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It is obvious that Zhang Shijia has a very high status in the minds of this group of drama club actors. If so many things hadn't happened today, it would have been enough for Yang Xue to see this scene to satisfy his vanity.

However, at this moment, he could only look at Zhang Jue, waiting for his next instruction.

Zhang Jue waved his hand, indicating that he was just looking around casually, Zhang Shijia was relieved, and began to communicate with the members of the drama club.

"Wow, this is Senior Sister Yang Xue, she is really beautiful, Teacher Zhang, is this the person you like?"

Because they are both members of the drama club, the gossip about Yang Xue and Zhang Shijia has been passed down year after year. Most of the members have seen the early stills and recognized Yang Xue at a glance.

Hearing what the school girls said, Yang Xue didn't explain anything, just shook her head with a smile.

Zhang Shijia looked at Zhang Jue in embarrassment, not daring to answer.

Seeing that Zhang Jue was not angry, he was relieved and said seriously: "The performance will start soon, you don't hurry up to match your words, this live broadcast on the whole network, if something goes wrong, I'll see how you explain it to your classmates .”

What Zhang Shijia said, all the drama actors are all acting like birds and beasts. They have already put on their costumes. At this time, it is just to consolidate their memory and check their lines for the last time.

Facing such a large-scale performance for the first time, the students were a little nervous.

"Oh, Charlie, my lord, you can't do this!"

"If you don't do this, I will be the one who will die! This is the end, we have no way out, any kindness to the enemy is cruelty to ourselves!"

"..."

The actors began to read their lines with emotion.

Zhang Jue walked around, checking every corner of the drama club, but still found nothing.

This is not right.

His senses were so strong, it was as if he were a blind man.

The anomalous item seemed to have been plastered on his face, but he just couldn't see it.

Damn it, he swears.

What the hell is this thing?

Yang Xue has been silently by Zhang Jue's side.

Seeing him frowning, I was also very anxious.

The last time the containment of the site failed, Zhang Jue saved her life several times, but she didn't help much. This has always been her regret.

As a Ph.D. and senior researcher of the foundation, she didn't want to rely on Zhang Jue for everything.

She also has her own pride.

And at this moment, she finally has her own place to use her skills.

She reminded Zhang Jue: "Don't worry, that abnormality may not be a real thing."

"Not real?"

Hearing Yang Xue's words, Zhang Jue was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized.

Yup!

There are so many anomalous items, many of which are invisible and intangible. He was limited by his own thinking just now, and got into a dead end.

With his thoughts open, Zhang Jue immediately became excited and gave Yang Xue a thumbs up.

"Dr. Yang Da, I really can't tell, you have big breasts and a big brain—ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yang Xue pinched Zhang Jue's waist, and gave him a hard look: "What time is it, you're still talking nonsense!"

The two were just whispering to each other, but Zhang Shijia walked away tactfully.

Zhang Jue's loud cry attracted everyone's attention again.

Looking at Yang Xue's red face, Zhang Shijia clenched his fist secretly, but he didn't dare to do anything to Zhang Jue, so he could only ask nonchalantly, "Mr. Zhang, what's wrong?"

Zhang Jue laughed and waved his hand to Zhang Shijia: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I was bitten by a hedgehog just now, but it has already run away-by the way, Senior Zhang, can you show me the script you are going to perform?"

"Hedgehog? Script?"

Zhang Jue's thinking was very jumpy, and Zhang Shijia didn't keep up for a while.

Zhang Jue tilted his head: "Can you show me?"

"Ah, of course." Zhang Shijia came back to his senses, turned to another actor and said, "Li Ou, bring your script."

After receiving the script handed over by Zhang Shijia, Zhang Jue immediately flipped through it.

His speed was extremely fast, and he turned over the thick script in a short while.

Yang Xue looked at him, her palms were slightly sweaty.

Zhang Jue raised his head, smiled at Yang Xue, and snapped his fingers.

"That's it!"

Chapter 39 Killing You

Zhang Jue's smile seemed to have a magical power that could make people feel at ease.

I don't know if other people feel the same way, but Yang Xue has always felt this way.

As long as you see that bad smile, it seems that all problems can be solved easily.

Zhang Shijia didn't know what they were looking for, so he was at a loss.

"Mr. Zhang, what is 'it'?"

Zhang Jue didn't answer his words, but asked, "Senior Zhang, I heard that you wrote this script?"

"Uh... yes, what's the matter?" Zhang Jue asked this, but Zhang Shijia stuttered.

He is a doctor of literature, and the drama club's scripts have always been written by him, but this time it is not the case. He accidentally found this script on an old bookstall.

The wonderful plot inside once made him unable to put it down, but unfortunately he has never heard of any information about the author and the script.

Although it was strange, but because the script package was old, he didn't think much about it.

After a little adaptation, it became his own work.

However, who is Zhang Jue? He is the ancestor of liars. Deceiving people is his specialty. How can Zhang Shijia's little tricks escape his eyes.

He pulled Zhang Shijia to the corner and said in a low voice: "Senior Zhang, to tell you the truth, I have read this script in other places a long time ago. It was written by a French writer in the 17th century. It is very wonderful. I accidentally lost it, don't worry, I don't intend to let your members know that you have borrowed other people's ideas-it's all for scholars, right-I just want to read the script again to solve the lost pearl It’s a pity, that’s all.”

To say that Zhang Jue's acting talent is definitely higher than those serious drama actors, he improvised this part with a rich voice and emotion, which made Zhang Shijia stunned and almost limped.

Zhang Shijia replied almost mechanically: "Well... the script was originally in my office."

Zhang Jue put his arms around Zhang Shijia's shoulder: "My good brother, can you show it to me, the raging fire in my body can no longer be suppressed!"

Yang Xue covered her mouth and almost laughed out loud.

This time it was finally Zhang Jue's turn to give her a white look.

The three came to Zhang Shijia's office.

Zhang Shijia took out the original script that had turned yellow from the desk drawer.

Zhang Jue held it in his hand, flipped through it casually a few times, then rolled it up casually and put it in his pocket.

That movement was so natural that it really seemed to be his own.

"Eh--"

Zhang Shijia felt reluctant, and stretched out his hand halfway, but remembering what his uncle said, he gritted his teeth again, turned his head away, and stopped looking at him.

Zhang Jue felt like a bully who bullied others and robbed women of the people—but this feeling is so fucking cool, hahahaha!

Seeing that Zhang Jue had succeeded, Yang Xue asked in a low voice, "What exactly is it?"

Zhang Jue glanced at Zhang Shijia, confirmed that his attention was not here, and replied softly: "SCP-701."

Item #: SCP-701 (Elegy of the Hanged King)

Object Class: Euclid

Description: SCP-701, The Hanged King's Elegy, is a Caroline-era revenge tragedy in five acts.

The performance of this script will cause the audience and actors to become insane and suicidal, and lead to the appearance of the enigmatic figure SCP-701-1 (The Hanged King).

Historical estimates put the number of deaths from this drama between █████ and █████ over the past 300 years.

In short, SCP-701 is a self-evolving memetic virus spreading through theatrical texts through unknown means.

Foundation agents are to be on call at all times to suppress any performance or publication of SCP-701 upon discovery.

Despite our best efforts to counteract them, these scripts are still freely available online, sometimes under different titles, and all attempts to detect or isolate the source of these copies have failed.

Crackdowns on the publication of plays have generally been successful, and much of the 1971 academic edition has been destroyed before distribution.

Nevertheless, some 1965 trade paperbacks appear with some regularity in college and high school libraries.

Agents are to recover these items if possible, or simply destroy them.

Special Containment Procedures:

All materials related to SCP-701 are to be kept in a triple-locked archive at Storage Site-██.

这些物品目前包括：两份1640四开本的现存副本；27份1965贸易平装版；十份1971精装版；21张软盘，内含突袭[删除]时得到的数据。

一盒S-VHS录像机磁带（命名为SCP-701-19██-A）；一（1）把来历不明的钢刀（命名为SCP-701-19██-B）。

Removal of these items from the archives is prohibited at any time.

Unlike all the anomalous items Zhang Jue and Yang Xue encountered on the site before, SCP-701 is a memetic anomaly.

So the question is, what is a meme?

In the SCP world, memes are a concept that is often mentioned. If you search the Internet, you can easily retrieve a lot of messy things.

If you're just getting started and you're not very familiar with this kind of concept, then you must have this feeling-what the fuck is this writing!

Obscure!

Bullshit!

Even the most basic grammar is wrong, you will suspect that their Chinese teacher's Chinese is taught by the physical education teacher's physical education teacher.

If you asked me to summarize memes in the simplest sentence, I would say - memes are a contagious idea.

Of course, not necessarily right.

In simple terms, think of it as a non-disease-causing virus that spreads rapidly through the exchange of information between humans.

Broadly speaking, all popular culture, slang and even catchy poems, songs, etc. can be classified as memes.

Note that memes are not directly equivalent to memetic anomalies or memetic hazards.

One day, you and your companion went out to perform a mission, and your companion recited a poem, and you got it right. This is the role of simple memes in cultural inheritance, so there is no need to be nervous about it.

However, you suddenly find that all the people around are reciting the two lines of poetry just now, and the number is increasing exponentially, then this is a memetic anomaly.

For example, if I post a "dog" emoji here, someone will start to answer the poem, and then enter the urgent list for next month, and then someone will search desperately, and then come back to check the poem, and then enter The urgent list for the next month, and so on, until the entire novel is blocked-this is the harm caused by a typical meme.

In addition, it is necessary to distinguish between memetic anomalies, cognitohazardous anomalies, and infohazardous anomalies.

Infohazardous SCP: An object that, when described or mentioned, exhibits a hazard.

Cognitohazardous SCP: An SCP that is harmful when perceived by the traditional five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch), such as scp-053 (Shirley).

Memetic SCP: A memetic agent or SCP possessing the property of spreading memes, which are usually contagious and work in conjunction with cognitohazards.

Well, in order to prevent you from saying that I have a bad word count, let's get back to the topic.

To sum up, SCP-701 is a typical memetic anomaly - this script called "The Hanged King's Elegy" will be spread through various channels, and people who see its performance - whether watching it live or Through video recording, they all become insane, leading to the consequences of suicide or homicide.

The foundation issued a death order. Once the script of SCP-701 is found, it must be immediately recovered and handed over to the foundation, and its performances must be suppressed immediately.

Hearing Zhang Jue's words, Yang Xue gasped.

If Zhang Jue hadn't been vigilant all the time, then everyone who attended the school celebration ceremony today - including the live broadcast audience on the online platform - would all have died.

She was once again thankful that she believed in Zhang Jue and letting him join the foundation was the most correct choice she had ever made.

"Then what should we do now?" Yang Xue asked.

"What else can I do." Zhang Jue spread his hands, "Cancel the performance in the afternoon and administer amnestics to everyone who has read the script or seen the performance."