Chapter 004: Old Man

Jiang Jianxue hurriedly rushed into the storage room where the dormant bin was parked, and looked at the situation of the No. 001 dormant bin in the sterile space through the transparent glass wall.

Life will eventually come to an end, but space exploration is extremely time-consuming, and this problem has been thought of by earthlings who have not yet broken out of the atmosphere hundreds of years ago. So when the technology is not enough to break out of the atmosphere, the dormancy technology has already begun to be studied. Today, dormancy technology is well developed. The whole process from sleep to wake-up can almost guarantee a 100% success rate, and the chance of an accident is one in 10,000.

Dormancy can put a person into a state of 'rest', but this 'rest' is not absolute. Absolute stillness equals death, whereas dormancy does not equal death. People in dormant warehouses will still age, but the process will be slower.

Experiments have shown that the 'speed' of time slowing down in people who go into sleep is not consistent. This is directly related to many factors such as the individual's age, genetics, health, etc. The younger, healthier the individual, the lower the 'cost' in dormancy, and the higher the quality of dormancy.

Academician Zhao Hongbin was the captain of the Kirin, and when he carried out this mission, he was already in his old age. At such an advanced age, it is not appropriate to arrange such a heavy workload. However, Academician Zhao insisted on it, and he was one of the founders of the asteroid exploration project, whether it was the military or the Academy of Sciences, he was an absolute veteran with a deep background. And the situation at that time, in addition to the age factor, he was indeed the most suitable candidate for this mission. So Jiang Jianxue, who was supposed to be the captain of the Kirin ship, became the deputy captain. But Jiang Jianxue didn't complain, because Zhao Hongbin was his mentor. Academician Zhao Hongbin is alone, with no children and no daughters. Jiang Jianxue and him are called master and apprentice, but they are actually as close as father and son.

The expected exploration project was only three years, which was not a big burden, and no one expected that an accident would happen later.

When Zhao Hongbin was dormant ten years ago, he once instructed him not to wake him up unless he found a way to go back. But for some reason, he later changed his mind and changed the conditions for waking up himself. Jiang Jianxue is also full of question marks now, and he has no clue at all, so he can only wait for the wake-up process to end, and Zhao Hongbin can only know the answer when he comes to his senses.

The dormancy method adopted by Zhao Hongbin is liquid dormancy, the so-called liquid dormancy, which refers to replacing all the liquid components in the body with nutrient solution, so that the cells enter a state of metabolic rest. Compared with cryo-dormancy, this liquid dormancy is more expensive. Academician Zhao Hongbin was seventy-five years old when he entered hibernation, and if he said that cryodormancy could control his consumption of ten years within three years, but the way of liquid dormancy would save three years at most. Therefore, the current academician Zhao Hongbin is almost equivalent to an eighty-two or thirteen-year-old man. This kind of 'cost' is not cost-effective, and Zhao Hongbin chose this method mainly to avoid the possible sequelae of cryodormancy - amnesia.

For a scientist, if he has amnesia, he is almost no different from a wasted person. Because of this, the quality of Academician Zhao Hongbin's dormancy is very poor, and theoretically after waking up this time, his physical condition basically has no possibility of a second hibernation. Now that the road back is far away, Jiang Jianxue doesn't know if he will go back in this life, Zhao Hongbin woke up at this time, he is already over eighty years old, and he can't sleep again, is there a chance to go back?

Thinking of this, Jiang Jianxue couldn't help but wet his eyes. If it weren't for him up and down back then, Zhao Hongbin, who has retired, would not necessarily go this way. In this way, he still pitted the old teacher. Every time he thought of this, he blamed himself, and the hatred for that man in his heart became even more intense.

The awakening process of fluid dormancy is the process of re-infusing the blood into the replacement of the nutrient solution. With the injection of blood, Zhao Hongbin's pale face became rosy again, Jiang Jianxue stared at the data without blinking, for fear that something would go wrong, although the dormancy technology was very mature, and the possibility of a problem was almost zero, but what if? Therefore, he was still very nervous, and his palms were sweaty.

Finally, with the sound of 'drop', the yellow light of the dormancy chamber turned green, and the wake-up process ended safely. Jiang Jianxue's heart that he had been carrying was put down, and his tightly clenched hand was also released. Doctors and nurses rushed in to examine Zhao, who was still in a deep sleep, before he was transferred to an observation room to wake up naturally.

After confirming that Zhao Hongbin's health was fine, Jiang Jianxue left the dormant storage room. He kept staring at Zhao Hongbin's waking process, and after five hours of rice intake, he suddenly relaxed, and his hunger surged up. Suddenly, he remembered that there were still students in the classroom, and hurriedly took out the communicator to inform the students that the class was over, and the students of other professors' classes might leave if they couldn't wait for the teacher to come back, but none of Jiang Jianxue's classes dared to try.

Hanging up the communication, Jiang Jianxue was about to go to the cafeteria for a meal, when suddenly the communicator rang again.

Jiang Jianxue glanced at it, his eyebrows furrowed, but he still took it, and his tone was a little impatient: "Wang Feng, are you back?" What's the situation? ”

"It was a free-of-the-road meteorite that fell into a near-orbit and hit the garbage disposal station and caused an explosion. The power stove was smashed, and the sixth son ......" Wang Feng's words were not finished, and was interrupted by Jiang Jianxue: "Assess the loss, set up an emergency team, and rebuild the garbage disposal station as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, I will arrange it, but the sixth son ......" Wang Feng still had to say something, the communication had been hung up. Wang Feng put the communicator back in his pocket, looked at the young man on the hospital bed, and sighed helplessly. He used to just think that Jiang Jianxue was angry with this child because of that incident, but now it seems that it is not such a simple thing as anger, he doesn't even care about the life or death of this child, he is really indifferent. But it is inevitable that it is biased to think like this, because Jiang Jianxue is not like this to others, he can't explain it, he can't explain it, Wang Feng smiled bitterly, and said to Sun Li next to him: "Later, let the doctor do a comprehensive examination of this child, don't leave any sequelae." ”

"If you don't say it, I'll arrange it too." Sun Li frowned, and stopped talking. Seeing her like this, Wang Feng smiled and said, "Old husband and wife, what is there to hide, say?" ”

"I just can't figure it out, obviously the helmet and protective clothing are broken, how can this kid be okay? Didn't you find him with no vital signs? ”

Wang Feng smiled, spread his hands and said: "Where do I know where to go here?" After a pause, Wang Feng said again: "If you put it on ordinary people, it will definitely be death, but don't forget, whose son is he, it's not strange." ”

Sun Li smiled when she thought about it, and said, "Okay...... Do we still have to make a report? ”

"Forget it, the report is very troublesome, don't you see it, I want to tell him, no one wants to hear it." Wang Feng said a little tricky, looking at her husband like this, Sun Li couldn't help but laugh dumbly, don't look at Wang Feng's steady appearance now, when he was young, he was also a thorn in the army, although he was not as bold as that person, but he didn't do less bad things.

Thinking of what happened when she was young, Sun Li couldn't help but glance at the young man on the hospital bed. The more the child grows up, the more his eyebrows and eyes look like his father, and sometimes Sun Li will be in a trance, as if she has seen that dazzling man again.

"Huh?" Suddenly, Sun Li frowned, came to the bedside, and picked up a ball from the young man's waist.

"What is this?"

Wang Feng walked over and took a look, but he didn't look carefully, and said casually: "I haven't seen it, where did this kid pick up the gadgets, they look quite exquisite." ”

"I don't know what it does." Sun Li muttered and put the ball back. The husband and wife didn't pay much attention, they helped the boy to fold the quilt, and then stopped disturbing him to rest, and they still had a lot of work, so they called the nurse and told him to leave.