Han Le lives in a hotel on the ground level, specially designed to entertain hibernators, and the price is not only beautiful on the ground, but also pure natural sunlight - in this era of underground cities, this is somewhat of a luxury.

Su Pei rarely got up later than Han Le, he left in the middle of last night's party, and after Han Le came back, he found that he had been surfing the Internet in the room, and he had been going up until the middle of the night. However, when he heard Han Le's movement of getting up, he quickly returned to the computer, Han Le was holding the bread in his hand, curious about what attracted Su Pei so much, but what he saw was only some online videos about hibernation - all the topics in Han Le's era will be related to housing prices, and all the topics in this era are inseparable from hibernation.

Su Pei got up and took a piece of bread, because he was too engrossed in watching, he hadn't eaten for a night, and when he returned to the computer, Han Le was already sitting on the chair, continuing the video he hadn't finished watching just now. A middle-aged man in the video is explaining the disadvantages of hibernation from a moral point of view, as more and more hibernators are being thrown into the future, and at the current rate of socially active population growth, future generations will one day be unable to withstand trillions of ancestral pressures – both in terms of energy and supporting services.

In the video, the speaker is listing a series of data, including the maximum number of hibernators that can be supported by each person based on current productivity, and the fact that more and more hibernators are starting to be invested, and in the data, he also adds a number of very compelling phenomena - in just a dozen years, some hibernation sites have had to refuse new hibernators to join, or reduce the level of existing hibernation services......

But by inputting the keywords in the video into the Internet, you can also find a counter-example - the progress of technology has begun to make hibernation from the beginning of the personal travel mode, into a large-scale, almost industrialized degree - in Africa, many late-developing countries have built many shocking underground hibernation areas with the hibernation industry as the pillar, unlike the "self-help hibernation site" that Han Le stayed in before, this latest type of hibernation area is not only more comprehensive in terms of facilities, but also has made more adjustments in the hibernation system - The wake-up time is no longer set by the hibernator himself, but needs to be agreed with the hibernation area.

The unscrupulous use of tactics for hibernation seems to have disappeared, and in this latest hibernation zone, even the poorest people are able to hibernate – at the cost of accepting a period of work arranged by the hibernation zone every few years on average, and many new hibernation zones have withdrawn from many policies in order to attract more people to join – such as permanent exemption from work obligations for more than 10 years or 15 years.

"This sounds like capitalism transitioning to socialism," Han Le laughs, "and the benefits of permanent hibernation sound similar to pension insurance." ”

"Pension insurance ......" Su Pei smiled bitterly and said his experience after watching various videos all night. In terms of purchasing power, if we had been alive until now, receiving pension insurance benefits on average, we would not even be able to pay for hibernation now...... I can see clearly, what policies, what benefits, now it seems that everything is good, but in the end, it is always ordinary people who suffer. ”

"Decades later...... It's useless to worry about it now. ”

"Now the hibernation technology is very mature," Su Pei said suddenly, "In the past, in order to ensure the stability of people's physiological indicators, they always woke up once every few years, and the time to wake up was several months, but now the awakening time can be shortened to more than a week......

"I think either I won't wake up, or I'll wake up for a month or two," Han Le heard what Su Pei meant, but still insisted on his opinion, "Wake up once for a week, I guess I can't even figure out what happened, so I have to go back again...... Why bother, I think it's good to wake up once in ten years. ”

"Ten years is still too long," Su Pei said, expressing his concerns, "If it were left on our predecessors, ten years would be a Cultural Revolution, and another ten years would be reform and opening up...... It's called earth-shattering, and there's no time to react. Now you still have a little money, but now you see so many governments all over the world, one government and one policy, even the communist state of the whole people has come out - what if Canada does this in the future? ”

Su Pei's communism is a large artificial island located in the sea near Indonesia, a pocket country built by a dozen billionaires, with an area of only a few dozen square kilometers, but tens of thousands of people live there, all of whom have a standard of living, and the Internet says that communism has really been achieved there - ironically, even in that kind of communist paradise, people still have to hibernate.

"Communism is communism...... Han Le was not only not afraid, but became curious, "As long as you don't starve to death, it's fine." In an era when fusion energy has been fully popularized, Han Le feels that at least he has gotten rid of the problem of survival - he has not heard of famine anywhere on the news now.

Su Pei didn't speak, he wasn't as idealistic as Han Le, every awakening from hibernation seemed to Han Le to be a surprise, but for Su Pei it meant adventure and fear - in Su Pei's eyes, the world was becoming more and more strange, the last time he woke up, there was a war in China, if it wasn't for Qiao Yiyu, maybe Han Le would have died in that hospital. And now, judging from the information collected from various sources, mankind is accelerating towards the end of the road, and the outlook on life and values at the beginning of the 21st century ...... Already crushed by hibernation, the people of this era have thrown everything into the hibernation cabinet.

In Su Pei's view, the people of this world lack some kind of spirit, even if their living environment seems to be satisfactory everywhere, even if they will laugh happily and even indulge at a party like yesterday, but the gray shadow hidden behind it can't be concealed - more than billions of hibernating people are like the same number of ghosts, coldly staring at the lives of all mankind, and this number is still increasing......

"Han Le, lend me some money," Su Pei said, "I plan to wake up once a year...... If something really happens, I can also give you a wake-up call, to be honest, I've been having nightmares after sleeping for a while, always thinking that I still have just ......woken up from hibernation."

"Hibernation syndrome is just ......" Su Pei's words surprised Han Le, he had always thought that he was the least courageous, but he didn't expect Allen's words to scare Su Pei like this, "It'll be fine in a few days." "Hibernation syndrome is what Han Le heard from that psychiatrist before, it is nothing more than that there will be some psychological discomfort when you wake up from hibernation.

"By the way, what are you going to do with the money?" To be honest, money may be the most indispensable thing for Han Le, the hibernation fund that Qiao Yiyu helped him choose is working very well, and he is now a capitalist.

"I'm going to make a little hibernation spot on my own...... Self-service, when the time comes, there will be a few of us," Su Pei said, "Now I don't feel at ease whether it's a private or state-run hibernation area...... There are too many people, something really happened......" Su Pei didn't continue, just shook his head.

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When he met Qiao Yiyu, Han Le told her about Su Pei's worries, including his suggestion of a self-help hibernation spot - to be honest, Han Le himself was not very optimistic about this suggestion, in his opinion, it was completely the survival point of the past apocalyptic survival freak, storing a lot of food and energy in case of danger and disaster. The biggest disadvantage of this kind of survival base is that it doesn't match the concept of hibernation time too much - people like Han Le, who wake up once every ten years, basically have to waste most of the food they store. From the perspective of investment scale, this kind of personal hibernation site cannot be compared with large hibernation areas in many supporting services - like Su Pei's worry, large hibernation areas will only consider more and have more perfect protection measures.

After listening to this, Qiao Yiyu smiled first: "When I hibernated you for the first time...... Actually, I had the same idea as him, and I also prepared a lot of food, just in case something happened......"

"Although all those things are wasted, I still feel that it is necessary...... Qiao Yiyu said, "Although hibernation does not seem to be a problem now, when medical technology is developed to the point where aging can be ignored, eventually human beings will still wake up...... When hibernating, there will be friction and even war, and when it comes to waking up, ......"

"Anyway, we don't lack that money," Qiao Yiyu concluded, and then said, "But he said that he woke up once a year, I think it's better for everyone to wake up together at that time?" ”

"Why is that?" Han Le didn't understand, after waking up for ten years, one year was not considered time at all in his opinion—it wasn't enjoyable. Alan is right, hibernation is like taking drugs, it is very addictive, and the later it gets, the more stimulation you seek, the more you will increase the dose.

"I can't tell, but I've seen similar hibernation regulations on the spaceship," Qiao Yiyu recalled what the teacher said to them at the time, "The flight time of the spaceship is too long and boring, and it is inevitable that you will need to hibernate in the middle." All astronauts in the same spacecraft must hibernate at the same pace, and it is a crime to keep anyone awake alone or asleep unless necessary. ”

"The reason why there are similar regulations is because time is the most unpredictable thing in this universe, it generates everything and changes everything," Qiao Yiyu quoted a passage from the regulations, "so I think it's better to be cautious." ”

Han Le couldn't help but think of the psychology when he went to wake up Qiao Yiyu a few days ago, which was actually very similar to the meaning of Qiao Yiyu's words, so he nodded: "Then wake up once a year...... But I'm afraid I won't be able to adapt to it then. ”