Chapter 228 Another Su Yi and the Heart Flayer

"Where...where?"

The woman raised her head with tears in her eyes, her expression was pitiful, and there was still fear in her eyes.

The soldier said in a deep voice: "Go to the branch of the community research institute. You are contaminated with an unknown black liquid. We need to study what damage this thing has done to you and the collective."

"Of course, if it really has a problem, we will leave no room for your safety!"

"Even if you have any uncontrolled changes, the Jinling Medical Department will do its best to treat you."

The soldier paused and whispered: "This is the rule, you should know it."

"I...I know that we cannot harm the collective interests."

The woman lowered her head, she was very panicked, and she had a panic feeling about the unknown in her heart, but she still gritted her teeth and stood up and followed the soldiers to leave.

When she walked out of the door, the soldiers outside the door had already followed Su Yi upstairs and left.

Through Lao Song's [confrontation], Su Yi basically knew what the strange things in the building were.

"There are strange things pretending to be you. Their purpose and specific threats are still unclear. Try not to go out these days."

Su Yi glanced at the panicked crowd behind him and said calmly: "Don't worry too much. As far as I know, these strange things will not endanger people's lives."

Although Su Yi was comforting them, the panic in the crowd still did not completely dissipate.

Everyone saw what Lao Song encountered just now.

The pretending that the chief said was another self!

And that [self] is not a human at all, but a monster that everyone does not understand!

Now everyone is scared, fearing that they will see another self after opening the door.

But no matter how nervous and afraid everyone is, they still have to go home. However, it is the chief Su Yi who is leading the team personally, so that everyone's spirit will not collapse.

If Su Yi and the soldiers are not here, if everyone encounters such a thing, they will probably not dare to go home, and may just turn around and run away.

Even if this is their own refuge, not everyone has the courage to stand in front of the monster.

Su Yi's eyes swept through the crowd, as if he could see through people's hearts.

He knew everyone's worries, and thinking from a different standpoint, Su Yi seemed to have noticed the basic logic of this strange thing and the monster's intentions.

"Everyone is afraid to face it. Is this fear what the monster wants to see?"

"If everyone doesn't face it because of fear, will they let the monster replace their identity in the collective?"

"What about the replaced people? What will be the end?"

Su Yi pondered silently in his heart, and he thought of a strange and weird talk in peacetime: "Are these monsters pseudo-people?"

Pseudo-people are a kind of online weird talk in peacetime, which originated from the horror short film series "Mandela Catalog" on YouTube.

"Mandela Catalog" describes a scene in which a small town called Mandela was harassed by a supernatural creature (i.e. pseudo-people). Since these events occurred in Mandela County, the relevant records are called "Mandela Records".

According to information records in peacetime, pseudo-people are weird creatures with horror and science fiction colors, and also refer to extremely dangerous creatures.

They can imitate the appearance, language and behavior of humans, and even kill a human and then pretend to be that human and continue to live.

There are many legends about pseudo-humans, but most of them follow one point: they have extremely high imitation and adaptability, and are trying to completely replace a normal human at all times.

"Not really."

Su Yi shook his head slightly, thinking silently in his heart.

"Based on the pseudo-human ghost stories in peacetime, the imposter monster does not meet all the characteristics of pseudo-humans, but only meets the core behavior."

"Once the imposter is exposed, although there is an attack behavior, the attack power is weak and has no lethal ability."

"The only thing that cannot be judged at present is whether the black liquid they spray is threatening and contagious."

"In addition, their camouflage ability seems to be stronger than that of ordinary pseudo-humans. Even I didn't notice Wang Daniu's abnormality at the first time."

Su Yi frowned. Speaking of Wang Daniu, he noticed more abnormal details.

"The impostor doesn't seem to know much about common sense. If that guy really wants to pretend to be Wang Daniu, he shouldn't expose the flaw of [wrong number of people]. He should find a way to conceal this, right?"

"Is it because his intelligence is too low to detect such loopholes in details?"

"Also, where did the real Wang Daniu go?"

Su Yi turned back silently to count the crowd. The other eight real people seemed to be here, but Wang Daniu was missing.

Su Yi took a deep breath and led the crowd upstairs to continue the confrontation.

An hour later, the remaining seven people were all sent into the room, and the soldiers successfully killed seven impostors.

No, it can't be said to be killed in a subjective sense.

After Su Yi found that the impostors were not a fatal threat, he had already issued an order to capture a few alive for research.

But these impostors all showed the characteristic of [dying when discovered]. Even if the soldiers did not attack them in the first time and tried to capture and trap them, these impostors would explode on their own, spraying a large amount of black liquid, and then turning into human skin.

This made Su Yi a little depressed: "Is this thing so disgusting? Should I catch it or not?"

However, the next few people who returned home felt much more relaxed. Everyone could see that although these impostors were weird and scary, they did not seem to pose any immediate life danger to the humans around them.

What's more, the chief personally led the team and swept the whole building with vigorous and resolute means to ensure everyone's safety to the greatest extent.

After catching all the impostors, Su Yi took people upstairs directly. He wanted to go back to the old man to ask questions and clarify all the doubts in his heart.

But when Su Yi just went upstairs, opened the door and entered, his expression changed drastically.

He saw Lin Yue and Jiang Xiaoci standing in the room with serious faces. The two women kept looking at the old man.

Dongfang Zhiyuan was sitting alone on the sofa, flipping through Su Yi's comic books with great interest.

And under his feet, there was Su Yi.

It's another Su Yi!

"Impostor!"

Su Yi at the door had gloomy eyes and strode into the room.

"who!"

Lin Yue suddenly became alert and quickly drew a gun and pointed it at Su Yi. A trace of hesitation flashed in her beautiful eyes: "Are you the chief?"

She was asking, but she didn't put down the gun, which showed that she didn't know what to do.

Su Yi remained silent and looked at Dongfang Zhiyuan. Dongfang Zhiyuan responded to Su Yi's gaze with a smile: "Are you done?"

"Um."

Su Yi nodded and pointed to the impostor at his feet.

"Not long after you left, this guy came."

Dongfang Zhiyuan spoke calmly. The impostor under his feet tried to struggle, but it looked like an adult man but could not break free from the old man's feet.

"It lied as soon as it entered the door and deceived your two women, but I found out."

"You two women still don't believe it. If Miss Jiang hadn't grabbed Lin Yue, she might have thought that I was going to rebel and hurt her leader."

Dongfang Zhiyuan opened his mouth with a smile. Lin Yue was silent on the side. Her beautiful eyes kept wandering between Su Yi and the impostor. She seemed to be still trying to distinguish the differences and details between the impostor and the real owner.

She didn't understand why Dongfang Zhiyuan could spot a fake, but she couldn't spot it when she spent all day with the chief.

"gentlemen..."

Jiang Xiaoci walked up to Su Yi, handed him a cup of tea, lowered his head and said, "Actually, it's not Lin Yue's fault. When this counterfeit came in, he was questioned by the old man, but he told some things that we only know ourselves. Secret, and even knows Lin Yue’s physical characteristics.”

Jiang Xiaoci's expression was serious: "It seems to know both Lin Yue and me very well, and I was almost deceived."

What Jiang Xiaoci said made Su Yi's expression become even more gloomy.

This is not good news.

This means that the impostor has a simulation ability that far exceeds that of ordinary fake people, and can almost perfectly pass the fake as the real one.

"Huh?"

Su Yi suddenly frowned, and he realized something: "Old man, why didn't it explode?"

"When I was searching downstairs just now, I also found a lot of impostors like this. Once they are spotted by me, they will explode on the spot. Why is the one under your feet different?"

Su Yi looked at the impostor at Dongfang Zhiyuan's feet with a slightly strange expression.

It felt a little weird to see "himself" being stepped on by Dongfang Zhiyuan.

"Explode?"

Dongfang Zhiyuan took out a pipe from nowhere, put it into his mouth, smacked his mouth and said, "That's because you didn't meet the conditions. As long as it sees you, it will enter the self-harm stage."

After saying that, Dongfang Zhiyuan raised the soles of his feet slightly, and 'Su Yi' under his feet struggled to get up in panic. The next second he turned his head and happened to look at the real Su Yi.

"you...!"

The moment 'Su Yi' saw Su Yi, his expression suddenly froze and his eyes were dull. Then the next second, the facial features of his entire face suddenly twisted into a ball, making a shrill scream.

"Ahhh!"

The scream was extremely weird and deafening. It screamed and rushed towards the nearest Dongfang Zhiyuan.

"Crack!"

The light stick in Dongfang Zhiyuan's hand floated up automatically without any wind, and quickly hit 'Su Yi' on the head, making a crisp explosion sound.

In an instant, 'Su Yi' was smashed into black fly ash, which slowly dissipated in front of Dongfang Zhiyuan.

During the whole process, 'Su Yi' neither sprayed out black liquid nor turned into human skin. It was directly smashed into powder by the light stick.

"You see, [looking into the eyes of the rightful owner] is the condition for the self-destructive stage."

Dongfang Zhiyuan blew out a smoke ring and said calmly: "As long as you don't show up, it will not harm itself, nor will it admit that it is a fake."

"To be precise, it is that it does not realize that it is [fake]."

Dongfang Zhiyuan looked at the silent Su Yi, knowing that this boy was waiting for more explanations from him.

Dongfang Zhiyuan didn't show off, and said calmly: "Are you wondering if this thing is a [pseudoman]?"

Su Yi nodded: "Well, I have had this guess."

"Pseudoman is a fictitious legend in the current plane, but it is not true, but it does not mean that there are no similar things in thousands of worlds."

"The existences you just saw have characteristics similar to those of pseudo-human beings. I usually call them [Mind Flayers]."

"Mind flayers have a strong sense of simulation. They are special creatures formed by the desire of the dead souls or fragments of the magnetic field to return to the material world, and thus condense foreign objects due to the magnetic field."

"In the early stages, they have the possibility to disguise themselves as any living creature, even disguised as [items]. Of course, more often they will disguise themselves as humans."

"Their souls are incomplete and they are not fully aware that they are fakes. They fundamentally think that they are a human being with a disguised identity."

"Only when the real owner appears in front of them will they realize that they are [fake], and will be shocked by the soul and enter the self-damage stage; the self-damage stage is a specific manifestation of the collapse of the soul structure, and it is also [death] at the soul level."

Dongfang Zhiyuan shook the pipe in his hand and said lightly: "You should have seen human skin and black liquid before, right?"