"Memes are an independent noun, and according to conventional interpretation, it can be understood as an information virus that is constantly spreading and mutating, similar to the MD5 code of a transcoder or a DNA fragment of ribosomes, so the spread of memes is the spread of information."

"For example, if a human reads a joke and tells it to other people, this process is the meme propagation process, and when the person who listens to his joke also starts telling it to others, this is the meme diffusion."

"Human beings live in a 'self-rewarding mechanism' that estimates the information they disseminate, which simply means that disseminating information will make human beings happy."

"In order to make themselves happier, human beings will spread something completely unrelated to themselves for free or even with money, such as ......"

"Chasing stars."

Xiao X's voice slowly came out of the stereo, because of the research results of the plane of "Killing City", combined with the knowledge of the real world, Xiao X has almost summed up the operating mechanism of strange events.

At this time, she kept telling Chen Chen, hoping that Chen Chen would have more choices in the face of strange events.

"Of course, the 'self-reward mechanism' of human beings is definitely not produced after the Internet era, from the gossip between neighbors, to the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the methods of exchanging farming and building weapons among the major clans in the ancient Yanhuang period, and then to the popularization of the methods of preserving fire and making tools by the ancestors in ancient times...... This self-award mechanism is deeply engraved in the human genes, and this kind of thing has existed since humans were apes. ”

"A meme is a virus that spreads easily, mutates easily, but is not easy to control, and the slightest carelessness can lead to serious consequences."

"In ancient times, human information was blocked, and even memes were difficult to become a climate, but in the current era of the development of online platforms, it is easy for memes to spread."

"In this era of global Internet access, memes can last longer and spread more widely, and with the fact that memes mutate as easily as viruses, I wouldn't be surprised if Basilisk patterns appear in reality in the future."

Xiao X said, "Because the concept of memes includes so many things, it can be a sentence, a text, a thought, even if it's just a color, memes are information." ”

After listening to Xiao X's summary, Chen Chen said thoughtfully, "In other words, the Basilisk pattern, strictly speaking, is a phenomenon that has mutated to the extreme, and because of the mutation, it has become a kind of information that can kill?" ”

"You're right, but not all right."

Xiao X explained, "Simple information will not kill people from the physical level, and information that can kill people from the physical level should have a set of operating mechanisms that we have not discovered, and if we can find this mechanism, we can even create memes that meet our own requirements." ”

"You mean, memetic tech?"

Hearing this, Chen Chen's heart moved, if he could really use memes as technological weapons, then he would really have to stand aside even with nuclear weapons, and it would be easy to destroy a civilization in minutes, even if it was an alien that far surpassed human technology, it would not be able to resist.

Unless those aliens also have memetic technology.

But thinking about it, Chen Chen shook his head, he was really a little whimsical, if memetic technology is a necessary technology for the progress of civilization, then there is no reason why humans have this kind of technology, but aliens don't.

Now, the reason why humans have not mastered memes is simply because there is no information in reality that can affect the physical level.

But thinking of this, Chen Chen frowned, "No, if there were no memes that could affect reality in ancient times, why would there be so many ghost stories?" Why do the things produced by the memetic effect look like 'ghosts' in the human mind? ”

"No, it should be assumed that it is precisely because of the existence of various ghost stories that the memetic effect is affected."

"You can think of it as a reciprocal influence of information, like a war between humans and viruses, where humans are constantly producing antibodies to adapt themselves to the virus, and the virus is not like that? The original intention of viruses is never to kill human beings, they are just to reproduce and survive, after all, virulent viruses cannot be transmitted, only mild viruses can parasitize the human body, and gradually become one with human beings and evolve together. ”

"And the same is true of memetic effects, perhaps it is precisely because of those ancient ghosts and monsters that the memes will be transformed into the image in human ghost stories, of course, this is only a small part, in fact, most of the memetic effects are not like this, such as the 'ghost outside the window' and other memetic effects, have not been transformed into the legendary ghost image."

"Once you're out of the quarantine cell, we can experiment with the most rudimentary memes, those Basilisk patterns."

Little X comforted, "I believe that the secrets of memes can be solved in our hands." ”

"Wait!"

But at this moment, the Night God Temple on the side couldn't help but be startled, and he hurriedly interrupted, "Your Excellency Chen Chen, you said before that there is no memetic effect in this parallel world, in this case, if you study this kind of ghost thing in reality, aren't you afraid that your world will also follow in the footsteps of that world?" ”

"There's no need to worry about that."

Xiao X explained, "I have said before, the memetic effect can be said to be an essential part of the development of science and technology, even if we don't study it, but with the progress of science, it will be discovered sooner or later in the future, not to mention that although memes have mutation, just like a virus, but this mutation is not a mutation out of thin air, but with the more people infected, the more times it spreads, it will continue to produce mutations." ”

"In other words, in the world before you, it was because memes were out of control on the Internet that various types of memes appeared, so as long as you can control the spread of memes, you can control memes."

"But there's a possibility of a rollover, right?"

The Night God Temple seemed to be extremely afraid of this kind of thing, and finally left the hellish world, and at this time, when he saw that Chen Chen and the others still had to study, he was immediately afraid, and said, "If the car overturns, won't this world be destroyed?" ”

"It's inevitable."

Xiao X reluctantly explained, "Nuclear energy can also destroy human civilization, but why do countries still study nuclear energy?" Antimatter is more dangerous than nuclear energy, so why is the world still researching antimatter? It's because they can not only destroy the world, but also transform the world, they can make humanity more progressive, and the same is true of memes, which are not only a weapon, but can also be used to change human lives if they can be used, just like the Gnatz server. ”

"X is right."

Chen Chen nodded, "The development of human science and technology has never been smooth sailing, some things don't exist if you don't look at them, Night God Monarch, you have to change your mentality, you are the first person I brought back from another world, and you know, why did I choose you?" ”

"It's because I have a lot of experience with memes......"

The Night God Temple was shocked into a sweat, he hurriedly lowered his head and made a gesture of surrender, "I understand, please forgive me for what I said just now, Your Excellency Chen Chen, please rest assured, I will definitely do my best to help you complete your great cause!" ”