Abyss Game: I am covered with cheats

"Tonight?"

Xu Tonggang repeated Dr. Bruce's words, then turned to look at the only window in the corridor.

At this moment, the scenery outside the window was already that of dusk.

When Xu Tonggang entered this instance, before even entering the town, it was still high noon, with the sun blazing.

The time it took for me to enter the town and arrive at Dr. Bruce's clinic shouldn't have exceeded an hour, and yet in this less than an hour, it's already dark?

Is this the setting of the instance, or is it that the flow of time in this town has become distorted due to the influence of the Mimics?

"I, I'm very busy right now," Dr. Bruce said to Xu Tonggang in his slightly introverted and urgent voice, stuttering, "You are free to use any room except the examination room, but if someone knocks later, you are responsible for answering the door, but you must remember… absolutely do not let the Mimics in."

Dr. Bruce scratched his cheek, as if suffering from some ailment, "Once you let the Mimics in… we… we're all dead!"

After saying this, Dr. Bruce turned around and walked directly into his examination room, locking the door.

No matter how Xu Tonggang knocked on the door, the other party would not respond.

[Main Quest Updated: Correctly identify whether the person knocking on the door tonight is a normal person or a Mimic; this may affect Dr. Bruce's attitude towards you]

"I haven't even asked my questions yet," Xu Tonggang felt a little speechless. He hadn't even asked about the first containment specialist dispatched here by the SKPI Containment Center, and this guy had already handed him a bunch of troublesome things to do.

Isn't this crazy!

However, from the conversation with Dr. Bruce earlier, Xu Tonggang could still discern some knowledge related to identifying Mimics.

It just depends on when the so-called Mimics that Dr. Bruce mentioned will come to the door.

Knock, knock, knock—

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Tonggang suddenly heard a calm and rhythmic knocking sound from the door behind him.

"They're here so soon?"

Xu Tonggang raised his eyebrows slightly, turned to face the door, and looked outside through the peephole.

Standing outside the door was a man in a suit.

Judging from his appearance, although it might be a bit of a personal attack, from a normal person's aesthetic point of view, this person's appearance couldn't be considered handsome.

"Who are you?"

Xu Tonggang didn't open the door rashly but asked this question through the door panel.

"Hello, doctor," the man first bowed, then said, "I'm a refugee from outside Happiness Town. You know, outside Happiness Town is too terrible, so I had no choice but to flee to this remote town."

"But because it's already late, I want to temporarily stay here for the night, and then tomorrow morning, when the weather is clear, I'll set off to enter the town and find a hotel. Do you think that's okay?"

Xu Tonggang observed the man's every move, trying to observe something obviously different from ordinary people. At least in this conversation, the man's behavior was relatively normal.

"I don't think I can easily trust you. Do you know what's in Happiness Town now?"

The man grinned and said, "Of course, I know, Mimics, right? To be honest, when I first heard these two words, I thought someone was joking with me."

"What about now?" Xu Tonggang looked at him, "Do you think mentioning Mimics now is a joke?"

The man paused for a second, looking at the peephole, seemingly able to see Xu Tonggang's eyes through it.

Then, he suddenly laughed as if having a convulsion.

"Really? I think it's still pretty normal."

[Clearly, your brain believes that the man outside the door is a Mimic because he cannot process sudden logical problems. This answer is considered a universal solution by Mimics. You must not let this man in]

Damn, so you can identify whether a person is a Mimic or a normal person?

Xu Tonggang was immediately overjoyed. Since his brain could handle this kind of thing, the pressure brought by the instance content was greatly reduced.

He only needed to ask targeted questions and then let his brain judge whether the person outside the door was a Mimic or a normal person.

"I'm sorry," Xu Tonggang rejected the man's request to enter, "Please leave from here. I don't think I can let you in because I can't be sure you're a normal person."

The man's expression froze again.

Xu Tonggang didn't even give him a chance to say more, directly retreated from the door panel, and stood by the window with the curtains drawn, observing the dark environment outside.

The man tried knocking on the door a few more times. Seeing that Xu Tonggang didn't respond, he finally left.

Xu Tonggang's gaze was in the gap of the curtains, watching the man's leaving figure.

Less than ten meters after he left the building, this man's figure suddenly began to change.

In a matter of seconds, his height, body shape, and facial features underwent drastic changes, completely turning into another person.

And in the process of transformation, it seemed to reveal an indescribable true form.

"So this is a Mimic…"

Xu Tonggang frowned.

"Why do I suddenly feel a sense of familiarity?"

Knock, knock, knock—

Less than two minutes after the man left this house, another knock sounded.

Why is it so frequent?

This frequent knocking even made Xu Tonggang suspect that the person outside the door was another Mimic.

Otherwise, why would a normal person wander around in a town full of Mimics in the middle of the night and knock on other people's doors?

Coming to the door, Xu Tonggang used the peephole to look at the scene outside.

At first glance, Xu Tonggang even thought there was no one outside the door.

At the second glance, he finally saw a little boy who wasn't very tall standing outside the door, raising his head, and meeting his gaze in the peephole with ignorant and pitiful eyes.

"Little friend," Xu Tonggang asked, "Where are your parents?"

The little boy shook his head and said, "My mom and dad told me to come here. They said they talked to Dr. Bruce about it beforehand."

Booked with Dr. Bruce?

Xu Tonggang turned around and knocked on the examination room door, wanting to ask Dr. Bruce if this was the case.

But Dr. Bruce was as if he had died in the examination room, with not a single response.

"Still have to rely on my own judgment?"

Xu Tonggang looked back at the outside of the peephole. In the dark wilderness, only the little boy was standing outside the brightly lit clinic.

Someone would definitely feel pity and take this little boy into the room.

But Xu Tonggang was more concerned with whether this little boy was a Mimic.

The man who left just now had already proven that the transformation of a Mimic can change even height and body shape.

In other words, even a little boy could very well be a Mimic.

For the sake of safety, Xu Tonggang asked another question.

"Little friend, I asked Dr. Bruce, what are your mom and dad's names?"

The little boy tilted his head.

"I don't know."

This answer was within Xu Tonggang's expectations. He asked again, "Then little friend, what's your name?"

The little boy blurted out three words.

"I'm Dr. Bruce."