Chapter 28: Here It Comes
Zhou Yu was already so tense at this moment that her expression was somewhat stiff, her face full of pallor.
Jiang Yang originally thought she would definitely agree to get a shot, but he didn’t expect Zhou Yu to also choose to refuse.
“There is a very important branch in psychology, thanatology, which studies a series of psychological and physiological changes in the human body just before death.
Studying this branch has very important significance for end-of-life care, mental comfort, the mental health of healthy people, and the shaping of their worldview.
But due to the lack of samples, research in this branch has always been difficult to carry out.”
Zhou Yu squeezed a smile onto her face and pretended to be relaxed as she said: “Now, I can use myself as a sample for research.”
“Fine, none of you are getting the shot, so I’ll do it myself.”
Jiang Yang could guarantee that this was absolutely not because he was afraid of pain, absolutely not!
He was shouldering an important mission and had to keep his mind clear, so he had no choice but to give himself the painkiller shot; that was the absolute truth.
A shot of medicine was injected into his body, and moments later, that familiar sense of detachment came over him again, as if whatever happened to his body had absolutely nothing to do with him.
He saw Professor Lu Zhaoming, Sun Changhe, Gu Changshan, and others all sitting upright, silently speechless.
He saw the other staff either at computers or at equipment, always maintaining a highly tense working state.
He saw Zhou Yu seeming very tense at this moment; although she was also sitting motionless in her seat, she was always taking deep breaths, as if trying to calm herself down this way, though the effect was obviously not very good.
His thoughts spread out from the base, as if arriving at the human world on the surface.
He knew that many people were already asleep at this moment, and many others were enjoying the night’s tranquility or relaxation, but no matter what they were doing, they probably could not have anticipated that the end of life would soon arrive.
He cast his gaze onto the clock in front of the hall.
11:59:59, the next moment, 12:00:00.
That familiar awkward feeling came over him again. At the same time, the data stream on the computer screen in front of him began to jump wildly.
“It’s here!”
Someone in the hall shouted, and the next moment, chaos swept in.
Someone fell from a chair, someone began screaming uncontrollably, someone collapsed on the ground with their body convulsing.
But none of this chaos affected Jiang Yang in the slightest. His spirit and attention were always fully focused on the computer screen in front of him.
He knew that the vast net composed of the detectors they had previously deployed, covering space, sky, surface, underground, underwater, and almost all environments on Earth, as well as thousands of bases, tens of thousands of experimental personnel, and instruments and equipment, had truly captured information related to this radiation!
The wild changes in the data stream lasted only a few seconds. Afterward, an image composed of yellow, red, and green colors clearly appeared on the screen and no longer changed.
The Arctic No. 4 Supercomputer had completed the information filtering, presenting the most important information as judged by artificial intelligence right in front of him.
Jiang Yang widened his eyes, not daring to miss a single detail, desperately stuffing all the information about the image in front of him into his brain using the image memory method he had learned in the previous cycle.
Between constantly opening and closing his eyes, that image was engraved deeply in his mind like a stone carving.
Based on past experience, he knew he had truly memorized this image.
Although he did not know the specific content of this image, nor what these contents actually meant.
He did not know how much time was left.
His spirit relaxed slightly at this moment, slightly easing the block on external information. Thus, various messy sounds surged toward him like a tide.
He saw Gu Changshan still sitting motionless in his chair as if asleep;
He saw Sun Changhe maintaining the same sitting posture, but his facial muscles had already begun to contort ferociously.
He saw Zhou Yu curled up on the ground, as if this could alleviate some of the pain.
Hmm… she seemed to still be shouting?
Slightly diverting a bit of attention, Jiang Yang heard her shouting: “Tell the me in the next life to definitely get the shot! Aaaah, it hurts, it hurts so much! It’s killing me!”
Jiang Yang felt a pang in his heart.
Professor Lu Zhaoming beside him seemed to be saying something as well.
“We were wrong from the very beginning, wrong…”
A bit of curiosity welled up uncontrollably in Jiang Yang’s heart.
Where were we wrong? Tell me!
But at this moment, Professor Lu Zhaoming seemed to have fallen into madness, clearly not in a state to communicate.
“It doesn’t matter anymore. I’ve memorized the image data, and I’ll soon know the truth…”
The next moment, as if suddenly losing power, Jiang Yang instantly lost consciousness.
In a daze, his consciousness slowly returned to his body. Returning with his consciousness were also the normal emotions that a normal person should have.
Ha—
Jiang Yang suddenly sat up, and all the fear, grief, unwillingness, anger, urgency, and other emotions that had been blocked by the medicine returned together, making his heart race wildly in an instant, and cold sweat immediately beaded on his forehead.
“Damn it, died again…”
Without time to calm his emotions, he immediately struggled to get out of bed, rushed to the desk, grabbed paper and pen, and began sketching at the fastest speed.
That image containing numerous letters and data gradually appeared on the paper.
After repeatedly comparing several times to confirm no errors, he grabbed the telephone without hesitation and dialed that number.
“This is Sun Changhe.”
The calm voice sounded in his ear again.
Just like in the previous cycle, he said the password, informed about the apocalypse, received the reply that someone would come to pick him up within an hour, then Jiang Yang tossed the mobile phone aside and collapsed on the bed, gasping for breath.
After a few minutes, Jiang Yang finally calmed his thoughts, eliminated all negative emotions like pain, sadness, and tension, slowly regained his composure, and even felt a bit excited.
He wondered what role the intelligence he brought back this time could play?
He looked again at that image carrying the hope of civilization.
As expected, he still could not understand it.
At the current learning progress, it would probably take at least five or six cycles to barely understand it.
Casually stuffing that paper into his pocket, Jiang Yang put on his coat and headed straight to that steamed bun shop he didn’t often go to.
He had not forgotten that Zhou Yu was still waiting for him to bail her out.
After waiting a while, Zhou Yu, who clearly had just stayed up all night, appeared with two dark circles under her eyes and sat down again at the table to Jiang Yang’s left.
Casually picking up a small steamed bun and stuffing it into her mouth, Zhou Yu chewed forcefully as if seeking revenge.
“Sorry, you asked me to do this to you yourself…”
Jiang Yang muttered to himself in his heart, then resolutely stood up and walked toward Zhou Yu.
