Mist

Chapter 53: Who Am I

While they were resting just now, the person Song Qinglan had contacted was clearly Tang Le and the other party had said that he would wait for them near the highway, but unexpectedly, the one who arrived was Li Chun.
Song Qinglan had briefly explained the current situation on the phone but Li Chun who had almost lost half his life understanding the concept of a time anchor didn’t understand anything anyway. What ‘double slit interference experiment’, what ‘bubble world’? In any case, he just needs to do as Cap Song and Advisor Ji says and they will be able to return to their original reality!

It seemed that it was always the three of them reuniting first.
Li Chun didn’t notice his captain’s disdain and began his chatter, “I’ve always thought that something wasn’t right. How could that girl be so unreasonable? Turns out, this wasn’t our original world! I had to practically act like a dog the past few days just to coax her!”

Ji Yushi: “……..”

“Fortunately, I fucking remembered everything the moment I saw Chief Wang’s picture!” Li Chun continued, “In our world, I never even got that girl’s number so how did this world become like this? They just gave her to me?! Before two people date, shouldn’t they get to know each other first?!”

Song Qinglan finished an entire bottle of water. He noticed that Ji Yushi was taking off his socks as he got ready to put on the shoes.
The soles of both their feet had sustained quite a few scratches and this was especially the case for Ji Yushi. There were not only cuts, but there were also blisters caused by the scalding tracks. The socks were stuck to the skin so when he watched him peel the socks off, Song Qinglan couldn’t help but wince at the sight and have the urge to give him a hand.
Ji Yushi however didn’t flinch. He was completely expressionless.

This person, when other people touch him, he would say that it hurts but whenever he himself is injured, he wouldn’t say a single word.

Song Qinglan wondered whether he should make Advisor Ji change this bad habit of his.
No one in the Seventh squad liked to endure through pain.

For example, Li Chun at this moment was still complaining, “She kept on making a fuss last night, so I called out some friends for a drink and when Tang Le came in through the window in the morning, he almost pinched me to death. Haa, if I knew this would happen, I wouldn’t have drunk. Anyway, it’s not good delaying things. We can still be friends after breaking up.”

Song Qinglan had to interrupt the slag man’s chatter, “Watch the road.”

Li Chun driving into Runjin Building in PU-31 had left them with some lingering fear.
Song Qinglan right now was too tired to speak, and he also wasn’t in the mood to care about the fact that the driver was driving without a licence.

Li Chun glanced at the rearview mirror. Cap Song wasn’t in the mood to bullshit with him, and Advisor Ji was also leaning back against the seat in exhaustion.
He no longer gossiped and immediately settled down, “Alright, I actually have a question…..”

Song Qinglan, “Speak.”
Li Chun asked, “How can we return to our original world?”

This question hit the nail on the head. It just happened to be the question everyone had been troubled about.
The realities had overlapped, and phantoms of the other world could be seen everywhere. It however could only be seen and touched, and they couldn’t truly join it — They had no idea what they should do now.

Li Chun then asked, “Then, if we leave, what will happen here? Will it disappear?”

The car sped the entire way and the scene along the way was shocking.
Not only were there phantoms of cars appearing on the road, the closer they got to the city, there were more phantoms of humans as well. The bubble world was derived from the original world and is as such similar in all aspects except for small differences in the details.
In other words, the people and objects here were all real, and the people in this bubble world have their own lives.