I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 43 The Doom of Losing Vision

"Before dawn?"

Xu Hua opened his eyes in a haze, only feeling that the eyes were still a little sore with sleepiness,

But I didn't see the morning sunlight that should have penetrated the window when the alarm clock rang.

It even feels darker than before going to sleep in the room,

It was so dark that he couldn't see anything in the room.

He reached out and fumbled, trying to turn off the harsh and constant alarm.

Hearing the alarm, he felt his ears buzzing.

He touched the head of the bed, and then touched the edge of the bedside table,
The phone is on the bedside table.
he touched it,

He picked up the phone, and as usual, he tapped 'Stop' on the screen of the phone to turn off the alarm clock.

But then, he stopped.

He didn't see anything in front of him.

Mingming clearly felt the vibration of the mobile phone in his hand, and could hear the piercing alarm in his ear,

But he didn't see the light that should be emitted when the phone screen was turned on.

He couldn't even see the blurred shadow of his own arm.

There was only the same darkness in front of him.

I'm still in a nightmare?

Xu Hua fell into great fear, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss,
Like a drowning man struggling desperately,

Fear woke him up, Xu Hua, who had lost all sleepiness, stepped back and propped up his body with his arms,

Stretching out his hand, he groped beside the bed, and finally touched the light switch in the room several times.

"Snapped."

The light switch is turned on,

But Xu Hua's eyes still didn't change, it was still dark,
Xu Hua turned his head again, looking out of the original window of the bedroom,
I couldn't see the windows that were supposed to be there, and it was still just darkness.

Xu Hua paused again,

Great fear spread in his heart,
This is the fear of a normal person losing a sense,

He seems to be blind?

He can't see anything.

He sat on the head of the bed and never left the bed.

He couldn't help but think about what he should do in the future.
But the usual inertia made him not so sad, just fear and bewilderment, and a sense of unreality for the sudden arrival of things.

Forced himself to calm down and think, so he was still sitting on the bed,
He knew that the familiar room would become very strange after he lost his vision.

"call……"

Xu Hua, who barely calmed down, half-lyed on the head of the bed and exhaled.

At this time, the previous hazy sleepiness was completely gone, and it was only then that I heard some sounds in my ears more clearly.

Even the alarm clock was not turned off at this time, and it was still ringing harshly.

Besides the sound of the alarm clock, there were other noisy sounds in the whole building.

"... Is there anyone! Is there anyone!"

"...Boom!"

This is someone shouting from the building,
Immediately afterwards, it seemed that some piece of furniture upstairs fell to the ground, making a dull sound.

wrong……

Sensing the strange noise from upstairs and downstairs, Xu Hua calmed down again,
Fumbled for the button on the side of the phone, turned off the harsh alarm clock,

The voice in the building became clearer, and the noisy voice reached Xu Hua's ears, even a little buzzing.

"... Is there anyone else in the building! I can't see it anymore! What should I do... Is there anyone else!"

"...You can't see it either! Can't other people see it too! My wife and I can't see anything anymore!"

Listen to these voices,
Xu Hua paused,
Anyone else also lost their vision?
How could it be, how could it be... Suddenly so many people suddenly lost their vision.

what happened?
"... Everyone calm down first, stay where you are, and don't move your position, so as not to cause danger because you can't see things."

Xu Hua's mind was full of thoughts, because he didn't even have time to be afraid of this abnormal phenomenon, he frowned and wondered.

At the same time, he yelled.

"...I see... Tell me, what happened?"

In the same building, people upstairs and downstairs were answering at the top of their voices, with tremors in their voices.

yeah, what happened?

How can so many people collectively lose their vision?
Is it just our building, or the whole community, or...

The speculation in Xu Hua's heart made him more worried about the unknown,
He remembered that when he just woke up dimly, he heard the sound of heavy objects colliding outside the house,

It seems that there is news of a car accident outside the community, then...

Just when Xu Hua was frowning and thinking, uneasy, and when others were worried,
From the direction outside the house, voices sounded again,
It should be coming from the speakers in the community,
"... citizens, ladies and gentlemen, friends."

"... citizens, ladies and gentlemen, friends."

The sound from the loudspeaker in the community echoed throughout the community, and it seemed that the same sound from other streets in other communities could be heard farther away.

"...I am the head of this country."

The familiar voice from outside the house makes people feel at ease at first,

But following closely, it was even more exciting.

Let a head of state speak in this way at this time,
There must have been a serious disaster,

Xu Hua's heart sank.

And then, the words spoken by the familiar voice that diffused through the loudspeaker outside the room and into the room also confirmed Xu Hua's conjecture.

"...we've had an unprecedented catastrophe. Many of us may have lost sight."

"...if you are in a safe location indoors, please stay where you are for the time being to avoid further danger.

If you are outdoors, please return to a relatively safe place as soon as possible. If you are not sure of your environment, please also stay where you are temporarily.

If you are in danger..."

Listening to the head of state's speech, Xu Hua's heart sank more and more.

If it's just his vision loss,
Then it's just that his life in the future will be a little difficult and troublesome.

If only the residents of one building lose their vision, it may be that the people in this building temporarily lost their production capacity.

But if it's more, on a larger scale,
…Many people have lost their vision, how many?
A city, a province, or the whole world,

100 million people, 1000 million people, or everyone?

If everyone suddenly loses their vision here,
This will be the shutdown of social production capacity, the collapse of order, and even the collapse of society.

Because the production of society needs people, and the maintenance of order needs people.

All aspects of society need people to maintain, and vision is an important basis for people to do these things.

For now, there should be a car accident on the street outside the community.

Maybe you can still call the emergency number now,

But even if someone answers, who will come to rescue the person who was in a car accident?
How does an emergency doctor who has lost his vision come and drive?Or walk?Maybe the navigation can tell them the way to go, but there must be bumps and bumps along the way.

Even if it arrives, how to rescue?Let the emergency doctor who lost his vision fumble to rescue the person in the car accident?

Not to mention the problems of society as a whole.

But after a long time, if such a thing happens again, it is even impossible to make an emergency call.
The maintenance of communication base stations also requires people to carry out.

It would be a catastrophe, even doomsday.

In a short period of time, the entire society cannot adapt to this change and maintain the operation of the entire society.

What's to come is a predictable crash and mayhem.

"...Due to the emergence of this disaster that affects the entire society, the entire society will temporarily implement the military control and rationing system in the next period of time."

"...if you don't have food reserves in your home, please don't worry, the country will do everything possible to ensure supply."

"...At the same time, nationwide, except for special departments and necessary units, temporary vacations are taking place. If there is no accident, citizens are requested not to go out for the time being.

We are facing this unprecedented disaster, and we need everyone's joint efforts and support to overcome it. "

Outside the house, the sound from the speakers still continued,

Xu Hua thought about it, and turned his head towards the direction where the sound probably came from outside the room.

"...Next, there will be experts who will continue to use the radio to convey to you some things that you need to use in daily life and how to use them after vision loss."

"... Hello everyone. First, I will tell you how to use your mobile phone after losing your vision."

The voice from the radio obviously changed, and began to teach some ways to deal with some affairs in the case of visual impairment,

Xu Hua also fumbled for his mobile phone and picked it up.

"First of all, Xia Wei's phone."

"...Call the voice assistant, and after calling out, it means switching to the visually impaired mode. After switching to the visually impaired mode, the phone will read the text you touch.

If there is no special need for Internet access, it is also recommended to switch to the simple mode to avoid accidental touches.

If you are unable to switch to this mode by yourself, seek help from others.If you switch to switching by yourself, and there are people around who need help, please try to provide relevant help..."

Xu Hua switched the phone to the visually impaired mode according to the method announced in the broadcast,
After trying to use it, it is true that the phone can read the words displayed on the screen,

But it's still troublesome,
But at this moment,
The phone vibrated, and a voice broadcast sounded at the same time,
"Call 010023, do you answer it?"

"Answer,"

"Reject."

Xu Hua answered the call clumsily,

"Excuse me, is this Professor Xu Hua?"

"Correct."

"I'm from the Emergency Management Office. We will hold a meeting on this disaster in one hour, and we need your participation, Professor Xu Hua."

"Need my participation?"

Xu Hua was a little surprised at first,

Because he is not engaged in medical research,

He is doing research in astrophysics and cosmic physics.

Then, the heart is even more heavy, because it means that the problems faced by human beings are more serious than expected.

"Yes. Your participation is required."

"Okay, I see. But how do I get there?"

"Someone will come to pick you up soon."

"By the way. I want to ask... how many people have lost their vision."

"..."

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while when he heard Xu Hua's words.

Then replied,
"...Professor Xu Hua, as far as we know, it should be all of them."

……

"Crackling..."

in the study.

Ji Zhuo sat in front of the computer, typing on the keyboard.

As the lines of words gradually cover the original blanks on the codeword software,

The opening plot of the new book is also gradually unfolding in the text,

Ji Zhuo considered the sentence, revised and revised the opening chapter of this new book.

the beginning of the story,
On the morning after what should have been an ordinary night,
As described in the introduction,
After people woke up from their sleep, they did not see the morning sun shining through the window.

There is only darkness that cannot be seen clearly.

Suddenly, the eyes of everyone in the whole world lost their light.

blind.

The same goes for Xu Hua, the protagonist of the new book,
When the alarm clock woke him up, he also found that he had lost his eyesight,
There is also a great sense of panic and anxiety,

Immediately afterwards, he also discovered that it was not only himself who lost his vision,

Even the whole building and people on a larger scale,

And then the head of state's speech and the interim policy promulgated from the loudspeakers in the community,

It also made him realize the seriousness of this matter and the huge scope it may affect.

At last,
He got information about this catastrophe of loss of vision from the people who informed him to go to the meeting,
Everything is the worst outcome, the whole world, everyone lost their vision overnight.

This is no longer a disaster, it is a doomsday.

The plot continues to unfold,

Naturally, someone came to pick up the protagonist Xu Hua for a meeting.

is a soldier,
Also lost sight.

Xu Hua was a little stumbling, with some worries about the unknown in the house,

Xu Hua barely groped to the door of the living room and opened the door.

"……drop."

"Professor Xu Hua, I am a staff member of the Emergency Management Office, and I have been ordered to come and take you to a meeting."

It seems that someone came to confirm Xu Hua's identity with something, and then said aloud.

"Okay, I see."

Although Xu Hua has strong hopes for his own future and the future of mankind in his heart,

But he still remains curious about the unknown.

"What did you use to confirm my identity?"

"Face recognition terminal. It is a police personal terminal similar to the police."

"We have also lost our vision, so we can only confirm your identity in this way."

Xu Hua nodded, and then realized,
Just nodding, the visitor didn't realize it at all.

"Ah."

"Then how do we get there?"

"Take a car. Although our automatic driving is not yet perfect. But it should be night or early morning when the incident happened. There are not many vehicles on the street. There should be no other people going out now. There are few people on the street, and the automatic driving can barely be used. drive."

The visitor replied.

"Okay, let's go then."

Xu Hua nodded subconsciously at first, followed by a reply.

Following the person who came out of the house,
Then stopped again,

He probably still has the impression of the corridor outside the house in his mind,

But he couldn't completely match the position of his steps with the impression in his mind.

At the same time, because of the loss of vision, the eyes were dark, and he didn't know if there had been any changes in the corridor.
With some hesitation about the unknown.

"Mr. Xu Hua, hold my arm, I have already remembered the route when I came here."

Come and talk again.

Xu Hua stretched out his hand, the first time he didn't touch it, but the second time he probably touched the person's arm,

The visitor seems to have memorized the route really accurately,

Without much groping, I went forward and seemed to reach the door of the elevator.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Hua heard the sound of the elevator door opening.

The two walked in.

Then I heard the sound of the elevator door closing.
Can feel the feeling of the elevator going down.

It seems like the elevator buttons are all raised and Braille with numbers on them?
Xu Hua stood in the elevator, stretched out his hand to touch it, and seemed to feel relieved when he got to the edge of the elevator.

It turns out that nothing around is so frightening...

……

"……call……"

Ji Zhuo sat in front of the computer, clattering on the keyboard,

Writing the beginning of a new book.

Going down the plot of the opening chapter, it is natural that the protagonist follows the visitor to the meeting place,
At the same time, the journey also depicts the changes in perception of the surroundings after losing vision.
And after everyone loses their vision, it will bring changes to the whole society in a short period of time.

Along the way, the protagonist Xu Hua followed the visitors in the self-driving car to the meeting place.

Along the way, Xu Hua heard some trivial sounds several times, as well as the beeping sound from the autopilot system.

Xu Hua asked the visitor what happened.

The person who came told Xu Hua that it was the automatic driving system that recognized that there seemed to be a car accident on the road and sent out a reminder.

This made Xu Hua feel a little silent.

The loss of vision appears to be instantaneous.

Even at night, there were people driving on the road at that time, which must have caused many accidents.

There are also those who are carrying out various affairs, which may have caused various accidents,

But if there is no one around them who can rescue them, it will be difficult to rescue them one by one in a short time.

Losing sight in whole societies, when whole civilizations are blind,
Some ordinary things will also become difficult.

(End of this chapter)