When the banquet was over, Lin Xiuyi and Sean, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, naturally wouldn't go back as early as everyone else. After Lin Xiu said a few words to Miki and Urashima, he followed Sean out of the London Metropolitan Police Department.

Lin Xiuyi and Sean walked along the banks of the Thames River together, and casually talked about the recent situation of some colleagues in the Seattle branch office back then.

"Remember that old guy Musk? He's now the deputy director of the state bureau, and this old guy should really thank the Green River killer now. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid he would have stayed in the Seattle bureau until he retired and dealt with the perverts on Route 90......"

"Director Musk? He's finally getting through, but Sean, I'm a little curious. How did you come to England?"

After you left, I was recommended by Musk to Washington for a new position. But it wasn't until I got to Washington that I learned that the position was to work in New Mexico with drug cartels who didn't want to die. I had a big fight with Musk, and I told him that everything he has now was bought back by Lin and I with my life, and that he owes me a favor and that I shouldn't be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to deal with those damn drug trafficking organizations......"

"And then, Musk agreed?"

"Yes, this old guy finally has a little conscience, and finally helped me run the office on the British side as an agent inspector......"

"Next, you met your current wife here?"

"Hah, that's a good result, isn't it?"

……

Lin Xiuyi and Sean chatted all the way to Westminster Bridge, and Sean pointed to Big Ben across the road and asked Lin Xiuyi if he needed to leave a memorial here. Lin Xiuyi realized that he had unknowingly come to such a famous place.

Lin Xiuyi took out his mobile phone and stood at Big Ben with Sean to take a selfie, and then the two walked forward along St. George's Street for a while, and soon they found a bar called St. Stephen next to Westminster Station.

Maybe it's because it's close to the Palace of Westminster, and the atmosphere in the bar is very quiet. After Lin Xiuyi and Sean found a seat and sat down, they immediately asked the hosts here for two glasses of English light ales.

"Sean, can you ask how you and your wife met?"

"Needless to say. My wife, a freelance writer, once applied to our office that there was a federal agent in one of the productions she was working on, but she had no idea what a federal agent was like, and she wanted to come and work with us for a while if she could get permission......"

"And then, you agreed?"

"Of course not, it's not that simple. But I thought at the time that it would be a bit rude to just send her an email. So I told her in my personal email that she was denied, but there was a real federal agent who was willing to ask her out for a drink......"

"And then? And she agreed?"

Yes, she agreed at the time. So, we met at the Ministry of Sound club on the other side of Elephant Castle. ”

"Strange to say, I noticed her the moment she got out of the taxi, and then I took the initiative to ask her if she had made an appointment with a federal agent, and I didn't expect it to be her......

As he spoke, Sean found a photo of himself and his wife on his phone and showed it to Lin Xiu. Lin Xiuyi curiously looked at the mobile phone screen that Sean handed over. On the screen, a petite 100-person woman is wrapping her arms around Sean's neck from behind, and the two are laughing happily together, looking very happy.

"Congratulations Sean!"

Lin Xiuyi said sincerely to his former partner.

"So...... That's all I have to say, what about you, how have you been lately, have you met a girl you like?"

Sean also asked Lin Xiuyi curiously.

"There's one girl I like, but we're just getting started......"

After a glass of light beer, the two ordered another dark beer. At the same time, the two began to turn the conversation to their respective jobs.

"Do you have any clues about the two American girls who were killed?"

Lin Xiuyi put down his wine glass, lowered his voice and asked Sean in a low voice.

"Without a clue, one of the two girls killed was a third-year student at Ohio University. According to the information provided by China, she should have lost contact with her friends on the way home after the prom. The police had searched her home at the time, and according to the testimony of her roommate, the girl had left the apartment that day and never returned. The other victim, a math teacher at a public elementary school in Illinois, disappeared while driving to Wisconsin to visit her parents......

Lin Xiuyi listened carefully to Sean's introduction, and he understood that what Sean said had no clue, and it must have been a conclusion reached after the FBI had spent a certain amount of energy on the investigation. Generally speaking, there is a high chance that an acquaintance will commit a crime such as this abduction or kidnapping of an adult woman. Judging from the identities of the two murdered women, both of them have good backgrounds and jobs. This is very different from the women who have been victims of the Green River Killer series, after all, women with serious jobs and good education have rarely encountered a pervert like the Green River Killer.

"In other words, it doesn't look like an acquaintance committed a crime, right?"

"Probably not, in fact, I think this case is very likely to be related to the dark web!"

"The dark web?"

"Lin, I don't know if you've heard of the Silk Road?"

Heard Sean mention the Silk Road. Lin Xiuyi suddenly remembered the transnational illegal goods trade case that was cracked in the United States last year. The detection of this case caused a great sensation at the time, and if it were not for the news of the arrest of the Green River killer that eventually aroused greater media interest, the Silk Road case would probably have been the most sensational case in the United States last year.

"I've heard a little about this case, is it the illegal goods trading platform that the FBI cracked last year?"

"Yes, I've been working on the dark web since I was sent to Europe. Although the Silk Road has been successfully dismantled, similar dark web trading platforms have emerged one after another. What's more, all transactions are paid for in Bitcoin, and it's hard to find out exactly where the funds are going......"