Chapter 70 Chapter 70 (2/2)

There was a symbol carved onto the ground that could only be recognised by Ji Yushi.

There were even two of them.

But Ji Yushi hadn’t made his mark yet.

Lin Xinlan asked, “Did those people notice that we had tricked them and deliberately left marks behind to mislead us?”

Apart from this, Lin Xinlan couldn’t think of anything else that could explain this phenomenon.

If they had already been to this room before, how could there be two identical marks on the floor?

“No.” Ji Yushi rubbed the mark on the floor with his hand and said, “This was done by me. I’m certain.”

Lin Xinlan, “Are you sure? Maybe they imitated your writing.”

JI Yushi said it again, his tone was confident, “I’m certain.”

This strange scene made both of them feel a chill run through them.

How could something like this be explained?

“This was the ninth and tenth room that we’ve been to.” Ji Yushi pointed at the two symbols and said, “This was the blue super slow room and this was the blue room next to it that we entered after rolling the dice.”

Lin Xinlan, “Two blues? You mean the two blue rooms have overlapped?”

“I don’t know.” Ji Yushi lowered his eyes. He spoke as he made a new mark between the two symbols.

If it was because there were more people passing through causing the room they had originally passed by to move to this place, it still couldn’t explain the overlap.

*

After entering a new room again, Lin Xinlan’s voice disappeared from behind him.

Ji Yushi looked back. He saw Lin Xinlan maintaining a bending posture at the entrance of the round hole. His entire body was motionless and seemed to be at a standstill.

“Cap Lin?!”

Thinking that he had entered a slow-motion room again, Ji Yushi subconsciously called out. He then reacted —- Time difference!

Although the colours of the balls were different, the time in this room was not in line with the time in the room from which he had come from. Just like how Song Qinglan felt like a week had passed before he found Ji Yushi, the time difference caused the people in the two rooms to be separated.

“Beep——”

The round hole in the room closed.

There was only Ji Yushi in the room now.

Ji Yushi retrieved the purple ball suspended in the air and checked. Sure enough, Lin Xinlan wasn’t there anymore.

Lin Xinlan’s room had moved.

Ji Yushi was silent.

All of this was far beyond his expectations. Everything was completely out of his control.

Ji Yushi alone checked the colours of the surrounding rooms. When he reached the room in front, he was stunned.

A new room had appeared before him.

It had never appeared anywhere else before.

Pure white walls and blinding lights.

Unlike what they had imagined, this place wasn’t empty nor was it colourful.

There was a black ball quietly floating in the centre of the room.

Ji Yushi had reached the centre block.

He took out his zipper handle and tossed it in.

There was a crisp sound. The small zipper handle was difficult to follow but Ji Yushi had excellent eyesight and good concentration, so he was able to accurately follow its trajectory. It fell into the centre of the room completely intact.

Ji Yushi stepped onto the ladder and climbed up.

There was a voice inside him telling him not to go in.

That was his sense of reason as well as his cowardly side.

If he was wrong, he would completely fail the mission. He would face death and elimination and be unable to continue.

If he died in the centre block, his teammates would lose his assistance and would perhaps also lose traces of him. Would Song Qinglan continue to look for him?

But Ji Yushi still went through the hole.

He turned around and stepped onto the first step on the ladder inside.

*

“Beep——”

The moment he stepped into the centre block, the purple ball in his hand returned to its original position and the round hole on the wall closed.

Ji Yushi’s vision suddenly darkened. The surroundings were also extremely quiet. He didn’t know where he was.

No light, no sound. Everything was dead silent.

Ji Yushi couldn’t even hear himself breathing.

Am I dead?

—- As soon as he wondered this, a ray of light appeared within the darkness.

Suddenly, the entire place brightened up.

Ji Yushi felt like he was in the middle of a vast universe. The sky stretched endlessly in the distance, as did the ground. He on the other hand was standing in the middle of a bright galaxy.

He saw it now. Those lights were actually countless different coloured cubes.

They glowed six different colours. It was like there were six rays of lights crisscrossing each other.

A distant memory surfaced in Ji Yushi’s mind.

In the Tianqiong training camp, the instructor on the stage gave a simple demonstration.

She drew a flowing ray of light in the air, “Our research team invented Tianqiong. They were the ones who discovered that time wasn’t just a straight line.”

Then, countless thin lines stretched out from it.

That scene gradually merged with the scene before him.

Ji Yushi walked through these lights. With every step he took, his surroundings would flip. Up, down, front and back, it was hard to distinguish which direction was which.

These lights seem to cut off. Red embedded into blue, yellow embedded into purple…..Countless cubes of different colours were the sources of those lights. They sat along the interlacing light rays interrupting the continuity of these rays.

Ji Yushi stopped in place.

The cubes flickered. Round holes constantly appeared on different sides of it.

He saw traversers of different skin colours and from different eras walking through them.

He saw someone dying, someone break down, someone circle the cube again and again and someone leave their capsule and enter a new room.

He saw the cubes move, constantly changing the way it was made up.

Just like the picture he saw in the book “Time Traveller” he read as a child; he saw countless different worlds through the wormholes.

As the traversers crossed through the cubes, some colours increased in the light rays while other colours gradually decreased. It continuously changed in a way Ji Yushi had never seen before. The traversers walked through these fragments of time and space, attempting to join them as Tianqiong had advised.

Mission mode: Rubik’s Cube.

Mission objective: Joining.

Someone had said to him, “Could it be like ‘Chaos’? The so-called mission should only be taken literally and doesn’t really have any special meaning to it. As you know, it is an artificial intelligence. It’s not that clever.”

Someone had said to him, “Take it apart if you can’t restore it?”

He suddenly understood something.

There was a weight on his shoulder. Someone behind him called out his name, “Ji Yushi.”

Ji Yushi was startled. After turning around, the first thing that caught his eye was a stubble. Raising his head slightly, his eyes met with a pair of calm eyes.

Behind Song Qinglan was Duan Wen and also a Zhou Mingxuan who was covered in blood. The three of them had also arrived at the centre block.

The sight before them made them unable to speak. They didn’t say anything and just looked around at their surroundings.

The lights were reflected in Ji Yushi’s eyes. Song Qinglan seemed to have quickly lost interest in the brilliant surroundings and just subconsciously stood beside Ji Yushi. He similarly looked up into the distance.

“It’s pretty.” Song Qingly spoke lazily, “How does it compare to the crevice of time and space in Chaos?”

“Not the same.”

Ji Yushi replied.

In the crevice of time and space in Chaos, he once stood under an aurora and had his breath taken away by the appearance of a large silver-white planet passing by a mountain of metal garbage. The sea in the sky, getting wet from the water splashed by a whale, the sideways snow-capped mountains as well as the heavy rain.

Just like that time, the same person stood beside him.

“Our job may be the only job where you can see a sight like this.” Song Qinglan said, “Premium sightseeing ticket, and it’s also limited edition.”

Ji Yushi looked over, “I know what’s going on here.”