Trembling At A High Altitude

Chapter 800

"Who is the captain of your team?" Li Teng thought for a while and asked another question.

"The leader of our team is Aisha. She left with a group of team members first." Anna answered Li Teng.

Li Teng frowned.

Wasn't this script written by Yao Xue?

Otherwise, why would these familiar names appear?

Except of course that Korean woman.

Li Teng did not rest, but asked Anna to take him around the laboratory.

The laboratory is basically built according to the standards of a space capsule. Except for the ventilation system, it is almost isolated from the outside world.

The bulkheads are all high-tech insulation materials.

In addition to workshops and dormitories, there are also several classified laboratories, as well as functional rooms such as storage rooms, dining rooms, bathrooms, recreation rooms, communication rooms, parking lots, etc.

The storage room stores some food, dried vegetables, canned meat and the like.

There were several snowmobiles in the parking lot.

"There isn't much food left in the storage room!" Li Teng saw a problem.

“There will be a big storm in the coming days that will last about two months, and no transportation will be able to get through during the big storm.

"A large helicopter will arrive in two days. It will deliver half a year's worth of supplies to your team members. Even if you are trapped by the storm, you will only have three months at most. The food and material reserves are for half a year. share, so there is no need to worry about this issue at all." Anna answered Li Teng.

"Where does the energy for heating come from?" Li Teng asked another question.

"There are several ways. One is to reserve gasoline. What is left is enough for your energy consumption for a month.

“In addition, there are solar panels above the laboratory and an automatic snow removal device is installed. Of course, when the snow is too thick, manual snow removal is required.

“Also, there is a large wind power plant two hundred meters behind the laboratory, and it is necessary to arrange for personnel to go there regularly for maintenance.

"Several aspects work together to comprehensively ensure the energy supply of the laboratory, and there will basically be no problems." Anna introduced to Li Teng in detail.

At this point, Li Teng can almost guess what the plot is going to be like this time.

It's very possible that the helicopter the day after tomorrow won't be able to come over normally, or there might be an accident on the road or something like that.

Then supplies failed to come through, and he and the three female staff were trapped in the laboratory, their food reserves depleted, and they struggled to survive.

Although he knows the plot is like this, he can basically do nothing now.

"I have a bad premonition that the helicopter will have an accident. How about you contact them and tell them to be careful on the road." Li Teng thought for a while and said a few words to Anna.

"Don't worry! The person driving the helicopter is an experienced pilot with more than 30 years of driving experience. Your team members will definitely arrive safely." Anna laughed, feeling that Li Teng's worries were unnecessary.

Li Teng also knew that if he said such words for no reason, others would probably not care.

But he knew that his worries were certainly not unnecessary.

…

Anna returned to the workroom. After taking a short rest in the rest cabin, Li Teng also went to the workroom to see the research that Anna and the three of them were doing.

After a while, Anna went to her biology laboratory, and Li Teng followed.

Anna is playing with some guinea pigs.

Speaking of which, the population of white mice is quite miserable.

Rats have almost become synonymous with experimental subjects. From birth to death, they are one tragedy after another.

They are tortured by various human perversions, every part of their body may be removed, and they may also be injected with various viruses and the like.

"My research is related to aviation. If my research yields results, it will be possible for humans to colonize outer planets in the future." Anna saw that Li Teng was more interested in her work and took the initiative to talk to him. Come.

"Oh? What specific research are you doing?"

"Hibernation technology." Anna answered Li Teng.

"Hibernation? Human hibernation?" Li Teng was somewhat interested.

"Well, humans, like other animals, actually have the ability to hibernate. It's just that during the process of evolution, the hibernation switch is locked by genes.

"If we can find a way to turn on the switch for human hibernation, we can allow humans to hibernate successfully. Only when this technology matures can humans start a new era of interstellar colonization and navigation." Anna explained to Li Teng.

"It's interesting. Can you tell me in detail?" Li Teng felt that Anna's research might be related to the main mission of this plot.

You should know that the name of this play is "Frozen".

“The development of human hibernation technology has gone through several stages.

“In the earliest days, some scientists created zombie dogs. They extracted the blood from the dog’s body, quickly cooled the blood, and then infused it back into the dog’s body.

“The dog’s body temperature drops rapidly and these dogs enter hibernation as a result.

“After a period of time, the blood from these dogs is extracted, heated to normal temperature, and reinfused back into the dogs.

"The dog will wake up immediately, no different from its normal form.

“It’s just that this method has a 10% mortality rate for dogs, so it has never entered the stage of human experimentation.

“Later, some scientists discovered that after inhaling an appropriate amount of hydrogen sulfide, people would enter a coma similar to hibernation, and then began experiments on mice.

“The experiment was successful and progressed smoothly, and the scientists even claimed at one point that they had found a way to turn on the human hibernation switch.

“But I don’t know why, suddenly one day they announced that the project was stopped, and the relevant information was sealed. All relevant personnel remained silent when it came to this matter.

“I don’t know what happened to their research, or what terrible things they saw, but they suddenly stopped the project without any further explanation.

“Later, our research found that activating the hypothalamic neuropeptide QRFP in mice can induce hibernation behavior in mice.

"After the QRFP neurons are activated, the mice will lose their ability to move, their body temperature will drop to 23 or 4 degrees, their heart rate will decrease, their oxygen consumption will decrease, and their breathing will decrease.

"This state can last up to 48 hours. After recovering from this state, the mice showed no obvious tissue and organ damage or behavioral abnormalities.

"The success of this experiment means that we are one step closer to successful hibernation for humans.

“However, recently, we received an anonymous reminder from a member of the previous hydrogen sulfide hibernation team, who called himself, of course, and he asked us to interrupt the research, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Chapter 801

"It's not clear what their team saw and what they found that made them decide to stop research.

"It must be something very scary. Otherwise, with so much investment in the early stage, it would be impossible to give up just when you see the results." Anna frowned when she said this.

"Could it be that...the volunteers they hibernated turned into zombies or something?" Li Teng guessed.

"Hahaha, it's possible. I guess their hibernation method caused humans to have mutations that they couldn't accept, so they urgently stopped the project.

"But our current research route is much milder than theirs, and it should not have the same consequences as theirs." Anna added a few words of explanation.

"Your current research is only at the mouse stage, right? It hasn't entered the human experiment stage yet, right?" Li Teng asked.

"No, although this is an important technology that can promote the development of science and technology, research in this area is still against human ethics. Before further breakthroughs are made, human experiments cannot be carried out according to law." Anna shook her head. .

"So, the laboratory was built in the polar regions and can perfectly avoid the laws of all countries?" Li Teng guessed.

"Your investors must have told you this, right? Have you really lost your memory? Or do you have some secret research projects on hand that no one can know about? So you deliberately pretended to have amnesia?" Anna looked at Li Teng s eyes.

"Do you think a sincere person like me would lie?" Li Teng had an innocent expression on his face.

"Hahaha, I don't think you will be able to do it when you have amnesia, unless your amnesia is just faking it." Anna looked at Li Teng and smiled again.

At this moment, perhaps because she was not paying attention enough, a white mouse suddenly bit her.

"Ah!" Anna quickly retracted her hand, but her fingers were still bleeding.

"Do you...do you want to get vaccinated?" Li Teng felt a little embarrassed. After all, he was chatting with Anna, which distracted her.

"No need. The white mice have been vaccinated with various vaccines, and given the polar environment here, they are actually very clean." Anna skillfully took off her gloves, applied potion on herself, put on a band-aid, and found a pair of gloves to wear. On.

"You can continue your work, and I won't disturb you, lest you get bitten again." Li Teng said to Anna and exited her laboratory.

I was bitten by a white mouse. Can I just treat it like this?

Will Anna turn into a rat at night? Then sneak up on his bed and bite him?

I heard that rats like to chew on drain pipes.

horrible!

It’s scary to think about it.

Will it be a horror movie this time?

Horror movies usually start out normal, but slowly become abnormal at night.

After leaving Anna's laboratory, Li Teng approached Daisy again. She was introduced to be a mineralogist.

Daisy is also a blonde beauty, but her figure is smaller than Anna.

"Daisy, what research are you doing?" Li Teng asked Daisy.

"Secret project, can't talk about it." Daisy smiled at Li Teng.

"Okay." Li Teng was not interested in their project. He just wanted to fully understand the plot. If she didn't want to tell, she wouldn't ask.

Another member, Choi Yun-hee, is an American.

Is an equipment maintenance technician.

Li Teng also talked to her for a while.

Cui Yunxi was not very talkative, just asking and answering questions, but she answered Li Teng's questions more patiently, and did not shut people away like Daisy.

Cui Yunxi's work covers a wide range of areas. Cui Yunxi is responsible for maintaining all the equipment in this laboratory.

This even includes solar power installations on top of the lab and a small wind farm behind the lab.

"Speaking of which, I don't have much work to do. In the month I've been here, there have been basically no equipment failures." Cui Yunxi added a few words at the end.

"This is a good thing." Li Teng smiled, but he was complaining in his heart... If the helicopter supplies cannot arrive normally the day after tomorrow, Cui Yunxi will probably be busy.

Anyway, Li Teng always felt that something would go wrong during the helicopter flight the day after tomorrow.

Or... the storm came ahead of time, preventing the helicopter from flying?

The plot will definitely not be smooth sailing, and there will definitely be some troubles that are difficult to solve for him.

…

"I've been eating this food for a whole month, and I'm going to vomit if I eat it again." Anna complained a few times at the dinner table.

"You can go back soon. After I go back, I want to have a big meal." Daisy was obviously a little annoyed with the food.

Cui Yunxi just smiled and said nothing.

Li Teng looked at Anna for a while and felt that she was not turning into a rat-man yet.

Maybe he was overthinking.

This is also good, so as not to bite the drain pipe at night.

As for the food, Li Teng ate it for the first time and thought it was pretty good.

Judging from the recipes, there are more than ten kinds of air-dried vegetables and more than ten kinds of canned meats.

Of course, because they and the experimenters before them selectively ate some food, there are now fewer types of food left, and they are all types that they don't like very much.

After dinner, everyone went to the entertainment room.

There are two video games in the entertainment room, as well as a small pool table, which can also be transformed into a table tennis table.

Li Teng played billiards with them for a while, and then went to play video games for a while.

Later, the three women went back to work,

While taking a shower before going to bed, Anna gave Li Teng a card.

It says that you have to use a card to get water out of the shower head.

It is best not to exceed the set amount of water for one wash, otherwise it will cause a waste of resources.

This card is not intended to deliberately restrict anything, it is just a reminder.

The bathroom is mixed for men and women.

But there are wooden boards separating them. If you don't deliberately stick your head from the top of the partition to the next compartment, generally speaking, you won't be able to see anything.

Three women entered the bathroom one after another. They didn't mind Li Teng's presence at all. They took off their clothes outside the cubicle and walked into the cubicle.

Of course, Li Teng was well-informed and a gentleman, so he would not deliberately look at them.

After taking a shower, everyone returned to the dormitory and lay down on the bed.

"You three have been the only ones here this month?" Li Teng found a topic to chat with them.

"yes."

"Aren't you afraid?"

"What's there to be afraid of? This place is isolated from the world and extremely cold. Not to mention people, even animals will not come here. It can be said that this is the safest place in the world." Anna said in a disapproving tone.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Just as Anna finished speaking, a heavy knocking sound suddenly came from outside the dormitory bulkhead.