This answer was also expected by Wu Zhe, the reason why he came here was just to make Coke die.

"Then I won't ask," Wu Zhe looked at the crowd surfing in the distance, "the ...... just now At first, I thought it was your son, but I didn't expect it to be your brother. ”

Lao Hou sighed: "I also saw him a week ago...... It's been almost 3o years, and I've almost forgotten that I have such an older brother. If I had listened to him at that time and hibernate together, I would have been a few years older than you by now. ”

Wu Zhe didn't say anything, and the topic of hibernation, although common, was also heavy. Just now, when Hou Zhen's "brother" was spoken, Wu Zhe was really taken aback - look at the old Hou who is now full of vicissitudes, and then think about the young brother he saw just now......

The cruelty of time is evident in this instant.

"Don't you think it's stupid for me not to hibernate." Lao Hou asked him.

"Maybe, the path is all chosen by yourself, and the decades you live for are not fake."

"Sometimes I comfort myself like that...... But looking back, I thought about it, and I spent more than half of my life like this, and half of my body went into the earth...... When you one day, when you reach my age, you will know this feeling when you look in the mirror every day and see yourself getting older. ”

All along, Lao Hou has given himself the impression of a policeman, rough and decisive...... But now, Wu Zhe feels that he is only facing an old man.

"My brother told me yesterday that in the future, the technology will become more and more advanced, and maybe there will be rejuvenation," Lao Hou smiled self-deprecatingly, "Maybe...... What the future holds, who knows? ”

Wu Zhe didn't speak, because he felt that Lao Hou's words might not be said to him, but to himself.

"But I still don't want to hibernate, do you know why?" When Lao Hou said this, his eyes stared at the laughing crowd on the beach, which reminded Wu Zhe that he was at the door of the candle company that day, and Lao Hou stared at the appearance of the candle flame trademark.

"Why?" Wu Zhe asked.

"Because I know that there is no future for human beings, we are just a group of simple creatures dominated by **," Lao Hou muttered, "I don't want to wake up from my hibernation cabinet one day in the future and see this society at the end of its rope." I remember when I was in college, I was first introduced to the economics of hibernation -- when I was younger, there weren't many people studying it. At that time, the teacher said that hibernation is an amplified version of individual human procrastination and a cancer of this civilization. Because of hibernation, the elderly will no longer leave an inheritance to their children and grandchildren, and what we will hand over to the future is not only an over-opened earth, but also a lot of heavy maintenance obligations. ”

These very written words don't want to be something that Lao Hou can say—just like what Lao Hou said to him before. But that might be what he was saying.

Wu Zhe didn't answer, he didn't know what to say.

But Lao Hou seemed to be a little unable to stop: "You have seen Owen in the office, and he looks about the same age as me...... Do you know why he doesn't hibernate? ”

"For the company?" As soon as this sentence was spoken, Wu Zhe himself vetoed it.

Of course not, his company is simple and the product costs almost nothing...... Those programs are equivalent to a gold mine that can never be dug up, and the money he earns a day can make him hibernate for hundreds of years, and this money can be managed by the world's most professional investment funds...... But instead of doing that, he went to work at that company every day, hired a whole bunch of workers, and did all the unskilled and meaningless work, you know why? ”

Wu Zhe shook his head, quietly waiting for an answer.

"Because he, like me, is insecure about the future. Maybe he's worse than me because he's making that kind of product, you know, he's lying about all the products and making money with them. Maybe he's at home, and he can't sleep well in his dreams, because he's afraid that those machines will come to him one day to settle accounts, you've been to his company and office, guess what his house looks like? ”

Wu Zhe remembered that the office was very retro, and there were not too many electrical appliances of this era, and the other impressions were not too deep.

"In Owen's house, even the simplest kettle for boiling water is non-intelligently controlled, does not automatically keep warm, and does not give voice prompts...... The air conditioner in his house is an antique specially bought from a museum, and the function is quite primitive, even the temperature control is manual. He hired seven or eight cooks at home, and they were not allowed to use automated kitchen utensils, let alone have them cook for him. He never rode in self-driving vehicles, including the subway and airplanes nowadays...... Even the toilets, he only went to his own home, and the company built it himself. Once he went to Beijing for a meeting and couldn't find a non-automated toilet there, guess what he did? ”

Wu Zhe still shook his head.

"He spent a fortune on an empty storefront and went in and pulled it up...... I'm afraid that this will spread out, and no one else will be allowed to enter this store. When Lao Hou said this, his face was filled with that familiar mocking smile.

"In this world, if there is anyone who knows Owen best, there is no second one but me, and maybe I know him better than he does. A person like me may be pessimistic about the future, but he is like that...... It's almost hopeless, he's recently bought several more islands in the Pacific Ocean, do you know what he's going to do? ”

Without waiting for Wu Zhe to answer, Lao Hou had already said: "Now that grain production is basically industrialized, he is afraid that there will be procedures to poison him, so he is ready to recruit a group of full-time farmers and use the traditional agricultural methods in the past to grow grain for him to eat." I asked the psychiatrist, and his condition was almost a sign that paranoia was at its extreme. ”

"You just asked me why I want to retire, and I am not afraid to sue you," Lao Hou said, "Those civil procedures on the market have already decided to start banning." But there are many more places, especially factories, information control departments, and even police departments...... It must be unavoidable, those programs are so useful that some areas and functions are completely incompetent. In my life, one of the biggest goals of being a police officer is to one day clean up all the products of the candle company, so that I will at least have nightmares when I sleep in the future, and I am not afraid that I will not wake up when I hibernates. Xu Heng's case is a great opportunity...... Unfortunately, it was already too late. If someone like Lu Jingwen had appeared a few years earlier, there might have been a chance at that time. ”

Wu Zhe asked tentatively, "How capable are those procedures...... After all, we are still accused. ”

"I'm not worried that they won't be able to control it, but if they really don't control it one day, then it will be easy to do," Lao Hou said, pointing to the crowd in front of him, "What I'm worried about is that one day, they will do all the work that we can do, and at that time, what else can we do?" ”

Wu Zhe subconsciously remembered that before the hibernation tide, the streets of Noah District were empty.

"Hibernate and enjoy...... Maybe at that time, the state will not need to collect hibernation tax, and we don't even need to maintain the current awakening population, all of them can go into the hibernation cabinet, and wait for the opportunity to build the future for us on this earth. ”

"So, I'm not going to hibernate, let's die of old age, it's better to live to be seventy or eighty years old, and to be in my early teens...... At least I think I can still have some dignity when I die of old age. It's really the scene I said, one day being pulled out of the hibernation cabinet or invited out of the hibernation cabinet by the machine, whether it is good or bad...... I think at least we have lost all the face we have faced. ”

When he finished speaking, Lao Hou's brother and a group of young surfers had returned, and they were still excitedly shouting: "We saw a shark outside the shark net just now, and that head ......."

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