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Adam's health was gradually improving, and the necessity of understanding him was increasing day by day.
During the day, Yu Tian would sit with him or show him pictures from magazines.
After two or three days, Adam greeted Yu Tian with a smile.
At night, it was the nurse who kept him company.
The nurse mentioned that Ancient Egyptians often did strange things. Every night before he went to sleep, he would take a bouquet of roses from a vase and gently stroke them. The flowers would all close up and droop down as if each one were closing its eyes to sleep.
Once, she noticed him staring at a glass cup, and with a "bang," the glass shattered. The Egyptian seemed delighted, as if he had just completed some mental exercise and succeeded. Yu Tian was somewhat skeptical that this was magic, but since the laws of time did not allow him to do so, he could not use any strange magical words to communicate with him.
Before long, Yu Tian occasionally discovered that Adam could draw hieroglyphs and informed Professor X. The professor invited Professor Cardin Hill from the Cosmic Museum to converse with Adam.
To everyone's surprise, Adam spoke Egyptian. He used ancient script to say that he came from Memphis and was a high priest known as the Necromancer.
When the Egyptian was told that he had long been removed from his time and city, living seventy centuries into the future, he couldn't handle it.
He shook his head vigorously and then collapsed on the bed, trembling all over as his neck and face spasmed violently.
"Quick, inject a sedative," Professor X shouted. He jumped up and restrained Adam; it seemed the professor had acted too hastily.
In the following hours, Adam fell asleep but muttered incoherently. Professor X recorded his words.
Strangely, there was a faint energy aura surrounding his body, visible only when an ion gun was fired. Professor X appeared overly serious, and just as Yu Tian was about to inform him, the glow vanished...
Yu Tian couldn't help but regret that if he understood the language, Adam might have shared something special with him. It must have been some exclusive energy usage principle—perhaps even the legendary magic—but his thoughts were disrupted by a noise from the professor leaving the room.
Around midnight, Yu Tian decided to see him one more time.
However, as he walked a few steps down the corridor, he noticed the public communication system flashing a line of text: Cardiac arrest, Room C221.
Personnel from various departments rushed into Room C221, but Adam was nowhere to be found.
Adam had disappeared, and the nurse on duty certainly bore some responsibility, yet she looked flustered as she said, "I just left this room for a short while when the alarm went off, and then he vanished!" Professor X issued commands loudly from the nurse's station.
Every floor in the building received phone notifications, and guards were stationed at every exit. Without proof, no one was allowed to leave the hospital.
At this point, Yu Tian had no choice but to continue searching for clues. Kechisen had already left due to a new employer.
The next morning, a guard stationed at the hospital's side entrance suffered a stroke; his brainwaves were flatlined, yet he remained alive, like a statue, completely devoid of movement.
Connecting the guard's condition with that of the nurse who had involuntarily left the ward, it became clear that Adam was indeed a person of extraordinary power. Yu Tian deduced that this must be a special kind of magic, though it seemed to lack any offensive capability.
At that moment, a laboratory report arrived with the analysis results of Adam's bone tissue sample sent earlier.
However, the results were shocking: the analysis indicated that Adam was approximately 27,000 years old. In contrast, the bone sample from the baboon Eve and the dating results from ancient tomb murals and pyramids suggested that Adam should have existed around 6,700 years ago.
Could there have been an error?
The professor sent additional samples for testing, but the results remained consistent.
This discovery intensified the professor's urgency in searching for Adam.
Yu Tian also sensed that his intuition was correct; he might indeed wield magic. Furthermore, he had reached a level where he could use contracts to extend life. Yet, why this magician appeared on Earth remained a mystery...
Searching for a person in a vast crowd without alerting the sensitive media was already a daunting task, let alone when that person was a powerful ancient Egyptian high priest with immense magical abilities.
After much deliberation, they concluded that the only effective way to draw him out was by enticing him with something he longed to know, in an environment that posed no threat to him.
Thus, the professor decided to hold an exhibition on Ancient Egyptian Culture at the Cosmic Museum.
Advertisements for the exhibition ran continuously in various media for a week.
Yu Tian and the returning Kechisen gathered numerous ancient Egyptian artifacts and treasures, even acquiring two additional mummies from a top-secret museum.
Inside the exhibition hall, over twenty guards were stationed.
On the day of the exhibition's opening, tens of thousands of people attended.
Yu Tian and Professor X concealed themselves on a small platform overlooking the entire hall, wary of Adam's "special abilities."
At 3 PM, there were still no signs of anything suspicious.
Feeling stifled in the small loft, Yu Tian told Professor Riley that he needed to step outside for some fresh air.
As Yu Tian strolled through the corridor of the exhibition hall, he remained vigilant of the crowd around him.
Suddenly, he felt an odd sensation, as if someone were watching him.
He immediately stopped and looked around but saw nothing unusual.
An old man was walking past the entrance hall.
He had a shawl wrapped around his head, hunched over with a slow, dragging gait. He cast a glance at Yu Tian and then melted into the crowd.
Strangely, there was something familiar about him.
Swaying as he moved deeper into the throng, Yu Tian felt as if his own movements were painfully slow, the distance between him and the old man widening with each passing moment.
A guard approached from the opposite direction. Yu Tian wanted to call out to him but hesitated, fearing he would be seen as foolish.
They weren't holding this exhibition to catch an old man.
Suddenly, the figure turned and vanished from sight.
At that moment, Yu Tian's limbs felt unexpectedly agile. It seemed this fellow had used magic, but Yu Tian was constrained by restrictions and had to suppress his own magical impulses. Yet this man was simply too fast.
Yu Tian rushed to the entrance of the corridor, but the old man had already disappeared without a trace.
This wasn't an exit; how could he possibly escape?
He must have used a magic circle... Damn it, Yu Tian cursed under his breath.
On one side of the museum building, there was a corridor.
Aside from a faint light at the far end, the corridor was shrouded in darkness.
Yu Tian focused his gaze and noticed a shadow blocking that light.
He dashed through the foyer in pursuit, only to find enormous, dimly colored portraits hanging on the walls and statues lined up along the corridor. In the dim light, they appeared almost lifelike.
At the corner of the corridor, he stopped and widened his eyes to observe carefully.
In the dim light, he saw a blurry figure pressed tightly against the wall.
Was it a statue or a person?
Yu Tian felt around the wall and found a long wooden spear. Gripping it tightly, he shouted, "Don't move!"
At that moment, Yu Tian noticed it had moved and swung the spear at it.
With a loud "thud," the wooden spear struck something.
In the darkness, he saw something flying towards him, revealing its white, sharp teeth and giant eyes like brass bells.
He quickly dodged, but it was too late; a dark object charged at him and knocked him down.
His senses returned slowly, and in a daze, he heard someone calling his name:
"Yu Tian, wake up! Yu Tian, are you okay?"
Yu Tian opened his eyes to find himself lying in a hospital bed, with the professor standing at the foot of the bed and his long-lost friend Kechisen also present.
The professor informed Yu Tian that he had been knocked down by a Fake Face weighing about 20 kilograms and had suffered a mild concussion.
Yu Tian recounted his experience at the museum to the professor.
After listening, the professor nodded and said, "It could be Adam!!!"
Unfortunately, Yu Tian let him escape.
What followed was even more bewildering.
The recording of Adam murmuring in his coma, captured by the professor, was analyzed by a computer and revealed three languages. One was English, mimicking what doctors and nurses said; another was Egyptian; and the last was a language no one had ever heard before, resembling a distress signal. Yet Yu Tian knew it was the ancient language of magic from the pre-human era.
That day, the professor received a handwritten note.
Someone claimed to have seen a person near the observatory, sketching some ridiculous drawings.
Yu Tian and the professor rushed to the location, but found it completely empty.
Entering a nearby house, Yu Tian spotted a familiar scarf. They walked inside. On a wooden table lay several sheets of paper, one of which depicted an oval shape resembling an orbital path, with numerous calculations below it and three tiny pictograms in the lower right corner.
There was no doubt that this was drawn by the Ancient Egyptians.
On the table were also several newspapers featuring advertisements for their exhibition.
Kechisen looked at the drawings and suddenly said, "The Ancient Egyptians were always fascinated by astronomy. Adam must be hiding in this little wooden house because he wants to get closer to the observatory to determine his location and the current time."
"Then let's go check out the observatory," said the professor.
Indeed, a series of puzzling events had recently occurred at the observatory.
The director informed us that last week they were photographing the night sky, tracking a particularly faint nebula.
After adjusting the telescope, the staff switched to computer control.
The next morning, they discovered that the telescope had turned in another direction, losing track of the target they were supposed to follow.
However, all the doors were securely locked, with no signs of forced entry. The two large guard dogs remained quiet throughout the night.
Kechisen had a premonition that the Ancient Egyptians would return, so they lay in wait around the observatory.
Days passed without any sign of them, and disappointment began to settle in among the group.
On this particular night, the sky was exceptionally clear, and everyone waited in silence.
Suddenly, a whisper came through the Wireless Phone: "There’s movement outside the Western Wall."
Then there was silence again, broken only by the sound of wind and insects.
Out of nowhere, a faint noise came from above; the massive door atop the Observatory slowly opened, revealing a brilliant starry sky.
A figure floated down, approached the telescope, and adjusted it by 25 degrees.
Suddenly, that figure fell to the ground, crying out in pain.
"Aneurysm rupture!" the professor shouted as he rushed over.
This was an outcome they had anticipated, and it was also why Professor X was so eager to bring Adam back.
When they reached the side of the Ancient Egyptians, he had closed his eyes forever.
A surge of emotions welled up within Yu Tian; he wanted to scream in anger for his failures and setbacks, for everything he had lost.
Kechisen's face remained calm as he slowly said, "He has endured countless hardships; it is time for him to return."
From the angle of the telescope adjusted by Adam, Yu Tian and the others spotted a nebula that was not easily detectable.
After analyzing the recorded language with their computer, they realized that Adam might have originated from that distant nebula. He had somehow altered the methods used by the Ancient Egyptians to create mummies and their burial customs, burying himself in an isolated stone cave after death, waiting for the day when his compatriots would rescue him.
However, Professor X's reckless intervention had disrupted his plans.
A month later, Adam returned to his original burial site. To prevent tomb raiders from intruding, the government activated a large Impact Machine to shift the tectonic plates, ensuring that the site would not be disturbed but instead remain forever buried beneath the sands.
Yu Tian hoped that one day his compatriots would truly find him and use a special method to bring him back to life... Thinking of this, Yu Tian recalled his experiences in the Otherworld. That damned Elemental God must have been behind some trickery...
At that moment, the scene began to shake, and consciousness gradually returned. After a long while, Yu Tian finally adapted to his surroundings.
He was back...
"Doctor, what an interesting story... By the way, how long has it been?" Yu Tian rubbed his eyes and stood up.
"Only a day has passed. In that time frame, nearly a year must have gone by," Dr. S began adjusting the machine, utilizing most of the research institute's intelligent processors for this task.
"A day? Oh? See you tomorrow then!"
With that, Yu Tian shook his head and strode out of the research institute.
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