Chapter 163 The Cycle of Time

Day 11 of the road survival game!

After hearing Matsuda's hypothesis, everyone present had no objection to the suggestion from the Wind Star Guardian, and nodded in agreement without hesitation.

So the four of them, having made this decision, discussed another matter: "Besides obtaining a lot of resources from this dungeon, we didn't come away empty-handed. At least we learned from Kofuruya that the future 2015 will cycle for at least a few more years."

But if 2015 continues to cycle for many years, what do you think we should do next? Should we continue entering the instance tomorrow, trying again and again until we find the exact time when Brother Feng's accident happened? Or should we estimate the years and search in leaps and bounds?

"To be on the safe side, it's better to try it year by year. We can also take this opportunity to measure how many times 2015 has cycled and figure out how much time our planet's inhabitants have lost." Matsuda answered Hagiwara's question without hesitation.

"I agree with Matsuda's opinion." After the dungeon run, Morofushi Kagemitsu's trust in Kaze Seishuu had increased considerably. Now that he was free from his prejudice against the crime boss Gin's sister, his gentle and considerate nature prevailed. When stating his choice, he didn't forget to ask Kaze Seishuu, "Kaze-san, what are your thoughts?"

"Eh! Me?" Feng Xingshou was taken aback by the question, and then replied, "Although I think that based on my understanding of my brother, once he knew about that future, basically no one would set a trap for him unless they had figured out his personality."

He should be able to avoid the crisis on his own, but whether it's just in case or to figure out the time issue on Earth, after we've identified these few 2015s, it would be better if we went to check out each of the remaining 2015s in person.

Anyway, your friends are all fine. The next dungeon doesn't have a locked target, so we can adjust it according to our needs! Most importantly, we should find a chance to tell the people of the past about the future game coming soon!

Feng Xingshou's words were somewhat incoherent, but the three police officers present were all intelligent people. Even though the speaker herself did not understand what she wanted to express, the three of them could perceive her thoughts from her words.

She believed her brother wasn't that stupid. With enough information, she thought her brother Gin could avoid death on his own, so her plan was to go and see each 2015 in the future.

Find out exactly how many 2015s there are, and at the same time, find an opportunity to inform people from the past about the game's arrival. Within these two objectives, they can freely choose the time of the instance according to their own purposes.

After understanding her meaning, all three of them were a little confused. Hagiwara rested his chin on his hand and said, "If we don't have to fix it in March, then what day in 2015? I haven't lived to that point yet, and I have no idea what I have to do during that time!"

"Tsk!" Matsuda clicked his tongue without saying a word, but his silent act of taking out a cigarette revealed his frustration. He, who also did not live past 2015, had no obsessions over the years.

Morofushi Kagemitsu felt a mix of regret and amusement: "I should have asked Zero or Gin to see what we need to do next year."

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"Hey! They don't know anything about the future." Matsuda, with a cigarette dangling from his lips but not lighting it, continued in a sarcastic tone, "If they've gone to a much more distant future, maybe they'll be able to find out."

Unfortunately, this channel only allows regional broadcasts, not global ones. Otherwise, we might have a chance to contact Furuya in 2025. Knowing more information from him would make things much easier.

"Fū-chan, do you remember any major events that happened in Japan in 2015?" Hagiwara thought it best to ask the only one among them who knew about the future.

While listening to their conversation, Feng Xing Shou Zheng was also sensing the approximate amount of supplies he had collected in his spatial backpack! Hearing his question, he quickly shifted his attention from his backpack space and carefully recalled his memories.

He then replied, "After all, I'm based in China, and my understanding of Japan is mostly based on what I learned after my brother's accident, by looking at news reports from Japan in March and April of 2015, and the world media attention following the aftermath of the Silver Bullet's side effects."

If we step outside this scope, then it must be something big enough to have reached back home. However, some of those things seem contradictory now, making me unsure of my own memory.

"Oh! What is it?" Matsuda raised an eyebrow in interest upon hearing this. At the same time, he was craving a cigarette but did not choose to light one. He just held a cigarette in his mouth to relieve the craving. Clearly, he was quite aware of the harm that heavy smoking could cause to the body. After reuniting with his childhood friend, he did not want to die young.

Hagiwara, who was standing nearby, noticed his thoughts and silently took out some chewing gum from his pocket and handed it to him. As a man who lived a fairly refined life, he had realized that he had actually hugged and kissed the woman he liked with his 'fermenting' body since the last time.

He was very particular about this, so when he noticed that Feng Xing Shou had chewing gum among the supplies he had collected, he unusually took some himself. He didn't want to have a bad breath when kissing a woman he liked next time. ︿(￣︶￣)︿

Matsuda looked at the chewing gum, his crescent-shaped eyes clearly understanding his childhood friend's little secret. He then unceremoniously took two pieces, while simultaneously shoving the cigarette back into his hand...

At the same time, Feng Xingshou, after sorting through his memories, replied: "I've seen headlines on trending topics in China about things like the explosion of the Japanese skyscraper in a previous instance and the sinking of this luxury cruise ship today."

But because I wasn't interested in Japanese affairs at the time, I didn't open it to watch. Plus, I remember that for some reason, there were many news reports of bombings, shootings, and even armed helicopters being deployed by the black forces in Japan between 2014 and 2015.

For example, I heard from a colleague that an architect had a symmetry obsession. He was dissatisfied with the asymmetry of his previous works, so he planned a bombing to destroy all his previous buildings, including skyscrapers.

So when we encountered the skyscraper explosion, if you hadn't noticed that the bomb's design was the same as the one my brother had used, I would have almost guessed that we had accidentally stumbled upon the scene of that architect detonating his own work!

As for what I found odd, it's that I clearly remember the architect blowing up his own work shortly after the beginning of 2015, but then that architect became a trending topic online.

In 2014, during the Qixi Festival in China, there was a trending topic online about Tokyo Tower being strafed by a mysterious armed helicopter, causing serious damage but fortunately no casualties. Many of my colleagues were discussing this incident, and it was then that I learned that the Yakuza (Japanese underworld) is legal in Japan.

And after this shipwreck, I remember that around the end of April 2014, Japan had planned to hold the Tokyo Summit on May 1st at a large facility called 'Ocean Edge' that they were building in Tenkai.

It seems that many leaders of small countries and diplomats from major powers will be attending, so Japan is putting a lot of effort into publicity to ensure the smooth running of the conference, according to reports seen in China.

It was said that the Japanese police would deploy about 20,000 officers to the reclaimed land area for security, but less than a week before the summit, the entire large facility was bombed.

At the time, Japanese officials said it would be rebuilt quickly, but it was still in ruins until I was captured by the game! In short, before I knew about the 2015 time loop, I didn't notice these contradictory and anomalous time issues at all.

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"Tsk! They even dared to bomb the venue for hosting world leaders and diplomats, a real big spender." Matsuda was now somewhat stuck in the stereotype of the brewery organization, so when he heard this, his first reaction was: "Could this also be something your brother's boss arranged for?"

"Uh! No, Japan solved the case quite quickly this time. They solved the bombing case and caught the culprit before the summit was scheduled to begin. Reports say it was a Japanese prosecutor who was dissatisfied with Japan's bureaucracy."

There's also the resentment I mentioned earlier about prisoners not receiving fair trials, and prime ministers and members of parliament trying to avoid issuing death sentences in order to appease the public and win votes in the next election...

Finally, he chose to use terrorism to express his demands. By the way, according to domestic reports, I remember it also said that after he planned to blow up the facilities on the edge of the ocean, the police didn't even notice the demands he wanted to express in that attack.

They even mistakenly arrested a famous Japanese detective, which angered him even more. To make the police understand they had arrested the wrong person, he deliberately staged several indiscriminate cyberterrorism attacks!

"...It seems that the problems within Japan have become so serious that even its own people can't stand it anymore!" Upon hearing this, Morofushi Kagemitsu, recalling his own experiences, became even more certain that there were indeed problems with the operation of the Japanese government.

Without expectations, there is no disappointment. Hagiwara had already lost all expectations of the Japanese government after learning that Morofushi had been betrayed and killed by his own people, so naturally he wouldn't be disappointed by their mistakes.

So after hearing what Feng Xingshou said, the first thing he noticed was the time: "Feng-chan, from what you said, you saw the skyscraper being blown up by the architect in 2015, but then you saw the Tokyo Tower being strafed by an unidentified armed helicopter on Tanabata in 2014."

A similar situation occurred in 2015 when a luxury cruise ship sank, followed by news reports in late April 2014 that the venue for a Japanese summit had been destroyed by bombing.

Therefore, it can be determined that the time loop problem does not cycle between the beginning and end of 2015, but rather between a certain day in 2014 and a certain day in 2015.