In the deep valley with dense forests and deep grass, the dull crashing sound lasted for more than half an hour.
Then there was another tooth-breaking sound of crunching metal friction.
A wisp of white mist slowly rose into the sky from the dense forest.
White mist swept over the leaves glowing with gleaming blue.
Another hour passed, and someone's voice came out.
"Ren Zhong, if you can really wake up and read what we are saying. Then don't worry. Mom and dad have lived a very good life and are very happy. We have brought a younger brother. Your brother is very sensible and well-behaved.
.He took good care of us, and we enjoyed our family happiness to the fullest."
This was the voice of an old man, slightly hoarse, with a calm tone, as if he was secretly suppressing his emotions.
"Yes, Mom and Dad have no regrets in this life. Except for you... In short, we hope you will have no regrets."
It was the voice of an old woman, slightly choked.
The old man spoke again, "You have to remember that you have to bear in mind that life will be unsatisfactory nine times out of ten. Since you can't change it, you can only endure it. Mom and Dad's biggest wish is that you can be happy. We have no other choice.
What you want."
Old woman: "You just need to remember. We do this and never regret it. That's enough."
Old gentleman: "Yes. We just hope you can embrace a new life."
Old woman: "It must be a good thing that you can see this, so don't talk too sad. We don't have much to explain. In short, I hope that my dear son, you can have a happy second half of your life. Can you
Live well. Goodbye."
Old gentleman: "Yes, you have to look forward to everything. Goodbye, son."
After the voice fell, and after a moment of deathly silence, the heart-rending wails of a young man suddenly sounded from deep in the jungle.
The sound was like crying blood, it was heartbreaking, and it made birds of all sizes in the forest flutter into the sky.
After a long time, the crying gradually subsided, and a young man wearing white loose clothes staggered out of the depths of the jungle.
His face was pale, he was swaying one step at a time, and he was confused. His eyes were full of confusion, and there was a lingering sadness on his face.
After just one sleep, he lost everything.
His name is Ren Zhong, a son of China. He was born in 2027, from a moderate family background. He was a doctor who graduated in 2050.
Well, a twenty-three-year-old doctor.
The first half of his life was short but brilliant.
He entered elementary school at the age of six, graduated from elementary school at the age of eight, graduated from junior high school at the age of ten, graduated from high school at the age of 12 and previewed all the undergraduate courses in environmental engineering in advance, entered the juvenile class at the age of 13, and obtained a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering and chemistry at the age of 16.
degree, and graduated with a double master's degree at the age of eighteen.
At the age of twenty-three, he delayed completing his doctoral thesis for two years, and the paper was directly published in the official issue of the world's top journal "Science", setting a new record for the youngest author of an official article in "Science" at his alma mater.
If he followed a normal life trajectory, he should have joined the society in 2050, started a family, raised his children, supported his parents, and lived an ordinary and extraordinary life.
But fate played a big joke on him.
Just two days after graduation, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, which was in the advanced stage.
The disease came like a mountain, and in just three months he was described as withered mugwort, and his life was not long.
Seeing that their only son would die at any time, Ren Zhong's parents took a chance and scraped together 10 million yuan from their family fortune to buy Ren Zhong a small house. The cryonics research project had been stuck in the clinical trial stage for nearly thirty years.
White rat quota.
In the end, Ren Zhong lay down in the freezer with unspeakable regret and waved goodbye to his parents.
He knew that when he left, no matter whether he lived or died, he was destined to be separated from his parents forever.
This is Ren Zhong’s own memory.
Time flies, and no one knows how many years have passed, and how far the distance has been covered. Nearly two hours ago, the load in the freezer woke up on its own.
But there is no large scientific research team that should exist to provide him with "after-sales service".
His freezer was thrown away like garbage in a barren mountain. Even to escape from the freezer where the temperature was gradually rising, he had to forcefully open the internal switch and then kick open the cover.
After rushing out of the cover, he did not leave the place immediately because there was an LCD screen on the top of the freezer that automatically played some messages for him.
Ren Zhong saw many things that happened after he "slept".
His parents hid another key information from him back then.
The cryonics project is already in a semi-stagnant state. Ten million can only buy the opportunity to enter the cryogenic warehouse as a guinea pig. From then on, it will require at least half a million yuan in maintenance costs every year. This has to be paid for at your own expense.
However, my parents have been squeezed out of the previous 10 million, and they are about to turn 50. They should be waiting for retirement to take care of themselves at an age where they can find 500,000 every year.
This is a desperate situation.
But the two elders did not complain, nor were they defeated.
Seeing destiny in a desperate situation, hearing thunder in a silent place, in order to keep their son alive year after year, the two elders showed great fighting spirit, unleashed their amazing potential, and fought hard.
At the same time, the two resigned from their respective mid-level cadre positions in public institutions, borrowed hundreds of thousands from relatives and friends, stepped out of their comfort zones, and boldly entered the business world with only half a hundred people, and began a business career that started early and worked hard until late.
This fight lasted forty-five years.
In 2095, Ren Zhong's parents passed away one after another, only seven days apart, when they were in their nineties.
My parents worked hard for forty-five years to build a family fortune worth hundreds of millions, and in 2060 they used in vitro fertilization to raise a younger brother.
Before their death, my parents used a trust fund to recharge the heavy-duty freezer for three hundred years of maintenance at one time.
Even if the cryonics project really fails, the trust fund will hire basic technical personnel to perform maintenance work on the heavy-duty cryogenic warehouse.
Ren Zhong also saw in the data that around 2107, humans had completely conquered terminal cancer.
But this has created a new problem. Scientists have never been able to find a way to safely thaw the frozen person, and there is no way to revive him and receive treatment. As a result, his cryogenic chamber has been forced to keep running for three hundred years.
For more than two hundred years since then, staff have updated the data every year. The data mainly includes the operation of the freezing warehouse and the replacement list of some aging equipment parts.
Pushing back in time, after the expiration of three hundred years, the data is missing, and it is not known what happened.
The last message was the last words left by his parents to Ren Zhong.
After listening, he also cried.
…
In the mountain forest, Ren Zhong stumbled forward, not knowing where he was or where he was going.
At this time, he was very thirsty, felt a little hungry in his stomach, and felt dizzy.
He didn't know how long he had been walking when he heard the sound of gurgling water in his ears. He ran quickly and found a stream. He squatted down and drank several sips of water with his hands in his hands, and then washed his face with the cold and clear stream water.
The thirst is slightly reduced and the person is much more awake.
Exhausted, he lay down on the wet shore and looked up at the sky.
Above the head are layers of dark blue leaves, intertwined together, firmly blocking the sky, making the light in the dense forest look very gray.
After a long time, he slowly sat up, casually grabbed a flat stone from beside him, threw it into the stream, and made several floats.
His face started to show some expression.
This is life, relief, freedom and ease, even more gratification, but there is also confusion.
He has many problems.
How many years have passed?
Why did humans wake up on their own in this barren mountain and wilderness instead of in the laboratory of a scientific research institution, even though humans have not yet mastered the technology of thawing in three hundred years?
Prickly metal-like moss has grown on the freezer compartment.
Near his own freezer, there are a large number of other freezers piled up and left unattended.
Some were covered with vines, some were stuck upside down in the ground, and some were simply surrounded by ten people. Strange giant trees grew and rolled into the trunks, leaving only a small half of the metal structure still exposed.
The models of these freezers are different from our own. Some look similar, while others have completely different design concepts.
Most of the freezers were empty, and some seemed to contain horrifying skeletons.
Judging from the condition of the warehouse in the tree, the freezer warehouse has been abandoned for at least hundreds of years.
Apart from the freezer, there are no other traces of human activity nearby.
Why does no one care about us?
Where are the rest of the world?
Where is my path forward?
How to return to society?
How should I spend the rest of my life after picking this up for nothing?
I'm afraid it's useless just sitting here thinking about these questions.
Ren Zhong shook his head and grinned reluctantly.
Forget it, I'm alive again anyway.
And I also know that my parents have lived a pretty good life.
There is no regret after all.
I have no regrets at all!
Ren Zhong wiped his cheeks, which were wet and both warm and cold.
The life stolen by time is destined to never be taken back.
Dad said, "Since you can't change, you can only accept it."
admit.
After regaining some strength, he reluctantly stood up.
When I stood up, there was a snap beside me.
Turning sideways and looking down, I saw a fruit that was red and oily and seemed to be overripe. It was smashed to pieces on the ground. It looked a bit like an apple, but the flesh scattered around was crystal clear, so I couldn't tell what kind it was.
He looked up again and saw that there were more red fruits dangling on the tree trunks about tens of meters high above his head, and another one might be smashed down at any time.
Ren Zhong hesitated for a moment, not daring to scrape some fruit pulp from the ground to taste it.
Although he was very hungry, he was not sure whether the unknown thing was poisonous or not.
He continued to walk out of the forest, and as he walked, he tried to call out out of breath: "Is there anyone there? Is there anyone here?"
No one paid attention to him, and there was only his own empty echo in the forest.
After walking a few steps, he suddenly trembled and squatted down, covering his neck.
Soon he was curled up on the ground, holding his abdomen with both hands, and his already bloodless face became even paler.
Beads of sweat began to appear on his face, and his expression became more distorted.
He screamed in his heart that it was bad.
After all, he just "slept", and he was very familiar with the unforgettable pain.
After a long time, the pain slowly subsided, and Ren Zhong reluctantly sat up straight, gasping for air. There was a sense of joy in his expression that he had escaped death, but there was lingering gloom and urgency in his eyes.
I don’t know how many days I can live, so I need to get out quickly, find modern humans as soon as possible, and get treatment as soon as possible.
The damn cancer is still here!
Less than half an hour passed, and Ren Zhong, who was tired and hungry, finally walked out of the dense forest.
Looking around, there is a vast wilderness ahead, with an undulating terrain like a horse's back, covered with mottled grasses, ferns and shrubs.
These strange plants are tall or low, and have different shapes, but what they have in common is that the surface of their branches and leaves is slightly glowing with a strange blue fluorescence.
Although he is not an animal and plant major, Ren Zhong swore that he had never seen such a plant before.
He looked back at the dark jungle behind him, filled with towering giant trees that covered the sky and the ground.
These trees are also species I have never seen before.
But what was most unfamiliar to him was the sky.
It was evening at this time, and a sun as big as a wheel was slowly sinking into the horizon.
On the other side of the horizon directly opposite the sun, there is a silver disk-shaped star slowly rising into the sky and has climbed to the three o'clock altitude.
On the horizon below the side of the silver disk, there is a star as big as the mouth of a bowl that has just emerged and is rising into the sky at a faster speed.
A huge sun with blue light, and two moons, one big, one small, one slow and one fast.
Ren Zhong was completely confused by the scene before him.
This is not Earth!
At this moment, there was a faint sound of roaring through the air in the distance.
Ren Zhong looked around and saw a black shadow the size of a car flying close to the ground at an extremely fast speed.
The strong wind brought by the black shadow blew the plants along the way to the ground, leaving long scratches like a speedboat crossing a calm lake.
The black shadow gradually got closer, and Ren Zhong could see clearly what it was.
It was about five meters long, shaped like a bullet, with a silvery surface and a beautiful streamlined shape. There were two small wings on both sides. It resembled the Dongfeng-17, the most important weapon of the country, in his memory, except that the tail did not drag out the flame tail.
, I don’t know what is driving it.
Ren Zhong felt that this must be a man-made aircraft.
He didn't expect someone to find him so soon.
He thought, first reconnect with society, then find a way to cure the disease, and then slowly understand the world.
I don’t know how many years have passed, but cancer should be as easy to cure as colds now, right?
He has some new expectations for his future life.
He raised his hands and waved them desperately, trying to attract the attention of the aircraft.
Sure enough, the aircraft turned slightly and headed straight towards Ren Zhongzhong.
The distance between the two parties quickly shortened to 100 meters. Ren Zhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was noticed and the connection was successful.
The next moment, he vaguely saw a bowl-thick orange beam shining from the top of the aircraft.
The beam of light disappeared in a flash.
The heavy movements stopped immediately.
He lowered his head and looked at his chest.
White smoke was coming out from the chest, and inside was a round hole with neat edges, and the inner wall of the round hole was carbon black.
what's the situation?
Ren Zhong looked up again with a confused look on his face, and saw that the aircraft had rushed forward and stopped suddenly.
The strong wind blew up, and Ren Zhong vaguely heard the roar of the wind tunnel from his chest.
Time seemed to be frozen for a few seconds. He felt the belated severe pain and felt that he could not breathe. His body slowly fell softly.
He finally knew what happened.
The aircraft was not here to save him.
He wasn't even interested in saying hello, he just punched himself in the chest from a distance.
Why?! What did I do wrong?
His consciousness gradually sank, and darkness fell from the sky, quickly covering his vision.
Ren Zhong was confused, but he came back to his senses. When he looked again, he felt that he flew back a few meters and floated into the air inexplicably, as if he had become a "perspective" fixed in mid-air.
A few meters in front of him was his own body with a beautiful round hole on his chest and back.
The corpse was half-kneeling, about to fall to the ground.
The next moment, three long metal snakes protruded from the bottom of the aircraft.
The long snake flew forward like an elephant's trunk.
Two long snakes are holding "own" shoulders to prevent him from falling, and the other one is extending to the top of his head.
Next, Ren Zhong saw a scene that made his hair stand on end.
The top of the long snake is open, and inside is a circle of metal teeth like the mouthparts of a lamprey.
The iron teeth rotated rapidly and pressed against his head.
This ghost easily opened his Heavenly Spirit cover, stretched out ten metal claws from inside, and grabbed his brain like a claw machine.
Ren Zhong's consciousness drifting outside the body began to fade, and his vision became blurred.
Before he completely lost consciousness, his mind was filled with confusion.
No way, I finally came back from the dead and died like this?
