Chapter 31 Chapter 31 (2/2)

Ji Yushi’s mind was always clear.

Even during the extremely difficult mission like Ouroboros, he was able to quickly identify points that had been missed by the others.

The same was true this time as well.

“It’s very simple. We can calculate it.” Ji Yushi said, “We didn’t wear our communicators when we were in the rainforest. According to my guesses, it was probably about two days.”

“Wait a minute.” Song Qinglan objected, “Two days?”

He at most thought it had been a little over a day. Apart from being hungry and tired like Ji Yushi, he didn’t find it especially difficult and long.

“Yes.” Ji Yushi lowered his eyes slightly, “Due to various reasons, I rarely make a mistake with perceiving time, so the time we spent in the rainforest was about two days.”

Song Qinglan understood. It was his hyperthymesia again.

People with hyperthymesia didn’t gradually forget the previous second or previous minute like ordinary people did.

To them, every second spent was still clearly engraved into their minds, including all their senses and feelings at that time. As long as they recall it, it would be as if they were back at that time again and it was also because of this that their perception of time was rarely incorrect.

Ji Yushi didn’t dwell on this matter for long and continued, “But when we returned, we saw that less than two hours had passed. We can round that up to two hours for ease of calculations and here we can reach a conclusion. If we calculate the time flow rate by hours, the time in the rainforest is 24 times faster than the time in the space capsule.

Song Qinglan and Li Chun listened quietly.

“But the city we entered after going out through the outer hatch was completely the opposite.” Ji Yushi said, “It could be said that the time there was unimaginably slow. Let’s compare three minutes with six days and again calculated the time flow rate by hours. In this case, the time flow in that city is 2880 times slower than the time in the space capsule.”

Ji Yushi’s mental arithmetic ability was just as good as his memory and he didn’t even need scratch paper or a calculator, “Let’s use a simple example. If we didn’t go to the rainforest first but directly opened the outer hatch and entered the city, we would definitely try to find a way out inside. Even if we only stay in that city for a day, it is equivalent to staying in the space capsule for eight years or so. Just imagine, after staying in the city for a few days and then returning back here, what would happen?”

Hearing this news, Li Chun’s mouth opened wide, “Shit. If that’s the case, wouldn’t I already be old and shrivelled by the time you come back?”

“Something like that.” Ji Yushi said, “For us, only a few days had passed but for you, years had passed. If the time flow rate in the space capsule is the constant, then the rainforest and the city are the variables.”

“Then I have a question.” Song Qinglan asked, “The previous group, whether it is Big Beard’s teammates or Tianqiong’s twelfth squad, would there still be people in that city now? After all, only a short amount of time had passed for them. It is possible that they are still alive.”

Everyone was silent.

That possibility was very high.

The terrible difference in the flow of time made a chill run down everyone’s spine at just the thought of it.

No wonder Big Beard reacted so strongly to their decision to leave through that hatch.

Cap Song and Advisor Ji had returned safely, but Li Chun was still afraid. He hurriedly asked, “Then we are sure that the mission we need to complete is here? Repairer of Time. How do we repair it? Is this really an A-level mission?”

“If you didn’t make Big Beard drunk, maybe we could continue to communicate and ask him how many people had been here before us.” Song Qinglan crossed his arms, “But this is strange. Why does he get along with you so well?”

Song Qinglan had been detained for five or six days and was left hungry for five or six days.

There was no answer to this question.

Ji Yushi said, “As for how to repair it…..I also don’t know.”

He looked at the drawings and symbols all across the walls and floors and said, “Let me figure out what you two have talked about during those days. When Big Beard wakes up, I may be able to learn his language.”

Song Qinglan, “You can learn his language?”

Ji Yushi said, “Yeah, there are seven languages that I am familiar with but not proficient in. My learning speed isn’t too slow. I can give it a try.”

The other two were suddenly silent.

Ji Yushi looked back questioningly, “What’s wrong?”

Li Chun asked sincerely, “Advisor Ji, do you know the difference between ordinary players and players with cheat?”

*

The three moved separately.

Song Qinglan went to the mountain of garbage again to look for useful clues amongst the wreckage and along the way check how far away darkness around the space capsule extended for.

Because those drawings were too difficult to decipher, Li Chun stayed to help clarify some of the meanings he already knew for Ji Yushi.

When Big Beard wakes up, they would try to get information out from him.

“This is a drawing of us?” Ji Yushi found a page with numerous scrawls.

Two people were drawn on the paper, one tall and one thin. Both held canned food in their hands and there was a ‘7’ written on their chests.

Li Chun hurriedly nodded, “Yes! He drew it after we gestured back and forth, and it was through this that I knew you were here.”

Ji Yushi found it funny. It seems that Big Beard held deep resentment towards them for eating his canned food.

However, he quickly frowned and pointed at the drawing again, “And what’s this?”

There was a heart drawn between him and Song Qinglan.

“My god!” Li Chun immediately balled the paper up and threw it away, “It was Big Beard’s mistake. He thought you two were a couple!”

Ji Yushi: “………”

Standing from Big Beard’s point of view, he and Song Qinglan indeed wouldn’t have seemed quite right.

It had to be said, they really did give off somewhat gay vibes.

“Fortunately Cap Song isn’t here. Advisor Ji, you should know that Cap Song has PTSD!” Li Chun this chatterbox once again started to show his skills, “If he saw this, I wouldn’t be allowed to live.”

Ji Yushi blinked a few times. He sat down and asked, “Oh, what kind of PTSD?”