“What’s the solution?” Lin Xian asked curiously.

“Forcible destruction.”

The safe company employee explained to Lin Xian, “We had a client with a similar situation before. The finance director had a car accident, and the company urgently needed the official seal from the safe, so they took the entire safe to a scrap processing plant and cut it open with an oxy-acetylene torch.”

“This safe is stamped from solid steel. Ordinary cutting machines or crowbars can’t open it, and even explosives won’t work. Only an oxy-acetylene torch can cut it open with high heat. It was the last resort.”

Hmm?

Lin Xian had a flash of inspiration.

“What kind of torch did you just say?”

“Oxy-acetylene torch. It’s a torch that burns high-pressure acetylene. It can form a super high-temperature jet flame of 3000 degrees Celsius, and then cut steel by melting it. It’s commonly used in the industrial field.”

With that said, the two staff members picked up the paperwork, had Lin Xian sign it, and left a copy of the precautions and contact phone numbers before leaving.

“Oxy-acetylene torch…”

Lin Xian noted the name.

The safe with his name written on it in the dream… many places were already peeling paint and rusting, undoubtedly made of steel.

In front of a 3000-degree ultra-high temperature cutting torch…

It must be as fragile as tofu!

…

Lin Xian thought he would soon be able to enter the dream and cut open the safe with his name on it.

But things didn’t go as planned.

He had been too busy these past few days.

He had to stay up late and work overtime until dawn almost every day, and he didn’t even have the chance to dream. He hadn’t dreamed for several days.

It wasn’t just him.

Everyone in the company was like they had been injected with chicken blood. All departments were working overtime to catch up with the progress. Staying up late or even all night was the norm. Even Zhao Yingjun, who was always exquisite, inevitably had faint dark circles under her eyes.

This afternoon, Lin Xian had just finished a job at hand.

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring—

The phone rang.

Lin Xian looked at the caller ID…

“Professor Xu Yun?”

It had been several days since they last contacted each other. Did he have some new news?

Lin Xian picked up the phone.

He answered the phone—

“Lin Xian! Do you have time right now?”

On the other end of the phone, Professor Xu Yun’s voice was unusually excited and agitated.

“I want to invite you to witness a historic moment!”

Witness a historic moment?

Could it be…

Professor Xu Yun had completely conquered the hibernation chamber filling liquid?

Lin Xian looked at the time. It was almost two in the afternoon.

To be honest, he was happy for Xu Yun, but he wasn’t too interested in witnessing scientific research achievements.

However… it was hard to refuse his kindness, and he didn’t want to spoil Professor Xu Yun’s mood.

“Okay, Professor Xu, please wait for me. I’ll go to Donghai University to find you.”

He hung up the phone.

Lin Xian arranged work for his subordinates and then went out to take a taxi to Donghai University.

…

He arrived at Professor Xu Yun’s laboratory.

The other party excitedly pulled Lin Xian in front of a sealed chamber.

“Look quickly. This little white mouse inside 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 state of deep sleep; don’t look at it being motionless, without eating or excreting, but its vital signs are completely fine! Very stable!”

Lin Xian got close to the sealed chamber.

The chamber wall was unusually cold, exuding a slow stream of cool air. Lin Xian deliberately stood a little further away and stretched his head forward.

He saw that the sealed chamber was filled with light blue liquid, and in the middle of the liquid, a little white mouse covered with various monitoring electrodes and catheters was curled up.

This little white mouse was unusually quiet… no different from being dead.

But after looking carefully for more than ten seconds, he found that its abdomen would sometimes have very weak undulations.

That meant it wasn’t 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 white mouse is generally around 500-700 beats per minute. This is also why their lifespan is short, only three or four years.”

“In the natural animal world, the slower the heartbeat, the longer the lifespan. And relatively, the breathing rate of a normal white mouse is about 150 times per minute.”

“But look now.”

Professor Xu Yun pointed to the two numbers on the monitoring screen.

Heart rate: 21 beats per minute

Breathing rate: 7 breaths per minute

“Do you see that, Lin Xian? Whether it’s the heartbeat or the breathing, it’s slowed down by twenty or thirty times! The efficiency of its various life activities has been reduced by twenty or thirty times. You can simply think that…”

“[In this low-temperature sealed chamber, the aging speed of the white mouse has been delayed by twenty or thirty times.]”

Lin Xian nodded.

He could understand this concept.

Hibernation in science fiction movies is about a person sleeping in a hibernation chamber, and hundreds or thousands of years pass. After waking up, they are as good as new.

But science fiction is, after all, science fiction.

Real scientific research has to be done step by step.

Professor Xu Yun’s sealed chamber may be a simple “hibernation chamber first-generation machine, youth version,” far from reaching the concept of real hibernation. It can only reduce the efficiency of life activities by twenty or thirty times.

If this set of equipment can run stably, then twenty or thirty years will pass outside, and the actual lifespan of the white mouse may only increase by one year.

This allows a white mouse that can only live for three or four years to successfully “travel” to the future world decades later.

Of course, this is just a white mouse experiment.

Whether it can be used on people for a long time? How many times can life activities be reduced? It’s still unknown.

“The real difficulty of hibernation technology is not in freezing, but in [thawing and waking up].”

Professor Xu Yun patiently explained to Lin Xian, “Next is the real historic moment that I invited you to witness.”

“We are going to wake up this little white mouse that has been hibernating at a super low temperature of minus 60 degrees for 40 hours.”

Lin Xian didn’t understand much, so he just stood there and watched Professor Xu Yun operate.

Gradually…

The temperature of the sealed chamber slowly rose, taking about half an hour to slowly rise to about ten degrees.

Then Professor Xu Yun performed another complex operation.

“Squeak…”

“Squeak squeak!!”

The little white mouse in the sealed chamber began to become restless, rolling wildly in the sealed chamber filled with light blue liquid! Its nails were constantly rubbing against the chamber wall!

“Don’t worry, this liquid has extremely high oxygen solubility. After entering the lungs, it can perform normal oxygen exchange. Of course… there will definitely be a strong discomfort.”

Professor Xu Yun covered his lungs and looked at Lin Xian, “It will definitely be very uncomfortable, but it can indeed guarantee breathing without the risk of suffocation. But I haven’t tried it myself, and it’s just a guess at the moment.”

Afterward, Professor Xu Yun emptied the liquid in the sealed chamber, took out the flailing white mouse, and tore off all the electrode patches on its body.

“Squeak squeak!! Squeak squeak!! Squeak squeak!!!”

The white mouse shook frantically,甩off the liquid from its fur, and then leaped up, broke free from Professor Xu Yun’s hand, and jumped up and down in the laboratory like crazy.

“It’s really full of vitality.”

Lin Xian sighed, “It’s hard to imagine that it was pretending to be dead for 40 hours just now, and it was in a low temperature of minus 60 degrees…”

Technology is really amazing.

If people were really placed in a low temperature of minus 60 degrees, they would probably die soon, frozen to a crisp.

Professor Xu Yun smiled slightly.

“Although there are still many problems to be solved later, the successful hibernation and awakening of this little white mouse represents that this liquid, this hibernation chamber filling liquid, is perfect. The relevant hibernation theory is also absolutely correct.”

It could be seen that Xu Yun was sincerely happy. His vegetative daughter finally had hope.

Lin Xian looked at the white mouse jumping up and down and asked curiously, “Professor Xu.”

“How many years do you estimate it will take for the true hibernation chamber to be successfully researched?”