Chapter 2 The Handsome Guy in the Bomb Disposal Team
There are 1,000 competition zones, with 10,000 people in each zone. This group of survivors is the first batch on Earth. The announcement mentioned the word "this period", indicating that this road survival game is not the first time.
Based on the information revealed in the announcement, it seems that this game has been held countless times, with each season consisting of 12 seasons and each season lasting one month, meaning that each season of the game lasts for one year.
When the contestants participate, Earth's time stops, and the flow of time on Earth itself remains unchanged. Alternatively, it could be that some kind of spacetime technology is used to teleport people back to the next second after they are captured in the game, which seems to be to protect the survivors from being affected by their life on Earth.
But the mandatory secrecy seems suspiciously sinister... In any case, just reading the announcement gives me a bad feeling! I wonder how the other civilizations affected by this game are faring?
However, the fact that 10 million Earthlings were the first batch of survivors to participate in the 12-season season lasting one year, and the phrase "first batch" in the game announcement clearly indicates that there will be a second batch, or even a third or fourth batch of Earthlings...
With billions of people in the world, how many could actually participate after removing the sick, weak, elderly, and children? If 10 million able-bodied and healthy people were recruited each year, how many would survive? Forget it, it's pointless for an ordinary citizen like me to think about such grand-scale matters. I should focus on ensuring my own survival first!
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"No matter how tempting the rewards in the game announcement are, they're not appealing to someone who can't drive. I just hope this game gives people who can't drive a way to survive..." Feng Xingshou closed the game announcement in anger after reading it, muttering to himself as he made his own guesses.
After waiting for more than 20 minutes without any further action from the game, she could only helplessly pick up the key from the car door and think to herself that she couldn't drive because she hadn't had the opportunity to learn to drive in the past 35 years of her life.
They lack the money, time, and energy to get a driver's license. Even if they occasionally have the money and energy to learn, they feel that paying off their mortgage is difficult enough, and they simply cannot afford a car, let alone pay off a car loan. Therefore, they fundamentally give up on car-related options.
Maybe the game chose him because he's a driving genius! Maybe even without a license, he could learn to drive as soon as he gets behind the wheel? With this hopeful thought, Feng Xingshou opened the car door and got in.
The moment she sat in the driver's seat, she was heartbroken for a few seconds as the old car's load-bearing capacity violently jolted her 184-pound weight before she struggled to find the ignition keyhole that drivers in old movies would insert...
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"Bang!" However, three minutes later, accompanied by the loud thud of the car's front end hitting the thick fog beside the road, Feng Xingshou clutched his head, which had slammed against the steering wheel, instantly developing a large bump. Looking out the window at the deformed hood of the car, he felt utterly hopeless...
-_-|| You can't learn to drive just by watching TV! Even if you learn how to start a car, you still won't understand the accelerator, brake, and steering wheel. Trying again feels like my brain will be smashed to pieces: "What do I do if I can't drive?"
At least give yourself a car instruction manual, right? It's a road game! Can't you do something human? "o(╥﹏╥)o She even cried and begged the game for help, but it didn't elicit a single bit of pity from the game developers.
The game interface doesn't offer customer service or help channels. Faced with a car that stalled after a violent collision, a twisted and deformed hood, and herself feeling helpless and on the verge of collapse, it seems all she can do is stand there and wait to die...
Before starving or dying of thirst, why not just commit suicide? That kind of death, which almost sent me crashing into the underworld, seems pretty good—less painful…
No, no, no! Giving up now is too early.
Hey, didn't the game announcement say that a resource collection dungeon would be available in two days? Maybe I can look forward to that.
Driving isn't my forte, but collecting supplies is no problem for someone with 20 years of experience. If I collect enough supplies, maybe I can upgrade the car to the level of AI-driven vehicles in reality! Then I'll have a way to survive.
As for herself, having gone two days without food or water, she reassured herself, "Don't underestimate my 180-pound weight. Maybe all that fat I've accumulated over the years was just to prepare for today!" o(╥﹏╥)o
Two days later:
[Game Announcement: At 12:00 PM on Day 3 of Season 3, the Asai Villa dungeon will open. Survivors are requested to choose whether to enter this daily dungeon! Note: Entering is at your own risk; refusal will not be penalized!]
"This daily dungeon allows you to choose whether or not to enter or leave. If you're so capable, why don't you give me the choice of whether or not to participate in the game?" Two days after being captured in the game, at noon, a silver-gray circular hole with a diameter of two meters appeared in front of Feng Xing Shou.
Along with the game announcement, Feng Xing Shou, who had been starving and thirsty for more than two days, couldn't help but scoff inwardly after reading it. In particular, the message "Enter at your own risk, no penalty for refusal" gave her an ominous feeling.
Even with this ominous premonition, there was nothing she could do. Since she couldn't drive, if she didn't want to risk her life to test her driving skills, her only way out was to look forward to this daily challenge. With that thought, she took a deep breath and stepped into the silver-gray circular hole.
It's a bit different from what I imagined! I thought it would be like in the novels, where I would enter a place where monsters had spawned, fight them, and get supplies, but it turns out there are no monsters at all.
It feels more like returning to someone's house on Earth. Looking at the house's decor, it seems to be Japanese-style. Is this a family home in the Central Plains Kingdom with Japanese-style decor? Or is it a family home in Japan?
It turns out that when Feng Xing Shou entered the instance, what she saw was not a game instance in the usual sense, but a living room that looked like the Japanese mansion decoration she had seen in the online house-viewing video on Earth.
After a moment of surprise, before she could think further, the 30-minute countdown above her reminded her that no matter how unlike a dungeon or how much more like a house on Earth, the presence of this countdown indicated that this was not reality.
She had to hurry up and get going! She only had 30 minutes. After the initial surprise, she was both thirsty and hungry, so she rushed from the living room to what looked like the kitchen in the house. Seeing that the countertop was clean, she went to open the refrigerator.
But the contents were quite disappointing. Unlike her habit of stuffing her single-door refrigerator full, this impressive three-door refrigerator was surprisingly empty, except for bottles filled with Japanese beverage labels, which looked like drinking water bottles.
There wasn't much food in either the frozen or refrigerated sections; just a few vegetables and some boxed items. Since I can't read Japanese, I had no idea what kind of meat it was. I could clearly see the salmon and shrimp, though, and there were also some eggs…
There wasn't much food, but she was thirsty and hungry, so she didn't care about being picky. She quickly grabbed a bottle that looked like a mineral water bottle, opened it, and drank half of it in big gulps. After quenching her thirst and quickly swallowing a few mouthfuls of fast food, she instantly felt her strength returning.
As her physical strength returned, her mind became more active, and she quickly realized that time was short. She could go back to the car to eat, but collecting supplies was more important right now. So, without even finishing her meal, she tightened the bottle.
I found a shopping bag next to me and stuffed everything in the refrigerator into it. I noticed that not only the water, food, and vegetables had Japanese labels, but even some items in the refrigerator section were all in Japanese.
Even if Zhongzhou Kingdom is an importer
Most of the products have Chinese instructions and labels, so it's rare to see one that's entirely in Japanese. This made her think to herself, "It really is a replica of a luxury house in Japan!"
But what could possibly be considered a dungeon in an empty house? You couldn't possibly find car upgrade materials here, could you? And I didn't see any treasure chests like those in novels along the road either!
It turns out that she hadn't just stayed in her car waiting idly for the past two days. She had thought that in road survival novels, you could find treasure chests by the roadside, which could contain water, food, car upgrade materials, gasoline, and other supplies. And there was indeed a crowbar in the trunk of her car.
While she still had the energy, she walked towards the front of the car, but it got dark before she saw the treasure chest. She was thirsty and hungry, and worried that monsters might come out of the thick fog at night, so she had no choice but to give up and return to the car.
The next day, she was exhausted, hungry, and thirsty, and couldn't walk that far. So she simply walked towards the road behind the car. Before she could walk any further, she didn't encounter any treasure chests, which made her think that the car upgrade materials could only be obtained through dungeons.
Although she was thinking this to herself, she was used to the conveniences of modern society and had suffered a lot in the highway area these past two days. Just the three urgent needs of life made her feel unwell, and she had had enough of the hardship of not even having a piece of toilet paper.
Now that she has the opportunity, she will naturally collect all the necessities of life as much as possible. So, in this obviously lived-in Japanese mansion, she has rummaged through all kinds of supplies without any hesitation.
Not only food and water, but also toilet paper, sanitary napkins, clean-looking blankets, clothes, women's shoes, unopened toothpaste, toothbrushes, clean cups, kettles, pots and pans stored in the closet were all packed into bed sheets...
However, just as she was busy packing in the bedroom area, she suddenly heard some noise outside the door. Feng Xing Shou thought that she was the only one in the daily dungeon. The dungeon was a single-player, single-dungeon environment created by the game. She never expected that there would be other people.
Seeing this, she felt uneasy, but after two days of being alone without any communication with her kind or seeing any other humans, this commotion made her pause her work of collecting supplies due to the time pressure.
I wonder if there are other people entering the same instance as me. Perhaps it's like in the novels, where each person is assigned a house to collect resources, or perhaps we are each teleported to a house but can go to other houses to collect resources.
After all, even though the house looks luxurious, it's smaller and cramped than houses in China. She's already collected almost everything. Thinking of this, she checked the countdown timer for the dungeon and saw that there were still 9 minutes left.
After packing up the food and collected supplies, Feng Xingshou opened the door to the house. She was surprised when she opened the door because she didn't see any other survivors like herself.
What I saw was seven or eight men dressed in some kind of Japanese uniform, looking very similar, standing together in the hallway next to the house where fire-fighting equipment was placed.
One of the tallest men was not only tall and slender, but also very handsome. He was smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone, but the 'uniform' he was wearing looked thicker than a cotton-padded coat, and there was a peculiar 'hat' next to him.
The others were all wearing the same uniform, but they were all short, about the same height as me, around 1.63 meters. Two of them were slightly taller than me. All of them were wearing the same hats, unlike the tall, handsome guy who had taken them off.
Upon seeing this, she immediately realized that the style of their clothes and hats were very similar to the bomb disposal uniforms often seen in movies and TV series, and there was Japanese on their clothes. Could it be that they were not survivors, but members of the Japanese bomb disposal team?
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