Chapter 172 has no loopholes.
Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!
After hearing Hagiwara's explanation, the group realized that he was planning to lie to Gin, claiming that the game's regional chat channel would be open from the start when the future game arrived.
So they learned each other's identities from the same area on the day the game started, using code names and other secret codes from the organization. Feng Xing Shou already knew that her brother had a nickname based on his drinking habits.
In the past, while investigating his brother's life and death, he found some clues about the organization based on the name of this liquor. So when 'Glanwitt' and 'Dalmore' greeted each other and recognized each other in the regional chat channel.
She deduced that they were her brother's colleagues. Since she was stuck in the game because she couldn't drive, she tried to ask them for help after learning that they were Gin's "colleagues".
After confirming several times that she was indeed the sister of the organization's high-ranking member whose fate was unknown, they were able to establish contact with Feng Xingshou. However, they were initially at a loss as to why she couldn't drive.
Two days later, after the game updated with a new gameplay mode for the game's dungeons, Hagiwara slightly modified the game information, stating that the new dungeon gameplay was announced at the beginning of the game and that there would be regional racing competitions after the dungeons were completed.
Then 'Granwitt' and 'Dalmore' devised a plan with Wind Star Guardian, intending for Wind Star Guardian to wait for them at the racetrack after the dungeon ended, and then the three of them would abandon their cars and gather in one car.
With Granvit, who is a skilled driver, serving as their driver, they unexpectedly activated the vehicle's star-up function, earning them many generous rewards and making the interior space much more spacious.
As for why they were able to travel back in time and space while still surviving into the future, it was due to a coincidence. Even though the vehicle had been upgraded after they reunited, the interior space was still so cramped that the living space for the three of them was very tight.
In order to free up more living space and make it easier to play dungeons at night, 'Wind Star Guardian', who had little suspicion of her brother's colleagues, used her space-saving ability in front of them.
After they became aware of the various functions of the Wind Star Guardian's abilities, they asked her many questions about these abilities, learning that her space could even contain living beings and that time could stand still within that space.
They discovered that their game panel disappeared after their car was absorbed, fused, and upgraded by the Wind Star Guardian's car. Without the game panel, they might not be allowed to enter or exit game instances, among other reasons.
After the dungeon opened, Feng Xing Shou took them into her space and brought them into the game dungeon. Unexpectedly, because Feng Xing Shou's car had never been driven, they were busy exchanging information with each other after merging with her.
The vehicle hadn't gone far from the game's starting point, causing the game instance to open a few years before 2015. Coincidentally, this occurred at a crisis scene that 'Granwitt' had encountered before joining the organization.
Feng Xing Shou usually enjoys watching various anime, novels, and movies, many of which are about time and space. When she saw the 'Granwitt' from the past, she first sensed whether 'Granwitt' and 'Dalmore' were still in her own space.
After discovering that they were still in the space, they worried that the spacetime paradoxes seen in movies and animations would occur, causing 'Granwitt' to appear in the past, and that his past self would absorb his future self, or his future self would absorb his past self, and so on.
Just as the instance dimension was trying to contact the 'Granwitt' of the past reality to convey the arrival of the game and the life-or-death crisis his brother would face in the future, he discovered that even sound could not be transmitted out of the instance dimension.
Feng Xingshou could only watch as he was in the same space as him but could not contact him. Until he encountered a crisis that Feng Xingshou thought would endanger his life, he took him into his space without thinking in the critical moment to avoid the danger of death, forgetting that he was someone who would live into the future.
However, this also caused the past 'Granwitt' and his future self to merge together while they were both in the Wind Star Guardian Space, and his appearance changed to that of his younger self.
Fortunately, after being brought back to the game by the Wind Star Guardian, it was confirmed that the core had not changed and was still the 'Granwitt' known in the future. After that, they confirmed that 'Granwitt' no longer existed in the past, and then they tried various rules of the dungeon.
After confirming the various rules of time and space in the game instance, it was discovered that 'Granwitt' did not exist in the past timeline. He was able to only be active in the real world during the instance timeline, and the highway for survival was actually in the real historical timeline.
Including the fact that the copy will always exist and that there will be places where destruction and crisis will occur, 'Dalmore' calculated the proportion of crisis times and survival roads he had experienced in his life in order to move freely in the past.
It took many attempts to enter the time and place where his past overlapped with the dungeon dimension. Then, according to the 'plan,' the Wind Star Guardian collected the past 'Dalmore,' which gave them the ability to move freely in the dungeon's time and space.
However, this approach is too complicated and requires many attempts to gamble on chances. Since they are the only two people in the same area without any other organization members, continuing to search for help would mean choosing other people...
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After hearing Hagiwara's plan, Matsuda couldn't help but reveal a half-moon eye: "Very good, all the bugs have been explained away."
"No wonder you're not worried at all. You've already figured out how to explain this to your future brother-in-law." Hearing that his friend already had a perfect solution to his worries and that he wasn't worried about Gin finding out, Morobuchi breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously joked with his friend.
Bourbon blinked his beady eyes and complained, "How come I never realized you were such a good storyteller? If I hadn't known the truth beforehand, I would have thought what you just said was your real experience."
"Haha...some things are most convincing when they're half-true and half-false!" Hagiwara wasn't pleased with her friends' praise; instead, she asked worriedly, "Kaze-chan, what do you think?"
"Uh! It feels like we really experienced it." Feng Xingshou was completely brainwashed by the story Hagiwara made up, feeling that this was what their real experience was like.
However, she couldn't help but worry and said, "But my brother has always had the ability to see through my lies at a glance. If I were to give this explanation, no matter how perfect your reason is, my brother would definitely see through it instantly!"
"Then I'll mainly explain. I'll try my best to prevent him from confirming the facts by asking you." Hagiwara had already thought of this and prepared his response, so he wasn't worried.
Bourbon, observing Hagiwara's words and actions, couldn't help but sigh, "Over the years, I thought I had mastered your essence, but now I realize that I seem to have only learned a little bit of the superficial aspects of social interaction!"
"Tsk! This guy has always been very shrewd. He can see through the thoughts of his classmates and adults at a glance, so he has never failed when he wants to get along with someone." Matsuda heard the praise in his friend's voice.
With a mix of pride and a desire to complain about his childhood friend's frustrating past, he said a few words: "He's never been caught lying since we were little, and he always refuses politely and without offending anyone..."
"Hey! That was all when I was a kid! I've rarely lied since college!" Hagiwara quickly interrupted, sensing that his embarrassing past might be exposed in front of Fuu-chan.
His anxious look made the others burst out laughing: "Looks like you talked a lot about this before college?"
"Oh……"
"Ha ha……"
Even Feng Xingshou, who was listening nearby, couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Pfft!"
"Fū-chan, why are you making fun of me too!" Hagiwara complained, but if you didn't see the smile on his face, it would be easy to misunderstand!
Just as the atmosphere in the carriage was getting good, the carriage door was suddenly pushed open without any politeness. Then, a long leg lifted the hem of a black trench coat and stepped into the carriage: "Hmph...it seems you two are having a pleasant chat?"
“Gin?”
"Gin?"
"You came very quickly this time, less than 10 minutes, right?" Bourbon said, relieved that they hadn't wasted time catching up and had discussed the most important matter first, otherwise he would be in trouble now.
Upon seeing his long-lost relative again, Feng Xingshou excitedly ran over, grabbed his hand, and shouted excitedly in his ear, "Brother, you're here!"
"Hmm!" Gin responded and then looked at the two people he had seen before in the Shinkansen carriage: "Glanwitt, Dalmore!"
"It must have been more than a year since we last met, right? Future Oni-san!"
"Ahem!" Matsuda had accepted being called "Dalmo" jokingly in front of his friends, but now that someone was calling him that seriously, he felt extremely awkward and could only cough in response.
Gin was completely at ease, acting very naturally, and you could even say with a strange domineering attitude, as if everything in his field of vision was his own territory, as he walked into the carriage and headed straight for Scotland.
He sat down in the empty seat on the sofa next to him, grinned at the group, and then, while raising his hand to point the gun at Scotland's head, asked with a sinister smile, "Now make things clear, especially what about that drastic change in the future?"
"Brother! Don't be so mean to him! Let's talk this out." Feng Xingshou felt that he still needed to rely on these police officers to change his brother's fate of death, and it wouldn't be good to offend them with dangerous actions now, so he quickly bent down, leaned on his brother's shoulder, and whispered in his ear.
Gin's face darkened with anger: "Shut up, you fat pig. I was already being lenient by not immediately taking care of this Japanese Public Security rat when I came in. Don't think I'll let my guard down around this rat."
"Pfft..." Hearing Gin call Jing Dana "mouse" over and over again, even though Matsuda had already heard from Kazesei no Kami that this guy liked to use all sorts of animals as metaphors, the thought of the handsome and refined Jing Dana being compared to a mouse made Matsuda burst out laughing.
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