Trickster Hunter

Chapter 250 Self-death

"It is detected that the frequency of Chen Hongjuan's meme is changing rapidly... Its meme is breaking down and dying! It..." A researcher staring at the equipment shouted hurriedly.

In fact, he didn't need to say anything, everyone present could see that Chen Hongjuan was dying... Its body began to dissolve, and the flesh and blood turned into pus, which kept pouring out of the tissue from bubbles, and then burst with a "pop", leaving large and small pits on the surface of the body like craters on the moon.

The remaining meme shell is on the verge of limit and can no longer maintain this broken body.

"Sun Hang?! You killed it?" Yang Qi said in astonishment.

"No... It wasn't Sun Hang who did it." Another researcher immediately defended Sun Hang, "It was the meme of the weird creature that died by itself..."

"Self-death..." Yang Qi pursed his lips and frowned as he stared at Chen Hongjuan who was transforming into a pool of pus.

It is not that there is no precedent for the spontaneous apoptosis of strange things. On the contrary, many known strange things, especially those rule-based strange things and phenomenon-based strange things without entities, are not destroyed by humans, but are destroyed by themselves.

From a certain perspective, strange things also have a "lifespan".

Just like the lifespan of humans depends on the length of telomeres, there should be something in the strange memes that can determine their existence time. When this thing is "exhausted", the strange memes will gradually begin to die.

However, this statement is still only in the theoretical stage. There is no reliable evidence to prove whether there are "quasi-telomeres" in strange memes. With the current equipment and technological level of humans, it is also difficult to analyze those meme fragments in more detail.

"Forget it, Sun Hang, come out." Yang Qi rubbed his eyebrows and said in a helpless tone.

...

"By the way, is this one-way glass a black technology?" Sun Hang walked to the outer room of the laboratory and walked to the one-way glass with some curiosity-at the same time, several researchers in protective clothing were cleaning up Chen Hongjuan's "remaining traces" in the inner room.

The isolation between the inside and outside of the laboratory was excellent. Even with Sun Hang's perception ability, he was not able to detect the abnormality of Chen Hongjuan's meme when he was outside. He just felt that something was wrong.

It was not until he pushed open the heavy gate that he found that Chen Hongjuan's meme had changed significantly from the first time he contacted her.

It was for this reason that Sun Hang directly removed the restraints on her.

He wanted to test whether Chen Hongjuan was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy or was really strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

And Chen Hongjuan's performance afterwards proved that Sun Hang's guess was completely correct.

"The key is not the glass, but the interlayer of the glass." Yang Qi said, "A kind of self-type weirdo 'barrier liquid crystal' that is currently recognized as having a higher safety level is added to the glass interlayer. The most important feature of this weirdo is that as long as the power supply is sufficient, it can isolate the breath of the weirdo... Not only this piece of glass, but most of the containers and wall interlayers in the containment area have this kind of weirdo added to them."

"Can this thing be mass-produced?" Sun Hang asked.

The underground containment area of ​​the Tianfu City Research Institute is not small. If every wall is filled with barrier liquid crystal, the total amount of this substance is extremely large. Moreover, even a research institute in a border area like Tianfu City has this treatment. The containment areas of other city-state research institutes and the Tianshu Tower, which contains the largest number of strange creatures in the entire federation, must have similar designs.

"Yes." Yang Qi nodded, "We just need to extract its meme and implant it into a liquid crystal with a specific formula. The meme will replicate itself and then "infect" this liquid crystal into a barrier liquid crystal... When building this containment area, the amount of barrier liquid crystal used is about 15 tons. If it cannot be mass-produced, we can't afford it."

"Then this thing should be an industrial product... Isn't it a bit unfair to call it a strange thing?" Sun Hang asked in confusion, "It is obviously a beneficial and harmless thing..."

"Strange things are not necessarily harmful things. This sentence is a consensus in the academic community." Yang Qi rolled his eyes at Sun Hang , as if to complain that Sun Hang's understanding of weird things was too shallow, "There is only one basis for determining whether a thing is a weird thing, that is, whether there is a weird meme inside it... As for whether it is beneficial or harmful to humans, this is not the key."

"So, there are good weird things?"

"According to your understanding, you can say that." Yang Qi curled her lips, "It's just that those weird things that will cause serious harm to human life are more likely to attract public attention."

The weirdness of weird things is the weirdness of weirdness, and the original meaning of weirdness is abnormal and strange. This is a neutral word, and there is no positive or negative meaning.

It's just that when this word is given to some specific things, the public's impression of this word will change accordingly.

Just like when the word "nuclear" is mentioned, most people don't think of nuclear fuel, which has become the main source of energy in the human world, but the two mushroom clouds rising from the island country east of Xiazhou.

But then again, there are indeed some similarities between these two things - such as lethality, infectiousness... and a large amount of knowledge that is still beyond the scope of human cognition.

"By the way, how do you plan to report this matter?" Sun Hang asked.

"What else can we do? Just report it truthfully." Yang Qi shrugged. "The monsters withered on their own. This is an uncontrollable force. Anyway, we don't have to take responsibility... As for the remaining pus and blood, it should be divided into two parts, one for specimen preservation, and the other for the Tianshu Tower."

"Is this thing still worth studying?"

"Yes, but not much." Yang Qi said, "After the meme withered, it was just a pool of rotten pus and blood. At most, it was just a study of the changes in human body tissues after the weird transformation."

"Don't you study it?"

"I have a lot of more important work...thanks to you." Yang Qi sighed, "Guess who is in charge of the research work of the Phoenix Factory Underground Palace now?"

"Such an important job, that old man in a wheelchair doesn't come to take care of it?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.

"The teacher said that he is old and the future belongs to us young people. It is time for our generation to take the lead. Then he hung up the phone..." Yang Qi said, "Who knows where he is hiding in a corner drinking and smoking secretly... I am too lazy to care about him."

"Congratulations!" Sun Hang immediately bowed to Yang Qi.

"Congratulations for what?"

"You should not call me Director Yang in the future. You should change it to Director Yang."

"Get lost."

This is half a chapter. Because of the plot, I divided one chapter into two chapters. There will be another half chapter later. I will update it a little later.