"Duke White Boots, what's wrong with you?" Leo turned his head slightly and asked the Duke of White Boots in the hood behind him.

The Duke of White Boots leaned close to Leo's ear and said timidly: "I don't know, I just feel scared. The smell on that thing makes me feel scared!"

"Smell?" Leo was stunned, walked to the table, and picked up the fragment. Seeing this, the Duke of White Boots hurriedly hid at the bottom of the hood and huddled up.

Leo put the fragment under his nose and smelled it, but he couldn't smell anything. For this reason, Leo activated the perfect control skill and raised the nose's sense of smell to the strongest state of his current physique. In an instant, all kinds of things around him were

The smell, including the smell outside the house, penetrated into his nose, allowing him to easily know who was walking around the house, what they were doing, etc.

However, what was a bit strange was that he could not smell any scent from the eggshell scales, not even the scent of the Hanoverian woman who had been in contact with it and himself.

Suddenly, Leo thought of something and turned on his spiritual vision skill. He immediately saw a black-gray chaotic spiritual energy emitting from the eggshell scales. This spiritual energy was not very strong, and it was not related to the dream world.

The combination of the chaotic nature of the fragment made it impossible for Leo to sense any spiritual energy from the fragment with his spiritual perception talent alone without turning on his spiritual vision, even if he held the fragment in his hand.

After discovering the problem, Leo found an iron box, put the stones in the box, then took it to the room downstairs, and then asked the white-shoe Duke hiding in the hood: "Are you feeling better now?

"

The Duke of White Boots, who had returned to normal, quickly climbed out from behind the hood, climbed onto the table again, and said with some embarrassment: "I wasn't scared just now, it was just..."

"I know." Leo did not let the Duke of White Boots continue, but took the initiative to change the subject: "I came to you to ask what happened to the corpse I just went to see?"

"Don't you want me to help you find the murderer?" Duke White Shoes tilted his head and said doubtfully.

Leo asked again: "Did you see the murderer commit the crime?"

The Duke of White Shoes shook his head and said: "No. But I smelled it. The woman's body had that smell."

Leo didn't feel anything unusual when he heard this sentence at first. He thought that the Duke of White Shoes meant the smell left by the murderer on the woman. He was about to ask about other things, but suddenly he thought again and felt that he seemed to have missed something.

What.

After pondering for a while, Leo asked tentatively: "You mean the smell comes from the woman herself, and is not left on her by others?"

The Duke of White Boots nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I mean. Didn't I make it clear enough?"

"Did I guess wrong before?" Leo couldn't help but feel confused and frowned in thought.

Before, he had guessed what the unique smell that the Duke of White Boots mentioned was. Although he thought that it was because he came from the world of Velen, he had the unique smell of the world of Velen, but for other reasons, he rejected this guess.

, and then thought it was because of the dream body, and what he encountered in the flower shop just confirmed this guess.

But now, the Duke of White Boots said that this Familia woman who also came from the world of Velen also had that kind of smell. This made Leo feel extremely confused, and the things he had speculated and confirmed before were also shaken in his heart.

After Leo thought for a moment, he asked again: "Duke White Shoes, apart from smelling the special smell of the murderer, have you ever seen the murderer?"

"I haven't seen it." The Duke of White Boots shook his head, then changed the subject and said, "But I have seen the murderer's back."

"It's good to have seen the back." After hearing the words of the White-shoe Duke, Leo immediately found paper and pen and quickly drew the middle-aged man's back on the paper.

Before he could finish the painting, the Duke of White Shoes jumped and shouted: "Yes, yes! It's him, with this back."

After getting the news he wanted from the Duke of White Boots, Leo's face not only did not improve, but instead became more gloomy because he discovered that he had done something wrong before.

When he was at the flower shop, Leo guessed that there was a corpse in the middle-aged man's box, and confirmed this through testing. However, due to various reasons, he did not think about actually fighting him, but let him go.

He left without opening the box on the spot. Now it seems that the box probably contained the female body he just saw.

According to the size of the box, if it is a living person, only the body of a child can be placed in the box, so Leo will mistakenly think that the body in the box is a child. But if it is a dead person, as long as the posture is appropriate

If so, even an adult can fit into that box.

Leo said seriously: "Duke White Boots, I want you to help me find this person."

The Duke of White Boots said suspiciously: "But I have never seen him, and my little ones don't have the same sense of smell as me, so they can't detect the special smell of this person at all."

"It doesn't matter, I will draw his portrait, and you can just ask your little guys to search according to the image." Leo said, and quickly drew several portraits on the paper, from front to side.

The face is from every angle.

"You're so good at painting!" The Duke of White Boots walked around the drawing paper, looking at the lifelike portrait on it with admiration, and said with great anticipation: "Can you also draw one for me?"

"Of course." Leo nodded.

The Duke of White Boots immediately stood on the table, arranged his clothes, and then stood with his head held high. Just when Leo was about to start drawing, he suddenly stopped, asked Leo to wait, and then ran out quickly.

room.

After the Duke of White Boots left, Leo also thought that there were some herbs in the secret room of the pharmacy study on the second floor that could be used to make paint, so he went downstairs to look for them, brought some up, and followed the instructions of the deputy brain system information.

, grind them into some pigments that can be used for painting.

Just after Leo's paint was finished, the white-booted Duke, dressed in gorgeous clothes and wearing a wide-brimmed feather hat, jumped in. In addition, there were several elf rats following closely behind him.

He jumped onto the table with a crystal-like throne. Under the instructions of Duke White Boots, he placed the throne in a more conspicuous place. Then Duke White Boots went up to it and changed a few positions. After he felt it was suitable, he

He nodded towards Leo, indicating that he could draw.

Seeing the actions of the Duke of White Boots, Leo couldn't help but smile, then found a piece of paper with psychic energy, and started drawing on the paper with the ink specially used to draw magic circles. Soon the Duke of White Boots

He drew the image on paper, filled it in with the corresponding colors, then found a few pieces of wood to make a small picture frame, clipped the picture to the frame, and handed it to the Duke of White Shoes.

The Duke of White Boots took the portrait, leaned it against his crystal throne, and looked at it carefully. Although his back was to Leo and he couldn't see its expression, it was not difficult to guess from its tail swaying back and forth.

It's in a very good mood.

After watching for a while, the Duke of White Shoes barked a few times to the elf mouse waiting nearby, ordered his men to carry away the crystal throne and the portrait, then turned around and picked up the portrait of the middle-aged man on the table, rolled it into a ball, and rolled it up with

He carried the small rope behind his back and said to Leo, "Don't worry, as long as this person is still in District 23, I will find him soon."

After saying that, it hurried out of the room and barked loudly outside the room, seemingly instructing its men to carefully carry the two things.

After the Duke of White Boots left, Leo did not stay in the secret room, but returned to the study below. He did not read a book, he just sat on the chair and closed his eyes to meditate.

In the past two days, he was either studying pharmacy and wizard knowledge in this world, or dealing with other things, and did not have a good rest. Although there was no problem with his physical condition due to the support of energy storage, his spirit still felt...

He was a little tired, so before the time agreed with Marek, he decided to take a rest in this room to relieve his mental fatigue.

After Leo relaxed, he quickly fell asleep and his spirit entered the dreamland.

About twenty minutes later, Leo suddenly opened his glasses, his eyes filled with murderous intent, and a spiritual shock burst out from his body, turning into a substantial physical shock that pushed away the surrounding books and debris. At the same time,

The twin swords in his hands instantly changed into the form of a cross sword, and he displayed the rock power of cross sword swordsmanship that integrated both offense and defense. He looked around with great vigilance.

At some point, there was a wound on his arm. Blood flowed from the wound and dripped down the blade of the twin cross swords to the floor, making a clicking sound.

After calming down, Leo had a look of confusion on his face and looked at his injured hand. His face was full of confusion, as if he didn't know why he did what he did and why his hand was injured.

"Vice-brain, displays body data after falling asleep." Leo couldn't feel any danger around him, so he changed the twins in his hands back to the boxing mode, rested them on the chair, and carefully watched the slowly moving data on his eyeballs.

material.

The content of the data was not very large, and Leo read it quickly. However, after reading it, the doubts on his face not only did not disappear, but in fact became more intense.

Because according to the data above, he had been sitting in a chair and resting, nothing happened around him, and any reaction on his body showed that he was always in deep sleep at the moment he woke up.

Although there seemed to be no problem with the above data, Leo discovered two anomalies. The first point was that he had just closed his eyes and rested, and immediately entered a deep sleep state without any other processes such as light sleep.

The sleep process that should occur. The second point is that at the same time he woke up, before he was fully awake, a wound appeared on his arm, and it appeared instantly, and it took less than a second.

.

"What's going on?" Although Leo discovered two abnormalities, he still didn't understand what happened to him, why he was injured, and why he suddenly made attacks and defenses.

"Search the database for similar records." Leo ordered to his deputy.

As a large amount of information was compared according to the two anomalies discovered by Leo, pieces of information were gradually sorted out and appeared in Leo's eyes. Leo also focused very carefully on eliminating the pieces of information that had no connection. Finally, the information in front of him

After the messages became less and less and only seven were left, he stopped.

Without exception, these seven documents are consistent with his situation. He also suddenly entered deep sleep and was injured during the sleep process. However, some of them had large and small scars on his body while he was still in deep sleep, and some were injured.

It was after I woke up that the scars appeared.

What’s interesting is that these seven pieces of information come from three different places. One is the early subconscious experiment report of the Earth Federation, and the other two are from the internal journal of the Velen World Abnormality Society. This publication records all the Velen world.

As for the remaining four pieces of information, they all come from the dream world. These four pieces of information are all recorded in a publication similar to the internal journal of the Strange News Society, which records the strange things in various lake towns.

What is even more interesting is that whether it is the subconscious research experiment of the Earth Federation or the two cases that occurred in the Velen world, scars appeared on the body while the person was still in deep sleep. Only the situation in the dream world and Leo's scars appeared.

The situation is the same.

In addition, in the case of the Earth Federation, the reason why the person fell into deep sleep instantly was because of the psychic skills performed by a powerful psyker. The two cases in the Velen world were also caused by wizards, and the four cases in the dream world were also caused by wizards.

There is no record of any external involvement in this case.

"Has it been plotted against?" Leo asked doubtfully.

It is not difficult to see from the data of these seven cases that this matter is definitely not something that occurs naturally. It must be influenced by external forces, and this external force may be witchcraft or psychic skills. Although the four cases in the dream world do not mention

There were external influences, but it was probably not discovered.

Thinking of this, Leo's expression became serious, and the middle-aged man's appearance immediately appeared in his mind. No matter how you look at it, this middle-aged man should have already taken action, and it is even possible that the female corpse was just

To find his bait.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately stood up, walked downstairs, and prepared to go to the security station to take a closer look at the body, and then talk to Marek about the middle-aged man.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly thought of Sophie, so he turned around and knocked on the door of the maid's room.

I only heard a sound coming from the door. After a while, I saw Sophie, who looked a little pale and wrapped herself tightly in a blanket as if she was sick. She rubbed her eyes as if she was not awake and asked: "

Sir, do you have any instructions?"

"Sophie, are you sick?" Leo frowned and asked.

Sophie shook her head repeatedly and said, "No, I'm just not used to the bed here. I didn't sleep well. I'll be fine in two days."
Chapter completed!