Chapter 228 Sightseeing Buses and Bumper Cars
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
“Yes!” Bourbon gazed at his friend’s back, as if trying to see through him some unseen figure: “Fortunately, there’s still Feng Sang. Those hundreds of millions of people were killed by the Silver Bullet and the Symbiosis Cult.”
The future, where countless people suffer from the aftereffects of the Silver Bullet, can still be changed through our past efforts. This time, no matter what, we must completely eradicate everything related to the Silver Bullet—the Symbiosis Cult and its organizations.
His clear and harmless voice was filled with an unwavering determination.
Morobuchi Kagemitsu nodded and then said, "By the way, according to the rules that Feng Sang mentioned, we will be able to return to the future of 2025 with her in 17 days. Remember to leave as much information as possible from the past in the places where we exchanged information."
Furthermore, they secretly granted me high-level access to the Japanese Public Security Information Database, so that during my month-long rest in the future, I can gather more intelligence related to the Symbiosis Cult and the Silver Bullet.
Although he hoped to eliminate the Symbiosis Cult and its organization in the past before the break ended, how could such a secret group and its interests, involving top-tier capital circles in the US, Japan, Europe, and America, be so easily dealt with?
"Understood!" Bourbon readily agreed.
Morofushi Kagemitsu knew very well that for people in their profession, talking a lot usually meant that the matter was not serious and there was time to explain, while talking little meant the opposite, not to mention that with his childhood-trained personality, this promise was not something he could easily accept.
This means that during the time they can rest in the future, Zero will be unable to eliminate the Symbiosis Cult and its organization no matter what he tries, and may have sacrificed his own future for it. In fact, even without evidence, Morofushi Kagemitsu can deduce that if Zero is still alive in the future...
We must never allow Japan to openly sell drugs like the Silver Bullet, which, even without side effects, should not exist in human society. The Japanese public security bureau is a professional at illegal law enforcement; they can handle the consequences of their illegal actions themselves. If their illegal actions are for Japan's benefit, then they are not crimes.
If Zero were still alive, even if it meant using illegal means, Zero wouldn't allow so many terrible things to happen. Thinking of this, he pretended to be relaxed and continued as if joking: "But compared to finding all kinds of information in the Japanese Public Security Information Database..."
I'm even more looking forward to our time off in 2025, so we can exchange information face-to-face, Zero. Come to Zhongzhou Kingdom in 2025! If we have a gathering then, I'll see if you'll still have that baby face at forty years old.
"Hey! Can't you wish for something better, like finally getting rid of your baby face when I'm forty and having the maturity and composure of a middle-aged man?" Bourbon glanced at Morofushi Kagemitsu with his crescent-shaped eyes and complained to him.
But then she turned her head away, looking at the crowd around her who were moving away from the Ferris wheel under the guidance of security personnel, and calmly said, "I'm sorry! I can't guarantee that, I can only say I'll do my best! If it were you, wouldn't you do the same?"
"Hmm!" Morifushi Kagemitsu responded softly, and the two walked forward side by side without saying another word.
Even after the explosion, the colorful lights, still shining brightly, continued to illuminate the surroundings, casting a radiant glow upon them as if auspicious multicolored light were being cast upon them...
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Unbeknownst to the two, their hushed conversation was causing a great detective with perfect pitch and hearing beyond that of ordinary people to nearly have his brain fried, even though he could understand it at first.
Based on the information in their conversation, it can even be inferred that the officer next to Amuro, who is also a colleague of the Japanese Public Security Bureau, has an older brother who likes Chinese and classical Chinese poetry. Amuro just happens to know such a police officer.
Looking at his somewhat familiar back, which resembled that person, he felt that it was a bit far-fetched to speculate based on just these two points, but he still thought it was worth investigating in this direction, perhaps to uncover the true identity of this Japanese public security officer.
But to his surprise, as things continued, Conan felt like a newborn baby, unable to understand what the people around him were saying. What were Amuro-san and the other guy saying?
What does it mean that hundreds of millions of people were killed by the Silver Bullet and the Symbiosis Cult? What are the aftereffects of the Silver Bullet? What does it mean that in just 17 days they will be able to return to the future of 2025 with Gin's sister...?
Conan outwardly understood what they were saying, but he always felt that such words only appeared in fantasy works such as anime and novels, and could not possibly appear in reality. After all, these words were beyond the scope of science. How could a person really travel through time?
This was the science he had studied, a concept his understanding couldn't immediately accept, but he was Conan, Shinichi Kudo, the detective known as the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era...
His perception and reasoning told him that Amuro-san didn't know he was being followed, so there was no need for him to lie to him, nor was there any need for him to tell such a lie. Amuro-san was not the kind of person who would tell such a clumsy lie.
If we take the premise that everything Amuro-san said is true as the basis for our reasoning, then all the doubts raised in their previous conversation, those incomprehensible, inexplicable, and incomplete logical arguments, can be put to rest.
As for the scientific possibility of time travel? Shinichi Kudo only managed to regain his composure after overcoming his initial disbelief and strong feelings of skepticism. He forced himself to suppress his emotions and wondered if the existence of APTX4869 was scientific.
When he first became naive, he also thought it was unscientific and how could real drugs achieve such effects. However, in the end, he accepted his naive self and the fact that the drug's toxic effects would be naive.
He couldn't believe in the existence of time travel simply because he himself had never experienced it, but he believed that Amuro-san and that Japanese Public Security Officer would believe in the existence of time travel.
They agreed to meet with Amuro-san, and one of them must have experienced time travel—after eliminating all the impossibilities, what remains must be the truth.
Thinking of his belief, Shinichi Kudo took a deep breath to calm himself down. Unlike when he first heard these things, he was no longer shocked, incredulous, or at a loss. Instead, he began to use time travel as the starting point to deduce the information he had obtained today.
His reasoning ability is so strong that even Amuro Tooru is inferior to him. Sometimes, Amuro Tooru has to rely on his intelligence. Previously, when he lacked information and was trying to reason about the target, he couldn't come up with the answer.
When he began to reason based on the premise that time travel truly exists, his rapidly working brain immediately deduced the most likely answers to those perplexing questions.
But as these answers surfaced, his eyes turned gray from the horror of them. The extreme shock even made him forget to continue tracking Amuro Tooru and his group to gather more information...
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Meanwhile, after collecting all sorts of vending machines, Kazehoshi's gaze was suddenly drawn to several sightseeing buses that appeared to have been abandoned on the roadside due to a sudden explosion. She subconsciously tugged at Hagiwara's hand and then asked in his ear, "Hagiwara, isn't this sightseeing bus a complete vehicle?"
"..." Hagiwara was taken aback upon hearing this, but quickly understood what she meant and nodded with a smile: "Of course it counts. It seems we're going to have a big haul today!"
"I'll go and collect them right away." After receiving Hagiwara's affirmative reply, Kazesei no Mori hurriedly ran to collect all the sightseeing vehicles in the vicinity of the dungeon dimension. Fortunately, the storage space had the function of stacking similar items.
After the sightseeing vehicles were stored away, they were automatically stacked together. In addition, the vending machines, regardless of the goods inside, were also automatically stacked together after being stored away, so they didn't take up much space and didn't prevent her from continuing to collect other supplies.
Meanwhile, Hagiwara, inspired by the sightseeing bus incident, looked at his childhood friend and asked, "Jinpei, did you guys find the bumper cars at this aquarium?"
"Huh?" Matsuda was baffled by the question. Did he, a 26-year-old man, look like someone who would be interested in bumper cars? o(￣ヘ￣o＃)
Feng Xingshou understood what Hagiwara meant and quickly whispered in his ear, "Bumper cars probably won't work, right? At least sightseeing cars have full vehicle capacity. Bumper cars probably don't meet the standards for vehicle star upgrades."
"Heh... Bumper cars can carry people too, right? Even if their mobility isn't as good as real vehicles, we have all sorts of parts that can upgrade vehicles, don't we? With those parts, Xiaozhenping and I can totally put them together to make a car."
Reaching the game's standards is no problem. "His family owns a car repair shop, so this is no challenge for him." Hagiwara was already silently brainstorming how to use game car parts to make the bumper cars look like cars.
"You plan to use these vehicles to upgrade your vehicles?" As soon as Hagiwara said this, and considering that he had stopped next to the sightseeing vehicle for about two minutes earlier, Matsuda immediately guessed the general situation and asked with a bright and excited look in his eyes.
Before the two could answer, he started calculating: "There were 7 sightseeing cars just now. There are usually at least 20 multi-person bumper cars in the bumper car area of this kind of large amusement park."
"I estimate we'll have around 27 to 30 vehicles, one 1-star vehicle, two 2-star vehicles... and so on. If we can collect them all this time, our vehicle fleet will probably be upgraded to around 5 stars. Looks like we'll be busy when we get back."
"Being a little busy is fine. The important thing is that if we can really upgrade to 5 stars, our car will definitely become more spacious, maybe as spacious as a small villa!" Feng Xingshou thought about the possibility of upgrading to 5 stars.
The car's interior space was definitely larger than his small house, which was still under mortgage. His anticipation immediately soared, and he eagerly pulled Hagiwara along, saying, "Hagiwara, quickly have Matsuda take us to the area where the bumper cars are. Today, nothing is more important than the bumper cars."
"Heh! Happy to help." Seeing how eager she was, Hagiwara said with a grin and immediately relayed her words to Matsuda.
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