"You must die on the way to charge", this is actually a bit "stupid" idea. It has nothing to do with reason, but more like the human beings left to themselves in the process of evolution, exchanging individual lives for the safety of the entire species.

"Countermeasures".

This "I'll fight you" strategy may not be of any benefit to an individual. In many cases, if you turn around and run away, you may have a higher probability of survival.

However, this strategy is beneficial to the entire group. When an individual fights back desperately in a certain death situation, it may reduce a threat to the entire group - anyway, even if it fails, it will not be a loss.

However, as scientists, Lu Chen and others, who have long been accustomed to using reason, logic, mathematics and laws to seriously study the world, are innately incompatible with this "death is not a loss" mentality.

However, whether it works or not is one thing, and whether it is done or not is another matter. At least at this stage, being busy can make people forget about the suffocating reasoning, which is not a bad thing.

Lu Chen and Yang Weimin found a laboratory, and then began to dive into the bottomless abyss of medical records.

It is unclear when the first major collapse patient appeared. The earliest case identified as a "big collapse" was a mass suicide. One hundred and forty-two strangers who had never interacted with each other successively died within an hour.

They committed suicide near a post office in London. They killed themselves in various ways, and they were full of "creativity".

The suicide that lasted for an hour finally ended with the mail truck returning to the post office. It happened to be the Halloween holiday, and when he saw the bloody scene, the postman's first reaction was "How much does such a realistic decoration cost?!"

The scene was so unusual that it took the postman half an hour to walk around the mountains of corpses and seas of blood before he realized that it was not decoration, and realized that he should call the police first.

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

On that July 13th, people who woke up normally received one or more news - someone they knew, or a relative, a friend, or a lover... was dead.

No one cares about what the damn news is saying, unless their loved ones are also one of the one hundred and forty-two people.

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

From July 13th to December 7th five years later, the strong wind hardly stopped for a day.

In the past five years, nuclear power plants in the Mediterranean region lost control due to the collective suicide of many operators who had undergone strict psychological examinations, resulting in nuclear accidents. Due to lack of repairs, the dams had to adjust their storage capacity through spillways, and almost all public services were paralyzed.

Even agricultural production has been 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 missions.

It was not until December 7, when the coalition government was announced and the "documentary treatment plan" was put forward, that the storm seemed to slow down. In fact, the mass suicide wave was barely controlled until April of the following year.

Come down.

During that time, all important central cities had completely become forbidden areas for life - except for scavengers and scavenging insects that could still move around in the city, almost no species could move around in such a place full of rotting corpses and bones.

Through industrial cleaning and collection, the coalition government has just completed the cleaning of about half of the city so far. The remaining half has been permanently suspended - the corpses that have not been cleaned for more than thirty years are just a pile of dead bones.

There is no longer a threat to humanity.

The case records of the Great Collapse are basically concentrated in the first year after the occurrence and the fifth year after the establishment of the coalition government. Among them, the case data with more research value are mainly those in the first year.

In the early days of the Great Collapse, the overall medical level of mankind was still at a very high level. Those experienced and knowledgeable doctors were still alive and had a high interest in this new, large-scale mental illness.

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

This information is extremely valuable, and even makes people feel emotional - the medical workers at that time did not know how they could persevere in the desperate environment where "everyone was committing suicide".

The symptoms of patients with major collapse can be described as "unity with opposition". What is unified is the feeling that "this world is not real", and the opposite is the "explanation" for the unreality.

Some patients may think that the people around them are not real and that they may be lizard people pretending to be others. Some people think that their relatives and friends are fake. They have been killed long ago and the killer group pretended to look like them.
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People with different educational backgrounds also have different feelings about "unreality". There are power transmission workers who think that high-voltage electricity does not actually exist, and there are physicists who think that the theorems of thermodynamics do not exist and they can be immune to high fever.

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

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

Regarding this phenomenon, medical researchers at the time put forward more than a dozen hypotheses including the "prion accumulation theory", the "global food poisoning theory", and the "Internet and popular culture theory". But it didn't take long for these hypotheses to

With the death of the proposer himself, it became a passing thing.

Lu Chen saw a research report in these materials that surprised him. This report from Germany said that after dissecting the remains of more than thirty patients who committed mass suicide, the research reported a discovery - through

With the help of a real-time gamma ray activation analyzer, it can be determined that the lithium element is evenly distributed in the brains of suicides. However, the lithium in the white matter of healthy people's brains is significantly more than the lithium in the gray matter.

The research paper proposed a hypothesis, "Lithium in the human brain may be directly linked to mass suicide." But the report did not provide any hypothesis about the link - they did not know whether the suicidal tendency caused the device

Qualitative changes, or changes in lithium distribution ratio, triggered a large-scale suicide wave.

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

"Have you also seen this report?" Yang Jianmin, who was standing next to Lu Chen and shaking his head, heard his student's sigh. He saw the title from a distance of more than three meters, then shook his head and said, "These researchers really don't have this

Opportunity... Four people in the six-person research team committed suicide before the study was released. The remaining two also committed suicide after releasing the paper."

Lu Chen was dumbfounded when he heard this, but he was also quite sympathetic. They really just lacked some luck. If the Great Collapse had not hit this group of researchers so accurately, maybe humans would have been able to find a solution four years in advance.
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Turning to look at the paper again, Lu Chen's heart became a little heavier. The previous six-person research team fell in front of the enemy of his research... So what will happen to the now improvised seven-person experimental team...
Chapter completed!