Mist

Chapter 61: Rubik's Cube

A sleepless night.
The sound of waves could faintly be heard from outside the window and the air carried over by the sea breeze was moist. Ji Yushi had difficulty falling asleep.
Before the mission, his thoughts were disordered, and he also couldn’t control the various memories constantly surfacing to his mind. It wouldn’t be good if it continued like this. He must get back into good condition.
Ji Yushi got up from the bed and took his medicine. He didn’t know if the medicine in the illusion would have any effect on him but he did feel better.

By himself, it was difficult distracting himself.
So, without turning on the lights, he took out his black and white game console and played it for several hours by the window. He only managed to fall asleep in the early hours of the morning.
The dream was repetitive and filled with illogical scenes from his memories.

When Ji Yushi opened his eyes again, he had already returned to his capsule.

The violent shaking and bizarre displays on the transparent panel no longer surprised Ji Yushi.
When he heard the familiar, “Warning! Warning! You have deviated from the destination coordinates! You have deviated from the destination coordinates!”, he even felt a lot less dizzy and just quietly waited for the shaking to pass.

【Illegal transition detected!】
【Illegal transition detected!】

A few seconds later, the capsule quietened down. It meant that he had already arrived at his new destination.

The Tianqiong system didn’t even do its usual processes at face value. All the superfluous things had been stored away.
Ji Yushi undid the safety belts and, while receiving the nutrient solution given by the robotic arm, he looked at the transparent panel in front of him.

Please read this from kk translates

The string of garbled characters displayed on the screen had been replaced by the mission information from Tianqiong.
[Mission mode: Rubik’s Cube.]
[Mission rule: Death elimination.]
[Mission objective: Joining.]

It was already enough seeing this information once before.
Ji Yushi turned off the screen and then opened the door of his capsule and got out.

*

The light was blinding. Ji Yushi used his hand to block some of it from his eyes.
After he got used to the light, he finally saw where the blinding lights came from — What entered his eyes was a white expanse. It was like a field of untouched snow. It made it difficult for one to find a point to focus on.
Not far ahead was a red ball about the size of a baseball. It was only because of its existence that Ji Yushi was able to barely tell that this was a square room.

The ceiling, walls and floor were all pure white.
For some reason, there was a red ball floating in the centre of the room.

Ji Yushi looked back behind him. The capsule he had clearly just gotten out of just now was gone and replacing it was a snow-white wall.
Was this the mission destination?

At this moment, someone appeared beside him.
Like some kind of loading animation being played through holographic projection, black boots appeared from the snow-white wall, followed by a black combat uniform and then their face.

Li Chun stepped out with his left foot looking like he had just walked out of a capsule.
He asked, “Advisor Ji! Where is this?”

Ji Yushi shook his head, “I don’t know yet.”

As soon as he finished saying this, a round-faced teammate appeared. He was taken aback by the scene he saw, and he quickly looked back behind him.
Li Chun also did the same. He was horrified, “Holy shit. Where’s the capsule?!”