Chapter 52 Chapter 52 (1/2)
Who Am I
Chapter 52
Two realities, one Song Qinglan.
One reality was from one month ago and the other was one month later. When these two realities began to overlap, the call from one month ago was received by Song Qinglan from a month later. It had accidentally connected the two realities, pulling them back briefly, but the moment the phone call ended, the link was broken, and they were pulled back to the reality one month later.
Both knew very well that even if Song Qinglan called back immediately after the link was broken, the person picking up on the other end would only be his grandfather in the current reality and they would no longer be pulled back to their original reality.
It was like there was a thin film separating them from their original reality.
Can see and touch but cannot truly enter.
Song Qinglan pondered, “Say, do you think anyone else will call me over that month?”
Ji Yushi, “Even if they did, it won’t be now.”
The other reality was currently at point ‘B’ and, to them who are in the bubble world, it was at a standstill. The phone call just now happened to be made at point ‘B’ but how could there coincidentally be so many phone calls made at point ‘B’?
As for phone calls for Ji Yushi, that was even less likely.
Firstly, it was because his phone had just been thrown away and secondly, his social circle was pretty much limited to the three members of the Ji family.
Not to mention, whenever he goes on his missions, he would completely disappear from that reality and probably no one would care about it except for those in the Ji family…..Thinking this, Ji Yushi was surprised. Those negative thoughts had somehow invaded him again. If not for his quick reaction, he might have had another case of thinking that the other reality was ‘not worthy to feel attachment to and since it was no different from this place, it didn’t matter if he stayed here instead’.
The weather was hot, but a chill ran through Ji Yushi.
The influence of this world was almost inescapable. He lowered his eyes and looked at the handcuff binding himself with Song Qinglan and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s alright.
The handcuff was still there.
Like Song Qinglan had said, he at least wouldn’t be able to escape again.
His thinking became complicated again. Ji Yushi raised his hand and grabbed Song Qinglan’s wrist.
His line of sight fell onto the other party’s watch. The second hand was still moving at a regular pace.
Song Qinglan asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Yushi’s expression changed in an instant, “We have to get out of here immediately!”
Memories from when they bought tickets at the small station earlier quickly returned to him — After Song Qinglan asked him for his ID card, he had used his injured hand to select options on the screen to purchase their tickets and the information with the train schedules were displayed very briefly before it changed after Song Qinglan selected the next train. It had only appeared very briefly, but it was deeply engraved into Ji Yushi’s memory.
Soon after their train, another train would also pass through this track! At that time, just like this train, the next train would also collide with the phantom train from the original reality!
Standing on the train tracks like this, the outcome would be unimaginably dangerous!
As soon as he said this, Song Qinglan’s expression also became tense, “How long do we have?!”
Ji Yushi’s mental arithmetic skills were excellent, “No more than three minutes at most! Let’s go!”
Song Qinglan stood on the roof of the carriage. His eyes locked onto a place in the opposite direction of where they were running. About a hundred metres behind them was a maintenance bridge. They had to go there immediately!
There was no time to worry about the passengers following behind them. The two immediately started to sprint over.
On top of the carriage, the two ran desperately towards the bridge.
Below the carriage, the passengers followed after the sound and chased after them like zombies without consciousness.
This scene was astonishingly similar to when they were at the Golden Crow No.2 base. At that time, they were running desperately along the ventilation pipes while zombies below and behind them chased after them with their mouths wide open.
They were always put into desperate situations like this.
“Go down!”
Song Qinglan slammed onto his brakes. They were already close to that bridge.
With experience from earlier when they climbed to the carriage roof, the handcuffs didn’t get in their way this time. The two cooperated well and quickly jumped off.
More than a dozen passengers who caught up to them stretched out their hands in attempt to hold them in place. For a moment, the two were surrounded and unable to escape. It resembled a silent horror movie.
Ji Yushi was anxious, “The train is coming!”
Song Qinglan, “You go down first!”
The two quickly descended the ladder. Some passengers similarly followed behind them.
More and more passengers charged over but the narrow ladder couldn’t accommodate that many people at the same time. When Ji Yushi looked up, he was met with more than a dozen faces quietly looking down at him.
These people were completely unaware that death was imminent.
When they were halfway down, there was a faint sound of wind rushing by.
It was the sound of a suspension train travelling at high speed. From far to near, it arrived in a blink of an eye!
“BOOM——-”
Along with a loud earth-shattering noise, the new suspension train was pushed off by the phantom train, colliding with the original train that had overturned and breaking apart in an instant.
Large pieces of steel flew out, slashing off the heads of the people staring down at them from above!
Blood and brain matter flowed out. Headless corpses fell from above.
It seemed that someone that returned to their senses. There was a loud scream.
The two didn’t stop moving. Ji Yushi didn’t even have the chance to look down when something large appeared in his line of sight —- It was a broken off section from the train! It smashed into the tracks, creating an opening in an instant!
With the bridge losing its connecting point, it let out an uncomfortable creak and looked like it was soon about to break off. If it fell off, they would fall and directly smash onto the concrete floors below!
“Jump into the water!” Song Qinglan shouted.
They were no more than five or six metres away from the water. Ji Yushi showed no hesitation. With Song Qinglan holding his hand, the two jumped off.
“Splash!”
A large splash followed.
As the two fell into the water below, they could vaguely hear the sound of the steel ladder and bridge collapsing and falling onto the hard concrete floor. There were other things that also fell together with it including train parts, glass and half a human head…..Everything could be seen clearly from the lake.
Having fallen into the lake at a wrong angle, as he sank to the bottom of the water, severe pain surged through Ji Yushi’s ear and chest and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
The grip around his waist tightened and Song Qinglan next to him turned him over.