Facing Langdon's inquiring gaze, Inspector Pine sighed quietly.

"In your eyes, the creeper is the mosaic, but in the eyes of the creeper, you are the mosaic."

"The Creep is not dead, it is always alive in your body. At the beginning of the mosaic, you are coupled and moved, seemingly one, but in fact do not disturb each other. Once the fusion is complete, do you know what that means? ”

Pyne slowed down his speech and looked solemn: "This means that your brain, no, your soul will be stuffed into a soul, a memory, a consciousness ...... out of thin air"

"It's not as simple as reading a book and flipping through a person's memory."

"My guide, Mr. Hope, told me that the mosaics will be so thoroughly integrated into our souls that we can't even tell whether we are human or inlays, and even yearn for the inlay's way of life because of the memory of the inlay."

"Once our consciousness falls to the mosaic, we too will slide into the abyss of loss of control and become an abomination."

Li Shenzhi was terrified when he heard this.

Instead of terrifying the mosaic fusion, he realized in horror that once Pine and the Nightmare Banshee had merged, wouldn't he have insight into his secrets?

"You mean that we will inherit the memory of the inlay completely?" Li Shenzhi asked with some difficulty.

"It's not inheritance, it's blending, not separating each other."

Li Shenzhi was silent.

"That's the price of gaining power, but it's not unsolvable."

Li Shenzhi suddenly raised his head, and saw Inspector Pine continue: "The strength of human beings lies in reason and logic, through acquired learning, building a logical closed loop, strengthening self-awareness, and resisting the interference of mosaics. ”

Li Shenzhi nodded and asked, "Then why don't you erase the memory of the inlay, or the soul?" and even directly inlaid with the nascent abomination. ”

Pine shook his head, "What do you think you'd gain if you swapped the inlays for babies?" ”

Li Shenzhi frowned: "Babies can grow?" Could it be that after the inlay, the abomination stops developing? ”

Pine said: "Of course not, even if it is inlay, it will not affect the growth of the main body and the inlay. ”

"On this issue, to be honest, I don't know. Master Van Lunding once said that all those who tried to inlay the nascent abomination would end up insane. For us, the memory of the mosaic itself is both a curse and a gift, they can make us more rational to know ourselves, and if we lose this comparative memory, we will be even more miserable. ”

These strange words made Li Shenzhi look thoughtful.

"In general, how long does it take for us to complete the fusion of the inlays."

"One day."

"Huh?" Li Shenzhi was surprised.

"Or a lifetime."

Li Shenzhi became more and more confused.

"Don't set a deadline for yourself, this will only make you relax your vigilance, fusion is a gradual and imperceptible process, from the moment the mosaic is successful, we have begun to merge with the inlay, occasionally you will find inexplicably familiar street scenes, and even familiar people, you must be vigilant, this may not be your memory at all, but caused by the inlay."

Li Shenzhi nodded: "The fusion of memories started from infancy, or is it ......?"

Before he could finish speaking, Pine raised his hand and interrupted: "There are no rules, don't try to be opportunistic, remember, reason is our most powerful weapon." ”

"I shouldn't have told you so much, it's the sheriff's job, they've got a two-pronged abomination, and they're more experienced with it."

"Alright, the most important thing for you now is to take a hot shower, and then go and meet Lord Van Lunding, now you are like a rat in the sewers."

Pine teased, dissolving the slightly heavy atmosphere.

Li Shenzhi looked down.

But no, now he is covered in mottled crusts and blood clots, and he looks dirty and smelly.

Yes, about the mosaic, there is an opportunity to ask later, and I am not in a hurry at this time.

Then, under Pine's guidance, Li Shenzhi left the mosaic room and entered the adjacent bathroom.

This bathroom, apparently, is intended for mosaics.

Of course, not all mosaics are as miserable as Langdon, they just cleanse their bodies of excess ritual oils or potions.

This bathroom is small and has a cyber steam style.

The shower looks like a half-seater birdcage.

The birdcage is made up of industrial steel pipes, each of which has a row of water outlets.

Every time a valve is opened, a column of steel pipes sprays water.

Open all of them, waiting for a 360° shower without dead ends, a perfect interpretation of what a shower is!

Li Shenzhi turned on the sprinkler and adjusted the temperature of the water, so that the warm water naturally flowed down from his body, washing away the clotted blood scab.

When a thick layer of blood scabs washed away, Li Shenzhi unexpectedly found that the wound cut last night had recovered as before.

He raised his right hand, and the skin of his hand suddenly drilled out a dense white head, which was a wriggling maggot-headed wriggling head.

Maggots, burrowing out of the skin, grow more and more, until they flood the skin.

In other words, in an instant, his entire right hand had turned into a chrysalis palm, which was composed entirely of insects.

This is enough to make people feel disgusting, and even think of the horrific scene of rotting and dying, but Li Shenzhi doesn't feel anything, and even feels quite close.

"Is the alienation of power from the three views?"

He frowned:

"Peng!" An orange flame suddenly emerged from the maggots, slightly hiding a little of the maggot's abomination, and under the erosion of the bath water, it emitted curling white smoke.

But the flame was not extinguished, it was only suppressed by the flow of water, and it was a little smaller.

Li Shenzhi didn't feel any discomfort either.

"Sure enough, it burned from the inside out, and it seemed that only a complete submersion in water could stop the flames. However, this does not mean that the flames are gone, but the flames have transformed into another form, like an undersea volcano erupting. ”

Li Shen pondered in his heart, the creeper's flame ability reminded him of the ability of the siren's tears.

It doesn't seem like a physical superpower at all!

More like a kind of authority!

After a little try, Li Shenzhi put away the flames and turned into a maggot's right hand, but it suddenly broke off from his wrist and fell to the ground, and after he landed, he quickly spread out and crawled all over the bathroom.

An indescribable perception that spreads the bathroom.

Unlike the perception that simply occupies the body of the creeper, this perception is more like a hybrid perception that combines the six human senses and the creeper's senses.

Wherever the maggots passed, all the details were clearly reflected in the sea of consciousness.

"Senses are enhanced to an epic degree! However, it is limited to the state of spreading maggots. ”

Li Shen's heart was filled with exploration details.

At the same time, several maggots, in a subconscious expansion, crawled out of the bathroom.

However, as soon as they climbed out of the bathroom door, they froze.

It is as if there is a mysterious force that envelops the building, preventing all anomalous visits.

"The Sheriff's Department is really mysterious!"

Li Shenzhi groaned slightly, stopped experimenting, and chose to take back the maggots released outside.

……

After the bath was completed, Li Shenzhi wore the civilian clothes sent by Pyne, and prepared to meet the head of the 14th district, Fan Lunding.

"Mr. Pine, do I need to be careful?" Li Shenzhi asked cautiously.

"Mr. Van Lunding is in a good mood today, the only thing you need to note is that you have to make sure that you are there in person."

Pyne said meaningfully, "Because there's one more mosaic in the Fourteenth District." ”

Li Shen was stunned, and then suddenly realized.

Tudor has a total of 17 security districts, and each security district has 21 mosaics, including a sheriff, four sheriffs, and sixteen sheriffs.

But in most cases, no policing district can achieve full staffing.

Therefore, any mosaic is a valuable asset to the security district.

This is also the fundamental reason why Van Lunding favored Li Shenzhi and let him enter the firing line, join the vigilantes, and try to hunt the creeper.

"Knock knock!"

Soon, Li Shenzhi knocked on the office of the chief of security.

Sitting behind the desk, Manager Van Lunding, about forty years old, with long curly blonde hair, light blue eyes and gentle eyes, but with a lingering trace of tiredness on his face, looked like an ordinary town hall clerk.

He seemed to be in a very good mood, as Pyne had said.

He first carefully inquired about Li Shenzhi's feelings after the inlay, and then took the trouble to advise on some precautions, and finally said:

"In accordance with the practice of the Sheriff's Department, any sheriff who is promoted to the mosaic will automatically be promoted to the rank of Sheriff Inspector. However, after all, you are a little special, and you have not made an inch, so you are promoted to the inspector, which is somewhat against the rules. ”

"So, you should study with Mr. Pine for a while, and after you have accumulated some credit, you will be promoted to Inspector. Of course, this is only a stopgap measure, and the salary package is on par with the inspector, what do you think? ”

Li Shenzhi said gratefully: "There is no better arrangement, Lord Fan Lunding, I also need to learn a good job of public security work and experience." ”

"If you're satisfied, I'll give you half a day off today, and go back and have a good rest." Van Lunding said.

"Thank you, Lord Van Lunding!" Li Shenzhi got up, said goodbye and left.

After leaving the office, he pulled out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, it was almost time for his lunch break.

He thought for a moment and walked towards the instrument room.

He had said that if he could get back, he would invite Mr. Saloch for a drink, and now was the time to make good on his promise.