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The Xuanwu Gate was shrouded in morning mist. Su Wan clutched half of the Tiger Tally, listening to the sound of her leather pouch colliding with the Azure Brick walls of the palace. As she rounded the gilded bronze lion, Pei Yanzhi's Xuan-colored Cloak billowed in the morning breeze, revealing the other half of his Tiger Tally hanging from his waist.
"You really came," the general said as he turned, the Gilded Qilin Pattern on his armor shimmering in the dawn light. Behind him stood twenty Black-Clad Assassins, each holding a Crossed Sword engraved with the words " Imperial Guard."
Su Wan noticed fresh scratches on his left breastplate, exactly where she had bandaged him last night. "Are you planning a rebellion?" she tightened her grip on the Tiger Tally, and her Electronic Watch suddenly emitted a buzzing sound—the date 2025 began to flash on the dial.
Pei Yanzhi abruptly grabbed her wrist, and as their Tiger Tally pieces clicked together, the sound of the city gate mechanism echoed loudly. "There's no time to explain." He pushed her into a secret passage, and the stench of decay hit her face. "Three days ago, the Imperial Medical Department mixed your Povidone Iodine."
At the end of the tunnel was the abandoned Yeting Palace. Su Wan illuminated the walls with her mini flashlight and saw dense inscriptions from the Priceless Prescription. When the beam swept across a Clay Pot in the corner, her blood seemed to freeze—inside was glassware from a Modern Laboratory!
"These..." Pei Yanzhi pressed down on her trembling shoulder. "Did you bring these?"
"Impossible." Su Wan picked up a blood-stained beaker. "I only brought a first aid kit and my watch." She suddenly remembered the Povidone Iodine bottle that Grand Imperial Physician's Order had knocked over during surgery; its English label glimmered coldly in the dim light.
Footsteps echoed deeper in the tunnel. Pei Yanzhi pressed her against the damp brick wall, their breaths mingling in the confined space. Su Wan caught a whiff of Dragon's Blood Incense mixed with blood and suddenly noticed an Incense Pouch hanging around his neck—it was just like the Tang Dynasty Medicine Bag she had seen at the museum.
"Three years ago, I saw you at Dunhuang Mogao Caves." Pei Yanzhi's voice was close enough to feel. "The woman in the mural wore a sheer gauze dress and had beads just like yours on her wrist."
Su Wan's Electronic Watch suddenly blared an alarm. The dial indicated that a Time Rift would open at noon, and its coordinates were precisely at this moment in Yeting Palace. When she looked up, Pei Yanzhi's pupils reflected a faint light at the end of the tunnel—there stood another version of herself in a Modern White Coat!
"A time paradox," Su Wan murmured. "We are experiencing our own past." She recalled the Parallel Universe Theory from her lab and suddenly understood why Pei Yanzhi had half of a Tiger Tally.
Shouts from Jinwu Guard echoed outside. Pei Yanzhi pulled her toward another secret passage but encountered Grand Imperial Physician's Order at a corner. The old man held a syringe, its needle glowing with an eerie blue light.
"Demoness, return my disciple's life!" Grand Imperial Physician's Order lunged at Su Wan's throat with the syringe, but Pei Yanzhi severed his wrist with a swift strike. Su Wan caught the falling syringe and discovered it contained Neurotoxin from a Modern Laboratory.
"You poisoned the emperor!" She held up the syringe defensively as her Electronic Watch's alarm grew more frantic. The tunnel began to tremble, and bluish light seeped through cracks in the walls—that was the energy fluctuation of the Time Rift.
"General, take her away!" The Death Warrior Leader suddenly blocked their path. "I'll hold off our pursuers!"
Pei Yanzhi shielded Su Wan behind him and cleaved through obstructing bricks with his Crossed Sword. As they stumbled into sunlight in the imperial garden, Su Wan saw smoke rising from Tai Chi Hall—the emperor's Dragon Carriage was engulfed in flames.
"The Time Rift needs an Energy Source." Su Wan tore off her Electronic Watch and pressed it against Pei Yanzhi's palm. "Use your blood!"
The general's dagger sliced through his fingertip; as blood dripped onto the watch face, blue light enveloped the entire garden. Su Wan saw countless versions of herself pouring through cracks, each wearing different models of Electronic Watches.
"Remember my words!" She shouted into the chaotic time-space, "The seventeenth year of Zhenguan March, Cave 17 of Dunhuang Mogao Caves!"
Pei Yanzhi's hand suddenly passed through her body. Su Wan looked down to find herself dissipating. In her last glance, she saw terror and relief in his eyes and a jade pendant that appeared on his chest—it was precisely what she had carried when crossing through time: the Zhenbei General Seal.
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