Chapter 868: Chapter 28: Who Am I (Extra Chapter for Monthly Votes)_2 Chapter 868: Chapter 28: Who Am I (Extra Chapter for Monthly Votes)_2 Lin Xian could only guess at these two possibilities.
But guessing was useless.
Now, the matter was dead without proof.
According to Zheng Xiangyue and the elder Wei Shengjin, Jask indeed died a natural death of old age.
If so, the day he passed, surely the whole of Mars must have grieved, right?
Perhaps the murderer was among the mourners, wiping away crocodile tears.
As for Angelica here.
She didn’t know the correct answer, either.
From the moment she left Mars, she had completely lost contact with that side.
“Did Jask reveal anything to you about his death?”
Angelica shook her head again,
I asked repeatedly at that time, but he wouldn’t tell me.
Maybe he meant well, or perhaps, I simply couldn’t help him at the time, so telling me would have been pointless.”
“But I’ve always been suspicious about one thing…”
Angelica narrowed her eyes,
“This is something I realized after arriving on Earth.
You might have heard too, Lin Xian, that long-term hibernation can cause amnesia, with a generally safe timeline of 10 years.”
“That is to say, as long as one wakes up within 10 years, there’s basically no risk of amnesia.
If you absolutely do not want to forget and still want to hibernate for a long time, there’s only one way…
that’s to wake up every 10 years, live normally, consolidate half a year of memories, and then continue with hibernation.”
“This intermittent method of hibernation causes significant damage to the body, bringing incurable neuralgia, and even the chance of developing resistance to Hibernation Fluid, leading to severe hibernation diseases, even death in the Hibernation Pod.”
“Generally speaking, no one would use this method for an extended period, as it’s no different from chronic suicide.
Jask used this method to ensure his memories wouldn’t be lost.
Mars’s history education clearly states this, all Martians know the reason why Jask hasn’t forgotten anything over hundreds of years.”
Lin Xian listened to Angelica’s account.
And didn’t find it that strange.
After all, this wasn’t the first time he had encountered such things.
He didn’t understand what she was trying to say,
“What are you trying to say?
I didn’t quite catch your meaning.”
“If Jask really was waking up every 10 years to stabilize his memories and check on Mars’s modification achievements, then issue new orders…
This logic is completely plausible, isn’t it?”
“Let’s do a rough calculation, a span of nearly 600 years; we’ll go with 600 years.
Waking up 60 times, with each for half a year, that’s a total of 30 years.”
“Even though you said it would cause irreversible pain, the fact that Jask went through hundreds of years without forgetting can be scientifically explained.”
“No…” Angelica interrupted Lin Xian,
“That’s not it, Lin Xian, you haven’t heard what I want to say.”
She continued with a blink,
“According to what you said, there’s no problem, reaching the future in an extreme state, he would only be in his 80s.
the Jask I met was very young, very healthy, definitely no older than 60!”
“The official story on Mars is, Jask always paid a lot of attention to beauty and health, and used high-tech medical beauty, that’s why he looked young.”
Lin Xian stroked his chin.
Thought for a moment.
“How should I put it, I’ve heard that there is no such high-tech medical beauty on Mars.
for someone like Jask, would he need to care about beauty and youthful appearances?
Doesn’t this excuse feel like…
[Jask is deliberately concealing his unusually young age]?”
“Then what’s his purpose?
Moreover, he is the most scrutinized public figure, his hibernation time and activity trajectories are impossible to hide.
Plus, I have other Martian human friends, they all speak highly of Jask, saying he was very active in history, involved in many significant projects.”
“So, how did he manage it?
How to ensure he didn’t lose his memories, suffering at least once every 10 years to awaken, then still be very active in history, participating in many important Martian projects and planning, and…
in the end still look so young?”
“That itself is a series of contradictory propositions.
Lin Xian’s eyes widened,
Lin Xian thought of Jask’s substitute that could easily pass for the real one!
He immediately understood the hidden meaning in Angelica’s words,
“I get it now, what you mean is…
throughout this history spanning several hundred years, there were two Jasks, or even three, four Jasks!”
“They appeared on Mars at different points in time, in an organized, disciplined, and purposeful manner, impersonating the real Jask!”
“And where is the real Jask?
He could have been in hibernation in some corner all along, possibly still not awakened, all the Jasks that humanity has seen are false!
Thus, naturally, the Jask who died…
could also be a fake.”
“Yes, Lin Xian, that’s exactly the possibility I thought of.”
“This is why I have not self-destructed or given up hope over the years on Earth, the one thought that always sustained me.”
“He is Jask, after all…
such a smart man, in this notebook I wrote, it mentioned how he used ‘Fake Sike’ to lure enemies into the trap.
Therefore, by the same logic…”