Soon, following the paladin's report, Cassel and Donald's records were fed back to Sheffield.
Sheffield made a judgment about this kind of containment.
Here, we are going to introduce a concept called memes.
Memes are things that are similar to the role genes play in the process of biological evolution in the transmission process of language, ideas, beliefs, behaviors, etc.
Of course, the above stinky and long explanation method is difficult for people to understand.
To put it simply, the most common memes are various entertainment “stalks”.
For example, Wang Jingze was the first to say, "I would rather starve to death, die outside, and jump out of here than eat anything from you."
As a result, this video spread through the Internet, causing many people to imitate this tone of voice.
For example, "I, Sun Xiaochuan, will starve to death without making bad money. Oh my god, bad money tastes so good."
From this, the meme "really fragrant" evolved.
In this case, what Wang Jingze said about "really fragrant" is a meme.
The concept of memetic harm can also find its counterpart in reality.
There has been a saying on the Internet that "human beings are essentially repeaters."
Just say on the chat software, "The essence of human beings is repeaters?"
Then someone will immediately reply, "The essence of human beings is a repeater?"
Then there are idiots who say "The essence of human beings is repeaters?"
If it goes on like this endlessly, it is a memetic hazard.
"What is the essence of human beings?" is a meme, and its behavior of causing others to repeat it inexplicably is a memetic hazard.
The containment objects raging in Shigri's satellite city are exactly a meme.
The person with the meme just needs to say "Experience plus three, farewell!".
If a normal person is listening nearby, he will also be infected by this meme and repeat the sentence "Experience plus three, farewell!"
And this meme can also spread through the Internet.
A person takes a video of a meme-infected person talking and lets normal people who are not infected with the meme watch it.
This will also allow people who are not infected with the meme to be contaminated and become meme holders.
At the same time, people infected with memes are completely unaware that their behavior is weird.
They may even doubt that the very act of "suspecting that there is something wrong with themselves" is wrong.
This is the cognitohazard caused by memes.
It has changed the thinking of normal people.
Schaefer told his team members his reasoning and expressed his judgment.
His teammates asked worriedly:
"Captain Sheffield, now that we have found out the nature of the contained object, do we still need to continue looking for the investigator?"
Sheffield replied:
"Well, the previous investigator took the initiative to disconnect from the communication, which shows that he noticed something was wrong around him before he found anything unusual about himself."
"He came half a day before us. If he hasn't lost his mind yet, he must know more about this kind of thing than us! Maybe he has found a way to suppress this kind of thing."
After saying that, everyone jumped off the city wall and continued to move into the city.
However, before setting off, everyone used magic to seal off their hearing to prevent themselves from being infected.
At the same time, in order to determine whether they were contaminated by memes, they wrote on paper.
If you say "Experience plus three, farewell", it means you are infected, and you must leave the team no matter what!
According to Cassell's records, they all realized that they were saying "Experience plus three, farewell!" but they didn't find it strange.
Therefore, Sheffield's team wrote such a paragraph to make it easier to determine whether the members were contaminated.
After doing this, everyone continued to move into the city and saw the scenes inside the city.
Incredibly, they saw a "normally functioning" city.
The old man was leisurely playing chess on the street, the Shen Shu bus driver was driving normally, the students were going to school normally, and the patrol team was maintaining law and order.
This doesn't look like an area contaminated by so-called containment at all.
Since they couldn't hear the sounds around them, they didn't know what these people were talking about.
But it is not difficult to surmise that everyone here is probably saying "Experience plus three, farewell!".
But just by sight, they still discovered something strange.
As soon as the surrounding residents see the water, they will jump in excitedly and only leave after five minutes.
Fortunately, this excitement did not make these residents lose their minds.
They are very orderly when entering the water.
Even near some small ponds that were not large enough, surrounding residents lined up beside the ponds.
Sheffield and his party continued walking and came to the city hall.
City Hall is also "extremely normal".
The local ruling pastor is contacting the outside world and asking why the protective shield was suddenly activated to block the area.
At this moment, a man with blood on his head walked towards Sheffield.
This person has empty eye sockets, bleeding ears, and a cut tongue. He looks like a zombie.
Everyone immediately became vigilant, fearing that this guy was a monster created by the containment object.
But this guy walked up to everyone and started signing to Sheffield.
Sign language: I am investigator Brigitte Lin, are you the team of investigators coming later?
Sheffield examined the man carefully and saw that he was wearing the attire of a Custer Agency investigator.
He had an ID card pinned in front of him with Brigitte Lin's name written on it.
Sheffield used the recognition magic to scan the ID card and determined that this person was the Brigitte Lin they were looking for.
Since some people are unable to see or hear due to disabilities, charitable institutions established by the Holy See in various places are designed to communicate with them.
They created a method of communication called tactile language.
Use special rules to touch other people's skin to communicate with people who cannot see or hear.
And Sheffield is now using this method to communicate with Brigitte Lin.
Sheffield Touch: We are a team sent from behind the Custer Agency. How did you know we were coming?
Lin Qingxia pointed to her nose and then made sign language.
Lin Qingxia's sign language: "Smell with your nose. The perception of a high-level warrior is enough for me to find you through my sense of smell."
Sheffield said: "Who caused you such injuries?"
Lin Qingxia's sign language: "I did it myself. The situation was urgent at the time. In order to avoid being infected by the containment object, I urgently cut off all my senses."
"At the same time, in order to avoid transmission, I also cut off my own tongue. After all, in the process of fighting the evil god in the past, the presence of certain organs was an important condition for determining transmission."
Sheffield commented: "You came half a day earlier than us. Do you know more about this kind of memetic containment object?"
Lin Qingxia's sign language: "Of course there is, that's why I came to you."
"First of all, the medium of transmission of this meme is sound. As long as you hear the words of the meme holder, you will be infected. Even a video of the meme-infected person can be infected."
"Secondly, my companion lost his ears early on and began to communicate with others through lip reading."
"Even so, he caught the meme."
"Finally, after many experiments, we found that communicating with paper and writing can be immune to transmission, while communicating with tactile language can also be immune to this meme."
"But because of this, there is only the last person left in my team, which is me."