Chapter 63 Chapter 63 (1/2)

Rubik’s Cube

Chapter 63

Someone more capable than Ji Yushi?

This made Morita Yu sigh. It seems that the Star Era time and space was a lot more developed than his time and space. There was quite a large gap in technological development.

However, apart from exchanging information about this Rubik’s Cube, the three didn’t go into too much detail about where they’re from.

In order to maintain the stability of time and space, they refrained from interacting too much with those from other times and spaces.

Regardless of which time and space they’re from, the three Tianqiong laws have been engraved into their bones: Never change the past. Never talk about the present. Never be obsessed with the future.

“The rooms here are indeed moving.” Zoe spoke up, “Whenever someone opens a door and enters, the original room would be changed and replaced by another room when that same door is opened again. Perhaps there are sensing mechanisms installed in the rooms.”

She clearly had to have experienced a situation like this several times while she was here to be able to say something like this with so much certainty.

Ji Yushi nodded, “It’s possible.”

Zoe began to think, “In that case, it would be hard for us to find a pattern. There are too many rooms here. What does ‘Rubik’s Cube’ want us to do? What does it want us to join?”

Everyone wanted to know the answer to this question. It could only be answered through experimentation and exploration. If you remained in the same room to be safe, you would never be able to reach the answer.

After the three spoke briefly, they decided to move on.

Zoe removed the red ball floating in the air.

The three then checked the rooms in the order of top, bottom, left, right, front and back. The colours of the balls in the six surrounding rooms were different. There were two blue, one yellow, one green, one purple, and one red.

According to Morita Yu’s guess from earlier, everyone chose the room with the red ball and moved on.

Along the way, Zoe continued to use her small dagger to carve numbers onto the floor.

Pure white rooms appeared one after another. It made it easy for one to feel isolated from the outside world. In actual fact, it was really like that for them.

Morita Yu would try to find topics to talk about, but he wasn’t like Li Chun the chatterbox. Although he spoke a little more than the rest of them, he always talked about useful information.

“Senior, you estimated that there are at least twenty-one people active here and that helped me figure one thing out.” Morita Yu said, “When I waited in a room after separating from the rest of my squad, a door opened suddenly but I didn’t press a switch. That door opened for a second and then closed on its own.”

He spoke very grimly and continue to gesture, “I thought that if it was my teammate, they would definitely call out to me so when I saw that there was no one behind that door, I thought it was a ghost. Now that I think about it, it was actually quite simple. Someone from another squad must have found me but didn’t want to work with me so they left. It might’ve been a teammate of yours.”

If there really were only three Guardian squads here, Morita Yu’s chances of running into the seventh squad was quite high.

Ji Yushi however felt that there may not only be three squads here. They may probably encounter more traversers like them from other crevices in time and space from now on.

“It probably wasn’t my teammate.” Ji Yushi said, “If they found you, they wouldn’t just leave.”

Even if they were competing against each other, the seventh squad wouldn’t do something like that.

An effective but reserved exchange of information was the way for him to find his teammates in this Rubik’s Cube as soon as possible.

Morita Yu smiled, revealing his white teeth, “Ah, senior is confident in your captain and your teammates. I really envy that.”

Zoe didn’t like to speak much, and she also felt that Morita Yu spoke too much. She just wanted to quickly get out of this place, “It’s not like that in your squad?”

“It’s not that, it’s not like that.” Morita Yu scratched his head and spoke with some embarrassment, “I have always been dealing with administrative work before and originally wanted to be a Recorder, but I signed up as a Guardian because they were short in people. In terms of combat power and experience, I’m still very inadequate so I’m not very close with my teammates.”

Zoe didn’t feel sorry for him.

Every Guardian would need some time to adjust after joining a new squad. If one could adjust, they could stay but if they couldn’t, they would leave. She had seen that too many times in Tianqiong.

Hearing Morita Yu’s answer, Ji Yushi seemed to be a little moved.

He turned and said to Morita Yu, “Those doing administrative work have their own strengths. After a few more missions, you will gradually become familiar with them.”

They arrived at a new room.

Up, down, down.

This was the third room. All of them had red balls.

Ji Yushi remembered the direction of each of the rooms they had entered. The layout of the rooms that was originally set up as a parallel line in his mind had begun to change and reorganise. The arrangement here was many times more complicated than he had anticipated. It had far exceeded his rough estimate earlier of 86 rooms.

Joining.

What exactly did it mean?

Zoe continued to remove the balls. After she pressed the switches, Morita Yu and Ji Yushi would respectively check the colour of the ball in the other rooms.

Morita Yu checked the room on the left, “Red!”

Ji Yushi climbed up the silver-white ladder on the right wall and checked, “Red….wait.”

The scene in that room was reflected in Ji Yushi’s eyes. There was a large pool of bright red blood on the floor and there was a decapitated head facing away from him in the corner of the room.

Sensing his abnormality, the two asked him what was wrong.

Ji Yushi climbed down the ladder. Being exposed to such a bloody scene after such a long time, nausea and discomfort surged from the depths of his stomach. He barely held it in and said, “There is a human head inside.”

Morita Yu was surprised, “Human head?! A dead person?”

Ji Yushi made a sound of affirmation. He didn’t want to continue this topic.

Zoe expressed her doubts, “You said that the ball is red. Why would there be a dead person?”

This couldn’t be considered as her not trusting Ji Yushi. After all, they had only met by chance and there was no tacit understanding or emotional connection between them. Regardless of how logical Ji Yushi’s analysis was just now, Zoe felt that she should check it herself.

Zoe climbed up the ladder to check. Her expression changed, “What happened?”

Hearing that there really was a dead body and it was also just a head, Morita Yu didn’t even want to go up the ladder himself to check and even stayed away from that wall. He didn’t want to stay here any longer, “Let’s go and stop worrying about it. It might have been done by the man who killed Chuck. He’s a murderer! He will definitely get his retribution!”

The Super S-level mission had been turned into an enclosed room homicide case by Morita Yu. He reacted passionately with a sense of righteousness much like a second-year middle school student.

As he complained, Morita Yu climbed up the left ladder, “Let’s go, let’s not waste our time. People normally become unable to even move after starving for three days. I’m right now feeling very weak. We should hurry!”

Ji Yushi followed behind Morita Yu. He got ready to climb the ladder.

Zoe also jumped off the right ladder.

Ji Yushi looked up and could only see the soles of Morita Yu’s feet. He climbed up two steps before seeing Morita Yu lower his head and look down at him from above, “Senior, be careful. Don’t let me step on your hands.”

As soon as he finished saying that, Morita Yu entered the hole. Soon afterwards, his feet shot outwards and something heavy fell with a loud thud. There was no longer any movement.

Ji Yushi was doubtful. He went up another two steps.

Once he saw the situation, all the blood in his body seemed to flow backwards, “Morita!!!”

That shout was particularly frightening. Even his voice trembled a little.

Zoe was still standing on the ground. She raised her head and shouted, “What’s wrong?! What happened?!”

Ji Yushi still had Morita’s words ‘Senior, be careful’ lingering in his ears when he saw Morita fall to the ground. He had died on the spot. Blood spattered out from his neck and the wound was cut neatly as if it was cut by a knife —-

His head was gone.

Ji Yushi suddenly thought of something. He quickly got off the ladder.

“Give it to me!”

He grabbed the ball in Zoe’s hand and quickly found the switch for the room on the right.

He swiftly climbed up the ladder and looked into the room on the right. That head in the corner of the room now had a source….It was Morita Yu’s head!

Zoe had already climbed the ladder on the left and saw Morita Yu’s body, “W-what?! Why?!”

She couldn’t accept it. Why was a person who was alive just a moment ago suddenly dead, and it was also without a single sound?

In a situation like this, anyone with emotions would feel sad. Not to mention, she had also gone through so many rooms with Morita Yu. The rims of her eyes reddened, and she stepped off the ladder.

“How could this happen?! What went wrong?!”

According to their previous theory that ‘same coloured rooms are safe’, they should be able to continue without any problems.

They had gone through many rooms relying on this theory. Morita Yu’s death was completely outside of their expectations.

Could it be that same coloured rooms aren’t safe?

Then what was safe?!

Zoe circled around the room in frustration a few times before slamming the butt of her gun against the wall, “So that head in the other room is Morita’s?! But how could that be possible? He was here just now, and that head was already there when we arrived. How do you explain that? It doesn’t make sense!”

She finished her words angrily and turned to look at Ji Yushi who stood next to the ladder on the right. He had his eyes closed and seemed to be thinking about something.

During this short period of time together, this young man from the East from seventy years ago had left her with a calm impression.

Apart from his beautiful appearance, his calmness seemed to be the next most alluring trait of Ji Yushi’s.

But at this moment, she saw that Ji Yushi’s face was extremely pale and covered with cold sweat.

Ji Yushi couldn’t control himself.

After seeing Morita’s corpse and head, all kinds of messy memories surfaced uncontrollably in his mind.

Blood splattering after Tang Le was bitten by a zombie, brain pulp exploding as a bullet from diamond bird bursts through Li Chun’s head, the rotten flesh on the windshield, the calf wearing short black boots…..and also that rainy day, the knife plunged into a certain someone’s chest.

He didn’t want to see it.

He didn’t want to remember it either.

But there was no one here telling him not to look.

He opened his eyes. As he tried to suppress the turmoil in his eyes, he quickly took out his medicine box.

A small piece fell into the palm of his hand. It soon entered his mouth.

“How are you? Are you okay?” Zoe asked, “You seem unstable.”

With no water around, he crushed the medicine with his teeth. His mouth was filled with a bitter taste.

Ji Yushi chewed it slowly and seemed to be taking in the bitterness. He wiped away the cold sweat and, as if nothing had happened before, he said, “Two minutes.”

Zoe thought he was asking for a two-minute rest. Seeing that he wasn’t in good condition, she temporarily put aside her doubts and fear and proposed, “No, you should rest more. Half an hour. You will at least need half an hour. We can’t leave now anyway. We can’t choose the room with a red ball. That theory isn’t right……”