The 200-year-long "Winter Sleep Prohibition Era" has arrived.
And today, the current date...
[is April 10, 2025.]
Too late.
No matter what happens at this point, it's too late.
Gauss's move was indeed insidious, yet brilliantly executed.
During the early days of hibernation technology, a virus that prevented only hibernation and caused no other harm wouldn't attract much attention.
Winter sleep, for the vast majority of people in the current world, was merely a dispensable technology.
If one could hibernate, they might give it a try; if they couldn't, they wouldn't care.
The people who truly had a pressing need for hibernation fell into only two categories—
1. Patients with incurable illnesses.
2. People like Lin Xian, who bore essential missions and responsibilities.
But combined, these two groups accounted for less than 0.01% of the world's population.
"There's one thing I don't quite understand."
Lin Xian muttered: