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The story begins in the early morning of Panlong City. Cold chain dispatcher Lin Yuanzhi didn't straighten his wife's slippers for the first time when he got up. A few days later, he was indifferent to his daughter's cries of falling, but he could answer every question of the doctor correctly. Neurologist Zhang Mingyuan insisted on doing a lumbar puncture when all tests showed negative, and obtained the pathogen specimen for the first time. Li Wenjing, a virologist at Chunshen P4 Laboratory, saw a sequence in front of the sequencer that did not belong to any known database, and wrote two words in the sidebar of the experimental notebook: To be traced. The pathogen was named CIRV, and the disease it caused was called CIIS-cognitive-immune linkage syndrome. The virus invades the brain through olfactory pathways, triggering the immune system to engulf the precise synapses responsible for empathy. The patient can see, hear, and reason, but can no longer feel the pain of others. There is no difference in their perception between the tears of their spouse and the greetings of the courier.
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Although it is classified as fantasy, it can also be read as science fiction. If one day you no longer feel heartache for your lover's tears, I am no longer moved by the child's cries. My reason is still there, but my emotions are dead. This is not a philosophical hypothesis, but a virus called CIIS. The author uses cold medical writing to describe a silent doomsday. From a pair of misplaced slippers to a genetic sequence that does not belong to any database. There is no sky-shattering and earth-shattering, only human hearts reduced to empty cities one by one. It has a documentary atmosphere comparable to "Blood Plague" and has the shock of a "Three-Body"-style thought experiment. Readers who like high-concept, hard-core settings, please be prepared to rethink the boundaries of "humanity."
I was attracted by the title of the book. The setting of the book is full of philosophical thoughts. A new fantasy book that has broken away from the category of cool writing. This book rips open the nerve endings of modern society with a strange "plague of indifference". Starting from a pair of unaligned slippers, The novel uses scalpel-like strokes to cut open a world where rationality still exists but the soul is dead. Epidemiological suspense and philosophical torture are intertwined. The virus is not only a pathogen, but also a cold mirror that reflects the background of human nature. Recommended to all readers who love brain-burning settings and deep shocks. It's an interesting new book, I'd like to collect it to support newcomers.
When a man no longer feels the tears of his wife, Moved by his daughter's cries, is he still human? This book describes a silent plague of the soul in a calm and almost cruel way. From the collapse of the dispatcher's life, to the doctor's persistent pursuit of the murderer, to the unknown sequence in the laboratory, the story progresses layer by layer, and the settings are meticulous and detailed. The CIRV virus accurately destroys the ability to empathize, causing people to retain their sanity but lose their humanity. It's not about how the body dies, but about how the "person" is erased bit by bit. The hard-core setting with a strong sense of medical reality points directly to the core soul torture of the moment: What do we rely on to become human?
