"[You paid a 30-year lifespan to ask the beggar, why do people here have no shadows under their feet?]
[The beggar, buoyed by your generosity, excitedly tells you: "Our shadows, many years ago, were all bought by a big shot. I heard it was done to make it easier to distinguish between us. We, who have never seen someone with a shadow, view them as outsiders!"]
"Rewind."
Distinguishing outsiders...
Although the concept is not entirely insensible. There are many ways to have a local's appearance, such as using the transformation technique or players wearing skins. Still, no matter how one changes their appearance, their aura can be masked by the relics, but the shadow cannot be hidden away.
So, distinguishing friends from foes through the shadow is indeed an effective method.
However, to distinguish whether someone is a local or not by harvesting everyone's shadows here seems rather extreme...
After pondering, Mu You made another choice.
[You chose to ask another question.]