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Chapter 962 Meme Theory

In Yunshuihe City, everyone sat cross-legged on the ground, not daring to move.

Melodious bells rang out from the city, constantly dispelling the invisible and intangible curse.

This situation has lasted for more than thirty hours.

During this period, everyone encountered various strange and weird "curses".

Dangerous situations, such as: someone tripping while walking and hitting his head directly on a sharp object, someone slipping and stabbing someone with an object in his hand, someone suddenly becoming confused and unable to identify the danger and walking into a ditch, someone suddenly becoming physically fragile and being injured and bleeding profusely, etc.

There are non-dangerous ones, such as: feeling creepy, easily bumping your head when walking, falling down if the road is slightly uneven, or dozens or hundreds of people burping continuously, etc.

There are even some that have no effect or are funny, like falling upside down every time, or suddenly feeling that a sow has a pretty face, etc.

However, no one could laugh at these "funny" things.

Those whose cultivation is below the Golden Core realm, that is, less than 10.0, will be affected by every curse. If they continue to make trouble after being affected, there is more than a % chance that serious consequences will occur. If they just sit still after being affected, there will be no major problem.

For those who are at the Jindan stage or above, the chance of being hit is about 50%. Try not to mess around after being hit. If you mess around, you may be able to withstand it once or twice, but what about three or four times?

In the past thirty hours, 13 curses have appeared. The thirteenth curse is currently wreaking havoc.

In the City Lord’s Mansion, City Lord Fengyun Qinglin rang the bell numbly.

It's not like he didn't think about running away, this place is too weird. But he can't run away!

Someone must ring the bell to resist the erosion of the curse. But the distance of the bell sound is limited. Previously, Fengyun Qinglin asked his men to ring the bell, and after running hundreds of kilometers, he had to roll back in disgrace and continue to ring the bell.

However, the situation was not good. The bell had to be rung for more than 30 hours straight. People could take turns, but the bell could not.

Although this bell is a magic weapon, it has a history of dozens of Dragon Years and has been exposed to wind and rain and has never been maintained.

Such a bell is really not very useful, it is just a decoration. Cultivators are not monks, and this bell is only rung two or three times in a Dragon Year. The total time of ringing in the past dozens of Dragon Years is probably less than five hours.

There was no need to build such a big bell too well. So Fengyun Qinglin saved a lot of things when casting this big bell. Of course, the things he saved went into his own pocket.

No matter what, Feng Yun Qinglin never imagined that one day he would need this big bell to prolong his life.

Now, after being struck continuously for more than thirty hours, which is roughly equivalent to more than ten hours as measured by cultivators, some minor problems have gradually appeared on the big bell.

With Fengyun Qinglin's senses, he could clearly feel that the sound was no longer powerful. This was because there were tiny cracks inside the bell. According to the current situation, it was estimated that it could only last for two to three hours at most.

Fengyun Qinglin tried to knock with a lower sound and a lower frequency, but it didn't work. The sound must reach a sufficient intensity and density to be effective. In other words, it must reach a certain sound quality before it can have an effect on the curse.

Someone was already casting a new bronze bell nearby, but it seemed like it was too late.

This is not an ordinary bronze bell, but a magic weapon that requires special materials. It is not easy to melt special materials, especially when magic weapons also need to arrange formations.

Suddenly the curse changed again. Fengyun Qinglin first tried to reduce the strength and frequency of the bell ringing, but to no avail. He then tried to gradually increase the intensity of the bell ringing. When the intensity increased to about 140% of the previous level, the curse was disrupted.

But the sudden increase in strength caused obvious cracks to appear on the bronze bell, which was already unable to bear the weight. When the cracks appeared, the formation was destroyed, the sound of the bronze bell suddenly changed, and then the effect of suppressing the curse disappeared.

After being suppressed for more than thirty hours, the curse finally broke out, and 14 curses broke out at the same time! In the past thirty hours, Chu Fei and Shenglong Temple were only responsible for casting curses, but not for removing them.

Fengyun Qinglin immediately put up defense, but it was ineffective. In other words, these curses simply ignored defense. Any physical defense or spell defense, in front of this strange curse, can be said to be "non-existent".

Fengyun Qinglin felt a law invading his body, and then invading every corner of his body, especially his bones.

Although frightened, Feng Yun Qinglin sat on the ground motionless.

I heard the sound of broken bones and saw one of his men suddenly fall down.

Under the scanning of the Yuanshen, Fengyun Qinglin could clearly "see" the miserable condition of his subordinates. Large pieces of bones in their bodies collapsed like fragile porcelain.

After enduring like this for more than half an hour, the curse changed again. No, this time it was not a curse, but... healing!

Fengyun Qinglin could clearly feel the hidden injuries in his body disappearing quickly. But this change lasted less than a minute before it switched again and turned into a curse.

As time went by, Fengyun Qinglin's figure began to hunch. A cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul was tortured to death by the curse.

It’s not that Fengyun Qinglin hasn’t thought about running away, it’s just that he really can’t run away.

The surrounding spiritual energy was disturbed, and the magical powers were greatly reduced. The curse ignored defense and directly invaded the body and even the soul.

All defensive magic weapons and formations were ineffective under this strange curse. This made Fengyun Qinglin feel like he was trying to draw water with a bamboo basket or using a fishing net as an umbrella, which was completely ineffective.

Fengyun Qinglin felt like a tiny ant being targeted by an immortal.

Feeling the new curse, Fengyun Qinglin suddenly roared in despair. During the roar, Fengyun Qinglin's body cracked like porcelain and then collapsed. Then the Nascent Soul flew out of the shattered body and turned into fragments and disappeared.

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A million kilometers away, in Shenglong Palace, Chu Fei and his team were busy.

When Fengyun Qinglin died, the computer prompted that the test target had died, and then automatically switched to the next test target.

Chu Fei only glanced at the switching process and stopped paying attention to it because there were too many experiments to be conducted.

The complexity of this experiment far exceeded initial expectations.

The original idea was to release a memetic virus or a memetic tool or research product into every city of cultivation.

But I didn’t expect that the cultivators actually have so many ways to resolve it.

This is simply... a pleasant surprise!

In the process of scientific research, we are not afraid of discovering problems, but we are afraid of not being able to discover them. This is simply the cultivators actively cooperating with the research.

Thanks to the "active cooperation" of the cultivators, a city that could originally only test one memetic product can now test more than a dozen or even more.

In this research process, a large number of research results have been verified, successful ones have been screened out, and failed ones have been listed separately. These failed research directions are also of reference value.

Chu Fei continued to study for a while, and suddenly saw a younger female researcher staring at the picture in a daze.

Chu Fei said without even turning his head: "Do you think it's cruel?"

The female researcher said nothing, but just nodded silently.

Chu Fei: "You can open the ordinary computer at the door and take a look at the information inside."

The female researcher stood up silently, clicked on it and found that it contained historical materials, including text, pictures, and videos.

Click on a folder labeled "The First War between Shenglong Palace and Xianyun Palace - 922" and click on the first video.

At the beginning of the video, we can see the cultivators harnessing the power of destruction to directly push down the cities under the Shenglong Palace. Under the violent cultivation magic, mountains and rivers collapsed, rivers backflowed, cities were submerged by disasters, and no one, old, weak, women or children, was spared.

There are even cultivators who actively hunt people, and even capture large numbers of young children alive to perform rituals.

The cultivators didn't care about the camera equipment nearby and acted recklessly. However, many of the camera equipment were civilian ones, so many of the images were only half-cut and blurry, but they were enough to see clearly what the cultivators were doing.

The female researcher couldn't continue watching after a while, so she looked at other videos and pictures, and finally read the text records.

The first large-scale war between Shenglong Palace and Xianyun Palace began in 1022, after Shenglong Palace entered the other world. This war was not initiated by Shenglong Palace.

Chu Fei's voice echoed in the research room: "After Shenglong Palace entered the inner world, we knew that our foundation was shallow, so we have been developing in a low profile. Facing the provocations from all around, we have been patient again and again.

However, the major forces around us feel that we are easy to bully because of our tolerance. The more patient we are, the more they will press their limits.

In 1022, Xianyun Palace asked us to pay tribute to 20.0 million boys and million girls, requiring the boys to be born at noon and the girls to be born at midnight for sacrifice, saying that Xianyun Palace was going to give birth to a master in the Tribulation Crossing Stage. The Tribulation Crossing Stage is equivalent to the realm of , which is the realm of the True God.

Do you think we should agree to this kind of thing?"

The female researcher opened her mouth and said, "No. I have studied this history..."

"Yeah, I can't.

Since you have studied history, you should know the cruelty of war.

In this war, we resisted, and Xianyun Palace sent a large number of experts to capture people.

This war lasted for more than 30 years, and with our determination to die together, we finally stopped the attack of Xianyun Palace. In other words, Xianyun Palace could not bear the loss and took the initiative to stop the war.

According to statistics after the war, the social development of Shenglong Palace regressed by more than a hundred years, with more than 10 billion people killed directly in the war and more than billion people killed indirectly. The cultivators took away at least one million boys and girls. "

As he said this, Chu Fei finally turned to look at the female researcher, "Our war this time is not invasion, it is revenge!

Perhaps it is because Shenglong Palace has protected you so well that you have forgotten the cruelty of war. You have even forgotten that almost 99% of the armies in this world are brutal.

Except for our army, all other armies are like 'thieves passing by like combs and soldiers passing by like rakes'!

There is nothing wrong with being kind, but please keep your kindness within your country.

If you still can't adjust your mindset, then leave first and I'll transfer you to the document room or another department later."

The female researcher remained silent.

Chu Fei turned to everyone and said, "Continue researching! We have a heavy burden on our shoulders. I didn't tell you some things before because I was afraid you couldn't bear it. Now I will tell you why the burden is so heavy.

Because this war is likely to bring out a master of the True God level. There is an organization behind the Xianyun Palace. The boys and girls captured a thousand years ago were used to sacrifice to their masters in the Tribulation Crossing Stage. This master who used our boys and girls for sacrifice may appear this time!

Whether it's for the blood feud from thousands of years ago or for our own safety, we must keep this master here this time.

But facing a master of the True God level, what can we use to attack?"

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Chu Fei: "For now, the only way to attack the true God is meme technology! So, continue researching! Give me crazy research!"

The laboratory was busy again, even busier than before.

Someone asked, "Boss Chu, didn't we say that we have sent envoys to negotiate with Xianyun Palace? It is said that Xianyun Palace is also willing to negotiate."

Chu Fei chuckled, "That's fake, everyone is stalling for time, we are replenishing ammunition and deploying troops, Xianyun Palace is also gathering experts again, waiting for support.

This period of time will be relatively relaxing, as it is the last calm before the storm.

We are free anyway, so let's just chat and have fun first."

Everyone:...

After a few minutes, the female researcher spoke up, "Boss Chu... Isn't it the goal of cultivators to comprehend the world? This sacrifice... is an evil method..."

Chu Fei looked at the other party stuttering and snorted, "Not enough practice, so sacrifice to make up the numbers. Many evil ways and demonic ways are derived from cultivation.

In the outer world, I have seen so-called true cultivators, demonic cultivators, and evil cultivators. There is no clear distinction between them, and many of their methods are borrowed from each other."

After that, Chu Fei stopped talking and started to get busy.

As a large number of experiments were conducted and a large amount of data was collected, Chu Fei's research on memes made rapid progress.

To understand memes, we must first review the relationship between the human body and genes.

Genes are the foundation of the human body. Whether it is the brain or bones and flesh, although the structures are completely different, the foundation comes from genes. And it is the same set of genes, but they are expressed in different ways and form different tissues.

In addition, viruses and microorganisms in the human body must use human genes as a template to exist in the human body. If they are incompatible with human genes, they will be judged as "external evil" by the human body and will be expelled.

Also, the food that ordinary people eat has a genetic structure that is not much different from that of the human body. If the genetic structure is very different, it is not food, but a deadly poison.

Therefore, if the human body wants to exist healthily, it must rely on the functioning of genes.

The basic unit of human genes is the base pair. This base pair is the gene, the basic factor; genes are linked into a gene chain, the genome, to build life.

If the human body wants to exist in the material world, it needs basic material support - atoms.

To form a human body, a complex logical chain is required: atoms → molecules → genes → genes → chromosomes → cell nucleus → cells → human body. It also involves molecular bonds, organic matter, material interactions, energy, and so on.

Similarly, this theory can be used to understand "memes". The position of memes in this vast world is similar to that of genes in the human body.

According to big data theory, the world is made up of strings, which are equivalent to atoms in the material world.

Strings are built into some advanced structures that can be compared to molecules. However, research at this stage is still in theoretical speculation and there is little research.

Then this advanced structure was built into a "meme", which is the underlying logic of building the world. However, the research on memes by Shenglong Temple and Yanhuang Civilization is also in the theoretical stage.

The research currently being conducted by Chu Fei and others is to implement the theory of memes and make the theory a theorem.

In genetic research, if we master genes, we can change the human body, microorganisms, etc.; then in meme research, if we master memes, can we change the world?

Chu Fei didn’t know, and neither did the researchers here, but everyone thought so and were working towards this direction.

The female researcher was silent for a while, came back, and asked Chu Fei for the most difficult research.

Chu Fei took a silent look and said nothing, but just gave up his research position.

Women sometimes go to extremes easily, and women who go to extremes can make men tremble.

A few minutes later, Chu Fei was trembling. The female researcher activated the experiment that Chu Fei hesitated about. Through the camera, you can see that something extremely strange has happened.

The place where the two people touched suddenly liquefied, and then the two people merged into one;

The puppy in his arms suddenly liquefied, and the puppy's buttocks merged with the human's chest;

Or the human body melts like a candle and seeps into the ground, but the person is still alive...

Chu Fei hesitated for more than a day on these studies, but still didn't dare to start. Now, this female researcher actually presided over these studies with a blank expression, calmly recorded data, and even took the initiative to iterate according to the meme editing tools provided by Chu Fei.

Chu Fei was silent for a while, and finally spoke, "Remember to add our genetic data, so that it can recognize our genes and avoid infection. Considering that everything is very basic, add a few more layers of protection."

"Yes."

Chu Fei started to busy himself with other research.

At the same time, the "peace talks" between Shenglong Palace and Xianyun Palace have entered a white-hot stage.

Although neither side has the intention of peace talks, it does not prevent the two sides from testing each other.

Shenglong Palace wants to test the endurance of Xianyun Palace, whether there are experts to support them, and what will happen if they support them;

Xianyun Palace needs to think about how much munitions are left in Shenglong Palace and whether there are other interception plans. (End of this chapter)