The gravitational force of the space-time vortex was like a giant python, and the moment Lin Xiaoman clutched the clay pot and leapt, the incandescent lights of the emergency room and the moonlight of the Daming Palace shattered in front of her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, the coarse green bricks hurt her spine, and the air smelled of mugwort and blood -- she had actually fallen into the side hall of the Imperial Hospital in the Zhenguan era, with moans coming from behind a screen not far away.
"Doctor Lin!" Doctor Zhang's alarmed cry pierced the dead silence. The old man staggered and held her arm, his goatee trembling violently under the candlelight, "You have finally come! The astrological sign of the Meridian Stream Injection has just passed, and the time-space rift..." Before the words fell, the sound of metal clashing suddenly came from outside the hall, more than a dozen Jingwu guards barged in with torches, brightly shining swords and spears pointing directly at Lin Xiaoman: "Demon girl trespassing on the forbidden land, apprehended by order of the Crown Prince!"
Lin Xiaoman's pupils suddenly shrunk. Dr. Zhang was in front of her, and on the bamboo slip that slipped from his sleeve, the words "Li Chengqian" were illuminated by the firelight. Memories like a tidal wave came, before unconsciousness Prince's pale smiling face and at this moment the cold armor of the Jingwuwei overlap, she was shocked to realize that in her hands when the pottery pot emerged blood-colored lines, and even with the symbols next to the remains of Li Chengqian in the emergency room is exactly the same.
"Wait!" Along with a clear voice, the young doctor dressed in a basalt-colored shirt separated from the crowd. Lin Xiaoman's blood froze -- the man's eyebrows resembled Li Chengqian's by seven points, but there was no Beidou birthmark on the side of his neck, and the jade pendant at his waist was engraved with the word "Li Tai." Li Tai scrutinized the silver bracelet on her wrist and suddenly laughed coldly: "Before the disappearance of the crown prince's brother, he had been obsessed with this bracelet. It seems that the so-called 'Time and Space Medical Codex' is nothing more than a trick for you to confuse people!"
Before the words left her mouth, the silver ring in Lin Xiaoman's bosom suddenly burned. Remembering Doctor Zhang Zheng's advice, she backhanded the silver needle into her palm, and the moment the blood droplets dripped onto the surface of the clay pot, the entire side hall shook violently. The floor tiles cracked open with spiderweb-like gaps, revealing the hidden bronze ancient mirror. Two images were reflected in the mirror: in the modern emergency room, Xiao Chen was screaming in terror at the surveillance image of her disappearance; and in the other corner, Li Chengqian, who was supposed to be dead, was actually standing at the edge of the space-time vortex, and the carving knife in his hand was fighting with some kind of invisible force.
"This is Mirror Abyss!" Doctor Zhang Zheng grabbed her wrist, "Ancient mirrors can illuminate parallel space-time, but every time you peer into it, you will..." The old man's voice ended abruptly. Li Tai suddenly snatched the clay pot, and the tadpole writing on the clay piece turned into a ghostly blue flame the moment he touched it, engulfing Li Chengqian's figure in the mirror. Lin Xiaoman lunged at the ancient mirror like a madman, but she saw countless vines sticking out of the mirror and wrapping around her ankles, dragging her into a chaos.
In a blur of consciousness, she heard Li Chengqian's hissing, "Xiao Man quickly go! The secret codex remnants are in..." When she woke up again, she was in a strange bamboo forest. The stream reflected her face, but she was shocked to realize that the white coat had been changed into a Tang Dynasty medical robe at some point, and the ceramic piece in her pocket had turned into the complete Time and Space Medical Dictionary, only that the writing on the cover was fading rapidly.
"Miss Lin." A crisp male voice came from behind. Lin Xiaoman turned around, only to see a Persian merchant-looking old man stroking his white beard, a silver pot hanging from his waist engraved with double helix patterns, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince used a carving knife to leave a message on my camel's bone--'If you see Xiaoman, tell him that the pottery piece is the key, and the cracks are in the dysentery bacillus' in the microscopic image'."
Meanwhile, in a modern Xi'an microbiology lab, Xiao Chen stared into a microscope and suddenly screamed. The dysentery bacilli in the petri dish automatically arranged themselves into the outline of the Daming Palace, with a glowing crack appearing in the center. And at the other end of the crack, Lin Xiaoman was holding the Spatio-Temporal Medical Dictionary and running with the Persian old man to the depths of the bamboo forest -- there, came the intermittent sound of Li Chengqian's carving knife, mixed with the shouts of the Golden Guard's pursuit and killing, echoing in the night sky.