Mist

Chapter 52: Who Am I

Two realities, one Song Qinglan.
One reality was from one month ago and the other was one month later. When these two realities began to overlap, the call from one month ago was received by Song Qinglan from a month later. It had accidentally connected the two realities, pulling them back briefly, but the moment the phone call ended, the link was broken, and they were pulled back to the reality one month later.

Both knew very well that even if Song Qinglan called back immediately after the link was broken, the person picking up on the other end would only be his grandfather in the current reality and they would no longer be pulled back to their original reality.

It was like there was a thin film separating them from their original reality.
Can see and touch but cannot truly enter.

Song Qinglan pondered, “Say, do you think anyone else will call me over that month?”
Ji Yushi, “Even if they did, it won’t be now.”

The other reality was currently at point ‘B’ and, to them who are in the bubble world, it was at a standstill. The phone call just now happened to be made at point ‘B’ but how could there coincidentally be so many phone calls made at point ‘B’?

As for phone calls for Ji Yushi, that was even less likely.
Firstly, it was because his phone had just been thrown away and secondly, his social circle was pretty much limited to the three members of the Ji family.
Not to mention, whenever he goes on his missions, he would completely disappear from that reality and probably no one would care about it except for those in the Ji family…..Thinking this, Ji Yushi was surprised. Those negative thoughts had somehow invaded him again. If not for his quick reaction, he might have had another case of thinking that the other reality was ‘not worthy to feel attachment to and since it was no different from this place, it didn’t matter if he stayed here instead’.

The weather was hot, but a chill ran through Ji Yushi.
The influence of this world was almost inescapable. He lowered his eyes and looked at the handcuff binding himself with Song Qinglan and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s alright.
The handcuff was still there.
Like Song Qinglan had said, he at least wouldn’t be able to escape again.

His thinking became complicated again. Ji Yushi raised his hand and grabbed Song Qinglan’s wrist.
His line of sight fell onto the other party’s watch. The second hand was still moving at a regular pace.

Song Qinglan asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Yushi’s expression changed in an instant, “We have to get out of here immediately!”

Memories from when they bought tickets at the small station earlier quickly returned to him — After Song Qinglan asked him for his ID card, he had used his injured hand to select options on the screen to purchase their tickets and the information with the train schedules were displayed very briefly before it changed after Song Qinglan selected the next train. It had only appeared very briefly, but it was deeply engraved into Ji Yushi’s memory.
Soon after their train, another train would also pass through this track! At that time, just like this train, the next train would also collide with the phantom train from the original reality!
Standing on the train tracks like this, the outcome would be unimaginably dangerous!

As soon as he said this, Song Qinglan’s expression also became tense, “How long do we have?!”
Ji Yushi’s mental arithmetic skills were excellent, “No more than three minutes at most! Let’s go!”

Song Qinglan stood on the roof of the carriage. His eyes locked onto a place in the opposite direction of where they were running. About a hundred metres behind them was a maintenance bridge. They had to go there immediately!
There was no time to worry about the passengers following behind them. The two immediately started to sprint over.