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Chapter 325: 325

When Chen Chen heard Little X’s voice, he could not hold back a thin smile . “X, you shouldn’t install communication facilities in this room . It’s likely that mysterious phenomena will leak out and cause a worldwide disaster . ”

“It doesn’t matter because I’ve analyzed that sound isn’t the infection condition of this mysterious phenomenon you’ve encountered . ”

Little X’s childish voice replied, “According to the information brought back by my clone X-112, I think the infection condition should be related to the female corpse you saw . ”

“It’s the action!”

At this moment, Yoru Kamidera had adapted to the environment here and he quickly brought up his previous guess . “When I was outside the spaceship I saw the movements of the white figure . It put an ear on the wall, exactly in the same manner as the oil stain you described!”

Chen Chen was startled when he heard this . He recalled that when he entered that room, he did imitate the woman’s previous actions by placing his ear against the wall based on the traces she left .

In other words, this action triggered the infection condition?

“This makes sense . ”

Little X’s voice was approving . “So to prevent the mysterious phenomenon from spreading out, I ordered the industrial park to work overnight, manufacturing a Faraday cage made of special tungsten steel . The thickness of the walls is more than half a meter and there are buffer layers installed . Even a tank’s armor-piercing projectiles can forget about breaking through this metal lump . ”

“I don’t know if a tank’s armor-piercing projectile can break through, but if it’s hit by a projectile, Yoru Kamidera and I will be shaken to death in here . ”

Chen Chen spread his hands .

“It doesn’t matter . This is just the first layer of the isolation room . ”

Little X quickly added . “Now our factory is still working overtime to manufacture the second protective wall of the isolation room . The thickness of the second protective wall will be up to one meter . Once completed, it can be directly placed over the isolation room . At that point, the thickness of the isolation room’s outer wall will be more than 1 . 5 meters .

“After that, they’re rushing to complete the third and fourth layers too . My ultimate goal is to create an isolation room that is more than ten meters thick and capable of resisting nuclear bombs . No matter what mysterious phenomenon it is, it can forget about breaking through this wall!”

“It sounds splendid indeed . ”

Chen Chen could not help laughing . “But how about our air and food supply as well as our excretions?”

“Please rest assured, I’ll install a circulation device and a discharge device on each layer . There’s no problem with air circulation . ”

Little X explained, “As for the food supply, don’t worry . I’ve set up a special energy bar dispenser . This dispenser is usually closed . Only when the energy bars and drinking water are placed inside, will the mechanism be triggered, and the food will enter, layer by layer . For example, when food is entering the second layer of protective wall, the first layer of protective wall will automatically close . In any case, the sealed state of the room will always be maintained . ”

After hearing Little X’s explanation, Chen Chen did not know whether to laugh or cry . Still, on second thought, it seemed that there was no alternative .

It could even be said that this was a contest between modern technology and mysterious phenomena . They would find out whether the products of human technology was more secure or if the mysterious phenomenon would still win out .

“Not only that . ”

Little X continued . “I’ve controlled the Black Knights to work overtime to come up with a T-virus that matches your DNA . We’re just one step away from success . I want to know — once you officially merge with the T-virus and become a new lifeform with different DNA from normal humans, will these mysterious phenomena still be effective?”

After listening to Little X’s words, Yoru Kamidera was also completely astounded . Although he did not know what T-virus was, he still understood that viruses could transform human DNA . This direct manipulation of DNA to evade mysterious phenomena — it was the first time he had heard of such a method . Still, when he thought about it, it was worth trying .

Even he was stunned by this little girl’s remarks .

In this manner, the pair stayed in this impenetrable room . Chen Chen did not shy away from the topic, constantly discussing the Basilisk patterns and the mysterious phenomena with Little X while Yoru Kamidera listened silently .

“I’ve carried out the relevant research based on the information you brought back, and it seems that the principle of the original Basilisk pattern isn’t that complicated . ”

Little X said compliantly, “I should know . For example, there’s a computer virus called a ‘fork bomb’ . This tiny character set can define a meaningless function, then ask the computer to execute it repeatedly . The computer has no common sense to rely on and will only obey . What it is given becomes what it will execute, finally causing the program to crash .

“The picture named ‘Eye’ is like a virus targeting the human brain . The moment the human brain receives, through vision, the information from this picture, it will suffer brain death due to a program crash . ”

“I know this, it’s called ‘Gödel’s shock’ . ”

Chen Chen nodded . “But how do you explain the other Basilisk patterns?”

“Similarly, they are all a type of information . ”

Little X then replied, “You can think of it as an information virus . Information can be transmitted and this picture is the carrier of information . Human vision is the channel for information transmission and the target of transmission is the human brain . There’s already an existing concept of information of this nature, we call it — memes . ”

“Memes?”

Chen Chen’s expression flickered . His knowledge about memetics flashed in his mind automatically — that was a kind of information dissemination unit, evolved from the word “gene” from biology, meaning “the gene of information” .

According to this concept, it was an existence whose evolution did not depend on the specific chemical basis of genetics, but only depended on the self-replicating transmission unit . This was what they called a meme .

The dissemination of memes was the process of disseminating information . Unlike genes that could only be disseminated across generations, memes could spread from person to person at any time through communication and other media .

To give a simple example, in the cesspool of the Internet, someone might learn about the joke of using “Righteous Light”[1] and occasionally crack the joke themselves . Then, someone uninformed would ask: “What’s the joke?”

After the first person’s explanation, the second person understood the meaning of “Righteous Light” . Thus, when the latter encountered something that reeked a little of positivity, they would hum the tune subconsciously — this was the spread of memes .

In this case, the song “Righteous Light” was the carrier of the meme . It was transmitted through communication between people . Human beings were the infectors or hosts of the meme, and the transmission channel was the entire Internet .

After the host was infected, there would be an intense desire to spread the meme around . This desire could also be seen as a form of “bragging” . In short, driven by this desire, the meme would be spread through the Internet to an increasingly larger audience, eventually forming a kind of network trend .

“However, this is different from jokes . Generally speaking, jokes have no influence on human beings . Even globally banned music such as “Gloomy Sunday”[2] uses psychological suggestions and other methods to impact people’s spirits . They contain no inherent influence on humans and will not interfere with the state of human life . ”

Little X explained, “But the memetic is different . This is a special kind of information that has the ability to directly interfere . Its impact on humans is on both physical and mental levels . I think this impact and interference can be called —

“The memetic effect!”

[1] A lyric from a Chinese song that later became used to satirize superficially “positive” sentiments .

[2] A song purported in urban legend to have caused many suicides .