As the days went by, Chen Chen calmly stayed in the interrogation room and observed the changes.
It had been a month since the USB drive came into the hands of the FBI.
At first, the middle-aged man and the FBI agents were still able to talk and laugh with Chen Chen, but gradually, Chen Chen noticed that something was wrong.
The middle-aged man's eyes went from confidence to hesitation, then to anxiety and urgency. Even so, he came to see Chen Chen in person every day, hoping to get more information from Chen Chen.
"Mr. Director, Mr. Director?"
On this day, Chen Chen was still chatting with the man, but halfway through, the middle-aged man became lost in thought several times and his attention was not on Chen Chen at all.
At this time, there was a lot more white hair on his head and his eyes were bloodshot. This was the side effect of staying up late. He looked much more haggard.
"Hmm?"
The middle-aged man came back to his senses and apologized, "My mind wandered again. Sorry, I've been busy with work recently. Where were we?"
"Mr. Director, if I'm not mistaken, the USB drive's plan to save the world has failed, right?"
Chen Chen asked calmly, "If it's successful, the fifteen observers should've been removed by now, but you haven't mentioned this until now."
"You've noticed it?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, then shook his head and said seriously, "Don't ask about this, everything is within the officials' expectations. This matter will be resolved sooner or later."
Seeing this, Chen Chen did not continue asking. He talked with the middle-aged man for a while more. As the middle-aged man got up and left, Chen Chen closed his eyes slightly, a cold glint appeared in his eyes.
The situation was clear. The officials of Mainland China had not found a way to solve the meme problem, or rather, they had looked for many, but all of them had failed.
This was something Chen Chen did not expect.
However, when he thought about the various known movies, there were indeed many movies and TV series that could solve the meme problem, such as Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods, Lam Chun Ying series, and other mythological series. There were also foreign sci-fi series such as Doctor Who, Star Trek, Lucy, but the key point was that the USB drive had to recognize them.
Obviously, the USB drive could not recognize the above movies and TV series.
In the film and television industry, it could be said that there was almost no film and television that could deal with memes. There were some in the animation industry, such as "Doraemon" and other various American and Japanese comics with extraordinary combat power. Unfortunately, the USB drive would not recognize it.
In other words, the Mainland had fallen into a situation where there were no movie props to be acquired.
Of course, there were ways to solve this. For example, filming a movie that could restrain the existence of the Ju-on meme might be able to stop this disaster immediately.
Of course, as the second strongest region in the Earth Federation, the Mainland was definitely full of talents. There must be many ways that Chen Chen had not thought of. However, after a month had passed, even an emergency movie should have been completed by now. How could the memes still not be solved?
Chen Chen had to admit that the Central Continent's response was far too disappointing.
Or it could be said that these dirty things were more difficult to deal with than he had imagined …
As Chen Chen pondered all this silently, he continued to settle down and wait. Sure enough, the next day, the door of the interrogation room opened again with a click.
Shen Qi hurried in from the outside, followed by four FBI members dressed in black. She looked at Chen Chen who was lying on the bed and said in a low voice, "Chen Chen, come with me."
"To where?"
Chen Chen sat up and asked curiously, "Do you know that if I leave this place, I might die at any time?"
"If you stay here, you'll die even more!"
Shen Qi snorted coldly, then seemed to realize that she had said too much and quickly corrected herself. "Don't say so much, the director has just given an order. We're going to another base!"
With that, without waiting for Chen Chen's reply, the four FBI members behind him rushed forward and forcibly pulled Chen Chen up.
"Your mission is also terminated. Go find your department and gather, go!"
Following that, Shen Qi looked at the five soldiers who were responsible for watching over Chen Chen and waved her hand. The five of them immediately dispersed.
A cold glint flashed in Chen Chen's eyes. He was roughly pulled up by several people and half-forcibly dragged out of the door.
It was not until he left the interrogation room that he had not stepped out of for a month that Chen Chen noticed that the psychologists who were originally responsible for observing him outside the interrogation room had long disappeared. The entire room was empty and the ground was littered with documents. It looked extremely messy.
Something must have gone wrong with this FBI branch.
Chen Chen thought to himself.
Shen Qi was almost jogging along the narrow corridor. There were groups of soldiers passing by as if they were maintaining the order of the entire branch.
"What happened?"
Chen Chen frowned and asked again.
"You don't need to know, just come with me."
Shen Qi said without looking back. She had no intention of explaining to Chen Chen at all.
Soon, Chen Chen was dragged out of the FBI branch. Suddenly, a blinding light shone directly into Chen Chen's eyes. Chen Chen subconsciously raised his hand to block the light from the sky. Then, he smelled a peculiar smell in the city he was in.
It was the smell of rotting meat products.
This smell was mixed with the wind. On both sides of the street, cars were parked in a disorderly manner. It was a desolate scene.
Occasionally, a car would speed by. There was almost no one on the street. There were only closed doors and windows of the houses and patrolling soldiers.
Seeing this scene, the uneasiness in Chen Chen's heart suddenly reached a peak. He looked at all of this in disbelief. After all, as one of the top ten international metropolises in the world, what could have happened to make the entire city become so desolate?
A thought flashed in Chen Chen's mind.
"You're out!"
Just when Chen Chen was in a state of shock, the middle-aged man also came out from inside. He said to Shen Qi, "The helicopter will be here soon. You and Chen Chen should take the documents and leave first. Chen Chen is an important person. The higher-ups have approved the application. You won't be stopped from leaving."
"Mr. Director, are you still not willing to tell me what happened?"
Chen Chen quickly asked, "Which part of the chain went wrong? Is it because you can't find a matching movie or the tool extracted from the USB drive can't remove the meme? "
"There's no time to explain now. Ask Shen Qi, she'll answer everything for you."
The middle-aged man exhorted and then left in a hurry.
Next, Chen Chen was taken to a helipad. The helipad was constantly flashing with red lights, indicating the arrival of the helicopter.
Next to Chen Chen, there were several staff members carrying a large pile of various items and a lot of documents. More than ten people were waiting here silently.
"Can you tell me now?"
Chen Chen asked again, "Mr. Director gave me permission to know, or are you pretending to obey and refusing to listen to the orders of the higher-ups?"
"What did you say!"
Shen Qi raised an eyebrow and said coldly, "Chen Chen, don't go too far."
"It's not me who's going too far, it's you."
A murderous glint flashed in Chen Chen's eyes. "I'm not a prisoner. Don't always treat me like a prisoner, or you'll regret it."
"I'd like to see how you'll make me regret it!"
However, Shen Qi became even angrier. Just as she was about to lose her temper, a staff member who seemed to be of a high rank came over. He said to Chen Chen, "In order to make you more cooperative with the upcoming work, the director asked me to send you a document."
As he spoke, he handed a document that was more than ten pages thick to Chen Chen.
Only then did Chen Chen step out from the circle of four people and take the document. "Thank Mr. Director for me. Without this document, I might not even know what happened until I die."
"It's nothing."
The staff member glanced at Shen Qi and turned to leave.
Seeing this, Chen Chen ignored Shen Qi's murderous gaze and immediately flipped through the document without a word.
However, when he saw the first line, Chen Chen's expression changed.
Sure enough, the reason the city had become like this was because the meme had gone out of control!
This loss of control had not been found until now. After most of the first batch of students suspected of being infected by the meme were uniformly quarantined in a large hospital, thousands of people continued to go missing.
In response to the nature of the Ju-on meme, the officials even gave each of these quarantined students a ward to prevent students who were not infected by the meme from being implicated. However, they did not expect an even more terrifying and incomprehensible phenomenon to occur...
According to the original official estimate, only less than one-tenth of the students were infected by the Ju-on meme. In other words, about a thousand of the more than ten thousand students quarantined here would be killed by the meme. At that time, the remaining people would pass the incubation period and could be released.
However, the reality was that at first, two to three hundred students went missing every day. By the third day, when the number approached a thousand, the number of missing people began to decrease. However, by the fourth and fifth days, the number of missing people began to increase. Not only that, but the researchers in the hospital and the soldiers in charge of detention also began to go missing on a large scale.
This situation continued until the eighth day and the entire hospital was completely empty...
Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help frowning. He continued to turn the page and saw the special note. None of the soldiers and doctors in charge of supervision had stepped into the rooms of the missing people, but they still disappeared like the infected people who were infected by the Ju-on meme...
Even the shops and residential areas near the hospital began to go missing. The situation had completely deteriorated.
"What kind of logic is this, could it be that... The infected area can spread?"
Chen Chen continued to read and found that someone had analyzed that perhaps because there were too many deaths caused by the Ju-on meme in a certain place, the infected area of that place would spread, causing the meme to not only infect the house but also directly spread out of the house. Anyone who approached a certain range of the house would be infected by the Ju-on meme indiscriminately!
Seeing this, Chen Chen only felt a chill in his heart. No wonder the situation that was originally under control had gone out of control. This kind of thing could still happen...
Continuing to read, Chen Chen saw that as the FBI went deeper into the investigation, they finally found out where the missing people had gone.
This situation first appeared on the fifth day. The researchers in the hospital suddenly discovered that often after some infected people went missing, a part of the hospital's walls and ceiling would begin to ooze blood, so after using robots to remove one of the walls, they finally found the missing people...
These people who had gone missing a few days ago, some were pressed into the wall, some were pressed into the center of the ceiling and floor, and some were even pressed into the sewer pipe!
Those who were pressed into the wall were all turned into a thin layer of skin, almost a few millimeters thick. The bone fragments and flesh were mixed together, there was no sign of their previous life at all.
The ones who were pressed into the sewer pipe were even more horrible, directly turning into a human stick more than ten meters long and only four or five centimeters in diameter. God knew how they became this shape in the first place.
These strange ways of dying made cold sweat trickle down Chen Chen's forehead.
Next, the authorities began to seal off the center of the incident, only allowing entry but not exit. At the same time, they began to evacuate people from the edge of the city. After so many days, more than half of the tens of millions of people in Shangdu had been evacuated, but there were still more than five million people trapped in the city center.
At this time, the number of people who went missing in this city every day had reached tens of thousands...
Chen Chen continued to read. After looking at the current situation, then there was the information about the USB flash drive. This information was completely top secret. If Chen Chen was not the owner of the USB flash drive, he would never have seen this information.
According to the information, the authorities had tried dozens of movies, but all of them failed in the end. However, the authorities had long been confident of a second method, which was to shoot their own cracked movie.
However, because it had to be logical, the authorities put all the information obtained from Chen Chen into this movie and shot four more movies, corresponding to Ju-on, Final Destination, One Missed Call, and Ring.
However, the ending of the four movies was different from the previous horror movies. The ending of the four movies was — the protagonists found four memetic patterns to deal with.
Just like Chen Chen's Basilisk pattern vaccine, the protagonists of the four movies also found four Basilisk pattern vaccines. They were named: "Harmony", "Civilization", "Integrity", and "Friendliness".
As long as one saw this memetic pattern in advance, it was equivalent to being vaccinated against infectious diseases, completely immune to the effects of the four memes.
It had to be said that the person who came up with this solution was almost a genius. It did not require too much power. All they needed to do was extract four pieces of paper. After photocopying, they did not even need to do so. All they needed to do was to spread it online and it could easily eliminate the curse of the four memes.
Of course, to prevent the pattern from being wrong, only four pictures were mentioned during the shooting of the movie, but these four pictures were always facing away from the audience. This was the so-called mentality of "I've given the settings, the USB flash drive can figure out what the specific pattern is". This was because it was known from Chen Chen that the USB flash drive had the power to complete the settings.
As a result, these four movies were all recognized by the USB flash drive. Not only that, but the four pictures extracted were all composed of complex patterns.
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