Chapter 523 A Free Man in a Cage!
Amid Subona's madness, Li Youzhi's challenge of imprisonment continues.
With long-term fitness skills and a few days of surprise training before the challenge, Li Youzhi's body is in the best condition at this time.
After getting rid of all the discomforts at the beginning of entering the completely silent prison cell, the few benefits of this completely silent and isolated environment also became highlighted at this time.
What's the benefit?
No one bothers!
In an absolutely quiet environment, Li Youzhi entered a state of deep reading and thinking. Looking at the hexagrams and lines of the I Ching on his arm, Li Youzhi gradually fell into a trance.
In this state where the flow of time is diluted, one hour, two hours, three hours...
Unknowingly, the whole morning passed by in a hurry!
As 12 o'clock Beijing time arrives, it has been a full four hours since the start of the challenge, and the comment area on the Heguang Audiovisual live broadcast page is already boiling!
"Fuck, it's been five hours, it's been five hours!"
"He's been watching it for five fucking hours, guys. He doesn't even seem to move!"
"He must have moved. I observed him all morning. He changed his position seven times in total, raising and lowering his arm three times, holding his face with his left hand twice, and twice with his right hand..."
"What do you call this action? My fucking masturbation movements are more complicated than this, right?"
Netizens who were unable to help in the whole process and mainly wanted to be a companion were completely stunned by Li Youzhi's determination during the challenge on the first morning.
In fact, not only domestic netizens, but also simultaneous comments from overseas parties on the live broadcast page have skyrocketed. The online popularity of the live broadcast page has reached a terrifying 1.4 million+!
In the morning, Li Youzhi failed to live up to the wishes of those British netizens who came to watch the show with strong hostility. He suffered a nervous breakdown in the first hour and had already dissuaded a considerable number of the black audience.
Therefore, many of those who are paying attention to the challenge live broadcast and commenting in the comment area are Waguang Audiovisual Overseas Edition users who simply come to watch the fun. And...overseas netizens who heard about Li Youzhi's challenge through INS or other social platforms and made a special trip to watch the excitement.
After seeing that Li Youzhi, who had been trapped for five hours, was still in such good condition, this group of netizens could not be said to be stunned. They could only say that they gave a thumbs up and said they were convinced!
"What the hell! I heard that in order to experience life, some people lock themselves in a room, bring only water and bread, and then meditate in the room by themselves. At first, he will feel very irritable, just like this guy , it feels like a withdrawal reaction. But after a while, the person will start to think about life and the meaning of life. After 7 days, prepare an apple, wash it and take a bite, and then feel the taste of the apple in your mouth. I heard that the taste of that apple at this time will make people feel the beauty of the whole world. Is this guy doing such a thing? "
"Come on! What you are talking about comes from a best-selling book called "The Madman on the Left and the Genius on the Right." Most of the cases about mental patients in this book have been proven to be fabricated. Why? Is it possible that someone could stay in a house like this for a few days and still be mentally healthy? I feel claustrophobic and anxious just looking at it!”
"Oh my gosh, I've imagined something like this; apocalyptic zombie crisis and me being trapped in a basement with an endless supply of food and water. I've imagined Many times, I wondered how I could survive in that closed environment, and finally I concluded that I would kill myself—human beings simply cannot endure this kind of life where there is no communication at all and only one’s own existence!”
"What's the matter? I swear to God, this kind of imprisonment is not difficult for me. I will shoot eighteen rounds of pistols in there and shoot myself until I faint. In this way, when I wake up, I will Guaranteed 48 hours have passed!”
"Hello foreign idiot in front of you, is it possible that after masturbating eighteen times, you may not wake up after 48 hours? Instead, you will die directly and go to see your God with a white turbidity all over your body?"
"Hahahaha, of course my friends from China, the situation you mentioned cannot be completely ruled out. In short, I mean this challenge is really interesting, and now I want to share it with my friends - from Brazil love.”
As comments from more and more countries and regions emerged in the comment area, the sharing data of the live broadcast page began to soar.
at the same time.
A psychology studio in downtown Manhattan, USA.
Whitney Manny, a well-known Internet celebrity doctor with a double master's degree in psychology and behavior, who also has more than 7 million subscribers on the YouTube channel "Manny's Psychological Treehouse", frowned.
As a 24-year-old internet celebrity doctor who received a double master's degree in psychology and behavior from the University of Michigan, and whose looks are as good as those of a Hollywood star, Manny's fans pushed her Heguang Audiovisual's product as soon as Li Youzhi took up the challenge. Challenge live page link.
But when she received the link to the challenge page this morning, Manny didn't take it seriously.
Because in her opinion, there is no way for a normal person to stay in a small environment with absolute silence and negative decibels of noise for five days.
Whether from the perspective of psychology or human behavior, this is a challenge that is bound to fail.
But five hours later, she was a little surprised to see the link shared by fans again, and the private message "Look, Manny, that guy is still going on."
As an Internet celebrity doctor, in order to attract fans and create program effects, Manny has conducted a large number of psychological and behavioral experiments through alumni relationships.
The most popular one is an astronaut training conducted by NASA. In that training, five professional astronauts conducted a week of closed training in a simulated zero-gravity space capsule.
Even the astronauts who were carefully selected showed strong physiological discomfort when they entered the sealed environment under water for the first time. Strong reactions such as severe anxiety, mental breakdown and even psychologically induced physiological dehydration occurred.
It was with this curiosity that Manny opened the live broadcast page.
Seeing Li Youzhi sitting on the ground with his upper body naked, watching his tattoo in the picture, she pursed her plump lips.
After roughly scanning the comments of netizens in the comment area, he put his hands on the keyboard.
"In 1954, psychologists Bexton and Scott and others paid student subjects $20 a day, asked them to wear special translucent plastic glasses, rubber gloves on their hands and arms, and lie quietly on comfortable canvas beds in an environment with low-frequency noise created by air conditioners. In the initial stage, many of the subjects with novelty slept a lot or thought about their term papers. However, after only three hours, they decided to escape from this monotonous environment.
This experiment was later a very famous sensory deprivation experiment, and the results of the experiment showed that in a closed environment without graphic visual stimulation and limited tactile and auditory senses, people feel bored and restless at the beginning. code reaction.
If the subjects are in such an environment for a long time, they will have a lack of concentration, disturbed thinking, inability to think clearly, and intellectual decline. In addition, there are obvious changes in physiology. Through the analysis of brain waves, it is proved that all the activities of the subjects are seriously disordered, and some subjects even have hallucinations and schizophrenia. If this person has really stayed in such an environment for five hours, then I suggest that he stop this stupid challenge immediately to avoid irreversible damage to thinking ability and language function! "
It is obvious that many overseas netizens who are active in the live broadcast page of the Heguang Audiovisual Challenge from YouTube know Manny.
Seeing the most active and authoritative heart doctor on YouTube issue a warning, these people immediately became agitated.
Just as people were giving likes to this comment, the Guinness referee who was responsible for supervising Li Youzhi's confinement challenge also appeared in the upper right corner of the live broadcast screen.
"Friends who are watching the challenge live, I will now announce the birth of a new world record; just now, I have obtained the database information of the Guinness World Records. Before this, the world record of two hours and thirty-four minutes in an absolutely silent room, created by 27-year-old American Texan Hanny Sykes on November 1, 2019, has been broken by Mr. Li Youzhi."
Live page.
Seeing these two consecutive messages, domestic netizens who were still able to maintain a fun mentality just now...can't hold it anymore!
Beep!
Received a surprise value of 5012900 points!
Beep!
Received a recommended task (stop the challenge immediately to avoid irreversible damage to thinking ability and language function), the task difficulty is 3 stars.
Received a suggested task (Brother, come out, don't become a fool)...
(Ahhh, brother, listen, we won't do this challenge, come out quickly)...
(Suggest brother to come out quickly, if you really don't come out, you can masturbate a dozen times to make yourself faint, don't become a drooling psychopath!)...
(It has been merged with the previous suggested task, the task difficulty remains unchanged)
In the challenge room.
"..."
Hearing a series of system prompts that suddenly exploded beside his ears, Li Youzhi silently withdrew his eyes from the I Ching hexagram on his biceps.
Looking at the system panel, the several suggestions that were refreshed continuously, and the balance of the amazing value that had accumulated to more than 10 million, he smacked his lips.
Should I say...Although this challenge is a bit tricky, the rewards are really generous...It's only...uh, fifty minutes, an hour?
The amazing value is already more than 10 million!
Nodding with satisfaction, touching his smooth chin, Li Youzhi hummed.
But judging from the reactions of the stupid netizens, is my current state a bit scary to them?
Tsk.
Although this group of stupid netizens are unreliable and often pit me, I have to say... they are still my favorite fans.
Although they don't come on when there is something, they really make a fuss,
OK.
Through the limited system information, Li Youzhi felt the concern of netizens, raised his hands and patted his thighs hard.
Then, he stood up from the ground lightly and slowly.
Challenge the live broadcast page.
Seeing Li Youzhi suddenly stand up and gently rub his legs in the small and cramped room, the already chaotic barrage boiled like hot fire.
Manhattan.
Looking at Li Youzhi standing up in the picture, Manny raised her lips slightly.
Psychologists are good at dealing with abnormal mental states, but most of the abnormal mental states and behaviors actually have traces to follow.
Now it seems that Li Youzhi has taken the initiative to break the state that seems absolutely abnormal because of being too calm, and the feeling of regaining control over the patient has finally returned.
"It's gratifying that he has finally walked out of the state of fantasy. But don't be too optimistic. His current state is very likely to be the beginning of anxiety from fantasy. Generally speaking, after five hours of silent imprisonment and deprivation of sensory perception, people will have an illusion of losing themselves. I speculate that next, he may fall into a period of irritability, and he will look for some stimulation for himself to prove his true existence. The specific manifestation is likely to be through the catharsis of destroying room facilities or smashing things. Or it may be a sudden mental collapse, through yelling or talking nonsense, to vent the negative emotions generated..."
Based on her professional knowledge, Manni was fully alert. Putting both hands on the keyboard, typing.
Just before she wanted to send her inference, Li Youzhi in the picture spoke!
As if looking for the camera, Li Youzhi, who was shirtless in the picture, glanced around and smiled after a light cough;
"I'm sorry, friends, I don't know how long I've been here. In order to avoid everyone's worry, I'll report my current state; I'm very hungry, a little weak, and my biological clock is completely messed up."
"I can't feel the flow of time in this house at all. If my body functions are not messed up, judging from the fact that my beard has not grown much, I should have been here for less than ten hours."
"It's really boring here, and there is a strong sense of being abandoned in such an environment. So... although I can't receive your information, I decided to talk to you for a while."
The cameras in the room are hidden behind the soundproofing material, and Li Youzhi is not facing the camera at this time.
He may have noticed this, so while speaking, he returned to the center of the room again.
To ensure that this position will definitely be covered by the camera's view, Li Youzhi pursed his thin lips.
Live page
Seeing Li Youzhi, who seemed to be blind, with no focus and could only look at the ground, the netizens in the interactive area burst into tears.
"I feel sorry for the little brother. I can't imagine how lonely he is. If I stayed in such a room for so long, I would have gone crazy. He actually thought of chatting with us... He really made me cry!"
"Go ahead, we're listening! You can say anything, as long as you say it, we'll stay here with you!"
Li Youzhi naturally couldn't see these messages from the netizens in Leziren.
After thinking for a moment with his lips pursed, he smiled;
"It's different from the usual live broadcast. I can't see your information and I don't know where to start. Then I'll just talk casually, and you can just be pure listeners. This time, I guess there will be many foreign friends watching. It just so happened that before I came in, I asked the tattoo artist to write two volumes of the Book of Changes on my body.
I have thought about how to introduce China to foreign friends, including Chinese culture, politics, and people's way of thinking. I couldn't figure it out before, but after reading part of the Book of Changes just now, I think I have some ideas.
If you want to understand everything about China, the Book of Changes is definitely a good entry point. This book, which existed in the Shang Dynasty, has almost influenced the development of Chinese civilization and promoted the Chinese way of thinking."
"We know that this world and everything in this world change over time. In the process of understanding the world, the ancients also realized that the world is constantly changing, so they tried their best to find out the laws of change in the world and summed up various ways of understanding the world. The Book of Changes, or Zhouyi, is a way of understanding the laws of the world summarized by the Chinese, which is different from the Western way of understanding the laws of the world that originated from ancient Greek philosophy!"
Manhattan.
Looking at Li Youzhi, who was sitting on the ground and talking to the ground, with clear thinking and meticulous logic, Manni opened her mouth wide.
No?
Five hours...
This guy stayed in a completely isolated silent room for five hours. It would be fine if he didn't collapse physically or mentally.
Now... he wants to talk about philosophy? !
Looking at the comments section of the live broadcast page, Manni directly ctrl+a and deleted all the comments that she had just edited but had not had time to send... or fortunately she had not had time to send.
At this moment, she had strong doubts about the value of her double master's degree.
Either he is crazy, completely crazy, like Luo Ji's crazy... or I am fucking crazy!
Is this still a human being? !
Beep!
Received the amazing value of [collapse] from Whitney Manni, 66 points!
Hearing another amazing value crediting reminder in his ear, Li Youzhi ignored it.
Through all the previous things, he has felt the various malices against Chinese people due to cultural and other social differences abroad.
So when Heguang Audiovisual went abroad, he thought about how to let foreigners understand China and Chinese people from the root, in addition to the cultural carrier of short plays.
Just now, when he was reading the Book of Changes, he had some enlightenment.
Different countries have different cultures, social systems, and customs. But the essence of human beings will never be too different.
So how can we face the essence of human beings?
Philosophy!
Only philosophy, which explains the core operating logic of this world, can truly transcend language and reach the essential thinking of human beings, and trigger the hearts of people with different cultures, different national systems, and social customs.
With this experimental idea, Li Youzhi calmly narrated the camera that must exist but he could not see;
"Around 300 to 500 BC, ancient Greece and ancient China both ushered in an era of brilliant stars, but because of the different production methods, ancient Greece formed a completely different way of understanding the world from ancient China;
The geographical environment of ancient Greece determined that their production activities would be centered on navigation and trade, so in order to develop navigation technology, they had to observe images to determine the direction and route, so they would inevitably think about time and space.
In the process of thinking, ancient Greek philosophy was developed. Whether it is metaphysics or subject classification, the purpose is actually to Trying to find the law of how the world works. After Europe entered the Middle Ages, the elites at that time introduced ancient Greek philosophical speculation in order to further explain the religious issue of God's will, which led to the development of modern science.
So modern Western science is all about explaining the ultimate question of God's will. The foundation of Chinese civilization is based on an agricultural society. The basic eight trigrams in Zhouyi represent heaven and earth, water and fire, wind and thunder, mountains and swamps, which are all elements related to agricultural production.
And if you want to understand the philosophy of Zhouyi, you only need to remember two basic rules: change is eternal, and immutability does not exist. Any development and change follows the law that things will turn around when they reach their extremes..."
Challenge live page.
With Li Youzhi breaking the world record for survival in a silent room just now and Guinness China Weibo posting a message, the attention to Li Youzhi's challenge has once again ushered in a wave of traffic growth.
At this time, seeing Li Youzhi using Chinese and English to carefully talk about the origins of Chinese and Western philosophical culture and the core rules of China's Zhouyi, the 1.45 million Chinese netizens in the live broadcast room...can't stand it.
Philosophy is boring, but Li Youzhi, who is trying to introduce Chinese philosophy to foreigners, seems so vivid at this moment!
"He really makes me cry... He is still thinking about introducing China to the world at this time!"
"Five days are short, if you lock him up for fifty days, maybe China will have one more philosopher!"
"I feel a little sad... Although the little brother is in a cage, his thoughts are flying freely in the universe. Although I am in the mortal world, my thoughts are bound by the cage of cognition. Compared with him... I am more like a prisoner!"
"Maybe he shouldn't be a star, he should be an astronaut or a philosopher. This kind of tolerance for loneliness and extreme environment... is a talent that I really envy!"
"If I have this concentration, what the hell can't I do?"
"I'm just a waste compared to the little brother, little brother, awesome!"
With Li Youzhi's clear dialectic, the comment area of the challenge live page... exploded!
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On the other side, Beijing, Film Bureau.
Wang Xintian is receiving guests.
Wang Xintian chuckled as he looked at Yang Chenghao, the president of Doushou Group, who was sitting on the sofa.
"Mr. Yang, your group has done very well in recent years, and the short video business has developed rapidly. Doushou has almost occupied 60 to 70 percent of the short video market in China. Why are you still thinking about the film production business? If I remember correctly, you have adopted the platform strategy before, that is, acquiring existing film and television copyrights and playing them on your platform?"
Faced with Wang Xintian's inquiry, Yang Chenghao smiled helplessly.
"Director Wang, what you said is really flattering us. The reason why Doushou has such a high share is that the platform is still in the development and accumulation stage. Although it has occupied some market share, the platform is still losing money overall and is in the process of spending money to exchange for customers. As long as it loses money, it will be difficult to live. You have to think of ways to increase business income?"
There is no way. After dealing with officials for a long time, Yang Chenghao, as a capital, has become accustomed to self-deprecation.
What he is afraid of is that the group will be too big and touch some sensitive nerves, causing unexpected factors that are not conducive to the development of the group.
Sitting behind the desk, Wang Xintian shook his head secretly, looking at the cautious Yang Chenghao.
This is another patient with paranoia.
For no reason, he thought of Li Youzhi's sunny and handsome face.
Even as an official, Wang Xintian still prefers the kind of communication method that directly speaks out when there is something, does not hide advantages and does not avoid disadvantages, and makes requests when there are needs.
Thinking of this, Wang Xintian smacked his lips;
"That's not right, Mr. Yang, I remember that your group's financial report was profitable last year? Didn't it say that it made a profit of more than 3 billion last year? The business has expanded overseas and has been listed overseas. Why are you still crying poor to me?"
When he said this, the bitterness at the corner of Yang Chenghao's mouth turned from fake bitterness to real bitterness.
"Director Wang, you don't know that we have actually completed the layout of our overseas business three years ago and started to make profits. But recently, it may be because there are too many users of the overseas version of Doushou, which has had an impact on the media form there. Self-media users have touched the discourse power cake of traditional media capital there, and overseas business has been targeted everywhere...
We are still keeping the news secret, but in fact, the North American Congress has passed a bill to completely ban the operation of our DouShou overseas version tktk. They asked us to sell all the equity of the business to them... The price they gave... is not as much as the publicity we have invested in the past few years."
Ah?
Wang Xintian had heard about the overseas version of DouShou being targeted, but he thought it was just another blow suffered by Chinese companies overseas.
Unexpectedly, the matter is much more serious than expected.
"Oh, that's really... I was thinking before that there was a good guy who wanted to develop overseas. I would introduce him to you when I have time to see if you have any resources there, and you can benefit each other. I didn't expect... you are having such a hard time now?"
"Who?"
Although he was not in a good mood when he mentioned this matter, Yang Chenghao still blinked and asked after hearing what Wang Xintian said.
"Hey, you should have heard that this guy should have cooperated with you in China. It's the brother who listens to advice, Li Youzhi. Didn’t he start Heguang Audiovisual some time ago and also went overseas? This guy was a little wronged and came to me to ask for resources.
Where do I have overseas resources? I was thinking whether Heguang Audiovisual and Doushou Overseas Edition can have a business cooperation. It just so happens that he is a streaming media for film and television, and you are a social short video, which complements each other. "
"That's it, take a look... Hey?"
Wang Xintian said, took out his mobile phone and opened the Heguang Audiovisual APP.
Just when he was about to hand it to Yang Chenghao, he saw Li Youzhi in a cage in the picture.
Ah?
This kid... what tricks is he playing again?
Staring at Li Youzhi who was talking and talking about philosophy in front of the camera, Wang Xintian who wanted to recommend a partner to Yang Chenghao... was stunned.