However, as the infection time grew longer, everyone gradually discovered some unusual behaviors of these monsters.
This happened on the sixth day of the experiment.
The researchers found that this group of monsters ate almost everything. As long as it was not infected humans or animals, once they got within 30 meters of them, they would be attacked by this group of monsters indiscriminately until the target was torn apart.
Once the feeding was stopped, they would even eat the weeds and plants on the ground.
In order to test whether this group of monsters would starve to death, Professor Will finally decided to stop feeding for three days. On the first day of stopping feeding, the group of monsters did not respond at all. They still stayed in the yard and wandered aimlessly.
Until the second day, these monsters became obviously uneasy and began to look for all edible things. However, they found nothing as they could not climb out of the yard.
Until the third day, finally, something unexpected happened...
"Will, look..."
Eugene called Will back to his laboratory and pointed to the screen in front of him. "Sure enough, this group of 'mutants' has shown new behavior."
Mutant was the name they gave to the creatures infected by this meme.
Will quickly looked at the screen and saw that in the middle of the courtyard, there was a pool of flesh and blood plant-like things. This plant was about three meters in diameter and was irregularly circular. It was like a layer of flesh carpet, laid on the bare ground.
On the carpet, one could still clearly see a bent hand and feet, and even a deformed head that was stretched to half a meter long...
At this time, a mutant happened to walk in front of this plant. It squatted down slightly, then used its claws to tear a piece of meat from the plant on the ground, and then stuffed it into the various holes on its body.
"They're cannibalism?"
Professor Will looked at Eugene in surprise.
"No, it should be called 'suffering'."
Eugene chuckled. "It's very similar, isn't it? Self-sacrifice, turning oneself into a plant that can absorb nutrients from the soil and then provide food for their own kind. How similar is it to the crucifixion of Jesus?"
Will suddenly choked. Fortunately, he was not a Christian, otherwise, he would have killed the other party.
"But..."
Will seemed to think of something and suddenly asked, "In other words, after they take root in the soil and turn into 'plants', can they really grow?"
"Of course."
Eugene nodded. "It took root early in the morning, and now, the area it covers has increased by one-tenth. This is the result of its companions eating some of it. If no other xenogeneics eat it, this xenogeneic will grow even bigger."
"Unexpected, but reasonable."
Will sighed. "Now we finally know where the flesh and blood that covered the mountains and plains came from."
With that said, he looked at Eugene again. "Get ready, there's a new order from above. In the next few days, the four continents will send a robot army to be stationed in the other dimension. At the same time, they'll use napalm bombs and incendiary bombs to clean up the flesh and blood all over the mountains. After all, the only thing these things are afraid of is fire."
"Are you going to clear out the xenogeneics? Good idea. "
Eugene put on a fake smile. "The only thing we need to worry about now is whether or not the mutants will attack the real world. So, this cleaning up is very important."
"Not only will we clean up the mutants within a radius of thousands of kilometers, but we'll also continue to strengthen the outpost."
Will added. "We'll build a new fortress here to prevent the invasion of mutants into the real world. But then again, this meme can't spread in the water. This is very good news."
As he said that, Will looked out the window at the endless ocean. "This is very beneficial to our world."
"Of course..."
Eugene also looked around. "Now we can only pray that this infectious disease will never come to our world..."
...
The foundation's exploration of the speckled light dimension continued.
Fortunately, with the existence of the XTN robots, humans could still send enough military forces to explore the speckled light dimension. Through a large number of observations of these mutants, they gradually figured out some of the rules of the mutants.
For example, in the early stages of becoming a mutant, the monsters still maintained certain human characteristics, such as talking, small movements before death, movement patterns, and so on.
The mutants retained the ability to communicate, this was the most obvious. During Professor Eugene's observation, these mutants often gathered in groups of three or four, just like humans chatting.
For this reason, the foundation even hired dozens of famous linguists to translate some of the mutant's language.
The moment the translation came out, everyone was shocked — because their language was still essentially English, but there was a problem with the mutant's way of speech, so it was difficult for humans to understand.
And according to the mutant's dialogue, the translated content was even more chilling — these mutants actually thought that they were still alive, and there seemed to be a problem with their cognitive system. They could not detect the changes at the level of their own bodies and companions at all. Instead, when they saw humans or even robots, they would feel panic, fear, anger, and madness.
In other words, in the eyes of these mutants, humans and other organic lifeforms were complete monsters...
However, if they waited until they killed the organic lifeforms in anger and tore them apart, in their perception, the scattered flesh and blood on the ground became a delicious delicacy, a delicacy on earth.
For example, after a death row prisoner was torn apart by many mutants, according to the translation of linguists, when the group of mutants saw the brain of the death row prisoner, they would exclaim that there was a huge piece of delicious jelly here. Then, in the mutants' scramble, the brain of the death row prisoner would be eaten up...
However, these were all temporary because as the mutant's body became more and more distorted, their own brains were constantly changing. In about six to eight days, these monsters would gradually lose their human consciousness and instincts, completely becoming walking corpses that only knew how to attack humans.
Moreover, when there was a shortage of food, some mutants would instinctively take root in the soil and become a mutant in the form of a plant. However, these patterns of action were random, and the place they chose to take root was not based on the fertility of the soil but entirely based on the mutant's own feelings.
As long as the mutant felt that the location was suitable, no matter whether the land was barren or fertile, they would take root and grow rapidly by absorbing the nutrients of the land...
At this point, most of the laws of this meme had been solved.
Another meme was added to the list of memes of the Blacklight Foundation. This was the third meme after This Man and Weeping Angel, and the name of this meme was —
[Meme Effect: Flower of Flesh and Blood]
[Source: On June 15, 2028, at the Indian Ocean longitude latitude and longitude 22.1 ° S 57.5 ° E. An Einstein-Rosen bridge leading to another world was discovered. After entering the Rosen bridge, a new meme effect was discovered.]
[Description: "Flower of Flesh and Blood" is a meme effect with the nature of an infectious disease. It has the ability to infect any organic life, and the infection method is airborne. At the same time, "Flower of Flesh and Blood" also has dual characteristics of infection and plant-like. At present, there are two forms of the infected: 'mutant' and 'plant'.]
[Symptoms: The initial symptoms of infection are rash, itching, and slight bleeding, accompanied by extreme hunger. At this time, the infected person's appetite is extremely high, and they can even eat three to five times the food they used to eat. The frequency of eating has also greatly increased.]
[About ten hours later, the infected person will enter the middle stage of infection. At this time, the infected person's body surface will appear tissue proliferation and spread to the legs and back. At this time, the infected person's nervous center will be abnormally excited, accompanied by violent, self-mutilation, and other tendencies.]
[In the late stage of infection, sarcomas will spread throughout the body. Human characteristics will disappear and the body will become distorted, accompanied by a large number of tentacles. At this time, the infected person's tendency to attack will continue to deepen. His perception will also be distorted by the meme effect. All humans and other organic life are like disgusting monsters in his eyes. Therefore, at the slightest movement, the infected person will indiscriminately attack all life within a thirty-meter range, including but not limited to humans. At this time, the infected person is in 'mutant' form.]
[Form Change: In the case of a lack of food, some of the infected person will change their living form. They will choose a suitable place to root in the soil and transform themselves into a fungal carpet composed of flesh and blood. This is the second form of the infected person, the "plant" form. In this form, the infected person can survive and grow by absorbing nutrients from the soil. At the same time, other first-form "mutant" infected people will use the second form of infected person as food to maintain their life energy.]
[Weakness: Research has found that the Flower of Flesh and Blood is afraid of high temperatures. Flames can be used to suppress the spread of the second form of infected person. At the same time, exposing the infected person to high temperatures can also greatly reduce the time taken for the disease to worsen. At the same time, the Flower of Flesh and Blood cannot survive and spread in water or a vacuum environment.]
[Note: Once infected, the life of the infected person will enter a countdown. So far, there have been no cases of the infected person recovering to health.]
At this time, sitting at the desk, Chen Chen looked at the text report that appeared on the computer, and then a look of emotion appeared on his face.
"Sir Godfather, how do you rate the Foundation's operation this time?"
Little X's voice came.
"If the full score is 100 points, I'll give it 60 points, barely a passing grade."
Chen Chen said lazily, "Apart from the slow response at the beginning and the suspicion that the higher-ups in the Lilith Parliament were passing the buck to each other, once the operation was launched, it was a lot better. In particular, the exploration of this meme also has many highlights. The only fatal thing is that they almost brought the meme into reality..."
"It's already very good."
Little X agreed. "After all, it was the first time that this group of researchers came into contact with memes. Although we released a memetic effect with an extremely low level of risk, it's still very dangerous. The fact that they can figure out most of the rules in 20 days shows that this group of people is well-trained."
"Indeed."
Chen Chen smiled. "But the main goal this time has been achieved, which is to make the higher-ups of the four major continents feel a sense of crisis, forcing them to accelerate the signing of the Blacklight Foundation Agreement in various countries around the world.
"In addition, the four major continents are preparing to establish an official logistics organization that can cooperate with the foundation. Once this organization is established, the speed of contact, communication, and cooperation between the two sides can be further improved. My exposure of the Flesh Carpet meme was not in vain..."
At this point, Chen Chen could not help but look at his table, only to see that there was a completely transparent but sealed petri dish on the table.
In the petri dish, there was a piece of flesh the size of a fingernail. These pieces of flesh were red like a tomato and they slowly wriggled in the petri dish like a living thing. At the same time, one could also see the dense structure of tentacles extending around the piece of flesh.
This piece of flesh was the thing that Chen Chen put in the Resident Evil world and the source of this flesh was the first memetic experiment that Chen Chen conducted a few years ago.
Back then, an anti-Blacklight organization called "White Embers" was born in Europe and opposed Blacklight Biotechnology everywhere, even attempting to systematically assassinate the higher-ups of Blacklight Biotechnology.
Therefore, in a rage, Chen Chen captured hundreds of members of that organization and threw them on an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, then carried out extremely cruel memetic experiments.
In the end, all three hundred members of the entire "White Embers" were killed and the memetic experiment was a complete success, from which a special meme was born — the Flesh Carpet.
This was a special meme that resembled a plant form and also resembled an infectious disease. Once infected, the entire person would turn into a pool of flesh and blood. However, because it was afraid of fire and could not spread in water, it was chosen by Chen Chen this time as the first trial of the foundation.
Just like how the army needed to conduct large-scale training and exercises to increase actual combat experience, the operation of the entire foundation also needed trials so that some unreasonable aspects could be discovered and improved.
In addition to the trial for the internal members of the foundation, Chen Chen had another more important reason, which was to attract the attention of the higher-ups of the four major continents.
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