Genius Club-Chapter 38: The Library

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Phew!!

An unprecedented heatwave hit me in the face!

Lin Xian felt the temperature on his face rapidly rise as tiny beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead!

"So hot!"

Lin Xian strained to open his eyes...

Loud cicada noises assaulted his eardrums, the scorching sun hung directly above, and shadows shrank timidly at his feet, forming small clusters.

He looked up at the sky.

A sun that took up half the sky blazed overhead, so bright that it was impossible to look at directly, leaving fleeting dark spots on his retina.

Lin Xian lowered his head and rubbed his eyes:

"It’s been a long time since I’ve dreamed during the day, and I’m still not quite used to this temperature."

He estimated that the current temperature might have already exceeded 40 degrees, compared to the cold winter in the real world... truly a contrast of fire and ice.

He quickly ran to the shade of a tree, and that’s when he felt cooler.

Squinting, he looked at the electronic sign next to him, the display showed—

[August 28, 2624]

[13:33]

"It’s one-thirty, still early."

Lin Xian wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with his sleeve, already unable to resist the desire to go to the library and enjoy the air conditioning.

Perhaps it was because of the intense heat at noon.

In the usually bustling square, there was not a soul in sight.

He walked along the tree shade to the bus stop and got on the bus to the library.

In this 23 years of Dream World.

Lin Xian rarely came here.

He only had 3 or 4 hours to play in the Dream World each day, and with such precious time, why not do something interesting, or undertake some major event? How could he waste valuable time in a library?

The few times he did come, his goal was to figure out why there was "no development in the level of technology in the Dream World."

Lin Xian realized this very unreasonable phenomenon in middle school. During that period, he thought of many ways and put in a lot of effort trying to find out the truth in the Dream World.

As a result, after consulting a lot of materials, nearly all reports, history books, critics, news all pointed to societal issues.

They said:

"The distorted education system is doomed to fail to select true geniuses!"

"Students can’t learn useful knowledge in school, which leads to the waste of talent."

"There’s a disconnection in the science community as youths are heavily profit-driven and reluctant to engage in lower-paying scientific research."

"The academic world itself has issues! Academic clans are rampant, academic circles are complacent, and truly talented scholars get ostracized!"

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Lin also asked many passersby, and everyone repeated the same complaints about various injustices, believing that technological stagnation or even regression over hundreds of years was due to systemic flaws.

As for this explanation... Lin Xian didn’t really believe it back then.

He didn’t think that the development of technology had to depend on these things; true geniuses wouldn’t be constrained by the education system. It couldn’t be that in 600 years, not a single genius scientist had appeared, could it?

But as much as he disagreed, the Dream World was set up this way, and since he couldn’t find any other corroborating evidence, Lin Xian just had to silently accept it.

After all... back then, considering the Dream World was false, it wasn’t necessary to be so pedantic about such details.

"But looking at it now, things are definitely not that simple."

Lin Xian shook his head.

After the matter with Professor Xu Yun and the verification of the Dream World is over... he would make a comeback to thoroughly understand the truth behind this issue.

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Upon arriving on the first floor of the library, there was an electronic reading room available for readers to look up materials and find the locations of books.

Lin Xian launched the browser and entered in the search bar "Has the Hibernation Warehouse been successfully developed now?"

Tap.

He pressed the Enter key.

Whirr...

Whirr...

Whirr...

The computer gave out tired sounds as the screen on the monitor slowly refreshed.

The computer was somewhat laggy, a common issue with public computers.

Lin Xian glanced at it and saw no fewer than 7 antivirus programs in the bottom right corner, engaged in a fierce and alarming battle.

After a dozen seconds, the search completed and many results came up.

The first result highlighted a line of bold black text—

[To this day, the Hibernation Pod has still not been successfully developed.]

Uh-huh.

As expected, the Dream World had not successfully developed it either.

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This result wasn’t surprising at all.

Given the technology development level in the dream, identical to that of 2022, it would have been strange if they had invented the hibernation pod.

Lin Xian clicked on the first result—

This was a lengthy article that, although appearing to be pieced together by a marketing account, still contained some useful information:

[Since the 21st century, the slow development of human technology, and even setbacks, caused the research into hibernation technology to start quite late among countries around the world.

When speaking about the true beginning of hibernation technology entering the public view, transforming from a scientific fantasy to a real-life subject, it had to be attributed to the year 2477, when a scientist from Mi Country, Dr. Mikerson, successfully developed a high-oxygen-soluble fluid that could maintain human body activity for a long period and prevent the formation of ice crystals in cells. This fluid was later confirmed to be suitable for use as a hibernation pod filling liquid.

After this, humanity saw hope in conquering the hibernation pod for the first time, and countries around the world invested a massive amount of human and material resources to establish specialized research institutes and fully dedicated themselves to the research of technology related to hibernation pods.

However, contrary to their wishes, for the following hundred years or more, there were no further breakthroughs in the field of hibernation technology, and humans were still a long way from the fantasy of cross-temporal hibernation.

Thus, Dr. Mikerson’s research kindled the spark of hibernation technology but also became the swan song of the field. To commemorate this great pioneer, scholars in later generations gave Dr. Mikerson the honorary title of—

Father of Hibernation.]

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"So there really is a Father of Hibernation."

Lin Xian felt that his "jinx" actually had some substance to it.

But sure enough, it was as he had thought.

In the year 2624, although the hibernation pod was still far off, the hibernation pod filling liquid had indeed been developed.

"Dr. Mikerson, I thank you on behalf of Professor Xu Yun," Lin Xian said.

Lin Xian bowed to the computer screen, considering it as obtaining authorization from Dr. Mikerson.

"Next, all I have to do is find papers and academic reports related to Dr. Mikerson."

Lin Xian closed the webpage and opened the library’s book management system.

He searched for the word "hibernation."

Many different book results popped up, each with detailed placement information like floor, area, and shelf number.

The books covered a variety of themes.

There were science fiction novels, comics, academic journals, and news reports.

Lin Xian checked each one and quickly located his target—

"Hibernation Technology Analysis and Prospects" by Bill Mikerson

"This is it."

Lin Xian looked at the note behind:

Book display location: 3rd floor, Science Works, Section C, Shelf 67, Level 7.

Lin Xian got up and headed to the third floor.

Sure enough, he found Mikerson’s work on the designated bookshelf.

""Hibernation Technology Analysis and Prospects""

Lin Xian read the book’s title on the cover:

"Analysis... I hope it really is written simply, at least let me understand the main points..."

The book looked a bit old, but the inside was still as good as new—it must have never been read before.

Lin Xian sat down by a window and began to read.

His memory was limited, and he couldn’t bring much out from the Dream World, so he had to focus on what was important and avoid the trivial to take back key information for Professor Xu Yun.

Flipping through the first few pages,

he could sense the dedication behind Mikerson’s efforts.

It was clear that Mikerson genuinely wanted everyone to understand the principles and application process of hibernation technology. He used many straightforward words to explain the jargon and chemical phenomena, which made the content not so difficult for Lin Xian to comprehend.

The book said...

The principle of human hibernation was to bring all physiological activities and cellular activities to the lowest efficiency, as close to a halt as possible, but they could never actually stop completely.

The best scenario was to use low-temperature freezing.

To achieve a good freezing hibernation effect, the human body must be frozen to below minus 120 degrees Celsius.

But, the contradiction arose here.

Human cells contain a large amount of water, which will freeze below 0 degrees Celsius, and the ice crystals (note 1) that form during the freezing will have a devastating effect on the cellular structure. They will pierce the cell membrane and kill the cells, causing them to lose their activity.

Note 1: Ice crystals refer to the needle-like snowflake structures formed by water as it freezes, which can easily pierce cells.

Although instant freezing technology can prevent ice crystals from forming, directly solidifying into ice and protecting the cell structure from damage,

a second problem arises.

It’s true that the body can be quickly frozen when initially frozen, but what about when it is thawed?

Without a doubt, upon thawing, one must go through a process where the temperature gradually increases, approaching 0 degrees Celsius. During this process, ice crystals will inevitably form, and the destruction of the cellular structure will still be unavoidable.

A body with damaged cells throughout—the brain cells, nerve cells, somatic cells, hemoglobin cells—all bursting and losing activity... there would be no difference between this and complete death, with no possibility of awakening.

"Hmm, hmm..."

Lin Xian was completely engrossed in the book.

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At least so far, he could fully understand this part of the principle.

"So, how to solve the problem of ice crystals?"

Flip.

Lin Xian turned to the next page.