From star abyss

Fake society - Philolith is a cruel and cruel monster.

It often wanders in the interface universe between Narrative No. 11, "United Company" and Narrative No. 12, "Temple of Annihilation".

The so-called narrative is originally the cosmic space occupied by a hegemon-level civilization. The time and space in this area has been completely controlled by the hegemon-level civilization, and it has a law of independent operation. Any narrative can span tens of billions of galaxies.

Li Ozi, or the Blue Star, is just a small planet under this grand narrative.

This is not the case for monsters like society. Mortals can only understand society as "the devourer of civilization", and there is no way to know the rest.

Li Ozi didn't know much about Philolith.

All Li Ozi knew was that its power and mobility were far beyond the comprehension of mortals, and its mysterious and transcendent existence was even more sublime. As a cosmic being that feeds on civilization, it gives the narrative a headache.

There is no way to eliminate or stop its predation. We can only try to persuade it to leave here.

However, compared to its status as a god in civilization... people do not respect it, but are more afraid of its way of penetration.

As the name suggests, "fake", when it sneaks into a certain narrative area, it will send its "citizens" - that is, the cells in the body, to sneak into various civilizations, adapt, choose, and eat some of the civilization. creature, then takes its identity, continues to act, and finally slowly eats away at the entire civilization.

Those who pretend to be the most basic citizens of society are called "pseudo-humans".

Pseudo-humans are extremely terrifying creatures. They will get close to humans, eat each other, and replace their identities. Then they will continue to live disguised as humans, come into contact with other humans, and then eat them.

"Ming Ji is crazy... These newbies were originally just against humanity, but now they are against the entire civilization of the universe!"

Li Ozi looked at the corpse of the dummy on the ground. Except for his own face, which was completely different, the other parts were almost identical, which sent a chill down his back.

At first, no one cared about these pseudo-people, thinking that these guys were just a group of weird stories similar to "doppelgangers". Most of the pseudo-people encountered in the early stage were of average strength and were not worth worrying about at all.

But in fact, this thing is not difficult for NPCs, but it is more terrifying for players.

Because the dummy can replace the player.

As long as they kill a player once, they can deceive the system's panel information and sneak into the crowd disguised as players.

The level of intelligence of pseudo-human beings is extremely terrifying, and their deep learning capabilities are comparable to artificial intelligence. Some pseudo-human beings that can imitate emotional ups and downs can integrate into any circle without being affected.

Players often communicate with each other, and when they find themselves discussing what to eat when they go offline for a long time, they suddenly grin and say to the players with a slight smile:

"eat you."

Players must maintain off-site contact at all times to avoid any possibility of fakes sneaking into the team. In the later stages, players were horrified to discover that fakes are able to master the slang, thinking strategies, and action trajectories between players, and can even simulate them. Find out the tone and habits of the replaced players.

Apart from being unable to be resurrected, they are almost indistinguishable from players.

Because the sense of substitution in Xingyuan is too real, internal communication and friends can only be done through the game's mobile terminal - but these things will be captured by the dummy.

Players can only rely on voice channels outside the game to communicate with teammates, but more than 70% of players actually play with passersby from the wild team.

This results in the players breaking up as a team almost all the time, and those who break away from the team face the risk of being replaced by a dummy.

Once a chain of suspicion is formed, the original trust will never be restored.

In this regard, players collapsed faster than NPCs, and normal tasks could not be carried out at all. Many people left the game, leaving a deep psychological shadow.

By the time of version 2.5, players were under even greater pressure - the pseudo-people in this period could completely copy the players' skills and tactics.

At the same time, since the NPC template ignores the level restrictions of the version, the level of the dummy is generally higher than that of the player.

Once a dummy is mixed into the team, most of the time the players will accuse each other internally, fall into internal fighting, kill each other, and finally watch helplessly as the dummy who is far more powerful than themselves kills them and replaces them with their own. appearance.

At this point, the players' game has been unable to progress. The entire Blue Star has completely collapsed due to the invasion of the puppets. No one trusts each other anymore, and the most basic teamwork and division of labor in civilization has collapsed.

Speaking of which - the solo advantage of the [Domination] system only began to show up at that time.

It was only after version 2.5 that "Star Abyss" urgently added a guild-exclusive voice and team voice functions to prevent players from being persecuted by fake people again.

"Fake person..."

Li Ozi tightened his grip on the handle of the knife.

Cosmic conventions, and even major narratives, all prohibit the study of "citizens" in society, because it is likely to lead to the destruction of the entire civilization.

No one knows where these monsters came from. By default, everyone implements the principle of "destroy upon discovery", just like if you encounter a virus carrier, you must immediately isolate them.

By doing this, Mingji Humanity is not only an enemy to the people outside, nor is it only an enemy to the entire Blue Star, it is an enemy to the entire Xingyuan!

"They didn't even understand what arcana was, so they made the dummy into a weapon. The same goes for Snow, who is obviously a weird psyker, but they treat him as an arcana..."

Li Ozi now understands why Assistant Physician Anna believes that the evil spirit theory has no basis.

Although he knew the nature of Esha... but in the eyes of others, the professor didn't understand what arcana was at all. She couldn't even tell the difference between arcana and spiritual power, and even regarded non-human beings like pseudo-human beings as arcana. By.

This is the result of Azure Star's lack of extraordinary knowledge system. In the universe, this phenomenon would be called 'metaphysical superstition'.

When human beings use their own shallow inherent knowledge to analyze and explain phenomena that do not belong to their own scientific system, they will fall into this weird phenomenon.

This is not a mistake, it is just the inherent sadness of a planet that is lagging behind the times and has insufficiently developed and comprehensive science and technology.

After killing the dummy, Li Ozi felt dizzy.

Because he immediately realized that this kind of metaphysical superstition was not uncommon on the Blue Star.

So, how many other pseudo-human beings are treated as normal extraordinary beings and end up openly entering the human world?

They can be flawless, move you to tears, be cold and ruthless, be racist and tell hellish jokes, and even fight bravely and save you from an army of insurgents.

Later, when you were most moved and regarded the other person as your good friend, he tore open your chest, took away your identity, and turned into your appearance.

He couldn't help but look at Qiu Ran.

This silly country girl was sitting on her knees with a scared look on her face, but she was relieved that he had successfully killed the enemy and was safe.

Will she be a fake?

"Very good……"

Qiu Ran lowered her shoulders, and then picked up the clothes wrapping Nomi's head in her arms:

"What should I do? Li Ozi, us, me...What should Nomi do? I'm going crazy, I can't do anything...What should I do?"

Li Ozi shook his head.

No, fake people are not that rampant yet...

Li Ozi looked around and found no other path.

In fact, the player's strategy does not have detailed information on the third level.

In the original plot, the player only needs to talk to Assistant Physician Anna here and learn that the other party hopes to run the Mingji Humanity first and make profits before doing humanitarian relief work, and then they can get access to the second level.

But now...where's physician assistant Anna?

Nomi's condition is also very bad. She has been in a near-death state and her blood volume has not returned to normal. She may need some medicine.

Li Ozi said without thinking:

"Go back to the first floor."

There is a drug storage room and an emergency room on the first floor. Now I can only try my luck there to see if I can save Nomi.

Nurse Nodley was still alive. He had not killed the other party immediately before because he was worried that something unexpected would happen and he could get some information from the other party.

He never found the room in ZX-626, so he went to ask where it was.

Qiu Ran nodded quickly, followed Li Aozi into the elevator, and pressed the button to go to the first floor.

"Nomi... hold on... Nomi..."

While she kept praying, she suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Qiu Ran raised her head and saw Li Aozi's eyes always falling on her.

"...Li Ozi?"

Qiu Ran was puzzled.

Li Ozi said nothing.

From now on, he set a goal for himself. In addition to the arcana necessary for the Blood Demon Flow, he also needed to obtain the arcana of the [Eye of Truth].

Only that arcane power can see through the real fake person.

"I ignored it... Due to the harsh environment of Frost Plating and Sky Ring in my previous life, they were not within the scope of the pseudo-human invasion at all, which made me think that there were no pseudo-humans at all."

In fact, this threat has always existed.

Only by blowing up the entire Blue Star can the pseudo-human crisis be completely solved.

However, mere dummies are not enough for the Galexi civilization to take action.

"The dark traces of humanity must be completely annihilated. There were no reports of sightings of pseudo-persons in Shuang Plate's previous life. This is probably the case... but I can't be careless. When a pseudo-person appears, there is usually the supervision of another pseudo-person."

Before the elevator closed, Li Ozi glanced at the fission reactor.

If it doesn't work...just be prepared to blow up the entire Mingji Humanity.

From the beginning, Li Ozi didn't want to do this. This set of engineering facilities in Mingji Humanity can feed a lot of people. With its mature greenhouse ecology and assembly line machine tools, the entire shelter can completely become an outpost, an army base, or even a military base. If this prosperous town were to be blown up like this, the loss would be too great.

However, if another dummy is discovered, Li Ozi will not hesitate to blow it up, completely destroying the entire shelter and the dummies lurking in the dark.