Countdown: Humanity's struggle to survive against yesterday

Chapter 87, Step 2

The results of the first experiment indirectly proved that the mysterious space on Jiang Ning's body might be a global human sleep monitoring room, greatly boosting everyone's morale.

Academician Zhao was also shocked to hear this.

During the second test, Academician Zhao stabilized the pressure and specifically allocated an extra hour for the Huitian team to use all the computing power of the Luoshu. He also brought several staff members to assist throughout the process.

Based on their experience from the first time, this group of professional researchers actually wrote several new signal conversion software programs.

In their words, the correct approach is to include everyone in any place with electricity and signal.

Jiang Ning was naturally happy to accept this.

Before conducting the second experiment, drawing on the experience from the previous one, Jiang Ning specifically selected a village as a point of particular focus.

This village is none other than Daweizhuang, which is located north of Sanmiao Village.

Daweizhuang has 1136 people in more than 300 households; it's a perfect size, not too big, not too small.

In order to accurately prove that the mysterious space on Jiang Ning's body is the sleep monitoring room, Jiang Ning specifically instructed that he be woken up immediately when the time was up.

After the new experiment began, Jiang Ning sank into the mysterious space and, based on his previous experience, directly retrieved the cloud maps of the two villages, Sanmiao Village and Daweizhuang Village.

The experiment was conducted approximately 20 hours after the rollback date of the new day.

The reason for choosing this time is to make a comparison, and also because the average human being is awake and active for about 20 hours is the limit, so the results obtained from this data will be more valuable for reference.

Not to mention, the Huitian Group diverted all of Luoshu's computing power for three hours to conduct experiments.

Because of the lack of support from Luo Shu, both electricity and the internet experienced brief fluctuations on this day.

In an emergency live broadcast, Chen Xiao had to step forward and declare: "The public need not worry about the network and power fluctuations of the past two days. This is an experiment conducted by our country to study and solve the global catastrophe. The experiment is expected to continue for another month. Please be patient and wait. We will definitely announce the latest results to everyone."

Some people on the internet are very supportive of this, while others have raised questions.

However, the five members of the Huitian Group did not pay attention to these issues.

Jiang Ning was actually aware of the situation, because he had to attend a meeting of researchers every day. During the video conference, some research teams had protested, but Chen Xiao had suppressed them.

Jiang Ning would jokingly call Chen Xiao "Old Deng" every time they met.

Deep down, Jiang Ning was actually very grateful to Chen Xiao. No matter what, the other party had indeed been protecting him and the Huitian Group.

Similarly, the Resurrection Group did not fail to live up to this protection.

After the results of the second experiment came out, it was completely confirmed that the mysterious space in Jiangning, just like a sleep monitoring room, could simultaneously observe the sleep state of all humans.

The most obvious change from this discovery is that the entire scientific research staff at Taiqingshan began to focus on the Huitian Group.

Academician Zhao stated directly that they should raise any needs they had, and that they could withstand the pressure even if they had to increase computing power by another hour.

However, Jiang Ning politely declined, choosing not to add another hour of computing power.

This is only the first step of the plan, and having more people doesn't necessarily help. It's better to proceed step by step and stick to the original plan.

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Awareness Day is January 9th.

The world went backwards at 5:20 p.m., and by the time everyone came to their senses, the sun had already begun to set.

Jiang Ning: "Everyone already knows the specific arrangements, so I won't go into detail. Thank you all for your cooperation during this time. Now, let's move on to the second step of the plan..."

Chang Niankong nodded and gently gripped the peach wood token at his waist. He knew it was his turn to go on stage.

In the first step of the Dream Seeking Project, the Returning to Heaven Group confirmed one thing and made two discoveries.

This matter concerns the mysterious space within Jiang Ning, which, overall, does indeed possess the ability to monitor.

Two findings:

One is that every time the world goes backward, the time humanity spends moving forward is slowly and steadily increasing.

What does this mean?

Let the data speak for itself. When the world first started to regress, the average time humans could travel in the first week was 30 hours. In the following two weeks, this figure dropped to 28 hours, and now it has stabilized at 32 hours.

And it shows a slow growth trend, minute by minute.

What is the significance of this timing?

This is actually what has been confusing the public for a long time. For example, today is Consciousness Day, January 9th, and the awakening time is 5 pm. When the clock strikes midnight, the time normally enters January 10th.

At this point, time continues to move forward, for about 30 hours, before suddenly reversing at some point.

Another finding is that the average sleep time of humans has increased. During major disasters, although only about 5% of the population in a country was asleep at the same time, the overall individual sleep time increased.

Sun Fumin once jokingly said, "This is a good thing. It means that people's lives are no longer stressful. They can sleep whenever they want and for as long as they want."

Indeed, this is the case. According to recent data from Luoshu, most young people are addicted to excessive sleep.

When the world first went backward, everyone was like a frightened bird. After the rollback, everyone became tense and nervous. Now, however, things have become much more stable.

Even the daily emergency live streams have seen a significant decrease in viewership.

People are more like giving up and resigning themselves to their fate.

Zhou Yunci had a different view, believing it was more like the calm before the storm.

Jiang Ning remained oblivious to the outside world's disturbances, spending most of his time immersed in the mysterious space, except for conducting experiments.

He actually had a guess, but he never dared to say it.

This conjecture abruptly emerged during the first experiment, after hearing Zhang Jimin's words.

Jiang Ning speculated, "If humans stopped sleeping, perhaps we could resist the world's regression!"

This idea is too far-fetched. The only evidence available is that the forward travel time is longer after the rollback. It would be difficult to convince all of humanity, or even just the Chinese people, to do this.

All we can do is continue the experiment.

Until evidence is found that the world's regression is related to sleep.

"The Dream Seeking Project, Step Two, First Experiment: Now Begins."

Seeing that everyone was ready, Sun Fumin shouted a command.

At his command, Jiang Ning closed his eyes, and Su Mian, Lu Xue, and Zhang Jimin quickly operated the computer, while Chang Niankong stood under a dedicated screen.

This dedicated screen will, as planned, display some sample data information later. He needs to memorize this information and report it to Jiang Ning one by one in the last fifteen seconds.

In fact, these samples change not only in the last fifteen seconds, but also in every time period. During this time, he needs to transmit the data to Jiangning in one direction.

Half an hour later, Jiang Ning picked up the bead representing Chang Niankong in the mysterious space, looked down at it, and saw Chang Niankong slowly uttering several names.

"Zhao Yang, Qian Feilai, Zhou Yang, Nan Shaofei..."

The key here is to constantly recite the empty mantra, firstly because frequent recitation improves memory; secondly, the Luoshu's computing power is fully utilized, with a large amount of data flowing, and these randomly selected samples also need to be timely.

Following these lists, Jiang Ning quickly searched for these people within the mysterious space, separating them all individually regardless of whether they shared the same name or not.

Jiangning needs to see these "exhausted" samples, the changes between being half-asleep and not sleeping, and what changes will ultimately occur.