A month later.

In one of the laboratories of the Spire Experimental Base, three humans, two men and one woman, were standing.

Chen Chen took a USB flash drive from Brando's hand.

There is a transparent crystal-like shell on the outside of this USB flash drive, through the shell, you can clearly see a large number of golden gears inside, these gears are still slowly turning, just like a mechanical watch is as layered and complex.

This kind of elaborate thing, if you don't know that it is a USB flash drive, you may even think of it as a handicraft.

"Mr. Chen, fortunately not disgraced."

Brando smiled, one eye wrapped in a white cloth, and a trace of blood seeped out, with an inexplicable tragedy.

"Go to the logistics of the Spire Lab and let them heal your wounds."

Chen Chen nodded and said lightly, "You can choose a prosthetic limb or clone a true eye, but we can't reach that level with organ cloning technology alone for the time being, so if you choose to transplant a real eye, you must wait for half a year, and when your clone grows to adulthood, there will be an eye ration." ”

"I choose a prosthetic leg."

Brando nodded, "I heard that the prosthetic eye developed by the Xingtian project will have better performance than its own eye, and ordinary people can't see it." ”

"But when you go through security, you can't do it."

Chen Chen rarely laughed, patted Brando's shoulder, and then turned around and walked to a computer with a USB flash drive.

Seeing this, Brando bowed slightly, turned around and exited the laboratory.

Chen Chen plugged the quantum USB flash drive into the computer, and then Xiao X began to control the computer and connect with the quantum computer in North America.

"Already connected."

In reality, Little X closed his eyes and said, "I'm now rummaging through all the files in the quantum computer, and what I can be sure of is that most of these files were created in 1993, the year the Earth Federation was founded. ”

Chen Chen nodded, "Sure enough, this quantum computer appeared that year, and what else?" ”

"Searching...... However, most of it is the code of a quantum computer, and there are basically no other valuable clues......"

Xiao X said, and then she opened her eyes suddenly, "Your Excellency Godfather, I found an encrypted file created in 2003, and this file is...... Here's a video file! ”

"Is that all there is to it?"

Chen Chen's heart moved.

"I'll look for ...... again"

Xiao X said, and then only about half a minute passed, Xiao X completely opened his eyes, "That's right, the program of the entire quantum computer has never been modified, that is to say, the Earth Federation has never cracked the program system of the quantum computer so far, and the only valuable thing in the entire quantum computer is this video file." ”

"Good."

Chen Chen ordered, "Bring in a delta-class experimenter." ”

Following Chen Chen's order, in just five minutes, two black knights walked in, and they dragged a black man in a white striped research coat into the isolation room in the laboratory.

"Hey, where are you taking me? Damn, let me go! ”

The black man struggled and cursed loudly in a mouthful of native English until two black knights locked him in a laboratory isolation cell.

"You damn a**, fuck you...... Ahh!!h ”

Before he could finish cursing, his body suddenly convulsed and fell to the ground, while rolling on the ground and screaming loudly.

This is Xiao X actively controlling the tungsten gold collar around his neck to release a voltage of 3,000 volts, which is used to teach this disobedient delta-level experimenter a lesson.

It wasn't until ten seconds later that the collar stopped releasing electricity, and the black man lay on the ground moaning lowly, reluctant to get up for a while.

Chen Chen walked to the observation window of the isolation room and pressed a button, and suddenly all the man's identity information was automatically displayed on the control console of the isolation room.

Number: D008624.

Name: Evan Gran, male, 35 years old, Ovambo ethnicity.

On June 20, 2022, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for burglary and causing the death of the victim, and on April 21, 2023, he was sent to the Minaret Experimental Base - Delta Experimental Personnel Training Base.

Physical fitness: Good.

Number of experiments: 0.

Seeing this, Chen Chen immediately pressed the sound system in the isolation room and said, "Mr. Evan Grant." ”

"Who, who's talking!"

Hearing a man's voice from the ceiling, Evan Gran, who had pretended to fall to the ground, suddenly raised his head and kept looking around at the ceiling.

"You can call me Dr. Chen."

Chen Chen said, "I believe you also understand the current situation, do you remember the terms of the contract?" Clause 3, Clause 5 of the terms of cooperation you have signed with BlackGuard Co., you are obliged to cooperate with all of our company's experiments, and we will score your performance, and if the points accumulate to a certain extent, you can get the right to reduce your sentence. ”

"Fuck me, say, what do you want me to do?"

Evan Gran spat out, turned around and got up, only then did he see a huge mirror in front of him, "Hey, I know you're out there, I'm staring at you right now, boy, be careful!" ”678

Evan Gran said as he stared fiercely at the mirror in front of him and said harshly.

Chen Chen glanced at Xiao X on the side, Xiao X pouted, saying that he was just a random person, but he didn't expect it to be a prick.

Chen Chen didn't say more, he pressed the two buttons on the operating table of the isolation room, after the first button was pressed, the observation window of the isolation room suddenly changed from transparent to gray, and after the second button was pressed, Evan Gran's curses in the isolation room also disappeared completely.

"Play it to him."

Chen Chen waved his hand, turned around and sat on the sofa behind him, closed his eyes and recuperated.

"Okay."

With Chen Chen's order, Xiao X suddenly operated, and she played the video she found from the quantum computer in the isolation room.

One-minute, two-minute, three-minute......

Five minutes later, Little X said again, "Your Excellency Godfather, the video file is over, I scanned the video file frame by frame, and I didn't find anything suspicious of memes or other anomalies in it, and Evan Glenn didn't have any anomalies, whether it was in terms of vital signs or emotions, it was the same as before." ”

"Good."

Only then did Chen Chen stand up and walk to the console again, and at the same time let the observation window regain its transparency and connect the sound again.

"Dude, what the hell are you talking about?"

The black man in the isolation cell was looking confused at this time, and he asked loudly, "What successor, what USB stick, what crisis...... What the hell is this video? ”

However, no one was destined to answer his question, and the two black knights from before walked in again and dragged him out.

After the delta-level experimenter was dragged out of the laboratory, Chen Chen walked up to the computer and started playing the video.

"Sneer......"

At the beginning of the playback, there is a snowflake spot, and judging from the degree of blurriness, the resolution of the video should be 360P, which is obviously something that has been around for many years.

After the snowflakes passed, suddenly the picture flashed, and a handsome man in his thirties, with sharp eyes, appeared on the screen.

The man was wearing a black suit, with only his upper body exposed, and although his height could not be seen because there was no reference, his figure was very tall.

The most important thing is that this man, he is a Middle-earth!

"Being able to see this message means that even if you haven't reached the level I am now, you're not far behind."

In the video, the man seems to be standing in a laboratory with metal walls, at this time he shows a line of white teeth, looks at the camera and laughs wildly, "Isn't it amazing?" I think you've guessed it, that's right, the magical USB flash drive in your hand is what I left. ”

"My name is Zhao Shanhe, the second holder of the Plane Key...... I only found traces left by one predecessor, let's just think that I am the second one, and at the same time, I am also the initiator of the Earth Federation, and mankind is in my hands, and the world has been completed for the first time! ”

When talking about "the world is the same", the man in the video showed an extremely proud look, "Hahahaha, I, Zhao Shanhe, an ordinary little person, can do this job, and this life is worth it!" ”

But in the next second, his expression suddenly closed, revealing a touch of gloom, "It's a pity that after I leave here and go to the movie "Strange Evil", I'm afraid the Earth Federation will not have much time, and without my suppression, this collective of human beings will fall apart sooner or later." ”

Chen Chen squinted his eyes when he heard this, the movie "Strange Evil" is actually "The Surface of the Black Hole", but it was just a translation problem in the past nineties, when it was translated as "The Strange Evil", and it was not until after 2000 that people found that the name "Black Hole Surface" was more in line with the meaning of the movie.

In this way, is the antimemetic he encountered really him?

Thinking of this, Chen Chen's heart sank and he continued to watch.

"I'm making this video to tell you that we humans are in a dangerous situation right now......"

Zhao Shanhe showed a solemn look and continued, "You should know the civilization filter theory, if the planet is compared to a whole, then the planet with life is actually like a human with a soul, we call the life unit of this kind of planet 'Gaia'. ”

"However, people don't know that for 'Gaia', the dawn of civilization is not a surprise, on the contrary, the dawn of these civilizations is like a cancer cell, with the development of civilization, they will inevitably proliferate themselves at the cost of destroying the ecosystem, this is the second law of thermodynamics, entropy increase is irreversible, civilization wants to develop, it will inevitably continue to destroy Gaia, absorb Gaia's life to do ......"

"Therefore, each ecosystem develops a corresponding civilization, and it needs to withstand the resistance of the civilization filter, which actually comes from its own mother Gaia, they are unavoidable, as long as the civilization is not destroyed, this resistance will always exist."

"So I found a fact......"

Zhao Shanhe's eyes showed a hint of horror, "Can you believe it?" Human beings have always been wrong, we have experienced World War II, until now, there are almost no large-scale disasters, which gives us the illusion that this world is very safe, but if you look at history, you will find that this kind of 'security' is just an accidental phenomenon, the history of human civilization has always been built on countless natural and man-made disasters! ”

"In other words, this world is far more cruel than we imagined, in the vast universe, the earth is like an island in the ocean, and human civilization is a castle built by a child with fine sand, beautiful but fragile, any big wave hits, the civilization that human beings are proud of, will completely disappear, not even a splash can be ......"

"So you understand?"

Zhao Shanhe took a deep breath and said, "This world is becoming more and more dangerous!" ”

"I can't explain what these dangers are, when and why they come...... But this danger is increasing day by day, I believe you are also aware of it, the reason why I united all mankind to create the Earth Federation is to deal with this danger, not only that, but the ability of "Adam" is also to deal with this danger, it can continue to calculate throughout the day, predict most of the dangers and give the Earth Federation an early warning in advance, so that the Earth Federation has space to deal with. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Shanhe was silent for a while, and then suddenly said as if he had made up his mind: "Now, I am going to go to the movie "Strange Evil" to carry out a plan, if the plan of my trip is successful...... I guess you won't be able to see this video, so I don't need to say much, but if you see this video, it means that my plan has failed......"

"Hey, hey! Don't ask me what my plan is, and don't even think about investigating my identity and traces, because the whole world will be without a trace of me, as if I never existed, because I fell for something strange called antimeme...... You may have started to contact this kind of thing, or you may not have touched it yet, but if you haven't touched it, you have to be careful, I can't help you, because I can't protect myself! ”

A touch of helplessness appeared on Zhao Shanhe's face, "I'm not actually afraid of death, I'm afraid of being forgotten, but it's a pity that the more I am afraid of something, the more I have to face it......"

Immediately, there was another silence in the video.

Chen Chen looked at the time, and the progress bar of the video had come to an end.

"On top of that, I'm going to tell you a very cruel truth."

In the end, Zhao Shanhe suddenly laughed again, he showed his white teeth, and said with a smile, "When you continue to use the ability of the plane key, that kind of danger will continue to find you, this is an unavoidable thing, you can find out the specific situation yourself, it is not immediate, but like the butterfly effect, it subtly affects you, affects the world, and when it comes, you will experience the feeling of gradually collapsing...... I'm a lesson from the past! ”