Mist

Chapter 21: Ouroboros

Ji Yushi didn’t deliberately keep the others hanging. Of course, there was no reward for guessing right.

“In fact, when we were forced to come to PU-31, the Tianqiong system had already given us a very important hint!” He spoke very quickly, “The focus is still Ouroboros! As I said before, Ouroboros is a circle and the marks we leave on the circle are in no particular order. No matter which points you look at it from, they can be each other’s cause and effect, and because of this, we have been unable to find a breakthrough point in the cycle but———”

The hearts of everyone were suddenly raised.

Ji Yushi raised, “What if we make an extension from a suitable point on that circle and cover up those points?!”

He knew that the others didn’t understand what he meant but it was something that was very difficult to explain clearly.
Everyone waited for this god to continue talking but this god had instead calmly turned to the person next to him, “Tang Le, let me borrow your communicator.”

Ji Yushi and Song Qinglan’s communicator had been thrown away by the dark-skinned man when they were hijacked earlier.
Because the original mission was only an A-level mission that they had done many times before, they didn’t prepare many spare communicators. The only spare they had was paired with the subcutaneous communicators on their way here and was now being used by Song Qinglan so Ji Yushi at this time didn’t have one.

“Use mine.” As if he had guessed what he wanted to do, Song Qinglan had already handed it over, “You can continue.”

The sun above was scorching.
Everyone returned to the spacecar. Song Qinglan asked Duan Wen to navigate the car to Golden Crow No.2.

On the way, Ji Yushi turned on the projection function of the communicator and planned to draw it out to explain.
Everyone immediately felt that this act of his was him taking their simple minds into consideration.

Ji Yushi redrew a circle.
It could be seen that he was a little excited. The expressive look on his face was so dazzling at this moment, it was hard for others to look away.

“As we already know, the time and space here is fixed because of the time anchor. The only thing that changes is us. We are the variables and will be represented by these points.” Ji Yushi chose different colours and placed many dots along the white circle in the air, “Every time our group is annihilated, another one of us will appear, that is to say, a new point will be created. For example, this green dot, let’s say they are us now.”

“We started off from this small green dot, passed through the red dot —- That is, Team 1 which was annihilated in the first cycle, and then passed through the yellow dot — That is, Team 2 which is about to be annihilated outside the bookstore.”

As he said this, Ji Yushi extended the green dot along the circle so that it forms an arc passing through the points representing Team 1 and Team 2 and joining them.

“Look, during this period of time, Team 1 died but Team 2 hasn’t yet so us and Team 2 exist at the same time. This is the so-called overlap of time and space that we have talked about, right?”

Everyone nodded.
“This, I understand.”
“Understood.”

They seemed to be taking a strange class in another world. Everyone was very focused.

Ji Yushi continued, “Not long later, Team 2 will also be annihilated, but we are still moving forward.”
The arc extending from the green dot continued to stretch along the circle for a while before stopping.

Then, he added a blue dot where the green dot started.

“The blue dot represents Team 5.”
Ji Yushi drew a second arc along the circle so that the blue line passes through the red dot representing Team 1, the yellow dot representing Team 2 and the green line representing their current time, until it exceeded the point where the green line stopped.
“Team 5 only exists because we were annihilated so they have absorbed all the memories and experiences left by the previous points. They are now walking in front of us and have lived longer than us so they can leave clues behind for us.”