"A sharp change has been detected in Chen Hongjuan's meme frequency... Her meme is breaking apart, dying out! She..." a researcher watching the equipment shouted urgently.
In fact, there was no need for him to say anything. Everyone present could see that Chen Hongjuan was heading toward death... Her body began to dissolve, flesh and blood turning into pus. Bubbles continuously rose from within her tissues before bursting with a pop, leaving craters of varying sizes across her surface, like lunar impact craters.
The remaining hollow shell of her meme had reached its limit and could no longer sustain that damaged body.
"Sun Hang?! Did you kill her?" Yang Qi asked in astonishment.
"No... Sun Hang didn't do it," another researcher immediately defended him. "This Anomaly's meme underwent spontaneous apoptosis..."
"Spontaneous apoptosis..." Yang Qi pressed her lips together, frowning as she stared at Chen Hongjuan transforming into a puddle of pus.
There had been precedents for Anomalies undergoing spontaneous apoptosis. On the contrary, many known Anomalies—especially incorporeal Rule-type Anomalies and Phenomenon-type Anomalies—had not been destroyed by humans at all, but had instead proceeded toward destruction on their own.
From a certain perspective, Anomalies also had a "lifespan."
Just as a human lifespan depended on telomere length, there should have been something within an Anomaly Meme that determined how long it could exist. Once that thing was "used up," the Anomaly's meme would gradually begin to undergo apoptosis.
However, that claim remained only theoretical. There was still no reliable evidence proving whether Anomaly Memes possessed "telomere-like structures," and with humanity's current equipment and technological standards, it was difficult to conduct more detailed analyses of those meme fragments.
"Forget it, Sun Hang. You can come out now." Yang Qi rubbed her brow and spoke helplessly.
"By the way, is this one-way