Mist (Web Novel CN)

Rubik’s Cube

Chapter 71

Song Qinglan didn’t seem to be surprised when he heard Ji Yushi say that.

He just raised a brow and said, “I would like to hear the details.”

“What we have always thought about was how we should move and join the coloured rooms without being affected by the movement of others.” Ji Yushi explained, “That was impossible, so we were stuck in a dead end.”

Seeing them talk about serious matters, Duan Wen and Zhou Mingxuan also fell back.

The four of them gathered together. Just like how it was many times before, they listened to Ji Yushi explain.

“We are in a ‘wormhole’ that is within Tianqiong’s control. I don’t know if it was due to the multiple travels or because of something else, but in any case, as you can see, time and space had been disrupted. Loopholes had appeared in many timelines, crisscrossing with each other, making them unable to continue on smoothly.” Ji Yushi spoke slowly, “It was just as we thought. Tianqiong had used colours to mark the different disrupted timelines to make the fragments more identifiable and made it into a Rubik’s Cube for us to restore. But as Cap Song had said, Tianqiong is only a system and can only use the simplest and most direct way to express itself. Rubik’s Cube….Think about it. If a Rubik’s Cube has already fallen apart, what should you do to restore it?”

Everyone thought of the answer immediately.

“Piece it together!”

“Damn, isn’t that joining the pieces?!”

Song Qinglan was in thought. He didn’t interrupt Ji Yushi.

He intuitively felt that Ji Yushi had something to say.

“The chances of us encountering other traversers got higher and higher. It was as if there were somehow more and more traversers all of a sudden. My guess is that it’s because the number of rooms had decreased.” Ji Yushi told them about the room he saw after separating from them where he saw two of his marks, “Time is continuous. With the people travelling through the rooms as a carrier of constant time, after they pass through two rooms on the same timeline in the correct order, the rooms would be joined together; two into one.”

Duan Wen looked at the changing cubes in the sky, “I see. The rooms won’t become visually larger after merging into one because it was originally from the same timeline. Strickly speaking, only time became longer. That was probably why we felt like a week had passed.”

Ji Yushi revealed a look of praise.

Duan Wen smiled shyly. His face flushed red.

Zhou Mingxuan didn’t have a pleasant experience here. After reuniting with his teammates, he was still in a poor mood. He asked, “Then the rooms we have gone through that have the same colour have all merged?”

Having gone through rooms of the same colour without encountering a time difference, it meant that they were originally in consecutive order along the timeline.

Having safely passed through the rooms, these rooms should have theoretically merged into one.

“It is possible.” Song Qinglan answered, “These fragments of time and space can only rely on us to move. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. The advantage is that we know that they can only move according to certain rules. The disadvantage is that we cannot look back so even if they have merged, we wouldn’t have noticed.”

With the answer revealed, everyone was silent for a few seconds.

In the countless rooms around them, countless figures belonging to other traversers were still tirelessly walking around.

And they, who were in the centre block, were the lucky ones with the trump card. All they needed to do was to complete the last few steps.

Why was this a multiplayer mission? Everyone now understood how cruel it really was. Tianqiong had hijacked these traversers without regard for whether they would be able to truly clear the mission. Its goal had only been one thing – To let these people walk through these rooms and, whether consciously or unconsciously, they would use their bodies to join the same-coloured fragments of time and space.

This was to continue until the last piece falls into place.

The so-called “Tianqiong of all eras”, even with self-awareness, it was nothing but a ruthless, cold-blooded system.

Zhou Mingxuan, “So now we can directly choose a colour and let it join.”

Ji Yushi nodded, “Yes.”

Duan Wen, “Then what are we waiting for? Shit, we should hurry and end this!”

They looked around and were surprised to find that there was no way out.

From the moment they entered the room with the black ball, they seemed to have entered another high-dimensional world. They could only sit there and watch.

Song Qinglan thought for a while and said, “Since it’s the centre block, it makes no difference which one you choose. You can start anywhere.”

He pointed at the closest cube, “Advisor Ji, can we choose this one?”

Everyone was shocked. Was it so casual?

Unexpectedly, Ji Yushi smiled slightly, “Yes.”

The four of them walked towards the cube.

Countless other cubes surrounded them, making them seem insignificant under all the lights.

In the darkness, Duan Wen asked, “Speaking of which, where’s Cap Lin?”

Zhou Mingxuan, “Who?”

Duan Wen, “Ninth squad, Lin Xinlan.”

Zhou Mingxuan, “Him? Why the fuck is he here?”

The two chattered on. Duan Wen began to explain in a low voice to Zhou Mingxuan what happened after he and Song Qinglan ran into Lin Xinlan. Zhou Mingxuan was so angry, he cursed their bad luck.

Song Qinglan walked slightly slower. He was tall and well built and his strong presence made Ji Yushi next to him feel some pressure.

For some reason, Ji Yushi’s eyelid continued to twitch.

He suddenly had a very bad feeling.

Song Qinglan said, “When I went back to find you two, I saw you two talking in that room.”

KK has something to say:

Anyone missing my usual daily updates? With more free time (thanks to COVID lockdown and having my work hours cut down….?), I’ve been able to translate a few more chapters! I’ll now be updating ‘Mist’ daily~ ^^