In a desolate town, all was silent.
There was not a single person on the wide streets. Even the houses that were adjacent to each other were extremely quiet. Only the numerous shops and empty cars by the roadside could give a sense of its former prosperity.
In the entire town, only fat rats scurried out of the fields, crossed the wide road, and scurried into the fields on the other side.
Occasionally, some stray dogs and cats could be seen running in one direction as if there was something behind them that made them extremely afraid...
Behind them was a huge international metropolis.
However, if one stood at a high place at this time, one would find that the skyline of this metropolis was exuding an unusual gloominess. Dark clouds rolled strangely in the sky, with a kind of hysterical madness. In this doomsday-like atmosphere, the entire city was like a ghost town.
At this time, Chen Chen appeared in one of the houses in this town.
He sat in front of the computer, and a pitch-black USB flash drive was inserted into the case. However, what was strange was that the USB flash drive was constantly flashing with bright spots of light, just like the stars in the night sky. These spots of light flickered on and off, which was very strange.
"I have to hurry up, I have an ominous feeling..."
Chen Chen muttered silently. He quickly selected the movie that represented Ju-on and then double-clicked to open it. However, after selecting this movie, not only did the computer not open the movie, but it also kept flickering and at the same time made a clicking sound as if there was some kind of malfunction.
"The computer's problem?"
Chen Chen frowned, but he gradually noticed that the clicking sound in the computer seemed to have changed slightly. Unknowingly, it slowly turned into a kind of gurgling sound...
"Something's wrong!"
Chen Chen immediately pulled out the USB flash drive without thinking. At the same time, the wall in front of him quickly collapsed with a loud bang, and a gap of two meters in diameter appeared!
Chen Chen took a step and his body flew out with a buzz, floating in the air again.
At this time, Chen Chen looked at the hole with a serious expression, only to see seven or eight slender pale arms slowly stretching out from the broken wall, twisting and waving at Chen Chen...
"Is it about to reach the outbreak period..."
Chen Chen narrowed his eyes. This was a bit tricky. The outbreak period of the memetic effect was equivalent to a person's death.
Although Chen Chen could still fly and escape, distance was not an obstacle to the memetic effect at all. Even if he could fly out of the atmosphere or even out of the solar system, it would be useless.
Because memes don't talk about the laws of physics.
Chen Chen gritted his teeth. He chose another room and rushed in through the window.
With a loud bang, Chen Chen burst into the room. After seeing a laptop placed in the room, Chen Chen's eyes suddenly lit up. He grabbed the laptop, dared not stay in the room at all, and flew out again!
It was not until he was back in the sky that Chen Chen pressed the power on button of the laptop. The performance of this alien computer was very powerful. It quickly turned on in five or six seconds. Fortunately, the system did not set any password and he directly entered the operation interface.
Seeing this, Chen Chen quickly inserted the USB drive and clicked on the cursor of the USB drive. However, at this moment, Chen Chen suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat.
It was an extremely strange feeling as if something inside was constantly scratching his throat, trying to poke out along his throat...
Chen Chen subconsciously touched his throat, but suddenly, Chen Chen's expression changed. He opened his mouth involuntarily. At the same time, a pale and slender palm suddenly poked out of Chen Chen's throat and clasped Chen Chen's cheek!
In an instant, the gloomy "gurgling" sound came directly from Chen Chen's throat, and the sound was getting louder and closer...
At this time, Chen Chen had completely lost the ability to breathe. He only felt that his chest and throat seemed to be stuffed with a large hard object, and it was still constantly extending! It was a woman's arm, and under the arm, there seemed to be more and larger foreign bodies trying to get out of Chen Chen's body!
Once they got out, Chen Chen would be dead!
"Ka ka ka..."
Chen Chen's throat made an unbearable cracking sound and his chest quickly bulged as if there was a person slowly wriggling in his chest, about to be born!
At this critical moment, Chen Chen resisted the indescribable pain. He directly used the touchpad of the laptop to select "The New Ju-on" and then pressed the left button fiercely!
"Click!"
In an instant, Chen Chen only saw darkness in front of him. A pure black channel without any light appeared in front of him!
That was the channel of the USB drive to another world!
The moment this channel opened, Chen Chen plunged forward and plunged into the channel!
In the next second, Chen Chen only felt his vision go black as if he had fallen into an endless swamp, and his eyes completely lost the light.
However, the moment he entered the channel, Chen Chen felt his throat suddenly loosen. Before Chen Chen could react, his feet stepped on the ground again.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Before he had time to observe his surroundings, Chen Chen squatted down abruptly as soon as he stepped into this new world, coughing heavily! Just now, his throat was almost burst by that arm. If Chen Chen's action had been a step slower, only death awaited him.
Chen Chen really did not expect that after a failed pursuit of him, Kayako would directly launch an attack from inside his body. If he had not opened the channel of the USB drive at the last moment, he would have died at the hands of the Ju-on meme at this time.
It had to be said that this method of attack was really chilling...
However, the channel of the USB drive had the ability to isolate the memetic effect, so the moment he entered the channel, the meme was isolated outside the channel, so Chen Chen could survive smoothly.
However, this stop was only temporary. If Chen Chen returned to the channel now, he would still continue to be pursued by Kayako.
Wait, isolate the meme?
Chen Chen's originally rejoicing expression suddenly froze. At this moment, a large number of memories that he had no impression of suddenly poured into his mind. These memories constantly overlapped and conflicted with Chen Chen's original memories, causing Chen Chen's body to tremble violently!
At this moment, Chen Chen suddenly remembered that he had seen a pair of eyes countless times!
It was a pair of blood-red eyes, cold and hollow, not something that humans could have at all. They had appeared in every corner and even on everyone's face!
...
In the cold and dark classroom, Professor Wang Xi mechanically described the knowledge in the textbook...
When he reached the fixed Hayflick limit, the gel pen in Chen Chen's hand flew out with a "swoosh" as if it had been rehearsed thousands of times...
Chen Chen subconsciously bent down, but he saw that the pair of blood-red eyes were staring at him from under the table...
Chen Chen wanted to scream, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he could not make any sound as if there was something inexplicable blocking his throat...
[I see you!]
At this moment, a trace of horror appeared in Chen Chen's eyes, and then his expression completely dimmed. His expression returned to calmness again as if he had completely forgotten everything that had just happened. He just huddled under the table with a dull expression.
"The student over there who's burrowing under the table, you answer —"
Immediately, Professor Wang Xi's voice came from the podium...
...
In the school's Dormitory 404, Chen Chen inserted the USB drive and then the names of four movies appeared on the computer — Ju-on.avi, Final Destination .avi, One Missed Call.avi, and Ring.avi.
Seeing the names of these four movies, Chen Chen was just about to do something, but at this moment, the pair of blood-red eyes on the computer screen appeared again...
[I see you!]
Chen Chen's pupils shrank and he jumped up in fright. However, the moment his eyes left the computer, he suddenly froze.
"What, after all this effort, there's nothing..."
Chen Chen closed the window speechlessly. "So, the USB drive is broken."
A few minutes later, the others in the dormitory returned and Chen Chen handed the USB drive to Zhou Jie beside him.
Zhou Jie's eyes lit up. He took out his computer and inserted the USB drive, then said excitedly, "Who said it's broken? Isn't it fine? "
Chen Chen raised his head only to see that there were four horror movies in avi format on the computer...
...
In the interrogation room, Chen Chen was sitting in a chair. Suddenly, a young woman in office lady attire walked in from the door. She wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. As she strode in with swaying steps, the smooth marble floor suddenly made a clicking sound.
Chen Chen turned his head and saw that her eyes were blood-red...
[I see you!]
...
Large chunks of memories emerged out of thin air in Chen Chen's mind. These memories constantly conflicted with the original memories, causing Chen Chen to hold his head tightly and let out a heart-wrenching scream!
Every time those eyes looked at Chen Chen, Chen Chen would have the illusion of dying, but the moment Chen Chen looked away, this feeling disappeared abruptly. It was not until the moment when Chen Chen recalled all of it that it surged out of his body like a flood!
He remembered, he remembered everything!
Chen Chen lay on the ground, his hands and feet convulsing uncontrollably. It seemed that only a few seconds had passed, but it also seemed that several centuries had passed. He did not know how much time had passed. When the feeling of dying swept away like a wave, Chen Chen slowly recovered...
That feeling was comparable to facing the Basilisk pattern for the first time. If his willpower was not strong enough, Chen Chen would rather die than endure this pain.
"That, that's... An antimeme!"
Chen Chen sat up weakly, panting heavily. Although he had experienced pain comparable to death, at this moment, his mind had never been so clear as if it had been washed by a large stream of clear spring water.
"No wonder there was an error in my memory. It turns out that it's the antimeme's doing!"
Chen Chen gritted his teeth, resisting the gradually disappearing pain, and at the same time analyzed in a low voice, "It turns out that the night I was injected with the T-virus, I had this dream... 'I see you', is this the name of this antimeme?"
Chen Chen could not help frowning. "But how did this antimeme find me, could it be..."
Chen Chen's pupils suddenly shrank!
At this moment, the quantum computer of the Earth Federation flashed across his mind.
He still remembered that after he rose to prominence with the USB flash drive, he had wanted to investigate the origin of the USB flash drive. After all, the USB flash drive came from Shangdu Jiao Tong University, where he was. If he started from the school, it would not be difficult to find the origin of the USB flash drive.
For this reason, he had investigated in many ways through Little X, but the origin of the USB flash drive had always been like a black hole, not even a single clue could be dug out...
However, if he thought about the nature of this antimeme, after swallowing a person, all traces of this person's existence would disappear. Then, was it possible that this antimeme had actually existed a long time ago?
Following this train of thought, Chen Chen even came up with an extremely terrifying hypothesis —
If this antimeme had existed a long time ago, then was it not possible that the previous owner of the USB flash drive had been swallowed by it?
In other words, Chen Chen's previous owner of the USB flash drive was not non-existent. He might have also used the USB flash drive to do some major events that affected the world and might even have rewritten the course of the world's history. The reason why Little X could not find any clues was that he had also been swallowed by the antimeme!
This conjecture was not groundless because the quantum computer of the Earth Federation was the most favorable evidence!
This thought flashed through Chen Chen's mind, but it made him shudder — if this was the case, did it not mean that the moment he got the USB flash drive, this antimeme had already followed him, but it had been lurking and was only activated when certain conditions were met?
"Hehe!"
Chen Chen laughed in a low voice. At this time, the death-like pain had completely faded. He stood up, a little exhausted, and a gloomy look flashed in his eyes.
This antimeme was silently devouring this world...
Li Bo's disappearance was the best proof.
It was not just Li Bo. Chen Chen clearly remembered that there were more than 30,000 students in the entire school, but in the interrogation room at that time, the director's memory and the information found showed that there were only more than 20,000 people.
It was not that Chen Chen's memory was wrong, but the remaining 10,000 people were all swallowed by the antimeme.
The reason why Chen Chen could still remember the real number without being disturbed by the antimeme was not because of his special physique, but because he had memories of reality.
However, that was all.
In the spiritual disaster that broke out in the entire city later, countless people died at the hands of the antimeme. It silently hid itself in the shadow of Ju-on, devouring lives without anyone noticing...
This antimeme not only devoured this parallel world but also Chen Chen's dream.
In other words, the goal of this antimeme from beginning to end was only Chen Chen. Only by devouring this parallel world that was mixed up with Chen Chen's dream could it completely devour Chen...
This could explain why Shen Qi suddenly appeared to save him when he was about to be killed by Ju-on. It was because she had also been possessed by the antimeme. If he was killed by Ju-on ahead of time, it would ruin the antimeme's plan to devour him.
Even the four horror films released by Zhou Jie were probably the work of this antimeme. It was to hide in the shadow of the spiritual disaster and prevent Chen Chen from noticing...
However, would an antimeme, a conceptual existence that was closer to the laws of nature, have its own thoughts?
A gloomy glint flashed in Chen Chen's eyes and a more terrifying conjecture gradually emerged in his mind —
Perhaps, there was another possibility...
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