c44: 31: Nine Major Companies, Distorting the Era

Ren Zhong once again accessed the hibernation space through his Wrist watch.

A tingling sensation started from the wrist and spread, enveloping his entire body.

Both visual and auditory illusions appeared simultaneously.

A VR giant screen emerged before his eyes, while a melodious goddess voice echoed in his ears.

"Welcome to the eighth..."

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Ren Zhong didn't rush to click on other functions but began to think subconsciously.

This was the third time he heard the goddess voice reciting the advertisement and noticed details he hadn't perceived before.

It seemed this female voice was somewhat too enticing.

Though it sounded like an ordinary advertisement phrase, there was an almost imperceptible stir of desire deep within, as if someone was gently breathing on his earlobe.

This might be reasonable for ordinary people, but he was Ren Zhong.

He also wondered whether, when he put on the Wrist watch, the voice he heard was female; would female users also hear a female voice, or a rich baritone male voice?

What was Deep Communication Group's intention with such an advertisement voice?

He couldn't figure it out, so he stopped pondering it for now.

He then focused on the fifth icon among the six.

Hypnosis.

The miraculous effect of this hypnosis function was astounding.

Once activated, it could instantly put him into oblivious sleep, even stronger than Half-step Dizziness, which falls asleep in five seconds.

Additionally, from his personal experience, Ren Zhong assessed that hypnosis resulted in an unbelievable eight hours of complete deep sleep.

This clearly exceeded the human body's normal needs.

But here arose another paradox.

The young Night Watchman mentioned that people in this world, even without Wrist watch, if they don't use special means to enhance their endurance, would fall into sleep right on time at midnight and wake up at eight in the morning with instant alertness.

Undoubtedly, that must also be eight hours of deep sleep.

Yet Ren Zhong was different; he even experienced sleepless nights.

Ren Zhong had to activate his Wrist watch to have eight hours of deep sleep like others, and only then could he fully utilize his sleep time in the hibernation space.

It allowed him to have 24 hours of work time daily, uninterrupted by day or night throughout the year—what he dreamed of in the 21st century.

Now that the dream had come true, his intuition as a scientific worker instinctively made him cautious.

He even began to doubt.

According to others' accounts, humanity seemed to have always been this way since ancient times.

Perhaps everyone in this world had been deceived, and only this "ancient man" knew what true sleep should be, according to human physiology.

There's no such thing as a free lunch; sleeping with the Wrist watch on, which both costs money and improves sleep state, had a profound irrationality that only he could perceive.

Was the premature aging of the thirty-eight-year-old young mother and forty-two or three-year-old Mayor Ma Dafu related to this sleep?

When this thought emerged, looking back at the hypnosis icon, Ren Zhong felt as if he were staring into the Abyss.

He was terrified, his Soul trembling uncontrollably.

But ultimately, he still clicked "hypnosis."

Like others' survival needs, Ren Zhong also had his own Maslow needs in mind.

Even temporarily unable to see through the strangeness, knowing it might be like drinking poison to quench thirst, he still acted rashly.

He wasn't even afraid of sudden death from overexertion, so he decided to ingest this poison like everyone else.

Currently, he's putting up a tough facade.

Although not mouthing it, not thinking about it, he knew well after being obliterated by the Hunter in the city once.

Perhaps the "Eye of Judgement" was always looming over everyone's head.

There's certainly an evaluation system unknown to ordinary people, scoring everyone at every moment.

When the score exceeded a certain threshold, the Hunter would descend like a vengeful grim reaper.

Last time he died, it was because he uttered too many unfit words at once, leading to a score explosion.

Now, he was cautious, but that didn't mean he wouldn't "increase in score" or get erased.

Death still lingered closely by.

Ren Zhong greatly needed to "see" the world through the channel of his Wrist watch, layering his new worldview understanding upon himself like an armor.

Yes, he was very smart and had a strong learning ability, but his integration with society barely spanned two or three days.

The native Source Star people took at least a decade, if not two or three decades, to form their "indigenous worldview."

Ren Zhong wanted to form a perfect "worldview armor," to become a deeply disguised person not identifiable by the "Eye of Judgement." No matter how smart, he needed a massive intake of information, and the faster, the better.