Mist (Web Novel CN)

Rubik’s Cube

Chapter 70

“Straight?” Lin Xinlan was a little surprised. He immediately commented, “That is indeed tricky. I would never touch a straight man.”

Ji Yushi, “……..”

It seems that Cap Lin has a deep misunderstanding of himself.

Lin Xinlan ended the topic of sexuality and changed it to something else, “You’re getting along pretty well with the seventh squad, especially with Cap Song. It reminds me of that time when I went out with him for missions.”

From Lin Xinlan’s end, the scout in the seventh squad should be Old Yu.

What had happened over that year for Old Yu to change to Ji Yushi and for Song Qinglan’s attitude towards him to change so drastically? Lin Xinlan was very curious, but he didn’t dwell on this issue.

“At that time, we were still in training. We cooperated very well; anything I thought of, he also thought of, and we managed to complete a lot of missions together.” Lin Xinlan said, “In the student rankings, we were always tied. Some called us the Double Lan Duo.”

Ji Yushi had heard about this from Li Chun.

As Lin Xinlan talked about this, he seemed to be really aggrieved.

“Old Song is a cold guy and more capable than me. I originally thought that I would be assigned to the same squad as him after finishing training and wanted to be his left and right hand. Who knew….Tianqiong had been established for so many years and had been gradually expanding but it was seriously short-handed. Even someone like me became a rookie squad leader and like this, the Double Lan Duo was separated.” Lin Xinlan’s focus wasn’t this. He quickly went straight to the point, “Advisor Ji, say, why do you think we were still forced into this mission despite how powerful Tianqiong has become?”

Ji Yushi shook his head, “I don’t know.”

That was the truth.

That cunning so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ had said that their squad was the squad with the highest chance of succeeding so it needed their assistance with completing the mission. But why was something like this assigned by a system with self-awareness and what went wrong in the middle? That all still needed to be verified.

Lin Xinlan told him, “There is a conspiracy theory that there are holes in time and space because Tianqiong had interfered with the natural state of time and space. Not long ago, an anti-time management alliance was established on the dark web. Many people think that our work is meaningless because time is continuous; even if Tianqiong fixes a loophole, another loophole would inevitably replace it.”

Ji Yushi remembered the protest he saw in the bubble world.

“Tianqiong destroys the world!!”

“Illegal transition!!”

“Stop interfering with time and space!! Shut down the Tianqiong system!!”

“Down with the Time Management Alliance!”

A large-scale protest like that would appear in the bubble world because it was based on the original world. Sooner or later, the situation Lin Xinlan mentioned would be exactly the same as what he saw in the bubble world.

“Our current situation…..” Lin Xinlan reached this point and looked around the room, “Might be explaining this.”

Ji Yushi didn’t speak.

Lin Xinlan turned around and finished his words, “Perhaps time travel shouldn’t have been invented.”

As one whose job was to travel through time, he had even dared to say such words denying his occupation. Lin Xinlan was very bold.

Ji Yushi again didn’t speak.

It was because Ji Yushi wasn’t an ambitious Guardian who wanted to make a career out of it. He wasn’t in the position to express his opinion.

“Don’t worry. I don’t really mean it.” Lin Xinlan laughed, “Based on your reaction, it seems that I haven’t resigned yet a year later.”

Ji Yushi said, “Yes.”

Lin Xinlan put away the dice he was playing with and spoke meaningfully, “Besides….I like the feeling of chasing after Cap Song’s team in terms of points.”

Ji Yushi, “……..”

*

The two stayed in the room for a while but Song Qinglan and them didn’t arrive.

Ji Yushi checked his communicator, “Twenty minutes have passed.”

Could it really be just as Lin Xinlan said and they had separated again? He didn’t think that Song Qinglan would take such a long time.

Lin Xinlan circled around the room. He held the blue ball in his hand and wanted to check again to see if the colours of the surrounding rooms had changed.

While Lin Xinlan was checking the rooms, there was a ‘beep—-” and a circular hole opened on the wall at the back.

One cannot avoid one’s enemy. The person who appeared was the man who had laughed at them earlier when they were in the super slow room.

It was the dark-skinned traverser. The moment the two parties saw each other, they were both stunned. The other party exclaimed, “You’re out?! How come you’re missing two people?”

Ji Yushi remained expressionless.

The other party then said, “Hey! Help us check. Are there any marks in the room you’re in?”

Ji Yushi replied in French, “What number?”

Other party, “32!”

Ji Yushi, “No.”

The other party clapped his hands in annoyance and said to his teammate below, “These traversers said there are no marks, but we’ve been going around in circles! Why?!”

“Beep—-”

This group seemed to be very casual and impolite. They actually closed the hole immediately afterwards and disappeared again.

Lin Xinlan didn’t understand what they were saying so he asked Ji Yushi.

Ji Yushi briefly explained to Lin Xinlan, “They’re going around in a circle.”

Lin Xinlan remembered the ’29’ Ji Yushi wrote and couldn’t help but laugh. Immediately afterwards, a round hole opened above them.

“Beep—-”

The two immediately looked up.

The people who appeared above wasn’t Song Qinglan and Duan Wen, but new, unfamiliar faces.

A red-haired female traverser leaned against the entrance of the hole and looked down. She said in English, “Safe!”

Lin Xinlan and Ji Yushi took a few steps back.

That red-haired woman and four other teammates climbed down from the upper room.

These people seem to have only just arrived and each of them had excited expressions like they were clearing a dungeon. The red-haired woman even greeted Ji Yushi and Lin Xinlan in the room, “Hi.”

In the twenty or so square metre room, an additional five people had appeared. With seven traversers in the same place, it suddenly felt a lot more crowded.

A traverser asked Lin Xinlan, “Mind if I use the key?”

Lin Xinlan, “Key?”

The five of them looked at the blue ball in Lin Xinlan’s hand.

They wanted to check the surrounding rooms and leave through a suitable one — They were just passing by.

Lin Xinlan readily agreed and gave them the ball. Along the way, he asked, “Excuse me, have you met our teammates on the way here?”

Ji Yushi and Lin Xinlan both wore black combat uniforms that belonged to their era. Although the squad number on their chest was different, one could still tell in one glance that they were from the same place.

These people denied it and proceeded to choose a new room.

“Goodbye, friends from a different era!”

“Perhaps we can meet again somewhere in time and space!”

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