Chen Chen stood on the top of the building, silently listening to the sounds of the entire city. The blood flowing from his eyes had formed scabs and hung on his cheeks, giving off an inexplicable tragic aura.
Although due to the existence of antimemes, Chen Chen had forgotten the purpose of digging out his eyes after returning to this place, but thinking about it, there must be very important clues in it.
Moreover, perhaps because of the loss of vision, Chen Chen felt that his perception had become sharper.
Just by listening attentively, you can hear sounds that are usually difficult to distinguish, such as the sound of wind blowing through obstacles, the deathly silence of tall buildings under your feet, and even your own breathing and heartbeat...
Not only his hearing, Chen Chen could smell the endless rotten smell in the air. Even if he was on the coast, he could not block this smell. This rotten smell came from the buildings themselves.
The walls of these buildings have long been filled with the bodies of missing people, and these walls are the source of the rotten smell...
Through the previous information, Chen Chen has learned that the cursed meme at this time is no longer limited to the room, but the surrounding areas of the room will also be infected. It is because of this that the cursed meme will completely get out of control, causing the entire house to be infected. Shangdu fell.
If we don't try to stop it, Shangdu is just the beginning. Next, the whole world will start from Shangdu and rot bit by bit until the whole world completely loses the last piece of pure land.
Humanity will be helpless with this meme.
"If I guess correctly, the death toll should be a very important factor."
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice. It was recorded in the data that tens of thousands of students were isolated in the original large hospital. According to official estimates, less than one-tenth of the students were infected with the cursed meme. .
In other words, about a thousand of these students will eventually be killed by the meme. At that time, the remaining students will have passed the incubation period, and it will be determined that they are not infected, and the suspicion of infection can be ruled out.
Although a bit cruel, for the helpless officials, this is the easiest plan to stop losses.
And this formula does have a certain effect at the beginning. As time goes by, the number of missing people will be very high at first, but after reaching a peak, it will quickly decrease.
That's because people infected with the meme are almost dead.
If you divide this data into a curve graph in your mind, you can see it clearly - it is an arched curve. The data is not high at the beginning, but as time goes by, the curve begins to rise rapidly until it reaches a peak. Then it started to drop rapidly again...
As long as this data eventually drops to zero, it will be equivalent to controlling the spread of memes and controlling this thing that scares the world at a moderate cost.
Unfortunately, facts have proven that Central Continent and the FBI still underestimate memes.
According to the subsequent data, the curve did not completely drop to zero as they expected. Instead, after falling to a low point, it rose again in vain, and its peak began to rise higher and higher than before. Double, triple, even ten times!
As for the reason for this, Chen Chen has already obtained the answer from the data - in a large building, when the number of people who die with curses reaches a certain number, these curses will be connected together, making the infection range It spreads from a single room to an entire large building!
At this point, anyone entering the building will be infected with the Grudge Meme.
Then, when more and more people are killed by the curse in this building and reach a critical point again, the curse meme will explode again, and the scope of infection will completely spread out of the building, making the area even wider. All areas have become cursed places.
Then it completely fell into an endless spiral of proliferation.
This is the deadliest rule of the grudge meme.
It was precisely because the Central Continent District officials brought all infected people together that it was self-defeating and allowed the meme to spread in an even more rampant manner.
"In other words, there are at least several areas of this kind of indiscriminate infection in Shangdu at this time. As long as you enter this area, you will be infected with the cursed meme, and these areas will be affected by the increasing number of people dying. The area is getting wider and wider…”
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice, "In that case, let's call this area the 'cursed dead zone'. If you enter the cursed dead zone, you will die."
Analyzing everything silently in my mind, the above is probably another rule of the Grudge Meme. Compared with the first rule - there cannot be a third-person observer, this rule is undoubtedly more deadly, and its threat is more of a threat to the entire of human civilization.
Nowadays, it seems that Shangdu, an international metropolis, can be said to be in ruins.
And if we don't find ways to reduce the deaths of this group of people in the cursed dead zone, there will be a greater hidden danger - when the number of deaths in the cursed dead zone reaches more than one million, I am afraid that the entire commercial city will become a large cursed dead zone. , and even completely extended out, infecting nearby cities.
The only way to suppress the expansion of the dead zone is probably for the official warriors to cut off their wrists and evacuate people thousands of kilometers away within a few days, so that a ring of no-man's land can be created to suppress the cursed dead zone. diffusion.
But, do the officials have the courage and ability
Chen Chen secretly sighed. Thirty percent of the entire continent's population lives near the Shangdu Circle, which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. If they were all evacuated, the manpower and material resources required would be astronomical.
Moreover, even if the government successfully suppresses it at a huge cost, this area of several thousand kilometers in radius will be considered completely ruined. It is like an indelible scar, ugly and horizontal on the surface of the earth. Even after thousands and hundreds of years, it will still remain it's here.
Moreover, in these areas, the Earth Federation spends tens of billions of dollars every year for troops to be stationed at the borders, and no one is allowed to enter them. After all, although these cursed dead zones have stagnated due to the loss of resources that continue to spread around them, even if a hundred years have passed, After ten thousand years, the so-called cursed dead zone is still contagious.
Because a meme is a concept, and a concept never disappears.
Here, it is like a big time bomb of human civilization, which may be detonated again at any time, and no one can guarantee that there will be a chance of being stopped the next time it detonates.
These thoughts flowed through Chen Chen's mind, but Chen Chen didn't have to worry about them. After all, he had already used the Basilisk pattern for immunity in "The Cursed Plane". It was like being injected with a vaccine. Antibodies had been produced in his body, permanently. Sexually immune to the infection of curse memes.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen jumped up and jumped directly from the top of the tall building.
Next, a magical scene happened. Chen Chen dropped at a constant speed, jumped directly from the 100-meter-high building, and then landed gently on the ground.
However, at this time, the streets were extremely desolate, and there was not even a human figure, so there was no audience to cheer for this shocking scene.
Chen Chen tilted his head. In his perception, he was on a familiar street. This road was called Renmin Road, which was a type of commercial street.
However, the shops on both sides of the commercial street were either completely closed or had been forcibly opened and the products inside had been looted.
Obviously, the people in this city are not dead. There are still a large number of people trapped in the city. They are hiding in some shops and homes, hoarding enough food, thinking that they can avoid the strange white-clothed man. woman.
But this is all just wishful thinking, and memes don’t play hide-and-seek with humans.
"It's just that when you return to Shangdu, do you want to find something?"
Chen Chen was a little confused and depressed at the same time. After all, after coming back from the other side of the passage, he found that he had taken off his own eyes, making himself blind for the first time.
Not only that, his subconscious was still urging him to return to Shangdu. Although Chen Chen was already immune to the cursed meme, the ghost call meme and the midnight ring meme were still spreading in the city, and there were even more terrifying death meme. because.
But until now, Chen Chen had never heard of anyone experiencing the death meme.
But thinking about it, this is normal, because everyone who has seen the Death meme is already dead.
Next, Chen Chen simply wandered aimlessly on the streets of the city. He believed that he had definitely planned something on the other side of the passage. At this time, all he had to do was execute his plan.
…
Next, Chen Chen continued to use his field ability to scan both sides of the street.
Taking advantage of the field's ability to have no blind spots, Chen Chen quickly found several living people through the gaps on both sides of the road.
These living people are very vigilant. They hide themselves in daily necessities stores. There is enough food for them to eat for several months without worrying about starving to death.
And because Chen Chen did not lower his footsteps when he walked, many people who heard the noise even stared at him through the crack in the door.
But when they saw the blood on Chen Chen's cheek, some of the people who originally wanted to ask Chen Chen were completely speechless. In their opinion, Chen Chen's weird dress was no different from that of Kayako.
But just when Chen Chen turned to the end of a road, his steps suddenly stopped.
In his perception, at a certain corner of the street, a familiar figure flashed past.
So Chen Chen quickly stopped, turned around, closed his eyes, and walked in the direction where the figure appeared.
Then, Chen Chen "sensed" a familiar figure.
It's the beggar.
This beggar looked very young, only about fourteen or fifteen years old. His thin and hunched body was curled up in a dark corner. The skin all over his body had ulcerated and emitted a strange smell.
His hair had turned into flakes like wool felt. Chen Chen couldn't even judge the other person's appearance. The only thing he could be sure of was that the beggar was a girl.
Sensing this scene, Chen Chen slowly stopped walking. He closed his eyes and faced the other person, while frowning slightly, showing a solemn expression.
Will the beggar who can survive the memetic disaster be an ordinary beggar
Chen Chen didn't believe it.
But at this moment, the beggar finally saw Chen Chen. Suddenly, she slowly sat up, stretched out her skinny and dark arms, and crawled towards Chen Chen with a strange gesture...
Field energy cannot observe as many details as eyes. Chen Chen could only sense that the other party was staring at him with a pair of big, dull eyes.
Is it finally here
Chen Chen only felt that his whole body was a little stiff, and he subconsciously took a step back. But at this moment, a crisp exclamation suddenly came from behind Chen Chen, "Chen Chen, run quickly!"
What followed was a crisp and rapid sound of footsteps.
This voice is Ax!
Thinking of this, the owner of the voice had also entered Chen Chen's field energy range. It was only then that Chen Chen completely relaxed.
In the induction of field energy, it turned out to be Akers.
"Chen Chen, hurry up! Run!"
Akers grabbed Chen Chen's right hand and pulled him back, while panicking, "Don't touch that person, never!"
Chen Chen only felt that he was caught by a slender and soft hand, and then he was pulled by the other party and ran in the opposite direction...
"How will you be here?"
Chen Chen was still a little wary and asked as he ran. As soon as he faced the beggar, Akers appeared after him. It seemed too coincidental.
"I, I don't know either..."
However, Akers was stunned for a moment. She shook her head and said with a puzzled expression, "I don't know why I appear here. I only know that you are in danger!"
When Chen Chen heard this, his heart moved. If Akers was really the incarnation of Little
But, is all this really that simple
Chen Chen only felt that the doubts in his heart were getting stronger. Although the person in front of him was indeed Akers, for some reason, he gradually began to feel awkward.
It seems that I forgot something very important.
At this moment, the sweat from Chen Chen's running suddenly flowed down from Chen Chen's forehead, and when it flowed through his eyes, a heartbreaking pain suddenly hit him.
"ah!"
Chen Chen couldn't help but cover his eyes, half-knelt on the ground and screamed in pain.
"Chen Chen, run quickly! Don't stop!"
Akers once again grabbed Chen Chen's collar and wanted to pull Chen Chen forward. At the same time, his tone was already crying, becoming more and more urgent.
But just like this scene, Chen Chen suddenly woke up as if he was enlightened!
He finally remembered what was wrong. As the incarnation of Little X in the dream, Akers didn't even ask his eyes!
Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly raised his head. He faced directly in the direction of Akers and opened his eyes fiercely at the same time!
Suddenly, a pair of black hole-like eye sockets appeared in the position of Chen Chen's eyes. The eyes were blurred with blood and flesh, making Chen Chen look like an evil ghost...