Chapter 19.3 Chapter 19 Part 3 (2/2)
Song Qinglan seemed to have thought of something, “Open it and take a look.”
There was a piece of paper and pen in the bag.
Opening that piece of paper, there was only one book title written in it: <Golden Crow No. 1: Propagation>?
“Let me see.”
Ji Yushi reached out.
Song Qinglan handed it over.
“This is my handwriting.” Ji Yushi quickly understood, “This is from me in Team B! As I guessed, they also figured out the problem of overlapping time and space and knew that they couldn’t go to the bookstore to check the clues right now and have been following us!”
Team B’s Ji Yushi remembered that he needed to look for this clue but didn’t have the chance to read the book.
Everyone had goosebumps on their backs.
They were just saying that they didn’t know where Team B was hiding and now, they had appeared.
This was a different feeling from watching Team 2 in the bookstore. Team 2 was their past self while Team B was their present self.
Anyone would feel uncomfortable at the thought of two of themselves existing at the same time.
“Where did they get the paper and pen?” Duan Wen asked, “Should we contact them through the communicator?”
“No.” Song Qinglan stopped him, “Now that multiple timelines have been established, we must try to avoid being discovered by Team 2.”
Ji Yushi wrote very quickly.
He wrote down all the insights he saw from the book <Golden Crow No. 1: Propagation> and as he wrote, he said, “My earlier guesses were right. PU-31 itself is just an artificial colony in a parallel universe. It is located in the crevice, a marginal product that shouldn’t exist. In this universe, the earths energy has been exhausted and is almost completely gone and that is why there are many colonies like PU-31 which rely on various artificial energy to run. This also includes the artificial sun that emerged under the thermonuclear fusion project.”
“Artificial sun?” Song Qinglan found it incredible, “Golden Crow No. 1?”
“There is also No. 2.” Ji Yushi said, “I originally thought that cosmic radiation, dark matter or other elements in the artificial sun caused animals and plants to mutate. For example, the strange tasting Kemeng beans that nobody eats, but there were those survivors in black robes as well as that woman——”
“She said that after Golden Crow No. 2 was launched, her daughter has never been in the sun so she definitely wouldn’t mutate.” Song Qinglan immediately understood what Ji Yushi was saying, “That is to say, this zombie disaster is related to the artificial sun.”
“Because of the artificial sun, there are zombies?”
“Fuck, then we’ve been in the sun too. Would we also mutate?”
“This, I understand. It’s similar to a game saving function. As long as we return to the anchor point, it’s equivalent to not being exposed.”
Ji Yushi said, “Not only is it related to mutation, it also must have something to do with the chaser of darkness mentioned in our mission objective. Although I still don’t know what the connection is, there are two Golden Crow bases. We can go separately to find the answer.”
Song Qinglan waited for him to finish writing and then took the pen and signed underneath: Team A.
The two turned back when they were done.
They were met with five confused faces.
Li Chun, “I feel like I’m an NPC who doesn’t understand anything and just follows the protagonist around.”
Everyone nodded, “Aye.”
Zhou Mingxuan repacked everything in the bag and randomly tossed it out.
A group of zombies chased wildly after the bag.
Zhou Mingxuan: “……….”
After a while, there was another soft sound outside.
The bag had returned.
It said: We will go to Golden Crow No. 1.
It was signed below: Team A.
The A was also heavily circled, emphasising that they are Team A.
It was clearly Song Qinglan’s handwriting. He was speechless for a while, “Childish. To us, you are Team B.”
Ji Yushi: “…….”
Song Qinglan scribbled down the team members on the paper to give them an understanding of their team’s current state.
When the note came back, Song Qinglan frowned.
The current situation of Team B was: Song Qinglan, Ji Yushi, Duan Wen, Li Chun, Zhou Mingxuan, Tang Qi. Only Tang Le was missing.
An explanation was attached below: Remind Tang Le not to chase after a two-tailed dog.
There was even a stick figure drawn at the end and a cross over the neck.
Ji Yushi’s previous analysis in the bookstore appeared in Song Qinglan’s mind. At that time, he had said that the zombie that had appeared outside the bookstore in the second cycle wasn’t Tang Qi but Tang Le. Song Qinglan didn’t understand Ji Yushi at the time but now he did.
It turned out to be Tang Le from Team B.
At this moment, Tang Le was still talking to Tang Qi, alive and well.
More than ten hours ago, he had rushed into the bookstore and chugged down some water before saying to everyone, “There is something wrong with this place!”
Facing his teammates ridicule, he said he ran into a dog with two tails.
What he didn’t know was that ten hours later, his other self would be attracted over for the same reason and would die after trying to go after it.
Song Qinglan turned to the side and looked down at Ji Yushi who sat on a box of equipment.
The other person also happened to be looking at him. There were some doubts written in his beautiful eyes, as if he was asking him what’s wrong.
Time was endless, and the universe was vast.
Only wisdom and knowledge remained unchanged.
If one could find a lighthouse when they are lost, then they will be able to find their way home even if they had to cross the ocean or go over a mountain.
Song Qinglan retracted his gaze.
He scrunched the paper up into a ball and threw it out, “Pack up now. Let’s go to Golden Crow No. 2.”