Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 56 Moonlight

people?
living person?

Although Li Daosheng was holding a long sword in his hand, he still got goose bumps all over his body.

The source of this weird feeling is different from the strange phenomena in the universe, it comes from the nausea at the physiological level.

From the outside, this doesn't look like a humanoid moon creature, it looks more like a sea urchin.

But inside it hides such a vivid face.

Could it be that this face is just its mimicry?
To deceive, or to gain sympathy?
Li Daosheng didn't know the reason.

But he knew that he could not save her.

The only thing he could do was to meet her demands.

The long sword emitted a silver-white light, splitting it into two parts.

Watching the pupils on that face quickly dilate, Li Daosheng's sword turned into a sword mark again and was branded on his right index finger.

What a strange world...

After picking up a few tentacles, Li Daosheng took it back.

When she saw Feng Hui again, her limbs had undergone subtle changes.

Is it the skeleton that has grown bigger, or the limbs that have grown longer?
Li Daosheng couldn't explain it either, anyway...

Compared to Feng Hui before, she seemed to be a little "bigger" at this moment.

After hearing Li Daosheng's movement, Feng Hui turned around abruptly, and the blue veins on her temples became more and more thick. She gasped, suppressing the restlessness in her heart and dared not speak.

"Eat it. It's fresh and just found."

Putting a few tentacles on the ground, Li Daosheng turned and walked away.

He was not afraid, he just felt that Feng Hui might not like people seeing her eating.

Sure enough, after Li Daosheng walked away, chewing sounds were immediately heard by the lake.

Just by listening to the sound from afar, Li Daosheng could guess that Feng Hui's eating habits were probably not very pleasant.

After waiting for a long time, Li Daosheng appeared by the lake again only after Feng Hui called him.

"Thank you..." Feng Hui curled up his legs and said in a low voice.

"I have a question," Li Daosheng thought for a moment and told what he had just encountered, "Can a human face appear inside a moon-like creature?"

Feng Hui turned his head and looked at him: "The one you just killed had a human face?"

"Yes, a girl's face, quite young." Li Daosheng recalled.

Feng Hui was silent for a moment.

"No wonder you can find the moon-like creature in a place like this. It must have just eaten." Feng Hui was a little depressed.

"Moonoids eat humans, but only humanoids have special camouflage abilities that allow them to completely replicate an identical person. The one you just killed must have been an alien-shaped moonoid. It ate humans and hid away from the city to digest them."

"The face you see is that of the previous victim. Although these alien moon-like creatures will eat humans, their faces and minds can still remain in their bodies for a period of time until the next time they feed, when their minds and faces are replaced by new humans."

"During this period, the senses of humans eaten by it will be shared with the moon-like creatures. For humans, this period is worse than death."

No wonder that girl's face made me kill her.

Li Daosheng nodded.

"Since you have nothing to do anyway, why don't you tell me how humanoid moon-like creatures simulate humans?"

Li Daosheng asked.

Feng Hui's silence was longer than ever before.

"I don't know what to tell you."

She slowly stood up and looked up at the two bright moons in the night sky:

"A humanoid moon-like creature, extremely special."

"Before two identical beings meet, almost no one can tell who is real and who is fake. Even the humanoid moon-like creatures themselves will believe that they are the original owner."

"Its appetite won't explode until the moment they meet."

So weird?

The moon-like creatures themselves think they are the original owners?

Li Daosheng thought for a while and asked again: "How does the humanoid pseudo-moon creature choose its copy object? Is it random?" This time, Feng Hui shook his head.

"I do not know."

"For over twenty years, there has been virtually no progress in research into the patterns of emergence, causes of replication, and birth processes of humanoid pseudo-moon creatures."

"The only hypothesis that exists is this."

Feng Hui pointed at the two moons in the sky.

"For those who are illuminated by it, there is a chance that an identical humanoid moon-like creature will appear."

"What the probability is and what the reason is are unknown."

"So it's just a hypothesis."

Li Daosheng nodded and looked at the moon.

Come to think of it, I have been photographed by it as well.

----

The weather is a bit bad today.

It took Li Daosheng a whole night to figure out his situation.

Something unexpected happened when the door opened. This was not his world.

This city is called Constantine.

Li Daosheng sat on a bench on the street, looking up at the sky.

Last night, he saw with his own eyes two bright moons hanging in the sky. Now that it was daybreak, the world seemed almost the same as his original world.

The same blue sky and white clouds, the same tall buildings.

The only difference is that the technology in this world is much more advanced than his world in some aspects, but far inferior in some aspects.

The specific situation is difficult to describe.

There are even subtle differences between the humans of the two worlds.

Passersby on the street were in a hurry. The reason why Li Daosheng still felt that the weather was bad even though the sky was blue and the clouds were white was because of the temperature.

The average temperature in Constantine City is very low and the air is very dry.

Li Daosheng roughly felt it and realized that the temperature in his world was at least below zero degrees.

Although this kind of weather is not uncommon in his world, a series of activities such as production, life, and study are usually carried out indoors with heating.

But in this world, no one seems to think that this is a torturous temperature. They still wear light and close-fitting clothes and do not look bloated at all. If this is not some high-tech thermal insulation material, then it can only be the difference between the races of the two worlds.

Speaking of which, starting from last night, Li Daosheng has frequently seen the word "pseudo-moon" on various big screens.

He tried to understand it and found that this thing seemed to come from a strange incident many years ago.

Two moons appeared in the sky, and then something called a pseudo-lunar creature appeared.

They are elusive, feed on humans, and come in all shapes and sizes.

Generally speaking, they are divided into two types: humanoid and alien.

The alien moon-like creatures are bizarre and strange, with forms of all kinds of animals and plants, and even some forms that are a mixture of both.

But the humanoid moon-like creature is relatively simple.

They will transform into a person existing in this world, exactly like that person, and then find each other and eat each other.

Become the only existence.

The reason why he understood it so clearly was because Li Daosheng tied up a hapless drunk who was passing by last night and asked him questions one by one.

He felt no moral pressure regarding kidnapping, and acted on his own accord. He even helped the other person sober up for free.

But he underestimated the city's surveillance system.

Soon law enforcement officers set their sights on him, and he finally got rid of them after running around in circles all night.

Sitting on the busy street now, I am not resting.

Instead, Li Daosheng felt that his body was stirring and there was a fatal danger nearby.

That's why he came.

(End of this chapter)