Mist

Chapter 54: Who Am I

Song Qinglan said, “Let’s leave it for now. We can talk about it later after meeting with Old Duan.”

Everyone soon arrived at the nursing home. The situation there was shocking. Patients were running wild around the nursing home, carers were chasing after the patients and family members were also hurrying around picking up their family member. It was a complete mess.
There were phantoms from the other world appearing here as well but compared to the ones outside, the phantoms here were clearer — Those phantoms were still, allowing people to clearly see their facial features and expressions. Some patients had even found their other self and were shouting at them while in a mentally unstable state.

What convinced everyone in the seventh squad even more that everything was related to Chief Wang was that not only were there phantoms in the nursing home, but the small details could also all be clearly distinguished. Rather than a phantom image, it was more like a real existence.

This place was the central starting point of the overlap of the two realities and from here it had spread across the entire world.

Song Qinglan checked his watch and urged, “Let’s go!”

Everyone increased their speed.
Ji Yushi knew why Song Qinglan urged them.
The Tianqiong in this reality must have already discovered that the source of the overlap was this place. Song Qinglan had checked his watch and calculated how long it would take for Tianqiong to reach this place starting from the moment he received the urgent order from Tianqiong.

“Cap Song!” Ji Yushi asked, “How long do we have?”

With no time to wait for the elevator, everyone strode up the stairs taking two or three steps at a time.
Song Qinglan said, “At most ten minutes!”

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“Bang—-”
The door to the ward was slammed open. Duan Wen who was waiting in the room immediately raised his head, “Cap Song! Advisor Ji!”

Everyone entered the room.
Ji Yushi immediately spotted Chief Wang sitting on the edge of the bed.

The female leader who had always been kind and wise was no longer dressed or made up exquisitely.
Her hair was left unbrushed and she wore a hospital gown as she looked blankly at the phantom in the room. The phantom was of a grey-haired old man drinking tea as he sat on a single person sofa. Because time was at a standstill, the teacup was pressed against his lips and he didn’t move at all.

“Chief Wang!”

Song Qinglan strode over and squatted down in front of Chief Wang. He tried to make her return to her senses.

Chief Wang didn’t respond.

Duan Wen told them, “It’s useless. I have been here for a long time and she has always been like this. Fuck, the so-called treatment for schizophrenia here probably made it worse.”

Song Qinglan pressed his finger behind his ear. The artificial face began to disintegrate, revealing his original handsome appearance, “Can you recognise me?”
Chief Wang finally looked down at him, but her expression remained unchanged.

Having finally reached this point and having arrived before what they thought was the key to everything, apart from confirming that the overlap of the realities was related to her, they didn’t manage to get any other clues.

“Fuck!” Li Chun couldn’t help but curse, “What did the people here do to Chief Wang? She was even a university professor before she came here. What is this?!”

This line reminded Ji Yushi of something.
On the document Song Qinglan had with Chief Wang’s information, it had mentioned that she was a professor of quantum physics in this reality and her research project even involved bubble worlds.