301 Hospital.
Deep inside the Clinical Medicine Research Center, a large medical device roughly twice a person's height and five paces wide stood in a laboratory measuring just over a hundred square meters.
Viewed from the front, the device bore some structural resemblance to a CT scanner. The only difference was that instead of a simple bed, a crystal coffin shaped like a space capsule lay flat directly in front of it.
The device had been brought over from the Cryobiology Laboratory at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study. It had been flown to Shangjing, where researchers from the Cryobiology Laboratory had spent three full days assembling it.
Besides the researchers led by Professor Liu Zuobing, those present included Academician Zhao Zhongji, who had once led an international team of specialists in a consultation on Lu Zhou's condition, along with cancer specialists from 301 Hospital and quite a few hospital staff.
For the latter group, whether they were academy-level specialists or junior nurses from the inpatient wards, even those familiar with low-temperature biology and cryobiology had only read relevant papers in journals.
Since the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study had never publicly disclosed its progress in this field, they now stared at the machine as though they were looking at a monster.
Academician Zhao Zhongji gazed at the futuristic device for a long time before letting out a soft sigh.
"Putting patients into cryogenic hibernation until an era when their illnesses can be cured... If this thing really is that miraculous, I'm afraid it will overturn the entire medical community's understanding of the word medicine."
For ordinary people, even spending a few hours in a state of "suspended animation" at low temperatures could buy enough time to transfer them for emergency treatment, potentially pulling patients who would otherwise certainly die