464

Kingdom of Rune, capital of East Chester County, Stonen City.

Sunny Sunday afternoon.

Audrey, who had left the manor and returned to the castle, sent a servant to the Bavart Bank to withdraw a sum of cash.

At this point, she didn't have to worry about anything, she could easily repay the 2,000 pounds owed to Mr. "Fool" and pay Mr. "World" 1,800 pounds from the characteristics of a "psychiatrist".

A quarter of an hour later, Audrey opened the bedroom door, glanced at Anne, the maid who was not far away, supervising the work of the servants, looked down at the big golden retriever who was squatting by the wall, smiled, lowered her voice, and said with a sparkling gaze:

"Susie, are you going to have a gift later?"

She had asked Susie before, and she knew that the other party had completely digested the potion by Wednesday this week.

If you were Audrey in the past, she would definitely say "Susie, your gift has arrived" directly, so that the golden retriever would find out that she could also get real items in the room, and this would easily make Susie, who had recently studied the basics of the occult, guess in the direction of ritual magic.

With a change of rhetoric, it turns out that Audrey receives a mysterious letter/message in her bedroom confirming that the gift is about to arrive, and there are too many possibilities.

Susie read Audrey's heartfelt joy and sincerity, and subconsciously opened her mouth, vibrated the air, made a sound, and asked what the gift was, but she keenly noticed that Audrey's personal maid Anne was approaching, so she vigilantly gave up her original idea.

She returned to the state of an ordinary dog, wagging her tail slowly to express her joyful anticipation.

After deliberately making excuses to go outside for a circle, Audrey entered the "chemistry laboratory" specially assigned to her, and placed the characteristics of the "psychiatrist" and auxiliary materials on the long table one by one.

"Susie, do you remember the process of dispensing potions last time?" She cleared her throat, straightened her back, and played the role of teacher with great interest.

"Wang, remember!" Susie already understood what her gift was, and for a moment she was very happy and "Wang" spoke.

Audrey said casually:

"You try to mix it yourself."

Susie looked down at her paws and fell silent.

Audrey was stunned at first, and then fell silent for a while.

After a few seconds, before the golden retriever opened his mouth, she pursed her lips and smiled lightly: "Okay, Susie, don't open your mouth, I know what you want to say, you want to express that you are just a dog, and you can't mix potions, right?" ”

It's embarrassing, it's embarrassing...... At the same time, Audrey, who was elegant and dignified in appearance, covered her face in her heart.

"Wang!" Susie nodded vigorously.

Audrey seized the opportunity, turned around, and quickly concocted the "psychiatrist" potion.

465

Stone, northern downtown.

Amun, dressed in the uniform of a city library employee, stood on the top floor of the library, which is closed on weekends, and lifted the monocle in his right eye.

Today, he specially removed all the "Bu Amon" decorations and superfluous items on his body, and only wore a simple staff uniform, a white shirt and a pair of black trousers, and a blue and white tie. Strive to fully fit the impression of "Librarian Amon" on himself, so as to achieve the purpose of deceiving the other party and confusing his self-perception.

As he seizes each other's identities, there is a connection between them that can only be vaguely felt by each other.

Amon feels like "it's" going to die today.

"If he wasn't Sequence 3, but Sequence 4, I would have solved him a long time ago."

"But Amon doesn't have much of a fight with his level or higher in his memory...... Looks like I'm going to have to figure it out on my own. ”

One Amon deceived another Amon and seized the identity of the other party, which was unprecedented in Amun's history, and Amon naturally could not find any reference memory.

Maybe that's why neither Medici nor the Outer Gods intend to help themselves? They all want to see how they can solve this problem.

Amon frowned. In addition to the tension and uneasiness that should be there, there is also an eerie sense of excitement.

He had a feeling that he couldn't explain clearly, as if these two people were waiting for a result to verify whether he was a better Amon now, and the current emergency situation was the best way to assess.

- Can you fool yourself.

- If he succeeds, he is an Armon who defy common sense, the "mistake" of mistakes!

The northern city of Stonen is part of the parish of the Church of the Storm, with a church, a decent squad of "substitutes" and a demitheon. Amon confirmed that the bishop was Sequence 3, had been transferred from Beckland years earlier and had been in East Chester County for several months. Amon had an impression of him - his name was "The Singer of the Gods", Ace Snake.

He is at the same level as himself, and he happens to be a sequence that may put his life in danger and give him some help.

It needs to be used well.

Amon looked up at the weather, it was three o'clock in the afternoon when the sun was warm and bright, it was still some time before it was dark, and there was no sign of dark clouds gathering around, and Ace Snake probably hadn't noticed anything unusual happening in his precinct.

Amon lowered his head again and looked at the city beneath his feet.

It's weekend and the weather is nice, but there aren't many people on the streets, which doesn't make sense.

He clearly saw that there were also many figures in the crowd walking back and forth, which were more or less abnormal.

A man dressed in formal attire with the air of a government employee walks down the street, carrying a basket of clothes in an extremely uncoordinated manner and walking in an awkward posture. From time to time, men would walk up to the doors of some nearby households to collect their clothes, as if they were a woman who made a living by washing clothes.

A simple-dressed middle-aged and elderly woman sits in a coffee shop, squinting at a stack of materials, writing and drawing on them from time to time, and holding a cup of coffee in her hand, like a student who reads hard everywhere.

They walked and lived quite normally, and no one noticed anything wrong.

Occasionally, there are a few identities that match their appearance, but it is not possible to confirm whether they really match.

"Yesterday that 'colleague' came to me and mentioned the Hale family's temporary recruitment of personnel from the library, is it a hint or a normal coincidence?"

Amon thought for himself, but he couldn't make up his mind, so he took out a coin and tossed it upward.

Catch, tailside up.

Amon nodded slightly: "It should indeed be a coincidence, although it knows my location, it definitely doesn't dare to give me the address directly to duel with me, and choosing to hide and detour is the normal development...... No, how do I know if it deliberately gave me a hint to go to Hor Castle to waste a week and it waited for an opportunity to escape? ”

He tried to make a guess, but Amon's characteristic fear of death still made him a little uncertain.

Divination? But not everyone has the blessing of powerful divination like Yuanbao, God knows how much it will be affected in the process of divination, and three or four times out of ten times in the end can be considered successful.

Thieves are not good at divination, not to mention that the divination target is the current self, how can this be accurate?

Amon ...... What will the other Amon do? Unless it is absolutely necessary, Amon generally does not put himself in a situation of "stalemate", and if he finds that he has no advantage, he will retreat, and Amon does not have the words "gamble" and "fight" in his dictionary.

There is only physiological wisdom to protect one's body.

Amon pondered, and slowly sat down on the raised platform at the edge of the roof, his feet dangling in the air.

"Actually, I don't have to fight with it, it's better to be found and disposed of by the church, isn't that what I've been looking forward to?"

"But it doesn't seem to work now, the outer gods are waiting to see my solution, this is a 'trial'......"

At this moment, Amun's eyes suddenly shrank, and he saw a person below suddenly raise his head and show a grim smile at him.

Blonde, wearing a mask and glasses...... It's the dress up of the burglary thief from before!

It leads me down!

To go down or not to go down, that's a question. Amon will always avoid facing these problems of making choices, because they can only welcome victory, and no matter how bad it is, it must be a draw, not defeat or even death.

"Go down."

Amon got up, turned back to the stairs, and walked down the floor by floor from the city library.

Outside the door at the bottom of the building, he vigilantly poked his head out from behind the corner, and there was no one where the thief had stood, so he flashed behind the bookshelf, and after looking vigilantly again, and after confirming that there was indeed no one around, he boldly walked out.

The street outside is also quiet and there is no messy sound.

The only thing that is wrong is that it is too quiet here, the northern city is the area where boarding schools, libraries, and parks are located, and every weekend, students will go out for a walk or buy daily necessities, and the flow of people should be very large, but now there are no students on the road except for a few crooked and abnormal people.

Are they all dead?

No, even if it steals lives, it doesn't need to steal that much, one person's is enough...... And it is now equivalent to an extraordinary object, how can it take life?

Bypassing the pedestrians whose identities were confused, the figure of the thief suddenly appeared in the corner of Amon's eyes.

The other party was standing on the second floor of an apartment building, looking down at him from behind a glass window.

This is a clear temptation, the only thing he doesn't understand is why it lures him over. Has it found a way to reclaim its identity? Have faith to deal with him?

Impossible!

Unless the door is opened, Ace Snake is standing in the room......

Amon hesitated, but chose to move closer to the apartment building.

But he didn't choose to go in directly, but climbed up to the top of the next building along the side path in the blind spot, only to see the thief still standing by the window with his back to him, Amon frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

"I'm afraid it's a fraud."

"I can feel the extraordinary ability being suppressed, and I now have its identity, and to defraud it is to deceive myself."

The doors and windows of this room were closed, and there was no one in the room except the thief.

"Maybe the house was full of gas, and it exploded as soon as I opened the door. The explosion will affect many residential buildings in the surrounding area, which will bring the police or the church to it, which is what it is intended for. ”

He looked at the white spire of the Tides Chapel, a few hundred meters away, and hesitated again.

This hesitation made him a little annoyed, because he felt that the other party seemed to have eaten the wavering character of Amon's group, and even if the clues appeared in front of him, he would not take the initiative to move forward, and he was delayed for a lot of time in vain.

It can't be like this.

Amon decided to look around from the other direction.

He approached the window from the roof and came to the side of the thief.

Moment.

Amon reached the roof of another building, but as soon as he got closer, he blocked out the direct sunlight, and the house in front of him suddenly became gloomy and dim, taking on an unsettling atmosphere.

There was no warning from the spiritual perception, and he didn't care at first.

But as he walked towards the counter, his steps stopped suddenly.

At this moment, he suddenly felt some reactions in his spiritual consciousness, and a strange feeling surfaced in his heart-

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It had been at least five minutes since he had spotted the thief.

But the thief's standing posture ...... It doesn't seem to have changed at all.

The closed windows kept out the unwanted smell, and Amon hid behind the wall, took out a mirror, observed the thief's face in the mirror, and turned on his vision.

In the vision, there was no spiritual brilliance in the house, and the furniture and the people by the windows were lifeless.

The thief had strange marks on the side of his face, and he stood stiff and motionless. Only then did he realize that it was no longer a person standing by the window, but a dead corpse.

The man was still alive just now, but now it looks like he's been dead for days, could it be that it deceived the thief while he was still alive that he was a corpse that had been dead for days?

"He was replaced with the identity of a dead man, so he also became a dead man?"

"The real thing has run away, I should have just chased after it."

Amon was a little annoyed.

At this moment, the hand of the thief's corpse suddenly twitched strangely, and the doors and windows were closed, and it could not be that the wind was blowing the sleeves.

"Survey"

A match burned in the hands of the corpse, and a huge explosion broke out in the house.

The explosion blew off the roof, screaming in fright for the surrounding pedestrians, and blew the body beyond recognition. The internal organs of the limbs were scattered in all directions, and the strong odor and the smell of gas erupted together.

Amon deceived the space and distance again and again, and instantly ran a few hundred meters away, ready to look for other clues.

But just as he was about to move forward, there were more people around him who were out of sorts, and the students who had disappeared before seemed to have come out of all corners, wandering back around him in disorder, wandering leisurely as every weekend in the past, filling the streets in front of Amun.

Amon looked left and right, and immediately chose the dozens of people he saw in front of the parasite, but these dozens of people were a drop in the bucket for the residents of the entire northern urban area, and he was still squeezed in the middle by countless people, even if he continued to expand the scope of the parasitism, it would be useless.

Of course, he could parasitize the entire city and make all the inhabitants of Stonen himself, but this did not allow him to seize it, but would attract the three churches to hunt him down and give up his identity.

Then all his efforts will be in vain.

There were also many cleaners, clerks, and student-like people standing there, lined up, standing on three or four floors, like a human wall, completely blocking his way.

"It's holding me back? It's really up front, but it's some distance from here. ”

A place name popped into Amun's mind:

"Did it really hide in the castle of the Hall family? So last night was actually not a coincidence, but deliberately set off smoke bombs to make me feel like it was lying to me? ”

But at this time, the number of people around him was increasing, and it seemed that all the people in the surrounding dwellings had come out, and the streets were crowded so tightly that he was prevented from going in all directions.

"What if this is another fraud? I got to Hall Castle and it wasn't there? ”

"And is it too late for me to go? What exactly is it trying to do? ”

Amon was completely undecided.

……

On a warm sunny afternoon, Audrey was sitting in her bedroom, relaxing and drawing.

Although the castle has been renovated, this old building is not suitable for too many modifications, as gas pipes and new equipment can ruin the original interior, so in the castle it is necessary to light candles after dark.

Although life in the family castle was not as comfortable as in Beckland, the environment in the suburbs of East Chester County was far better than in the city of Beckland, and Audrey had the opportunity to ride a horse for the first time in a long time, and the warm sunshine and fresh air that Bakerlandy did not exist at all.

Overall, life in the coming months is worth taking your time and enjoying.

The big golden retriever was lying on a new cushion next to him, and a pair of decorative gold-rimmed glasses hung around his neck.

It tilted its head to watch Audrey scribble on the drawing board, reading the mood of its master in the overlapping colors.

At this time, there was a "knock" sound from the direction of the bedroom door, and the maid knocked on the door, then pushed it open and bowed towards Audrey:

"Miss, you're ready for your afternoon tea."

Audrey turned her head, smiled and said, "Okay, please put it on the balcony for me, I want tea there." ”

"Okay."

After the maid left, Audrey began to gather the paints and canvases, and changed the burqa on her body.

Tilting her head casually, Audrey saw that Susie was also tilting her head to look at her, as if she had something to say.

"Susie, what's wrong with you?" Audrey also felt a little strange and asked in a low voice, "There is your favorite snack for afternoon tea, and you are the most active every time." ”

The big golden retriever stood up, walked around Audrey twice, and then walked to the door again, and asked where the maid was.

Susie ran over, tilted her head, and asked suspiciously:

"Maid, it's supposed to be a woman, right?"

Audrey bowed: "Of course. ”

"The maid just now...... It's a little strange...... "Susie said, "she's over 1.7 meters tall, she wears a man's trench coat and a footprint of leather shoes at the door, why do we all think she's a maid?" ”

Audrey's face changed slightly, and she quickly lifted her skirt and approached the door.

A striking gray footprint remained behind the door and stretched into the distance.

She ...... She's obviously the maid, the Hale family's snack maid, and I remember her name, her name is Tina. ”

Audrey looked at the footprint, her expression changed a little, and she tried her best to recall the scene just now - Tina came to invite her to afternoon tea, a very normal scene, which happened every afternoon! There was nothing strange about it just now!

And what about these footprints? A man?

A man has become a "maid" in their cognition?

Audrey and Susie looked at each other.

"I still think it's normal, but how could Tina be in the castle in men's clothes and shoes?"

Susie nodded, "Wang." ”

"The castle has been affected by an unknown extraordinary power!" Audrey immediately noticed, "I'm going to go tell Mom and Dad." ”

The Hall family is protected by the Extraordinary, and the Earl and Countess are supposed to be relatively safe.

Audrey hurried to her parents' study, adjusted her smile and demeanor, and knocked on the door to see her father sitting by the sunlit bookshelf and her mother playing the piano elegantly.

Audrey breathed a sigh of relief, walked up with a smile on her face, took the countess's arm and said:

"Can I invite this beautiful lady to my afternoon tea?"

The beautiful Lady Caitlyn pursed her lips and smiled, and stroked Audrey's hair tenderly with her hand:

"I'm sorry, dear little angel, I'm here waiting for your father to finish reading this. You know, he can't stop once he gets to work. ”

"Okay, Mom, I hope I'll have that tomorrow."

With a disappointed expression, Audrey quickly glanced at Lady Catelyn's dress before exiting the study.

Susie was waiting for her outside the door.

They walked around a corner as if nothing had happened, and Audrey breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:

"My mom and dad are fine, nothing happened."

"Mom's hair just falls down to her shoulders......"

Audrey's face changed suddenly.

"Mom...... Why is it short? ”

She hurriedly looked at Susie, who had never seen Mrs. Caitlyn just now: "Susie, do you remember what your mother looked like?" ”

Susie immediately comforted her: "Audrey, calm down, I remember that your mother has blonde hair and blue eyes, and the length of her hair is longer than her shoulder blades. ”

"But now, I think my mom has short brown shoulder-length hair."

Audrey slowly grabbed the corner of her clothes, and her tone was a little anxious: "Susie, am I still me?" ”

TBC

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The performance of the "fraud" of the original thief's path is very disgusting.

What does Antignus have to do with my Crean if he wants to commit suicide? What do you have to do with me Antignus by deceiving Crane?