[Memetic Effect: Flesh Carpet]
[Source: June 1, 2024, in the Gantz Island Temporary Observation Experimental Project, produced by the memetic mutation of 0130 infected with 'Filth'. It is temporarily named 'Flesh Carpet'.]
[Description: 'Flesh Carpet' is a special meme with infectious properties. From the external observation level, it looks like it is formed by flesh and blood spread on the ground, so the name 'Flesh Carpet' is derived from its appearance. Unlike conventional memetic effects, 'Flesh Carpet' has dual 'infectious' and plant-like properties.]
[Symptoms: At present, all known infected people have been assimilated into a part of the 'Flesh Carpet'. After the infected person is infected, they will mutate from their original biological form into a pile of plants composed of flesh and blood. This type of life will indiscriminately attack all living beings within a certain range, including but not limited to humans.]
[Method of transmission: The Flesh Carpet has an extremely terrifying transmission ability. Any life that touches the Flesh Carpet, including but not limited to humans, will be 100% infected. At the same time, its transmission is divided into two forms, 'violent predation' and 'contagious transmission'.]
[Violent predation: Extends a tentacle to wrap around the target and capture the target. If the target is a living being, the target will be dissolved and digested within twelve hours. If the target is a plant, the Flesh Carpet will not attack the target but directly digest it with its body.]
[Contagious transmission: The infected person does not show any abnormalities at first, but as time passes, the infected person's body will show symptoms of a rash. This is the early stage. At this time, the infected person is clearly contagious and can spread the rash to all healthy beings around him. After thirty hours, the rash will spread to the entire body of the infected person. At the same time, due to the influence of the memetic effect, the infected person will eat as much as possible to coexist energy. This is the middle stage.]
[About forty to fifty hours later, the infected person will melt into a pool of flesh and blood without warning and begin to attack all living beings around him. This is the late stage.]
[It has not been verified whether the infected person can be cured when they are in the first and second stages of symptoms.]
[Weakness: Flames can kill the Flesh Carpet. At the same time, the Flesh Carpet cannot survive in water or in an environment without oxygen or soil, so suppression difficulty is low.]
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After reading the report in his hand, Chen Chen nodded and tossed the report to Yoru Kamidera behind the desk. "Well done. Although it's not perfect, you chose the right time to shut down X-112 in this experiment."
"At that time, X-112 took the initiative to remind me that it detected abnormal fluctuations in the memetic readings. Based on my many years of experience, I think this should be the phenomenon when the meme mutates, so I asked X-112 to temporarily close the Dead Space."
Yoru Kamidera answered shyly, "As expected, once the Gantz server machine's suppression on the meme was lifted, 'Filth' immediately mutated and eventually produced a new meme effect. All of this was recorded by X-112."
"Very well, you may leave."
Chen Chen waved his hand. Yoru Kamidera immediately lowered his head and slowly left the office.
"X, send me a copy of the information recorded by X-112."
After Yoru Kamidera left, Chen Chen immediately said. Suddenly, the printer at hand began to print out dazzling patterns.
These patterns were all similar to Basilisk, but in fact, this was the E language used by the god-level civilization in the Gantz dimension.
However, it was such an ordinary language, for humans, if they did not handle it properly, they could destroy human civilization more than 10,000 times...
This was the gap between the levels of civilization.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen flipped his hand and a transparent NZT-48 appeared in his hand. He swallowed the drug directly and then closed his eyes.
About thirty seconds later, Chen Chen opened his eyes again and looked at the densely packed patterns in his hand. This time, his eyes were fixed on the patterns as if he wanted to imprint all these patterns into his brain.
However, in less than ten minutes, Chen Chen's eyes were bloodshot as if he had overused his brain.
Chen Chen gritted his teeth and at the same time, a trace of blood flowed from the gap in the corner of his mouth, looking hideous and terrifying.
In this way, half an hour passed. When Chen Chen closed his eyes again, his expression finally returned to normal.
"I still can't do it..."
Chen Chen muttered in a low voice. He could feel that his brain could clearly engrave every detail of the pattern, but in just a few seconds, these details were forgotten again. It was as if the hippocampus of the human brain could not store this kind of information at all and all the information was lost in the mind...
"Sir Godfather, you failed again?"
Little X's voice came. "Could it be a physiological reason? After all, we can't judge the life form of another civilization at all. Both sides are likely to have extremely high civilization barriers. Perhaps only their kind of life form can master the knowledge of memes?"
"Impossible."
However, Chen Chen was adamant. "Science can't be undetectable. Things that can't be detected only mean that they don't exist. What's more, I don't think the concept of 'memes' is created by alien civilizations. Just like the concept of 'science', can you say that science didn't exist before humans discovered 'science'? You've got to be kidding me! "
Chen Chen sneered. "This so-called E language, in my opinion, is more like a civilization's technology, just like the physics formulas we've summarized. These Basilisk patterns are actually a summary of invisible memes with visible words. That is to say, the Basilisk patterns are just the manifestation of memes. You can say that the Basilisk patterns are memetic effects, but memetic effects are not Basilisk patterns."
"What you said makes a lot of sense."
Little X said thoughtfully, "But doesn't this conflict with your current state? You've clearly taken NZT-48, but you still can't remember these E language. Why is that? "
"The answer is very simple."
Chen Chen thought for a while and said, "After throwing away all the impossibilities, the remaining result, no matter how incredible, will be the most correct answer — that civilization has set a password for its own language."
"Password?"
"It's a very simple reason. To launch a nuclear bomb, there's a string of keys that needs to be entered. If you store a fortune in a safe, you'll also set a password to prevent others from stealing it. Then, wouldn't this E language that can control memes have a password?"
Chen Chen asked rhetorically, "If you think about it this way, everything can be explained. The memetic effect itself is a new system that exceeds common sense and existing scientific cognition. In this case, will E language itself also have a memetic effect — not allowing any other civilization to learn E language?"
Little X suddenly saw the light when she heard this. "I understand. For that god-level civilization, E language is like a weapon. Although they can already control this weapon perfectly, they're also afraid that the lower civilizations will get this weapon and overtake them, reaching the same level as them, so they added a lock on the weapon. In this way, even if the lower civilizations get the weapon, they can't use it because they can't open the lock!"
"That's the principle."
Chen Chen snapped his fingers. "So, X-112 is a very important breakthrough. That god-level civilization may not have thought that a lower civilization like us would invent the existence of artificial intelligence.
"In fact, from the fact that their black spheres need to borrow the human brain to operate, it can be seen that that civilization is likely to have not opened the technology tree of artificial intelligence, so X-112 can take advantage of the loophole and come into contact with E language...
"So, this is actually a God-given opportunity!"
Thinking of this, Chen Chen's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration.
"Since E language can set a lock to prevent other civilizations from learning it, then can we also encrypt our own information with memes to prevent leakage?"
After thinking about it, Chen Chen asked, "X, communicate with X-112. Based on its current understanding of E language, is it possible to set up a special pattern that will make ordinary people die immediately when they see this picture, but the people of God's Forbidden Zone will be immune?"
"It can be done."
Little X's voice paused for a moment and then replied, "Although X-112's understanding of E language is still very shallow, by observing the mutation process of filth throughout the process, it has focused on the regularity of several patterns. From this regularity, X-112 can carry out subtle programming on the 'Eye' of the Basilisk pattern. After this programming, the 'Eye' can still take effect on ordinary people, causing brain death, but if there's a 'vaccine', it can be easily immunized."
"Vaccine?"
Chen Chen asked.
"The so-called 'vaccine' is actually a kind of Basilisk pattern, but its nature is not to kill people, but to prevent people from looking at the 'Eye' and causing brain shutdown, just like a vaccine in advance."
Little X replied, "Moreover, X-112 can also turn off the mutation characteristics of this E language, so that the probability of mutation of these Basilisk patterns will be minimized."
Chen Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this. "We can give it a try!"
Following his words, the printer next to him squeaked again. Soon, a complex abstract pattern leaped onto the surface of the paper.
Unlike the Basilisk pattern Chen Chen had seen before, this was a colorful pattern as if there were rays of light dancing in front of his eyes, but when he looked closely, these patterns did not make any sense.
As the pattern became more complete, suddenly, a special throbbing came from Chen Chen's mind. He seemed to have an illusion, an illusion of being stared at...
It was not until the entire picture was printed out that Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He picked up the pattern. "Is this the so-called 'vaccine'?"
"Yes, according to the 'cognitive hazard' and 'information hazard' produced by the memetic effect, this' vaccine 'can produce a special' cognitive exemption '. You only need to look at this pattern and you won't suffer cognitive harm due to the memetic attack."
Hearing this, Chen Chen carefully observed the pattern again, only to see a faint eye buried in a pile of meaningless ink, but upon a closer look, there seemed to be nothing at all.
What there was was just a set of abstract pictures without any meaning. Perhaps some performance artists could make it up and sell it for one or two hundred dollars.
"Alright, after looking at this picture, it's equivalent to you being implanted with the vaccine in advance. Next, please take a look at the other pattern."
Following Little X's words, another pattern was printed by the printer again. Chen Chen looked at it, only to find that the second picture was more than ten times more complicated than the first. Chen Chen could not help frowning after just one glance.
This pattern also had an eye drawn on it. However, this eye was formed by countless eyes stacked on top of each other. Some of them were smiling, some of them were crying, some of them were revealing a trace of gentleness, like the smile of a lover, and some of them were filled with fear, as if they had seen an endless abyss …
Countless eyes stacked on top of each other, finally forming such a strange pattern.
"This is the 'eye'?"
Chen Chen could not help but take a deep breath. He was certain that this was not the first time he had seen this pattern. Once in the Gantz dimension, he had seen this pattern because of carelessness. At that time, it took him dozens of minutes to get used to it.
Still, he did not expect to see it again in reality this time.
Still, it was different from before. Although Chen Chen still felt a little dizzy after seeing this pattern, it was not at all like before, where he almost passed out.
At this time, he only had a special sense of nausea, and this feeling was getting weaker and weaker as his brain continued to adapt.
"This is the 'eye' modified by X-112."
Little X replied, "But please rest assured, you've seen the vaccine in advance, so this new 'eye' won't cause any damage to you."
With that said, the entire picture was completely released from the printer, but Chen Chen had already lost any sense of discomfort.
"So that's how it is."
Chen Chen showed a look of understanding. "Is there any other difference between this modified 'eye' and the previous' eye '?"
"There's not much difference except that the variability has been eliminated. It's just that it can be 'prevented' by another pattern."
Little X replied, "We only need to use this' eye 'as a watermark for some confidential documents, and we can indiscriminately detect all spies who have no access but read confidential documents."
"Very well, then here's the question."
Chen Chen snapped his fingers. "How long is the effect of this vaccine? After all, you have to understand that the human brain can forget. Will setting up this vaccine cause the brain to forget memories if it's used for too long, resulting in the vaccine becoming ineffective? "
"Please rest assured, the vaccine's effectiveness is permanent."
Little X replied, "After all, it's the language system of a god-level civilization. These concerns of yours won't appear at all."
"Is that so?"
Chen Chen could not help thinking about this. After a while, he said again, "In that case, let's give this new confidentiality mechanism a name. After all, a name like the Basilisk pattern isn't conducive to classification and induction. We'll call this pattern — 'Memetic Obliteration Catalyst'..."
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