Mist

Chapter 25: Ouroboros

Half an hour later.

There was a total of 176 control panels.
It was exactly the same as the Golden Crow No.1 base.

Ji Yushi frowned. This was much more difficult than he thought.
Every two control panel corresponded to two energy transmitters. They continuously transmitted energy from both ends of PU-31, providing an energy source while at the same time preventing it from being sucked away by the crevice in the universe.
If too many energy transmitters were turned off at the same time at a certain place, PU-31 would then lose its balance and the world and everything would be overturned. Disasters like landslides and tsunamis would be trivial events in comparison to what would happen as a result.
And so, according to the coordinates of PU-31 on the real-time holographic projection, whether it was Golden Crow No.1 or Golden Crow No.2, Ji Yushi must turn off the panels in an accurate sequence to ensure that the balance is maintained.

He knew that after the mission was completed, PU-31 would no longer exist.
Therefore, before the task is completed, they must have someone stay behind to perform the final operation and also plan a route out to allow others to return to their initial starting point while avoiding all the ‘black walls’ so that they can enter their capsules to return to their own time.

Ji Yushi already knew why their future selves continued to choose to extend this point where Teams A and B coexisted.
It wasn’t just because they had more people and was the most promising in finding a breakthough point, it was also because the birth of the parallel timeline ensured that there would be people who can stay behind to complete the final operation whilst also ensuring that all the team members could return.
Choosing them must’ve been the conclusion their future selves reached after going through countless cycles.

Now then, there was a problem—-
The ‘me’ on the two parallel timelines are both the true ‘me’ and both are the ‘main body’, so who should stay behind to complete the task?

The control panel was just a few steps away. The battle was fierce.
The teammates fought a bloody battle. No one considered the option of retreating.

Team A and Team B.
They were fighting side by side.

“Bang!”
Ji Yushi raised his purple right arm and killed a zombie. Under his dark eyelashes, his emotions were unclear, “Have you discussed this issue?”
The other Ji Yushi said, “No.”

Ji Yushi was not surprised.
Because he himself also never thought of making his teammates make the choice.
For one to compete against themselves, it was too cruel.

“There are two possible outcomes.” He asked, “Aren’t you afraid of getting it wrong?”
“I am.” The other Ji Yushi said calmly, “And you?”

“Boom——-”
A loud explosion interrupted their conversation.
Song Qinglan’s last energy cannon exploded, the shockwave sending everyone to the ground.

The giant spiders body flew across the room, bursting open when it hit one of the ventilation pipes. Amidst the earth-shattering noise, the mutated species hiding in the pipe that had fallen to the ground finally revealed itself.
A mass of flesh consisting of a mixture of an unknown number of species and covered in mucous squirmed across the ground. Countless ‘tongue’-like tentacles searched around the ground like it was very much afraid of coming into contact with light.
The mass of flesh was very sticky and had no ability to walk independently so it could only hide in the pipes and slide around.
As it squirmed around, human limbs and faces appeared on its back. It was as if they were all alive and each still had their own movements —- It had absorbed the people in the base that had not yet mutated and merged with them into one body.

Li Chun saw this scene and, combining it with the thought of the residual mucous on his body, he started vomiting on the spot.
Although the other Li Chun was unaware of what happened, when he saw himself reacting like this, he naturally guessed a few things and similarly knelt onto the ground and started to vomit.