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Chapter 2 Small Town
Maine, located in the New England region in the northeast corner of the United States, is adjacent to Canada. It can be said to be a very remote area with no sense of existence. It is only 8.6 square kilometers, but the population is only 130 million, which can be called a large population. The territory under its jurisdiction is covered by a large number of forests, the scenery is beautiful, and the GDP is not high.

Chi Heng didn't want to understand, why did his uncle leave a note in the safe, but it was written with addresses from all over the world?Whether it was the address on this piece of paper, the electronic watch hidden in the safe, and the nearly one hundred thousand dollars in cash, it proved that his uncle's identity was not easy.

Scratching his head, Chi Heng murmured in a low voice: "Old man, tell me the password, what exactly do you want me to do?"

He sighed for a long time, Chi Heng has always been under the care and care of his uncle, and he has never experienced such difficult things.

Sitting blankly by the bed and thinking for a long time, Chi Heng finally made up his mind that he wanted to explore the secrets his uncle left him.

But before that, he rummaged through his uncle's room, especially some of the books. He searched carefully, trying to find useful clues, but unfortunately, he didn't find any other abnormalities.

A week later, after dealing with his uncle's funeral, Chi Heng sold all the equipment in the laundry to get rid of the tax bureau's fine, but the house was hard to sell. Anyway, he is not short of money now, and he doesn't bother to sell it anymore. Might come back.

On the contrary, the most troublesome thing is actually the nearly one hundred thousand dollars in cash!
In many places in the United States, there is a saying called "cops take money", which originated from the "civil forfeiture" system, that is, when a person cannot prove whether the large amount of cash he is carrying is legal income, law enforcement officers can determine that it is illegal income , has the right to confiscate these properties.

By default, this asset goes to the confiscation law enforcement agency, which obviously creates a perverse profit incentive mechanism, which leads to distortion of law enforcement. In the United States, tens of thousands of cases of property are confiscated in this way every year, and law enforcement agencies enjoy it , very keen to carry out such law enforcement.

Chi Heng once read the news that a man with no criminal record in Wyoming, Russia, was stopped by a routine inspection while driving, and the police found more than $9 in cash in his trunk. This man is a street A performer, wandering all over the United States, because he felt that cash was safer, he brought all his past savings with him in cash, and did not store it in a bank.

Under questioning by the police, the man obviously couldn't prove that he earned all the money. Where did he get the receipt for the street performance?In the end, it was all confiscated.

What about bank deposits?
Then don’t expect it. Small sums of money are fine. When more than [-] U.S. dollars are deposited in the bank, the bank will report the transaction to the federal authorities. If it is close to [-] U.S. dollars, it will definitely be marked. Immediately lead to the IRS to investigate whether it is legitimate income.

Chi Heng's work simply cannot support such a high amount of income, let alone he barely paid the fine.So what about depositing in the bank multiple times if the deposit is less than [-] US dollars each time?No way, too many times of access will be marked by the bank.

In the United States, there are not many families and individuals with nearly $[-] in bank accounts, and these accounts are reviewed by the Internal Revenue Service all year round.

After thinking about it, Chi Heng has nothing to do. This is also normal. If he, an ordinary person, can easily dispose of $[-] in cash, those money laundering organizations that have worked so hard to hire professional accountants and lawyers can be cleaned up and disbanded.

The deposit bank is undoubtedly a self-inflicted trap, and there is at least a certain degree of security in carrying cash directly.

Chi Heng had no choice but to take a risk and store nearly [-] US dollars in cash under the seat of his dilapidated pickup truck, which had been hollowed out and could be opened.

After packing his luggage, Chi Heng set off from Mississippi on a journey of thousands of miles.

In order to avoid being chased by the police all the way, Chi Heng drove the pickup truck very carefully, absolutely obeying the traffic rules, and completely unwilling to speed.Unexpectedly, the traffic rules in each place are not the same. One time he was stopped by the state police. The reason for the stop was not that he was speeding, but that he was driving too slowly.

That's right, if you don't reach a certain speed, you will be stopped by the police.

Fortunately, with Chi Heng's harmless face and being a Chinese, the police didn't raise their vigilance too much. They casually checked his trunk and let him go.

For the next journey, Chi Heng was even more cautious. As a Chinese who had never traveled far, he must have little experience, and in the United States, Chinese are one of the targets of bullying. He could only follow his uncle's teachings and only Eat bottled water bought from the store and food from the store, never dare to eat water and food from motels along the way.

He didn't even dare to look around, to avoid looking at people, and to avoid those arrogant gangs.

Tens of thousands of people are shot and killed in the United States every year, but this is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that more than tens of thousands of illegal immigrants disappear every year. These people who don’t even have identities disappear and no one cares about them. They are not included in the file. , while those with US citizenship, the number of missing persons reaches thousands every year.

In order to scare Chi Heng from running around, his uncle showed him the NCIC report. There are as many as 57 missing people reported nationwide every year. Although most of the missing people have been found, the actual missing people can't even find their bodies. The number of people is still 4000 per year on average.

Chi Heng was frightened by this statistic, so he was a good baby, never daring to stay too far away from the laundry.

Now, he is forced to travel thousands of kilometers on the road. It is hard to imagine that an ordinary Chinese with no relatives is missing, and the police will seriously pursue him. He must be careful and careful.

Facts have proved that after a week of careful sailing, Chi Heng finally found "Doaktown" (Doaktown) along the map.

It was still in May, and there was a dense fog in the morning here. The dense fog was boundless. When Chi Heng drove the pickup truck into the dense fog, the dense fog swept in like a blanket, turning the front glass into a If the frosted glass is removed, even the scenery that is close at hand loses its outline and becomes a blurred and weird appearance.

The thick fog not only covered up the mountains and forests in the distance, it seemed that even the morning sun could not penetrate this curtain, and it turned dark gray.

Chi Heng, who was always cautious, lowered the speed of the car, turned on the fog lights, and drove slowly to avoid accidents.

A sign appeared within the range of the headlights, it was the sign of "Dock Town"!
Find the right place!
Because he entered Maine, he had to stay up late and drive because there was no hotel. When he was refreshed, he was illuminated by a dazzling high beam, and subconsciously blinked.

Then, a car rushed out of the thick fog, and it seemed that it only saw his pickup truck, and it actually drove into his driveway, turned the steering wheel in a hurry, and fell into the nearby woods.

"Oops!"

Chi Heng screamed and braked quickly.

(End of this chapter)