Driving into Orange County, Chen Rui looked in a daze as he looked at the desolate streets.

This time I went out and it took me a month.

When he came back, he was a little unfamiliar with Orange County, where he had lived for a while.

You know, this place used to be a famous wealthy area in Los Angeles.

But in recent years, due to various reasons, the environment here has been deteriorating.

All the shops on the street have closed down one after another.

There are a lot more "zombies" on the road now. Looking at those weird-looking guys, they seem to be fixed on the road as if they have been tapped.

Chen Rui was also filled with emotions.

He has been in the United States for more than ten years. The first few years were fine, but especially in recent years, he can clearly feel the changes in American society.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

In the past, there was a clear dividing line between rich areas and poor areas.

In areas where rich people live, there are very few homeless people like this.

But now, this line has been blurred.

It can be said that backpackers living in tents are everywhere.

Even wealthy cities like Orange County are now occupied by them.

Although there are many police patrolling the road, there is nothing they can do against these guys.

It's okay here in Los Angeles, but the situation in San Francisco and Portland is much more exaggerated than here.

Chen Rui drove the car carefully and was very careful when passing every traffic light.

Because there are often homeless people knocking on the car window while you are parking your car and asking for money.

If you open your car windows wider, they may even try to steal your money.

And some guys even have dicks on their waists.

He didn't want to get into any trouble, so he walked carefully through several blocks.

After entering the Irvine area, the situation improved slightly.

But when he drove the car in front of his second-hand store, he couldn't help but be surprised.

From the front, the doors and windows of the store have obvious signs of being smashed.

Fortunately, this time, anti-theft doors and windows were installed outside the doors and windows of the store.

So the smashing only left some marks on the iron railings outside the doors and windows.

The glass doors and windows inside were not damaged...

It was nothing, what surprised him.

If Karen was at home, why would she come out to clean up?

But now it was a mess outside the door, even filled with garbage, but Karen didn't come out to clean it up.

He quickly drove the car to the backyard. Fortunately, there was a large iron gate at the entrance to the alley behind.

No one came here to cause trouble, so Chen Rui entered the store through the back door.

As soon as I came in, I noticed a musty smell. It must have been caused by no one being home for a while.

He opened the door and window and went all the way upstairs, but found no trace of Karen.

This made Chen Rui very anxious.

Before sending He Xiaohe back to Montana, he still kept in touch with Karen every day.

Later, after agreeing to work as an undercover agent for Qiao Li, he stopped contacting Karen for the sake of protecting Karen's safety.

Yesterday, he called Karen after being sent back to Seattle by Qiao Li and the others.

But no one answered the phone, and he thought Karen didn't hear it.

But after driving all the way home today, I still found no trace of Karen at home.

This made him a little panicked...

Thinking of this, he immediately took out his mobile phone and planned to call Karen's brother-in-law Lao Fang to ask.

But as soon as I took out the phone, I heard a jingle of message notifications.

When I opened it, I saw that Karen had sent me an email.

"Thank God!"

Chen Rui was relieved when he saw the email.

At the same time, the network system of the United States is really rubbish.

Yes, when it comes to this, Chen Rui has to complain about how rubbish the network construction in the United States is.

Many people think that the United States is a developed country and its network construction must be very developed.

But this is not the case, because the network operators in the United States are non-state-owned.

They are often controlled by a few telecom giants, and what they value most is profits.

Therefore, they calculate to the extreme how much area a signal tower covers.

Where there are many people, there should be enough signal towers; where there are few people, there should be fewer signal towers.

And because of the sanctions against the Chrysanthemum Factory, we purchased a lot of switching equipment from garbage companies.

This causes the wireless network signal here in the United States to be extremely rubbish.

In densely populated big cities, it's better.

But if you go out of the city, let alone in the sparsely populated mountainous areas, even in the vast and sparsely populated suburbs, it is difficult for you to receive network signals.

This results in frequent mail delays.

This oolong incident originated from this.

Chen Rui quickly clicked the stuck email.

The first few emails were emails between Karen and him, and she also knew that he was performing special tasks.

So I couldn't bear to disturb him, but the conversation changed in the next few letters.

It turns out that Karen suddenly received an invitation from her father to attend a special event in New York.

So Karen went to New York. Seeing this, Chen Rui breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I called Karen again, but the call was still not connected.

He simply sent Karen an email and asked her what activities she was going to attend and when she would be back.

Then I started to simply clean up the house.

The house was cleaned inside and outside.

Chen Rui then returned upstairs and opened the safe house on the third floor, intending to put in all the gains from this outing.

This time I went to see He Xiaohe off, and his work was not in vain.

I went to Seattle and picked up three treasures.

Two oil paintings by Rembrandt, and a Qianlong copper teapot.

After putting these three treasures into the warehouse, Chen Rui began to take inventory of the treasures in his hands.

A small rhinoceros statue from the San Francisco Museum and a bronze money tree from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

There are also portraits of Zhao Ding, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and four paintings by Zhang Daqian.

Two national treasure-level Buddha statues from the Japanese Kingdom.

All that's left are the treasures brought back from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The most important ones are naturally the three top-notch Chinese painting treasures.

Yan Liben's "Picture of Emperors of the Past Dynasties", Zhang Xuan's "Picture of Tamping Lian", and Song Huizong's "Picture of Five Colored Parrots".

Then there is a bronze goblet from the Shang Dynasty.

Then there is Gauguin's "Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?".

In addition, there are four other famous paintings by Rembrandt.

In addition, this time, I got two paintings by Rembrandt.

Before I knew it, I had collected so many treasures.

Chen Rui thought that he was just short of opening a private museum.

Looking at the treasure room full of jewels, he felt that it was a little shabby.

Suddenly several gunshots rang out on the street outside, and Chen Rui hurried to the window.

On the far corner of the street, several police cars sped past.

Although the Irvine area is currently relatively safe.

But he suddenly had a feeling that putting so many treasures here always made him feel uneasy.
Chapter completed!