Chapter 3055 Imitation?

"They are very... insidious."

"Although they seem harmless, like a group of... machines just going about their daily lives."

"but……"

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The Mimic Star is covered with green 'Mimics'.

They can imitate very well, but not quite.

They can learn everything about the colonists...their daily routines, like eating, resting, and entertainment. As long as they are in the building, they can do it.

But the imitator never leaves the building.

That is, they will not mimic the movements of residents leaving the building to work outside.

If some residents are working indoors, the imitators will imitate them and do some similar actions... but they will not actually work.

Although you can chat with them, they will only say things like "Hello" or "The weather is nice". If you ask the imitator "Can we be friends?", they will say yes.

Of course this has no practical significance and will not change anything.

If you say 'I'm going to kill you or something', they'll say something like 'Wow' or 'No'.

Of course, they won't actually do anything. Even if you really kill them, they won't fight back.

This group of imitators is just such a strange group of creatures... they seem interesting at first but become annoying after watching them for a long time.

That alone would be fine.

The Star Alliance began to establish their colony on this third tumbler.

As the colonies grew in size, they also eliminated many of the copycat structures that popped up around them.

If they find that the imitator's building has been demolished, the imitator will still perform some of the actions originally performed in the building at the original location or nearby.

For example, they will continue to do the various things we do in daily life.

Because they were a nuisance, many of them were 'dealt with' when colonies were established.

Although some residents felt that this place was weird and did not want to stay any longer, there were still many residents willing to stay.

At first, they just thought that the Imitators were just a group of strange deformed machines.

They may be left over from past civilizations. They will only imitate some simple contents according to their own program settings and pose no threat.

But then the threat came true.

To be precise...it's a disappearance incident.

At some point, colonists began to be replaced.

That is, some residents were suddenly replaced by imitators.

Initially they go unnoticed as the replaced imitators go about their daily lives, but soon neighbours notice something is amiss.

When they begin investigating, they discover that hundreds of residents have been replaced with copycats.

And no one knew where the replaced residents had gone, even if they carried communication devices with them... they could not be contacted.

Initially, they thought that some other dangerous creature might have killed the original owner, and the imitator was just entering its building to imitate it, so they strengthened the defenses of the colony.

But it soon became apparent that this was not the case.

No matter how tightly they defend the base, no matter how tightly they seal the entrances and exits... the residents inside may still be... replaced.

Even the Star Alliance is secretly monitoring these residents.

But they can't see any 'traces' of replacement.

These residents have always looked normal, and you can't even tell when they were replaced.

It will not be until the Star Alliance installs detectors in some residents' bodies and these detectors lose signal that it can confirm the moment when the resident is replaced.

The moment the resident is replaced cannot be seen from the outside. It may be resting, eating, or doing various things. After being replaced, it will continue to do what it was doing before without any pause.

But after that I will just start living my daily life and stop working.

Due to such danger, the Star Alliance had to abandon its colonization plans.

It was also from this time that they began to describe the 'creatures' of this galaxy as... evil creatures.

Generally speaking, they have encountered various dangerous creatures in the void, but those dangerous creatures are not so "deliberate", they simply see outsiders and fight back.

And these things in this galaxy seemed to be traps deliberately set for them, and they were hidden very well at the beginning.

Then suddenly the attack began.

The Star Alliance thought about burning the Imitator completely, but that would also leave the Tumbler unrecognizable, so they gave up.

They investigated the next few tumblers with full vigilance.

But even so, there were dangers.

Just like last time, these dangers were well hidden and initially no danger could be seen.

However, the seventh tumbler is said to be inhabited by a race of crazy and dangerous creatures.

Finally, the Star Alliance decided to change the stellar environment and exterminate all life in the galaxy.

Because they discovered that these creatures in the galaxy are very dependent on stars, and as long as the stars change... it would be difficult for them to survive.

Xiao Zhou Nao said that they didn’t think that these things in these galaxies were normal creatures at that time.

They should be a batch of weapons, used against invaders, or even weapons specifically designed to deal with the Star Alliance.

But because the galaxy has many useful resources, they decide to eliminate these threats.

And if this was really some civilization using it against them, they also want to find out who did it.

After the extinction event, they left due to the collapse of the space channel.

And this group of imitators of the Third Tumbler should have also become extinct at that time.

Because the space collapse lasts for a period of time, they have time to observe the state of biological extinction.

But why is it growing so... vigorously now?

Lin still finds this very strange.

When the pompoms fly by, the green imitators spring into action, trying to imitate the pompoms.

Even after flying far away, they continue to change.

Lin took some small pieces of the 'imitator' to study, and their structure... is very interesting.

They are composed of countless tiny particles and are essentially very similar to cellular organisms.

And they can change shape very quickly and become all kinds of things.

However, Lin still doesn't know how they "replace" the residents.

Maybe the golden sphere is gone now because it has been replaced by them?

Although Lin thinks the possibility is low.

But since there is no way to find it here, Lin will go to another place to have a look.

That is... the seventh tumbler. Xiao Zhou Nao mentioned that there might be some "secrets" hidden there.

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