Chapter 375 Contact and Cognition

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After learning that Li Qi had personally met with the [non-existent friend] and destroyed him, Liu Cheng, who was drinking tea, spit out the tea in his mouth on the spot:

"Ahem...what did you say?! You were targeted by pollution and you destroyed it?!"

"Don't be so excited."

Li Qi dodged Liu Cheng's spit attack with a calm expression, sat on the edge of the sofa, and explained:

"What I'm dealing with is just a 'clone'. The real pollution has not been eliminated yet, so I want to know how Bureau 057 deals with the pollution."

If pollution can invade even Dream Town, then Dream Town is not absolutely safe. Li Qi must find a way to prevent pollution.

Otherwise, even if you hide in a dream town, your life may be in danger if you are targeted by pollution with unknown rules.

For this reason, Li Qicai asked Liu Cheng about how to deal with Bureau 057.

During this period, Liu Cheng traveled to many places with Bureau 057. Zhao Chenghu did intend to promote him as a formal team member. Liu Cheng should still know some basic information about dealing with pollution.

Seeing Li Qi's calm look, Liu Cheng didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

It was precisely because he was close to Bureau 057 that Liu Cheng understood how difficult it was to deal with pollution.

Even in Bureau 057, which has some experience in dealing with pollution, no one claims that it can eliminate pollution.

But Li Qi eliminated a contamination that was close to him, even if it was a clone!

Liu Cheng was shocked for a while, and then gradually recovered his thoughts.

He looked at Li Qi sitting opposite, the shock in his heart gradually subsided, and his sense of security in this safe house was gradually increasing.

Regardless of how Li Qi did it, since the other party can even eliminate pollution, it proves that it is absolutely right to follow Li Qi!

When he thought that even if he encountered pollution in the future, it would be easily solved by Li Qi, Liu Cheng's sense of security immediately increased to the highest level.

He recalled Li Qi's question just now, exhaled slowly, and explained:

“During the period when pollution appeared, the international community defined types of pollution. Pollution can be roughly divided into two types, one is [contact pollution] and the other is [cognitive pollution].

“The way to deal with the former is to isolate contaminated infected persons from the source of pollution and physically cut off the spread of pollution.

"And the latter's response... is to delete the memory."

Liu Cheng recalled what Zhao Chenghu told him and relayed it to Li Qi.

"First tell me what contact pollution is and what cognitive pollution is."

Li Qi asked the meaning of the two nouns Liu Cheng said.

Liu Cheng became quieter. He recalled what Zhao Chenghu and Meng Xiaolin had said to him, organized some words, and then said to Li Qi:

"Contact pollution is similar to a virus. It has a key source of infection, which is similar to the [running water] you encountered in Australia last time. It is contact pollution. The infected person needs to come into contact with the footprints of [running water] to suffer the infection. Infect.

"When encountering this kind of pollution, you only need to eliminate the footprints of the source of infection and keep an eye on all infected people at the same time, and you can effectively deal with it."

“What about cognitive pollution?”

"Well... I heard from Zhao Chenghu that cognitive pollution is the most troublesome thing, because it can be understood from the name. When you know it and recognize it, you have been infected."

"..."

Li Qi's heart moved when he heard this.

He suddenly remembered a term he had heard before traveling through time.

Memetic pollution.

This cognitive pollution sounds a lot like memetic pollution.

Seeing Li Qi's silence, Liu Cheng thought Li Qi was digesting the information he just said, so he waited for a while.

When Li Qi looked up at him again, Liu Cheng continued to explain:

"The [non-existent friend] you are facing this time is a kind of cognitive pollution. When you know that this friend exists and mentally identify it as your friend, then you will be targeted by it. on, thus slowly losing life.

"Similarly, the [Dream Man] pollution that was circulated in the European Union some time ago is also a similar cognitive pollution. As long as you know the appearance of the dream man, the dream man will come to your dream."

"To deal with such contamination, just delete the memory?"

After listening, Li Qi thought of the solution Liu Cheng mentioned just now and asked in surprise.

Liu Cheng just said that the best way to deal with cognitive pollution is to delete the relevant memories of the polluter.

Liu Cheng nodded: "I also asked Zhao Chenghu about this. Zhao Chenghu said that as long as the relevant memories are deleted, because this type of pollution comes from cognition, as long as the cognition of this type of pollution is eliminated, pollution can be effectively prevented. ”

Awareness, and knowing, is the source of this type of pollution spread.

Maybe they just met once, maybe they just accidentally heard or saw a sentence somewhere, or maybe like Li Qi, they had a good chat with some weird thing on the Internet, and they will be infected with this kind of thing. Cognitive pollution.

When there are such existences in your memory, they will haunt you until they take your life.

But on the contrary, if there is no such existence in your memory, and you have lost recognition of them and do not know what they are, then you are safe.

Bureau 057 and other departments dealing with mystery use this method to isolate the spread of cognitive pollution.

So far, this method is indeed very effective.

At least the [Dream Man] and the [Non-Existent Friend] have been effectively contained.

“…So, the 057 Bureau has a magical object that can erase memories?”

Li Qi asked this key question.

Liu Cheng nodded: “Yes, they do, but Zhao Chenghu said that it is difficult to apply for this thing, and it is not very convenient to carry. This time, it was because the bureau confirmed that this was cognitive pollution that people brought this magical object here, and took it back after use.”

“So fast?”

Li Qi was very surprised.

From the time the incident happened to the time it was resolved, less than a week had passed. Even yesterday, Liu Cheng was still following Zhao Chenghu for an “internship”. As a result, after one day, Zhao Chenghu had already applied for a magical object that can erase memories from the bureau.

And it was returned on the same day.

This speed is too fast.

“It seems that there is a magical object responsible for transmission, Zhao Chenghu said so, but I didn’t see it.”

The appearance of magical objects has brought convenience to humans in many places.

If it weren’t for the corresponding price of using magical objects, I believe that governments of various countries would definitely use magical objects without restrictions.

I’m afraid some countries are already doing this.

Thinking of these magical objects, Li Qi also thought of the [friend] pollution that can enter the dream town.

The dream town can't prevent the entry of pollution, but other objects may be able to play an effective role in pollution.

As the days of darkness become more frequent, there are more and more objects in the world.

Perhaps Li Qi can find an object with similar functions and use it to prevent pollution from entering his safe house.

However, before finding a new object, Li Qi must find a [friend] first.

First see if you can find the [friend] body, and absorb and digest it thoroughly to enhance your mental strength. At present, this priority is higher than finding objects.

After drinking the tea in the cup, Li Qi no longer asked Liu Cheng about the objects in the 057 Bureau.

He stood up and said:

"Continue to follow Zhao Chenghu and collect information about strange objects and pollution. Just remember to tell me if there is anything worth noting."

Seeing Li Qi getting up and putting on his clothes, Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment. He asked in surprise:

"...Wait, are you going out?"

"Well, I haven't been out for a long time. Is there any problem going out for a walk?"

Liu Cheng did not answer immediately. He turned his head and looked at the current sky.

Because it is winter and Suhe City is relatively close to the north, it will get dark very early. It is not even three o'clock now, and the sky is already a little dark.

Seeing this, Liu Cheng reminded Li Qi:

"Try not to come back too late. The city can still maintain order during the day, but not at night. It is said that the military will impose a curfew in a while."

"Don't worry, I'm just going out to relax. I won't come back too late."

Li Qi put on a white down jacket and left home.

The pollution of [non-existent friend] has been temporarily controlled by the 057 Bureau by clearing its memory. Li Qi had previously destroyed a clone of [friend], so [friend] would definitely not come to find Li Qi again.

Therefore, if he wanted to find this [friend], Li Qi had to take the initiative to go out and see if there were any fish that were missed by the 057 Bureau.

After all, the reason for the birth of [friend] is still unclear. Even if the 057 Bureau deleted the memories of the polluters, it might not be able to stop [friend] from continuing to pollute others.

This is the source that Li Qi is looking for.

Coming out of the safe house, Li Qi looked at the sky and the snow falling around him, and slowly exhaled.

There was no water vapor inside the doll's body, and the breath Li Qi exhaled did not condense into mist in the air, which made Li Qi lose some of the fun in winter.

However, Li Qi didn't care much about these trivial matters. He looked around and walked along the road to the city center and ran towards the city center.

It is easier to encounter polluted people in crowded places. Even if you don't meet [friend], you can encounter other pollution.

Li Qi wanted to know if other pollution could also enhance his mental strength.

Walking alone on the street, Li Qi met some kind passers-by who asked him if he had lost his parents and kindly wanted to take him to the police, but Li Qi persuaded them to leave with hints.

The appearance of a child does bring Li Qi many advantages, but sometimes, the appearance of a child is also a trouble for Li Qi.

It seems that he will have to create an adult body after returning to act after the apocalypse.

Maybe... he can also use the method of controlling mecha to make the adult body bigger, and control the child-like body inside.

But in this case, energy is a problem.

And the dual control mode is too cumbersome and needs to be simplified.

Li Qi thought about these things, but suddenly he felt that everything in front of him was dark.

But in just one second, the light of the street lamp shone on Li Qi and on the snow-covered road surface.

Looking at the dirty snow reflecting the light of the street lamp, Li Qi raised his head and looked up at the sky.

The sky, which was originally set in the sunset, became pitch black in the blink of an eye, without any light.

The whole earth was plunged into darkness.

Listening to the slightly panicked but not too frightened discussions of the people around him, Li Qi knew that this was another dark day.

And if Li Qi remembered correctly, this dark day was the tenth time.