Chapter 39: The Silent World
Yandu Old Town, inside the Century Department Store.
Elizabeth only talked to herself after Siegfi was ready for battle, and at the same time used her extraordinary ability to carefully check the state of the little sister who was the clerk.
"The physiological state is quite normal, the vitality is quite stable, and there is no need to consider the transfer of vitality for the time being......"
"Huh? Link down the spirit to see? I'll take a look......."
"There is no self-conscious reaction to the deep spiritual connection, as if it has entered a deep sleep, and only a little basic instinctive reaction remains."
"I also know that they must have been affected by something with extraordinary powers, but I can't find the source now......"
"Look at your phone? So I can ...... well."
Elizabeth's voice stopped abruptly when she turned her gaze to the mobile phone in the hand of the clerk's young lady, and Siegfei, who was pressing on the sidelines, noticed that Elizabeth seemed to be in the same state as the clerk.
His eyes were glazed and his expression was blankly staring at the phone screen.
The entire floor suddenly fell into an eerie dead silence, except for the occasional message sound on the mobile phones of passers-by outside the store.
Just as Phineas hesitated whether to go over and pull Elizabeth away, the latter dropped for a few seconds before the voice started again.
"Some kind of supernatural power uses the Internet as the basis for communication, social software as the springboard for diffusion, and mobile phones as the last receiving terminal to influence these people through the screen." Elizabeth, who was supposed to be unconscious like a clerk, frowned, her neck was a little stiff, and she turned her gaze away from the phone screen of the clerk's little sister and made a judgment like a nobody, "Even if you just glance at it, your consciousness will fall into a state of near-deep sleep, and your body will fall into a state similar to sleepwalking, completely left to instinct and inertia to run on its own......"
"I feel like it's very transmissible......"
Listening to Elizabeth's judgment, Ziegfei couldn't help but be stunned and blurted out, "Then why are you not affected?" ”
"Because I have a split personality!" Elizabeth suddenly grinned happily, and pointed to her head with her hand, "Now I still have a bunch of personalities in my head that have been absorbed back and are not fully integrated, one personality consciousness has fallen in, and the next personality consciousness has immediately taken over and controlled the body and turned his head, I and they have cooperated with each other to get rid of the influence, and then review what happened before, and think about it together, and we will soon come to a conclusion." ”
At the end, the girl scratched her head and smiled a little embarrassedly and added: "I'm not very smart, but if you think about the problem together, you can easily get the answer......"
"How else can this happen?" Ziegnon stammered.
Elizabeth said to herself, suddenly stunned: "Huh? What? You say that this supernatural power will not only attract consciousness, but also interfere with influence to a certain extent...... No, it should be a prophecy of the next action? The message that pops up in the social media is a pre-emption of what is about to happen, but the person who sees the message loses consciousness......"
"The mobile phone itself does not have any extraordinary power, emmmmmmm, you mean that the real supernatural power is the data packets sent by a certain terminal through the network? And then this kind of packet that is 'infected' by a supernatural force is sent to other terminals through the network, designated or in groups, and finally received and seen by someone to create this situation? ”
"Is it really possible to do such a thing?" It's obviously a corollary drawn by herself, but Elizabeth, who talks to herself, still feels unbelievable.
Siegfei quietly watched Elizabeth and her friends in her mind analyze the nature of this transcendent power throughout the whole process, it was really not that she wanted Edge OB to be a humanoid camera, but that she really couldn't interject in this kind of conversation.
Although the dragon girl fully understands this era in the common sense and knowledge given by the director Daigo's empowerment, for her who has lived in the wasteland for more than ten years and has not personally experienced the changes of the Internet era, she is still not open-minded enough in the face of this treacherous situation.
In the era when Siegfeld had lived in the abandoned history before there had been any changes, the brick mobile phone, known as the big brother, had just become a historical term in China, and it had only been a few years since the slightly bulky and expensive computers entered a small number of households in China.
At that time, the Internet had just entered the field of vision of the domestic people, and although various industries relying on the Internet had sprung up one after another, from the perspective of the mainstream trend of the whole society, the use of the Internet in the real society and the development of the Internet by various Internet industries had not reached the level of popularization in every household and all aspects of life in the form of civilianization today.
At that time, the Internet was at most to show people flash animation, using a penguin social software to experience Internet surfing, and the domestic search engine had just started to burst out with full development potential.
As a result, before human beings have had time to vigorously develop informatization and digitization, they encountered the mutation of the tree of life, and then the development trend of the whole world was completely distorted, even if informatization and digitization have long been put into the military, but for various reasons have not been popularized for civilian use, until the end of human history has plunged into the end of abandoned history, even if the entire human civilization has ended, Siegfei has not enjoyed the convenience of the new era.
Therefore, even if some common sense and corresponding knowledge are enlightened, Ziegfeld cannot convert it into effective experience, and naturally there is no way to keep up with Elizabeth's ideas and topics.
"If our guess is correct, we must find out the source of all this now, otherwise sooner or later the mutation will spread to the whole world......" Elizabeth muttered to her friends in her head for a while before raising her head, her short black hair began to gradually lengthen, transforming into long blue hair like the ocean sky, and her eyes also turned green like jewels, "Feige, you watch from the side, I want to link to the Internet to see." ”
She plans to use her supernatural ability to link her spiritual consciousness to the Internet, and trace back to the sender through the packets she sent.
Ziegfei frowned, although the dragon girl with little experience in using the Internet was not open-minded enough when facing this situation, the relevant knowledge and common sense in her brain told her that this was not an easy thing.
"Wouldn't it be dangerous to do that?"
Elizabeth raised her eyebrows and smiled brightly, "Yes!" So if I have an exception when linking, please stop me! ”
"I'll keep an eye on your condition." Siegnon assured Elizabeth with a serious expression.
"Oh yes, if you don't know how to stop me, just knock me out! This trick was taught to me by my eldest brother, although I haven't used it all the time. ”
“……???” Ziegfei suddenly felt that he couldn't understand the stupid girl's thought circuit.
Elizabeth didn't say much to Siegfeld, she gently pressed her slender hand on the phone of the little sister of the clerk, her long blue hair fluttering under the encouragement of the supernatural power, she began to extend her consciousness and spirit, and escaped into the mobile phone along the channel established by the supernatural power.
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As Elizabeth invaded consciousness into the electronic world of the Internet to reverse-trace its origins, the extraordinary influence of the web, which was hidden behind the scenes, continued to expand as time passed.
At first, this kind of supernatural influence can only be used on mobile phones or computers, and people who are using a specific social software will be affected by the supernatural power, and the effect of the influence is only limited to receiving and reading the text and pictures received on that social software.
But now, as time goes on, as more and more people are affected by it, anomalous objects adapt to their environment and undergo new changes:
In an office building, a civilian employee was staring at the computer and typing on the keyboard, and as a WeChat dialog box popped up, her fingers that were about to fall suddenly stopped, and the whole person looked at the computer screen in a daze.
The student girl who was blowing the air conditioner and enjoying the summer vacation was bored and refreshed her Weibo, more than an hour ago she just swiped an interesting Weibo that brought her a lot of joy, she was not satisfied with this level of joy and fun, so she was trying to find more fun by constantly refreshing the Weibo, until an ugly Weibo posted by a user with a hideous face on his forehead jumped into her eyes......
The young office workers who were crowding the bus on the crowded bus did not forget to take out their mobile phones to chase the novel updates they didn't read last night during the ten minutes on the way to work.
In the exquisitely decorated house, the eyes of children lying on the sofa and playing games on tablets gradually lose their luster, and their expressions and gazes become dull and mechanical.
The little girl who was waiting on the subway for a long time and was bored to open the video website app to watch the TV series, because she saw a barrage floating by, she quietly became a slave of abnormal objects.
The anomalous objects that live behind the scenes and continue to exert extraordinary influence on the outside world through the Internet are also growing rapidly through the power of the Internet itself. It has not only spread its influence through the convenience of the Internet, but has even expanded and redefined the scope of memes through the Internet, from the original social chat software to games, to other social software, and even to other programs that are connected to the Internet and can spread information!
He's growing! And adjust their own meme transmission methods, trying to infect more people through evolution and change!
And as he grows and expands his sphere of influence, an extraordinary event that starts from the bottom of the world and from the common people is also pulling the whole world from the bottom to the top little by little into a death-like silence!