Chapter 168 Memetic Influence

The players in front of the screen frowned.

These 6 words in the video made them feel that something was not quite right.

like

The Control Bureau's purge of humans...is not as crazy as the protagonist No. 2 said

on the contrary

The players were stunned. They wanted to find a suitable word, but their poor understanding of the Control Bureau made it difficult for them to judge whether the elimination of humans was the right thing to do.

So, after thinking about it, they still did not express their opinions. Instead, they waited for Brother Banana’s analysis in the video.

Soon, the sound in the video continued.

[‘For the sake of death’, these 6 words are an email sent by the Control Bureau to all sites around the world.]

[Players who have played other works of the only game should know that the Control Bureau is a large and unimaginable supernatural mysterious organization. The "Control Failure" we are playing now is just one of the sites of the Control Bureau.]

[Would such a powerful organization with military, technology and a large number of scientific research talents casually send meaningless 6 words to websites around the world?]

[Obviously, they won’t. In that case, this sentence has an ulterior motive.]

[‘Posthumous affairs’ refers to things after a person’s death.]

[The word 'for' can mean purpose or reason. When this word is used in combination with 'things after death', then it can be interpreted as 'for things after death'.]

[In other words, it is for those who died...]

[Through the former director who came back from the dead, the Control Bureau learned the secrets of the dead that the living did not know.]

[As an organization that controls the supernatural, it will definitely understand and study the world of the dead.]

[The only person in the world who knows about the world of the dead is the former director. It is inevitable to cooperate with the experiment. But how to understand the world of the dead? Dying experiments such as hypnosis, suspended animation, suffocation, etc. should be carried out. So.

We speculate that the former director had a conflict with the Control Bureau over experimental cooperation, which led to his death.]

[Here, if you have different views on the death of the director, you can send me a private message to discuss it. You are very welcome.]

[Okay, having said that, what will the Control Bureau do about this anomaly that causes headaches and hallucinations in living people, and is still affected and tortured after death?]

[Control? Or destroy? Or research, etc.? You know, the body of the 'Divine Seal' is under the deep-sea crater. Will they dive down? Won't they send people to get closer? Unfortunately, we don't either

have no idea.]

[But we are sure that according to the Control Bureau's style of conduct, it is definitely necessary to visit the scene in person. But we don't know what happened next, because there are really no clues.]

[Since the game does not tell us any effective actions taken by the control bureau against the body of the 'Divine Seal'. Therefore, the following analysis is all our guesses and unofficial explanations.]

When the players saw this, they sat upright.

I didn't care whether it was a correct explanation or not.

Until the official answer comes out, Brother Banana and the others are the only ones.

At this point, in the video, the explanation continues.

[Before we begin, we must first mention something very outrageous - memes.]

[In the beginning, because of the Soul Project, the Control Bureau had suicides and resignations at the headquarters. And they also used memes to prevent suicides and resignations.]

[So what is a meme? What magical powers does it have?]

[Here, I’ll show you where the meme first appeared.]

At this time, a paragraph slowly appeared in the video.

[By order of the Control Bureau's Supreme Council, this video has been listed.]

[The most high-confidential]

[Any unauthorized person who accesses this video will be immediately obliterated by the meme! If you continue to watch without receiving the appropriate meme vaccine, it will immediately lead to cardiac arrest and death]

【You have been warned】

[Please confirm that you are an authorized person]

The players took a closer look and immediately recognized the passage in front of them, regardless of whether they had played "Control Failure" or not.

Because this is the opening of the CG trailer of "Control Failure"!

This kind of pre-broadcast warning, when it was announced at the time, was so unique and novel that it left a deep impression on players.

So much so that even before the game was released, the trailer alone became popular in all game communities.

It is said that some people were so frightened that they did not dare to look at the warning.

At this time, Brother Banana spoke.

['Meme' first appeared in the opening warning of the trailer of "Control Failure". We can guess from the black block above that there are many types of 'meme'. The cardiac arrest in the trailer is just one of them. .]

[Although this trailer is a joke by the production team, it also tells us the power of ‘memes’. In addition, there are several places in the game where the influence of memes also appears.]

As soon as he finished speaking, a blue handwritten note appeared in front of the player.

The above is a very long article.

But what is thoughtful is that several passages have been highlighted with red pens to highlight the key points.

'Stop your surprise, because I, including all the people who come here, are just like you. They all came through the 0970 cycle experiment.'

'You should be wondering now why the circulation effect disappears as soon as you get here.'

'Because the 'meme' was applied here, your perception was wrong, and you conceptually thought that 0970 no longer existed. In fact, the characteristics of 0970 have always existed, otherwise there would not be a steady stream of people like you coming over.'

When the players saw this, they frowned, a little surprised, and a little confused.

For them, this is already confusing.

Brother Banana cleared his throat and spoke in the video.

[This note was found on a corpse in the dormitory area of ​​‘D-10’ in the parallel world.]

[From here, we can also learn that the so-called ‘meme’ is something that can affect our human thinking and cognition, making our brains forced to accept what this ‘meme’ conveys to us.]

[In human terms, if 'memes' tell us that 1+1=100, then we really feel that 1+1=100. If 'memes' tell us that we can fly, then we really feel that we can fly, even if you Without wings, you can't fly...but your brain has been affected and you think you can fly.]

[Similarly, if the ‘meme’ tells you you’re going to have a cardiac arrest, you really might…]

Brother Banana didn't finish his words, but left some clues to make people suspicious.

When the players in front of the screen saw this, they couldn't help but feel a little horrified.

Nest…

Isn't this thing too scary...

Forcibly changing people's cognitive thinking, so that if I say what this is, you must think it is what it is.

This is simply a big killer, right?

Just when players were feeling horrified by memes, Brother Banana once again gave an example.

[Do you know why the map in the game is so big? In fact, it is also because of the influence of memes.]

[In the middle and late stages of the game, we will find a note in an employee's office...]

In the video, a screenshot of the note is shown.

That's handwritten content.

'Bastard Maynard! That damn idiot! Just because he proposed the modularization of site areas, the entire Site 19 was as big as a maze! I went to get a spare office key and walked for more than an hour.

! It only took me 5 minutes to get started! When are those bastards in the engineering department going to cancel this meme!? What a waste of my time!'

Seeing this, players finally understand why the game map is so big...

It turns out to be a ‘meme’…

Brother Banana’s voice sounded at this moment.

[From this note, we can know that the scope of influence of 'memes' can be very large, so large that the entire people in Site 19 are affected.]

['Meme' said, your site No. 19 is too small, I said it is big. So, everyone on the site thought it was big. Including you in front of the screen.]

[This is also why Site 19 in the parallel world has 'shrunk', because that is the real site size. The one we explore in the game was affected by the 'meme'.]

I see!

The players were suddenly stunned.

This meme…

This setting…

It's so cool...

At this time, everything in the video faded away, and the game scene of "Control Failure" appeared.

Then, Brother Banana spoke.

[Now that we know the effect of 'memes', it can explain how the Control Bureau deals with 'it' in human consciousness.]

[Note, I still said that, because the clues are incomplete. The following content is all our personal guesses, not the official final explanation.]

It was originally a big chapter, but the second half was too messy and needs to be straightened out. I will split one chapter out first and then slowly revise the next chapter.
Chapter completed!