Mist

Chapter 61: Rubik's Cube

Just like Ji Yushi’s, their capsules had disappeared. Or to be more precise, the moment they opened the door of the capsule, they had already entered this place. It was like that time in Chaos when they stepped into the mirrored city.

“This is practically stepping into another world. Could this be another crevice or something? Why else would they ask us to join it?” Li Chun examined the room, “Death elimination? There’s nothing here so how could we be eliminated?”
The room was a little quiet. Li Chun turned back and smiled, “Le Le, don’t be afraid! There are no two tailed dogs this time!”

Ji Yushi had already examined the room. As he looked around, he corrected Li Chun without raising his head, “The one who entered was Tang Qi.”

Li Chun, “?”
Tang Qi has had enough. He complained unhappily, “You have already been in this squad for more than a year. How many times has it been now?”
“Fuck. With the uniform on the two of you are just copies of each other.” Li Chun defended himself, “I’m fucking not Advisor Ji who can tell the two of you apart despite looking exactly the same.”

What the twins hated the most was being mistaken as the other twin.
Tang Qi wasn’t happy, but he wasn’t Tang Le who would loudly voice his complaints, so he just kept silent.

For now, this room appeared to be safe, and with the three people around, no one panicked.
The most eye-catching object in this room at this moment was the red ball floating in the centre of the room.

Tang Qi walked over. He raised his hand to try touching it but was stopped by Ji Yushi, “Don’t move!”

Tang Qi immediately withdrew his hand, “Sorry.”
He was indeed being too reckless.

Li Chun on the other end asked, “Advisor Ji, could this be a killing mechanism?”

“Probably not.”
Ji Yushi had already examined that ball. It had a smooth surface and looked very much like an ordinary ball, but he would need to touch it to know more.
He continued, “The Tianqiong system has no reason to send us into a place like this to die and death elimination shouldn’t be this simple. I’m thinking that there must be a reason for this ball to be here.”

“What reason?”
Li Chun followed this train of thought and asked.

Ji Yushi answered him, “There is no way out here. We definitely have no way of completing the mission trapped here. If it was like this then the mission assigned to us by Tianqiong would be meaningless. My guess is, if it is a mechanism, it should be for activating or connecting something. Right now, not everyone is here so let’s not touch it. We can talk about it once we’re all gathered.”

Tang Qi agreed, “You’re right.”
Li Chun, “Sounds good. I almost touched it just now too. We could’ve accidentally separated.”

After briefly expressing his thoughts, Ji Yushi walked around the room again.
Based on his rough calculations. Each step of his was about fifty centimetres and it took ten steps for him to walk along one wall.

In that case, this room was five metres by five metres, a total of twenty-five square metres.
He looked up and visually estimated that the height of the room was about the same as the width. It should be a cube.

Rubik’s cube…..
Ji Yushi recalled the mission mode. Could this room be a part of the Rubik’s cube?

Everything was still unknown.
Ji Yushi raised his hand and checked his communicator. It had been more than five minutes since the three of them entered this room but no one else had come.
He was a little anxious.

After Ji Yushi finished saying that, Tang Qi tried to connect to the public channel, “Advisor Ji, the public channel cannot connect. I can’t contact Cap Song and the others.”