No matter what kind of joke fate had played on Siren, at least for now, the outcome was not the worst possible.
After returning home, Siren first tried singing several songs she had once known well. The familiar feeling gradually began to return.
The joy in her heart was something she told no one about. Of course, there was no need to.
She sang one of the songs she had originally planned to release again, then uploaded it online.
Her voice was even more beautiful than before. Even she herself loved hearing it.
This was not an illusion. Her voice really had become better than before.
In fact... it might have become a little too good.
To a certain extent, her voice had surpassed the limits of what humans could appreciate. It was the voice of Absolute Perfection.
Siren was quite satisfied with that. Looking at it from this angle alone, becoming a monster did not seem all that bad.
"Come to think of it, did I turn into a mermaid before?"
Siren tried to recall it. Suddenly, her body structure began to change. Her legs vanished, replaced by a fish tail, while scales and fins grew over her body.
She looked at herself in the mirror, feeling utterly fascinated.
"What a strange feeling. I can't feel my legs, and I don't feel cold either..."
Siren marveled at her changes as she studied her body.
"Maybe becoming a monster isn't that hard to accept after all."
Of course, the main reason she could think that was because her appearance had barely changed. She still had that familiar face, except her hair had turned dark green.
But it suited her Fishman body perfectly.
If she had turned into something like Number 002, a Deep One with a huge fish head and two big yellow lightbulbs for eyes, let's see whether she could accept that.
After studying her body for a while, Siren suddenly thought of a question.
"How do Fishmen use the bathroom?"
"And how do they mate?"
Hmm...
Good question.
But if they went into detail, it would never pass review, so they would stop there.
Siren returned to human form and looked at her computer. Her newly uploaded song had not received many views after going live on the platform.
That was within expectations.
After all, she had disappeared for an entire month, and most of her still-living fans had already drifted away.
If she wanted to regain her former popularity, she could only start over.
Siren patted her cheeks. "Out with the old, in with the new. I'll build up my fanbase again and try to recapture that original feeling."
"I believe there will still be people who like my songs. Though... it would be nice if everyone could help share it."
That was what Siren thought.
Half an hour later, the numbers for her new song suddenly began skyrocketing at an absurd rate!
Inside a rented apartment.
A gaming streamer was livestreaming a shooting game.
But at that moment, the chat began flooding with the name of a song.
Seeing the wall of messages, the streamer frowned. "Guys, don't spam the chat. I'll listen to the song later, after I finish this match."
People had been mentioning the song on and off since half an hour ago.
There had only been a few at first, but the number kept growing. Now, almost everyone was spamming the song's name.
The streamer found that strange.
No matter what he said, these people kept flooding the chat as if they had gone mad.
The streamer was just about to say something when his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?"
"Lizi?"
"What, listen to a song?"
"What song?"
"No, why are you doing this too?"
"The people in my stream have been crazily sending me this song too."
"Fine, fine, stop talking. I'll listen to it, okay?"
The streamer hung up, switched out of the game, and searched for the song online.
The song had already surged to first place on the trending list.
The streamer pressed play. An exquisitely beautiful hum entered his ears, a voice that stirred the heart like music from heaven.
But as he listened, the streamer's gaze suddenly became vacant.
"Share it..."
"Let more people hear it. That's what she wants."
"Let more people... hear it..."
Before the song had even finished, the streamer began frantically sharing it.
He sent the song to every one of his friends and shared it on his social feed and all his major accounts.
He even sent it to old classmates he had not contacted in ten years.
And he was not the only one acting strangely.
His social feed was filled with nothing but shares of that song.
The internet instantly exploded. People who had not heard the song were completely baffled, so they listened out of curiosity.
After listening, they began sharing it too.
That day, the entire internet went insane. Whether it was news outlets or media platforms, all of them frantically shared the song!
Overnight, the song spread throughout the country and was even uploaded onto foreign websites.
At that moment, Siren still did not know that if her wish while singing had been world unification, she would already have united all humanity.
Within three days, people all over the world had been brainwashed by the song.
This was not an exaggeration. It was brainwashing in the truest sense!
The Nine-Tailed Fox was in complete uproar.
"Ban that song from the internet immediately, now!"
"Damn it... are those monsters declaring war on us?!"
"The worst part is that we heard the song too..."
"Yeah. By the time I came to my senses, I had already shared that song ten thousand times..."
"We've all suffered a memetic attack. Every one of us could now be a potential Sequence 007-1!"
As for Sequence 007, it was uncertain whether it was even human. The Nine-Tailed Fox had classified 007 as a song, a meme.
As long as someone heard the song, it triggered the meme that compelled them to share it. It was nearly impossible to resist.
And 007-1 referred to people influenced by monsters.
For example, Number 002's followers were all 002-1.
If their numbers could be determined, they could be designated 002-1, 002-2, 002-3, and so on without end.
But that was rather troublesome, so the Nine-Tailed Fox collectively referred to a monster's derivatives, as well as people transformed into monsters or influenced by monsters, as -1.
Unfortunately, they had all heard Sequence 007's song.
That meant they had all become potential 007-1 instances.
The only fortunate thing was that 007's brainwashing meme lasted only three days.
And during those three days, the only person unaffected was Chu Yang.
"Why was Chu Yang fine?"
"Hmm... he seems to possess some kind of mental resistance beyond that of humans, so this kind of memetic attack has no effect on him at all."
Chu Yang stepped out at that moment. "Um, before you keep wildly speculating, let me clarify something. I was only wearing earplugs."
"And all the information you recorded these past few days is wrong."
"006 isn't a spider. It's the Weaver of Fate."
"007 isn't a song either. It's a siren."
"How do you know?"
"Ummmm... I guessed."
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