Jimmy turned and ran backward. One hundred meters was not a far distance; he ran back to the bank entrance, mostly with his head down, because he needed to observe the direction of the underground pipelines.

"You, you, tell your team to follow me." Wearing an FBI badge on his chest, Jimmy pointed at one person from the ESU and one from the NYPD standing at the bank entrance, "We're going to block their sewer exit up ahead."

Jimmy did not explain, he simply pointed to several people and started giving orders, "GO! GO! GO!"

The bank robbery was originally the FBI's responsibility. Previously, because only a few FBI agents, like small birds, had come, NYPD and the ESU squad had taken their places early and had more personnel, so they did not take over ESU's command at that time. Now, with the situation developing suddenly, Jimmy taking command of a few police officers outside wasn't a big problem.

Obviously, the police officers knew this, so they said nothing and started running along with Jimmy to the other side.

"You two, open this manhole cover and see if someone has passed through."

After running half a block, Jimmy assigned two people to check one sewer, and continued forward until the sewer at the intersection, arranging everyone in place. Jimmy was cheating; he had already seen three people slowly moving towards the intersection in the sewer. When he arranged the first sewer entrance, they were behind them, but the two people he placed at the intersection were ahead of the three people in the sewer.

There were turning points in the pipe, and there were four robbers; now only three were seen, definitely one turned or ran away ahead of time. Jimmy had no intention of letting this person escape; he told the police officer beside him, "Split another person with me and go check if there are any other exits."

Jimmy walked with an NYPD officer towards a nearby alley; this place had a branch in the pipeline. Now Jimmy was completely relying on his observation of the pipeline route, then he met with misfortune—the pipeline suddenly disappeared, not that it literally vanished but rather that he could no longer see it within his 'Heart Eye' scope. It seemed the pipeline extended downward.

Jimmy gritted his teeth and toured around the alley, indeed finding a sewer exit, however, this sewer was narrow, and it would be troublesome for robbers to emerge with bags and such.

After checking, Jimmy turned around to observe the surroundings. Only part of New York's sewage system was more than 10 meters below the surface; some major pipeline channels are located more than 50 meters down, which was far beyond Jimmy's capability range.

"Let's go back and search again."

"Suspect spotted, at the intersection's sewer exit." The NYPD's radio suddenly transmitted a call, followed immediately by the sound of gunfire.

Jimmy and the NYPD officer immediately rushed back, and Jimmy was somewhat surprised because the people inside the sewer were carrying large bags—as he could tell from their silhouettes, they definitely wouldn't be able to move quickly inside the sewer. How could they have moved faster than he had expected?

The officer who stayed at the intersection was pointing a gun towards the sewer and hadn't gone down directly, "Spotted one person, who then ducked back into the sewer, in that direction."

The NYPD officer pointed inside the direction in the sewer, and Jimmy had already confirmed that there was one person below. Wait, that wasn't right; he had just seen three people. Why were there now two missing?

Jimmy took out his phone and called Ruiz. "Ruiz, I've spotted one person at the intersection's sewer entrance. You better bring people over quickly; we might need to enter the sewer to pursue."

After hanging up the phone, Jimmy told the NYPD, "Call your people; we need to block several sewer exits around here. We might have to go down to search."

Less than 300 meters from the bank, Ruiz soon arrived with his team.

"Jimmy, where's the suspect?"

"Saw one suspect at this sewer exit. NYPD fired, and he went back into the sewer. After that, we lost track of the position. In that direction."

"FxxK! We're completely unfamiliar with the sewer system, no idea how to find them. How did you think to block them here?"

"Since they chose to blast the sewer entrance to escape, they must still be inside the sewer in the immediate future. I gambled that they wouldn't run fast in the sewer; if I ran on the ground, perhaps I could get ahead of them. That's why I called some NYPD officers to run over with me from the bank entrance.

I also arranged for NYPD to guard three sewer exits up front, it's just good luck with this exit, spotting one of them directly."

"I got it, I'll see who I can arrange to go down."

Ruiz walked over to the side to negotiate with the NYPD. Going down the sewer pipes, FBI personnel definitely had to go, but they were short-handed, and NYPD personnel had to go down as well.

FBI Queens office staff were already on the phone with the municipal company to inquire about the direction of the pipelines here. Jimmy was utterly reluctant to go down, after all, having discovered this obvious clue was already a great feat.

Jimmy could no longer see the people in the sewer in his view, and they hadn't been running for long. As long as they hadn't reached the surface and were still inside the sewer, they should be able to catch up with them in time. Jimmy looked around—the police had already started checking for sewer entrances everywhere. Their efforts were likely in vain, but Jimmy couldn't just walk over and say he could see into the sewer and have everyone follow him.

Jimmy came over to Ruiz, "Ruiz, I'll also take a look around, see if I can encounter them."

Ruiz thought for a moment, looked around at the NYPD nearby, and said, "Going for a walk is fine; you're lucky, maybe you'll just happen to run into them. But better take someone with you."

Jimmy nodded, picked an NYPD lady, and left the intersection, following the sewer network to trace their trail.

The reason they still insisted on finding them now was that it was inconvenient to move in the sewer, so since the robbers had prepared this route, they definitely wouldn't go too far in the sewer and were bound to come out and then prepare a getaway vehicle on the outside.

Jimmy's goal was to follow the people in the sewer and try to find the surface getaway vehicle. His plan was simple and straightforward. The better the robbers had prepared the route for the bank heist, the more backup plans they had, possibly involving more people. If he could follow them and find the people meeting them, he could capture them all at once.

Jimmy ran on the ground, while the robbers moved in the sewer, the speed discrepancy stark. However, due to multiple branch roads in the underground network, Jimmy could only run a distance and then figure out how to change direction. The NYPD lady running beside him was cluelessly following, utterly purposeless.

After running for a few minutes and changing directions three times, Jimmy finally spotted a human figure in his field of vision. He began following this person, running forward while checking the vehicles parked along the road, hoping they hadn't gotten lost, because it would be ridiculous if, after all this commotion, the robbers got lost and couldn't find their own way out.

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