Chapter 1131: Lucid Dream
Horununu City, Queen's Medical Centre, Orthopaedic Ward.
Christina Bella woke up from her slumber, subconsciously propped up the bed and sat up, only to find out that something was wrong.
She wore a loose, light-colored hospital gown and an extra fingerless glove on her right hand, which was tightly cuffed around her wrist so that it could not bend.
The situation of the right foot is similar, with an extra foot sock, and it is also impossible to move freely.
What's even more troublesome is the constant pain in the joints, the general anesthesia injected during the reduction operation has long since failed, and then she was woken up in pain.
Clumsily sitting up on the bed with one hand, she turned her head to look around.
It is a single room, with a small space, with a locker opposite, a set of plastic tables and chairs by the door, and a vase of flowers on the table.
There are pots of greenery on the windowsill, and the light outside the window is dim, but it doesn't look like it's at night. There was a feeling of hunger in the upper abdomen and a feeling of suffocation in the lower abdomen, which should be the next morning.
I looked down to look for my phone, but I saw only a hospital gown and white sheets. Trying to move her feet, Chrissy sat back in pain and reached out to ring the pager.
After looking out the window for a while, there was a knock on the door behind him when the whistle of the wind sounded for the twelfth time.
"Please come in!"
With permission, a middle-aged female nurse in uniform walked in.
Seeing her sitting, the nurse helped her shake the head of the bed and helped her to the bathroom.
In kung fu movies, heroes often use dislocated movements as non-lethal attacks, and when they need to restrict their opponent's movements, they can dislocate them casually, and then gently touch and push to restore them. When she arrived, joint reduction required the use of general anesthesia, not to mention, and the fixation belt had to be tied after the operation, so it was not troublesome.
Feeling the inconvenience of her hands and feet, the girl raised her head slightly and asked depressedly: "Isn't it possible to get rid of the dislocation at once? Why do I have to tie it up? Or am I actually a fracture and not a dislocation?"
"It's all deception in the movie, and dislocation is not so easy. ”
"There are ligaments and muscles outside the joints that help hold the bones in place, and these tissues can be damaged when they are dislocated. In order for them to recover better, an external force needs to be applied to stabilize the shape of the joints. Otherwise, if you allow your muscles and ligaments to grow and repair on their own, your joint capsule will become loose and weak, and it will be easy to dislocate again, which is not a good experience, is it?"
After saying this, he told her that her personal belongings were in the cupboard, and the nurse left after finishing her work.
I don't know how long it took, but the knock on the door rang again.
Chrissy thought it was the nurse who delivered the breakfast, and casually responded, "Please come in!"
"Stride, stride, stride!" the footsteps came from far and near, and it was clearly the voice of two men.
Chrissy turned her head and the first thing that caught her eye was a bouquet of flowers, next to a basket full of colorful fruits. But when she saw the person carrying the basket with flowers, the surprised smile on her face quickly dissipated, and she snorted softly and turned her head away from them.
These two are none other than her colleague videographer Andy and Nova TV boss Zhang Guangyu.
As the largest hospital in Hawaii, the Queen's Medical Center admits many people who have been injured in the typhoon, and the two men came early in the morning to interview them, and it was only incidental to visit colleagues who were injured at work.
was thrown at the back of his head, and the two men were also a little sneering. In order to grab the news, Andy threw Chrissy, who had a dislocated joint, in the car, causing her to be in pain for several minutes, and Zhang Guangyu was the source of the matter, and it was this guy's instruction to go to Waikiki Beach to shoot the hurricane.
In the end, Zhang Guangyu quickly adjusted his mood, took three steps forward and put the fruit basket on the bedside table, and then said in a very exaggerated tone: "Congratulations! Miss Christina Bella, you are famous! Your Google Trends have increased more than ten times, and your Facebook, Titter, and Snap followers have also increased by tens of thousands, and now everyone is talking about you!"
"That's right!" Andy was changing the vase with flowers, and added with a smile: "Little Barbie, you are popular!"
After all, it was a young girl in her early 20s, Chrissy quickly turned her anger into joy, and asked in surprise, "Really, you two promise that you didn't lie to me?"
"I promise!" Boss Zhang packed the ticket for the first time.
"Me too!" Andy agreed, and asked, "You don't know that?
Raised his hand and pointed to the other side, "Miss Nurse said in the cupboard." Wait, it should be the one on the right, don't look at the one on the left!"
Andy walked over and opened the cabinet, found her iPhone 6s, took it and handed it to the girl.
Lighting up the screen, she saw a lot of push messages.
Christina rushed to click on FB to see what it was like to have a doubling number of followers.
Then, disappointed, she put down her phone and looked up, "Flying Bobby?
"That's pretty good," Andy added, "and somebody called you a tumbling doll at the beginning." ”
"Is there a difference?"
Andy didn't answer, believing that she would soon understand herself.
In fact, Miss Bella quickly understood the difference between the two nicknames, and looking at the inflatable doll rolling on the screen, she suddenly smoked with anger, and wanted to throw her phone over and blow up the slut who was messing around.
Looking up at his colleague, "You didn't cut that footage?"
Andy opened his mouth to speak, but Zhang Guangyu raised his hand to stop him and explained in person: "I asked him to keep it, our new star station finally has a scoop, and if we cut off the attraction, we will lose a lot." Rest assured, Taili will compensate you, you will soon receive a bonus, you can take a paid rest for two months, and the hospitalization and recuperation expenses will be handled by us and the insurance company. ”
Hearing that there were two months of paid leave, as well as additional bonuses and subsidies, Chrissy suddenly felt that it was worth the hardships and crimes, and asked excitedly with a crimson face: "Really, great! Boss, I love you!"
"Of course it's true," Zhang Guangyu nodded affirmatively.
According to the convention of copyright management, weather and current affairs news are not copyrighted, because copyright belongs to "God/Fate/God" who created them. According to this principle, the media do not have to pay copyright fees for reprinting current affairs news to each other, and the law only stipulates that the reprinting must be delayed for a certain period of time in order to protect the property rights and interests of the media.
In this way, if you want to get reprint fees from your peers, you can only count on original and attractive exclusive content. The picture of Chrissy rolling in a hurricane is such an exclusive breaking point, in order to put this picture into his own program as soon as possible, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, C and other TV networks have paid HNS, which made him a lot of money.
Since Christina helped him earn money, Boss Zhang naturally didn't mind treating this subordinate preferentially.
Of course, he did not forget the instinct of the capitalists to squeeze value. "Tumbling Chrissy" landed on the five major TV networks one after another, and soon climbed onto social media, Chrissy was ridiculed by the audience and netizens, and her popularity soared, which is suitable for harvesting while it is hot.
So, he quickly said something that gave the girl a headache, "Wait until you have an interview to attend, Miss Kubota will come to inform you later, get ready!"
Misato Kubota is a Japanese girl who looks a lot like *** and is also his secretary. The new star Taiwanese soldiers are already short of manpower, and Chrissy is injured and hospitalized, which is even more tense, not only the boss's secretary has to come out to do things, but he, the boss, also has to put on a role as a reporter.
Leaving behind the female employee who was secretly depressed, Zhang Guangyu waved goodbye, took the cameraman Andy out of the house, and drove towards the Hawaii Convention and Exhibition Center in an interview car, intending to interview the CVPR.
Originally, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference was not part of the Nova Channel reporting program. As a privately owned local television station, HNS adheres to the principle of ratings first, and the programming and selection of materials are naturally based on the preferences of the audience, and the public is not interested in academic conferences, so they naturally do not bother to send people to pay attention.
The reason why he changed his course now was because Andy reported two clues, which made him change his mind.
The first to bear the brunt is naturally Atletico Madrid, the founder of the bee group.
Although Xinxing TV broadcasts in English, because of his founder, the content has always focused on Asian audiences, with a fairly high proportion of Chinese and Asian viewers, who are naturally curious about the new Fortune 500 leaders in Asia.
What's more, someone also suddenly shaved his head.
The two applied for an interview with CVPR, and they went for Atletico Madrid's bald head.
As for whether this is to pick up sesame seeds and throw watermelons, it is a matter of opinion.
In the face of the storm and the flooding of the road, the interview car quickly drove to the entrance of the convention and exhibition center.
Sweeping his eyes over the door, Zhang Guangyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the telephone customer service of the organizing committee did not lie to him, the conference was held as scheduled, and he did not have to worry about running in vain.
Looking for a place to park the car, Zhang Guangyu took the lead with a microphone in his hand and walked into the convention and exhibition center, followed by Andy who was carrying a camera on his shoulder.
Unlike those consumer exhibitions and entertainment exhibitions with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people's traffic, CVPR has no shogirl and no shoboy, and a total of more than 5,000 participants are scattered to small conference rooms for group discussions.
Motioning to Andy to shoot some materials casually, Zhang Guangyu walked straight towards the area where the Bee Research Institute was located.
Ma Jing, who is also the chief scientist of the Bee Research Institute, naturally has no time to stay and watch the stall, and only two staff members are responsible for staying at the scene.
Director Zhang had expected it, so he was not disappointed, and observed the bee exhibits with great interest.
The first thing that catches your eye is a table and a single bed, naturally because they are large enough to stand out.
Seeing that a TV reporter came to interview, the staff in charge of explaining took two steps forward to greet him.
Lao Zhang can speak Mandarin, but considering that the video material may be on the show in the future, he still asked in English, "Can you introduce me?"
"CVPR is a grand event in the field of visual computing and artificial intelligence, and the products we bring are related to it. This table is the world's first holographic sand table, and users can enjoy 360-degree holograms as long as they wear matching glasses. By the way, we also have a special filter, as long as you cover this, the camera can shoot holograms.
"Is this the holographic sand table?" Lao Zhang said suddenly: "I have seen the report of the science and technology expo in the mainland media before, and it seems that this is mentioned." ”
"That's right. But now this is a new version after optimization and improvement, the effective field of view is larger, the effect is better, and gesture operation is supported. Sir, would you like to try it?"
Smiling and taking the round-framed glasses handed by the man, Zhang Guangyu confirmed and asked, "This is the holographic glasses?"
The staff shook their heads sincerely, "It's actually a pair of polarized sunglasses that can adjust the polarization, and the core part is inside the table." There are also filters, which are also made of polarizing film. ”
Put on his glasses and walk around the table, and asked Andy about the effect in the viewfinder, Lao Zhang suddenly became excited. Different from the more common "holographic pyramid", this holographic sand table does not have a lid on it (in fact, it is an inverted display), the field of view expands a lot and looks more comfortable, and the resolution and eye color are OK, it seems to have some practical value.
Thinking about what he could do with this thing, he took off his glasses and wanted to return them, but the man handed him a box, "The glasses are given away for free, you can keep them as sunglasses, and you can adjust the angle of the lenses and use them to see 3D." ”
"Then I'll accept it," calmly accepted this gift with the bee logo, Zhang Guangyu decided to go back and delete this conversation, the audience can't come, isn't it bad for others to see it?
He looked at the cot next to him, "What is this?"
"It's a gravity-free bed, and it's an adjunct to the Real Dream Experience Program. ”
Lao Zhang had heard of "gravity-free chair/space chair" and "gravity-free bed", and he had tried some of them himself.
"Gravityless" is just an exaggeration, and gravitylessness is to disperse and support the weight of the upper body with the help of a """ curved structure, so that the pressure on the muscles and skin of the buttocks is as small as possible, so as to relax the muscles and improve the quality of sedentary. The gravity-free bed is a thick mattress made of memory foam and latex with deformable memory ability, on which the person lies on it, and the body naturally sinks to "embed" the mattress, just like submerging in the sea water of the Dead Sea, and the body is supported upwards in all directions, which can further reduce the pressure on the skin, and achieve the effect of unblocking blood circulation on the body surface and improving sleep.
Compared with this, he was more interested in the "reality dream" in the back, squinting his eyes slightly, and Lao Zhang asked, "What is this? A machine that helps people dream?"
"No", the narrator shook his head in denial, and then asked rhetorically, "I don't know if you have ever heard of lucid dreaming?"
Thanks to the blessing that the hit of "Inception" triggered a big discussion of dreams, Lao Zhang has heard of this word and knows that lucid dreaming is a dream where people can stay awake and think logically. Because of the ability to stay awake, people will have a certain amount of freedom of movement in the state of lucid dreaming, rather than being only a spectator like ordinary dreams, this initiative is very attractive, and then there is a group of enthusiasts who chase and study lucid dreams.
"I've heard of it, so this device can help people get into lucid dreaming faster?"
"No," the narrator continued to shake his head, "its function is to allow users to have a lucid dream-like experience when using VR equipment, and to feel the sense of touch and warmth that conventional means are inconvenient to give." ”
"Oh?" said Zhang, "Can I try it?"
"Yes," the man nodded, then pointed to the top of his head, "to make it easier to feel, you need to shave your hair before you can experience it." ”
Hearing that he was going to shave his head, Zhang Guangyu was suddenly stunned, but fortunately there was a bald head beside him, and he turned his head to look behind him, "Andy, you can try!"