Inside the control room.
After thinking furiously for a while, Ren Ye asked Brother Tiger again, "Are you really certain the scent in the villa was the same as the one on Jingming Lake's south bank, and that there was only that one scent?"
"Song An smelled like a remnant soul. That's easy to distinguish, and nothing unusual," Yin Tiger said. "Apart from his, there really was only one powdery fragrance in the villa..."
"You're sure you couldn't be mistaken?"
"Fuck, will you quit nagging?!" Questioned over and over, Yin Tiger felt insulted. "If you don't believe me, let me sniff your wife. One whiff and I'll know whether she's faithful."
After receiving confirmation several times, Ren Ye ignored him and simply frowned at the time on the computer screen.
The surveillance footage showed it very clearly: Old Cadre had picked up Song An at around 10:20 a.m.
The Star Gate's notification had said that the mechanic for this round's final mission was for every player to track the character they had first received a clue from. In other words, rescuing Song An might have been Old Cadre's first mission after the Rewind... after all, his first clue had come from Song An.
Seeing Ren Ye standing there in a daze, Yin Tiger immediately transmitted, "What are you thinking about? The clues we've found pretty much pin down Old Cadre's suspicious identity. He disguised himself as a black-robed man and intercepted us on Jingming Lake's south bank, leaving his scent behind. That scent matches the one in the villa. Isn't that enough to make him a suspect?"
"What does that prove? Is it conclusive evidence?" Ren Ye countered. "Can you prove Old Cadre was the only person who visited that villa? Brother, all we have is this footage from the