Chapter 126 Feng Jiang's Concerns
Day 10 of the road survival game!
However, upon hearing Matsuda's question, Morofushi turned to Hagiwara and asked, "Hagiwara, what about you? What are your plans next?"
"Huh? We're asking you! Why are you asking me back?" Hearing him say that, Hagiwara, as always, asked back in a somewhat nonchalant and frivolous tone, as if all those heavy, disappointing, and infuriating things hadn't bothered him at all.
He appeared relaxed and indifferent to everything, but Matsuda and Morofushi both felt a chill run down their spines. Knowing their friend well, they understood that Hagiwara was a person who was warm on the outside but cold on the inside, seemingly getting along well with everyone.
In reality, the only people he truly cares about are his cherished family and a handful of important friends. He rarely gets angry when he encounters frustrating or upsetting things, but he is more concerned and finds it hard to let go when his cherished relatives and friends are in trouble.
Matsuda grew up with him and naturally realized that because his father's auto repair shop went bankrupt due to the Japanese government's wrongful policies, and because his father was wrongly accused by the Japanese police and his business was ruined, he had experienced a lot of ignorant bullying from his classmates during his elementary school years.
This led him to have a very low opinion of the Japanese government. Even when he took the Japanese police exam, it was only to find a job that would never leave him unemployed, not out of loyalty to the country, or the noble ideals of Furuya and Keidanna who wanted to protect the people.
Although Morofushi did not grow up with Hagiwara like Matsuda, he had noticed during their time at the police academy that Hagiwara's words and actions showed a cold attitude towards the Japanese government, and he would even make a few sarcastic remarks about some disappointing official matters.
However, with his keen observation skills, he naturally noticed the attitude of Hagiwara towards the Japanese government in these reactions. Therefore, at this moment, the two of them were also very clear that Hagiwara was the least loyal to the Japanese government among them.
His current reaction is very likely a result of erasing from his mind the Japanese government, which he had been loyal to despite having many grievances against, and this is the only mental state he has.
Just like before, Hagiwara was able to completely ignore former Prime Minister Ōoka and the suspicious aspects of the officialdom, disregarding them without a care, and only asked his concerned friend about his worries.
Even though they fully understood what Hagiwara's current reaction meant, they were completely unable to persuade him. How could they? Tell him to endure a country that had utterly disappointed him from top to bottom? It seemed Japan was about to lose a truly excellent policeman…
Morofushi took a deep breath after thinking about this. Seeing that Hagiwara had asked that question but did not continue to answer it, he knew that Hagiwara had already made up his mind. He did not want to continue the topic. By revealing this, he made his previous speculation an unchangeable reality.
He could only pretend that his previous question was just a casual remark and that he didn't need to answer it, and answered Hagiwara and Matsuda's questions first: "Didn't you just say that you could enter a roughly calculable period of Japanese history through this copy?"
So I plan to ask you to calculate the future time, and then take me to the end of 2024 tomorrow. Feng Sang mentioned that by then, both the Silver Bullet and the Silver Virus issues will have been settled, and the game will be a few months away from its release.
During that period, as long as there was internet access, we could gather a lot of information about various aspects of Japan in the past. After all, as a member of the Japanese Public Security Bureau, I could find a way to access their databases.
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"..." After realizing he had been tricked, instead of going back to settle accounts with the person who wronged him, he went to the future. Could it be because he heard so many bad things about Japan from me?
Did he feel that what he told him about Japan's future was unreliable, so he wanted to go and see for himself? Would he only decide whether to believe it or not after finding out the truth? Had he been suspected by Officer San?
Could it be that he finds himself suspicious and untrustworthy because he has a criminal boss brother? This was the first thought that came to Kazesei no Mori's mind after hearing Morofushi Kagemitsu's answer.
Just as she was thinking this to herself, Hagiwara smiled and glanced at her and Morofushi, asking in a teasing tone, "Little Morofushi, don't you trust Fuu-chan's words and plan to go and see that awful future for yourself?"
"No, there are two reasons for this plan. First, by then, since the matter of the Silver Bullet has been settled, most of the people associated with the Silver Bullet should have been exposed."
Given the immense harm they caused to the world, no matter how deeply they were hidden, the authorities of various countries should have corresponding investigation results. If we could obtain those investigation results through the public security information database, it would be easier to thoroughly deal with those participants when we returned to this era.
Secondly, it's because that period was only a few months before the game's release. If the game's release was indeed premeditated as you suspect, there might have been some signs or unusual occurrences a few months before its release.
This information could potentially be found in the Japanese Public Security Information Database. Although it's known that even if it is found, it probably won't be able to prevent the game from happening, it's possible to find clues or other signs based on what's found.
"Please have the scientists figure out the pattern of the game's arrival. For example, what kind of scientific invention could accomplish this? What facilities on Earth might be devices created by the game's arrival planners?" Morofushi Kagemitsu realized that Hagiwara was deliberately asking this question.
He wanted to explain his purpose to Feng Sang, seemingly not wanting Feng Sang to think he doubted her, so he simply explained his plans in detail. Of course, regarding those tragic future prospects, he trusted his friend's judgment.
Regarding the silver bullet, and the fact that he was betrayed by the authorities because of it, it's probably mostly true, but what about the rest? Could the silver bullet really cause such an extremely tragic future? Is the Japanese government truly rotten to the core from top to bottom?
The problem was too big. Before he could confirm these facts with his own eyes, he did have some doubts about whether Feng Sang's claims were true. After all, she was Gin's sister, and it was possible that she was using information from the future, half true and half false, to sow discord between them and the Japanese government.
They tricked her into selling intelligence from the public security bureau to her, and then she passed it on to the organization. If the organization knew so many state secrets, the threat and scale of their crimes would be much greater...
Of course, it's also possible that what she said is true, and even if Gin's sister isn't necessarily a bad person, we can't judge based on intuition alone; we need to find concrete evidence to determine what's true and what's false.
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So he wasn't doubting himself after all! When Feng Xingshou heard him say that, he thought that he really made the decision for those two purposes, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. However, he still had concerns about his decision.
She made it clear: "You can go to the 2024 future instance, but you have to wait. I plan to go to the future after my brother's accident after I have changed the future where his life or death is unknown."
"..." Zhu Fu was taken aback when he heard her say that, and his suspicions about the future she mentioned grew stronger.
"Why wait until you save your brother? Wouldn't it be the same to change his fate after you've gone to the future?" After spending these days together, Matsuda was convinced that the junior was someone he could trust.
They had no doubts about the future she spoke of, so after hearing her words, they didn't lie about the future or try to prevent them from seeing what the future held. Instead, they frankly expressed their doubts and confusion.
"Sigh!" Hearing him ask this, Feng Xingshou couldn't help but sigh and reminded him, "You forgot that the reason we were able to save Officer Zhu Fu today is because there was a problem with the timeline between 2014 and 2015."
Moreover, it is highly likely that this was caused by the game upgrade after the start of the last disaster season. Since the game developers were able to control the spacetime of the real world during game upgrades, is it possible that the next upgrade will also include other performance upgrades?
For example, locking down historical timelines and preventing us from altering the past? If I can promote game upgrades, surely other survivors can also upgrade the game again. What if the next upgrade happens to be this one?
If that's the case, then the past of my brother's accident can't be changed, especially since Inspector Morofushi is planning to go to the future to investigate information about the arrival of the game, and we're in the game!
If someone were to actually do something that would disrupt the game, the game organizers might modify the rules without upgrading the game, in order to prevent more people like you from interfering with their efforts.
So I want to change my brother's fate before that happens. I can accept him being punished by law in some country, but I can't accept him being killed by some even worse people because of that awful drug.
Fengxingshou hadn't thought of these things before. In addition, there was no specific information about the time and place of his brother's accident, so he decided to help Hagiwara and the others save their friends first. It wasn't until he encountered that delayed destruction instance when he was saving Inspector Morofushi this time.
It felt like the game's organizers were even worse than I had imagined. There was even a vague feeling that this delayed destruction instance was hiding their malice, and that they wanted to use their abilities to trap me in an eternal death loop.
She also knew that this so-called survival game was just something the civilization that organized the game used to entertain viewers and make fun of the Earthlings. After experiencing this instance, she couldn't help but wonder if it would be like some live broadcast programs on Earth.
Viewers of the live stream gave huge sums of money as tips, demanding that the game organizers harass the streamers they disliked, since they considered the streamers themselves to be extremely annoying and wanted to have some peace and quiet.
There's a high chance they'll disapprove of how well he's doing in the game stream. If that's the case, they've probably heard about his brother's situation while watching the stream, and some viewers might try to make him suffer.
What should I do if I deliberately tip the game organizers, asking them to lock down time and space to prevent me from saving my brother, so that I will be caught in the painful regret of saving someone else but not changing my brother's fate of death?
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