Chapter 20 Chapter 20 (1/2)
Ouroboros
Chapter 20
Ji Yushi had read a brief introduction to the base in the book <Golden Crow No. 1: Propagation> and he also saw a plan for the next stage of Golden Crow No. 2.
“The network here is closed, making it difficult to locate the base directly but we can still find it.” Ji Yushi said, “The base was built to be very large. It is of a hemispherical shape and the two bases are mirror images of each other.”
Song Qinglan thought for a while, “Does it look like an inverted bowl?”
Ji Yushi said yes.
Song Qinglan, “When you were checking the books at the bookstore, Duan Wen from Team 3 and I saw a place like that through the drone but I’m just not sure if it’s Golden Crow No.1 or Golden Crow No.2.”
As he said that, Song Qinglan made Duan Wen fly the drone out again to confirm.
The spacecar started moving.
From the back of the bookstore, they left the small hillside that they had been using as a temporary base.
From the distance, there were many buildings and lush greenery. Even the zombies wandering around aimlessly looked like ordinary humans, giving them a sense of what this world probably looked like if the mutations never occurred.
At this moment, the Team 2 from the second cycle was still searching for information in the bookstore and forming a plan.
They were completely unaware that in a little more than two hours, they would be chased by the black wall’s sudden appearance, fail to escape using an old off-road car, and be completely annihilated by the black wall that obscured a large part of the sky.
As for the memory of escaping from the bookstore during the second cycle, all the teammates had no memory of it with the exception of Zhou Mingxuan who was still alive at the time.
Giving Tang Qi control of the spacecar, Zhou Mingxuan who possessed some vague memories felt very complicated inside.
“Advisor Ji, is it quite uncomfortable remembering all the bad memories?”
Zhou Mingxuan also sat on the floor and leaned against the car wall.
Like Song Qinglan, many people have heard about Ji Yushi’s hyperthymesia, but they had never taken it seriously until now.
Zhou Mingxuan moved his hand to rub the short hairs on the back of his head, “In fact, I haven’t been able to adjust too well. It feels like a nightmare and different point-of-views would appear from time to time. It’s a little hard telling what’s real.”
When the car hit the wire fence, Zhou Mingxuan who was in the driver’s seat had directly died from a broken cervical spine.
What do people think of the moment before their death?
Zhou Mingxuan unfortunately could answer this question.
Ji Yushi quietly looked at him.
The white T-shirt in combination with his small face made him look frail.
Zhou Mingxuan looked in Song Qinglan’s direction and said with embarrassment, “I’m definitely not as good as Cap Song but since Advisor Ji you can also do it, I want to ask you how I can adjust to this.”
This time Zhou Mingxuan was ready to risk it all.
When Ji Yushi first joined the squad, he had looked down on him. Right now, he had slapped his own face several times.
Fortunately, Ji Yushi didn’t put on airs and answered, “Distract yourself.”
Zhou Mingxuan was puzzled.
Ji Yushi said to him, “Find something that makes you concentrate and soon you won’t have the extra energy to think about the things you don’t want to think about.”
Zhou Mingxuan, “For example?”
Ji Yushi answered seriously, “For example, joining a new team and going to another world to fight against monsters together.”
Duan Wen found the drone and set its position over that giant dome shaped building.
Song Qinglan said, “We have a spacecar. We should arrive before the people of Team B.”
At that time it was the other Duan Wen who had discovered the base with him and now, that Duan Wen had joined Team B so Team B would most definitely go there too.
The spacecar rolled over a few zombies, spattering blood across the ground.
This road was outside of the main city so there weren’t many zombies, but the road conditions were very bad.
About the time the catastrophe happened, many people probably thought of leaving the city. With many damaged and abandoned cars on the road, the spacecar couldn’t move too quickly.
“If it is determined that it is not Golden Crow No.2, we will need to move to the next base.” Song Qinglan planned, “They have fewer people and lack equipment so we should leave some behind for them.”
At some unknown point in time, Team A had become the most complete team and the one that is better equipped.
Except for Ji Yushi’s injuries, they were more prepared than when they first arrived in this world.
Duan Wen asked, “Cap Song, do you need to contact them to explain? We are now outside the communication range of Team 2 so we shouldn’t be afraid of causing a paradox.”
Song Qinglan considered it.
Contacting Team B probably wouldn’t cause any paradoxes since they were after all from parallel timelines that had generated at the same time and there was no causal relationship between them.
Furthermore, in addition to leaving equipment for Team B, Team B may also be able to give them something —- For example, Ji Yushi’s medicine.
When they were hijacked by the dark-skinned man, their communicators, equipment as well as Ji Yushi’s medicine were all thrown out.
In addition to that, Song Qinglan also remembered the game console that was broken by the dark-skinned man. With Ji Yushi being so vengeful, he had pinned that dark-skinned man’s hand to the car with a fierce expression the moment he broke free. Recalling it now, Song Qinglan even felt that he was rather handsome.
But what he didn’t expect was that Ji Yushi would even bring the game console along to his mission. The scene of the other party skilfully handling the Tetris blocks with his head bowed during class had left a deep impression on him.
Pretty deeply addicted.
Perhaps the game console was gifted by someone important.
Song Qinglan looked back. Ji Yushi was still sitting on a box of equipment like earlier with his back against the car wall and his eyes closed. It was unknown if he had fallen asleep due to fatigue or if he was tired from the pain.
Zhou Mingxuan sat next to him. It was unknown what he was thinking but he seemed to be afraid of Ji Yushi falling over after falling asleep and reopening his wound.
The other teammates were also afraid of disturbing Ji Yushi so they all tacitly kept quiet.
This was already a brand new Tianqiong seventh squad.
The corners of Song Qinglan’s lips bent down. He said in a low voice, “Wait first. We can talk about it later when we need to contact them.”
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The spacecar drove with great difficulty through the obstructed roads for almost an hour. Passing road signs, Song Qinglan was able to confirm that the place they had found was the Golden Crow No.1 base.
They drove through the main gates. The large spacecar looked very small in comparison to the giant circular building.