Chapter 72 Chapter 72 (1/2)

Mist Wei Feng Ji Xu 56250K 2022-07-24

Rubik’s Cube

Chapter 72

After they left the room, Song Qinglan really went back?

What did Song Qinglan hear?

Would he ask about it? Or would there be more misunderstandings like the misunderstanding with the three boyfriends?

His eyelids still twitching, Ji Yushi’s heart raced chaotically.

The fingers hanging by his side quietly curled up, but his expression was the same as usual. He responded calmly, “Oh.”

“Thanks to the recording function, I managed to learn that you decided to continue towards the centre block. We would’ve wasted a lot of time otherwise.” Song Qinglan quickly continued, “Got separated from Lin Xinlan?”

Ji Yushi: “…….”

He and Lin Xinlan had waited for Song Qinglan in that room for at least twenty minutes. It was only when more and more traversers were moving around them did they decide to leave.

It turned out that the situation in the room Song Qinglan saw was just before he and Lin Xinlan left, not when they first entered the room.

The curled fingers slowly relaxed.

Ji Yushi was relieved inside but there was also a faint sense of disappointment.

Fortunately, he was someone who knew what he could and couldn’t do. He replied as usual, “Yes. We encountered a time difference and got separated.”

Song Qinglan declined to comment on this. Lin Xinlan getting separated from them didn’t affect their mission.

“These recordings can help us distinguish the time sequences. Coupled with the rules behind the movement of the rooms, we can go to each room with different time differences and leave traces behind. It shouldn’t be too difficult putting them together.” Song Qinglan said, “We should be able to get out of this mission soon.”

Ji Yushi: “Yes.”

Song Qinglan raised his lips and smiled handsomely, “Looks like Tianqiong was right about us having the highest chance in succeeding.”

After saying that, he glanced at Ji Yushi again. His eyes were deep, “Because we have Advisor Ji.”

Ji Yushi turned away and caught up with the two people gossiping ahead.

Compared to chatting with a steel straight man, he would rather listen to gossip.

The lights shone brightly in the dark. The cubes of different time and space fragments merged and recombined with the movement of countless traversers, changing nonstop.

Everyone walked towards a large purple cube. Duan Wen reached over.

The walls seem to have no physical body. Duan Wen’s hand didn’t touch anything.

Following that, Duan Wen lifted his leg and stepped in through the wall just like how he did when he first came out of his capsule.

The others also followed after him one after another. It was as if a game was slowly loading characters on a screen.

The surroundings became bright again. Everything was pure white except for the purple ball floating in the centre of the room. They retrieved the purple ball and opened the hole on the wall they had just entered from.

What they saw on the other end was no longer the darkness from earlier. It had instead changed back to the normal centre block with a black ball suspended in the air.

This mission was too abstract. Everyone who had gone through several fantastical journeys still couldn’t help but express their surprise and awe.

“Someone has been in this room.” Ji Yushi saw the strange marks on the floor, “It is already an integrated room.”

Duan Wen bent down and counted, “Nine. Does it mean that at least nine rooms have been joined?”

Ji Yushi: “Something like that.”

“Haa, the people crossing through the rooms have just been busy doing nothing. They probably would have never imagined that it was referring to joining like this.” Zhou Mingxuan sighed, “We must have also unknowingly joined quite a few rooms ourselves.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

“The people who completes this mission may not be us but someone else.” Song Qinglan was thinking in a different direction, “With the colours joining, the rooms are becoming fewer and fewer, and the overlapping marks are increasing more and more. They will discover this sooner or later and the competition towards the end will be rather fierce.”

As the captain and as someone who often competed with others, Song Qinglan was very competitive.

He was able to keenly identify the current issue. Towards the end, the mission would be mainly about the confrontation between the traversers instead.

Duan Wen slapped his thigh, “Cap Song is right!”

Zhou Mingxuan, “Then should we do it or not?! The more rooms we join, the greater the chance of them noticing something, but if we don’t do it, we would be wasting a lot of time!”

Even Ji Yushi couldn’t help but frown.

Song Qinglan said, “Do it. Since we’re already here, why would we be afraid of making the first move?”

Song Qinglan stood on the side of the room, but he was the focus of everyone’s attention.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and his body gave off a fierce and domineering aura. It was clear that he had no intentions to lose.

He didn’t shrink back, nor did he hesitate when facing the challenges that were thrown at him.

“Starting from this purple room, we must win.”

“Beep—–”

A hole appeared on the wall in front of everyone.

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“Yellow!”

“Red!”

“Grey! Blue!”

“Green!”

The four people in the seventh squad worked separately.

Every time they arrived at a new room, Duan Wen, Zhou Mingxuan and Song Qinglan was responsible for checking the colours of the surrounding rooms while Ji Yushi was responsible for the calculations.

“There’s also a grey here!”

Zhou Mingxuan jumped off the ladder.

“Yellow, red, grey, blue, green, grey…..” Ji Yushi figured out the direction they were going using his holographic projection, “The right side of the previous room was purple. We’re moving forward. Forward and then down. It is currently to our bottom right. We will need to circle back and then take the right. Forward and then right. The right is green which we can cross through and then we go back and then up before continuing down to enter a new purple.” (KKnotes: ????)

Everyone’s eyes spun.

Duan Wen, “Huh?”

Zhou Mingxuan, “Old Duan, don’t worry about it too much. Just do as he says.”

This was the fourth purple room they entered. After some comparisons, there was a time difference between two of the purple rooms. The earlier purple room was in the correct order and adjacent to the one at the beginning. If it doesn’t get moved, they should be able to join it together without much trouble.

Even if it was moved by the others, it didn’t matter. They could just choose another colour at random and start over — Sooner or later, these colours would all need to be joined together to form a continuous timeline.

Unlike earlier when they were going around blindly, this time they walked through the different coloured rooms with a purpose. They were the first among the countless traversers to figure out the situation.

Purple, yellow and then blue.