Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

Eighty-eight years old this year, midsummer.

These days, many more people come to visit Mo Dao one after another.

Since Mo Dao retired, knowing that Mo Dao didn't want to be disturbed, few people came to visit Mo Dao.

However, at this time, it was impossible not to come.

"...Teacher. How about you go into hibernation? Maybe..."

Those who came to visit Mo Dao included professors, researchers, and academicians who had worked with him before.

There are also students that Mo Dao brought up in the field of life sciences in this life.

The one who came to visit this time was one of Mo Dao's students, who was currently the general manager of projects related to human hibernation in China.

Since this month, Mo Dao has been awake for less and less time every day. Many times, he is only awake for half the day, and most of the rest of the time, he is in an intermittent lethargy.

For Mo Dao, this is naturally a very familiar thing.

At this moment, while he still had some energy today, Mo Dao was communicating with his student in the study room of his residence.

After a few brief words,

Mo Dao looked at his student with a calm expression. The student looked at Mo Dao again, but he was a little sad and hesitant.

Finally, I couldn't help it and mentioned human hibernation.

Thanks to the leap-forward progress in life sciences in this generation,

Mo Dao's physical condition was detected earlier than in previous lives.

It's just that aging, or the limit of human lifespan, is a disease that has no cure. This is something that Mo Dao's own theory confirms.

In the past two years, someone had already mentioned to Mo Dao that Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi should go into hibernation together in anticipation of some changes in the future.

However, they were rejected by Mo Dao.

"When I die, if you want to freeze me, just freeze me."

At this moment, hearing his student's words again, Mo Dao just smiled and responded.

His student fell into silence again.

People in this life may find it more difficult to accept Mo Dao's departure than in many past lives.

As scholars in life science-related fields, based on Mo Dao’s previous research on the mechanism of aging,

They can clearly understand and recognize what is happening to Mo Dao due to aging and extreme lifespan.

But that doesn't make it unacceptable.

Perhaps Academician Mo, this great scholar in the field of life sciences and human civilization, will leave one day.

But at this moment, Academician Mo is only eighty-eight years old, although he is not young anymore.

But it is still too early for many people to expect Academician Mo to leave.

Largely influenced by Academician Mo’s research results,

The average life span now exceeds ninety years.

But Academician Mo couldn't even reach this average lifespan.

How do people accept this?

At this moment, the time for Mo Dao to enter human hibernation has actually passed.

Even earlier, when Mo Dao's physical condition was detected, it was already too late to enter the hibernation state of the human body.

At this moment, Mo Dao entered hibernation again, which almost meant that it was impossible to wake up from hibernation.

However, for everyone, there is still some hope when Academician Mo enters hibernation.

What if... what if future technology and life sciences can make leap-forward breakthroughs based on the current foundation?

Hibernation technology is here to give people a distant hope and the possibility of self-deception.

"...Okay, teacher, wait for you...we will 'freeze' you."

Regarding Mo Dao's words, Mo Dao, the student, finally agreed.

This is actually a complete self-comfort, but not only the student Mo Dao,

There may be more people who would rather do something for Mo Dao, which may not even mean anything.

Mo Dao smiled and said nothing more about it.

The student did not continue talking.

He just turned around and mentioned the work he was responsible for and mentioned some things that Mo Dao might be interested in.

"...A few days ago, the hibernation center woke up a hibernator who had hibernated for the longest time so far, reaching 21 years."

"This is relevant data. Teacher, would you like to see it?"

"Let's take a look."

…

This month, after some people came to visit one after another,

Mo Dao refused further visits.

In his last time here, Mo Dao still wanted to spend his time quietly with Qin Huaishi.

During the rest of the time, no more people disturbed Mo Dao and the two of them.

However, as time went by, Mo Dao's energy continued to decline more and more.

Many times, I wake up for a moment and then fall asleep again.

And finally, the final moment has arrived.

…

"Want to go for a walk?"

For many people in the know at this moment,

Mo Dao is approaching the end of his life at the age of eighty-eight, which is a very difficult thing to accept.

But for Mo Dao,

The last period of this life has already exceeded the limit of previous lives.

In many previous lives, when one life came to an end, it was always in the early summer of that year.

At this moment, it is already midsummer.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room of his residence, Mo Dao could feel the scorching sunshine in this midsummer.

On this day, Mo Dao woke up very early and was rarely energetic.

Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi had already had enough expectations for the arrival of this day.

But neither of them mentioned it much.

When Mo Dao woke up, Miss Qin Huaishi also woke up.

The two elderly people moved slowly and made a simple lunch together.

After eating, time entered the afternoon of that day.

In this life, on an extremely special day, time seemed to be particularly ruthless.

Still stubbornly passing by.

Qin Huaishi asked Mo Dao in a gentle voice, and Mo Dao just shook his head and smiled and responded to Miss Qin Huaishi.

"Just sit here."

The two did not mention the matter of going out again, but just sat on the sofa in the living room.

The two simply continued the topic that Mo Dao had not finished before he fell asleep yesterday.

After finishing talking, they became quiet again, just enjoying the tranquility of the moment together.

Outside the residence, the green plants in the community are relatively lush.

At this moment, under the midsummer sun, there are still some sounds of insects.

Through the gaps between the branches and leaves outside the window, and then through the window, the afternoon sun outside the house fell on Mo Dao's hand again.

The sun in midsummer is hotter than that in early summer.

It seems to be the same as the sun felt in midsummer last year, but it seems a little different.

At this moment, Mo Dao can no longer feel any heat.

He stretched out his other hand to touch the hand that was illuminated by the sun, and he could feel a little hot,

but he still didn't feel hot on his body.

The rough fingers seemed to be repeatedly stroking the midsummer sun that fell on his hand.

Qin Huaishi next to him saw it, but didn't say anything,

just quietly accompanied Mo Dao.

Mo Dao paused again, just looked in front of him,

the countdown that he could see by concentrating his attention was still jumping down,

and it was not far from zero.

However, when he skipped the same number, the time he was in was different from any previous life.

"... Huaishi, I'm a little tired."

Without looking at the sunlight outside the window, Mo Dao looked at Qin Huaishi beside him.

Mo Dao could already feel that the last bit of strength in his body seemed to have completely lost its source and was constantly flowing away without replenishment.

The body had no feeling, but it was indeed shaking uncontrollably.

"Well...it's okay, take a rest if you're tired...I'll rest with you."

Qin Huaishi responded gently.

The two leaned on each other and spent the last time of this life.