Chapter 34: The Boundaries of Survival
I don't know if you have heard of the term "survival boundary", which also extends the famous "three" rule.
It is said that the basic survival boundary of a normal person has been defined by scientists a long time ago: the "three" rule says that a normal person can only survive for 3 minutes in the absence of air; In the absence of water, a normal person can survive for 3 days; Without food, a person can survive for 3 weeks.
All of the above are the limits of the normal human body, so have you ever wondered what will happen if people don't sleep for a long time?
According to research, the highest record for the longest time a human person did not sleep was 264 hours. This record was set by a high school boy in 1965.
After 11 days of sleeplessness, when the boy was about to fall asleep, something unfortunate happened, and the high school student had basically entered a state of unconsciousness, that is, turned into a vegetative state.
And after long-term research and experiments, scientists have found that the limit of sleeplessness that humans can tolerate is 11 days. Normal humans enter a state of unconsciousness after 11 consecutive days of sleep deprivation.
But today, the "anti-sleep experiment" project presided over by Dr. Z is to break the limit of the human body's sleeplessness. His goal was for the experimenter to go 30 days without sleep, and his body would remain in a normal state, even more than normal.
Will Dr. Z's crazy pilot project succeed?
Han Yuntao and eight other experimenters were sent into the test room, and they were like guinea pigs, being observed by the experimental operators outside.
At the beginning of the period, these people felt very uncomfortable, first, they had temporarily lost their freedom, and second, the glass wall of the laboratory room was one-sided and transparent, like the windows of some interrogation rooms, where the inside could not see the outside, but the outside could see the inside.
But after half an hour, the atmosphere in the laboratory room finally eased, and the sound of laughter and laughter came out.
The age difference between these eight people is not much, they are all veterans who have not been employed for a few years, and they have a lot of common topics.
"My name is Han Yuntao, I have been out of the army for two years, and I used to serve in the ** army......" Han Yuntao first introduced himself.
After that, the rest of the people also introduced themselves accordingly, and these people were Han Yuntao, Wang Ping, Wang Jiaqing, He Chuanbao, Yin Shaofeng, Jiang Tao, Li Hongjiang and Shao Bing, who didn't like to talk the most.
After a few people got acquainted, they began to chat all over the world, only Shao Bing sat in the corner, flipping through the magazine.
Later, Han Yuntao proposed: "Comrades-in-arms, they won't let us sleep anyway, let's just play poker, how about it?" ”
Everyone agreed, and then they found the cards they had prepared for them and played......
In fact, these people didn't know that while they were laughing and laughing, in the vent above the room, the Nikolai gas modified by Dr. Z had been continuously transported in.
Dr. Z had been standing outside the window, his shoulders folded and staring closely at the people in the room. At this time, he was also very nervous, because the experiment had already begun, and he was not sure what direction it would develop in the end, but he still hoped that these people would come out safe and sound.
There was no clock in the room, and everyone didn't know what time it was, but they had been playing for five or six hours, and it should be after the wee hours of the morning.
"Are you sleepy?" Han Yuntao asked the others.
"I'm not sleepy!"
"It's weird, aren't you sleepy at all?"
"Me too."
Everyone said a word, only Shao Bing was lying on the bed by himself, his face facing the wall, he didn't speak, and he seemed to be asleep......
The first night passed like this, and after everyone finished playing poker, several people were engaged in groups of three or two, some turning on the TV to watch DVDs, some reading books and magazines, and the joy when they first met was also somewhat diminished.
At noon the next day, the outside door opened, and Huang Qiang told everyone that they could go to the break room one by one to call their families, and told them that the advance payment had been made to them.
When Han Yuntao went to call, he called his wife Dongmei, and when his wife asked him why there was an extra 50,000 yuan in the card, Han Yuntao felt a little proud and a little excited. But when his wife asked him where he was, Han Yuntao couldn't say, in order to reassure his wife, Han Yuntao also lied that he went to the ATM to deposit the money.
After the experimenters made the call, their hearts were filled with excitement. Everyone returned to the test room and made a small celebration.
For the first five days of the trial, everything seemed to pass unharmed.
The eight experimenters didn't sleep at all for five days, so they spent all their time watching DVDs, reading books, chatting, and playing poker.
They were generally optimistic about the experiment, and excited that they would be rewarded with the entirety of the near future. As for himself, he was not aware of the subtle changes.
However, Dr. Z on the outside uncovered some unsettling details through observation, which began on the fourth day of the trial.
Dr. Z noticed that the topics of small talk between the experimenters had changed, they no longer talked about comradeship, their plans after they had money, and so on.
Their topic became more and more sad and angry, and the conversation constantly revolved around the difficulties of their own lives, their dissatisfaction with the people around them, their dissatisfaction with society, and their past trauma and helplessness in life.
Dr. Z was starting to get worried, as the experimenters were now reacting a little differently than he had expected.
In the evening, Dr. Z came to the general manager's office on the second floor of the pharmaceutical office building, and he opened his laptop.
Dr. Z spoke into the computer and wanted to stop the test, but the voice on the other end of the computer refused. Dr. Z was not reconciled, and he explained in detail the progress of the experiment to the computer side, and said that if it continued, there might be problems, but the computer side always said that he did not agree to terminate the test.
Finally, a new command was given from the other end of the computer, ordering Dr. Z to quickly relocate the current eight experimenters to the first chamber, and to divide the eight people into two groups, each with one room, and also asked to administer different doses of gas to the two groups, one normal and one increased.
Dr. Z was shocked to hear this, it was completely beyond his imagination. But he couldn't help it, because he couldn't disobey the orders of this "old friend".
Finally, the computer also said that it would send in another person in the next two days, and asked Dr. Z to place this person in the second chamber, and inject the maximum amount of Nikolai gas into the second chamber.
Dr. Z turned off his computer, and he stood alone in front of the window with his hands behind his back and looked out, and didn't leave for a long time, until Lisa knocked on the door and walked in.
"Doctor, did you get orders?" Lisa asked.
Dr. Z nodded.
"Doctor, what do you think?" Lisa asked again.
Dr. Z thought for a moment and replied, "What if I don't want to?" Can I disobey orders? ”
At this time, Lisa stood there, tears sliding down!
After a while, Lisa said to Dr. Z, "Professor, I want to quit!" ”
After listening to Lisa, Professor Z immediately became scared, he looked nervously left and right, and then immediately came to Lisa's approach, covered Lisa's mouth with his hand, and helped Lisa's ear and whispered, "Don't say it, how dare you say such a thing?" ”
Lisa was also a little scared after speaking, she also looked around with wide eyes, and after seeing that there was no one around, Professor Z pulled Lisa out of the general manager's office on the second floor.
After returning, Dr. Z conveyed instructions to Huang Qiang, and Huang Qiang took eight experimenters out of the No. 2 chamber that night, and then divided into two groups and brought them into the No. 1 chamber.
This time, the eight experimenters were all very obedient, no one raised any objections, and they all followed Huang Qiang and left.
When the room was divided, the eight people had no objection, and Huang Qiang shouted whoever entered his room.
Everything seems so peaceful, but this calm is about to be broken, and a bloody storm will follow......