Just learned about the situation of this era, so that Han Le and Qiao Yiyu changed their original isms, and the two planned to use this month as a short stay, find a place to play, "travel", and go to hibernate until the next time they wake up. But now, not only the two of them, but even Su Pei began to have a strong interest in the entire era itself, as well as hibernation itself.

Alan praised their new idea, and few of the guests he served had such an attitude towards hibernation itself - many people had already taken hibernation for granted after many awakenings, but the three people in front of them always seemed to have a reserved attitude towards hibernation, and this cautious attitude was very rare in this era - Alan certainly did not know that this attitude was largely due to the fact that several people in front of him were from an era when hibernation was not hibernated, Although they were all personally involved in hibernation, the concept of hibernation itself was still new to them.

The best way to gain insight into an era is to start with the lives of ordinary people. Obviously, the people of this era themselves will not eat and live near the hibernation area like Han Le and them - although this can also be called a prosperous area compared to other places, but the nature of the hibernation area has determined that it is impossible to form a stable social and cultural atmosphere here, as Han Le saw before, a group of people in the bar gather to chat, it is already the limit.

Allen's place of residence is not close to the hibernation area, nearly hundreds of kilometers on the map - he came to work in the hibernation area can be regarded as a business trip, according to his own introduction, this job is not bad here, working four days a week, no more than six hours a day, of course, the nature of his work is the same as the tour guide in Han Le's memory, the basic salary is not much, and the majority is in the commission of the products sold - that is, the things he introduced before. For this "free trip", Han Le bought a set of humanistic products for a month, worth almost more than 100,000 Canadian dollars - of course, the monetary value of this era is far from Han Le's impression, and this money is only about half a year's income of ordinary people, and Allen can get more than 30% from it.

When the car just drove out of the underground, the window was covered with a layer of cold, unlike the underground that is always warm as spring, the ground at this time is still winter, looking at it, there is no end in sight on both sides of the road, the white expanse, the forest covered by heavy snow, if it were not for the billboards on the railings on both sides of the road, which can be seen from time to time, Han Le almost thought that he had traveled through time and space, returning to the primitive era.

The road is wide and clean, but there is not much traffic, and it takes about a few minutes to see the car - there may not be passengers, most of them are freight cars, some of these cars are driven one by one, and the side of the car is played with the advertising animation of the freight company, and there are several, or even dozens of cars lined up in sequence, looking like a moving train from a distance. Occasionally, I saw a car carrying people, and they all greeted each other warmly, Alan said that the people who would greet them must be travelers like them, and they always seemed a little excited, but Han Le was an exception.

In this era, riding a car is not a relatively free enjoyment, because the traffic is managed by the computer, so there are strict limits on speed, and the speed needs to be applied for in advance, and there is a speeding fee for exceeding a certain speed range - this makes Han Le can't help but think of a penguin game project in his impression. However, after a little explanation, Han Le still expressed his understanding - if there were no similar regulations, I am afraid that more than 90% of people would keep the car at the highest speed at all times.

In some snowy places on the road, the car automatically slowed down, and Han Le saw several "snowplows" similar to cleaning trucks driving the road ahead, unlike regular vehicles, these tool trucks had drivers, and they generally looked young, wearing orange eye-catching overalls, sitting in the cab, staring at their computer screens, chatting with each other, looking more like they were on vacation than working. Allen told them that similar jobs are a bit like "civil servants" and that the work is very easy, but it doesn't come without a price — workers have to sign a work agreement with the government, and generally speaking, they can't hibernate for at least five to ten years.

If only 60 years ago...... Han Le always can't help but think about this, every time he thinks of the huge difference and changes between the two eras, he always can't help but sigh in his heart - yes, in just 60 years, the world has become like heaven, what about another 60 years? What about 600 years?

Perhaps, those who are obsessed with hibernation have the same idea as him now, so they will not hesitate.

When he arrived at his destination, Han Le barely noticed the change in the surrounding scenery, the car just turned along a fork in the roadside and entered an underground passage, and then the snowy world outside the car window turned into a bright light in front of him - there was no impression of the skyscrapers unique to modern cities, and what attracted attention was only the crowd that could be seen on the side of the road at all times - Han Le had not seen so many people for a long time.

The car eventually stopped under a small two-story building, and the four people went out, and the car left on its own. Alan went to open the door and introduced them, "This is where I live, what do you want to drink?" Coffee? ”

"Tea bar." Han Le is not used to Western-style coffee.

There were about four or five rooms on two floors, and there were seven or eight people, basically all of whom were couples, most of whom were not at home at this time, and there was a man with an Asian face sitting in the living room, staring at a few strangers with curious eyes, and asked Allen in English: "Your client?" ”

"yes, where's the tea?" Alan asked in the freger.

The man went to find the tea leaves, and then turned back to Su Pei and asked, "Are you Japanese?" Korean? ”

"China." Qiao Yiyu said.

"Oh," he smiled, "that's rare, so you must be very old in hibernation, in the forties or in the fifties?" ”

None of them spoke, because they all knew very well that it was impossible to tell the truth - 13 years later, hibernation technology on Earth had not yet appeared. That's when Alan shouted, "Hey, don't talk so much. ”

Then he explained: "That's how he is, he talks a lot...... But we don't have a lot of hibernators. ”

Han Le could see a little bit, and the eyes of the man in front of him were always a little unhappy - not unfriendly, but seemed to not recognize their identity as hibernators.

In Allen's room, he explained in a whisper that in this era, whether people want to or not, everyone has a faint psychological tendency towards hibernation technology, and in the group of young people, this psychology is always inclined to oppose hibernation, regard hibernation as irresponsible, and when they grow up a little and the economic conditions improve, they will gradually tend to support it - this sentiment is more obvious in some non-hibernation cities, such as here.

"The age of hibernation is the age of the poor," Allen said to a few people, holding up a physical book on his shelf, "wealth in this age is more about the domination and control of time, and the living have the right to enjoy life, but not the right to escape the domination of the sleeper—one percent of the sleeper, in the time of awakening, may determine the living world for a century." ”

Han Le took a look at the title of the book, "The Sleeping 21st Century", and looked at the string of influences on the title page, indicating that it should be a contemporary bestseller.

"The government doesn't care?" Su Pei was a little puzzled, "It's not possible to ...... through tax adjustment or other means."

"The book mentions the consequences of such measures," Allen said, "and the flight of capital is inevitable if exorbitant taxes are not supported by appropriate services...... Many wealthy people have started to build their own hibernation areas underground...... You've probably heard of polar bears, right? It was a hibernation group that used to be very famous. ”

Several people nodded.

"At its largest, polar bears are said to have more economic influence than any other country in the world. Later, led by the Chinese government, after various countries intervened, the whole organization began to split, and one of the branches later established a so-called hibernation free federation to absorb the wealthy, and then built hibernation areas on a large scale in South America, Africa and other places, to curb hibernation, unless all countries in the world are united, otherwise...... Those who are truly at the top of the wealth will not be affected. ”

"The whole world unites ......" Han Le smiled, even if he was such an idealistic person, he felt that this idea was too unrealistic, maybe in another 500 years.

"What do you do when you're not working?" When asking, Han Le looked at the computer in the dormitory and guessed the answer in his heart.

"Games, parties......" Alan laughed at himself, "what else can I do?" ”

Yes, what else can you do, Han Le was not surprised that he guessed the answer.

Alan opened the window, pointed to a striking blank billboard in the distance, and said, "See that sign?" There are often activities on it, sometimes we are going to be extras, sometimes we are organizing demonstrations and protests, sometimes we are participating in entertainment activities. ”

"Sounds like a government bulletin board."

"It was a community-spontaneous environment, which I had since I was a child," Allen recalls, "and the most thing on the sign was to help each other take care of the kids...... At that time, the content on the sign was always full, and there was always something to do. ”

"What if no one does that?" Su Pei interjected, in his opinion, since it is spontaneous, the reliability is often very low.

"So we live in different times, we have different life experiences," Allen said, "and non-hibernation areas like ours are generally more united, and as long as they can make time, they generally help if they can." Especially here, more than 60% of them are abandoned by their parents, and there are also some single-parent families whose parents take turns hibernating, I remember when we were young, the kindergarten teacher said to us, saying that your parents think the world is terrible, so they want to go to the future, and you have to use actions to prove them wrong. ”