Chapter 481: FBI Agen (1/2)

In their midst was a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a suit. Upon noticing me, his lips curled amiably as he reached out his hand, ”I have heard a lot about you. I am Louis Liu, an agent with the FBI.”

From his body language, I could tell he was Chinese American.

”Hello, I’m Song Yang, a small consultant with the bureau.”

”You don’t have to be modest, Mr. Song,” he chuckled. “I have heard all about the bloody haunted house and the case involving the celebrity.”

Almost unable to believe my ears, I wondered, how did my story spread abroad?

Bingxin giggled, ”It’s all thanks to my dad and Uncle Cheng. There was a Sino-American police exchange. They took several of your cases as examples.”

”Great work! I have to say, they’re both textbook criminal investigations!” Louis Liu flipped a thumbs up.

Validation from an FBI agent had me grinning from ear to ear.

I used to think FBI agents were all attractive and eye-catching like special agents, but Louis looked just like any ordinary white-collar worker. Taking his seat, Louis connected his laptop to the projector and began, ”The suspect you’re after is actually an international wanted criminal. This man has killed a Japanese woman in California.”

Lao Yao rested his head on his hands, a lopsided grin rising to his lips. ”He killed one person and he's an international wanted criminal? Why the special treatment?”

”There’s a saying in China that you shouldn’t air your dirty laundry in public so I hope you can keep this confidential. He’s involved in an illegal organization which is related to the famous Darwin,” explained Louis.

While our brains stuttered to accept the news he dropped on us, Louis fiddled with his laptop and an insignia was projected onto the white screen–a coat of arms with wild animals on the inside, a knife and a fork, as well as a line in English below.

Among us, Lao Yao was most fluent in English because he often wrote software. ”Cambridge Gourmet Club?” he translated. “What’s that?”

That was my reaction exactly. I assumed it was a transnational criminal organization, yet its name was so ordinary.

”This organization can be traced back to 1828...”

As we all knew, Darwin was a great biologist but he had a hidden identity–a gourmet.

When Darwin entered Cambridge in 1828, he joined a secret club, the gourmet club. The members were all aristocratic children. The club promoted the idea that everything in the world could be eaten, thus collecting rare animals from all over to taste them before they became extinct.

As a matter of fact, he personally tasted most of the animals which he wrote in his book. Darwin could be said to be an unprecedented gourmet, and because of his reputation, he was made a permanent honorary member of the club.

This club had always existed. After World War II, the world began to step up on animal protection, rendering their practices a crime. Thus, the club moved underground and was divided into two branches, one in England and the other brought by America by immigrants.

Yang Xingdong secretly joined the club when studying in America. Having heard about China’s rich cooking history of over 5,000 years, everyone welcomed the Chinese man. Additionally, many wild animals could be obtained in China.

Yang Xingdong occasionally brought pangolins, civets and other animals via certain channels to share with club members. The club had opened up a whole new world for him, but he was unsatisfied with eating only rare animals.