The moment he picked up the manuscript,
Xu Yun couldn't help but mock his own foolishness.
"I really am desperate..."
Believing that an art student could solve the problem of ice crystals was as absurd as believing Van Gogh invented the lithograph machine.
But Xu Yun still put on his glasses and began studying the manuscript.
At first, he only felt that the young man had put in some effort and researched a lot of materials.
However...
The further he read, the tighter Xu Yun's brow furrowed.
"He understands this too? How did he come up with this?"
Swish—
Xu Yun swept away the clutter on the lab table and placed the manuscript neatly on it, sitting up straight himself, fully engrossed.
"It feels like something's missing here..."
"And how did he come up with this? The process seems a bit disjointed... but it fits together overall."
Xu Yun felt a bit bewildered, finding the manuscript somewhat fragmented.
He flipped through it but found no binding errors or missing pages. Scratching his head, he continued reading.
Gradually...
Sweat beads appeared on Xu Yun's forehead.
"This manuscript... it actually contains something!"
He was a professional.
So, after just reading the first few pages, he could be 100% certain—
Although the manuscript was incomplete, somewhat disjointed, with minor errors in symbols...
There was no denying it.
This was definitely a genuine research manuscript!
Not fabricated nonsense, not pseudoscience, but real parameters supported by experimental data!
He could understand the basics in the first half of the manuscript. But the "ingenious ideas" in the latter part were something he had never considered.
Clang.
Xu Yun turned another page.
What followed were many chemical equations, formulas, molecular formulas, experimental data parameters, and so on...
These were the real treasures!
There was no time to waste, Xu Yun immediately took action.
He cleared his mind and began operating according to the experimental data and steps recorded in the manuscript.
With detailed parameters and reaction equations provided in the manuscript, it wasn't difficult to follow suit.
Although there were some gaps between the equations and obvious missing steps, Xu Yun had been researching in this field for many years. Since the manuscript had provided hints to this extent, he could fill in those gaps himself.
It didn't take long...
The substance, which was said to be able to bind deeply with water molecules, was prepared. Xu Yun set up the microscope and cryogenic box, ready to redo the live cell experiments.
He took a deep breath.
"Phew..."
After a few deep breaths, he pressed the button to start lowering the temperature of the cryogenic box.
3 degrees Celsius,
-8 degrees Celsius,
-17 degrees Celsius,
-27 degrees Celsius...
As the temperature of the experiment continued to drop, Xu Yun's heartbeat accelerated! It felt like it was about to burst out!
Ice crystals began to form on the glass wall of the cryogenic box, but the live cells in the center of the microscope eyepiece... still moved slowly! The cell fluid also flowed slowly! There was no freezing! No ice crystals!
Xu Yun was shocked...
"Bring in the liquid nitrogen, now!"
Xu Yun didn't have any assistants around, so he ran to the storage room himself and took out a bottle of liquid nitrogen to inject into the apparatus, slowly adding it to the cryogenic box.
The temperature of liquid nitrogen was around -200 degrees Celsius.
This was already considered absolute zero.
As liquid nitrogen was slowly injected... the temperature displayed on the computer screen plummeted like a bungee jump.
-87 degrees Celsius,
-156 degrees Celsius,
-187 degrees Celsius...
Finally.
The temperature stabilized at -191 degrees Celsius.
And under the microscope—
The live cells seemed to have stopped moving! But they hadn't completely stopped; they twitched slightly a few times within a minute!
And the liquid inside the cells showed no signs of freezing whatsoever, still flowing extremely slowly.
"No ice crystals... no ice crystals!"
Professor Xu Yun was ecstatic and incoherent:
"At minus 200 degrees, the cells can maintain absolute activity without ice crystals!"
Professor Xu Yun relaxed for a moment, sitting directly on the ground.
At this moment... he couldn't control his emotions anymore.
Suppressed for so long!
Numerous failures!
Years of being misunderstood!
Thinking of the grievances he had suffered over the years, and his beloved daughter lying on the hospital bed, thin and comatose, tears blurred his vision:
"Yiyi... Dad has finally succeeded..."
...
After a long time, Professor Xu Yun's emotions calmed down.
He stood up.
Holding the manuscript like a sacred decree, Xu Yun saw the correct experimental results just now as proof that this manuscript was indeed correct.
"As long as the problem of ice crystals is solved, it's just a step away from perfecting the filling solution for the hibernation capsule."
"This manuscript solved the problem of ice crystals in just two pages... so the following pages must surely record the correct formula and preparation method for the hibernation capsule filling solution."
Thinking of this, Xu Yun was extremely excited.
But at the same time...
A bigger doubt filled his mind instantly—
"Where did this manuscript come from?"
As the saying goes, it takes an expert to know an expert, but even a layman can see a spectacle.
Xu Yun could tell at a glance that the young man who brought the manuscript was merely a "copier," not a true "researcher."
This was too obvious to deceive a professional scientist like him.
"I remember... that young man's name, seems to be Lin Xian?"
Xu Yun recalled his conversation with Lin Xian:
"Do you understand the field of hibernation?"
"Just the basics..."
"Where did you get this information?"
"I can't say."
...
Can't say.
Professor Xu Yun paced in the laboratory, lost in thought.
This young man, Lin Xian, never claimed that he had researched this manuscript himself, and he openly admitted that he didn't know much about the hibernation field.
So the source of this manuscript...
It must have been obtained by Lin Xian from elsewhere.
Professor Xu Yun speculated that there were two possibilities—
Lin Xian was commissioned by someone to deliver this information to him.Lin Xian used illegal means and special methods to secretly copy confidential data from a research institute abroad.
"Regardless of the possibility... both are far-fetched."
Xu Yun frowned, continuing his reasoning.
He was well aware that there was no one else in China conducting research in the field of hibernation besides himself.
Moreover, if there really were a scientific giant willing to help him, why wouldn't they come forward themselves? Why go through Lin Xian?
As for stealing secrets from foreign research institutes... it was even more impossible.
Lin Xian wasn't a special forces soldier, capable of infiltrating, right?
However.
All these doubts could be put aside for now.
Xu Yun flipped through the manuscript, looking at the pages filled with chemical formulas and molecular formulas.
He had to try it immediately.
If he strictly followed the steps and procedures recorded in this manuscript...
"Can we really manufacture the filling solution for the hibernation capsule in one go?"