Chapter 165: Memetic Influence

The players in front of the screen frowned.

These 6 words in the video made them feel that something was not quite right.

It seems like...

The Bureau of Control clears humanity... It's not as crazy as Mane 2 says...

Opposite...

The players were tempted to find the right word, but their perception of the barrenness of Control made it difficult for them to determine whether the elimination of humans was the right thing to do.

So, after thinking about it, they still didn't express their opinion. Instead, he waited for the analysis of Brother Banana in the video.

Soon, the sound continued in the video.

['For the sake of the afterlife', these six words are the emails sent by the Control Bureau to the global sites.] ]

[Players who have played the other titles of the only game should know that the Control Bureau is a large and unimaginably supernatural mysterious organization.] The Failure of Control we are playing now is just one of the control bureau sites. ]

[Would a powerful organization like this, with its military, technology, and a large number of scientific research talents, casually send meaningless 6 words to sites around the world?] ]

[Obviously, they won't.] In that case, this sentence has ulterior motives. ]

['Posthumous events' refer to the events that occur after a person's death.] ]

[The word 'for' can mean either a purpose or a cause.] When the word is used in conjunction with 'after death', it can be interpreted as 'for the afterlife'. ]

[In other words, it's... For those who died...]

[Through the former director of the Bureau who came back from the dead, the Bureau of Control learns the secrets of the dead that the living do not know.] ]

[As an organization that controls the supernatural, it will certainly understand and study the world of the dead.] ]

[And the only person in the world who knows the world of the dead is the former director.] That cooperation test is already inevitable. But how do you understand the world of the dead? Experiments on dying moments, such as hypnosis, feigned death, and suffocation, should be carried out. So we guess that the former director must have clashed with the control bureau in terms of experimental cooperation, which led to death. ]

[Here, if you have a different view on the death of the director, you can send me a private message to discuss, and you are very welcome.] ]

[Okay, then again.] For the Control Bureau, what will this kind of anomaly that can cause headaches and hallucinations in living people, and still be affected and tortured after death? ]

[Controlled?] Or destroy? Or research, etc.? You must know that the body of the 'Divine Seal' is just below the deep-sea crater. Won't they dive? Won't they send someone closer? Unfortunately, we don't know either. ]

[But we are sure, in accordance with the style of the Control Bureau, to be there in person.] But what happened next, we don't know, because there are really no clues. ]

[As the game doesn't tell us about any valid actions of the Control Bureau against the 'Divine Seal' itself.] Therefore, the following analysis is all our speculation, an unofficial explanation. ]

When the players saw this, they sat down.

I didn't care if it was the right explanation.

Before the official answer comes out, Banana Brother is the only one.

At this point, in the video, the explanation continues.

[Before we get to that, we have to mention something very outrageous - memes.] ]

[At the outset, the Bureau of Control committed suicide and left the company at headquarters due to Project Soul. And they also used memes to stop suicide and resignation. ]

[So what is a meme?] What kind of magical abilities does it have? ]

[Here, I'll show you where the meme first appeared.] ]

At this time, in the video, a sentence slowly appeared.

[By order of the Supreme Council of the Control Bureau, this video has been listed as...]

[Highest - High - Machine - Dense]

[Any unauthorized person who accesses this video will be immediately erased by the ■■■■ meme!] If you continue to watch without the appropriate memetic vaccine, you will immediately die from cardiac arrest.

[You have been-passed-been-warned-sued-passed-has]

【Please confirm that you are an authorized person】

The players looked at it, and suddenly, whether they had played "Control Failure" or not, the words in front of them were recognized by the players.

Because this is the opening of the CG trailer for "Control Failure"!

This pre-broadcast warning, when it was announced at the time, was too unique and novel to impress players.

So much so that before the game came out, the trailer alone became popular in all the game communities.

It is said that there were some people who were scared to look at this warning.

At this time, Brother Banana spoke.

['Meme', first appeared in the trailer opening warning for Control Failure.] As we can guess from the black block above, there are many types of 'memes'. The cardiac arrest in the trailer is just one of them. ]

[While this trailer opening is a joke from the production team, it also tells us about the power of 'memes.'] In addition, there are several places in the game where the effects of memes have also appeared. ]

As soon as the words ended, a blue handwritten note appeared in front of the player.

Above, is a very long piece of content.

But intimately, a few of the paragraphs were pointed out with a red pen to indicate the key points.

'Put away your surprise, because I, including all the people who came here, are just like you, all through the 0970 loop experiment. ’

You should be wondering why the circularity doesn't exist once you get here. ’

Because of the 'meme' here, you're mistaken in your perception and conceptually believe that 0970 doesn't exist. In fact, the characteristics of 0970 have always existed, otherwise there would not be a steady stream of people like you. ’

When the players saw this, they frowned, a little abrupt and a little confused.

For them, it's already confusing for them.

Banana clears his throat and speaks in the video.

[This note was picked up from the corpse in the dormitory of 'D-10' in the alternate world.] ]

[From here, we know again.] The so-called 'meme' is something that can affect our human thinking and cognition, so that our brain can forcibly accept what this 'meme' conveys to us. ]

[In human terms, 'memes' tell us 1+1=100, then we really think 1+1=100.] 'Memes' tell us that we can fly, and we really think we can fly, even if you don't have wings, you can't fly... But your brain is already affected and you feel like you can fly. ]

[Again, the 'meme' tells you that you're going to go into cardiac arrest, so you really can...]

Brother Banana's words were not finished, but left Guan Zi to make people suspicious.

The players in front of the screen couldn't help but feel a little frightened when they saw this.

Groove...

Isn't this thing too scary...

Forcing a change in people's cognitive thinking so that when I say what this is, you have to think that this is what it is.

It's a big killer, okay!

Just when the players were terrified by the meme, Banana gave another example.

[Any idea why the map in the game is so big?] Actually, it's also because of the influence of memes. ]

[In the mid-to-late game, we'll find a note in an employee's office...]

In the video, a screenshot of the note is shown.

That's handwritten.

'Bastard Maynard! That damn idiot! Just because of the modularization of the site area he proposed, the entire 19th site is like a labyrinth! I went to get a spare key to the office and walked for over an hour! It only took me 5 minutes before I stepped on a horse! When will those bastards in the engineering department be able to cancel this meme!? What a waste of my time! ’

Seeing this, players finally understand why the game map is so big...

It turned out to be a 'meme'...

Brother Banana's voice sounded at this moment.

[From this note, we know that the 'meme' can be so large that it affects the entire Site-19 population.] ]

['Meme' says you're too small Site-19, I say it's big.] As a result, the whole site felt that it was big. Including you in front of the screen. ]

[This is why Site 19 of the Alternate World has 'shrunk', because that's the true size of the site.] The one we explored in the game was influenced by the 'meme'. ]

I see!

The players were stunned.

This meme...

This setting...

It's awesome...

At this time, in the video, all the things have faded, and the game scene of "Control Failure" appears.

Then, Brother Banana spoke.

[Now that we know the effects of the 'meme', we can explain how the Bureau of Control deals with 'it' in human consciousness.] ]

[Note, I'm still saying that, because the clues are incomplete.] The following is all our personal speculation and is not an official final explanation. ]