Counting, this is the second time that Su Pei has been awakened, once alive, second ripe, when he learned that the time was ten years later, he did not show the excitement after the first hibernation, and accepted this fact very calmly.

When a few people were having breakfast together at the bar, Alan began to talk about his travel plan - it is said that his college major is related to this, of course, not a tourism major, called "linear social engineering", this major is specialized in the transformation of social forms after hibernation, that is, human society from the traditional time sense, there are billions of people, the average age of seventy or eighty years old composed of a "flat" society, the transition to hibernation, at the same time there is a large reduction in population caused by the "linear" society.

Unlike traditional societies, hibernation can be stored at any time and a large number of people who are "awakened at any time" can be released at any time, so the shape of the whole society also has great uncertainty - just like a bank, it must consider that there is enough currency in circulation in the market, and it must also guard against a possible run at any time.

According to Allen, it seems that this is the so-called "hibernation deflation" period - more and more people are trying to hibernate by all means, but the government has to desperately raise the hibernation tax in order to ensure that the population base is sufficient to keep the whole society running, and squeeze out a part of the existing hibernation population to return to society.

"Like you, those who wake up without compulsion, and even come to wake up friends, are generally people who don't have to worry about money," said Allen, "and if you are poor, you should wake up like me, wandering around here every day." ”

Su Pei seems to be very interested in this topic: "It stands to reason that the more people hibernate, the easier it is to find a job, right?" At least according to the common sense of economics he knew, it should be like this.

"What you said was more than ten years ago, and the cost of hibernation was not high enough at that time," Talking about this, Alan smiled bitterly, and talked about some memories of his childhood by the way, "But even if there is a job, people in that era are not willing to engage in it, at that time, there was a popular saying on the Internet, called with hibernation, every day of life is aging, every day of work is death...... At that time, there was even a popular saying in society that only those who committed crimes should go to work......"

I think of the joke I heard in China before hibernation about being willing to contract AIDS for the sake of hibernation...... Han Le wasn't surprised by what came out of Allen's mouth.

"I've heard of a Nordic country that seems to have abolished prison sentences, saying it's no different from the death penalty...... Even more brutal. ”

"But it's a fact that the crime rate was almost zero in that era......," Alan smiled bitterly, and then began to sarcastically, "Everyone suddenly began to feel that their lives were sacred, as if they were all immortals after waking up from hibernation." ”

"You seem to have a lot of problems with hibernation." Su Pei smiled.

"I have no problem with hibernation, I work for hibernation...... But I have a big problem with hibernation by any means necessary. ”

"Unscrupulous?" Su Pei didn't shout, he didn't hear what Han Le had heard just now.

"I remember that in Chinese, there is a saying called 'raising children to prevent old age,'" Allen said, "and at the time I was born, this habit had become worldwide." ”

Thinking of what he had seen and heard before, Han Le was keenly aware of what Alan was going to say next, and sure enough: "Before the advent of hibernation, raising offspring has always been an obligation, and the support of offspring is only part of the reward of this kind of dedication...... But ten years ago, it had become a ......"

"A kind of ......" Alan seemed to have a hard time expressing his meaning accurately in Chinese, and after saying it several times without saying it, Han Le guessed: "What do you mean...... Investment? ”

Investment ...... It's a good word," Alan glanced at Han Le, "At that time, in order to increase the active population in society, the government would give a lot of education allowances for having children...... Many young people can't afford to pay the hibernation tax, so they use this way to make money in disguise. At that time, almost every family was a single-parent family, and their parents were not divorced, but only spent half of the time in hibernation cabinets...... This kind of place ......"

Alan pointed to the direction of the hibernation room just now: "It is the most profound childhood memory of people in our time, and we have never been able to figure out why our parents are unwilling to live with us in this world." But adults in that era didn't see it that way, so whether it was teachers, relatives, or even the entire public opinion, they were telling us that when you grow up, you will naturally understand the truth. ”

"Now that we've grown up and understood......" Allen's voice gradually became smaller, as if he didn't want to continue, and waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about your recovery plan, how long you plan to wake up." ”

"Let's first introduce what hibernation tourism is."

"Actually, it's the itinerary after waking up, maybe you've made similar plans before hibernation, but different eras, there are always different situations, and the original plan is always not so perfect," Alan put on a professional smile, plugged his mobile phone vertically into a connection on the desktop, and opened the hidden computer screen on the desktop to explain, "This is the latest service package provided by our company, from the shortest one week to five years planned...... If you have been awake for less than three months, I recommend you to experience these sets...... This is a humanistic travel package, we have selected the most representative music, film, and literary works in the past 20 years, which can help you form a perceptual overall impression of the current era in the fastest time, and minimize the strangeness of being in a different era. ”

Han Le took a look at some of the specific catalogs of this package, and it was easy to see some movie clips and keywords of the novel on the computer, most of which were related to hibernation. Among them, there are those who support and those who oppose it, and what surprises Han Le the most is that in the comments of these films, without exception, there are-for-tat remarks, and after a general glance, those who support hibernation are describing the beauty of the future, and those who oppose hibernation are not against hibernation technology itself, but are criticizing many hibernators for their lack of social responsibility - this is similar to Han Le's impression of online scolding wars.

"What you mean by traveling, is it just watching movies on the Internet?" Su Pei didn't seem to be very interested in these things, and questioned Allen.

"This is the feature of the Humanities package, and many of the films are exclusive to our company and cannot be found on the Internet," Allen explains, opening up another one, "If you're more interested in the real world, we can also offer cruises to attractions around the world, from the newest natural hibernation spots in Antarctica, to the ...... of life in space."

While speaking, Alan opened the video clip in the package catalog, and one of the shots deeply shocked Han Le - in a huge rectangular transparent ice block, countless people lay in an array, around this huge ice block, there are snowflakes flying in the sky, and the entire ice block is placed in the natural environment, as the time in the lens passes, in just a few months, the ice cube is covered with ice and snow, and at a certain time, there are even flocks of penguins passing by......

"Won't you freeze to death from hibernation?" This shot is simply a kind of horror, according to Han Le's understanding, there are still certain medical risks in hibernation on the earth, which requires a strict isolation environment, physiological monitoring, and temperature control system, and this way in the lens in front of him looks no different from suicide.

"Compared to regular hibernation, there is a real risk that most of them just inject themselves with antifreeze before hibernation...... "Most of them can't afford to hibernate because of financial pressure, so they find a way to smuggle into Antarctica, pay a small fee together, and let the hibernation company melt the ice after a few years." Although this method is risky, many people still try it, and the latest generation of antifreeze further lowers the lower temperature limit of hibernation, and also further reduces the body's metabolism during hibernation - almost to the point of complete stopping. It allows people to hibernate longer in an environment with only trace amounts of oxygen. Of course, you have to take your own risks, and there has already been a news story of a hibernating ice cube breaking and being exposed due to geological factors. When they were found, many of them had mutilated limbs and were used as winter food for hungry seals......"

"These people ......" Han Le couldn't understand how crazy he had to be to think of running to the South Pole and taking such a risk to freeze himself.

"I've heard that at the beginning of the 21st century, there will be people who sell their kidneys to buy mobile phones......," Allen said, "I think it's about the same thing, at least they're voluntary, aren't they?" ”

"They're just selling more, they've sold out almost everything they can," Allen said, pointing to the camera, "and I don't know what genius came up with the idea, and they've even turned their hibernation place into a tourist attraction to earn future tickets...... And a lot of people are interested. ”

"I thought at least this era would eradicate poverty." Looking at the camera, Han Le couldn't accept it, and stretched out his hand to turn off the interface.

"Different eras have different definitions of poverty," Qiao Yiyu also sighed with emotion, just a few shots in front of her, just a trivial matter in history that is not worth mentioning, but she is really in this era, facing it from the perspective of the same era, but she feels that it has an indescribable power, which makes her suddenly think of a sentence she just saw on the Internet yesterday, "In 2013, poverty means that you can't afford to buy a house, and by 2073, poverty can't afford to buy a coffin." ”