Akai eventually found the live rabbit he was looking for.

For this reason, he and Xu Nan had to go to the fresh market in the main city of Stephen Sand to inquire door-to-door, and finally under the reluctant eyes of a wizard, Akai legally requisitioned the pet rabbit named Fei Fei in the name of the law enforcement team.

Not much.

Outside a single-family house, the figures of Xu Nan and Akai appeared, the latter carefully holding the rabbit, whispering in his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"Are you casting some kind of spell?"

Xu Nan was puzzled.

"I'm a demon hunter, a born magically cursed person, and I can't do any spells."

Akai glanced at him, stroked Fei Fei's head to himself, and suddenly let go of his hand and let it run away.

"However, we have been specially trained to use some transcendent abilities, which are not as magical as magic, but they are very practical."

He followed in his steps, and went straight through the fence at the door.

Strangely, the magic alarm that was supposed to be activated didn't sound as it should.

"It's so skilled."

Xu Nan followed behind Akai and watched him press a finger against his lips, guessing in his heart that this should be some kind of ability that could greatly interfere with the magic alarm.

For wizards, this ability is simply terrifying.

After all, they are accustomed to magic, and their trust in magic has also reached a certain level, and once they are asleep, they are broken into their homes by a demon hunter of Akai's level, and it is also a high probability event that they will be silently taken away from their sex.

It's no wonder that the profession of demon hunter is deeply resisted by the wizards of Stephen Sand.

This profession has not been banned, which is already a miracle in Xu Nan's opinion.

"Fei Fei" is quite fast, and it is estimated that the wizard who looks like a bachelor has fed her a lot of potions to improve her quality.

It didn't take long for them to walk straight through the main part of Thomas's house and into the backyard.

There is a small grove and a flourishing grape trellis nearby.

Fei Fei ran here, and the big scarlet eyes suddenly glowed slightly, which was an involuntary reaction.

And so it was...... My guess was not wrong. ”

"Is this it?"

Akai half-knelt on the grass, followed Fei Fei's footsteps for a while, and sure enough, found a hidden secret entrance.

He worked cautiously for a few more moments, successfully breaking the various mechanisms at the entrance, and skilfully opening the door.

He is very skilled and efficient, far beyond the legendary thieves.

Underneath the secret door is a narrow and long staircase, which has not been closed for long in terms of air circulation.

"He probably comes over often."

Akai muttered to himself.

He blew on the small white beads on the purple gloves, and the beads immediately bloomed with a soft glow like the brightest pearl of the night.

A white glow illuminates every corner of the stairs.

The two of them swooped into the path.

Xu Nan kept an eye on it, although Thomas lived alone, he couldn't keep up with the same party, so he summoned Big Brother Goose before entering the dark passage. With this super thug guarding, they will at least not face the dilemma of being attacked on their backs.

The dark passages are dry.

They walked for about a minute, and finally reached the end.

It was a very open underground chamber!

It's more like a square than a secret room – because it's so much space.

"Hehe, even if it's just a crime of illegally building a basement, my punch can be justified."

Akai muttered.

Xu Nan glanced at him and didn't speak.

"This guy seems to like to talk about himself and jokes, and he doesn't seem to be so difficult to get along with, but his thoughts are a little abnormal."

He didn't think deeply about Akai's quirks, but took a serious look at the underground square.

In the underground square, there are dense water tanks, one every half meter or so, arranged in a square pattern.

The material of the water tank is very special, a bit like pottery fired from clay, and a bit like metal.

Xu Nan leaned over to take a look and found that each water tank was sealed with a white film, although the film was translucent, he couldn't see what was inside.

He could only be sure that the tank was filled with liquid...... Probably.

"Don't get too close."

"They'll get through your mouth, nostrils, or ears."

"Then take possession of your body, take everything from you, and then complete the transformation of life."

Akai's voice sounded coldly from behind.

Xu Nan was stunned for a moment.

"Them?"

He realized something, and his eyes refocused on the strangely shaped water tank.

"It's a Soulstealer."

Akai carefully wiped the nameplate on a water tank, seemingly reading the words on it.

"I can't say just now, it's because the group of soul stealers has incredible sensing abilities."

"As soon as I mention their names on the docks, they sense the danger; In that case, we would now only be able to see empty water tanks in one place. ”

"Hehe, little guy, want to get out of the tank?"

He gently tapped the side of the tank with his knuckles, making a crisp and nice sound.

Knock knock!

The little creature in the tank responded violently, not only violently hitting the walls of the tank, but even beginning to leap at the white film!

"Is this a Lifestealer?"

It was the first time Xu Nan had heard of this otherworldly creature. Paradise Lost is also recorded, but it is all in the internal database, and the exploration points he has finally earned are not worth it in exchange for this thing, so he looked at Akai, hoping that he could explain more.

"Well, this is the legion of Lifestealers that we banished a thousand years ago."

"Stephen Sand guards the northern part of the main material realm, and it is an impenetrable barrier for many evil forces to approach the northern continent, and the Soulstealer Legion is just one small example, but it is also an evil force that has caused us the most headache in the past."

"In every vat here, there's a Soul Stealer hatchling...... How the Spirit Stealers reproduce is still a mystery, but what is confirmed is that their juveniles are highly prized and expensive to bring. ”

Akai seemed to be in a good mood, and gave Xu Nan a wave of popular science.

Xu Nan leaned over to take a look, and at this moment, with the violent fluctuations of the soul stealing monster hatchling, through the white membrane, he could barely see the other party's appearance:

This thing looks like a large tadpole, with a strong and powerful tail and a triangular top of the head, which seems to be more penetrating!

"It can easily burrow into the brains of humanoids, then devour the gray matter of the brain, and eventually obtain the host's body, completely replacing its flesh." Akai pointed to the Whoop's hatchlings and said:

"Because of this, they were named Soul Stealers by ancient mages, meaning evil creatures that steal the souls of others."

"The Legion of Soulstealers is very difficult to deal with due to their health characteristics."

"Fortunately, there aren't many high-level soulstealers that can occupy a human body for a long time and retain their memories and skills. I've checked just now, and the soulstealer hatchlings here are all normal soulstealers, not like Thomas's. ”

Akai breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at Xu Nan, hesitated for a moment, and showed an ugly smile:

"Speaking of which, I really need to say thank you, if it weren't for your awareness of the anomaly, we would have lost many, many ......"

Xu Nan nodded slightly, it was not appropriate to attribute this matter entirely to him, after all, he also noticed Thomas's abnormality by mistake.

According to Akai, Thomas should be at the vanguard of the Lifestealer army. They somehow infiltrated Stephen Sand, eventually seizing Akai's body, and then slowly cultivating their own power in Stephen Sand.

The juveniles of these Soul Stealers are proof of this.

Ordinary Lifestealers are unable to retain their memories, skills, and abilities after seizing the host's body; However, high-level Soul Stealers can inherit the memory and strength of their original owners to a certain extent. This kind of soulstealer is very rare, about one out of ten million.

Thomas is a prime example of this.

This is also the reason why he can perfectly play the role of a member of the law enforcement team, but he is not bound by the unspoken rules of the law enforcement team.

The reason why Akai directly attacked Thomas at the second roundabout was, on the one hand, through information from all sides, to confirm the fact that Akai was a soulstealer; On the other hand, we don't want the incident of Modil's attack on Green to continue to ferment.

He believed that Mordir's attack was instigated, and that the instigator was most likely Thomas himself or the army of Soulstealers behind him!

As for the reason, it starts with the strange life of the Soul Stealer itself.

……

The Soul Stealer originated from another world, and this otherworld is probably the kind of space similar to the earth to the universal world.

The gods of the Purs have swallowed up one multiverse after another, and they will eventually encounter strange life, 99% of the life population has been exterminated by the gods, but the Lifestealers have survived with their tenacious vitality.

This has to do with their bizarre life forms.

The way the Soul Stealers reproduce has not yet been studied, but it is this tadpole-like juvenile form that can be traced back to the present. Archmage of Stephen Sand once found the Soulstealer's "mother pool", which contains thousands of Lifestealer eggs, which must be placed in a specific container when the eggs hatch into tadpoles.

This is to protect them from not premature "development" or "metamorphosis".

Only the Soul Stealer itself knows how long the entire sealing period will be, and Akai told Xu Nan that Stephen Sand's current research believes that light is an important factor influencing whether the Soul Stealer hatchlings are metamorphosing.

The soulstealer hatchlings were sealed in vats, white membranes that kept air in place while blocking out light.

As soon as a faint light appears, these larvae will quickly enter the "metamorphosis".

The so-called metamorphosis is one of the most sensational stages of life such as the Soul Stealer.

In general, adult Lifestealers will grab a large number of humanoids, tie them up, and then place juvenile tadpoles in their ears to quickly complete the parasitizing process.

However, parasitism is only one stage of degeneration, and after parasitism is completed, metamorphosis has just begun.

In the process, the Soul Stealer hatchlings must learn how to live in harmony with the body from others.

Many of the Soul Stealers were unsuccessful in their integration, and eventually they had to follow in the footsteps of their hosts and die together.

Stephen Sand scholars have speculated that sealing the hatchlings in vats to give them enough time to develop may also be a way for the Soul Stealers to increase their metamorphosis power.

All in all, the transformation of the Soulstealer is a very volatile process and full of dangers.

Even if the transformation is successful, there is a high possibility that it will leave strange sequelae.

"For example, the inability to control oneself and the intense aggression towards the back of the head of a humanoid."

Speaking of this, Akai suddenly added.

Xu Nan suddenly realized.

If that's the case, then everything makes sense.

The so-called [Sneak Attacker in the Back of the Head] is very likely to be an ordinary Soul Stealer who has successfully transformed, but has not integrated so smoothly!

Probably for some reason, the Lifestealer did not exhibit anything unusual after the parasitism was complete. The Soul Stealers let him go on a mission, and in the course of his mission, he revealed a strange trait that likes to attack the back of the head of humanoids, and thus continued to commit crimes.

Thomas was quick to confirm the matter by virtue of his status as a member of the law enforcement team. After the incident, he should have solved the problem of the Soul Stealer as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that instead of being quelled, the matter would become more and more intense because of the addition of some alchemists who hated Paradise Lost!

The addition of the copycat crime successfully expands the matter, and in order to protect the secrets of the Lifestealer army, Thomas simply does not do anything, he tries to provoke the conflict between Paradise Lost and Stephen Sand, and make the matter bigger, so as to divert everyone's attention and make everyone forget the loopholes in the previous cases themselves!

And in order to achieve this goal, he locked Xu Nan and tried to pull him into the game, so there was an "unexpected encounter" on the second roundabout.

In fact, even if Xu Nan didn't ask him for the case of the sneak attacker in the back of the head, he would find a way to find an opportunity to let Xu Nan interfere through various excuses.

Then, by instigating Modil, the president of the Masons' Union, to attack Green, it was easy to escalate the situation.

It's a pity that this seamless plan was ruined by Xu Nan by mistake.

According to Akai, when the incident is over, Xu Nan will be able to receive at least one Stephen Sand Honorary Citizen Medal.

After all, he saved at least a thousand people.

Because there are thousands of soulstealer hatchlings here.

……

"Having said all this, I still don't understand."

Xu Nan couldn't help but be confused:

"What the hell is a rabbit for?"

Akai seriously hugged Fei Fei to his chest, and then said solemnly:

"I'll give you a formal introduction."

"This one is the natural enemy of the Soul Stealer."

Fifi's crimson eyes blinked.

Suddenly, the soulstealing baby that had been teased by Akai suddenly jumped out of the tank, directly piercing the thin membrane!

It leaps and dances with its teeth and claws, trying to find its host.

Then it saw a pair of red eyes.

……