Chapter 50 Roast Duck and Oranges

"Heh..." Hagiwara couldn't help but chuckle, turning around and affectionately ruffling her hair: "At times like this, Kaze-chan doesn't need to worry about such trivial matters as etiquette!"

"Oh right, didn't we just get a silver treasure chest as a reward? Let's see what it contains!" Knowing that the junior schoolgirl wasn't like Japanese girls who would exclaim "kawaii" all the time, he knew that she was different.

But with a habit of always getting stuck on strange things, Matsuda simply pointed to the silver treasure chest next to him, which was a quarter of a cubic meter in size, reminding the luckiest junior among them that there was still a treasure chest that hadn't been opened yet.

As expected, Feng Xingshou was successfully drawn to the silver treasure chest. He ignored the worry that if he didn't speak in the regional channel, others would perceive him as arrogant, aloof, or unsociable, and that he would lose the approval of others—a concern that only people with a people-pleasing personality would have. He took out a crowbar and went to open the gold treasure chest.

[Congratulations to the survivor for opening the Silver Treasure Chest! You have received one Level 2 Engine Manufacturing Blueprint, 200 Units of Gasoline, one box of 10 Roast Ducks, 2000g of Cherries, one 3-person Mild Spicy Butter Hot Pot Set Meal, 20 Units of Plastic, 20 Units of Rubber, 20 Units of Glass, 20 Units of Electronic Components, and 10 Units of Silver!]

"It's an engine blueprint for upgrading a Tier 2 vehicle? It seems that, compared to the daytime reward chests, the nighttime dungeon reward chests are of a higher level." Matsuda was a little surprised.

“Indeed!” Hagiwara nodded, then looked at Kaze Seishuu: “Kaze-chan, try it out. Do you have enough materials to upgrade to a Level 2 engine?”

"Hmm!" Feng Xingshou's gaze lingered on the vacuum-packed roast duck in the reward supplies for a brief two seconds before she casually picked up the blueprints inside and began studying them. She wasn't surprised that the reward materials were enough for an engine upgrade, so she skillfully upgraded her level 1 vehicle's engine...

It's probably human nature to focus on someone you like when you're with them, and Hagiwara is no exception. Besides, he's very observant, so he naturally noticed her slight change in expression.

He chuckled to himself, thinking, "Looks like Feng-chan wants roast duck! Hmm! Then we'll have roast duck for lunch today." As he thought this, he looked at the car in front of him. Their car had already undergone significant changes after being upgraded to a level one vehicle.

The car still has the Mazda's exterior design, but the tires look much thicker and more premium than before. According to Hagiwara and Matsuda, the tires also have better anti-slip treads, making them suitable for driving on snow that isn't too thick.

Not only have the car windows become more beautiful and refined, but the texture has also been noticeably hardened. There is also a light-blocking window film in the rear compartment, so you can see clearly from inside the rear compartment outwards, but you can't see the rear compartment clearly from the outside.

However, since it's cloudy now, we can't test the sun-blocking effect of these car windows. We'll have to wait until a sunny day. As for other parts, the car chassis has also been raised a bit due to the upgraded tires.

The car's shape remained unchanged, but the surface looked like it had been painted with a brand new layer of paint, so bright it almost reflected light. He and Matsuda had both tried it; it was a paint feel they had never experienced in real life. Perhaps the game had some special effects...

With Feng Jiang's operation, the exterior of the car remained unchanged. However, after inspection by him and Matsuda, they discovered that the car had an additional gear, and the speedometer could now reach a maximum speed of 260 km/h.

This speed is equivalent to the top speed of most imported cars. The new gear seems to be for adjusting this speed. But this speed is like a wild horse. If you don't have enough skills to drive at full speed, it's fine on this road, but it's easy to crash and kill yourself in a racetrack.

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"With such a high speed, we can drive farther every day and find more treasure chests!" Feng Xingshou, who knew nothing about cars, was confused by these changes and thought that such a large increase in speed was a good thing, so he was happy about it!

Seeing her happy expression, Matsuda immediately poured cold water on her: "Kaze-chan! Do you know what 260 mph means? Not to mention the obstacles on the racetrack, driving at that speed is like playing with your life."

But if you drive at that speed on this highway, neither the driver nor you would even get a clear look at the treasure chest before speeding past it.

"Wow! That fast?" Feng Xingshou thought about how high-speed trains nowadays generally travel at speeds between 200 and 300 km/h, with some reaching over 400 km/h. If car odometers were to be like those of high-speed trains, the speed would be incredible...

-_-|| Realizing what was happening, she took a deep breath and quickly said, "It seems that this speed is only for observation and cannot be actually driven at this speed."

"Heh... it's still okay to open it if necessary." Just as Hagiwara was about to explain to her what "if necessary" meant, he suddenly felt a chill on his ear. He looked up and exclaimed in surprise, "Hey! Look, it's raining? Hmm... it looks like snow."

"It really is rain and snow, I didn't expect it to happen so quickly." Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou immediately shifted his attention and reached out to personally feel the snowflakes melting on his hand.

Snowflakes fell evenly onto Matsuda's face. After personally experiencing the current weather, he couldn't help but take a deep breath: "It seems that the so-called disaster season is truly living up to its name!"

"..." Feng Xingshou looked at Matsuda again, puzzled, wondering why he suddenly said that.

"Wind! Normally, at this temperature, a change in weather would only bring rain, but what's falling now are snow particles that melt as soon as they hit the ground. According to the current climate, there should be strong cold air or cold air currents overhead.

Once the cold snap passes, the local climate will quickly return to normal, but this isn't the real world. You can't even see a single star in the night sky, so it's definitely not some other world either." Hagiwara Mikaze Seishu was puzzled.

I explained to her why Matsuda said that: "It should be a place like another dimension, a spacetime tunnel. The weather changes in such a place, and there is a strong cold air current above, but the temperature below us is still like spring."

Putting aside the climate technology involved, one point alone must be taken seriously: if this snowfall and cold wave continues throughout the disaster season, then the so-called rain and snow climate could very well continue from today until the end of the disaster season.

The weather pattern initially involves snowflakes melting after falling, then turning into frozen snow as temperatures drop. The most troublesome aspect might be the unexpectedly cold and damp temperature fluctuations within just ten days or so.

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"You mean it might be similar to the snow disaster in southern my country that year, where the snowfall in the north didn't seem that heavy, but it caused a huge disaster for the people in the south?" As soon as Hagiwara said this, Kazesei immediately thought of the special snow disaster in the south of his own country.

When she saw the news, she was in the north and felt that the amount of snowfall was nothing compared to the amount of snowfall near the Sino-Russian border where she lived. How could such a small amount of snow cause a snow disaster?

Later, when I went to work in the South, I realized that the cold in the South is a damp cold, a cold that seeps into your bones, completely different from the free and pure cold of heavy snowfall in the North.

Matsuda, who had also seen news reports about the disaster relief efforts in southern China while in Japan, immediately nodded: "Pretty much! But I reckon it might be even more severe than that, since the game organizers used disaster to describe it."

It was tolerated.

"Luckily, we upgraded the car air conditioning this morning, otherwise this disaster season would definitely be tough." Feng Xingshou couldn't help but sigh at how timely the dungeon rewards were last night.

"It seems we need to prepare more for the cold, especially more down jackets, otherwise we won't be able to even get out of the car and enter the dungeon." Hagiwara noticed that the snow that had fallen was snow.

The snowflakes, which turned into rain after falling, grew larger and larger. He turned around, picked up the unpacked supplies scattered on the ground, and called to the two of them, "Let's get in the car quickly! Judging from the weather, we'll have to have lunch in the car today."

"Hmm!" Feng Xingshou looked up at the sky again, feeling a sense of fear at the gloomy sky that seemed to be pressing down. With such powerful climate control technology, what would become of Earth and the humans living on it?

Because of the sudden change in weather, Feng Xingshou was a little absent-minded. When he heard Hagiwara's suggestion to eat roast duck, he didn't pay much attention and did so. It wasn't until he put the duck in his mouth that he realized it was the roast duck that he had been craving before coming to the game, but couldn't bear to eat.

Wow! Vacuum-packed instant food products, the duck skin is roasted to perfection, the spring pancakes are not only as thin as paper, but they also look very fresh. Even the scallions and cucumber strips look like they were freshly cut. The game's black technology is really amazing!

She ate heartily while marveling at the food. The mild Chinese cuisine suited the tastes of Hagiwara and Matsuda perfectly, and they ate quite a bit. By the end of the meal, the three of them had devoured two bags of roast duck and the flatbread they had obtained earlier.

I don't know if it's a common habit for people from the East to crave oranges when it gets cold, but after lunch, when Fuusei asked them what kind of fruit they wanted, Hagiwara and Matsuda both answered in unison—oranges.

Just then, Feng Xingshou suddenly felt like eating oranges, so after Feng Xingshou took out the box of oranges, the three of them peeled and ate oranges, and unknowingly ate almost half the box...

Cough cough... Fortunately, the three of them weren't idle while eating oranges. Through discussion, cough! They decided that it was actually Hagiwara who insisted on turning around and driving back, believing that the direction the car was facing was the future of 2014, and the direction the car was facing was the past.

Matsuda, however, insisted on driving forward, arguing that since the game's mode changed every week and even the road coordinates were moved, the original direction might be reversed. Therefore, he believed that the direction the car was facing was before 2014, and turning around would lead to the future of 2014.

They argued back and forth so much that they started using Japanese, which Fengxingshou couldn't understand at all, leaving her no chance to mediate. All she could do was keep arguing.

No one knows what Matsuda said, but Hagiwara reluctantly agreed and drove in the direction Matsuda chose. Although they found another bronze treasure chest after driving for more than 30 minutes.

However, because the coordinates of the road have changed, without any comparison, they cannot determine whether the bronze treasure chest they find is an upgrade or a downgrade.

In order to avoid straying too far from the coordinates they had just returned from and getting lost, they were driving very slowly and did not intend to travel too far.

Naturally, they didn't encounter any treasure chests of a higher or lower level than the bronze treasure chests. In the end, by the time they parked at night and the road was wet, they had collected a total of 3 bronze treasure chests.

After opening these three bronze treasure chests, you will receive 30 units of bronze (obtained by dismantling the three chests), 300 units of fuel, 3 five-liter barrels of purified water, 1 can of cola, 1 can of grape-flavored juice, and 1 can of coffee.