When Lei Yue and Xing Bao rushed back to their hometown bar deep in the alley, the night rain had begun to fall, and the neon halo was dimmed by the rain.
"Xing Bao!" Ginny happily rushed over from the bar and wanted to hug Xing Bao and kiss her little round face.
"No, bad woman, go away." Xing Bao avoided it flexibly, "Something might happen!"
Xing Bao immediately expressed his views to the confused Sister Hua and Mo Xigan.
Lei Yue was also listening. In fact, he was always lucky about what this five-year-old child said. After all, the crow didn't move.
"Be prepared, but we don't have to worry too much." Sister Hua said the same thing, "That's Ayasha."
Obviously, Sister Hua added out of her trust in Ayasha’s ability:
"Xingbao, when Ayasha was your age, she lived in the urban sewer system of Spread City. She was just a sewer rat and no one could catch her."
"You have a happy childhood that we don't have." Ginny stroked Xingbao's head, which was still raising eyebrows in thought, and said with a smile:
"When this is done, Lucky said he would buy you a grand piano, and we will also buy you a lot of things. How about a house full of dolls?"
Lei Yue heard this and realized, was Lingsha's childhood like that? Those scars and thorns on her arms...
As for himself, when he was six years old, after the fire...
Lei Yue sat on a high stool by the bar, thinking about the past in silence.
Some long-lasting memories that I thought were dead long ago and had long been forgotten vaguely surfaced in my mind.
He remembered the incident where crows gathered in the garbage dump on a rainy night.
After the incident, some people in the village believed that it was related to the deaths in the previous fire.
And he couldn't die in the fire, just like the "Crying Boy" portrait, he was considered to be the one who brought bad luck.
"Crow, crow, fly home..."
Lei Yue shook his head violently, took a deep breath to adjust his breath, and tried to put those blurry but gradually revealed images and sounds, and those memories that were almost released, back into the box in his heart.
He didn't want to remember.
He didn't know what the past was, but he knew that he didn't want to remember it, not at all.
Crow, crow, fly home...
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The drizzling night rain quickly became heavier and heavier, forming a heavy rainstorm.
The big man hurriedly braved the rain and walked towards the sealed Fu Rong Market Complex, where the forward operations center was located.
The call from Ginny before was really surprising and heart-warming. The big guy has a new energy and must try his best to solve the case!
A solemn atmosphere filled the combat center.
People from various departments are busy in office areas, walking around, looking at computers, and chatting on the phone:
"We don't accept media interviews here... No, there is no World Gate in Dongzhou, and the "World Fusion Law" has not taken effect..."
"Hello, is this the Entertainment Department of Saito Company? Some of your actions have seriously interfered with our investigation work..."
"The Spread Daily is no good either. We are a frontline operations center, not a press conference room..."
The big man walked quickly, while being careful not to bump into anyone with his burly body.
There are enough people here, but from the newly installed large screens behind the command podium, you can see that there are also multiple combat centers in operation.
In another combat center, tens of thousands of staff were sitting in front of computers, checking relevant information about Dongzhou and Fulong Village, changing people in three shifts, non-stop.
In another place, officers were looking at the known whereabouts of legal and illegal border crossers in Dongzhou in recent times.
Now this murder case involves too much.
The big guy went all the way to the second floor, which was also crowded with people, and different departments were busy.
He walked into the exclusive office of the investigation team. In this temporary board room, several colleagues were looking at the computer. They were all from the same group. Other teams were still investigating outside.
"Lezai, Xiaozhi, Wennu."
The big guy walked by and said hello.
Because he was the tallest in age and seniority, the big guy called them by their nicknames, and they usually called him "You Ge".
"How's it going? Xiaohong, no no no... Vice Captain Lin, have you made any new discoveries?"
The big man walked to the desk of the woman in red. The desk was filled with various documents and information, and a brand new business card was placed in the business card holder:
[Deputy Captain of the Special Investigation Team: Lin Hongyun]
"not yet."
Lin Hongyun responded without raising her head, staring at the video on the computer screen.
"Oh." The big man saw that her eyes were bloodshot and knew that she had not rested for several days and had been watching various videos of Fu Rong Village during the time when the crows gathered.
If it weren't for the physical strength of the alien and her desperate will to hold her up, she would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.
With the field investigation bogged down, the team changed their strategy a few days ago: looking through data and images.
Although there are tens of thousands of people watching outside, only the alien agents like them can detect the details of some abnormal things.
It's not that aliens don't have the ability to connect information and data with their brains and conduct rapid analysis.
This type of ability is extremely rare, and they are usually ghost cards, and there are not many of them.
Although the Special Investigation Bureau does not recruit fake agents, the Border Patrol Agency has sent such colleagues, and some international organizations have provided support. There is a whole group of people doing this.
But the problem is that the data is still too massive.
This is like finding a needle in a haystack, like Sisyphus trying to push the boulder to the top of the mountain. It is an "impossible task."
Moreover, not everyone wants to solve the case and close the door to the world that is slowly opening.
Even among this investigation team, there is a possibility of someone being bribed by Saito or an informant of Gein Heavy Industries - it was not the case before, but it is now, and now the offer is too much.
Maybe someone found the clue but concealed it, and instead sold the information to some giant enterprise in the main realm outside.
This is not conjecture, but something that happened.
"Hmm..." The big man thought about this, and his bull's eyes couldn't help but scan the surrounding colleagues.
To be honest, he wasn't sure who he could trust 100%, except maybe Deputy Lin.
Because she comes from a privileged background and is the "biological daughter" of the Special Investigation Bureau, doing this kind of thing will not be good for her. She will fight for the position of director in the future.
And this proud woman with background and ability believed that they needed to see the data images for themselves.
That was the clue that was found in the incident where crows gathered in the garbage dump on a rainy night.
However, there are still a lot of data and images, but not so much time.
"Deputy team, is it time to tell everyone this clue?"
The big guy asked scratching his head. Only their group of people knew about the new clues now.
But as time becomes increasingly pressing, no matter what Deputy Lin’s intentions are, whether he is wary of a mole or greedy for power, it’s time to reveal the clues, right?
"No! Don't leak the secret. If the crow is really the key to resonance, if there is a spy..."
Lin Hongyun has her own considerations, "Let any company use the unpreventable new ghost door to release tens of thousands or tens of thousands of crows in Fulong Village to increase the intensity of the resonance, then nothing can be restored."
The big man hesitated to speak, knowing that this was indeed the truth.
This new clue can be a life-saving antidote or a deadly poison.
"Oh." The big guy stood for a while and walked to his desk, still muttering in his heart.
Just as the big guy sat down, turned on the computer, and started to look through the images.
Suddenly, Lin Hongyun over there suddenly stood up, her voice was hoarse, and she shouted with a little excitement:
"Everyone, come here! I may have found it."
"Ah!?" The big man rushed over in a hurry, and the other three colleagues around him also stood up and ran in exclaim.
Each of them was in high spirits, and a surge of excitement arose, but it was not particularly surprising.
Have you found the key clue? Did you find it at this juncture?
He is worthy of being the ace of the championship series!
Champions, a recognized ace club, almost only has aces.
These ace champion aliens are very few in number, and they are all leaders in a certain industry, and they are existences that are looked up to and praised by the world.
Lin Hongyun is exactly that kind of trump card.
Although they are both aces, they are different from the somewhat funny oddball ace "Synthetic Oil", and they are also different from the black-stained killer ace "Shotgun Man".
What she resonates with is a typical but powerful champion urban legend:
[Spirit of the Sky: There is an ace pilot who drives a fighter plane to protect the sky of his homeland. In battle after battle, he shoots down all invading enemy planes. 】
“This video was filmed by villagers at the garbage dump.
"This person usually likes to take random photos and videos. He has also enabled synchronization to the cloud server. He never seems to organize them and only just saves them until now."
While Lin Hongyun was talking about the situation, she took off her headphones and let the sound of the video play out. She took the mouse and clicked to play it again.
The big man and several other people gathered around this desk, all watching intently.
I saw that the video was shot during the day, in a garbage dump full of electronic waste. Some children were jumping around the garbage dump, and they heard childish laughter.
During their previous investigation of the garbage dump, they knew that the garbage dump would attract some children from Fulong Village to play and steal electronic gadgets.
In the past, the social environment was not as complicated as it is now, there were not so many cars, and children in the village still ran around the village.
At this time, in this video, a group of children aged ten, eight or even younger are playing in the garbage dump, circling around a little boy.
"Huh!?" The big man suddenly frowned and saw that half of the little boy's face was burned and disfigured...
The little boy with a bad face stood there, looking very confused and helpless.
As for the other children, whether they were little boys or little girls, more than a dozen people surrounded the child with a rotten face.
The children were jumping around in circles and singing some nursery rhymes, laughing and ridiculing at the same time:
"Crow, crow, fly home
"Saw the house on fire
"Mom and dad were all cremated.
"Except for a bad facial scar
"He was the one who became the monster!"
The little boy with a rotten face kept turning his head, looking this way, that way, walking around, trying to leave, but he was still blocked by the children and refused to let him go.
His expression was a little scared, a little stiff and choked.
The children are still singing the nursery rhyme over and over again:
"Crow, crow, fly home..."
"Fuck, these brats..." The big man couldn't help but curse, but what he saw in front of him was something that had already passed many years and could not be changed.
Everyone else also frowned and fell silent.
This couldn't be the only time the bad-faced kid was bullied.
"How come no villagers have mentioned this kind of thing?" the big man said angrily.
"Bullying?" Le Zai responded in a deep voice, "Maybe no one cares about it. If they knew about it, they would only say, 'Children are ignorant and just having fun.'"
"And more than ten years have passed." Wennu also sighed, "Even the matter of crows gathering has long been forgotten."
"It's him." Lin Hongyun looked sternly, dug out Lei Yue's files from the pile of information on her desk, and said solemnly:
"[Why Fulong Village?] Maybe this is the reason, it's because of this person, Lei Yue."