Chapter 106 Chapter 106 (2/2)
The music changed. The tempo had slowed down and the people on the dance floor began to dance slowly, face to face.
A waiter brought over a cocktail and gave it to Song Qinglan. Following the waiter’s gestures, a girl in a miniskirt raised a glass at him and blew a kiss.
Everyone: “!!!”
“Hurry and explain!”
“Advisor Ji is going to note it into his little notebook!”
“It’s not too late to refuse!!”
Everyone joked and teased him, but Song Qinglan the involved party didn’t refuse the cocktail.
Ji Yushi next to him was leaning back in his seat. The changing lights illuminated his tall nose and from time to time there would be shadows cast over his face from his long eyelashes. His dark eyes watched him, seemingly very interested.
In front of the girl and everyone else, Song Qinglan leaned in to kiss him on the lips. Amidst the music, he pushed the glass over and said softly, “Margarita. You like it.”
This game was too easy to crack.
After Song Qinglan released his lips, everyone was completely stunned, “This is also okay?!”
Song Qinglan lazily asked, “Why not?”
Everyone: “Advisor Ji?!”
Ji Yushi drank the cocktail bought by someone else, “Tastes pretty good.”
Everyone: “Damn!”
“Advisor Ji, you’ve changed!” Tang Le complained bitterly, “You’re no longer that cool Advisor Ji anymore!”
“Love makes people blind.” Zhou Mingxuan said, “Even celestial beings cannot escape it.”
Li Chun suddenly expressed, “Haa, I still remember back at Guangyuan building when Advisor Ji was pressed against the wall by Song Qinglan with an extremely reluctant expression.”
Ji Yushi paused. The cold liquor had not been completely swallowed.
He was pressed against the wall by Song Qinglan?
That was something that happened between the two of them in the big circle. Based on what they knew, these people who were originally in the Ouroboros mission shouldn’t have memories of this.
After they entered 【Overload】, they were both in different, staggered cycles. They both existed as a point paving the way for the original squad and when the original squad completes the mission, they would disappear, so the original members in the Ouroboros mission shouldn’t remember what happened.
They continued to appear at the anchored point, and, just like what Tianqiong’s parent system requested, they tried to maintain the situation such that it developed the way it originally developed. As long as the final result didn’t change, it wouldn’t affect the timeline.
That is to say, to them who were in the big cycle【Overload】, they who were in Ouroboros were like NPCs. It stood to reason that they shouldn’t have these memories.
Just like the memories of Team A and Team B combining into one, before all of that happened, Ji Yushi only remembered that Team B seemed different, and Song Qinglan also remembered the time when they hid in the power distribution room and Ji Yushi stepped on his foot—-The anchored point had coincidentally coincided such that Song Qinglan was reborn into Team B and became the point in the circle that was extended. All the things he did in that cycle left traces behind in their memories. It was just that the memory of himself being pressed against the wall should only belong to the big circle, to the two of them in【Overload】.
Seeing Ji Yushi’s confusion, Duan Wen added, “You didn’t see it Advisor Ji? That was probably you two from another cycle. At that time, it was on the corridor of the 115th floor. We saw from the distance Cap Song pressing you against the wall and even now we still didn’t know what you two were doing. We just felt that you were going to punch him.”
Duan Wen looked at Song Qinglan and said, “I’m not lying. Cap Song also saw it!”
Ji Yushi understood now. At that time, Song Qinglan was kicked off the building by his other self and was caught while he was falling to his death by him.
They were talking in the corridor at the time and there was indeed another Song Qinglan looking at them from a distance.
Turns out, traces of this had been left in the original timeline.
It was just that his other self wasn’t present.
But wait a minute——-
Ji Yushi suddenly reacted. If Duan Wen, Li Chun and co remembered, didn’t it mean that Song Qinglan also remembered?
“What were we doing?” Song Qinglan bullshitted, “Most likely Advisor Ji wasn’t being obedient and I as the captain was performing my duty of educating him.”
Everyone sneered, “If you’re taking advantage of him, then just admit that you were. No need to word it so nicely!!”
A new round of drinking started.
Song Qinglan held Ji Yushi’s fingers, intentionally or unintentionally scratching his palm. He looked very calm.
When Tang Qi lost and was being urged noisily by the others to ask a meek looking girl for her number, Song Qinglan turned his head and leaned close to Ji Yushi’s ear, “I saw it.”
One could imagine what Song Qinglan’s mood was like at the time.
After all, the Song Qinglan at the time was completely different from the current Song Qinglan. He was still straight.
Ji Yushi raised the corners of his lips and asked, “Where you shocked?”
Song Qinglan, “Not really shocked.”
He couldn’t help but laugh at his thoughts at the time, “I didn’t even see myself kiss you on the tip of your nose and just thought that I really was teaching you a lesson.”
“Boom———”
The music stopped abruptly. Their vision went black. Only the lingering sound of music still hung in the air for half a second or two.
The entire place had suddenly darkened and even all the sounds were gone. Everyone stood still for half a second before suddenly becoming rowdy again.
The power was out.
Li Chun cursed, “The fuck? What’s going on?!”
Tang Qi complained, “Chun’er was right. The lights really are good here.”
Everyone laughed.
Li Chun became angry out of embarrassment. He turned on the flashlight on his phone and ran to find his friend to see what was going on.
Along the way, he accidentally bumped into a man and quickly stopped to apologise.
Everyone began to take out their phones. For most of the people here, having a power outage at a nightclub was probably something they had encountered for the first time. Many people complained and left their seats and the dance floor. Occasionally there would be sounds of glass or alcohol bottles accidentally being smashed.
Duan Wen’s phone vibrated. He opened the message. It was a message from the girl he had a blind date with last time.
Zhou Mingxuan and Tang Qi were helping out. In a situation like this, order must be maintained, or a stampede may occur.
Several emergency lights had turned on, but it was still very dark. Tang Le remembered something, “Is Advisor Ji afraid of the dark? Cap Song, why don’t you two first—–”
When he turned back, he saw Advisor Ji, the one who was rumoured to be afraid of the dark such that the Ning City branch made an exception and didn’t give him night shifts, was currently whispering this and that to their captain, looking very relaxed.
The two continued to whisper to each other, not caring about this small interlude.
An unexpected situation and a slightly noisy environment.
The various coloured lights coming from everyone’s phones looked like a sea of stars.
Perhaps in the near future, they would embark onto a new journey and once again complete their duties as the Guardians of time and space. They would witness all sorts of strange and unbelievable things and venture into all sorts of places, all for the sake of protecting their ordinary and warm life in this time and space.
But right now, they weren’t in a hurry to go anywhere, because they had their friends and lover by their sides.
The party had only just begun.
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