"Where did you learn about the existence of the USB drive?"
The middle-aged man smiled. "Of course, from your roommate..." At this point, the middle-aged man suddenly choked. He opened his mouth and then took the list of dormitories from Chen Chen's hand.
"Dormitory leader Wang Wei is dead. The cause of death was a ghost call meme. He died by twisting his own neck in the cafeteria."
Chen Chen said on the side, "Zhou Jie died of Ju-on meme. He was one of the first batch of students to disappear. Mr. Director, do you remember these?"
"Yes, I remember all of these clearly."
The middle-aged man picked up his tie and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.
"Then here's the problem."
Chen Chen stared closely into the middle-aged man's eyes, not letting go of the slightest emotion in his eyes. "So before you met me, which of my roommates told you about the USB drive?"
"This..."
The middle-aged man took a deep breath, revealing a shocked expression. "Your analysis is very correct. I didn't notice this problem at all before. I only remember that when I first learned about the existence of the USB drive, I got the news from your roommate, but I can't remember who that roommate was or what his name was... Shen Qi?"
With that, the middle-aged man turned to look at the glass of the room. "Come in for a moment."
Immediately, the door of the interrogation room opened with a click. A delicate woman of twenty-four or twenty-five years old walked in with a stack of documents in her arms.
Shen Qi was still dressed as an office lady, but she did not wear the gold-rimmed glasses. Her long black hair only reached her shoulders, giving off the feeling of an icy beauty.
"Director, you called for me?"
Shen Qi asked.
"Do you remember the person who told us about the existence of the USB drive?"
The middle-aged man hurriedly asked, "What's his name and identity?"
"Isn't he Chen Chen's roommate..."
However, at first, Shen Qi spoke fluently as if she already knew, but when it came to who that person was, she was stuck like the middle-aged man.
Chen Chen narrowed his eyes when he saw this.
"Go check the information. Find out the previous operation records, information, and videos!"
The middle-aged man's expression turned cold. At this point, he also noticed that something was wrong.
"Yes."
Shen Qi immediately retreated.
After the blessing, the middle-aged man turned his head and said with a solemn expression, "Chen Chen, what you've noticed makes sense. Perhaps you really do have a roommate. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why we still know about the USB drive when the other two roommates are dead."
"It's not 'maybe'. I still remember that person's name. His name is Li Bo, Mu Zi Li."
Chen Chen felt a chill run down his spine when he heard the man's tone. Li Bo had just left two days ago and was then detained by the FBI who interrogated him about the existence of the USB drive. Now, no one remembered him. What kind of logic was this?
Could it be that all of this was really just a dream, so it was not realistic?
Of course, Chen Chen did not think so. What he had experienced now was far from something that could be explained by dreams...
But where exactly was he?
Chen Chen's mind was full of thoughts, but he had no clue.
After hearing Chen Chen's words, the middle-aged man looked even more confused. Obviously, he had no impression of the name Li Bo.
After less than five minutes, Shen Qi hurriedly rushed in again. She was carrying a large batch of information. "Director, these are all our previous response materials to the Ju-on meme case, including interrogations, action reports, and so on. All the information is here!"
"What about the video?"
The middle-aged man asked. After all, compared to paper materials, a video that could restore everything was the real powerful evidence.
"I've asked the office to send the video over. It's on the computer."
Shen Qi hurriedly walked in front of the two of them, squatted in front of the table in a tight skirt, and began to log in to the internal account.
Soon, the internal videos were retrieved one by one.
The middle-aged man was buried in the information. He kept flipping through the stacks of information and then showed an inexplicable expression.
"Can I see it?"
Chen Chen asked.
"No!"
Before the middle-aged man could answer, Shen Qi quickly said, "These are all highly confidential. What right do you have to see it?"
"Shen Qi, don't talk nonsense."
The middle-aged man immediately stopped her. "Comrade Chen Chen is a great hero of our Mainland. It's already a solid credit that he helped our FBI solve these spiritual disasters. How can he not be qualified?"
As he said this, he ignored Shen Qi and said directly, "Chen Chen, look through it yourself."
"Okay."
Chen Chen nodded with a smile, picked up a few of the materials and flipped through them.
Shen Qi opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she was glared at by the middle-aged man. She had no choice but to swallow the words that came out of her mouth.
However, after this look, the chill in Chen Chen's heart grew even stronger.
He saw that on one of the pages of the review questionnaire, it was the information record of the interrogation of Li Bo. It described in detail how Li Bo answered the FBI's inquiry and also mentioned the existence of the USB flash drive. However, what was really creepy was that Li Bo's name was blank.
Not only his name, but his ID number, mobile phone, and household registration were also blank. It was as if when the records were first recorded, the scribe had specially left it empty here...
However, how could an important department like the FBI make such a mistake?
Chen Chen handed the materials in his hand to the middle-aged man.
"Huh, why is even this empty?"
The middle-aged man was about to lose his temper, but Shen Qi had already found the surveillance video recorded that day.
In the surveillance video, in a room filled with sponge, a FBI employee sat in front of a computer, constantly typing and recording something. There was a chair behind the computer, and on the chair sat a dark shadow.
Chen Chen could even see that the shadow was the silhouette of Li Bo...
"What's going on?"
At this time, not only the middle-aged man, but even Shen Qi also noticed something was wrong. "Who is that dark person, why can't he appear in the high-definition video?"
"Look, look into it immediately!"
The middle-aged man quickly ordered, "Go find out what's going on!"
"Remember to ask Li Bo's home."
Chen Chen reminded, "I don't believe it. Could it be that Li Bo disappeared from people's memory, even the traces of his home life disappeared as well?"
"That's right!"
The middle-aged man nodded. He turned to look at Shen Qi. "Go to Li..."
At this point, the middle-aged man suddenly froze. He turned his head with a blank look and asked Chen Chen, "Who's Li Bo?"
Chen Chen's pupils shrank. He stared at the middle-aged man. Just when the middle-aged man was puzzled, Chen Chen said word by word, "Li Bo is my roommate. He's also the college student who told you about the existence of the USB drive."
The middle-aged man suddenly looked at Shen Qi beside him. "Is the name of the person we're asking about Li Bo...?"
Shen Qi looked up from the computer and asked blankly, "Director, who's Li Bo?"
"It's..."
The middle-aged man immediately explained, "It's that..." As he said this, he paused again and looked at Chen Chen blankly. "What was the question you asked just now?"
"..."
This time, Chen Chen did not answer but stared at the two of them.
"Huh?"
The middle-aged man suddenly looked at the table and frowned. "Shen Qi, why is this information piled up here? Clean it up quickly! "
"Yes."
Shen Qi also stood up. She glanced at the pile of information on the table strangely and immediately hurriedly put it away. She even turned off the computer and then walked out of the office.
"Where were we just now?"
After Shen Qi left, the middle-aged man turned to look at Chen Chen and then smiled. "I'm getting old and I really don't have enough energy. I was wandering around for a while just now and didn't notice it. Sorry for the embarrassment."
"It's fine. We were just talking about the question of what kind of tool to use the USB drive to extract to fight against the meme."
Chen Chen smiled and said.
"I said, it's a secret!" The middle-aged man smiled and then the two of them laughed together.
However, he did not notice that the smile of Chen Chen opposite him was full of an obscure coldness.
Half an hour later, the middle-aged man left.
Chen Chen lay down on the bed under the gaze of the five soldiers. Under his calm expression, a dark light flashed in Chen Chen's eyes.
Antimeme.
Chen Chen muttered silently.
That was right. Chen Chen finally remembered why he was hypnotized by Little X to come here. It was because he was looking for a dream.
A dream that he had two months ago when he was injected with the T-virus.
It was a very terrifying dream. Chen Chen could not remember anything at all. The only thing he remembered was that the dream was extremely terrifying, extremely frightening, and that there was something in the dream that would pose a threat to him.
Then, his subconscious guided him, constantly giving him warnings, and finally, Chen Chen became aware of it.
Thus, there was this hypnosis.
It was just that he did not expect the results of hypnosis to be far more complicated than he had imagined. Now, Chen Chen was trapped in a world where reality and illusion intersected.
Why did he say that this world was not an illusion?
Because Chen Chen could feel that the world he was in now was not a dream because Chen Chen could feel every minute and every second extremely clearly. The fine dust in the air, the swaying ripples in the water cup, and the pixels on the computer screen...
If all this was a dream, it was too real.
However, why did he say that this world was not reality?
Because this was not the world in Chen Chen's memory. It could even be said that before he recovered his memory, Chen Chen was not Chen Chen. He was more like an unconscious sleep, just silently watching this body make everything and choose everything with his own thoughts.
It was not until the moment he obtained the USB flash drive that Chen Chen took over this body and made this body completely his...
At this time, Chen Chen seemed to have taken over a game character, controlling it to complete one mission after another, and the reward for completing the game was still unknown.
Still, it was clear that Chen Chen understood that his goal was not some Ju-on or ghost call, but something else.
Something called an antimeme.
The disappearance of Li Bo just now completely unlocked the last of Chen Chen's memory, allowing him to recall all the purposes of his coming here. Li Bo's disappearance was likely caused by an antimeme.
Unlike the disappearance caused by Ju-on, Li Bo's disappearance was more like the elimination of traces of existence. Not only the memories in everyone's minds, but even the electronic data that existed in this world could be erased. This strange ability was simply shocking.
According to Chen Chen's analysis, if memes were divided into positive and negative, then the "positive meme" was responsible for transmission and the "antimeme" was responsible for elimination.
Eliminate everything, not only the person and the memories of others about you, but even the most reliable electronic data would be erased together. From then on, you would disappear without your parents and relatives noticing at all.
Of course, some traces of existence were difficult to erase, such as your room, the clothes you left behind, and so on. But what was even more terrifying was that even if some people occasionally noticed it, they would only feel that something was wrong. Then, when they wanted to investigate what was wrong, they would quickly forget about it again.
Just like the behavior of the middle-aged man and Shen Qi just now.
This was an antimeme. The god-level civilization used this technology to prevent the E language from being learned by other civilizations.
This kind of thing was even more terrifying than some murderous memes because even if you were killed by it, the people around you would not know at all. Even if ten thousand people, a hundred thousand people, or even millions of people died, it would not cause any panic.
Its forgetting was irreversible, just like Ju-on and Final Destination. It was a kind of rule in itself. As long as someone was forgotten, all traces of him would be erased.
However, why was he the only one who had not forgotten Li Bo?
Chen Chen thought silently.
Was it because he came from the real world? The reason why he did not forget Li Bo was that Li Bo was not swallowed by the antimeme in reality?
As for the one who was swallowed, it was only Li Bo in this world...
This was probably all that he could speculate at present.
Chen Chen sighed secretly. It had to be said that because of the loss of control of the USB drive, the current situation was extremely complicated. Not only were there several memes such as Ju-on, One Call, and Final Destination released, but the Earth Federation had also entered the picture. It could be described as a mess.
If all of this was a pool of water, then at this time, the pool had been stirred into mud.
In this mud-filled pool, Chen Chen wanted to find the antimeme and get rid of it. It was simply a hellish task. If he was not careful, Chen Chen would be the one who was killed.
Chen Chen did not know what the consequences of dying here would be.
If dying here was waking up from reality, it would be fine. He was afraid that dying here would be true death and his traces in reality would also be erased.
Chen Chen did not know what the consequences of dying here would be.
If dying here was waking up from reality, it would be fine. He was afraid that dying here would be true death and his traces in reality would also be erased.
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