Chapter 540: A Huge Harvest

He Yuzhu, Nina, Vasili, and Su Qing settled into the Franklin Hotel in the city center.

The four of them agreed to make their move on the Federal Reserve Bank tonight; Su Qing would not participate, instead being responsible for gathering intelligence, mainly through radio and newspapers, to confirm whether their actions in New York had attracted the attention of the Philadelphia police, and whether the local police station had already taken action, providing a reference for everyone to judge how long to stay in a city.

When the night was deep and quiet, He Yuzhu led Vasili and Nina to move silently.

They did not use the main entrance, but instead went down the stairs to the second floor, pushed open a slightly ajar guest room door, and nimbly climbed out the window into the alley outside.

The streets of Philadelphia were already quite quiet at this time.

Although Prohibition had long been abolished, most bars still closed at eleven o'clock at night.

Nina led the way, and the three of them used the cover of night to quickly find the location of the Federal Reserve Bank.

It was a fairly large complex of buildings.

The main bank building was magnificent, with seven floors in total, and not far away were three six-story office buildings, arranged in a circle to guard the main building.

From the outside, these buildings appeared independent, but through Scanning, He Yuzhu discovered that they were connected to each other by underground passages.

He led the two of them around the perimeter of the buildings twice in silence, having already figured out most of the underground structure in his mind.

"We have to go in from that office building in the Northeast corner," He Yuzhu lowered his voice, pointing to a building in the shadows, "If we take the underground passage from there, we can get into the main bank building."

Nina frowned: "How do you know there is an underground passage?"

He Yuzhu just smiled and did not explain: "I have my ways."

Nina's gaze lingered on his face for a moment, but in the end, she chose to trust him.

From the distance came the sound of rhythmic footsteps; a patrol of security guards was walking along the street.

The three of them immediately pressed against the wall and hid in the darkness; after that group of people walked away, He Yuzhu waved his hand, and the three of them rushed toward the target office building as swiftly as night cats.

Nina and Vasili were agile, their movements clean and efficient; He Yuzhu swept a glance over them, thinking to himself: these two are probably not ordinary people either, they might be KGB from Su Guo.

He Yuzhu took a small running start, kicked off the wall, and his hands were already gripping the third-floor window sill.

With a slight shift of his mind, the latch inside the window quietly vanished, and the window slid open without a sound.

The three of them climbed in one after another.

The building was pitch black, with only the dim light of the emergency exit providing illumination.

He Yuzhu led the two of them, familiar with the path, to find the stairs leading to the basement.

A heavy iron door blocked their way, hanging with a large lock.

He Yuzhu placed his hand on it, and the lock head disappeared.

He pushed the door slowly; the iron door was heavy, yet it only made a very slight friction sound.

Behind the door was a spacious dark passage, wide enough for three people to walk side by side.

A few old lamps on the walls emitted a dim yellow light, stretching their shadows long and thin.

Walking quickly to the end, there was another iron door.

He Yuzhu followed the same procedure, removing the lock inside the door.

He gave it a gentle push—

"Creak."

The sound of the door hinge turning seemed particularly harsh in the silence.

"Who's there!" A low shout came from inside the door immediately.

He Yuzhu did not speak, his figure already sweeping in like a ghost.

In the darkness, only the sound of a fist wind rising was heard, followed by a muffled groan, and someone collapsed softly to the ground.

Vasili followed closely behind.

He Yuzhu crouched down, twisted his hand on the security guard's neck, and completely eliminated any future trouble.

He Yuzhu turned on his detection and discovered that the entrance to the vault was right ahead, with a duty room in the corner containing five people.

He retreated to Nina and Vasili's side and said in a low voice: "You must guard this passage. I will go in to open the vault; you don't need to follow me."

Nina wanted to say something, but Vasili gently pulled her arm: "Nina, he is right; the retreat route cannot be lost."

He Yuzhu nodded at the two of them and turned to dive back into the darkness.

This time, his goal was not a frontal breakthrough, but to enter from above the vault.

The Scanning results showed that the vault was deeply embedded in a rock layer, and the rock plus concrete was twenty to thirty meters thick, making it extremely difficult to penetrate.

Only the top of the vault was slightly thinner, at only five meters thick, making it the best breakthrough point.

But to reach the top, one had to pass through the guard post in front of the vault door.

However, there were five security guards stationed there, and they were watching their surroundings vigilantly; there was simply no chance to walk past them.

His own ability to collect objects only had a range of 10 meters, but they were more than 10 meters away.

He Yuzhu hid in the shadows, his mind turning, and he immediately thought of a method; he decided to release a batch of Little Lobster.

With a thought, thousands of Little Lobster surged out from his space; after a brief awakening, these crustacean creatures began to crawl forward, their tiny, rustling sounds amplifying in the silence.

"What's that sound?"

The security guards looked down and were immediately scared out of their wits.

"God! W-what is this?"

"Monsters! They're monsters!"

"The devil... they were sent by the devil!"

The few people standing outside the guard post scrambled into the guard post next to them.

In the chaos, He Yuzhu held his breath and quietly moved closer.

When the distance closed to within ten meters, he focused his mind—

The five security guards in the guard post, along with the Little Lobster crawling all over the floor, vanished in an instant without a trace.

The passage returned to deathly silence.

He Yuzhu quickly arrived at the thinnest part of the structure above the vault, focused his mind, and with a thought, a hole just large enough for one person to pass through appeared silently in the floor.

He secured a rope to a table and slid down.

Below was a spacious hall, where dense infrared beams were interwoven into a web.

He Yuzhu hung in mid-air, and with a thought, all the alarm devices quietly vanished.

After landing, he saw clearly that what was stored in this hall was not gold, but rows upon rows of filing cabinets and document boxes.

Around the hall, individual storage rooms had been carved out; at a rough glance, there were nearly a hundred of them.

"This is troublesome..." He Yuzhu muttered to himself.

This meant he had to open the doors one by one and collect the contents one by one.

Time was tight, so he immediately began to act.

Three hours flew by in a state of high tension.

When He Yuzhu looked at his watch for the first time, the hour hand was already pointing at four in the morning.

There were still over twenty storage rooms left to be cleared.

He gritted his teeth and decisively gave up—by a rough estimate, the gold harvested tonight was nearly three hundred tons, plus a large amount of US dollar cash; he could not be too greedy.

He did not linger and returned along the original path.

Back at the hole above the vault, he moved his mind again, and the floor instantly restored itself to its original state, leaving not a trace behind.

The guard post at the vault entrance was still empty; clearly, the shift change time had not yet arrived, and no one had discovered the anomaly here.

He Yuzhu took a sturdy large leather suitcase out from his space, filled it with US dollars and some gold, weighed it in his hand, and turned to walk back the way he came.

At the entrance of the passage, Nina and Vasili were pacing anxiously.

Seeing him appear, Nina immediately rushed forward and asked eagerly, "How was it? Did it go smoothly?"

"It was alright," He Yuzhu patted the heavy leather suitcase at his feet, "I got some things out."