There are not many people at this table, and there are only five Han Le joining, Amy took the initiative to stand up and introduce to everyone: "This is Han Le, who just woke up today." ”

The other three people at the table picked up their beer glasses and raised them to make a gesture to see that this was a celebratory gesture.

After sitting down, the topic at this table continued, and sitting opposite Han Le was a gray-haired old man from Europe and the United States, who seemed to be somewhat interested in Han Le: "Are you Chinese?" ”

Han Le nodded.

"I went to China a few years ago," the old man said, "and compared to many other countries, it's like two worlds." ”

Han Le didn't quite understand the meaning, whether this was good or bad.

"The Chinese government restricts any hiber......nation that is not for medical purposes," the old man's tone seemed nostalgic, "I still remember the day I got off the airport and took the subway to the city center, and I saw more people on the way than I have seen in my lifetime in other places...... Compared to there, it feels like a bunch of exiled prisoners......"

"Look here," the old man pointed to the rest of the room, "this is the world we live in, there are tens of thousands of people crammed into the entire hibernation area, but I don't think there are as many people as a tribe of primitive people. ”

"That's our choice," said another bearded man, "and if we send you to China, you'll be in the way...... If you didn't hibernate, you probably wouldn't be alive now. ”

"It's the truth!" The old man smiled, "We are always envious of other people's fates. ”

Han Le flipped through the chat records before this table, most of the words recorded were similar to these complaints, compared to other tables seemed to be boring, just now Han Le also saw a table talking about the establishment of a "hibernation political party", which seemed to want to create a set of mechanisms to fight for a certain right to speak for the hibernating crowd......

Several other people have been saying without a word, Han Le ordered a glass of beer and listened slowly, but his mind was thinking about other things in a mess, although the current hibernation technology greatly reduces the physiological discomfort after waking up, but excessive information is always unavoidable, there is an idiom in China called "Huangliang a dream", sometimes temporarily sober up from more information, Han Le will always have a delusion, maybe the next second, he really opened his eyes and found that all this experience is actually a dream, hibernation, 2083, Qiao Yiyu......

"Han Le," Amy's voice interrupted Han Le's memories, and when he looked up, he realized that only he and the doctor were left on the table, "Are you thinking about your two friends?" Amy asked.

Han Le shook his head: "No." ”

"You look a little lost...... I didn't participate in the conversation just now. ”

"Maybe I'm not very good at talking."

Amy didn't ask again, but Han Le suddenly remembered something, and flipped through the chat history again: "Chatting here won't be part of your psychotherapy, right?" ”

Amy smiled and nodded, "Why, are you rejecting the term psychotherapy?" ”

"Nope." Han Le also smiled, but still subconsciously argued, "I don't have to do this." ”

"Didn't you say you made an appointment with a friend? Didn't hear from them? ”

"Found it, I just want to be alone for a few days."

Amy laughed: "Be careful, your few days can become years or more if you're not careful." ”

Han Le understood the meaning of her words, but he didn't say anything, just subconsciously used his fingers to control a small game on the desktop computer.

"Let's change places, you don't speak." Amy seemed bored and stood up.

Han Le has no opinion, why shouldn't he, boring and empty, his feelings may be deeper than the doctor, the two of them came to a large table with more than a dozen people, and it was also the table with the largest number of people in this bar, and when he sat down, Han Le noticed that this was the group he had just passed by, discussing the "hibernation party".

"Introduce yourself, that's the rule," there was a host at the table, an Asian woman in her 30s, who looked at her face in a bit Southeast Asian style, and after sitting down, the host spoke, "Say whatever you want." ”

Han Le subconsciously gave in, but it couldn't be delayed for long, Amy's self-introduction was very short: "I am a psychiatrist in this district, on duty for half a year, the next time I wake up should be 17 years later, January 1, 2100, is anyone with me?" ”

Some people raised their hands, but others joked: "I have a hunch that the next 17 years will be terrible." ”

"Horror? What are you afraid of? Amy asked with a smile.

"All beautiful women are afraid of getting old and hibernating, it's simply the end of the world for men......" Before the man finished speaking, the whole table laughed together, including Han Le.

"The horror is yet to come, on the first day of the 22nd century...... the man continued solemnly, "all the beautiful women in this hibernation area will wake up together to watch the sunrise of the new century, and then you will find that all the men here are looking at you with a harmless look and hugging each other tightly......"

The effect of this joke was good, and the people at the whole table laughed for three or four minutes before it gradually subsided, and Han Le also let go of a little, learning Amy's self-introduction and saying, "My name is Han Le, and I plan to stay here for a month or two, and wake up for another month or two after 10 years, is anyone with me?" ”

No one raised their hand, but one black guy said, "I hibernate with you in the same way, we always wake up once in a few years, but we have staggered deadlines." ”

"It's normal," the host said, "and it's almost impossible to find a hibernator who is on the same pace, best friend, family...... No matter how intimate the relationship is, it is weak, which is why we are talking about setting up a new coordination group. Han Le, can you take a look at our previous chat history...... In this era, the individual's grasp of information, the control of the rhythm of life is completely disrupted, not everyone is an idealist, no matter what the cost, just to hibernate and wake up to see a perfect world, such a world is likely to not exist, and the future may not be as beautiful as we imagined, now you should be able to feel it, remember a week ago that the young man no, he said that he hibernate before he was a software engineer and wanted to find a job in a related field...... After reading the automatic compilation software, he was almost desperate...... In hibernation, not only are we abandoning the times, but the times are constantly abandoning us. ”

As if he wanted to strengthen the persuasiveness of his language, the host asked Han Le again: "What kind of work were you doing before hibernation?" Have you ever thought about doing something in the future? ”

Han Le was a little embarrassed: "I don't have a job...... I didn't think about it, but I don't think everyone will need to work in the future. ”

"It's true, but people always need to do something, just like a popular saying on the Internet a few years ago, an idle day is rest, a month is enjoyment, idle ten years is a blessing, and a lifetime is torture...... There's always something you want to do, right? ”

Han Le obviously hadn't heard this sentence, but he understood it quickly, because before hibernation, his life state had been hovering between blessing and torture, and it was because of his understanding that Han Le felt a little inferior now: "Not yet...... I haven't figured it out yet. ”

The host saw Han Le's uneasiness, which was a good thing and worthy of comfort: "I dare to say that most people here haven't thought about this problem...... But fortunately, the last thing we need now is time. But from another point of view, time is a double-edged sword, every hibernating person before hibernation, only see the good side, now you also see the bad side, we hide in a small bar dozens of meters deep underground, drink beer together, chat to pass the time, but no one wants to go to the ground, to contact with real life, I dare to say, among many of you, unless the last dime of the bank deposit is spent, And you don't even think about doing anything other than hibernation (people who don't have money to pay for hibernation, arranged by hibernation organizations, and work that wakes up every other time, as is the case with Amy being a doctor), because you think that reality has nothing to do with you, and one of the biggest problems with the way we see the world from hibernation is that we feel that everything is not important now, but the future, just like Buddhists always pin their hopes on the next life. ”

The host's words clearly resonated with those present, and many of them lowered their heads and their drinks did not move.

"The hope of Buddhists is the unconditional and irrational belief in the existence of the Buddha, and your hope seems to have a little more practical significance, it is science and technology, and human beings are always willing to believe that the future is better than the past...... This may be true at a certain time in human society, but there is no evidence that this beauty will last forever, and it can even be said that the idea itself is a kind of belief. Sometimes I go to watch some movies of the early 21st century, watching people's lives and mental states at that time, I have to admit that I envy them, hibernation gives us a future, but deprives us of our present, escapism has become a subconscious thought of all of us, but there are always people who have to face these problems......"

"Hey, Carolyn, do you know what makes the biggest difference between you and being a politician?" Just as the host was in full swing, someone in the crowd interrupted.

The host paused for a moment, and the voice continued: "It's that your speeches are always off-topic. ”

The host, known as Caroline, smiled awkwardly, but continued anyway: "Okay, what I want to say is, since we have the same idea, why can't we organize and form a more compact group than the current hibernation organization, I'm sure you've all seen it online, there are already many of them in Europe." Total Trust in the Organisation', a group of like-minded people, hibernating together, waking together, they come from different eras and countries, but they can live together in the same time and space, by virtue of a common will to do something together, and if we want to, we can do the same. ”