"Are they all Doppelgangers?"
Luvia, the doctor, and Old John all looked at Shade in surprise. Iluna, who was standing guard at the rear of the group, merely pricked up her ears and listened.
Shade was certain he had not seen wrongly:
"Every worker I can see here is a Doppelganger. Let's go somewhere else. I have a bad feeling about this."
This medium-sized textile factory had roughly seven hundred workers. Their jobs included operating spinning machines and looms, transporting raw materials and finished goods, with only a very small number serving as technicians or managers.
Yet under Shade's inspection, he had not seen a single human in the factory. There were no marks above anyone's head.
"So there are more than seven hundred Doppelgangers in the factory right in front of us? Could this be the main body of the House of False Men?"
Even the doctor proposed such a theory, and even Luvia, who had provided the divination result, was beginning to doubt herself. However, the Whisper Element around the factory was not obvious, and the buildings inside the grounds were completely different from the interior space of the relic Old John had described. Therefore, this was probably not the relic's main body.
The extermination battle against the House of False Men in the distance had officially begun. Although the Church's forces had blocked the spread of sound and light, they could still sense the abnormal fluctuations of Spirit and Elements.
Yet none of the Doppelgangers here had any intention of going to help. They simply continued working like ordinary people. Iluna even suspected there was something wrong with the cloth they produced, but after examining it, everyone concluded that the factory's products were fine.
"Since the entire factory is made up of Doppelgangers, there should at least