Black Technology Monopoly (The Black Tech Monopoly Corporation)

At this moment, in the hive base camp on the other side of the earth, Zhang Hengzheng is in a huge room with four squares. The walls on the front, back, left, and right of the room are covered with dense 3D virtual screens. These screens are only twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter at most. But it covered the four walls and the roof of the room.

"Entering the third process link, all the cages, the lights are turned off again for 30 seconds."

In the room, Yuehua was standing beside Zhang Heng, and at the same time, the screens were all neatly plunged into 100% darkness.

Zhang Heng did not use infrared monitoring equipment, because playing tricks with memes is very naive and ridiculous. The first law of ghost-type curse memes is that when curse-type memes affect life forms, there can be no third person. observer. Even observation in surveillance, or observation in infrared light, is a law, as if there is no suspense in the laws of physics.

In the darkness at this time, Zhang Heng seemed to be able to hear what seemed to be moans and clucking noises. If anyone heard this kind of sound, they would be scared and run out of the room immediately. It will also curl up into the corner of the room and lose all sense of resistance.

This kind of voice is full of gloom and malice, like the voice of a corpse, and like the purest evil thought, as if it can pull people into some unknown abyss.

However, in front of Zhang Heng, there was no difference at all in this kind of sound. Those clucking sounds that were constantly resounding did not affect him at all. It was not until the long thirty seconds passed and all the screens were turned on that Zhang Heng was very interested. looking at one of the screens.

On the screen, it was a Mexican male face. He was also a student of Queen St. Mary's College named Barry Lynch. Through his excellent performance in the first and second rounds, he had successfully attracted Zhang Henghe. Yuehua's attention.

"Very good, it seems that he is not only smart, but also lucky." After seeing that the other party successfully survived the third round of experiments, Zhang Heng said lightly. He looked at Barry with a pale face on the screen, and sighed. , "Unfortunately, if it weren't for ghost memes, all of them would be unsolvable. Once infected, it would mean death. Otherwise, I would really bring him into the Stellar Foundation."

"If his luck is really good, he won't be infected with this meme." Yuehua said noncommittally, and said solemnly again, "This time, a total of 1,600 people were observed to be infected, and 1,030 people survived in the end. Ten people, the survival rate is about 64%, the data is 10% higher than before, the data is being uploaded... the uploading is complete."

After speaking, Yuehua turned her head to look at Zhang Heng in amazement, "Your Excellency Commander, your original speculation was indeed correct, and 'self-belief' or 'self-hypnosis' can indeed help delay the memetic explosion.

Zhang Heng nodded and said nothing.

"Tell us how to get out!"

"Tell me how we can survive! I want to know all!"

"Let me or leave, that's my problem, please!"

"Tell me the second way to defend against memes!"

Almost at the same time as Yuehua and Zhang Heng were talking, many people screamed on the monitor as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Barry on the surveillance video also frowned and thought for a while, and finally said tentatively, "Tell me the second way to defend against memes!"

Yuehua smiled and said again without waiting for Zhang Heng, "Very good, this time, it was Mr. Barry, who was observed to be infected in cage 2o7, who grabbed the problem first, and his question was 'the second way to defend against memes'. what!'

"Oh Falk!"

"Damn!"

"Impossible, he cheated!"

"Little B brat!"

During the monitoring, there was a loud scolding sound, Zhang Heng was still, and Yuehua didn't even look at all, and still said, "He asked very well, because every method of defending against memes is our fund. It will cost countless lives to sum up the laws of blood and fire. Although these laws cannot be guaranteed to be 100% correct, they can be guaranteed to be more than 80%.

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Said, waiting for everyone's desperate shouts. Yuehua continued to say slowly, "Actually, the previous three rounds of experiments and all the words have revealed a lot of information to resist curse-like memes, such as:

1. When cursed memes affect life forms, there can be no third-person observers - everyone knows the laws of horror movies, right? In Japanese, Korean and Thai horror movies, the basic cause of death is being alone. This rule can also be applied to curse memes, because curse memes seem to be related to quantum superposition.

2. Strengthen your courage. The more fearless people are, the longer the incubation period of memes, the more fearful they are, the shorter the incubation period of memes - when watching horror movies, everyone will realize that sometimes ghosts are not the same The victim is killed at the beginning, but the cat appears to play with the prey like a ghost, the prey becomes more and more afraid, and the ghost becomes more and more vicious, until finally the ghost kills the prey. In fact, this is not the evil taste of ghosts, but a natural phenomenon when cursed memes affect life forms. When the infected person is in a normal state and the ghosts under him are in a state of fright, it can be called the incubation period. As the incubation period deepens , the infected person is more and more afraid of the unknown Mo Yin, and once the explosion period is reached, it is death. "

After Yuehua talked about this, he suddenly said again, "Then, let me talk about the third method of resisting curse-like memes, and that is - coma or sleep!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words.

"That's right, you heard it right, it's a coma and a deep sleep state." Yue Hua nodded, "According to previous experiments, we have concluded that when the infected person is in a deep sleep whether active or passive, they will not be affected by the disease. Any attack, after all, everyone should have never heard of someone being killed by a ghost in their sleep, of course, except for Freddy in the middle, but apart from the Freddy ghost in Europe and the United States, there is indeed no one in Asia who is in a coma. And those who are killed by cursed memes in their sleep, even if the memes enter the explosion period, the infected will have to wait until they wake up first and then be killed by the memes..."

"This is the third method that the Foundation has revealed for everyone to resist memes."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone fell into silence, but soon, these people screamed even more crazy, many people shouted how they could fall asleep in this environment, only some calmer people started. Frequently looking at the glass wall on the side, as if waiting for the fourth round of experiments to start, he slammed into it and forced himself into a coma.

With the opening of the fourth round, many people really slammed their heads against the glass wall as the other party said. With the sound of thumping in the video, even Yuehua was amazed at the potential of human beings. In the face of life and death , even the pain becomes so unimportant.

The same is true for Barry, and he was very lucky, but he succeeded in knocking himself out after the first impact. In the darkness, Zhang Heng in front of the screen could still hear a cold gurgling sound... Depriving those who did not make up their minds determination, or the life of an infected person who failed to pass out.

Thirty seconds passed, and when the lights came on again, more than 800 of the 1,030 people survived!

"A total of 1,030 people were observed to be infected this time, and 849 people survived. The survival rate is about 82%. The data is 18% higher than before. The data is being uploaded... Upload is complete."

Yuehua shook his head, and in the next second, a large amount of clear water was automatically sprayed from the top of the cages in everyone's cages. Stimulated by the fresh water, all the people who were knocked unconscious shouted and got up. Some were holding their heads full of blood and wailing constantly, while others kept roaring in the water in exasperation, as if they were venting their unparalleled anger towards the Stellar Foundation.

Yuehua shook his head, a sigh flashed in his eyes. It wasn't that they were cruel, but that these people were basically sentenced to death when they were infected with memes. They just used the residual value of these people to try to find a way to confront them. It's just a meme method. Although the method is a bit inhuman, it is also a helpless thing.

To blame, I can only blame them for their bad luck.

At this time, just when Yuehua looked complicated, Zhang Heng said lightly, "It doesn't matter whether the traditional process continues, the data has been collected almost, and we are going to temporarily add an experimental process to make these people die comfortably. some."

Yuehua turned her head in surprise, and then smiled, "Okay, Your Excellency Commander, you have a good day too, but what kind of temporary experiment?"

"The so-called temporary experiment is the last question that I always wanted to verify the cursed memes." Zhang Heng didn't pay attention to Yuehua's gaze, just calmly said, "It can be known from the previous law, 'There is no observer. ' is one of the important conditions for a meme explosion. So, does that mean that when the infected person stays in a situation where he is observed in the third person forever, he will never die?"

"of course not."

Yuehua wrinkled her nose and said decisively, "Let's not say whether it is possible to guarantee that a person will be permanently watched for decades or hundreds of years, even if it can be guaranteed, but who can guarantee that the 'watcher' will not blink? Maybe in the blink of an eye, the infected person in the outbreak period will be completely killed by the meme!"

"That's why I did this experiment." Zhang Heng nodded, turned to look at Yuehua, and smiled, "Don't forget, I have you."

Yuehua was stunned for a moment, and then it became clear that, indeed, although he did not belong to a normal life, he was still within the scope of life.

And it is precisely because he is an intelligent life, without the fatigue and patience of conventional life, so for Yuehua, continuous observation of a person for decades or even thousands of years can be achieved. Of course, the premise is After a thousand years, that person is not dead yet.

But at this moment, Yuehua suddenly received some news, showing a stunned and surprised mood, and muttered in a low voice, "No, how can it be, it's impossible!"

"What's wrong?" Zhang Heng's originally dull pupils shrunk slightly, which can make Yuehua, who is in control of everything at any time, have this kind of emotion, indicating that something extremely unbelievable happened!

"Your Excellency Commander!" Yuehua quickly showed a solemn look and reported, "In this 'curse meme observation experiment', I used two counting methods, one of which was observed through video surveillance, and The other is to use the original counting method to count the five hundred death row D-level personnel through the communication device, and then send the data to me, and the two will be combined for confirmation."

"Before, in the first three test procedures, all the statistics were normal, but just now, the fourth statistics given to me by the D-level personnel conflicted with my statistics!"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, "Could it be that those people made a mistake in the statistics?"

"Impossible, 500 people are divided into 50 groups, each group of ten people, each person is responsible for counting the number of people in the cage in one area, and then the ten people join and add each other, and then report the data to me, and this time, The data reported by all the groups is 727 people! Compared with the 849 people I observed, there are actually 122 people less!" Yuehua said in surprise.

Zhang Heng's expression also became serious. He looked at the countless screens in front of him and said in a low voice, "That is to say, have curse memes started to affect electronic instruments?"

"Yes, I have ordered the D-level personnel to find the 122 people who disappeared based on the previous information. They are..." Yuehua was just about to speak, but suddenly her mouth opened, but she didn't say anything. Zhang Heng also saw that on some screens in front of him, the people who were still making a fuss in the cage disappeared directly under his eyes...

"The number of people should be right now..." Zhang Heng smiled bitterly in a low voice.

"No, it's not this..." Yuehua's expression became more serious, "These human beings who have been cursed to death, once we find out that they are fake, they will really disappear. This is inevitable. Let me It wasn't this that surprised me, it was..."

"Among the D-class personnel, some people have begun to disappear..."

A haze flashed in Zhang Heng's eyes, he suddenly leaned back and let out a breath, "Two possibilities."

"The first possibility is that the cursed memes automatically use the entire island temporary base as a house, and any human being inside the island base will be infected by the meme."

"The second possibility is that when the cursed meme explodes, when the infected people who die in an area reach a certain critical point, this area will automatically form a 'cursed dead zone', so that the curse will break through. Entering the infected house can only be contagious. In this area, all human beings who are not infected will be infected by the curse, resulting in an astonishing 100% infection rate of the curse..."

"I'd rather believe it is the first one." Yue Hua's face changed when she heard the words. She is an intelligent life, and she can imagine how smart she is. Since Zhang Hengneng listed the most logical first point, he proposed the second one. Two points, then it means that even Zhang Heng himself is probably inclined to the second point!

"Unfortunately, I prefer the second." Zhang Heng waved his hand, "Remember my previous hunch? When I was in London, I said," 'I have an ominous hunch, it seems that every additional death in London People, this city will become more gloomy than before...'"

"That is to say..." Yuehua opened her mouth with a heavy expression on her face, "It is very possible that London has become the permanent area you mentioned..."

"Curse the Dead Zone!" 8