Time passed day by day, and Chen Chen stayed calmly in the interrogation room, watching the changes.
A month has passed since the USB flash drive came into the hands of the FBI.
But at first, the middle-aged man and the FBI personnel were still chatting and laughing with Chen Chen, but gradually, Chen Chen noticed something was wrong.
The eyes of this middle-aged man changed from confidence to hesitation, and now anxiety and urgency flashed in his eyes. But even so, he would come to see Chen Chen in person every day, hoping to get something out of Chen Chen's mouth.
"Mr. Director, Mr. Director?"
On this day, Chen Chen was still chatting with the other party, but halfway through the chat, the middle-aged man became distracted several times and his attention was not here at all.
At this time, he obviously had a lot more gray hair, and his eyes were extremely red. This was a side effect of staying up late, and he became much more haggard.
"Um?"
The middle-aged man came back to his senses and apologized, "I got distracted again. Sorry, I've been a little busy at work recently. Where did we just talk?"
"Mr. Director, if your guess is correct, has the USB flash drive plan to save the world failed?"
Chen Chen asked calmly, "If it succeeds, fifteen observers should have been removed by now, but you haven't mentioned this yet."
"Have you noticed it yet?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, then shook his head and said seriously, "Don't ask these questions. Everything is as expected by the authorities. This incident will be resolved sooner or later."
Seeing this, Chen Chen stopped asking any more questions and argued with the middle-aged man again for a while. As the middle-aged man stood up and left, Chen Chen closed his eyes slightly, and a cold light appeared in his eyes.
The situation has become obvious. Zhongzhou District officials have not found a way to solve the meme. In other words, they have found a lot of solutions, but they have all failed.
Chen Chen didn't expect this.
However, if we carefully review the various known movies, there are indeed many film and television dramas that can solve memes, such as "Journey to the West", "The Legend of the Gods", Lin Zhenying series and other mythological dramas, as well as "Doctor Who" and "Interstellar" from other continents. "Trek", "Superbody" and other science fiction dramas, but the key is that the USB flash drive must be recognized.
Obviously, the above movies and TV series cannot be recognized by the USB flash drive.
There are almost no movies and TV shows that can control memes in the film and television industry, but there are some in the animation industry, such as "Doraemon" and other American comics with incredible fighting power. Unfortunately, USB disks will not admit it.
In other words, Zhongzhou District has reached a point where there are no movie props to ingest.
Of course, this is not impossible to solve. For example, shooting a movie that can restrain the existence of cursed memes may be able to stop this disaster immediately.
Of course, as the second strongest district in the Earth Federation, the Central Continent District is definitely full of talents, and there must be many methods that Chen Chen has not thought of. However, this month has passed, even if the emergency filming of a movie should be completed, those problems have not been solved yet. because
It has to be said that Zhongzhou District’s response made Chen Chen extremely disappointed.
In other words, these dirty things are more difficult to deal with than I thought...
Silently thinking about all this, Chen Chen continued to calm down and wait. Sure enough, the next day, the door to the interrogation room opened with a click again.
Shen Qi hurriedly walked in from outside, followed by four FBI members in black. She looked at Chen Chen lying on the bed and said in a suppressed gasping voice, "Chen Chen, follow me."
"Where to go?"
Chen Chen sat up and asked strangely, "Do you know that I may die at any time if I leave here?"
"Stay here and you will die even more!"
Shen Qi snorted coldly, then seemed to realize that she had let something slip, and quickly changed her words, "Don't say so much, the director just issued an order, let's go to another base!"
With that said, without waiting for Chen Chen to agree, four members of the FBI swarmed behind him and forcibly pulled Chen Chen up.
"Your mission has also been completely terminated. Go and gather in your own department. Go quickly!"
Then, Shen Qi looked at the five soldiers responsible for guarding Chen Chen and waved, and the five people immediately dispersed.
A coldness flashed in Chen Chen's eyes. He was roughly pulled up by several people and dragged out of the door semi-forcedly.
It wasn't until he left the interrogation room that he hadn't left for a month that Chen Chen discovered that the psychiatrists who were responsible for observing him outside the interrogation room had long since disappeared. The entire room was empty, and the ground was littered with documents, which looked extremely messy. .
Something is wrong with this FBI branch.
Chen Chen thought silently.
Shen Qi was almost trotting along the narrow corridor, while groups of soldiers passed by, seemingly maintaining order in the entire branch.
"What happened?"
Chen Chen frowned and asked again.
"You don't need to know, just follow me."
Shen Qi said without looking back, with no intention of explaining to Chen Chen.
Soon, Chen Chen was dragged out of the FBI branch. Suddenly, dazzling light hit Chen Chen's eyes. Chen Chen subconsciously raised his hand to cover the light in the sky, and then he smelled the city in front of him. , actually filled with a special flavor.
It was the smell of some kind of rotten meat.
This smell was mixed in the wind. On both sides of the street, cars were parked in disorder, showing a desolate scene.
Occasionally, a car speeds past, and there are almost no people on the street. There are only closed doors and windows of every house, and soldiers on constant patrol.
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen's inner uneasiness suddenly reached its peak. He looked at everything in disbelief. He wanted to know what happened to one of the top ten international metropolises in the world to make the entire city become like this. desolate
An idea was popping up in Chen Chen's mind.
"You guys are out!"
Just when Chen Chen was shocked, a middle-aged man also walked out. He said to Shen Qi, "The helicopter will arrive soon. You and Chen Chen will leave first with the information. Chen Chen is an important person and the application has been approved. Now, you won’t be stopped from leaving.”
"Mr. Director, are you still unwilling to tell me what happened?"
Chen Chen quickly asked, "Which link is the problem? Is it because I can't find a suitable movie, or is it that the props ingested from the USB flash drive cannot eliminate memes?"
"There is no time to explain now. Just ask Shen Qi and she will help you answer everything."
The middle-aged man warned, and then left in a hurry.
Next, Chen Chen was taken to a helipad. The apron was flashing red lights, indicating the incoming helicopter.
Next to Chen Chen, there were several staff members carrying a lot of various items and a lot of information. More than ten people were waiting here silently.
"Can you say it now?"
Chen Chen asked again, "Mr. Director, did you allow me to know about it, or are you saying that you are disobedient and unwilling to obey the orders of your superiors?"
"What did you say!"
Shen Qi raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Chen Chen, don't go too far."
"It's not me who is going too far now, it's you who are going too far."
Chen Chen's eyes flashed with murderous intent, "I'm not a prisoner, don't always treat me like a prisoner, otherwise you will definitely regret it."
"I want to see how you can make me regret it!"
However, Shen Qi became even more angry. Just when she was about to get angry, a staff member who seemed to be of high rank came over and said to Chen Chen, "In order for you to better cooperate with the next work, the director asked me to I’ll send you a piece of information.”
With that said, he handed Chen Chen a document that was more than ten pages thick.
Chen Chen then walked out of the four people and took the information, "Thank you, Mr. Director, for me. Without this information, I might not know what happened until my death."
"nothing."
The other party glanced at Shen Qi, turned and left.
Seeing this, Chen Chen ignored Shen Qi's murderous gaze and opened the information without saying anything.
But when he saw the first line, Chen Chen's expression changed.
Sure enough, the reason why the city has become like this is because memes are out of control!
The reason for this loss of control has not yet been found. After most of the first batch of students suspected of being infected with the meme were isolated in a large hospital, thousands of them continued to disappear.
In view of the nature of the cursed meme, the officials even gave these quarantined students a ward each to prevent those students who were not infected with the meme from being implicated. However, what they did not expect was that a more terrifying and incomprehensible The phenomenon occurred…
Originally, according to official estimates, less than one-tenth of the students were infected with the cursed meme. In other words, of the more than 10,000 students quarantined here, about a thousand people would be killed by the meme. Then After the incubation period, the remaining people can be released.
But the fact is that at the beginning, two to three hundred students were missing every day. After the number approached a thousand on the third day, the number of missing people indeed began to decrease. However, on the fourth and fifth days, the number of missing people was even higher. The number of cases began to increase. Not only that, researchers in the hospital and soldiers responsible for detention and guarding also began to disappear on a large scale.
This situation lasted until the eighth day, when the entire hospital became an empty house...
Seeing this, Chen Chen couldn't help but frown. He continued to scroll down, and sure enough he saw a special note. None of the soldiers and doctors responsible for guarding had ever stepped into the rooms of the missing persons, but they still seemed to be infected by the curse. Because the infected people also disappeared...
Even shops and communities near the hospital began to see missing persons, and the situation completely worsened.
"What does this mean? Could it be that... the infected area can spread?"
Chen Chen continued to look down, and sure enough he discovered that someone had analyzed that maybe because there were too many deaths due to the cursed meme in a certain location, the infection area in that location would spread, resulting in the meme not being limited to the house. , but directly spread out of the house. As long as people approach a certain range of this house, everyone will be infected with the cursed meme without distinction!
Seeing this, Chen Chen felt a chill in his heart. No wonder the situation that was originally under control was out of control, and something like this would happen again...
Continuing to look down, Chen Chen saw that as the FBI conducted an in-depth investigation, it finally discovered where the disappeared people had gone.
This situation first appeared on the fifth day. Researchers in the hospital suddenly discovered that after some infected people disappeared, part of the walls and ceilings of the hospital would begin to seep blood. So after using a robot to remove one of the walls, they finally found the patient. Missing persons…
Some of these people who disappeared a few days ago were pressed into the walls, some were pressed into the middle of the ceiling and floor, and some were even pressed into the sewer pipes!
Everything that was pressed into the wall turned into a thin piece of skin, almost only a few millimeters thick, with bones and flesh mixed together, showing no signs of being born at all.
The thing that was pressed into the sewer pipe was even more terrible. It turned directly into a human stick that was more than ten meters long and only four or five centimeters in diameter. God knows how it got into this shape in the first place.
Seeing these weird ways of death, cold sweat fell from Chen Chen's forehead.
Next, the officials began to seal off the center of the incident, only allowing people to enter and not leave. At the same time, they began to evacuate people from the edges of the city. After so many days, more than half of the tens of millions of people in Shangdu City have been evacuated, but there are still five people trapped in the city center. Population of more than one million.
At this time, the number of people missing in this city every day has reached tens of thousands...
Chen Chen then looked down. After reading the current situation, there was information about the USB flash drive. This information was completely top secret. If Chen Chen was not the owner of the USB flash drive, he would never see this information.
According to the information, the officials have tried dozens of movies, but all failed in the end. However, the officials have long been confident of the second option, which is to shoot cracked movies themselves.
However, because it must be logical, the official put all the information obtained from Chen Chen into this movie, and shot four movies again, corresponding to "The Grudge", "The God of Death is Coming", "Ghost" "The Call" and "The Ring".
However, unlike the endings of previous horror films, the four official films all ended with the protagonist finding four memetic patterns to deal with.
Just like Chen Chen's Basilisk pattern vaccine, the protagonists of the four movies also found four Basilisk pattern vaccines. Their names are: "Harmony", "Civilization", "Integrity" and "Friendliness".
As long as you see this meme pattern in advance, it is equivalent to being vaccinated against infectious diseases, and you are completely immune to the four meme effects.
Seeing this, Chen Chen felt a little dumbfounded. This was really an official name.
And I have to say that the person who came up with this solution is almost a genius. It does not require too much power, and only needs to take out four sheets of paper. After copying, it does not even need to be copied. It only needs to be spread online. The curse of the four memes can be easily eliminated.
Of course, in order to prevent the pattern from being wrong, only four pictures were mentioned during the filming of the movie, but these four pictures are always facing away from the audience, which is the so-called - "I will give the setting, what is the specific pattern, and you can use the USB flash drive to The mentality of "you can figure it out yourself", because from Chen Chen's mouth, we can know that the USB flash drive has the power to complete the settings.
And the result was indeed the case. All four movies were recognized by the USB flash drive. Not only that, the four images captured were all composed of complex patterns.
But what is regrettable in the end is that these patterns are of no use...