Mist

Chapter 79: Our Reality

Time was really a strange thing.
It relied on changes in things to prove its own existence and it is used as a constant parameter to describe a process, but the passage of time could change depending on one’s mood.

To Ji Yushi, after just one night’s sleep, there were only thirteen hours left. He still hadn’t figured out what he should do.

To Song Qinglan, every second felt like a day.
After he said those things to Ji Yushi, he didn’t actually sleep much: at best only four or five hours. Song Qinglan didn’t need to think too much, and he also faintly knew what feelings Ji Yushi had towards him and knew that Ji Yushi had no way of escaping.
But for the first time Song Qinglan realised that he was quite impatient.
He still had a lot of things he wanted to say but he had to wait until Ji Yushi gave him his answer.

Song Qinglan didn’t know how to flirt, and he had also never pursued anyone, so he just did what he wanted to do and said what he wanted to say. After he said that phrase ‘time is so slow’, he saw Ji Yushi’s hand holding the fork freeze and understood that he shouldn’t push the other person too much.

Just a reminder was enough. Song Qinglan didn’t say anything else to Ji Yushi through the private channel. In any case, there would be plenty of time later.

“Nine o’clock tonight, everyone will need to complete an individual video report.” Song Qinglan checked his watch and spoke to everyone at the table, “As for things that needed to be said, I have already explained it to the Inspectors earlier. This video report just requires you to tell them everything that you’ve experienced and as for whether a detailed written report would be required, the people above said it would depend on the situation.”

Zhou Mingxuan found it strange, “Just that? We don’t need to write a written report?”

“Really? We just have to dictate?”
“So good?”

Everyone was relieved.
In the bubble world, they had to work their asses off to write reports that were more than a dozen pages long.

“On one hand, it is of course because I fought for it.”
Song Qinglan calmly explained. In order to achieve this, he had actually worked quite hard. It was fortunate that he had a plausible reason to use to convince the superiors —- Tianqiong had never made anyone perform so many high-level missions in succession. With strong focus on their mental and physical state, the people above relented and allowed them to just submit a video report for now.
“On the one hand, it’s because the situation here is different from the bubble world.”

He told everyone what he had learned, “The ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ has officially connected to our Tianqiong system and has integrated with it such that it is now the parent system and our system is the subsystem.”

Everyone at the table looked at each other.
A strange feelings rose inside them. It wasn’t fear, but it made them uncomfortable.

Everyone knew that this ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ was a Tianqiong system with self-awareness. Humans regard themselves as creators but when they create things far beyond what they had imagined and end up being controlled by them instead, they would be afraid.

“After it connected to our system, all the missions we have completed were automatically settled in our accounts. Our mission experience, time and space coordinates reached and mission objectives that were completed were all recorded in detail so there is no need to explain each of them one by one.” Song Qinglan finished, “I believe you saw the notice with your evaluations when you returned.”

Everyone nodded.
Indeed, they saw it.

“Then it can now directly control our system?”
“It’s a little scary. In the end will we be in charge of the system, or will the system be in charge of us?”
“Has no one else discovered its existence before?”