Top Secret Entrustment [Rebirth]

The summer sunshine in the desert area is strong and dazzling. After the scorching afternoon, the temperature directly soars to [-] degrees Celsius. The air is so hot that it seems to be mixed with sparks. only direction.

The sand was flying, and the Wrangler galloped westward.

The air conditioner in the car was fully turned on, but the sunny place was still scorching hot by the scorching sun.

Luo Yifan wore a pair of thin-rimmed sunglasses, and his expression was as indifferent as ever. He stabilized the steering wheel with one hand, and with the other hand he fumbled to the neckline and pulled off his tie. Along the way, he loosened a few buttons, revealing his muscular chest.

"You can talk about your plan." He said lightly.

Xiao Yu had already handed Lu Cen the ipad showing the tracking route, while he sat cross-legged in the passenger seat, carefully studying a map of New York City.

Hearing this, a certain one subconsciously turned its head to look over, and couldn't help being slightly stunned when it saw what it saw, its Adam's apple rolled simultaneously, thinking that Nima is so sexy!I have seen so many naked ones, but this kind of half-revealing is still the most uncontrollable!

Wait... what am I thinking?Xiao Yu shook her head, and was almost made to react by the further pornographic images in her brain. At this time, a tissue was handed over from the back row. Xiao Yu said 'what the hell' was written on Xiao Yu's face, and Lu Cen was serious Teased teasingly: "Hurry up, your salivary gland secretion is out of control."

Xiao Yu: "..."

Xiao Yu's cheeks were flushed, she pushed away the sinful facial tissue, and said angrily, "Get lost!"

"I'm fucked, your arrival in New York will be delayed by at least a week." Lu Cen looked back at his notebook and said with a half-smile, "California expressway is too cruel to single dogs. I have to think about it after this trip." Suggesting a change of partner to the boss, I can't bear such cruelty."

Xiao Yu: "..."

"Okay," Luo Yifan said, "Let's talk serious first."

Xiao Yu coughed in disguise, and said: "To be serious, I haven't figured out a plan to deal with Mr. Schumann. There are too many uncertainties now. I don't even know where he is in New York. The boss only revealed A city, but it is impossible for us to easily find a person in this city without any clues, and that person is a thief."

Luo Yifan: "Then where do you think this tracker installed on the helicopter can take us?"

"I guess I can only go to a private helipad on the outskirts of New York City. He is very careful not to arrange an itinerary with a clear destination at two o'clock and one line." Xiao Yu flicked his phone absently, but his voice was very solemn, "So to us Speaking of which, that tracker is actually not very useful."

"I don't understand what you're doing." Lu Cen raised his head suspiciously, and looked at Xiao Yu through the rearview mirror.

Xiao Yu said: "The person who installed the tracker is the boss, so we assume that Mr. Schuman didn't notice, then who do you think this step is targeting?"

Lu Cen suddenly realized, "Is it a boss?!"

"Well, so I have another small arrangement—" He raised his mobile phone and showed the screen to the two partners. It also showed a satellite map on it, which was corresponding to California, and the tracking point was at this time. Their straight-line distance is less than [-] kilometers.

"You are following the boss..." Yi Fan frowned.

"Don't you think he would really stand by and watch?" Xiao Yu smiled meaningfully, "If he didn't want to interfere, he wouldn't have agreed to participate in the operation in the casino at the beginning. I hid the tracking device very shallowly. The boss found it but didn't destroy it, which actually shows his position on this matter."

"That's why I asked to detour to a farther airport, and let the boss fly first to see where he will take us. After all, it is a city where we have lived for decades, and he should go back."

"You kid, you're already plotting against the boss," Lu Cen couldn't help laughing and said, "Then where are we going now?"

Xiao Yu stuffed the phone back into his pocket, and tapped somewhere on the map with his fingers, "Manhattan, West 53rd Street, No. 11."

Luo Yifan was startled when he heard the words, and immediately turned to look at him, "New York Museum of Modern Art?"

Xiao Yu nodded and explained: "The boss said that he met their teacher there. Think about it, how could the thief not do something when he went to the museum?"

Lu Cen: "He stole a certain exhibit inside?"

Xiao Yu hummed, and his expression changed slightly, "I just now feel that the boss revealed that matter to me at the beginning, maybe it was a hint in itself, but it's a pity that I haven't fully figured it out, so You have to go to the scene to verify."

"What do you think he stole?" Luo Yifan said.

Xiao Yu: "The "Starry Sky" by Van Gogh."

A thought quickly flashed through Yifan's mind, and after a few seconds of silence, he said in a deep voice, "You want to say that the "Starry Night" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York was stolen decades ago and turned into a counterfeit, and the original work was stolen by the boss. The teacher collected it..."

"If this is the case, on the eve of the exchange meeting, the poisonous snake probably didn't go to the museum to steal the painting at all, but Schumann used the authentic painting hidden in the former residence to create the illusion of stealing the painting, so that they could be eligible for the invitation?"

Lu Cen said: "This really makes sense."

"Actually, all of you have overlooked the most important point," Xiao Yu said with a smile, "Stealing means that there must be an imitation that is comparable to the real one. That fake painting can be exhibited in the museum for so many years, and it can also be guaranteed not to be stolen. Forensic experts and art thieves have found that this shows that the person has very superb copying skills."

"Their teacher is proficient in painting and is a rare master of imitation. At the same time, he has perfect experience in theft. He is really a terrible guy."

"Besides, I think I finally understand that Mr. Schumann must have a deep obsession with that man, so he cultivated Xi Cheng in a completely different way—he wanted to train his chosen heir to be that man. shadow of man."

So...that's it!

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Two days later, downtown Manhattan.

New York is dry in summer, with an average temperature of just over 20 degrees, which is a paradise for those who have just arrived from the west, which is shrouded in appalling heat.

Now is the tourist season, and there are a large number of tour groups and summer camps gathered in front of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Although it takes several hours to line up, the more people are mixed, the better it is for the thief.

A few blocks away, Lu Cen, who stayed in the hotel, quickly invaded the museum's intranet, and then took control of all monitoring and alarm devices with ease. He was the farthest away, but he was not the first person to enter the museum in the usual sense. The laptop screen kept switching cameras to take pictures. After browsing the pictures below, he was sure that there was no one in the same company, so he called the surveillance of a certain exhibition room and replaced the shooting content with the shooting video a few days ago.

"I got it done here."

At the main entrance of the art museum, Xiao Yu made a slight disguise, wearing a casual T-shirt and jeans, a flat shoulder bag on one shoulder, and the brim of the peaked cap was slightly lowered, and she was lined up in a group carrying all kinds of luxury goods. Behind the student summer camp with shopping bags, waiting to enter the hall.

"I still need about half an hour," he sighed depressingly, "where's Ivan?"

Luo Yifan stared expressionlessly at the impasto oil painting on the wall, and said calmly, ""Starry Sky" is here."

"Hey, why are you so fast?" Xiao Yu asked in surprise.

"Knocked out a security guard, pretended to come in, and changed back into clothes."

"Tsk tsk y, you have learned badly~"

"You taught me."

"He obviously has so many advantages~" a certain one said sadly, "Can't you learn from me?"

Yifan's cold voice couldn't help but be tainted with a smile, playful: "Your strengths seem to be used in bed."

Xiao Yu: "!!!!"

"Cough—" Lu Cen said, "Should I avoid it first?"

"No need," Xiao Yu gritted her teeth, moved forward slowly with the team, and said in a low voice, "Can you be more serious? If I don't blackmail me, I will die? You are doing business! Honey, you are really getting more and more dishonest!"

"Thank you." Luo Yifan said very seriously.

Lu Cen smiled unkindly.

Xiao Yu: "..."

"Stop making trouble!" Xiao Yu wanted to cry, "Is there anything special about "Starry Sky"?"

After he finished speaking, the communication channel suddenly fell silent.

Luo Yifan stopped talking, and his dark gray eyes fixed on the oil painting in front of him. If this painting had been replaced by someone decades ago, then the version of "Starry Sky" on the Internet and books is very likely to be a fake. He doesn't know much about artworks himself, and he may have never seen the real ones, so there is no way to compare them.

"I can't see it."

"It doesn't matter y, you just don't understand the technique~" Xiao Yu turned his head away, stood a little far away from the group of chatting students, and said, "Don't try to figure out the difference between it and the real one, those who are good at copying can draw it The brush strokes are exactly the same as the original painting, if there is such a difference, there will be no authentic imitations in the world that cannot be identified by appraisers."

"However, it is precisely because it is completely consistent with the original work. In order not to confuse them, the imitator will leave some marks. The marked places must be very obscure, and even need to use special methods to observe. Besides, it is calculated according to time. , "Starry Sky" was stolen at least 30 years ago, when the conditions were limited, and the marking method was much simpler than now, and it was very rough."

After these reminders, Yifan's chaotic bandit became much clearer in an instant. He began to pay attention to the edges and corners of the painting, and the relatively complicated outline of the scene. After looking at it for more than ten minutes, he still didn't find anything unusual.

At this time, Xiao Yu finally got to the ticket gate and entered the hall together with those summer camp students.

"What are the special methods?" Luo Yifan said.

Xiao Yu said: "Actually, it's not very special. Those are priceless works of art. For thieves, the inspection method must be non-destructive and easy to operate. The museum will keep the humidity and temperature to isolate natural light to ensure the minimum impact on the paintings. So I guess that person probably used the lighting in the exhibition room itself."

"After all, there were no other visitors at the scene when the lighting was turned off, and the moment was very short. It is difficult to notice the subtle changes in the picture without repeated observation."

"So, we need an intermittent power failure now, Deer?"

"Give me five minutes."

Almost shortly after he finished speaking, the lighting system of the entire art gallery went out with a bang, and the tourists who were visiting let out a cry of surprise, and looked up at the ceiling lights in the dark.

Xiao Yu quickened her pace, took the opportunity to pass through the crowd, and rushed towards the exhibition room.

After a few seconds, the lighting resumed, and before people could react, it went out again, and then began to flicker like a malfunction.The broadcast sounded, saying that someone had been arranged to check the power system, and comforted the frightened tourists to stay calm and reduce walking to avoid damage to the exhibits.

In the alternating light and dark, the wonderful brushstrokes of "Starry Sky" seemed even more unimaginable. Luo Yifan simply walked up to him, and his quiet eyes searched the entire oil painting inch by inch--finally, he found an extreme place among the scattered cottages. Inconspicuous marks.

"Deer, it's ok."

"Found it?!" Lu Cen said.

"It's a name."

Xiao Yu entered the exhibition room and walked quickly behind Yifan. At this time, the lighting had been restored, he gasped slightly, and said softly, "What's your name?"

"shaw."

"Huh?" Xiao Yu glanced at the other party inexplicably, "What's the matter?"

Luo Yifan turned around and looked at him, "That name is 'shaw'."

Xiao Yu was stunned, and asked hesitantly, "My code name?"

"No," Yi Fan said, "I think it's his code name."

At the same time, hotel suites.

Another notebook on the coffee table popped up a prompt box, and Lu Cen closed the window, only to notice that the red origin representing the tracker stopped at some point.

At this time, the outskirts of Queens.

This is a very remote area with lush forests and private ownership. There are no other houses or residents. The sound of the engine from far to near is particularly abrupt in the silence.

The Land Rover turned off and stopped on the side of the road. Leonard got out of the car and walked deep into the woods along a stone path.

A few minutes later, an old-fashioned three-story villa appeared at the end of the stone road. It was surrounded by courtyard walls and wrought iron gates. The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and the artificially repaired corridors could no longer be seen. The dense ivy covered the villa's exterior walls. The windows were all sealed tightly.

He stopped and stared at the unpopular building for a while, then threw the tracker into a long-abandoned mailbox by the gate, then stepped forward and rang the doorbell covered by vines.