“I know what you’re going to ask next,” Zhang Ying said. “Please let me start by explaining a biological concept from the beginning, so that we can have a common starting point.”
Su Wan nodded: "Go ahead and say it."
“You are someone who traveled to this ancient world,” Zhang Ying said. “Do you know why you were able to travel here?”
Su Wan touched the resurrection pendant on her chest: "It was this resurrection pendant that pulled me here."
"That's true, but it's only a superficial phenomenon. You've clearly taken over a body that doesn't belong to you. It's your consciousness that has traveled through time and space, not your physical body itself."
"That's true."
"After consciousness leaves the body, what carries it?" Zhang Ying pulled up a chair and sat down, gesturing for Su Wan to sit down as well. "Consciousness itself cannot exist independently, much less travel through time and space."
Su Wan sat down and answered honestly, "I don't know that."
Zhang Ying said, "This mystery was unsolved in your time and was not solved until the early 23rd century. That was the discovery of the life factor, a substance completely different from traditional particles, which has the property of traveling through time and space."
Su Wan seemed to understand somewhat and asked, "So, the life factor, as a carrier of consciousness, carried consciousness through time and space?"
"You're right. The life factor not only serves as a carrier, but also preserves the complete link of consciousness in its original form. This allows you to remember everything before you transmigrated, preventing you from becoming a mindless madman."
Su Wan nodded.
In just a few words, she made a groundbreaking discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize. If only she could travel back to her original era…
“The jade pendant you’re wearing is a life factor transmission device, or simply a transmitter,” Zhang Ying pointed to the pendant. “The pattern isn’t some kind of magical herb, but rather the symbol of life factors. It’s what pulls your consciousness into this world, opening and maintaining the spacetime channel between you and your original world, allowing you to bring things from your original world…”
Su Wan recalled the first time she opened the box containing the jade pendant. It was at that time that she could use her consciousness to enter her apartment and pharmacy.
So that's the purpose of this jade pendant.
Su Wan said, "I already understand what life factors are. But... I came here mainly hoping that you can cure my husband."
Zhang Ying seemed to have anticipated her answer, saying, "Have you ever thought about why I should heal your husband, or anyone else you asked me to heal?"
Su Wan was taken aback.
Yes, she only knew that the goddesses of past dynasties were entitled to request that a family of divine healers cure a person. But there's no such thing as a free lunch; the family of divine healers must have made some demands, and this was how they would exchange it.
“I came to this era not to increase the average lifespan of ancient people,” Zhang Ying said, half-jokingly and half-seriously. “If you want me to heal your husband, you have to give me something in return.”
Su Wan asked, "What are your requirements?"
Zhang Ying did not answer directly, but instead turned her gaze to the rectangular metal box that was large enough for an adult to lie down in, and said, "Do you... love your husband?"
Su Wan said, "Of course I love him, I'm willing to go through fire and water for him."
Many people are unworthy to say those words; their vows of eternal love remain merely words. Su Wan believed she was worthy, and she truly lived up to them.
“Me too,” Zhang Ying said. “Like you, I’m also trying to heal my lover… Look at the hibernation pod, he’s about to wake up.”
The cover, gleaming with metallic luster, slowly rose, and a hand emerged from the white mist, gripping the edge. Then, a handsome man, also dressed in a blue bodysuit, rose from the rectangular hibernation pod.
A thin mist of white fog wafted from the edge of the hibernation pod. The fog seemed quite heavy, and after overflowing from the edge, it slowly flowed towards the ground.
“You’re awake,” Zhang Ying said, losing her composure. As soon as the man stepped out of the hibernation pod, she rushed over and hugged him. “It’s only been nineteen years, but I’ve been waiting like crazy.”
Ignoring Su Wan's gaze from outside, the man embraced Zhang Ying without a care in the world, and the two immediately began to kiss each other passionately.
Su Wan blushed deeply and could only look down at the shoes.
She and Wei Jingzhuo were just as passionate, but they wouldn't do it in front of outsiders. Zhang Ying said she had waited nineteen years; did she mean this man had been asleep for nineteen years?
She only looked up when Zhang Ying's voice rang out again.
Zhang Ying, arm in arm with the man, stood on the other side of the glass wall and said somewhat shyly, "Let me meet my lover, Chu Ming, the founding emperor of the Southern Chu Kingdom."
Su Wan was startled and repeated, "The founding emperor of the Southern Chu Kingdom?"
She remembered Wei Jingzhuo mentioning the history of Southern Chu to her. The Southern Chu Kingdom had a history of over five hundred years since its founding. She never imagined she would encounter the founding emperor of Southern Chu here.
If anyone else had said it, she would have thought it was nonsense, but it was different when Zhang Ying said it.
She glanced at the cryogenic pod; this type of device allowed the human body to remain in a state of cryogenic sleep for extended periods. This concept already existed in science fiction movies of her time, enabling long interstellar journeys. Zhang Ying's era had clearly realized this idea.
Chu Ming looked at her and smiled, "You must be the eleventh generation goddess. I am Chu Ming, the emperor who founded the Southern Chu Kingdom. Xiao Ying and I met, fell in love, and were deeply in love. Xiao Ying has waited for ten generations so that I can leave this world."
He turned to Zhang Ying: "Is the life factor replacement finally complete?"
Zhang Ying nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, I can finally take you to my world. Your illness can be cured there. We won't have to suffer like this, having to wait decades each time to spend just a few days together."
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