Chapter 28: Guest

"Police, Metropolitan Police just sent us a new piece of information......"

Miki knocked on Lin Xiuyi's door, and then she placed a document in front of Lin Xiuyi. Lin Xiu glanced at Miki with some confusion, and then picked up the document and asked Miki.

"Is there a new clue?"

"Yes, the London police seem to have detected a new type of drug from the victim's body, and they want us to help investigate and see if there is a new type of drug in the country......"

"New drugs?"

Lin Xiuyi was surprised to open the document that Miki handed him, and couldn't wait to browse it.

The toxicology laboratory at Imperial College London accidentally found a new type of drug from the victims of the Dover case that the British police had never seen before. Preliminary determination based on X-ray diffraction. Professor Jeffrey, a toxicology expert at Imperial College London, finally determined the molecular structure of the new drug.

Because Professor Jeffrey lacked sufficient experimental samples on his hands, he was not able to conduct further toxicological studies of this new organic compound. At present, neither Imperial College London nor the research institutes affiliated with the Metropolitan Police Department in London have sufficient knowledge of this new drug. But since the drug was found from the body of the victim in the Dover case. This means that the source of this new drug is very important for the detection of the case.

"Send this information back to China, maybe someone from Matsuda's side has seen this new drug?"

"Hey...... Oh...... By the way, the police department! We're going to Officer Cornwally's house tonight, and when we meet for the first time, are we going to the flower shop to buy a bouquet of flowers for the hostess?"

"Oh...... Really, I forgot such an important thing!"

As soon as Lin Xiuyi got Miki's reminder, he suddenly remembered that there was still this important thing to do, and quickly stood up from the back of the table.

"Don't worry about the police department, I checked a little, the hotel itself provides services about flowers, and there is a good flower shop around, I just don't know where you want to go?"

"Let's go to the flower shop, we haven't even gone out for a walk in all these days!"

After being reminded by Miki, Lin Xiuyi hurriedly stood up and went to get his coat. Miki, on the other hand, turned around and left the room and went to ask Urashima-kun to go out with her. After about ten minutes, Lin Xiuyi and the others left the InterContinental Hotel together, walked along Hyde Park Road in front of the door, and soon entered a neighborhood full of houses and shops.

Following the prompts on the map on your phone, you found a small shop selling gifts and flowers on Shepherd's Street, not far from the Intercontinental Hotel. After explaining his intentions, the shopkeeper made a bouquet for Lin Shuichi, which consisted mainly of two kinds of flowers, dahlias and the bride. The flower language of dahlia is gratitude, and the bride represents the happiness of the newlyweds, so such a bouquet is perfect as a gift for the first visit.

After buying the bouquets, everyone spent a little time in the nearby black tea house and ordered a pot of afternoon tea like the British. It wasn't until the time was almost up that the group got into a taxi and arrived at Sean's residence.

Sean's home is in Stockwell, on the south bank of the River Thames, a middle-class neighbourhood in London's Lambeth borough. Most of the buildings on both sides of the street are three-storey apartments. When Lin Xiuyi and the three of them pressed the doorbell of Sean's house according to the house number, Sean, who had been waiting for Lin Xiuyi's arrival, immediately took his wife to the entrance to welcome everyone.

"Lin, it seems that you have easily found the right place, Hailey and I have been waiting for your arrival!"

"Hello madam, I'm a friend of Officer Sean, my name is Lin Xiuyi, it's the first time we meet, I hope you can like it with a little heart!"

As soon as Lin Xiu said that, he took a bouquet from Miki's hand and gave it to Sean's wife, Hailey. After Sean's introduction, Hailey was finally able to accurately pronounce the romanization of Lin Xiuyi and others' names.

"I've prepared some barbecue and beer, and some fruit and salad, so thank you all for visiting me and Sean at our house, and of course the flowers and wine you have brought, especially the bouquet, and I hope you can tell Sean which flower shop you bought it from, lest he always give me roses......"

Hailey's slightly ridiculous opening remarks gradually eased the slightly restrained atmosphere of everyone's first meeting. With everyone in their hands with beers, everyone went to Sean's backyard to start the barbecue dinner tonight. As the owner of this place, Sean naturally stood in front of the oven. Hayley, on the other hand, brought fruit and dessert to everyone.

Although it was a private dinner, when a group of police officers sat together, it was inevitable that they would eventually mention something related to the case. Just when Sean was holding a beer in one hand and a barbecue fork in the other, he was constantly flipping the beef on the grill, and he suddenly asked Lin Xiuyi about the new drugs.

"Lin, have you received the latest notification from Scotland Yard today?"

"Well, it seems that there is a new type of drug that has not yet been named, but I have already sent the relevant materials back to China...... The specific situation also needs to be consulted with colleagues in charge of narcotics cases in the country. ”

"I did the same, I asked a friend I had met at the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in the past and asked him to help me with information about this new drug. But Lin, don't you think this case is getting more and more interesting? We were originally gathered to investigate the human smuggling case, but we accidentally discovered a new type of drug. I don't know what surprises Scotland Yard will bring to us......"

"By the way, Sean, I also have a new discovery here, and I'm asking Officer Songkan to help me investigate!"

"Oh...... What did you find?"

The Japanese victim was a well-known photographer in China, and her most commonly used Hasselblad H6D-100C camera, along with some other accessories, did not appear in the investigation report of the Taiguo police. And the market price of this camera is almost $43,000. And that's just the price of the camera itself, if you include other accessories such as lenses, it's roughly estimated that the price of these photographic equipment will be more than $100,000. ”

"What kind of camera is this, it's too expensive!"

"Of course, it's expensive, almost half the price of a GTR, but now it's a good thing for us. ”