Chapter 53 Chapter 53 (2/2)
As early as two decades ago when the scientific team first started to study the Tianqiong system, such protests had been held —- As a young man, it was Ji Yushi’s first time seeing such a scene.
Song Qinglan saw him frequently turning his head and said, “When they protest like this, they actually have no idea how much Tianqiong has done for them.”
As a Guardian, Song Qinglan knew very well about how hard it was to maintain a safe world.
Just like the short composition about the positive social impacts: There is no stability in this world, but there are countless nameless people working in the background helping the world move forward.
Ji Yushi said, “Perhaps the scientists didn’t expect it to develop into something like this when they invented Tianqiong….”
He had said this very softly so Song Qinglan didn’t catch it.
In a blink of an eye, the car managed to turn onto a different road. It had taken them two to three times longer than expected to reach the nursing home.
Before getting off, Song Qinglan used the tools in the car to pry open the handcuff. The two were finally freed.
Ji Yushi flexed his sore wrists, “Not binding me to you anymore?”
The handcuffs were thrown onto the seat. It had brought them both love and hate as they made their way here.
Song Qinglan glanced at it and said coolly, “No more. But you still cannot leave my line of sight. Advisor Ji, don’t forget that you have a previous record against your name.”
Li Chun turned his head back from his driver’s seat and said with amusement, “Hey boss, you’re speaking like a tyrant. If Advisor Ji was a girl——”
Ji Yushi helped him finish his words, “I would stay away from you.”
Li Chun: “?”
Inside the car, Song Qinglan knocked on a certain someone’s head, “How does he look like a woman?”
Li Chun for some reason felt that there was something wrong with that last line.
Cap Song’s eyes were deep and his rebuttal seemed a bit strange….Why did he feel that Cap Song was even a little reluctant when he removed the handcuff?!
Wait a minute, didn’t Cap Song have PTSD towards that?
Was this world crazy or was he crazy?
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The three got out of the car.
As if some mysterious power took control, all the people on the road stopped one after another.
The people outside quietened down in an instant and they all turned their heads and stared at them.
Soon afterwards, they began to mechanically walk over.
Li Chun was terrified, “The fuck, again?!”
The three slowly backed away but those people didn’t slow down like before. On the contrary, the moment they saw that they had stopped, these people sped up their pace instead.
The closer they got, the faster they were and eventually they were practically running towards them.
“Run!”
“Let’s go!”
The three reacted at the same time. They shouted this out and started to run.
There was a crowd gathered behind them rushing towards them like a tide and there were also people charging towards them from the front.
They ran through countless phantoms, pushing down living humans who looked like rigid stone statues in the process. Amidst all the chaos, they were soon scattered.
Due to the crowd, Ji Yushi was forced to the end of the street and was completely surrounded.
“Ji Yushi!”
“Cap Song!!”
Song Qinglan and Li Chun’s voice sounded, but they could only be heard in the crowd and couldn’t be seen.
Ji Yushi looked up. He was met with unfamiliar faces all around him. They either stopped in place without moving or stiffly walked towards him. He couldn’t tell which ones were the static phantoms from the other world and which ones were living human beings.
These faces filled his brain. His mind once again uncontrollably started to search through his memories and the large influx of information pouring in brought about a dull pain to his head.
In just a few minutes, cold sweat dripped from Ji Yushi’s forehead.
Suddenly, someone pushed in from amidst the crowd.
It was a featureless face that couldn’t look any more ordinary.
Like the other humans who came over, Ji Yushi also didn’t recognise this face. He looked up blankly and was met with a pair of deep, black eyes.
The man was very tall. He raised his hand in the crowd and used the advantage of his long arms to stick a disc behind Ji Yushi’s ear, “Don’t move.”
A small sound came from behind the ear and then a familiar sensation spread from that point to the rest of his face.
His face had been covered with a new face.
89 Recorder missions, 89 times pretending to be non-existent.
The mask that had been skilfully used by himself 89 times.
No one knew the purpose of it better than him.
With it, Ji Yushi became another person.
The people surrounding him gradually returned to their senses. Vivid and lifelike expressions returned to their faces and their previous looks of shock and panic were restored. Very soon, they dispersed as quickly as they came.
Ji Yushi panted lightly. His figure was enveloped by another tall figure.
Song Qinglan spoke under his artificial face, “I told you. If you don’t leave my line of sight, you won’t be abducted by them. What are you afraid of?”
Ji Yushi, “I-I wasn’t afraid.”
Song Qinglan laughed softly.
The other three came over. They all similarly had plain faces.
The round face was hitting the square face, “I just went to the black market to buy some equipment and when I come back, the car is like this?! Like this?! You better fucking pay for the repairs!”
The one with the square face cried, “Hey, this is just a fake world. Why take it so seriously!!”
The other round face spoke. It seemed to be Tang Qi from the voice, “Advisor Ji, I didn’t expect us to team up again so soon.”