The Meteor Illusion

After resolving Old Zhao's problem, Wenren Sheng went to clear questions—meaning, trigger mysterious events.

Today's question-clearing brought another gain.

"Doomsday Town Crisis: Zombies run rampant, death and survival dance together. The more you fear something, the more it will appear."

"Mystery Points: ???"

"Mystery Components: Meme Zombie, ???"

Listening to the prompt in his mind, Wenren Sheng turned his gaze toward the large-scale world map on the wall.

A zombie crisis had erupted in a town in Miken.

When Wenren Sheng first saw this event, he had found it hard to believe. How could zombies possibly exist?

Those things simply weren't scientific. Then again, this world already contained mysterious factors that defied science.

The moment he saw the prompt "Meme Zombie," he had a rough idea of what was going on.

What was a meme? Broadly speaking, it was a cultural gene, a cultural concept capable of continually spreading among different groups of people.

As for the word "zombie," it was utterly clichéd—so clichéd that people almost everywhere probably knew the concept, given how movies, novels, and stories were filled with them...

He could roughly estimate the pattern of this event. All kinds of terrifying things from cultural concepts, those concepts capable of bringing about apocalyptic scenes, would likely appear in that town.

Almost instantly, he guessed the truth behind the entire incident.

If he was right, it was similar to the previous blackout incident. The former had been a relatively mild deterrent, while the latter was a violent threat.

Yet their essence was the same. The difference was probably like the Japanese devils from his previous life: one eroded bit by bit, while the other devoured bloodily.

It seemed the Origin Realm Anomalies were also divided into two factions regarding their attitude toward Earth Spacetime. One advocated boiling the