Chapter 92: The Journey Begins

Feng Xing Shou originally wanted to praise the fruit as well, but after seeing the names of the fruit in the game announcement, he swallowed back the words he was about to say. After all, pears are an affordable fruit in China, cheap and delicious.

She couldn't see the amount of pears revealed after the treasure chest was broken down from her side of the dining table. And since the reward value of 3 units didn't specify whether it was 3 pears or 3 kilograms, even if Japanese fruits were more expensive, she couldn't bring herself to praise them!

So she could only praise the other definite parts, and incidentally selected the multi-functional data cable diagram from the prompt options. She was genuinely happy to have her own data cable so she could charge her phone anytime.

They felt that although this thing was small, it was very useful and no less useful than vehicle expansion blueprints. At least they would no longer have to worry about their phone battery when entering and leaving dungeons, even though both of their phones had already stopped working.

The original owners of those phones that I got today will definitely not pay for their lost phones anymore. I guess they'll still have trouble with the phone's calling function next time they enter a dungeon!

However, if Hagiwara and his friends go to the past to rescue people, they will need to use other people's cell phones from that time. Will these phones return to their original owners? Or did the original owners lose their phones in the past?

It's uncertain whether Hagiwara and his friends even had cell phones back then. After all, unless you try it yourself, no one knows which outcome the rules of time and space will favor. Let's hope there won't be any trouble...

Just as Feng Xingshou was thinking about these things, with her movement, Matsuda, who was about to make a self-deprecating joke, saw the plastic, electronic components, and bronze in front of them disappear instantly, and then a single data cable, no, it should be said, a bundle of data cables with 10 corresponding plugs at each end, appeared in front of them.

Hagiwara picked it up and examined it, then couldn't help but praise, "As expected of a game product, it truly lives up to its name of 'multifunctional'! This data cable can not only charge your smartphones but also transfer data."

It even has the interface for old-fashioned mobile phones, and it seems to have the wiring interface for other electrical appliances as well. It can connect to data lines for 10 different models. My old flip phone, Xiaozhenping's smartphone, and all the phones I collected today can be used. It's really convenient!

"Heh..." Matsuda, who had only gotten a data cable manufacturing blueprint from the silver treasure chest, gave the two a "heh" emoji and stared at them with his half-moon eyes, saying, "Laugh if you want to, no need to force it."

This game is definitely luck-based. The junior student was lucky and got whatever she wanted, while I was unlucky and only got a data cable. I guess even the food and fruit were just barely enough to meet the minimum reward requirements for the silver chest. o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

"Ha ha……"

"Pfft!" Seeing the speechless expression on his handsome face, both Feng Xingshou and Hagiwara couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Even Matsuda himself couldn't help but laugh when he thought about it, and teased Hagiwara: "Hagi! I'll see what you get when you open a treasure chest someday, it'll be a very happy surprise."

"Ahem! I'll pass." o(*￣︶￣*)o He realized he had bad luck in this game after trying to open a treasure chest once, and never touched a treasure chest again.

Well! At first, of course, it was to maximize his and Feng Jiang's interests and acquire more good resources. Later, he realized that Feng Jiang was an old acquaintance, and also because of his feelings for her.

After developing feelings for her, it was purely out of a desire not to embarrass myself in front of her...

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When Feng Xingshou heard Hagiwara refuse again, he chuckled and said, "Hagiwara, don't refuse! I think it would be good if you two opened more treasure chests. The rewards from the treasure chests I open might be the more valuable ones."

At this stage, a data cable is more useful than our small kitchen. The small kitchen can't cook without vegetables and meat, and the collected and rewarded items are all finished food. It would be better if we had a data cable before entering the dungeon.

You won't have to worry about saving battery or your phone shutting down in dungeons anymore. You might even open treasure chests and find items that seem insignificant at first glance, but are actually quite useful!

"Hmm! That's true." Matsuda looked at Hagiwara and earnestly advised, "Hagi, I think what you said makes a lot of sense."

"Heh...you're trying to make up for today's laughter, aren't you!" They're childhood friends who've always been close, so who doesn't know who? o(￣ヘ￣o＃) Hagiwara glanced at Jinpei, who was making a fuss with a serious face.

But seeing the expectant look in Shangfeng's eyes, he could only say, "Alright! This afternoon, Xiaozhenping and I will take turns opening the treasure chests we got. Let's see if we can get anything that you think is not very valuable but useful?"

"Then it's settled." After saying that, Feng Xingshou stuffed the last bite of lobster meat into his mouth, chewed it a few times like a little squirrel, swallowed it, and then gulped down the last big mouthful of cola in one go.

As she stood up to tidy the table, she continued, "By the way, have you planned your afternoon itinerary? How far are we going to drive? Are we going to go to the place before your friend's accident happened?"

"Let's go to Komobushi's place first!" Hagiwara said as he cleared the table with Kazesei-no-Mori, explaining his reasoning: "After all, time has its own rules, and the butterfly effect isn't just a figment of imagination, but a cause-and-effect inevitability."

If we save the squad leader first and then save Xiao Zhufu, but Xiao Zhufu doesn't die on December 7th, 2011, every action he takes could have a different butterfly effect on the squad leader.

For example, if Komobushi had lived and had met with his old friends the day before the squad leader's accident, causing him to take leave from the Metropolitan Police Department, the squad leader wouldn't have gone to work or been on surveillance duty, and thus wouldn't have been involved in the car accident while trying to save someone on his way back from surveillance.

"Indeed! We should resolve the crisis with Morobushi first, and then see if the future of the squad leader changes. What if we save the squad leader first, but the butterfly effect caused by saving Morobushi leads to other misfortunes for the squad leader in the future..."

That would be terrible! Didn't the original butterfly effect movie show how people who wanted to change their bad fate took actions in the past, only to cause their fate to become even worse time and time again?

The squad leader was perfectly fine, but he got into a car accident the next day. His luck is even worse than mine and Hagi's. If we save him first and then save Morofushi, there is a real possibility that there will be a butterfly effect that is even worse than the car accident. So let's see what changes saving Morofushi will bring to him first...

At this time, Matsuda and Hagiwara were unaware that the class president's accident had resulted in the death of an entire family in his girlfriend's household, and even his girlfriend's teacher, after being diagnosed with cancer, mistakenly believed that Natalie's boyfriend was Wataru Takagi.

Driven by a desire for revenge against Natalie, he took extreme measures, ultimately committing suicide by poison. The causal chain of one life linked to four others, potentially triggering countless butterfly effects. Had they known this, they would likely have been more cautious...

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After discussing it, the three of them cleaned up the mess from lunch and decided to use the two universal blueprints. The universal blueprints for car configurations were used to upgrade the car body without any doubt.

Having resolved the serious ugly-cute problem of the car's unbalanced appearance in the eyes of Hagiwara and Matsuda, their vehicle's engine, wheels, and body have now all been upgraded to level 2.

As for the Level 2 general blueprints for car interior decoration, after discussing it, the three decided to use them to expand the space of the small living room, so that the living room space of their vehicle would increase by 10 square meters after the star upgrade to 10 square meters, becoming a 20 square meter living room.

A 20-square-meter living room is considered quite spacious for an average family, whether in China or Japan. However, they didn't actually use it as a living room; instead, they set up a sofa bed to use as a bedroom for Hagiwara and Matsuda. With the two of them sleeping in 20 square meters, it wasn't too cramped.

In fact, Hagiwara and Matsuda originally planned to give the general blueprints to Kazesei-no-Mori to upgrade her bedroom, but Kazesei-no-Mori refused. She felt that since she was sleeping alone in a 10-square-meter bedroom after the upgrade, and there was backpack space available, she didn't need to use the bedroom space to store supplies.

So the bedroom is already quite spacious, there's no need to expand it at all. I think it's more suitable to upgrade the living room, which would give them more space to move around during the day and allow them to sleep comfortably at night. It's a win-win upgrade...

In short, after the two upgrades were completed, they were able to drive on the highway with only their car again. Fortunately, this time, because they were going from 2015 to 2011, they were able to adjust the mileage and historical time ratio after the upgrade based on their calculations.

Even if their car travels at full speed, it will not reach the time before the end of 2011 until tomorrow morning. Therefore, they can drive freely this time. During the journey, Feng Xingshou even tried driving a short distance himself.

Unfortunately, Feng Xingshou didn't know what was going on. She could remember the handbrake, foot brake, accelerator, etc., but the steering wheel was a bit unresponsive in her hands. She felt that the direction was off. Every time she moved the steering wheel, she almost crashed into the white fog area of ​​the road in the opposite direction.

Thanks to the spacious driver's seat after upgrading the vehicle's star rating, Hagiwara squeezed into the driver's seat with her during practice for safety reasons, helping her control the steering wheel in time, thus preventing the car from crashing again.

After this experience, both Hagiwara and Matsuda said that she had a bad habit of using too much force when steering, and that she needed to practice controlling the force on the steering wheel in the future. She could only practice driving again after they confirmed that she was ready.

Aside from this minor mishap, they also acquired three bronze treasure chests that afternoon. Following the suggestion of the Wind Star Guardian at noon, Hagiwara and Matsuda took turns opening these chests.

As expected, the rewards included no blueprints, and the ingredients and fuel were scarce. The only guaranteed reward was bronze material, which was obtained by dismantling bronze treasure chests.

Even though highway treasure chests don't offer as many rewards as dungeon treasure chests, the game seems to have a rule that highway treasure chests reward survival supplies, daytime dungeons reward car upgrade blueprints, and nighttime dungeons reward car interior design blueprints.