Chapter 14 Text Messages

However, Hagiwara, who had always been easygoing and friendly since they met, ignored her this time. Instead, he looked around, squatted down to check the injured man's injuries, took off his suit jacket, neatly folded it, and placed it under the injured middle-aged man's head.

Then she stood up and walked straight towards a certain direction of the Japanese-style house. Seeing this, she hurriedly followed. After entering, she discovered that the fire had started in the small washroom. She didn't know how, but the washroom, which was the least likely to catch fire, had caught fire.

In addition, the entire house was decorated in a wooden style, with wooden tatami mats and the like. The fire was burning very fiercely. After Hagiwara went in and looked at the situation in the bathroom, he didn't turn on the bathroom tap to put out the fire.

Instead, she turned off the dripping faucet, then left the bathroom and opened all the doors and windows of the house to ventilate it. Whether it was her eyes playing tricks on her or a hallucination caused by the flames, she felt that when Hagiwara opened the door of the house, there was a flash of light outside.

Just as Feng Xingshou was helplessly following beside him, watching him open the doors and windows to ventilate and clear the smoke from the room, somehow, he went straight to the entrance hall of the house, found a fire extinguisher near the shoe cabinet, and took it to put out the fire that was burning fiercely in the bathroom...

After the fire was extinguished, he found the family's first-aid kit, took out a bandage to bandage the injured middle-aged man, and said in a way that seemed to be talking to thin air without any focus, "Feng-chan! I'm not in the same dimension as you, so I can't see you at all."

Quickly collect the supplies here, find the exit, and once you find the exit, just like last time, put me in your backpack and leave. Remember to collect the medical kit, the food and drinks stored in the kitchen and storage room, and also the clothes and blankets.

The most important thing is to use the water storage tanks we made earlier to see if we can connect them to this gentleman's tap water. If we can, we should fill the tanks with more water. If no water comes out, could you give me some hints so I can use this gentleman's containers to collect water?

Hearing this, Feng Xingshou finally understood what was going on. He hurriedly went to the kitchen sink and turned on the faucet, only to find to his dismay that the faucet was not running water, which was completely the opposite of the faucet that was automatically dripping water when he entered the bathroom.

She hadn't tried using the faucet in that instance room last time, so she hadn't noticed this at all. It was only thanks to Hagiwara's reminder that she realized the difference between the instance spacetime and the real spacetime. After realizing this, she thought about the process of taking Hagiwara away back then.

Try reaching inside Hagiwara's clothes, then put a small jar of jasmine tea, which they obtained together from opening a roadside treasure chest, into Hagiwara's shirt pocket.

Sure enough, the next second after finishing bandaging the injured person, Kenji Hagiwara suddenly touched his shirt pocket, took out the tea canister, and smiled: "I understand, you go ahead and get busy! Don't forget you only have 30 minutes."

"Hmm!" Feng Xingshou saw that he had received the signal and, thinking that time was limited, hurriedly went to the kitchen, storage room, and bedroom to collect supplies from the family. However, this was the residence of a single Japanese man, and he probably didn't cook for himself.

Ling Fengxing found no ingredients in the kitchen at all. Apart from a few bowls and chopsticks and a bunch of used takeout boxes piled up on the counter, there was nothing else.

As for the refrigerator, there were some takeout fast food snacks and a full shelf of chilled drinks and alcoholic beverages in the beverage section, which she quickly put away.

And she unexpectedly found it on the wall here.

Leaving the dungeon and finding the exit, she felt much more at ease, knowing that all she needed to do next was focus on collecting resources.

Then she moved on to his bedroom to look for clothes and blankets. But this single man's house was different from the last instance; his clothes and blankets were all neatly tidied up.

There wasn't a clean set of clothes to be found here, and the only blanket he had was the one he was using. Even though there were clean blankets in his backpack, Feng Xingshou didn't want to take the one that someone else was using.

As for the dirty clothes… cough cough! She felt it was too unfair for such a handsome police officer like Hagiwara to wear the unkempt clothes of a slovenly middle-aged man, so she didn't bother to get them and went to look for the storage room Hagiwara had mentioned…

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On the other side, after seeing the landline phone receiver that had fallen next to the injured man, Hagiwara also picked up the receiver and quickly dialed the emergency number. He told the emergency center about the injured man's condition and hung up after confirming that the ambulance would arrive soon.

They busily found where the family stored their water bottles, placed the unopened water purifier in the living room, and put the empty water bottles in the kitchen sink, turning on the tap to fill the empty bottles with water.

Just as he turned on the tap, whether it was due to a signal chain caused by his earlier landline call or because his cell phone had received a signal in the short minute or two, he kept hearing notification sounds of incoming text messages.

Seeing this, he was relieved that his phone had a good battery. He had forgotten to turn it off after experiencing such a thrilling event yesterday, and he didn't know who had sent him so many text messages, which kept ringing.

As he took out his phone and turned on the screen to check, his pupils dilated slightly with a surge of intense emotion when he saw the bright year 2014. He stared at the time for two seconds, realizing that seven years had actually passed in the past day.

He looked at his phone and eagerly dialed his home landline, but before pressing the call button, he silently canceled the call, thinking, "No, I can't call at this time. If I call now..."

According to the timeline, perhaps the seven years he, his family, and Xiaozhenping lost are gone forever. And suddenly, when he answers the phone, he doesn't know what to say to his family. Should he casually call and say, "Hi! It's me, second-year graduate student. I'm not dead, aren't you happy? Surprised?"

Then his parents and sister won't believe him, and he'll definitely have to explain. Who knows if the game will 'shut him up' when he explains? How can he convince them over the phone if he can't explain? Even if they believe him, he still has to go back with Feng Jiang, and he only has half an hour...

Forget it, let me check first. I'm already 'dead' from the line of duty, so why am I getting a text message? Is it the telecom company sending a bill? Do they even spare the dead?

Kenji Hagiwara's sarcastic remarks were meant to ease the shock of the past seven years, but when he opened the text message directory, he was met with a series of text message annotations from Xiao Zhenping's phone, which made him freeze.

At this moment, he suddenly lacked the courage to check the contents of these text messages. Looking at the automatically calibrated time on his phone, he felt as if he had traveled to seven years in the future. He also realized that in that situation, Kojinpei must have thought he had died in the line of duty.

Given my relationship with Kojinpei, his personality, and especially my last words, I wonder how much pain he must have accumulated in his heart, which is why he kept sending text messages to my phone number even after my death.

My own phone number has been used.

It must be thanks to him that it hasn't been cancelled for seven years! Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the time displayed on Xiao Zhenping's text message directory stopped on November 7, 2011.

The date on the screen gave him a bad feeling. November 7th was the date he was supposed to die in the line of duty. His text messages to Kojinpei had suddenly stopped on that date. Could it be…?

No, no, no! It must be that Kojinpei finally came to terms with his 'death in the line of duty' four years later and stopped being sad for himself, which is why he stopped sending text messages. Or maybe he got revenge for himself on this day of this year, caught the criminal, and that's why he stopped sending text messages...

He tried to think these things through, but his hand seemed to have its own mind, clicking to open the topmost text message, the last one from November 7th, 2011. To his disbelief, he saw the message: "Hagi! I'm sorry I couldn't avenge you."

He stared at the contents in disbelief, not wanting to deduce the meaning of the sentence. The friendly smile that had been on his face vanished completely. He stood there dumbfounded, holding his phone, not even noticing that the bucket next to him was full.

At that moment, knowing Kojinpei well, he knew very well that for Kojinpei to say such a thing, especially on the same day he himself would 'die in the line of duty' four years later, it must be him... The possibility that flashed through his mind made him feel as if he were drowning, unable to breathe...

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On the other side, Feng Xingshou thought that Hagiwara had put out the fire and opened the doors and windows for ventilation, so there shouldn't be any fires in the daily dungeon. However, while she was looking for supplies, the flames inexplicably spread from the washroom to the living room, and then quickly the bedroom, storage room, and other rooms also caught fire.

She was puzzled and could only speculate that the daily instance had fixed and copied the past events, so even if Hagiwara changed reality, the events that would happen in the daily instance would not change, which was why the countdown was only 30 minutes long.

While considering this possibility, she struggled through the thick smoke and flames toward the copy of the exit located on the kitchen wall, picking up the bottled water and first-aid kit she saw in the living room along the way.

Unexpectedly, when I got to the kitchen, I saw Hagiwara standing in front of the sink, holding his phone and staring blankly. He hadn't even replaced the water in the bucket next to him with an empty one. He watched as the fire hadn't reached the kitchen yet, and the thick smoke only reached his head.

Standing like this, she could only stay for a few more minutes before squatting down. Seeing this, she tried to put away the water buckets full of water in the sink, just like she would put away the bottled water and first-aid kit in the living room. She then prepared to move the empty water buckets to the faucet in the sink by putting them away.

Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, although she was able to put the tea canister into Hagiwara's pocket, she was unable to catch the water in the trough, whether she put away the empty bucket or released the water storage bucket she had made.

It's probably related to the dimension Hagiwara mentioned earlier, right? As she guessed, she took out another packet of instant coffee from her backpack and put it in Hagiwara's shirt pocket, reminding him to change the water bucket.

Only after being reminded did I realize that, given Officer Hagiwara's intelligence, how could he not have noticed the time for changing the water bucket? After realizing this, I looked again and saw that he hadn't even noticed the instant coffee packet in his pocket.

He was staring blankly at his phone, which made her tiptoe over to see what was on his phone. Even someone as composed as him was momentarily lost in thought, but unfortunately, she didn't understand Japanese at all.

Seeing the full screen content, she could only understand the numerical time and two Chinese characters, including the character '萩' from Hagiwara's surname. Seeing this, she thought that Hagiwara had seen the time on the phone and realized that this was seven years in the future and had been shocked by something.