Mist Novel Chapter 89

Our Reality

Chapter 89

After Song Qinglan ended the call, he left the secluded corridor and returned to the library.

This library was a very modern building with tapered transparent stairs modelled after the Penrose stairs and had chanisms installed to allow readers to be able to access different floors with ease.

Going through the changing staircase, Song Qinglan saw the person he was looking for sitting at the table reading intently.

There was a tall stack of books around Ji Yushi. It seems like he probably wouldn’t be moving away from that spot any ti soon. He didn’t need to take any notes when reading and he turned the pages faster than the average person, but his expression was also more focused than everyone else.

So people say that people with hyperthysia can rember clearly every detail in their life, from the big changes in life to the smallest of thoughts that surface in their minds. They are unable to forget, thirst for knowledge, and it makes them a genius in a certain sense.

But for the first ti, Song Qinglan strongly wished that Ji Yushi’s mory and thoughts were ordinary.

He wished that he would carelessly misread the question, hurry out the house and forget to feed the cats, and would run into old classmates outside but be unable to recall their nas.

Ji Yushi sat quietly by the large bookshelf that seed to have no end in sight.

He appeared relaxed.

During these past few days of vacation, he had been happier than ever.

“What’s the matter?”

Sensing Song Qinglan’s return, Ji Yushi raised his head and asked with his dark eyes clear and clean.

Ji Yushi.

Forrly Sheng Han.

Suddenly, those eyes overlapped with the eyes from his childhood.

Song Qinglan felt like he had reached enlightennt. The kindergarten attached to Ning University, the little girl he could no longer rember the appearance of, the joke about his ‘first love’…..Ji Yushi had given a number of hints and reminders the entire ti but, because of Ji Yushi’s tendency to hold grudges and likely because he had mistaken him for a little girl, Ji Yushi had teased him like this.

Song Qinglan pulled out the chair next to him and sat down.

There were very few people on this floor and there were only the two of them sitting at this long table.

Ti flowed on like a river.

The ignorant child back then had grown up to into a mature man. Their two lives had briefly intersected and then after more than a decade, it had intersected again.

This wonderful and extraordinary fate filled Song Qinglan’s heart with excitent. He directly asked, “When did you realise it?”

Ji Yushi didn’t understand, “When did I realise what?”

Song Qinglan’s eyes contained a hint of a smile and there was also so helplessness, “When did you realise that I was the little fat boy who constantly stuck to you in kindergarten?”

Song Qinglan pulled Ji Yushi’s hand over and closed the book in front of him.

He wanted him to look at him.

“Han Han.”

Ji Yushi paused for a mont, “How did you….”

Song Qinglan however asked, “Why did you wear a dress as a child?”

Ji Yushi: “……….”

Song Qinglan continued, “Advisor Ji, at such a young age you cross-dressed, deceived my feelings and made

bent. Are you going to take responsibility?”

Ji Yushi’s breathing stopped. He reluctantly explained, “That was a performance, not crossdressing! You were the one who couldn’t distinguish between male and female and constantly followed

around. How would I have known that you thought that I was a girl?”

Song Qinglan pretended not to hear and added, “You even cried when I left.”

“I didn’t.”

“You did.”

“I didn’t.”

“You did.”

As if they had returned to kindergarten, the two continued this childish exchange several tis before it ended with Song Qinglan sealing Ji Yushi’s lips with a kiss.

Sitting in the quiet library, they shared a kiss.

Tongues and lips entangled gently.

The glass reflected their kissing appearance.

When the kiss ended, Song Qinglan rested his forehead against his and asked again, “When did you recognise ?”

Ji Yushi finally answered this question, “The first ti we t in Jiang City.”

That ti, he and Chief Wang were visiting the base together when he heard soone enter.

The visitor had long legs and a handso appearance, but he exuded an air of arrogance and oppressiveness.

“His na is Song Qinglan. The sunny ‘Qing’ and the mountain wind ‘Lan’…..”

One’s appearance would change with age but it would still contain so similarities. What’s more, with Ji Yushi’s mory, it was even easier for him to make a connection. He originally still had so suspicions and thought it was too coincidental, but everything was confird as soon as he heard Chief Wang’s introduction.

“Fuck.” Song Qinglan couldn’t help but let out a low curse, “Then why didn’t you tell ?”

Ji Yushi said, “Because I thought you were annoying at the ti.”

Song Qinglan laughed out loud. Even his chest shook, “That’s true. I’m sure you noted down a lot of grudges back then. Why else would you have kept it from

for so long?”

Ji Yushi wasn’t the type to hide things. As long as Song Qinglan asked, he would definitely tell him.

But the key point was ‘as long as Song Qinglan asked’.

“You clearly told

all the other important things, but you didn’t tell

this.” Song Qinglan asked, “Why did you change your na.”

Ji Yushi, “A na is just a title. It actually doesn’t matter.”

Song Qinglan frowned.

This was sothing Ji Yushi had said before, but he didn’t think much of it at the ti. Now, he felt that this line was more aningful than he had initially thought.

Sure enough, Ji Yushi slowly stored away the smiling expression and asked, “Did Chief Wang call just now?”

Everything was within Ji Yushi’s expectations.

In the first place, he didn’t plan on hiding the fact that he was ‘Han Han’ from Song Qinglan for this long.

“Yes.” Song Qinglan said, “If it weren’t for your mission report, even now I wouldn’t have known that you…. t your father in Rubik’s Cube.”

Song Qinglan could almost imagine how Ji Yushi felt at the ti.

Song Qinglan could also imagine that when Sheng Yun said “What a coincidence. My son also has a similar ga console to the one this young brother has”, how difficult Ji Yushi’s “It really is” answer must’ve been. After all, the person who gave him the ga console was right before him

But there was no real empathy in this world.

So Ji Yushi’s feelings at the ti, Song Qinglan will never be able to fully understand. Just understanding a part of it was enough to fill his heart with a bitter taste.

The father and son had t in a ti and space where the past and future were indistinguishable.

There was no sequence in ti there so even the simplest of reminder or the smallest sentence could completely change one’s destiny.

And Ji Yushi just sat there watching his father leave before saying to his teammates, “Let’s go.”

“After returning, I have actually been thinking of a problem.” Ji Yushi slowly spoke up, “Do you think he recognised ?”

Song Qinglan’s heart felt like it was being fiercely crushed. The pain made it difficult to breathe.

This question was very cruel.

Should he reply with yes or no? He didn’t know. If he said that he did, then Sheng Yun would be too heartless, but if he said that he didn’t, Ji Yushi would be disappointed.

Song Qinglan knew that under Ji Yushi’s cold appearance, there was still a pure, childlike heart in him. After losing so much in his younger years, no matter how old he was, he still yearned for the affection from his father like any other child in the world.

“Who would have expected that Han Han would be so good looking after growing up?” Song Qinglan decided to respond this way, “Even I didn’t recognise you, so he most certainly didn’t. You changed too much.”

Ji Yushi blinked a few tis, “Oh, you said before I looked very good as a child. Turns out you were lying.”

Song Qinglan laughed.

He didn’t expect Ji Yushi to be able to make a joke so quickly.

Ji Yushi returned to the topic just now, “As for changing my na….”

Song Qinglan said, “Was it related to your father’s ‘suicide’?”

Seeing Ji Yushi nod, Song Qinglan analysed, “You said you passed the murderer in the corridor and that this was an unsolved murder case. Tianqiong however deed it as ‘suicide’?”

There must be so inextricable connections in this case.

Ji Yushi never thought that there would be a day where he would et soone he could tell all his secrets to. He sorted out his feelings and thoughts and got ready to tell Song Qinglan all the clues and mysteries he had gathered over the years.

“In those few years, the understanding of ti and space travel had advanced quite rapidly. If they really wanted to solve the case, it would’ve actually been an easy task. Furthermore, my father was originally an important personnel involved with the research and developnt of Tianqiong.” Ji Yushi said, “But on the contrary, this case was not only closed late, but there were also endless inquiries about . My mother died in a car accident in my early years and with my father gone, I no longer have a legal guardian. Teacher wanted to protect , so I went through the adoption procedures, changed my na and used legal ans to completely disappear from public eyes.”

He had lost his father and even his na.

Professor Ji had told him that a na was just a title. It wasn’t important.

He was still Jian Jian inside; he was still Sheng Han.

But what Professor Ji didn’t expect was that Ji Yushi would suffer from hyperthysia as a result of this stimulus. Even if he changed his identity, he never gave up his determination to pursue the truth. As the years passed, the core personnel responsible for Sheng Yun’s case had long since changed and there was no longer any resistance. When Sheng Han grew up and successfully joined Tianqiong, his outstanding abilities received recognition from the Recorder departnt and with the agreed condition, he began to earn points by completing missions.

Ji Yushi: “I think my father’s death has sothing to do with this so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’.”

Song Qinglan frowned, “He was a mber of the R&D team.”

It was said that the mbers of the R&D team either died or went crazy. Looks like it wasn’t just a rumour.

The so-called Tianqiong of all eras however was finally completed and put into use.

“Not only that.” Ji Yushi looked at him, “Rubik’s Cube was also designed by him.”

Song Qinglan’s expression changed. He was deeply shocked.

Rubik’s Cube’s changes were unpredictable and in a certain sense, it could even be considered as the converging point of ‘all eras’. That was why they could see Lin Xinlan from a year ago, Zoe from decades later, and even Morita Yu from a different ti and space.

“A souvenir he brought back for

from a eting was a real Rubik’s Cube.” Ji Yushi told him about the dream he had in Rubik’s Cube and then said, “I wasn’t certain about this matter, and I also didn’t know how Rubik’s Cube was designed so I didn’t know how to clear it at the beginning. After figuring out the way to clear it, I still wasn’t certain but when I saw him with his colleague, I beca certain that he really was involved with the design of Rubik’s Cube.”

Soone who wasn’t a Guardian had appeared at a place where Guardians were required to complete a mission.

Skipping over the other matters, Ji Yushi asked Song Qinglan, “Don’t you think that Rubik’s Cube’s mission itself was very strange?”

Song Qinglan, “Go on.”

Ji Yushi: “The previous Ouroboros and Chaos missions at least had a purpose. Whether it was destroying a collapsing world or closing a crevice in ti and space, we know why we did it and there was logic in the mission. Rubik’s Cube’s mission however….”

“Was different.” Song Qinglan expressed his complaints, “It appeared complicated and grand but after completing it, we still didn’t know anything and only knew that the tiline was ssy and needed to be rearranged.”

“That’s right.”

Ji Yushi nodded in agreent. He then voiced his thoughts, “It was originally an incomplete product.”

“Incomplete product?”

“Yes.”

Ji Yushi explained, “In other words, it had no purpose at all. It was just an idea, an experint.”

“They were experinting. If the tiline was completely broken, was it possible to use a thod to bring Guardians with no connections from different tis and spaces, regardless of whether they are from the past or the future, to gather at one point in ti. This was a very big hypothesis —- All eras existing at the sa ti.”

Ti was inherently linear and sequential.

The process by which things change sequentially was ti itself.

But what if ti was a puddle of water?

Without a beginning or end, without the concern of before or after, it remains stopped in place, only rippling as things change but always remaining in its original state.

In a sense, humans would be living in another dinsion.

Song Qinglan shivered. He felt a little uncomfortable.

Ji Yushi also felt the sa.

The universe was vast. Humans were like tiny ants in comparison.

No matter how advanced humanity was, they could never truly beco a god. Just the thought of it was terrifying.

Ji Yushi said, “I don’t know if it was because it was discovered that this R&D project had violated the principles of nature so they…..”

Reaching this point, he seed to be unable to continue. After pausing for a mont and recovering, he continued, “In the end, the project was stopped. In a place unknown to everyone, a ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ ford along with these difficult missions and it beca the parent system in charge of implenting these missions.”

“This is the intelligent system you ntioned the other day.” Song Qinglan held the other person in his arms and kissed their forehead, “In other words, the parent system responsible for maintaining ti and space stability.”

Everything seed to be covered by a cloud of mist.

They were deeply involved. As long as they find a breakthrough point, they will be able to fully understand the truth.

That was why Ji Yushi must go back.

The two stayed in the library for a while. Ji Yushi asked, “Is our vacation over?”

Chief Wang’s phone call probably signalled the end of their vacation.

They had all expected this.

“Yes.” Song Qinglan said, “It’s too short.”

Ji Yushi sighed softly.

Song Qinglan laughed, “Why? Haven’t had enough fun?”

Ji Yushi made a sound of affirmation. He rested his head against Song Qinglan’s shoulder and seed to be thinking about sothing.

Song Qinglan said, “However, our mission rewards have been passed. Through application, we can acquire our reward first before returning to work.”

Ji Yushi sat up.

He looked at Song Qinglan as if waiting for him to tell him the final outco.

“The Jiang City branch sincerely wants you to join them. Chief Wang has made several phone calls to Chief Lin requesting for this.” Song Qinglan said, “That was why she readily agreed with your request at the ti to give you ti to sort out your personal affairs first.”

“Really?” Ji Yushi didn’t show any excitent. Seeing that Song Qinglan had said so much without getting to the point, Ji Yushi was able to guess a part of it, “Did my psychological assessnt fail?”

Song Qinglan, “Yes.”

Ji Yushi: “……….”

“What are you disappointed for? Don’t you still have ?” Song Qinglan looked at him and spoke arrogantly, “I have accumulated two rewards. After applying, I’ll beco your temporary guardian and the superiors allowed

to take you back to that day together.”

Ji Yushi was stunned, “You’re using both rewards? But what if you want sothing else?”

Song Qinglan casually stood up and carried a stack of his books to the robot nearby, “Let’s go, Advisor Ji. The restaurant reservation is at six. We should quickly make use of the remaining ti to enjoy our date and return to Jiang City after we’re done eating.”

Ji Yushi also stood up. He seriously insisted, “I can wait for the next evaluation. You don’t need to use both rewards.”

Song Qinglan, “I only want one reward.”

Ji Yushi asked, “What is it?”

“I’ve said it many tis already.” Song Qinglan walked over, “I want you to stay.”