latent syndrome

Chapter 43 43. Darkness Invasion
Three days have passed since the rescue of the popular movie star Eva.

Located in the St. George district on the south side of Los Angeles.

Eugene finds the coffee shop where Colin is, and prepares to talk to him about something important.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Hoshino Matsuya talking to Colin, and sneakily handed Colin a palm-sized box, which he hid in his arms.

"Your colleague is here, I'm leaving first."

Hoshino Mana found Eugene, said goodbye to her pretendingly, and left the store straight away.

It made Eugene confused, he didn't know what kind of plane these two people were doing, and they were still hiding it.

Although Eugene was curious, she didn't want to point it out. It might be related to the privacy of the two of them, but she still couldn't help being sarcastic.

"The world is about to be destroyed, and you still have an underground romance here."

She sat across from Colin and looked at Colin angrily. During this time, he always likes to act alone, as if deliberately avoiding himself. Although the possibility of collusion with SCT can be ruled out, he must be doing something bad secretly. .

"Is there anything urgent?"

Colin lit a cigarette and was a little speechless. Ever since she satirized her last time when she went to a banquet in Beverly Hills, she quickly learned to treat others in the same way.

"I don't know what you've been up to these two days. Haven't you looked at the communication terminal? Do you still remember SCT's entry into the film industry? On the night of the rest day yesterday, SCT people killed a large number of theater workers and transferred the film that was being screened Other movies were directly replaced by their horror movies, and according to rough statistics, no less than 2 people in Southern California have watched that movie."

Eugene ordered a Diet Coke and drank it in one gulp.

This explosive news stunned Colin. He thought they would control the puppet company to release the movie that had already been reviewed, and then edit some other content.

Wrong at the root...

SCT doesn't have any bottom line rules at all. While they have the financial power to influence the world's terror, they are not bound by any rules.

Colin then turned on his phone and looked at the news. The matter seemed to be suppressed. He searched for theater attacks and could not find any clues. Only the news that all theaters in Southern California were temporarily blocked due to fire inspections caused a lot of dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction among the citizens. Outcry.

He also found some forums to see if there were rumors from netizens, but it was very strange that all the forums were only filled with some unnutritious things, such as wanting to raise a dog but don’t know what breed to ask for advice, or Some hamburger meat practices, there are corresponding replies below.

Everything looks normal, but it is extremely inconsistent, because it is too normal. It seems that those guys who hide behind the screen and press the button to kill people have disappeared. There is no pornographic violence and dangerous speech, which is too harmonious.

When searching for entries related to movies, it is even more terrifying. They are all recommendations of old movies, or some classic movie reviews, and the Internet atmosphere is more utopian than utopia.

Ke Lin knew that this was the handiwork of the strategy bureau to prevent the situation from getting worse and fermented, so he adopted this kind of trick as a last resort.

"But in this way... their follow-up actions are also partly stifled."

Ke Lin made such a judgment. The strategy was to hurt the enemy by eight hundred and hurt himself by a thousand, but he had no choice but to cut his wrists like this.

SCT mainly relies on the dissemination of information to shake the symbolic world, but the right to speak out and the absolute right to manage information are in the hands of the official, and they can't make a difference online.

"You really think so?"

Eugene took out a CD from his handbag, and continued to add: "This movie has been copied into countless CDs, and the data files are also circulated on the dark web. With the addition of USB flash drives, SCT doesn't care about the number of people in theaters at all. , They don’t care about the cost, they just want people to watch the movie, although it has been listed as a contraband by the supervision department, it can’t resist the spread at all, this video will only spread to the world like a virus.”

Colin looked at the CD on the table solemnly. It turned out that he underestimated the structure of SCT. They are criminals who don't care about everything including human relations and moral rules. Just like the stock exchange and Billiver Hills, they will only do shocking of terrorist incidents.

Although what I said to Eugene before, the world is going to be destroyed, is a joke.

But at this moment, he really realized that this is the fact that this is happening, and the countermeasures... may not be able to resist this group of crazy lunatics.

"Have you read the contents of the CD?"

Since Eugene took it out, it is a film made by SCT, and the production cycle is much shorter than expected, maybe less than a month.

Eugene shook his head. Although she is not the type to be scared when watching horror movies, and she also mocked Colin for thinking that the previous apartment was unlucky, she still has nothing to do with some ghost movies that create psychological pressure, and this is still filmed by SCT. Maybe there is something extremely twisted.

"Do you have an optical drive at home?"

Ke Lin asked in this way. In this era, CDs are about to be eliminated due to reasons such as capacity and inconvenient portability. Even many desktop computers are not equipped with CD drives.

Eugene still shook his head, that's why she came to Colin.

"Is there any U disk data or something?"

Colin didn't want to go to the trouble of buying a DVD or something.

Eugene still shook his head.

"Can you give me a fucking nod?"

Colin took a sharp drag on his cigarette.

"Have you noticed that the intelligence database of the communication terminal has not been updated at all during this period of time." Eugene was extremely worried.

"So what? Maybe the people at the headquarters are too busy."

"I don't know either...but I have a guess that there are traitors in the Bureau."

Eugene finished.

"Hold."

After finishing his coffee, Colin asked Eugene to go to the electric appliance store to buy a DVD. He wondered if he could buy it. Now this thing is expensive but not available.

He wants to see what amazing artistic skills SCT has.

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In Eugene's house, Colin fiddled with audio cables and other output jacks.

If you want to use something like a DVD, it will take some work. After all, it is a product of the last era, and you have to have a TV with a round hole input interface.

"Aren't you highly educated, you can't handle this stuff."

Eugene is overseeing the work while eating potato chips.

Colin: "..."

This LCD TV does not have a round hole input interface, and it will take more work to buy an old TV. It took him another 10 minutes to go downstairs to buy a converter.

Finally, everything is ready, just insert the disc into the DVD.

"Why are you standing still?"

Eugene urged Colin to continue eating potato chips on the sofa.

Colin took a sharp puff on his cigarette, and if Eugene had been a man, he would have slapped it.

He inserted the disc into the DVD and pressed the play button on the remote.

With darkness, the movie officially begins.

Both of them sat on the sofa without talking, the atmosphere was a little quiet, and then pictures began to appear on the TV.

The first thing that appeared was SCT Films, and their LOGO, which was an extremely solemn and solemn statue of a goddess meditating, with ugly scars or scales on her arms, which was the flag of the Liberty Alliance after the split.

Then the movie starts.

[This story is adapted from real events. 】

The gimmick made the two feel uneasy at first.

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The story is unexpectedly short, but also unexpectedly old-fashioned.

Seven and eight minutes later.

Although the novelty and abstraction of the characters in order to deliberately create an atmosphere is indeed chilling, but in other respects, it can be said to be a bad movie.

It can't arouse Eugene's empathy at all. The women in the film are pitiful, but there is a big problem with the casting. No one wants to see a person who is not photogenic at all in a movie. No matter how bad it is, there must be a personality, if it is not true It was taken by SCT, and she immediately passed it.

But there is a saying, the movie is judged by the aftertaste.

In this regard, Eugene was indeed very uncomfortable after reading it.

Because the invisible abuse shown in the movie is too horrifying, the protagonist did not suffer any insults or beatings, just some unintentional pranks, and sometimes even good-hearted help, but under the atmosphere, they all became mental abuse.

In the end, she became mentally ill, and until many years after graduation, she was overly plastic and caused serious illnesses due to her desire for beauty. All the people who abused her have grown up and changed their minds, exuding infinite brilliance of humanity, raising funds for her, apologizing, and contacting the most good doctor.Her parents were also extremely guilty of not giving her more care and tried their best to atone for their sins.

In the end, she seemed to have received some divine enlightenment, it was too abstract, she was talking to something like God, and she felt her own essence.

On the way to the ambulance, she crawled through in a white wedding dress, and was crushed into... an extremely ugly thing that cannot be described in words, because the performance was too exaggerated.

So far the whole movie is over.

But it's not over yet.

"Why?"

Eugene was speechless.

The words appeared again.

[This story is adapted from real events. 】

Then there are horrible corpses one after another in the picture, and some magnificent city buildings or decaying factories are swayed by montage cutting method, no less than a hundred corpses.

And one of the female corpses died in a terrible state, and her whole body was completely torn to pieces by the beasts.

It's not like a special effect at all, it's too real.

Finally, two more sentences flashed out.

[Be careful with the countermeasures. 】

[This is SCT. 】

click.

The disc is ejected, and all content has been played.

"It's a fucking bad movie, are you right? I thought there was something new in SCT."

Eugene poked Colin's elbow. Because he was focused on watching the movie, he didn't pay attention to Colin's expression. He rarely said a word during the whole process.

"Hey... what's wrong with you."

Eugene shook Colin's shoulder, and she found that Colin was bewitched, his eyes were distracted, and he was completely in a fugue state staring at his own hands.

"Hey Hey hey……"

This made Eugene a little scared. Is this Colin playing tricks on himself?
Colin is hallucinating.

Maybe it's not a hallucination either.

He doesn't know anymore, he can't distinguish between illusion and reality, he can't distinguish the stock index line from the ugly bug.

He looked at his hand, which was continuously flowing out extremely foul and filthy blood.

(End of this chapter)