"The hibernation chamber A-0726 is unlocked. Medical personnel, please prepare."
Jinling Third Hospital, in a post-modern ward.
Standing next to a green potted plant landscape, the doctor in a white coat flipped through the holographic information book in front of him. He touched his chin with his other hand and asked casually.
"Which era is this person from?"
The nurse thought for a while and replied.
"It seems to be 2026."
The doctor couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he heard this number.
"2026 … This friend is really far away. One more year and it'll be a century."
The dormancy technology before the 1950s was very simple. Almost all hospitals injected dormant bacteria directly into the blood vessels of dormant patients.
This simple and crude treatment method was quite unrigorous and full of risks in modern medicine, but in that era, it was considered a groundbreaking technology.
In addition to the normal awakening work, they also needed to perform a hemodialysis on the patient and put in medical nano-serum to remove dormant bacteria from the body.
These procedures were not very troublesome. At most, it would cost a little money.
From this perspective, all the "old popsicles" frozen before the 1950s had to thank the great man surnamed Lu from a century ago.
If it weren't for the Freezing Human Rights Protection Fund he established to buy out the use of these technologies in the field of freezing human recovery and open it to major medical institutions in a non-profit form, these old popsicles would have to carry a large amount of loans when they woke up.
The hibernation chamber slowly opened.
With the help of a doctor, a nurse, and two medical robots, the man lying on the hospital bed slowly opened his eyes.
"This is …?"
"Jinling Third Hospital, welcome to the future. The time now is 12: 01 on January 12, 2125."
The male doctor swiped his index finger on the holographic panel. He took a freshly printed document from the robot next to him and handed it to the man lying on the bed.
"This is a description of the protection of the rights and interests of the dormant. Considering that you don't know how to operate the holographic system, we have prepared a paper version for you. After reading it, if there are no problems, we hope you can sign in the lower right corner to show your understanding."
"What the hell is this thing …"
The dumbfounded Wang Peng frowned and looked at the doctor standing by the bed. He said in a serious tone, "I'm an agent from the National Security Agency's Intelligence Department. Please report my situation to my superior. I'm not joking. I'm here on a mission! "
Looking at the clueless Wang Peng, the doctor and the nurse standing next to him exchanged helpless looks and sighed in unison.
"… How many is this?"
"This year is probably the first."
"What number …" Wang Peng frowned and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, it's just that there are often people like you who don't know anything about the current situation after waking up, and then say something strange to themselves." The doctor reached out his index finger and tapped a few times on the holographic panel. "I'll find a volunteer nurse from the same era as you to communicate with you."
At this moment, footsteps came from outside the ward.
After gently knocking on the door, a doctor walked in.
"Is this the ward of dormant A-0726?"
The doctor standing by the bed asked as he stopped what he was doing.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Someone said that he is a friend of this dormant and hopes to visit him and explain the situation here to him."
The doctor standing next to the bed breathed a sigh of relief and turned off the holographic panel in front of him.
"That's great, let him in."
Wang Peng watched with a dumbfounded expression. The two doctors inexplicably reached a consensus, then left the ward with the treatment team.
After a while, the footsteps outside the corridor were getting closer and closer, then there was a soft knock on the door.
"Come in."
The door was pushed open.
Looking at the face that appeared at the door, Wang Peng was stunned.
Director Li, who was standing at the door, also had an awkward expression. He looked at him and smiled to ease the atmosphere, then waved his hand.
"Hi …"
"Long time no see."
Wang Peng: "…"
That's f * cking long …
…
Sitting on the chair next to the hospital bed, Director Li briefly told Wang Peng, who had just woken up, about what had happened in the past century.
After listening to Director Li's story, Wang Peng opened his mouth and didn't close it for a long time.
The disintegration of the Human Alliance and the prevalence of decentralized sovereignty …
The crisis and anti-globalization in the 1950s …
Then the era of space navigation and cross-regional cooperation organizations …
Words and concepts that he had never heard of before made his entire brain feel like it had crashed, and he was stuck there.
Trying to filter out the most important pieces of information from this messy information, Wang Peng pinched his eyebrows, sorted out his thoughts, and spoke in a reluctant tone.
"In other words … the concept of countries does not exist in this era? And we are now … part of the Pan-Asian Cooperation? "
"I can't say that. It's just that I used a set of new era concepts to repackage things from the past.
"The headquarters and political center of the Pan-Asian Cooperation are in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city group. The technology and economic center are in the Yangtze River Delta city group. The boundary covers the Japanese Island in the east, the corner of the east coast of the Caspian Sea in the west, East Timor in the south, the Slavic Federation in the north, and the sky on Mars …"
Director Li's tone was a little emotional.
"Compared to the past, we are much more powerful now."
"It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a golden age!"
A bitter smile appeared on Wang Peng's face. He didn't know how to respond.
His index finger pressed between his eyebrows. After a while, he spoke.
"Before I went dormant, the Pan-Asian Cooperation was just an economic organization …"
"I know, and it was a relatively marginalized one." Director Li sighed, and his expression was also stained with a trace of melancholy.
How should I put it?
It was like waking up from a nap, and the government that no one was interested in suddenly evolved into a ruling class.
Although it was not that he could not accept such a setting …
It was just that the change was too big.
"What about you now?"
"Volunteering in this hospital, this job is quite interesting." Director Li smiled and continued, "It's not because of the money. The subsidies prepared by the organization for me are quite generous. Every month, the Pan-Asian Cooperation will send 10,000 credits to my personal account until I die … You should also receive some. After all, we are on a business trip."
When Director Li said the word "business trip", the expression on his face was full of complex emotions.
Although he came to this new era with a different mission from Wang Peng, when he woke up, everything changed, and the staff of the authorities announced that the mission was canceled, Director Li couldn't help but doubt his life. Why did he come to this new era?
However, seeing that the land he lived in had developed to such a strong and prosperous state, he was quite gratified.
He also liked his current life. Occasionally, he did unpaid volunteer work, giving psychological counseling to those dormant people, teaching some children, and telling stories about Professor Lu and controllable fusion.
A lifetime passed by in the blink of an eye.
However …
For Wang Peng, such a fact was a bit difficult to accept.
Wang Peng gulped and looked at Director Li, who was beginning to let go of the past. Wang Peng couldn't help but speak.
"Where's … your family?"
Director Li smiled and spoke.
"Do you mean descendants? They're all doing well, but they're a little surprised that I popped up out of nowhere. We often get together, have a meal together, talk about the past, but living together … Forget it, the concept gap is too big. They also have their own things to do, not to mention I don't need them to support me.
"But how should I say this … At first, I'll definitely not get used to it. Interpersonal relationships are cut off, and it's difficult to make friends with different values. Fortunately, technology is advanced now. If I feel lonely, I'll buy a robot to accompany me. Then I won't be too lonely. Take your time, you're younger than me. Sooner or later, you'll get used to these things. "
Director Li stood up from his chair.
"I came here today to see you and tell you about what happened over the years. In fact, I've only been awake for more than a year. In two days, people from the Freezing Human Rights Protection Foundation will come over and check your identity information and age to see if they can arrange a preparatory school for you for two years. At that time, there will be specialized people to teach you how to use AR glasses and holographic bracelets, as well as how to integrate into this new era … I won't bother you here.
"When you're discharged from the hospital, let's have a meal together. In this fancy era, the thing that satisfies me the most is probably food. "
Before leaving, Director Li said that he would come to see him again tomorrow.
After Director Li left, Wang Peng finished reading the document in his hand and finally signed his name on the last page.
His allowance was slightly less than Director Li's, only 8,000 credits.
However, according to Director Li, this kind of thing called credits had much stronger purchasing power than RMB back then. To make a specific comparison, a slightly better car would only cost about 100,000 yuan, while a bottle of Coke from a vending machine would only cost one point.
Wang Peng wasn't really worried about money.
He used to live in the system, so his attitude toward money had always been enough.
8,000 credits a month was obviously enough for him to live on. Even if he didn't do anything, he could live the rest of his life under the support of the Pan-Asian Cooperation.
However, before he closed his eyes, the instructions that his superior had given him lingered in his mind and he could not get them out of his mind.
Should I continue to perform the mission?
Standing in the bathroom of the ward, looking at himself in the mirror made of unknown materials, Wang Peng saw a trace of confusion in his eyes for the first time …
(Yuewen's annual meeting is coming up. I have to take a bus today, so I'll update a few hours in advance. I'll continue after I go back ~)
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