Chapter 95 Abnormal Dungeon Time

Despite laughing loudly, the three of them still managed to make all of today's rewards while chatting and laughing. They made three electric blankets, which were needed for all three of them, and one kettle was enough to avoid wasting materials.

After finishing the task, Hagiwara and Matsuda took advantage of breakfast to tell Fuusei-no-Kami about how they had noticed a possible hidden change in the game rules based on the previous night's dungeon and its rewards.

So the three of them discussed it and decided to continue traveling according to the mileage and time ratio they had calculated yesterday, to see which time the dungeon would enter today, in order to try to find out the hidden rules regarding the dungeon's time.

They had made various guesses, but none of them had anticipated that the time they entered the instance at noon would be completely different from what they had guessed. They ended up entering December 6, 2014, a full three years different from the December 6, 2011 they wanted to reach.

According to the information they knew, Morofushi Kagemitsu was forced to commit suicide at 00:47 on the 7th, so they planned to enter around 23:47 on the 6th, at which time an hour might not be enough to save Morofushi Kagemitsu.

However, they have enough time to contact their friend Rei Furuya to provide him with information and find a way to rescue people. Even if something goes wrong, they can leave the car in place and adjust the time slightly the next day to enter a new instance time to continue rescuing people.

But now, looking at this unexpected time, all three of them were puzzled. Feng Xing Shou looked at the phones they had taken out that automatically corrected the time.

He whispered in Hagiwara's ear, puzzled, "The time is exactly as you calculated, 11:47 PM, but why is the year wrong? It's a full three years off."

“Logically, since the hours and minutes are calculated correctly, then our calculation method must be correct, but this time…” Even Hagiwara couldn’t figure it out at this point, and could only smile helplessly: “I can’t think of any game rules that could cause this result.”

"Me too. The key is that if we can't find out the cause of this result, we will encounter the same problem in the next copy time. We must figure out what this rule is all about."

Only then can we ensure that we enter at the accurate time. Matsuda frowned, pondering what possibilities could cause a 3-year time error.

Seeing their serious expressions, Feng Xingshou also wondered what was causing this phenomenon—the hours and minutes were correct, only the year was wrong, it felt as if there were three separate years, 2014 and 2015...

As she was thinking, she suddenly remembered the conversation between Hagiwara and their friends in the last instance, and asked with some surprise, "By the way, why don't you try to see if those phones you collected last time are still usable?"

If it's still usable, contact your friend now and see if he can come over in time to bring you some things you need! At least getting you both a few changes of clothes would be essential!

"Ahem! I think that at this time, those phones should still be in the hands of their original owners. After you take them out of your backpack space, perhaps the time-space restoration effect will make those phones disappear from our hands."

Although my phone and Matsuda's phone...

"It's charged, but unfortunately the number has been cancelled. Apart from emergency calls like calling the police or calling for first aid, there's no way to contact Furuya!" Hagiwara said with some helplessness.

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It turns out that not only had he thought about the problems that would arise after the phone returned to reality, but Hagiwara had thought about it too! This could be considered a kind of tacit understanding! Upon hearing Hagiwara's reply, Kazehoshi Mori quietly had this thought in his mind.

On the other side, Matsuda heard what Hagi said. Even though he didn't hear what the junior girl said, he could guess the general content. With a cat-like nature and a strong sense of curiosity, he couldn't help but suggest, "Why don't you let Kaze-chan take out a cell phone for you to try?"

Let's take this opportunity to determine whether the time-space bug will automatically fix itself! Perhaps, contrary to your reasoning, the phone's original owner's phone simply disappeared, while ours still works perfectly!

"Alright!" Looking at the curious eyes of her childhood friend cat and the wind-chan clinging to her, Hagiwara knew without asking that she was just as curious about the outcome as Jinpei.

So even though she felt the outcome would be the one she had guessed, she reluctantly agreed and said to Feng Xing Shou, "Feng-chan, give me one of your cell phones from your backpack!"

"Mmm!" This time, Kazeki agreed very readily and acted very quickly. Almost as soon as he finished speaking, he took out a cell phone from his backpack and put it in Hagiwara's hand.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the three, they saw the phone that had appeared out of thin air in Hagiwara's hand become increasingly transparent within seconds, and in less than 10 seconds, it completely disappeared from his palm...

Matsuda had actually guessed that this was the most likely possibility, and now that he had seen it with his own eyes, he could only say, "It seems that we can only wait until after February 27, 2015 to use those phones again."

"Huh!" Matsuda just said it casually, but when Feng Xingshou heard it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and quickly grabbed Hagiwara's arm excitedly, saying, "Hagiwara, I've thought of a way. Maybe we can find out why the three years in this instance are so unusually long?"

"What method?" Hagiwara was quite surprised after hearing this, unable to understand what had just happened that made Kaze-chan come up with a solution.

“We’re not sure what’s going on with this timeline, so why don’t we try it out with these phones tomorrow?” Feng Xingshou said, revealing the idea she had just come up with for the phone experiment: “Think about it, we’ve clearly traveled through three normal years of historical time travel.”

The result shows that it was only a few months from February 27, 2015 to December 7, 2014. No, it should be said that it was less than 3 months. However, the hours and minutes were correct, which indirectly proves that the mileage and time-space ratio you calculated should be correct.

So once we exit today's instance, we'll travel a year into the future using your calculation method to see how long it takes to enter the historical timeframe. If it's shortened to one month, or less than one month...

We can infer that the game rules may have been changed so that the original one-year mileage is equivalent to less than one month of time now, if we really reach December 7, 2015 smoothly.

Then you can check the phones to see if there are any changes, to determine whether the 2015 date they received is more than two months from now, or more than three years from now as you calculated correctly.

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"Feng-chan! Do you suspect that the game developers have tampered with real-world time?" Hagiwara was taken aback by Feng-chan's words, even with his naturally easygoing personality.

Seeing his childhood friend so shocked, Matsuda couldn't help but ask curiously, "What did Kaze-chan say to you that made you so surprised?"

“What did you just say, Fuu-chan…” Hagiwara quickly recounted what Fuu-sei-no-Mori had said when Kojinpei asked him.

On the other side, after Hagiwara finished answering Matsuda Jinpei, Kazesei no Kami continued, "I just think that since you and Matsuda are so smart, and you didn't miscalculate the hour and minute, it's definitely not your fault that the year is wrong."

If it's not your fault, then it's possible the game developers modified the real-world time rules, perhaps setting up three 2015s in reality! They can even create a duplicate of Earth's historical timeline, so modifying real-world time shouldn't be a problem for them!

"That's quite possible!" Hagiwara felt a surge of excitement at the thought that Fuu-chan trusted him so much. He wanted to prove himself and show Fuu-chan that he hadn't let her down.

Being trusted so unconditionally naturally shocked Matsuda Jinpei, but he wasn't the type to show his deepest feelings and emotions on the surface.

At this moment, he did not show any unusual emotional fluctuations on his face. Instead, he seemed to reflect for a moment and said, "Hagi! We were both bound by the mindset of the Earth Science Museum. We forgot that if the other side has advanced technology, even the most unreasonable things can be done."

"Thanks to Feng-chan's reminder, otherwise I would have started to doubt my life and felt like I wasted my four years of college." Hagiwara really wanted to hold Feng-chan's hand at this moment, but unfortunately he couldn't reach Feng-chan's dimension right now.

Only Feng Jiang could take the initiative to contact him, which made him feel a little disappointed, but he didn't show it on his face: "Anyway, let's do as Feng Jiang said and try the dungeon tomorrow. We'll know whether we're the ones who are wrong, or whether the game organizers are playing tricks in real time?"

"Once we confirm this, it will be much easier to pinpoint the time when Jing Dan and the squad leader had their accidents." Matsuda felt much more at ease once he found some loose ends that could untangle the knot and lead to the truth.

Hagiwara couldn't help but sigh, "Fū-chan is the kind of person who appears foolish but is actually wise! We seem to be better at thinking things through, but when it comes to actually dealing with a problem, you're the one who's more capable."

"Ahem... I just think it's more likely that the game organizers are up to something. They always come up with some unexpected designs to trick the survivors, like those mischievous racing games and stunt competitions."

"Who in their right mind would play this kind of game in real life!" She was just a little uncomfortable being praised, so she couldn't help but express her thoughts, mainly because of her aversion to games.

I was wondering what rules the game had implemented in real time, and what kind of science and technology would be needed to create this phenomenon...

Hagiwara, however, snapped out of his shock at the possibility of the dungeon's time anomaly because of her voice, and quickly said, "Well! We can consider the dungeon's time anomaly after we leave the dungeon. For now, let's observe the environment of this dungeon, find out why it's going to be destroyed, and what resources we can collect!"