The hunter in Golden Power Armor stood invisible atop a high-rise a thousand meters from the target residence, draped in an urban camouflage cloak. He focused on monitoring the house through the HUD display and earpiece in his helmet. Constantine had arrived at the Reyes home before Wanda Maximoff and, without anyone noticing, installed cameras and released a swarm of thermal-imaging drones to closely monitor the area around the residence. Dozens of drones fed their footage into his helmet simultaneously, while synaptic sensors linked to his nerves allowed his genetically modified brain to process the information at high speed, ensuring that no detail was missed. He watched Wanda get out of her car in front of the house, her face clouded with worry. Then she patted her cheeks and forced a smile. Wanda Maximoff didn't want to tell Gabe Reyes the truth. Constantine made the judgment quickly, then shifted his attention to another small window on the HUD.
Sure enough, he spotted a car near the Reyes residence.
Before the hospital room fire, the car had not appeared in footage from nearby surveillance cameras or dashcams of passing vehicles. After the fire, it passed near the Reyes residence three times within an hour. Without the City of Immortals' big-data support, an ordinary person would have found it difficult to notice that this battered old car had been circling the area repeatedly. Each time, it took a different route and appeared at a different interval, while ensuring that the driver had a clear view of the Reyes residence.
Based on Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles records, Constantine determined that the license plate did not match the vehicle model. The car's plates had been switched, and Los Angeles police records of stolen vehicles also listed a car of the same model.