Mist

Chapter 96: Overload

In general, this big cycle was much simpler than the ones from before, but it was a mission with no retreat.

“Any objections?”
Song Qinglan also walked over.
He looked at Ji Yushi and said the same thing as what Ji Yushi remembered, “Advisor Ji, you need to rest. You will soon have a lot of work to do when we find the energy transmitters. This time, let Tang Qi and Tang Le go down first. If they can’t, the rest of us will continue.”

The so-called ‘can’t’ referred to death.
With one or two people forming a group, if the previous group died, the next group would immediately take over.

Song Qinglan spoke very quickly and sounded a little ruthless.
But everyone knew very well that they didn’t have much time. There was less than 3 hours before the first black wall is due to appear at 5am. As of now, they had explored six floors and had not yet found the control room.

But Ji Yushi knew that the control room was on the 100th floor.
If they went directly to the 100th floor, perhaps they wouldn’t need to continue rushing to their deaths.

Regarding these chaotic memories, there were still some that he couldn’t distinguish between reality and illusion. His condition was worsening. He could only take out a pill and crush it with his teeth before swallowing it.
The current situation however made him reluctant to keep at it. He didn’t want to go through those cycles again. Just as he hesitated over whether he should say something, Song Qinglan was called away by his teammates.

Everything happened according to plan.
Tang Qi and Tang Le slid directly down the rope from the inner courtyard and, after reaching the 116th floor, they hung in the air like a spider and swept away a bunch of zombies before swinging and landing onto the corridor

Everyone watched from the 122nd floor.
They all waited nervously while holding their breaths.

Not hearing the gunshot signal they were waiting for, Song Qinglan gave an order, and everyone set up the grappling hooks again.
With prior experience paving the way for their other selves in the Golden Crow bases, they were no longer afraid of dying. Even if they knew that the road ahead was a dead end, they continued to rush ahead without hesitation.

When the building’s stairs were blown up, half the building was destroyed. The lights inside flickered on and off intermittently.
The night breeze blew past, messing up Ji Yushi’s black hair. He stood on the edge with a calm expression.

“You first or me first?”
A familiar voice asked.

Ji Yushi looked back. He saw Song Qinglan carrying Shen Mian. He was ready to set off.
The blue energy bullets glowed, making his tall figure appear almost divine.

Ji Yushi answered according to his memory, “I’ll go first.”

*

Song Qinglan exited his capsule and strode over to the centre of the roof.
The dark sky seemed like it was only a short distance from them. The seven faintly glowing capsules resembled a lotus.

Reaching a capsule, Song Qinglan stopped in his steps.
The people who had just left their capsules were surprised at his abnormality. They all looked over at him, “Cap Song?”

The capsule opened and out came Ji Yushi who ran into Song Qinglan head-on.

Song Qinglan examined him closely for two or three seconds but didn’t say anything and just turned and said to everyone, “This time we’ll go to the 119th floor. We’ll take turns. Old Zhou, you take the lead.”

Zhou Mingxuan, “Aye!”

One after another, the teammates began searching again.

Song Qinglan was in a very bad mood. Everyone could see it. They could also see that he was trying to suppress his emotions and not let it affect the mission at hand.
Everyone thought Song Qinglan was like this because of this damned mission. Let alone the captain, even they themselves were angry at their current predicament where they had no choice but to continue advancing ahead—–To think that there was another bigger cycle after turning off all the energy transmitters. It was like they were being played with.

After a while, only half of the teammates were left on the roof.
Gunshots rang from below. Song Qinglan heard Ji Yushi ask him something.

“Huh?” He didn’t hear him clearly.

He only saw Ji Yushi ask again with his usually cold and calm expression, “Cap Song, did I make a mistake somewhere?”

Song Qinglan was slightly startled.
Hearing Ji Yushi’s words, Li Chun and Duan Wen behind them also looked over.

“After arriving here, you have been behaving a little differently.” Ji Yushi said, “If I did something wrong, you can tell me directly.”

Standing from Ji Yushi’s perspective, after turning off all the energy transmitters in the control room at Golden Crow No. 2, Song Qinglan had even comforted him and expressed his wish for him to remain in the seventh squad, but after repeating the cycle here twice, Song Qinglan’s mood had grown worse and worse. It made Ji Yushi feel like it was directed at him.

Ji Yushi may appear unaffected but in fact, it was the opposite. Under his cold appearance, he was actually quite sensitive.
How could Song Qinglan not know this? When he was asked this, he only felt his heart ache. Even his breathing stopped: “I——”

Ji Yushi didn’t care about his answer. He had already leapt off and slid down.

“Fuck, is Advisor Ji angry?” Duan Wen was shocked, “I thought he wouldn’t say anything.”
“Boss, let me give you a warning. Watch out for Advisor Ji ‘crack’——” Li Chun also calmly gave his advice. He imitated Ji Yushi’s action of breaking a zombie’s neck in Golden Crow No. 2, “Tsk, I was almost left dumbfounded. That move was both handsome and powerful.”

Song Qinglan, “…….”
He asked with a grim expression, “My attitude towards him wasn’t good?”

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The two nodded at once like chicken pecking at rice.
“Very bad.”
“Completely different from before.”
“Not like you anymore.”

Fuck.
Even his teammates could see it. It meant that his unconscious attitude must have been very bad.
Song Qinglan gritted his teeth and similarly slid down the rope.

The battle below was fierce. Song Qinglan went past the 121st floor and the 120th floor and saw his bloodied teammates from the previous cycle. All the rules in this big cycle were the same as the small cycle; space and time overlap, the existence of multiple teams at the same time.
While sliding down the rope, Song Qinglan saw Li Chun and Zhou Mingxuan on the 121st floor being bitten by a group of crazy zombies. On the 120th floor, he, Tang Qi and Tang Le were running like mad down the corridor while Duan Wen and Ji Yushi on the other end were shooting at the waves of zombies charging at them.

Like all the other teammates, Song Qinglan turned a blind eye to this and smoothly went down to the 119th floor, looking for Ji Yushi.

This place had already been cleaned up considerably by the teammates who had arrived earlier.
The floor was covered with blood stains.
After landing, Song Qinglan flipped forward, pulled out his military knife and killed a zombie that was charging towards him.

Just ahead was Ji Yushi.

Song Qinglan: “Ji Yushi——”
Before he could finish speaking, he saw Ji Yushi’s expression suddenly change. Holding Diamond Bird, he pointed it at him and fired.

“Bang!”

Song Qinglan’s cheeks felt warm. A zombie behind him was shot in the head and its foul-smelling blood had splattered onto his face, “……”
Even if he was still angry, even if they weren’t together yet, Ji Yushi was afraid of him being bitten to death?

Song Qinglan was almost rendered deaf from the gunfire, but his heart felt warm.
He even felt that he was a little perverted.

“You’re welcome.” Ji Yushi said coldly and then turned and left.