Chapter 34 Chapter 34 (2/2)

Using the theory of general relativity to think about this world, Einstein probably really wouldn’t be able to be held down by his coffin lid.

“We have to disperse it.” Song Qinglan understood Ji Yushi’s meaning and didn’t have an issue with such a far-stretched guess, “Just like the places near the space capsule, we should fill the darkness with special light.”

And that light referred to the relatively inconspicuous glowing flowers.

“There are many loopholes,” Ji Yushi said, “but it is worth a try.”

*

The site to test out was the city just outside the outer hatch of the space capsule. As soon as they stepped out of the hatch, the first thing they were met with was darkness.

Everyone did as they had agreed on earlier and, without waiting for Zhou Mingxuan to wake up, they went out to pick the glowing flowers.

What should’ve been a journey of solving the mystery behind this mysterious world had turned into picking flowers. Everyone found it a little ridiculous.

But it didn’t hurt to give it a try. Very soon, they returned back to the space capsule with the flowers they had collected.

Big Beard had already returned. Seeing that they were going to open the outer hatch again, he was very angry and shouted out a few times.

Ji Yushi had already reached a stage where he could converse with him a little and he was barely able to calm him back down with some simple words. Big Beard decided to stand back and watch.

Li Chun took the initiative to take on the hard work. When Big Beard opened the hatch, he threw out the glowing flowers one after another.

The faint light slowly grew, and it soon illuminated about half a metre of the dark path before them, revealing some of the mirrored city.

Perhaps it was because there was still too little light to illuminate the place completely, the effect wasn’t obvious.

Li Chun said, “What should we do? We have already picked all the nearby flowers. Even if we add up the ones on the mountain of garbage, it won’t be enough.”

Big Beard seemed to understand what they were trying to do. He gestured non-stop to Ji Yushi.

Ji Yushi translated, “Big Beard is saying that if we need more, we can plant it.”

“Plant?” Song Qinglan who stood in front of the hatch didn’t understand.

“Heavens, how long and how many will we need to plant?!” Li Chun was shocked, “When we’re done, we’ll probably be white bones.”

“Big Beard says that this kind of flower can bloom in a week.” Ji Yushi voiced his own thoughts, “But that is one week near the space capsule. What if we took them to the rainforest?”

The time in the rainforest was almost 24 times faster than the time here.

In other words, they only needed less than a day to be able to harvest more flowers.

“Alright.” Song Qinglan agreed without hesitation, “Chun’er and I will go gather the plants first. We will go together when Old Zhou wakes up.”

Planting flowers in the crevice of time and space —– This was something no one would’ve even thought about.

But the people here no longer felt that anything was impossible in this world.

Song Qinglan left while carrying Shen Mian. He didn’t look like someone going to plant flowers and instead looked like he was heading out to fight monsters.

Ji Yushi on the other hand remained and communicated with Big Beard.

He had to figure out why Big Beard and the others came to this place. He intuitively felt that Big Beard still had many clues waiting to be discovered by them.

Big Beard opened a new can of beer, tilted his head back and downed half its contents in one go. There was foam residue on his beard.

This time, they were going to talk about how many people Big Beard had met here and where those people had gone.

“Knock, knock.”

The two paused.

“Knock, knock.”

The knocking still sounded.

They both looked towards the small room. Zhou Mingxuan hadn’t woken up yet, so it couldn’t be him.

But that knock did come from the space capsule.

Big Beard blinked his blue eyes a few times. Seeing Ji Yushi pull out a silver pistol from under his sofa cushion, he was dumbfounded.

Ji Yushi had already found his Diamond Bird a long time ago.

Nothing Big Beard hid could escape from his eyes.

Ji Yushi made a gesture for him to keep quiet and then very proficiently loaded Diamond Bird up. He clearly came off as a weak person but the moment he picked up the gun, it made it hard for one to look away.

The two slowly moved in the direction of the knocking. It was coming from the outer hatch.

Ji Yushi was on guard while Big Beard opened the hatch.

There was a young man standing outside. He appeared to be about the same age as Ji Yushi.

He wore a black combat uniform with a 12 on his chest. He was slightly taken aback, “Who are you guys?”

Ji Yushi was also taken aback.

At this moment, there were also footsteps behind him. Li Chun hurriedly rushed in, “Advisor Ji! Big trouble!!”

His tone was filled with panic and fear.

Ji Yushi had no choice but to leave that man to Big Beard and quickly returned to the control room.

There, he saw a miniature version of Song Qinglan who looked only about seven or eight years old with a particularly ugly expression.

Ji Yushi had lived for twenty-five years and for the first time, he understood the phrase people would often use to describe his current mood: He felt like his head would explode.