The scent of crow wings drifted into Lan Yu's nose, making her feel familiar, but she couldn't remember where it was. He took a sip, and the rich aroma of the wine filled his taste buds, mixed with a hint of bitterness, and it seemed to have the salty taste of sea salt.

This wine is really good, but the bitterness is a little too much. If it had a little more sweetness, I believe it would taste better.

Lan Yu couldn't figure out the source of the smell so she stopped thinking about it. She chatted quietly with Lu Rankong while looking at the others calmly.

"Do you think there is anything wrong with this bar now?" Lu Rankong asked.

Lan Yu replied hesitantly: "I can't explain it clearly..."

"Since you can't explain it clearly, and you still have doubts, I'll have someone call the owner of this bar tomorrow and ask him to gather all the employees together. We'll interrogate them one by one," said Lu Rankong.

Lan Yu didn't find any suspicious points, so she lost interest in staying any longer. After drinking the cup of Crow Wings, she asked to leave. Lu Rankong obediently picked up the coat draped over the back of the sofa and stood up with him.

Yun Jie hurried over to see the two off. He glanced at Lu Rankong's glass of wine and found that the sticky note stuck to the bottom of the transparent cup had not been removed. His eyes suddenly dimmed, which was seen by Lan Yu.

When passing by the bar, the idle bartender smiled at the two of them and said, "Gentlemen, do you like Raven Wing tonight?"

Lu Rankong gave him a thumbs up and said, "Great..."

Lan Yu walked out two steps and then turned back and asked him, "Have you seen me before?"

The bartender was stunned and shook his head: "I haven't seen it..."

Lan Yu nodded, followed Lu Rankong and continued to walk out. She turned around and saw that the bartender was still looking at her.

The two walked out of the bar, and were greeted by the cold night air. Lu Rankong put his coat on Lan Yu's shoulders and said, "The nights on Sasu Star are indeed cooler than those on Zata Star."

Lan Yu followed him towards the parking space, but after taking a few steps, her pace gradually slowed down.

"What's wrong? Did you forget something at the bar?" Lu Rankong turned around and asked.

Lan Yu raised a finger to stop him from speaking, tilted her head to think for a moment, and said, "I remember where I smelled the scent of crow wings."

"Um?"

"I smelled it by my bed in Kabul."

"By the bed? Didn't Kabul say that he never drinks at home?" Lu Rankong narrowed his eyes.

Lan Yu recalled: "The smell was very slight, but very special, so I remembered it."

Lu Rankong stood there without saying a word.

Lan Yu lowered her head and frowned in thought, muttering, "No, no, something is wrong here."

"What's wrong? Tell me."

The two of them stood in the middle of the street and talked. A car passed by and honked its horn. Lu Rankong pulled Lan Yu and continued walking forward. When they reached the open space opposite, they got into his sports car.

The sports car started to slowly pass through the congested road section again, moving like a turtle. A child holding a kebab ran past the car, and the oil from the kebab dripped onto the hood of the car.

"You just asked me what was wrong. Let me tell you." Lan Yu raised her index finger solemnly. "First..."

Seeing that Lu Rankong was staring straight ahead without looking at him, he just raised his index finger without moving it and did not continue speaking.

Lu Rankong dodged a few pedestrians, then carefully passed a stall, stepped on the brakes and looked at him, "Okay, first."

Lan Yu said with satisfaction: "You drive, I will continue talking."

Lu Rankong looked forward and released the brake. Lan Yu explained, "First, I smelled the scent of Raven Wings by Kabul's bed. After he got up halfway, I didn't smell the same scent on him. In other words, the Raven Wings came from his quilt or sheets."

"Yeah, that makes sense. I don't smell any strange smell on him." Lu Rankong said.

"Second..." Lan Yu raised another finger.

As soon as Lu Rankong drove out of the crowded road, he stepped on the brakes again and looked at Lan Yu, repeating solemnly: "Yes, second."

Then turn around, release the brake and continue forward.

"Secondly, this kind of specialty wine in the bar is meant to be drunk in the bar. No one would take it home and drink it in bed. Besides, the bar doesn't allow you to take it away."

After Lan Yu finished speaking, she asked Lu Rankong: "Do you think my discovery is useful?"

Lu Rankong did not turn his head, but controlled the steering wheel with his left hand, held his two fingers with his right hand, and said, "I think your discovery is very useful, so I am on the way to Kabul's house. Let's go ask him again to confirm it."

The black and yellow streamlined sports car whizzed past on the city's highway, overtaking one car after another, leaving behind the hover bus whizzing overhead, and soon arrived in the west city and stopped at the door of Kabul's house.

Two staff members accompanying Kabul heard the sound of the car, leaned their heads out of the second-floor window, and after seeing Lan Yu and Lu Rankong getting off the car, they quickly went downstairs and opened the door.

Lu Rankong briefly explained to them, then took Lan Yu upstairs and knocked on Kabul's bedroom door.

"Come in..." Kabul had just come out of the virtual cabin and looked a little surprised to see Lu Rankong and the others coming again.

Lu Rankong didn't say anything. He walked directly to his bedside and began to sniff. Then he leaned down and sniffed a few times above his quilt. Then he turned to Lan Yu and said, "Yes, it's the smell of crow wings. It's very faint."

Lan Yu stood by the door and asked, "Kabul, I asked you during the day if you drank at home, and you said no?"

His eyes were fixed on Kabul, detecting every subtle expression on his face.

Kabul closed the door of the virtual cabin behind him and replied, "No, I don't like drinking, let alone bringing it home."

"I'll go take a look somewhere else." After saying this to Lan Yu, Lu Rankong left the bedroom and went downstairs to the dining room.

Lan Yu stayed in the room and continued to ask, "When did you change your sheets?"

Kabul answered blankly: "A week ago..."

"A week ago, before your accident?"

Kabul thought for a moment and said, "I changed the sheets the day before the accident."

"Didn't you notice that the quilt has a strange smell?" Lan Yu asked.

Kabul's face turned red, and he said angrily, "I take a shower every day, so why does it smell?"

"The odor I'm talking about doesn't necessarily mean a bad smell."

Kabul calmed down under Lan Yu's cold gaze and recalled: "I did smell a little bit of it. I thought it was because the sheets had been in the closet for too long."

Lan Yu walked to his closet and opened the doors one by one. When she found the compartment where the sheets were placed, she leaned in and smelled it.

There is only the faint fragrance of laundry detergent and moth-proofing pills.

Lu Rankong downstairs obviously didn't find anything in the restaurant, and was questioning two staff members, and his voice came up intermittently.

There were footsteps coming up the stairs outside, and Lu Rankong walked in. He shook his head at Lan Yu and said, "Indeed, no. Those two staff members don't have the habit of drinking, let alone bringing drinks from the bar."

Lan Yu walked to the window, looked at the dark bushes outside, and said thoughtfully: "This smell should be related to the Longte people that night, and also to the Black Crow Bar, proving that our previous suspicions were correct. But I don't understand why the Longte people left the smell of alcohol on the sheets in Kabul?"

Kabul was confused at first, but when he heard that the strange smell was left by the Longte people, his face suddenly changed, and he had to barely resist scratching his back.

Lu Rankong said: "The Longte alien arrived at Kabul's house ahead of time, but the exact time is unclear. After he put the drug in the water cup, he stayed there and waited for Kabul to drink the water and fall into a coma.

If I'm not mistaken, he should be hiding in a room on the second floor. ”

Kabul said nervously: "I have three rooms on the second floor. Except for my master bedroom, the guest bedroom is empty. It was only after my colleague came that he added a bed in it. The third room is not very big. I use it as a storage room."

"Let's go and have a look..."

Kabul led the way and explained, "The military has checked the storage room and found nothing unusual."

As he spoke, he opened the door at the edge, "This is the room..."

Lu Rankong and the other person entered the storage room. Although it was called a storage room, it actually only contained three virtual cabins.

Kabul said with some pride: "This is the Z9 Dream Series produced by Haiyin Company. I have all three generations of products in this series."

Lu Rankong smiled: "It's quite expensive, right?"

"As long as my salary can afford it, it's not expensive. Besides, how can a virtual cabin be measured by price? The main color of the first generation is different from that of the second generation. The world displayed is warmer, and the control feels slightly different, a little slower..." Kabul, like any other game addict, began to talk excitedly when he mentioned his virtual cabin.

Lu Rankong opened the virtual cabin closest to the door, half leaned over to smell it, and said to Lan Yu: "Found it, he was hiding in here before."

Kabul suddenly stopped talking as if his chip was stuck.

Lan Yu also approached the virtual cabin and sniffed it, confirming this statement: "He has been hiding in here waiting for Kabul to fall asleep."

Lu Rankong lowered the virtual hatch and turned around. Kabul quickly stepped forward and opened the lid again. "Leave it open to ventilate. I'll wipe it carefully again tomorrow."

The three of them left the storage room and walked back to the bedroom. Lu Rankong suddenly said, "I think I know why the smell of alcohol is on the sheets."

"Why?" Lan Yu and Kabul looked at him together.

"It is impossible for the Longte alien to parade around in public in his original form. Before coming to Kabul's house, he had already controlled the body of a human. He used this body to climb through the window into the house, drugged the water cup, and then hid in the virtual cabin in the storage room. He might be an employee of the Black Crow Bar, or a customer who had a drink there. He accidentally got alcohol on his body, so he left the smell in the cabin." Lu Rankong said.

Lan Yu nodded in agreement: "That should be the case."

Lu Rankong continued: "He waited until Kabul fell asleep, then came out of the virtual cabin and invaded Kabul's spiritual realm."

"That's right..." Lan Yu nodded again.

"So what about his previous body?" Lu Rankong entered the bedroom, stopped in front of the bed, turned around and said, "After the Longte alien entered Kabul's body, he lost control of that body and fell down. He put that body on the bed, and the sheets were stained with alcohol."

Kabul looked at his bed and gasped.

"He drove a car from Kabul and arrived at the institute at three in the morning. After being discovered by the security guard, he fled quickly. At this time, he would rush to his home in Kabul as soon as possible to take away the body he had left behind." Lu Rankong said.

Lan Yu's eyes lit up. "This place is far from the institute. He was in the form of a Longte at the time. Kabul's car was left in the institute, which proves that he had other means of transportation parked near the institute."

Lu Rankong nodded and said, "Yes, so even though there is no surveillance in the community, there must be one at the nearest highway exit. Let's lock on to the cars that passed through the highway exit around 4 o'clock that evening and find the suspicious one."

After Lu Rankong finished speaking, he opened the terminal. I didn't know who he was talking to. I only heard him tell the other party the place name and asked them to send the surveillance video of around 4:00 a.m. last Wednesday, October 13th.

After hanging up the terminal, he said to Lan Yu: "Let's go and sit downstairs."

The two men walked out of the bedroom and went downstairs, with Kabul following quickly behind them.

Two staff members were sitting on the sofa, playing with the terminal idly, and they stood up quickly when they heard the footsteps.

"Sit down, sit down. Don't get up." Lu Rankong greeted him like a host: "What would you like to drink? A drink or water?"

As he spoke, he walked to the dining room and opened the refrigerator.

"No, we brought our own cups." The two staff members said stiffly.

Kabul then realized that he was the host and said quickly, "I'll make some coffee now."

Lu Rankong stopped him and said, "No, we can just drink water."

After saying that, he took out two bottles of water from the refrigerator, unscrewed the cap of one of the bottles, walked over and handed it to Lan Yu.

Lan Yu took the water and just sat down on the sofa when Lu Rankong's terminal rang.

He glanced down and clicked on the floating screen. The surveillance video of an intersection began to play on the big screen. The time displayed in the lower left corner was 3:50 in the morning of October 13.

Lan Yu recognized that the intersection in the picture was the only way to get here after getting off the city highway. There were not many people going to Xicheng, and it was the middle of the night, so the road was empty in the surveillance video, without a single car.

Lu Rankong fast-forwarded until a vehicle appeared and stopped. He wrote down the license plate number and continued fast-forwarding. Soon he saw the time from 3:50 to 4:20.

At this time, a white van appeared in the screen and sped forward after exiting the highway intersection. The windshield seemed to be broken into pieces, with spider-web-like patterns on it, making it impossible to see the person inside clearly.

Lu Rankong pressed the pause button and was about to fast forward after memorizing the license plate when Lan Yu, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly said, "Wait..."

Lu Rankong let go of his hand, Lan Yu stood up and walked to the floating screen, pointed at a small black dot on the car and asked, "What is this?"

Lu Rankong took a closer look, then enlarged the area. The black spot gradually became clearer, and the shadow of a flying crow appeared before his eyes.

"Black Crow Bar..." they both spoke at the same time.

On the city highway late at night, a black and yellow streamlined sports car roared with its engine, speeding towards the main urban area.

"Do you have KH5 with you?" Lan Yu asked Lu Rankong while sitting in the passenger seat.

"HR5, I have it with me. There are two in my pocket. You can take them out yourself." Lu Rankong raised his right arm and exposed his coat pocket.

Lan Yu took one out and put it in his pocket, saying, "Since he can drive the bar's car, it proves that he is an employee of the bar. Now it's easy to find the target."

The sports car quickly got off the highway and came to the crowded section of road again. After slowly passing it, we parked in the parking lot opposite the bar.