Xiao Daidzhao

Growing up with eccentric materialistic parents who left him in the care of his grandfather for a job overseas, Zhang Heng had learned to adapt and be unfettered by the oddities and challenges in life. But he would soon learn the baffling truth about the world he thought he knew when one day at midnight time froze and he found himself in a world so quiet and still it was deafening. That night, he discovered that he had 24 hours more than everybody else and thus, marked the beginning of his adventures. The mysteries surrounding his newfound ability only deepened when a strange old man claimed to have given Zhang Heng that ‘gift of time’ and recruited the young man to participate in a cryptic ‘life-changing’ game on his behalf. Little did Zhang Heng know that accepting those terms meant embroiling himself in many versions of reality and exposing himself to the hidden secrets of the world—a decision he could never undo.

48 Hours a Day

It was quite weird for Zhang Heng to see his other-self.

His second-self was still wrapped in something like a cicada pupa, with fluid surrounding it as if still growing in a mother's womb. Other than that, Zhang Heng also noticed a fist-thick fibrous tube inserted into the creature's brain. This might explain the perfectly-shaped fourth ventricle they saw on the CT image.

The other end of the fibrous tube was connected to a smaller pupa. The thing inside it was trying to break through the pupa's thin film and crawl into the tube.

At this point, Zhang Heng has basically figured out how they replaced humans.

They did not get into their target's head. Instead, they had found a way to clone a human body. This body was like a garment. Once that thing got into the brain, they could start to talk and act like a human. It was no wonder why they had been so inefficient and had not attacked him for so long.

"Clothes"