Son of the Stars

Chapter 41

"Death is also on the way to charge", this is actually a bit "stupid" idea.It has nothing to do with reason, but more like a "countermeasure" that human beings have left for themselves in the process of evolution to exchange individual lives for the safety of the entire species.

This kind of strategy of "I will fight with you" is really not necessarily beneficial to the individual.In many cases, if you turn around and run away, you may have a higher probability of survival.

However, this strategy benefits the group as a whole.When an individual fights back desperately under a certain death situation, it may be able to reduce a threat for the entire group—even if it fails, it will not be a loss anyway.

But as scientists, Lu Chen and others, who have long been accustomed to using reason and logic, mathematics and laws to study the world seriously, do not get along with this kind of mentality of "you don't lose even if you die".

However, it is one thing to get along well, and another thing to do it or not.At least at this stage, it's a good thing that getting busy makes one forget about suffocating reasoning.

Lu Chen and Yang Weimin found a laboratory, and then plunged their heads into the bottomless abyss of medical records.

It is impossible to know when the first patient with a "massive crash" appeared, and the earliest case identified as a "massive crash" was a mass suicide. 140 Two strangers who had never met before committed suicide near a post office in London within one hour.The ways they kill themselves are varied and full of "creative" ideas.

The suicide, which lasted an hour, ended with the return of the mail van to the post office.It happened to be the Halloween holiday. When seeing the bloody scene, the first reaction of the postman was "How much does such a realistic decoration cost?"

The scene was so abnormal that Mr. Postman spent half an hour bypassing the mountain of corpses and blood, only to realize that it was not a decoration, and realized that he should call the police first.

The first mass suicide case should have occupied the front pages of major TV and media, but unfortunately, no one cared about it.

On that July [-]th, almost everyone who woke up normally received one or more pieces of news—someone they knew, or a relative or friend, or a lover... died.

No one cares what the hell is on the news, unless their relatives are one of those 140 people.

Death is like a gust of wind blowing through a wheat field. When the gust of wind passes, the wheat waves surge, and only a very small part of the wheat falls to the ground.

And from July [-]th until December [-]th five years later, the strong wind hardly stopped for a single day.

In the past five years, the nuclear power plants in the Mediterranean region have lost control and caused nuclear accidents due to the mass suicide of many operators who have undergone strict psychological examination.Due to lack of repairs, the dam had to adjust its storage capacity through the spillway, almost all public services were paralyzed, and even agricultural production was greatly affected.

The civil aviation industry has become a disaster-prone area—less than two years later, the world's civil aviation basically stopped flying.Even military aviation had to suspend training flight missions.

It wasn't until December [-]th, when the coalition government announced its establishment and came up with a "documentary treatment plan," that the wind seemed to slow down.In fact, the wave of mass suicides was barely brought under control until April of the following year.

During that time, all important central cities have completely become forbidden areas for life—except for scavengers and scavengers, which can still move in the city, there are almost no species that can move in such a place full of rotting corpses and bones.

Through industrial cleanup and collection, the Coalition government has just finished cleaning up about half of the city so far.The remaining half have been permanently suspended - corpses that have not been cleaned for more than 30 years are just piles of dry bones, and they are no longer a threat to humans.

Case records of the Great Crash are largely concentrated in the first year after it occurred, and in the fifth year after the formation of the Coalition Government.Among them, those with more research value are mainly those case data in the first year.

In the early days of the Great Crash, the overall medical level of mankind was still at an extremely high level.Physicians with experience and knowledge are alive and well interested in this new, mass-onset mental illness.

The research reports and case records at this stage are of very high quality, and the doctors who receive the treatment will try to use all means and techniques to study the patient's condition.In the early cases, the level and frequency of multidisciplinary consultations were much higher than they are now.

These materials are extremely valuable, even touching—the medical workers at that time did not know how they could persist in the desperate environment of "everyone is committing suicide".

The performance of patients with a major collapse can be described as "unity with opposition".The unity is the feeling of "this world is not real", and the opposite is the "interpretation" of the unreality.

Some patients will think that the people around them are not real, they may be lizard people in disguise.Some feel that their relatives and friends are fake, they have already been killed, and people from the killer group disguised themselves as them.

People with different educational backgrounds have different feelings about "unreal".There are power transmission workers who believe that high-voltage electricity does not exist, and physicists who believe that the laws of thermodynamics do not exist and that they are immune to high fever.

But the most common response is "the world has not changed at all, we are all pigs raised by machines."

Their explanations are different, but their purpose is clear-this world wrapped in falsehood is hopeless, and only death can free them from this despair.

Regarding this phenomenon, medical researchers at that time put forward more than a dozen hypotheses, including "prion accumulation theory", "global food poisoning theory", and "network and popular culture theory".But it didn't take long for these hypotheses to become a thing of the past with the death of the proposer himself.

And Lu Chen saw a research report in these materials that surprised him. This report from Germany stated that after dissecting the remains of more than [-] patients who committed mass suicide, the research reported a discovery—— With the help of a real-time gamma-ray activation analyzer, it was possible to determine the average distribution of lithium in the brains of suicide victims.Lithium in the white matter of healthy people is significantly more than that in gray matter.

The research report puts forward a hypothesis, "Lithium in the human brain may be directly linked to mass suicide." But the report does not come up with any hypothesis about the link-they do not know whether suicidal tendencies lead to this organ. Qualitative changes, or because of changes in the distribution of lithium, have triggered a large-scale suicide wave.

Looking at this research report, Lu Chen couldn't help but sigh, "They're actually very close to the answer."

"Have you seen this report too?" Standing next to Lu Chen, Yang Jianmin, who was shaking his head, heard his student's emotion. He saw the title from a distance of more than three meters, and then shook his head, "These researchers really don't have this report. Chance...a research team of six, four people committed suicide before the research was released. The remaining two also committed suicide after the paper was published."

Lu Chen was stunned, but also sympathetic.They really just lacked some luck.If the big crash hadn't hit this group of researchers with such precision, maybe human beings would have been able to find a solution four years in advance.

Turning his head to look at the paper again, Lu Chen felt a little heavy again.The previous six-person research team fell in front of the enemy they were studying... so what will happen to the seven-person experimental group that was improvised?

(End of this chapter)