Chapter 38: Full Knowledge
Fourth day of the meeting.
Chen Xuan was also busy trying to identify the danger. Although his strength was a drop in the bucket, hundreds of millions of cups of water were enough to build a solid wall.
Perhaps they should have found a better way, done more research and experiments, and discovered better means of countering it.
But they don't have time.
No matter how good a method is, it will be meaningless if it is used at the wrong time. At the moment, we would rather use the most stupid, least efficient, and most labor-intensive and resource-consuming method. The Xia Party must also ensure the safety of the people in the south.
In just three days, not only was the upper level unified in its policy on ghost-related incidents, but after the unification, the "Taoist Immortal" incident was immediately implemented, and a feasible plan was drawn up and executed as quickly as possible. The planning group, execution group, education group, filling group, and aftermath group, from before to after the incident, a set of processes were quickly implemented. There was no time to question, no time to wait. Time at this moment was a line of bright red life. If it was slow for a moment, tens of thousands of lives would be poisoned by the Taoist Immortal.
Even though it was late at night, no one could stop. Chen Xuan's face was covered with thick beard, and even his eyelids were often closed, so heavy that he couldn't open them at all.
"Officer Chen, take a break."
The people around him advised that since the incident with the Ouija board, Chen Xuan seemed to have lost the ability to sleep. Now that he was working day and night, he would be on standby from time to time.
But...the opportunity must not be missed.
Chen Xuan frowned. He always felt that being a Taoist immortal was not that simple.
Just like the Pen Fairy, every confrontation with the Pen Fairy makes the Pen Fairy show more terrifying strength.
This time's Taoist immortal may just be the tip of the iceberg, and the truly terrifying moment has not yet arrived.
In the upper city that truly faced the Taoist Immortal, tens of thousands of people had already fallen, and... the South was now only fighting against the remaining power of the Taoist Immortal.
Chen Xuan had a hunch that it wouldn't be long, perhaps two days, or even shorter, before the Taoist's true influence would reach the south.
They must make full preparations with all their strength, and then will the real battle begin.
Chen Xuan smiled bitterly. Just the residual power alone was enough to make all the humans come out in full force. What was this? A disaster that would exterminate the human race?
A brief moment of despair passed through Chen Xuan's heart, but he soon encouraged himself again to rush to the next place. Dawn always comes after darkness, and he cannot fall in the last moment before dawn.
It's just that Chen Xuan mustered up the courage, but others wanted him to give up.
"Are you crazy? Do you not want your body anymore? You didn't sleep when you couldn't sleep, and now that you can sleep, you won't sleep?"
"Who do you think you are? Do you need to be the only one to join the inspection team?"
"The real battle hasn't even begun, and the soldiers have already fallen. Is this battle even worth fighting?!"
Zheng Guofu's scolding followed closely, making Chen Xuan smile bitterly. He was temporarily suspended from his post and would be reinstated twelve hours later.
But Zheng Guofu's scolding also made Chen Xuan sober up a little.
He returned to his home and enjoyed the quietness of solitude for the first time in a long time. His ears were still filled with quarrels and irritability, but his heart was quiet for the first time in a long time.
He recalled the various experiences during this period, the endless rotation of day and night. Looking at the silent night, Chen Xuan thought calmly:
He is not fighting alone, but a war for all mankind.
There will be hope for them.
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At eight o'clock the next morning, Chen Xuan was reinstated on time.
"How's the situation?"
As soon as the inquiry was made, a document clerk immediately handed the sorted information to Chen Xuan for review.
As the proposer of the policy, he had the right to view all current "Daoxian" action data. The first moment after waking up, he obtained all the action statistics for the past five days.
At present, 28 cities have conducted Taoist questionnaire surveys, and found that there are more than 20 million high-risk people through the questionnaire. After the "five visits and three questions" action, the risk has been reduced to 99%. After summarizing, since information transmission in 23 of the cities is relatively slow, there are not many young people, and students and the elderly account for a large proportion, so the risk is relatively low. The main risk cities, headed by Tangcheng, still have great risks due to their developed economy and advanced people's thinking. Therefore, they have started comprehensive online and offline duty work to continue to reduce risks.
In Tangcheng alone, the city prevented the intrusion of "Taoist Immortal" information in the south more than 200,000 times, captured the "Taoist Immortal" information words more than 2,000 times, and the success rate of education and prevention was about 85%. More than 300 cases of practice were stopped in time and education was carried out, but in the end, there were 93 people who failed to be successfully stopped, practiced Taoism, and experienced the pain of practice for the first time.
These people may be high-ranking officials or migrant workers. They may be healthy or suffer from terminal illnesses. They place their hopes on "immortals", but all they get is the final pain.
In the end, these 93 people were also sent to the research institute and handed over to more professional personnel to provide them with rescue.
Chen Xuan put down the tablet and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it failed to achieve 0% prevention, ninety-three cases is already a miraculous number. Under such a huge and bloated structure of Nancheng, it can actually operate so quickly and prevent the infiltration of "Taoist immortal" ideas. This can only be called a miracle.
The current scene is much better than expected. In Chen Xuan's original eyes, people would not wake up unless the price of thousands of lives was paid.
But this is not a miracle, nor can it be considered a miracle. Miracles come from heaven, but this result is truly achieved through filling out questionnaires and knocking on doors one by one.
If this continues, the Taoist will not be able to stir up any trouble in the south.
The best resistance is to remain unknown. The logic of the Taoist's actions is nothing more than constantly deepening the impression in people's minds. As long as there is a brief impulse, then an attempt will be irreversible.
It would be best if you could control it now and let it fade away with time.
But is it really that simple? Can the Daoxian incident be gradually forgotten in people's memory?
No matter what, all Chen Xuan can do is to remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing circumstances.
He put on his police hat again and started a new round of investigation.
On the fourth day, people finally began to adapt to this kind of life. There were fewer public opinion storms on the Internet, the pressure dropped sharply, and the voices of support were increasing.
On the fifth day, the preliminary education tasks were basically completed, the people spontaneously resisted the "immortal" theory, the police reduced the number of dispatches and took turns to rest.
And the sixth day.
Something terrible is happening!
All the police officers looked down at their phones, including Chen Xuan. It was no longer a message from their internal team, but rather an overwhelming amount of public opinion on the Internet.
At this moment, the headlines on all apps only had one piece of news from Shangcheng:
The Taoist immortal has arrived.
