After leaving the room, Leo was about to leave the house the same way he came. But halfway through the corridor, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at a painting hanging on the wall.

This painting is a family portrait. It would be fine if it was just an ordinary family portrait. The problem is that this family portrait is the family portrait of the last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street. What is even more strange is that the person who just walked through this aisle to the side street

When I was in the living room, this painting was just a sunflower that did not exist in the dream world.

In order to confirm that he had not seen it wrong, Leo called up the data in the accessory brain system and compared it, and soon got the answer. He had indeed seen it correctly. The painting before was indeed a sunflower.

Leo, who felt strange in his heart, was about to ask the old butler beside him, but unexpectedly found that the old butler who was following him closely a moment ago had disappeared, and he also found that the discussion coming from the side hall at the end of the corridor was no longer there.

disappeared, everything around him became extremely quiet, as if it had been silenced, and even his own heartbeat could not be heard.

Although he inexplicably fell into an unknown danger, Leo did not show any panic or surprise. Instead, his eyes were full of excitement and joy, because for him, such an unexpected change was better than nothing happening.

It's much better. Only with more experiences can you understand the world in more detail.

"Come on! Let me see what you are." Leo thought in his heart, while stimulating his psychic vision skills.

With the spiritual blessing of the psychic vision skill on his eyeballs, the house in front of him began to change rapidly. From a new house built less than two years ago, it quickly became obsolete, the wood began to rot, and the roof was overwhelmed.

It collapsed, and many places were ruined and collapsed, eventually turning into ruins. The only thing that remained unchanged was the family portrait, which remained as new as ever.

Leo looked around, looking through the broken holes in the house and seeing the scene outside. The blizzard outside and the dazzling light produced by the sun shining on the snow made him doubtful.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of rushing footsteps on the snow came from not far away, and a figure flew over the broken window, fell into the house, and quickly hid behind a wall that could block the wind and snow.

It would have been fine if the person who ran in was a monster, but Leo discovered that the person who broke in to hide in the snow was a woman. Or maybe it was more appropriate to say it was a girl. It seemed that she would be in her grade soon after she became an adult.

I saw that this girl had thick long white hair, which was tied casually behind her head with a rope. She had a pair of bright eyes on her slightly pale face, and she deliberately drew a dark black circle around her eyes.

Eyeshadow. Originally, this circle of eyeshadow gave her a more feminine look, but a scar on the left side of her face destroyed this charm. Instead, it made her overall temperament more heroic only for men.

The girl was wearing a thin cloth coat that could not block any chill, a pair of tight leather pants and boots, and the wide belt around her waist was inlaid with several large sapphires and hung with several bottles of potions. In addition,

She was carrying a long sword with a red scabbard. Under Leo's spiritual gaze, he could clearly see the strong spiritual energy emanating from the sword and even transformed into an illusion of a swallow, flying around the girl.

When Leo was observing the girl who suddenly broke in, the girl was also surprised that Leo appeared here, and looked at Leo warily. At the same time, she instinctively put her hand on the long sword behind her, and her body

Maintain a posture ready to attack or defend at any time.

From the girl's reaction, Leo could see that the girl had undergone very strict training, and her movements and reactions were perfect, with no faults to be found. In order to relieve the girl's hostility, Leo raised his hands first and backed away.

He took two steps to show his goodwill, and the other party's vigilant expression relaxed a little, but the long sword on his back still did not release.

"%&￥&..." At this time, the girl said a few words to Leo, as if she was asking about Leo's origins, but she used a language that Leo had not heard before, and he did not understand what she meant.

The girl also realized the problem, so she prepared to ask in another language, but the sudden barking of dogs outside the house destroyed the slightly relaxed atmosphere.

At this time, the girl immediately pulled out the long sword, took out a bottle of potion from the potion hanging on the belt around her waist, and poured it on the long sword. In Leo's spiritual vision, the spiritual energy on the long sword also

After coming into contact with the medicine, it turned into the shape of flames.

At this time, Leo saw several monsters covered in frost jumping out from behind a snow hill and landing outside the house. They each raised their heads to sniff the residual smell in the air, and based on the smell, they quickly discovered where the girl was hiding.

.

These monsters didn't hesitate at all and rushed towards the wall, knocking down a wall. The girl moved quickly to avoid the falling bricks. When dodging, she deliberately chose a direction away from Leo, in order to

Prevent Leo from being affected.

However, the girl's idea was good, but the monster would not act according to her wishes. The monster that broke in first happened to land not far from Leo.

The moment this monster recovered from the dizziness caused by hitting the wall, it saw Leo. However, it was a little smart and didn't understand why there was an extra person, but this did not prevent it from attacking any living creature.

While other monsters were surrounding the girl, this monster jumped up and flew toward Leo, opening its big mouth full of sharp teeth and biting Leo's vitals. Before it could touch Leo, it

The fishy-smelling cold air emitted from its mouth had already covered Leo's body, causing a layer of frost to form on his body.

Facing the attacking monster, Leo didn't even plan to move his body. When the distance was right, he raised his hand and punched the monster in its open mouth. The heavy blow of the twin gloves had an extremely obvious effect, directly knocking the monster out.

The monster's jaw, brain and skull were shattered together, and Leo's arm also passed through its head.

Even a monster with such a heavy injury would be killed immediately. The monster hanging on the arm turned into countless flying snowflakes like a scattered snowman before Leo could throw it to the ground. At the same time, the monster around it

The scene also changed instantly, without any warning, from the ruins of the ice and snow to a painting in the corridor of Peter Alcott's villa.

"Sir, are you okay?" The old butler of the seventh Alcott family, who had disappeared before, stood next to Leo again and asked with a look of vigilance and confusion.

Leo looked around and asked in a deep voice, "What happened to me just now?"

The old butler pointed to the painting in front of Leo and said, "You have been looking at this painting just now. No matter what I call you, you don't respond."

Leo's eyes also followed the old butler's fingers and landed on the painting, and he saw that the painting that was originally a family portrait now changed back to sunflowers.

"Sir, is there something wrong with this painting?" The old housekeeper was confused by Leo's behavior and asked again.

"No, it's fine." Leo responded perfunctorily, turned around and continued walking out.

The old housekeeper looked at Leo's back, frowned, and then turned to look at the painting. Although he felt that Leo must have discovered something just now, he couldn't ask further questions, so he could only put this piece of work away.

He keeps the matter in mind and will tell his master later.

"Are you going to the dance?" asked the old housekeeper who caught up with Leo after leaving the villa.

Leo didn't answer, just shook his head, and chose to leave the Alcott family's manor directly. He never thought about going to the party in the main hall, because compared to eavesdropping on the weird languages ​​​​full of code words at the party, he could analyze some of them.

When the intrigues between nobles came up, he had more important things to deal with.

Under the guarded escort of the old butler, Leo left the manor. Outside the manor, he immediately took an Alcott family steam car and returned to the outer city along the original route.

It's just that he has no intention of returning to the house he rented in District 33. As for the books in the house, he has recorded them in the database, and he has also brought all the important books with him. This lake town has

Almost all the useful books that could be collected were collected, so there was no need for him to go back there and pretend to be a book-buying merchant.

After coming down from the suspension bridge, Leo casually entered a nearby city, went from the top floor to the vine platform on the bottom floor where no one except the poor would choose to live, passed through a slum, walked to a relatively remote place, and then left

The right hand that had been clenched opened open, revealing an irregular ice crystal in the palm of the hand.

"It's not an illusion!" Leo muttered in his heart as he looked at the ice crystals in his hand that were emitting waves of cold air.

In front of the painting just now, although Leo had not moved in the eyes of the old butler, in fact Leo had inadvertently entered another world covered by ice and snow, and encountered some things there. The ice crystal in his hand was

The best evidence.

This ice crystal was formed by condensing the dissipated energy in the monster's body in his hands after he killed the ice and snow monster.

"High-energy substance, can be absorbed and taken." The accessory brain system gave a simple analysis of this ice crystal.

Leo did not swallow the ice crystal, but opened his backpack and took out the box containing the remains of an Omega-level advanced creature, and put the ice crystal into it.

After collecting the ice crystals, Leo asked the secondary brain system to replay the impact he had just experienced and record the data.

"Family portrait!" Leo soon discovered that the reason why he encountered that weird situation had something to do with that family portrait.

After finding the source, Leo immediately called up the information related to this family photo in his accessory brain system.

In the past, Leo had seen this family photo three times in total, once in the information about No. 9 Golden Oak Street, another time in the house at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and the last time just now.

If it hadn't been for what happened just now, Leo might not have had any doubts about this very ordinary-looking family portrait. Because no matter how you look at it, this family portrait is not much different from the family portraits that ordinary aristocratic families hire artists to draw. The head of the family

Sitting in the center, his wife sat next to him, and his children surrounded him.

However, when the parabrain system compared the three family photos that Leo had seen together, Leo discovered that there was a subtle but very important difference. This difference was that he was held by his wife.

The expression of the child in my arms.

In the information file of No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the child in the family portrait was smiling, but in the painting seen at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the child's expression looked very cold. As for the one I saw just now

The expression of the child in the painting is one of deep sadness.

In addition to discovering the change in the child's expression in the painting, the more important point is that Leo recognized the child and was sure that he had seen this child before.

When Leo went to the black market in the fish market of Miria City for the first time, he found a local child to guide him. Although they only got along for a short time, this child left a particularly deep impression on Leo.

Because this child seemed to be able to see the future, that's why he reminded him.

Afterwards, Leo also searched for the child several times, but failed to find it. What was even weirder was that the other children who had played with the child did not remember the child.

In addition, Leo also discovered a very important thing. When he met Peter Alcott, he felt that he had seen him before, but after comparing the portraits with the assistant brain system,

But he couldn't find a matching portrait. Now he knew where his feeling of déjà vu came from.

"Deputy brain, conduct character growth simulation, twenty years old." Leo, who was suspicious, immediately gave the order to the deputy brain and began to simulate the growth of the child in the family portrait.

As the simulation data was sorted, compared, and adjusted, the image of a twenty-year-old young man soon appeared in his eyes. The appearance of this young man was very similar to the appearance of Peter Alcott he had seen before.

The difference is more than 90%, and the rest of the dissimilarity is due to some differences in local facial features caused by the thin body, which is completely within the acceptable deviation value.

Although Leo didn't know how this Peter Alcott did it, he was certain that this Peter Alcott should have used some method to enter the world of Velen, and even more unknown worlds, from those

Acquire knowledge in the world and invent a lot of things that people in the dream world cannot invent.

However, what puzzles Leo is the time. The last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street happened sixty years ago. At that time, Peter Alcott appeared in the world of Velen as a child and became that person.

The family of the owner of the villa, but sixty years later he appeared in the fish market with the same appearance. It is difficult to explain the time loophole in this.

"Could he be able to control time?" Leo couldn't help but have a thought in his mind.

The reason why he had this idea was not a random thought or an aimless thought, but a real basis. In the Earth Federation, a psyker accidentally entered an unknown subspace, although he only stayed in that subspace.

It took a while, but decades have passed in the outside world.

This kind of thing often happens to alien psykers from other planets, so when he thinks of controlling time, these cases quickly appear in Leo's mind. After all, in his opinion, this dream world should also be some kind of unknown.
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