Chapter 143 The Model Worker Who Was Fooled

Day 11 of the road survival game!

"Stop joking around, get down to business, get down to business!" Her brother's misunderstanding and Matsuda's laughter made Kazehoshi Mori extremely embarrassed, and she quickly interrupted the topic that she felt was becoming increasingly difficult to explain.

"Serious business? Pshaw!" Gin felt a slight sense of relief upon hearing his own fat piglet's voice. Although he hadn't contacted the fat piglet of this era since he last heard her voice.

However, on the day of the incident, he had already hacked his sister's phone, computer, and the surveillance footage of the restaurant where she worked. He had confirmed that she was working normally in China that morning, and now he could hear her voice again, and it sounded like she was right next to those two guys.

Adding to the different memories that suddenly surfaced earlier, and the fact that even Vermouth couldn't imitate her own silly piglet's Mandarin with a Northeastern accent, it seems that time travel is now confirmed, that is...

He recalled the unpleasant parts of his memory that had just surfaced, and immediately scoffed, "Wind Star Guardian, before we get down to business, you'd better explain the situation in Scotland clearly, and why you saved that rat!"

-_-|| Calling him by his full name, it seems like her brother is very angry! Realizing this, she quickly looked to the others for help, o(╥﹏╥)o Waaah... She didn't dare to explain, and she didn't know why, but her brother could see through any lie she told.

Seeing the pleading look in his beloved's eyes, Hagiwara disregarded his worries that showing off in front of his dangerous brother-in-law might backfire and ruin his love life, and reached out to take the phone from Matsuda's hand.

He explained to Gin on the other end of the phone, "This matter is a bit complicated. Given that Fuu-chan likes to explain things in detail, it would take us until we have time to leave to explain everything clearly. So let me give you a short answer!"

"Hmph! Then tell me how complicated it is, so complicated that you actually saved that rat!" Gin was naturally furious when he heard them clearly admit to saving Scotland.

"Rat-san" Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at the others with an innocent expression, a helpless emotion appearing in his sapphire-like eyes. According to Gin's timeline, he had been dead for 6 years.

His habit of referring to undercover agents who infiltrate the organization as rats hasn't changed. His own sister is a fat piglet, undercover agents are rats, the FBI is a fly, and innocent civilians are sheep. Sometimes he really wants to know what kind of animal Gin sees himself as!

Seeing his innocent expression, Matsuda's lips twitched. At the same time, he thought to himself that his junior's brother was completely different from her. Just from talking on the phone, he exuded a fierce and ruthless aura.

Thinking back to the aura he witnessed in the cargo ship's warehouse last time, well... all he could say was, how often did Jing Dan and Furuya interact with each other while they were undercover? If they didn't meet often, it would be fine, but if they did, they'd probably be on edge even when they slept.

At the same time, Hagiwara was explaining to Gin on his phone the half-truth they had just agreed on: "There's nothing we can do about it. It concerns some things for the future, and we need some collaborators we can use."

And these things are related to what's happening around you right now. Do you know about the poison the organization is currently using? Actually, that poison was already...

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He told Gin about the initial and future consequences of the silver bullet, but of course, given his personality, he wouldn't tell Gin about Miyano Akemi's survival after her body was childlike following the administration of that poison.

It didn't even mention that the current poison has a chance of allowing those who aren't poisoned to survive in their child form, lest some people who should have had a chance to survive the organization's poisoning end up not surviving because he leaked information.

So the story was changed to say that the poison was a byproduct of the research and development of the Silver Bullet, and that the organization was researching how to turn the Silver Bullet into a dream drug that could reverse aging and make people return to their youth.

Just as they were making some progress, Rum launched a rebellion, and the organization was severely damaged by the combined forces of the Miri government. The organization's boss and Rum went missing during the turmoil and were completely out of contact.

They are members recruited by the organization's survivors after the incident, and they are secretly rebuilding their organization by utilizing some assets that have not yet been investigated by the US and Japanese authorities...

Hagiwara knew he couldn't lie about the game, since he needed the people of this era to prepare for its arrival, so he continued, "Later, in 2025, a cataclysmic event occurred on Earth that affected the safety of all humanity."

Because of this upheaval, I met Feng-chan, and because she never gave up investigating your fate, I unexpectedly discovered that she was your sister, and that she also gained the ability to travel back in time during this upheaval.

This ability has many limitations. We can roughly calculate the time that can be traveled through time and space, but each time we can only stay for a maximum of one hour. Moreover, as the person using the ability to travel through time and space, Feng-chan must stay in another spacetime dimension where only radio waves can propagate…”

"What kind of upheaval?" Upon hearing this, Gin realized that things might be different from his speculation that the organization was developing time travel technology, and that it was an upheaval that concerned the safety of all humanity on Earth.

The serious tone coming from the mouth of a man who had spoken so casually in both of their previous conversations felt incredibly incongruous, especially since he hadn't been this serious about the silver bullet that caused the deaths of nearly a billion people in various countries around the world.

This made Gin keenly realize that the 'great change' he mentioned might be the most important thing for them to travel through time, while saving people or even changing their own fate was not their focus.

Realizing this, he temporarily set aside what was going on in Scotland and pressed Hagiwara for details about the so-called 'great change in the Earth'.

His reaction startled Hagiwara, who had already prepared his answer. Fortunately, Hagiwara was very quick-witted and didn't give Gin on the other end of the phone a chance to notice. He replied nonchalantly, "The answer to this question is much more complicated than why we saved Scotland."

There are many important things inside that cannot be simply explained; a complete explanation would take at least 30 minutes. We were unlucky to be here today; we happen to be on a giant luxury cruise ship that is sinking, and we still need to find our way back.

We've already spent over ten minutes talking to Bourbon-chan, and after deducting the time spent searching for the time exit, we only have about ten minutes left to talk to you. So, I'll have to answer your questions in detail another time.

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"Tsk! Don't worry, there's nothing we need to hide from you regarding this 'great change.' In fact, we really need to contact people from your era, whether they're from our organization or the government."

Anyone who can help us pass on detailed information about the 'great change' to someone in this era who is capable of dealing with it, or a nation, is welcome, even if it involves time travel, except for Feng Jiang who wants to change your fate.

The main purpose is to connect with people from the past to prepare for the 'major changes' of the future, so I won't deliberately find excuses to delay or avoid answering your question." Matsuda thought of Keidan's description and examples of Gin's suspicious nature.

The junior student had mentioned that he was usually very cautious and worried that Hagi's answer might be interpreted by him as stalling for time or avoiding questions. So she simply said a few words to embellish the situation and lessen Gin's suspicions.

There was no need to lie about the game, so Feng Xingshou felt no pressure to talk about it now and chimed in, "Brother, the danger and trouble of this 'major change' is more serious than the consequences caused by the silver bullet. I'll tell you in detail next time and you'll understand."

His words perfectly matched Gin's earlier intuition, making Gin more inclined to believe that he was telling the truth. Moreover, he could tell that the fat pig wasn't lying, so he didn't continue to press on the 'major change' and instead said coldly, "Continue!"

"..." Is this asking him to continue explaining how he saved Scotland? Hagiwara looked at Fuu-chan questioningly, then at Komorofushi, and saw the two of them nod at him in unison.

With a wry smile, he continued explaining to Gin, "I've already explained the consequences of the silver bullet, but I haven't yet explained the roles the US and Japan played in this, or the real cause of Scotland's death... actually..."

He then recounted to Gin the information they had gathered about the role the Japanese government played in the Silver Bullet operation, as well as the intelligence that Furuya Rei had investigated—information that was based on speculation and lacked concrete evidence.

To Mr. Workaholic, it sounded like the organization had funded Shirley's parents' research into silver bullets—a forbidden area of ​​research that even he considered unacceptable to humans—about 20 years ago in his time.

They also achieved some results, but what happened later was unknown because most of the organization's key members were dealt with by the United States and Japan in 2015. The surviving members who rebuilt the organization were unaware of this information.

Even though the Silver Bullet has caused extremely negative consequences for the world, and many of their own people are suffering from its side effects and many members have already died, the organization's research department is working to develop an antidote.

Nature investigated all information about it and only found out about the original developer of the drug, and the couple who were the developers, Dr. Miyano and his wife, before their deaths.

Also in November 20 years ago, the father of Shuichi Akai's girlfriend, along with his undercover agent partner, had obtained clear evidence that could destroy the organization and applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for arrest warrants for all members of the organization.

As a result, the female FBI agent's father was silenced by the organization that very night, along with his partner. The following month, Dr. Miyano and his wife died in a 'fire' accident at their research institute, which was destroyed along with the institute.