Lu Li did not regret missing the shocking battle. He was thoughtful, thinking about whether the strange adaptability of mimicry could be studied and utilized.
It's a pity that the mimetic weirdness around them has long been destroyed by the twisted figures, and even if there are some survivors, they don't know where to escape.
In order to prevent the strange people who hunted the supernatural gods from hearing the news, they gave up going deep into the dark city and retreated to the entrance of the underground city.
Then the surrounding weirdos that had escaped disaster suffered unparalleled disasters.
Because the mimetic weirdness provides no trace of humanity, the distorted figure gains humanity from the weirdness surrounding the entrance.
As if the ice-free port of Wiener had collapsed into the ocean, the raging tsunami hit several blocks in the next few decades, leaving behind water stains that lingered in the cold for more than ten days.
The Twisted Order, which had accumulated enough harvest, retreated underground. At the same time, the unfinished courtyard was silently enveloped by the creeping unknown darkness.
The first dungeon, Twisted Church.
Evelin huddled like a dungeon, in a silent, dark, rock-filled room.
Waiting for the unknown judgment to come.
She looked at the outstretched palm from time to time, and her cheeks under the fluorite lamp were lost in confusion.
Evelin didn't know why she was called weird by the exorcist and the mayor. Were they bewitched by evil gods? Or were they right? But she clearly remembered everything in the past, laughing while riding on her parents' shoulders, and
Friends sitting in the same classroom, witnessing the death of their family members, having a beloved man in despair and loneliness...
Could it be that all this is false and non-existent?
A layer of mist gradually appeared in the confused Evelin's eyes. She raised the dirty sleeve and rubbed it, but found that she couldn't wipe it off. Only shaking her head would clear her vision.
A thread of fog obscured her sight.
When Evelin realized something, the stone door of the closed room slowly opened, and the dim light of the oil lamp poured into the dark closed room.
Lu Li, Swamp Mother, Twisted Figure and Ophelia are all here.
The fifth underground city will be excavated for a few days, and Lu Li does not need to clean up the farmland for the time being. Thinking that there is still a "weird mimic" here, they return to the church.
"Am I...really weird?"
The originally dominant idea that I am human became uncertain again due to the appearance of the Exorcist.
"Maybe."
Misty pointed to Evelin, but that didn’t mean she had been replaced by a weird one: “We need to do some experiments.”
Evelin had no choice but to cooperate.
Twisting her figure to create a pure seawater mass, Evelin rolled up her sleeves as Lu Li asked and hesitantly stretched her arms into the seawater mass.
"Is this useful?"
"I'm not sure."
The strange changes in mimicry are due to threats to her survival. It is unknown whether Evelin can change simply by immersion.
Time passed quietly while waiting, and Evelin's arms were still pale and smooth, even though no membrane had grown to connect the fingers into webs, nor had gills or fine scales grown.
"It will be very painful, but you won't die."
Evelin nodded nervously, and the water ball detached from her arm and wrapped around her head as her eyes suddenly widened.
The Twisted Cultist crawled into the closed room and controlled the struggling Evelin.
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Evelin's cry for help turned into painful bubbles, bursting on the surface of the water ball. The pain of her lungs filling with seawater made her want to arch her body, but she was tightly controlled by the twisted cultists.
After dozens of seconds, her struggle weakened, and her palms that were clutching at the twisted cultist were unable to hang down.
When Evelin is about to drown, almost proving that she is human, the rippling seawater ball takes on new changes.
Due to immersion, lack of oxygen and fright, the pale cheeks were bulging with crescents, and fine scales surrounded the gills and grew out of the body.
The opening and closing of the new fish's gills stirred up the water flow, and Evelin slowly woke up and realized what had happened to her.
Tears filled its eyes and melted into the sea water before flowing.
…
City Hall, Mayor's Office.
"I really am..."
The wet Evelin was sitting on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, her head hanging with her hair stuck down, and the gills on both sides of her cheeks were hibernating and clinging to the scales as they returned to land.
"Maybe the mimetic weirdness is a gift of ability rather than a replacement... Oh, I forgot that your death retrospect can see the real death."
Swamp Mother corrected her mistake and came up with a new conjecture: "You saw the death of the Senator, but after killing the Mimic Weird... does this mean that he is still himself?"
It sounds hard to understand, but the translation is: Lu Li kills the ghost and will see the flashback of his death when the ghost was still alive.
If a congressman is killed by a strange mimicry and the dove takes over the magpie's nest, Lu Li will not see its death retrospective.
But a paradox is formed: Adrian Abel was undoubtedly killed by the mimetic weirdness, which was witnessed with his own eyes in the death retrospective.
It's a pity that Lu Li knows very little about death retrospection.
Unsolved mysteries turn the horror of human beings being replaced by weirdness into something tragic.
The real Evelyn is dead, but the weird one who replaced her thinks she is Evelyn.
Putting aside the philosophical question of whether Evelyn is Evelyn, for "Evelyn" who inherits all of Evelyn's memories and thoughts, it is like living as a human being for thirty years but being told that she is weird.
The only "good news" is that "Evelyn" has no relatives, and her pain will not be borne by those who love her.
As for "Evelin", it's not troublesome to deal with, but it just thinks differently from Lu Li.
"You can be liberated, or become a member of the Land of Light."
"Can I...?"
It was like a death row prisoner who raised his head in shock after hearing that he was acquitted: "You won't...exorcise me?"
"Your ability is more useful than you think." Lu Li did not comfort him, but just explained the truth.
And it's scarce enough.
It can be expected that in the long time to come, they will no longer have the opportunity to encounter new mimicry monsters. They are almost unrecognizable. Only the seawater domain of the Twisted Order can make them visible, but even the entire Order cannot be in the ice-free port of Weiner.
Act wantonly.
No one knows how many unknowns were hidden in the strangely occupied Weiner Ice-free Port during the months of humankind's retreat.
But just in case, Evelynn will not be granted the freedom of the human inhabitants: she must choose to prove herself harmless by becoming a follower of the Swamp Mother or the Twisted Shadow.
"It can become my disciple." The Swamp Mother knew what Lu Li wanted to do.
Swamp Mother can allow Evelin to become a cultist without letting her be contaminated with the aura, and the twisted figure cannot control the power in subtle ways for the time being.
Evelyn quickly went to the banyan guard to complete the transformation. Apart from the loyalty to the Swamp Mother that was branded deep in her consciousness, there was no change in it.
The Swamp Mother gave it time to say goodbye to its former friends and acquaintances, and to calm down the despair after learning the truth.
It is different from other people who become weird. They can think of themselves as human beings, or they can think of themselves as weird.
Evelyn doesn't think of herself as human, nor does she think of herself as weird.
