Following the tremors, the lights on the wall flickered. They illuminated the ancient stone age symbols and the Oracle Bone Script with the word 'insect'.
There was less than an hour left on the countdown. Gu Jun's group and the multi-colored cat walked down this corridor for a while. They passed 3 small junctions and took several turns. Yu Chi paid attention to the symbols on the wall as he walked but the chanting did not seem to be closing the distance.
Therefore, Yu Chi became more and more anxious. He started to suspect that his train of thought was wrong or that he had chosen the wrong direction.
"Captain Yu, calm down, we need to calm down …" Gu Jun said but his condition was deteriorating.
When he came down from the iron staircase, he had been having hallucinations from time to time. Now, the situation was getting more and more serious.
The symbols on the wall were different but the differences were too subtle and messy. He felt like he was walking on the same spot but at the same time, he felt like he was stepping into a different dimension. For a moment, his side seemed to suddenly become lonely, as if he was the only one walking in this narrow passageway.
The pain in his head worsened.
Suddenly, there was another flash of pain. The PEEK skull seemed to have cracked open.
"Ah …" Gu Jun gripped his head and frowned but it did not ease the pain. He was at the end of his tether, physically and mentally …
She seemed to hear Yu Chi's voice and the meows of the multi-colored cat, but they became more and more distant …
When Gu Jun opened his eyes again, he realized … there was no one else, no cat.
'Is this an illusion? ' Gu Jun shook his head and rubbed his eyes. It was still the same scene. The front, back, and ceiling of the corridor were empty. His heart sank. "Captain Yu? Dirty-minded Yu? Mason? The witch?! "He called but there was no response. There was only the chanting.
They were originally in an inexplicable dimension, so it was possible for space to distort and separate them.
Or perhaps it was the altar, the Blindfold Spell, the Great Illusion … Am I in an illusion?
With that in mind, Gu Jun could not confirm the answer.
Suddenly, he felt something staring at him from behind …
Gu Jun turned his body to the side and looked around. The first time, there was nothing out of the ordinary, but when his eyes returned to the direction he came from, he saw a blurry figure standing in the darkness far away. That made his heart squeeze.
It was a tall and sturdy figure with a square face and bulging muscles. It was Xue Ba.
"Captain Xue?" He called softly.
The figure turned to look at him and his eyes were ashen.
Gu Jun then realized, 'No, that can't be Xue Ba. Captain Xue is dead, he would not appear here, not even his soul …'
He immediately gathered his thoughts and told himself that the figure was just an illusion, that it was just a trick …
"Ah Jun, do you really think it's just confusion?" It was Xue Ba's voice. It echoed in the corridor. "Or is it a regret that you can't let go?"
Gu Jun ignored it and moved forward cautiously. He meowed several times, "Dirty-minded Yu, Dirty-minded Yu?"
Was it a cultist, a ritual or some other kind of power?
It was stirring up chaos in his mind, causing him to lose his mind and sink into confusion. That was probably it.
This was not the first time he faced this situation.
"Based on what you said, the reason why confusion works is because it is what you want but can't get. You didn't save me, you didn't save many people. You can ignore them and not answer them, but you have to know that these regrets in your heart will always be with you until you die … "
As Gu Jun moved forward, he did not let his guard down but at that moment, he suddenly stopped.
Xue Ba's figure had disappeared, but in the blurry darkness, Gu Jun saw other figures flickering. They were Prof Qin, Brother Qiang, and Surgeon Zhu. They had all retired due to the lobotomies they underwent during the Nightmare Illness. Their condition had improved, but they were unable to return to their previous state. Of course, that was his biggest regret …
Gu Jun shook his head. More figures flashed by, legionella pneumonia, Huang Lin, He Feng, Shen Haoxuan … Mutated Scale Disease, Tian Yi …
"Look at what you have in your backpack, medical equipment … Doctor Gu, yes, you are a doctor but the number of people you have personally saved is so little."
The voices became chaotic, it sounded like Xue Ba was talking but it also sounded like someone else was talking.
It sounded like Professor Qin sighed, "Ah Jun, life is filled with regrets. The longer you live, the more regrets you will have …"
It sounded like his parents were saying, "Because we are all prisoners of time. The known is the truth but the unknown is always the unknown. Many things happen at the wrong time. When you are not mature, when you are not powerful enough, you might come across the best opportunity in your life but in the end, all you get is regret … "
"Prisoner of time … Prisoner of time …"
The voices in his ears were chaotic. Gu Jun felt a headache coming on. His mind started to blur from the pain.
'Regrets? Indeed, there are many regrets … Over the past 2 years of medical practice, the regrets had started. During the time of the Malformed Banyan Disease, the villagers at Gu Rong Village …
The village head who wanted to turn the village into a tourist attraction, the couple who opened a guesthouse, the innocent children, the elderly …
That legionella pneumonia killed millions of people around the world … and this time, who knows how many innocent people have died? How many families have been torn apart? Parents have lost their children, children have lost their parents. As a doctor, the number of people that you have saved is so little … '
Suddenly, several images flashed across Gu Jun's eyes.
Two different images. One was the quarantine circle. In the mutated area, countless locusts swallowed many frontline workers.
The other was the life circle. Those frontline workers did not die.
"Because you have changed time … These people, they were supposed to be dead, everyone felt sorry for them … But because you have changed the past, the future has changed as well. Isn't that important? The important thing is that you have the ability, the opportunity, to control time and space. "
The voice echoed in his ears again, echoing in his mind.
It slowly became his own voice.
"The tunnel that you are walking on now, isn't it a return to the past? Back to that cruise ship, back to when you first stepped into Eastern State University or even earlier, back to the starting point … Back to the past, you can change everything, you can make everything right …
The future is uncertain, it is unknown.
But the past, you can change it, you can change it …
All the regrets can be made up, the deaths and injuries of those people can be reversed … There is no price to pay because this is an ability.
Yes, this is a temptation, but do you really not want this temptation? "
Gu Jun's head was splitting. He wanted to say something but the words failed him. 'Change everything? Make it right … make it better? '
At that moment, he heard a faint meow. It sounded like Wu Shiyu's voice. "No, I really don't want to. Living once is tiring enough and I have to do it again? Does that mean the previous one doesn't count? That will become my biggest regret. "
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