"Where did you learn about the existence of the USB flash drive?"
The middle-aged man smiled, "Of course it's your roommate..." When he said this, the middle-aged man suddenly got stuck. He opened his mouth and then took the dormitory list from Chen Chen's hand.
"Wang Wei, the dormitory chief, is dead. The cause of death was caused by the ghost call meme. He broke his own neck and died in the cafeteria."
Chen Chen said from the side, "Zhou Jie, who died due to the cursed meme, was the first batch of students to disappear. Mr. Director, do you remember these?"
"Yes, I remember all of this clearly."
The middle-aged man picked up his tie and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Then here's the problem."
Chen Chen stared closely at the middle-aged man's eyes, not letting go of the look in his eyes, "So before you met me, which of my roommates did you get the USB flash drive information from?"
"this… "
The middle-aged man took a deep breath and looked shocked, "You are right in your analysis. I didn't notice this problem at all before. I only remember that when I first learned about the existence of the USB flash drive, I bought it from your possession." I got the news from my friend, but I can’t remember who that roommate was or what his name was... Shen Qi? "
As he said that, the middle-aged man turned to look at the glass of the room, "You come in first."
Immediately, the door of the interrogation room opened with a click, and a delicate-looking woman in her mid-twenties walked in holding a file.
Shen Qi still wears the OL outfit, but no longer wears gold-rimmed glasses. Her long black hair only reaches her shoulders. She looks like an iceberg beauty.
"Director, you called me?"
Shen Qi asked.
"Do you remember the person who told us about the existence of the USB flash drive?"
The middle-aged man asked hurriedly, "What is his name and what is his identity?"
"Isn't he Chen Chen's roommate..."
However, from the beginning, Shen Qizhang spoke up and seemed to know already. But when it came to who that person was, she was just as stuck as the middle-aged man.
This scene made Chen Chen narrow his eyes.
"Go and check the information. Find out all the previous action records, information, and videos!"
The middle-aged man's expression turned cold. At this point, he also noticed that something was wrong.
"yes."
Shen Qi immediately retreated.
After the blessing, the middle-aged man turned his head and said solemnly, "Chen Chen, what you paid attention to makes sense. Maybe you really have a roommate, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the death of the other two roommates. , we still learned about the USB flash drive."
"No, maybe, I still remember that person's name. His name is Li Bo, Mu Zi Li, Ripple Wave."
Hearing the other party's tone, Chen Chen felt cold in his heart. Li Bo left two days ago and was detained by the FBI and asked about the existence of the USB flash drive. But now no one remembers it. What's the reason
Is this really just my dream and therefore unrealistic
Of course Chen Chen wouldn't think so. Everything he has experienced now is far beyond what can be explained by a dream...
But, where exactly is he
Chen Chen had a lot of thoughts, but he had no clue.
After hearing Chen Chen's words, the middle-aged man looked even more confused, obviously having no memory of the name Li Bo.
Not five minutes later, Shen Qi hurried in again, carrying a large amount of information, "Director, these are all the information we used to deal with the cursed meme case, including interrogations, action reports, etc., all All the information is here!”
"Where's the video?"
The middle-aged man asked. After all, compared to paper materials, videos that can restore everything are truly powerful evidence.
"I've asked the office to send the video, and it's on the computer."
Shen Qi quickly walked up to the two of them, squatted in front of the table in a hip-hugging skirt, and started to log in to the internal account.
Soon, internal videos were retrieved.
The middle-aged man was immersed in the information. He kept flipping through the piles of information, and then he showed an inexplicable look.
"Can I see it?"
Chen Chen asked.
"cannot!"
Before the middle-aged man could answer, Shen Qi quickly said, "These are highly confidential, how can you be qualified to see them?"
"Shen Qi, don't talk nonsense."
The middle-aged man immediately stopped him, "Comrade Chen Chen is a great contributor to our Central Continent District. He has definitely contributed to helping our Federal Bureau of Investigation solve these spiritual disasters. How can he be unqualified?"
With that said, he ignored Shen Qi and said directly, "Chen Chen, just read it yourself."
"good."
Chen Chen nodded with a smile, picked up a few of the materials and looked through them.
Shen Qi opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but was glared at by the middle-aged man, so she had no choice but to swallow the words in her mouth unwillingly.
But at this sight, the chill in Chen Chen's heart became even stronger.
I saw that one of the review questionnaires contains records of Li Bo's inquiries. It described in detail how Li Bo responded to the FBI's inquiries, and also mentioned the existence of the USB flash drive. But what really happened? What is creepy is that Li Bo's name is blank.
Not only his name, but also his ID number, mobile phone, and household registration are all blank, as if the recorder had left them here specially when recording...
However, how could such an important department like the FBI make such a mistake
Chen Chen handed the information in his hand to the middle-aged man.
"Hey, why is this place vacant?"
The middle-aged man was about to get angry, but Shen Qi had already found the surveillance video recorded that day.
I saw on the surveillance camera that in a room filled with sponge, an FBI employee was sitting in front of a computer, typing and recording something. Behind the computer was a chair. On the seat, sat A dark shadow.
Chen Chen could even see that black shadow was the outline of Li Bo...
"what happened?"
Now, not only the middle-aged man, but also Shen Qi realized something was wrong, "Who is that dark man? Why can't the high-definition video show his appearance?"
"Check, check immediately!"
The middle-aged man quickly agreed, "Go and find out what is going on!"
"Remember to go to Li Bo's home and ask."
Chen Chen reminded, "I don't believe it. Could it be that Li Bo has disappeared from people's memory, and even the traces of his family life will disappear?"
"That's right!"
The middle-aged man nodded, turned to look at Shen Qi, "Go to Li..."
When he said this, the middle-aged man was suddenly stunned. He turned his head blankly and asked Chen Chen, "Who is Li Bo?"
Chen Chen's pupils shrank, and he stared at the middle-aged man. When the middle-aged man was confused, he said word by word, "Li Bo is my roommate, and he is also the college student who told you about the existence of the USB flash drive. "
The middle-aged man immediately looked at Shen Qi who was standing aside, "Is the name of the person we are asking about Li Bo...?"
Shen Qi raised her head from the computer and said blankly, "Director, who is Li Bo?"
"that is… "
The middle-aged man immediately explained, "That's it..." After saying that, he got stuck again and looked at Chen Chen blankly, "What was the question you just asked?"
“…”
This time, Chen Chen did not answer, but stared at the two of them.
"Huh?"
The middle-aged man suddenly looked at the table, frowned and said, "Shen Qi, why are these materials piled up here? Get rid of them quickly!"
"yes."
Shen Qi also stood up. She took a strange look at the pile of information on the table and immediately put it away in a hurry. She also closed the computer and then walked out of the office.
"Where did we talk just now?"
After Shen Qi left, the middle-aged man turned to look at Chen Chen, and then smiled and said, "I'm getting older and I really don't have enough energy. I just walked away for a while and didn't notice it, which made you laugh."
"It's okay. We just talked about what props we are going to use the USB flash drive to capture to fight memes."
Chen Chen smiled and said.
"I told you, this is a secret!" The middle-aged man smiled, and then the two of them laughed together.
But he didn't realize that Chen Chen's smile across from him was filled with a vague coldness.
Half an hour later, the middle-aged man left.
Chen Chen lay down on the bed under the gaze of the five soldiers. Under his calm expression, a dark light flashed in Chen Chen's eyes.
Antimemes.
Chen Chen muttered silently.
That's right, Chen Chen finally remembered why he was hypnotized by Xiao X and came here. It was because he was looking for a dream.
A dream I had two months ago when I was injected with the T virus.
It was a very terrifying dream. Chen Chen did not remember anything at all. The only thing he remembered was that the dream was extremely terrifying and terrifying, and there was something in the dream that would pose a threat to himself.
Then his subconscious guided him and kept giving him warnings, finally making Chen Chen aware of it.
Hence, this hypnosis came about.
I just didn't expect that the results of hypnosis were far more complicated than imagined. Now Chen Chen is trapped in a world where reality and illusion intersect.
Why do you say this world is not an illusion
Because Chen Chen can feel that the world he is in now is definitely not a dream, because every minute and every second, Chen Chen can feel it extremely clearly, the fine dust in the air, the swaying ripples in the water glass, and Pixels on the computer screen...
If this was all a dream, it was too real.
But why do you say this world is not reality
Because this is not the world in Chen Chen's memory. It can even be said that Chen Chen was not Chen Chen before his memory was restored. He was more like sleeping unconsciously, just silently watching this body and his own thoughts. Give everything, choose everything.
It wasn't until the moment he got the USB flash drive that Chen Chen took over this body and made it completely his own...
At this time, Chen Chen seemed to be occupying a game character, controlling him to complete the missions one after another. The rewards for clearing the game are still unknown.
But it was obvious that Chen Chen understood that his goal was definitely not some grudge or ghostly call, but something else.
Something called an antimeme.
Li Bo's disappearance just now completely unlocked Chen Chen's last memory, allowing him to remember all the reasons why he came here. Li Bo's disappearance was most likely caused by antimemes.
Different from the disappearance caused by a curse, Li Bo's disappearance is more like the elimination of traces of existence. Not only the memories in everyone's minds, but also the electronic data existing in the world can be eliminated. This weird ability is simply shocking.
According to Chen Chen’s analysis, if there are positive and negative memes, then “positive memes” are responsible for spreading, while “anti-memes” are responsible for eliminating them.
Erase everything, not only you and other people's memories of you, but also the most reliable electronic data. From now on, you will disappear without your parents and relatives noticing at all.
Of course, some traces of existence are difficult to erase, such as your room, the clothes you left behind, etc., but what is even more frightening is that even if some people notice it occasionally, they will only feel that something is wrong, and then suddenly They wanted to start tracking down what was wrong, but they quickly forgot about it again.
Just like the middle-aged man and Shen Qi behaved just now.
This is antimemetics. That god-level civilization used this technology to prevent the E language from being learned by other civilizations.
This kind of thing is even scarier than some murderous memes, because even if you are killed by them, the people around you will not know it at all. Even if ten thousand people, one hundred thousand people, or even millions die, it will not happen. It will cause panic and vigilance in everyone, and no one will try to deal with it.
Because no one knows that you exist, they will naturally not know that you are dead.
Its forgetfulness is irrecoverable, just like "The Grudge" and "Death is Coming". It is a rule in itself. As long as someone is forgotten, all traces of him will be erased.
In other words, even if the antimeme can only kill one person at a time, as long as it continues to kill, sooner or later all humans will be killed.
Maybe thousands of years later, when the last surviving human being faces the desolate world, he will still have a doubt: Why didn't he realize that he was the only one in this world before
Chen Chen thought silently.
But why didn't he forget Li Bo
Is it because I come from the real world? The reason why I haven't forgotten Li Bo is because Li Bo was not devoured by the antimeme in reality
As for the one who was swallowed up, it was just Li Bo from this world...
This is probably all that has been speculated so far.
Chen Chen sighed secretly. What I have to say is that due to the loss of control of the USB flash drive, the situation today has become extremely complicated. Not only have several memes such as curses, ghost calls, and death have been released, but also the Earth Federation has entered the The field is a mess.
If you think of all this as a pool of water, then the water in the pool has been turned into mud.
In this kind of muddy pool, Chen Chen wanted to find the antimeme and solve it. It was simply a hell-level difficulty. If it was not good, Chen Chen himself would be solved.
Chen Chen didn't know what the consequences would be if he died here.
It would be okay if death here means waking up from reality, but I am afraid that death here means real death, and traces of myself in reality will be erased.