Chapter 35 Chapter 35 (1/2)
Chaos
Chapter 35
Fuck.
Ji Yushi who never swore suddenly had this word which was spoken like a mantra by the other members of the seventh squad appear in his heart.
His mind was a mess, “How did this happen?!”
Li Chun was in complete panic, “I also don’t know! The moment I turned around, Cap Song had turned small!!”
The miniature version of Song Qinglan was still wearing the adult versions black combat uniform so the sleeves, pants and shoes were too big. It looked a little comical. This was especially so when he who looked only seven or eight in age was still carrying his Shen Mian. It gave off a funny feeling of a child carrying a toy gun.
Song Qinglan’s child self was pretty soft and cute. Except for his ugly expression, it was almost impossible for one to associate him with Song Qinglan.
After the accident, Li Chun hurriedly brought him back to the space capsule and he hadn’t spoken a single word the entire way.
Now, he finally couldn’t not speak. He spoke up and explained, “Slipped and fell when collecting the plants and became smaller.”
Ji Yushi: “……..”
Li Chun: “……..”
“The baby voice is funny?” Song Qinglan said with a cold expression, “If you want to laugh, laugh it all out now. No need to hold back.”
Time had reversed in Song Qinglan’s body, but his child body still contained the soul of an adult. His words, intelligence and personality hadn’t changed at all so when he spoke up just now, it was both funny and strange.
Even Li Chun couldn’t laugh. He maintained a solemn expression.
At this moment, the sound of fighting suddenly came from the corridor. This was followed by incomprehensible curses from Big Beard.
The three of them hurriedly walked over, only to see Big Beard fighting with the young man who had appeared from outside the outer hatch.
Big Beard looked like a bear, and with brute force, he crushed the young man onto the ground. With both hands around the other’s neck, he cursed angrily, “Anfalahagenhe!!”
The young man who was choked until his face was red desperately resisted, “He-help……”
“Who is this?!” Li Chun was surprised, “Where did he come from?”
Ji Yushi, “Save him!”
Song Qinglan was weak with his small body and could only stand aside.
Ji Yushi worked together with Li Chun and it took them a lot of effort to pull Big Beard away.
Big Beard struggled violently. He looked like he wanted to tear the young man apart.
The young man caught his breath and immediately started coughing violently, “You…..are also from T-Tianqiong?”
With the exception for Big Beard, the people present all wore the black uniforms Tianqiong Guardians wore. The only difference was the ‘12’ on the young man’s chest, but this didn’t prevent them from figuring out the other person’s identity.
“Yes.” Ji Yushi answered, “Are you a Guardian from Tianqiong’s twelfth squad?”
The young man nodded. He stood up with difficulty and looked at Big Beard, “And who is this person? Why did he want to kill me?”
Song Qinglan originally wanted to say that Big Beard never acted normally but, thinking of his baby voice, he remained silent.
Big Beard was clearly still very agitated and restless. He pointed at the young man while saying something to Ji Yushi.
That young man then saw Song Qinglan, “There’s also a child?”
Song Qinglan: “……..”
“How did you also end up here?” The young man was surprised by these new faces and asked, “Have you seen my other teammates?”
Li Chun didn’t know how to answer and could only say, “Um, that, senior, we are from a different era.”
The term senior was a little abrupt.
The young man slowly took in the meaning of those words and then replied, “I am from 1441. How about you?”
The atmosphere stagnated for a moment.
The Tianqiong twelfth squad found in the rainforest was indeed the one which had lost all contact fifteen years ago.
Ji Yushi’s cold voice sounded, “We are from 1456.”
*
The young man was called Xie Sian. He was a part of Tianqiong’s twelfth squad in 1441 and went to complete an A-level mission with seven other teammates. During the transition, their capsule had encountered a problem and then ended up here, in the process discovering the mountain of garbage and the space capsule. After they rested in the space capsule, they split up and Xie Sian and another teammate entered the city together.
According to him, they had lost their way a day after they entered the city. The teammate with him claimed that he saw human life and separated from him and with the communicator unable to establish connection, he could only find a way out of the mirrored city on his own. After walking around for another day or two, he found glowing flowers piled up on the sidewalk.
This was how Xie Sian found his way back to the space capsule.
For Xie Sian, he was only separated from his teammates for about two days.
Xie Sian was in disbelief. He couldn’t accept reality. Even his lips were pale, “So you’re saying that 15 years had actually passed?!”
Li Chun nodded, “Yes, we’ve calculated it. The flow of time in the capsule is 2880 times faster than that city. That is to say, one day in the city is almost equal to about eight years here. That is why the two days you spent in there was actually fifteen years.”
Xie Sian’s hand holding the can began to tremble.
The news was cruel, but Li Chun had to tell him, “Not only is the rate of time flow different there, there is also another place where the time flow rate is 24 times faster than that of the space capsule. Fifteen years in the space capsule is 360 years there. My teammates saw there…..the remains of several other seniors.”
Xie Sian immediately raised his head, “Impossible! How could this be?!”
Song Qinglan sat on the sofa, quietly watching them talk. The expression on his small face was serious. It was the usual look he would have as an adult when he was thinking about something.
He was now also a victim of time. He had nothing to say.
Ji Yushi and Big Beard talked for a while on the side. Through gestures and simple language exchanges, he figured out what was going on and walked over with a piece of paper.
Big Beard had a spokesperson so he wasn’t afraid that they wouldn’t understand. He very simply plopped his ass down on the sofa.
He was tall and big and weighed about three hundred catties so the moment he sat down onto the sofa, the spring underneath creaked and little Song Qinglan next to him bounced up slightly.
With regard to the matter of Song Qinglan turning smaller, Big Beard showed great interest. With canned food remnants stuck on his beard, he stared at Song Qinglan and wanted to reach out to touch him.
Without even looking at him, Song Qinglan directly picked up Shen Mian and used it to push away the dirty hands trying to pinch his face.
“If you don’t believe him, you can look at this.” Ji Yushi’s slender and tall figure passed before them and stopped in front of Xie Sian, “Do you remember fighting against a red-haired foreigner when you first came here?”
Xie Zian hesitated, “How did you know?”
Ji Yushi handed over a paper with Big Beard’s drawing, “It’s not that I know. The party involved is right here.”
On the paper was a drawing of eight Tianqiong Guardians and every one of them had a 12 written on their chest.
They were all lined up one by one. The one at the front held a gun and seemed to be threatening a very tall person.
“Our capsules were damaged when we arrived here,” Xie Sian looked at the drawing, “and we soon found this space capsule. The engineer in the team wanted to borrow this space capsule to modify and use it to transition again but that red-haired foreigner refused. A few days later, the engineer, the vice-captain and another teammate…..threatened the foreigner but he still refused to hand over the key. In the end, we had no choice but to be a little rough.”
The so-called ‘threaten’ was probably a case of robbery. Xie Sian spoke with much difficulty, “I didn’t participate, but I also didn’t stop them.”
Li Chun opened his mouth wide. He couldn’t imagine what humans would be like when faced with such a situation.
“This was also the reason for you splitting up?” Ji Yushi asked, “Because you couldn’t accept the other’s actions, so you didn’t want to go together?”