Chapter 245 Hagiwara's Purpose
Day 14 of the Highway Survival Game!
Hearing his words, everyone exchanged glances and then shook their heads in unison: "It's still uncertain. It might seem that this time the damage was the most powerful, but it could also be the effect of something insignificant."
The solar storm in 2012 that Feng Jiang mentioned—wasn't it just a near miss, as experts described it? Perhaps in our memories, the real events of 1999 have also been so minor and blurred.
"The main problem is, if this list is really related to the Symbiosis Cult, then how did they realize there was a crisis in 1999?" Morofushi Kagemitsu asked while pondering, "Don't you think it's a bit strange?"
If there really was a crisis in 1999, they could have somehow obtained this information and ensured that those on their whitelist could integrate into the new parallel world. How did this symbiotic cult obtain this information?
"You've overlooked another issue: if parallel world merging really exists, do you think it's our world merging, or another world merging into our world?" Hagiwara continued.
Matsuda looked at the floppy disk in his hand, and then, thinking about his experiences over the past few days, said, "If it were integrated into our world, and we entered the instance time through a survival game, we shouldn't have been given this. It feels more like our world has been integrated into another world, and the existence of this floppy disk is evidence of that."
"If our world has been merged into another world, and some being has rewritten our memories, and the other world operates faster than our world."
Does that prove that some major catastrophe occurred in our world before we even had any memory of it, leading to the destruction of civilization, and that we were the ones who merged into other parallel worlds?
As Feng Xingshou listened to their discussion, his heart pounded wildly, rising and falling with their reasoning. He was particularly moved when they deduced that his world had merged with another world.
"It seems like we shouldn't interpret it that way. Based on the information I've gathered from forums and other communication platforms after my future experience of 2012, it seems that issues like time acceleration and the Mandela Effect are not relevant."
For example, the Mandela Effect was only discovered in 2009. It seems like time is moving faster, and it wasn't until after 2012, and in 2013, that I saw some people mentioning it on the platform. That's about 10 years after 1999!
"This list shouldn't be related to anything after 2012. Anyway, I don't recall anything unusual about '99." She tilted her head and thought hard before saying this, then suddenly paused.
He continued, "However, when someone proposed the concept of Manderfa in 2009, some people on domestic platforms reported that there was a famous TV series in my country, Journey to the West, whose plot differed from their own memory."
The discrepancy was discovered a long time ago, and people are unsure exactly when it occurred. However, most people are certain of one thing: in our memory, at least in my memory and in the memory of most Chinese people, there was a trial in which the sheep monk was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil.
This scene wasn't actually filmed in the original Journey to the West. The older version was filmed quite a while ago. If this memory lapse is also part of the Mandela Effect, then this is likely an earlier instance of this lapse, perhaps related to the events of 1999.
Having said all that, Hagiwara glanced at the countdown timer, which showed 40 minutes had passed: "We still have 20 minutes. We can go back and discuss this. I have an idea or suggestion that you think is feasible?"
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"Do you intend to leak this matter to the organization and have them investigate?" Matsuda immediately realized what he meant when he heard him say that.
Zhu Fujingguang was somewhat surprised upon hearing this and quickly advised, "Let the organization's people investigate. If the Symbiosis Cult really possesses some mysterious technology and can detect the destruction of the world or the crisis that the world is about to face, then..."
And they're confident they can ensure some people survive and integrate into another world during a catastrophic crisis. Even if the organization's members are exceptionally capable, they might encounter some dangers while investigating this matter, which could potentially jeopardize Brother Feng Sang's safety.
After all, Gin is a very capable person in the organization, a typical workaholic. When the organization encounters such a big thing, they will definitely send him to participate in the investigation. After he finished speaking, he silently thought about it in his heart.
Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou quickly shook his head and said no: "This change is too drastic and may affect my brother's safety."
“Of course that’s not what I meant. My plan isn’t to leak this to the organization, but rather that we can leave some traces here. About the survival game,” Hagiwara chuckled, uttering a statement that surprised everyone.
"What?"
"Hagi! What are your plans?"
Feng Xingshou was also bewildered: "Why leak the news of the game's arrival to the organization at this time?"
"If our world has merged with other worlds, what do you think would cause our world to merge with other parallel Earths? Don't forget, Xiao Zhufu, your previous speculation about Earth's time loop is suspected to be related to the automatic convergence of world lines."
Could this discovery lead us to another hypothesis: that our world is not the one that has absorbed other parallel worlds, but rather the one that has been absorbed by other worlds?
"Could it be that some members of the Symbiosis Cult are survivors who successfully survived the previous round of the game and have retained their memories of participating in the game?" Hagiwara then made a shocking conjecture that stunned everyone.
"Tsk!" Matsuda immediately clicked his tongue: "How is this possible? If it were really Kaze-chan, shouldn't she have been captured by the game when her physical attributes were better and she was more likely to unleash her powerful talents?"
“It’s also possible that Feng Sang in 1999 didn’t meet the requirements to be captured by the game.” Morofushi Kagemitsu realized one of the possibilities in his two friends’ words and said with a tense expression, “Since parallel worlds exist.”
Each parallel world may have its own parallel entities. If one Feng Sang's spiritual energy is not enough for this game to capture, then what about two, three... or even more?
Don't forget that this is a game organizer with a frugal mindset; their rewards are clearly various conveniences to help people bring vehicles back to reality and help survivors and their friends and family survive in the real world.
If we previously thought this was a rare act of kindness in games, could we now understand it as the game's organizers not wanting to waste real-world populations when their survival games reduce a world's population to the point where it can no longer function properly?
They would then use some means to merge Him into another world. After most people in that world had experienced this merging, their aptitude might multiply until they were qualified to be selected by the game…
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"If this speculation is true, then there may be other parallel souls of myself in my body now, or perhaps the me of this world has already merged into the future world..." After hearing this, Feng Xing Shou first looked somewhat dazed and touched his chest.
Then, as he continued talking, it became so complicated that his brain felt like it was going to explode, so he quickly stopped himself from this chicken-and-egg or egg-and-egg-first-come-first-served thought, and changed the subject to Hagiwara: "Hagiwara, you plan to tell the organization about the game's arrival at this time, is there something you're planning to do?"
"The goal is simple: to find the vehicle of the game in reality through organizational means. My reasoning is based on this list and your knowledge of the future. But whether that's true or not, there's no way to confirm."
However, if we can find the game vehicles in reality, then we can prove our guess. Even if it's not 100%, there's at least a 50% chance that it's close to the truth.
The Symbiosis Cult's ability to access crisis information related to the world's destruction, along with their symbiosis philosophies, likely stems from their status as survivors of the previous game, or even earlier.
Whether it was the previous round or several rounds before, since someone was able to survive in the game and live within the game's rules, then the reward in the rules that allows the opponent to return to real life in a vehicle should also be real.
Since it truly exists in reality, there must be one or even several such cars in reality. And for this symbiotic cult to gain the trust of those top figures in the world, don't you think it needs some evidence to convince them?
Those amazing vehicles and related game rewards might be what make people believe in the existence of the symbiotic doctrine and ideology. You could even think about the area, volume, and capacity of our vehicles; they could be used as a small survival base.
If it were to reach level nine and nine stars, would it become a large-scale survival base? Would a complete, convenient, large-scale survival base that utilizes space-folding technology that resembles cutting-edge technology be more convincing to the world's top figures?
If that's the case, then there must be one or even several game vehicles in reality. And if we can find game vehicles in reality, we can be absolutely certain that we are not actually the first round of survival game players on Earth.
"Perhaps you didn't meet the requirements of the survival game before, and weren't chosen as a survivor, so you didn't know this information." Seeing that time was limited, Hagiwara explained his thoughts and purpose as simply and quickly as possible.
Hearing Hagiwara's series of explanations, the three of them were very shocked. Matsuda even raised his hand to rub Hagiwara's head: "Hagiwara! How is your brain structured? We didn't even think of this way to confirm it."
"Haha... I've always been this smart!" Hagiwara pretended to look disgusted as he avoided his childhood friend's hand.
Meanwhile, the Wind Star Guardian on the other side was also surprised by Hagiwara's guess: "I clearly know so much information about the future, but I never thought that I could do this. I really envy your brain."
"I'm so happy that you praised me like that, Kaze-chan." Hearing the praise from the woman she liked, Hagiwara smiled: "But don't be discouraged, Kaze-chan! What's mine is yours, and if my brain is good enough, it means yours is good enough too."
"...Shut up!" If the old Feng Xingshou had heard this, she would have thought that Hagiwara was joking with her again. However, after the stolen kiss yesterday, which made her realize how serious Hagiwara was, she was embarrassed to hear him say this in front of others and immediately growled at him.
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Although she was yelled at, this change in attitude—from politeness, courtesy, and respect to a distant and formal one—transformed into a relaxed and intimate connection, which made Hagiwara quite happy, and she even smiled. o(*￣︶￣*)o
Matsuda, standing to the side, couldn't help but reveal his crescent-shaped eyes: "Hey! Hagi, don't try to force your lovey-dovey act on a single dog like this, or you'll be punished by the heavens!"
"Hey, you three, watch the time. There are only 15 minutes left. Those people should be leaving by now. If they don't, they'll be stuck here forever by the automatic ignition system."
"Since we were able to encounter Rum again in the future, it at least shows that Rum wasn't trapped here, so they must have left before the dungeon exit disappeared." Morofushi Kagemitsu quickly reminded the group in a sarcastic tone.
Hagiwara and Matsuda stopped joking and then began to discuss seriously how to leak this matter to the organization without leaving a trace.
Feng Xingshou, standing to the side, asked with some confusion, "Then can't we tell our brother about this and let him investigate?"
"Feng-chan, this is 17 years ago. Was your brother already working here at this time?" Hagiwara almost laughed when he heard this. He believed that Feng Xingshou would not lie to him, so even if Bourbon and the others said that Gin was the young master of the organization, Feng Xingshou should also be related to the organization's BOSS.
Hagiwara still believes that the timing and process of his future brother-in-law joining the organization are exactly as Fuusei-no-Kami told him, rather than being secretly trained by the organization elsewhere, or joining the organization early on but remaining hidden...
Feng Xingshou was completely bewildered by these words. It seemed that her brother wasn't even born yet... Only then did she belatedly realize that she had made a foolish mistake, and immediately chuckled awkwardly, "Hehe... Let's try a different approach!"
Seeing her so embarrassed, the three polite people didn't bring it up again. After all, it would be impolite to make a woman feel awkward, so the three of them discussed it and decided to remind her in another way.
After discussing other methods, the three of them decided that since the computer in Masahiro Nomoto's office still existed and Kazesei-no-Mori hadn't collected it, Kazesei-no-Mori could activate the computer by touching the bodies of members of their organization.
They pretended to remotely control and transmit information, prompting the organization to investigate vehicle-related information. Of course, before that, they needed to determine whether the game's signal amplification function worked the same way on computer networks as on mobile phones...
Once the plan was finalized, the four of them immediately set to work. Although Feng Xingshou had no idea how to operate a computer at this time, especially a Japanese one, the keyboard markings and various settings of Japanese computers were very different from those of the ones she had in China.
She couldn't help in this regard, so she could only watch Hagiwara and the others operate. Her only role was to transmit computer signals online through her control by touching the bodies of the organization members.
Fortunately for the four, computer network signals, like mobile phone signals, can be transmitted from the copy dimension to the real dimension, allowing them to successfully present information about the vehicle's existence investigation to Masahiro Nomoto before Rum and his men evacuated.
Having done all that, the three of them hurriedly left the instance and re-entered the vehicle, awaiting the start of the next driving skills competition...
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As soon as the three returned to the car, Feng Xingshou exclaimed, "Hey! Not only did my game panel show a countdown for the car race, but it also sent a new notification that tells me our car has been upgraded to level two, and the races will be moved to the level two car track from now on. We need to get ready to participate in the level two car races."
Upon hearing Feng Xingshou's words, the three were taken aback. Level 2 arena? At the same time, Hagiwara looked up at the outside of the car: "Indeed, although the road conditions outside are still icy and snowy, they are different from yesterday's."
"You can even drive on roads like this?"
"Does the game organizer really not want to kill the survivors?" Hearing him say this, Morofushi Kagemitsu also leaned out of the car to look out, and what he saw made the two of them gasp.
Hearing their exaggerated words, Feng Xingshou also looked out of the car. What she saw made her grab the seatbelt next to her and fasten it tightly.
Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu also didn't delay, quickly fastening their seatbelts as well.
It turned out that the view outside the car window was actually in a snowy thicket of thorns. Not only were there thorns made of ice and snow all around, but if you drove through them, even a car with poor-quality paint could be torn to shreds on the spot.
The entire road is formed by countless narrow ice and snow paths, each only half a meter wide. To reach it, you must find the road signs on these crisscrossing ice and snow paths.
Furthermore, the vehicle was precisely driven on the two-wheeled ice and snow road that had split into two, with the middle section completely suspended in the air during the driving process. The road was also winding and twisting upwards, and the vehicle was surrounded by sharp ice thorns. This was even more dangerous than the ice and snow bridge and the icy cliffs and steep arms of the previous trip.
Hagiwara took a deep breath after seeing the road conditions clearly. He hadn't expected that there would be such trouble after upgrading to a Level 2 vehicle. He could only try to calm himself down, fasten his seatbelt, and start the car, ready to drive on the road at any time.
Matsuda comforted him, "Well, well!! We can also look at it on the bright side. If we compete in this second-tier arena, we can get more points, and the rewards we can exchange for should be better."
Perhaps this road is the best place to obtain Tier 3 parts. Just think about the benefits of our Tier 3 holographic cockpit, Tier 3 vehicle skin, and other Tier 3 accessories—don't you want to look forward to the performance of your upgraded Tier 3 vehicle? ╯▂╰”
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