“Straight?” Lin Xinlan was a little surprised. He immediately commented, “That is indeed tricky. I would never touch a straight man.”
Ji Yushi, “……..”
It seems that Cap Lin has a deep misunderstanding of himself.
Lin Xinlan ended the topic of sexuality and changed it to something else, “You’re getting along pretty well with the seventh squad, especially with Cap Song. It reminds me of that time when I went out with him for missions.”
From Lin Xinlan’s end, the scout in the seventh squad should be Old Yu.
What had happened over that year for Old Yu to change to Ji Yushi and for Song Qinglan’s attitude towards him to change so drastically? Lin Xinlan was very curious, but he didn’t dwell on this issue.
“At that time, we were still in training. We cooperated very well; anything I thought of, he also thought of, and we managed to complete a lot of missions together.” Lin Xinlan said, “In the student rankings, we were always tied. Some called us the Double Lan Duo.”
Ji Yushi had heard about this from Li Chun.
As Lin Xinlan talked about this, he seemed to be really aggrieved.
“Old Song is a cold guy and more capable than me. I originally thought that I would be assigned to the same squad as him after finishing training and wanted to be his left and right hand. Who knew….Tianqiong had been established for so many years and had been gradually expanding but it was seriously short-handed. Even someone like me became a rookie squad leader and like this, the Double Lan Duo was separated.” Lin Xinlan’s focus wasn’t this. He quickly went straight to the point, “Advisor Ji, say, why do you think we were still forced into this mission despite how powerful Tianqiong has become?”
Ji Yushi shook his head, “I don’t know.”
That was the truth.
That cunning so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ had said that their squad was the squad with the highest chance of succeeding so it needed their assistance with completing the mission. But why was something like this assigned by a system with self-awareness and what went wrong in the middle? That all still needed to be verified.
Lin Xinlan told him, “There is a conspiracy theory that there are holes in time and space because Tianqiong had interfered with the natural state of time and space. Not long ago, an anti-time management alliance was established on the dark web. Many people think that our work is meaningless because time is continuous; even if Tianqiong fixes a loophole, another loophole would inevitably replace it.”
Ji Yushi remembered the protest he saw in the bubble world.
“Tianqiong destroys the world!!”
“Illegal transition!!”
“Stop interfering with time and space!! Shut down the Tianqiong system!!”
“Down with the Time Management Alliance!”
A large-scale protest like that would appear in the bubble world because it was based on the original world. Sooner or later, the situation Lin Xinlan mentioned would be exactly the same as what he saw in the bubble world.
“Our current situation…..” Lin Xinlan reached this point and looked around the room, “Might be explaining this.”
Ji Yushi didn’t speak.
Lin Xinlan turned around and finished his words, “Perhaps time travel shouldn’t have been invented.”
As one whose job was to travel through time, he had even dared to say such words denying his occupation. Lin Xinlan was very bold.
Ji Yushi again didn’t speak.
It was because Ji Yushi wasn’t an ambitious Guardian who wanted to make a career out of it. He wasn’t in the position to express his opinion.
“Don’t worry. I don’t really mean it.” Lin Xinlan laughed, “Based on your reaction, it seems that I haven’t resigned yet a year later.”
Ji Yushi said, “Yes.”
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Mist
Science FictionHyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world's turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst...
