Mist

Chapter 16: Ouroboros

“It is indeed my box of medicine. I always check before going out on a mission to make sure it is full.”
Ji Yushi said this very naturally, as if carrying a box of medicine around with him wasn’t a big deal.
“There are two missing. One was the one I took at the park management office and the other was the one I took after arriving at the bookstore and you tried to beat me up—–”

“What a minute, I tried to beat you up?”
Song Qinglan asked incredulously.

Ji Yushi paused and changed his wording a little, “——Alright, it was when you had a misunderstanding. The empty locations of the pills are exactly the same so that is indeed mine. Where did you find it?”

Song Qinglan decided to let him off. He explained the process and asked, “So why are there two boxes of medicine?”

Both thought of the car that was crushed by their spacecar earlier.
What if the people in that car weren’t survivors from this world?

“Cap Song, I have a question.” Ji Yushi was calmer than he thought he would be. He closed the book <Golden Crow No. 1: Propagation>, “The second time outside the convenience store, you and Tang Le came in last because you tried to save Tang Qi. Was the bitten site the same as the place he was bitten the first time?”
During the second round, Ji Yushi didn’t see the mutated Tang Qi.

Song Qinglan was puzzled but he answered, “Yes, it was the fingers on the right hand.”
Ji Yushi, “Any other injuries?”
Song Qinglan, “No.”
Ji Yushi: “Then I can understand how the zombie ‘Tang Qi’ appeared outside the bookstore that is twenty kilometres away from the convenience store.”

Song Qinglan waited for him to continue.
Whenever he talked about things in his memory, Ji Yushi seemed the be like a different person.
He was no longer the Ji Yushi who had no fighting spirit and would attend a class only to play games or just wanted to lie down and win. When he recalled and analysed, there was a strange feeling of fragile tenacity.

“That’s not Tang Qi.” Ji Yushi said, “Although I didn’t see whether that ‘Tang Qi’ outside the bookstore had any injuries to his fingers, he had a bloody hole in his neck, do you remember? Even if Tang Qi can really come this far, the wounds don’t match up. The only thing that matched up was ——- Last time when we were swallowed by the black wall, Tang Le’s neck was bitten by a zombie.”
In fact, Ji Yushi had recognised him but when combined with the situation at the time, he was very confused and didn’t put forward this thought of his.

Song Qinglan was surprised, “It’s Tang Le?!”
But Tang Le was still alive and well in the bookstore at the time so even Tang Le himself thought the person who appeared outside was Tang Qi. Putting that aside for the time being, just the fact that two Tang Le’s could appear in the same time and space like the two boxes of medicine didn’t make sense.
Song Qinglan raised a question, “But after Tang Le was bitten, he was immediately swallowed by the black wall. Theoretically speaking, there shouldn’t be a corpse.”
For example, the end of the broomstick also disappeared completely.

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Ji Yushi nodded, “Similarly, the bookstore was also swallowed by the black wall at that time. Theoretically speaking, the box of medicine left behind last time also shouldn’t have existed.”

Song Qinglan fell into deep thought. His brows furrowed even more deeply, giving others an urge to smoothen it out.

“Cap Song!!”
Zhou Mingxuan’s voice suddenly sounded from the second floor.

Hearing his shout, Sing Qinglan’s temples throbbed.
Having arrived at this PU-31 and being forced to accept this task, every time Zhou Minguan shouted like that, it meant that the black wall must have arrived.
It had to be said, Song Qinglan suspected that he may develop PTSD towards Zhou Mingxuan’s shout when he returns from this place.