Chapter 96
After a restless night, Wen Zheng wanted to know the consequences of yesterday's madness the next morning.
Many bloody photos were posted on it. Even through the screen, it seemed that the strong smell of blood could be smelled, which made people feel sick and wanted to slide away as soon as possible.
No longer look at the photos of ordinary people boarding the ship, just search for the reports posted by official accounts. Maybe these accounts used to post some exaggerated news to get more views, but this time it is probably due to the government's request that all accounts post the same content without any explanation from personal opinions.
The government's speed of action is always beyond the expectations of ordinary people. Maybe the problem is too serious, so after just one day and one night, most areas where accidents are prone to occur are arranged for police to patrol back and forth, and will officially issue a notice on this situation at 12 noon today.
Some people who did not pay attention to yesterday's situation because they were too busy, etc., will doubt whether they have changed the world they live in after seeing the news on the Internet. They ask questions on the Internet with doubts, and the comments they get in the end are all asking the other party to wait for the news.
Even those who had experienced the crazy scene yesterday were confused about the reason.
No one was thinking about eating at noon that day. Whether they turned on the TV or used their mobile phones or computers, all people with normal thinking ability were waiting for the start of the news broadcast.
No one has counted, but this live broadcast may have the most viewers in history, and it is very likely that it will never be surpassed again.
This was an emergency press conference. All the people participating in this meeting were important figures who often appeared on the news broadcast. It can be seen that they can't hide the fatigue on their faces. When the top leader spoke, the hoarseness of the voice can be heard.
Before holding this press conference, they must have discussed the current treatment methods without sleep.
There were no useless words. From the first sentence spoken, it was the content of the public's attention.
The man who fainted in front of Wen Zheng's breakfast shop was the first sleeper found in China. Later on the same day, people in other cities showed the same symptoms. At the same time, according to the information released by other countries, there were examples of sleeping earlier than the first person in China.
The government has investigated all the people who fell asleep in the first three days. They came from different cities and had almost no contact with each other, so geographical factors and infectious diseases can be ruled out. The reason for the inexplicable sleepiness has not yet been studied.
If these people have to say what they have in common, it is that they are all in a state of physical and mental fatigue before falling asleep. It is not yet certain whether sleeping has anything to do with this, but it is recommended that everyone try to adjust their body and mind in a good direction.
Although sleeping sickness is not contagious, the video of the sleeper dying in his sleep has been found to affect the mental state of the viewer, making the person who sees it irritable and impulsive. According to the confession of the criminals who were arrested at the police station yesterday, more than 90% of them have seen the video.
His guess was verified, but Wen Zheng was not happy at all. He had also seen the video. Although he reacted quickly and seemed to have gotten rid of the influence, who knows if there will be any residual hidden dangers.
There are also some people who have also seen the video but have not committed any illegal or criminal acts. They are worried about their current situation. Fortunately, the government has proposed a solution to this matter, and there will be a special explanation later.
Regarding the exploration of sleeping sickness, the government has only come up with the above results, which is almost no progress. No one knows what these sleepers will experience after falling asleep, why they suddenly die, and no one who has woken up can answer this question.
The next content was given to another person, whose voice was also a little hoarse. The content of the speech was to deal with the impact of sleeping sickness and the measures that the country will take in the next period of time.
From today, the entire country will enter a special state of comprehensive control.
In order to prevent more people from being affected by videos or photos and to avoid the chaos of yesterday from happening again, the state machinery will enter a stage of efficient operation from today.
Comprehensive control will be implemented on the Internet, and anyone who deliberately spreads related images will be severely dealt with. In reality, the army and police will be used to patrol day and night to ensure that the affected people will be arrested before committing vicious crimes.
Just reading this news doesn't make much of a difference, but when the news ends and is posted on other websites, you will find out how strict the management on the Internet is. All photos and videos cannot be sent out, and even the private message function has been cancelled. Some people have begun to post complaints and comments about the strict control.
The house where Wen Zheng lived was right next to the road. He walked from his bedroom to the room near the road where he usually bought breakfast. When he opened the window, he could see fully armed policemen patrolling outside in turns.
After a few days, there were countless times in reality when someone was mentally unstable and had conflicts and hurt people on the street. They were discovered and stopped in time by the patrol team on the roadside. After protecting the safety of everyone around them, the defense measures in reality were no longer complained about.
After photos and videos cannot be posted on the Internet, although some people still find ways to spread them to the outside world, except for those who are so curious that they are not afraid of death, normal people will not easily try to watch it after being told how powerful it is.
It was also from the press conference that the news no longer concealed the facts, and began to announce to the public the newly increased number of sleepers and the number of people who died in their sleep every day. So far, no one has woken up from their sleep.
"This is a punishment sent by the gods. We are the sinners of this world. Only by sincerely believing in the true God and praying for the gods' forgiveness can we escape this punishment."
"Sleep syndrome comes a little too fast. I don't believe there are real gods in this world. What do you think is the possibility of an alien attack? Maybe they used some high-tech means that we can't crack yet. "
"If the gods punish us, we can pray to them, but if aliens deliberately attack us, there's nothing we can do."
"No one can do anything. Live a good life and listen to the government to adjust your physical and mental state. That's all we can do now."
"What's the use of this?"
Regardless of whether this is useful or not, speakers around the streets now encourage people to go out and exercise, and sometimes play some pure music, which I heard was recently compiled based on research results. After listening to it for a few days, Wen Zheng felt a little more relaxed, but he didn't know which aspect had the effect. It was possible that he had adjusted it himself.
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"Meijuan? Meijuan, don't scare me, wake up quickly!" Wen Zheng was making breakfast for himself in the room. Before it was ready, he heard the shout from Brother Li next door, his wife's My name is Wang Meijuan.
Wen Zheng felt bad when he heard this news. He quickly turned off the fire and knocked on the door of the next door. It was Brother Li's son who opened it with red eyes. Wen Zheng held the child's hand and walked into the house. Brother Li was calling his wife who was sleeping on the bed. He refused to stop sentence by sentence, and he was not willing to accept this reality.
"In the past few days, she has been on tenterhooks every day, and she has trouble sleeping. When I got up just now and saw her sleeping soundly, I didn't think of calling her up. But...but I accidentally knocked the water glass. If I had left it there normally , she got up a long time ago to blame me for such a big movement, but there is no movement today, so I feel a little bad..."
Brother Li spoke in a low voice with trembling lips. The child stood beside him silently, but big tears fell from his eyes to the ground.
"You stay here with sister-in-law, and I'll help you deal with the people coming from outside." He gently closed the door, but it couldn't stop the painful crying that came out when the door closed. Wen Zheng sighed softly.
Standing outside the door were neighbors who heard the noise. With the volume that Brother Li called people just now, not only Wen Zheng could hear it, but also several neighbors nearby. Their faces were all filled with concern and sadness. When they saw Wen Zheng come out without saying anything, they guessed the situation and even thought that they would encounter it sooner or later.
After receiving the news, employees from the subdistrict office hurried over. They first asked Wen Zheng, who was the receptionist, to learn about the situation. They then asked Lao Li what he thought, registered the information and handed Lao Li a manual for caring for sleepers before leaving.
The number of sleepers is increasing every day, but not everyone has to be sent to the hospital, and hospitals cannot afford the rapidly increasing number of sleepers. Ordinary community clinics can also deliver nutritional solutions to sleepers. After training, ordinary people can also feed sleepers by relying on their instinctive swallowing reaction.
Lao Li is unwilling to send his wife to the hospital. He usually has to take care of his wife and children. When Wen Zheng usually cooks, he just makes a few extra portions and sends them to the next door. There is a neighbor in the neighborhood who is related to Brother Li, and he will come over to visit from time to time.
More than a week later, the government began distributing urgently developed testing machines to the public. The device looks like a badge the size of half a palm, and it works when pinned to the chest near the heart.
It is said that each person who falls into a special sleep has a different physical state from that of ordinary sleep and can be detected. So when someone falls into this special sleep, the detector will detect it and send a signal, and the government will send personnel to check the situation.
At the same time, official departments began to collect statistics on families in the areas they were responsible for. The focus of the statistics lies on the number of people in each family and their wishes.
If you fall into a deep sleep, should you stay at home and let your family take care of you, or should you agree to be sent to the hospital by the government to ensure that your body does not die from lack of food before you wake up. Of course, those who choose the latter also default to accepting observational research.
Many people, like Brother Li's family, prefer to stay at home and be taken care of by their families. But a lonely man like Wen Zheng didn't want to trouble those who didn't dare to trust him 100%, so he chose the latter and left his sleeping self to the government to take care of him.
Maybe he had experienced too many things, and his premonitions were sometimes more accurate than those of ordinary people. Wen Zheng always had a vague feeling of being stared at in the past few days. He guessed that he was not far from falling asleep.
After tidying up the things in the house again, Wen Zheng could not prepare more for the rest, and continued his previous life.
Wen Zheng, who was exercising this morning, paused for a moment and felt the heaviness and dizziness coming from his head. He tried to resist the uncomfortable feeling, stayed awake for a few seconds, and moved himself to the bed to lie flat in a slightly comfortable position.
The next second, irresistible darkness fell in front of him, and the whole room was extremely quiet at the same time, so quiet that Wen Zheng could clearly hear his heartbeat and breathing getting heavier little by little, and finally he completely lost control of his body.
An unimaginable and indescribable complex feeling attacked his mind. That feeling was like a collection of all negative emotions of human beings, fiercely attacking the soul with full malice, as if it would not stop until the soul collapsed.
"Ding ding." The detector on his chest flashed a red light, and the signal was transmitted after five seconds.
Almost a few minutes later, the door of Wen Zheng's room was knocked open, and the installed warning devices worked. Lao Li from the next door immediately came over the wall to see the situation, and ended up facing two policemen holding a stretcher in their hands.
"Wen Zheng also fell asleep?" Lao Li's face was pale, unwilling to accept this fact. Apart from his wife, the person with the best relationship around him was Wen Zheng, his brother. In a blink of an eye, Wen Zheng also fell asleep.
After going down the ladder, Lao Li returned to the house and hugged his son tightly. What if he also fell asleep and left such a young child behind?
The child was young, and he couldn't sleep all day because of his mother's long sleep. Now he heard the noise next door and knew that Uncle Wen, who brought him food and took him to exercise every day, was also asleep. He felt uncomfortable, and knew that his father was also uncomfortable. He was hugged by Lao Li without saying a word.
"Dad, my waist is a little painful..." The posture of being held was a little awkward, and finally it was really uncomfortable, so little Li Qi pushed Lao Li.
Lao Li woke up and quickly let go of his hands holding his son and put his son on the chair next to him. After asking his son where he was uncomfortable, Lao Li helped to press the place where his son was twisted just now, while thinking about something.
"Son, you stay at home to look after your mother. If you have something, call your father. Dad will be back at noon." Lao Li looked at the bright sun in the sky, and finally couldn't bear the anxiety in his heart. He told his son and rushed to the address he remembered after hearing it before.
Not long after Brother Li went out, an excellent news was released and was discussed at an unprecedented speed.
Just now, a sleeper successfully woke up from his sleep. He will reveal part of the secrets of sleep. Those who have not fallen into sleep are waiting for this information that may save them.
But Wen Zheng, who has fallen into sleep, can't see it.
Wen Zheng's body was carried to the police car by the police. In the end, like the other sleepers, he would be transported to the newly designated resettlement area for unified care, and the sleepers' physiological state would be kept under constant attention.
However, the sleepers could no longer perceive any information from the outside world. Even Wen Zheng remained confused and wandered in the dark space. When he finally woke up, he found himself standing by the window.
Dust particles were scattered in the rays of light, and the dark yellow sunset glow enveloped the sky. A few red clouds were mixed in it like red bloodstains, reflecting the tired and stiff steps of passers-by.
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