This crisis is silently eroding the foundation of human civilization - memory.
Large-scale memory confusion and loss have begun to occur around the world. People have forgotten important skills, cannot recognize relatives, and even the details of entire historical events have been blurred or tampered with. The text on books is sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, and data in digital storage devices has unexplained errors and losses.
"It's not a neurological attack, it's not an information war!" Bruce·Banner In the S.H.I.E.L.D. command center, looking at the steep decline curve of the global cognitive ability assessment index, his voice was filled with rare panic, "It's that the memory itself is becoming unstable! It's like... the medium that carries the memory (whether it is the biological brain or the physical carrier) is 'fading'!"
Nick Fury's single eye scanned the scalp-numbing reports. "Source? Means?"
"Untrackable!" Maria·Hill's voice was full of powerlessness. "The energy signature is extremely weird, acting on the information level itself! It seems to be extracting the concept of 'memory', not just the content!"
The holographic image of Tony·Stark appeared with a solemn expression. "Friday compared it to a 'cosmic eraser'! It is increasing the 'forgetting rate' and 'error rate' of information! Our backup systems are all making errors simultaneously!"
Strange and Wang tried to use magic to stabilize the concept of knowledge in Sanctum Sanctorum, but found it extremely difficult. "This is not brainwashing for individuals," Strange said with a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, "This is an attack on the collective cognitive infrastructure! Something is making 'memory' and 'knowledge' themselves difficult to maintain!"
Avengers was not immune. Steve was hesitant about the details of the tactical fallback, Tony was unfamiliar with a step of a certain equation, and Natasha had confusion about the memory of a certain disguised identity. They worked hard to maintain order and rescue those who were in panic due to amnesia, but even they themselves began to become unreliable.
Civilization is like being built on quicksand, slowly sinking into the abyss of oblivion.
Malibu Beach.
Xiao Han noticed that on a certain page of the book he was reading, the text seemed to flicker and became a little difficult to read. What made him even more displeased was that he found that his memory of an insignificant detail while basking in the sun yesterday had an extremely slight "uncertainty".
This interference with the stability of information and the certainty of memory made him feel extremely uncomfortable. What he enjoyed was an absolute sense of existence and certainty, and any form of "uncertainty" was like indescribable impurities in delicious food.
"Information interference." He whispered displeasedly. Super-Senses - especially the perception involving the absolute accuracy of information processing and the absolute reliability of memory - instantly locked onto the abnormal disturbance that permeated the information field and caused the memory to "fade" and the data to "error".
In his opinion, this is like a high-definition picture that has noise and interference lines added to it and needs to be repaired.
He didn't even look for the source of interference, but subconsciously "stabilized" his biological consciousness field, which was absolutely "certain" and whose information processing was absolutely "accurate," slightly outward.
Like an absolutely accurate clock that calibrates all timers, and like an absolutely stable hard drive that repairs all data errors.
The moment the abnormal information field that attempts to increase the "forgetting rate" and "error rate" comes into contact with this absolutely "certain" and "accurate" consciousness field, the chaotic instructions inside it seem to have encountered an insurmountable barrier, and are instantly corrected, covered, and eliminated.
The global phenomenon of memory confusion and data errors came to an abrupt end.
People's memories have returned to clarity, the words on books have stabilized, and digital storage devices have stopped reporting errors. Civilization has been forcibly pulled back from the edge of oblivion.
Avengers froze in place, feeling the sudden restoration of "clear" and "reliable" memory and cognition, with lingering fear.
"The memory... is stable?" Steve once again understood the details of the tactics.
"It's him again?" Natasha looked at the monitoring data flow that had returned to normal and breathed a sigh of relief.
Doctor Banner watched as the index representing information stability returned to normal instantly and murmured, "He... he used his absolute 'certainty' to act as an 'information anchor'? Forcibly repairing the concepts of 'memory' and 'data'?"
Strange felt the restoration of the "solid" collective cognitive field and breathed a sigh of relief, "For him, maybe he just felt that the 'information environment' just now was too vague and affected his reading experience, so he 'cleaned it up'."
In a certain abstract field that transcends the information level, an experimental existence trying to study "information entropy" and "memory decay" was surprised to find that the experiment that it interfered with the stability of the target civilization's information was forcibly terminated, and all parameters were reset to their default values.
It detects the force that completely "offsets" its experimental interference, and feels an extremely "determined" and "unchangeable" existence characteristic.
It silently sets the information stability parameters of the experimental target (identification: human civilization) to "read-only" and notes. "The target has a powerful 'information stability guard mechanism'. Any operation that attempts to increase its information entropy or memory decay rate will trigger forced calibration. The experiment is invalid. Recommendation: Terminate related research to avoid possible information backlash."
Xiao Han felt that the "clear" and "stable" information environment around him had returned, the pages in his hands became clear again, and the details of yesterday's memory also returned to absolute certainty.
The world is finally no longer "blurry".
This is good.
As for who is interfering with information? Why?
He has no interest.