"Won't you put your child into hibernation with you?"
Zhang Qi asked in surprise.
"That girl—she's eighteen this year. She has ideas of her own."
As Ding Yi spoke, he rummaged through the pocket of his somewhat worn white lab coat. What he finally pulled out was not some high-tech device, but an ordinary terminal displaying a candid photo.
A girl in a high school uniform, her hair tied in a ponytail, was making a face at the camera. Her features looked remarkably like Yang Dong's, but that unyielding spirit was entirely a copy of Ding Yi.
"She applied to medical school and chose neuroscience. She said she wanted to find a way to wake her mother up herself."
Ding Yi put away the terminal. When speaking of his daughter, pride showed on his face.
"Heh—"
Zhang Qi tugged at the corner of his mouth and raised a hand to pat Ding Yi on the shoulder. "All right, I understand."
"How has the research been progressing these past few years?"
As the topic returned to work, the softness on Ding Yi's face instantly vanished, and he once again became the master of the laboratory.
"Building on the initial electron and proton research, we successfully induced and observed macroscopic expanded states of neutrons and photons."
Ding Yi replied, "The macroscopic state of neutrons is highly unstable, with an extremely short decay period.
"But photons—macroscopic photons have very interesting properties. They seem able to bypass certain conventional physical limitations. Their specific applications are still being demonstrated."
He paused and pointed toward an area on the other side of the laboratory, wrapped layer upon layer in thick lead plates and composite materials.
"And then there's the materialization experiment concerning Lin Yun. We've hit a bottleneck.
"Her current state is quite unusual, similar to