Mist

Chapter 67: Rubik's Cube

What to do? The red room that was originally their the only way that would ensure their safety was gone.

This situation was very frustrating.

“What—to—do—?”
Duan Wen opened his mouth and mouthed those words. Those three words were easily understood by the others without needing the transmission of sound.

Everyone knew very well inside that their only two options left were the blue rooms on the left and right sides.
The grey rooms were definitely not an option because grey was on the opposite side of blue.

And as for the rooms with the blue balls, it was the same colour as the room they were in now —- Not every same-coloured room had a time difference. They had managed to enter same coloured rooms safely purely based on luck before.
With the current situation, the chance of entering a blue room with a time difference was fifty-fifty.

Their delayed movements made them irritable.
In this room where speed had slowed down, every attempt to move or talk was slow and awkward.

There was no need for pointless talk.
Duan Wen slowly untied the necklace around his neck. It was something issued internally during Tianqiong’s ten-year anniversary. Duan Wen had used a bit of effort to find this one. Right now, he wanted to use it to test the blue room and see if it would be cut into two pieces as a result of the time difference like how it happened to Morita Yu.

Duan Wen threw the necklace at the tallest Song Qinglan who stood in the centre holding the blue ball.
The necklace flew through the air, the ten-year anniversary commemorative symbol shone brightly under the bright lights.

Song Qinglan caught the necklace. With a ‘beep—’ a round hole on the right wall opened. Song Qinglan climbed up the ladder and threw it with great strength into the blue room on the right.

The trajectory of the necklace through the air was extremely slow.
Everyone looked over. They only saw it fall at a speed that was difficult to see as soon as it passed through the hole.

The crisp sound they were expecting to hear when it hits the ground wasn’t heard.
Song Qinglan frowned.

As soon as the necklace entered the blue room on the right, it had disintegrated into shiny powder before disappearing into the air.

If anyone rashly entered the room, the consequence was unimaginable.

He got off the ladder and shook his head at the others, “No——-”

Everyone opened their mouths slightly. Micro expressions that were typically difficult to detect normally had been slowed down by time so everyone could see each other’s true reaction at this very moment. Including Ji Yushi, none of them didn’t feel fear facing such a situation.

There was still a room with a blue ball on the left.
They had to use something to test it out. Duan Wen shook his head to indicate that he had nothing on him that could be thrown.

Please read this from kk translates

Unlike other countries, guns and knives were controlled in their country. Even Tianqiong’s Guardians were not given weapons until they reached their mission destination. After they got out of their capsules, they had entered Rubik’s Cube directly without bringing any of the weapons they had brought along with them so none of them had things that could be thrown away.
Throw the communicator? Or their shoe or clothes?

Ji Yushu took out his box of medicine from his picket.
There was also a game console but it was impossible for him to throw that. He could try it with the medicine.

Everyone watched him throw his box of medicine to Song Qinglan.
The medicine box spun slowly in the air before it was received by Song Qinglan.

The moment it reached Song Qinglan’s hands, he noticed that the weight of it didn’t feel right. In the bookstore in PU-31, he had held the medicine box when it was still full.
Song Qinglan climbed up the ladder on the left wall and opened the box of medicine with his back towards the others.