The World Has Fallen: I'm the Only One Who Knows It's Fake

This is a parallel universe that is 100% identical to our Earth in appearance, the course of civilization, and social structure. Its original true name is Desolate Core: a living planet born 4.6 billion years ago, with its own innate consciousness. It has been targeted and ravaged for billions of years by a cosmic-level "emotional entropy pollution" and now teeters on the brink of total collapse, in both spirit and matter.

Cosmic-level emotional entropy pollution is a chaotic entity born from the dark side of the universe. It feeds on the negative emotions and shattered souls of all intelligent life. Its primary means of corruption is to construct a cognitive cocoon: it places a perfect filter of false reality over an invaded planet, disguising every twisted, malicious, and maddened aberration as something ordinary and familiar. Unnoticed, all the planet's living beings are transformed and devoured. Meanwhile, the slaughter, destruction, and collapse caused by the pollution are all dressed up as plausible "natural and human disasters" or "wars and conflicts." The inhabitants turn against one another in false tranquility, producing even more negative emotions to feed the pollution and creating an inescapable cycle of death.

The peaceful world we see with our own eyes is an illusion woven by this cognitive cocoon. Desolate Core's native planetary consciousness, named the Desolate Core Anchorheart, has been steadily losing its struggle over billions of years. By modern times, the pollution has sealed off more than 90% of its original power, while its remaining core will is imprisoned in the deepest reaches of the planet's ley lines. The cognitive cocoon has completely infiltrated the globe, and the entire planet is on its final countdown to collapse. This is Desolate Core Anchorheart's last chance at survival, and its only opportunity to turn the tide.