Mist

Chapter 34

Chaos

Chapter 34

Eat, sleep, think.

The pace in the space capsule had suddenly slowed down.

The four worked hard together. Li Chun used the remaining photo albums and cut them out into cards while Song Qinglan was in charge of drawing. Ji Yushi used these cards and began to learn Big Beard’s language.

Ji Yushi indeed had a talent for languages. All the meanings and pronunciations of the symbols only needed to be seen once to be memorised. He was pretty much like a human recorder.

With the efficiency being so high, Big Beard was very excited. Ji Yushi only planned to study two hours at a time, but Big Beard would always deliberately draw it out longer. Every time it happened; Ji Yushi felt that Big Beard was just like his class teacher from high school.

During the rest of the time, Ji Yushi and Song Qinglan would analyse their situation.

Using the time flow rate of known locations such as the rainforest, space capsule and the city, they tried to find a balancing point.

Ji Yushi had many different methods of calculation. Using his communicator to form a projection, the calculations he wrote grew and grew and became longer and longer and very soon, Song Qinglan couldn’t keep up.

There was no sun here. Except for the clock which was still running, it was difficult for them to tell when it was time to rest.

Occasionally, Song Qinglan would find Ji Yushi asleep at the table.

Ji Yushi’s desire to return back to their time was very strong.

At the ‘transfer station’, the Tianqiong system once responded to the question of why they were chosen: Their chance of success was higher than the average across all guardian squads.

Song Qinglan knew that this chance of success had a lot to do with Ji Yushi joining their squad.

In the afternoon two days later, Zhou Mingxuan really fell onto the mountain of garbage.

Following the earth-shattering noise, Big Beard got his chain and cart ready in preparation to pick up more garbage.

Song Qinglan went with him. When Big Beard was about to tie Zhou Mingxuan up with the chain, Song Qinglan stopped him, “Don’t. I’ll do it myself. Anyone who passes through you would have lost a layer of their skin.”

Big Beard didn’t understand but he could guess Song Qinglan’s meaning. He blew his beard and said, “Mengkalawuliqi!”

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Song Qinglan didn’t know why this big guy was angry, but he didn’t pay much heed to the other party’s strangeness. He picked up Zhou Mingxuan and placed him in the cart. On the way back, Zhou Mingxuan opened his eyes in daze.

Zhou Mingxuan’s physical fitness wasn’t bad. Although he couldn’t move at such a low temperature, he could still speak, “Cap Song.....Why is it so dark?”

After speaking, he fell unconscious again.

Aurora flashed. Glowing flowers bloomed on both sides of the road. Song Qinglan suddenly had a thought.

Back at the space capsule, Li Chun excitedly rushed up to settle Zhou Mingxuan down. The big guy however was nowhere in sight.

Ji Yushi was still writing out formulas and there was a pot of coffee next to him.

“Cap Song.” Ji Yushi raised his head, “What’s wrong?”

Song Qinglan was still standing. From his perspective, Ji Yushi’s act of raising his head to look up at him made his eyes even rounder and more vivid.

Inadvertently, Song Qinglan felt a strange feeling inside him again.

He restrained those emotions and sat down next to Ji Yushi, “Our mission is the Repairer of Time. To put it simply, it is to fix the loopholes in time. Is it possible that this mission has nothing to do with the flow of time?”

The two sat side by side. Ji Yushi showed a puzzled expression, “Has nothing to do with the flow of time?”

Song Qinglan curled up his lips, “What I mean is, Advisor Ji, could we have overestimated Tianqiong? Perhaps it isn’t as smart as we thought.”

Song Qinglan believed that the so-called ‘Repairer of Time’ was the same as the ‘Chaser of Darkness’ that they needed to complete in their last Ouroboros mission. They were both in fact very simple and clear.

“Plant?” Song Qinglan who stood in front of the hatch didn’t understand.

“Heavens, how long and how many will we need to plant?!” Li Chun was shocked, “When we’re done, we’ll probably be white bones.”

“Big Beard says that this kind of flower can bloom in a week.” Ji Yushi voiced his own thoughts, “But that is one week near the space capsule. What if we took them to the rainforest?”

The time in the rainforest was almost 24 times faster than the time here.

In other words, they only needed less than a day to be able to harvest more flowers.

“Alright.” Song Qinglan agreed without hesitation, “Chun’er and I will go gather the plants first. We will go together when Old Zhou wakes up.”

Planting flowers in the crevice of time and space —– This was something no one would’ve even thought about.

But the people here no longer felt that anything was impossible in this world.

Song Qinglan left while carrying Shen Mian. He didn’t look like someone going to plant flowers and instead looked like he was heading out to fight monsters.

Ji Yushi on the other hand remained and communicated with Big Beard.

He had to figure out why Big Beard and the others came to this place. He intuitively felt that Big Beard still had many clues waiting to be discovered by them.

Big Beard opened a new can of beer, tilted his head back and downed half its contents in one go. There was foam residue on his beard.

This time, they were going to talk about how many people Big Beard had met here and where those people had gone.

“Knock, knock.”

The two paused.

“Knock, knock.”

The knocking still sounded.

They both looked towards the small room. Zhou Mingxuan hadn’t woken up yet, so it couldn’t be him.

But that knock did come from the space capsule.

Big Beard blinked his blue eyes a few times. Seeing Ji Yushi pull out a silver pistol from under his sofa cushion, he was dumbfounded.

Ji Yushi had already found his Diamond Bird a long time ago.

Nothing Big Beard hid could escape from his eyes.

Ji Yushi made a gesture for him to keep quiet and then very proficiently loaded Diamond Bird up. He clearly came off as a weak person but the moment he picked up the gun, it made it hard for one to look away.

The two slowly moved in the direction of the knocking. It was coming from the outer hatch.

Ji Yushi was on guard while Big Beard opened the hatch.

There was a young man standing outside. He appeared to be about the same age as Ji Yushi.

He wore a black combat uniform with a 12 on his chest. He was slightly taken aback, “Who are you guys?”

Ji Yushi was also taken aback.

At this moment, there were also footsteps behind him. Li Chun hurriedly rushed in, “Advisor Ji! Big trouble!!”

His tone was filled with panic and fear.

Ji Yushi had no choice but to leave that man to Big Beard and quickly returned to the control room.

There, he saw a miniature version of Song Qinglan who looked only about seven or eight years old with a particularly ugly expression.

Ji Yushi had lived for twenty-five years and for the first time, he understood the phrase people would often use to describe his current mood: He felt like his head would explode.