Zhang Heng shook his head and didn't talk nonsense with You Li'an anymore.

At this time, he had time to observe the Divine Seal carefully, Zhang Heng put his hand on this huge statue, only to feel cold, the material of the Divine Seal was similar to metal, and the two spiral twisted strips were intertwined with each other for two hundred and seventy degrees, forming a sculpture in the shape of a mountain, and the dense symbols on it resembled a mixture of cuneiform and hieroglyphs, like a large work of art, enough to shock the vision.

The Divine Seal is a wireless transmitter made by a high-end civilization, and has the ability to affect the spirit and DNA of living beings, and the maker places it on the planets where civilization may be generated, and if civilization appears on these planets, these Divine Seals will one day be discovered.

At the same time, the Divine Seal is designed to be extremely easy to copy, each fragment has complete information, and the illusion that the Divine Seal receives energy will be thought by the planetary species to have unlimited energy, and begin to try to replicate it, and because of this, humans have copied a total of thirteen.

The Divine Seal can affect the minds of living beings, and human beings are disturbed by the appearance of mental symptoms such as depression, and eventually cannibalism. Moreover, after death, the Divine Seal will also affect the cells and turn humans into a kind of monster called the Corpse Mutant, and finally the Divine Seal will begin to coalesce at the right time, forming a blood moon, waiting for the Creator's resources to be recovered.

This is the final inside story of the series of plots in Dead Space, and it is also the true purpose of the Divine Seal.

Zhang Heng thought about these materials carefully, and suddenly asked a little strangely, "The Divine Seal is very powerful, but what is the significance of this task assigned by the Dimensional Star?" Is there any other use for this divine seal? ”

"The Divine Seal is actually a quantum computer, creating illusions is only the initial ability, its biggest function is to create virtual space technology, and at the same time, relying on the runes on it, there is also a small amount of memetic technology, which can disrupt the DNA of the dead without logic, resurrect the dead, and cause genetic mutations."

At some point, a large poster of the Divine Seal appeared behind Yurian, and at the same time, she also transformed into a researcher wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white lab coat, pointing at the poster with a teaching whip and answering seriously.

"Quantum computers?" Zhang Heng's eyes lit up, "Then the Divine Seal can actually be used by me?" ”

"Bingo, that's right!" Julian smiled and said, "Shenyin has artificial intelligence AI, the IQ is about ten to fifteen years old of human beings, and its computing power is trillions of times that of the world's most advanced computers, and its technological level is more than hundreds of years beyond this world. ”

"I see, but I still don't understand one thing." Zhang Heng nodded, "Why is the mission this time to get the DNA evolution code on the Divine Seal?" Could it be that these symbols on the seal of the gods are more important than the seals themselves? ”

"Julian has already said it, the Divine Seal also contains relatively simple memetic technology, which can ignore logic and disturb the DNA of the corpse, this is the strongest function of the Divine Seal, compared with this function, the calculation function, the illusion creation function, etc. are all rubbish."

"What is memetic technology, isn't the so-called meme the regularity of information transmission, how can technology be created?" Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, he was already overjoyed after hearing the function of the Divine Seal just now, but he didn't listen carefully to Yu Li'an's explanation later. At this time, he realized that this so-called memetic technology turned out to be the most valuable technology of the Divine Seal.

"Memetic technology, like biotechnology, electronic technology, mechanical technology, etc., is a part of science. But the most different thing about memetic technology is its anti-logic. ”

"Antilogical?"

"You know, any technology, there is logic, for example, biotechnology, using biotechnology to create a clone, resulting in two identical people in the world, is there no logic for this kind of thing? No, it's something that science can do, so it's logical. Yu Li'an explained carefully, and at the same time, an urgent BGM background music also came out of Zhang Heng's brain.

"Memetic technology, on the other hand, has no logic, you don't know why this string of characters can change the DNA of a dead body, but you know that it can do it, and this is memetic technology."

But how did ancient humans know that biotechnology could create clones? If it is divided in this way, then for ancient humans, wouldn't biotechnology also become memetic technology? Zhang Heng asked rhetorically.

"How is that possible?" Julian waved his miniature hand, took a deep breath and said, "Then let's put it another way, do you know the genes?" Without waiting for Zhang Heng to nod, he said again, "Memes are similar to genes, they are transmitted through replication and imitation, memes are like a kind of information that can be spread in various media, and other technologies cannot do this." ”

Seeing that Zhang Heng still looked a little incomprehensible, Yu Li'an's round little face couldn't help but sigh, "Then Yu Lian will make an analogy." ”

"Once a certain destroyed human plane, before the destruction of a sculpture was excavated. This is a slightly abstract sculpture, no one can say what era it was carved from, and the time of construction is unknown, the purpose is unknown, and the author is unknown. ”

"At first, it didn't attract people's attention, but after the archaeological team took the sculpture to themselves, the archaeological team began to discuss the topic of sculpture, the role of sculpture, and how the sculpture is full of artistic beauty."

But as time went on, the minds of these people seemed to be bewitched by the sculpture, and everyone went crazy trying to describe the shape of the sculpture to others. And the person who listens to the description, as long as he hears the appearance of the sculpture, or even just the size and other data, will be affected by the sculpture and continue to describe the sculpture to others. Eventually, the entire plane was destroyed under such circumstances. ”

Zhang Heng was dumbfounded when he heard this, "There is still such a thing? Is this a psychotropic virus? It's like a virus in your computer, constantly infecting other computers, and eventually playing together? ”

"If there is a transmission substance and a transmission medium, it can be regarded as a spiritual virus, and the transmission of the virus must require the virus itself and various transmission media such as air and blood to do it. But what about the statue? There is nothing, there is no source of transmission, and there is no medium of transmission, and there is no scientific logic at all. Yu Li'an smiled evilly, "Uncle, do you understand?" ”

Zhang Heng couldn't help but fall into deep contemplation, this is the meme? It's not that he doesn't believe it, it's that the explanation of the memes has gone beyond scientific principles and reached the level of idealism.

"Of course, memes don't have to be able to alter human DNA and destroy the world." Julian continued, "It's as if there is no good or evil in the weapon itself, it's the person who uses it that matters. The concept of 'memes' has begun to develop in your world, but it is still in its infliminent stages, and it will take at least 500 years to reach the level of using memes. ”

"So, is there a solution to memetic attacks?" Zhang Heng's expression became extremely solemn, if this kind of attack really exists, then what so-called bacteria and viruses, or even nuclear weapons and the like, are not comparable at all in the face of memetic weapons.

No bloodshed, no killing, just a piece of information, can destroy human civilization, this is simply ...... God's means!

"There's definitely a solution to the meme." Julian replied affirmatively, "That is, it can be easily solved with counter-effect memes." For example, if someone on that plane studies another meme that makes everyone forget the statue's data, will this phenomenon be solved soon?"

"That is, only memes can deal with memes?" Zhang Heng smiled bitterly, you don't mean you didn't say anything.

"No, memes are not invincible, no matter how rebellious memes are, they are also a kind of science, and there is philosophy above science. For example, in the philosophical classification of causality, the use of causal weapons can even 'revert', 'modify' and 'delete', directly 'deleting' the existence of your meme, and the meme is as ridiculous as playing in front of it. ”

"Memes are also classified, in terms of functional use, they are divided into 'solved memes' and 'no solved memes', some memes will fail after one activation, some memes have limitations on what they can affect, and some memes can't even affect humans at all. These are called solution memes. According to the transmissibility of memes, they are also divided into 'single memes', 'multiple memes' and 'phenomenal-level memes', etc., a single meme has no transmissibility and can only affect a single substance, while phenomenal-level memes are powerful, and theoretically, the spread range of phenomenal-level memes is unlimited. ”

A large section of knowledge that Zhang Heng had never heard of poured out of Yu Li'an's mouth like pouring beans, Zhang Heng was completely confused, and in the end he could only wave his hand continuously, "Okay, okay, I'll talk about these later, I want to ask now if I can change the program of the Divine Seal?" At least let the Divine Seal be of use to me. ”

"Of course, the Dimensional Star Research System is to assist the host in scientific research tasks, and there is no difficulty in transforming a technological creation like the Divine Seal."

"So what do I do?" Hearing Yu Li'an's affirmative words, Zhang Heng was overjoyed.

"With the current level of technology in the host plane, only customized special instruments can be used, and the tools required are ......," he said, and a large section of technical information was directly input into Zhang Heng's brain through the dimensional star, and in an instant, Zhang Heng understood.

So much material is needed, and a supercomputer is needed to act as an information converter for the Divine Seal?

Zhang Heng was dumbfounded.

At this moment, the phone placed in front of the computer desk suddenly rang, Zhang Heng had to temporarily stop the conversation with You Lian, and when he opened it, it turned out to be Li Jianguo's call, and it was by no means the first time he dialed, because there were more than a dozen Li Jianguo's missed calls on the phone.

There are so many misses, it's like urging life, and I don't know what it's for.

In desperation, Zhang Heng had to pick up the phone.