Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 250: Self-Death
"It has been detected that the frequency of Chen Hongjuan's meme is changing rapidly... Its meme is breaking apart and dying! It..." A researcher staring at the device shouted hurriedly.

In fact, he didn't need to say anything, everyone present could see that Chen Hongjuan was dying... Her body began to dissolve, and her flesh and blood turned into pus, which continued to flow out from the inside of the tissues through bubbles, and then exploded with a "pop", leaving behind large and small holes on the surface of her body that looked like craters on the moon.

The remaining memetic shell is reaching its limit and can no longer sustain this broken body.

"Sun Hang?! You killed it?" Yang Qi said in surprise.

"No...it wasn't Sun Hang who did it." Another researcher immediately defended Sun Hang, "It was the meme of the weird creature that died on its own..."

"Spontaneous apoptosis..." Yang Qi pursed her lips and frowned as she stared at Chen Hongjuan who was transforming into a pool of pus.

It is not without precedent that strange creatures spontaneously die. On the contrary, many known strange creatures, especially those rule-based strange creatures and phenomenon-based strange creatures without entities, were mostly not destroyed by humans, but destroyed on their own.

From a certain perspective, strange creatures also have a "lifespan".

Just like human life span depends on the length of telomeres, there should be something within the weird memes that can determine the duration of their existence. When this thing is "exhausted", the weird memes will begin to gradually die.

However, this statement still only exists in the theoretical stage. There is no reliable evidence to prove whether there are "telomeres" in weird memes. With the current equipment and technological level of mankind, it is difficult to conduct a more detailed analysis of those meme fragments.

"Forget it, Sun Hang, come out." Yang Qi rubbed his eyebrows and said in a helpless tone.

……

"By the way, is this one-way glass some kind of black technology?" Sun Hang walked to the outer room of the laboratory and approached the one-way glass with some curiosity. At the same time, several researchers in protective clothing were cleaning up the "remaining traces" of Chen Hongjuan in the inner room.

The isolation between the inside and outside of the laboratory is extremely good. Even with Sun Hang's perception ability, he was unable to detect any abnormality in Chen Hongjuan's meme when he was outside. He just felt that something was wrong.

It was not until he pushed open the heavy door that he discovered that Chen Hongjuan's meme had changed significantly from when he first met her.

It was for this reason that Sun Hang directly removed the restraints on her.

He wanted to test whether Chen Hongjuan was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy or was really strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Chen Hongjuan's subsequent performance proved that Sun Hang's guess was completely correct.

"The key is not the glass, but the interlayer of the glass." Yang Qi said, "In the interlayer of the glass, a kind of self-type weird thing called 'barrier liquid crystal' that is currently recognized as having a higher safety level is added. The most important feature of this weird thing is that as long as there is enough power supply, it can isolate the breath of the weird thing... Not only this piece of glass, but also most of the containers and wall interlayers in the containment area have added this kind of weird thing."

"Can this thing be mass-produced?" Sun Hang asked.

The underground containment area of ​​the Tianfu City Research Institute is not small. If every wall is filled with barrier liquid crystal, the total amount of this substance will be extremely large. What's more, even a research institute in a remote place like Tianfu City has this treatment. The containment areas of other city-state research institutes, as well as the Tianshu Tower, which houses the largest number of monsters in the entire federation, must have similar designs.

"Yes." Yang Qi nodded. "We just need to extract its meme and implant it into a liquid crystal with a specific formula. The meme will replicate itself and then 'infect' the liquid crystal into a barrier liquid crystal... When building this containment area, the amount of barrier liquid crystal used is about 15 tons. If we can't mass-produce it, we can't afford it."

"Then this thing should be considered an industrial product... Isn't it a bit unfair to call it a weird thing?" Sun Hang asked doubtfully, "It's obviously something beneficial and harmless..." "Weird things are not necessarily harmful. This statement is a consensus in the academic community." Yang Qi rolled his eyes at Sun Hang, as if he wanted to complain that Sun Hang's understanding of weird things was too shallow. "There is only one basis for determining whether a thing is a weird thing, and that is whether there is a weird meme inside it... As for whether it is beneficial or harmful to humans, it is not the key."

“So, there are also good weird things?”

"According to your understanding, you can say that." Yang Qi curled her lips, "It's just that those strange things that will cause serious harm to human life are more likely to attract public attention."

The "怪" in "怪物" means weird, and the original meaning of weird is abnormal and strange. It is a neutral word and does not have any positive or negative meaning.

It's just that when this word is attributed to certain specific things, the public's impression of this word will change accordingly.

Just like when the word "nuclear" is mentioned, the first thing that most people think of is not the nuclear fuel that has become the main source of energy in the human world, but the two mushroom clouds rising from the island country east of Xiazhou.

But then again, there are indeed some similarities between the two things - such as lethality, contagiousness... and a large amount of knowledge that is still beyond the scope of human cognition.

"By the way, how do you plan to report this matter?" Sun Hang asked.

"What else can we do? Just report it truthfully." Yang Qi shrugged. "The strange creatures withered on their own. This is beyond our control. We don't have to take responsibility anyway... As for the remaining pus and blood, they should be divided into two parts. One will be preserved as a specimen, and the other will be sent to the Tianshu Tower."

“Is this thing still worth studying?”

"Yes, but not much." Yang Qi said, "After the meme apoptosis, it is just a pool of rotten pus and blood. At most, we can study the changes in human body tissues after the transformation."

"Don't you study?"

"I have a lot of more important work to do...thanks to you." Yang Qi sighed, "Guess who is in charge of the research work of the Phoenix Factory Underground Palace now?"

"It's such an important job, and that old man in the wheelchair doesn't want to take care of it?" Sun Hang asked puzzledly.

"The teacher said that he is old and the future belongs to us young people. It is time for our generation to take the lead. Then he hung up on me..." Yang Qi said, "Now he may be hiding in some corner drinking and smoking secretly... I am too lazy to care about him."

"Congratulations!" Sun Hang immediately bowed to Yang Qi.

"Congratulations for what?"

"From now on, you shouldn't call me Director Yang. You should call me Director Yang."

"roll."

　This is half a chapter. Due to the plot, I divided one chapter into two chapters. There is still half a chapter left, which will be updated a little later.

　　
　
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