Chapter 177 In a Desperate Situation

Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!

Even if Matsuda didn't hear what Kaze-chan replied, he could still get the gist of it. But this love-struck girl was really unbearable to watch. Even her childhood friend was unbearable to watch. At this moment, he just felt speechless.

Gin also guessed that his little piggy must have said something about work that upset her when she apologized to her boyfriend, making a mess of things and then being comforted by her boyfriend instead.

He showed no respect for his younger sister, coldly snorting, "Hmph... She's the kind of person who takes advantage of kindness and never learns from mistakes. Don't spoil her too much, or you'll regret it later!"

"Heh... It's alright, everyone makes careless mistakes sometimes, I make those kinds of mistakes too!" Hagiwara was just as protective of his wife in front of his future brother-in-law, directly revealing that his beloved had made such a big oversight.

Using persuasive language, he described it as a minor oversight, and shamelessly, in order to divert their attention from this, he quickly recalled the date and week chart displayed on the game calendar.

Based on Feng Jiang's mention that the day she was captured by the game was a Monday, she calculated the exact Gregorian calendar date and said to her friend and future brother-in-law, who were all speechless, "As for the Gregorian calendar date that Xiao Bourbon just asked about, it is April 28th, 2025."

"But why does the game use the lunar calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar?" Scotland wondered. "Since the game uses Earth and its inhabitants as the background and players, shouldn't it use the Gregorian calendar, which has the highest prevalence and usage rate on Earth?"

"Well! Who knows what their thinking was when they set the game time rules? Maybe the game rules were just set according to their time. Rather than this kind of question that can only be guessed out of thin air without any evidence, let's talk about other things now."

"Fat Piglet just told me..." After hearing Scotland's question, Gin actually responded to him for the first time since entering the carriage, and relayed what Fuusei had whispered in his ear to the other people in the carriage.

After receiving accurate intelligence, Bourbon and Scotland couldn't help but take a deep breath: "From January to April, when Feng was captured by the game, almost every month has seen some terrible things happen!"

"The next 25 years do seem to have something to do with games... Is it really unrelated to games? Could it be that games deliberately created an apocalyptic atmosphere and manipulated things?"

Hagiwara and Matsuda shared the same sentiment, but they had to maintain their 'future persona' of knowing these things all along, even though they were equally shocked and suspicious by this precise future information.

They could only pretend that they already knew these things and that there was nothing to be surprised about, and they had to act as if it were all very natural, saying, "At the time, it all seemed like a natural disaster to us."

For example, the Los Angeles wildfires were caused by American capitalists and their laws monopolizing water resources, resulting in a lack of water for firefighting despite being near the sea. Similarly, the Japanese wildfires also had their own reasons for failing to be extinguished.

Hagiwara didn't know the real reason why the Los Angeles fire would burn for a month, but with his intelligence, he just needed to think that if the fire had reached residential areas and still wasn't being extinguished, there must be a problem with the water supply.

He had heard from American students during his university years that there were strange American laws, such as charging taxes for collecting rainwater to water lawns, so he simply attributed the cause of the fire to that.

Matsuda's tacit understanding with his childhood friend led him to add, without knowing the specifics, "Even if it were a geological disaster, before the game captured it, it was believed that it might be caused by Earth entering a period of volcanic activity."

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"By the way, brother, did you bring me weapons and ammunition?" At the same time, Feng Xingshou just wanted to quickly change the subject, which would make her extremely embarrassed and might expose Hagiwara and the others' identities because of her brother's cautious nature.

So she quickly thought of what could end the conversation. Perhaps it was the urgency that made her think of something, and she immediately remembered what she had told her brother on the phone earlier. She quickly whispered something in Gin's ear.

Still feeling guilty, she explained and complained to him, "Besides the dungeon like this one at noon today, we also have a monster-hunting dungeon tonight. Luckily, Granwitt and Darmo were carrying guns when they entered the game."

Otherwise, we won't be able to clear the dungeon tonight. There's no way to replenish ammo in this game right now, and they're almost out of what they brought, plus the ones I got from you last time! Hurry up and help your poor sister out!

"Hmph!" Fat Piglet was still so concerned about saving face. Once she felt guilty, she would chatter on and on, trying to change the subject of her embarrassing situation with various topics. Listening to her incessant complaints, Gin guessed that she was trying to change the subject because of her pride.

Even unaware of the identities of Hagiwara and Matsuda among them, he still gave his sister face, though he snorted coldly, seemingly displeased.

He put the rather large metal box he had been carrying when he came in onto the table and pushed it toward Feng Xingshou: "Take this and use it first. I'll prepare more for you next time you come back. Don't touch me like that again!"

"Got it!" Feng Xingshou looked at the huge suitcase and, while guessing how many weapons were inside, put the large suitcase into his backpack.

After Bourbon watched Gin make these moves, the huge metal suitcase on the table vanished into thin air before his eyes, causing him to be violently shaken, even though he had heard them mention Feng Sang's abilities before.

But the psychological impact of hearing about it was so different from seeing it with his own eyes that he couldn't help but ask tentatively, "This is just like the space button effect set in some interstellar movies, comics and novels. Could the game organizers be some advanced interstellar civilization?"

If we could obtain this kind of spatial button-like item and bring it into reality, it would be more convincing to our boss and the officials of major world powers. Otherwise, simply conveying information verbally is unlikely to convince those in high positions of power.

"Little Bourbon! Do you think that, given the game's frugal nature, they would be willing to release such a good thing so early in the game? But you could use something else as a souvenir and 'evidence'?" Hagiwara knew what he was thinking as soon as he heard this, and didn't want to put Fuu-chan in a difficult position.

To avoid being fooled by this guy who's obsessed with the interests of the Japanese people, he simply spoke up and cut the subject off, then shamelessly changed the subject: "Feng-chan, let's take out the 'gifts' we prepared for our future brother-in-law and Bourbon!"

"Huh? A gift?" Kazeki no Seishu, who was already so used to being called his future brother-in-law that he didn't blush or skip a beat when he heard it, was initially a little confused about what Hagiwara was talking about.

A few seconds later, she realized that they had only prepared those two items to give them. She immediately took out a specially stored box from her spatial backpack, placed it on the carriage table, and introduced it to her brother: "Brother, these are rewards I got in the game, I specially prepared them for you..."

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"This is a reward we got in the game. We originally wanted you to try this rare delicacy, but you just reminded me that we do need some things that don't exist in reality as evidence to convince certain people!"

These lobster kings and durian kings look very similar to Earth species, but their size, shape, and taste are quite different from the best Earth species. I think this might be the civilization of the game's organizers.

Or they might have collected items from a world where they once played this game, which you could use for scientific research. The containers that held these items were also game artifacts.

"Perhaps it's different from the molecules created by Earth's technology, and we might find evidence on it that it's not an Earth product. That should be quite convincing, right?" At the same time, Hagiwara also explained with a smile in his eyes.

He added with a regretful expression, "I was hoping you could try this rare delicacy, but judging from your personalities, you're going to miss out this time. I guess you'll all take it to the research institute for study!"

Kazesei Morimaru was describing to his brother how delicious the lobster king's meat was! Hearing this, I realized that Hagiwara had asked me to take out the portions prepared for them for this very reason.

She couldn't help but feel a little regretful: "I wonder if I'll be able to get this kind of reward again in the future. I hope I can! I really want you guys to try it too! It's so delicious."

Perhaps it was her obsession with food that made her suddenly remember something: in the Naruto game's home system, there was a small gift shop that only sold six kinds of items, which could be purchased with in-game points and copper coins.

I wonder if this function has been retained in the homestead tree space I obtained? If it has, then I will be able to control the function of listing and delisting goods in this small gift shop.

I might be able to use this gift shop to buy rarer ingredients or firearms and ammunition that I would consume over a long period of time. As for the points needed for the purchase, I don't have a way to obtain them, but I can still think of a way to get copper coins.

Looking back, when I first checked the Home Tree space, I only tried the mine, ninja lifespan place, and wishing tree functions. I didn't try to see if the gift shop was there, but I remember wanting to try the food in the game.

Not only did they take out the barbecue, ramen, and steamed buns from their backpacks and eat them, but they also bought snack gift packs and sashimi platters from the gift shop, two items that might increase the player's affinity with the ninja. However, none of them tasted good, so they didn't buy any more.

If every ability you use in a game is etched into your soul, there's a good chance this gift shop feature will be retained. If it is, things will be much easier for you, both in this survival game and in real life!

Looking back now, I really regret not trying to mine and collect ore! There's a small mine in the Home Tree space where you can automatically collect copper, iron, gold, and silver ore every day, and sell it for copper coins.

Not to mention that the ninjas digging the mines are all relatively strong ones that I've collected. If I could turn all those ninjas into summonable characters, even in a game version, with Madara's Heavenly Meteor, what would I have to fear from the game organizers...

o(╥﹏╥)o I regret it so much just thinking about it!