Son of the Stars

Chapter 1 Poetry
When an extremely massive star enters the final stages of its life, it will gradually cool from the center and begin to shrink gradually.

The star's central heavy core is re-ignited under extreme pressure, and then expands and burns again-this repeated fluctuation eventually leads to an explosion of great strength.Humans named this violent celestial activity "supernova".

The explosion will throw a large amount of matter in the star into the universe, including various metal elements.This is also the only birth method for all heavy elements in the entire universe.

The human body contains about 45 kinds of heavy metals, which play a very important role in maintaining life activities of human beings.In a sense, the world's 85 billion people all came from a supernova that exploded billions of years ago.

Yes, we are all children of the stars.

More than 1000 years ago, a supernova exploded 33 light-years away.The sky in the eastern part of the Northern Song Dynasty continued to be bright for [-] days during this outbreak.The outburst tore apart the massive star that is now the Crab Nebula, and left behind a powerful pulsar at its core.

The powerful magnetic field of the pulsar blows the surrounding nebula material into space, towards the earth, and towards the children of the stars.

The elements of the children were entangled under the blowing of the stellar wind, and then... completely out of control.
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At six o'clock in the evening, in the duty room of the university affiliated hospital, Lu Chen was typing on the keyboard slowly.Today's work is not particularly heavy, as long as two major medical records and a discharge summary are completed.After finishing writing the medical records, my girlfriend will probably be able to come out of the laboratory building of the physics department.

Everyone is bitterly studying for a Ph.D. Dr. Lu is a clinical student in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, and his girlfriend Mu Zhiran is a Ph.D. candidate in the High Energy Physics Laboratory of the Department of Physics.The dormitory where the two lived was obviously only 370 meters away, but Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran stayed together all day long, feeling like they were in a long-distance relationship.

The farthest distance in the world is not that I don't love you, but that you live in two districts and I live by the lake.You raise mice, I run particles.

Thoughts were flying in Lu Chen's mind. The junior sister on duty came into the duty room humming a strange short video background music, and then muttered with her mouth pursed, "Brother, bed 42 is sick."

Lu Chen, who was typing on the keyboard, pulled his face out from the computer screen. He looked at his little junior sister in a daze, and after a few seconds tried to recall, he asked, "What's wrong with you? What symptoms?"

The patient in bed 42 is in the active stage of systemic lupus erythematosus. If she gets sick, she may have any symptoms.

"It's not lupus, it's a catastrophe." The junior sister sat down on the seat beside her angrily, picked up a pen from Lu Chen and stuffed it into her pocket, "When I went to see him in the afternoon, he was fine. In the blink of an eye, she pulled me and started crying about 'Life is meaningless', and then she said that she would take me to jump off the building together..."

Lu Chen pushed away the keyboard in front of him, and an AI prompt popped up on the screen. This is a standard symptom of "Compound Mental Disorder Syndrome", and it is necessary to intervene quickly.

Seeing Junior Sister's expression, Lu Chen's nervousness relaxed a little - at least Junior Sister didn't seem to be affected, she was quite normal.

CBD (Complex mental and Behavioral Disorder, complex mental disorder syndrome), commonly known as "Big Crash", is a severe psychological disorder that has no symptoms, is difficult to prevent, and has a tendency to develop in groups.Patients with the disease often firmly believe that the whole world is meaningless and that life is nothingness.Only death can free them from this nothingness and meaninglessness.

Moreover, the patients of the big crash would really choose to commit suicide driven by this pain.

All in all, this is a very dangerous symptom.Without intervention, its mortality rate is almost as high as rabies.

Lu Chen turned his head to glance at the AI ​​suggestion on the screen and asked, "Is she restrained now? Who is watching?"

"Aunt Qian brought someone to put her on the bed." The junior sister curled her lips and said, "You go and see... This person didn't have a psychological screening before being admitted to the hospital? How old is this and someone has a big breakdown? "

Lu Chen stood up and stretched, "People's inner world is very complicated - some people don't have much problem if they do nothing all day long. Some people have weak nerves and always feel that they are living in a simulation program - —The big collapse itself is an unreasonable disease. I have passed the psychological screening before being admitted to the hospital, and it is normal to be sick after a few days in the hospital, isn't it? "

While chatting with his junior sister without saying a word, Lu Chen walked towards the ward.He had already heard faint cries floating in the corridor, and at the same time saw the dissatisfied patients rolling their eyes in the wards along the road.

In the ward, a young woman was crying, "This world is fake, and so are you... Let me go! I want to be free, I want to wake up!"

"Historical documentaries don't seem to be useful." Head nurse Qian asked with a sigh, "AI suggested transferring the person to a containment facility, do you want to sedate her?"

Lu Chen glanced at the documentary that was being played until the part of "the coalition government was announced", thought for a while and shook his head, "Amplify the volume, let's talk about it after it's played."

"Under the repeated shocks of the great collapse, the remaining sane people gathered together, regardless of differences in geography, color and ideology, and jointly announced the establishment of a coalition government..." The background sound on the TV continued, and 42 The struggle with the bed also continued.

"...The Great Collapse eventually led to the death of more than [-]% of the world's population, and the plague spread across the land. But reason will eventually overcome madness. With the continuous efforts of the coalition government and other survivors, human civilization has continued, and we are finally close to The truth about the Great Crash—it is a spontaneous, irregular and foreboding mental breakdown. It is different from any disease that humans have known before..." The documentary was still playing on TV, and Lu Chen leaned against the wall On the side, he lowered his head and sent a message to his girlfriend, Dr. Mu. The content was a physics joke that he racked his brains to come up with after two full days of studying AI.

[Physics journals have thickened faster than the speed of light, but this does not violate the theory of relativity, because those journals do not convey any information. 】

Putting away the phone and waiting for his girlfriend's feedback on the joke, Lu Chen glanced at the progress of the documentary on TV.Now it's time for the coalition government to integrate resources and carry out rescue technology archaeology.

Generally speaking, when these patients with sporadic and major collapses see this place, their condition will improve.

If you can't relieve it after reading this paragraph, it will be more troublesome.Lu Chen frowned, it was easy to transfer the 42 beds to the containment facility.

But after that, there will be a lot of forms and materials to fill up... It's troublesome to think about it.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen picked up the case report at the end of the bed from the 42-bed hospital bed.

He was going to adjust the specialized drug regimen of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, at least to ensure that the patient's condition had been controlled to a certain extent before being transferred to the shelter.

After all, the containment facility is a professional medical intervention institution for major collapses. If they only deal with lunatics, then they can be regarded as good hands.But the immune system that has gone crazy inside the human body... that's not their area of ​​expertise.

While adjusting the treatment plan, Lu Chen prayed in the depths of his heart, hoping that the historical documentary could change the spirit of this patient and let her clearly realize that this world is real rather than virtual, and that life is meaningful rather than nothingness.

As long as the patients with the big collapse can get out of the "illusory world" cognition, they can basically get better.Although there are repeated and even gradually aggravated cases, most of the patients are doing well.

But a lot of things... are always easy in hindsight.At least Lu Chen personally felt that if he was placed in the coalition government when the coalition government was first established, he probably would not have dared to propose the outrageous plan of "using historical documentaries to treat suicidal tendencies".

Otherwise, how can we say that the people in the past were bolder and more wild.

After finally stabilizing and rebuilding human civilization, the coalition government conducted decades-long studies and discussions.And finally put forward a hypothesis - human technology did not make much progress in the hundreds of years before the big collapse, and the long-term unchanged environment and life style, in the end... many people's brains gave birth to such a judgment.

"Human existence is meaningless, we are nothing but pigs raised by machines."

This classic sci-fi idea is like mold that creeps under the sink, and no one notices it at first—and by the time they do, it's spread almost everywhere.

Although the suicide rate suddenly started to increase, this kind of thing was not taken seriously by everyone.People who commit suicide are just too weak in spirit. Since they cannot adapt to modern society, it seems that it is not unreasonable to be eliminated through "suicide".

People with this attitude make up the majority in society, and the rest are at best a little "sympathetic."Suicides and "lost connections" skyrocketed as they responded with denial and ridicule at the thought.What followed was the collapse of human civilization.

Fortunately, the remaining rationality and survival desire of human beings have brought about the coalition government, and at the same time brought the prevention and solution to the big collapse.All in all, for today's coalition government, promoting various technological advancements is the top priority.

The documentary played to the part of the mass landing of humans on the moon, and the crying patient seemed to be in a slightly better mood.

"Continue to observe. If you get sick again, please contact the containment facility." Lu Chen looked at the patient's basic vital signs again, and then issued a doctor's order, "I'll go back and make up a suicide prevention nurse's order. Sister Qian has worked hard for you. She moved over."

"Okay." Head nurse Qian nodded, walked quickly to the bed, and stepped on the fixed lock on the four corner wheels of bed 42 with her foot. During the process of unlocking, head nurse Qian asked casually, "Xiao Lu, are you Don't you want to hurry to go on a date later?"

Lu Chen nodded, "We are planning to go to the Taowei Building, do you want to bring something for Sister Qian?"

"The food you guys like to eat is too strong. If I eat your sister, I'm afraid I'll go to the nephrology department tomorrow." Head nurse Qian rejected Lu Chen's kindness with a smile, then blinked and said, "The on-duty The little girls said that Taoweilou’s casserole noodles are delicious—don’t you have a headache, what should you bring Xiao Mu to eat?”

Lu Chen was taken aback for a moment, then thanked him seriously and said seriously, "Sister Qian, I'll bring you a fruit basket tomorrow!"

Lu Chen's cell phone rang, and his girlfriend, Dr. Mu Zhiran, sent a rabbit emoticon pounding the ground and laughing wildly.
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"You know, we are all children of the same star."

When he said this, Mu Zhiran, who was sitting in the small restaurant, looked serious and serious, as if he was delivering his acceptance speech in the science hall in Stockholm.

Lu Chen, who was sitting across from her, was a little caught off guard by the sudden and endless words.After hesitating for a while, he straightened up from behind the steaming casserole, looked at Mu Zhiran and asked, "Is your description a poetic expression, or is it a brand new academic achievement?"

"It's a new hypothesis." Mu Zhiran's eyes quickly focused on Lu Chen's nose, "But I like the side proof it brings."

Lu Chen fell into silence again. He was a little uncertain whether the two people's dinner today was a date, a work meal, or whether Dr. Mu was simply planning to engage in unilateral academic domestic violence.

After all, he is only a clinical medical student, and his girlfriend who has already read a Ph.D. in physics, if she says more than three sentences about the content of this major, it is considered academic domestic violence. I understand, it’s okay if you don’t listen, what is this if it’s not domestic violence?
"What does it... prove from the side?" For a man, the easiest way to show that he really listened to his girlfriend is to grasp a key word and expand it.But the speed of this extended development must be well grasped, otherwise it is easy to be regarded as arguing and suffer physical domestic violence.

"It proves the theory that everything is connected." Mu Zhiran blinked and looked at Lu Chen and asked, "Don't you always say that things are universally connected?"

Although Lu Chen really wanted to explain to his girlfriend that the "universal connection" might not be used in this way, but considering his personal safety, as well as his own happiness in life and sound senses in the future, he finally nodded, "You It makes sense."

Mu Zhiran nodded—although she didn't know what she was agreeing to—then continued to eat the casserole noodles in front of her with her head down.

After a while, Mu Zhiran suddenly stopped what he was doing.

"What's the matter?" Lu Chen put down the chopsticks in his hand very cooperatively and asked in concern, "Do you want vinegar? Or some chili?"

"There is one thing I forgot to tell you." Mu Zhiran lightly tucked a strand of hair behind his ear, and said seriously to Lu Shen, "I discovered something in the laboratory today—humanity may be extinct gone."

Lu Chen asked helplessly, "It's coming again after the big crash? Uh... this time it should be a poetic expression, right?"

Mu Zhiran thought for a while, then picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of tofu puff that had soaked up the soup, and blew it vigorously. Then, while chewing the deep-fried tofu puff that was soaked in soup, he said vaguely , "Part of it is poetic."

"Which part?"

"possible."

　This is a story about doom and salvation that takes place in the future.Hope you like it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)