Mist

Chapter 79: Our Reality

Song Qinglan leaned back against the chair. There seemed to be no room for his long legs. His expression sank, “I still don’t know the specifics. The people above are also suffering from this incident, so they don’t have time to make things difficult for us. They just need us to retell our experiences in the missions through our own perspectives and it doesn’t matter how you do it. But based on the current situation, it doesn’t seem to have the intention to go beyond its existing authority….”

“Intelligent system.”
Ji Yushi suddenly spoke.

Everyone looked up.

The Ji Yushi who had tried to minimise his presence earlier: “…….”
He tried his best to ignore the strange way the others were now treating him and said while finishing his fruits, “That Tianqiong has self-awareness. I feel that it not only wanted to hijack us to complete its planned missions, but it also wanted to intervene with our current missions and decide whether the missions should be carried out based on data analysis from various times and spaces.”

Zhou Mingxuan asked, “So that is to say, it wants to help maintain time and space stability?”
“That is just my guess.” Ji Yushi continued, “We don’t know when it appeared. Perhaps it had witnessed the various outcomes of our actions far into the future.”

In the bubble world and also in this world, there were quite a few people who opposed traveling through time and space.
Large-scale protests and demonstrations would not only occur at the beginning. Perhaps it was just as Ji Yushi had said and mankind really ended up with devastating results in the future as a result of tampering with time and space. Those things such as PU-31, Chaos and the bubble world, they were things that shouldn’t happen.
However, it was also very obvious how much contribution Tianqiong had brought to mankind. It helped with avoiding wars, predicting natural disasters and it also stopped numerous terrorist and violent attacks before they could actually happen. It had allowed this originally precarious time and space to continue indefinitely.
As such, it was impossible for humanity to abandon Tianqiong. They believed that someone would definitely find a good way to keep time and space transitions in check.

Duan Wen remembered something, “I remember when I first joined Tianqiong, I seemed to have heard people talk about this. It was said that there were people who had proposed something similar when the Tianqiong system first started but they were the science obsessed madmen and those whose thinking was too extreme. Their final outcome wasn’t very good.”

“Old Duan, what other old gossip do you know?” Zhou Mingxuan was quite interested.

Duan Wen had been with Tianqiong the longest so, regardless of whether it was true or false, he knew some things: “Then let’s talk about it amongst our squad only. If others hear about it, we might need to write a reflection report.” He lowered his voice, “It is said that……those researchers mainly researched the stability and continuity of time and space, and they even proposed the possibility of an intelligent system rather early on. Of those people, those that went mad went mad and those that fell sick fell sick. There was even one who committed suicide.”

Everyone revealed a look of surprise. Song Qinglan thought of something, “I seem to have heard Xie Sian mention it.”

Back in the space capsule, Xie Sian had once mentioned a professor surnamed Sheng who was said to have made great contributions to Tianqiong but he unfortunately committed suicide at a young age.
As he recalled, Song Qinglan then remembered that of the two people passing by in the Rubik’s Cube, one seemed to also have the surname Sheng—-

“So.” Ji Yushi interrupted his thoughts and pulled the topic back onto its tracks, “This so-called parent system may be something that came about at some point in the future in order to keep everything in balance.”