"Where am I...?" As his consciousness revived, Chen Yu, confused, propped himself up against the cold equipment next to him. Rubbing his head, he soon realized that he could not understand his own words. He felt bewildered and took a while to regain some clarity. He also recalled some past events.
Back then, Chen Yu was a man afflicted with a terminal illness. Medical technology at the time was not advanced enough to cure him, so at the age of twenty-five, with his parents' arrangement, he chose cryopreservation to wait for future medical advancements that could solve his problem and then be revived for treatment. At that time, this technology was regarded as somewhat unrealistic.
