Chapter 113 Matsuda, the Bad Guy Trainee
Day 10 of the road survival game!
Watching the squad leader's car drive away, Matsuda couldn't help but sigh, "The squad leader's tolerant nature is so good at times like this. If it were Furuya, he would definitely ask until he gets to the bottom of things before deciding whether to agree or not, or whether to believe us."
"Heh...that's called being cautious." Hagiwara couldn't help but laugh when he mentioned Kofuruya. "But it's nice when he's cautious with others, but when he's cautious with us, it's a bit troublesome! After all, he's Kofuruya."
"Tsk!" Matsuda checked his phone again: "It's already 12:38. Calculate the time it took them to run from downstairs to the rooftop, and the time it took Jing Dan to end his own life."
They should be here in another two or three minutes. What should we do? Should we ambush them at the entrance downstairs, knock out the FBI agent, and let Jing Dan escape?
"Hey! This simple and crude approach probably won't work, right? I heard from Kofuruya that the area seemed to have been surrounded by the organization when the incident happened." Hagiwara didn't think that eliminating the FBI undercover agent would solve the crisis for Komobushi.
He committed suicide not because he couldn't defeat the FBI agent chasing him, but because he realized he couldn't escape when surrounded by the organization and knew he wouldn't be rescued by the police. That's why he chose to flee to another world to protect Kofuruya's identity and the safety of his family and friends.
Matsuda knew this too. He had said those things earlier out of anger towards the FBI agent, wanting to find a reason to teach him a lesson. Now that Hagi had rejected it, he didn't insist.
He changed his tune, saying, "Then let's try to create some commotion in the opposite direction of Xiao Zhufu's escape, to give the illusion that Xiao Zhufu has escaped, and then come back and leave the instance, how about that?"
“That’s feasible, but we’ll need to get some fuel or something from Kaze-chan to help with the site design.” Having experience with arson, Hagiwara’s first thought was to become an arsonist again.
Matsuda, seeing his current expression, couldn't help but retort, "My handcuffs are itching to come out!"
"Heh..." Hagiwara couldn't help but laugh as well.
Listening to their conversation, Feng Xingshou couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why don't you let me put your friend and you into the backpack space together, and release him after the people chasing him leave?"
Anyway, I'm in the instance dimension, so even if I stand right in front of them, they can't see me. There are still more than 10 minutes until the instance evacuation time. Wouldn't it be safer for me to just hide when they get nearby?
"Uh... it's just my habitual thinking; I forgot to include your spatial backpack ability in the plan again." After all, with over 20 years of scientific thinking, it's hard to include such an unscientific ability in the plan! Hagiwara's handsome face showed an innocent look.
Upon hearing Hagi's words, Matsuda guessed what the junior had said. He immediately opened his half-moon eyes and retorted without any politeness, "I'm worried that you might accidentally bring Jing Dan back into the game again, and then I'll really have to put my silver bracelet on you."
"Ahem! I'm not that unreliable!" When the topic of his good intentions gone wrong came up, Feng Xingshou immediately coughed and guiltily indicated that it was the only exception.
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Hagiwara is a little disappointed that he can't see Kaze's adorable appearance right now. He thinks her expression must be hilarious. He'll definitely try to tease her in a similar way when he gets back, so he can see her cute, guilty look with his own eyes...
The handsome guy, who looked perfectly respectable, was harboring a wicked plan in his heart, but on the surface he said with a straight face: "Yeah, yeah! Fuu-chan is always the most reliable, so when little Morofushi escapes over later, I'll leave him to you!"
"Oh, right, don't forget to hide us before the FBI comes after us." After saying that, Matsuda thought for a moment and then quickly added, "Also, Jing Dan's build and appearance are similar to Hagi's. He has black hair, blue eyes, and is very handsome, but he has a short beard that ruins his good looks."
"Eh! Morofushi has grown to be as tall as me?" Hagiwara thought back to when Morofushi was much shorter than him during the police academy days, and now he was the same height as him. He couldn't help but feel the power of time.
He immediately retorted defiantly, "Hmph! If I grow for another four years, I'll definitely be taller than you guys, even taller than the class monitor. A man's growth period isn't over until he's 23, so I still have a year left to grow!"
"Hey! Don't be too greedy." Matsuda was speechless. This guy, who had always been exceptionally tall, was already over 1.9 meters tall and still wasn't satisfied. How much taller did he want to grow?
Feng Xingshou agreed: "1.9 meters is tall enough. If it's more than 2 meters... it will wear out too many clothes."
She's not envious of other people's height! o(￣ヘ￣o＃) If I could grow to be 1.8 meters tall, even if I weighed 180 pounds, I wouldn't look as fat as I am now, right?
"Haha... You don't want me to grow taller because it wastes clothes? That's true. I'm thinking that my future wife will have a lot of trouble washing clothes. Being over 1.9 meters tall will reduce Feng-chan's workload a bit in the future!" Hagiwara couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this bizarre reason for not growing taller.
Hearing him say that, Matsuda rolled his eyes: "Tsk! Hagi, your skin is so thick you could be a load-bearing pillar in a building."
"Shut up!" Why does this guy always like to make jokes like this! (＃￣～￣＃) Feng Xing Shou complained inwardly, but a smile that was a little embarrassed and annoyed, but also a little happy, appeared involuntarily in his eyes.
After all, in the past 30 years of her life, it was only after meeting Hagiwara that she experienced this complex emotion of being teased and flirted with by an outstanding and handsome man. She was happy to be teased by him, but for some reason, she didn't want him to know this.
He could only pretend to be very angry, but without any real anger or force, he let out a low growl in the other person's ear, and then quickly changed the subject: "By the way, your friend will be here in a little while."
"Do you want to meet him, say hello, and then let me move you into your backpack space? Or should I move you first and then hide him away directly?"
"..." His voice sounded a little embarrassed, but he wasn't really angry. Hagiwara guessed at Fuu-chan's emotions when he said that, but on the surface he looked like he was listening to his future wife and made a gesture of zipping up his mouth.
Matsuda, who was standing to the side, really wanted to rub his stomach to digest this wave of dog food. But when he heard the junior student forcefully change the subject with a question, he suddenly realized: "Actually, we don't need to go to so much trouble!"
Hagi and I had previously thought of hiding because Furuya had mentioned the FBI agent in detail, and subconsciously we felt that we already knew him. If he saw us, it might expose Keidana's knowledge.
In reality, we only 'know' him because of Furuya; he doesn't know us at all. So, when he catches up, as long as he doesn't see Keidan, he'll be able to see me and Hagi.
They'd just see us as two nobody else smoking and chatting under the door of an abandoned building. There's no need for us to move into your backpack to hide from him, or organize anyone else.
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"It was at 47 minutes that Kofuya reached the rooftop. At the height of 9 floors, without an elevator in operation, even with Kofuya's stamina, it would take at least 3 or 4 minutes to run up the stairs."
At this point, we can move Xiao Zhufu to a safe area and leave the instance. So we can hide when Xiao Zhufu comes, and then come out to deal with the organization's pursuit after moving Xiao Zhufu to our inventory space.
"I can also take this opportunity to see what that FBI undercover agent looks like. I have a feeling I might have to deal with him in the future when it comes to solving the Silver Bullet problem." Hagiwara also realized this.
He couldn't help but laugh at himself: "I feel like we were both a bit off today, making several stupid mistakes. Is this what happens when you're worried and your brain doesn't work properly when it comes to family and friends?"
"You're already quite clever to have thought of this! I wouldn't have thought of it at all if you hadn't mentioned it!" Feng Xingshou felt that they were being overly modest, as the environment and times were constantly changing.
They are able to quickly come up with better ways to deal with changes in conditions, which is already the smartest of the smart. If they are so smart, and they still think that they are being stupid for coming up with a good solution, what else can it be but excessive modesty?
She completely ignored the complaints of these two guys who possessed talents that others envied, and asked with some confusion, "It seems you're not planning to meet with your friend. Why? Meeting and communicating with him would make it easier for him to understand what happened, wouldn't it?"
"Heh... Morofushi isn't as easy to talk to as the squad leader, especially when it comes to work, he's very serious." When asked why, Hagiwara said helplessly, "If we really meet him, neither of us will be able to get away in less than 10 minutes."
“We don’t have 10 minutes to exchange information with him…” Based on Hagiwara’s words, guessing what the junior student had asked, Matsuda said this, then suddenly his expression changed, and he said to Hagiwara, “He’s here, let’s hide…”
Hagiwara heard Komorofushi's hurried footsteps and heavy breathing as he ran towards them. His expression immediately changed, and he said to Kazesei no Kami, "Kaze-chan, it's your turn now."
"Don't worry." It's just grabbing someone and putting them in her spatial backpack! She's a pro at that! Feng Xing Shou readily agreed.
Before she could respond, Hagiwara and Matsuda had already quickly and quietly slipped behind the main entrance of the abandoned building, which they had opened without permission while checking for danger points.
Just as their figures disappeared behind the door, a male figure wearing a silver-gray coat and a purple shirt, as tall as Matsuda had described, with eyes that still shone with a beautiful blue hue even in the darkness, ran over.
It seems this must be Hagiwara and Matsuda's friend. Wow! He's really tall, with a figure even more standard than a model. It seems that no matter which country you're from, all the high-quality men are handed over to the country.
o(￣ヘ￣o＃) Do all these tall, handsome guys like to hang out together? I'm so envious of their height! Sigh! If only I could have a little bit of my brother's height, just a few centimeters would be enough for me to surpass 1.7 meters! o(╥﹏╥)o
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Feng Xingshou was still envying other people's height! In Morofushi Kagemitsu's view, after escaping here, he quickly observed the surrounding environment and was devastated to find that the end of the street was blocked by a building, a dead end.
With organized pursuers behind him and no way to escape by road, he looked around and noticed that there was a building more than two meters away from the one blocking the street intersection.
It's speculated that if you go up to the top floor of this building, you might be able to climb over it, cross the roof of another building, and reach the street behind that building. Entering there would take you to the edge of Beika Town, close to Beika Town, where perhaps there would be fewer informants...
Having observed this information, and seeing no one else in sight, he paused slightly before running straight from the intersection to the entrance of the building where Feng Xingshou was standing. Then, without any surprise, as he approached the building's entrance, he suddenly vanished into thin air...
Hagiwara and Matsuda, who had been hiding behind the door observing the situation outside, only emerged after Morofushi Kagemitsu disappeared. They belatedly realized, "It seems that Morofushi wasn't chased and forced to run around haphazardly."
Instead, we calmly and rationally planned our evacuation route. Because of the instance, we were only focused on these two adjacent buildings and completely failed to notice the building on the other side blocking the way.
"What a coincidence that the instance we entered is right between the two buildings? Come to think of it, we only checked the instance boundaries and exits on this side, and didn't even try to explore the instance boundaries on the other side."
"Could it be that the boundary of the other side of the instance happens to be right next to the boundary of that building?" That would be too much of a coincidence. It's as if this instance was deliberately designed to be located between the place where Jing Dan had his accident and the barrier that prevented him from escaping.
The production of a game cannot be viewed as mere coincidence. But even if Jing Dan is a Japanese public security officer, from the game's perspective, he is just an ordinary Earthling. Would they need to design a dungeon specifically targeting Jing Dan?
Just as Matsuda was thinking to himself that this coincidence was a bit too coincidental, a pickup truck drove in from the intersection where Morofushi Kagemitsu had run from. After seeing that there was a dead end ahead under the headlights, the truck stopped and then opened the driver's side door.
A pale-skinned man with long, jet-black hair and green eyes emerged from inside, wearing a knitted hat. He exuded a cold aura, his eyes were ruthless, and his presence was menacing. He walked towards Hagiwara and Matsuda with an air of menace.
Upon seeing this figure, Hagiwara and Matsuda felt a bit uneasy. How to put it? Looking at this man, they had the illusion that a replica of Gin had appeared in front of them, but as the man got closer...
They felt that compared to Gin, who exuded an aura of equal contempt for everyone and a ruthless, cold-blooded presence that seemed capable of killing anyone at any moment, this person's aura was only 0.5 times that of Gin.
I don't know if it's because I know he's from the FBI, or something else, but my intuition tells me that this guy, despite his fierce appearance, doesn't actually pose even half as much of a threat as Gin.
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Therefore, when the other party approached aggressively, they felt no tension whatsoever. They even casually lit cigarettes for each other and chatted as if nothing was wrong: "Want to grab a drink when we get back today?"
If we can really save the class monitor and Jing Dan, we must have a drink to celebrate!
"Then we should prepare some snacks to go with the drinks." Understanding his childhood friend's implication, Hagiwara indicated that he also wanted to celebrate.
Strange, it feels like they're just having a normal conversation, but why does it feel like they're acting out their own roles? Is it just my imagination? Shuichi Akai, cough! At this moment, Rai Moroboshi, the big shot, walks towards the two of them.
He deliberately adopted his usual persona within the organization, acting fierce, cold, and dangerous, and asked the two, "Hey! Did you two see someone coming just now? A man in his twenties, black hair, blue eyes, and a beard."
“If you’re looking for the really tall guy, he just ran into this building,” Hagiwara replied in a nonchalant, frivolous tone.
If he hadn't realized that Komobushi's choice of this building was actually a planned escape route, he would have pretended not to see it and tricked the man into leaving. Now that he knows Komobushi's escape route, he directly tells him the answer when answering.
He would assume that Komobushi had escaped faster than he had anticipated, and had already escaped to the road behind the building via the intermittent routes on the rooftop, and he would definitely follow that route in pursuit.
Meanwhile, Komobushi was hidden away. When they released him, Komobushi saw the man's car in front of him. Tsk tsk... He could imagine how frustrated the FBI agent must have been, failing to catch the person and losing a car!
Hagiwara's attitude made Rai quite suspicious that there was something wrong with the aura of the organization's cadres he had cultivated over the past three years of infiltrating the organization, that they couldn't even scare two small-time thugs? However, in the emergency, he didn't have time to think too much and just listened to the answer.
After realizing that the other person's answer matched his deduced escape route from Scotland, he quickly ran towards the metal steps of the building. However, when he reached the third-floor stairwell, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Huh! Are those two just ordinary thugs? At least the guy with the sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, and the face with the sly expression, looks particularly fierce, and his aura is not like that of an ordinary person. Moreover, he is dressed in all black, and his black clothes look like the uniform of an organization member.
If it were just that tall man with purple eyes here, he would think it was just a coincidence. But at this time and in this place, he was standing here dressed in all black, and he was not afraid of the dangerous aura that he deliberately released. He didn't look like a simple passerby at all.
Did Gin foresee that Scotland would flee in this direction in a panic, and thus arranged for men to ambush Scotland here, and that Scotland has already been captured?
So when I chased after him, I didn't see him again? Then why did their answer just now lure me upstairs? Or did their ambush fail, allowing Scotland to escape, and they deliberately waited here to trick me into chasing after him?
From the moment Hagiwara answered to the moment Rai made this deduction while running, less than a minute had passed. Unexpectedly, at that moment, they both felt a violent tremor beneath their feet, followed by a violent vibration.
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