Captain Mao spoke as he took out a tablet, opened the Action Department's internal records of the Anomaly List, and handed it to Lu Bai.
Sequence 43—Twist and Turn.
The Anomaly List contained only a written record of this anomaly.
The description of Twist and Turn was rather unsettling.
Before the written description was a warning in bold red text: If you see a white figure twisting and turning in the distance in a field in the countryside, you must immediately close your eyes and turn around and run.
"So, does everyone who sees Twist and Turn end up like them?"
Lu Bai glanced at the few deathmatchers tied to the tree trunks, still twisting and turning.
"That's right."
Captain Mao painfully pulled out his service pistol.
From the description alone, compared with anomalies that caused thousands of casualties as soon as they appeared, Twist and Turn didn't seem like a particularly dangerous anomaly.
After all, it had to be seen before it could affect its witnesses.
Moreover, Twist and Turn had previously only appeared in the countryside. Aside from a few unlucky souls, it shouldn't have endangered too many people.
But the reason this anomaly's sequence number was as high as 43 was that it had another terrifying trait.
It spread through a kind of infection similar to a meme.
When ordinary people saw a victim affected by Twist and Turn, they would unconsciously imitate the victim, and there was even a high probability that they would attract Twist and Turn to appear.
This process of assimilation, remembrance, expression, and ultimately transmission almost never aroused people's vigilance.
By the time they realized what was happening, it was already too late.
Captain Mao raised his service pistol and pointed its dark muzzle toward the three deathmatchers.
The way Twist and