Too Scary

So-called fear was an important survival mechanism formed during human evolution.

Some feared spiders, some feared poison snakes, some feared the dark or thunder. What each person feared differed, but one kind of thing could always precisely trigger people's fear: things that looked human, but were not human.

Experts called this psychological reaction the uncanny valley effect.

Feng Ling stared thoughtfully at the computer screen. It was playing footage captured by a dashcam. The driver was clearly in a state of extreme terror; faced with the pedestrians on the road, the car swerved unsteadily from side to side before suddenly braking and knocking down a young couple!

The two bodies were flung away at an angle, then limply stood back up. They stood perfectly straight, twisting their necks to look at the driver inside the car.

And it was not just them. The pedestrians who had not been hit also twisted their heads to look at the driver.

As they watched, all their expressions began changing at once—the corners of their mouths gradually stretched apart, their eyes slowly widened, and their facial muscles moved in exactly the same way, uniformly making expressions of terror.

What did it feel like to have over a dozen faces make the exact same expression right in front of you?

Feng Ling raised her arm and held it out in front of Ye Zheng. "Look."

"I am looking." Ye Zheng frowned tightly. "According to the intelligence Baniga provided, Monsters can imitate biological behavior and expressions. This seems to be their survival instinct. The humans in the video have already been parasitized by Monsters, and they're imitating the driver's frightened expression."

Feng Ling moved her arm. "I meant look at my goosebumps."

"You think I don't have any?" Ye Zheng rolled her eyes at her and