Chapter 1319 — Good News
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"Uncle Feng, please try to calm down. Let's go downstairs and talk this over in my room." Fearing that Feng Tianlong's voice might disturb Gu Mengyao and the others in the bedroom, Wei Zhao made a gesture of invitation and spoke.
"Good!" Trembling with excitement, Feng Tianlong followed Wei Zhao downstairs to his room, and the instant they stepped inside he demanded, "Xiao Yi, tell me at once — do you have a way?"
"Uncle Feng, there is a way — I simply don't know whether I can find that medicinal ingredient. If I can, then naturally there's no problem at all," Wei Zhao said. "But there is a crucial issue, and that is time. There isn't enough of it. Even if I set about searching with all my might, it will take a month or perhaps even longer, and Xiaoxiao can't hold on that long..."
"A medicinal ingredient? News of the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit?" Feng Tianlong asked, half in shock, half in delight.
"Yes. The old man came across a medical text in which an ancient sage of medicine once treated cold poison in a patient of the utmost importance, and what he used was the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit — an ingredient capable of neutralizing the chill within the human body, exactly what Xiaoxiao needs!" Wei Zhao said. "And the place where this sage found the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit was very likely set down in his case notes — and those case notes are very likely resting in his tomb!"
"Oh? You mean... you have found the tomb of this sage of medicine?" Feng Tianlong said in astonishment.
"I have, and I am preparing to go." Wei Zhao nodded, told Feng Tianlong all about Qiu Lingshan's plan, and then added, "Qiu Lingshan has invited me to go to the tomb with her, and as payment, she will allow me to transcribe every medical book inside!"
"That much is no obstacle. Even if she refused to let you copy them, I have my own ways of bringing them to you for a look." Such matters did not worry Feng Tianlong; given the particular nature of the department he served in, gaining access to such things was child's play. "So you're saying there is real hope for Xiaoxiao's illness?"
"So it should have been — but time waits for no man!" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and heaved a sigh. "We learned of this news a little too late. Had it come sooner, things would never have come to this!"
"That much, at least, I can still manage — keeping that last flicker of life alive in Xiaoxiao," Feng Tianlong said. "You may not know it, but when Susu passed away, I had an ice coffin made for her and sealed her away on the spot, so that the functions of her body would not degenerate."
"What? You actually thought of that?" Wei Zhao froze for an instant, then nodded. "Absolute zero?"
"The department I belong to may be somewhat unusual, but even we cannot reach that standard. Still, falling short of that temperature, sealing Xiaoxiao away for a few decades would pose no problem," Feng Tianlong said. "As it happens, this wasn't my idea — it was Lin Dongfang's, back in the day. That is to say, your master. He raised an interesting notion at the time: a man was frozen inside a glacier, and when the glacier melted, the man actually came back to life... and only then did he conceive of this method. Of course, though the method can guarantee that Xiaoxiao's body will not spoil, it carries risks as well. Whether that anecdote is true or false is one matter; even if it is true, it owed a great deal to sheer chance. So if she were to freeze to death and never come round..."
"That won't be a problem." A look of heartened relief spread across Wei Zhao's face. So long as Feng Xiaoxiao's body underwent no change in substance, then with his omnipotent energy at hand he should be able to restore her spark of life himself — and everything else was in place; the only thing missing was the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit!