Chapter 84 Sports Car Upgrade

The game encourages survivors to attack their own kind in order to get double rewards or more spacious vehicle interiors, steal their vehicles and turn them into their own trailers, and then bind the losers to their nominal co-drivers, who are essentially 'slaves'.

They might even encourage survivors to kidnap real-life humans from the dungeon and bring them into the game as 'co-pilots' by exploiting the difficulty of binding other survivors and their low obedience after binding them...

Although these are just speculations and there is no evidence yet, just thinking about them gives Hagiwara a chill, a sense of glimpsing the dark cruelty of the game's organizers, and a feeling of fear and anger intertwined.

What Hagiwara thought of, Matsuda naturally deduced as well. Only Kazesei no Mori, who hadn't thought of it at all, was still staring at the co-pilot's work permit with a silly grin, saying happily, "With this co-pilot's permit..."

In the future, if I encounter other survivors, can I hire them who need to drive me? That way, even if my driving skills aren't great, they can provide support from the passenger seat.

"Feng-chan! Didn't you ever think about letting us use this work pass?" Matsuda was a little surprised to hear her say that. He realized that the junior hadn't noticed the dark gameplay hidden in this reward.

Unexpectedly, the junior schoolmate didn't seem to realize it, and didn't seem to have considered giving the work ID to him or Hagi. This behavior surprised him, and he wanted to know her thoughts.

Hagiwara had spent more time with Fuu-chan, and he was better at observing other people's personalities and temperaments, so he could roughly guess what Fuu-chan was thinking. He guessed it was because he didn't want to restrict himself and Kojinpei!

Sure enough, when Matsuda asked this question, Kazesei-no-Mori replied directly: "Because this work permit doesn't have any rules about the length of service or the possibility of being dismissed at any time, it's estimated that once it's used, the user will have to be just like the survivors."

You can only completely leave this game when it ends. You two need to return to your own time. If you use this work pass and get stuck in this game as drivers until it ends, that would be terrible.

As Feng Xing Shou spoke, he put the crowbar and the co-pilot's work ID into his backpack to avoid accidentally using the work ID on them.

"Heh...now that you put it that way, it does sound a bit bad." Seeing her cautious reaction out of consideration for others, Matsuda couldn't help but laugh out loud, a genuine smile appearing in his eyes.

At this moment, he felt very fortunate. He was fortunate that Hagi had met a junior from elementary school, and that the person who saved him was also a junior from elementary school. If it had been someone else, the person would have been more selfish and self-serving.

They might end up in a worse state than death. This game is truly awful, but it allowed Hagi and me to meet some really, really good people. How could that silver-haired jerk have such a cute little sister? o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

Hagiwara looked at his childhood friend's reflection in his eyes, and saw that the smile on his handsome face made him even more dashing. He was a little worried that Kaze would be captivated by his handsome face.

Before Feng Jiang could notice how handsome Xiao Zhenping was, she quickly interjected, "Without a passenger seat, can this sports car still be driven? I guess until we find a suitable passenger seat, it will have to be stored in Feng Jiang's backpack."

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"Sigh! Backpack space is already limited."

"It's small, there's not much room left after putting this car down!" Feng Xingshou complained, but he still didn't hesitate to walk over and put the sports car away.

At the same time, he was thinking that he should find an opportunity to release it into the home space skill. The home space is large enough to fit a car, which would save backpack space and allow him to take the opportunity to soak in the hot springs.

She felt a little guilty enjoying herself behind Hagiwara and Matsuda's back! But because of her brother's upbringing, she had the idea that no matter how much she trusted someone, she should always keep a secret card.

Unable to be honest with Hagiwara and Matsuda, whom she had gotten to know and trusted, about the existence of her home space, she felt that even if they had malicious intentions, they couldn't take it away after she told them about it.

Besides, their character and integrity are indeed befitting of their profession. Well, let's wait and see! If we can find other trump cards in the future, then we can reveal the existence of the Home Space to them...

However, just a second before her hand was about to touch the sports car, Hagiwara suddenly stopped her: "Wait a minute, Kaze-chan, let me try to see if I can drive this car without using the passenger's work pass."

And try using the tow hook to see if it prevents the car from being stored, or if the two are already invisibly connected, and if storage is required, will both cars be stored together?

If it happens to be the latter, that would be terrible. After all, there's a possibility that if a survivor loses their survival vehicle, they'll be disqualified from survival. This shouldn't be attempted unless absolute safety is guaranteed!

"Uh... thank you for reminding us, otherwise we might have accidentally messed things up!" After being reminded by Hagiwara, Feng Xingshou realized that he had indeed been a bit careless. He had made a rash decision before the car's current functions had been fully tested. He would definitely have to be more careful in the future.

Matsuda glanced at his childhood friend, thinking that he had only thought of the possibilities before he hadn't even tested whether the sports car could be driven, but Hagi had thought of them all. It was clear that Hagi had only spent a few days since the accident, while he had spent more than four years.

Now, however, he seems to be more cautious and thorough in dealing with things, preferring to go through more trouble rather than being careless. It seems that he has truly learned a lesson from the terrible consequences of the bombing four years ago.

He would probably never again say that wearing a bomb suit is useless when defusing a bomb, or act as if he had enough theoretical knowledge to defuse a bomb without wearing a bomb suit!

Although the emergency response team at that time also bore a great deal of responsibility for not activating signal-blocking equipment on-site in order to facilitate command of other teams...

While Matsuda was thinking about these things, Hagiwara had already opened the sports car door and sat down to check the situation. Fortunately, the key to the sports car was on it, which made it convenient for him to test whether the normal driving method could still be used.

However, even without a car key, given his understanding of car construction and the fact that this is a somewhat old-fashioned gasoline car compared to the one Feng Xing Shou was born in 2025, he could quickly start the car without a key, even without electronic smart anti-theft locking.

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In short, with Kazesei and Matsuda watching, Hagiwara began to experiment with the sports car in various ways. Through his tests, he discovered that the sports car could still start even without using the co-driver's license.

You can even reverse or drive forward, but no matter which way you go, you can't get more than 1 kilometer away from Feng Xing Shou's survival vehicle. If you go beyond that distance, it will automatically brake and then you can't start the car again.

Furthermore, during his attempts, Hagiwara discovered that although he encountered a road treasure chest while driving his sports car, he could not reach it no matter how he got out of the car to get it. It felt like the road treasure chest was an illusion that he could see with his eyes but could not touch with his hands.

Then they went back to their survival vehicle and drove it, and found that no matter whether they drove forward or backward, once they were about a kilometer away from the sports car, the sports car would automatically follow behind them even though there was no one driving it.

They parked, but the sports car would automatically stop and shut off when it reached the rear of their vehicle, where the tow hook had been. After consuming a lot of fuel through these tests, they tried adding in-game fuel to the sports car, and it actually worked just like their survival vehicle...

"It seems that this trailer can be driven even before a co-driver is recruited using a co-driver's license, but it can't enjoy the same game benefits as other survivors, such as not being able to get road chests or not being able to see the game dungeon entrance like us."

Furthermore, it cannot stray too far from the survival vehicle. In such cases, I do not recommend storing it in your backpack, in case it is clearly mistaken for one vehicle, as in the distance test on the road earlier.

"If the backpack space rules mistakenly store the sports car and survival vehicle as a single unit, even you, Feng-chan, might lose your survivor status." Based on these tests, Hagiwara offered this advice.

After listening, Feng Xing Shou also felt that what he said made sense, and did not notice that his words clearly revealed that she already knew that her backpack space was not a skill given by the game.

He readily agreed, saying, "Since there's a high probability of problems, let's not put it in. Anyway, it can keep up on its own even without driving it. It will just consume more fuel, but we have enough fuel stored right now."

After confirming there was no danger in the sports car, Matsuda looked at the junior student and asked, "Feng-chan! Do you want to come up and try out this sports car yourself, and see if there's any difference in reaction when you're driving it as a survivor in the game compared to when we drive it?"

"Okay! I'll give it a try." After Hagiwara and Matsuda had already tried it out, Feng Xingshou was very curious about the gaming effects of this sports car. Now that Hagiwara asked her if she wanted to try it, she naturally agreed immediately.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Feng Xingshou got into the sports car, he received a series of game notifications:

[Hint: The survivor's trailer has a low-end engine configuration!!!]

[Hint: The survivor's trailer has a low-spec center console!]

[Hint: The survivor's trailer chassis has a low configuration!!!]

[Hint: The survivor's trailer has a low-spec transmission!]

[Hint: The survivor's trailer has low-end features!!!]

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[Hint: Does the survivor want to upgrade the trailer to a Tier 1 vehicle by consuming 100 units of Black Iron, 100 units of Plastic, 100 units of Glass, and 10 electronic components? Yes? No?]

Seeing this series of prompts, Feng Xingshou couldn't help but complain: "They're all telling me which parts or functions of the sports car I can upgrade."