His gaze swept over the scarlet and dripping four big words of forced execution in the paradise prompt, and the corners of Xu Yue's mouth twitched slightly.

Paradise really suddenly gave him a surprise, but this also shows that the violator he is about to face is very unusual, so special that Paradise does not hesitate to threaten him with death that he must complete this hunt.

Is it because of that so-called pollution aberration? ’

A brand new term flashed through his mind, and there was not the slightest fear in his heart, but the smile on the corner of his mouth became a little thicker.

Even in this joyful circus atmosphere, it is extraordinary... Laugh.

A clown near the gate, after noticing that a new companion has entered the circus, is about to step forward and deliver the balloon in his hand.

But after noticing the smile on Xu Yue's face, his body stiffened, and he staggered his steps and passed by Xu Yue.

With a faint glance at the clown who went straight past him, Xu Yue restrained some of the smiles on the corners of his mouth and began to wander around the circus.

The circus is crowded with people and the lights are dimly lit, and at least half of the nearly 1,000 residents of the town of Solid Stone now gather here to play and play.

And unlike the custom of Shi Gengguo people who like to bare their upper bodies and show their muscles, the people Xu Yue saw along the way were all dressed neatly and tightly.

Except for the skull, there is almost no skin exposed, and many people even wear various gloves on their hands, and most of them are like this.

Other than that, there was nothing unusual about the whole circus, the sound of music in the distance as the carousel was driven, the rattling of the wheels of the floats as they paraded, the laughter and whispers in his ears, and the occasional chasing and joking of children running happily past his waist reminded him that he was surrounded by real townspeople.

casually stopping a strong man passing by him, Xu Yue politely asked:

"This brother, I don't know why this solid stone town is so lively."

"Solid Town?"

The strong man asked suspiciously, then looked up and down at Xu Yue, who stopped him, and suddenly realized:

"You're a foreigner, this is not a rocky town, we are a fairy tale town, today is the annual celebration day, all the residents will gather here to celebrate all night, naturally it is very lively."

"Soon it's midnight, and then there will be the biggest celebratory drama in the center of the venue, and that's when it's called lively."

"Haha, enjoy the fun! Stranger. ”

With that, the strong man patted Xu Yue's shoulder with his broad right hand wearing black leather gloves, and made two muffled bangs.

Feeling the sturdy feedback from the palm of his hand, the strong man's eyes lit up, and he reflexively opened his mouth to praise.

"You're doing well, you're ...... muscles."

Halfway through the praise, as if triggering some switch, the strong man's words froze, and the admiration on his face disappeared instantly, and he reverted back to his previous enthusiasm and kindness, and then changed his words:

"Anyway, welcome to Fairytale Town and have fun."

Dropping the last sentence, the strong man smiled at Xu Yue and turned his head to leave.

In place, Xu Yue looked at the back of the strong man leaving, with thoughtful eyes in his eyes, he turned his head and swept over the crowd of people who were constantly passing around, and said lightly:

"The muscles that are trained in the gym are just dead muscles, and they are of no great use."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of several pedestrians beside him obviously changed, but the look of annoyance only appeared, and then quickly disappeared, and after scratching their heads in confusion, these stopped pedestrians took steps again and blended into the flowing crowd.

If it is an orthodox Shigenguo person, the moment they hear Xu Yue's words, it is estimated that nine out of ten people will be angry, but now these people are not, they no longer seem to belong to the stone town of Shigengguo, but the so-called residents of fairy tale town.

Noticing the change just now, Xu Yue was relieved, and he was a little more sure of the originally uncertain guess.

'Cognitive tampering at scale? Thought insertion? Or is it a memetic infection? ’

A few nouns quickly popped into his mind, but whatever the reason, it was clear that the inhabitants had been tampered with by the violator, but the level of tampering had not yet reached the level of ingrain.

And when the strong man's palm slapped his shoulder, the sound was very wrong, so dull that it didn't look like flesh and blood hitting each other, but more like some kind of hard wood hitting flesh.

'Puppet...'

The sound of clattering came from below, and it also broke the thoughts in his mind, a little boy quickly ran past him, two little short legs upside down fast, Xu Yue's ear chakra moved slightly, and a subtle wooden friction sound was hidden in the running footsteps, which was clearly recognized by him.

These seemingly normal residents in front of them, under the influence of the violators, seem to be irreversibly distorted in both their minds and bodies.

The ear chakra returned to calm, Xu Yue's gaze swept over the crowd, looking at the huge red-topped tent in the center of the venue, and the celebratory drama that the strong man said might be the source of all this distortion.

It's just that there are still about twenty minutes before midnight, so the tent is still closed in all directions, and no one is in a state of entering or leaving, and the violator is still hiding in the tent and has not shown his body.

Xu Yue, who waited for twenty minutes, still lacked patience, he had no intention of directly breaking into the tent and forcibly killing the violators for the time being, and the new term pollution distortion caused him to be extremely vigilant.

He didn't mind watching it a little more to see what exactly this so-called celebratory drama would perform.

Retracting his gaze, he continued to walk around the circus grounds, and as he played, imperceptible golden red dots of light spread out from his body, floating among the numerous colored lights around him, and gradually disappeared from the traces.

At the same time, a small metal ball also rolled down from his cuff into the palm of his hand, and was held tightly, transparent faint ripples emanated, and the Visible Eye began to silently reconnoiter around, and a series of data was constantly refreshed in front of his eyes.

[Comparing the intelligence attributes of the two sides..., the comparison is completed, our intelligence is 2.8 times that of the enemy's intelligence, due to the special nature of the enemy, some information cannot be analyzed, and 80% of the enemy's information will be obtained]

The details are as follows:

Name: Juyue Chen (puppeted 69%)

Race: Human/Semi-Spooky Life

Health: 100%

MP: 193/200 HP

Strength: 17

Dexterity: 12

Stamina: 20

Intelligence: 10

Charm: 5

Skill 1: Internal Strength (Passive LV.5): HP increased by 100 points, Strength +5, Stamina +5.

Skill 2: Puppetization (Passive LV.7): As puppetization progresses, the target will gradually lose all weaknesses except the skull.

Skill 3: King Kong is not bad (active LV.5): Consumes 10 points of true qi per minute, transforms the body into a golden body, increases the physical defense by 200%, and has a metal erosion effect.

Skill 4: Melee Hand-to-hand Mastery (Passive LV.6): Increases melee melee attack by 12% and melee combat skills.

Skill 5: Memetic Infected (Unformed): ???

…………

The information of a random passer-by next to him appeared, and after Xu Yue briefly swept it, he was about to change the target again to continue the investigation, when a large park prompt sounded in his ears again.

[Warning: Memetic infected body found!] According to Article 38476 of the Park Ordinance, the Park is required to maintain the relative stability of the derivative world, and has the right to effectively intervene in 162 events that will permanently interfere and destroy the will of the world, such as faith invasion, exotic plunder, and memetic infection. 】

[Hint: The goal of this hunt mission has been expanded and will be transformed into a clearance mission, and it has been detected that this memetic infection is in the initial stage, and there is no need for large-scale annihilation, and the task has been automatically taken over for the hunter.] 】

[Removal Mission: Resolve the 'Memetic Infection Event.'] ’】

Difficulty level: LV.11

Mission Description: Locate the root cause of the memetic infection and destroy it completely, eliminating all existing and potential memetic infections.

Mission Info: Kill! Kill all the creatures in Fairy Tale Town.

Duration: within 12 hours.

Quest rewards: Depends on the completion of the quest and the time it takes to complete it.

Task Punishment: None.

………

The prompt sound disappeared in his ears, Xu Yue looked at the bland word 'none' on the task punishment, his eyes were slightly condensed, no task punishment does not mean that the paradise is finally magnanimous, even if the mission fails, it will not punish you.

The message it represents is that if the mission fails, then the plan will not wait for the opportunity of Paradise to punish, after all, what is the meaning of punishment for a dead person?

From the mission information, it can be seen that from the moment he stepped into this town, he was doomed to have only one ending, either the town was destroyed by him, or he accompanied the town to destroy together.

After collecting his thoughts, he circled the entire circus grounds in detail, and every open tent went in for a moment without exception, and as expected, all the detected resident information was labeled as puppeteer and memetic infected.

It's just that the degree of puppetization varies, and the more important memetic infected body shows that it has not yet taken shape.

In this field, except for Xu Yue, all the creatures have fallen into the process of puppetization, even the various animals in the beast taming tent are not immune, but their degree of puppetization is low.

Time passed minute by minute in observation, and soon midnight came, and when the second hand jumped to the exact position, a loud bell rang from the center of the circus.

"Knock~"

The long bell rang in the four fields, and at the moment when the bell rang, the originally boiling and noisy circus fell silent as if the pause button had been pressed.

The whirling Trojan Horse stopped abruptly, and the dynamic music disappeared, and the pupils of the Trojan Horse, which was supposed to be a dead thing, glowed red.

The floats that swim through are stagnant, the colorful lights are on and off, and the boiling birds and beasts in the taming tents are silent.

All beings that could make a sound were suspended by the reverberating bells, and even the endless stream of people remained in the posture of the last second, completely frozen, turning into a lifelike wax figure.

The sound of footsteps, conversation, and laughter all turned into a deathly silence, a transition from extreme movement to extreme stillness, only in a moment when the bell rang.

When the bells subside, the circus is still in its previous layout, brightly lit and full of people, but if it was a vivid image before, it is now a solid and clear photo.

Xu Yue also mixed in with the photo, maintaining a stiff and fixed posture, he was now more and more interested in the celebratory drama that was going to begin, and he should soon be able to see the memetic infection root body mentioned in the mission resume.

In the next moment, several lines of fire rose from the center of the field, and several brilliant fireworks exploded in the sky, and under the flames, the largest red-roofed tent in the field slowly unfolded.

The outer fabrics used for concealment fell, revealing a huge stage shrouded in a scarlet curtain.

A crack cracked in the curtain, and a man dressed as a puppet in a black tuxedo with a few black lines on his cheeks stepped out from behind the curtain and walked to the front of the stage before stopping.

Looking at the dense crowd below, the man reached out and took off the black hat on top of his head, put it on his chest, and bowed deeply to the audience.

The moment the man stepped out of the curtain, the warning sound of the paradise that he had heard many times today sounded in his ears again.

[Warning: Violator No. 12476 is within 100 meters, hunters must be cautious.] 】

This puppet makeup man should be the 12476 violator, and he is also the trigger of this meme infection incident, although the target is in front of him, Xu Yue has no intention of doing it at all, and still keeps a frozen posture in the crowd.

The root of the memetic infection has not yet appeared, and now is not a good time to scare the snake, and the violator's magnitude has now automatically dropped by one notch after the clearance mission has been issued

On the stage, the puppet of the offender straightened his waist and put on his top hat again, obviously his mouth was not open, but a man's warm voice had spread throughout the venue.

"Welcome all the villagers of Fairy Tale Town, to be able to come to participate in the annual celebration on time, please look in the direction of the stage."

"Next up is the play, Queen Nydia!!"

As the words fell, the puppet bowed again and slowly retreated behind the curtain, while beneath the stage, a thin tidal wave of clicks sounded.

The puppet's announcement was like a switch, instantly breaking the frozen crowd in the venue, and turning the photo back into the previous image.

However, unlike before, the residents have become inhuman, their bodies still stiff and motionless, but their necks are moving inch by inch in the direction of the stage with the sound of 'clicking'.

Facing the stage sideways, they only had to deflect their heads 90 degrees and place them on their shoulders, a gesture that was a little scary, but barely within the range of humans.

But those who had their backs to the stage turned their heads 180 degrees, twisted their necks into twists, and their faces were completely parallel to their backs.

The overall image is so distorted, but there is a fervent longing on the face, and it is clear at a glance that they have basically disconnected themselves from the human species.

This chapter is a two-in-one, and there will be another chapter in a moment.

(End of chapter)