Chapter 217: Chain Letter (12)
The fading of the mold was actually easy to understand.
It was known that Narcissa, as a rule-based vengeful spirit, was effectively equivalent to the killing rule itself. If Narcissa was killed, the rule would cease to exist; if the rule was broken, Narcissa would also disappear.
And the act of “forwarding the cursed SMS a second time to Gary No. 2, who had died and resurrected” had already begun to interfere with the operation of the rule system itself.
When a program repeatedly jumps between two or more instructions without ever reaching a result, we say the program has frozen. It requires external debugging to correct its internal logic before it can resume normal operation.
The curse’s hesitation over whether Gary No. 2 could receive a new message was, in essence, a “dead loop” occurring on another level of existence. To break out of this loop, Narcissa would either need to modify the existing rules or introduce a new rule.
In short, the vengeful spirit had to rewrite its rules—and any modification involving rules consumed an enormous amount of energy.
Thus, when the BUG in the SMS was finally eliminated, the resulting mold also thinned out accordingly. Its offensive power had dropped so drastically that it could barely hold its own against the text-based iron-thread worms. It only managed to destroy the page after a prolonged struggle, rendering it unusable.
“Continue.”
Bang.