When Anna put away the drawing board, Wu Zhe was still lying on the grass beside her, staring at the stars. She walked up to him, stretched out a hand and said to Wu Zhe, "Let's go, I'll invite you to have supper." ”

Anna's so-called late-night snack is actually a self-service communal kitchen provided in the hibernation area. However, in this day and age, few people are willing to spend their own effort to cook - especially the quality of the cooking may be far inferior to that of the machine. In Wu Zhe's time, many families cooked to save costs, or to create a homely atmosphere, but here, neither of these reasons is necessary.

Anna makes pasta, which, in Wu Zhe's view, is just a Western version of topping. But it tastes good, and of course, it's just good.

After eating, Anna took Wu Zhe to her room—similar to the room Wu Zhe had lived in Noah, except with one more room—and the walls of this room were covered with all kinds of paper paintings, people, landscapes, and portraits...... Wu Zhe stepped forward and saw several corners of the paintings, with the time and place of painting.

Wu Zhe found several landmarks he knew in the middle, including the Statue of Liberty, the Three Gorges Dam and ** Square, and many others he didn't recognize, but there were eyes on the paintings, such as the largest nuclear fusion power station in the United States, the exhaust pipes of large hibernation areas, and the space stations of many countries in the background of space.

Wu Zhe pointed to the map of the space station and asked, "Where did you go in person?" ”

Anna nodded, then retrieved the photo she had taken with the other astronauts on the space station from her phone. He pointed to one of the astronauts and said, "This is my uncle, I started to apply for the quota to go to space when I was 14 years old, and it took me five years to finally have this opportunity." ”

Wu Zhe sees a scene of his uncle working outdoors, and in that scene, the earth is in the corner of the photograph — in this photograph it is like a small, inconsequential foil.

"When I have the chance, I'll definitely go and see it." Wu Zhe said.

Anna glanced at him, smiled and said, "Do you really have this plan, or is it just to fit in with this topic?" ”

Wu Zhe was stunned for a moment and said, "If you can let me go now, I won't mind." If I were to plan for 5 years, I would feel like it was too long. ”

Anna: "This time it's the truth. By the way, did you know that there is a civilian solar system spaceship program on the Internet now? ”

Wu Zhe shook his head: "What is this?" ”

Anna sent Wu Zhe a web address, and then explained: "It is that many people raise their own money and are ready to plan and build a spaceship that can fly out of the solar system......"

Wu Zhe saw the page and knew that this was not exactly what he had seen in the mailbox before? At that time, he thought that this plan was just a whim of a group of idealists, but from the fact that Anna also knew this, it seemed that the popularity was quite high.

"I've seen it before, but I thought it was just ......" Wu Zhe wanted to say that he was homely, but after thinking about it, he changed the word, "I think it's a little far away." ”

"If you include the factor of hibernation, it's not far away," said Anna, "and my uncle told me that NASA had been commissioned by these people to do a feasibility study for the spacecraft program, and that there was no real difficulty in terms of principle or technology -- and by difficulty, I mean Cheng Dù, which is obviously impossible to do with current technology."

So as long as enough money can be raised, the project can be started. However, judging from the per capita funding of the current plan, I am afraid that this spacecraft will never be built to meet the standard stated in the plan and achieve long-term navigation in space, although it is feasible in principle. ”

"Why?" Wu Zhe asked.

"Because everyone has too little money to pay, and the spaceship capacity is limited, sooner or later this plan will need to be compromised - by that time, maybe not every funder will be able to get on the ship, and they will have to draw lots to decide the number of places on the spaceship."

"It's going to be harder to raise money." Wu Zhe thought and said, if the current model is to spend money to buy a ferry ticket, then the model that Anna said is to spend money to buy a lottery ticket on the ship. ”

"But it's also more realistic," says Anna, "and the ideal can't go far without reality." ”

Wu Zhe looked at the American girl in front of him, and her confidence and determination when she spoke made Wu Zhe envious - Wu Zhe knew very well what kind of person he was, he always said in his mouth, he couldn't hear any categorical words, he was always humble, he always had a way out, and he would always ...... Keep a distance from the real right and wrong, and always refuse to choose.

Anna noticed Wu Zhe's eyes: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Wu Zhe said: "...... Just now, I felt like I was an old man in front of you. ”

Anna: "Ha, it's not surprising, you haven't said yet, how many years were you born?" ”

"It's the beginning of the last century," Wu Zhe said, "what about you?" ”

"Twenty-five years," says Anna, "I was ready to hibernate after I was in Amsterdam." ”

"When?"

"For 1oo years, I only have so much money," Anna said, and then asked Wu Zhe, "What about you?" ”

"It's going to be soon." In front of this stranger, Wu Zhe realized that he was very natural, and said the words that had been hidden in his heart - before this, he had been faintly resisting, but at this moment, when he said this sentence, he felt that he was happy all of a sudden.

"Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to adapt to the future life?" Wu Zhe asked, this worry was actually his own.

"I don't know if my future life is suitable for me," Anna said as she printed out her work today on the edge of the printer in her room, "Anyway, I'm tired of my current life, so why not try new possibilities if I have the opportunity." ”

yes, why not give it a try. Wu Zhe muttered to himself.

"Do me a favor," Anna said, standing against the wall with two pushpins and a freshly printed drawing, "to see if it's right." ”

"A little higher on the left...... Yes, exactly. ”

Anna has several works today, two of which are only half-finished, and it seems that she doesn't want to continue painting, or she is not very satisfied, so Anna throws these two directly into the trash.

Then she turned around and said, "I'm ready to rest, you ......"

Anna blinked, suddenly aware of the embarrassment. But she still said clearly: "You don't think that I want to keep you here...... We're just chatting, right? ”

Wu Zhe nodded: "Of course, bye." ”

“bye。”

When he went out to wait for a taxi, Wu Zhe looked at the time, and it was already more than two o'clock in the second half of the night. But he didn't feel much sleepy now, and when the taxi arrived, he got in the car and gave the address of the hibernation area.

Wu Zhe had only seen some hibernation programs on the Internet before. In China, hibernation requires the person to formally apply for hibernation in person a few days in advance, and the hibernation zone management department also needs to check the applicant's physical and financial situation, or whether he is included in the national hibernation prohibition list.

But in the Netherlands, a qiē is very convenient, as long as you can give money, hibernation is like the past, doctors give patients an injection as simple, and even in some extreme hibernation areas, automatic hibernation machines have been created - as long as people give themselves a few injections first, including anesthetics and antifreeze and other things, and then take advantage of the time to go into the hibernation cabinet, you can hibernate yourself.

But Wu Zhe did not have such ability now, he just came to the infirmary where he lived in the hotel and explained the situation to the doctor on duty.

The doctor gave him an electronic contract with two of the most important things to hibernate - the method of awakening, or the granting of the right to awaken, and the trusteeship of the property.

Wu Zhe didn't know how to fill in these two things, so he called the company's control room and contacted Coke.

"Fill in the name of the company," Coke said, "Dutch law allows the right to hibernate to be entrusted to the company, if you believe me, of course." "Coke is the general manager of this company, and in his absence, Coke has almost all the power.

This sentence made Wu Zhe feel a little ...... Irony, the only thing he could believe in this day and age was not a human being.

"How long are you going to hibernate?" Cola was on the phone and heard the doctor's voice, "When should I wake you up?" ”

"1oo years...... Or when you need me," Wu Zhe said, he took one last glance at the time, 2149, December 19, 3:2o a.m., "goodbye, Coke." ”

"Goodbye, Wu Zhe." When Cola said this, Wu Zhe hung up.

The doctor had prepared the anesthetic, and before the injection, he reminded Wu Zhe one last time: "Do you have anything else to do?" It's better to think it through. "Doctors have seen a lot of people like Wu Zhe who came to hibernate temporarily, and often the contracts have been signed, but there are still a lot of things that should be done and things that should not be done.

Wu Zhe asked: "Generally speaking, what are the things about hibernating people, maybe you can remind me." ”

"Have all your relatives confessed?"

Wu Zhe thinks back to his parents, thinks back to his girlfriend, they are now history. Wu Zhe nodded.

"Do you have pets, are you taking out loans? It may be that in the future, the bank that is waiting for you to repay the money has collapsed, and more likely, it is a huge settlement bill. ”

Wu Zhe shook his head, his financial problems had all been entrusted to Coke.

The doctor thought again: "Well...... Actually, this question shouldn't be asked, but I still have to say one more thing, is the hibernating custodian really credible? "The doctor has seen stories of hibernation with my own eyes, and the rich man entrusted all his possessions to his relatives, and by the time he woke up, he was now a poor man.

Wu Zhe closed his eyes and did not answer the question. When the doctor pricked the cold needle into his skin, Wu Zhe remembered that he had asked another doctor the same and similar words, and the doctor's answer made Wu Zhe deeply impressed: "Is this kind of trust you said really exist?" ”

What can be truly credible in the face of time?

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