Chapter 1632

Guiyi Fulou said: "That should be the only way to contact those mysterious extraterrestrial visitors. As far as I know, among those who came here back then, there should still be one survivor. To see this person, one must go through the information on the tattoo, and only he can change everything." His eyes dimmed: "I have hidden my name for so many years just to find this person; perhaps in my lifetime I can still do something for this world, for that past world, but now it seems too late." Guiyi Fulou's mouth curled into a bitter smile; to most people in this world he is akin to a prophet, yet he can see through everything but still cannot grasp his own fate.

Hu Xiaotian said: "Even if you meet that Heaven's Chosen One, how do you know he will definitely help you?"

Guiyi Fulou said in a low voice: "Because he owes me a favor! A huge favor!" He did not tell Hu Xiaotian exactly what kind of favor that person owes him, but his confident expression made people feel he had sufficient assurance.

Hu Xiaotian realized that he and Guiyi Fulou still had many differences, perhaps due to different experiences; he preferred to trust himself and would not entrust his fate to others to control. Although his time in this world is shorter than Guiyi Fulou's, he has seen too much scheming and deceit, making it hard for him to trust others. All the way to now, life's trials have made him more proactive; of course this is related to his rapid growth, and not only his martial arts but also his ever-expanding influence have increased day by day; now Hu Xiaotian can firmly establish himself on this land.

Guiyi Fulou, however, walked a completely different road; unlike him who stumbled into this world by accident, Guiyi Fulou came with a mission from the start. The deviation in timing and landing site plunged him from the outset into a struggle to survive. To stay alive, the Ghost Doctor had to make concessions, swallow his anger, and go with the flow, struggling to survive in this strange mortal world.

From Guiyi Fulou's recent words, Hu Xiaotian vaguely sensed that the Ghost Doctor had once prepared to abandon his mission, intending to live a plain life with his wife and children, but later he probably encountered something great enough to change his life—perhaps Ling Jiazi, perhaps something else—anyway it prompted the Ghost Doctor to resolutely take up his unfinished mission again and continue his trans-space plan; however, everything now seems too late.

Hu Xiaotian said: "Where is the person you mentioned hiding?"

Guiyi Fulou's eyes grew bewildered; he said in a low voice: "Wuji Dong, but no one knows where Wuji Dong is."

Hu Xiaotian said: "That's not necessarily true; I have met a few people from Wuji Guan." The implication is that perhaps through those people we could inquire about the whereabouts of Wuji Guan, and Wuji Dong is likely related to Wuji Guan; if we find Wuji Guan we should be able to find Wuji Dong.

Guiyi Fulou said calmly: "I fear they have long since lost contact."

Hu Xiaotian said: "There's no need to seek Wuji Dong to settle this; simply destroy the spaceship they left behind, and everything will be resolved naturally."

Guiyi Fulou shook his head and said: "You are thinking too simply; the strength of Hong Beimo's people far exceeds what you imagine."

Hu Xiaotian said: "If he were truly capable, he would have repaired the spaceship long ago and wouldn't be waiting until now."

Guiyi Fulou said: "Hong Beimo is not the Heaven's Chosen One, so he cannot obtain sufficient information; naturally he cannot repair that spaceship, but once he finds the true Heaven's Chosen One, everything will be different."

Hu Xiaotian couldn't help but think of Qiqi; now it seems Qiqi should be the Heaven's Chosen One the Ghost Doctor spoke of. As she grows, the memories inherited from her mother's body are rapidly recovering; once she inherits all of Ling Jiazi's memories, she will also have the ability to repair the spaceship.

Guiyi Fulou said: "Initially, the few people who came down with the spaceship had clear divisions of labor just like our team. According to my estimate, the two individuals captured and killed by Dakang were precisely the crew members responsible for the spaceship's maintenance technology; it was precisely because of their deaths that the others were detained, and over the years they have been devoted to finding and repairing the spaceship."

Hu Xiaotian said: "Had it not been a twist of fate, if Dakang had timely discovered their whereabouts and killed those two key figures back then, perhaps they would have already sent the information back to their homeland."

Guiyi Fulou sighed and said: "Exactly so; once they repair the spaceship, the consequences will be unimaginable—this world could be completely destroyed, triggering a chain of chain reactions, the spatiotemporal power balance system will be shattered, and the world we once survived in will thus face an unprecedented cataclysm…" His words cut off abruptly; he clutched his abdomen with both hands, cold sweat beading on his forehead, and the tumor inside him suddenly flared, the pain rendering him unable to speak.

Hu Xiaotian gazed sympathetically at the Ghost Doctor; if the Ghost Doctor's condition is true, he undoubtedly has missed the best time for surgery, and given the lack of radiotherapy and chemotherapy conditions, the Ghost Doctor likely has little time left.

Hu Xiaotian suddenly thought of Ren Tianqing, that mysterious figure from Xuantian Guan; I wonder if his medical skills would have any effect on the Ghost Doctor? Hu Xiaotian said in a low voice: "Do you have any knowledge of Ren Tianqing and Xuantian Guan?"

The Ghost Doctor's pain eased somewhat; he smiled calmly: "Although the extraterrestrial visitors also mastered profound and inscrutable medical arts, their physiological structure differs too much from that of people in this world, so their medicine is not applicable here. Xuantian Guan's medical arts should have derived largely from those extraterrestrial visitors; although they have not truly grasped the essence, it is still enough for Xuantian Guan to stand proudly in this world."

Hu Xiaotian said: "Could Ren Tianqing be a descendant of those people?"

Guiyi Fulou said: "It's unclear, but even if he is not their descendant, he still has close ties with them." He let out a long sigh, shook his head, and said: "I have little time left; originally I hoped to find Wuji Dong and persuade the Heaven's Chosen One to come out of seclusion, if he could still be alive to this day…" His words conveyed much feeling.

Hu Xiaotian said: "Is the Heaven's Chosen One you mentioned the sole survivor from back then who is still alive today?"

Guiyi Fulou nodded, his expression showing a hint of gloom; even he could not confirm whether that Heaven's Chosen One could still be alive now. His condition worsened, the tumor having metastasized throughout his body; according to his past experience, his life likely has at most three months left. Perhaps heaven prepared an opportunity for him—just then Empress Dowager Jiang passed away, giving Guiyi Fulou a chance to enter the imperial tomb and take the tattoo on Empress Dowager Jiang's back, but he did not expect someone to have gotten there first. Moreover, Guiyi Fulou never imagined that the piece of skin he had stolen long ago was fake, and that Emperor Jingde's body and head do not belong to the same person.

The Ghost Doctor originally thought he still had one chance before death to complete his mission and save humanity, but now he finally realized he had been deceived all along. When he sneaked into the imperial tomb, he only cared about peeling the skin off Emperor Jingde's body, neglecting to notice any abnormality; only now did he notice that Emperor Jingde's neck bears a half-inch-wide gold collar, which concealed the mismatch between head and body, thus deceiving him. Nowadays everything is too late; he has no way left to find the Heaven's Chosen One, and moreover, suffering from a terminal illness, even if he could find him, he would have no chance to persuade him.

The Ghost Doctor's gaze turned to Hu Xiaotian; his formerly dim eyes suddenly brightened considerably.

Hu Xiaotian felt a bit uneasy under his stare and gave a wry smile: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

The Ghost Doctor said in a low voice: "You still have a chance!"

Hu Xiaotian said: "Save all of humanity?" He shook his head and said: "I don't have such lofty ideals, nor any grand ambitions; I only wish to live a peaceful life here."

Guiyi Fulou said: "Don't you have relatives and friends in your homeland? Can you just watch the world that raised you be destroyed?"

Hu Xiaotian chuckled and said: "I am no savior; I also believe in the butterfly effect, but I do not think that what happens here will affect the time and space we once inhabited." Hu Xiaotian realized that Guiyi Fulou surely still hides many things from him; now that he seeks his help, he clearly expects Hu Xiaotian to take over his mission, and taking this opportunity he must make Guiyi Fulou reveal everything clearly.

Guiyi Fulou grew anxious because of Hu Xiaotian's attitude: "Don't you want to go back?"

Hu Xiaotian's heart jolted, but his exterior remained calm; he calmly looked at the Ghost Doctor and asked: "Can we go back?"

Guiyi Fulou nodded.

Hu Xiaotian chuckled: "If you could go back, why would you still be detained here?" This is a simple truth: the reason Guiyi Fulou remains here is obviously that he has no way to return to his former time and space.

Guiyi Fulou said in a low voice: "If we can return, that spaceship has the ability to jump through space, capable of returning to their time and space, which would make it possible to return to ours."

Hu Xiaotian shook his head again and said: "Even if I could seize that spaceship, I know nothing about operating it; how could I pilot it?"

Guiyi Fulou said: "It need not be you who pilots it; as long as you can seize the spaceship, someone will naturally help you."

Hu Xiaotian quietly gazed at Guiyi Fulou; he could tell that Guiyi Fulou still refuses to tell him the truth, and Guiyi Fulou is clearly not alone—behind him must be many helpers, otherwise how could he have dug such a large tunnel in a short time? His claim that the other members of the trans-space team are dead is merely his one-sided account and may not be reliable.

Hu Xiaotian said: "Who will help me?"

Guiyi Fulou said in a low voice: "The mute one; I raised him from childhood, and he has almost learned all my knowledge." (To be continued~^~.)