Chapter 2631: Strange Human Body
The child who had surgery last night has passed the critical phase. From now on, others can take care of him. Gao Ming, who didn’t sleep all night, got up early the next day, carrying his backpack, and woke Xu Huo and the Girl in the painting to head back towards the canyon.
"Don’t you need to rest for a while?" Xu Huo asked with concern.
"Although I’m not a Player, I’ve drunk Evolution Potion developed for ordinary people, so my body is quite good," Gao Ming replied, "You don’t need to worry."
They didn’t call the young Player, and the three of them left the village before it was fully light.
"Doctor Gao, if I didn’t see it wrong, you should have used Spatial Evolutionary Power to treat the child. You’re not a Player, but can you achieve Secondary Evolution with just a few Evolution Potions?" Xu Huo sincerely inquired, "If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to answer."
Gao Ming waved his hand, "There’s nothing that can’t be said; it’s no secret."
"My situation is quite special, probably due to heaven’s pity. When I left my homeland because of the war, my wife suffered serious injuries, but at that time, all the medicine and surgical tools were lost, and all efforts were in vain."
"It was also then that I suddenly felt my fingers could touch some strange powers. They could move and cut, like surgical scalpels and stitches."
"At that time, I didn’t know it was Spatial Power; I could only take a gamble."
"We were lucky enough that the surgery actually succeeded." Gao Ming smiled, but quickly sighed, "Unfortunately, since then, my wife’s health was poor and she died within two years."
"My condolences," Xu Huo said.
"As time passes, I don’t mind anymore," Gao Ming said, "Moreover, living in such a world may not necessarily be a good thing."
"Is the world after death good?" The Girl in the painting curiously asked at this time.
Gao Ming absentmindedly picked medicinal herbs from the grass and put them in his backpack, saying, "No one knows what it’s like after death, but I’ve seen what the game world is like, and it won’t be worse than this."
"A division should originally be a person who can resurrect multiple times, no matter how bad their body becomes, whether due to illness or external attacks, as long as the division isn’t destroyed, this ’person’ can regenerate."
"But with the existence of the game, excessively powerful external forces can easily destroy this cycle, and the ’person’ loses the possibility of resurrection."
"Before the game appeared, people envisioned achieving immortality and traversing the universe. It wasn’t until these became real that they realized, without achieving immortality themselves, the immortals coming from afar would become a disaster."
"Nevertheless," he paused, looked back at Xu Huo and the Girl in the painting, "perhaps a division is just a cell within the universe’s ’person’, and the destruction or existence of a division doesn’t affect the universe’s rebirth."
"From a macro perspective, humans, whether alive or dead, exist in this universe like floating dust."
"In comparison to the universe, humans are certainly insignificant," Xu Huo said, "but the universe is far away, and life is close at hand."
"That’s right." Gao Ming chuckled, "So I just hope that one day I’ll see a miracle."
"I can indeed use Spatial Power for surgery on people, but that’s the extent of it," he returned to the previous topic, "The target of my Spatial Power can only be humans. I can’t control other objects or gather power for other purposes like other Evolvers can."
"If you’re trying to figure out why I’m so special, I can’t give a reason either. Maybe there are naturally some peculiar situations like mine in the game."
Xu Huo nodded slightly; he was indeed shocked when he saw surgery performed with Spatial Power, but on second thought, he had seen other similar special existences before. Bai Kou’s mother was also an ordinary person, yet Bai Kou claimed no one could kill her. Perhaps she had a similar extraordinary experience as Gao Ming.
"In your perception, what is Spatial Power like?"
"Like invisible scalpels and stitches," Gao Ming replied, "but the threads formed by Spatial Power can’t exist for long in the human body, so when I have tools and the situation isn’t particularly urgent, I still use surgical stitches. In urgent situations, I can alter the Spatial Power already present in someone’s body to help stabilize wounds."
"Spatial Power inside the human body can actually change position?" Typically, external force control of spatial rays within objects results in disintegration, and humans are assumed to be no different, which is why the game developed the ’spider lock’ to merely immobilize people. Violating Spatial Power within the human body would have dire consequences.
"Small ranges are possible," Gao Ming said, "Making slight changes without affecting organ functionality won’t leave any lasting effects."
"Are all Spatial Powers within the human body the same?" Xu Huo asked, "A person is a whole, but the spatial power contained within is extremely complex, seeming very different from general objects."
"You know quite a bit," Gao Ming spoke candidly, "A person being a whole is correct, but the state of a body varies, which is probably why it’s not as singular as other objects. So there are slight differences in Spatial Power within the human body."
"I don’t know if it’s because Players have traversed multiple Wormhole Points; their internal Spatial Power distribution is more complex than that of ordinary people. However, such subtle differences are hard to identify. Simply borrowing Spatial Power for minor surgeries doesn’t need such complex distinctions, but if using the body itself to suture wounds onsite, careful differentiation is necessary."
"After all, the human body constantly renews, and over time these minuscule displacements might tear open or return to their original place, causing secondary injuries."
The reason why the Water Rubik’s Cube and that particular Space Silk connected to his heart is likely related to aligning it with the spatial rays inside him. The sensitive aspect is their direct connection to the heart, significantly increasing the risk of trial and error. Even if Xu Huo leveraged Spatial Power in Chaotic Space-Time, he might not resolve it with his current capability.
The timing of Gao Ming’s appearance was too convenient, like bringing a pillow when sleepy. But while Spatial Evolvers are easy to find, those able to perform surgeries using Spatial Power like him are rare treasures.
It wasn’t necessarily that Xu Huo and Gao Ming’s meeting was a trap since coming to this division was a decision made on the fly. However, he worried that Gao Ming might not be able to separate the Water Rubik’s Cube and Space Silk from his heart, especially since the Space Silk entirely transcends any known dimension of Spatial Power. If handled carelessly, Xu Huo might die the same instant due to external intervention.
Moreover, Gao Ming, as a person, might not be trustworthy...
"Boom!" As he hesitated, a loud explosion suddenly sounded from the distance.