Su Wan sat on this side of the glass wall, resting her chin on her hands, watching Zhang Ying humming a song and busy herself inside.
"Zhang Ying?"
"Um?"
"You really... haven't left this room in over five hundred years?"
Su Wan still couldn't quite believe it. Just sitting there watching Zhang Ying disassemble the equipment made her drowsy. It was hard to imagine anyone enduring such loneliness for so long.
“Of course not,” Zhang Ying stopped what she was doing and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. “I went out at first too, otherwise how would I have met Chu Ming?”
How did you two meet?
Zhang Ying didn't answer, but instead asked, "How did you and Wei Jingzhuo meet?"
"The day I transmigrated, I found myself being married off to him to bring him good luck."
"So you didn't fall in love with him at first sight? But you're still willing to be with him," Zhang Ying joked. "Your thinking is quite in line with the ancients' idea of 'following the chicken after marrying a chicken.'"
Su Wan retorted, "No, that's not true. We had no choice but to go back then. Assassins were always coming for us; if we didn't go with him, we'd be dead..."
She wasn't going to talk about herself, but rather wanted to know about Zhang Ying's past, so she asked, "You still haven't answered me, how did you and Chu Ming meet?"
“I’m different from you,” Zhang Ying said, putting the disassembled screws into a box and taking out a bundle of colorful threads from her hands. “Chu Ming and I fell in love at first sight. He was about to become emperor at that time. I did a check-up on him and that’s when I discovered his problem. He gave the throne to his younger brother and came to this laboratory with me.”
Su Wan glanced at Chu Ming's hibernation pod and said to Zhang Ying, "While he was hibernating in the hibernation pod, you didn't come out?"
“I did go out,” Zhang Ying said. “I happened to be caught in a rebellion led by the second generation goddess. Fortunately, it was suppressed in three days.”
“Such a thing is true,” Su Wan said. “Didn’t you say the conditions were very generous? Why would that goddess still rebel?”
“She wanted to take over this lab,” Zhang Ying said, looking up. “Of course I couldn’t give it to her, so I activated the defense mechanism.”
“None of you understand one thing,” Zhang Ying added, “The Life Factor Transmitter doesn’t bring living people here; that’s illegal. You all died in your respective eras, which is why the transmitter brought your consciousness here. You’re all long dead, dead. And yet you’re attacking me…”
Su Wan smiled and said, "I haven't even started complaining yet, and you're already acting all wronged."
The life factor had been transferred for three days, and she showed no abnormalities. She ate and drank normally, and slept without any problems.
She even suspected that Zhang Ying had not started the extraction process.
“In short, I haven’t dared to go out since then,” Zhang Ying changed the subject, reaching her hands into the open gaps of the equipment. “This lab is advanced, but only I can operate it. To exaggerate a bit, as long as a person’s brainwaves are still present, I can revive them. But if I myself am seriously injured, I can only wait to die.”
“So you’re hiding behind here,” Su Wan tapped the glass wall with her finger, “just like a bank counter, so you won’t be afraid of robbers.”
“Yes, but the banks you mentioned… they didn’t exist in my time,” Zhang Ying said, struggling to carry out a round device about the size of a washbasin. She took two steps back, carefully placed the device on the ground, and caught her breath.
"These past few days have been really tiring. During the day, I have to treat Wei Jingzhuo, and when I have a spare moment, I have to take this off for you."
Zhang Ying wiped her sweat and patted the device: "Look, the cryogenic generator. How's it going at Guijiang Estuary?"
Su Wan said, "I went to take a look. Right now, everyone is throwing bags filled with stones down from both sides of the dike to patch up the gap. But later, the current is too strong, and the bags are washed away as soon as they are thrown in."
"How wide is the gap?" Zhang Ying asked, placing her hand on the button on the cryogenic generator and looking at Su Wan.
"About 110 meters."
"You're absolutely right, there's only one cryogenic generator."
"I'm sure I'm right."
Zhang Ying quickly adjusted the parameters, then got up, walked to the control panel, pressed a button, and a metal robotic arm descended from the ceiling, picked up the cryogenic generator, and retracted it back into the ceiling.
“I’ve adjusted all the parameters. Have Eagle King fly you over there, and it will automatically trigger when you drop it like a bomb,” Zhang Ying said. “Remember to tell everyone to stay far away. I’ve adjusted the freezing range to about 140 meters. If you get too close, you’ll be frozen inside.”
The metal robotic arm lowered the cryogenic generator and placed it in front of Su Wan.
Su Wan bent down and hugged the cryogenic generator with both hands. She tried to lift it, but it was difficult. Gathering her strength and gritting her teeth, she shakily lifted it off the ground.
"Wow, this...this is so heavy, it must weigh at least forty pounds!"
“It’s not like I’m asking you to carry him all the way there. Put him in the car and push him out, let Eagle King hold him.” Zhang Ying opened the door. “I’m going to give Wei Jingzhuo one last check-up. If everything’s okay, you’ll be able to see your lover when you come back.”
"real?"
"Really." Zhang Ying walked into the corridor and closed the door behind her.
Su Wan excitedly placed the cryogenic generator on the trolley and jogged out of the treatment room.
Once they reached the open space outside, she blew her whistle, summoning the giant eagle to land.
It was midday outside, the sun was shining brightly, and the sky was cloudless. Although it was only mid-May, the weather in Nan Chu was already as hot as summer, and cicadas were chirping incessantly in the woods outside the courtyard.
She climbed onto the eagle's back and tenderly stroked its bald neck. The eagle seemed to sense her feelings and turned to rub against her.
It was all Bai Zhiyi's doing.
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