That deadly pattern first appeared on websites all over the world. It was the work of a notorious hacker alliance. Thousands of the world's most visited websites were compromised overnight. After that, the pattern was posted on the homepage of these websites... "
Fujiwara Aoki took a deep breath and suddenly chuckled. "That day, caught off guard, the world's death toll exceeded a billion."
"How did the governments deal with it?"
Chen Chen asked, "Also, what was that pattern? Were they able to decipher it later?"
"Of course, the governments wouldn't sit idly by after such a major incident."
Fujiwara Aoki nodded, but his expression became even gloomier. "This hacker group was wiped out within three days. No one knows where this pattern came from. Maybe the governments of the various countries know, but they didn't tell us."
"As for why the pattern killed people, some experts came up with a unified explanation — it's a pattern with a special structure. It's actually a set of geometric paradoxes that can't be processed by the human brain. It causes the human brain to produce logical paradoxes like a computer, which induces a physiological phenomenon known as' Gödel's shock '. Under this physiological phenomenon, the human brain will go into a state of shutdown."
"Gödel's shock?"
Chen Chen repeated in a low voice. Gödel was the greatest mathematician and logician of the 20th century. His most famous achievement was the famous Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
"Yes, because many people have said that this pattern seems to be related to Gödel's discoveries in the field of mathematics and logic. Therefore, the sequelae triggered by that pattern is known as' Gödel's shock '."
Fujiwara Aoki explained, "When the brain goes into a state of shutdown, the heart and lung function will also completely stop. When this happens, the person will die completely. It's for this reason that the pattern that took away the lives of more than a billion people is known as Basilisk. It's formed from the blood of Medusa after her death, so it has the same ability as Medusa to petrify humans."
Chen Chen nodded. Basilisk was a mythical monster. In fact, it was based on the real world cobra. In ancient Greek legends, it was known as the most poisonous creature in the world. It was more fitting to use this monster as a metaphor for the pattern that killed people with a single glance.
"So, why were you able to survive it?"
Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly asked, "Is there some kind of pattern or is it completely based on luck?"
"The official explanation is because he's too young …"
Fujiwara Aoki scratched his head. "When this happened, I was only twenty years old. I was at the peak of my brain's potential, so I survived the brain crash."
"And the final data is the same. After seeing the pattern, the highest survival rate is between the ages of 15 to 25. It's about 10%."
"The highest probability is only 10%?"
Chen Chen could not help frowning. This pattern was truly terrifying.
"That's right. The higher the age, the lower the chance of surviving Basilisk. The survival rate for people over 60 is less than 0.1%."
Fujiwara Aoki could not help but recall, "I still remember the scene of that day. It was early in the morning. I had just woken up and opened the webpage when I saw the picture on the webpage. Then, everything went black and I didn't know anything else. I only woke up again half an hour later."
"After that, I noticed that my phone was bombarded with text messages. The officials used text messages to warn everyone not to access the Internet, not to use social media, and so on. The reason was that the picture had been turned into a virus. Once a computer or phone is infected, the picture will appear directly on the screen..."
"Three days later, under the wrath of governments all over the world, the hacker organization was no match for them. All of their members located all over the world were dug out, not a single one was left out."
At this point, Fujiwara Aoki's face suddenly showed a hint of mockery. "At that time, we naively thought that this was the end of the incident. Never would we have thought that this incident was only the beginning..."
"That's because that picture has been spread."
Fujiwara Aoki's eyes gradually dimmed. "The Internet has long been embedded into the lives of people all over the world. No one can live without the Internet. That Basilisk picture continued to circulate on the Internet. From time to time, people would be killed by Basilisk. Although all countries have enacted strict laws to prohibit the spread of that picture, they still can't completely stop this phenomenon."
"It wasn't a big deal at first. Although Basilisk was still circulating, it was only a matter of time before it disappeared with the hard work of various countries. However, I didn't expect that a new version of Basilisk would appear in just a few months …"
Chen Chen could not help but feel excited when he heard this. "You mean, there's a picture on the Internet that has a similar effect to Basilisk?"
"Yes."
Fujiwara Aoki sighed. "Although the specific details of the original Basilisk picture can't be remembered by the brain, it can still be roughly described. For example, we all know that it's black and white, composed of hundreds of color blocks. Some of the color blocks faintly form the pattern of an eye, so this picture was called Basilisk. However, the appearance of the second picture made Basilisk become the general name for this type of picture...
"The second picture is a picture called 'Death'. As for why it's called Death? Because according to those who have seen it, the pattern on the picture faintly formed the shape of Death holding a scythe, but these people all died later... "
"Died?"
Chen Chen frowned. "You mean, those who have seen it didn't die instantly?"
"Yes."
Fujiwara Aoki nodded. "'Death' is different from 'Eye'. It doesn't cause the human brain to crash immediately. After seeing it, you won't have any reaction at the time. However, when someone next to you mentions this picture again, you'll trigger 'Gödel's shock' and die."
Chen Chen could not help narrowing his eyes when he heard this. "What's the principle behind this?"
"That I don't know."
Fujiwara Aoki smiled bitterly. "'Death' was only the second Basilisk picture that appeared. After that, there were even a third, a fourth... No one knew who was constantly creating new pictures. It's just that at that time, the Internet had been completely abandoned by people. The social order was in turmoil and people were dying every day. The mobile phones that people used had also changed from smartphones to the old electronic screen phones of the past."
"But Basilisk was still constantly mutating..."
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