Chapter 236 Rewards for 5-Star Vehicles

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

Feng Xing Shou didn't start upgrading the vehicles until all of them were upgraded to the level of 2 trailers.

[Game Hint: The survivor's trailer has been upgraded to the same level as the survivor vehicle. Do you want to absorb the trailer to upgrade the survivor vehicle's star rating?]

[Game Hint: A survival vehicle can be upgraded to a one-star survival vehicle by absorbing one trailer with the same configuration and interior software as its own. For each star upgrade, the survival vehicle...]

Seeing the notification, which was similar to the one she received during her first star upgrade, and after noticing the approving looks from the three members of the Hagiwara group, she clicked the confirm option. As she did so, their vehicle was once again enveloped in thick fog, until the fog dissipated and a new game announcement appeared:

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for becoming the first survivor in this region to upgrade to a 2-star vehicle, and receiving a Gold Chest '1' as a reward]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for becoming the first survivor in this region to upgrade their vehicle to 2 stars, and for receiving a Platinum Chest '1' as a reward]

[Game Hint: Upgrading a vehicle unlocks the ability to summon a vehicle in the real world, allowing survivors to return to reality to recuperate...]

[Game Hint: A 2-star vehicle can be summoned to the real world twice... and so on, until upgraded to a 9-star vehicle, at which point the vehicle can be summoned to the real world an unlimited number of times. After the game ends, you can permanently own the vehicle and bring it back to the real world for use.]

"Wow! Two more heavyweight treasure chests! What will I get this time?" Upon seeing the rewards, Hagiwara, whether intentionally or genuinely surprised, let out a gasp rarely heard from adult Japanese men.

Matsuda glanced at his increasingly shameless childhood friend with an annoyed look and said, "What's the rush? We can upgrade the stars a few more times later. We can save up the treasure chests and open them all at once."

"Anyway, with our luck, we won't get anything good. To achieve the best blind box effect, we still need Fengsang." Morofushi Kagemitsu thought for a moment and then added, "By the way, we haven't used the two blueprints we just got!"

After upgrading the star rating, I'll see if I can get any new reward blueprints from the reward chests. I can use them all at once; this car will probably have performance even more outrageous than the alien cars in sci-fi movies.

After hearing what Morofushi Kagemitsu said, not only Hagiwara, a car enthusiast, but also Matsuda and Kazesei Mamoru became excited. After all, who says only men like cars? Just like how men in ancient times liked BMWs, if a car is really good, women will like it too!

So the four of them got back to work. As the vehicle leveled up again and again, new rewards kept appearing on her game panel until the 5-star reward announcement ended. After the four of them sorted out the reward announcement content, they continued working.

If it's confirmed that the Wind Star Guardian vehicle can be summoned in reality 5 times, then at least for the next 5 months, they can be assured that during the 5-month real-world rest period, they won't be unable to summon the vehicle when they need its functionality.

In addition, they also received 2 Platinum Chests, 3 Dark Gold Chests, and 1 Diamond Chest. However, they planned to save the chests and open them all at once, so they didn't open them until they completed the star upgrade and didn't know what the rewards inside were.

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Now that the star upgrade is complete, Feng Xingshou asked the three of them almost impatiently, "Now that the star upgrade is complete, and we've used up most of our materials and spare vehicles, should we go check out the upgraded vehicles first, or open the treasure chests first?"

o(╥﹏╥)o She felt that her storage space had never been so empty. She was even planning to sell the materials she collected from the Ferris wheel and buy today's dose of mental energy cultivation potion from the gift shop to try out the backpack's synthesis function!

It seems we'll have to put the backpack crafting feature on hold for now. Sigh!

"What about you guys?" Hearing Feng Xingshou ask this, Hagiwara, Matsuda, and Morofushi Kagemitsu exchanged glances and asked. At this moment, he didn't know what to choose either, since they could all guess that the vehicle should be upgraded to 5 stars.

According to the doubling rules of the first star upgrade, there must be earth-shattering changes inside. Of course, they want to enter as soon as possible to see clearly, but they also know that the potential for doubling is definitely huge once they reach 5 stars.

I wonder how long it will take to check everything, and how long it will take to open the six high-level treasure chests I just obtained and see what rewards they contain. That's something to be concerned about.

You know, the gold and platinum reward chests are fine, since we've opened them once and can roughly guess the level of the rewards inside. But we haven't opened the dark gold and diamond chests even once! Naturally, we're curious about what these levels of chests will reward us with.

Seeing that Feng Xingshou couldn't make a decision and even his childhood friend hesitated, Matsuda, who was decisive and didn't like ambiguity, simply made the decision: "Alright, let's open the treasure chest first! No one can concentrate on checking the specific status of the vehicle's star upgrade without seeing the rewards inside the treasure chest clearly."

"Besides, we still have vehicle parts upgrade blueprints that we haven't used yet. If we get some other parts blueprints from these chests, we can continue to upgrade the vehicle's parts. Once we've upgraded the vehicle to its best condition, we can check the star-up results. Maybe the surprise will be even greater!" Morofushi Kagemitsu added to Matsuda from the side.

Matsuda smiled and said, "As expected of Keidan, your plan is quite good."

After agreeing on the plan, Feng Xingshou deliberately washed her hands during the sleet falling from the sky. After drying them, she picked up the crowbar to open the treasure chests she had just been rewarded with. As she did so, the game announcement reappeared on her game panel, and at the same time, a large amount of supplies appeared out of thin air around her.

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Platinum Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 1 Mental Power Upgrade Potion, 1 Level 3 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 3 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 10-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of Roasted Squid King, 10 Units of White Jade Grape King, 160 Electronic Components, 200 Gold, 400 Units of Fuel, and 10 Units of Platinum.]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Platinum Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 1 Spiritual Power Cultivation Potion, 1 Level 3 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 2 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 10-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of Salmon King Sashimi, 10 Units of Pink Diamond Strawberry King, 160 Electronic Components, 200 Gold, 400 Units of Fuel, and 10 Units of Platinum.]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Dark Gold Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 2 Spirit Power Upgrade Potion, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 20-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of King Eel, 10 Units of King White Truffle, 240 Electronic Components, 200 Platinum, 600 Units of Fuel, and 10 Units of Dark Gold.]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Dark Gold Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 2 Spirit Power Cultivation Potion, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 20-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of King Eel, 10 Units of King Black Truffle, 240 Electronic Components, 200 Platinum, 600 Units of Fuel, and 10 Units of Dark Gold.]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Dark Gold Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 2 Body Tempering Upgrade Potion, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 4 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 20-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of King Tuna Sashimi, 10 Units of King Morel Mushrooms, 240 Electronic Components, 200 Platinum, 600 Units of Fuel, and 10 Units of Dark Gold.]

[Game Announcement: Congratulations to Wind Star Guardian for opening the Diamond Treasure Chest! You have obtained 1 Level 3 Spirit Awakening Potion, 1 Level 5 Universal Vehicle Parts Upgrade Blueprint, 1 Level 5 Universal Vehicle Soft Furnishings Upgrade Blueprint, 10 Units of 30-Year Aged Bloodstained Begonia Wine, 10 Units of Premium Sweet Shrimp King, 10 Units of Tourmaline Lychee King, 360 Electronic Components, 200 Dark Gold, 800 Energy Boxes, and 10 Diamonds.]

[Game Tip: Spiritual Awakening, Cultivation Potions, and Constitution Tempering Potions can only be used according to your current level. You cannot use them beyond your level. For example, to awaken spiritual power at level 1, you can only use a level 1 Spiritual Awakening Potion. Only after successfully upgrading your spiritual power with a level 2 Spiritual Awakening Potion can you use a level 2 Spiritual Awakening Potion, and so on...]

[Game Tip: Vehicle component blueprints can only be used according to the vehicle's current level and cannot be used beyond the vehicle's level. For example, a level 1 vehicle can use a level 2 component blueprint to upgrade its components, but no level 3 components can be used before the vehicle is fully upgraded to level 2. Other blueprint types follow the same principle...]

[Game Tip: The Bloodstained Begonia Wine has effects such as increasing immunity, treating radiation damage, strong acid corrosion of cells, and eliminating all malignant cancer cells. The higher the vintage, the better the therapeutic effect. Please use it sparingly.]

[Hint: A universal vehicle parts upgrade blueprint has been found. Do you want to use it? Yes? No?]

Seeing the series of game announcements and the rewards that appeared out of nowhere around them, the four were almost stunned. However, Hagiwara reacted the fastest. After seeing the contents of the game panel, he frowned and reminded the others, "Did you notice?"

The rewards in these game announcements actually follow a certain pattern, especially the alcohol rewards. Except for the previous star-up reward which was baijiu, this time they have all been upgraded to weeping begonia wine. However, the game later reminds us that weeping begonia wine is not relevant to reality.

The miraculous effects, akin to a divine medicine, if this established pattern represents the rules of the game in terms of alcohol rewards, does it mean that even baijiu (a type of Chinese liquor) has some beneficial effects on the human body, though less potent than the "Weeping Blood Begonia" liquor?

"It's very possible. When I see Furuya next time, I'll have him arrange for someone to conduct a thorough test on the ingredients and medicinal effects of the baijiu! Perhaps that's why it's so valuable in the game." Hearing Hagiwara's reminder, Matsuda felt that his previous confusion about the baijiu had been answered.