Duoluozhong

Duoluozhongs are former humans who failed to evolve into posthumans during the apocalypse. They retain only the worst parts of their personality from their human life. Like posthumans, they can also evolve and use Special Items.

Hyperthermal Hell Duoluozhong
All Hyperthermal Hell Duluozhong have the same overall agenda: Drink bodily fluids to become/ stay hydrated.

Dehydrated Duoluozhong
Dehydrated/ Regular Duoluozhong of Hyperthermal Hell (D.H. Duoluozhong) are often described as desiccated corpses. They have wrinkled, viscous-looking dark brown skin that clings tightly to their skeletal frame and at their joints have layers of accumulated excess skin. They've no fat or muscle to speak of, only bones and skin- "as if they had all been totally extracted. "

It seems that the Duoluozhong also shrink to half their size of their original human bodies, as described in Lin Sanjiu's first meeting with one in Chapter 6. Due to this shrinkage, apparantly according to Lin Sanjiu, Duoluozhong weigh at least half of her weight which was 56kg at the start of the apocolypse. Duoluozhong also don't have eyelids and basically don't look human. They can retain some hair on their head as seen with Wang Sisi, an 11 year old girl turned Duoluozhong who was described as having "a few sparse strands of thick hair... They were tied together with an originally pink butterfly bow. That was probably once her ponytail. ""Above all, the worst thing, which raised goosebumps, was that barely human-like head. The area where its nose and mouth should have been was replaced with a large, long and slender, needle-like instrument which was like a mosquito mouthpiece. As the duoluozhong approached, saliva dripped from that needle-like instrument drop by drop.""

- — Duoluozhong Security Guard at Rongjun Residential Complex All Hyperthermal Hell Duoluozhong retain their "rationality and human nature", and it has been proven to be able to converse with them. It has been noted that when speaking they can sound droney, producing buzzing sounds, but speech-wise they are often unmistakable from humans unless turbulently emotional, as seen with Wang Sisi. They speak from their mosquito mouthpart.

Other distinctive sounds D.H.H Duoluozhong make are gelatinous squelches that their sticky, mucous skin make when walking.

Since these Duoluozhong are the weakest class in Duoluozhong hierarchy (as they aren't moisturised), they have less restraint in absorbing human fluid and salivate quite a bit.

One of D.H. Duoluozhong's biggest flaws is it's slow speed movement.

Hydrated Duoluozhong
Hydrated Duoluozhong (H. Duoluozhong) are Duoluozhong's who managed to drink a substantial amount of human fluids to become 'hydrated.' They have no sign of shrinkage and their speed is the same as a Posthuman. In terms of differences between a 'Hydrated' and 'Dehydrated' Duoluozhong there isn't much of a difference other than Hydrated Duoluozhong's are well-nourished and have retained a normal human build. "Just looking at its body, it was entirely like a normal human being. Not only [its] body, but it still retained its eyelids over its long slit eyes, its high forehead was also flat and smooth… It looked really normal without a single disgusting feature. However, the undeniable fact was that it had a mouthpart—attached to its normal clean [...] face. There was a black hole where [its] nose and mouth should have been, and a large mosquito-like mouthpart extended from the deep hole.""

- — Chapter 26: It’s a Universal Law that the Main Character Must Die? (3) The main attack weapon of H. Duoluozhong is naturally the mosquito mouthpart, which it uses as a whip to stab into human flesh to drink and the approximate length of this mouthpart is roughly the same length has their own body length, perhaps even longer. This information is inferred through when a H.Duoluozhong was standing on a Citroën car whilst Lin Sanjiu was crouching beside it and the mosquito mouthpart dangled next to her shoulder.

Hydrated Duoluozhong 2.0
This upgraded version of a H. Duoluozhong, retains near all features H.Duoluozhong have. Some differences are they appear to increase in length, two H. Duoluozhong 2.0's were observed to be over 180cm, they have supple skin

Winged Duoluozhong
Winged Duoluozhong are most likely evolved H.H.H Duoluozhong 2.0. Winged Duoluozhong as in their name have wings, described as "shiny raven black wings." They are also tall with skin that isn't wrinkly and sticky, but neither is it smooth human-like skin. Instead, their skin has a glossy dark brown surface, a little like a beetle’s carapace. If not for their human-like torsos, Evolved H.H.H Duoluozhong would look like gigantic cockroaches from behind.

Aquatic Duoluozhong
Described as 'bloated cadavers' but as in the novel, "To be [more] accurate, they were not mere cadavers. They no longer had their original body frames, but rather, they were like bloated humanoid sacs. Every movement they made was followed by a pitter-patter sound of dripping water. They had a putrid stench of rotten flesh soaked in water." As with all the Duoluozhong's in Hyperthermal Hell, they too, have a long mosquito-like mouthpart. They are so bloated it looks as if they are obese, whether or not they were originally obese or not there was no way of accurately telling.

The Aquatic Duoluozhong that Lin Sanjiu meet are the only ones of their kind mentioned in the Hyperthermal Hell. There are 3 Aquatic Duoluozhong all of non-asian descent, remenants of their foreign features somehow distinguishible amongt their waterlogged faces; prominent noses and deep set eyes.

They're bodies are incredibly rotten that when the female duoluozhong named Hannah caresses her face a of her skin falls off. The Aquatic Duoluozhong are named Hannah a maroon haired woman, Hank a middle-aged man, and Dale whose body is too terribly decomposed.

As it is near impossible for any human or posthuman to wander into the deepsea casually, the Aquatic Duoluozhong probably haven't eaten much if any people. They seem to be able to somewhat live off of Deep-sea Creatures like the Snow-white Prawn."He [Dale] even cut a few large pieces of raw prawn and mixed them with its blood and innards. Then, he served this mixture to the duoluozhongs for their consumption.""

- — Chapter 104: Hurray for Friendship? Although these 3 Duoluozhong don't(?) eat people they still have their own agenda, specifically regarding the use of the Another/Way - A Mermaid Cultivation Drink.

Kisaragi Station Duoluozhong
The duoluozhong there were different. They couldn't kill anyone directly. These Duoluozhong were humans who had totally assimilated with black matter. For some reasons, they evolved into all sorts of different spirits and could only attack humans who had been corroded by black matter. It isn't all that hard to meet this condition. Any outsiders would slowly and eventually be corrupted by black matter after they breathe the air and drink the water here. The spirits can also hasten the process.

Greenie
Its body was like a twisted trunk of a tree. Its head was sharp and flat. Its sharp jagged teeth stuck out from its mouth. One could see its non-human skeletal frame jutting and bulging under its greenish skin. This was a creature which could be called a 'monster' no matter where.