"Why Me" novella
Basement minus 10 floors. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
I lit and took a puff of cigarette, and there was a chill in my lungs in addition to the smoke.
After only one puff, I threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped it out.
"I'm coming, but I need an assistant. I said lightly.
"No problem, none of these simulations I brought with me have A's. But all are geniuses in various fields. The professor said.
I nodded helplessly: "Who has better hands-on ability?"
Only two of the dozen or so raised their hands.
I nodded and said, "Let's leave except for these two." ”
The remaining dozen people, you look at me, I look at you.
None of them meant to leave.
The professor waved his hand and said, "Do what he wants." ”
Everyone withdrew from the negative ten floors one after another.
Only me and two other assistants were left.
I smiled and said, "Tell me about the situation." ”
An assistant said solemnly: "There are a total of seventeen frozen human bodies here, six of which are women. After repeated X-ray screening, we only found that there were suspected egg cells in the uterus of two cases. ”
I pointed to the two sealed capsules in front of me and said, "These are these two?"
The assistant nodded.
I glanced at the utensils around me, and they were all available.
I thought for a moment and said, "Let's come here and disinfect it first." I opened the sealed chamber and thawed it. We have about 5 minutes to retrieve the eggs, so don't worry. ”
I opened a can of sterilization gas, and the gas spread throughout the room.
A simple clean room is done.
I instructed two assistants to lower the first chamber down, and when I did so, I noticed that the power light was still on.
It also seems to be a nuclear-powered hermetic capsule.
I pressed the turn button, and liquid nitrogen poured out of the holes on either side.
Then the mechanical hatch opened.
A sentence of naked women appears in front of us.
Is this a woman?
It's really different from the textbook.
The assistants on both sides were really stunned.
"Alright, let's do it. "I pressed the thaw button on the sealed chamber again.
Instantly, the sealed pod began to warm up, and I aimed my knife at the woman's underneath.
Since it was only egg removal, I didn't preserve the integrity of the body.
It's actually a lot simpler, so it's not complicated.
The lower body was cut with a knife, and of course it was very hard.
Because the body had not yet completely thawed, I saw the full picture of the uterus.
It seemed to be similar to the computer simulation, and I started to cut open the uterus.
"A thousand-fold magnifying glass ready. I shouted.
The assistant immediately placed a magnifying glass on my eye, and the electronic magnifying glass displayed what I saw on the screen and recorded it.
I started looking for eggs.
Wait, black cells appeared in front of my eyes.
I was lost in thought.
"Extractor. I shouted.
Another assistant handed the extractor.
I aimed at the small black flesh and pressed the suction button.
Then he withdrew his eyes from the magnifying glass and said, "This shouldn't be an egg." ”
"Indeed, but what is black?" said the assistant.
They looked at the black cells that had been sucked out from the display of the magnifying glass next to them.
I thought and said, "This could be a cancer cell." ”
After that, I cut open the entire ovary, and it was already rotting and diseased.
Of course, these are not visible under X-ray, but they are clear at a glance after the incision.
"Did any of you bring a data cable?" I asked helplessly.
"Do I have?
"No, I want to see the data in the sealed cabin. I said.
I took the data cable and connected the mobile phone, and after looking for a long time on the sealed cabin, I saw a small jack.
There is only one document in the sealed cabin.
Full of English.
I went online and translated.
(My name is Anna, a patient with advanced uterine cancer.)
I chose cryonics because my husband and I wanted to have a child of our own, but I had uterine cancer.
My husband and I heard that cryonics can keep us like this for the future.
So we broke the bank and chose to freeze me and my husband.
I hope that medicine in the future is developed enough to wake me up and my husband.
And it can cure my cancer so that my husband and I can have a healthy child. )
I shuddered a little after reading it, I don't know if it was because it was too cold or if I felt it.
I sent the video of the operation to the professor along with this document, and then wrote: "After a 10-minute break, I will move on to the next surgery."
A minute later, the professor replied with only two words: continue.
In order not to let things repeat themselves.
I plugged the cable into the second sealed pod.
Again, there is only one file in it.
The header is UBS, followed by two strings of numbers, one long and one short.
Here's another sentence in English, translated.
(You can live forever, right??If you can, this money should be enough to resurrect me, right?If not, it will be used as a deposit.) After my resurrection, I will have more money for you, if only I could be resurrected and I would have eternal life. )
I went ahead and typed in UBS, and sure enough, it was the abbreviation of Swiss Bank.
So the two strings of numbers are the account password?
I logged into this account.
The balance is zero.
I looked through the records and the last one was 200 years ago.
It was taken out, one zero, two zeros, three zeros.
A full 2 billion, I counted it three times in a row.
It seems that not only was he cheated of his life, but even his money was cheated.
The two assistants watched the corpse of the dissected woman in a daze.
I smiled wryly and said, "It's time to start." ”
Lowered down again and opened the sealed cabin, the beauty of the woman inside was suffocating.
But in the United States, it's just a corpse now.
The same steps were repeated again, and this time the eggs were successfully retrieved from the rich woman.
But I know that the probability of resurrecting this egg is extremely low.
The egg was not viable at all, because frozen eggs can only be stored for fifteen years with today's science.
Eggs frozen 200 years ago do not have sufficient preservation technology.
It's really hard to resurrect it.
200-year-old eggs, I really don't know what they are.
The door to the negative tenth floor was opened, and the test tube was handed to the professor.
And so it ended.
Two months later, I was promoted.
In the lab, of course, there is still nothing to do all day.
It's easy to get coffee delivered to the professor.
The news of which egg is no longer heard.
The first sentence of a government work contract is strictly confidential.
So let's talk to anybody about it.
On the weekend off, the phone rang again.
It was the professor who called.
"Xiao Wei, come to State C Prison. Bring two cups of coffee and one cup with more sugar. The professor hung up the phone.
I was stunned.
Why should I go to prison?
Is the egg retrieval failing? Are you going to take me to jail?
Why don't you come and get me? Let me go in and bring my coffee?
"I'm obviously already a researcher, not an assistant, why me?" I said to myself helplessly.
There is only one prison in three states, in Zone C.
In the era of affluence, the crime rate is indeed pitiful.
But there will always be people who are cornered and make mistakes.
The prison in State C is in the middle of nowhere, not far from me.
A 4-minute motorbike ride was there, with two cups of coffee and three bars of sugar.
On the outskirts of State C, a huge fence encloses the ground.
This is the last prison on earth.
The safest and most reliable.
I called the professor again because I couldn't get in alone.
The two soldiers stood solemnly at the gate, and the submachine guns in their hands gave me the creeps.
The professor didn't answer the phone, and a few minutes later came out of it and took the coffee and candy bars I had brought.
"Professor, I'm leaving. I said.
"Come in with me. And one more cup is yours. The professor said.
I took a sip of coffee and followed the professor inside.
"Professor, why did you come to this place?" I said.
"Because the eggs you retrieved failed. The professor said.
I shuddered, turned to look at the door.
The soldiers slowly closed the door with their submachine guns in hand.