The Year I Stopped Being His novel Chapter 318

Vivienne set her cup down, resting her interlocked fingers on her lap. Her movements were painstakingly slow, as if she were weighing the devastating impact of every single syllable.

"Project Evernight has made a critical breakthrough in the core technology of cryogenic revival. But..."

"Unfortunately, after running a full diagnostic, Ms. Taylor's physical state does not meet the necessary criteria for revival."

Vivienne's tone was clinically gentle, but the words slammed into Garrison's chest like a boulder.

"Doesn't meet the criteria?" Garrison fought with everything he had to keep his voice steady. "What criteria?"

Vivienne looked at him. Her gaze held the exact blend of brutal honesty and deep pity that a surgeon gives a grieving family in a hospital waiting room.

"Dr. Foster, our tech can repair cellular damage. We can restart the heart. We can get the blood flowing again. But technology cannot repair the 'person.' If the brain fails to emit spontaneous electrical signals after thawing, all we are reviving is a perfectly functioning, empty biological shell. Therefore, the absolute prerequisite for revival is a baseline neural electrical signal."

"In layman's terms: after the brain tissue is thawed from vitrification, we must be able to detect spontaneous neural electrical signals—even if it's incredibly faint, even if it's just a single neuron firing. This is the only definitive indicator that the brain's hippocampus and cortical neural networks haven't suffered irreversible damage during the cryogenic freeze."

With every word Vivienne spoke, Garrison's heart plummeted deeper into an abyss.

Vivienne took a slow sip of water and continued, "Over the last five years, we've conducted hundreds of animal trials. For subjects that showed active neural signals before freezing, about seventy percent produced detectable signal fluctuations post-thaw. But right now, Ms. Taylor's scan results read absolute zero."

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