If Jiang Youwei had woken up earlier, or his sleep quality was not so good, then during the time he was dreaming, he would probably have experienced a wonderful feeling that most people would never experience.
It was a peaceful day. It was already noon when Jiang Youwei woke up in bed. Oh, you asked him why he didn't go to work? What a joke! Shouldn't a man over 30 have a successful career, a happy family, and plenty of money to watch his wife and children? Of course, the above was just Jiang Youwei's daydream. In reality, he was just an old fat otaku, living a life of ease and comfort. Why did it feel so familiar? In fact, many people have this feeling that something or an object in their life seems familiar. This is actually an illusion created by the brain. The brain is best at remembering images, not sounds or words. In some cases, similar images of different objects can cause memory disorder. I digress. In short, Jiang Youwei completely missed an event that was worthy of being recorded in history.
"Hmm, that familiar ceiling." Jiang Youwei opened his eyes and instinctively reached for his phone, which lay not far from his pillow. Unsurprisingly, he reached for the black brick. However, as he stretched his arm, his hazy, half-asleep brain issued excessive commands, causing his arm muscles to overstretch, resulting in a minor tear. Jiang Youwei's nervous system faithfully transmitted the excruciating pain, completely overwhelming his brain. Jiang Youwei only had time to contort his face into a cabbage leaf before his unknown brain shut down.
"Bang, bang, bang" the phone flew out of his hand and hit the floor.
"Hiss, ahaha, fuck!" Jiang Youwei's outstretched arm reflexively retracted to his chest, but this large movement only exacerbated the pain. Right now, he didn't want to care about anything, life's major events or anything else. He could only freeze his entire body as much as possible to prevent any other movement from affecting his arm muscles.
Perhaps the muscle strain was too minor, or perhaps Jiang Youwei's remedies were truly effective. A few minutes later, Jiang Youwei felt a warmth in his arm. Though still slightly tingling, it had finally returned to a bearable state. "Wow, it feels like hours have passed," he thought to himself. It was only then that Jiang Youwei noticed a bright spot below his field of vision.
"Maybe I just glanced at the sun without noticing?" Jiang Youwei recalled a previous driving experience. It was a bright summer day, and the sun dazzled the car ahead, blinding him so much that he couldn't open or close his eyes, so he had to stop by the roadside for a long time to recover. "I remember the hospital said it was temporary blindness." Jiang Youwei felt a moment of fear, and then he became more concerned about the spot of light. Subconsciously, he tried to focus on the spot of light. According to experience, as his field of vision shifted downward, the spot of light would also move downward in sync.
"Holy shit! What's going on?" As Jiang Youwei watched in horror, the spot of light shifted from the bottom of his field of vision to the front, gradually enlarging until it filled his entire field of vision. Jiang Youwei could only see a golden "1."
Jiang Youwei was terrified. In his desperation, his brain once again issued excessive commands. His waist muscles exerted force, trying to lift his upper body. However, compared to Jiang Youwei's 200-pound weight, his waist muscles twitched unwillingly. Then, a painful cry was heard, like an old hen about to be slaughtered at the market. Yes, Jiang Youwei had sprained his waist.
When Jiang Youwei sat up, holding his waist, he had completely forgotten the fantastical event. The moment his attention was diverted by the pain, the numbers in his vision disappeared.
Jiang Youwei, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, let out a long sigh and said to himself, "It seems that I should be more restrained. I am starting to have hallucinations." Then he slowly and gently bent down to pick up the phone on the ground and wake up the lock screen.
"I still remember, the password is 0000."
Wrong password.
"Wrong input?" He tried again.
This time it opened normally.
Then came Jiang Youwei's daily routine. He'd start by licking Ami Donkey's feet and stroking Chuxue's tail. "Hey, why can't I connect? No signal?" He noticed the signal bar at the top of the screen was full. After trying a few more times, Jiang Youwei gave up.
"YJ, please be careful. Is this a potato server?" He tried to log in to the small, broken website. This time, it logged in quickly. "Yeah, the interface has changed, normal operation!" He had the impression that video websites like the small, broken website often made minor changes, but the content always remained the same. "Let's take a look at some silly videos first?" he muttered to himself.
"Hmm? The last defender of the domestic shooting game?"
"Huh? Wuling launches a new supercar?"
"Huh? Stockpile tons of goods, and I'll beat Country Y?"
"The 50-year-old classic arcade game 'Brass Bullet' is like this? Huh?"
"A 20-year-old cannonball was dug up in a wheat field? Huh?"
"【Shooting/3D】Don't lose this battle, okay? Huh?"
"What? CS4 has started public beta?"
"What? The Yellow River diversion project is almost completed?"
"What? They've already built several nuclear fusion power plants?"
"What? A school shooting in the US left 29 dead and 16 injured? Ugh, that's fine, bullshit!"
As Jiang Youwei was scrolling through the videos online, he felt increasingly strange in his heart, "Am I still asleep?" He gradually began to doubt the videos he had seen, and then doubted his own memory.
"Could it be April Fools' Day today?" Jiang Youwei stubbornly believed this was just a real joke. Perhaps the development of AI technology has made it possible to fake videos? He operated his phone to return to the initial screen. "It's 9:12 now. Um, today is... Today is February 19th. Hmm, hm?" Jiang Youwei remembered that he had just put on a down jacket last week, preparing for winter. "Did I sleep for three months?" he wondered. "Maybe my memory is just deceiving me?"
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