The two Polluted Objects worked exactly as Chen Miao and the others had tested: within one minute, they could swap a person wearing the hat with the Scarecrow wearing the clothes.
There were, however, several conditions.
First, the Scarecrow had to be standing upright, though it could be placed anywhere.
Second, the clothes had to be worn by the Scarecrow.
Third, the distance between the person wearing the hat and the Scarecrow could not exceed one kilometer.
As long as these conditions were met, the swap could be triggered.
The side effects, however, were also severe.
When the person who had been swapped appeared in the Scarecrow's original position, they could not wake up on their own. Without someone else intervening, they would remain hanging from the Scarecrow's pole.
Even after waking up, they could not keep wearing the clothes or the hat indefinitely.
According to Yoshioka Yusuke, when the hat and the clothes were worn by the same person, that person's body would turn into a scarecrow within a day.
This transformation did not happen suddenly when the time was up. It was a gradual process.
In fact, even wearing the hat for just one minute would cause some change in the body.
The changes were very slow at first, however, and as long as twelve hours had not passed, no abnormalities would appear on the outside.
If the hat and clothes were removed within twelve hours, the changes inside the body would gradually revert to normal.
But after twelve hours, the changes that appeared on the body would remain on its surface forever.
Without special means, they could not be reversed.
After twenty-four hours, there truly would be no saving them.
Kyoko Kuroda felt a chill as she listened.
Yoshioka Yusuke seemed to notice her concern. He smiled