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

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

"Smell?" Leo was stunned, walked over to the table, picked up the piece, and the Duke of White Boots saw this, and hurriedly hid at the bottom of his hood, and his body shrunk into a ball.

Leo put the fragment on his nose and sniffed it, but he couldn't smell anything, so Leo turned on the perfect control skill, and raised the nose's sense of smell to the strongest state of his current physique, and instantly all kinds of smells around him, including the smell outside the house, got into his nose, so that he could easily know what people were walking around the house, what they were doing, and so on.

Oddly enough, however, he was unable to smell anything from the eggshell scales, not even the scent of the Hanoverian woman who had been in contact with it, or himself.

Suddenly, Leo thought of something, and turned on his psionic skill, and he immediately saw a chaotic aura of black-gray spiritual energy emanating from this eggshell scale. This psionic energy is not very strong, and it is consistent with the chaotic nature of this dream world, so even if Leo holds the fragment in his hand, if he does not turn on the spiritual vision, he will not be able to perceive any psionic energy from this fragment with his psionic perception talent alone.

After discovering the problem, Leo found an iron box, put the stones in the box, and then took it to the downstairs room, and then asked the white-booted duke, who was hiding in his hood, "Are you better now?"

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

"I know. Leo didn't 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?"

"Didn't you want me to help you find the murderer?" said the Duke of White Boots, tilting his head.

Leo asked, "Did you see the murderer?"

The Duke of the White Boots shook his head and said, "No." But I smelled it, and the woman's body had that smell. ”

Leo didn't feel anything unusual at first when he heard this, thinking that the Duke of White Boots meant the smell left by the murderer on the woman, and was about to ask about other things, but suddenly he thought about it again, and felt as if he was missing something.

After pondering for a moment, Leo asked tentatively, "You mean that the smell originated from the woman herself, and not from someone else?"

The Duke of White Boots nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I meant, didn't I say it clearly enough?"

"Did I guess wrong?" Leo couldn't help but wonder, frowning and pondering.

Before, he had guessed what the peculiar smell that Duke White Boots had mentioned was, although he had thought that it was because he was from the Velonon World so he had the unique smell of the Velon, but for other reasons, he denied this speculation, and instead thought that it was because of the dream body on his body, and what happened to him in the flower shop just confirmed this guess.

But now, the Duke of White Boots said that this woman from the Velonon world also had that kind of smell, which made Leo extremely confused, and the things that he had speculated and determined before were also shaken in his heart.

After thinking for a moment, Leo asked, "Duke of White Boots, have you ever seen that murderer except for the special smell on his body?"

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

"It's good to see the back. When Leo heard the words of the Duke of White Boots, he immediately found paper and a pen, and quickly drew the back of the middle-aged man on the paper.

Before he could finish painting, the Duke of White Boots jumped and shouted, "Yes, yes! ”

After getting the news he wanted from the Duke of the White Boots, Leo's face did not change for the better, but became even more gloomy, because he realized that he had done something wrong before.

When he was in the flower shop, Leo guessed that the middle-aged man's box contained a corpse, and also confirmed this through temptation, but for various reasons, he didn't think about actually doing anything with him, but let him go, and didn't open the box on the spot, and now it seems that the box probably stored the corpse of the woman 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's a dead person, then even an adult can be stuffed into that box with the right posture.

Leo said with a serious expression: "Duke of White Boots, I want to ask you to help me find this person." ”

The Duke of White Boots said suspiciously: "But I haven't seen him, and my little guys don't have a sense of smell like mine, so they can't find the special smell on this person's body at all." ”

"It's okay, I'll draw his portrait, you can just let those little ones follow the image to find it. Leo spoke, quickly drawing a few portraits on the paper, from the front face to the side face, from all angles.

"You're so good at drawing!" said the Duke of White Boots, looking at the lifelike portrait on it with admiration, "Can you draw one for me?"

"Absolutely. Leo nodded.

The Duke of White Boots immediately stood on the table, straightened his clothes, and then stood with his head held high, and just as Leo was about to start drawing, he suddenly stopped, told Leo to wait, and then ran out of the room quickly.

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 paints, so he went downstairs to look for them, took some up, and according to the instructions of the parabrain system, they were ground into some paints that could be used for painting.

As soon as Leo's paint was ready, the Duke of White Boots, dressed in a gorgeous suit and wearing a wide-brimmed feather hat, came running in. In addition, there were several elven rats behind it, they carried a crystal-shaped throne and jumped onto the table, under the instructions of the Duke of the White Boots, the throne was placed in a more conspicuous place, and then the Duke of the White Boots did it, changed a few postures, and after thinking it was appropriate, he nodded to Leo and signaled that it was okay to draw.

Seeing the actions of the Duke of White Boots, Leo couldn't help but smile, and then found a piece of paper with spiritual energy, and used the ink specially used to draw the magic array. Soon the appearance of the Duke of White Boots was drawn on paper by him, filled in the corresponding colors, and then found a few pieces of wood to make a small frame, clamped the painting on the frame, and handed it to the Duke of White Boots.

The Duke of the White Boots took the portrait, leaned it against his crystal throne, and looked at it carefully, although it was facing away from Leo, and could not see its expression, it was not difficult to guess from its tail swinging back and forth that it was in a very good mood.

After looking at it for a while, the Duke of White Boots barked a few times at the elven rat waiting next to him, and ordered his subordinates to carry away the crystal throne and the portrait, then turned his head and picked up the portrait of the middle-aged man on the table and rolled it into a ball, carried it behind him with a small rope, and said to Leo: "Don't worry, as long as this person is still in the twenty-third district, I will find him soon." ”

With that, it hurried out of the room, screaming loudly outside, as if instructing its men to carry the two things carefully.

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

In the past two days, he has either been learning the pharmacy and wizarding knowledge of this world, or he has been dealing with other things, and he has not had a good rest. Although there was no problem with his physical condition because of the support of the energy storage value, he still felt a little tired mentally, so before the time agreed with Marek, he decided to take a rest in this room to relieve his mental exhaustion.

After Leo relaxed, he soon fell into a deep sleep and his spirit entered the dream realm.

After about twenty minutes or so, Leo suddenly opened his glasses, his eyes filled with murderous aura, and a psionic shock erupted from his body, turning into a substantial physical impact that washed away the surrounding books and debris. At the same time, the twins in his hand instantly turned into the mode of the cross sword, and he displayed the rock momentum of the integration of attack and defense in the cross sword swordsmanship, looking around with great vigilance.

At some point, there was an additional wound on his arm, and blood flowed from the wound and dripped down the blade of the twin crosses to the floor with a clattering sound.

After calming down, Leo looked puzzled and looked at his injured hand, his face full of confusion, as if he didn't know why he was doing this and why his hand was hurting.

"The parabrain, which shows the data of the body after falling asleep. Leo didn't feel the danger around him, so he turned the twins back into fist mode, redid them in his chair, and carefully looked at the data that moved slowly on his eyeballs.

The content of the data is not very much, and Leo quickly finished reading it, but after reading it, the doubts on his face not only did not disappear, but became stronger.

Because according to the above data, he has been sitting in a chair and resting all the time, nothing has happened around him, and any reaction in his body shows that he has been in a deep sleep at the moment of awakening.

Although there seems to be no problem with the above data, Leo found two anomalies, the first is that he just closed his eyes and rested, and immediately entered a deep sleep state, without going through any sleep processes such as light sleep. The second point is that he woke up at the same time, and before he was fully conscious, a wound appeared on his arm, and it appeared instantly, and it took less than a second before and after.

"What's going on?" Leo noticed two anomalies, but he still didn't understand what was going on with him, why he was injured, and why he suddenly made attacks and defensive moves.

"Search the library for similar records. Leo ordered the vice-brain.

With a large amount of data according to the two anomalies found by Leo, and gradually sorted out a piece of information appeared in Leo's eyes, Leo was also very attentive to eliminate the uncontacted information, and finally the information in front of him became less and less, and only seven were left, and he stopped.

These seven documents are all in line with his situation without exception, he also suddenly entered a deep sleep, and was injured in the process of sleeping, but some of them were still in deep sleep, and some of them appeared after waking up.

Interestingly, these seven pieces of information come from three different places, one is the report of the early subliminal experiments of the Earth Federation, and the other is from the internal publication of the Velon's World Persona Society, which records the anecdotes of the world and places in the world of Velon. As for the remaining four, they are all from the dream world, and these four messages are recorded in a journal similar to the internal journal of the Persona Society, and they record the strange things in each lake town.

What's even more interesting is that whether it is the subliminal research experiment of the Earth Federation or the two cases that happened in the world of Velon, people are still in deep sleep, and scars appear on their bodies, only the situation in the dream world is the same as Leo's scars.

In addition, in the case of the Earth Federation, the reason why the person fell into a deep sleep in an instant was because of the psionic skills performed by a powerful psyker, and the two cases in the Velen world were also done by wizards, but the four cases in the dream world did not have any record of external involvement.

"Is it plotted?" Leo said, confused.

From these seven case materials, it is not difficult to see that this incident is definitely not a natural thing, and there must be an external force, and this external force may be witchcraft or psionic skills. Although the four cases in the dream world do not mention the influence of external forces, it is likely that they went undetected.

Thinking of this, Leo's expression became serious, and the appearance of the middle-aged man immediately appeared in his mind, no matter how you look at it, this middle-aged man should have already made a move, and it is even likely that the female corpse was just trying to find his bait.

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

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

I only heard a sound from inside the door, and after a while, I saw Sophie, who was a little pale, wrapping her body tightly with a blanket as if she was sick, rubbing her eyes as if she hadn't woken up, and asked, "Sir, do you have any instructions?"

"Sophie, are you sick?" Leo asked, frowning.

Sophie shook her head again and again and said, "No, it's just that I'm not used to the beds here, I haven't slept well, and I'll be fine in two days." ”

When Leo saw Sophie, he always felt that he should do something, but he couldn't remember what to do, so he could only tell her to get some rest, and then turned and walked out of the house.