Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

Fang Bailu:

"Then let's continue chatting."

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Chapter 354 Hibernation (Part )

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Although I agreed to continue the conversation, it does not mean that the content of the conversation will still be about Patient Zero's nagging and abnormal separation.

Fang Bailu had his own question. He had long wanted to know the answer to this question—and there was no one more suitable to answer his question than the old man in front of him.

Fang Bailu:

"Let's get back to you and me, the hibernators."

"I saw it in the chat room of the Immortal Gathering... I think all the hibernating dragons saw it - how they dealt with the hibernators."

"I remember: some of them wanted to set us free, others wanted to destroy us completely—"

Patient Zero suddenly raised his hand and stopped the other person from talking:

"Wait a minute. To be honest, the 'hibernating dragons' and 'hibernators' they mentioned actually have no deep relationship with you or other people in the 'dragon group'."

"The hibernators that the immortal named 'Taishan Laofu' tried to awaken have long since died - completely dead; no one of them can survive to this day like us."

“So if you’re curious about your past, this history isn’t really that relevant to you.”

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Fang Bailu frowned. Patient Zero's words did not fill in the missing parts of his memory.

"I thought that before being discovered by the Immortal Assembly, 'Tarzan Father' had already spread the hibernators and their offspring all over the world."

Patient Zero pushes the frame upward on the bridge of his nose:

"'Tarzan Old Man' did attempt to revive the hibernators. But as you saw in the chat room, he was lynched by the Immortal Assembly for this transgression. As far as I know, this is the first immortal to fall."

"It's just that after that, they did a 'clean-up'. Just like the execution of Taishan Laofu, the Immortal Assembly also cleaned up the hibernating dragons that Taishan Laofu had dealt with...but this was not recorded in the chat log."

"That was just a chat record, not a strict historical record - there are many things that can be done without discussion: you should know this better than me."

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"So strictly speaking, all the hibernating dragons today are the 'second batch' that got the chance by chance."

"That's why I praise your luck, and the luck of all the hibernators I awaken. However, Father Tarzan's behavior also gave me inspiration: cultivating blood relatives for the hibernators to guide them to adapt to life after resuscitation; it is indeed an efficient and reasonable approach."

Fang Bailu still remembers the rage that ignited in him when he learned that Xiangfangdong was actually a cultivated tool - he can express any emotion in his life at any time without any weakening.

But now, he just silently put this emotion back into the depths of his mind: Patient Zero was telling the truth - but he didn't finish everything.

Fang Bailu discovered this.

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Patient Zero raised his fist and slammed it into the palm of his other hand. He sighed loudly:

"Hey! I still can't understand the kids born in the 'Wandering Years'. Why do they call themselves immortal gods?"

Fang Bailu couldn't help laughing at Patient Zero's sudden emotional behavior:

"I don't think the next generation of young people will satisfy me... This may be a common problem for everyone. Of course, it may also be because the only 'next generation' I have seen is actually an old man like you—"

Patient Zero did not burst into the phlegm-filled laughter that Fang Bailu had imagined. Instead, he was full of seriousness:

"You are right: maybe I have misunderstood you. In fact, in my time, there are many, many people who are better than me."

Seeing the wrinkled, weathered and solemn face of Patient Zero, Fang Bailu shrugged:

“Who isn’t? But the last ones standing here are us. Maybe everything is in disorder, or maybe fate has its own plan.”

Patient Zero raised his glasses to his forehead and rubbed the Jingming acupoint:

"You're talking about... Let's continue."

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Fang Bailu nodded and tapped the handle of the seat with his fingertips, making a dull sound:

"Okay, forget about those little brats. Keep telling me what the hibernators are all about."

Patient Zero showed genuine confusion on his face: "What's going on?"

Fang Bailu: "Why didn't anyone wake up all the hibernators during the Golden Age? This should be a very easy task for you: it wouldn't take hundreds of years."

There are too many doubts in the information about hibernators - even the appearance of the so-called hibernating dragons and dragon groups did not make Fang Bailu fully understand the whole picture of hibernation.

Patient Zero: "I can explain it to you this way..."

He tapped his cane under his body; the part of Fang Bailu's tree-shaped body that Patient Zero had been standing on: "Please give me a drawing board."

A bulge about two meters in diameter silently appeared on the ground in front of Patient Zero - it looked like a bump from an allergy test, except that it was in a regular, hollow circle.

Blah blah blah...

Sand and gravel with the fishy smell of sea water suddenly emerged and filled the area, until it became a flat pile of sand.

These fine particles actually come from the beaches around Manila; Fang Bailu simply transports them here through pipes while eating.

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Patient Zero nodded, raised his cane, and used it to draw a large, crooked oval:

"All the humans who went into hibernation before the Golden Age, there were probably this many... As far as I know, the last batch went into cryogenic sleep during the Age of Ascension; after that -"

The tip of the cane cuts off a tiny corner in the ellipse:

"During the Golden Age, a group of hibernators were revived. I told you, but I don't know the exact number. The funny thing is, most of them went into hibernation during the Promotion Age. They were the hibernators with the least 'seniority', and many of them had only been in hibernation for less than twenty years."

Fang Bailu agrees with Patient Zero’s statement and thoughts:

"That's natural: the shorter the hibernation period, the higher the chance that the direct descendants will keep their attention - and judging from what you said before, the chance of being awakened is of course also greater."

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"That's right." Patient Zero picked up his cane and tapped the uncrossed oval. "Those who can wake up in the golden age are the lucky ones, but the majority are left behind."

"Also during the Golden Age, although people argued and shirked their responsibilities over whether to wake up the hibernators, there was one resolution that gained consensus: that is, to maintain, repair, and replace the hibernation chambers in order to keep them operating and the hibernators alive."

"During the implementation of this resolution, people discovered a large number of 'corpses' in the hibernation chambers that could no longer be awakened: perhaps due to the backwardness of hibernation technology, or perhaps because the hibernation time had long exceeded the expected age of awakening technology..."

Fang Bailu recalled what Xiang Dong had said - he had seen "two" Fang Bailu in the white coffin; one of them - the shriveled, twisted, and skinny one - was already dead:

"They should all be early hibernators. From our time, or even before..."

"So they just kept the bodies in there? And didn't deal with them?"

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Patient Zero turned his head away, avoiding Fang Bailu's gaze:

"That's for sure. Considering the background of the Golden Age, no one knows when the next technological explosion will come. Perhaps by then, technology will appear that can bring the dead back to the world of the living. Therefore, even those who have completely died in hibernation will continue to be sealed in the hibernation chamber."

"Moreover, if we ignore the ethical issues... the technology of the Golden Age can easily replicate the healthy bodies of these deceased people, or reshape their consciousness in the digital space - at least in the hibernation chamber, their bones are well preserved."

"It's just that none of them have the legal responsibility to sign such an agreement."

Fang Bailu shook his head slightly and sighed:

"What percentage of these 'obsolete products' are there?"

He didn't like using this word to describe humans - but naturally, this word popped up in Fang Bailu's mind.

Patient Zero drew a diagonal line in the oval, highlighting an area of ​​moderate size:

"About 30 percent. If you include the animals and beasts that were put into hibernation chambers by previous generations, then the number will increase to around 45 percent."

"You must have heard of the rumor that the white coffin opened automatically, but there was only the dead inside - because the remaining hibernators are all deceased. Even if the body is not dead and is forcibly revived - all you get is a walking corpse with Alzheimer's disease."

Fang Bailu had certainly heard of it; he even remembered it clearly. Once upon a time, being a "living dead" - one of the many names for hibernators in New Malaysia - was the secret he feared most from being discovered.

At that time, apart from Fang Bailu himself, he had never heard of another healthy living dead person: and he, as an exception, became an outlier... Just as things are valuable because they are rare, Fang Bailu didn't know what his own value was.

At that time, Ambenola threatened him with this secret.

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Patient Zero:

"Although there has been no large-scale awakening of hibernators, people continue to provide maintenance and repairs to the hibernation chambers and replenish them with new technologies."

He drew a crooked rectangle on the sand to represent the hibernation chamber. Patient Zero was indeed not very good at painting. Fang Bailu began to think that his description of "a painter who can't paint" was very appropriate:

"So the remaining hibernators have all replaced the cryogenic chambers many times. You must have wondered why this 'white coffin' or 'old house' is invulnerable to weapons and even difficult to open by violence."

"In your time, materials science probably had not yet developed to this point. And in our time, when you woke up... a lot of knowledge has been lost."

Fang Bailu shrugged:

"Well, I was anesthetized before I went into hibernation anyway; it wasn't like in the TV shows where I had to crawl into the hibernation chamber by myself."

Patient Zero:

"The hibernation chamber is both a life-support device to maintain our lives and a cage to imprison the remnants of the past - so naturally it needs to be strong enough."

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This question brought up the topic that had not been finished before.

Fang Bailu brought up the previously unanswered questions again:

"The Immortal Assembly only dealt with the hibernators that 'Old Man Taishan' had dealt with..."

"Why bother? Since the hibernators can compete with the so-called immortals for the way to immortality, why don't they eliminate all the hibernators once and for all? It's not difficult for them to do this."

Patient Zero grabbed a handful of sand from the pile of sand under his feet and rubbed it in his hands:

"One of the reasons is naturally... you are already dead. As mentioned before, the last hibernators left are either animals stored in hibernation chambers, or old people who have been determined to be unable to wake up and are equivalent to death."

Fang Bailu raised his hand and gestured to Patient Zero:

"But it's not impossible to reappear in the world, right?"

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Contempt once again returned to the face of Patient Zero:

"Don't think these kids who call themselves 'immortals' are omniscient and omnipotent. They are already cautious enough. Instead of spending all their energy on preventing risks, they might as well digest the way to immortality... In addition to the hibernators from the old times, there are many other existences that can threaten the immortals - for example, each other."

"So, among the Immortals' gathering, there may be members who are planning to use these hibernators as weapons to hunt each other one day."

"For example, cultivate a familiar or controllable hibernator: let him replace you and steal the immortality of another immortal."

Fang Bailu:

"It's similar to a proxy war. If we ignore the integrity of the immortals and only consider their own interests, this is indeed a logical statement - but it's difficult to verify."

Patient Zero:

"But they never had the chance to realize this possibility - before the real conflict broke out, they had already entered the turtle's rest state."

"Of course, if we were in a different location, I would consider plowing the surface of the earth and then consider the subsequent layout and development... That would be the most appropriate approach. However, when there are too many people, things will become difficult to handle - there must be someone in the Immortal Assembly who disagrees with this approach that is too extreme but has good benefits."

Fang Bailu:

"Well."