Chapter 33 Chapter 33 (2/2)

He remembered that he had a similar thought in mind and when he opened the cupboard, he found a bottle of red wine.

It was indeed too coincidental.

Listening to these analyses, Li Chun unconsciously got goosebumps on his arms.

Ji Yushi’s next words made all his hairs stand up in an instant.

“I believe that there was no such thing as the transfer station in the first place.” Ji Yushi concluded calmly, “The so-called transfer station was just a memory stuffed into our minds when we were in an extremely exhausted and fatigued state. Following the endless cycles one after each other, we had always been in an alerted state and our body reached its limit. This Tianqiong self-awareness needed us to continue completing its missions so it simply created the so-called transfer station for us to rest. As a system, it is impossible for it to fabricate many days of memories in great detail so apart from lowering our guard and entering a resting state on the first day, we don’t remember anything else.”

Song Qinglan said, “So it’s not that the mission I selected is connected to the previous mission, but that we are already in a mission and no matter what choice I make, whether it is simple or difficult, the result would still be the same.”

Ji Yushi, “Correct.”

What ‘correct’?

Li Chun’s eyes swirled.

Every time Ji Yushi analysed the situation and Song Qinglan was able to keep up, Li Chun felt that he himself was very ignorant. He had doubted his intelligence numerous times now.

But Li Chun was very used to being a salted fish who would do his best to ask questions and understand the situation. He raised his hand and asked, “Um, Advisor Ji, I have a question.”

Ji Yushi’s beautiful eyes didn’t show any frustration. He just said gently, “Go on.”

Li Chun was moved to see that the other party was very understanding of him and quickly asked, “If it is as you had said and there was no transfer station in the first place, how did we end up here?”

Having asked this, Li Chun couldn’t help but shudder. The memories from PU-31 were too terrifying for him. Being bitten by zombies, eaten by mutated beasts, it was basically a collection of a hundred ways for him to die. He asked nervously, “Co-could we still be in some other cycle?”

“No, we have already completed the Ouroboros mission.” Ji Yushi said, “A reasonable explanation for how we arrived here is: After completing the mission and fusing into one with our other selves, we returned to the moment when we were transitioning over to the initial A-level mission and, while the black wall completely swallowed up PU-31, we were sent into the crevice.”

Li Chun seemed to somewhat understand.

If it was him, he wouldn’t have been able to figure any of this out even if you gave him an entire lifetime to think about it.

“In order to destroy the out-of-control PU-31, Tianqiong created a time anchor. After we completed that mission, it sent us back to the moment the capsule was reporting an error and then we were sent here. All those things happened at the same time and similarly ended at the same time. This hijacking incident seems to be far more complex than we initially thought.” Song Qinglan held Shen Mian in his hands and he unconsciously rubbed it with his thumb. His eyes gradually cooled down, “So when would this be over? Or is it not going to end at all?”

Li Chun asked anxiously, “Then Brother Wen, Old Zhou, Tang Qi and Tang Le are still in the capsules?”

Song Qinglan said, “Yes, if this is arranged in accordance with the order of us entering our capsules, the next one should be Zhou Mingxuan.”

Big Beard on the side had already finished sorting out his things and was sitting on the sofa with a can of beer in his hand, gulping down its contents.

Song Qinglan glanced at him and thought of something, “Since this is a crevice between parallel universes, Big Beard may not have come from our world.”

In this way, Big Beard’s incomprehensible language made sense.

Ji Yushi found a picture of Big Beard and pointed at the symbols on the uniform, “I also have a thought about this. I think the place Big Beard came from was called PU-18. They may have been sucked in during a mission.”

In this universe, after the decline of Earth, many colonies similar to PU-31 were spawned. As seen from the number, there should be at least 31 places like PU-31.

Song Qinglan put away Shen Mian.

It is not a difficult puzzle that should be feared, but rather ones that you have no clues about.

After discussing and finally obtaining some clues, Song Qinglan’s entire being seemed more relaxed, as if nothing would crush his mentality.

“Chaos…..crevice between parallel universes…” Song Qinglan mused with his brows knitted, “If this crevice isn’t closed, more people from different times and different parallel universes may be pulled in.”

At the same time, both Song Qinglan and Ji Yushi thought of the three corpses found in the rainforest.

Because of this crevice, their seniors in the twelfth squad were sucked in during their mission and were eventually left with only their bones here.

If the crevice was likened to a loophole in time, then their mission as the ‘Repairer of Time’ was obvious.

The two looked at each other and similarly thought the same thing.

The tacit understanding between them was very mysterious. It was as if as long as the two acted together, any problem could be solved at twice the speed and with half the effort.

Song Qinglan looked at Ji Yushi’s clear yet quiet eyes and felt a strange feeling surge inside him.

Warm heat filled his heart. It was just like the time at Golden Crow No.2 when he helped feed Ji Yushi his medicine.

Inexplicable and ambiguous.

There was clearly three of them sitting there but Li Chun suddenly felt lonely: “……”

He felt like he was not needed.