The society of forgeries, Philolis, is a cruel monster.

It often wanders the universe where narrative eleven "United Company" and narrative twelve, "Temple of Annihilation," meet.

The so-called narrative is originally a cosmic space occupied by a hegemon-level civilization, and the time and space in this region have been completely mastered by the overlord-level civilization, and there is a law of independent operation, and any narrative is the existence of tens of billions of galaxies.

Leoz, or Azure Star, is just a small planet under this grand narrative.

This kind of monster is not the case, mortals' understanding of society can only be "devourers of civilization", and there is no way to know anything else.

Not much is known about Philolis.

Li Oz only knew: its strength and mobility far exceeded the comprehension of mortals, and its mysterious, transcendent personality was incomparably noble. As a cosmic life that feeds on civilization, it gives narratives a headache.

There is no way to eradicate it, there is no way to stop its predation, only to try to persuade it to get out of here.

However, compared to its identity as a god in civilization...... People are less respectful and more afraid of how it penetrates.

As the name suggests, when it infiltrates a certain narrative area, it will send its "citizens", that is, the cells in its body, to infiltrate various civilizations, adapt, choose, and eat some creatures of its own civilization, and then take its place, continue to act, and finally slowly eat away at the entire civilization.

And the most basic citizens of the fake society are called "pseudo-people".

Pseudo-humans are extremely terrifying creatures that will approach humans, eat each other, and replace each other's identities, then disguise themselves as humans to continue their lives, make contact with other humans, and then eat them.

"The Trail is crazy...... Their group of newborns were originally just anti-human, but now they are anti-the entire cosmic civilization! ”

Li Oz looked at the corpse of the pseudo-human on the ground, except for his own face, which was almost identical, which made him feel a chill in his back.

At first, no one cared about these pseudo-people, thinking that these guys were just a group of strange talk similar to "doppelgangers", and most of the pseudo-people encountered in the early stage were also very average in strength, so there was nothing to worry about at all.

But in reality, this thing is not too difficult for NPCs, but even more terrifying for players.

Because of the pseudo-human, the player can be replaced.

They only need to kill a player once to trick the system's panel information and infiltrate the crowd disguised as a player.

The intelligence level of pseudo-humans is extremely terrifying, the ability of deep learning is comparable to artificial intelligence, and some pseudo-humans who can imitate emotional ups and downs can be integrated into any circle without being affected.

Players often communicate and communicate, and find themselves discussing what to eat offline for a long time, and suddenly grinned and said to the player:

"Eat you."

In the later stage, players are horrified to find that the pseudo-humans are completely proficient in mastering the black words, thinking strategies, and action trajectories between players, and even simulating the tone and habits of those replaced players.

Aside from not being able to revive, they are almost indistinguishable from the player.

Because Xingyuan's sense of substitution is too real, internal communication and friends can only be played on the mobile phone terminal - but these things will be seized by pseudo-people.

Players can only rely on the voice channel outside the game to communicate with their teammates, but more than 70% of the players actually play with the wild team passers-by.

As a result, players are almost always in a group, and those who leave the team run the risk of being suspected of being replaced.

Once the chain of suspicion is formed, it will not be able to return to the original trust at all.

In this regard, players collapse faster than NPCs, normal tasks cannot be carried out at all, and many people leave the game, all of which have a deep psychological shadow.

By the time of version 2.5, the pressure on players was even greater - the pseudo-people of this period were able to copy the skills and tactics of the players.

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

Once the puppets are mixed into the team, most of the time the players first blame each other internally, fall into infighting, cannibalism, and finally watch the puppets who are far stronger than themselves kill themselves and replace them with their own appearance.

At this point, the player's game can no longer progress, the entire Azure Star has completely collapsed due to the invasion of the pseudo-humans, no one can trust each other anymore, and the most basic teamwork division of civilization has fallen apart.

Speaking of which, the solo advantage of the [Juggernaut] system began to manifest itself from that time.

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

"Pseudo-human ......"

Leoz tightened his grip on the hilt.

The Universal Covenant, and indeed the major narratives, prohibit the study of the "citizens" of society, because it is likely to lead to the destruction of entire civilizations.

No one knows exactly how these monsters came to be, and everyone defaults to the principle of "find and destroy", just like encountering a virus carrier and immediately quarantining.

In doing so, the Underworld is not just an enemy of the outsiders, not just the entire Azure Star, but the entire Star Abyss!

"They didn't know what the arcane energy was, so they made the pseudo-human into a weapon, and Snow was too, obviously a strange psyker, and they treated it as an arcane......

Leoz now understands why Assistant Physician Anna thinks the theory of doom is unfounded.

Although he knew the nature of Dorah...... But in the eyes of others, the professor didn't understand what arcane energy was, she couldn't even distinguish the difference between arcane energy and spiritual power, and even regarded non-humans like pseudo-humans as arcane powers.

This is the result of the lack of a transcendent body of knowledge in the universe, a phenomenon that would be called 'metaphysical superstition'.

Human beings will fall into this strange phenomenon by using their shallow inherent knowledge to analyze and explain phenomena that do not belong to their own scientific system.

It's not a mistake, it's just the inherent sadness of a planet that is backward in time and not technologically developed and comprehensive.

After killing the puppet, Leoz felt a wave of vertigo.

Because he immediately realized that this phenomenon of metaphysical superstition was not uncommon in Azure Star.

So, how many pseudo-humans are still regarded as normal transcendents, and as a result, they enter the human world in a grand manner?

They will behave flawlessly, they will be moved to tears, they will be ruthless, they will be racist and tell hellish jokes, and they will even fight bravely to save you from the chaos.

Subsequently, when you were most touched and regarded the other party as your good friend, he tore open your chest, took away your identity, and became your appearance.

He couldn't help but look at Qiu Ran.

This stupid sister from the countryside who sat on her knees, with a frightened face, was relieved that he had successfully killed the enemy and was safe and sound.

Could she be a dummy?

"Great......"

Qiu Ran sank her shoulders, and then picked up the clothes wrapped around Nomi's head in her arms:

"What to do? Lee, we, I...... What should Nomi do? I'm going crazy, I can't do anything...... What am I going to do? ”

Li Oz shook his head.

No, the pseudo-humans are not so rampant yet......

Leoz looked around, but he couldn't find any other path.

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

In the original story, players only need to talk to Assistant Physician Anna here, and learn that the other party wants to run the Underworld Humanity first, and then do humanitarian relief work after making profits, and then get access to the second layer.

But now...... What about Assistant Physician Anna?

Nomi is also in a terrible state, she has been in a near-death state, her blood volume has not returned to normal, and she may need some medication.

Without thinking, Li Oz said:

"Go back to the first floor."

There is a medicine storage room and an emergency room on the first floor, and now the only way to try your luck is to see if you can save Nomi.

The head nurse Nordri is still alive, and he didn't kill 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 hadn't been able to find ZX-626's room, so he had just gone to ask where it was.

Qiu Ran nodded hurriedly, she followed Li Aozi into the elevator and pressed the button on the first floor.

Nomi...... Hold on...... Nomi ......"

When she couldn't stop praying, she suddenly felt very uncomfortable, Qiu Ran raised her head, but saw that Li Oz's gaze kept falling on her.

“…… Li Oz? ”

Qiu Ran was puzzled.

Li Oz was silent.

From now on, he set a goal for himself, in addition to the necessary arcane abilities of the Blood Demon Flow, he also needed to obtain a [True Eye] arcane ability.

Only that Ao Neng can see through the real pseudo-person.

"I ignored it...... In the previous life, because of the harsh environment, Frost Plating and Tianhuan 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.

Unless the entire Azure Star is blown up, the puppet crisis can be completely solved.

However, just being a pseudo-human is not enough for the Galexie civilization to dispatch.

"The underworld humanity must be completely annihilated, and there was no fake witness report in the previous life, and it is likely that this is the case...... But I can't be careless. A pseudo-human appears, usually supervised by another pseudo-human. ”

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

Not really...... Just be ready to blow up the entire Underworld Humanity.

From the beginning, Li Oz didn't want to do this, this set of engineering facilities can feed many people, mature greenhouse ecology, assembly line machine tools - the entire shelter can become an outpost and army base, or even a prosperous town, if it is blown up like this, the loss will be a little too great.

However, if another puppet is found, Li Oz will not hesitate to blow it up, completely destroying the entire Vault and the puppets lurking in the shadows.