A cold system prompt sounded in his mind.
Zhang Wei was stunned for a moment, a smile rising in his heart. It was as if a pillow had arrived just as he was dozing off.
"A miracle, System, you understand me."
Zhang Wei looked at the operating room door.
Just then.
Footsteps approached rapidly from behind, followed by several voices.
"Zhang Wei."
Wu Nian, Zhang Chao, the class monitor, and Lin Tong had all arrived.
"You're here."
Zhang Wei wasn't surprised. After calling the Wei Dao Division, he had asked them to notify the class monitor and the others.
And so it was.
Lu Lianxue and the others received the information from the Wei Dao Division, learned about Old Master Qiu's situation, and immediately dropped everything they were doing to rush over.
"How is Old Master Qiu?" Lu Lianxue asked with concern. Zhang Chao and the others also looked over with concern, their intentions clear.
Zhang Wei shook his head.
"He's still in surgery, I don't know the specifics."
Then, without wasting time, Zhang Wei looked at Zhang Chao and the others. He had asked the Wei Dao Division to notify them, but not just for them to watch the show. Among those present, only Lu Lianxue was familiar with Qiu Xiaolin. If he had only notified them as friends, he would have only notified Lu Lianxue.
"Class monitor, Zhang Chao, Wu Nian, Captain Lin, if anything unexpected happens to the Old Master later, I hope you can help me."
Zhang Wei spoke frankly.
"Zhang Wei, what are you saying? Just order us around. Don't say anything extra, you know." Zhang Chao grinned.
Wu Nian clasped his hands together and replied,
"Amitabha, Zhang Wei, you are my benefactor. Now you want to help Donor Qiu, no matter the reason, I am duty-bound. Please, just give the order. I swear by the Buddha, I will do my best to assist."
Lu Lianxue and Captain Lin also echoed their agreement. Having learned about Old Master Qiu's situation, they, like Zhang Wei, did not want such a person who defended the country to disappear from the world.
Zhang Wei nodded and without delay said,
"If anything unexpected happens to the Old Master later, I hope you will all help me to transcend Grandpa Qiu, to summon the portal of transcendence."
As soon as he spoke.
Lu Lianxue and the others were stunned.
Compared to Qiu Xiaolin and Qiu Qingshan, as professionals, they were aware of defying fate. They had even specifically called their elders for advice before coming.
Inevitably.
Zhang Chao hesitated and then spoke,
"You want us to recite the Sutra of Rebirth? Will that work? Zhang Wei, didn't you say the Old Master defied fate? Then his portal can't be opened."
Lu Lianxue, standing nearby, noticed the confusion on the faces of Qiu Xiaolin and Qiu Qingshan.
She explained to them,
"After people die, they become ghosts and then enter the underworld to go through the cycle of reincarnation. I believe you all know this. And how do ghosts enter the underworld? Generally, after death, they can go to the underworld on their own to be reincarnated."
"But besides going to the underworld on their own, one can also intervene, forcibly open a portal, and send them to the underworld for reincarnation."
"This is usually used to deal with fierce ghosts, because those ghosts are unwilling to be reincarnated, so they are transcended and sent to the underworld for reincarnation."
"Whether it's going on their own or being transcended, this is the human world. To go to the underworld, one needs to open the portal between the yin and yang realms. That portal is the portal leading to the underworld."
"Under normal circumstances, after Grandpa Qiu's death, we only need to transcend him to summon the portal and send Grandpa Qiu for reincarnation."
"But Grandpa Qiu defied fate. He has no future life. Even if we summon his portal between the yin and yang realms, the portal will only be closed, locked tightly."
"Because he defied fate, he went against heaven, and heaven will not let him pass."
After she finished speaking.
Without waiting for Qiu Xiaolin and the others to ask, Zhang Wei replied,
"I know this. Defying fate, even if the portal is summoned, it will be closed. But so what?"
Zhang Wei's eyes flickered, and he slowly said in a deep voice,
"If it's closed, then smash it open. If that doesn't work, tear down the door, and let Grandpa Qiu enter the underworld, cross to the other shore, pass the Bridge of Forgetfulness, and continue his next life!"
His voice was resonant.
It echoed through the corridor and into everyone's ears.
Lu Lianxue was stunned at first, then she looked at Zhang Wei's face and couldn't help but smile.
"A crazy idea, but I like it very much."
Zhang Chao also grinned and laughed heartily.
"Damn, I'm increasingly convinced that being your friend was the right decision. You're the kind of friend you can count on, someone who dares to go against even heaven when there's trouble."
Wu Nian didn't say much, only clasped his hands together and murmured,
"Amitabha, sins, sins. Buddha, please forgive this humble monk for breaking the precepts today, but for Donor Qiu, this humble monk must do so, to break open the portal to the yin and yang realms. May Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva not blame me. Namo Amitabha~"
Lin Tong stroked his chin and smiled, "Now I know why it was you, Zhang Wei, who discovered the muscle Taoist system, and not me. You're bold enough to even smash the yin-yang portal. Thinking about it is quite exhilarating. This is true muscle Taoism."
Zhang Wei smiled upon hearing this.
Just as he was about to respond, he suddenly froze and looked towards the operating room.
Not just him.
Lu Lianxue, Qiu Qingshan, and the others who were constantly watching the operating room all changed their expressions in unison.
"Zhi Xing!!"
"Amitabha, what was bound to come has come."
They all felt it.
A life had withered away inside, emitting a ghostly aura.
"Alas, Grandpa Qiu couldn't hold on in the end, could he?"
Zhang Wei sighed, his eyes exceptionally firm, and he strode towards the operating room.
"Let's go, today we're fighting heaven for a life."
...
Meanwhile.
Inside the operating room.
As the electrocardiogram machine emitted a piercing beep, the doctors continued their resuscitation efforts, but the electrocardiogram showed no fluctuation.
The doctor sighed, glanced at the clock, and said,
"Alas, 11:14 AM. The patient's rescue was unsuccessful, and he has died."
As he spoke.
He seemed to not notice an old man standing before him. He walked straight past him, handed the scalpel in his hand to a nurse, and prepared to suture the patient's surgical site.
That old man looked exactly like Old Master Qiu lying on the operating table.
It was the soul of Old Master Qiu.
Looking at his own body lying on the operating table, Old Master Qiu's expression was complex, but it wasn't sadness over his own death. He just wanted to cry, having not waited for his master or senior brother, nor having seen Xiaolin and the others one last time.
At this moment.
Old Master Qiu, now a ghost, looked at his gradually blurring hands. As if by heaven's mercy, he knew he had no life left and could not enter reincarnation.
Unexpectedly.
Upon learning of his situation, Old Master Qiu laughed, laughing like a child, as if he had returned to his youth.
"So my prayers back then were effective. Did Master and Senior Brother survive because of my prayers? That's great, that's great... At least my life was exchanged for Master and Senior Brother to kill more devils. It was worth it, it was worth it, haha, Master, Senior Brother, didn't I tell you, I can kill devils."
Even at the moment of his death, at the moment his life was fading.
Old Master Qiu felt no fear, only a little happiness. He felt that his death was worth it.
His only regret was.
He had not waited for his master and senior brother.
As Old Master Qiu silently waited to dissipate, thinking about whether his master and senior brother had already been reincarnated and what kind of people they had become.
"Hey, who are you guys? This is the operating room, you can't..."
Outside the operating room, a nurse's startled cry could be heard.
Immediately after.
To the astonishment of Old Master Qiu, the doctors, nurses, and everyone else in the operating room.
The operating room door was pushed open by Zhang Wei.
"Little Wei Zi?"
Old Master Qiu looked at Zhang Wei, who pushed the door open, and was stunned. But before he could be surprised, as if sensing something, he looked at the seven figures beside Zhang Wei.
At that moment, he was stunned.
His nose felt sore, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red. His throat felt choked.
"Master, Senior Brother... is that you? Is it really you?"
Seeing his master and senior brothers running towards him, shouting, "It's us, it's us, Zhi Xing, we've always been here," Old Master Qiu, despite being 98 years old, couldn't help but cry at that moment.
His face was covered in tears, and he cried like a child.
"Master, Senior Brother, I missed you so much. I waited so hard, I waited so tiredly. I finally waited for you."
At that moment.
90 years of waiting, 90 days and nights, through wind and rain, he had waited for over 90 years.
Old Master Qiu had finally waited for his comrades! And also his father and brothers!
...