This follows the 'Person of Flat Worm' file.
The subject's super-strong self-replication ability and its hostility towards society mean that if it were not controlled and allowed to replicate infinitely, it would inevitably severely affect the order of normal society.
Given the above reasons, the researchers and Officer at Containment Center No. 1 have classified the subject as Euclid.
The containment center needs to extract tissue samples from the subject every month, process them for cold storage, and transport them to the Hive for research.
The goal is to analyze and crack the subject's complete cloning ability.
Progress is not going well.
On March 17, 2008, the Hive slowed down its investment and research into the subject.
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4. Subject: The TV in the Mall.
Alias: Motorola.
Class: Euclid.
The following file contains the entire process of containing this subject;
1. Video File.
Three young people who love adventure, Johnson, Lucas, and Ava—their real surnames are not recorded.
On the night of February 2, 2008, in order to increase the attention and click count of their YouTube channel, the three decided to explore an abandoned mall located in ■ City, ■ State, United States.
The file comes from an HVR-HD 1000C camera jointly purchased by the three, with Lucas as the cameraman.
File playing:
The red signal light on the screen flashes, and soon the camera footage is displayed.
In the center of the screen is a typical suburban two-story shopping mall in North America, surrounded only by an overgrown parking lot and woods in the distance, appearing unusually 'lonely'.
The trees on both sides of the entrance are dead, and under the illumination of the moonlight, their reflections on the ground look like ghouls baring fangs and brandishing claws.
Eerie.
Lucas, behind the camera, whistled and said: "Alright everyone, the recording on this expensive thing is normal, let's go in."
At this moment, Ava, whose face has been mosaicked, walks into the frame, looks at the dilapidated gate of the mall, and advises with a hint of trepidation:
"Guys, is there... really a ghost here? It feels just like a graveyard in a Halloween movie. Do we really have to go in?"
Immediately after, Johnson, whose face has also been processed, walks to Ava's side, puts his arm around her shoulder, and says without any fear:
"Haha, Ava, you're too fanciful. How could there be ghosts in this World? Besides, isn't our purpose for coming here to debunk those rumors?"
The camera moves forward, and Lucas's agreement comes through: "That's right, let's go."
Since the subsequent video content is devoid of substance, consisting of the three telling various horror stories outside the mall, the speed is set to x4.
After entering the mall, the speed is x1.
The floor tiles are covered with thick dust, the shops all have their roller shutters down and locked, and the vast majority of areas are inaccessible.
The breathing of the three can be clearly heard in the footage.
During their time in the peripheral shops, they also tried to find props that looked scary to enhance the effect of the video recording.
But as they went deeper, the surrounding atmosphere became increasingly indescribably eerie.
Their breathing gradually became rapid due to tension.
Finally, the three of them arrived at the central hall of the mall, where there was a huge indoor fountain.
Approaching, the camera focuses on the dry fountain pool.
It is full of trash, such as soda cans, plastic bags, packaging boxes, and various kinds of wood, etc.
Some of the trash has no dust, as if someone or something had just thrown it in recently.
"Hey, guys... look at this."
Johnson's voice rings out from the left rear of the frame, and at this moment, Johnson's voice is slightly trembling, no longer as confident as before.
The camera pans to the left, blurring, and focuses on the ground where Johnson is pointing with both hands.
A series of long strip-like marks, about five centimeters long and one centimeter wide, surround the fountain pool.
Ava appears beside Johnson, crouches down, and analyzes: "These look like footprints. Could it be that the things in the pool were brought by the owner of the footprints?"
"Hey, Ava," says Lucas behind the camera. "I've never seen any animal with footprints like this."
"Me neither," Johnson, who had also crouched down, nodded.
Subsequently, the camera discovers that the tracks of some 'footprints' lead to the interior of the mall.
The three of them muster their courage again, preparing to follow the 'footprints' to continue the adventure.
Soon.
They arrive in front of a candy store, and the 'footprints' disappear under the locked door of the shop.
Through the camera's observation, the candy store looks intact from the outside.
The double doors with two windows are simply locked with a chain on the external door handle, and the original owner did not put down the roller shutter.
Johnson tries to pull the chain to open the door.
Unsuccessful.
Finally, the three decide together to break the glass.
Johnson finds a brick nearby and smashes it against one of the panes of glass on the door to the right of the camera.
"Crack-clatter—!"
The violent sound of the glass shattering spreads to every corner of the mall in an instant.
Through the broken window, they easily step into the candy store.
However...
"~~~~§~" Some strange music starts playing.
"What is this?" Ava, inside the camera frame, walks up to Johnson and says.
"Hmm..." Johnson furrows his brow and says, "It sounds like old jukebox music, the very old kind."
"Viewers! I swear, this is definitely not music we're playing to be mysterious!" Lucas says, his emotions slightly agitated.
"~!!" The music seems to come from all directions and gets louder and louder.
Ava and Johnson in the camera frame look terrified, obviously scared out of their wits; the shaky footage indicates that Lucas is the same.
Suddenly, Ava, facing the camera, widens her eyes, raises her trembling hand, and slightly opens her mouth, wanting to let out a terrified scream.
The frame shakes.
Lucas's right hand reaches out from the right side of the camera, covering Ava's mouth in time to prevent her from letting out the scream of a frightened girl.
Then the camera looks in the direction of Ava's finger.
They see a 'mouse' walking past the candy store door on its hind legs; the footprints it leaves on the dust-covered floor tiles are exactly the same as the 'marks' from before.
Seen from a distance, it looks like it's made of one-centimeter-thick paper, and its movements are also like...
A two-dimensional object walking on a three-dimensional plane.
It even looks cute.
"Phew..." (x3)
Although the three don't know what it is, its appearance gives them a favorable impression, and the tense atmosphere relaxes a bit.
"Eh?"
Lucas, who is responsible for filming behind the camera, seems to recognize the cartoon mouse and explains to his friends:
"I remember him... he seems to be called Brook, a character from a cartoon my Grandpa loved to watch when he was little. He would often share those old cartoons with me..."
"Wait." Johnson interrupts Lucas, points outside the door, and says in a trembling whisper: "Behind the little mouse, there seems to be... there seems to be something else."
It's a...
A black cartoon cat that is four meters tall and also only one centimeter wide!
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