Everyone found the cause.
Solving the problem became much easier.
They only needed to take control of that spaceship, recover all the AI outside, and release the people who were asleep and being used as batteries for mysterious energy.
They then took action.
Through careful observation and the use of certain special methods, they discovered that the brains of the sleeping people were actually still active.
It was just that the information they received in their minds came from the AI impersonating them.
The AI used the spaceship as a relay station to transmit information remotely into their brains. In other words, these people appeared to be asleep, but they were actually dreaming.
Their illnesses were part of the AI infection process. The AI gradually acquired a person's information and personality. Once it had gathered everything, the original person would disappear for a time. After the AI had fully copied them, it would return to the kingdom.
As for why they did not directly rule this kingdom, they probably only wanted to leave after repairs were complete, without leaving any traces behind.
That meant a stronger force was likely pursuing them.
That was why this spaceship had chosen such a secretive and bizarre method.
It made it seem as though the Forest Kingdom had turned into a strange world.
In truth, it was simply high technology crushing low technology, causing the natives to mistake it for something supernatural.
It was like how, after World War II, island natives regularly held rituals to summon airplanes.
They even built wooden planes, constructed airports, and trained themselves to march in formation...
Some people mocked them for being ignorant.
They told them that doing this would never bring supplies dropped from the sky. The airdrops would never come.
They retorted, "You have believed in