Listening to the footsteps, the servant had come to the edge of the middle room, and he stepped out of the door, his ugly face looking extremely hideous and terrifying in the light of lightning, and even more terrifying was that he carried a bloody dagger in his hand.

"It seems that Professor Derby was indeed killed by him."

The servant slowly approached Athanas, his hideous face with a look of ill will.

But just when Bai Ye thought he was going to attack Athanas, the servant stretched out another hand, which was carrying a black suitcase.

"Oops, I forgot to bring my suitcase with me when I came out."

The servant went in the direction of Bai Ye's room and had already stolen the sculpture along with the entire suitcase.

This can't blame Bai Ye for forgetfulness, the 'Investigator's Box' is different from Bai Ye's original bag, it is not bound to the player, but is displayed outside in a physical way, and the player needs to carry it by himself.

Bai Ye was cautious when he went out just now, and his mind was all focused on listening to the movements next door, so much so that he habitually thought that his bags were bound to his body.

"My sculpture was in the box, and he took the professor's sculpture, and if he stole his master's, he would have made up just three sculptures."

Bai Ye began to wonder if this servant had been instructed by Valred? After all, apart from the dead Professor Derby, this mansion is also interested in this sculpture.

Judging from the servant's current actions, he is preparing to hand over the sculpture to Athanas?

So was it Athanas who instructed the servant to kill and steal the sculpture?

Well, the development of the situation actually ran counter to Bai Ye's conjecture again and again.

Athanas did not reach out to take the box, she seemed very weak, her hand resting on the doorframe, babbling and gesturing twice with the servant.

The servant probably didn't understand what he meant, and stood still and didn't move.

Athanas gestured to the professor's room, as if to say go into the room and take a look.

So the servant stretched out his hand and helped the mistress into the house.

Bai Ye didn't dare to continue to observe, so he hurriedly retracted into the servant's room, closed the door of the room again, and plugged it in from this side.

"Killing Professor Derby was clearly Athanas's intention, and he just decided to do it?"

On the way here, Bai Ye had heard from the old professor that he had always lived in the ancestral house of the Izawa family, and that Athanas and the servants should have a lot of chances if they wanted to kill him.

"Is it because the timing is not ripe enough?"

I have to wait until today after he comes to Izawa's mansion to do it, obviously, it is because Bai Ye's arrival has made this time ripe for the crime!

As soon as he thought of this, Bai Ye suddenly understood the meaning of the gestures that Athanas had compared with the servants outside the door just now.

"She's asking about me?!"

The servants had been in and out of Bai Ye's room, and when Bai Ye entered the scene of the crime, he most likely hid aside, sneaking out while Bai Ye was lighting the lamp.

There are only three rooms in total on this floor, so the servants should know Bai Ye's location now......

Sure enough, as soon as Bai Ye thought of this, he heard footsteps approaching the middle door.

He didn't know why Athanas was looking for him, but it wasn't a good thing to think about it, and now that his abilities were sealed, he couldn't be as tough as the iron-headed baby in the previous game, so he felt that he would avoid it first, and it would not be too late to show up after he found out the situation.

He took two steps back, ready to exit through the door that led to the hallway in the servant's room.

Click......

The middle door was pushed, but it didn't open, and then the footsteps quickly moved away.

"Is he coming?"

Bai Ye hurriedly opened the door of the corridor, and at the same time, he caught a glimpse of a black figure flashing out from the door of the next room, and his nose was immediately filled with a strong fishy smell.

The black figure chased after him, still holding the dagger in his hand.

At this time, even if the other party really has no malicious intent, the person being chased will instinctively be nervous and panicked, and subconsciously want to run away.

Bai Ye turned around and ran in the direction of the covered bridge, and as soon as he ran out of the corridor, he was drenched by the violent storm blowing from the side, and the chill of the rain was cold and biting, making him shiver.

Moreover, the floor of the covered bridge was extremely slippery, and he almost fell to the ground with an unstable center of gravity when he stepped on it.

After such a short delay, the servant behind him chased after him, holding the dagger in one hand, and reaching over with the other to grab Bai Ye's collar.

Bai Ye dodged sideways, but next to him was the low covered bridge fence, and his twisting movement was a little too strong, and his upper body immediately leaned out from the top of the fence.

"Oops!"

Although this is only the second floor, it is pitch black outside on a rainy night, and anything on the ground is completely invisible, so if you fall and fall on some dangerous object, then the game may end here.

Just as two-thirds of his body was hanging out of the covered bridge, Bai Ye suddenly noticed that the pursuer behind him grabbed his ankle with his hand.

Then there was a strong coming, and he was pulled back into the covered bridge by the other party and stood firm.

"I was actually saved by him."

Bai Ye made a false alarm, looked up at the servant opposite, and found that the other party wanted to say something to him, but the wind and rain on the covered bridge were heavy, and the sound was covered by the sound of wind and rain.

The servant had no choice but to gesture at him twice, and there was no malice in his actions.

Bai Ye understood his gesture this time, which meant that he wanted Bai Ye to go with him.

"Do you want me to meet Athanas?"

This seems to be a direction of development for the plot?

Bai Ye had no reason to refuse at this time, this servant's figure looked thin, but the strength he showed when he pulled himself just now was not small.

In his current state, I'm afraid it's no match for him.

"Let's go."

Bai Ye also gestured at him, let the servant lead the way, and returned to the corridor.

……

When they returned to the professor's room, the oil lamp was already lit.

Professor Derby's body was still lying on the big bed, blood already running down the carpet next to the bed.

Athanas sat on a chair next to his desk, wrapped in a blanket, his long black hair pressed against his cheeks, his face was as white as paper, and his eyes stared at the dead body on the bed, and the scene looked a little strange.

Seeing Bai Ye walk in, she tried to get up from the chair, but the weakness of her body made her quickly fall back into the chair.

"Tune ...... Survey...... Member...... Mr. ......"

Eagerly and with difficulty, Athanas spoke, "Please...... Please ...... Help...... One time...... We. ”

"Help? How can it help? Help you guys? ”

Bai Ye looked at Athanas with a puzzled face, and then at the servants on the side.

"Valred is...... False...... Fake ......"

Athanas swallowed, and finally said another sentence, feeling like she was going to use all her strength to say it completely.

"You mean...... The current owner of the Izawa family, Valred Izze, is a fake? ”

Bai Ye frowned, restored the meaning of Asanas, and saw the other party nod his head twice.

"I ...... I'm just ...... It's the tile...... Tile ......"

"Are you the real Valred?"

Bai Ye listened to her difficulty, and directly repeated her meaning, and the other party nodded his head twice to confirm Bai Ye's meaning.

She says he's Valred Ize?

No, I had seen Valred before coming to this scene, and although he was in soul form, it was supposed to be his real appearance, and that Valred was clearly a man.

What's going on?

"Secret Arts...... She uses ...... I used the secret arts......"

Athanas seemed to have regained some of his language skills, and was able to say more words at once.

“？？ Secret arts, some kind of magic? ”

"The secret technique made you exchange bodies?"

Bai Ye touched his chin, and there were some conjectures in his mind.

He had ignored the fantasy component of this world before, so much so that he had always looked at the problem from a realistic point of view.

Now that I think about it, Burton City at the time of the killing of the Ghoul King belonged to the same world as the current town of Arkham, and with all these legendary creatures bubbled out, it was not surprising that there was a setting like some magic mysticism.

According to what Athanas meant, she and Fake Valred should have exchanged bodies with each other.

"What about this one?"

Bai Ye suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the servant standing next to him.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's not human?"

Athanas was stunned, as if he didn't expect Bai Ye to see the servant's abnormality.

"He's ...... Is it a deep ...... Deep Diver ...... But ......"

He swallowed anxiously and continued to 'hold' his words: "He also ...... By...... Swapped ...... Body. ”

"He's a deep diver? Doesn't it look like it? I've seen deep divers before, and they look more like a combination of fish and frogs. ”

And the servant in front of him can only be regarded as a human being with a bigger body and an ugly appearance.

"Miscellaneous...... Hybrid ......"

Athanas suddenly came out of nowhere.

When Bai Ye heard this, his brows furrowed again, how could he be so decently scolding?

No, Athanas should mean - this servant is a hybrid of a human and a deep diver?

Belch...... The specific picture can't be made up in the brain, and it feels terrible when you think about it!

"It'...... In fact...... It's me...... My sister...... Sister ......"

At this moment, the servant, who belonged to the deep diver and the human mongrel, suddenly let out a few guttural sounds with some irritation, and his body seemed to tremble slightly.

"No...... Oh no. ”

Athanas's expression immediately became nervous, and he even spoke with her much more neatly.

She ...... She's ...... I'm about to wake up...... Wake up! ”

"Who? Oh, you mean that fake Valred Izezer? ”

Bai Ye immediately understood what Athanas meant.

"Right...... She...... She'll find out...... Our. ”

"So, do you want me to help you get your body back? So how can I help you? ”

Hearing this, Athanas breathed a sigh of relief.

"Only...... You can get close to ...... He. ”

She gestured to the spire houses across the bridge.

"In the attic...... ...... Altar. ”

Bai Ye nodded at her.

"See, just destroy that altar and you and your sister will be able to get back to the way they were, right?"

Athanas nodded wildly again.

And at this moment, the servant's irritated guttural voice became louder and louder, and the frequency of the shaking of his body increased.

Suddenly, it turned to its side, its face was hideous, its eyes glared in the direction of Athanas, and it began to speak: "How dare you sneak out while I meditate!" ”

He then turned back to examine the body on the bed.

"I killed my most powerful assistant, unforgivable! Unforgivable! ”

With that, the servant raised his dagger and was about to pounce on Athanas in his chair.

But just as it took a step forward, there was a loud bang, and its head was hit hard by something, and its body went limp, and it fell to the ground before it had time to snort.

Behind the servant, Bai Ye glanced at the large piece of copper teapot in his hand, casually threw it aside, and then leaned down and snatched the dagger from the unconscious servant.

"Then you just stay here for now, keep the sculpture, and I'll see if I can help you get your body back."

As I learned earlier, the sculptures couldn't work until they had 3 of them, and the fake Valred had them in his hands, so there was nothing to worry about if those two sculptures were lost here.

He knew Athanas, no, this real Valred who had been transferred to Athanas, should know a lot about sculpture and the world at large.

It's impossible to understand these things now, and I don't know when to talk about his stuttering, or find a way to change Valred's body back first, so that I can understand the contents.

At the same time, Bai Ye had been saved more than once by Valred in the soul state in Mukef's laboratory, and now that his identities have been reversed, Bai Ye feels that he should be obliged to help him.

"Please...... You're ......."

Bai Ye turned around and walked out of the guest room, and walked in the direction of the covered bridge.

"The soul inside the servant of the human-deep diver is Valred's sister, the soul in Athanas is Valred, and Valred is the one who has cast the secret art of body swapping."

Judging from the group photo in the servant's room, it is likely that Athanas is not the wife of the fake Valred, but more likely Valred's sister.

"According to this rule, the person who performed the secret art of body swapping should have been a half-blood servant."

"And then the dead Professor Derby was with the changeling?"

It's no wonder that when he was studying sculpture in the ballroom and even in the reception room at the back, Professor Derby behaved a bit like a fake Valred......

Thinking so, he had already carefully crossed the covered bridge and entered the second floor of the spire house on the opposite side of the covered bridge.

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