Chapter 37 The cautious Hagiwara

No longer haunted by the painful nightmare of his best friend dying in the explosion, Matsuda Jinpei's afternoon sleep was of very high quality. When he was woken up, he was like a well-rested tabby cat, full of energy, but the fierce aura of the Black Boss seemed even stronger.

Kenji Hagiwara originally wanted to wake up Fuu-chan and bring out his belated dinner, but Matsuda refused. He had a big appetite for lunch because he was happy to reunite with his childhood friend after a long separation, and ate quite a lot.

He had been sleeping all afternoon and evening, and hadn't had much physical activity, so he wasn't hungry at all. He was more curious about the monster-hunting dungeon that night than about eating.

Seeing this, Kenji Hagiwara simply carried the sleeping Kaze to the sofa bed in the back of the car to continue sleeping, and had Matsuda move to the passenger seat. He first told him the known rules of the nighttime dungeon monster-hunting, and then asked, "Did you bring a gun? If you have a gun, you can try it."

"One fully loaded Cherry Blossom pistol, and two spare magazines." Matsuda Jinpei took out his sidearm, opened it to check the condition of the bullets, and said with relief, "Luckily, I ran into that bird-beaked man who makes explosives yesterday."

Having learned my lesson the hard way about not having a sidearm, I made sure to bring one before coming out to defuse the bomb today. I'll leave these for you tomorrow; they should last you two days.

"It's not that bad yet. We can just give up the nighttime dungeon!" Kenji Hagiwara was a little speechless at what he said. He and Kaze-chan hadn't been struggling to the point of using such words as "struggling to get by," had they?

"Heh... Without the rewards from the nighttime dungeons, you'd probably be really struggling to make ends meet, at least you wouldn't even have a bathroom." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at him and made a sarcastic remark.

Then, after thinking for a moment, she said to him, "How about I contact Furuya and Morofushi when I get back, and ask them to prepare enough ammunition for you to use for a while at a fixed time and place?"

"It's not that convenient, is it? The rules of the dungeon seem to be that it can only be created in a certain place in Japan where a destruction event occurred. If you want to go back, it must be at this time, but I don't know what will happen in Japan four years or seven years from now."

"I only know about you based on the text message you left me, so it's really difficult for us to arrange a time together!" Hagiwara rejected the suggestion with some helplessness.

Matsuda Jinpei turned to look at Kaze Seishoku: "Kaze-chan doesn't know?"

"Why do you also call her Feng-chan?" He didn't expect that his question would elicit such a reaction from Hagiwara.

Seeing his unease, Matsuda Jinpei was speechless, his eyes gleaming: "If I just call her by her first name, Hoshimori, or her surname, Kaze, I bet you'd mind even more than if I called her Kaze-chan."

I've discovered a new trait in Hagi—I never expected him to be so jealous! o(*￣︶￣*)o

"You can call her Feng Sang!" Kenji Hagiwara shamelessly said that this was acceptable.

Upon hearing this, Matsuda Jinpei retorted, "When have you ever seen me call someone 'Use Sang'?"

"Ahem!" Kenji Hagiwara coughed involuntarily, thinking that since he had known this guy, he had never used honorifics or respectful titles among peers. He didn't give any face to any seniors in school, and he always addressed ordinary people by their surnames.

When I first met Kofuruya and the others, they called each other "Furuya," "Morobuchi," and "Class Monitor." Only when we got to know each other well would they use names or nicknames. For example, when we were at the police academy, I gave Komorobuchi the nickname "Keidana."

It's quite rare for him to use honorifics and respectful terms of address when speaking to others, especially since Kaze-chan is actually younger than them all; she used to be their junior at Kanagawa High School...

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The two helpless Ken Hagiwara

To avoid this topic, I directly answered his previous question: "I talked to Feng Jiang, and she doesn't know much about the events happening in Japan. She only notices those big enough to be trending on the internet or in the news in Zhongzhou."

For example, in 2014, a mechanism was discovered in our country that was sold after the death of the president of the Karasuma Group. When activated, the exterior and interior walls of the old building collapsed, revealing a golden castle worth billions of Zhongzhou coins, which made the world news.

In 2016, Miri United Pharmaceuticals sold a drug with the Chinese translation "Silver Bullet," which claimed to have a rejuvenating effect, restoring the bodies of people with disabilities to their pre-disability state and the elderly and infirm to their prime.

However, in 2018 it was discovered that this drug would modify human genes, causing human genes to become unstable and likely to cause some kind of immune gene defect, which would be hereditary. People would have to take some expensive and effective drugs to boost immunity that were subsequently developed by the same pharmaceutical company for a long time.

Or perhaps only by living in the residential sterile wards developed and produced by this pharmaceutical company can one survive. This is seen by victims around the world as a means by which the United States and Japan ruthlessly amass wealth and leech off their lives.

This led to international condemnation and economic sanctions from the victimized countries, severely damaging Japan's economy and severely undermining its international reputation. In 2002, the economic downturn caused by the "silver bullet," along with issues such as cults and the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea, resulted in the assassination of the former prime minister.

She only knew about Japanese incidents that had made headlines in Zhongzhou. She was largely unaware of smaller, more serious cases like the ones we experienced in this scenario, which didn't have enough impact to trend on Zhongzhou's social media or involve victims from Zhongzhou.

"Tsk! How come so many messy things are going to happen in the future?" Matsuda Jinpei thought about how he had been so busy working overtime since he was transferred to the Third Department of the Major Crimes Division that he didn't even have time to go back to his apartment at night.

Yesterday, my experiences were all about crime from morning till night, and I couldn't help but click my tongue in amazement: "But Japan's crime rate is already approaching that of the United States, so it's inevitable that it will get worse in the future! I just didn't expect that even a former prime minister could... How much resentment must he have?"

"Ha... If we keep refusing to sign death penalty orders, criminals who deserve punishment will not receive the punishment they deserve. This kind of future is inevitable. Didn't the United States see its crime rate soar after it abolished the death penalty?" Kenji Hagiwara's meticulous and perceptive personality.

He had long foreseen the potential future developments caused by the flaws in the Japanese judicial system. Therefore, when he learned about the future events that made global headlines during his conversation with Kaze-chan, although he was somewhat surprised, he did not find them unimaginable or unrealistic.

Matsuda Jinpei could only say helplessly, "It seems I can't take a shortcut to help you out."

"Heh... I don't think we need to worry. Kaze-chan's luck is much better than ours, who died earlier." Hagiwara Kenji chuckled to himself, then added in a joking tone, "After all, it's not like anyone can enter three dungeons and have ammo supplies for two of them."

"Tsk! If you're going to say that, including my sidearm, I should say I entered four dungeons, three of which had guns..." Matsuda Jinpei said, then couldn't help but laugh, "Indeed, I was quite lucky."

Kenji Hagiwara, influenced by his smile, also smiled.

Just then, he paused for a moment, then looked out the driver's side window. He thought he had just heard a regular vibration in the ground. Was the midnight dungeon starting?

Matsuda Jinpei's hearing was also excellent; he heard the noise almost at the same time as Matsuda Jinpei. His professional instincts made him hold his breath, press himself against the back of the passenger-side window where the car body obstructed his view, and then look out the window.

The two previously

During the conversation, Hagiwara told him about the patterns he had observed and summarized in the nighttime dungeons, so both Hagiwara and he assumed that this time the monster was the same as last night, a giant rabbit monster.

Unexpectedly, the two saw a giant, boar-like monster emerge from the thick fog by the roadside. It was slowly making its way towards the car, its fat belly swaying as it took each step with a tremor.

Upon seeing the giant wild boar, which was over a meter tall and nearly three meters long, Matsuda Jinpei immediately glanced at Hagiwara with his crescent-shaped eyes: "Hagi! Is this the rabbit monster you were talking about?"

"Huh? I thought I had figured out the refresh rules for the midnight instance! Looks like I was wrong." Kenji Hagiwara rarely felt embarrassed; he had never been this unreliable before.

However, having embarrassed himself in front of his childhood friend, he shamelessly pretended nothing had happened and then said in a serious tone, "But according to the wolf-like rule that the giant wolf monsters would always attack in groups, this giant boar monster might also have some of the characteristics of a boar in reality."

"For example, it's thick-skinned and likes to charge and attack?" Matsuda Jinpei understood, then added, "A real Mazda wouldn't be able to withstand the charge attack of a wild boar of this size. What do you think in the game?"

"Not good! There isn't even a car repair toolbox here. If we really crash it, it will be a terrible thing. Let's strike first!" After saying that, Kenji Hagiwara opened the window again, just enough for the gun barrel to stick out.

His sharp gaze fell upon the giant boar monster slowly walking towards the car from the road. He steadily raised his gun, aimed, and was about to fire when Matsuda Jinpei leaned over, his gun already off safety.

He then passed the gun barrel through the gap in the car window and said to Hagiwara, "Just in case, don't shoot the pigskin part that might have enhanced defense. Shoot directly at the eyes. You go first, I'll finish you off. After all, this isn't a real wild boar. Even if a bullet hits a vital spot, it might not kill you quickly."

“OK!” The two were best friends who had grown up together since childhood and had also undergone firearms training together at the police academy. They had even tried shooting at the same target and the same bullet hole.

In terms of accuracy, they are indeed not as good as Kofuuya or Komobushi, but they are still better than the squad leader and other police academy students of the same class. Now that they are at such close range, as long as the target is not an agile monster, they are confident that they can hit it.

Sure enough, at such close range, even though the target was the eyes of the giant boar monster which was very small, the two of them hit it accurately. However, it was about the same as Matsuda had predicted. Even if they hit the eyes of the giant boar monster directly.

They couldn't kill it immediately. Instead, after it was hit, it suddenly went berserk, turning from a slow pace to a rapid crash into the car before they could fire a second shot.

The giant boar monster charged at the car, collapsing just before hitting it. Three seconds later, its massive body disintegrated into fluorescent particles, leaving only a silver roadside treasure chest outside the car door…

After mastering the attack distance, the two waited for 5 giant boar monsters within 30 minutes. After killing them, they dropped 5 silver treasure chests, but the two could not be happy about obtaining the silver treasure chests.

After all, according to Hagiwara's previous speculation, the weaker the monster, the closer the time of the road dungeon it belongs to is to the past. If 7 o'clock is the year he had the accident in 2007, then this road should be in 2011.

It's impossible for a Silver Chest Monster that drops higher-level treasures to spawn, so there must have been some kind of mutation that occurred without their knowledge to cause this phenomenon. If that's the case, will the dungeon we enter here tomorrow allow Xiao Zhenping to return to his time?