Abyss Game: I am covered with cheats

"He… he's actually a Mimic?"

Seeing this, Karen's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Xu Tong looked at Karen as if he were an idiot, "Are you a single-celled organism? Can your brain only process one instruction at a time? Since you were separated from him for so long, I even suspect whether you're a Mimic. How could you not suspect him of being one too?"

Hearing Xu Tong's words, Karen scratched his head in embarrassment, "No, sorry… I forgot."

After all, this was Karen's first mission as a containment specialist. It's understandable for a newbie to make such a common mistake.

If he were truly capable of handling things on his own, this instance wouldn't need me in the first place.

Walking up to the Mimic's corpse, Xu Tong crouched down, examining the differences between the Mimic's corpse and a normal human corpse.

After death, the Mimic's body seemed to turn into a pool of dissolved gel, emitting an extremely foul odor that was unbearable for ordinary people.

However, when these odors entered Xu Tong's nasal cavity, he didn't find them particularly unpleasant.

"Hmm…"

Xu Tong stared at the dissolved gel in front of him for a few seconds, but ultimately gave up the idea of stuffing it into his mouth.

His hunger wasn't that strong, and it was unknown whether eating something in the Abyss world could satisfy his hunger in the real world.

The instance was already halfway done. It would be ridiculous to die from eating the wrong thing at the last moment.

«Side Quest Updated: Complete the main quest with Karen O'Connor, ensuring his safety during the process»

After confirming Karen's safety, Xu Tong's side quest was finally updated, indirectly acknowledging Karen's identity as a normal person.

"Since this Doctor Bruce is a fake… does that mean the Doctor Bruce in the clinic at the very beginning was the real one?"

Xu Tong paused for a moment, then asked Karen, "When was the last time you separated from Doctor Bruce before the last time?"

Karen was stunned for a second, then immediately gave his answer, "At the beginning in the clinic, Doctor Bruce asked me to help him fetch a medicine bottle from the hospital. I said I could go alone, and after I left, about an hour later, Doctor Bruce caught up and said he wanted to go with me."

So… the Mimic followed Karen at that time?

A few doubts suddenly arose in Xu Tong's mind.

Why didn't the Mimic kill Karen directly?

This Mimic had been with Karen for at least twenty-four hours, and there should have been many opportunities to kill Karen, but he didn't do so.

"Did he want to use Karen as a cover?"

Like just now, if Xu Tong hadn't been cautious and confirmed whether Doctor Bruce was a Mimic, he would have been deceived by this guy just like Karen.

"These guys are so smart that they even hide themselves among normal people?"

If that's the case, even if there's someone who has never harmed me by my side, it's not necessarily absolutely safe.

Mimics will lie dormant, assess the situation, and only act when it's absolutely safe to kill the normal person next to them and take their place.

Creatures with deep intelligence are the most terrifying.

"By the way," Xu Tong turned his head and asked Karen, "Can Mimics replace someone's identity even before killing the target? Is that right?"

Karen replied, "It's possible, but it's very risky for Mimics to do so, so they usually kill the target first and then take their place, unless the target's identity is very special, so special that the Mimic has to use their identity even before killing the target."

"And a very important point is that Mimics seem to have a hive mind. Each Mimic uses a different identity, and there won't be two Mimics using the same identity at the same time."

In other words, the doctor in Bruce's clinic at the time was the real one?

After thinking for a moment, Xu Tong stood up and looked at Karen, "Speaking of which, did Doctor Bruce tell you what the medicine in the hospital was for?"

Karen also shook his head and honestly replied, "He didn't say. He only told me that this thing could change the current situation of Happiness Town, but he didn't mention its effects."

That's really strange…

The normal Doctor Bruce was looking for this medicine bottle.

The Mimic Doctor Bruce was also looking for this medicine bottle.

In addition to what Karen just mentioned, Mimics seem to have a hive mind, so the Mimic Doctor Bruce's search for the medicine bottle means that the medicine bottle hasn't fallen into the hands of the Mimics.

But the item information on the medicine box clearly stated that the medicine bottle in the medicine box was taken away by the Mimic.

Then why is the Mimic version of Doctor Bruce still looking for where the medicine bottle went?

Could it be…

There are Mimics acting alone, outside of the hive mind?

Is that possible?

Before the thoughts in his mind disappeared, a knock on the door suddenly came from outside the bungalow.

Knock, knock, knock—

Xu Tong and Karen looked at each other, their eyes looking towards the window with the curtains closed.

Without knowing when, the sun had already set.

Night had fallen, and in Happiness Town, the surging undercurrents were stirring again.

"Did the Mimic come to knock on the door? Or did a normal person come to seek help?"

«Main Quest Updated: Identify whether the visitor knocking on the door tonight is a normal person or a Mimic. If it is a normal person, please provide them with a safe place to stay»

If it weren't for the main quest, Xu Tong might not have responded to the knock on the door at all, because that would definitely be the safest approach.

But now that the main quest requires Xu Tong to do it, he has no choice but to comply.

"You stay here first." Xu Tong motioned for Karen to lie down on the bed, then left the bedroom and went all the way to the front door of the bungalow, looking out through the peephole.

Outside the peephole was Happiness Town, shrouded in the night, appearing extremely calm.

There were no pedestrians on the road, and the streetlights were not lit. The only thing that could provide Xu Tong with light was the bright moon in the sky.

And standing outside the door.

Was the fully armed cleanup squad that Xu Tong had seen outside the hospital before.

At this time, these people had appeared outside the door where Xu Tong was.

According to the main quest, if the people outside the door were Mimics, then Xu Tong would need to let them in.

And the previous Mimic version of Doctor Bruce had already said that these people were thugs who treated ordinary people and Mimics alike, killing them all.

The only question was whether the Mimic version of Doctor Bruce was lying.

Would these people rather kill a thousand than let one go?

If they were really such thugs, letting them in would undoubtedly put Xu Tong himself in an extremely dangerous situation!