I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  Nevertheless, all he kicked was thin air.

  Chen Chen seemed to have eyes behind his head. He just took a step forward and avoided the kick, then turned around, and his opponent was struck back at once!

  Following that, the agents on both sides of Chen Chen also let out a scream as they fell directly to the ground and lost their combat ability!

  Still, at this moment, Chen Chen suddenly felt a tingling pain in his temples. He seemed to understand something. He bent his neck subconsciously. At the same time, there was a whistling sound passing by his ear. A bullet had just cut through the air and brushed past his cheek!

  Chen Chen slowly turned around and promptly saw that Shen Qi was holding a gun with a resolute expression, aimed steadily at him.

  If Chen Chen had reacted a little slower just now, he would have received a shot in the head.

  "You want to kill me?"

  Chen Chen looked puzzled. "I'm not a criminal and I'm not a terrorist. Why aren't you letting me leave? And you want to shoot me too?"

  "Put down the USB flash drive and raise your hands!"

  Shen Qi said coldly.

  Chen Chen did not listen to her words at all but took a step forward again. "Why do you want to kill me?"

  "I said, put down the USB drive and raise your hands!"

  Shen Qi warned again.

  Chen Chen tilted his head and a murderous glint appeared in his calm eyes. "I asked you a question, didn't you hear me?"

  "Wait, Director Shen, you mustn't kill him!"

  At this moment, the two pilots tried to dissuade her. "The order given by the higher-ups is to take him back alive, you can't kill him!"

  "He's asking for it, it's not my fault!"

  However, Shen Qi clenched her teeth and pulled the trigger again!

  "Bang! Bang bang bang!"

  There were a few deafening gunshots. This time, about a dozen shots were fired at once, until the gun was completely out of bullets, and Shen Qi was still pulling the trigger…

  Even so, a shocking scene appeared — before everyone's incredulous eyes, a dozen bullets were floating in front of Chen Chen. These bullets retained their original shape, suspended silently in the air as if there was a soft wall of air in front of Chen Chen…

  "How can this be…"

  It was not just Shen Qi, but everyone had a wild panicked look in their eyes. It was not a big deal to take down the four agents, but the young man in front of them could even hold back bullets. Was he human?

  Chen Chen plucked a bullet with one hand, glanced at it silently, and then loosened his grip. Gravity seemed to take hold of the bullet again and it fell directly to the ground…

  At the same time, the other bullets also dropped to the ground, clanking and clattering simultaneously.

  The next moment, Chen Chen was standing in front of Shen Qi.

  "Stop!"

  Seeing this, the two pilots clenched their jaws and were about to rush forward themselves. However, Chen Chen merely shot them a vicious look and they felt a powerful blow in their chests. They only had time to cry out in agony as they crashed backward. After that, they did not get up.

  After sending the other two men flying backward, Chen Chen lowered his head again and looked at the delicate woman in front of him. At the same time, he stroked her hair and asked in a soft voice, "Why did you try to kill me?"

  "I just want to get back the USB flash drive. Chen Chen, calm down…"

  Shen Qi was shaking all over. She stepped back subconsciously. At the same time, she just wanted to placate him, but she felt a stab of pain in her head. Chen Chen was tugging her hair as a bloodthirsty gleam flashed in his eyes. "Huh? What did you just say?"

  Chen Chen grabbed her hair, placed his ear to her mouth, and asked in a low voice, "Speak up, I didn't hear you?"

  "Agh!"

  Shen Qi let out a shriek of pain but as soon as she opened her mouth, she suddenly felt a coldness in her mouth, and then a heart-piercing agony gripped her!

  About a dozen teeth in her mouth flew out as if being plucked out by an invisible force!

  "Go on!"

  Chen Chen's mouth stretched wide open, revealing his pearly whites. After that, he immediately dragged Shen Qi to the side of the helicopter and slammed her face into the helicopter's porthole!

  "Crash!"

  There was a sharp cracking sound of glass and Shen Qi's entire face became mangled and bloody!

  "Speak, why are you trying to kill me? Speak!"

  One hit was not enough. Chen Chen kept hitting Shen Qi's face against the edge of the broken porthole, once, twice, thrice…

  Chen Chen kept on bashing her dozens of times until she had completely stopped breathing. Then Chen Chen slowly let go and allowed her to slide down.

  After doing all this, Chen Chen grinned at the pilots who had not lost consciousness and then he slowly rose into the air as if he had escaped from gravity's clutches.

  "Flying for the first time — let's give it a go."

  Chen Chen murmured in a low voice and then he wobbled and flew toward the Shangdu city center from which he came, like a child who was starting to become familiar with walking…

  At first, his flight was rather unsteady, but gradually his speed increased. At last, with a loud blast, a burst of air erupted behind Chen Chen as he vanished into the sky.

  Seeing this scene, the two pilots with the least injuries got up in utter horror and looked at the spot where Chen Chen had disappeared, wearing expressions of astonished alarm.

  "That's a sonic boom! He can fly?"

  One pilot was in shock while the other pilot was holding his chest in pain while running to Shen Qi in a hurry. When he turned Shen Qi around, he suddenly yelped and turned around, vomiting violently.

  At this time, Shen Qi had completely lost her human appearance and her entire face was reduced to a mess…

  "We're done for…"

  The other pilot saw this and sat down beside him. "Director Shen was the granddaughter of a big shot in the central government of China. Now she's dead?"

  "Yup, she's dead."

  The two looked at each other and could not help but laugh bitterly. "I'm afraid the entire FBI is about to go through a major storm…"

  With that, the two began to tend to the four bodyguards. Fortunately, the four bodyguards were merely passed out, with fractured sternums, and their lives were not in danger.

  …

  Chen Chen kept flying at supersonic speed. After leaving the field of vision of that group of people, Chen Chen circled and landed in another uninhabited town.

  Then, Chen Chen took out the USB flash drive and checked it, only to see that the scattering of stars had shown up on the USB flash drive. It was obvious that the internal energy was extremely sufficient.

  "As long as there's enough."

  A smile curled up at the corner of his mouth. He opened the door of one of the houses at random, found a computer, and inserted the USB flash drive.

  In the USB flash drive, there were indeed many movies of all kinds, including some science fiction and some historical dramas, and even modern romantic dramas.

  The FBI had experimented a lot with the USB flash drive.

  However, under these files, there were four special moves, namely — New Ju-on, New Final Destination, New One Missed Call, and New Ring.

  Seeing this, Chen Chen appeared overjoyed. Sure enough, in the USB drive, there were four movies shot in response by China. It was these four movies that had the Basilisk patterns to counter the memes.

  Since these Basilisk patterns could not eliminate the infection of memes from the outside world, what if Chen Chen entered the movie?

  Since the movies were recognized by the USB flash drive, naturally, they would be effective. In that case, when Chen Chen entered the movie, could he use the Basilisk pattern in the movie to cure the memetic infection that was plaguing his body?

  Chen Chen was full of anticipation…

  Chapter 377: The Truth
Slowly Surfaces |

  In a desolate town, everything was silent.

  There was not a single person on the wide street. Even the neighboring houses were extremely quiet. Only the numerous shops and the vacant vehicles by the side of the road indicated that this was once a busy place.

  In the entire town, only a few fat mice sprang out of the field, crossed the wide road, and rushed to the field on the other side again.

  Occasionally, one could see some wild dogs and wild cats fleeing in one direction as if there was something behind them that made them extremely afraid…

  Behind them was a huge cosmopolitan city.

  However, if one looked at the city from a high vantage point, one would find that the skyline of this metropolis exuded an unusual gloom. Black clouds rolled eerily across in the sky, with a kind of manic, hysterical energy. In this apocalyptic atmosphere, the entire city was like a ghost town.

  At this time, Chen Chen was in one of the houses in this town.

  He was sitting in front of the computer with a black USB flash drive inserted into its case, but what was strange was that there were glimmering specks of light on the USB flash drive, just like stars in a night sky. These pinpricks of light seemed to pulse oddly.

  "I've got to be faster. I keep having this bad feeling…"

  Chen Chen murmured. He quickly selected the movie that was meant to represent Ju-on and then double-clicked it to open it. However, after selecting the movie, the computer not only did not start the movie, but it kept flickering and made a clicking sound at the same time as if some malfunction had occurred.

  "A problem with the computer?"

  Chen Chen frowned, but gradually realized that the clicking sound in the computer seemed to be transforming. Before he knew it, it slowly turned into a gurgling sound…

  "Something's wrong!"

  Chen Chen did not even think about it. He immediately pulled out the USB drive. At the same time, the wall in front of him quickly collapsed with a loud rumble and a gaping hole of two meters in diameter appeared!

  Chen Chen pushed his feet into the ground and his body flew up with a buzz. He hovered in mid-air again.

  At this point, Chen Chen looked at the gaping hole with a serious expression, only to see seven or eight pale slender arms slowly extending from the broken wall, wriggling twistedly toward Chen Chen…

  "Is it almost reaching the outbreak period…"

  Chen Chen squinted. This was a bit tricky. The eruption of the memetic effect was equivalent to a person's death.

  It did not matter that Chen Chen could escape by flight. Distance was not an obstacle to memetic killing. Even if he could fly out of the atmosphere or even out of the solar system, it was useless.

  This was because memes cared nothing for the laws of physics.

  Chen Chen gritted his teeth. He chose a room again and rushed in directly through the window.

  With a "bang", Chen Chen broke into the room promptly. After seeing a laptop placed in the room, Chen Chen's eyes suddenly lit up. He grabbed the laptop and did not dare to stay in the room at all. He flew out again!

  Chen Chen did not press the laptop's power button until he flew back into the sky. This Alienware computer was very powerful and it turned on quickly in five or six seconds. Fortunately, the system did not have any set password, directly entering the operation interface.

  Seeing this, Chen Chen quickly inserted the USB flash drive and then clicked on the icon of the USB flash drive. However, at this moment, Chen Chen suddenly felt an uncomfortable sensation in his throat.

  It was a very weird feeling as if something was constantly scratching his throat from the inside, trying to poke its way out…

  Chen Chen subconsciously touched his throat, but suddenly, his expression twisted, and he opened his mouth involuntarily. At the same time, a thin white hand suddenly protruded from Chen Chen's throat and clasped Chen Chen's cheek!

  At once, that sinister "rattling" sound sounded from Chen Chen's throat again and this noise was getting louder and closer…

  At this time, Chen Chen had completely lost the ability to breathe. He only felt that his chest and throat seemed to be stuffed with a large, hard object, and it was still expanding! It was a woman's arm and behind the arm, there was an even larger foreign body trying to worm out of Chen Chen's body!

  Once it got out, Chen Chen was dead for sure!

  "Hnnnggghhh…"

  Chen Chen's throat rang out with a deafening rattle and his chest bulged rapidly as if a person was slithering slowly in his chest, about to be born!

  At this critical moment, Chen Chen forced himself to resist the indescribable pain. He directly selected the New Ju-on with the touchpad of the laptop and then pressed the left button fiercely!

  "Click!"

  In an instant, Chen Chen only saw darkness in front of him and a passage of pure black hue, without any light, appeared before him!

  That was the USB drive's portal to another world!

  The moment this passage was opened, Chen Chen tipped forward and plunged into the passage headfirst!

  In the next second, Chen Chen's vision turned dark as if he had fallen into an endless swamp and completely lost all light in front of him.

  However, as soon as he entered the passage, Chen Chen felt his throat loosened abruptly. Before Chen Chen could react, his feet stepped on the ground again.

  "Cough cough!"

  Before he could observe the surroundings, Chen Chen squatted as soon as he stepped into this new world, his body racked by coughs! Earlier, his throat was almost torn apart by that arm. If Chen Chen's movements were one step slower, he would only end up dying.

  Chen Chen truly did not expect that after a failed attempt to kill him, Kayako would attack his body directly. If he had not opened the channel of the USB drive at the last moment, he would have likely died at the hands of Ju-on's meme at this point.

  It must be said that this kind of attack was truly bone-chilling...

  However, the channel of the USB drive had the ability to cut off the memetic effect. Therefore, at the moment of entering the channel, the meme was isolated from the channel, so Chen Chen managed to survive.

  However, this suspension was only temporary. If Chen Chen returned through the passage now, he would still be pursued and killed by Kayako.

  Hold on — cut off memes?

  Chen Chen's originally grateful expression suddenly sharpened. At this moment, a large memory he had no inkling of suddenly flooded his mind. These memories and Chen Chen's original memories continued to overlap and conflict, causing Chen Chen's body to tremble violently!

  At this moment, Chen Chen suddenly remembered that he had seen a pair of eyes countless times!

  It was a pair of blood-red eyes, cold and hollow, which was not something that humans could look like. It had appeared on every corner, even on everyone's face!

  …

  In the cold and dark classroom, Professor Wang Xi mechanically narrated the facts in the textbook…

  When he talked about the fixed Hayflick limit, the gel pen in Chen Chen's hand spun out with a "whoosh" as if it had rehearsed this thousands of times…

  Chen Chen bent down reflexively, but saw the blood-red eyes staring at him from under the table…

  Chen Chen wanted to scream, but he opened his mouth, only to find that he could not make a sound as if something unknown was blocking his throat…

  [I Saw You!]

  At this moment, Chen Chen's eyes first displayed a look of horror, but then his expression dimmed completely. His expression resumed its calmness again as if he had completely forgotten everything that had just happened, and he was just bent under the table with a slack expression.

  "You there, burrowing under your desk, answer the question —"

  Then, Professor Wang Xi's voice came from the podium…

  …

  In the school's Dorm 404, Chen Chen inserted the USB flash drive and the names of the four movies appeared on the com
puter — Ju-on.avi., Final Destination.avi., One Missed Call.avi, Ring.avi.

  Seeing the names of these four movies, Chen Chen was just about to do something, but at this moment, the blood-red eyes appeared on the computer screen again…

  [I Saw You!]

  Chen Chen's pupils contracted and he jumped up in fright, but the moment his gaze left the computer, he suddenly turned blank.

  "What? After so much effort, I get nothing…"

  Chen Chen closed the window wordlessly. "So, the USB drive is broken."

  A few minutes later, when the other people in the dormitory came back, Chen Chen handed the USB flash drive to Zhou Jie, who was beside him.

  Zhou Jie's eyes lit up. He took out his computer and plugged in the USB flash drive and then excitedly said, "Who said it was broken? Isn't it working just fine?"

  Chen Chen lifted his head to see the four horror movies in avi format on the computer…

  …

  In the interrogation room, Chen Chen was sitting on a chair. Suddenly, a young woman in office wear walked in from the door. She was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. As she walked in with large swaying steps, the smooth and clean marble floor clacked loudly.

  Chen Chen turned his head to look, but saw that her eyes were blood red…

  [I Saw You!]

  …

  Large swathes of memories emerged from Chen Chen's mind out of thin air. These memories kept conflicting with the original memories, causing Chen Chen to hold his head tightly and let out a heartrending scream!

  Every time those eyes looked at Chen Chen, he would have the feeling that he was going to die, but the moment he turned away, this feeling disappeared abruptly. It was only at this moment that Chen Chen recalled all of these memories as they gushed from within him like a flood!

  He remembered, he remembered everything!

  Chen Chen was sprawled on the ground, his hands and feet convulsing uncontrollably. It felt like only seconds had passed, yet it also felt like centuries. He did not know how long it took. It was only after that desperate feeling of death swept over him like a wave that Chen Chen slowly recovered…