This is the deepest part of the International Hibernation Center IHC.Chen Youran walked to the heavy door and stood there for only half a second before the door made a dull sound and slowly opened.He walked quickly into the door and looked around at everything inside.The door slowly closed behind him again.The inside and outside of the door are completely two different worlds.He has been to this place countless times, but today's significance is particularly different.This is the largest single building in the entire IHC complex - the Hibernation Hall.It is also one of the locations of the first and second batches of human cryogenic hibernation experiments.The size of the entire space is almost the same as the waiting hall of the Shanghai East Station of the high-speed railway, which has just been upgraded. Looking around, except for the necessary passages, stairs and operating spaces, the hall is neatly filled with hibernation capsules, and they are stacked layer by layer, from the ground to the ceiling, a total of 20 layers.It looks like a shelf in a factory, and like a container array on a dock - if the ceiling does not exist and you can see the sky directly.Chen Youran roughly estimated that the number of hibernation capsules is close to 150,000.That is to say, in this area of less than 500,000 square meters, there are nearly 150,000 people lying silently.Although they are motionless, they are all alive.Including Shanghai, IHC has a total of six hibernation centers in the world, located in Suzhou, Dallas, Singapore, Copenhagen and Frankfurt. If there are nearly 150,000 people lying in each hibernation center, the total number is nearly 900,000, equivalent to one ten-thousandth of the global population.There are only 45 years left before the Earth's ignition point in 2100, but only one ten-thousandth of the people on Earth are willing to experience freezing themselves and live as long as possible. Only by living longer can we be more likely to survive the dim years and continue human civilization no matter where in the universe.Fortunately, compared with the first experiment five years ago, the number of people who signed up for this new generation of experiments has increased significantly.Chen Youran is confident that the number of people participating in the human cryogenic hibernation experiment will definitely increase exponentially.Looking at the hibernation capsules in front of him, Chen Youran was filled with emotion.For thousands of years, humans have tried every possible means to achieve the desire of immortality. In ancient times, Qin Shihuang sent young boys and girls to cross the sea to search for immortals, and now a 74-year-old rich man has a blood transfusion with his grandson. It is finally now that humans can finally achieve a few years of low-temperature hibernation through biological and medical technology. During sleep, metabolism is controlled at the lowest level, allowing the human body to ignore the passage of time to the greatest extent.Therefore, the volunteers participating in the experiment are generally older, and there are many elites in various fields: politicians who have just retired, entrepreneurs who are about to complete their business handover, writers and painters who are free and easy... No matter how much they used to call the wind and rain, they are now just like everyone else, occupying a hibernation capsule of less than 3 square meters.The difference is that the closer they are to the vague but sooner or later line of death, the more they are able to dominate their own destiny and life, so they often hope to live a few more years. Just like traveling through a long tunnel, they saw the glimmer at the end of the tunnel earlier than most people, so they hoped that the tunnel could be longer. It was rare for a 16-year-old like Menjie, who was still far older in the future, to take the initiative to do the experiment... Thinking of this, Chen Youran followed the instructions in the VR glasses, walked forward about 50 meters, turned right, walked up the escalator to the third floor, and stopped in front of a hibernation capsule. "Forehead... you have been lying here for almost five years... including the first five years, you have been lying here for ten years. Today I have good news for you. The 15-year dormancy technology is only one step away from final verification. I will go to Suzhou later to conduct the last cross-validation test there. If all goes well, tomorrow, including you, everyone in this hall will be injected with the dormancy fluid based on this latest technology through the connection pipe between the dormancy capsule and the human body. You don't need to wake up and can sleep for another 15 years..." "... By the way, your son is a filial child. He took the initiative to ask to participate in this experiment, so I arranged his dormancy capsule next to yours. After 15 years, you and your son will come out one after the other and be reunited. If the dormancy technology is finally verified this time, I will probably choose to do it in the next few years. Hibernation, let young people tackle longer and longer hibernation technology - although I am only in my 40s, I feel that my energy cannot keep up with the past. Also, 15 years later, when you wake up, if I have already been in hibernation, you will receive a gift from me for you. As for what it is, I will keep it a secret for now..." "...I can't imagine that I am here to tell you about the arrangements 15 years later! Who can say for sure? How many things have happened in the world in the past five years? Several African countries near the equator have fallen into a state of complete collapse, and the Maldives is also in danger... If our Shanghai was not because of the automatic lifting flood control levee, Lingang would also be under the water... If you wake up now, I am afraid you will also feel that the world has changed a lot! " Chen Youran didn't know why he came to say goodbye to his old friend - he would be back from Suzhou in two days. But he felt a sense of relief in fulfilling his promise. He walked down the stairs quickly and walked towards the door where he had just stopped. He didn't stop again. When the door opened a crack, he flashed away. The door closed behind him again with a dull thud.He checked the time in his VR glasses and quickened his pace."I must get to Suzhou before 4pm!"In the central area of the IHC building complex, there is a flat ground, which is the IHC's exclusive flying car take-off and landing point. Chen Youran is very familiar with that area, but he still needs to determine the specific direction in the VR glasses.The glasses also show the distance to the target.200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters...At this time, a red figure appeared in his field of vision.Chen Youran felt a little surprised.

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