No matter what kind of joke fate played on Siren, at least for now, the outcome wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Siren returned home and first tried singing a few familiar songs, gradually regaining the familiar feeling.
The joy in her heart was indescribable, but also unnecessary to express.
She re-sang a song she had prepared for release and posted it online. Her voice was even more captivating than before, and even she herself loved hearing it.
This wasn't just her imagination; her voice had indeed improved.
In fact... it might have improved a bit too much.
Her voice had surpassed the limits of what humans could appreciate, reaching absolute perfection.
Siren was very satisfied with this, thinking that becoming a monster didn't seem so bad after all.
"By the way, did I turn into a mermaid before?"
Siren tried to recall, and suddenly her body began to change, her lower body disappearing into a fish tail, covered in scales and fins.
She looked at herself in the mirror, feeling amazed.
"What a strange feeling, no sensation in the legs, no feeling of cold..."
Siren marveled at her body's transformation while pondering.
"It seems becoming a monster isn't that hard to accept after all."
Of course, she thought this mainly because her appearance had hardly changed; she still had the same familiar face, only her hair had turned emerald green. But it complemented her fishy body quite well.
If she had turned into something like 002 Deep Diver, with a big fish head and two yellow light bulbs, could she have accepted it?
After studying her body for a while, Siren suddenly thought of a question.
"How do fish people go to the bathroom?"
"And how do they mate?"
Hmm...
Good question.
But if we delve into this question, it might not pass censorship, so let's just leave it at that.
After transforming back into human form, Siren looked at her computer. The new song she had uploaded hadn't received many views as expected.
After all, she had been gone for a whole month, and most of her fans had already disappeared.
To regain the popularity she once had, she had to start over.
Siren tapped her face gently. "Out with the old, in with the new. Rebuild my fan base and try to find that initial feeling."
"I believe there will still be people who like my songs. If only everyone could help by sharing it."
With that in mind, Siren thought.
Half an hour later, the data for her new song suddenly skyrocketed at an exaggerated rate!
...
Inside a rented house.
A game streamer was live-streaming a shooting game.
But at this moment, the barrage suddenly flooded with the name of a song.
Seeing the barrage, the streamer frowned. "Stop spamming, everyone. I'll listen to the song later after this round."
From half an hour ago, people had started sending this song's name one after another.
But at first, only a few people sent it. Later, more and more joined, until almost everyone was spamming the song.
This made the streamer feel strange.
No matter what he said, these people kept spamming like they were possessed.
Just as the streamer was about to say something, his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?"
"Li Zi?"
"What? Listen to a song?"
"What song?"
"Really, you started too?"
"Just now, my live-stream chat went crazy with people sending me this song."
"Okay, okay, stop talking. Can't I listen to it?"
The streamer hung up the phone and searched for the song online.
The song had already climbed to the top of the hot search list.
The streamer clicked play, and he heard a beautiful melody, captivating and divine.
But as he listened, the streamer's expression suddenly became blank.
"Share it..."
"Let more people hear it, that's what she wants."
"Let more people, hear..."
Before the song ended, the streamer began frantically sharing the song.
He sent the song to all his friends and shared it on his social media accounts.
He even shared it with classmates he hadn't contacted in ten years.
And he wasn't the only one.
In his social media feed, it was filled with shares of this song.
The internet exploded that day. Whether it was news or media, everyone was crazily sharing this song!
In one night, the song spread all over the country, and even to foreign websites.
At this moment, Siren still didn't know that if her wish while singing was world unity, she had already unified humanity.
...
Three days later, the entire world was brainwashed by this song.
This wasn't an exaggeration; this was true brainwashing!
The Nine-Tailed Fox's side was in chaos.
"Issue an immediate ban on this song on the internet, hurry!"
"Damn it... Are those monsters declaring war on us?!"
"Worst of all, even we heard that song..."
"Yeah, by the time I realized it, I had already shared that song ten thousand times..."
"We're all under memetic attack. Now each of us could potentially become a 007-1!"
007, uncertain whether it's human, has been defined by the Nine-Tailed Fox's side as a song, a meme.
As long as you hear this song, it triggers the meme to share the song, which is almost unstoppable.
And 007-1 means those affected by monsters.
For example, the relatives of 002 Deep Diver, all of them are 002-1.
If the quantity can be confirmed, they can also be ranked as 002-1, 002-2, 002-3, and so on indefinitely.
But that's too troublesome, so the Nine-Tailed Fox's side refers to all the monster's derivatives, as well as those transformed into monsters or influenced by monsters, as -1.
Unfortunately, they all heard 007's song.
This also meant that they all became potential 007-1.
The only fortunate thing was that the brainwashing meme of 007 only lasted for three days.
And during these three days, the only person who wasn't affected was Chu Yang.
"Why is Chu Yang fine?"
"Well... he seems to possess some kind of spiritual resistance beyond human, so this memetic attack had no effect on him at all."
Chu Yang walked out at this moment. "Um, before you jump to conclusions, let me reiterate: I just had earplugs on."
"And all the information you recorded these days is wrong."
"006 isn't a spider, it's the Weaver of Fate."
"And 007 isn't a song, it's a Siren."
"How do you know that?"
"Emmmm... just a guess."
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