Mist

Chapter 83: Our Reality

Just like last time when he returned to the Ji rresidence in the bubble world, the courtyard was filled with flowers.
Just like when he was a child, Ji Yushi passed by the hand-carved rabbits placed on the front porch. This place was filled with memories.

For the people here, they were only gone for a month.
For the people in the seventh squad, it felt like a lifetime.

Ji Minyue walked ahead with Ji Yushi following him.

Aunt Su came out of the kitchen wearing an apron. When she saw Ji Yushi, she was distressed, “Jian Jian, you’ve lost weight! Has it been difficult for you this past month?”
“Auntie.” Ji Yushi stretched out his arms and took the initiative to embrace his adoptive mother.
“It’s good that you’re back.” Aunt Su patted his back. Her voice was a little choked. She had always been the emotional type. She hurriedly suppressed her emotions, “Teacher is upstairs. Having been gone for a month, he’s not in a good mood. Be good, go and coax him.”

Familiar words. The scenes that had already happened once in the bubble world played again. It was different but there were also similarities.
That world was derived from their real world so encountering something like this was something Ji Yushi had expected.

He closed his eyes and didn’t say anything. He took some time to digest it all.

This time, Professor Ji was also waiting in the study. Seeing Ji Yushi knock and enter, he turned off the holographic projection and pushed up his glasses, “I heard you violated the regulations and acted on your own?”

Chief Lin and Professor Ji were good friends, so it was natural for Professor Ji to be well informed.
A father knows their son best. As soon as the news that Ji Yushi returned later than the others reached Professor Ji’s ears, he didn’t have to think to know where he must have gone.

Ji Yushi stood before the table with his eyes half lowered. He clearly knew that he was wrong.
But Professor Ji knew that although this child may know that he was wrong, he wouldn’t necessarily correct it, just like when he went behind Professor Ji’s back to join Tianqiong as a Recorder and even incited Ji Minyue to help deceive him.

Sure enough, Ji Yushi said, “It’s not entirely a violation of the regulations.”
Professor Ji placed the transparent panel aside, “Tell me.”

Ji Yushi, “You may have heard about the Tianqiong parent system?”
Professor Ji nodded.

Ji Yushi continued, “In addition to declaring itself as the parent system, it also claims to be the ‘Tianqiong of all eras’.”

Professor Ji waited for him to continue.

“We completed a lot of high-level missions it had prepared.” Ji Yushi only briefly touched on this and then moved onto the main point, “After achieving the objectives, it gave a reward. Perhaps the association itself had not yet recognised Tianqiong’s ability to give rewards but it indeed has this authority so it cannot be considered as going completely against the regulations. It’s just a matter of time before they recognise this.”

Professor Ji finally spoke, “But you wasted this reward.”

He had returned to that year where the nightmares began but hadn’t done anything.
All those years of hard work may have all become nothing, but he chose to let go.
Ji Yushi was silent.

“You must have found a more suitable method.” Professor Ji said, “Jian Jian, I’m very happy to hear this, you are stronger than I thought. These shackles of yours cannot be removed by others, but by yourself. You haven’t become a prisoner of time. I am glad.”

Ji Yushi said, “I still have to go back.”
Professor Ji nodded, “Of course. I just don’t know if your actions would affect the points you had gathered until now….”