Eight days later…
"Is this the dormant cabin?" Lu Yuanming walked around a long metal coffin and asked in wonder.
The entire long metal coffin is about two and a half meters long and about one and a half meters wide. It looks very loose even for a strong adult man lying in it. There is also a transparent lid on the front of the long metal coffin. The lid will close when a person enters it. Then you can enter the hibernation program.
Next to Lu Yuanming, there were researchers who introduced various aspects of this dormant cabin to him.
"Through the analysis of the dormancy equation, we confirmed that there are indeed some sleeping genes in human genes that can control people to enter a dormant state. In this state, the human body's metabolism will drop significantly. The data from the three hundred volunteers we tested shows , maximum metabolism can drop by 70 percent," the researchers said.
Lu Yuanming immediately frowned and said, "It only dropped by 70%? Doesn't that mean that we can only extend our life by about fifty years?"
The researcher looked stunned, and then immediately said: "No, how could it be possible to extend life by more than fifty years? This is not how it is calculated."
Lu Yuanming immediately asked excitedly: "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't understand this very well, so can life be extended longer? Hundreds of years? Or thousands of years?"
"...About five years." The researcher showed a helpless expression, and she said to Lu Yuanming hurriedly: "Your Excellency, the decision maker, life is not calculated in this way. The decrease in metabolism is just the decrease in the physiological operation speed of human beings. This is Although it can also delay aging, it is impossible to exceed the limit of human lifespan."
"Five years!? Only five years!?" Lu Yuanming's expression changed drastically.
The researcher was a little girl. When she heard Lu Yuanming amplified his voice, she turned pale with fright. At this time, Tang Zhe'an, who was giving instructions in the distance, looked over. He quickly gave a few instructions and ran away. He came over and said a few words to the little girl. Then he pulled Lu Yuanming and said while walking: "I want you not to come here in such a hurry. You have to see the real thing quickly. Is the little girl from the murderous family interesting now?"
Lu Yuanming grabbed Tang Zhe'an and said, "It's only been five years? What's the use of five years!?"
"Let go! I have new clothes!"
Tang Zhe'an finally broke free from Lu Yuanming's hand, and he said calmly: "You are too anxious. The little girl probably didn't even finish her sentence, right? Did she just introduce the slowdown of metabolism? She said That’s right, just by slowing down our own metabolism as humans, it’s good to be able to extend our life by five years.”
Lu Yuanming let go of his hand and asked doubtfully: "Our own metabolism slows down... Are you saying that this five-year life extension can be achieved without relying on this instrument?"
Tang Zhe'an looked at Lu Yuanming with disdain, and then continued: "You need to study more, brother, that little girl must have introduced it to you just now, right? This is a function that comes with our human genes, which is the so-called It is almost common sense that most of our human genes come from our ancestors, not apes, but reptiles, amphibians, etc..."
"From the beginning of life's gradual evolution, genes have recorded everything in the past generation by generation, so the genes in our bodies have genetic information from the beginning to the present, and the equations we obtained have marked genes that belong to the dormant level. fragment, and after activating the function of this gene fragment, humans will enter a state of slowed metabolism."
"But don't think this is a good thing. In this state, human activities will be greatly reduced, or even almost impossible to move. They can only be passive and semi-conscious. This is actually the same as the dehydrated water bug bear."
After Lu Yuanming listened and thought about it carefully, he asked: "So this is the effect of not using this sleeping cabin, right? What about using this sleeping cabin?"
Tang Zhe'an looked at the hibernation cabin and said: "After finding out that humans have the possibility of hibernation freezing, we further analyzed the formula, especially the spells and arrays, and then found the most suitable temperature and the time to reach that temperature. At the same time, in order to avoid irreversible damage to human tissue at low temperatures, we also referred to the data in these spells and array diagrams to find a suitable buffer. When the human body is wrapped in it, it can avoid low temperature damage in a dormant state. .”
"At the same time, it's not just these. The formula data also includes radiation, electromagnetic field, energy, gravitational field... and other elements. According to our current technology, we can only achieve about 80% of them, and the rest cannot even be simulated. , but even if this is the case, our dormant freezing technology can also be said to have undergone a breakthrough!"
"Ten thousand years! At the very least, you can extend a person's life by freezing him or her in hibernation for ten thousand years!!"
Hearing this, Lu Yuanming's eyes widened. He pulled Tang Zhe'an in disbelief and asked, "Ten thousand years!? Can it really survive ten thousand years after being frozen!? Don't lie to me!"
Tang Zhe'an kept waving his hands to drive Lu Yuanming away with disgust on his face, and said, "Who would trick you with business matters? It's ten thousand years, it's ten thousand years, but..."
"Very good!"
Lu Yuanming walked back and forth excitedly. Ever since he learned the news that humans were about to be trapped and died in the Epbo galaxy, the heavy psychological pressure he had been feeling was finally relieved. He laughed twice and saw the researchers around him. Looking at him, he covered his mouth in embarrassment and said at the same time: "Okay, okay, you have made great contributions, and this group has made great contributions. In this regard, I will urge the management seat to reward you as soon as possible. By the way, come to my house for dinner tonight. Your mother and your sister sent me emails before, and you have to go see them today no matter what, and..."
"but!"
Tang Zhe'an said these two words seriously. Lu Yuanming blinked and said, "But? But what?"
"But during these ten thousand years of dormancy and freezing, human lifespan is still slowly increasing. Sorry, as I said before, we can only meet about 80% of all conditions, and the remaining 20% are not enough. Science and technology are required to achieve this, so this is not about time standing still, but about slowly increasing our human lifespan, whether it is sixty years, seventy years, eighty years... or one hundred years. , spend ten thousand years in the dormant cabin, and ten thousand years will pass as soon as you sleep, but at the same time, you will also go from youth to old age, and you may even die of old age in this dormant cabin. Do you understand?" Tang Zhe'an was indifferent. said.
"Ten thousand years of dormancy, from youth to old age..."
Lu Yuanming repeated his words stupidly. He stared at Tang Zhe'an for a long time, and then said: "In other words, if we plan to hibernate the entire human race to survive these ten thousand years, when we wake up …”
Tang Zhe'an nodded heavily and said: "Yes, not to mention all the elderly, at least half of the population is likely to have aged and died. Even the current babies will probably have middle-aged and elderly bodies by then."
Hearing this, Lu Yuanming felt cold all over, as if his whole body was being soaked in ice water and gradually suffocating.
The surrounding researchers were all looking in the direction of him and Tang Zhe'an. Tang Zhe'an first glanced at the people around him with a smile on his face, then put his arm around Lu Yuanming and shouted in a low voice: "Stay calm! Best of all! So you can put on a smile...obey me, come on, smile."
Lu Yuanming showed a smile that was uglier than crying, and then he was dragged into the office by Tang Zhe'an. After entering, Tang Zhe'an closed the door, then let go of Lu Yuanming and said: "You are the decider! Please, everyone You can show any expression of frustration, despair, or distress, but you can't! At least not now! Are you fucking listening to me? Don't start any big production just because you think the situation is urgent. It's urgent. Labor, national labor and other ridiculous things!”
Lu Yuanming naturally knew what Tang Zhe'an meant, but at this moment he was full of despair. He could only hold his head and said: "It's just other people, but you should know that there is no other way. We have tried everything. In this way, the existence of black holes makes the curvature generator unable to operate, and there is only less than ten years. However, once we leave the Epoch Galaxy with the curvature generator, we do not have enough energy to start it. In other words, we humans are I’m so sleepy!”
Tang Zhe'an calmly brewed two cups of coffee, placed one cup in front of Lu Yuanming, and drank the other leisurely.
After a while, after Lu Yuanming calmed down a little, he said: "Don't be so desperate, things haven't reached the point you thought, and you don't even need the wisdom of the crowd. I can give it to you now. Give me some solutions."
Lu Yuanming immediately looked at Tang Zhe'an, but Tang Zhe'an just pointed at the coffee in front of him. Lu Yuanming ignored it, picked up the coffee and drank it all. Tang Zhe'an said helplessly: "First, improve us technological strength, the current problem is nothing more than the existence of a black hole in the Epoch Galaxy, and we must leave the Epoch Galaxy within ten years, right? But once we leave the Epoch Galaxy within ten years, we will not have enough energy to use the curvature generator, then Improve our technological strength and go to level three civilization, so that we can use the curvature generator at any time without having to wait for the energy of the Dyson Cloud here, right?"
"Second, we should improve our technological strength and completely complete the dormant freezing technology to achieve an approximate time-stopping effect. Then we can survive not only ten thousand years, but also one hundred thousand or one million years."
"Third, we should improve our scientific and technological strength. At the same time, we continue to fish for things in the world of Xianxia. From this harvest, we can see that the information on the techniques inside can be used in the material world, so continue to fish for and fish out After we come here, we will continue our research and turn all of us humans into supermen, so that all of us can naturally live for thousands of years, and this matter will be solved!"
Tang Zhe'an looked at Lu Yuanming and said seriously: "What you have to do now is to solve it, ask the think tank, summon all the scientists, and solve it! Instead of sighing cowardly in front of me, do you understand!?"
