Yu Chi rummaged through the messy room. Finally, he found a ping pong ball in the corner. He walked to the table and pushed aside the clutter on it.
"Captain Gu, let's pretend this is Earth." Yu Chi placed the yellow ping pong ball on the table and picked up a mirror to stand beside the ping pong ball. "There is an Earth in this mirror." Then he used his phone as a mirror to stand on the other side. "There is an Earth here as well."
Yu Chi's eyes shone with excitement. "They are different but they reflect the same thing!"
Gu Jun nodded, he understood what the man meant.
"That split cross." Captain Yu grabbed a ballpoint pen excitedly. As he flipped through the white paper on the table, he said, "Many people don't understand the importance of symbols. Symbols are one of the beginnings of civilization. As simple as they are, they carry the shared social information of a tribe. They can build a sense of cultural identity, form tribal totems and language … Captain Gu, why this symbol? What kind of message is the 'we' in the signal trying to convey? "
This question had been on Gu Jun's mind as well.
He already said he could transmigrate due to the power of this symbol and Yu Chi would see this symbol whenever he saw his illusion.
"Captain Yu, I believe there are 2 possibilities. One, this split cross has some kind of power, like the Ancient Seal/Branching Seal, it was used by the signaler. Two, after this symbol was chosen as a symbol, it was given power by the signaler."
"The order is very important." Yu Chi nodded with excitement. "But since they would use this symbol, they must be trying to convey some message to us! They must know the signal is weak but symbols can carry many messages … I've considered many possibilities. Is it a symbol of sunlight? Or aim? Or spin? I couldn't figure it out but after your appearance today, Captain Gu, after talking to you about these things, some things have made sense to me. Take a look … "
Yu Chi unfolded a piece of paper and used a pen to draw a split cross and 4 lines on it.
"We'll call your world the Phecda World and mine the Mysterium World."
Yu Chi explained as he wrote the Phecda World next to one line and the Mysterium World next to the other. "They're separated, right? What if that's the case?" He added a stroke and joined the two lines on the paper. "They're connected!"
"Captain Gu, they are all a part of Earth." Yu Chi's eyes were bloodshot. "This whole split cross is Earth."
Gu Jun was perplexed, but unlike Captain Yu's excitement, the more he looked at the half-split cross, the colder he felt.
"Leader Yu, before I came to the Mysterium World, I have transmigrated to two different worlds, two different Earths. I know of some places in one of the worlds that neither of our worlds have. "
Gu Jun had asked around and the US did not have Arkham or Innsmouth.
Gu Jun took another pen and wrote "Wasteland World" and "Massachusetts World" next to the other two lines on the paper. He then connected them to form a line.
The four worlds immediately formed a cross.
"Yes, yes …" Yu Chi mumbled in fascination, "Four worlds, you've been to four worlds on Earth …"
Gu Jun was deep in thought. Why could his parents and Uncle Lee not find Innsmouth? It was in Massachusetts but they could not find it. Because it's not that Massachusetts. If someone from the Mysterium World was looking for the entrance to Dreamlands or someone from the Wasteland World was looking for Hawaii, it would be futile.
Some places, even though they were on Earth, were scattered across different worlds.
"Captain Yu, the time in these worlds does not appear to be synchronized?" He had another question, "We're all in 2022 but the Massachusetts World is 100 years in the past while the Wasteland World might be 100 years later or even further in the future …"
"Perhaps, perhaps they are not synchronized …" Yu Chi grumbled as he scratched his hair anxiously, "There should be more than four worlds. The cross is a symbol. Perhaps these four worlds are more closely connected but there are more worlds … That is my guess, I have no idea … But it is not a parallel world, it is a large world. It is a projection, a split world but they are overlapping. Will they overlap …"
Yu Chi's words became more frantic but Gu Jun's heart chilled. 'Overlap?'
He only needed to look at himself, a person from the Phecda World but he was standing here at the Mysterium World, it was not impossible.
Furthermore, the witch wanted to consume him. She said that only then would she be able to enter this' pure and perfect world '. Now that he thought about it, could the witch be in the Massachusetts World or some other world? She could not physically transmigrate so she could only do so in the form of a phantom?
He could physically transmigrate and Yu Chi could see illusions … Was this due to the overlapping of the two worlds?
"Captain Yu …" The more Gu Jun thought about it, the more chills ran down his spine. "Could it be that we are the ones who triggered the merging of the split cross into the cross?"
"That is possible, anything is possible." Yu Chi pulled harder on his hair. "Or perhaps it has always been like this. Just like the ebb and flow of the ocean, we discovered it first. Captain Gu, perhaps our world is running out of time, our mission is too important …"
Gu Jun frowned. 'What kind of overlapping?'
If time was a concept, then space was not. There were many different places in different worlds, but there were also many similarities.
If the four worlds overlapped, which space was it that was replaced? If it was that dangerous wasteland …
"Our first priority is to contact that signal …" Yu Chi mumbled, "We need to figure out a way to respond …"
At the end of the day, they were both PTSD patients. Yu Chi was going crazy and Gu Jun was suffering from a splitting headache.
Right at that moment, someone knocked on the apartment's steel door. This startled both of them. Then, a melodious female voice came from outside, "Captain Yu? Open the door, I know you're in there. I've bought you something nice to eat. "
Gu Jun sighed and shrugged. "Your girlfriend?"
"I don't have a girlfriend …" Yu Chi whispered, "Colleague, teammate, an elite. Quick! Clean up these things, we can't let her know! "
Yu Chi suddenly started to clean up the table. Gu Jun came to help. "We need to come up with an explanation. Who am I? Why am I here? What does that have to do with you? "
"Ah, so what if you're a homeless person?" Yu Chi said hurriedly, "You used to scavenge for food. I was kind enough to bring you back. Yes, that's right, that's it …"
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