"The pattern that can kill people first started to appear on websites all over the world. It was done by a notorious hacker alliance. Thousands of the most trafficked websites in the world were hacked overnight, and then that picture The picture is posted on the home page of these websites..."
Fujiwara Aoki took a deep breath and suddenly laughed, "On that day, unexpectedly, the number of deaths worldwide exceeded one billion."
“How are governments responding?”
Chen Chen asked, "Also, what exactly is that kind of picture? Has it been cracked later?"
"When such a big thing happens, officials from various countries will certainly not sit idly by and ignore it."
Fujiwara Aoki nodded, but his expression became even more gloomy, "This hacker organization was wiped out within three days. No one knows where this pattern came from. Maybe the governments of various countries know, but they did not tell us. "
"As for why patterns can kill people, some experts have given a unified explanation - this is a pattern with a special structure, which is actually a set of geometric paradoxes. It cannot be processed by the human brain and will cause the human brain to produce The computer-like logical paradox induces a physiological phenomenon called 'Gödel's shock', and under this physiological phenomenon, the human brain will enter a state of death."
"Gödel shock?"
Chen Chen repeated in a low voice, Gödel was the greatest mathematician and logician of the 20th century. His most famous achievement was the famous Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.
"Yes, because many people have spread word of mouth that this pattern seems to be related to Gödel's discoveries in the fields of mathematics and logic, so the sequelae triggered by that pattern are called 'Gödel shock.'"
Fujiwara Aoki explained, "When the brain falls into a state of death, the heart and lung functions will also completely stop, so that the person will die completely. It is precisely because of this that the pattern that took away the lives of more than a billion people, Called Basilisk, it is formed from the blood of Medusa after her death, so it also has the same ability to petrify humans as Medusa."
Chen Chen nodded. Basilisk is a mythical monster. In fact, the prototype is the real-life cobra. In ancient Greek legends, it is known as the most poisonous poison in the world. This monster is used as a metaphor for a pattern that can cause death at a glance. It's quite consistent.
"So why did you survive it?"
Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly asked, "Is there any regularity, or does it all depend on luck?"
"The official explanation is because of youth..."
Fujiwara Aoki scratched his head, "When this happened, I was only twenty years old, and I was at the peak of my brain power, so I overcame the consequences of brain death."
"And the final data is also the same. The age group from fifteen to twenty-five years old has the highest survival rate after seeing the pattern, which can reach about 10%."
"Is the highest probability only ten percent?"
Chen Chen couldn't help but frown, this pattern was really scary.
"Yes, as the age group gets higher, the chance of surviving from Basilisk becomes lower. The chance of survival for those over sixty years old is less than 0.1%."
Fujiwara Aoki couldn't help but recall, "I still remember the scene of that day. It was still early in the morning. I just got up and opened the webpage, and saw the pattern hanging on the webpage. Then my eyes went dark and there was nothing. Got it, I didn’t wake up again until half an hour later.”
"Subsequently, I found that my phone was bombarded with text messages. Officials called on everyone through text messages not to open the Internet, not to use social software, etc., because the picture was even made into a virus. Once the computer and If the phone is infected, the picture will appear directly on the screen... "
"Until three days later, under the anger of governments around the world, the hacker organization was certainly no match. All its members from all over the world were dug out, and no one was left out."
Having said this, a hint of sarcasm suddenly appeared on Fujiwara Aoki's face, "At that time, we naively thought that this was the end of this incident, but we never imagined that this incident was just the beginning of it all..."
"Because the pattern was spread."
Fujiwara Aoki's eyes gradually dimmed, "The Internet has already penetrated into the lives of human beings all over the world. No one can leave the Internet, and the Basilisk is constantly circulating on the Internet. From time to time, people have been killed by Basilisk. , although various countries have enacted strict criminal laws to prohibit the dissemination of that picture, it is still impossible to completely eliminate this phenomenon."
"Originally, this was nothing. Although Basilisk is still circulating, with the efforts of various countries, it was only a matter of time before it disappeared. But I didn't expect that just a few months later, a new version of Basilisk would appear..."
Chen Chen couldn't help but perked up after hearing this, "You mean, a pattern similar to Basilisk's effect appeared on the Internet?"
"Yes."
Fujiwara Aoki sighed, "Although the specific details of the original Basilisk pattern cannot be remembered by the brain, it can still be roughly described. For example, we all know that it is black and white and consists of hundreds of color blocks, some of which The color blocks faintly formed the pattern of an eye, so this picture was called Basilisk, but the appearance of the second picture made Basilisk the general name for this type of picture... "
"The second picture is a pattern called 'The God of Death'. Why is it called the God of Death? Because according to people who have seen it, the patterns on that picture vaguely form the appearance of a God of Death holding a sickle. But these people all died later..."
"died?"
Chen Chen frowned, "You mean, the people you saw didn't die instantly?"
"Yes."
Fujiwara Aoki nodded, "The 'God of Death' is different from the 'eye'. It will not cause the human brain to freeze immediately. After seeing it, you will not have any reaction at the time, but when someone around you mentions this picture again , you will trigger Gödel's shock and die."
Chen Chen couldn't help but narrowed his eyes when he heard this, "What is the principle of this?"
"I don't know that."
Fujiwara Aoki smiled bitterly and said, "'The God of Death' was only the second Basilisk picture that appeared, and then later, even the third and fourth pictures appeared... No one knew who was constantly creating new patterns, but at that time , the Internet has been completely abandoned by people, social order has begun to turmoil, people are dying every day, and the mobile phones used by people have also changed from smart phones to the electronic screen mobile phones of the past."
"But, Basilisk is still mutating..."