"You … Who are you?"
"What are you talking about? I'm me."
"No, it won't be like this, it won't … Don't come here! Ahhhh! "
…
They … were replaced.
After the 'Apprentice Illusion' was used for a period of time, a series of problems occurred among the Ershi people.
It was the 'Illusionary Apprentice' who had replaced the ordinary residents.
This was first discovered by a researcher. He discovered that an Ershi Min who bought a 'Illusion Apprentice' had become an 'Illusion Apprentice'.
The researcher soon discovered that another 'Illusion Apprentice' had appeared out of nowhere and replaced the original Ershi Min. Moreover, they were living like normal Ershi Min.
The researcher realized that this was not a simple matter.
The 'Illusion Apprentice' could reproduce, but it required three or more individuals to reproduce. Moreover, it was strictly controlled. At first, the researcher thought that there was no problem, so he began to sell these 'Illusion Apprentice'.
But for some reason, there were more of them, and they replaced the ordinary citizens.
Ordinary Ershi Min couldn't tell the difference between them. Only the researcher had a special detection device that could detect them.
In order to not cause panic, the researcher didn't publicize this matter. Instead, he secretly killed the two 'Illusion Apprentice' that replaced the Ershi Min. He also stopped selling the 'Illusion Apprentice' and recalled all the 'Illusion Apprentice' that were originally sold.
But the matter didn't end there. The researcher soon discovered that occasionally, some 'Ershi Min' that were replaced would appear in the city.
This phenomenon was still slowly increasing.
The researcher still chose not to publicize this matter. They continued to secretly kill these 'Illusion Apprentice' that replaced the Ershi Min.
However, when the number of 'Illusion Apprentice' increased, they couldn't secretly kill them anymore. This was because the 'Illusion Apprentice' that played the role of … had a lot of relatives and friends.
This led to more and more problems in the whole matter. This secret killing behavior was even treated as a continuous killing of civilians.
Later, the researcher found that the secret operation couldn't be carried out anymore, so they publicized this matter and began to mass produce devices that could detect 'Illusion Apprentice'.
This indeed caused quite a bit of panic, but the Ershi people quickly used these devices to find many of the apprentices and took care of them.
However, this matter continued to affect Ershi Min, because the Illusion Apprentices were also constantly evolving. Some of them had already reached the point where they could no longer be detected.
Originally, as long as these individuals lived peacefully, the Ershi Min would not be able to discover them. However, they suddenly began to do some … harmful actions, such as killing other Ershi Min.
They would occasionally kill a lone Ershi Min. After this incident, the research institute quickly noticed that there were still some apprentices that had not been killed. When they attacked a lone Ershi Min … they would revert to their original forms.
Their original form was a lump of dark blue mud. They were originally like this, so they could change into any shape.
After that, the researchers immediately began to research and update the detection device, and once again notified the public to pay attention.
Then, the battle between the Ershi Min and the Illusion Apprentices began again …
The researchers were constantly researching new devices, or using the simplest method to detect the body's cells to capture the apprentices, and the apprentices were also using various methods to avoid detection.
In this war … the Ershi Min slowly fell into a disadvantageous position.
The most fundamental reason was that the Illusion Apprentices would always appear out of nowhere. Even if they thought that they had been completely eliminated, they would soon discover that the Ershi Min had been replaced by them.
Thus, as time went on, the number of Ershi Min began to decrease. All the Ershi Min were terrified, fearing that one day they would be replaced or killed …
In the later stages, the number of Illusion Apprentices even exceeded the number of Ershi Min, forcing the Ershi Min to the point of extinction.
However, there was something strange about these Illusion Apprentices. Even though there were so many of them, they never launched any attacks on the Ershi Min. Instead, they lived the normal life of the Ershi Min.
This gave the Ershi Min … a chance to counterattack.
In fact, the Ershi Min originally wanted to escape. Some of the higher-ups of the Ershi Min had already decided to give up on this residence … and gather all the people to leave on the warships, and blow up the colony built on the vines.
However, this plan was believed to have Illusion Apprentices sneaking into the warships to leave with them, so in the end, they gave up on this plan.
However, at this time, they received a message from the Ershi Min.
The people living in the Ershi Min found out about this matter through the communication and gave a solution. This solution was … to transform into machines.
In the original Ershi Min, the Ershi Min here called the 'Old World', a new technology was developed there, and that was to scan a person's memories, consciousness, and various other things, and then record them and store them in machines.
This new technology was called the 'Cloud'.
Lin didn't know why they had such a strange name, but the people in the Old World suggested that the Ershi Min here use this technology to completely transform themselves into … machines.
This technology was very tempting, because it could give the Ershi Min almost unlimited life, but more importantly, it could solve this problem.
The Illusion Apprentices could disguise themselves as living things, but they couldn't disguise themselves as non-living things.
There was only one problem, and that was …
Transferring memories and consciousness into machines … in that case … would they die, or would they really be transferred?
Regarding this point, no one in the Ershi Min could confirm it.
However, because the situation was urgent, they had to take action, otherwise, the Illusion Apprentices would really devour all the Ershi Min.
Later, the first batch of researchers successfully transformed themselves into machines, and following that, more and more people followed suit.
They became a pure … machine species, and after becoming machines, there were no more Illusion Apprentices to replace them. Even if some Illusion Apprentices wanted to disguise themselves as machines, they were easily discovered.
In the end, this group of machines easily got rid of the Illusion Apprentices who only knew how to live a normal life, even though they had the advantage in numbers.
After everything was settled, the machines didn't want to change back, and they planned to live with a new identity. However, at this time … a new message came from the Ershi Old World.
This message first congratulated them for solving the problem, but at the same time, it also told them that they … couldn't completely become machines.
Simply put, they had to maintain their previous habits, such as fatigue, eating, sleeping, and so on, and the way they lived when they were cells.
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