At this moment, in the hive base camp on the other side of the world, Zhang Hengzheng was sitting in a huge room, the walls of the front and back of the room were covered with dense 3D virtual screens, these screens were only twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter at most, but they covered the four walls and the roof of the room. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Enter the third process, all cages, the lights go out again for thirty seconds."

In the room, Yuehua stood beside Zhang Heng, and at the same time, all those screens fell into 100% darkness.

Zhang Heng did not use infrared and other monitoring equipment, because playing tricks with memes is a very childish and ridiculous behavior, and the first law of ghostly curse memes is that when curse memes affect life forms, there can be no third-person observers. This is true even if it is observed in surveillance, or in the infrared, it is a law, like a law of physics.

At this time, in the dark, Zhang Heng seemed to be able to hear bursts of gurgling sounds that seemed to be moaning and rubbing, if anyone heard this kind of sound, they would probably be so frightened that they would immediately escape from the room, and at the worst, they would curl up in the corner of the room and lose all sense of resistance.

This kind of voice, full of coldness and malice, is like the sound of a dead corpse, and it is like the purest evil thoughts, as if it can pull people into some kind of unknown abyss.

However, this kind of voice in front of Zhang Heng did not make any difference at all, and the constantly resounding gurgling sound did not affect him in the slightest, until the long thirty seconds passed, and all the screens lit up, Zhang Heng looked at one of the screens with interest.

On the screen, it was a male face of Mexican descent, he was also a student at Queen St. Mary's, named Barry Lynch, who had successfully caught the attention of Zhang Heng and Yuehua through his excellent performances in the first and second rounds.

"Very well, it seems that he is not only smart but also lucky." After seeing that the other party successfully survived the third round of experiments, Zhang Heng said lightly, he looked at Barry, who was pale on the screen, and still sighed, "It's a pity, if it's not for ghost memes, they are all incomprehensible, once infected, it is equivalent to death, otherwise I will really bring him to the Stellar Foundation." ”

"If he had really good luck, he wouldn't have contracted this meme." Yuehua was noncommittal, and said solemnly again, "A total of 1,600 people were observed to be infected this time, and 1,000 and 30 people survived in the end, with a survival rate of about 64 percent, and the data is 10 percent higher than before, and the data is being uploaded...... The upload is complete. ”

After speaking, Yuehua suddenly looked back at Zhang Heng in amazement, "Your Excellency, your original speculation is indeed correct, 'self-belief' or 'self-hypnosis' does help delay the meme outbreak period.

Zhang Heng nodded and did not speak.

"Tell us how to get out!"

"Tell me how we can survive! I want to know it all! ”

"Let me or leave, that's my problem, please!"

"Tell me the second way to defend against memes!"

Almost at the same time as Yuehua and Zhang Heng were talking, many people shouted hoarsely on the monitor as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.

Barry on the surveillance video also frowned and thought for a while, and finally said tentatively, "Tell me the second way to defend against memes!" ”

Yuehua smiled slightly, and without waiting for Zhang Heng, he said again, "Very good, this time it was still Mr. Barry, who was observed to be infected in cage 207, who grabbed the problem first, and his question was, 'What is the second way to resist memes!'" ’

"Oh Fake!"

"Damn it!"

"No way, he cheats!"

"Little B cub!"

During the monitoring, a loud shouting and scolding came, Zhang Heng did not move, Yuehua did not have the slightest expression, and still said, "He asked very well, because every method of resisting memes is the law of blood and fire that our foundation has spent countless lives at the cost of this, although these laws are not guaranteed to be 100% correct, but they can be guaranteed to be more than 80%. ”

said, without waiting for everyone's desperate scolding. Yuehua continued to say slowly, "In fact, the previous three rounds of experiments and all the words have revealed a lot of information about resisting curse memes, such as:

1. When cursed memes affect life forms, there can be no third-person observer - everyone knows the laws of horror movies, right? In Japanese, Korean, and Thai horror ghost movies, the basic cause of death is due to solitude, and this rule can also be applied to curse memes, because curse memes seem to be related to quantum superposition.

2. Enhance your courage, the more fearless the person, the longer the incubation period of the meme, the more fearful it is, the shorter the memetic incubation period will be - when watching horror movies, you will find that sometimes the ghost does not kill the victim at the beginning, but the cat teases the prey and constantly appears like a ghost, the prey becomes more and more afraid, and the ghost becomes more and more fierce, until finally the ghost kills the prey. In fact, this is not a bad taste of ghosts, but a natural phenomenon when curse-type memes affect life forms, in which the infected person is in a normal state and the time when the ghosts under his hands are frightened can be called the incubation period, as the incubation period deepens, the infected person becomes more and more afraid of the unknown Moin, and once it reaches the outbreak stage, it is death. ”

After Yuehua said this, she suddenly said again, "So, let me talk about the third way to defend against cursed memes, and that is - coma or sleep!" ”

When everyone heard this, they were stunned.

"That's right, you heard me right, it's in a coma and a deep sleep." Yuehua nodded and said, "According to the previous experiments, we have concluded that when the infected person is in a deep sleep, whether active or passive, they will not be attacked in any way, after all, everyone should never have heard of someone being killed by a ghost in their sleep, of course, except for Freddy in "Ghost Street", but except for the Freddy ghosts in Europe and the United States, there is indeed no one in Asia who is killed by cursed memes in coma and sleep, even if the memes enter the outbreak period, the infected will have to wait until they wake up first, and then be killed by the meme......"

"This is the third method of resisting memes that the Foundation has revealed to everyone."

As soon as this passage came out, everyone fell silent, but soon, these people roared even more frantically, many of them shouted loudly about how it was possible to fall asleep in this environment, only some calmer people began to look at the glass wall on the side frequently, as if waiting for the fourth round of experiments to begin, they crashed into it and forced themselves into a coma.

With the opening of the fourth round, many people really hit their heads against the glass wall as the other party said, and with a banging sound in the video, even Yuehua was amazed at the potential of human beings, and in the face of life and death, even pain became so unimportant.

And Barry is the same, and he is very lucky, he only managed to knock himself out on the first impact, but in the dark, Zhang Heng in front of the screen can still hear a burst of gurgling cold sounds...... It takes the lives of infected people who have not made up their minds, or who have not succeeded in fainting.

Thirty seconds passed, and by the time the lights came on again, there were more than 800 of the 1,000 and 30 people alive!

"A total of 1,000 and 30 infected people were observed this time, and 849 people survived in the end, with a survival rate of about 82 percent, an increase of 18 percent over the previous data, and the data is being uploaded...... The upload is complete. ”

Yuehua shook his head, and in the next second, a large amount of clear water was automatically sprayed from the top of the cage in everyone's cage, and stimulated by this clear water, all the people who were knocked unconscious got up with a scream, some covered their heads full of blood, constantly wailing, and some were angry and constantly roaring in the water, as if they were venting their unparalleled anger at the Stellar Foundation.

Yuehua shook his head, a sigh flashed in his eyes, it was not that they were ruthless, but that these people were basically sentenced to death when they were infected with memes, they just used the surplus value of these people, so as to try to find a way to fight memes, although the method is a little inhumane, but this is also a helpless thing.

To blame, you can only blame them for their bad luck.

At this time, just when Yuehua's expression was complicated, Zhang Heng said lightly, "It doesn't matter whether the traditional process continues or not, the data has been collected almost, and I am going to temporarily add an experimental process to make these people die more comfortably." ”

Yuehua turned her head in surprise, and then smiled, "Okay, Your Excellency Commander, you also have a day of kindness, but what kind of temporary experiment is it?" ”

"The so-called improvised experiment, the last question I've always wanted to validate curse-like memes." Zhang Heng didn't care about Yuehua's gaze, but said calmly, "From the previous law, we can know that 'no observer' is one of the important conditions for the outbreak of memes. So, does this mean that when the infected person stays forever in the presence of a third-person observer of himself, he will never die? ”

"Of course not."

Yuehua wrinkled her nose and said categorically, "Let's not talk about whether it is possible to guarantee that a person will be in a state of permanent gaze for decades or hundreds of years, even if it can be guaranteed, who can guarantee that the 'watcher' will not blink?" Perhaps in the blink of an eye, the infected in the outbreak phase will be completely killed by the meme! ”

"That's why I'm doing this experiment." Zhang Heng nodded, turned his head to look at Yuehua, and smiled, "Don't forget, I have you." ”

Yuehua was stunned for a moment, and then it became clear, indeed, although he does not belong to a conventional life, he is still in the category of life, as long as it is life, he has attention, and he is an observer.

And it is precisely because he is an intelligent life, without the fatigue and patience of conventional life, so for Yuehua, it is possible to observe a person for decades or even thousands of years, of course, provided that the person is not dead after a thousand years.

But at this time, Yuehua suddenly received some news, showing a touch of surprise and surprise, and at the same time muttered in a low voice, "No, how could it be, it's impossible!" ”

"What's wrong?" Zhang Heng's originally plain pupils shrank slightly, which made Yuehua, who was in control of everything at any time, have this kind of emotion, indicating that something extremely unbelievable had happened!

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Yuehua hurriedly showed a solemn look and reported, "In this 'Curse Memetic Observation Experiment', I used two counting methods, one of which was to observe through video surveillance, and the other was to use the communication device to let the five hundred D-class prisoners on death row use the original counting method to count, and then send the data to me, and the two were combined to get confirmation. ”

"Before, in the first three test processes, all the data statistics were normal, but just now, in the fourth statistics given to me by the D-class personnel, there was a conflict with my statistics!"

When Zhang Heng heard this, he was stunned for a moment, "Could it be that those people have made statistical errors?" ”

"Impossible, five hundred people are divided into fifty groups, each group of ten people, each person is responsible for a region to count the number of people in the cage, and then the ten people converge and add each other, and then report the data to me, and this time, the data reported by all the groups is seven hundred and twenty-seven people! Compared to the 849 people I observed, there were 122 fewer people! Yuehua said in surprise.

Zhang Heng's expression also became grim, he looked at the countless screens in front of him, and said in a low voice, "In other words, have curse memes begun to affect electronic instruments?" ”

"That's right, I've ordered the D-class personnel to find out the 122 people who disappeared according to the previous information, they are ......" Yuehua was just about to speak, suddenly her mouth opened, but she didn't say anything, and at the same time, Zhang Heng also saw that on some screens in front of him, the people who were still making noise in the cage disappeared directly under his nose......

"The number of people should be right now......" Zhang Heng laughed bitterly in a low voice.

"No, it's not this ......" Yuehua's expression became even more severe, "These cursed humans, once we find out that they are fake, they will really disappear, this is inevitable. And what surprised me wasn't this, it was ......"

"Some of the D-class personnel are also starting to disappear......"

A haze flashed in Zhang Heng's eyes, and he suddenly leaned back and exhaled, "Two possibilities." ”

"The first possibility is that the cursed meme automatically treats the entire island makeshift base as a house, and any human being inside the island base will be infected by the meme."

"The second possibility is that when the cursed meme breaks out, when the dead infected in an area reach a certain critical point, the area will automatically form a 'cursed dead zone', so that the curse can break through the limit of 'only being infected by entering the infected house', and all uninfected humans in this area will be infected by the curse, resulting in an astonishing 100% infection rate of the curse......"

"I'd rather believe the first." When Yuehua heard this, her face suddenly changed, she is an intelligent life herself, and her intelligence can be imagined, since Zhang Heng can list the most logical first point and then put forward the second point, then it shows that even Zhang Heng himself is probably inclined to the second point!

"Unfortunately, I'm leaning towards the second option." Zhang Heng waved his hand, "Do you remember my previous hunch?" When I was in London, I said, "'I have an ominous feeling that every time one more person dies in the city, the city becomes even ......colder than before.'"

"In other words......" Yuehua opened her mouth, her expression revealing heaviness, "It is very likely that London has been transformed into the kind of permanent area you call ......"

"Cursed Dead Zone!"