Pseudo-humans.

That was a name Sha Fei would come to regret more than anything.

They were a rule-based type of Anomaly.

And Sha Fei, from the bottom of his heart, believed they were the most terrifying kind of Anomaly.

The killing rule of a pseudo-human was simple: as long as you knew of their existence, they could target you.

If you did not know they existed, then to you they were harmless.

Even if one stood right in front of you, if you did not know it was a pseudo-human, it could not perform any attack against you.

It could not even directly tell you it was a pseudo-human.

Of course, if you were curious enough and insisted on investigating the things that made you suspicious,

once you figured everything out, once you learned what a pseudo-human actually was,

they would latch onto you.

Sha Fei had noticed some problems in the city and had people investigate.

The truth the investigation uncovered stunned him.

And then Sha Fei got entangled by a pseudo-human.

Fortunately, Sha Fei’s body shape was grotesquely extreme. A mountain of flesh like that could barely move on its own.

The pseudo-human that latched onto him thought for a long time and finally gave up.

This pseudo-human did not particularly want to become such a fat guy.

The pseudo-humans attacked by “swallowing.”

They would take those who knew of them, while the targets were unawares, and swallow them from behind into their stomachs, then appear in the victims’ form.

They would replace their former lives and inherit everything.

As time passed, those pseudo-humans grew more and more like the people they had swallowed.

If they swallowed a superhuman, they could even directly obtain the superhuman’s Supernatural Power.

Therefore, superhumans became the favorite targets of pseudo-humans.

And this talisman shop became one of their favorite gathering places.

Of course, swallowing people was not the only way pseudo-humans mimicked humans.

There was also the hard imitation method.

Like the Anomaly beside Sha Fei.

Liu Yong had originally been his most capable assistant.

He had procured a series of syringes for Sha Fei, and he himself had been promising, successfully awakening into a Superhuman.

So he was targeted by the pseudo-humans.

When they acted on Liu Yong, he used his Supernatural Power to escape Oasis City.

So this failed Anomaly, without a suitable target, decided to mimic Liu Yong.

The result was a grotesque imitation of no fixed shape.

Chen Ye’s appearance gave this pseudo-human a new target.

Sha Fei had no idea how many of the people in this talisman shop were real and how many were pseudo-humans.

Or how many pseudo-humans still existed in Oasis City as a whole.

What made Sha Fei’s scalp tingle the most was the pseudo-humans’ intelligence.

During the process of mimicking humans, their intellect had started to approach human levels.

For example, Yuko knew about the pseudo-humans’ existence, yet no pseudo-human attacked her.

Because the pseudo-humans wanted to use her as bait, to spread word of the pseudo-humans so more people would know.

That was also why Yuko and her group had been able to survive until now.

Unfortunately… Chen Ye was far too cautious, he hadn’t fallen for it at all.

…

Chen Ye stuffed the talisman paper into his chest, carried a black plastic bag in his hand, and began to scheme.

Who would be the best person to give this letter to?

With so many experts at the No-Rules Race, taking one out was good for nothing.

Whether the trick would work or whether it would cause the trouble he imagined,

in any case he himself wouldn’t lose a single piece of meat.

No harm in at least trying a strike, right?

Chu Che didn’t know about the pseudo-humans.

But he was at least seventy percent sure this letter was a headache waiting to happen.

Walking down the main street,

everyone who faced Chen Ye stopped, lined up on both sides of the road, and gave him concentrated stares.

Those farther away cast envious looks.

Oasis had only a few thousand people.

But a vast chasm had already formed between superhumans and ordinary people.

No ordinary person didn’t wish to become a superhuman.

Chen Ye ignored these glances of envy, jealousy, and hatred, and kept plodding along.

“Liu Li! Liu Li! Liu Li!~~~”

At that moment, a crowd arrived on the street. They wore shabby clothes, each looked somewhat sallow and thin, yet their expressions were wildly excited.

The two young men at the front held up huge posters, as if pumped full of adrenaline, faces flushed with color and veins bulging on their necks.

They shouted one name heedlessly and loudly.

“Liu Li! Liu Li! Liu Li!!~~~”

The enormous poster wasn’t a printed banner but a large hand-drawn portrait.

Probably commissioned from someone in the city who could draw.

Chen Ye glanced directly and found the artist quite skilled.

People nearby watched, astonished, as the fanatical young group drew nearer.

“Buddy, who’s Liu Li?”

Chen Ye tugged a young man who was watching with relish and asked.

The young man had intended to join the marching group but was grabbed away.

At first he was angry.

But when he turned and saw the man in front of him wearing sunglasses, with a strange red dot glinting beyond the lenses,

the young man’s anger instantly drained away. The man’s bearing—and that odd red dot—

what else could he be if not a superhuman?

The man straightened up and replied respectfully, “To the Superhuman, this is Liu Li’s support group.”

“Support group? What does that mean?”

The youth brightened when talking about Liu Li and began jabbering excitedly.

He first mentioned the city’s top expert, Ding Shen, Deputy City Lord Ding.

Then he spoke of this Liu Li.

The kid clearly placed Ding Shen and Liu Li on the same level.

Ding Shen usually acted rather domineering in Oasis.

But Liu Li…

Although he had never met her, he’d heard she had stood up for ordinary people several times when superhumans bullied them.

Oasis’s population was small; news traveled fast.

Liu Li quickly attracted a large fanbase.

Plus, she was naturally attractive.

For a time, Liu Li’s popularity rivaled what Ding Shen had once enjoyed.

In terms of fan numbers, Liu Li’s followers already far outnumbered Ding Shen’s.

Chen Ye knew the reason behind it, though not in full detail.

After handing this matter to Boss Gao and Xu Lina, he hadn’t pried further.

He hadn’t expected to run into it on the street today.

Chen Ye thought for a moment, then asked, “So, brother, who do you think is stronger, Liu Li or Deputy City Lord Ding Shen?”

Hearing the question, the diehard Liu Li fan’s face reddened. Without thinking, he blurted, “Of course Liu Li is stronger!”

Although rationally he suspected Ding Shen might be a bit stronger,

he was not Ding Shen’s fan.

“Deputy City Lord Ding may be very strong, but compared to Liu Li, he’s still weaker!”

“The top fighter of Oasis City is definitely our Liu Li!”

As he spoke, he was firm, eyes dreamy, as if making a solemn oath.

Someone nearby had been watching the procession cheerfully, but when he heard this his expression clearly soured.

Maybe he had bet on Ding Shen being number one.

Or perhaps he was one of Ding Shen’s subordinates.

“Youngster, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand. Liu Li’s nothing. Go look into Deputy City Lord Ding’s battle record and you wouldn’t say that.”

When the youth heard someone belittle Liu Li, his eyes reddened.

Perhaps since the apocalypse people had fewer entertainment outlets,

so when an idol like Liu Li appeared, many youths brought over their pre-apocalypse star-chasing habits.

Now someone insulted their idol, and the little spark in the young man flared up.

When the two started fighting, Chen Ye—the instigator—had already slipped out of the crowd.

Watching more and more people joining the brawl,

Chen Ye began to suspect he truly had a trouble-magnet constitution.

He’d only asked a question and done nothing else,

and now more than five people had joined the fight.

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