Requiem: Chapter 14
Markus Moore sat back in front of his screen. A place where he had spent many hours in the last few months. Luckily for him, the team that followed the man consisted of four people and they dissolved each other every six hours. So they could follow him 24 to 24 hours and possibly adjust. They had given him the codename 'Michael' for the convenience and safety of the project. Outside his team, not many people were aware of their practices in the building at the United Nations Plaza, New York.
The Trump World Tower that used to be there was demolished after the Great War for great damage and one had built an even larger and even more prestigious skyscraper in the same place. The Trump World Tower was once 262.44 m high and officially counted 72 floors — despite the elevator panels oddly 90 floors — and at the beginning of the 21st century it was the world's tallest residential tower. Now there was a mastodon almost 915 meters high and 250 floors. The ' Old World Highest 'was the tallest skyscraper in the whole Old World. A building that stuck out of the skyline like a needle. A fine piece of architecture that made it one of New York's most visited landmarks.
There was nowhere a paper trail to the owner of the lowest floor. This floor was also not accessible via the 'regular' elevator in the Old World Highest . This basement floor was fully owned by a subdivision of another subdivision of the CIA through intermediaries and straw men. This service did not even have a name or acronym and was one of the best kept secrets of the United States of the Western Community. Among the few initiated, they talked about The Basement . An ambiguous, insignificant and mysterious designation for something that usually shun the light of day. The floor was completely closed off from the other floors and had its own utilities that worked independently of the rest of the building.
The entrance to this floor was only accessible through an underground garage via 44th Street which crossed 2nd Avenue or via the roof where there was a heliport. Through a hatch on the roof one could on the top floor with a special elevator to the Basement and then one had to have a code to operate it. That code was regularly changed out of safety. In the underground garage, after a complicated course, one came to the entrance to De Basement. There was also a lift with a code that was changed regularly and brought them to the place where Markus was currently working. From this room several top-secret operations were put on, coordinated and followed up.
