Chapter 188 Generous Rewards

Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!

"Haha..." Clearly, it wasn't just Feng Xingshou who wanted to complain. Matsuda, who caught up from behind, couldn't help but laugh when he saw that this shameless guy could still make such a joke. However, after laughing for a couple of minutes, Matsuda noticed something was off.

Given his friend's personality, shouldn't Jing Dan be making fun of Qiu at this point? Why isn't he reacting? And with his long legs and running speed, he should have overtaken him long ago, so why is he behind him now?

Thinking of this, he subconsciously slowed down, turned his head to look back, and happened to see Morofushi Kagemitsu running while looking back at something. He immediately asked in surprise, "Kagemitsu, what are you looking at? Do you know someone in the real world?"

"Uh... I'm not sure. The aura seems familiar, but the build and face are different from that person's." If there's no disguise, then it shouldn't be Rye.

But if it was Black Rye who had infiltrated undercover, then Zero had previously pretended to exchange information with Fuuka and told him in front of him that Black Rye Moroboshi was an FBI undercover agent.

Several of the organization's executives were on this train, as were Sherry and the FBI agents. It seemed that even after they left the instance and the termites disappeared, the train wouldn't be able to return to peace! Morofushi Kagemitsu thought as he ran.

Matsuda saw that he caught up with him and that there was nothing to worry about on his face, so he didn't ask him any further questions.

Hagiwara, who was carrying someone and running at the front, heard their conversation and said without batting an eye, "Well! Whether they are acquaintances or not, we can't meddle in other people's business right now. Anyway, with Kaze-chan and that guy on this train, nothing serious will happen."

"Ahem!" Hearing his friend say that, even the gentle and mild-mannered Morofushi Kagemitsu wanted to complain. Even if he liked Gin's sister, he shouldn't look at Gin through a filter, okay? It's because of him that big trouble always happens!

Think about every mission I go on with Gin. If nothing unexpected happens, everything goes smoothly and we resolve the mission quietly and peacefully as planned. But if something does happen, that guy will use ruthless methods to destroy all traces. He'd even blow up the Eiffel Tower for that, let alone this train. -_-||

Out of consideration for his friend's feelings, Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't voice his inner complaints. However, he didn't expect that Kazehoshi no Mamoru, who was being held in Hagiwara's arms, would honestly reply, "Hagiwara, don't you have some kind of misunderstanding about my brother? It's easy for something serious to happen when he's around, okay?"

"Pfft!" Matsuda was amused by Kazesei's honesty: "Indeed, your brother looks like he's got the makings of a big boss."

"Uh! He's not a BOSS, but it's true that he likes to cause a lot of destruction." Feng Xing Shou clicked his tongue with some concern as he said this: "Tsk! It's fine if you don't mention his terrible personality, but once you do, I start to worry about the safety of this train."

"Don't worry, Fuuya-chan! Furuya is very reliable; everything will be fine with him here." Knowing Furuya's personality, even if his future brother-in-law wanted to cause a big scene, he would minimize the harm to the public, or at least make it so that it wouldn't endanger ordinary people's lives...

Just as Hagiwara was thinking about these things, Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had caught up, looked ahead with some surprise: "It seems we've arrived. Is this the dungeon portal we've been unable to see all this time?"

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"Looks like it! The rear cargo hold, the explosives, that's the right elements. This thing looks pretty high-tech too." Matsuda followed into the carriage, his professional instincts allowing him to quickly lift the tarpaulin that seemed to be covering the cargo, revealing bundles of explosives underneath.

Upon seeing this thing, despite being exhausted, Feng Xingshou instinctively reached out to touch it, and only after collecting all the explosives in the entire cargo hold did he breathe a sigh of relief: "Without this, my brother probably wouldn't have caused such a big scene!"

"Alright, the countdown is almost over, let's hurry up and leave!" Hagiwara saw that her face had turned even worse after she used her storage ability again, and beads of sweat were starting to appear on her forehead. He felt both sorry for her and worried, and didn't want her to use her ability again because of her concerns about the real dimension, so he simply urged her to leave the instance dimension.

Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou immediately raised his head from his chest and said, "Matsuda and Morofushi, you two go out of the instance first. Hagiwara and I will go together, in order to avoid the situation where the instance exit closes as soon as I leave, trapping you in the instance dimension."

Knowing the true nature of this lousy game, she naturally speculated about its rules from a malicious perspective. However, she didn't notice that, due to exhaustion, she was speaking less politely and addressing the two of them more familiarly.

Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu accepted this without any objection. After hearing her explanation, they knew that such a thing could really happen, so they immediately nodded and said, "Okay, let's go out first."

"You guys hurry up and follow."

"Um!"

“Okay!” Just as Hagiwara and Kazesei-no-Mori agreed, Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu quickly walked through the 'door' that seemed to have appeared out of thin air on the rear wall of the warehouse.

After confirming that they had left the instance, Hagiwara carried the Wind Star Guardian into the instance exit.

Kazesei-no-Kami is very familiar with the feeling of leaving the dungeon exit, while Hagiwara, Matsuda, and Morofushi Kagemitsu have always used Kazesei-no-Kami's storage space to transfer and have never personally experienced the dungeon entrance/exit teleportation.

This was the first time, so when the two appeared in the vehicle, they happened to overhear Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu talking about their experience of passing through the dungeon portal: "Kagemitsu, did you feel it?"

"You mean a slight feeling of dizziness?" Knowing what Matsuda was asking, Morofushi Kagemitsu immediately asked back.

Upon hearing this, Matsuda nodded: "It seems you feel the same way."

"What do you mean, 'same feeling'?" It was at this moment that Hagiwara carried Kazesei-no-Kami into the car. As soon as he entered, he heard his childhood friend say this. He immediately placed Kazesei-no-Kami in a safer seat in the back and fastened his seatbelt, while consciously sitting in the driver's seat.

Since there were still more than two minutes before the race started, and seeing that there was still time, Matsuda explained, "The moment Jingdan and I came out of the portal, we both felt a dizzying sensation, like the roof of the car was swaying and the floor of the car was soft and we couldn't get any lower. Didn't you feel that too?"

"A little bit, but not as exaggerated as you guys. It feels like the mild dizziness you get when you're very hungry during puberty but there's no food around, like low blood sugar." Hagiwara said, then asked Kaze Seishu with concern, "Kaze-chan, do you usually feel this uncomfortable when you enter or leave dungeon entrances?"

"Huh?" Exhausted, it took Feng Xingshou several seconds to realize what Hagiwara was asking. She thought for a moment and then shook her head: "No! From the first time I entered or left the dungeon until now, I haven't felt any discomfort."

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Upon hearing Feng Xingshou's answer, Hagiwara, Matsuda, and Morofushi Kagemitsu exchanged a silent glance, a tacit idea forming in their minds: "Feng-sang doesn't seem to have any discomfort entering or leaving the dungeon entrance. Could this be a hard requirement for selecting survivors in the game?"

"Those who meet this condition are more likely to be selected by the game?" Morofushi Kagemitsu raised an eyebrow: "It seems that it is not a matter of physical fitness. If it is a matter of physical fitness, the three of us should be more adaptable to the teleportation at the entrance and exit of the dungeon than Feng Sang."

"If it's not physical ability, then it must be someone with exceptional mental strength. Don't forget the beginner-level mental strength awakening potion we got as a reward last time. This game only gives out rewards when Feng-chan completes a major mission..."

Feng Xing Shou was listening to the three's conversation, but he didn't have the energy to ponder its deeper meaning! Suddenly, a familiar game panel popped up in front of him: [Announcement: Congratulations to the player for completing today's daily dungeon activation penalty quest. Reward: one Silver Treasure Chest. Open the chest?]

With her energy depleted and her thinking sluggish, her body moved much faster than her mind. Before she could even process what she was thinking, her hand shot up and tapped the screen. As she tapped, a silver treasure chest appeared and opened automatically.

After a pale white light dissipated, a small pile of things appeared out of thin air in front of her, and at the same time, the corresponding game announcement reappeared before her:

[Announcement: Congratulations to the player for opening the Silver Treasure Chest and obtaining 1 Beginner Spiritual Power Cultivation Potion, 1 Beginner Body Tempering Potion, 300 units of fuel, 1 Fertile Mini Vegetable Garden, a small packet of random vegetable seeds (containing 3 types of seeds, 10 of each), 1000 grams of pork belly, a bag of stewing seasoning, and 10 units of silver.]

The reward announcement and the items that appeared weren't only seen by Feng Xingshou; the other three also saw them and couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment: "The reward is so generous?"

"Something's not right!" Hagiwara frowned slightly as he looked at the rewards. "Generally speaking, shouldn't punishment missions in various games be issued by the game organizers to warn players and curb their behavior?"

I initially thought the previous punishment mission was a warning from the game organizers to be careful about leaking game information in the future, which is why they deliberately created that dangerous situation. But the reward after the punishment mission was over was so generous..."

"It's almost like the game is encouraging players to trigger more penalty missions in order to get rich rewards. Why?" Matsuda was also puzzled at this moment.

Feng Xingshou felt like his brain was about to dry out, and he couldn't concentrate on thinking at all. Hearing them say that he felt that he had to respond to others' words to be considered polite.

She could only casually agree, "That would be more beneficial to the game organizers if they leaked game information to people from the past! Anyway, if players find out that doing this can earn them generous rewards, most survivors who feel capable of protecting themselves will probably try to trigger punishment missions in their daily tasks."