Chapter 28 Ferris Wheel

Soon, with a dining table, chairs, and an iron pot, the person took a cold shower in the portable folding bathroom using the shower gel and shampoo collected in the apartment instance, and started the morning feeling refreshed!

Cough cough... After finishing breakfast and dinner around 9 o'clock, I continued learning to drive under the encouragement and various methods of Hagiwara, who was well-rested and had an exceptionally good complexion. I didn't stop until the noon dungeon was about to start.

Even Feng Xing Shou waited nervously for a few minutes. After the dungeon entrance appeared, he immediately looked at Hagiwara and nodded to him, indicating, "The dungeon entrance has appeared. Let's go in!"

"Yeah! I hope it goes well this time." Kenji Hagiwara said as he reached out his hand to her.

The feeling of her hand being gripped back after she took his made Feng Xingshou a little nervous. She kept telling herself not to be so nervous that her hands would sweat and embarrass herself in front of the handsome police officer, making him think she was greasy and disgusting. As she did so, she pulled him skillfully toward the entrance of the dungeon...

Having learned from their previous three experiences, they both thought this time would be the same as the last two: either they would be in a place where bombs were planted, or in a place where delayed detonation devices were set up, or in a place where bombs were being disposed of; in any case, it would all end in destruction...

But to their utter surprise, upon entering the dungeon, they found themselves in a surprisingly cramped space: two double benches and a narrow passageway barely wide enough to turn around—it looked almost like…

Before Feng Xingshou could figure out what this familiar space was called, he heard Hagiwara say from the side, "It's inside a double cabin of the Ferris wheel. The Ferris wheel is still turning, but something seems to have happened down there. There's a house on fire and smoking!"

She then noticed that Hagiwara had already walked to the glass window of the narrow carriage and was looking out. She followed him, peered out, and saw that it was indeed as Hagiwara had said.

Outside was a giant Ferris wheel, below which a small house was on fire and emitting smoke. People around were scattering in panic, and their Ferris wheel cabin was currently positioned diagonally upwards, still a while away from the ground before it would fall...

“Huh! This place looks familiar.” Just then, Kenji Hagiwara continued, “Eh~! I remember now, this is Beika Town, and Beika is the only place in all of Japan with the largest Ferris wheel.”

As expected, this instance is still in Japan. I wonder if this is related to the place where Kojinpei had his accident? Or is it the place where another incident happened? Judging from the position of the sun, it's about 11 o'clock.

It's a little different from the time Xiaozhenping last sent me that text message, 11:59:34. Unfortunately, my phone is dead, and we don't have watches to check Japanese time, so I can't contact Xiaozhenping without a phone! If only I had used my phone more sparingly!

{It seems we can only wait until the Ferris wheel reaches a spot where we can get off the train, and then borrow someone's phone!} Feng Xingshou, hearing this, looked at the empty train car with nothing but benches, and could only take out a pen and paper to write down his reply.

Kenji Hagiwara smiled as he looked at the note that had been sent directly to his pocket: "You're right. In any case, we can only wait until we get down there. Judging from the current altitude and rotation speed, we should be able to land in about 6 or 7 minutes. We're not in a hurry."

I wonder where this instance was destroyed? Could it have been caused by the fire in that room down below, which looks like the Ferris wheel control room? By the way, Feng-chan! Have you found the instance exit yet?

He realized that the exit of this survival game instance was not the same as the one he entered from; he had to find the exit again each time to leave, and all three times he found it near the most dangerous location when the instance was about to collapse.

Like myself

The second time was near the corridor where the bomb would inevitably be caught in the blast radius. The time the apartment caught fire was because the fire spread to the kitchen, which contained a lot of fuel such as natural gas, and the abandoned factory happened to be near the location where the bomb was being disposed of.

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"Ah! Thank you for reminding me, I almost forgot. I'll look for it now." Feng Xingshou, reminded of the exit, hurriedly stood by the carriage window and looked out to see if he could find any trace of the exit.

Fortunately, after she tried the Palm Healing Technique to heal herself, her nearsightedness, which was almost to the point of needing glasses, was completely cured, and her vision is now as good as it was in her childhood. She has very sharp eyes now.

They quickly found traces of the exit and hurriedly told Hagiwara the answer: {Found it! It's on the outside door of carriage 71. I thought the exit would be inside the carriage this time, and I couldn't find it by searching like this; I had to go into each carriage one by one! I didn't expect it to be so obvious!}

"Heh... After all, it's just a daily dungeon, and the time limit is only half an hour. If the difficulty is too high, not many people will be able to get out alive." Kenji Hagiwara suddenly thought of something as he said this: "That's right."

Based on the previous two instances, the exit of a dungeon usually becomes extremely dangerous 30 minutes after the dungeon opens. It's likely that the exit of carriage number 71 was designed according to this pattern.

This seems to indicate that in 30 minutes, the adjacent carriages 69 and 72, or even the entire Ferris wheel, may be in danger. We need to be extra careful and try to leave a few minutes before the event ends.

"Hmm! I understand, but how are we going to get up there? The distance between this carriage and the other side is quite far! If we go down and then try to come back up, carriage 71 will have already moved to a higher position." Feng Xingshou knew he was right.

She agreed without hesitation, but was a little at a loss about what to do next. After all, she had never ridden such a high-class thing as a Ferris wheel before, nor did she have anyone who would accompany her to an amusement park.

Upon seeing the contents of the note, even without her saying anything, Kenji Hagiwara, with his keen sense, immediately guessed that she had no experience riding a Ferris wheel, which was why she asked such a question. A look of heartache flashed in his eyes.

He replied nonchalantly, "The Ferris wheel here in Beihu normally rotates once every 11 to 13 minutes. Although the fire started in the control room, the Ferris wheel is still turning, which means its rotation function is probably not affected."

Based on this timeline and the distance between our carriage and carriage number 71, we can get off in about 7 minutes, move around on the ground for about ten minutes, and then wait for carriage number 71 to return to the ground for the second time. Then we can get back on.

{Oh! I see! Those ten-odd minutes must have been the time the game gave us to collect supplies down there. I wonder what's collectible in the amusement park; hopefully we'll have a good haul!}

"Heh... there's a lot of food and fun at the amusement park: pancakes, deluxe fried noodles bread, smoked chicken legs, popsicles, popcorn, all kinds of ice cream, sushi rolls, sausages, beer, chicken wraps, coffee..."

Kenji Hagiwara reminisced about his high school days, going to the amusement park with Jinpei Kojima, recounting the memories as if they were his own treasures, and then summarized: "They basically have all the popular Japanese foods, but most of them are Western-style."

Wow! We'll definitely be able to collect lots of delicious food when we get to the ground! Feng Xing Shou's mouth watered at the thought. Although she has a Chinese stomach, she also enjoys some Western snacks, especially ice cream. No woman can resist its temptation!

Kenji Hagiwara smiled as he looked at the note: "Then let's collect it properly in a bit! I'll open it later..."

While in the car, you can also eat snacks to pass the time.

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The two had planned very well, but unfortunately, before they could even get off their carriage, the area below had already been evacuated, and several vehicles sped up from the nearly empty ground below.

They were either police cars or ordinary vehicles with flashing lights, and when Kenji Hagiwara saw the police cars getting out, he couldn't help but shout out, "Jinpei!"

"Xiao Jinping? The friend who sent you over 1000 text messages? Where is he? Let me see?" Feng Xingshou heard his voice and her curiosity about Hagiwara's friend made her subconsciously speak up. After speaking, she realized that he couldn't hear her at all, so she quickly wrote a small note for him with a pen and paper.

Reminded by the note, Kenji Hagiwara quickly pointed to the figure who had gotten off the train and was talking to a short-haired female police officer, a chubby male police officer, and others, saying, "That's the black-haired, curly-haired officer who wanted to get into carriage 72, smoking a cigarette and wearing sunglasses to look cool!"

As they talked, Kenji Hagiwara suddenly realized that he had just deduced that there was a potential danger in carriages 72 and 69, and that Jinpei had gone straight to carriage 72. Furthermore, Jinpei had sent him his last text message at 11:59 PM. Could it be…?

At this moment, Feng Xingshou was unaware that Hagiwara had already guessed something. He looked down at the ground and searched according to his description. He quickly found the person that Hagiwara had described among the figures on the ground.

Well... how should I put it! Although we can't see that person clearly from this angle, he looks kind of handsome in his black suit, loose tie, sunglasses, and slightly curly short hair.

The silhouette revealed through the sunglasses has a kind of Eastern male celebrity look, with a high and well-shaped nose. Looking at his height proportions compared to the people around him, he is taller than everyone else. He is definitely not short, and his figure is the kind of slender, lean physique without a beer belly, and not even a slight protrusion is visible...

She felt that if this person's eyes behind his sunglasses were of average quality, he would be a handsome guy. If his eyes were also beautiful, he would definitely have the face of a celebrity! Could this be the so-called handsome guys only making friends with other handsome guys? She subconsciously had this thought when she thought of the handsome Hagiwara.

Before she could think any further, Kenji Hagiwara spoke in a rare serious tone: "Kaze-chan! We're in trouble this time. We'll have to do something dangerous to leave this instance safely."

"Huh?" Feng Xingshou hadn't recovered from seeing Hagiwara's best friend's appearance when he heard him say this, and he was a little confused.

"Do you remember I told you about the bomb criminals that Kojinpei mentioned in his text message, sending a countdown fax to the Metropolitan Police Department every November 7th? Plus the time when Kojinpei stopped sending text messages." At this point, even though Kenji Hagiwara hadn't received her little note.

I could guess what she was thinking, so I immediately explained to her, "I had speculated that it might be related to the bomber, and now it seems that it was. I thought it was just a normal operational accident."

Since Kojinpei and Inspector Megure are both here, this is no ordinary incident. It is very likely related to the bomber I encountered before. If the bomber planned the incident, then Kojinpei went to compartment 72.

The last time he texted me was at 11:59, and the countdown to the dungeon was 30 minutes. The dungeon exit was still in carriage 71, so I deduced that carriage 72 had probably been planted with a bomb by the perpetrator, and Kojinpei was there..."

Although he had guessed what would happen to Kojinpei, he couldn't bring himself to say those last few words, even if he forced himself to remain calm.