Chapter 230 Not Difficult at All

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

"Yeah! Don't worry! Look, there's hardly anyone around." Although Hagiwara said that, his sense of responsibility still made him give Bourbon a word of advice.

Bourbon had already arranged for the Public Security Bureau to assist the Metropolitan Police Department in dispersing the crowd as quickly as possible. In order to prevent Hagiwara and his group from being exposed to the Japanese authorities, he also had the organization's hackers hack into the surveillance system here, so as to hide the fact that these people were already dead in the official Japanese records.

Now, hearing Hagiwara's instructions, he naturally agreed without any hesitation: "Don't worry! Right now, apart from the few of us, no one else is coming or going around this Ferris wheel."

Hearing him say that, Feng Xingshou and the others felt relieved.

The confident Bourbon was unaware that a certain famous detective, skilled at stalking and using his childish appearance to hide in blind spots of adults' perspectives to conduct surveillance and eavesdropping investigations, had undergone a reshaping of his values.

They had already rallied and were quietly following them from a blind spot not far away, observing their every move, including them climbing up and down the entire giant Ferris wheel and entering and exiting the various sightseeing carriages... etc.

Just as Conan discovered that Amuro had met with members of the organization who appeared in the Twin Towers incident, and they seemed to be acting together, and were even busy with something on that Ferris wheel, he silently wondered what the organization members were doing here since Curaçao was no longer at the aquarium.

After Kazesei and the other two said goodbye to Bourbon, she transferred them to the storage space, stepped into the dungeon exit, and the next second, she appeared in the vehicle. After returning to the car, she quickly released Hagiwara and the others from the backpack space.

Seeing that there were still three minutes left on the game panel, the three Hagiwara members quickly sat in the driver's seat, passenger seat, and back seat, and fastened their seat belts.

Then, while adjusting the car's rearview mirror and side mirrors to observe the road conditions ahead, Hagiwara said to the others, "You'd better be mentally prepared for the next stretch of road. I estimate it will be very challenging for your heart."

"Tsk! Yesterday's road conditions were dangerous enough, I wonder what tricks they'll pull today?" Matsuda knew that what Hagi said was very likely, but he still couldn't help but click his tongue.

As Morofushi Kagemitsu returned to the car, the physical reactions of each of them when they returned to the vehicle yesterday involuntarily surfaced in his mind. A smile appeared in his gentle blue eyes as he comforted him, "We can think of it on the bright side."

If Feng Sang's speculation is correct, then these perilous road conditions might just be deliberately created by the game to stimulate our mental potential. Traveling through such conditions might even significantly enhance our mental abilities!

"Huh?" Feng Xingshou was sensing the full space in his backpack, trying to roughly estimate his gains, when he suddenly heard his own name. He looked up at Hagiwara with a moment of confusion.

Seeing her looking lost, Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu both subtly winked at Hagiwara, as if to say with their eyes that it seemed he wasn't just in love with her!

"That goes without saying!" Hagiwara Oki returned a glance, then explained to the bewildered Kazesei no Shou, "It was Komorobuchi who said that your prediction yesterday was very likely, believing that even the dangerous road conditions and cruel competition rules of this stunt driving competition were very likely."

It's all possible that this is to push the survivors to the brink of despair, so that through intense mental stimulation, they can more quickly and effectively unleash their mental potential!

Even if Earth civilization has not yet developed to the stage of researching mental power, based on the scientific theories established in the past, this practice of stimulating human mental potential through extreme circumstances is not good for humanity itself.

He recalled news reports of people displaying incredible strength in critical moments, such as lifting a car with their own strength to save their children, only to die afterward from kidney failure, organ failure, or other causes.

It's clear that if the game stimulates the survivors' mental strength in this way, it doesn't care at all whether humans will experience any side effects. It seems like they only need human mental strength? Is that possible?

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"I hadn't thought of that possibility. I just assumed that the spacetime energy in the Survival Kilometer would wash over our bodies, causing those who stayed there for a long time to experience physical and mental evolution!" Officer Zhu Fu was really smart! He actually thought of that. Feng Xing Shou looked at him with admiration.

Morofushi Kagemitsu felt somewhat uneasy. Feng Sang's gaze made him feel a little ashamed. It was Feng Sang who first thought of the possibilities of the survival road and mental power, while he only did so after she had already deduced the root cause.

It's just some extensions beyond the root cause, what's so admirable about that? He felt a little unsure how to respond to Feng Xingshou's admiration at this moment, so he simply changed the subject and asked her: "By the way, Feng-san, what are you planning to do about Akai Tsutomu's matter?"

"If we were to truly change his fate, given his abilities, he could very well have harmed your brother in the past and caused extremely dire consequences for Gin. I just heard Zero tell me some things about Akai Tsutomu; that guy is incredibly powerful."

"He shouldn't have to worry, right?" Feng Xingshou was somewhat surprised that Officer Zhu Fu would be concerned about this issue. He asked in bewilderment, "When contacting him, you must tell him the source of that information. Otherwise, it's hard for a smart person to trust an unfamiliar source of information."

Not to mention the Symbiosis Cult, which only exists in fantasy works and is not believed by most people in reality. Without enough persuasiveness, it will be difficult for the other party to believe us. At that time, we will definitely have to be honest with them about the survival game.

If he were really as capable as you all say, he would have guessed without us reminding him. If he had done something in the past that affected my brother, it would have created a future where I wouldn't cooperate with his son, and his fate would simply be automatically corrected by history.

Given the inhumane threat of a symbiotic cult in the future, in order to protect himself, and considering that he has a son and other family members, he would prioritize protecting himself and his relatives.

Therefore, without us reminding him, he will proactively maintain the 'historical development' that won't lead me to change my mind in the future and refuse to cooperate with his son. So, I only need to tell his brother about my relationship with him; we don't need to worry about anything else.

"Ahem!" Zhu Fujingguang was taken aback when he heard this. When he was talking to Bourbon about this topic, he had thought about Feng Sang's various approaches, but he never expected that the problem they were worried about was not a problem at all for Feng Sang.

Hagiwara never hesitates to praise his beloved: "Fū-chan is amazing! When you agreed, we didn't expect this problem to be solved like this. We thought you would have to come up with many ways to hide your brother's and the organization's information!"

"Uh... it's not that impressive! There are many movies and TV shows about time travel, the butterfly effect, and time loops. I've watched more of those shows than you guys, which is why I subconsciously came up with this idea." Feng Xingshou was a little embarrassed by the praise.

Oh no, I feel like I'm going to start getting brain damage if Hagiwara keeps praising me like this! She wasn't used to being praised in public, so she quickly changed the subject: "But there are still some risks involved in this matter."

If we had told Akai-san's father about this future 17 years ago, and if he really was as powerful as you all say, it would probably have had a significant impact on the arrival of the game in the future.

Given the game's rules, perhaps after we finish the instance from 17 years ago—or perhaps even within that instance—we might trigger the game's penalty quest again, which would certainly be quite risky.

"It's risky, but that's fine. If we want to change the negative impact of this survival game on our world, we'll probably trigger more than one or two punishment missions. Anyway, there are generous rewards to be made, so we won't lose out." The three police officers, whose daily work is extremely dangerous, didn't care about this issue at all.

Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou wanted to say that it would be best to wait until they had all awakened their mental abilities and had a higher risk resistance before going on an adventure.

But before she could speak, she heard Hagiwara say to them while hailing the taxi, "Kaze-chan, Jinpei, Morofushi, hurry up, the countdown is about to end."

These words made her swallow back the words that were on the tip of her tongue, and she immediately focused her attention on the upcoming car stunt competition...

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Meanwhile, in the real-world dimension:

"Tch! Will we meet again in a year? I wonder if my memories will change a second or even a third time because of Akai's father?" As his friends disappeared from his sight, Bourbon suppressed the reluctance and disappointment that welled up in his heart.

Muttering to himself, he picked up his phone and started filming the enormous Ferris wheel not far in front of him. He had no idea how the Suzuki train's cargo hold had changed into that state.

This time, he wanted to use his phone camera to film it, so that he might be able to discover what would happen to these things that should have been destroyed in reality after Feng Sang took them away from the dungeon dimension.

Akai Shuichi, who was on the roof of a high-rise building near the Tokyo Aquarium, was doing the same thing. The difference was that he somehow got his hands on a professional precision camera and was carefully filming.

Perhaps it was a tacit understanding between his opponents, but in a building on the other side of the Tokyo Aquarium, at roughly the same diagonal angle as him, on a floor level with the Ferris wheel, Gin was also filming the Ferris wheel from an open window.

Just as Feng Xing Shou led Hagiwara and the others out of the instance dimension, Conan stared at the three figures that had vanished into thin air, hardly believing his eyes. He almost immediately turned on the magnifying glass function of his glasses.