After leaving the room, Leo was about to leave the house the same way he came, but he was only halfway down the hallway when he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at a painting hanging on the wall.

The problem is that this family portrait is the family portrait of the last owner of 9 Golden Oak Street, and what is even more strange is that when I walked down this corridor to the side hall room just now, this painting is just a sunflower that does not exist in the dream world.

In order to confirm that he was not mistaken, Leo called up the data in the parabrain system and compared it, and soon got the answer, he was indeed not wrong, and the previous painting was indeed a sunflower.

Leo, who felt strange in his heart, was about to ask the old butler beside him, but unexpectedly found that the old butler who was following him a moment ago had disappeared, and he also found that the discussion sound coming from the side hall at the end of the corridor had disappeared at this moment, and everything around him became extremely quiet, as if it had been silenced, and even his own heartbeat could not be heard.

Although he inexplicably fell into an unknown danger, Leo did not show any panic and surprise, but his eyes were full of excitement and joy, because for him, this unexpected change is much better than nothing happening, only the more experienced, the more detailed the understanding of the world.

"Come on, let me see what you are. Leo thought to himself, and at the same time activated his vision skills.

As the psionic energy of the psionic skill blessed his eyeballs, the house in front of him began to change rapidly, from a new house less than two years old to quickly become old, the wood began to rot, the overwhelmed roof began to collapse, and many places also fell into ruins, and finally became a ruin, and the only thing that did not change was that the portrait of the family portrait remained as good as new.

Leo looked around, his eyes through the dilapidated holes in the house and the scene outside, and the blizzard and the blinding glow of the sun shining on the snow made him wonder.

Then, the sound of hurried footsteps stamping on the snow came from not far away, and a figure flew past the broken window, landed inside, and quickly ducked behind a wall that could protect it from the wind and snow.

It would have been fine if it was a monster that had run in, but Leo found out that the person who had broken in and hid in the snow was a woman. Or maybe a girl is more suitable, it looks like her grade should be shortly after she is an adult.

I saw that the girl had thick white long hair, a rope tied behind her head at random, a pair of bright eyes on her slightly pale face, and a circle of dark black eyeshadow was deliberately painted around her eyes. Originally, this circle of eyeshadow gave her more of a woman's charming posture, but a scar on the left side of her face destroyed this charm, but made her whole temperament more heroic than a man.

The girl was dressed in a thin cloth coat that could not hide any cold, a pair of tight leather pants and overshoots, a wide belt around her waist inlaid with several large sapphires, and several bottles of potions. In addition, she was carrying a long sword with a red scabbard, and under Leo's psionic gaze, she could see the strong spiritual energy emanating from the long sword and even conjure up a swallow fantasy, flying around the girl.

Just as Leo observed the girl who suddenly broke in, the girl was also surprised by Leo's appearance here, and looked at Leo vigilantly, and at the same time instinctively put her hand on the long sword behind her, and her body maintained a posture that could attack or defend at any time.

From the girl's reflection, Leo could see that the other party had undergone very strict training, and his movements and reactions were perfectly done, and he couldn't find any fault. In order to relieve the girl's hostility, Leo raised his hands first and took two steps back, showing his kindness, and the other party's vigilant look relaxed a little, but the long sword on his back still did not let go.

"%&¥&......" At this time, the girl said a few words to Leo, as if asking Leo about his origin, but Leo had not heard the language she was talking about, and did not understand what the other party meant.

The girl was aware of the problem and was about to ask in a different language, but the sudden barking of dogs outside the house ruined the somewhat relaxed atmosphere.

At this time, the girl immediately pulled out the long sword, and then took out a bottle of potion from the potion hanging from the belt around her waist, and poured it on the long sword. In Leo's vision, the psionic energy on the sword also changed into the shape of a flame after coming into contact with the potion.

At this time, Leo saw several monsters covered in frost leap out from behind a snow mound and land outside the house, each looking up to sniff the remaining scent in the air, and quickly discovered where the girl was hiding based on the smell.

The monsters didn't hesitate at all, they slammed directly into the wall, knocking down a wall, and the girl moved quickly to avoid the falling bricks, and when dodging, she deliberately chose to stay away from Leo, in order to avoid Leo being affected.

It's just that the girl's idea is good, but the monster doesn't do what she wants, and the monster that broke in first landed not far from Leo.

The monster saw Leo the moment it recovered from the vertigo it caused by hitting the wall, but it was slightly intelligent that it didn't understand why there was one more person, but that didn't prevent it from attacking any living thing.

While the other monsters were besieging the girl, the monster leapt up and lunged at Leo, opening its mouth full of sharp teeth to bite Leo's vital point, and before it could touch Leo, the fishy cold that erupted from its mouth was already covering Leo's body, causing him to form a layer of frost.

In the face of the attacking monster, Leo didn't even plan to move his body, and directly raised his hand and punched when the distance was right, hitting the monster's open mouth, and the heavy blow effect of the twin fists was extremely obvious, directly shattering the monster's jaw, brain and skull together, and Leo's arm also pierced his head.

Even a monster would have been killed instantly by such a heavy injury, and before Leo could throw it to the ground, it turned into countless flying snowflakes like a scattered snowman, and at the same time, the surrounding scene also transformed in an instant, from the ruins of the icy and snowy land to a painting in the corridor of Peter Alcott's villa without warning.

"Sir, are you alright?" asked the old butler of the Seventh Orcourt Family, who had disappeared before, as he stood beside Leo again, with a look of vigilance and confusion.

Leo looked around and asked in a deep voice, "What happened to me just now?"

The old butler pointed to the painting in front of Leo and said, "You have been looking at this painting just now, and no matter what I call you, you have no reaction. ”

Leo's gaze also fell on the painting with the old butler's finger, and he saw that the painting that was originally the family portrait had now changed back to the sunflower.

"Is there anything wrong with this painting, sir?" asked the old butler, bewildered by Leo's actions.

"No, that's good. Leo replied perfunctorily, turned and walked on.

The old butler looked at Leo's back, frowned, and then turned his head to look at the painting, although he sensed that Leo must have found something just now, but he was not very easy to ask, so he could only take the matter to heart, and tell his master later.

"Are you going to the ball?" asked the old butler, who had caught up with Leo, after leaving the villa.

Leo didn't answer, just shook his head, and chose to leave the Alcot family's manor directly. He had never thought of going to the main hall for a party, because he had more important things to attend to than eavesdropping on the strange language full of code words at the party, from which he analyzed some of the intrigues between the nobles.

Escorted by the old butler, Leo left the manor, and immediately outside the manor, he rode back to the city in an Alcott steam car.

It's just that he didn't plan to return to the house he rented in District 33, as for the books in the house, he had already recorded them in the database, and the important books he had brought with him, and almost all the useful books that could be collected in this lake town were collected, so there was no need for him to go back there and install any merchants who bought books.

After coming down from the drawbridge, Leo casually entered a nearby town, from the top floor to the vine platform on the ground floor, where no one but the poor would choose to live, through a slum, to a relatively remote place, and then opened his right hand, which had been clenched, to reveal an irregular ice crystal in his palm.

"It's not an illusion!" Leo muttered to himself as he looked at the ice crystals that emitted bursts of cold aura in his hand.

In front of that painting just now, although Leo did not move in the eyes of the old butler, in fact, Leo had inadvertently entered another world shrouded in ice and snow, and encountered something there, and the ice crystals in his hand were the best evidence.

This ice crystal was formed by the condensation of the energy in the monster's body when the monster dispersed after he killed the ice monster.

"A high-energy substance, absorbable, edible. "The paracerebral system gave a simple analysis of this ice crystal.

Instead of swallowing the ice crystal, Leo untied his backpack and took out the box containing the remains of omega-level higher creatures and included the ice crystal.

After putting away the ice crystals, Leo had the parabrain system replay the effects and record the data.

"Family photo!" soon Leo discovers that the reason why he encountered that strange situation has something to do with the family photo.

After finding the source, Leo immediately retrieved the information related to this family portrait in the secondary brain system.

In the past, Leo had seen this family portrait three times, once in the information about 9 Golden Oak Street, once in the house at 9 Golden Oak Street, and the last time just now.

If it weren't for what had just happened, Leo might not have had any doubts about this very ordinary-looking family photo. Because no matter how you look at it, this family portrait is not much different from the family portrait drawn by an ordinary aristocratic family looking for an artist, with the head of the family sitting in the center, the wife sitting next to him, and the children clustered around.

However, when the parabrain system compares the three family photos that Leo has seen, Leo discovers that there is a subtle but important difference, which is the expression of the child in his wife's arms.

In the information document of 9 Golden Oak Street, the expression of the child in the family portrait is smiling, and in the painting at 9 Golden Oak Street, the child's expression is very cold, and the expression of the child in the painting just seen is heavy sadness.

In addition to noticing the change in the child's expression, it is more important that Leo recognizes the child and is sure that he has seen the child before.

When Leo first goes to the black market in Miria City's fish city, he asks a local kid to show him the way. Although they had only been together for a short time, Leo was particularly impressed by the child, who seemed to be able to see the future, so he reminded him.

Afterwards, Leo also searched for the child several times, but could not find him, and what was even more strange was that the other children who had played with the child did not remember the child.

In addition to this, Leo also discovered a very important thing, when he met Peter Alcott, he felt that he seemed to have seen each other before, but after comparing the portraits, he did not find a matching portrait, and now he knows where his sense of déjà vu comes from.

"Vice-brain, conducting character growth simulations, twenty years old. Leo, who was suspicious, immediately gave orders to the deputy brain, and began to simulate the appearance of the child in the family photo.

As the simulation data was collated, compared, and adjusted, soon the image of a twenty-year-old man appeared in his eyes. The young man's appearance was more than 90 percent similar to that of Peter Alcott whom he had seen before, and the rest of the dissimilarities were due to some local facial changes caused by his thin body, which were completely within the acceptable deviation value.

Although Leo didn't know how this Peter Alcott did it, he was sure that this Peter Alcot should have used some method to enter the world of Veron, or even more unknown worlds, and gain knowledge from those worlds, and then invent a lot of things that people in the dream world could not invent.

It's just that Leo is puzzled by time, the last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street had an accident sixty years ago, when Peter Alcott appeared in the world of Velen as a child and became the family of the owner of the villa, but sixty years later he appeared in the fish city with the same appearance, which is difficult to explain the time loophole.

"Can he control time?" a thought could not help but come to Leo's mind.

The reason why he has this idea is not cranky and untargeted, but really has a basis. In the Earth Federation, the psyker inadvertently entered an unknown subspace, and although he only stayed in that subspace for a while, decades have passed in the outside world.

This kind of thing often happens to alien psykers on other planets, so when he thinks of controlling time, Leo quickly thinks of these cases, after all, in his opinion, this dream world should also be some kind of unknown subspace.