Lake smiled as he listened to the person outside introducing himself.
This came straight to my door.
Lake looked at Rachel.
After a while.
Rachel and Mia took Josie into the master bedroom and closed the door in an instant.
Lake got up and opened the door.
At the door.
Los Angeles FBI agent Bill Kins showed his ID and introduced the Korean-American federal agent next to him, saying, "Johnny Chen."
Lake glanced at their IDs, opened the door and motioned them in.
On the sofa.
Lake didn't make any gesture of hospitality. He just sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and said to the African-American Bill Kins: "Why, your director knows I'm coming and asked you two to come over to express my greetings?"
Bill Kings smiled and said, "That's what the Director meant. He's currently in a meeting out of town and can't come directly."
Lake nodded: "Another meeting. It's not even the end of the year yet, so it's not the time to spend money suddenly."
Bill Kings did not interrupt.
This kind of thing, which involves a series of high-level affairs, is not something he can access at the moment.
Seeing this, Lake said directly: "Okay, I received your greetings. Is there anything else? If not..."
Bill Kins quickly said, "Director Edwin, there is indeed one more thing."
Lake looked at Bill Kings and chuckled, "I knew that if your director wanted to say hello to me, he would have called me long ago. He must have another purpose for sending you here. Tell me, what's the matter?"
Bill Kingston immediately looked at Johnny Chen next to him.
The Korean man asked Lake, "Sir, did you go to a shop called Toledo Snacks and Coffee Shop this afternoon?"
Rachel, who was listening in the bedroom, glared at Mia unhappily.
How else are you going to argue?
The FBI showed up.
Mia fell silent when she heard this. Have they been targeted by the FBI?
Outside.
Lake listened to this and nodded directly: "Yes, what's wrong."
Bill Kings said, "Sir, may I ask, where are you going..."
"Private matter."
"What kind of private matter?"
"…"
Lake looked up at the Korean who had spoken, then at Bill Kins, his lips curled slightly. "Should I call your boss now? Is the California FBI planning to overstep its authority and investigate me, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security?"
Bill Kins' heart sank, and he quickly said, "I dare not, but the case we are investigating recently involves Dominic Toledo, so..."
Lake asked directly: "Case, what case?"
Bill Kins thought for a moment and then spoke directly, "In the past two years, there have been a number of robberies by motorcycle gangs. They drive three Honda Civics, and their driving skills are top-notch. They rob trucks while they're moving."
"Dominic Toledo?"
"right."
"You've got your eye on him, do you have any evidence?"
"this..."
Lake looked at Bill Kins's expression, nodded, and said directly, "I'm here on vacation with my girlfriend, not to investigate a case. If you need assistance from Homeland Security, please contact the California Department of Homeland Security. I'm from New York State."
Bill Kings was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Excuse me."
Lake stood up to see the guest off: "Goodbye."
The two went out.
Johnny Chen, a Korean, looked at Bill Kings in confusion: "What does he mean by this?"
Bill Kings smiled and walked into the elevator. "These big guys talk so mysteriously. Who knows what they're thinking? We just have to do our own thing."
Johnny Chen nodded, not quite understanding.
In the room.
Rachel said to Mia without any good mood: "See, the FBI is already watching him. Go back and tell Tang that I will not be involved in this matter. Don't expect me to use my connections to protect him this time."
It is understandable that I went astray once, and I have already received the punishment I deserved.
But again?
There is no excuse for this.
Mia opened her mouth, her face becoming anxious.
Lake, who was pouring wine into his glass, turned to Mia and said, "They still have solid evidence in their hands. You know what I mean."
Mia looked at Rachel for help.
Rachel glared at Lake unhappily: "Don't interfere."
Lake took a sip of the wine in the glass, walked directly into the master bedroom without saying a word, found a cartoon with Qiao Xi, and started watching it together.
Rachel covered her forehead, took a deep breath, and said to Mia, "Go back and tell him, I don't care if he goes back to his old ways or not, from now on, just behave yourself. If anything really happens, I will never help him again."
Mia nodded repeatedly and wanted to leave.
Rachel called Mia: "Come back, you will sleep here tonight with Qiao Xi."
Mia looked at Rachel in confusion.
Rachel glanced at Lake who was watching TV in the master bedroom, and said to Mia unhappily, "The FBI is downstairs. If you leave now and they see you, you can leave tomorrow morning."
Mia blinked.
In the evening.
After Rachel got into bed, she asked Lake, who was watching Doctor Who on his laptop, curiously, "Was there already someone lying in ambush there when we got there?"
Lake pressed the pause button, thought about it, and said, "Yes, and no."
"What?"
"The FBI isn't lying in ambush there. At least, they won't lie in ambush if they don't have evidence."
"Then how did they know we were going there?"
Lake turned his head to look at Rachel, smiled and said, "When we got off the car, were there any customers in Mia's store?"
Rachel thought for a moment, "Two?"
One was outside drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, and the other was inside eating a tuna sandwich.
Lake smiled but said nothing.
Rachel was slightly stunned, then looked at Lake: "Are you saying that one of those two people is an undercover FBI agent?"
Lake said directly, "I didn't say that. Langley's identity as an agent cannot be exposed. Similarly, the identity of the federal agent's undercover agent cannot be exposed. Even I can't really know the identity of the federal agent's undercover agent. After all, these undercover agents do the most dangerous work. Besides undercover agents, the FBI has many ways to monitor suspects. Have you counted how many cameras are on that street?"
Rachel said nothing as she began to think about how many surveillance cameras she had passed by.
Lake smiled and continued watching his Doctor Who.
He didn't care about ruining the plot, but it was still wrong to expose Brian O'Connor's undercover work so directly. At the very least, he couldn't expose it.
After all, they are all comrades in the same trench. Even if they don't intend to help, directly exposing their undercover identity, especially to another law enforcement officer, is a taboo in the underworld.
How many federal law enforcement agents are undercover in the dark world?
a lot of.
Some people escaped unscathed, some small losers rose directly to the position of big boss, but more often, after their undercover identities were exposed, they were brutally killed and their bodies were abandoned.
the next day.
By the time Lake and Rachel got up, Mia had already left.
Mia found Dominic directly in her own auto repair shop.
Tang looked at Mia who came in hurriedly from outside: "Didn't you come back last night?"
His experience last night was truly thrilling. If Brian hadn't helped him escape, he would have been in the police cell by now.
Mia said hi to Dominic's friends, and then prepared to call Dominic to the office to tell him that they had to stop because they were now being targeted by the FBI.
but...
Just as Dominic was about to follow Mia in, Brian O'Connor pulled over a car that had been run over and was almost scrapped.
Dominic and Mia both looked over, and Mia smiled when she saw Brian.
In the hotel.
Lake used his notebook to check the information sent by his assistant Tiffany, which contained investigation records of several carjackings in Los Angeles and the interrogation records of the drivers.
Simply put, it means that people with great skills are bold.
Ordinary robbers try to force large trucks to stop and then carry out their crimes.
But this group of people?
The robbery took place while the car was moving, without even forcing it to stop. By the time the driver woke up and reported the crime, he was no longer at the scene of the crime. He didn't even know where the car was lost.
Lake then saw the routes of the trucks' movements.
Smiled.
Rachel took a look and was speechless. No wonder this case alarmed the FBI. In the second case, construction was underway in California and Nevada, but they broke right in.
Interstate crime.
It just so happened that several cases were instantly merged within the FBI's purview and all handed over to the FBI for investigation.
If there is no interstate travel, even if there are ten or so robberies, the FBI probably won't even look at it. And even if the FBI wants to find a case, the local police probably won't give it to them.
Lake and Rachel did not delay their itinerary for today because of this incident. They still took Qiao Xi to another attraction for a day.
Wait until the next day.
early morning.
Lake received a call on his cell phone.
Not Assistant Tiffany's.
But it's Jin Bing's.
Lake glanced over.
"explain."
"Mr. Edwin, I know you told me not to get involved in this matter. However, I received a tip that your car was taken over by a Los Angeles car dealership called Racing Edge just half an hour ago."
"...Thanks."
"You're welcome. If you need anything from me, Mr. Edwin, please feel free to ask. I'd love to be friends with Mr. Edwin, just like I'm friends with the New York Federal Bureau Chief."
"Okay, I'll contact you if I need you."
"goodbye."
"goodbye."
Lake hung up the phone.
His eyes flickered slightly.
Racing Edge?
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