Chapter 66 Chapter 66 (1/2)
Rubik’s Cube
Chapter 66
No wonder Lin Xinlan asked Song Qinglan ‘How did I offend you’. Turns out, he was from a year ago. He had no knowledge of what happened a year later.
A question very quickly surfaced in Ji Yushi’s mind — Since they had met here, the Lin Xinlan from a year later must remember what happened in this ‘Rubik’s Cube’. Lin Xinlan who was temporarily hijacked and then returned to his own time and space, apart from writing about his experience in the mission report, he probably didn’t mention anything about it to anyone.
To Lin Xinlan, the encounter with the seventh squad here was the future and also the past.
After returning, he knew that the seventh squad would be hijacked a year later, but the concept of time and space was too complicated. Even a small change could cause a change in time trajectory, thereby affecting the integrity of this time and space.
And so, what Lin Xinlan did after returning was very good.
How to interact with people from different points in time was a compulsory course for them.
Song Qinglan also knew this so he couldn’t face Lin Xinlan with the attitude from the future and could only let him tag along with them.
After saying those words, Ji Yushi calmly added, “But you have to bear with it. Although us gays may be a little messy, we are very disciplined when confessing to a straight man.”
Song Qinglan subconsciously muttered, “No, I wasn’t fucking talking about that.”
Ji Yushi asked, “Then?”
Song Qinglan, “…….”
At this moment, Duan Wen had already fixed up his attitude and helped clean up the situation after his own captain, “Cap Lin, I’ll help you up!”
Lin Xinlan, “Thanks Old Duan.”
Lin Xinlan was the last to reach the new room.
“Beep—–”
The hole behind him closed.
“What were you doing? Badmouthing me?”
Lin Xinlan tapped his knee in attempt to make the blood in that area circulate faster. He said this half-jokingly before asking, “Ah, if I follow along until the problem is solved, would the system count it as a success for me?”
Lin Xinlan was pretty good looking, and he gave of a rather refreshing vibe.
In fact, he wasn’t the annoying type. No one would’ve thought that such a person would later become such a clingy spirit. What gave him the confidence that Song Qinglan would be bent?
Song Qinglan stood up. His slightly unkept face looked particularly straight at this moment, “From blue to green. Safe.”
He looked at Lin Xinglan indifferently. Faced with the mission, he didn’t mind making the other party feel left out.
The adjacent colour theory had been confirmed. Song Qinglan spoke, “Old Duan, open the door.”
Duan Wen took down the green ball floating in the air and pressed a switch.
The door on the right opened. Song Qinglan relied on his long legs and managed to reach the top of the ladder in just a few steps. After uttering the word ‘blue’, he jumped back off.
Duan Wen, “And this one?”
On the other end, Lin Xinlan wasn’t idling around. As soon as the door in front opened, he climbed the ladder, “Red.”
With four people cooperating, the check was done very quickly.
After the colours of balls in the six surrounding rooms were checked, Ji Yushi had already marked the ground and turned on the holographic projection.
Song Qinglan, “How about it? Any thoughts?”
Ji Yushi said, “A little.”
“Before we came, in the room with the blue ball just now, in the order of front, back, left, right, top and bottom, the colours of the surrounding rooms were yellow, red, green, red, yellow and green.” Ji Yushi said. “We have now entered the green room to the left of the blue room from earlier, correct?”
Everyone nodded.
Ji Yushi drew an arrow to mark the direction and then turned to point at the wall in front of him, “We came from this room. As soon as we entered, the original blue room moved and had turned into a yellow room.”
“The movement of a single room would drive together with it the movement of an entire or column of rooms.” Song Qinglan said, “So this yellow room may be the one we saw from the blue room just now.”
Ji Yushi’s drew cubes of different colours on his holographic projection.
He coloured those cubes in to make the yellow cube connect with the green cube and added, “Yes, but there were two yellow rooms seen from the blue room just now; one above and the other in front.”
Replacing the blue room they were in earlier, was it the yellow room above or the yellow room in front? Determining that would help determine the trajectory of the original blue room.
“I understand now. After we left the room just now, it could only move backwards or downwards so that we can see this yellow room.” Song Qinglan said, “Did I get it right, Advisor Ji?”
Ji Yushi nodded.
Duan Wen looked at Ji Yushi’s holographic projection and also tried to fiddle with the cubes, “Fuck, then how do we determine whether the yellow room we are seeing now is the one above or the one in front?”
“Unable to confirm.” Song Qinglan raised a brow, “So we’ll need to continue on.”
As soon as Ji Yushi was found, their wander through these rooms was no longer aimless.
Even if they had some clues before, it was far from how it was now.
What Ji Yushi didn’t know was that before they found him, the three of them were already very exhausted.
In this ‘Rubik’s Cube’, they would not feel hungry or sleepy. Except for the change in physical appearance due to time passing, they didn’t need to eat or drink. As such, this exhaustion was mental. It made them feel hopeless and overwhelmed.
With the exhaustion swept away, Duan Wen was a little excited, “Damn, we might even clear this mission soon.”
Clear the mission?
It was unknown if the outsider Lin Xinlan followed their train of thought. He just stood on the side in thought.
Duan Wen asked, “Which room now?”
Song Qinglan said, “In order to avoid the time difference, we cannot go to rooms with the opposite colour as well as rooms of the same colour. We can only choose from the remaining rooms with colours adjacent to this one….Blue and yellow are adjacent, we can just enter this yellow one here.”
What was said was done.
The four quickly entered the room behind them with the yellow ball and then proceeded to check the other rooms.
They saw that the green room they were in had changed to red. That is to say, the red room that was originally above had now replaced the green room. The trajectory of that room seemed to be downwards.
There was still not enough information.
Along the way, Ji Yushi left marks in every room and he added cubes of different colours to his holographic projection.
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The four continued on uninterrupted.
This time, they entered a room with a blue ball.
“Beep——–” After that sound, the round entrance behind them closed.
As soon as Ji Yushi reached the ground, he noticed that something wasn’t right.
Everyone’s movements became very, very slow, but before entering this room, everyone’s movements were normal —- There was a time difference in this room. As they didn’t enter from a same-coloured room, this time difference did not harm them.
“Time—–diff—-erence———!”
Ji Yushi slowly opened his mouth. Like a slow goldfish, he spoke with difficulty but he didn’t hear any sound.