Hamburg is a big city, the International Polar Bear Organization (different from the domestic one) is also developing very well here, the organization has even acquired several special factories here for the manufacture of hibernation equipment, many employees in the factory are also hibernators, according to what Han Le has learned in the past few days, the hibernation organization does not seem to pay them wages, and they have no such needs, according to their agreement with polar bears, the only reward they ask for is the organization to guarantee their future life, and the freedom to hibernate - It has been decided that these factories will be natural public enterprises.

Han Le's boat was also set, Qiao Yiyu also took him to see it once, and it stopped at the edge of the harbor, which was much larger than the "fishing boat" that Han Le imagined, in addition to a few of them, there were hundreds of passengers on board, but only five or six were awake - most of them were packed in rectangular hibernation cabinets, neatly stacked at the bottom of the cargo hold.

After the boat has sailed for a while, these hibernation cabinets are deliberately piled with fish and shrimp for possible Coast Guard inspections. When he thought of that kind of scene, Han Le felt a little ...... It's hard to accept, but a few hibernators who know know it say that the current situation is much better than in the past, and when the anti-hibernation was the strictest in the past few years, there were people who were directly frozen with seafood without using freezers!

As Qiao Yiyu expected, at the end of February, Qiao Yiyu received a package forwarded from Switzerland, which contained Qiao Yiyu's watch and a handwritten letter...... In the end, the letter naturally asked Qiao Yiyu to go back and contribute to the sprint to the advanced stage of socialism......

Qiao Yiyu didn't understand why these people were so confident, and felt that the future they only said was the communism they had always believed in. Perhaps in terms of general structural form, there are certain similarities between the two, but ...... It's as if modern society is, in a sense, the paradise imagined by the ancients, but are the two really the same thing? The differences are certainly far greater than the commonalities.

On March 3, the boat departed from the port of Hamburg on time, and in order to prepare for a possible cross-examination, the trio also learned some general knowledge of fishing boats before leaving, but perhaps God forbid, the boat was not targeted by any police officers on the most dangerous part of the road from leaving Hamburg to entering the Arctic Ocean.

After entering the Arctic Ocean, the atmosphere relaxed, Qiao Yiyu and Han Le really tried to use the simple fishing equipment on the boat to catch a few times, and the harvest was not small, and it was enough to be a seafood feast. This is the first time Han Le has taken a boat, and it is the first time to experience what the ocean is, so he feels fresh about everything, and he doesn't feel tired watching the sea for a day on the deck...... Su Pei was a dragon on land, but when he went to the sky and entered the sea, he looked a little embarrassed, and the day after the boat went out, he vomited upside down......

Approaching the North Pole, Han Le found that every time he sailed, he would see facilities such as offshore platforms, which Qiao said were set up by environmental monitoring agencies on what was once an Arctic glacier. Now, there are no so-called glaciers in the Arctic, and only large patches of broken ice floes can be seen on the surface of the sea.

The ship docked on the 15th, in a port that didn't even have a name, and the port was very modern, but there were not many people in sight. Because they were contacted after they arrived, the people who were waiting to pick them up hadn't come yet, so they had to wait at the port for a while. At the beginning of March, this place was still within the Arctic Circle, and the temperature was terrifyingly low, even lower than the Arctic Ocean that had just passed, close to more than 20 degrees below zero.

The captain said that more than a decade ago, there was no one living here, because it was so cold, and the last time he came here in a research ship, the local Inuit who came to pick them up were still driving dog-pulled sleds - he thought it was unbelievable at the time. But now, they must not be able to see dog sleds, after the battery is miniaturized, as long as it is a thing, humans will want to be able to power it, and now in the Arctic Circle, hovercraft are the most common land transportation.

After waiting for about three or four hours, there was finally movement on the white horizon in the distance, and two huge hovercraft were like mammoths on this snowy field, rushing along the snow-soaked road, and huge air currents raised large clouds of snow and mist near the hovercraft. As in China, Switzerland, and Hamburg, the people who came to pick them up all knew Qiao Yiyu and had a warm attitude.

By the time we arrived at our destination, it was already night, and it was winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and although it was already past the polar night, the night was still very long. Because of the thermal insulation design of the hovercraft, Han Le couldn't see the outside on the way here, and after getting off the car, he found that he was already underground, which was somewhat similar to the kind of underground city in Ningzhou that he had stayed in before, but it was much smaller in scale, but the visual effect was very good.

According to the internal calculation of the polar bear organization, this is not a city or village, at best it is a "hibernation area", that is, a place that provides basic hibernation survival services, a large annular cold storage has been built in the core area of this hibernation area, hibernation is completely self-help, people who need to hibernate only need to stand in a vertical hibernation cabinet when they are sleepy, set basic hibernation parameters (such as when to wake up, or what conditions are met to wake up), and the rest, It's just unconsciously waiting for the moment of awakening.

There is a living area in the hibernation area, which is the place where Han Le saw when they first arrived, there are canteens, warehouses, and garages with many tool carts, Qiao Yiyu said that according to the internal regulations of the polar bear organization, every once in a while, several hibernators will be arranged to "work" here, that is, to maintain the normal operation of the entire hibernation area.

Han Le seemed to be interested in this: "Then when will it be our turn?" ”

Qiao Yiyu smiled: "We are privileged people, we don't need to." ”

Han Le didn't think it was a privilege: "If it's like me, it's been decades when you wake up, and you will definitely not be able to adapt to it." It should be interesting to wake up a few more times in between, is there a lot of maintenance work here? ”

Qiao Yiyu shook his head: "Fortunately, there is still heavy work in this society now." It's nothing more than ordering something online and notifying others to fix something if it's broken...... Specialized things polar bears will recruit some people from society to do it, but they generally don't need it. ”

While speaking, Qiao Yiyu pointed to several switches and lights in front of him and said: "You see, some basic things here are still the same as fifty or sixty years ago, and the latest intelligent concepts are not used, because of the factor of simplifying maintenance work, because intelligent systems are advancing with the times...... Especially in the hibernation area, all power and cooling equipment has a set of backup. ”

"Are we going to hibernate here?" Although he already knew the answer, Han Le still subconsciously asked, and he regretted it as soon as he said it, which was another nonsense.

"What, you're not used to it?" Qiao Yiyu turned his head and looked at him, and from this look, Han Le saw some worry.

Qiao Yiyu is telling the truth, he is not adaptable, but this does not mean that he is unwilling to do this. Han Le shook his head: "It's okay." ”

After sleeping in the living area at night, and having breakfast the next morning, Qiao Yiyu officially talked about her plans for the future: "Now we only have to hibernate...... Otherwise, any activity we have will attract the attention of the government, which is a big problem, and only hibernation can solve it. ”

"And how long are we going to hibernate?" Su Pei didn't say that he was skeptical about this decision, but subconsciously wanted to fight for a little right to speak, "What if the government keeps staring at us?" And will they find it here......"

"How long the hibernation is determined by yourself," Qiao Yiyu nodded, "You have the freedom to decide for yourself, as for other issues, I can't play the package ticket, I can only say that this is already a more suitable plan that I can think of." ”

After speaking, Qiao Yiyu glanced at Han Le: "Han Le, what about you?" No comments? ”

Han Le shook his head: "No opinion, I just think that since hibernation is so convenient, I want to wake up once every 10 years, a week or a month at a time." ”

"If there's anything fun, wake me up." Su Pei said.

"If you continue to hibernate like this," Su Pei counted with his fingers as he spoke, "10 years of waking up for a month, one year is equal to one hundred and twenty years, and ten years is 1,200 years...... If you keep living like this, you won't be a mummy? ”

Han Le's heart moved, and he subconsciously remembered what Qiao Yiyu said five thousand years later...... If calculated in this way, he has been able to hibernate, that is, for more than forty years, that is to say, Qiao Yiyu's era is not far away from him.

But obviously, in Qiao Yiyu's description, there is a fault between their civilization and the current earth civilization, which means that this will not happen - but if so, what interrupted this process? Disaster? War? ……

With this small expectation of guessing about the future, when he felt sleepy at night, Han Le walked to the hibernation cabinet that belonged to him - the hibernation cabinet here was designed to be set up, and it was only sideways after waiting for people to go in, which somewhat eliminated some of the adverse psychological effects. When he closed his eyes, Han Le even tried to imagine that he was in a certain means of transportation, like a train through time, and the only factor that could wake him up and open his eyes was the reminder of the arrival of the train.

It is said that in the earliest days, taking a train was considered a dangerous thing, and it was similar to hibernation. To put it another way, the hibernation cabinet is the equivalent of a train to the future.