>When I was getting my glasses, the clerk brought the wrong lenses. I was stunned when I put them on:
>A sticky tentacle was wriggling out from the sleeves of the man in a suit sitting next to me on the subway.
>He turned his head sharply and retracted his tentacles with lightning: "New here? Your disguise has been exposed."
>I fled into the company in horror, only to see a translucent data stream floating above my supervisor's head.
>She turned around gracefully: "Now that you have discovered it, please help us maintain the illusion of human society."
>Later I learned that human beings had disappeared collectively twenty years ago.
>And the "human civilization" they fight to protect,
>——It is actually the key to the awakening of "that thing" that they themselves are afraid of.
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