However, as the infection lasted longer and longer, everyone gradually discovered some unusual behaviors of these monsters.
This incident occurred on the sixth day of the experiment.
Researchers found that this group of monsters will eat almost anything. As long as uninfected humans and animals come within thirty meters of them, they will be attacked indiscriminately by this group of monsters until they tear the target into pieces.
And once they stop feeding, they will even eat weeds and plants on the ground.
In order to test whether this group of monsters would starve to death, Professor Will finally decided to stop feeding for three days. On the first day of stopping feeding, the group of monsters did not respond at all and still stayed in the yard, wandering unconsciously.
It was not until the next day that these monsters became visibly restless and began to look for anything edible. However, they found nothing because they could not climb out of the courtyard.
Until the third day, finally, something unexpected happened...
"Will, look..."
Eugene called Will to the laboratory he was in again, pointing to the screen in front of him, "Sure enough, these 'alien species' have shown new behavior."
Alien is what they call the creatures infected by this meme.
Will quickly looked at the screen, only to see a pool of flesh-like plant-like things appearing in the center of the courtyard. This plant was about three meters in diameter and irregularly round, like a fleshy blanket. laid on bare ground.
On the blanket, one can still clearly see the rickety hands and feet, and even a deformed head that was stretched to half a meter...
At this time, a strange creature happened to walk up to the plant. It squatted down slightly, then used its claws to tear out a strip of meat from the plant on the ground, and then stuffed it into various holes in its body.
"Are they cannibalizing themselves?"
Professor Will looked at Eugene in surprise.
"No, it should be said 'suffering'."
Eugene chuckled and said, "It's very similar, isn't it? Self-sacrifice, transform yourself into a plant that can absorb nutrients from the soil, and then feed the same kind of people. How similar is it to the crucifixion of Jesus?"
Will suddenly choked. Fortunately, he was not a Christian, otherwise he would have had to chop the opponent.
"but… "
Will seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked, "In other words, can they really grow after taking root in the soil and transforming into 'plants'?"
"Of course."
Eugene nodded, "The other party took root in the early morning, and until now, the area it covers on the land has increased by about one-tenth. This is the result of some of it being eaten by its companions. If there is nothing else If the alien species devours it, the alien species rooted in the soil will become even bigger."
"Unexpected, but reasonable."
Will immediately sighed, "Now we finally know where the flesh and blood all over the mountains and plains came from."
As he said that, he looked at Eugene again, "Get ready. There is a new order from above. In the next few days, the four continents will send a robot army to the alien plane. At the same time, they will use napalm bombs and Use incendiary bombs to clean up the flesh and blood all over the mountains and plains. After all, the only thing these things fear is fire."
"Are you ready to clean up the alien species around you? What a great idea."
Eugene smiled but said, "The only thing we need to worry about now is whether those alien species will counterattack reality, so this kind of cleanup is indeed very important."
"Not only will we clean up the alien species within a radius of several thousand kilometers, but we will also continue to strengthen the outposts."
Will added, "This is going to be a new fortress to prevent aliens from invading reality, but having said that, this meme can't spread in water, which is very good news."
As he spoke, Will looked out the window at the endless ocean, "This is very beneficial to our world."
"Of course… "
Eugene also looked around, "Now we can only pray that this infectious disease will never come to our world..."
…
The Foundation's exploration of the light spot plane continues.
Fortunately, with the existence of XTN robots, humans are still able to send enough military forces to explore the light spot plane. Through extensive observations of these alien species, we have gradually figured out some of the laws of the alien species.
For example, in the early stages of becoming a mutant, the monster still maintains certain human behavioral characteristics, such as conversation, small movements, and methods of action during life.
The most obvious thing is that alien species retain the ability to communicate. During Professor Eugene's observation, these alien species often gathered together in groups of three or five, just like humans chatting.
To this end, the foundation even hired dozens of famous linguists to actually translate some of the foreign languages.
The moment the translation came out, everyone was shocked - because their language was still essentially English, but there was a problem with the way the aliens spoke, so it was difficult for humans to understand.
According to the conversations between the alien species, the translated content is even more chilling - these alien species actually think that they are still alive, and there seems to be a problem with their cognitive systems, and they are unable to detect the changes in their bodies and companions. Instead, they see When it comes to humans or even robots, they will have emotions of panic, fear, or anger and madness.
In other words, in the eyes of these alien species, humans and other organic life forms are complete monsters...
However, if they wait until they angrily kill the organic life forms and tear them into pieces, in their perception, the flesh and blood scattered on the ground will become delicacies, delicacies in the world.
For example, after a death row prisoner was torn apart by many alien species, according to the interpretation of linguists, when these alien species saw the brain of the death row prisoner, they exclaimed that there was a huge piece of delicious jelly here, and then the alien species fought over it. During the robbery, the brain of the condemned prisoner was eaten away...
However, these are all temporary, because as the bodies of the alien species become more and more distorted, their own brains are constantly being changed. In about six to eight days, these monsters will gradually lose their human consciousness and instincts, completely Become a walking zombie that only knows how to attack humans.
Moreover, when food is scarce, some mutants will instinctively take root in the soil and become a mutant in the form of a plant. However, these patterns of action are random, and the rooting location chosen is not based on the fertility of the soil. But it all depends on the alien's own feelings.
As long as the alien species feels the location is right, no matter whether the land is barren or fertile, it will take root and absorb nutrients from the land to grow rapidly...
At this point, most of the rules surrounding this meme have been unraveled.
The Black Light Foundation has added another meme to its list of memes. This is the third meme after [Dream Man] and [Weeping Angel], and the name of this meme is—
[Memetic Effect: Flower of Flesh]
[Source: On June 15, 2028, at the longitude and latitude 22.1°S57.5°E of the Indian Ocean, an Einstein-Rosen Bridge leading to a different world was discovered. A new memetic effect was discovered after entering the Rosen Bridge.]
[Description: "Flower of Flesh" is a memetic effect with infectious properties. It has the ability to infect any organic life. The infection method is airborne. At the same time, "Flower of Flesh" also has the dual properties of infection and plant-like. Currently, two forms of infected people have been found: 'Xenomorph' and 'Plant' forms]
[Symptoms: The early symptoms of infection include rash, itching, and microbleeding, accompanied by extreme hunger. At this time, the infected person has an extremely high food intake, and can even eat three to five times the food before, and the frequency of eating has also increased greatly.]
[About 10 hours later, the infected person will enter the middle stage of infection. At this time, tissue proliferation will appear on the infected person's body surface and spread to the legs and back. At this time, the infected person's nerve center will be abnormally excited, accompanied by violence and self-mutilation. etc.]
[In the late stage of infection, sarcoma spreads throughout the body, human characteristics disappear, body deformation is accompanied by the production of a large number of tentacles. At this time, the infected person's aggressive tendencies continue to deepen, and his perception will also be distorted by the memetic effect, and all humans and other organic life forms will appear in his eyes. Like a disgusting monster, once there is any disturbance, the infected person will indiscriminately attack all life within 30 meters, including but not limited to humans. At this time, the infected person is in a 'alien' form]
[Form change: In the absence of food, some infected people will change their living form, choose a place they think is suitable and take root in the soil, transforming themselves into a carpet composed of flesh and blood. This is the infected person The second form: the "plant" form. In this form, the infected can absorb nutrients from the land to survive and grow. At the same time, other 'alien' infected in the first form will regard the infected in the second form as food. Life-sustaining energy]
[Weakness: Research has found that the flower of flesh and blood is afraid of high temperatures. The spread of infected people in the second form can be inhibited through flames. At the same time, exposing infected people to high temperatures can also greatly reduce the worsening time of the disease. At the same time, the flower of flesh and blood cannot be in water. Or survive and spread in a vacuum environment]
[Note: Once infected, the life of the infected person will enter a countdown. There is no case of the infected person recovering from health so far]
At this time, Chen Chen, who was sitting on his desk, looked at the text report that appeared on the computer, and then he showed a sigh of relief.
"Your Majesty Godfather, how would you rate this foundation's action?"
Little X's voice came.
"If the full score is 100 points, I would give it 60 points, barely passing."
Chen Chen said lazily, "In addition to the slow response at the beginning, there was even a suspicion that the senior officials at the Lilith Council were trying to blame each other, but once action was taken, things got much better, especially when there was a lot of exploration of this meme. The highlight, the only fatal thing, is that they almost brought the meme into reality… ”
"It's already pretty good."
Little The rules already show that this group of people is well-trained.”
"indeed."
Chen Chen smiled, "But the biggest goal this time has been achieved, which is to create a sense of crisis among the top leaders of the four continents and force them to accelerate the signing of the "Black Light Foundation Agreement" in countries around the world."
"In addition, the four continents are preparing to establish an official logistics organization that can cooperate with the foundation. Once this organization is established, the speed of contact, communication and cooperation between the two parties can be further improved, and it will not be in vain that I will [flesh and blood] Blanket] This meme is exposed…”
Having said this, Chen Chen couldn't help but look at his desktop, and saw a transparent but sealed petri dish on the desktop.
In the petri dish, there is a piece of meat the size of a fingernail. These pieces of meat are as red as tomatoes. They are slowly squirming in the petri dish like living creatures. At the same time, you can also see the densely packed flesh extending around the meat piece. Tentacle structure.
This piece of flesh and blood was what Chen Chen put into the world of Resident Evil, and the source of this flesh and blood came from Chen Chen's first memetic experiment a few years ago.
At that time, an anti-Black Light organization called "White Ember" was born in Europe. It opposed Black Light Technology everywhere and even tried to assassinate Black Light Technology's senior executives in a planned way.
So in a rage, Chen Chen captured hundreds of people from that organization, put them on an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, and then conducted extremely cruel memetic experiments.
In the end, more than 300 people in the entire 'White Ember' died, and all the memetic experiments were successful, and a special meme was born - [Flesh Carpet].
This is a special meme that resembles a plant form and an infectious disease. Once infected, the whole person will turn into a pool of flesh and blood. However, because of the fear of fire and the inability to spread in water, it was selected by Chen Chen to become the foundation's third member. A trial.
Just like the army needs to conduct large-scale training and exercises to increase actual combat experience, the operation of the entire foundation also needs trials so that certain unreasonable areas can be discovered and improved.
In addition to testing internal members of the foundation, Chen Chen also had a more important reason, which was to attract the attention of senior officials in the four continents.