Chapter 248 The Dead Memories Have Been Revived!
Day 25 of the Highway Survival Game!
Matsuda followed at a leisurely pace, while Morofushi Kagemitsu, watching the backs of the two ahead, whispered a few words: "Tsk tsk! Look at Hagiwara, is he trying to go on a date with Fuu-san alone?"
"A date in a place like this?" Matsuda glanced at him speechlessly.
Hearing Matsuda's comment, Morofushi Kagemitsu winked quietly: "They're holding hands!"
"Envious?" Matsuda asked him with a chuckle. "If you're envious, you should hurry up and find one when you get back to reality."
"Hey!" Upon hearing this, Morofushi Kagemitsu rarely showed his crescent-shaped eyes and glanced at Matsuda.
Meanwhile, Kazehoshi, who had been being pulled forward by Hagiwara, curiously looked inside the carriage. After examining it for a while, she said with some regret, "Sigh, there's nothing to collect in this carriage. Apart from some chairs and railings, there's nothing there. We can't just strip the carriage apart, can we?"
"Anyway, our goal today isn't to collect resources, so let's figure out the dungeon exit and boundaries first," Hagiwara suggested to Phoenix Guardian after hearing her say that.
Feng Xing Shou immediately nodded: "Of course, it's our routine to find the dungeon exit and the dungeon boundary after we come in."
After she finished speaking, she and Hagiwara walked quickly forward. This time, they deliberately locked onto this time period to locate the instance and enter and exit based on known history. They had some reasoning about the possible exit location and boundaries of this instance.
So it didn't take much effort to find the location of the two subway cars that were most damaged and had the most casualties when the future catastrophe occurred, and then found the boundary of the instance by following the exit to the edge of the two damaged cars.
Having figured out the areas they could access and determined the emergency evacuation routes, Hagiwara immediately pulled Kazesei Mori to find seats: "Alright, the basic information has been confirmed. Let's treat the remaining time as a good vacation and rest."
"Mmm." Feng Xingshou nodded in agreement, then looked at Hagiwara and asked, "Where were you at seven years old?"
"It's still early. I won't get on the bus until I'm seven years old in 20 minutes. Jinpei will get on a little earlier than me. Let's wait a bit!" Hagiwara said as he led Hosei to a nearby seat.
Feng Xing Shou nodded again and found a seat.
Hagiwara made no attempt to be polite, walking over to Hosei no Mori and sitting down right next to her. Not long after he sat down, Matsuda and Kagemitsu also came in.
They looked at the seats where Hōseki and Hagiwara were sitting, and Matsuda smiled and said to Hagiwara, "You still remember this seat?"
"Hey, is there some story behind your positions?" Morobushi Kagemitsu's eyes lit up when he saw this.
Hagiwara smiled and said, "There's a little story behind it. Back then, Jinpei was a really cool guy. It took me a while to figure out how to become friends with him!"
“I didn’t see you having any trouble. Your conversation skills back then were better than many adults’.” Matsuda immediately revealed a crescent-shaped eye and sneered at him.
Hagiwara chuckled lightly: "I just tempted you by inviting you to my house to play with cars!"
"Oh……"
Watching the two of them bicker, Feng Xing Shou watched with great interest. As someone who didn't have many friends or childhood friends, she was quite envious of them. Watching them bicker, she couldn't help but sigh, "Childhood friends are so great! You must have had many interesting experiences together!"
"Feng-chan, don't be envious. My childhood friend and best friend are also your childhood friend and best friend. From now on, just treat Kojinpei and Komorofushi as your best friends." Seeing that Feng Xingshou said this, Hagiwara said without any politeness.
Upon hearing this, Matsuda Jinpei blinked his half-moon eyes and retorted, "I've heard of people handing over their salaries to their girlfriends or weddings, but I've never heard of handing over friends! Hagiwara, are you trying to use me to do a favor? I'm already Fuu-chan's good friend, I don't need you to do me a favor at all, okay?"
"What about me? Was I also handed over?" Morofushi Kagemitsu asked with a smile, blinking his large, warm blue eyes.
Feng Xingshou, standing to the side, said helplessly, "Hey, you're both men in your twenties, is it really necessary to argue over something like this?"
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Just as the three were chatting and laughing, less than a minute after the station announcement, a little boy carrying a schoolbag walked in first and went straight to Matsuda's seat.
Then, because of the overlap between the real and the copy dimensions, if Matsuda hadn't risen up along with them, the tiny figure almost overlapped with Matsuda...
"Matsuda! Is this you at seven years old?" Fengxing Shou asked Matsuda, who was standing next to him, noticing the striking resemblance between the little boy and Matsuda.
Matsuda nodded, somewhat incredulous. He never imagined he would see himself at seven years old one day. It was a rather strange feeling!
"I feel like you haven't changed much since you were a kid. Look at that fierce look in your eyes, just like a gangster boss. You must have been the boss among your classmates in school, and everyone must have been in awe of you," Morofushi Kagemitsu joked to Matsuda.
Feng Xing Shou then noticed that the 7-year-old-looking Matsuda in front of him had fierce eyes, like a hedgehog covered in thorns, and exuded an aura that said no one should come near him.
At the same time, upon hearing Morofushi Kagemitsu's words, Hagiwara chuckled to himself: "Jinpei has always been a very cool kid. If anyone makes him unhappy, he'll beat them up. Isn't that terrifying!"
"If I were scary, would you still come to be my friend?" The one who's scary is you, you smiling tiger! Matsuda gave Hagiwara a disgruntled look.
Hagiwara smiled but didn't say anything. He wouldn't say that he felt no inferiority or shame when his classmates called him the son of a murderer.
Instead, he thought Jinpei was cool for raising his fist and beating up the guy who dared to say that, which is why he went out of his way to talk to him. Cough cough... In order to make this friend, he deliberately waited to take the same bus as him every day...
As they were talking, Feng Xingshou, not forgetting his business, looked at Matsuda and said, "Since you're 7 years old, I'll take him away?"
"Put it away. I'll take care of everything I need to do once I get to the real world." Matsuda nodded.
After obtaining Matsuda's consent, Feng Xingshou put the seven-year-old Matsuda into his storage space, then put the 26-year-old Matsuda from the dungeon dimension into his backpack space, and then teleported him to the real dimension.
As soon as Matsuda entered the real world, he immediately got busy. Fortunately, the cell phones Bourbon had prepared for them were quite old, and since they had probably already made an agreement with Shuichi Akai when they last met, he had already guessed how the group would act after they agreed.
When they met, he also provided them with old cell phones that could be used 17 years ago, so after entering the real dimension, he didn't need to look for other ways to contact them and used his cell phone to call Akai Tsutomu.
At that time, Akai Tsutomu was in England. After the call was connected, Matsuda walked to a quieter place to avoid leaking important information, and then talked to him about those things, since Kazesei no Mamoru was not listening.
We have no idea what he said to Akai Tsutomu or what his attitude was. We can only wait until Matsuda returns to the Survival Highway and has time to chat to find out the effectiveness of their communication.
However, while Matsuda was still on the phone, Kazesei's attention was completely drawn to the cute little boy in front of him. He looked to be about seven years old, with very delicate and pretty features, the kind of delicate beauty that makes a boy look like a girl.
Looking at the cute little boy, she couldn't help but say to Hagiwara beside her, "Hey! Hagiwara, look how good this child is. He'll definitely grow up to be a handsome man."
"Heh... Thank you for the compliment, Kaze-chan. It seems you're quite satisfied with this child!" Hagiwara said this meaningfully after hearing her words.
Feng Xingshou was a little confused.
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Morofushi Kagemitsu, who was standing nearby, found it amusing and mischievously reminded him, "Hagiwara, you were so cute and delicate when you were little! You were prettier than many little girls."
"Eh?! Eh?! Eh?!" Kazesei no Kami exclaimed in surprise at Morofushi Kagemitsu's words: "This is seven-year-old Hagiwara? No way? Hagiwara was so handsome when he was little?"
"Thank you for the compliment, but I seem to have lost my looks as I grew up. When we were little, everyone said I was better looking than Jinpei, but now Jinpei has a rather plain face, and I'm just average." Hagiwara pretended to be melancholy.
Feng Xingshou shook his head repeatedly, "No! You definitely haven't grown up ugly. You're very handsome now, and you have a different kind of handsomeness than Matsuda."
"Heh... really? You think I'm handsome, Fuu-chan?" Hagiwara asked, looking at Fuu-hoshi no Mori with obvious anticipation.
Feng Xing Shou immediately nodded: "Yes, yes, he's really handsome!"
"I'm so glad that Kaze-chan likes me." Hagiwara said happily.
"Huh?" Feng Xingshou was stunned. She was just praising Hagiwara, so how did Hagiwara say that she liked him?
Standing to the side, Morofushi Kagemitsu couldn't help but chuckle. Hagiwara was still as cunning as ever. He seemed harmless, but he was actually very good at deceiving people. Those who were led astray by him always fell into his verbal traps without realizing it. He never expected that he would even use this trick when it came to love.
Hagiwara didn't give Kazeki no chance to object at all, and didn't care that there were so many people around, or that Morofushi Kagemitsu was standing by. He continued to coax Kazeki no Kagemitsu as if no one else was around, and continued, "Since Kazeki-chan likes me, and I like Kazeki-chan too, let's start dating today."
"Hagiwara..." Hagiwara's tone was unusually defiant, leaving no room for Kazehoshi no one to refute him. He spoke with such certainty that Kazehoshi no one knew how to respond.
If it were before, she could have taken it as a joke and laughed it off, but after what happened ten days ago, she knew that Hagiwara was serious. Just as Kazesei was hesitating and not knowing how to respond to Hagiwara's words.
The other party didn't give her any time to react and continued, "Alright, Feng-chan, hurry up and put away my teenage self. I also need to go to the real dimension to deal with the matter of Morofushi's parents."
Furthermore, since this subway train knew it was going to have a major accident, I could go to the real world and find a way to evacuate the passengers, thus preventing their deaths and injuries.
Upon hearing Hagiwara's words, Kazehoshi no longer had the mind to think about whether the two had started dating. After all, the lives and deaths of hundreds of people on the bus were at stake, and this was not the time to think about such things.
So she forgot to deny Hagiwara's relationship description and hurriedly followed Hagiwara's instructions to put away his teenage self. Then she put Hagiwara into her backpack space and released him into the real dimension. After she finished doing this, only she and Morofushi Kagemitsu remained in the entire instance dimension.
"Sigh!" Morofushi Kagemitsu sighed with some melancholy, his mood seemingly a bit low: "It's a matter of life and death for my parents, but I can't do anything to help them. I can only rely on Hagiwara and Matsuda for help."
"Then you can help them back later. They'll definitely need your help someday!" Feng Xingshou said dismissively, seeing Zhu Fujingguang's dejected expression.
Seeing her casual demeanor, as if she firmly believed that such a thing would happen, Morobushi Kagemitsu smiled and said, "Yes, when they need my help in the future, I will do my best to help them."
The two of them talked while following Hagiwara's actions in the real dimension.
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Even though Matsuda and Hagiwara had gone their separate ways, Kazesei-no-Mori didn't know what was wrong with him, but he subconsciously walked towards Hagiwara and stayed close to him while he called Morofushi Kagemitsu's parents.
The message is relayed in the voice of Morofushi Kagemitsu's future friends, telling them about the terrible disaster that is about to happen to them. Even Morofushi Kagemitsu's parents do not believe such a thing, or do not take this message seriously.
He also called Morofushi Takaaki, who was in school, to tell him about the incident and instructed him that if his parents did not take the matter seriously, he must go home the day before the little girl fell ill and take her to the hospital for treatment.
After finishing all that, Hagiwara changed his tone again, pretending to be an ordinary citizen, and called the Metropolitan Police Department, claiming that he had found explosives in the subway car where the accident occurred, suspecting a terrorist attack, and deliberately describing the location of the explosives as a place where the subway would soon malfunction...
Before Morofushi Kagemitsu could finish speaking, he knew what Morofushi was planning to do, and couldn't help but smile wryly: "I never thought that one day we would have to pretend to be terrorists. This is really an unexpected development."
"It's worth it even if I'm labeled a terrorist, as long as I can change the fate of the victims in these carriages." Kazesei Mori relayed Morofushi Kagemitsu's words to Hagiwara, who smiled upon hearing them.
He was not one to be bound by rules and regulations, so he said dismissively, then paused before continuing, "As long as Feng-chan doesn't hate me, that's fine."
While the group chatted, after finishing their tasks, Hagiwara, in order not to reveal that he was not from this era, had already asked the Wind Star Guardian to put him into his backpack space and released the unaware little Hagiwara from the backpack space.
Not long after, Matsuda returned. As usual, Fengxingshou transferred him back to the instance dimension and released Little Matsuda. They were so busy that they had just stopped when Fengxingshou was about to ask Matsuda how the progress was going!
It must have been due to Hagiwara's actions, or perhaps the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's swift response. Before she could even ask any further questions, she saw on the countdown timer on the copy that less than ten minutes had passed since Hagiwara called the Metropolitan Police Department.
The subway train was immediately suspended, and many plainclothes Metropolitan Police Department officers went into the carriages to conduct inspections. Seeing this, Kazesei Mori casually looked out the window and remarked, "Your Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department reacts pretty quickly! So..."
Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly paused when she saw the station scene outside the train window and blurted out, "Why does this place look so familiar? I feel like I've seen it before."
Upon hearing this, Matsuda immediately winked at Hagiwara, signaling, "It seems like the junior is finally remembering!"
"I know!" Hagiwara also gave Matsuda a look, and the two smiled at each other, their understanding perfect.
Matsuda even whispered to Hagiwara, "Perhaps you could take this opportunity to ask her why she inexplicably stood you up in the first place?"
"It's fine not to ask. Anyway, she's my girlfriend now. She must have had her own reasons for not asking. Let her tell me when she's ready!" Hagiwara smiled after hearing this.
"Tsk tsk!" Matsuda clicked his tongue playfully twice, deliberately joking, "Hagi! I didn't expect you to be so considerate!"
“Of course, you have to treat your girlfriend differently!” Hagiwara glanced at his childhood friend with a half-smile…
Just as the two were whispering to each other, Feng Xing Shou stared blankly at the scenery outside the car window beyond the dungeon boundary, and suddenly remembered: "Ah, I remember now, this is Kanagawa, Japan, right? I studied here for a short period of time before!"
I never expected the dungeon location to be here. However, my study abroad took place several years later, and the station there was in a much better condition than it is now. I didn't recognize it at first, but now that I've stopped and looked closely, I recognize it immediately—this is clearly Kanagawa Station!
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"Besides remembering that this is Kanagawa, do you remember anything else?" Hearing what Kazesei-no-Kami said, Matsuda winked at Hagiwara again and asked her.
"Think of anything else?" Feng Xing Shou was taken aback by the question.
Morofushi Kagemitsu glanced at Matsuda and Hagiwara, then at Kazesei no Kami, and suddenly understood something, revealing a gentle and refined smile.
Feng Xingshou herself was completely unaware of this, and when she heard Matsuda ask her this, she had no idea what Matsuda wanted to ask her.
"Don't you know anyone interesting in Kanagawa?" Matsuda Oki Hagiwara smiled and reminded Kazesei Mori.
"Well, I do know some people here, but I've almost forgotten them all. The only thing I remember vividly is that I was here, uh... to use your Japanese terminology, my first love was here."
However, according to the saying in our Zhongzhou Kingdom, there is someone here whom I once had a crush on..." Feng Xingshou didn't think much of it after hearing this, and instead answered very frankly. She originally went along with Matsuda's words, but as she spoke,
Memories she had tried so hard to erase from her mind were now becoming clearer. When she matched the faces she had forgotten with the people in front of her, she looked at Hagiwara and Matsuda in disbelief, her voice trembling as she asked, "It's you, it's both of you?"
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