"What the hell is this? Soth, have you ever seen anything like this?"

Hodge once saw such a scene in an adventurer's travelogue, in a jungle encounter with a bandit, the adventurer witnessed a magician cast a spell on him, transforming himself into the leader of the bandits, so as to create chaos within the bandits, so as to lead the whole team to escape without danger.

It was a kind of mimicry magic, which might be eight points similar in appearance, but in details, such as the roughness of the skin, the scars hidden under the clothes, or the distortion of the blood vessels in the internal organs, it was impossible to mimic it, and the magician could only become what he saw.

And now these two corpses are exactly the same in every detail, exactly the same! It's like a doll made of a mold!

Suo Xi's face was shrouded in a haze, and his low voice gradually narrated: "I know a non-human creature that can completely transform into something that I have been in contact with, whether it is a human or a demonic beast, and just like this, it is transformed into exactly the same thing, and what is even more terrifying is that even they can be completely reproduced inside, whether it is ability, ideas, or even memory, after the arm becomes me, they may even know which girl I rolled around on the deck with the other day!"

Hodge was dumbfounded, thinking that he was powerful or you were powerful, he had long heard that witchers secreted male hormones faster than wild horses due to mutations, which also made almost all witchers unable to control their lower bodies.

Lucky or unlucky? There seems to be a good reason.

"That kind of thing is called a shapeshifter, there are few of these creatures on the continent, I once met once in the demon hunting commission, that guy turned into me and slept with the two daughters of the village chief, so that I didn't even get the commission money when I came back from the demon hunting, and was driven out of the village by the villagers with a pitchfork. ”

Sothy bared his teeth, obviously it wasn't a pleasant experience.

"But this kind of shapeshifter is not what I call shapeshifters, and I also said that the number of shapeshifters is very small, but the mayor said that there are at least two digits of shapeshifters. ”

"More importantly, shapeshifters have their own form, and when they die, their ability to transform will dissipate with their lives, and no matter what they transform, they will return to their original form after death. ”

Suo Xi pointed to the two corpses: "But this kind of thing, after death, still remains deformed. ”

After Hodge deduced the time of death of the two corpses, he made an unexpected discovery: "The main owner died much earlier, so the imposter killed the original owner and replaced him?"

"That's right, that's what the mayor asked me to do, and he's worried that the army under the control of the town hall has been seriously invaded by these shapeshifters, which makes their loyalty impossible to guarantee and causes quite a headache for the town hall," said Soth. ”

Hodge's mind spun quickly, and he suddenly asked: "These shapeshifters can replace the original owners, so the imitation ability should be quite strong, in this case, how did the shapeshifters who are completely indistinguishable from their appearance and words and deeds be discovered?"

"Not to be discovered. Suo Xi's face was full of helplessness: "If the city hall has a way to distinguish the shapeshifters, do you need to ask me to investigate?" In fact, these people are exposed by themselves, and they don't have any anomalies in normal times, but it seems that they will be triggered by something and turn into unconscious humanoid weapons, so they will be killed. ”

"What are the triggering conditions?"

Hodge's heart slowed a beat, and as he spoke of this, two figures popped up in his mind for no apparent reason, the two soldiers who suddenly attacked them and were then burned by Devonie in flames.

"Slaves. ”

"It's not the name, it's that if the other party shows any characteristics of a slave, the shapeshifter will expose himself to attack the slave, and the citizens and slaves think that this is the town hall exterminating the slaves, so the mayor feels that the matter must be resolved," Sosi said. He thinks it's the slave king's doing. ”

"What?" Hodge couldn't understand the logic for a moment, if the trigger was really slavery, Sagisan's own forces would be the first to be attacked by the shapeshifters.

"The Slave King wants to use this method to exacerbate the conflict between the slaves and the town hall, so as to strengthen his control over the slave army. ”

No wonder the soldiers said when they entered the city, "The Slave King has enveloped a group of monsters that can change their appearance", and it turns out that this is the cause.

Regardless of whether this view is too conspiracy theory, he understands that people who can give birth to such ideas are certainly not good birds.

"How did the two bodies over there cover so tightly?" asked the doctor.

The doctor pinched his nose, looked into the distance, and said, "Those are two corpses that have just been sent over, and they have not been dissected yet, but I don't think there is any need for autopsy at all." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Just look at it. ”

Lifting the corpse cloth, Hodge had the idea that the two men had been burned to death by Devany.

"How could it be burned like this...... Wait a minute. Thorsi suddenly remembered something, and looked back at Hodge, who looked up at the sky as if he were playing dumb.

"Is this the real thing or a shapeshifter?"

The doctor was very experienced in using a knife on the flank of the corpse, and with the internal body fluids came a strong stench of ecstasy.

"Fake, except for the fact that they will go crazy when they meet slaves, the only difference between them and real people is that their corpses stink horribly after death. ”

The doctor walked briskly out of the basement.

Hodge and Sotsy followed, and Sothy was bothered by the difficulty of the commission, scratching his head from time to time.

"I have to go back and report to the mayor first, what about you, with me?"

Hodge laughed: "What are I doing there, I'll go back to the hotel first, don't you have nowhere to stay, I found a hotel with vacant rooms, do you want to come————?"

"Okay, I'll go when I see the mayor. ”

"Wait, Thorsi. Hodge stopped him as he was about to leave, and looked at the other party's puzzled little eyes, he thought about it for a while, but decided to tell the witchers about the strangeness of the city, maybe they would have an ancient and reliable solution.

"Did you know? We are now in a ......"

Buzz——————

Intense tinnitus resounded through his brain, and Hodge had to pause for a moment.

"What, in what?" the witcher was confused.

Hodge took a deep breath and kept trying: "We're in ......"

Buzz——————

The tinnitus rang again, but Hodge had the heart to fight, but no matter how she spoke, she couldn't make any sound, as if she was choking in her throat.

"What do you want to say?" Thorsey still didn't hear what he said.

Hodge closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he said calmly: "It's nothing, probably I'm a little sleepy, don't choose what to say, I'll go back to the hotel to rest first." ”

"Okay. ”

On the way back to the hotel, Hodge's heart grew colder, and it seemed that this illusion only allowed himself and Daphne, Hera, and Sylvie to be players who knew the truth, and everyone else was a pawn and could not be told the truth at all.

This bureau is coming for itself again?

........................

"If, as you suspected, we are in a realm of great magnitude, then this illusion is so terrifying that it is so well disguised that we and I did not even notice it when we entered. ”

Devany drank the water from the glass, and Hodge pulled her out as soon as he returned to the hotel, and sat in the corner to discuss the problem: "At least I've never seen anyone who can do this kind of vision, neither a witch nor a magician." ”

"Is there a solution?" is the problem of Hodge's relationship, it seems that the situation in the headwind port is changing rapidly, and finding a way out of the headwind port is the best way out at this time.

"Any illusion, no matter how complex, has a way to crack it. ”

"That is to find the controller of the illusion, that is, what we call the realm master, defeat him, and the illusion disappears naturally. ”

"Realm Master......" Hodge pondered.

The female boss was dressed charmingly, but the expression on her face was a little dumbfounded, and she broke two bottles of drinks, one of which was brownish-red. One is a viscous white pulp.

"Tea?" she asked, tilting her head.

"No thanks. Hodge declined, he was thinking about who the realm master would be, and he wouldn't be thinking about drinking at the moment.

"What about milk?" asked the landlady again.

"No ...... required"

Grunt.

Hodge's thoughts were interrupted, and he looked up to see the landlady pouring tea into the milk, shook it slightly, and continued to tilt her head and ask, "Milk tea?"

Hodge was stunned.

What's going on with this female boss???

"Vera, we're not thirsty right now. ”

Daphne stood up, as if she knew the landlady well, and escorted her back to the bar, where she could be vaguely heard saying, "When he says that, he actually means nothing." ”

The landlady named Vera nodded from time to time, and when Daphne returned, Hodge looked at her in surprise and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with this landlady?"

Devany shook her head and tapped her head with her finger, "I just found out, Vera, she's ......"

"It's a bit silly. ”