Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 770: Chapter 603 This is my grandson!

They couldn’t escape anymore!

In the blink of an eye, a dozen Gu insects, each several yards tall, vanished into the dark fog!

They disappeared into the gaping maw of the Skeleton Ghost!

The sound of tearing, the dying screams of the Gu insects, the grinding of the skeleton’s teeth...

It filled the ears of the dozen Gu women, serving as a death sentence!

”Don’t! Don’t come any closer!” The dozen Gu women, seeing the Gu insects destroyed and the dark figures pressing in on them, retreated in panic, crying out softly!

Yet, the stooped figures, as if deaf to their pleas, kept advancing relentlessly!

The gaping maw of the Skull Head faced them, pushing them to the brink of collapse!

The fear of death left them terrified and trembling!

”Great Witch! We are from the Three Palaces, sent to capture an escapee and meant no offense to you, please spare our lives, the Three Palaces will surely reward you handsomely!” the leading Gu woman said, swallowing hard and barely managing to finish her plea.

”Spare you? Spare you? You traitors! Had it not been for the Three Palaces’ intervention over twenty years ago, who in the world could have trapped my master? You all deserve to die! The Elders of the Three Palaces deserve to die! Once I retrieve my master’s remains, I shall return and perish alongside you all!” The dark figure stretched out a huge hand, pointing the Skeleton Bone Staff at the dozen Gu women without hesitation!

Without the Gu insects, the dozen Gu women instantly became useless trash!

The wails of ghosts and the blood-curdling mouth of the Skull Head flew towards them rapidly!

”No! No! Your master is not dead! He’s not dead! He escaped! He escaped! We were just sent to capture him!” the leader of the Gu women fell to the ground, scrambling backwards in panic as she hastily spoke.

She finally understood who this old crone was!

She finally realized who the old crone’s master was!

Hearing the Gu woman leader’s words, the dark figure stiffened, disbelief showing on her face!

”Ah!”

But before she could react, the bloodthirsty Skeleton had already devoured all the Gu women in front of her!

”Not dead? Not dead? Escaped? Escaped? How is that possible? How is that possible?” the old crone, looking at the scattered blood-stained clothes on the ground, shook her head in distress!

Not far behind her, a small figure wrapped in a quilt, stood petrified, his face turning pale!

His large round eyes filled with trembling tears!

”Oh no! So scary! Oh no, oh no...”

After holding it in for a bit, the little dumpling couldn’t hold back anymore and began to cry loudly with his eyes covered!

So scary, so scary! He was scared to death!

A dozen living people, right before his eyes, were eaten by the ghost!

”There’s a ghost! There’s a ghost! Mother... Mother save me... Oh no... Oh no...”

Even though he had seen life and death, even though he had killed people, the little dumpling was still extremely afraid of ghosts, hence, he cried uncontrollably!

”Who?”

The confused old crone, surrounded by an eerie aura, turned back, her dense skeletal ghost figures still lingering around, her gaze intensively focusing on the little child who suddenly appeared behind her!

Yes!

A small child!

A child who looked disheveled but still plump and rosy!

”A ghost! A ghost! You’re a ghost! Oh no!”

Hearing the ghost speak, the little dumpling grew even more afraid, crying even more desperately!

The Old Handsome Guy lied to him!

Wasn’t it said that the people fighting the Gu women could help them? Why was there a ghost now?

He was afraid of ghosts! He didn’t want ghosts, okay!

Oh...

”Cackle... Such a pure child... Not a single child on Great Swamp Mountain is good! I’ll feed you to my skeleton right now!” A hoarse voice filled with boundless malevolence suddenly came from the lingering ghost figures.

The little dumpling could even hear the sound of the ghosts swallowing inside!

”No! Don’t! I’m not pure! I’m not pure at all! Don’t eat me! Don’t eat me! Oh... Mother... Mother save me...” Seeing the Skull Head drawing nearer, and a pale hand like a skeleton, the little dumpling was terrified and scrambled backwards...

”Thump!”

Stepping on the quilt behind him, the plump little dumpling suddenly rolled to the side and fell over!

”No! Don’t eat me! Please!”

Quickly getting up from the ground, seeing the motionless quilt on the ground, the little dumpling instinctively spread his small arms in front of it, pathetically begging for mercy...

The Skull Head turned stiffly, its gaping mouth making a ”creak” sound...

”Please, don’t eat me! Don’t eat me! I haven’t found my mother yet! I can’t die...”

With his eyes tightly shut, the little dumpling, trembling intensely, protected the quilt with his little body, refusing to move an inch!

The smell of blood and the chilling ghostly air were already right in front of him!

The little dumpling’s face had turned white as clay!

He was about to be eaten!

If he died, what would happen to the Old Handsome Guy behind him?

”Granny...”

A faint call, filled with the vicissitudes of life and helplessness, came from behind the little dumpling...

Upon hearing this, the little dumpling instantly stiffened and began to scream louder in an attempt to drown out that soft call, ”Ah! Ah! Don’t eat me! Don’t eat me!”

He couldn’t let the people in front of him discover there was someone else behind him!

But why had the cold air close at hand dissipated? Why was there no more smell of blood?

With a face full of suspicion, the little dumpling slightly opened his eyes and saw a black figure not far in front of him, stiff as could be!

”Granny... don’t scare him...”

Behind him, the nearly inaudible voice sounded again...

This time, the black shadow heard clearly and confirmed that it wasn’t her illusion!

”Master... Master?” Her lips and teeth were trembling, the skeleton bone staff fell to the ground, and Granny Wu Shan stumbled to her knees!

She heard it!

The voice etched in her bones!

The voice of her master!

”Granny... it’s been more than twenty years since we, as master and servant, have met again...” A weak voice came from under the quilt, ”I am still alive...”

”I thought you were deceiving me! I thought you were fooling me!”

In her black witch robe that trailed on the ground, Granny Wu Shan could no longer contain herself, her old face streaming with tears, she crawled over to the rear of the little dumpling, frantically pulling at the quilt on the ground...

”Uh... it’s a person! I thought it was a ghost...” The little dumpling wiped his brow with his little paw, staring bewildered at the old granny hugging their Old Handsome Guy...

”How could I deceive you, Granny? I said that within my lifetime, there would be a time of reunion...” Wuchang Taitian struggled to open his eyes and hooked his mouth towards Granny Wu Shan who was in front of him.

Granny Wu Shan, disoriented, held his frail body in her embrace, tears running down her cheeks, ”Yes! Yes! I thought you were deceiving me, but you really are still here... Master, I kept my promise to guard the Bridgehead of the Heavenly Road for over twenty years, finally waiting for your daughter Changsheng...”

Daughter? Changsheng?

On hearing this, the little dumpling’s mouth twitched and his eyes widened!

Daughter! Changsheng!

Called Changsheng’s daughter!

If he remembered correctly, his mother was named Changsheng, right?

Under the night sky, the little dumpling’s small figure shivered, a mess in the wind!

”When she came, I hastened to find you! I thought you had died on Great Swamp Mountain! I didn’t expect you to still be alive!” Granny Wu Shan, her face marked with tear tracks, cried with a hint of joy, ”Master! Tiantian, how cruel of you! I raised you with hard work, yet for a woman, you left Bashu and fell into the Southern Border, all for a woman! You let me protect her and flee, and I protected her! You told me to wait for your daughter’s return, and I waited! I’ve waited for more than twenty years! I faithfully guarded the Heavenly Path, thinking that by the day of reunion, you would have turned into dry bones! You made me, an old woman, send off the young for more than twenty years, how could you do this to me?”

”Granny... it is Taitian who has failed your nurturing grace...” Wuchang Taitian said, his face full of misery.

”What do you mean by failing or not failing? You are the child I raised from a young age, and you are also my master! I have never blamed you!” Granny Wu Shan wiped the tears from her face and laughed as she lifted his tall figure, ”Master, I will take you home now, as long as you breathe, I will never let anything happen to you! I am taking you home now...”

Saying this, Granny Wu Shan attempted to stand while holding him, stumbling!

The joy of regaining what was lost made her unsteady, almost causing her to fall!

The little dumpling watched Granny Wu Shan’s frail and bent figure effortlessly lift their Old Handsome Guy, his eyes immediately filled with envy!

What strength!

He could not do it!

Granny Wu Shan did not even glance at the little dumpling on the ground but turned and walked down the mountain!

A pale hand tugged at her robe!

Granny Wu Shan stopped abruptly!

”Yaoyao... come here...”

Wuchang Taitian, on Granny Wu Shan’s shoulder, gestured to the small figure behind them...

”Ah? Oh!”

The little dumpling on the ground, upon hearing this, was startled for a moment before rushing to gather the quilt and water bladder in his arms, not forgetting to also pick up the fierce-looking skeleton staff as he hobbled along!

”Granny... this is my grandchild, Gu Ze, nicknamed Yaoyao!”

Wuchang Taitian looked down at the little boy with a smile and softly spoke.

”Old Handsome Guy...” The little dumpling, on hearing this, was once again thrown into disarray...

Grandchild! Grandchild! He really is the grandchild!

So...

Granny Wu Shan frowned upon hearing this, not even sparing a glance at the little boy on the ground!

”He is my little grandson who rescued me from Jiji’s hands...” Wuchang Taitian said, as Granny Wu Shan’s frown deepened, turning to give the little boy a stern look, she waved one hand!

A strip of Black Silk immediately flew toward the little dumpling!

”Ah!”

The little dumpling cried out, his little body immediately launched into the air toward Granny Wu Shan’s bent back!

The Black Silk, as if it had eyes, in the blink of an eye, firmly bound the little dumpling to Granny Wu Shan’s back...