"Did you really decide to do this?"

When Lin Xiuyi and Sean walked out of Heathrow Airport and got into the car of the FBI's London office, Sean finally asked Lin Xiuyi for his opinion.

"Yes, Sean, we can't play directly to our abilities here, and Bernard's advice is the only way we can do it at the moment. ”

Lin Xiuyi finished saying this, and then turned his gaze to Sean, Sean was silent for a moment, and finally agreed with Lin Xiuyi's idea.

When Lin Xiuyi returned to the hotel, he first took a bath to wash away the dust along the way, and then summoned Urashima and Miki to discuss his new plan. As Lin Xiuyi expected, after he just said his thoughts, he was quickly opposed by Miki.

"Police, is it really okay for us to do this?"

Miki was both worried and a little resistant to ask Lin Xiuyi.

"Miki-chan, do you remember that the high school garden festival was a popular kind of haunted house? I thought about it for a while, and I think it's similar in nature to that one. All the videos are faked, and no one will really get hurt in the process. But even I felt that this project faced a lot of difficulties, first of all, what we had to do was to make a video of the abuse that could be faked and put on the dark web. ”

Although Miki did not approve of Lin Xiuyi's dangerous plan. But she also knew that it would be in vain to wait any longer. In any case, although Lin Xiuyi's plan seemed a little fanciful, he finally found something for the special search department to do.

Over the next two weeks, Sean and Lin first submitted the plan to Washington, D.C., for approval. To their surprise, Washington agreed to their crazy plan. However, when you think about it, there are many phishing sites on the dark web that pretend to be illegal trading sites, all of which are operated by the London office.

Due to the technical capabilities of the London office, all the videos required on the website were entrusted to the technical department at headquarters. The construction of the dark web site is still carried out by the department led by Sean.

……

Two weeks later, an anonymous post on Reddit, North America's most well-known news commentary platform, suddenly caught the attention of many users on the site.

"Would you like to appreciate the ancient Roman style of real-life fighting?"

Although there is nothing new in the title, the pictures accompanying the article are very bloody. It seems to have been taken from a TV series related to Rome. Although most netizens have little interest in this kind of post, it still does not prevent some curious users from copying the dark web address at the end of the post.

Going from the world of the surface web to the world of the dark web requires special tools. Many familiar people know that this post should not be so simple as long as they see the garbled text. Some Reddit customers who are familiar with the dark web quickly clicked on the Tor browser on their computers, and then skillfully connected the Tor browser to the Tor network, and pasted the ending string into the address bar of the Tor browser. Soon, a website called the Colosseum appeared in front of the curious.

"Do you want to experience the pleasures of ancient Roman aristocracy? Pick your slaves, a gladiatorial show comparable to the Roman era will be presented in front of you......"

When many customers saw this line of text, many people thought that it might be just a boring prank, and after a little browsing of the content on this website, most of them chose to quit this website, but there were still a very small number of people who had some interest in the gladiatorial arena. After carefully reading the introduction of the rules of the game on the website, everyone realized that this website called the gladiatorial arena is actually a gambling website that focuses on live fighting.

According to the announcement on the website, three days later, there will be a real-life gladiatorial fight comparable to that of an ancient Roman gladiator, and the website will broadcast the duel between the two slaves directly, after which the winner will be able to survive and the loser will be immediately executed. Interested viewers can watch the live stream online for a fee via a browser with a website for 0.01 BTC.

A dark web site full of gimmicks, and despite its shabby appearance, many people choose to believe the gladiator's claims. After all, anything can happen on the dark web, compared to a regulated website.

When a small group of users who were curious about it paid 0.01 bitcoins, they soon received a link to download it, as described on the site's announcement. Shortly after clicking on this link, a special browser installation package is sent to the paying customer's computer.

Someone couldn't wait to install the browser sent by the Dueling Arena website. When he opened the browser, he saw that the countdown was actually going on on the browser's homepage, and the countdown ended at nine o'clock in the evening three days later.

In addition to the countdown, several photos of men tied up appeared at the bottom of the browser's homepage. A brief description is attached next to the photo.

"Gladiator No. 1, age 31, height 183cm, weight 84kg, good health, British nationality, odds ......"

"Gladiator No. 2, age 27 years old, height 179cm, weight 87kg, good health, American nationality, odds ......"

In addition to the basic information about the slaves who participated in the gladiatorial fight after three days, there is also a button for placing bets. Although most people have lost the desire to continue exploring the Colosseum site in the previous payment process. However, there are still a few curious customers who choose to bet on their favorite gladiators.

Perhaps for the purpose of showing off, some users who had paid for the gladiator website posted screenshots of the gladiator website to the social networking site of the watch network, and soon, a wave of new customers was ushered in one after another. As a result, gladiators slowly began to ferment in the two worlds of the surface network and the dark web.

Lin Xiuyi and Miki sat quietly in front of the computer at the moment, carefully checking the registration and payment statistics on the background.