Chapter 49 Hibernation Chamber
"What method?" Lin Xian asked curiously.
"Violent destruction."
The employee of the safe company explained to Lin Xian:
"One of our previous clients had such a situation. The financial director had a car accident, and the company was in a hurry to use the official seal in the safe, so they pulled the entire safe to the scrap processing plant and cut it open with an [oxyacetylene gas cutting gun].
"This safe is stamped from solid steel. Ordinary cutting machines or crowbars can't open it at all, and even explosives can't blow it open. It can only be cut open with an [oxyacetylene gas cutting gun] at high temperature, which is also the last helpless move."
Hmm?
Lin Xian had an idea:
"What gun did you just say?"
"Oxyacetylene gas cutting gun is a spray gun that burns high-pressure acetylene. It can form an ultra-high temperature jet flame of 3000 degrees Celsius, and then cut it by melting steel. It is very commonly used in the industrial field."
After that.
The two staff members took the procedure sheet, asked Lin Xian to sign it, left a note book and a contact number, and left.
"Oxyacetylene gas cutting gun..."
Lin Xian wrote down the name.
The safe with his name on it in the dream... many places have lost paint and rusted, and it is undoubtedly made of steel.
In front of the 3000-degree ultra-high temperature gas cutting gun...
It must be as fragile as tofu!
...
Lin Xian thought that he would soon be able to enter the dream and cut open the safe with his name on it.
But things did not go as he wished.
These days are really too busy.
Almost every day he has to stay up late to work overtime until the early morning before going home, and he doesn't even have the chance to dream. He hasn't dreamed for several days.
It's not just him.
Everyone in the company is like chicken blood. All departments are working overtime to catch up with the progress. Staying up late or even all night is the norm. Even Zhao Yingjun, who has always been delicate, has a faint dark circle on her face... inevitably.
This afternoon.
Lin Xian just finished a job at hand.
Dinglinglingdinglingdinglingdinglingdinglingdingling——
The phone rang.
Lin Xian looked at the caller ID...
"Professor Xu Yun?"
I haven't contacted him for several days. Is there any new news?
Lin Xian picked up the phone.
After answering the call -
"Lin Xian! Do you have time now?"
On the other end of the phone, Professor Xu Yun's voice was extremely excited and excited:
"I want to invite you to witness a historic moment!"
Witness a historic moment?
Could it be that...
Professor Xu Yun has completely conquered the hibernation chamber filling fluid?
Lin Xian looked at the time, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon.
To be honest, he was very happy for Xu Yun, but he was not very interested in witnessing scientific research results.
However... it was hard to refuse the kindness, and he didn't want to spoil Professor Xu Yun's interest:
"Okay, Professor Xu, wait for me, I'll go to Donghai University to find you."
Hang up the phone.
Lin Xian arranged work for several of his subordinates, and went out to take a taxi to Donghai University.
...
Came to Professor Xu Yun's laboratory.
The other party excitedly pulled Lin Xian to a sealed cabin:
"Look, the little white mouse in here, the whole system has been stable at a low temperature of -60 degrees for 40 hours."
"During these 40 hours, this little white mouse has been in a deep sleep state; although it does not move, does not eat or excrete, there is absolutely no problem with its life characteristics! Very stable!"
Lin Xian approached the sealed cabin.
The cabin wall was extremely cold, emitting a slow cool air. Lin Xian deliberately stood farther away and stretched his head forward.
He saw that the sealed cabin was filled with light blue liquid, and in the middle of the liquid, curled up a little white mouse covered with various monitoring electrodes and catheters.
This little white mouse was unusually quiet...no different from being dead.
But after watching carefully for more than ten seconds.
It was found that the abdomen sometimes had very weak ups and downs.
It means it is not dead yet.
Professor Xu Yun pointed to the monitoring screen next to him and explained the numbers on it to Lin Xian:
"The heartbeat of a normal mouse is generally around 500-700 times per minute. This is why they have a short lifespan of only three or four years."
"In the natural animal world, the slower the heartbeat, the longer the lifespan of the animal. In contrast, the breathing rate of a normal mouse is about 150 times per minute."
"But look at it now."
Professor Xu Yun pointed to two numbers on the monitoring screen:
Monitored heart rate: 21 times per minute
Respiratory rate: 7 times per minute
"Did you see it, Lin Xian? Both the heartbeat and breathing have slowed down by 20 to 30 times! The efficiency of its various life activities has been reduced by 20 to 30 times. You can simply think that..."
"[In this low-temperature sealed cabin, the aging rate of mice has been delayed by 20 to 30 times.]"
Lin Xian nodded.
He could understand this concept.
The hibernation in science fiction movies is about people sleeping in a hibernation cabin, and hundreds or thousands of years have passed. After waking up, they are just like normal people.
But science fiction is science fiction after all.
Real scientific research is done step by step.
Professor Xu Yun's sealed cabin may be a simplified "first generation hibernation cabin, youth version", which is far from the concept of real hibernation and can only reduce the efficiency of life activities by 20 to 30 times.
If this equipment can operate stably.
So after 20 or 30 years of external time, the actual life span of the mice may have only increased by one year.
This allowed a mouse that could only live for three or four years to successfully "travel" to the future world decades later.
Of course, this was just a guinea pig experiment.
If it is really applied to people, can it last for a long time? How many times can life activities be reduced? It's still an unknown number.
"The real problem with hibernation technology is not freezing, but [thawing and awakening]."
Professor Xu Yun patiently explained to Lin Xian:
"What follows is a truly historic moment that I invite you to witness."
"We want to revive this mouse that hibernated for 40 hours at an ultra-low temperature of minus 60 degrees Celsius."
Lin Xian didn't understand very well, so he just stood there and watched Professor Xu Yun operate.
Gradually……
The temperature of the sealed cabin slowly rose, and it took about half an hour to slowly rise to about ten degrees.
Then Professor Xu Yun performed another complicated operation.
"Zhizhi..."
"Squeak!"
The little white mouse in the sealed cabin became restless and rolled crazily in the sealed cabin filled with light blue liquid! Fingernails keep rubbing against the bulkhead!
"Don't worry, this liquid has extremely high dissolved oxygen and can carry out normal oxygen exchange after entering the lungs. Of course... it will definitely cause strong discomfort."
Professor Xu Yun covered his lungs and looked at Lin Xian:
"It will definitely be uncomfortable, but it does ensure breathing and there is no danger of suffocation. But I haven't tried it, so I'm just guessing at the moment."
Subsequently.
Professor Xu Yun emptied the liquid in the sealed cabin, took out the rat with its teeth and claws, and pulled off all the electrode patches on its body.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!"
The mouse swung wildly to shake off the liquid from its hair, then jumped up and broke away from Professor Xu Yun's hand, jumping up and down in the laboratory like crazy.
“It’s really energetic.”
Lin Xian sighed:
"It's hard to imagine that I just pretended to be dead for 40 hours, and it was still in a low temperature of minus 60 degrees..."
Technology is amazing.
If you really put a person in the low temperature of minus 60 degrees, it is estimated that it will not take long to die and freeze to a crisp.
Professor Xu Yun smiled slightly:
"Although there are still many problems that need to be solved in the future, the successful hibernation and awakening of this mouse means that this liquid and this hibernation chamber filling liquid are perfect. The related hibernation theory is also absolutely correct."
It can be seen that Xu Yun is sincerely happy that his daughter, who is in a vegetative state, finally has hope.
Lin Xian looked at the white mouse jumping up and down and asked curiously:
"Teacher Xu."
"You expect that when the real hibernating cabin research is successful..."
"About how many years will it take?"