Era future

Chapter 3 Dreams and Reality

Hibernation technology is a part of hibernation science.The hibernation technology R&D department where Luo Ting works was previously only a small department within the United Nations Academy of Sciences.The reason why it became a hibernation academy was because of the changes brought about by hibernation technology.

Shortly after the official announcement of hibernation technology, in March 2735, the hibernation technology research and development department where Luo Ting worked was promoted to the branch level, and the School of Life Hibernation was specially established.As the leader in hibernation technology research, Luo Ting made outstanding contributions and was naturally appointed as the vice president.

But Luo Ting did not just sit back and enjoy fame and fortune.

Shortly after the hibernation technology was announced, she led members of the experimental team to conduct human experiments on abnormal metabolism during hibernation.

Because hibernation technology still has flaws and shortcomings, these hidden risks may not pose any danger to small-scale hibernating people.However, when it is promoted on a large scale, the greatly increased number of hibernating patients will increase the chance of danger.Of all the people in the world, no two people have the same physique.Once a patient triggers a hidden loophole in hibernation technology, in severe cases, his or her life may be in danger.

Strive to find and fill the loopholes and shortcomings of this technology as soon as possible, so that people who have necessary needs for hibernation will be less at risk.

So between enjoying her fame every day and letting it go to waste or perfecting her technology and taking a step further on her ideal path, Luo Ting chose the latter.

But although the ideal is glamorous, the reality is actually a bit of a bloody mess.

After several selections to determine priority experimental topics, the laboratory has been unable to recruit volunteers willing to participate in experiments for free.

After much consideration, Luo Ting decided to enter the hibernation chamber to act as a "guinea pig" and become the subject of experimental observation.

Although most people dissuade her from taking this risk, because there is a certain chance of causing body damage, it is not worth it for a young woman.

But in the end she insisted on her decision and was not afraid to take the risk...

The experiment officially began in mid-November 2735.For a period of one and a half years, abnormal metabolism that may occur at the cellular level in the dormant state will be continuously monitored.

From the moment she lay down in the dormant cabin, Luo Ting knew that if nothing unexpected happened, the next time she opened her eyes, the experiment would be successfully completed.

If you can't open it... maybe you really can't open it again, but this is just the worst case scenario.

Although it feels good to speak eloquently for a while, but... I am always afraid of being cool. "The light of ideals bless me..." When Luo Ting lay down, she kept praying quietly to cheer herself up.

At that time, Luo Ting's apprentice, Ni Xiaodie, who was standing aside, saw this scene and made a joke to her as the master: "Master, are you afraid? Why don't you let me, the apprentice?"

Luo Ting cursed back after hearing this, and the worry and slight fear in her heart disappeared instantly.

Lying down straight down, she soon gradually lost consciousness.

……

When I woke up again, I felt dizzy and nauseated all over my body.

……

Luo Ting lay on the bed, reviewing various pre-hibernation scenes that seemed to be right in front of her.Every moment, she tried to control her body's movements, estimate her recovery, and memorize the priorities for recovery of her trunk and limbs.

She is a meticulous person when it comes to scientific research.

People who hibernate will not clearly perceive how much time they have spent.There are not many people who have hibernated. They report that as soon as they close their eyes and then open them, time extends backwards for a long time, and the time during hibernation seems to have been deleted.

The same was true for Luo Ting. She didn't know how much time had passed while she was hibernating. When she opened her eyes, her memory still stayed at the last second before she entered hibernation.

This feeling is as if the surrounding environment has changed drastically with the blink of an eye, and the people and objects originally in sight have disappeared.Everything happened in just a moment.

Compared with other staff in the experimental team, Luo Ting feels that her job is much easier because they have to detect physiological indicators in real time.

As soon as she opened her eyes and closed them, a long-term experiment was completed. Luo Ting couldn't help but feel filled with joy. Her mood was like spring flowers and summer birds, very happy.

As she slept from the cold winter lunar month in November to the late spring and summer solstice, Luo Ting imagined the season when birds were singing, flowers were blooming, herbs and trees were luxuriant outside, and she felt very happy in her heart.

When trying to move the trunk and limbs again,

Can move!
Luo Ting tried to raise her hands and turn her head. Although her movements were not coherent and smooth, she was able to move this time.

Luo Ting immediately raised her head slightly and looked down.The off-white sheets have a silk texture, are very shiny, look thick, and are obviously opaque.

His body is tightly wrapped in it. From his chest down, he can see a curved outline with a convex middle.The protrusions on the left and right are the parts below his waist and above his thighs.

But obviously the physical strength has not been fully restored, and the muscles have not worked for a long time.

Within ten seconds of lifting his neck, he felt a little weak, and then fell uncontrollably back to the depression made by his head.

After relaxing for a few seconds, Luo Ting couldn't help but raise her head again.This time, she extended her gaze farther away, and two blurry figures, pink and white, appeared in her sight.

The pink figure is much shorter, with a hint of familiarity and unfamiliarity in its silhouette. It looks a lot like Luo Ting's apprentice Ni Xiaodie, but she is not sure.

The two seemed to be chatting quietly, and the interaction of body language could be roughly seen.

Luo Ting's eyes were probably short-sighted due to hibernation, and she couldn't see their faces for the time being. She could only see two blurred profiles.

Luo Ting tried to sit up and at the same time tentatively called out her apprentice's name.
"Ni Xiaodie?"

Not far away, the two people stopped moving, seemed to have stopped talking and turned back, and Luo Ting could see their blurry faces.

While she was watching the two unidentified people, she put her hands on the bed and moved her hips in an attempt to pull away faster and sit up.

At this moment, the two people standing on the spot disappeared from Luo Ting's field of vision, leaving only the white background wall.Luo Ting hurriedly looked around for the two people, and soon found two figures walking towards her quickly. Involuntarily, her heartstrings immediately tightened.
When she called her apprentice's name just now, neither of them responded. She had already confirmed that Ni Xiaodie was not among them.

In the past, whenever Luo Ting called out the name of her apprentice Ni Xiaodie, the cute and carefree Ni Xiaodie would respond loudly: "Here it is!"

But these two people did not...

Seeing that the two figures were still approaching, Luo Ting hurriedly leaned her upper body against the backrest of the bed, and at the same time raised her hands to resist.

Now that the status of the enemy and ourselves is unclear, as the two of them kept getting closer, Luo Ting hurriedly shouted loudly:
"Oh oh oh... Back off! Back off! Don't come close to me!!" When the two saw this, they really stopped.

Luo Ting raised her arms flat, still maintaining a defensive posture, and wanted to hide her head under her armpits.

Luo Ting lowered her head and stared at the pair of feet on the ground that were getting closer and closer. She instinctively wanted the stranger to stay away from her.After Luo Ting issued a warning, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the man who kept approaching was standing still, and then she slowly and cautiously raised her head.

Luo Ting's eyes followed the trend.White clothes, long gown, straight hair, so tall... A narrow and slender woman appeared in the field of vision.

Then his eyes were fixed on the woman's meticulous bangs and her eyes that kept strangers away.

Luo Ting saw her standing still, and after carefully looking at her, she felt that she was not a bad person.

After confirming that the other party was not hostile, Luo Ting put down half of her vigilance and turned her head to the other side.
When the remaining person standing on the other side saw Luo Ting looking at him, he naturally bared his teeth and showed a friendly smile.

I saw that this person was also a woman, but her temperament was much younger, and she was more lively and cheerful.

Luo Ting showed a slight smile to the young woman in response.The identity of the two is not yet known, so it is better to maintain proper courtesy.

After looking around, she found that there were indeed two strangers in front of her. Luo Ting searched through her memory and found that there was no portrait of the two people. Even if they were similar people, she couldn't find them, let alone think of them. When have I seen these two?

She also thought about whether it could be people from other branches, but this view was quickly shattered.

Even if there are many members in the laboratory, she should at least have an impression. Moreover, there are no familiar signs on the two of them, so it is impossible to guess their identities based on this.Moreover...their clothes are also rather strange and very rare. They don't seem to be popular clothes in the 28th century.

At this time, the woman in white on Luo Ting's right spoke. She asked in fluent Chinese,
"Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

When Luo Ting heard this, she immediately felt very cordial.

After the 22nd century, Chinese has gradually become the mainstream language in the world.With the continuous development of Chinese network systems, Chinese is being promoted in many fields, and other language modes are gradually being abandoned.

In the 28th century, Chinese is already the world's largest language, responsible for more than 98% of social information interaction needs.But other major languages ​​still exist, and many people learn secondary languages ​​as well.When these people speak Chinese, they occasionally introduce intonations from other languages, which sometimes sound a bit strange.

Luo Ting looked at the woman in white and replied softly: "No, I'm fine, thank you."

After the words fell, Luo Ting spoke again and asked: "Do you know who Ni Xiaodie is?"

When the woman in white heard the words, she showed a confused look, as if she was a little surprised by the question raised by Luo Ting, but she still shook her head obediently and replied: "I don't know."

Luo Ting responded with an irrelevant look, and then pointed her eyes at the younger woman on the left.This short young woman, wearing a pink nurse-like suit, also shook her head, saying she didn't know.

"Then do you know who I am?"

Luo Ting then asked the two of them if they knew who she was.This time both of them actually said they knew.

Luo Ting was uncertain for a moment.
They know who they are, but they don't know who Ni Xiaodie is. It seems that the two of them are not from the Hibernation Research Institute, or maybe even from the Academy of Sciences, because they don't even have logos on their clothes.

But from this point of view, the identities of the two are still unknown.

After careful consideration, Luo Ting decided to express her doubts directly to the two of them.She solemnly asked them about their identities and why they were in the room where she was lying.In other words, why does she appear here, and where is this strange place?
After listening to Luo Ting's question, the two women looked at each other, seemingly confirming something.

Then, the two looked at Luo Ting again, and the woman in white on the right said in an ordinary tone:
"This is the year 4736, Doctor."

Luo Ting first listened to these six Chinese characters plus a number, but did not understand what the woman in white wanted to express.

"Sorry, what did you say?" She laughed awkwardly to express her incomprehension.

Finally, after the woman in white repeated it and the young woman in pink explained three or four sentences in detail, Luo Ting realized that she had arrived in 4736, a full 28 years after the 2000th century in which she lived, 4736 AD...

The two are staff at a hibernation center.As for why he came to 4736 and here, it is unknown.The two of them were only responsible for taking good care of the newly awakened Luo Ting...

The brain fell into a brief blank.

Everything seemed like a dream. After receiving and understanding the message conveyed by the woman in white with 100% accuracy, the scene of the conversation between the three people gradually became dreamy in Luo Ting's perception. The world she saw in her eyes, and the world she stood on. The two people in front of her, including herself, began to falter.The dizziness I felt when I first regained consciousness vaguely returned to my mind.

The two of them cooperated and kept explaining to Luo Ting. Luo Ting nodded her head in agreement for the first few sentences, but soon found that the sounds reaching her ears began to become thicker, and then became hazy. Luo Ting could not hear clearly what they were saying. , the ears seem to be blocked by more and more cotton.

As his body recovered, his vision became blurry again, and his thoughts began to become chaotic.Luo Ting leaned forward a little and left the backrest, trying to hear the content of the two voices, but found that her body was limp and she had no strength at all.

Suddenly, his vision went dark, and he fell sideways to the side of the bed.

Before his eyes closed, the young woman in pink clothes strode towards him.What happens next is unknown to Luo Ting.

When he opened his eyes again, his field of vision was almost filled by the plump and shapely face of a young woman in pink clothes.

The young woman in pink asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

Luo Ting's heart warmed slightly and she replied in a low voice: "It's okay...it's just a moment of anger."

This pink-clad woman's eyebrows were somewhat similar to Ni Xiaodie's, and Luo Ting felt a little more familiar with her.

But regarding her sudden arrival in 4736, Luo Ting's emotions were so complicated that she couldn't explain them at the moment.

All in all, Luo Ting couldn't help but sigh.How could a simple experiment send me to the year 2000?
But the incident happened suddenly, and Luo Ting had no preparation.The family has not said goodbye yet, Ni Xiaodie has not been guided on the key points of the experiment, and there are still many things that have not been explained...

Hey, looking back suddenly, that year was already in the dim light...

Luo Ting seemed sad, but actually she wasn't.I fainted just now because I was only thinking about my own work and experiments and couldn't continue.

After these negative emotions passed, the joy of physical "travel" slowly surfaced.
Because after the year 2000, there are more than just disadvantages...

"Doctor, we are going to take you out next. There are many people waiting for you outside."

(End of this chapter)