Ebay Corporate Headquarters, San Jose, California.

As the door to the conference room was pushed open, a male engineer in his mid-thirties entered the room.

"Hello, I heard you're here for me?"

The man looked curiously at the two gentlemen sitting across from him, one was an Asian man in his 20s, and the other was a white man in his thirties.

"Is that Mr. Steve Riggins?"

"Yes, you are...... I'm sorry, have we met before?"

"No, we haven't met! In fact, we're ......."

Sean said as he pulled his ID out of his pocket and placed it in front of Riggins.

"You ...... You're the FBI!"

Hearing Rickins' shocked and frightened question, Sean sneered and nodded.

"Looks like you've guessed what we're looking for you?"

Lin Xiuyi, who had not spoken, suddenly asked the other party after seeing Riggins' expression.

"I ...... I don't know what you mean by that!"

Rigins could avoid Lin Xiuyi's eyes, he lowered his head and replied in a somewhat nervous whisper.

"I thought you should probably take a look at this first?"

As soon as Lin Xiu spoke, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and then found a photo in the video album and put it in front of Riggins. ”

"This?"

Seeing this photo in front of him, Riggins couldn't help but feel puzzled. The background of the photo is black, and a few lines of text are displayed in green font. And the sentence with a horizontal line drawn below it reads:

"If you run into any problems, you can contact us!" Anyone who regularly works with programs knows that this text is usually placed at the beginning of a piece of code as a comment.

"This ...... It's just a comment message, and it's basically added to all the code I write. What's wrong, is there something wrong?"

Riggins first breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Lin Xiuyi and Sean pretending to be relaxed.

"You just said that every piece of code you write adds this line of information, including the code you contributed to the Black Death?"

As soon as Lin Xiu's words fell, Rigins first looked at the two people sitting in front of him in surprise, and then suddenly got up and ran towards the door.

"Catch him, Sean!"

"Don't worry, Lin!"

Sean suddenly jumped on the table and chased after him as he spoke, and when Lin Xiuyi just stood up, the two of them actually ran out of the room.

Lin Xiuyi chased after Sean hard. I saw Sean running towards Rigins as fast as he could, and many of the people in the office who were working didn't know what the two were doing. It wasn't until the figures of the two disappeared around the corner that Lin Xiuyi suddenly took out his mobile phone and dialed Miki, who was waiting downstairs.

"Miki, that Rickins ran down, stop him for me, tell everyone to block all exits from this building......"

"Hey!"

Lin Xiuyi explained as he ran around the corner, only to see that Rigins had been pushed to the ground by Sean.

"Miki! The order just now is canceled, and the person has been caught by Sean!"

"Hey, I understand the police department, please be careful......"

Miki replied with concern on the phone.

"Steve Riggins, it is now suspected that you are connected to a serious criminal case, and from now on, every word you say will be recorded by us as evidence in the future......"

Sean unceremoniously leaned Riggins' hands together while holding the handcuffs together as he viciously announced the terms of the rights to him. The people who were working in the office gathered around the corner and watched from afar as Riggins was controlled by Sean. And Lin Xiuyi turned around and said to the crowd that gathered around:

"Let's all go back to work, it's not a big deal, please rest assured, this gentleman is FBI, Lin Xiuyi said, only to remember that Sean's documents were still in the room just now, and then he ran back to the room just now along the same road to retrieve the documents. ”

With Sean's assistance, Steve Riggins, who was suspected to be the author of the Black Death program, was taken from eBay headquarters by the FBI.

When Lin Xiuyi and Sean took Riggins back to the car, Riggins suddenly cried sadly, seeing this situation, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but ask him:

"What do you mean by crying, do you still think that we have wronged you?"

"No, I...... I just regret it! I regret why I left those comments on the source code...... I'm really ......."

"Hey, you guy, are you just going to regret it? The last thing you should do is create this website, say it...... How much money did you get out of this site in total?"

"I didn't ...... Not much...... It's just over $20,000, plus ...... Plus some marijuana ......"

Riggins said to Sean with remorse.

"It seems that you didn't write this site for money, can you tell us who asked you to write most of the programs for the Black Death?"

"Yes...... It's my friend I met at the University of Texas, and his name is ...... Alexander Ulbrich!"

"Why did you help him write these things, and how much do you know about him?"

"I ...... I didn't know him very well, I only knew that he was a PhD student in economics, but he seemed to be very interested in programming, and we met at a party. At that time, he told me that he wanted to build an e-commerce site based on Bitcoin transactions, and asked me if I would be interested in doing something together, and I had already found a job at eBay at the time, thinking that there was nothing to do anyway, so I said yes......"

"What did you do?"

"Our website has been doing badly, so I've basically given up on what I'm doing and focused on what I'm interested in. Occasionally, Ulbricht would ask me to help him with some technical things, and sometimes he would give me some money, but most of the time he would give me some marijuana in return. I helped him move the Black Death to the dark web, and soon he bought a 3D printer from another guy at school that could make gun parts, and he started secretly selling guns made of engineering plastic and marijuana on the dark web!"

"I was scared and thought he was a madman and that continuing to deal with him would only get me into trouble...... So I cut off all contact with him...... Two officers, I swear, everything I said was true!"u