Chapter 2385: Dream and Reality

"What?! You are Chengxi's son?! This... this is impossible!"

Upon hearing Ye Chen's self-introduction, Li Yalin's expression turned incredibly horrified!

He clearly remembered his conversation with An Chongqiu not long ago.

At that time, while chatting about the old master of the An family and An Chongqiu's elder sister, An Chongqiu had also mentioned his nephew whose life and death were unknown.

He said that the entire An family had almost traveled the whole world to find him.

However, no matter what methods they exhausted, they could not find any trace of his whereabouts.

Even many people believed that he must have died, only that his remains had not been found.

But the An family always felt that he must still be living somewhere in this world, and they just hadn't found him yet.

But Li Yalin could never have dreamed that the first person he saw after coming back from the dead and opening his eyes would actually claim to be the son of Ye Chengxi.

This made Li Yalin, who was a policeman by trade, have the first thought of questioning it.

So he calmed down and analyzed: "Why do I feel like I should already be dead? I remember when the elevator door just opened, a group of black-clad militants fired at me from inside the elevator... The firepower of those bastards was very fierce, and they almost didn't hesitate at all. Before I lost consciousness, I remember I was shot at least twenty or thirty times. I was already dead as a doornail, damn it. Even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal were reincarnated, it would be impossible to save me..."

After finishing, he widened his eyes and blurted out: "Holy shit, could this be the world after death?!"

Thinking of this, he said without hesitation: "So this is what it's like after people die... just constantly dreaming, constantly drifting around in all kinds of bizarre environments... Then what's next? Is it reincarnation, entering the next cycle?"

Ye Chen couldn't help but smile and said: "I thought you policemen were all materialists. I didn't expect that you, the famous Chinese super-detective, would also have such foolish thoughts."

As he spoke, Ye Chen's voice raised a bit, and he said loudly: "Li Yalin, listen well, you are not dead; I saved you."

Li Yalin looked at Ye Chen, waved his hand, and said: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! I just said, I was shot so many times at that time, I was already dead as a doornail, no one could save me... So you must be unreal! I've been a policeman all my life, I can still figure out this much logic!"

Ye Chen said indifferently: "Yes, you were shot many times. I was at the scene at the time. Your internal organs were basically shattered. If the fragments of body tissue blown off your body by bullets were shoveled together and weighed, there would be at least three to five jin."

As he spoke, Ye Chen took out his mobile phone, found the photo he had taken at the time from a hidden folder, handed it to Li Yalin, and said indifferently: "Take a look, this is what you looked like at the time."

Li Yalin took the phone nervously, looked down, and was startled by himself in the photo.

He had handled cases for many years and had encountered countless corpses that had died miserably.

But the only one who could be shot into a sieve at close range by so many guns was himself.

Seeing the photo, he was even more full of doubts and blurted out: "Damn it, I've become such a mess, and you're telling me now that I'm not dead?! Do you think I'm that stupid?"

Ye Chen pointed to his face in the photo, which was dead with eyes wide open, and said: "Come, look carefully at that face of yours, did you find anything strange?"

Li Yalin looked down, seeing his miserable expression full of pain and unwillingness, and blurted out: "What could be strange about this? Are you trying to ask me why I look so unwilling?"

As he spoke, without waiting for Ye Chen to answer, Li Yalin said angrily: "Of course I'm unwilling! I just found out my daughter is pregnant! I was just about to go back and live a good life with them! As a result, I was killed before I even walked out of that gymnasium. If it were you, would you be willing?"

Ye Chen shook his head and smiled, saying: "What I want you to see is that although your body was shot into a sieve, your head was very lucky not to be hit by bullets. If a bullet had hit your crown at that time and blown your brains out, then you would really be dead as a doornail."

Li Yalin looked at Ye Chen with a puzzled face: "What do you mean?"

Ye Chen pointed to the towering freezing tanks and smiled indifferently: "Take a close look at these stainless steel tanks beside you. These are all specially used for human freezing. Here you need to pay special attention to tank number seven, because before you woke up, you were always frozen in this tank."

Li Yalin was speechless at the forest of stainless steel tanks in front of him, and he asked blankly: "Freezing? What exactly does that mean?"

Ye Chen smiled: "First, you were lucky. When you were attacked, among so many dead soldiers, no one shot at your head, so your brain survived;"

As he spoke, Ye Chen pointed to Fei Kexin behind him and added: "Secondly, you should also thank Miss Fei. If she hadn't brought you to this freezing center of the Fei family to be frozen, your body would probably have rotted long ago;"

Only then did Li Yalin notice that behind Ye Chen, there were actually several people standing, one of whom was Fei Kexin of the Fei family!

"Hiss..." Li Yalin suddenly gasped, looked at Ye Chen dumbfounded, and asked: "But this still isn't enough to bring me back to life, right? From a scientific point of view, no one can cure my injuries. What's more, I have never heard that the scientific community can normally thaw and wake up people after freezing. They are all frozen first, and whether they can be thawed later is another matter..."

As he spoke, he suddenly realized: "Oh... I understand! I understand this time!"

Immediately after, he said somewhat excitedly: "According to what you just said, then I must still be in a frozen state now, right? The reason why I still have consciousness now is not because there is a soul after death, but because I was frozen, but my brain has not completely died, so everything now, including you, including Miss Fei, should be what I imagined with my brain in that big tank."

After saying that, he pointed to the huge number seven tank and said firmly: "The real me, or rather my body that was frozen, should still be in that big tank, right?"

Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh, turned to look at Fei Kexin and the others, and asked: "Is this thing so hard to accept? After saying so much, he still can't distinguish between dream and reality."

Unexpectedly, everyone nodded repeatedly with a blank but firm expression.

Hong Wu muttered: "Master Ye... if this were me, I might not be as good as him... this guy speaks with some logic, it sounds like he should be smarter than me..."

As bystanders, they also felt in their hearts that this matter was indeed unbelievable.

As bystanders, they couldn't accept all this in such a short time, let alone as the person involved.

Seeing everyone's dumbfounded look, Ye Chen turned back helplessly, looked at Li Yalin, and said indifferently: "Li Yalin, you want to talk about science, then let's talk from a scientific perspective. How long do you think a human brain can survive after losing blood supply?"

Li Yalin said without hesitation: "Five minutes! Five minutes at most! I have been a criminal detective for so many years, and I can be considered half a forensic doctor. If the human brain is hypoxic for more than five minutes, it will basically cause irreversible major damage. After more than five minutes, there is basically only one possibility of brain death. Even if the body is saved and the heartbeat and breathing are restored, after brain death, a person can never wake up. Vegetative people are generally in this situation."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "Then think about it, you just encountered those militants at that time, and immediately fell to the ground after being shot. Although my movements were fast at that time, it still took me two or three minutes to solve those militants, so your window period had already passed halfway!"

"In this case, even if I had a freezer at hand and could stuff you in, it would take a long time for your brain to cool down from over 30 degrees Celsius to below freezing. By the time your brain was frozen through, let alone five minutes, fifteen minutes had probably passed;"

"Not to mention, this freezing center is more than 100 kilometers away from downtown New York, and even a helicopter would take half an hour to arrive."

"So, even if you could be sent here to be frozen in the first place, you should have been brain-dead before you arrived here. How could you still retain your current consciousness?" ===== CHAPTER 2386 =====