Volume 8: Future · Gap 4 · Competitive Games Chapter 59: The Bell
Things did not go as Louis expected. When the game was about to continue in the morning, Zhen Xingming and others' follow-up measures came. Although there was no clear evidence, it was estimated that the subsequent changes in events were driven by them.
In the early morning, those people failed to catch Zhen Xingming, and the meme of death by shame spread.
This meme has spread to the entire holy land of boxing and has been strengthened to a certain extent.
That is, if you feel guilty, you are likely to do extreme things.
According to experts' estimates, this memetic force is expected to linger in the city for another day or two.
During this period of time, if everyone feels less ashamed, this force will quickly dissipate.
However, this is impossible.
Just after this phenomenon was analyzed, the first case of murder using this phenomenon occurred.
Create conflicts and then pretend to be weak. The emotion of shame is not so easy to control. As long as the other party fails to control it, he will die instantly, and after death, his corpse will become a puppet to compensate you.
When something like this happens, everyone feels insecure. Anyone who dares to approach will be treated as someone with bad intentions by the authorities.
However, this is more likely to cause problems, because the other person may not be who he or she is. After misunderstanding others, some people cannot help but feel ashamed and are influenced by the meme.
Then those who caused the misunderstanding found it difficult to control their shame when they saw others die because of their actions.
All I can say is that the conditions in the Holy Land of Boxing have been quite good in recent years, life is relatively affluent, and everyone has a fairly high moral standard.
It's just that now, these moral standards have become an obstacle to survival, and these things have begun to decline.
I don’t know how many people have told themselves from the bottom of their hearts to let go of those useless emotions.
All of a sudden, shame became an unnecessary and useless emotion, and there was no need to feel ashamed no matter what one did.
Then it started to go too far.
Once shame is gone, people can do anything with peace of mind.
For example, the most magical thing is that as long as everyone stays at home for a while and has less contact with others, the problem can be solved quickly.
However, bosses in all major industries are basically urging these office workers to go to work.
Now is the period of the comprehensive competition. It doesn't matter whether you guys live or die. What matters is the enjoyment of life of so many travelers.
Even if you risk your life, you have to go out to work, ensure the operation of the city, and provide supreme service to those travelers.
When capital forces people to work, they have no mercy or shame.
Countless people have no choice but to go to work under the pressure of these orders.
Once things start to happen, various communication conflicts are inevitable.
Whoever feels shame will die.
On the contrary, those who have no sense of shame at all can take advantage of a lot of things.
For example, if someone feels ashamed of you and chooses to commit suicide, his body after death will continue to compensate you according to his idea of compensation.
You can even easily obtain all of the other party's assets.
Things have completely changed at this point.
A game of hunting and counter-hunting begins with the help of the meme of death by shame.
Countless behaviors that lower the bottom line are constantly going on, making you feel guilty through various disgusting and despicable behaviors.
Honey traps are low-level, self-harm is even more stupid, and using words to belittle others is an acceptable method.
Even though everyone's shame threshold has been raised, the game has not stopped, but has become even more popular.
Because once I am no longer easily ashamed, it will become easier to do all the things that I was embarrassed to do in the past due to moral reasons.
Morals began to decline.
Shame is the embodiment of morality. If you feel ashamed, it means that morality is restraining you.
When you no longer feel ashamed, morality will no longer be able to restrain you, and your actions will be based on the law.
The law is the bottom line of morality. When a person claims to be law-abiding, he may actually be a scumbag.
Now, in just one morning, countless such scumbags appeared.
And there are also people who were originally scum and began to test the bottom line of the law.
The law is dead. If you skirt the rules or even actually break the law, as long as you are not discovered, the matter does not exist.
From being afraid of shame and not daring to do anything, to being able to do anything without feeling the slightest bit of shame.
In just one morning, this city, which had once seemed so wonderful, became a moral nadir.
The chaos is spreading further.
If we say that the number of people who died directly from the death-by-shame meme was only around ten thousand, then after a morning of promotion, it would only be in the tens of thousands.
Then the riots caused by this incident would affect even more people, tens of millions of people in a city would be affected, but perhaps the death toll would not be that high.
But the seeds have already been planted, and they will take root and sprout, and the number of deaths will increase exponentially over time.
And the impact is not just the death of a few people, but the moral decline of the entire social group. If we look into it more deeply, the problem is even more serious and may affect several generations.
However, until now, Quanshindo has still not stepped forward to solve the problem on a large scale.
Apparently, they don't care.
So what if several generations, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people are affected?
What is more important than us continuing to lick Honghe Society now?
As long as this game goes smoothly.
All the ordinary people around them were dead, and it didn't bother them at all.
Although they are still human physically, they are mentally aware that they are no longer human. They think they are superior to others and will not empathize with such inferior humans.
On the contrary, at this moment, there are still many lower humans who empathize with them.
"Bastard!" In a secret base, Tian Jiliao roared with a sword in his hand, his eyes burning with anger.
This situation is indeed causing trouble for Quanshendao, and the other party's subsequent measures are probably aimed at Quanshendao and even the Honghe Society behind it.
But the problem is that these people never cared about ordinary humans from the beginning to the end.
The anti-extradimensional colonization organization is radical in that they don't care about the means of resistance, nor do they care about the life and death of others.
They just don't want someone to trample on them.
Their slogan is human supremacy, and this supreme "human" is themselves.
In their hearts, those ordinary humans, those humans who make a living under the influence of external dimensions, those humans who have lost their human dignity due to the pressure of life, have actually been expelled from the human race.
But Tian Jiliao and others are different. Although they are idealists, they are more realistic.
What they want is for humanity to rise on its own and then be able to shelter more humans, so that they no longer need to crawl under the feet of extra-dimensional forces and can have that dignity.
This is also the fundamental contradiction between the rising forces of humanity and those anti-extradimensional colonization organizations that claim to be human supremacy.
But now there is no better solution except being angry.
They are indeed idealists, but they are not fools.
The Quanshindao, who is in charge of everything, has not shown up. It is of no use for those of them who are enemies of the Quanshindao to stand up. It is so stupid.
And now this storm caused by the shame-to-death meme is not so easy to calm down.
The reason is that this is a problem of human nature.
It is easy for morality to decline due to human nature, but it is extremely difficult to rebuild the moral high ground again.
Just when Tian Jiliao and others were angry, a bell suddenly rang from the city.
The green color echoes in the city along with the sound of the bells.
When people heard the bell, a scripture called "The Scripture of Controlling Demons" was passed to everyone's heart.
This scripture cannot give people supernatural powers, but if you recite it often, it can help you control your desires that become uncontrollable as your morals decline.
Treat desire as a demon, restrict it through scriptures, and then gradually subdue it.
Even when necessary, one can recite scriptures silently to release those subdued demons and stimulate one's own body functions.
It's like a self-sufficient emotional stimulant.
It can be considered a kind of ability to cultivate one's character.
As the sound of the bell spread, this scripture became widely known, and many people began to recite the scripture together with the sound of the bell.
Even some close friends began to share their understanding of this scripture in this atmosphere.
The previous moral decline seemed to have been stopped by the sudden ringing of the bell.
"I have some insights into the so-called meme, so I decided to give it a try!" Lu Bai looked at the gradually fading copper-green bell sound, feeling quite satisfied, and said this to the others who were attracted by the bell sound.
Some people in the crowd became curious about Lu Bai, some looked disdainful, and some looked at Lu Bai thoughtfully.
Lu Bai’s explanation is naturally true.
But not completely.
His sudden action killed several birds with one stone.
First of all, let’s try out the bronze bell sound that has been upgraded with memes.
Secondly, if Zhen Xingming's arrangements were interrupted, their arrangements would be disturbed and they would inevitably take action again, and this time they would not be able to escape the pursuit of the incarnation Louis, and this would also provide an opportunity for Louis to appear.
Third, spread the Demon Control Sutra.
The Demon Control Sutra is actually nothing to travelers. That bit of taming of emotions and stimulating body functions through emotional suggestion is of no use to them at all and is not even worth a damn.
But this is another experiment by Lu Bai on the spread of memes. Those powerful abilities are often not universal.
If the Demon Control Sutra can be widely spread and known to many people in the white-board Earthling group, then Lu Bai will have more inspiration for the development of personal symbolic imprints.
After all, the Demon Control Sutra can also be called the Demon Desire Sutra.
