Wen Jianshi

Lin Shu didn't cry the day he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He only asked the doctor: "Can I still bargain?" In order to reduce the cost of surgery, he participated in an experimental brain-computer interface trial. On the operating table, the tumor discharged violently, and his consciousness was accidentally drawn into a strange and huge network. When he woke up, he was lying in a strange sewer next to a faceless corpse. This is a high-tech race maintained by "mimicry skin" - they abandon flesh and blood and use bioengineering to make themselves into near-immortal beings. At the moment Lin Shu arrived, this race was being silently devoured by a kind of "skinned and disguised" parasites: they wore the skin of the dead, walked on the streets, and slept in other people's beds. No one knows how to spot them. No one but him. Because he is the only person in the world who has no "skin". His face is real. And the physical body lying in the modern ICU is counting down to the edge of brain death. With a modern scientific brain, he began to use all the materials at hand to create tools that could illuminate "inhumans". Every exposure is a public dimensionality reduction attack. The people around you may no longer be human. Can you recognize them? (Reading tips: Hard science fiction setting, no system, no cheats, and no superpowers. The protagonist relies on knowledge and tools to reduce dimensionality and slap in the face, and the battle of wits is smooth, and there is a hook at the end of the chapter.)