Chen Chen's words caused many people to ponder.
Of course, those who worked here were not religious. Even if they knew that a large number of people had gone missing, which was a case that violated the common sense of physics, they only regarded it as a phenomenon that exceeded the existing scientific system and did not associate it with ghosts or gods.
In other words, even if there was a god standing in front of this group of people, their first thought would not be to kneel and pray. Instead, they would analyze their material structure and find a way to draw a tube of blood for research.
Therefore, Chen Chen's explanation was completely in line with everyone's tastes.
Therefore, the FBI assigned a total of fifteen soldiers to Chen Chen. These fifteen people were divided into three shifts, with five people in each shift. They were to keep an eye on Chen Chen for eight hours. They were not allowed to leave even if they were eating, sleeping, or going to the toilet.
This interrogation room was also made into a standard room for Chen Chen. Not only was there a single bed for Chen Chen, but there was also a laptop for him to study and entertain himself.
After all this was done, Chen Chen finally settled down.
At the same time, in another city hundreds of kilometers away, this was Li Bo's hometown. Unfortunately, as soon as Li Bo got off the train, he was taken to the local FBI branch by the FBI.
After that, Li Bo did not hesitate too much and told them everything.
After asking all the questions, they took Li Bo to a room and took away all his electronic equipment.
The room was bright and the fluorescent lights above him flickered coldly. This room looked like a guest room, but it was very simple. There was only a single bed and a table. Other than that, there were no windows.
This was a room that looked like a detention room.
Li Bo felt that he had been locked up for a long time. It seemed to be seven or eight hours, maybe even more. At first, it was fine, but gradually, Li Bo felt that something was wrong.
He looked in the direction of the strange feeling and saw an inexplicable darkness under a table where the light could not reach.
Suddenly, Li Bo felt a surge of uneasiness in his heart.
He could not tell the source of this uneasiness, but as long as he looked into this dark place, he would feel a sense of panic.
It was like there was something in the darkness staring at him.
"It'll be fine, don't worry, it'll be fine..."
Li Bo silently comforted himself. He carefully walked to the table and moved it in a certain direction. Suddenly, the light above him shone directly, completely melting away the darkness.
"Hu!"
Li Bo breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that after the darkness disappeared, the feeling of being spied on also disappeared.
"As expected, I'm scaring myself."
Li Bo went back to bed in a relaxed manner. To distract himself, he simply picked up a magazine on the table and took the initiative to read it.
If Li Bo's father saw this, he would probably be so happy that he would jump three feet high. After all, although Li Bo was the kind of person who usually didn't study seriously and only casually read books at critical times, he was still a genius who could get into the top few in the class. However, it was still rare to see Li Bo so serious.
But at this moment, it was destined that they were not fated to meet.
After reading for a few minutes, a transparent liquid dripped from the magazine in front of Li Bo.
It was sweat.
The room was extremely cool, and even a little cold due to the lack of people living here. But for some reason, Li Bo felt like he was being watched. This feeling was even stronger than before. He clearly didn't see anything, but it made Li Bo break out in a cold sweat.
In the end, Li Bo could only slowly put down the magazine. He raised his head again and looked in all directions.
It had to be said that the lights in the room were very bright. There were almost no dark spots like the table's blind spots, but this feeling did not disappear. Instead, it had shifted.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen subconsciously looked behind him. He saw a gap half a finger wide between the bed and the wall behind him. There was darkness in the gap.
The intense feeling of being watched came from the gap of the bed...
There was a flash of irritation in Li Bo's eyes. He stood up from the bed, turned around, and pushed the bed in the direction of the wall.
With a click, the wall and the bed connected seamlessly.
The feeling of being spied on disappeared once again.
Li Bo once again suppressed the uneasiness in his heart. He sat on the bed again and picked up the magazine. However, the moment he picked it up, he suddenly froze.
What kind of magazine was this?
Li Bo flipped the magazine and looked at the cover. There were only five big words on the cover —
"I See You."
I See You? What kind of magazine was this?
Li Bo frowned. He seemed to remember that the magazine did not seem to have this name before.
In this room, whether it was the light or the darkness that the light could not reach, or even the magazine, there was something unusual and strange about it...
Li Bo had no choice but to turn to the page he had just seen and prepare to finish reading the article.
When he turned to the page, the few drops of sweat on it were still visible.
Li Bo looked at the content and then a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes again.
This was because many of the densely packed words on the magazine had turned into five repetitive words — I See You.
At the same time, Li Bo only felt the feeling of being watched for the third time. This time, it came from right in front of Li Bo!
He quickly looked up and finally saw a pair of blood-red eyes staring at him from the dark gap at the bottom of the door in front of him...
"I See You!"
Li Bo's heart trembled. At this moment, he finally understood the meaning of the words in the magazine...
"Ah!"
There was a horrified scream in the room. The moment this scream was heard, a guard who was watching outside quickly ran to the door and at the same time, quickly unlocked it with a key and quickly opened it!
"Clatter!"
The guard looked over in surprise, only to find that there was no one in the room. Only a literary magazine had fallen on the ground, and it was open and upside down on the ground.
The guard picked up the magazine curiously, only to find that there were a few water stains on it.
"So dirty..."
The guard curled his lips in disgust, directly opened the trash bin next to him, and threw the magazine in. After doing all this, he shook his head, turned around, and left, at the same time closing the door again.
It was as if there was nothing unusual in the room.
...
At this time, on the other side, in the hidden branch of the FBI, Chen Chen was leisurely reading a book.
Chen Chen flipped through these books quickly, almost skimming through them in a short ten minutes, reading a book of more than three hundred pages.
At this time, there were five soldiers standing around Chen Chen, forming a ring around Chen Chen, silently watching Chen Chen's every move.
After a while, Chen Chen suddenly got up from the table and walked out of the door. These soldiers had no intention of stopping him, but followed him one by one, not a step away.
After leaving the interrogation room, Chen Chen did not wander around. Instead, he directly found the toilet and then walked in.
Even so, the soldiers did not hesitate at all, directly followed Chen Chen, and watched helplessly as Chen Chen peed in the urinal.
After that, Chen Chen and the five soldiers returned to the isolation room.
"48 hours have passed."
Looking at the time in his hand, Chen Chen sighed. Although he looked very relaxed, in reality, he was extremely vigilant.
In the past two days, he did not know whether the curse of Ju-on had broken out in the outside world. If it had, the entire Earth would not be able to be saved.
"The group of students that you said were suspected of being infected with the meme, forty percent of them have disappeared into their respective isolation rooms."
At this moment, the director of the FBI came over and sighed. "What the hell is going on in this world, I don't even know that such a deadly existence has appeared. Fortunately, we've detained this group of people in advance, but in the past two days, there are still people disappearing in their rooms."
"This is the scary thing about the meme effect."
Chen Chen smiled. "What about the people who are watching over them? They wouldn't have stepped into the rooms of these dead people, would they?"
"Of course not."
The middle-aged man shook his head. "But what's sad is that out of the more than 20,000 students, more than 2,000 have been 'disappeared'. These people can be determined to be dead."
"You've only detained about 20,000 students?"
Chen Chen was taken aback and quickly asked. After all, there were 30,000 students in the school. If the number of teachers and staff was included, it would be even more.
However, if only around 20,000 students were detained, there would inevitably be fish that slipped through the net. At that time, Ju-on would quickly spread through this group of people who were not detained in the school.
Everything that had happened before would also be in vain. The destruction of human civilization was imminent.
"There are a total of 23,100 students in the school. I still remember this number."
However, the answer of the middle-aged man was what Chen Chen expected. He smiled and said, "Don't doubt my professionalism. I'm specifically responsible for handling this case. How can I not know how many students there are in the school?"
Chen Chen put on a strange expression. "Mr. Director, you really should look at it again."
Seeing that Chen Chen did not believe him, the middle-aged man simply walked to the computer, opened the search engine with practiced ease, and began to search for the question: How many students were there in Shangdu Jiao Tong University?
After just one search, the answer immediately appeared in the first row. He saw that it was marked: The school has a total of 23100 students.
When Chen Chen saw this number, he was suddenly startled and immediately showed a look of doubt.
"See, I wasn't wrong, right?"
Seeing that Chen Chen was defeated, the middle-aged man suddenly burst into laughter. At the same time, without waiting for Chen Chen to answer, he directly changed the topic. "In the past two days, not only the unknown soldiers at the scene but also people behind the double-sided mirrors and the cameras in the four corners have been silently observing you. Now it seems that it has been effective?"
"Obviously, yes."
At this point, Chen Chen decided not to dwell on the issue of the number of people in the school anymore. He simply stated his analysis in a very fitting manner. "Forty-eight hours, which is two days. Based on the frequency of my previous attacks, forty-eight hours is enough for Kayako to kill most people. Only a very small number of people will be able to escape and start a new life in fear."
"But now, I'm still not dead. It's obvious that my guess should be correct, at least most of it."
Chen Chen thought about it. "In this case, it seems that Kayako can't affect the form of life under the gaze of a third party. In other words, as long as I can continue to live under the supervision of others, I won't even enter the outbreak period for the rest of my life?"
"But this is too much of a waste of manpower and material resources."
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly. "It's fine in the short term, but after a long time, forget about you, even this group of soldiers will develop psychological disorders, right?"
"That's true."
Chen Chen nodded. "Now, the urgent task is to find a way to suppress Ju-on. By the way, what are you planning to do?"
Chen Chen suddenly asked again, "In the past two days, how much power has the USB drive been charged and what do you plan to extract?"
"That's a secret."
The middle-aged man shook his head. "But what I can tell you is that as of now, the USB drive is still charging power. We calculate according to the ratio that 1,200 kWh can only extract one gram of matter. If we want to extract a tool that can defeat the memetic effect, I'm afraid it'll take a few days."
"You're not in a hurry even after dragging it out for so long. It seems that there are no fish that have escaped the net in the outside world now."
Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help shaking his head, no longer paying attention to these things, but turned to ask, "How's the situation with my roommate Li Bo, is he still alive?"
"Li Bo?"
However, something unexpected happened. The middle-aged man had a strange look on his face. He looked at Chen Chen and thought hard. "Who's Li Bo?"
"Li Bo, isn't he the student who said that I had a USB drive tool? He was in Dormitory 404 with me. "
Chen Chen frowned. The middle-aged man's professional ability was a little too poor.
Seeing that the middle-aged man still could not remember, Chen Chen simply went to the computer, entered Li Bo's name, and used the middle-aged man's authority to start retrieving the school information of Dormitory 404 that Chen Chen was in.
However, when the information was completely printed, when Chen Chen picked up the paper, his expression became even more strange.
On the information page, there were hundreds of densely packed pieces of information about Dormitory Building No. 1. Among them, behind the number plate of No. 404, there were a total of three names —
Dorm Leader: Wang Wei.
Dorm Members: Chen Chen, Zhou Jie.
In the dormitory information retrieved, there was no Li Bo's name.
Something was wrong.
Chen Chen's expression became completely serious. He simply said to the middle-aged man, "Mr. Director, are you sure you really don't remember Li Bo?"
"No, it's not that I don't remember, but in my memory, there's no such person as Li Bo. I'm still very clear about this."
The middle-aged man shook his head and said solemnly, "Chen Chen, I don't know what's wrong with you, or do you have some other conjectures?"
"Yes."
A trace of cold sweat gradually appeared on Chen Chen's forehead. He asked solemnly, "Mr. Director, if you don't remember Li Bo, then may I ask, before arresting me, where did you learn about the existence of the USB drive?"
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