Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 546 Rush to the polluted area

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, "I don't feel any discomfort."

"It seems that the experts' guess is correct... As the 'mother body' of the cloned organization, you will not be infected..." Lin Qiming's face showed a hint of excitement.

"What about you? Do you feel any discomfort? Skin itching, joint pain, or... respiratory distress?" What Lin Qiming didn't expect was that Ke Lan actually threw this question to himself in turn.

He felt a little strange: "I... I didn't see the picture of the unprocessed 'infectious source'?"

"No, you saw it."

Ke Lan turned off the "dangerous" picture files, pointed to his eyes with the index and middle fingers of his right hand, and retorted: "You said before that not only video and picture files, but even images in the mirror have contagious. So you’ve just been staring at me, observing my reaction, and my eyes must have had a reflection of the picture on the screen.”

Lin Qiming: "This..."

"Although this reflection is difficult to see clearly if you don't look at it deliberately, it does exist." Ke Lan continued, "But you, like me, are not infected."

"This... I just... didn't notice at all..."

Ke Lan sighed: "Perhaps...'it''s current way of contagion is almost the same as what those experts call 'meme contagion', but its 'meme' is incomplete and must be Specific conditions must be met to complete the propagation."

"It's because I didn't 'see' them subjectively, so I wasn't infected. That's what you mean, right..." As expected of the deputy chief of the Crisis Management Section, Lin Qiming immediately realized it.

"Right. When you don't notice, or your brain 'thinks' you don't see those things, the specific conditions of 'memetic contagion' can't be achieved, even if you have actually seen those eyeballs, you It will not be infected." Ke Lan said, "This is probably a paradox at the cognitive level, but it is a bit like idealism in philosophical theory-that is, the spirit determines matter: what you see and what you recognize , is the real existence." Ke Lan said.

"Then if someone can temporarily change his perception of the world through his strong willpower... wouldn't he be infected?"

"In theory, as long as you can 'lie to yourself', like you see those eyeballs, but you can tell your brain, 'I don't see anything', and believe it, you can To achieve the literal meaning of 'turning a blind eye and turning a deaf ear'...then this person can completely ignore the memetic infection." Ke Lan paused, "But this is difficult to do, and the judgment of cognitive boundaries is extremely vague, at least the mind If you relax a little bit, you will..."

"But it is still a very pioneering idea! Could you please send the content of our conversation to the experts of the research institute? I think this should be of great help in solving the incident."

"You can post whatever you want..." Ke Lan waved his hand, "This kind of thing, anyone with a little imagination can think of it, and those experts probably fell into the trap of inherent ideas... But the problem is, this thing , It simply cannot be explained by any existing theory or law of human beings.”

"Indeed." Lin Qiming nodded approvingly. At this time, he was somewhat convinced of Ke Lan, the "special temporary boss". The eyeballs that appeared in the surveillance cameras were shielded, but because the AI ​​could not recognize them, it was impossible to code them immediately. None of the pilots who entered the contaminated area in the first two batches were free from infection.

Someone proposed manual identification by rear personnel, but manual identification has a delay of a few seconds, and there may be omissions... and the price to be paid is too high. The person in charge of identification is like consuming Like goods, a human life can only buy a mecha a few minutes at most...

The countermeasure team thought of several solutions, such as deliberately blurring the image, but the image after special processing is still contagious. The only way is to block it directly with color blocks or other layers, just like you just did As the saying goes, 'out of sight is out of sight'.

As for the thermal infrared detection mode, it is completely useless - the temperature of those things is exactly the same as the environment, and they are 'invisible' in the infrared vision..."

I don't know when, Lin Qiming's address to Ke Lan has changed from "you" to "you".

"It's all hypothetical anyway, so it's better to be bolder." Ke Lan stood up, "Have you ever thought that these eyeballs might not exist in the real world at all? Maybe...they only exist in our cognition ? Otherwise, why wouldn't the AI ​​recognize them?"

"Huh?!" Lin Qiming was startled suddenly, and his whole body couldn't help being shocked.

"Since things are so outrageous, let's just make it outrageous." Ke Lan shrugged, "Of course, hypotheses are hypotheses, this thing is definitely not that simple... At least, it has the ability to interfere with reality, not completely virtual. A 'meme' is a piece of information, but the thing that carries the information must be something in the real world, it's just that it's the shape of an 'eyeball', that's hard to say."

"I have already sent these proposals to the front-line countermeasure team, and the experts in the countermeasure team are discussing it intensely... The tablet computer in your hand also has access to the countermeasure team, you can use it to listen in or directly Get involved." Lin Qiming said.

"It's fine to participate, I still know how much I have, I just give them a 'possibility'." Ke Lan shook his head, "Since you said that time is tight, let's hurry up... Those experts are right in saying at least one thing: 'memes' are subject to change at any time, and no one knows what it will eventually look like."

"The high-speed train is on standby at the nearest station. It only takes 15 minutes for us to reach the blockade outside the polluted area." Lin Qiming said immediately.

"Well... there is one more thing, you can help me find someone."

"Who?"

"Hunting God Hunting Team, Asano Akira, I need him as my assistant." Ke Lan said, "This mission is tailor-made for him."

As Ke Lan said, if the infectious agent of the "meme" is vision, then a blind person is tantamount to a natural immune person.

Coupled with Asano Akira's unreasonable force value, even if the body of "Meme" really has the strength of a B-type mutant, he can easily kill it alone.

……

……

The "high-speed train" that Lin Qiming calls is not so much a train, but a space shuttle placed horizontally on a maglev track.

At the rear of the train, four rocket propellers with a nozzle diameter of nearly two meters were installed... Ke Lan can even imagine the terrifying feeling of pushing back when the train starts...

"For safety's sake, please wear this." Lin Qiming handed over a box, which contained a set of heavy composite anti-G suits. After Ke Lan put on the clothes, a staff member from the crisis management department Immediately, a tube was inserted into the interface of the anti-G suit, and a gel-like semi-solid fluid quickly filled the interlayer of the suit.

Ke Lan felt as if he was caught in an oversized jelly, even his head was tightly wrapped.

The partition wall between each block has been lowered, but there is still a hole reserved for the train to pass through the partition wall—of course, the only train that can pass through this place is the one that Ke Lan took.

All public transportation inside the Ark has been suspended, so no matter how fast this train equipped with rocket propulsion drives, there is no need to worry about running into other trains—the entire Ark has a magnetic levitation track with a total length of tens of thousands of kilometers. In the Internet, there is only one train that is still running.

What left Ke Lan speechless the most was... when the train started, it even yelled "three, two, one, ignite" - and then, a pushing back feeling strong enough to make people faint for a while was exerted When it came to him, although the gel filled in the anti-G suit had buffered most of the G force, Ke Lan was still oppressed by this force and was speechless.

The surrounding streets were receding rapidly, and the scenery outside the porthole quickly became a long blurred trail. Everyone in the car was leaning against the back of the seat, with both hands tightly grasping the armrest of the seat.

It wasn't until the train stopped speeding up that the oppression slowed down a little. Ke Lan glanced at Lin Qiming beside him. Obviously, his condition was not much stronger than his own.

Of course, it may also be the reason for the excessive blood loss from the gunshot wound just now.

"Did the wound not burst?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's okay." Lin Qiming shook his head, "Me too... I just tried this kind of transportation for the first time today... This is actually not a train..."

"I see, this thing was modified with a space shuttle, right?" Ke Lan pointed to an emblem on the back of the front seat, "Even the logo of the Second Cruise Fleet is still there."

"Yeah." Lin Qiming nodded, "This is an in-ship high-speed transportation device designed for emergency use, but this one is still just a concept machine. This plan was just proposed four months ago."

"That is to say... this thing is still a semi-finished product?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, "Is the safety guaranteed? Although there is no need to worry about crashing, if it derails, no one in this car will survive, right?"

The general space shuttle will be equipped with an ejection escape device. If the space shuttle crashes, with this device, the occupants will have a survival rate of at least 150%... But the problem is that they are now inside the ark. Except for some special areas, most of the In some areas, the height of a single-story space will not exceed [-] meters. In some places where the space is relatively tight, there are even single-digit floor heights. On the dome put...

"Safety...should be guaranteed..." Lin Qiming's face became paler as he spoke, and Ke Lan noticed that the dark red liquid was dripping down his trousers, and a patch had accumulated under his seat. A small pool of blood.

"You still said that your wound is fine?" Ke Lan frowned, "Why don't you stop the train and treat the wound?"

"It's really...it's okay...don't waste...precious time for me." Lin Qiming said intermittently, "And... once you stop, you have to refill the fuel if you want to start it again..."

"You are the same as those people from the Security Bureau." Ke Lan sighed helplessly, "Always put your mission first, and never take your own life seriously."

"I'm a Level [-] Enhanced Person, so this injury is really not a serious problem..." Lin Qiming said, he untied his anti-G suit, and stuck a syringe under his shoulder.

Ke Lan thought it was a blood coagulant at first, but if it was a blood coagulant, the injection site should be an inch away from the wound in the direction of the torso... It wasn't until Lin Qiming finished injecting the medicine and pulled out the syringe that Ke Lan realized that it was a blood coagulant. It turned out to be a military stimulant.

"He really is a guy who doesn't hesitate to die." Ke Lan shook his head.

After the stimulant injection, Lin Qiming's condition improved a lot in an instant, and he stopped talking intermittently: "We will be there soon. I just received the news that your companions have arrived at the front-line headquarters where the countermeasure team is located."

"them?"

"In addition to Asano Akira you named, other members of the Hunting God Hunting Group have also followed." Lin Qiming replied, "I have notified the crew meeting in advance and obtained permission."

"Isn't this adding to the chaos! They're not blind, what are they running here to mess with? Don't they think it's enough trouble?" Although she was a little moved, Ke Lan couldn't help but curse, "Tell your people, put these guys Keep an eye on them, they must not be allowed to enter the polluted area!"

"Understood." Lin Qiming nodded, "At first I planned to refuse their request, but they refused to let Akira Asano go if they refused, and even threatened to use violence to rob people... The team responsible for finding people almost A conflict broke out with them, so I had to choose to compromise."

"You guys are smart, if you really fight with those bastards, then I will quit now." Ke Lan said.

"I know those people are very important companions to you, so I have repeatedly emphasized this point with the people in that group." Lin Qiming said.

Just after he finished speaking, the train finally started to slow down...

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