Looking at the corpse in front of him, Liang felt his heartbeat speed up and his blood surge. His mind stopped for a moment and he didn't know what to think or do.
What's going on?
Vin... is dead?
No, it's impossible, right?
Liang was stunned and his mouth opened involuntarily. At this moment, a hand reached out from the darkness and stuffed it into his mouth...
An egg.
"Uh-huh?!"
Such an egg caught Leon off guard and almost choked him. Fortunately, he peeled the egg very conscientiously and could chew it with just his mouth.
And this is a tea egg! The taste is very familiar. It was cooked by Liang this morning. It used broken tea leaves that Wein didn’t know where he got. Making tea will only make your mouth full of slag. So Liang simply used it.
It's used to cook tea eggs.
"Tsk tsk, it turns out it can really be stuffed in."
Liang turned around and saw Wein standing next to him, with the same lopsided smile on his face.
Liang swallowed the egg with difficulty, pointed to the dead Wein on the ground, and then pointed to the living Wein in front of him: "He... you... what's going on?"
You probably didn't do it deliberately to scare him, right? If that's the case, then Nawein is a terrible person.
Wein shrugged: "Isn't it obvious? Someone wanted to kill me, but luckily this big brother blocked the knife for me."
Leon realized that the one lying on the ground was still wearing the detective outfit that Wein wore when he went out, while the one standing was wearing a wrinkled shirt and slippers, which Wein wore at home.
So, the dead one is the "double" he just saw?
Wein closed the door and turned on the light again, and the room lit up.
"I just saw him outside." Liang said, "Do you know what the situation is?"
"Yes, this is my substitute." Wein kicked the body, "Stop pretending to be dead, get up."
Under Liang's astonished gaze, the corpse slowly melted, and the blood gradually faded, gathered together, and turned into a strange silver gelatinous substance. Then the substance slowly stood up, and after a few seconds, it turned into
It became something like a slime.
There are two holes and a cut on the top of the "Slime", which looks like its "face": "You didn't tell me to block the knife for you."
"You should be able to guess." Wein spread his hands, "I asked you to dress up as me, didn't I just want you to get stabbed for me?"
"This, what is this?" Liang was stunned.
"I'm not a thing, I'm Ashmi." The unknown creature replied seriously.
Wein stretched out his hand and pressed the creature who called himself "Ashimi". It was like a piece of crystal mud, which quickly sank in and slowly returned to its round shape after a few seconds.
"Ashimi, an outlier shapeshifter, can change its appearance into anything it has ever seen, and its internal structure will change depending on its understanding of the imitation object. In the most perfect case, it can be indistinguishable from the real thing.
——Come on, Ashmi, give him the whole job."
Ashmi trembled, slowly lifted up, and turned into a human form. Then, more details and colors appeared on its body, and finally it turned into the exact same form as Leon.
"That's amazing..." Liang was stunned.
However, even though their appearance was exactly the same, at such a close distance, Liang could still see the difference between A Shimi and himself. The A Shimi in front of him had a dull figure and an expressionless face, as silly as a game model.
Standing on the ground.
"Go and walk around a few times."
After receiving Wei Yin's instructions, Ashmi walked around the room. Liang himself would probably never be able to walk so standardly in his life.
"How many times have I told you, no one would walk like this, even the wizard's golem walks more like a human being than you." Wein sighed.
"I'm sorry, walking is still too difficult for me." Ashmi replied with a serious look on Leon's face, looking at Leon's Happy Bean, ah no, the uncanny valley effect was about to occur.
"Change back."
Ah Shimi turned back into a puddle of clay, and Wein said: "This is the substitute I found. Although it has many flaws, it can still be used."
"So why are you looking for a substitute?" Liang frowned, "And you said someone wants to kill you?"
"Yes, if it weren't for this substitute, the person you see lying on the ground when you enter may be me."
"Isn't it because your mouth offended someone that they wanted to kill you to vent their anger?" Although it is a bit outrageous, it is not surprising that this happened to Wein.
"It's possible?" Wein smiled, "But it's more of a case of anger."
"Uh, so who exactly is it?"
"'The Regicide'."
"Are you kidding again?" Last time at the land carrier station, Leon asked Viin who he saw, and Viin told him it was "The Regicide", and then said he was joking.
"No, I'm serious. And I did see him on the platform last time. I was afraid of scaring you and making you act unnatural, so I said it was a joke."
Liang was speechless: "The 'Kingslayer' wants to kill you... He's not really a killer hired by someone else, is he?"
Liang had learned that the famous "Kingslayer" also started out as a hired killer, but after assassinating the old emperor, no one dared to contact him.
"Personal grudge." Wein folded his arms. "It seems that his anger has not subsided. Well, maybe it has become more intense."
Liang looked at Wei Yin and then at Asmi: "The 'Kingslayer' wanted to kill you because of a personal grudge. Then, you anticipated this and found this... Asmi to be your substitute.
Let it take a stab for you?"
What is this?
"That's right." Wein affirmed, "It's a pity that the substitute method can only be used once. He hasn't seen me for a long time and is eager to kill, so he was deceived by this substitute full of flaws. I'm afraid he won't be able to use it next time."
It’s so simple.”
"What a pity. I originally wanted to have a chat with him when he discovered that he had killed the wrong person, but he ran away immediately. It is troublesome to deal with these vigilant dark-side people."