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At this time, as the light quickly dimmed, Barry's eyes turned into pitch black, and this pitch black was really pitch black with no fingers 100% out of his reach, and there was no longer any light source.

"Is it a psychological experiment?" Looking at the darkness in front of him, Barry muttered in a low voice, but before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt an extreme coldness slowly attacking, as if there were countless dead bodies touching his body, and there seemed to be a gurgling sound in his ears, almost instantly, the goosebumps all over Barry's body exploded, and he took seven or eight steps back in a row, until he hit the wall behind him, then his limbs slid weakly to the ground, and his eyes were staring straight ahead......

Click......

Thirty seconds seemed like a long time, and Barry only felt like a long, long time had passed, and just as his consciousness was about to collapse, the dense light above his head finally came on again...... Subconsciously, Barry hurriedly covered his eyes, and tears fell from his eyes, until his eyes adjusted to this light again, and then he saw that the other two people in the cage were just like himself, constantly rubbing their eyes, and their eyes were full of horror.

Wait, two people?!

Barry looked around sharply, but the cage was so small that it was no more than a dozen square meters, as long as he stood in the corner of the glass cage, everything in the room was clearly visible, no matter how he looked, he couldn't find the third person who disappeared!

The blonde man disappeared strangely......

A haze flashed in Barry's eyes, and he remembered the thing he had felt earlier, yes, Barry could only refer to each other by 'something', like a ghost from a movie, and he really didn't know how to continue to describe that thing......

"Devil! It's the devil! The old man's eyes on the side were full of horror, obviously, he also sensed similar feelings as Barry, and even because he was too old, he was in worse health than the young man, and at this time, he was stimulated by that thing, and he directly lost control and roared loudly!

Barry didn't have time to pay attention to the old man, he threw himself on the glass wall and looked outside, but when he saw the outside scene, his pupils suddenly shrank, because he saw that almost as long as it was a cage that he could see, there were one or two people missing...... And the most terrifying cage, even everyone has disappeared without a trace!

Subconsciously, Barry's whole body trembled violently, and he suddenly thought again that before he fell unconscious, when he went to the park to go to the toilet, the young man named Nick who was with him completely disappeared from this world under his nose with that weird and cold 'gurgling' sound......

Barry wouldn't be naïve enough to think that all of this was a prank set up by this armed group that dared to attack Britain, so does that mean that what happened to Nick in London has been repeated here?

Memetic infection......

What does this word represent?

"The first memetic infected person observation experiment has been completed."

"A total of 3,432 people were observed to be infected this time, and 2,926 survived after the first round, with a survival rate of about 85 percent...... The upload is complete. ”

Just as Barry and the others were numbly listening to the words on the radio, the voice actually spoke again, "All of you who have been observed and infected, please keep up your efforts, and every time you survive an experiment, you can learn more about you, including why you are here, what is a memetic infection, and so on." ”

At this moment, Barry didn't want to speak immediately, "Tell me, what is a memetic infection!" ”

"Mr. Barry, the infected person observed in cage 207, first asked the question." But what Barry didn't expect was that his question actually worked, and he just listened to the voice and said lightly, "The memetic effect refers to the phenomenon that things similar to the role of genes in the process of biological evolution are transmitted through non-genetic means in the transmission process of language, concepts, beliefs, behaviors, etc., in short, it is a kind of information transmission." ”

"Memetic infection, on the other hand, means that a certain substance or even energy is affected by this information transmission, and the results of the infection are also varied, although there are rules to follow, but there is no logic to be found. And you are affected by a certain memetic effect, which has caused you to be contaminated with the infectious phenomenon caused by this memetic effect. ”

"What memes are we infected, tell us!" Barry didn't wait for the other to finish, and then asked again. But this time, the voice on the radio did not go as they wished, but said indifferently, "The first question permission has been exhausted, and now all the infected people who have been observed please prepare for the second observation experiment." ”

"Damn, wait!" Now, not only Barry, but also the old man and another middle-aged man on the side kept talking, and Barry could even see the other people in the cage outside the glass wall even blushing and crying.

It's a pity that the voice on the radio doesn't seem to care about their emotions, and still goes their own way and says indifferently, "Enter the second process link, all the cages, and the lights will be extinguished again for thirty seconds." ”

The moment he heard this, Barry's pupils shrank, and then he realized how important this bulb was to himself, as dense as the shadowless lamp on the operating table, how important it was to him, once the space fell into darkness, I was afraid that 'thing' would attack again, right?

"10-second countdown ready ......"

"Ten, Nine, Eight......"

"Damn it!" Even a calmer person like Barry couldn't help but turn pale and show despair, he didn't think about it, he retreated directly to the corner of the cage, waiting for the next fateful verdict!

"Three, two, one!"

As the woman's voice sounded, the bright and dazzling high-intensity light above her head clicked again and was extinguished!

But as soon as it was extinguished, Barry felt that cold attack again, completely enveloping his whole body, entwining, Barry gritted his teeth and didn't let himself make the slightest sound, because he knew that this situation was not that thing attacking him, but attacking the feelings caused by other people around him, presumably as long as he didn't make a sound, he could continue to live this round, right?

The blood in Barry's whole body almost coagulated, and he waited for thirty seconds to pass, until the light above his head came on again, he stood up like a new life, looked around, and sure enough, another middle-aged man disappeared, and the entire 207 cage was left with only himself and the old man!

All this would only flash through his mind, and the next second he looked up without thinking about it and asked, "Tell me, what kind of memetic infection we are infected!" ”

"A total of 2,926 people were observed to be infected this time, and 1,600 people survived after the experiment, with a survival rate of about 54 percent, and the data was 31 percent lower than before...... The upload is complete. ”

"Tell me what kind of memetic infection we're inspiring!" Barry continued to stare at the overhead loudspeaker, his eyes reddening as he asked.

"Mr. Barry, the infected person observed in cage 207, first asked the question." On the radio, the woman's voice spoke again, as if holding back a smile, and teased, "Mr. Barry has grabbed the problem twice in a row, and it seems that the other cage friends are very dissatisfied." ”

Barry was stunned for a moment, he looked around, and sure enough, he saw that in the other cages next to him, everyone looked at him fiercely, slapping the glass wall vigorously, even if he couldn't hear the other party's roar, but he could know that there was absolutely nothing good in these people's mouths.

"Fellow Observers, the memetic infection you are experiencing is a curse meme, a curse meme, one of the most common, but also the most dangerous and intractable memetic effects, ranging from the least harmful unlucky curse to the most harmful contagious ghost curse, this series of curses can be classified as cursed memes.

"And unfortunately, what you have encountered is a ghostly curse meme that is enough to destroy the entire human civilization, this meme comes from other planes, the ability is to transform any room into a memetic source of infection, and every human who enters its room will be infected by this meme, when this meme is in the incubation period, the infected may have a sixth sense of intuitive warning, such as feeling that somewhere is very eerie and terrifying, etc., or there is a chance to see a strange little boy, At the peak of the memetic outbreak, the infected will see a white woman who is beyond the realm of physical knowledge, and hear a 'clucking' sound before death. ”

"So, you're experimenting with us, aren't you?" Barry fell silent after hearing this, and after a long time, he raised his head and smiled wryly, "That's right, what you said is true...... although I didn't meet any little white boys, but I did hear the sound of 'gurgling', and I also saw others disappear before." ”

However, the voice on the radio seemed to be unwilling to continue communicating with Barry after answering the question, and said again, "And the real lethality of cursed memes is that after the meme has a ghost effect, any physical attacks on it are ineffective, including gunpowder weapons, laser weapons, and sonic weapons......"

"That's not to say we're helpless, though, as we've learned from past memetic attacks on the Foundation that cursed memes are linked to 'quantum superposition', and that there can be no third-person observer when cursed memes affect life forms, i.e., killings. Moreover, after the infected person is infected with the curse meme, they have a period of incubation period, during the incubation period, the curse meme does not immediately kill the infected, but constantly causes the infected to panic and fear, the more they are afraid of its existence, the more they believe in the existence of the curse, the faster the outbreak of the curse meme, and the more 'ferocious' the ghost attacks the infected......"

"I see!" When Barry heard this, his face immediately changed, and it dawned on him why the Foundation was conducting two lights-out experiments, obviously, every time the lights went out, everyone lost all their observers! And the reason why it was twice was because the people who survived the first time had developed a fear of the invisible and untouchable meme, so when the lights out experiment was carried out for the second time, the memetic infection immediately became more ferocious, which caused the survival rate of the first time to reach 85%, but the second time there was only more than 50% left!

Even though he had already seen the Stellar Foundation's way of doing things, after thinking about all this, Barry was still terrified by the Stellar Foundation's ruthlessness!

"Okay, then, all the observed infected, you have ten minutes of rest, after ten minutes, we will conduct the third lights-out experiment on you, please remember, if you want to survive successfully before the experiment is completed, please try to cooperate with all the work of our Foundation, now, please relax your emotions, let you be in a stable state, and imply that you are not afraid of the existence of memes, this mentality will be the most powerful guarantee for you to resist memes!"

"You bastard!" Barry couldn't help but smile bitterly, he looked around, and sure enough, everyone in the other cages around him was scolding frantically above his head, and some even knelt down and kowtowed to the voice with tears in his eyes, obviously hating and fearing this unheard-of Foundation to the extreme......

However, Barry is different from others, he is not naïve enough to ask "how can I let me go", or "how can I get out of here", such as impossible questions, one question per experiment is extremely precious, if the question is good, maybe you can know a lot of information in advance, this information is likely to be like the "fear" just now, so that you can get some small means to resist the curse meme in advance......

Even if it's just a small trick...... No one wants to die, let alone die inexplicably in this kind of place where they don't know where, just when Barry began to calm his heart and make himself as peaceful as possible, he suddenly saw a group of people walking in the empty cage corridor before, these people were similar to himself, all wearing similar clothes, but the only difference was that they were outside the cage.

The men looked numb, each holding two trays in their hands, each containing a glass of lemonade and a bag of chips and a burger, which had been passed from the bottom into the cage according to the number of people available today, and it was only then that Barry realized that there were movable devices at the bottom of the cage on all sides, and these devices were extremely ingenious, but it was impossible for the outside world to send anything small into it, but it could not make the person inside stick out a toe.

After getting the food, Barry felt his stomach rumbling, and it was clear that he had been anesthetized for at least eighteen hours, otherwise he could not have had this hunger......

Thinking of this, Barry simply picked up the burger and ate it in a big gulp, after all, if he didn't eat it at this time, it was estimated that there would be no chance to eat it in ten minutes, until he eliminated the fries and lemonade.

"Enter the third process, all cages, the lights go out again for thirty seconds." At this moment, the urging sound of the radio sounded again, and the faces of many people suddenly turned white.

Barry sighed secretly, and he stood up and curled up in the corner of the cage again, as if this was the only way to find a glimmer of security.

Sooner or later, it will come......