Sun Hang had thought he would see Jiang Yu in an operating room or hospital ward, but to his surprise, the moment he returned to the institute, he was taken straight to the equipment training ground on the first basement level.
The awakened Jiang Yu no longer looked like the emaciated figure ravaged by illness. Her complexion was rosy, her breathing steady and deep, and even the hair she had almost completely lost had grown back.
She wore a standard-issue hunter combat uniform, with the monitoring wristband issued to every Anomaly Hunter already on her wrist. A finely crafted compound bow rested in her left hand, while three arrows were held between the fingers of her right hand, lightly nocked against the bowstring.
"Starting rehabilitation this quickly?" Sun Hang glanced at Jiang Yu, then at Song Yarong and Yang Lian standing nearby—Yang Qi still had a mountain of work to do and had not come down with them.
"You're... Sun Hang?" Jiang Yu looked at him. "They told me that the Anomalization Virus inside me came from you?"
"More precisely, it's called a meme," Sun Hang corrected. The term "Anomalization Virus" was more colloquial and widespread among the public, but professionals rarely used it... If a researcher used "Anomalization Virus" in a paper to refer to a meme, not only would they be looked down upon by their peers, the paper might even be sent back by their advisor for revision...
Memes and viruses had many similarities, but their greatest difference was this—viruses were living organisms, while memes were "carriers" that stored information in a special manner.
They could infect, reproduce, and even die off like cells... But the academic community agreed on one point: memes were absolutely not a form of life.
Compared with viruses, memes were fundamentally closer