The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Jack, after all, has no means of self-defense right now. He is worried that without his help, Jack might encounter an accident while traversing other instances to implement the seed of attraction.

"Oh right, I almost forgot." Li Can slapped his forehead and quickly took the item out of the gashapon capsule.

"This is the long needle that was stuck in dwarf Jack's heart. Ah Yun, can you take a look and tell me if there's anything special about it?"

"At the time, after I took it out, my intuition was very sharp, and it told me that this thing was the command that the pseudo-alien used to control the daily actions of their dungeon NPCs."

"As for the plastic dolls' bodies, there's nothing special about them."

Ah Yun remained completely still and lazy, continuing to lean against the crooked neck it had chosen.

"This kind of thing..." Ah Yun lazily blew a wisp of white smoke from the cloud, which directly enveloped the thin and long silver needle in Li Can's hand, which was about 7 centimeters long.

In an instant, the silver coating on the outer surface of the long needle was melted away by the gas, revealing its original appearance.

It wasn't a needle inside at all, but several thin, tangled, blackish-red worms.

They were sticky and shiny all over.

If someone who doesn't recognize it saw it, they might mistake it for something like a horsehair worm.

"The long needles are just an illusion; the real thing is an insect," A-Yun said calmly.

He saw that Li Can's hand, which had been holding the long needle, was now trembling uncontrollably, with insects crawling all over it, and cold sweat was gradually appearing on his forehead.

So Ayun directly wrapped the insects in the white mist she exhaled again.

The next second, all the insects flew from Li Can's hand into the air, enveloped by the cloud of mist.

"After all these years, I only just realized that you're afraid of bugs?" A-Yun asked in surprise.

When Li Can saw the insect leave his palm, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

"...Yes, yes." Although Li Can didn't want to admit it, he had been afraid of these slender creatures since he was a child.

Including insects, centipedes, loaches, snakes, and the like...

"Oh, then just kill him directly, there's no need to spare him." When A-Yun heard Li Can admit it himself, she showed no more mercy.

Those tangled and intertwined insects evaporated into the air in an instant, leaving no trace of their bodies.

Li Can had just recovered from the tension when she saw this unexpected scene and hurriedly tried to stop it, but it was too late.

"Kill him? What if he's still useful...?"

Ah Yun, on the contrary, seemed indifferent.

"There's nothing more to study. Carrying this needle on you is more dangerous than useful." Ayun paused. "These insects are actually the juvenile form of pseudo-aliens."

Li Can was immediately shocked.

He hadn't actually seen what a fake person looked like for so long, based on the information he had obtained from his previous conversations with Wang Defa.

He had always thought that pseudo-humans were similar to humans from Earth and dwarf planets, with perhaps some minor differences, but he never imagined the differences would be so great.

"So, you mean the fake man is actually a giant worm?"

"That's right, they're still those ignorant insect-people." A-Yun agreed wholeheartedly when she heard Li Can's description. "They don't truly become adults until they're about sixty years old, like humans on Earth."

"For the first sixty years, they grow in the form of insects until the time comes, when they begin to spin cocoons, molt, and finally crawl out of that shell as an insect-human."

"Once the insect-men crawl out..."

That's the final form of the pseudo-alien.

"I think I forgot to tell you something too."

"The lifespan of the pseudo-aliens is originally very short; they will die soon after they are born."

"Therefore, their development is nowhere near that of other planets."

"Then one day, they suddenly and miraculously began to live forever, for a very, very long time... Now it seems that they only gained their lifespan by stealing the Wings of Longevity from the Dwarf Star."

"As the insectoids grow old, their population will inevitably increase. Their planet will no longer be able to support so many people, so they will start to invade other planets."

"Until one day, they turned their attention to us again."

This was the first time Li Can had heard this history. A Yun combined the clues she had brought back with the information, and by integrating the information, a complete historical account was pieced together.

The idea of ​​"one person, one cloud" has become much clearer.

Although A-Yun knows a lot, it can't stray too far from Earth, so there are still some blind spots in its knowledge.

The case has finally been solved today.

"So these juvenile pseudo-alien insects are their children?" Li Can looked at the spot where the insects had evaporated earlier with some doubt.

"It's not entirely true. Insect people reproduce asexually. Before they take human form, as large insects, they can reproduce on their own."

"You can also think of people as individuals who create their own childhood."

"Insects the size of a needle are nothing more than unintelligent puppets."

"They only develop the intelligence of a human child when they reach their 30th year of age; their development is slow."

"Therefore, many pseudo-star people do not value their offspring at all, and use them as tools that completely obey their commands."

"They don't need to learn any special techniques. They can do a lot of things just by using their little insects, like this long needle you brought back."

"This thing they use to control NPCs in dungeons is actually quite effective," A-Yun said with a hint of sarcasm.

Li Can nodded, pondering, "Then I need to properly instruct Jack that he must destroy this item every time he helps an NPC."

Ayun thought for a moment, "Yes, by the way, you asked me how long it would take. If we include the destruction of the long-needle worms, then with the help of my guiding seed, it would take about five minutes."

Li Can's pupils widened slightly. "Five minutes? The Seed of Guidance is faster than me using the Necromancer's Guidance spell directly..."

"By the way, what methods can Jack use to get rid of these bugs? Are they easy to kill?" Just now, Ah Yun dealt with them in the blink of an eye, and Li Can hadn't even seen them clearly yet.

"It's simple, just burn it with fire. After Jack releases the tractor seed, just burn a small portion of it with flames. It won't affect anything."

"The flames I'm giving you may seem small, but they're of very high quality, far exceeding the cost of restoring an NPC."

Li Can was relieved. With everything ready, the teleportation channel behind him, opened by the coordinates, was now in its final countdown.

"I understand, thank you, Ayun. Wait for my good news when I get back." Li Can waved.

It receded further and further into the distance in A-Yun's gaze...