331. Memetic contamination
Because they had to wait until the next day, they decided to find a safe place to hide.
The road is already full of Crazy Thursday zombies, fortunately, most of them just want to eat fried chicken, in order to prevent some people from accidentally eating fried chicken in advance and waking up to see the apocalyptic situation and being scared, Qiao Dui also intimately asked Xiao Ai to close all the Kaifeng vegetable stores through the Internet.
Riding in an intelligently driven car, the three of them left the school and soon arrived at the downstairs of the apartment building where Qiao Du lived.
"Where is this?"
Gu Yingying looked at the unfamiliar surroundings, a little vigilant.
There are still a lot of Crazy Thursday zombies here, but most of them are elderly, and after entering the era of smartphones, the old people's original listening to the radio has also become a short video on their mobile phones, which is difficult to survive under the viral spread.
Even if someone escapes, contacts their family and friends, or calls the police, they will be tainted by memes and become crazy Thursday zombies.
"Memetic contamination is either relatively mild and spreading without much harm, or it is so severe that it can't be spread at all."
The little witch got out of the car and explained.
"Just like infectious diseases, infectious diseases like colds, are not so harmful to the host, so they are easy to spread, and after the development of modern transportation, it is more likely to be a pandemic, and those deadly infectious diseases usually kill the sick directly in a short period of time, and the symptoms are obvious, so it is difficult to spread widely."
"But this memetic contamination is different, it spreads very quickly, and it is extremely lethal, like a deadly disease transmitted through cognition, which cannot be prevented."
The three of them came to the elevator entrance.
Gu Yingying shuddered when she heard the little witch's words.
Although it seems that Qiao Du has solved all the problems just now, after all, the reality has not changed, and everything will not be revealed until tomorrow.
Just like your boss and you swore that this year's year-end bonus will be very rich, but this is not not yet issued, no one knows whether the boss will let you pack up your things and leave on the last day of work this year, you said that the year-end bonus is rich, it is indeed very rich, but did you get it, you really didn't get it.
Such as take.
Damn capitalists!
When Gu Yingying was thinking about the year-end bonus, the elevator had already reached the ninth floor.
Ding Dong –
The elevator door opened, but there was no crazy Thursday zombie banging on the door.
Qiao Du listened for a while, and most of the residents here had also been tricked, and they were screaming strangely in the room.
He raised his hand, and golden threads fell from the sky at infinity and beyond, wrapping around the entire apartment building, manipulating them to lie down on their beds and sleep peacefully.
"Please come in."
Twilight opened the door.
The little witch jumped up and down and jumped in, as if she were back in her own home.
And Gu Yingying stood at the door and looked inside.
"What are you doing in a daze, come in."
The little witch touched her shoulder, and the cold wind of winter poured in when the door was open, making her shiver.
"Huh? Oh"
Gu Yingying could only walk into the house and close the door.
It was the first time she had gone to the home of a boy her age by herself.
If I have to say it, when I was a child, my parents took her to visit relatives for the New Year, but when she was older, she never went back to her cousin.
"This is the boys' room."
Gu Yingying couldn't help but peek around, but found that the little witch was as familiar as the mistress of this family.
"Cohabitation!?"
She knew that some couples in their juniors and seniors or those who felt that there were too many people in the dormitory would affect their revision and would rent a house outside, but she didn't expect that Qiao Du would live with this girl who seemed to be a high school student.
"She's here for a tour, and she's borrowed."
Qiao Du explained, turned on the computer, and found that the Internet was already full of Crazy Thursday, and the slightest carelessness would be polluted, so he closed the web page.
"There is no one in the work group to talk anymore, and everyone is very cautious."
The little witch glanced at the line group on her phone, and it was silent since ten minutes ago, and she didn't know if no one was talking, or if no one could speak.
"Don't go online, it's easy to get polluted."
Qiao Du said, asked the little witch to put down the phone, and asked Gu Yingying to take out the phone and put it on the table.
"You can't use a computer, you can't watch a mobile phone, you can't watch TV, what's the meaning of life!"
The little witch slumped on the couch, like some people's artist who no longer had hair.
Gu Yingying sat on the other side of the sofa stiffly, not knowing what to do, her hands were restlessly fiddling with the edges of her clothes, like a child who was taken to a strange relative's house by her parents during the Chinese New Year, and did not know what to call that relative and was nervous.
"Is it really okay?"
She could only ask.
Although she also knew very well that even if Qiao Du said that there was no problem at this time, she would still not be convinced, and she would still be anxious until the sun rose the next day.
"No problem."
Qiao Du said firmly.
"What exactly are you wishing for?"
The little witch asked again.
"It's actually quite simple."
Qiao Du paused and explained.
"My wish is that everyone in the world can eat the Crazy Thursday set yesterday."
"Huh?"
Gu Yingying didn't quite understand.
The little witch thought for a moment, and soon showed an expression of sudden realization.
"Indeed, this is the kind of thing that is needed to deal with memetic contamination."
"How?"
Gu Yingying still didn't understand, this was also very normal, she was now listening to Qiao Du and the little witch discussing, just like an elementary school student who had just learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division listening to two college students discussing calculus, not necessarily every word could be understood separately, let alone connected.
"It's very simple, because everyone will die if they don't eat the Crazy Thursday set before tomorrow, so if you want them to survive, you can only eat the Crazy Thursday set today."
The little witch explained aloud, feeling a sense of pride in the students who stood up to answer the questions in class.
"But the wish of the merit box will only come true the next day, so it's not enough to simply make a wish so that everyone can eat a set meal."
"But they didn't actually eat the set meal yesterday, right?"
Gu Yingying listened to Qiao Du chatting with the little witch before, and probably understood how the so-called memetic pollution affected human beings, although it was unbelievable, but the real world had already happened, and she could only consider the problem on the premise that these things actually existed.
"Just like this guy's previous experiments, the horror of memetic pollution is that there is no physical transmission, or in other words, it relies on information transmission, but the disadvantage is also here, that is, only information is needed to solve the problem."
The little witch spread her hands and explained.
"Those Crazy Thursday zombies don't really need to eat the meal, as long as they think they have eaten the Crazy Thursday meal, then the memetic pollution will be lifted."
"Can it still be like this?"
Gu Yingying couldn't imagine it.
"Therefore, everyone in this world will trigger two memetic pollution effects after zero o'clock, one is that the Crazy Thursday anomaly causes you to die if you don't eat the set meal the next day, and the other is the abnormal merit box that causes you to think that you have eaten the Crazy Thursday set yesterday, so the two effects are canceled."
The little witch explained.
"So, what do we eat?"
Qiao Du asked.
(End of chapter)