NO.523 Cursed Meme Observation Experiment (End)

Although Barry can see that this is an observational experiment, he will not know more than others about what this experiment is trying to observe and what to experiment.

At this time, as the light quickly dimmed, Barry's eyes turned into pitch blackness, and this pitch blackness was really 100% pitch black, and there was no light source.

"Is it a psychological experiment?" Seeing the darkness in front of him, Barry murmured in a low voice, but before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt an extreme cold coming slowly, as if there were countless The dead corpse was touching his body, and there seemed to be a faint gurgling sound in his ears. Almost in an instant, goose bumps all over Barry's body exploded, and he stepped back seven times in a row. Eight steps, until it hit the wall behind him, and then his limbs slipped to the ground weakly, and his eyes were fixed on the front...

click...

Thirty seconds seemed short but long, Barry only felt that a long time had passed, and just when his consciousness was about to collapse, the dense lights above his head finally turned on again... Subconsciously, Barry quickly covered his eyes, tears in his eyes. It was only when his eyes got used to this kind of light again that he saw that the other two people in the cage were just like him, rubbing their eyes constantly, and their eyes were full of horror.

Wait, two people? !

Barry looked around abruptly, but the cage was so small that it was no more than a dozen square meters. As long as he stood in the corner of the glass cage, everything in the room could be clearly seen. No matter how he looked, he couldn't find the third missing person. personal!

That blond strong man disappeared strangely...

A haze flashed in Barry's eyes, he remembered the terrible thing he felt before, yes, Barry can only call each other 'thing', like a ghost in a movie, other than that, he really didn't know what to do. How to continue to describe that thing...

"The devil! It's the devil!" The old man on the side was full of horror. Obviously, he also felt a similar feeling to Barry. Even because he was too old, he was a little worse than the young man. The stimulation of things, he lost his control and screamed loudly!

Barry didn't have time to take care of the old man. He threw himself on the glass wall and looked at the outside world, but when he saw the outside world, his pupils suddenly shrank, because he saw that almost as long as he could see the cage, One or two people are missing... and the most terrifying cage, even everyone has disappeared!

Subconsciously, Barry's whole body trembled violently. He suddenly thought again that when he went to the toilet in the park before he passed out, the young man named Nick who was with him was accompanied by that strange and cold 'cluck' sound. , disappeared completely in this world under his own eyes...

Barry would not be naive to think that all this was a prank set up by this armed group that dared to attack the UK, so that is to say, what happened to Nick in London has been repeated here?

Memetic infection...

What does this term represent?

"The first meme-infected observation experiment is completed."

"A total of 3,432 people were observed to be infected this time. After the first round, 2,926 people survived, and the survival rate is about 85%. The data is being uploaded... The upload is complete. "

Just when Barry and the others were numbly listening to the words on the radio, the voice actually spoke again, "Everyone here who is being observed and infected, please continue to work hard, every time you live an experiment, you can know more about you. Things, including why you are here, what is a memetic infection, etc."

At this moment, Barry didn't want to speak immediately, "Tell me, what is a memetic infection!"

"Mr. Barry, who was observed to be infected in Cage 207, first asked a question." But what Barry didn't expect was that his question really worked. He just listened to the voice and said indifferently,

"Memetic effects refer to things that are similar to the role that genes play in biological evolution in the transmission process of language, ideas, beliefs, behaviors, etc., and are a basic unit of information. The phenomenon that the method is transmitted, in simple terms, is the transmission of information.”

"Memetic infection means that a certain substance or even energy has been affected by this kind of information transmission, and the results of its infection are also varied. Although there are rules to follow, there is no logic to be found, and you, It is because of the influence of a certain memetic effect that he himself is infected with the infectious phenomenon caused by this memetic effect."

"What meme infection did we get, tell us!" Barry said again before the other party could finish. But this time, the voice on the broadcast was no longer as they wished, but said indifferently, "The permission to ask questions for the first time has been exhausted, and now all those who have been observed and infected, please prepare for the second observation experiment."

"Damn, wait!" This time, not only Barry, but the old man and another middle-aged man on the side kept talking. Barry could even see the people in other cages outside the glass wall, even blushing and thick necks. Crying.

It's a pity that the voice in the broadcast seems to be the other party who doesn't care about their restraint, and still indifferently said, "Entering the second process link, all the cages, the lights are turned off again for 30 seconds."

At the moment when he heard this sentence, Barry's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he woke up. How important are the light bulbs, like the shadowless lights on the operating table, to him, once the space falls into darkness, I am afraid that 'thing', Will it come again?

"Ten seconds countdown to prepare..."

"Ten, nine, eight..."

"Damn it!" Even a relatively calm person like Barry could not help but look pale and show despair. He didn't even think about it, he retreated to the corner of the cage and waited for the next judgment of fate!

"Three, two, one!"

As the woman's voice sounded, the bright and dazzling high-intensity lights above her head clicked again and went out!

But as soon as it was extinguished, Barry felt the coldness strike again, completely covering his body and entangling him. Barry clenched his teeth and did not let himself make the slightest sound, because he knew that in this situation, It's not that that thing is attacking you, but the feelings caused by attacking other people around you. Presumably, as long as you don't make a sound, you can continue to live this round, right?

The blood in Barry's body almost solidified. He waited tormented for thirty seconds. When the light above his head came on again, he stood up like a newborn and looked around for a week. Sure enough, another middle-aged man disappeared. Now, in the entire 207 cage, only myself and the old man are left!

All this only flashed in his mind, and the next second he raised his head and asked without thinking, "Tell me what meme infection we are infected with!"

"A total of 2,926 people were observed to be infected this time, 1,600 people survived after the first round, the survival rate is about 54%, and the data is 31% lower than before. Data uploading... Uploading completed."

"Tell me what memetic infection we got!" Barry continued to stare at the radio speaker above his head and asked repeatedly.

"Mr. Barry, who was observed to be infected in Cage 207, first asked a question." On the broadcast, the woman's voice spoke again, seemingly holding back her laughter, and teased, "Mr. Barry actually grabbed the question twice in a row, it seems that other Friends in the cage are going to collapse."

Barry was stunned for a moment. He looked around and saw that in the other cages next to him, everyone was looking at him fiercely, slapping the glass wall vigorously. , there is absolutely nothing good to say among these people.

"Everyone who has been observed and infected, the memetic infection you have received is a cursed meme, a cursed meme, which is one of the most common, but also the most dangerous and tricky memetic effects, from the least harmful The most unlucky curse, to the most harmful contagious ghost curse, this series of curses can be classified as curse memes.

"Unfortunately, what you have encountered is a ghost-like curse meme that is enough to destroy the entire human civilization. This meme comes from other planes and has the ability to transform any room into a The source of memetic infection, and every human who enters its room will be infected by this meme. When this memetic effect is in the incubation period, there may be a sixth sense intuition warning, or there is a chance to see To a creepy little boy, and when the meme hits the outbreak stage, the infected will see a white woman who is beyond the realm of physical common sense, and hear a 'clucking' sound before dying."

"So, you are using us for experiments, right?" Barry fell silent after hearing all this. After a long time, he raised his head and smiled wryly, "Yes, what you said is indeed true... Although I haven't encountered it. What a little white boy, but I did hear the sound of 'giggle' and saw others disappear before."

However, the voice on the radio didn't seem to be ready to continue communicating with Barry after answering the question, but said again, "And the really deadly thing about curse memes is that after the meme has a ghost effect, using any Physical attacks are ineffective, including gunpowder weapons, laser weapons, and electromagnetic weapons..."

"However, this does not mean that we are helpless. According to the experience accumulated by the foundation's past meme attacks, it can be concluded that curse memes are related to 'quantum superposition'. When curse memes affect life forms, That is, when killing people, there cannot be a third-person observer. Moreover, after the infected person is infected with the cursed meme, there is a period of incubation period. During the incubation period, the cursed meme will not immediately kill the infected person, but It is a state of mind that constantly makes infected people panic and fear, the more afraid of its existence, the faster the outbreak of cursed memes, and the more 'fierce' the memes arrive..."

"I understand!" When Barry heard the words, his expression changed immediately. At this time, he suddenly realized why he had to conduct two lights-out experiments before. Obviously, every time the lights were turned off, everyone lost all observers. , and the reason why it was twice is because the people who survived the first time had already developed a fear of the invisible and intangible memes, so when the lights out experiment was carried out for the second time, the meme infection immediately became fierce, and also This caused the survival rate to reach 85% for the first time, but only over 50% for the second time!

Even though he had already seen the Stellar Foundation's behavior, after thinking about it all, he was still horrified by the ruthlessness of the Stellar Foundation!

"Okay, next, all those who have been observed infected, you have a ten-minute rest time. After ten minutes, we will conduct the third lights-out experiment for you. Please remember that if you want to succeed before the experiment is over Survive, please cooperate with all the work of our foundation as much as possible. Now, please relax your emotions, let you be in a stable state, and imply that you are not afraid of the existence of cursed memes. The most powerful guarantee for the cause!"

"You bastard!" Barry couldn't help laughing bitterly. He looked around, and sure enough, everyone in the other cages around was yelling wildly at the top of their heads, and some even knelt down and greeted them with tears. The voice kowtowed, obviously hating and fearing this unheard-of Foundation to the extreme...

But Barry is different from others. He is not naive enough to ask 'how can I let me go', or 'how can I get out of here', which are impossible to achieve. One question in each experiment is extremely difficult. Precious, if you ask a good question, you may be able to know a lot of information in advance. This information is likely to be like the 'belief' just now, so that you can get some small means to resist curse memes in advance...

Even if it's just a small trick... No one wants to die, let alone die inexplicably in such a place where he doesn't know where. Just when Barry began to calm his heart and make his state of mind as peaceful as possible, he Suddenly, I saw a group of people walking down the empty cage corridor before. These people were similar to me, all wearing similar clothes, but the only difference was that they were outside the cage.

These people looked numb, each holding two trays in their hands, each containing a glass of lemonade, a bag of french fries, and a burger, which were passed into the cage from the bottom according to the current number of people. It wasn't until then that Barry discovered that there were movable devices around the bottom of the cage. These devices were very ingenious, but let the outside world put any small things into it, but they couldn't let the people inside stick out a toe. head over.

After getting the food, Barry felt his stomach rumbling loudly. Obviously, he had been anesthetized for at least eighteen hours, otherwise he would not have felt this hunger...

Thinking of this, Barry simply picked up the hamburger and ate it. After all, he didn't eat it at this time. He probably won't have the chance to eat it after ten minutes. After he eliminated the french fries and lemonade, he didn't know what to do. .

"Entering the third process link, all the cages, the lights are turned off again for 30 seconds." At this moment, the urging broadcast sounded again, and the faces of many people suddenly turned white.

Barry sighed secretly, stood up, and curled up in the corner of the cage again.

It should come, sooner or later...