Chapter 26 Chapter 26 (1/2)
Transfer Station
Chapter 26
“Welcome Ji Yushi. Welcome back to Tianqiong.”
Tianqiong’s familiar welcome speech sounded.
A robotic arm delivered over a bag of nutrient solution to let them recover from the sequelae caused by time travel such as dizziness and nausea.
This……was the cycle starting again?
Ji Yushi received the nutrient solution and drained it in one breath. From the corners of his eyes, he saw his black sleeves. It was the black combat uniform Guardians wore. He was no longer wearing the bloodstained white T-shirt.
No, they didn’t restart again.
Ji Yushi’s memories gradually recovered. He now knew that the second method they had chosen had succeeded.
After the energy transmitters were turned off at the second base, the task was still not truly complete. They had triggered a new anchor point, entered another big cycle, and then created the first black wall that appeared at the park management office at 5:30am and the second black wall that appeared at Runjin Building…..They watched the black walls that had been made by themselves continue to chase after their other selves in the smaller cycle. Rebirth after rebirth, they eventually achieved their goal.
Ouroboros had finally drawn a complete circle with the combined efforts of countless versions of them.
At this point, they truly completed the task.
After completing the task, they fell into the darkness.
When they woke up again, they found that they had returned to the moment when Tianqiong was being hijacked and emitting warning alarms. They had also successfully merged together with their other selves who had returned to the starting point.
As Song Qinglan had said, the outcome was better than expected.
Their selves in the two parallel timelines didn’t end up turning into a monster because they had appeared at the same point in time.
Everything in PU-31 was like a nightmare. Zombies, mutants, apocalypse…. Except for having terrible memories of it, they were still their original selves from before any of this happened, as if they had never left the capsule and never visited PU-31.
It was a perfect case of time and space hijacking.
But, what was going on now?
Shouldn’t they be on their way to complete their A-level mission?
Ji Yushi opened the door to his capsule. He was met with blinding white light.
After he got used to the strong light, he realised that this place was similar to the command centre.
“Brother Wen! We’ve completed the task!” Li Chun was almost about to burst into tears of joy. He had his arms around Duan Wen’s neck as he exclaimed excitedly, “We won’t go back there again!”
“Yes! Never again!” Duan Wen turned and looked over, “Advisor Ji!”
Everyone was a little excited.
Seeing Ji Yushi come out from the capsule, everyone in the squad couldn’t wait throw him in the air to celebrate.
But it was too inappropriate.
Even if they have fought side by side and went through life-threatening situations together, the feeling Ji Yushi gave them was still different.
In the other world, the contributions Ji Yushi made was obvious to all of them. He not only far exceeded the work a scout needed to do, but he also demonstrated that he was a Guardian with outstanding fighting capabilities. His calmness and tenacity were in sharp contrast with his own appearance, but it also very strangely suited him. Every action and gesture he made gave off a distant feeling…..how to put it, the feeling of an elite?
In any case, it couldn’t be compared to this group of rough men.
For example, even having reached a safe place, Ji Yushi still did not completely relax.
He looked around the place. The things that entered his eyes were bright lights, a huge control panel, holographic projection, and no one else……wait a minute.
“Cap Song.” Ji Yushi suddenly spoke up, “This place isn’t our command centre.”
Song Qinglan also noticed this because Tianqiong’s welcoming speech had given it away.
Hearing Ji Yushi’s words, Song Qinglan looked at the communicator habitually and said, “You’re right. The time format is incorrectly displayed here. The current coordinates of this place cannot be determined.”
Hearing those words, everyone became nervous. Their experiences in PU-31 had left a psychological shadow in everyone. Perhaps this was another place similar to PU-31.
Ji Yushi also raised his arm and looked at his communicator: [xxxx.xx.xx].
No coordinates.
For time and space travellers, time was the only way for them to confirm their current coordinates.
The lack of coordinates was a very serious matter and the traverser may even get lost in time and space, never able to return.
“Fuck.” Duan Wen opened a door and glanced out. He said the word everyone had in their minds on behalf of the squad.
He reported, “Cap Song, we fucking don’t seem to be on the ground.”
Li Chun and Tang Le also opened a few doors and looked down.
“Pitch black outside. It looks empty below!”
“There’s nothing around us too!
Song Qinglan walked over with a frown to check.
“Where is this?”
“Didn’t we break the cycle?”
“No way, after all that hard work, we’re starting again?”
Tang Qi: “Cap Song! Look!”
Everyone returned to the control panel and saw a line of words appear on the holographic screen:
[Congratulations! Guardians from Star Era 1456, you have completed the first Super S-level mission and are about to unlock the next one.]
Everyone’s heart turned cold. What did this mean?
“Who are you?” Song Qinglan faced the projection and asked.
As early as their time, the Tianqiong System had already activated the AI voice system. Sure enough, it was activated as soon as a question was heard.
“I am Tianqiong.”
The system’s voice was very gentle. It was a female voice.
Song Qinglan almost laughed out in anger, “The Tianqiong from which era?”
System: “In a broad sense, I am the Tianqiong of all eras.”
Tianqiong of all eras?
Everyone was confused.
Song Qinglan paused for a second or two, but he seemed to remember something and asked again, “In other words, the Ouroboros mission was one that you had released and us being here also has something to do with you?”
System: “Yes.”
Song Qinglan’s tone was very cold, “Where is this?”
System: “This is my time and space transfer station. You can rest, train and eat here. I have a plenty of supplies here. I suggest that you make use of it before proceeding onto the next mission.”
There’s another mission?!
Zhou Mingxuan who heard this immediately asked, “How do we go back?”
System: “One mission has been detected to be unlocked. Please unlock more to access more detailed information.”
“Fuck!”
“Isn’t this too much?!”
“What the hell is this?!”
“I can’t believe this!!”
The group exploded with anger.
Tang Le said to his brother, “I’m never going to set flags again. Before setting off, I even said to Advisor Ji that we would be back the next day.”
Tang Qi was speechless: “…….”
Ji Yushi who had been silent until now spoke, “Why did you choose us?”
Everyone calmed down. Ji Yushi had asked a very important question.
With his extraordinary memory and observation skills, they had unknowingly at some unknown point in time regarded him as another core to the team.
The system flashed a few times before speaking again, “Following more than 170 million calculations, your squad’s chance of success is higher than the average across all guardian squads.”