Legendary FBI Detective-Chapter 276: Explosion? Bank Robbery!

By the time Luo An and Mona stepped out of the apartment they were renting, it was already past noon.

In the past while working for the Special Investigation Team #5, they had to follow the morning working hours... at least they couldn't come in later than Augustus.

But now, as the deputy leader of the Special Investigation Team, and with only three members in the team... Luo An decisively chose to be a bit self-serving, deciding when to start work.

Sitting in Mona's second-hand car worth less than 5,000 US Dollars, Luo An thought about his Porsche.

With a slightly twisted expression, he felt as though his heart was bleeding.

He took a big bite of the breakfast... No, lunch, and said fiercely from the passenger seat:

"I must catch these guys, they must pay for this!"

Seeing Luo An's biting motion as if he were biting a person, Mona, who was driving, rolled her eyes.

But she understood his mindset, because Mona also wanted those guys to pay for her red dress.

The traffic light turned red; Mona stepped on the brakes and stopped the car, just as Luo An's phone in his pocket rang.

"It's me, Reesi."

From the other end of the call came the roaring sound of a motorcycle:

"How much longer until you reach the branch building? Where are the keys?"

"Don't make calls while you're on the motorcycle, be careful, OK?"

Luo An casually teased before turning to look at Mona; Mona thought for a moment and raised three fingers.

Three more minutes.

Luo An nodded, just about to answer Reesi's question when suddenly, a startling explosion sounded from afar!

Boom!!!

Mona's two raised fingers shook in fright. Pedestrians on the road were taken aback, some crouched down holding their heads, others screamed and ran. The street was instantly thrown into chaos, everyone was scared out of their wits.

"An explosion?!"

Luo An on the passenger seat gripped his food steadily with his left hand and his phone with his right, his expression quite solemn.

Because if he remembered correctly, the direction from where the explosion sound came seemed to have a bank!

And not just any bank, it was the "Federal Bank"!

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Rewinding back two minutes earlier.

On the streets of Los Angeles, a group of young men and women were leisurely walking and shopping, when suddenly, a few all-black SUVs and a modified school bus appeared on the road nearby.

These vehicles formed a convoy moving forward; the modified school bus looked a bit out of place, but this was Los Angeles, not far from Hollywood, so everyone's first thought was that it must be some film crew getting ready to shoot a scene.

Thus, the onlookers watched with great interest as the convoy sped forward, and after crossing an intersection, the leading SUV suddenly accelerated, rushing toward the "Federal Bank" on the side of the road.

Boom!

Crash——

The first SUV easily shattered the bank's glass entrance, breaking into the lobby. The second and third SUVs followed close behind, entering the lobby from two different directions. The drivers quickly turned their steering wheels, blocking the shattered glass wall space with the two SUVs.

The modified school bus at the back of the line revved up, pushing aside several cars parked by the road outside the bank, then the driver blocked the entrance with the bus.

The people on the street screamed and scattered in panic upon witnessing this scene, and the customers and staff in the bank lobby, realizing what was happening, began to exclaim and dodge the vehicles. The bank manager immediately pressed the alarm button under the desk.

After the second and third SUVs stopped, four figures dressed in suits, wearing black masks, and holding rifles, quickly jumped out of the vehicles and fired into the air.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

While firing, they shouted loudly at the customers and staff:

"Back off! Back off!"

"Everyone put your hands on your heads!"

"Did you hear me?"

The customers and staff dared not resist and sat down together as instructed by the robbers, one of whom took out a large box from the SUV and walked over to the group of people.

After the first SUV crashed into the bank, three guys with black hoods jumped out of the vehicle and headed towards the manager's office, kicking the door open. The leader pointed a gun at the manager's forehead:

"Give me the keys! Don't make me ask twice!"

The street where "Federal Bank" is located belongs to a wealthy area within Los Angeles City, and there are many LAPD patrol officers around. Seeing something amiss from afar at the bank, several LAPD police cars immediately drove towards the bank.

The school bus driver with a black hood outside the bank sneered upon witnessing this scene. He took out a black backpack from behind and threw it forcefully at the nearest police car.

"Dodge! Dodge!"

The LAPD officers in the car reacted quickly, frantically turning the steering wheel as soon as they saw the black backpack. However, the black backpack that had fallen to the ground exploded the next second!

Boom!!!

The deafening explosion suddenly rang out, instantly flipping the police car, which burst into flames. The glass windows of the surrounding shops were also shattered into pieces by the blast wave.

This explosion was what Luo An and Mona heard from afar.

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"Fu-k! An explosion?!"

Mona retracted her fingers and took a deep breath, cursing fluently.

She had indeed been scared by the sudden loud noise that made the windows of the second-hand car tremble tumultuously.

"No, I'm afraid it's a bank robbery."

Luo An raised his right-hand smartphone and quickly said:

"Reesi, don't go to the branch building..."

"I know, I heard the explosion too, I'm not far from there!"

Startled by the sudden explosion, Reesi immediately downshifted to a higher gear upon hearing Luo An's words:

"I'll be at the explosion site immediately!"

"OK."

Luo An turned off his phone, quickly finished the breakfast in his left hand, opened the car door, and ran out of Mona's car.

The place wasn't too far from where the explosion occurred, but traffic had become congested due to the sudden blast, so it was actually faster to run; Luo An was always quick on his feet.

"Mona, I'm going to check out the situation. Drive safely!"

Luo An said while getting out of the car with one hand in his pocket, his coat corner revealing the handle of a black handgun, with several magazines hidden at his back waist.

"You must be careful!"

As Luo An closed the car door and pushed off the ground, he sprinted like a cheetah in the direction of the explosion.

Luo An had a simple reason for heading to the crime scene: such a big case would definitely attract attention from all sides. Whether it's high-ranking officials from LAPD, the upper echelons of the FBI's Los Angeles Branch, or members of the Los Angeles government, their focus would surely shift to this location.

As the new deputy leader of the "Special Investigation Team" who had just arrived at the Los Angeles Branch, this was clearly a moment to make an impression on the higher-ups and exhibit authority to subordinates.

As the newly-appointed deputy leader of the "Special Investigation Team" transferred from New York, he needed to shake up the agents at the FBI's Los Angeles Branch with a case.

Of course, this was just one reason. Another important reason was that, the moment the explosion sounded, Luo An had an intuition:

The group in front of him was likely the same people who had destroyed his Porsche!

Thinking of his Porsche that wasn't even driven for a day, costing tens of thousands of US Dollars, rage flickered in Luo An's eyes. He sped up even faster amidst the shocked and astonished glances of the pedestrians.

Meanwhile on the other side, Special Investigation Team Number Four, which had been up all night, had not intended to get involved in this case.

But upon learning from LAPD that the number of criminals matched exactly with the second wave of forces that appeared last night, the team leader, Morton York, immediately stood up, taking several off-duty agents to the scene to investigate.

At the same time, inside the bank, a group of hostages was pale with fear, because inside that large box, there were a dozen bombs!