.
Lin Yao looked at him.
"Yelena has already taken away your bomb authorization."
"The evacuation route has also been found."
"Fisk's servers are undergoing judicial backup."
Bullseye suddenly chuckled.
"So what?"
"So you only have one thing left."
Lin Yao raised his hand.
"Save me some time."
Bullseye violently ripped open his coat.
A circle of specialized ammunition was strapped across his chest.
Peter's expression changed.
"Lin Yao!"
Bullseye had already pressed the detonator.
Lin Yao's body turned into a blur.
His palm pressed onto his chest a step faster.
Acupoint shock.
The Qi force pierced through the armor, precisely shattering the internal detonation circuitry.
The red light had just lit up before instantly extinguishing.
Bullseye lowered his head to take a look.
The next second.
A black fist had already landed on his chest.
Boom!
His entire body crashed through the alloy door behind him.
His armor shattered.
His ribs collapsed over a large area.
Bullseye still wanted to raise his hand.
Lin Yao stepped on his wrist.
"Last time I'll ask."
"Where is Kingpin?"
Bullseye's mouth was full of blood.
"At the very bottom."
"The private safe room."
"The key..."
Lin Yao removed a black chip from his waist.
"This?"
Bullseye let out a laugh.
"You knew all along."
"I was just confirming."
Lin Yao released his foot.
Bullseye had just taken a breath.
A Qi blade had already swept past the side of his neck.
The action was crisp and decisive.
The corridor fell quiet once again.
Peter rushed over from behind.
Looking at the corpse on the ground, he fell silent for a few seconds.
Matt's voice came through the communicator.
"He had already lost the ability to resist."
Lin Yao lowered his head to wipe the blood off his hands.
"Keeping him alive would only mean waiting for his next chance."
Matt wanted to speak again.
Jean spoke first:
"Keep moving."
Her voice was very calm.
Kingpin was still ahead.
The tenth underground floor.
The private safe zone.
The black authorization chip was inserted.
The final heavy alloy door slowly opened.
Kingpin was sitting right inside.
He had already taken off his suit jacket.
The cuffs of his white shirt were rolled up to his elbows.
Three data cores were placed on the desk.
Along with a palm-sized black controller.
Lin Yao walked in.
Luke, Danny, and Maya remained outside the door.
Peter stood to the side.
Jean maintained connection via telepathic communication.
Kingpin glanced behind Lin Yao.
"Benjamin is dead?"
"Mn."
Kingpin nodded.
As if he had expected it long ago.
"He always felt he could change the ending with a single perfect throw."
Lin Yao looked at the three cores on the table.
"From DODC?"
"Local backups."
"The original core has already been split up."
"Part of it was sold along with the primary core."
Lin Yao walked up to the desk.
"The buyer."
Kingpin raised his eyes.
"You came here just for this?"
"And your life."
Kingpin's lips twitched slightly.
"At least you're direct enough."
He picked up the controller.
"If I press it, the bottom two floors will blow up together."
Lin Yao looked at his fingers.
Observation Haki had already captured his next move.
Just as Kingpin was about to press down the button.
Snap!
The controller flew away.
Lin Yao was already standing right in front of him.
Two fingers pinched that black device.
"You've also run out of things to buy time."
Kingpin stared at him.
Lin Yao put the three data cores into the system space.
"Who transported the primary core away?"
The room fell silent for a few seconds.
Kingpin leaned back against the back of his chair.
"I've never met the buyer in person."
Lin Yao looked at him.
Kingpin continued:
"Every time a trade happened, they only sent a location."
"A warehouse."
"An underground facility."
"A private dock."
"When the time comes, a golden ring would appear."
"The equipment was transported directly through it."
"I was just responsible for getting the goods ready."
Yelena's voice came through the earpiece.
"It matches the remaining surveillance frames."
Lin Yao continued to ask:
"Where is the other side of the ring?"
"I don't know."
"Where did the money come from?"
"The final settlement went through a diplomatic account."
Kingpin paused for a moment.
"Latvia."
The air in the room instantly grew heavy.
LV-01.
V.D.
Mysterious relay.
Three batches of disappeared equipment.
The primary core.
Several threads were getting closer and closer together.
Lin Yao asked the final question.
"Who is the person that opened the door?"
Kingpin paused even longer this time.
"A man."
"Wearing a cloak."
"Speaking with a New York accent."
Peter frowned.
Danny also looked in from outside the door.
This description was already enough to make people think of many things.
Lin Yao's expression, however, did not change.
There were many people who could open space portals.
A cloak likewise didn't count as a unique feature.
Before the evidence was completely closed, he wouldn't take guesses as conclusions.
"Anything else?"
Kingpin looked at him.
"You've already taken the overseas account authorization."
"You've also found the transportation routes."
"The people in the government will start cutting ties."
"My underground network will scatter tonight."
He smiled.
"Lin Yao, you won this round in New York."
Lin Yao stood in front of him.
"Then what do you have left?"
Kingpin slowly stood up.
His massive body cast a shadow over the area.
"Myself."
After saying that, he suddenly threw a punch at Lin Yao.
The strength was far greater than an ordinary person's.
The muscles in his arm instantly tightened.
The cuffs directly ripped open.
Lin Yao raised his hand and caught it.
Bang!
The impact shattered all the glass cups on the desk.
Kingpin's other hand fiercely slammed down right after.
Lin Yao sidestepped.
His palm pressed against his chest.
A surge of Qi penetrated into his body.
Kingpin froze entirely.
His legs buckled, and he knelt down.
Lin Yao looked down at him.
"Is this your last thing?"
Kingpin gritted his teeth and looked up.
"Kill me."
"You will make New York understand one thing."
"You never belonged to those heroes."
Lin Yao raised his right hand.
"I never planned on being them anyway."
Jean's voice fell quiet in the telepathic channel.
Matt gripped his blind cane tightly.
Peter stood in place.
Everyone knew what was going to happen next.
Kingpin's accounts had been frozen.
The political network was collapsing.
The underground kingdom was torn open.
Bullseye was dead.
The ORPHEUS evidence fell into Dawn House.
The overseas transaction lines were also dug up.
Keeping him alive would only give the next batch of people a chance to take over.
A thread of extremely fine Qi condensed in Lin Yao's palm.
It directly pierced through his heart.
Kingpin's body shook violently.
The light in his eyes rapidly dimmed.
A few seconds later.
Wilson Fisk, who had ruled the New York underworld for many years, collapsed onto the ground.
The system prompt popped up immediately.
[Core ruler of the Fisk crime syndicate has died.]
[Core structure of the criminal network has collapsed.]
[Faction check-in completion rate: 100%.]
[Performing final settlement...]
Lin Yao glanced at the prompt.
Then he turned around.
"Seal this place up."
"Take everything that needs to be taken."
"Next step, find Latvia."
Chapter 50 Spatial Anchoring
Three seconds after Kingpin fell, the system calculation arrived.
[Fisk criminal syndicate force check-in completed.]
[Force core collapsed.]
[world line has shifted significantly.]
[Generating rewards based on the host's current threat environment...]
Lin Yao stood in the underground safe room.
Lying in front of him was Kingpin's body.
The next moment, a brand-new perception suddenly entered his mind.
[Reward: Spatial Anchoring.]
Lin Yao's eyes flickered slightly.
The surrounding world instantly gained an extra layer of things.
Walls.
Ground.
Air.
These ordinary spaces, at this moment in perception, turned into a stable "structure".
He could even sense several extremely subtle spatial fluctuations outside the vault.
One of them came from the room where the core used to be stored.
The traces left eighteen hours ago had already become extremely faint.
The real coordinates had long since scattered.
Lin Yao could only confirm that a strong spatial disturbance had occurred there.
The system information continued to appear.
[Spatial Anchoring]
[Effect 1: Perceive obvious spatial fluctuations within a certain range.]
[Effect 2: Can temporarily anchor one's own spatial position through Ki, greatly improving resistance to forced teleportation, spatial displacement, and dimensional pulling.]
[Effect 3: Can record close-range spatial fluctuation characteristics for subsequent comparison.]
[Current limitation: Unable to actively create portals, unable to cross-dimensionally track dissipated coordinates.]
The corners of Lin Yao's mouth lifted slightly.
This thing came just at the right time.
The intel Kingpin spat out at the end was about portals.
The system reward immediately gave him the capital to chase this lead.
"Lin Yao."
Peter called out to him.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing."
Lin Yao looked at Kingpin.
"Call someone to collect the body."
"Seal all underground items according to evidence numbers."
Matt reminded him through the communicator:
"This place has already entered the judicial investigation procedure."
"Servers, ledgers, and equipment must all be left with backups."
"Understood."
Lin Yao walked out of the safe room.
From this night until dawn, Fisk Tower never truly quieted down.
The police took over the underground detention area.
Medical personnel took away the imprisoned gifted individuals.
Shuri's people recovered the Vibranium materials.
Peter and Ned organized the servers.
Yelena and Jessica marked out the remaining shell companies one by one.
Bucky cooperated with Sam to control the periphery.
Kingpin was dead.
But the things he left behind were still worth a lot of money.
Evidence.
Technology.
Assets.
Rosters.
Connections.
Lin Yao naturally wouldn't waste them.
That same night.
Dawn House held a post-war meeting.
There were twice as many people sitting by the long table as there were at the beginning.
Sam.
Matt.
Peter.
Jean.
Banner accessed remotely.
Shuri occupied another holographic screen.
Yelena, Jessica, Luke, Danny, and Maya were all there.
Doctor Strange had also come.
When the golden portal opened in the center of the conference room, Lin Yao truly experienced the effect of Spatial Anchoring for the first time.
The door hadn't completely formed yet.
He had already sensed that the space there was twisting.
Afterwards.
A second feeling appeared.
A special spatial fluctuation structure.
Lin Yao watched Doctor Strange walk out from the door.
Super Brain automatically completed the recording.
[Spatial Fluctuation Sample 01]
[Source: Kamar-Taj Teleportation Sorcery]
Lin Yao didn't say anything.
This sample would be useful in the future.
Sam spoke first.
"The Federation has officially taken over the investigation into Fisk Corporation."
"Orpheus Company's medical qualifications have been frozen."
"The special execution procedures previously targeting Dawn House have also entered internal review."
Luke asked:
"What about the streets?"
"The trouble has just begun."
Jessica pushed a map to the middle of the table.
After Fisk died, at least thirty-odd underground forces in New York began fighting for turf.
In the past, Kingpin suppressed them.
Now the biggest lid was gone.
"It's going to be chaotic for a while."
Lin Yao glanced at it.
"You and Luke keep an eye on the neighborhood issues first."
Luke nodded.
"Alright."
Matt looked at Lin Yao.
"There is one more thing."
Everyone knew what he wanted to say.
Kingpin's death.
Matt gripped his blind cane.
"You could have handed him over to the court."
Lin Yao looked at him.
"And then?"
"Trial."
"Lock him up."
Matt's tone was heavy.
Lin Yao only replied with one sentence.
"You can continue to believe in that set of methods."
"I deal with enemies my own way."
The two stared at each other for a few seconds.
Matt finally looked away.
This fissure wouldn't disappear anytime soon.
Jean sat on Lin Yao's right side.
She had been quiet from beginning to end.
The meeting continued.
Yelena suddenly projected a recovered file onto the big screen.
"The overseas line has come out."
Everyone looked up.
Three batches of unusually missing ORPHEUS equipment.
The core.
Diplomatic settlement accounts.
Mysterious relay project.
In the end, they all fell into an overseas transaction chain.
There was only one destination country.
Latvia.
Shuri immediately magnified the shipping records.
"The core has already left the United States."
"The time was before the Orpheus network was fully launched."
Lin Yao asked:
"Only selling equipment?"
"This is the troublesome part."
Yelena continued to scroll down.
Nineteen names appeared.
All from the DODC missing experimental subject roster.
The youngest among them was only thirteen years old.
"The files of these nineteen people also appeared in the same asset transfer record."
The conference room instantly fell silent.
Banner immediately said:
"People left together with the core?"
"Currently, we can only confirm that the transportation chains overlap."
Yelena pointed to five of the names.
"The last locations of these five people are still in New York."
"The other fourteen have already entered Europe."
The new target instantly became clear.
Find the people.
Seize the core.
Lin Yao looked up.
The system prompt appeared synchronously.
[Continuous storyline chain detected.]
[Storyline: Lost Orpheus.]
[Short-term Goal 1: Confirm the survival status of the nineteen DODC experimental subjects.]
[Short-term Goal 2: Recapture the ORPHEUS core.]
[The storyline involves high-value national-level forces.]
[Proceed with caution is advised.]
Lin Yao looked at the last sentence.
The system prompting caution already explained the issue in itself.
He turned his head to look at Doctor Strange.
"There is one thing."
"Speak."
Lin Yao put the monitoring residual frames of Fisk's underground vault onto the big screen.
0.7 seconds of golden light.
Arc-shaped edges.
Spatial distortion.
"When the core left, this kind of thing appeared."
Doctor Strange only glanced at it.
"Spatial teleportation."
Lin Yao continued:
"Kingpin said that every time a delivery was made, a golden ring would appear."
"The one opening the door was a man."
"Wearing a cloak."
"New York accent."
The gazes of several people around the conference table changed.
Peter subconsciously looked at Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange's expression was very natural.
"Remnants of The Hand might also master similar teleportation technology."
He spoke quickly.
"They have contacted quite a few spatial rituals in the past."
Danny frowned slightly.
He had previously confirmed that The Hand did indeed leave relevant records.
So this explanation still stood.
Doctor Strange continued:
"Give me the magic traces left in the vault."
"I can help you determine which system it comes from."
Lin Yao looked at him.
One second.
Two seconds.
Doctor Strange didn't even ask what the residual energy was like at all.
Nor did he suggest going to the scene to take a look first.
The judgment had already come out.
Too fast.
The new perception brought by Spatial Anchoring also made Lin Yao notice another thing.
Extremely faint spatial frequencies lingered around Doctor Strange.
Part of it was consistent with the Kamar-Taj portal from earlier.
Another part...
Had subtle differences.
There were too few samples.
The source could not be determined right now.
There was no change on Lin Yao's face.
"Alright."
"I'll give you the data later."
Doctor Strange nodded.
The meeting continued.
Far away in Europe.
Latvia.
In a massive underground laboratory, a silver-gray device hung in the center of the platform.
The ORPHEUS core.
Dozens of robotic arms around it were dismantling the outer shell.
A man wearing a green cloak and a metal mask stood on the high platform.
Victor von Doom.
The combat data from New York was playing on the screen.
Super Saiyan.
Armament Haki.
Phoenix.
Ki.
As well as the complete data finally uploaded by the six mental nodes.
Doom raised his hand.
A magic projection appeared at the other end of the platform.
Only the outline of the man could be seen.
And that small piece of a red cloak at the edge of the screen.
Doom looked at the Phoenix frequency curve.
"Next coordinate calibration."
"I want the complete mental frequency of the Phoenix."
The man in the projection was silent for a moment.
"Her power is still unstable."
Doom reached out and pressed his hand onto the core's outer shell.
Green magic slowly spread along the metal surface.
"That's why it's worth studying."
The screen switched.
New target data appeared.
[Lin Yao]
Doom looked at that photo.
Then glanced at the Saiyan energy data just uploaded.
Behind the metal mask.
A pair of eyes slowly narrowed.
Chapter 51: Kamar-Taj Teleportation
Yelena slammed five photos onto the table.
"The person is still in New York."
Lin Yao looked up.
The oldest person in the photos was twenty-seven, and the youngest was only fifteen.
All of them were from the DODC missing persons list.
They were also the nineteen experimental subjects that overlapped with the ORPHEUS transport chain.
"Location."
"East Manhattan."
Yelena brought up the map.
A twelve-story white building was circled.
[Latvian Diplomatic Medical Center in New York]
Lin Yao glanced at the name.
"A diplomatic institution?"
"It bears a plaque for the Latvian diplomatic medical cooperation project."
Yelena continued scrolling down.
"The medical records of five people were transferred here last night."
"The Strange part is underground."
"The public building data shows only two underground levels."
"However, power records show that underground electricity consumption accounts for forty-three percent of the entire building."
Shuri's remote projection appeared simultaneously.
"Either they are raising a very power-hungry dragon underground,"
"Or there are hidden floors."
Danny looked at her.
"Dragons are not as power-hungry as you think."
Shuri paused for a moment.
"Thank you for your professional opinion."
Lin Yao had already stood up.
"Let's go take a look."
Yelena reminded him:
"Let's get this straight first."
"That place carries diplomatic plates."
"If you punch your way in, tomorrow's international news will have a headline."
"So we won't punch our way in."
Lin Yao picked up his coat.
"Find the people first."
Twenty minutes later.
The three of them arrived in East Manhattan.
Lin Yao and Yelena stopped on the second floor of a coffee shop across the street.
Jean stayed at Dawn House to maintain the mental defense while connecting via mental communication.
The exterior of the medical center looked completely normal.
Ambulances.
Medical staff.
Several black cars with diplomatic plates.
There were even two patients completing check-in procedures at the entrance.
Yelena pushed the tablet over.
"Eighteen cameras."
"Six armed security guards."
"The side doors are closed all day."
"The underground parking lot only allows diplomatic vehicles to enter."
"What you see is just the surface."
Lin Yao closed his eyes.
Spatial Anchoring unfolded.
The world quickly became different.
The streets, walls, and buildings all remained as they were.
Yet in his perception, every piece of space had its own stable structure.
Ordinary areas were as stable as a solid piece of glass.
When Doctor Strange opened a portal, he would briefly stretch and rotate this "glass" before connecting it to another coordinate.
Lin Yao had already saved a complete sample in his mind.
[Spatial Fluctuation Sample 01: Kamar-TajTeleportation.]
Using this as a benchmark, he slowly swept across the entire medical center.
First floor.
Normal.
Second floor.
Normal.
Third floor.
...
All the way underground.
Lin Yao suddenly opened his eyes.
"Found it."
Yelena looked at him.
"What is it?"
"There is spatial residue underground."
"How deep?"
"Lower than the second level registered by the building."
The Super Brain began to deduce backwards based on the fluctuation decay rate.
The residue was already very faint.
Yet the time elapsed wasn't long.
Lin Yao pushed his perception further downward.
Underground level 1.
Parking lot.
Underground level 2.
Equipment area.
Going further down.
Clearly in a position that belonged to the rock layer on the building blueprints, the spatial structure showed an abnormal cavity about sixty meters long.
A spatial passage had once been opened there.
And more than once.
"A hidden layer."
Lin Yao said.
Yelena immediately retrieved the underground structure.
"It's not in the blueprints."
"That's why it can stay hidden."
Lin Yao compared the newly captured spatial fluctuations with Sample 01.
The Super Brain quickly disassembled it.
Arc-shaped space deployment method.
Coordinate fixation method.
Boundary stabilization structure.
Spatial energy decay.
Data items overlapped one by one.
[Similarity: 71.4%]
Yelena saw the change in Lin Yao's expression.
"Who is it related to?"
"Strange's portal."
Her gaze immediately turned sharp.
Lin Yao continued:
"Only seventy percent."
The remaining nearly thirty percent of the structure had undergone obvious adjustments.
Especially the fixation method of the spatial anchor points.
Doctor Strange opening a portal was more like building a temporary bridge.
Yet the traces left in the basement of the medical center had been additionally reinforced.
It was as if someone had nailed coordinates into the other end of space, allowing the passage to be used repeatedly.
Jean's voice transmitted into his mind.
"Is it related to the Seals on those six mental nodes?"
"It's somewhat similar."
"Make a note of it for now."
Lin Yao did not continue pinning conclusions on anyone.
Similarity meant the technologies were connected.
There was still a very long chain of evidence separating them from the specific executor.
"Can we trace it back?" Yelena asked.
"The coordinates on the other end have scattered."
Spatial Anchoring currently couldn't track residual passages across continents.
Yet this ability had another use.
Lin Yao closed his eyes again.
He pressed his Qi bit by bit into that decaying spatial structure.
Since the remote end had already disappeared, he would deduce the opening position of the passage backwards along the local residue.
One meter.
Five meters.
Ten meters.
Spatial traces intersected underground.
Three of the landing points were concentrated on the west side of the hidden layer.
"The entrance is in the underground parking lot."
Yelena raised an eyebrow.
"The blueprints don't even draw stairs."
"The entrance doesn't necessarily have to be stairs."
Fifteen minutes later.
A supply vehicle bearing the medical center's logo drove into the underground parking lot.
Yelena had long since changed into a staff jacket, sitting in the passenger seat.
Lin Yao was hiding in the cargo compartment at the back.
The car came to a steady stop.
Spatial Anchoring unfolded once more.
The abnormal area behind the wall on the right immediately became clear.
Lin Yao raised his hand and gently knocked on the compartment.
Yelena got out of the car.
Pushing the cargo, she passed by that wall.
In front of the seemingly intact marble wall, a security guard used palmprint verification.
The wall silently receded inward.
An elevator was revealed behind it.
Yelena pushed the cart in.
Lin Yao's aura had been suppressed to the point of being almost imperceptible.
The elevator descended.
B1.
B2.
The screen subsequently went blank.
It descended for another eleven seconds.
The doors opened.
A white underground medical area appeared.
Both sides of the corridor were sealed wards.
The staff wore pure white protective suits.
The security specifications here had completely changed.
DODC-style ability suppressors were installed at the corners of the walls.
Two armed personnel guarded the innermost area.
Yelena walked forward with her head lowered.
Jean reminded him through mental communication.
"Fifty meters ahead."
"There are five consciousnesses."
"All of them are very weak."
Lin Yao was hidden in the cargo compartment.
Aura perception unfolded simultaneously.
Five strands of life aura.
The numbers matched.
One person's heart rate was obviously abnormal.
Two others had long been in a state of drug suppression.
The aura of the youngest one was rapidly declining.
Lin Yao's eyes instantly turned cold.
The people had been found.
Just as Yelena prepared to get closer, a prompt tone suddenly sounded at the end of the corridor.
[Diplomatic transfer preparation.]
[Target quantity: 5]
[Transfer time: Forty minutes later.]
A Doctor walked briskly toward a ward.
"Replace all of them with transport stabilizers."
"The convoy is already on the way."
Yelena's footsteps paused slightly.
Lin Yao's voice came through the earpiece.
"Go out first."
"Are you really planning to wait?"
"They can't run away."
A few minutes later.
The supply vehicle drove back out of the underground garage.
Across the street.
Lin Yao got down from the compartment.
Yelena sent the secretly photographed ward numbers of the five people to Matt.
"Found the people."
"But they are preparing to transfer."
Matt replied immediately:
"That institution involves diplomatic protection."
"Give me the identity data, medical status, and DODC victim files."
"I am applying for an emergency protection order right now."
Lin Yao looked up at the medical center.
Spatial Anchoring was still able to perceive that slowly disappearing fluctuation underground.
Less than a day after acquiring the ability.
It had already yielded its first tangible return.
Five people.
A hidden medical area.
And a spatial sample seventy percent similar to the Kamar-Taj Teleportation.
System prompts appeared immediately.
[Continuous plot chain progression.]
[Missing experimental subject confirmation: 5 / 19.]
[Spatial fluctuation sample 02 recording completed.]
[Reusable spatial channel residue discovered.]
[Plot chain deflection value increased.]
Lin Yao glanced underground.
"Tell Sam."
"Forty minutes."
"I want these five people to walk out of that door themselves."
On the other side of the street corner.
Three black vehicles carrying Latvian diplomatic plates were slowly driving over.
Waiting for more