Chapter 34 We are old acquaintances

"Second year of graduate school! What is he saying?" Unfortunately, Feng Xingshou couldn't understand Japanese at all, so he naturally didn't know what terrifying things the other party was saying, nor did he understand how the other party addressed him.

After his initial surprise, Kenji Hagiwara, who already knew a bit about the game and knew they could go back and play through the dungeon, replied with a mischievous grin, "They say kidnapping a police officer is illegal, and his silver bracelet is itching to be used!"

"Eh eh eh!!!" Feng Xingshou exclaimed in surprise, remembering the glittering silver handcuffs that Hagiwara had shown her, and hurriedly retorted, "Who kidnapped a policeman? I had no choice but to save him from the explosion."

The box containing the explosive bomb was welded to the carriage floor. I couldn't store it, so I had to take you away from the scene where it would explode in a moment.

Hearing his childhood friend still joking around, Matsuda Jinpei knew, even if he didn't understand the current situation, that his current predicament was more secure than being in the Ferris wheel car, especially since he was also a graduate of the University of Tokyo, just like Hagiwara.

She was at an excellent level in both Chinese language and character proficiency tests. Even if she spoke with an accent, she could understand Mandarin without any problems. So, seeing her so eager to explain, her voice did indeed sound very similar to the one in the recording.

He actually put his arm on the back of Hagiwara's car seat, opened his half-moon eyes and complained in awkward Chinese: "If you hadn't interfered, I could have taken care of that bomb that was already in the final stage of dismantling in just 3 seconds."

"Uh...you can take it down?" Feng Xingshou turned to look at him in surprise, and seeing the speechless look under his half-moon eyes, he realized that he seemed to have done something wrong with good intentions.

Kenji Hagiwara is a skilled bomb disposal expert. He had been keeping an eye on Matsuda's bomb disposal progress since entering the carriage, so he knew that what he said was true. Therefore, when he thought of Kaze-chan's return, he hurriedly put himself into his spatial backpack.

Since they couldn't store the bomb, they had to store Kojinpei instead. Kojinpei, who was supposed to be able to dismantle the bomb in 3 seconds without any worries, was speechlessly 'kidnapped' because of Fuu-chan's storage...

This unexpected yet inexplicably happy ending made him burst into laughter, still reeling from the memory shock: "Haha... Feng-chan! You're always so unpredictable!"

"Stop talking." How embarrassing! She had managed to do something so wrong again, waah... o(╥﹏╥)o So shameful, she covered her face and stammered softly, "Let's send him back tomorrow!"

We've gathered a lot of supplies today, so it won't hurt to stay here for another day.

Looking at his childhood friend laughing heartily and his junior schoolmate so embarrassed she wanted to bury herself, Matsuda Jinpei breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that she could still laugh so happily meant that Hagi must have had a good four years, but he didn't know her current situation.

With his professional acumen, he naturally noticed long ago that among the thousands of cars speeding by outside the car window, some had been involved in potentially fatal accidents, yet no one stopped to help, and no police officers or medical personnel provided emergency care, including his close friend Hagi, who was also a police officer.

Knowing Hagi as he did, he would never do this unless absolutely necessary, especially considering the junior schoolgirl looked about ten years older than her actual age, and the incredible illusion he was just performing...

So what exactly happened to them? Just as Matsuda Jinpei was wondering this, he suddenly saw a screen of light appear out of thin air in front of the junior schoolgirl, with several lines of writing on it. From his current angle, leaning back in the Hagi chair, he could clearly see the contents:

[Announcement: Today's daily dungeon speed race has ended. Rewards for the top ten have been distributed, as well as group encouragement awards. The bottom ten were eliminated and have been removed from the game. Please collect your rewards.]

【announcement

Congratulations to survivor Wind Star Guardian for achieving 3rd place in the daily dungeon Speed ​​Race and receiving a Bronze Chest as a reward.

[Announcement: In this daily dungeon, 9 survivors failed to find the exit in time and were eliminated.]

[Announcement: A total of 69 survivors were eliminated in this vehicle skills competition.]

[Announcement: This area has completed today's daily dungeon and the daily dungeon driving skills competition, and will return to the Survival area.]

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Just as Matsuda Jinpei finished reading those lines and before he could even ponder their meaning, the view outside the car window instantly transformed from what could be described as a vast racetrack into a single-lane highway, with thick fog obscuring the view on both sides in an unnatural way.

"Isn't that incredibly unscientific?" As if reading his mind, Kenji Hagiwara winked at him playfully, voicing his thoughts.

Matsuda Jinpei immediately 'retorted': 'Is this why you haven't been heard from for four years?'

"Uh! This question is a bit complicated to explain." Finally able to chat with his friend in peace, Kenji Hagiwara was in an unexpectedly good mood.

"It's all my fault. At the time..." Feng Xingshou felt that he had done something good but ended up doing something wrong, and he had an obligation to explain the situation to the victim. So he began to explain.

After explaining how she chose to take Kenji Hagiwara away, clarifying the game with him, and recounting her experiences over the past few days, she quickly added, "Kenji also wants to go back and contact you."

But because each instance only lasts 30 minutes, his phone died, he wanted to wait until I taught him how to drive, and he wanted to find the instance closest to where his accident happened… for these reasons, he hasn't had a chance to contact you.”

"So in your sense of time, only four days have passed since four years ago?" After hearing the answer from Kazesei-no-Mori, Matsuda understood the reason for the junior's age and appearance. However, this explanation also made him understand what had happened to Hagiwara.

However, it couldn't explain the other questions in his mind. He thought about how Hagi and the others appeared precisely in the instance where he was supposed to die, and how the junior student knew the location of the second bomb even before the answer to the bomber appeared.

With his keen insight and professional competence, he reacted almost instantly: "You've already been to the future timeline after my accident, and after learning about my death, you specifically tried to come back to today to save me, right?"

Only in this way can we explain how the junior student knew the correct location of the bomb, and why Hagi would 'coincidentally' enter a dungeon based on the scene of his own death.

"As expected, you can't hide it from Jinpei!" Fuu-chan's ability to rewind time is her secret, and she doesn't want to reveal it to others, so I'll help her keep it a secret.

Even knowing that her childhood friend would never reveal her privacy, Kenji Hagiwara did not deny Jinpei Matsuda's misunderstanding, and shamelessly reached out to Jinpei Matsuda: "Do you have a cigarette?"

"Tsk!" Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue in apparent displeasure, but his body language betrayed him as he pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one for himself, and handed the cigarette case and lighter to Hagiwara Kenji.

Feng Xingshou, who was standing to the side, felt that he had done something good but had done something wrong. He was eager to make amends to the victims. When he saw them smoking as they talked, his eyes lit up and he said very enthusiastically, "That's right."

Among the supplies I collected at the amusement park today was a cigarette vending machine. It should have plenty of cigarettes inside, enough to keep you all entertained. I'll go get it now.

After saying that, she opened the car door and got out, intending to take the cigarette vending machine out of her spatial backpack. However, since the vending machines were stacked together, she could not accurately select the cigarette vending machine to take out.

I had no choice but to put this

She took all the vending machines out and placed them next to the car. Then, looking at the machines, she subconsciously started counting the contents, forgetting her initial thought of giving the cigarettes to the victim to atone for her mistake...

"She seems to have forgotten that she went to get cigarettes." Matsuda Jinpei, who had already passed through the center armrest in the back of the car and was sitting in the passenger seat, was speechless when he saw this.

Kenji Hagiwara couldn't help but laugh: "Well! That's just how Kaze is."

"It seems you two get along well." Seeing the genuine smile in his childhood friend's eyes, Matsuda Jinpei naturally understood his true feelings at that moment.

He nodded, not hiding his feelings, but touched his chin with a hint of helplessness: "But she didn't recognize me, has she completely forgotten me?"

"Didn't she give you a love letter? Do women usually forget someone they've liked so easily?" Matsuda Jinpei was somewhat surprised to hear Hagiwara say this.

Kenji Hagiwara, however, found it understandable: "After all, she was only 15 years old at the time, which is 20 years ago, so it's normal for her to forget after so many years."

"That's true!" Matsuda nodded, then, recalling how he met the junior schoolmate, asked, "By the way, what's her name? I still don't know her name!"

Hagiwara Kenji replied: "Fengxing Mamoru! A native of Nakashu."

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"No wonder that even though I was wearing a Kanagawa junior high school uniform back then, the love letters I wrote to you were full of incorrect homophones and the Chinese characters were written correctly, but the usage was all wrong. Just now, when you heard me speaking Japanese, your eyes clearly didn't understand."

It seems that he probably didn't receive any language training at a language school and transferred directly to Kanagawa Junior High School! Matsuda Jinpei's reasoning ability and professional competence made him understand what was going on as soon as he heard it.

Recalling the experience, Kenji Hagiwara said with a hint of helplessness, "Yeah! That's what I guessed too. No wonder her behavior was a bit... It seems she really didn't understand what I said to her."

"I understand what happened. What are your plans?" Since it was a private matter concerning his friend's relationship, Matsuda Jinpei didn't pry or interfere in his love life. Instead, he changed the subject and asked about his plans directly.

"Of course, I want to make sure that Fuu-chan can survive and escape this game. Then I want to go back to the day I had the accident, find the time we missed, and also see Fuu-chan back then..." Kenji Hagiwara said without hiding his plans.

Seeing the strange look on her childhood friend's face, as if asking, "Are you having a love-struck episode?" she smiled and said, "I know what you want to ask, but it's not good to talk about our plans regarding the game, because I suspect that our presence here isn't due to the abilities the game gave us."

It's not about her own strength; it's about her own abilities. Our survival is practically a bug in this game. Until we're sure the game has monitoring and bug-fixing capabilities, we can't reveal any plans!

As he said this, he winked his right eye at Matsuda.

Matsuda Jinpei instantly understood the unspoken understanding between his close friend. He knew that Hagiwara was telling him that he shouldn't say anything about the game threatening the other party, but suggested that he go back and find a way to pass on the matter to the higher-ups in the country.

Even for those world powers capable of resisting invasions by other civilizations, even if technological limitations cannot prevent the arrival of games, improving the driving skills of the entire population can, to some extent, increase the survival rate of Earthlings.

After hearing Feng Xingshou explain the rules of this highway survival game, and seeing that there were more than 8,000 survivors in the area displayed on her game panel, he knew that the arrival of this game was not a good thing, recalling the racing scene of those few minutes.