In the early morning, Nicholas Gunter slowly opened his eyes from the expensive Hästens bed.
He briefly looked at the date—today is the third day since he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
Just three days ago, when he was working in the office of the Empire State Building in New York, he suddenly felt a heartbreaking pain in his abdomen. Being an alcoholic, he noticed it and calmly walked into the hospital. Accept the result.
Doctors told him he would have no more than three months to live.
He is a director of a furniture company. When he was young, he opened a company with his friends and held one-third of the shares. However, the company later grew rapidly, and today, he is worth more than five billion US dollars.
Perhaps for those giant financial groups, this amount of money can only be considered a small part, but for ordinary people, this is wealth that cannot be spent in ten lifetimes.
Originally, people like him should have bought a coastal villa in Miami, a retirement paradise, where they could enjoy the sea breeze and enjoy having children and grandchildren around them.
However, at this moment, he could only lie alone in a high-end apartment in Manhattan.
He was addicted to alcohol all his life. His wife had passed away ten years ago, and his son was also killed in a car accident three years ago. Now he is over sixty, except for a younger brother and two nephews. No relatives.
Originally, he had thought that it might be a good choice to leave the inheritance to his younger brother. However, just yesterday, after his brother learned that he had cancer, he brought his two nephews to visit him and talked about the inheritance. question.
It was at that time that he, who was already feeling stagnant in his heart, actually shuddered deeply after seeing the eyes of his two thirty-year-old nephews!
Because he saw that the eyes of the two people looking at him were full of greed and bloodthirsty! Like two ferocious hungry wolves, waiting for the dying wildebeest of their own to die, and then come forward to gnaw on their own bones! Suck your own guts!
This look made Nicholas shudder...
For the first time, he discovered the unwillingness in his heart. He was unwilling to die and give away his huge family property to a few almost irrelevant people, and he was not willing to lie in that cold coffin and slowly rot!
He wants to live and continue to enjoy life! I want to replace my wife and son and live their lives together wonderfully!
Shakespeare said: When you are dizzy, you should spin even more. Your own sorrow can be cured by the sorrow of others.
The light of survival gradually burst out in Nicholas's eyes. He noticed various information and noticed that in the mysterious country of China, a drug called T-1 has been produced to treat cancer. But unfortunately, that drug Although his cancer can be cured, he cannot repair his already necrotic liver. His liver cirrhosis has reached the point of incurability. It is this damaged liver that is the culprit of his short life.
However, this was not a reason for him to give up hope. Nicholas sat up suddenly, called his assistant, and asked the assistant to apply for a visa and passport for him to go to China, while he put on his reading glasses and wanted to go online. Do some digging to see what other hospitals offer hope of curing your disease.
"Crack!"
After clicking the mouse heavily, the moment he opened the browser, Nicholas' expression changed. He squinted and looked at the screen with difficulty - he saw an interesting message in the promotion center on the Google home page.
"The prelude to human immortality? The birth of the 'cryogenic sleep potion', and human beings can be frozen alive!"
This title has risen to the top of the hot search!
Nicholas subconsciously clicked on this title, and immediately a strange but unique logo appeared on the screen. It was a ball. The ball was divided into four irregular pieces by two blank arcs, each piece having a different color. , there are four colors: red, yellow, blue and green.
This is a company's logo.
Nicholas didn't pay attention to this. He continued to read down. This article clearly explained the title of the article. The main idea was: Biological cells themselves have strong vitality. Even if they encounter extremely low temperatures, they will only temporarily enter. It is in a dormant state rather than dying directly, but the water in the cells will produce swelling crystals and burst the cells. This crystallization phenomenon is the culprit that causes body damage and death.
And this unknown company called Hengxing Biotechnology actually invented a new drug. This new drug allows people to inject it so that the water in the body will not freeze at extremely low temperatures, but will become a liquid. It is in a glassy state, which perfectly avoids the ice crystal damage caused by moisture after the cells are frozen, allowing the cells to sleep perfectly!
In other words, human beings injected with this medicine can also be in a state of frozen dormancy. In this state, the human body can go through hundreds or thousands of years without dying, but is in a semi-dead dormant state. Once the temperature rises again, it can be revived again!
Human beings have long had two assumptions. If a person has a terminal illness that cannot be cured by modern technology, he does not have to choose to die directly. Instead, he can choose to freeze himself and wait until the technology develops to be able to cure the terminal disease in tens or hundreds of years. On the day of the thawing treatment.
There is another idea, that is, interstellar colonization often takes hundreds or even thousands of years, but human lifespan cannot reach that level. Then, if the spacecraft sets a goal and pilots All the crew members were frozen and waited for thousands of years to reach their destination before being thawed. For the pilots, they just had a dream and arrived at their destination when they woke up.
These two ideas have long been known to every household, but they have been unable to be realized due to technical reasons. But today, this technology that can truly freeze living people has appeared!
Nicholas took a deep breath and couldn't help but feel his heart pounding, yes, that's right! This is what you want, no matter how much it costs, you must get this antifreeze! Only this medicine can save your life!
He endured his excitement and continued reading, only to see the article continue to say that this company's new drug had just passed the US FDA certification a few days ago and was 100% clinically successful, and because it was a nanomedicine, it was not There is a chemical reaction, so there are no toxic side effects. In just three to four days after thawing, the agent will be excreted from the body along with the body's water circulation.
Finally, the article stated that this stellar biotechnology company has built a huge cryonics center in India, which can allow more than one million people to undergo cryogenic sleep.
This cryonics center has officially opened, and the price is one million U.S. dollars. Regardless of whether it is thawed after a few years or hundreds of years, no matter how many years it is frozen, the cost is one million U.S. dollars.
This kind of price may have excluded 90% of the people in the world, but the 10% of people are enough for this company to make a lot of money.
Nicholas took a deep breath. He did not immediately and impulsively decide to go to India. Instead, he smoked another cigarette, forced himself to calm down, and at the same time called a friend who worked at the FDA.
As you get older, you will always become more calm and sophisticated. It is difficult for your emotions to be affected by anything, especially issues related to your own life.
Soon, my friend confirmed the authenticity of the Google article. The day before yesterday, the FDA had indeed approved the drug called "Human cryogenic sleep anti-freezing nanomedicine", and the company that invented the drug was indeed Hengxing Biotechnology Company. .
After confirming all this, Nicholas called his assistant again and told the other party that after applying for a visa to China, he also needed to apply for a visa to India.