Chapter 218 The siblings meet again

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

“Of course.” Upon hearing Hagiwara’s words, Shuichi Akai immediately agreed, and to ensure they would do their best to change his father’s fate, he also proactively added, “Please don’t hesitate to ask me for anything.”

I'm considered quite important within the FBI, and I know a lot of information that's only known to those within the FBI. I can also find reasons to apply for operational funding up to $10 million, which should be able to provide you with some assistance.

"Heh... As expected of the United States, they're so generous." However, this FBI investigator clearly no longer considers himself a member of the FBI; he doesn't care about money or internal FBI intelligence, he can use them as bargaining chips.

Those who have managed to alienate such an outstanding investigator will have plenty of regrets later. Hagiwara had heard many stories about this FBI agent from Morofushi Hiromitsu, and Akai Shuichi had also confessed his undercover identity to Scotland.

In addition, during their last meeting, Morofushi Hiromitsu had inquired about Bourbon Akai Shuichi's recent situation and learned that he had been forced to evacuate due to his exposed identity... Therefore, during this conversation, he was able to quickly understand his situation and general thoughts.

Matsuda said without any politeness, "Then you should prepare a few vehicles and some daily necessities in advance. When we contact you next time, we'll try to deliver them to our instance area. The type of vehicle doesn't matter, just buy the cheapest ones. It would be best if you could also send over some of the useful weapons from your area."

"A car?" Shuichi Akai had overheard the general situation of the group in the game last time, and the fact that Gin had brought weapons to his sister, so he wasn't surprised that they wanted weapons and supplies.

But he was surprised that their first request was for cars, and several cars at that. However, he quickly remembered that the game was a road survival game, and perhaps real cars would be quite useful for them in the road survival game...

At the same time, hearing him ask another question, Bourbon put away his phone impatiently: "This is not a place for you to be a curious child. Please put away your unnecessary curiosity and leave now. Do you want to have a 'friendly' conversation with Gin later and ask him to go back and get rid of Gil?"

"Ahem! Thanks for reminding me. You already know the time of my father's accident and other information. His contact phone number and email address at that time were... I'll leave it to you from now on." Akai Hideki saw him rushing to get his phone back and said a few words to Fusang.

He hung up the phone and busied himself sending text messages. Only then did he realize that Gin had work to give him and he didn't have time to satisfy his curiosity. He finished speaking somewhat awkwardly and quickly retreated with his sniper rifle, which had no use this time...

Below the Ferris wheel:

"How can anyone believe in such a brain-dead doctrine?"

"The record above shows the Symbiosis Cult's classic texts dated 1821, which means this brain-dead cult has been around on Earth for over 100 years?"

"Uh... the time when it reaches my place should be 204."

After hanging up the phone, Hagiwara, Matsuda, Morofushi Kagemitsu, and Kazesei Mamoru looked at the investigation data on Akai Tsutomu's symbiotic religion sent by Bourbon's phone, and they were all speechless.

Hagiwara took a deep breath and regained his composure: "Forget it, we can discuss this 'brainless cult' when we get back. Let's find the dungeon exit and gather supplies first!"

"Okay! Same as always, let's check the boundaries of this instance first, so we can roughly know what items are within the destruction area of ​​this instance. Feng-chan, you also need to find the instance exit first. We'll start collecting resources after we've confirmed this information." Matsuda said, glancing towards Hagiwara.

Standing next to Hagiwara, Kazesei-no-Kami, even though he knew they couldn't see him, nodded and whispered in Hagiwara's ear, "Okay."

Because the boundaries and exits of the instance can only be seen by the Wind Star Guardian who is in the instance dimension, even if she could transfer the three people to the instance dimension, this process would consume her energy and expose the process of transforming people into living beings in such a densely populated place with surveillance facilities.

So none of them planned to enter the instance dimension. Instead, they followed Wind Star Guardian and planned to find the instance boundaries and exits. If Gin hadn't arrived yet, they would first look for collectible items within the boundaries so that Wind Star Guardian could quickly collect them...

So the four of them quickly got to work, and with their combined efforts, they soon discovered that the area bounded by this instance was quite large, but it just happened to encompass the entire area around the Ferris wheel, or rather, the entire light show area of ​​the East Capital Aquarium was within the instance's boundaries.

As for the dungeon exit, it was quite obvious this time, located on the flat ground to the right of the Ferris wheel. It was simple and direct, saving the four of them a lot of time. Unlike usual, entering and exiting dungeons didn't take as much time, and it solved their main problem.

After confirming these details, the four of them got busy again, each going their own way. Of course, after learning that the Ferris wheel had eight eggs installed, when they split up, Hagiwara and Kazesei-no-Mori naturally formed a group to collect the eight dangerous eggs.

Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu split up to search for all the valuable resources within the dungeon area, and agreed to meet again near the dungeon exit in 10 minutes. Gin would probably arrive by then, and they would go and collect the resources they had located together after meeting Gin...

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Everyone went about their own business. However, after Feng Xingshou quickly collected the eight eggs, since there were still a few minutes left, they originally planned to collect some other supplies along the way before returning.

Unexpectedly, Hagiwara received a call on the way that Gin had arrived at the Toto Aquarium. Upon seeing this, Hagiwara quickly told Gin the location of the dungeon exit, then hung up the phone and returned with Kazeki to wait for Gin's arrival.

Gin, with his long legs, walked quite fast and arrived at the agreed location even earlier than them. When he saw Hagiwara's face, which hadn't changed much in the past year, his cold expression remained unchanged. He simply called out, "Fat pig!"

The voice, which sounded like a greeting yet also like a warning, made Feng Xingshou react immediately. She quickly went to her brother's side, hugged his arm, and said happily in his ear, "Brother, didn't you say 10 minutes? It hasn't even been 8 minutes! You're really fast!"

"Hmph! Ten minutes is to prevent traffic jams; this is rush hour." Gin's snort this time didn't reveal any real anger; it sounded more like a casual remark, clearly indicating that he wasn't as cold-hearted as he seemed towards his sister.

After hearing this, Feng Xing Shou realized that it was indeed necessary to prevent traffic congestion at this time. His brother wasn't the type to be late for appointments, so he nodded to show that he understood.

Then, quite naturally, he quickly and simply recounted their experience after leaving the dungeon yesterday: "Brother, after we left yesterday... we deduced that the survival aspect of that game was a ruse; their real purpose was to mass-produce Earthlings with awakened spiritual power."

"Oh! This game is getting more and more interesting." Gin's lips curled into a cold smile, showing no sign that he actually found the game interesting; rather, it seemed like he wanted to tear it apart immediately.

The obviously malevolent grin would surely terrify most people, but Feng Xingshou was already used to her brother and was naturally not frightened by him. Instead, she used their private language to explain the functions of the Home Gift Shop and Backpack that she had discovered her skills for.

After explaining in detail, she revealed her plan to accumulate copper coins to buy the mental energy cultivation potions and physique tempering potions from the gift shop. Once she had enough, she would try to synthesize them to see if she could make a mental energy awakening potion for him.

“Sure, just tell me what you need and I’ll prepare it for you.” Hearing her idea, Gin naturally didn’t refuse. At the same time, he had a feeling that if his sister could awaken such a heaven-defying ability, his own ability would definitely not be bad if he awakened his spiritual power.

When he enters the game, his success rate in overturning the game will also increase accordingly. Of course, as an older brother who has protected his younger sister since childhood, he is not used to, or even dislikes, the development that his sister is stronger than him. If possible, he will certainly improve himself to be more powerful than his own fat pig.

While Gin was talking with Kazesei, Morofushi Kagemitsu and Matsuda had not yet returned. Although Hagiwara was present, he did not go over to disturb their conversation. Instead, he wisely waited until the siblings had clearly finished discussing their recent situations before walking over and greeting them with a grin and a slightly nonchalant attitude: "Gin-nii-san, we meet again. How has your year been?"

"Thanks to you all, I've had very little free time this year." Gin's face turned cold upon hearing this question.

Feng Xingshou glanced at his brother's expression, then at Hagiwara, and tentatively asked, "Working overtime? Or do you often work overtime?"

"Heh... what do you think?" Gin sneered, then took out his cigarette case, skillfully poured out a cigarette, and started smoking.

"Ahem!" Even though Hagiwara hadn't heard what Kazesei-no-Mori had just said, he could guess it from his future brother-in-law's behavior. He immediately coughed and then shamelessly asked, "With your abilities, you must have made a lot of progress this year!"

Have you found out who might harm you in the future? By the way, we just heard from Bourbon that he investigated a symbiotic cult in the US that seems to be connected to your future troubles. Are you aware of this?

"Yes! I've already heard about it." Ever since he learned about the Silver Bullet, that cowardly man seems to have given up all hope and no longer hides any information about the Silver Bullet from him.

They also bombarded him with all the information related to this drug, including that it was developed 20 years ago by Dr. Miyano and his wife, who developed the first version. After discovering that the organization was using it for criminal activities, they planned to destroy all the research data, but the organization discovered this and silenced them.