Chapter 28 Chapter 28 (2/2)
His heavy body stumbled along, and his footsteps stomped heavily with each step. His entire body expressed his anger.
Big Beard returned to the place he usually stayed and circled around. His eyes fell onto the gun he had picked up. The black gun glistened coldly and the magazine with energy bullets was still full. It was an extremely precious item.
Big Beard angrily picked up the gun and quickly strode back to the small room.
He entered the password and opened the hatch.
The tall traverser still had a can in his hand. He sat there on the side, looking at him indifferently.
Big Beard had a gun in his hand, but he hated handling dead bodies and cleaning up blood stains the most. He muttered a lot of curses and intended to take the traverser out and kill him outside.
But the dead body lying on the ground made him very irritable. He cursed as he bent down and pulled away the blanket to check.
But the person under the blanket suddenly opened his eyes.
Ji Yushi’s dark eyes were extremely calm. He looked up at Big Beard without blinking, as if he had expected this behaviour of his.
Big Beard’s expression changed. He realised that he had been tricked but, in an instant, Ji Yushi had already grabbed his wrist and neatly flipped over onto Big Beard’s back, pinning him down to the ground.
Although Big Beard’s reaction wasn’t fast, he was very strong.
He fiercely shook his back and Ji Yushi soon found himself thrown away, slamming into the wall, “Ugh!!”
“Anfalahagenhe!!”
Big Beard roared. He held Shen Mian’s trigger, ready to blast that cunning traverser to death in one shot.
His back hurt badly. Ji Yushi was left in a dizzy state from that impact. His eyes were teary from the pain.
With the muzzle facing him, he didn’t hide and instead reminded, “You have chosen the wrong weapon.”
Big Beard didn’t understand. He cursed and pulled the trigger and then revealed a look of confusion. The gun didn’t respond!
No sooner said than done, a gust of wind flashed by behind Big Beard. It was Song Qinglan!
Big Beard slammed his hand holding Shen Mian back. Song Qinglan bent down to avoid it and appeared before Big Beard the next second.
This completely angered Big Beard.
He yelled and waved the gun over madly. Song Qinglan however greeted him with a heavy fist in the face, hitting Big Beard so hard, he saw stars in his vision. The Shen Mian in Big Beard’s hand fell to the ground and he staggered back covering his bloody nose.
Immediately afterwards, Song Qinglan held him in a tight chokehold.
Song Qinglan held him in an iron-like grip. Big Beard was choked so hard, his eyes rolled back. He struggled violently and his body continued to retreat, slamming Song Qinglan into the wall.
“Cap Song!!” Ji Yushi climbed up.
Big Beard was more than a dozen centimetres taller than Song Qinglan and his body as like a sturdy bear. All the fighting skills and techniques were nothing in front of his heavyweight body. Song Qinglan was repeatedly slammed against the wall.
Song Qinglan gritted his teeth. He clearly had no intentions to let go and he didn’t even make a single sound.
The wall was slammed with so much force, it made a loud noise with each impact. Big Beard’s body was filled with brute force but Song Qinglan managed to completely restrain him. Eventually, Big Beard fell onto his knees from suffocation.
Under the suppression of this powerful force, if it was another person, Song Qinglan would have already strangled them to death, but Big Beard still firmly grabbed Song Qinglan’s arm, not intending to give up.
This was simply an endurance showdown between two powerful beasts.
“Boom!”
Big Beard suddenly let go and fell limply onto the ground.
It was Ji Yushi who stood up.
With a cold expression, he had knocked Big Beard unconscious with the butt of Shen Mian.
“Damn….Was almost slammed to death just now.” Song Qinglan instantly relaxed his grip and threw the body aside. A thin layer of sweat had already formed across his forehead from the pain, “This person should do sumo wrestling. Can guarantee that he will win.”
This Big Beard couldn’t have possibly be a transformed brown bear?
Ji Yushi threw Shen Mian to Song Qinglan. He was still breathing quickly, “Let’s go.”
Now wasn’t the time for slandering.
Ji Yushi stretched out his hand and Song Qinglan borrowed his strength to get up.
The two hurried out the small room and closed the hatch along the way, shutting Big Beard inside.
They walked through the mottled corridor and then turned the corner. A spacious control room appeared in front of them.
Their earlier speculations were correct. This was indeed a space capsule, but the equipment and layout were different from the ones they were familiar with. They couldn’t tell which era this one was from.
The control room was filled with various items including scrap metal, food and alcohol. They occupied most of the control room. In addition to that was a sofa, a TV set that had long become redundant in their time, old and tattered books, as well as a table tennis table. It looked just like a living room that one had used for many years.
Leaving the control room and bypassing many corridors and hatches, the exit appeared before them.
As soon as the door was opened, cold wind from outside rushed in, lashing at their faces like knives.
Song Qinglan slammed the door shut with a bang and then opened the storage box next to them. Inside were protective suits.
These protective suits looked filthy and didn’t look like it would help with keeping them warm but Song Qinglan still pulled two of them out.
Seeing Ji Yushi’s hesitant look, Song Qinglan found it amusing, “Don’t fuss, there is no way to buy you new ones here. I promise on behalf of the organisation that I will buy you as many as you want when we get back!”
Ji Yushi: “……….”
Song Qinglan wordlessly covered the other party with the not-so-dirty one and then wore the other set himself, “Let’s go!”
The two opened the hatch and walked out.
The first time they stepped onto the ground outside, they only felt that each step was very heavy.
Ji Yushi guessed that it was due to the magnetic field. The gravity here may be different from their world.
The temperature was lower than expected. They walked for a long time and only managed to move one to two hundred metres.
The visibility here was also very low. Looking back, the white space capsule behind them had already become a vague shadow.
The aurora in the sky appeared again and again. It looked like it would never stop.
Except for their footsteps and breathing, there were no other sounds here, let alone any other people or animals.
When they could no longer see the space capsule behind them, they seemed to have lost their way.
Everything around them looked the same, there was no reference point they could use.
Fortunately, there were marks left behind on the ground from the cart Big Beard used. It at least meant that they were walking in the direction of the mountain of garbage.
That was where they came from.
It took them another half an hour of walking, until Ji Yushi almost couldn’t take another step, that they finally saw the tall mountain of garbage. This mountain of garbage was filled with vines and glowing flowers. The glowing spots illuminated the place, making them a beautiful embellishment amongst the ruins.
There was no path here.
“Continue on.” Song Qinglan made a decision, “Do you want to take a break?”
In the low temperature, white mist from each breath made Ji Yushi’s face a little hazy. He panted and shook his head, “No need.”
Ji Yushi was a very stubborn person, but he never minded showing his weak side. If he really couldn’t hold on, he would definitely say something.
Song Qinglan was already aware of this so he didn’t continue asking and just once again continued walking but at a slower pace than before.
He never thought that he and Ji Yushi would end up in such a situation.
Before leaving, the person who he thought would have no connection with him, because of these unimaginable changes, had become someone he relied on in life-or-death situations. It must be said that it was a strange matter of fate at play.
“Look!” Ji Yushi suddenly shouted.
The two raised their heads.
A fantastical and dream-like scene appeared.
A large silvery-white sphere appeared in the sky. Large and small craters could clearly be seen on the surface of that sphere. It suddenly appeared, as if it was very, very close to them, and it was so big, it almost covered the entire place they stood.
It was an image of a planet that looked similar to the moon.
In just ten or so seconds, that image disappeared just like those auroras.
The scene just now was too shocking. The two didn’t speak for a long time.
Everything here couldn’t be explained with common sense.
“Let’s go.” Ji Yushi returned to his usual calmness, the brilliance in his eyes still present.
They lowered their heads and moved on.
It took the two a long time, stumbling along, to finally reach that huge garbage dump.
Looking up, everything was foggy ahead and unclear. It even looked darker than the path they had travelled along.
Song Qinglan held one end of Shen Mian and handed the other end of the gun over, “Hold the gun. We can’t get separated.”
Ji Yushi held the end of the gun and said, “Wait a minute.”
Ji Yushi bent down and, copying Big Beards actions earlier, he picked two glowing flowers by his feet.
These flowers were very beautiful. The petals were transparent and luminous, and one could see the small veins under the petals. As long as you held them in your hands, it was enough to light up each other’s faces.
Song Qinglan understood immediately. It could be considered as lighting.
He took one and casually inserted it into the pocket of his protective suit.
They then used the gun as a rope, each holding one end of it to ensure that they would not get separated.
And together, they stepped into the darkness ahead.