Chapter 46 Spectacular Car Race
What's worse is that the track is so long that you can't see the end of it. Even if she doesn't know anything about racing, she can tell from this scene that it's too difficult for a driver to drive in this kind of road condition. One wrong move and you could crash and die.
And yet, no one knows how far or how long they'll have to drive. It's even more insidious than those races where you compete against other people. Do those damned organizers really want to see the Earthlings being played like fools?
Just when Feng Xing Shou was so angry with the game organizers that he wanted to curse, Matsuda seemed to be very happy and said, "Compared to yesterday's car race, this kind is more suitable for you."
"Heh...yeah! As long as your driving skills are good enough, you can get through this kind of track. It makes me feel more at ease winning than having to step over the corpses of those who failed." Hagiwara laughed for the first time while waiting in the dungeon racetrack.
Hearing his laughter, Feng Xingshou realized that he was different from his brother, who shared the same cold blood, was indifferent to people other than those he cared about, and would never have any empathy.
Hagiwara hasn't reacted much to the races after the dungeon these past few days. It's not that he doesn't care about the lives of others, but rather that he's hiding his emotions. If the track hadn't changed this time, he probably still wouldn't have revealed this to me!
Realizing this, she subconsciously clenched her pants. Just as her older brother had said, she was the same as him at heart. She had never truly felt sad or empathized with those who were in the bottom ten of the race and died in car accidents...
"Feng-chan, sit tight and don't forget to fasten your seatbelt. Things won't be as safe as usual in the car later." Just as she was feeling ashamed of herself, Hagiwara seemed to read her mind.
While fastening his seatbelt, he said to her, "Also, don't think that it's bad of you to be unable to empathize with other people's feelings. Everyone has their own personality, and I think your personality of not being affected by irrelevant people is very good."
Furthermore, I didn't empathize with those who failed, nor did I feel sorry for them. I simply disliked this rule of competing with one's own kind for life, where the winner lives and the loser dies. That's a completely different thing from empathy.
"Tsk! You're really over 30?" Matsuda, who could also see the thoughts written all over her face, sneered with his half-moon eyes: "Even teenagers in Japan these days wouldn't have such childish ideas as you."
"Cough! I wasn't thinking anything!" Feng Xingshou, having been seen through by the two, still stubbornly insisted that they were mistaken, but his body betrayed him as he let go of their hands, sat back in the newly upgraded small living room seat in the back of the car, and fastened his seatbelt.
Seeing that she was ready, Hagiwara glanced at the countdown timer beside her. Seeing that there were still a few minutes left, he started the car and warmed up the engine while teasing her, "Eh? Really! I thought your thoughts were written all over your face!"
"By the way, what's with that silver-haired, green-eyed man in today's dungeon?" Matsuda didn't want this space to turn into a scene where his childhood friend and his sweetheart were flirting while he was left eating dog food, so he quickly changed the subject from Hagiwara.
However, he was genuinely curious. After all, it was almost always Hagiwara who was talking during the dungeon. Why did he say those things? Why did he do those things? He had no idea, except that he knew that the dangerous man was Fuu-chan's older brother.
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When Fuusei saw Matsuda ask this question, even Hagiwara turned to look at him from behind. Feeling there was nothing to hide, he answered directly, "He is my half-brother. His Russian name is too long for me to remember."
Aside from his time with the mercenary company, he never used it again.
The Russian name is Feng Xingzhen in Chinese. I heard that it was because my father gave himself a Chinese name after he met my mother, using my mother's surname.
However, ever since he started working for that Japanese boss, he has been using another Japanese name, Kurosawa Jin. Later, his boss even gave him a work code name, Gin, and told me that no matter where I saw him in the future, I should either ignore him or just call him by that name.
As for our parents, my father was a Russian mercenary, and my brother's mother was also a mercenary who died in a mission. My father met my biological mother and I was born when he worked on the Sino-Russian border around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, before I could remember anything, my brother told me that when I was two years old, my father died in a dangerous situation at work, and my biological mother took the compensation money from the mercenary company where my father worked and disappeared.
My brother was only 14 years old at the time. In order to support the two of us, he joined the mercenary company that my father worked for. You know the nature of mercenary work, the internal environment and style of work.
He grew up with his father in a mercenary unit, and I heard that his toys were all kinds of guns and weapons. Later, he actually became a mercenary and survived, and he became like a weapon of war.
Even though he later had enough money and didn't need to do those dangerous jobs, he just didn't like ordinary life and preferred to do dangerous work.
"That's normal. It's hard for someone who's used to that lifestyle to become a truly 'normal person' without a strong desire to return to peace," Matsuda said succinctly after hearing her say that.
Whether it was a compliment or something else, Hagiwara continued, "But your brother must be incredibly powerful. Even if he wasn't specifically targeting me and Jinpei, just making eye contact with him gave me a sense of impending doom!"
"In short, he's a very dangerous person." Matsuda wanted to tell Fuu-chan to be careful when she was with him in the future, but then he thought that they were siblings who had grown up together and depended on each other. No matter how dangerous he was, he probably wouldn't hurt Fuu-chan, so he swallowed his words.
When Feng Xing Shou heard him say that, he thought about what he had done in the dungeon and his brother's fierce personality, and couldn't help but show a somewhat uneasy expression. Cough cough... His brother shouldn't be angry, right?
Hagiwara already knew Fuu-chan well, and seeing her expression, he had a bad feeling: "Fuu-chan, you didn't do anything you shouldn't have to your brother, did you?"
"Uh...no!" Feng Xing Shou wanted to deny it, but when he saw the crescent-shaped eyes that he and Matsuda both looked at at him at the same time, with expressions that seemed to see right through them, he could only helplessly confess: "Okay! Didn't you say this morning that you only had enough ammo for a few days of dungeons?"
Knowing my brother's habit of being a walking arsenal, I took advantage of the instance's features and looted some things from him before he got out of the car. Don't worry, I left him a Beretta rifle and spare magazines. The mini pistol and mini grenades are still untouched!
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"He even has mini grenades? What kind of job does he do in Japan?!" Matsuda couldn't help but complain when he heard this.
"Cough! I have a bad feeling." Upon hearing Kazesei-no-Kami's reply, Hagiwara felt a wave of dizziness and anxiously speculated, "If your brother discovers his weapon is missing, he won't suspect that someone who was in close contact with him stole it? Like me and Jinpei?"
"Huh?" Feng Xingshou was taken aback. Then, thinking about his brother's personality—he'd rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go free, and was so cautious that even a rabbit wouldn't dare shed a hair in front of him—he felt he couldn't deny this possibility.
Realizing he might have tricked them both, he immediately
He chuckled dryly and said, "Haha... It's okay. When you get back, if you really run into him, just say I stole it. At most, he'll punish me by making me eat bitter melon for a few days. That won't do anything."
"So if it were us, we would definitely do this!" Matsuda was good at drawing inferences from one instance to another.
o(╥﹏╥)o Feng Xing Shou, facing this 'victim' he had tricked for the second time, felt like crying but had no tears left. He frowned and offered a dry explanation: "I... I didn't think that much at the time..."
"Haha... Fuu-chan, being with you always brings some interesting things to happen every day!" Hagiwara was amused by her, but before Fuu-sei-no-kami could react, he stepped on the gas and said, "Fuu-chan, time's up, hold on tight to the handrail."
Feng Xingshou, who was behind him, felt even more embarrassed when she heard his laughter. She involuntarily swayed back in her seat. Then, the scenery outside the car rushed past the window like an arrow. Only then did she realize that the race was about to start.
At the same time, an announcement appeared on the game panel in front of her:
[Announcement: Today's daily dungeon race has been upgraded to a speed obstacle race. There will be no ranking in the speed obstacle race. Participating cars will accumulate points based on the distance traveled in the race time. During the speed obstacle race, 1 point will be awarded for every kilometer driven. After the race ends.]
Participants can use their earned points to redeem various treasure chests in the game's limited-time racing shop. The limited-time racing shop operates for 6 minutes; if points are not used within 6 minutes, they will be cleared.
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Huh? Not only has the racetrack changed, but the race time and reward rules have also changed. This time it sounds like the farther you drive, the richer the reward. I wonder what 1 point can be exchanged for, and how long it will take to drive one kilometer?
However, she had no energy left to think about the answers to these questions, because after she realized that the race was about to start, she began to experience a series of scenes that she had only seen in some racing movies.
In the narrow gap between the bridge piers, which was only half a meter wide, she watched as the car was about to crash into it. She didn't know how Hagiwara drove, but the entire car suddenly tilted to the side and used the two side wheels to squeeze through the gap between the two bridge piers.
Inside the car, she experienced the sensation of being suspended in mid-air, feeling as if she would have rolled off the back seat and onto the floor if she hadn't been secured by a seatbelt.
Before she could even process the shock, Matsuda's voice suddenly rang out: "Kaze-chan, grit your teeth, grab the handrail and don't say a word. It's going to get even more intense later."
More intense? What do you mean? Feng Xingshou did as he said while wondering, but before she could recover from being suspended in mid-air, the car suddenly drifted.
Looking horizontally, I only noticed the color was off before, but now I can see that the middle of this road seems to be filled with swamps, asphalt, or other black, sticky substances. Only the sides of the road, less than 20 centimeters wide, are paved. We drifted past these sections.
Then the car quickly drifted back to its normal parking position, but in front of it were roadblocks made of burning gasoline drums in an indistinct order, at least Feng Xingshou couldn't make them out.
Unexpectedly, Hagiwara moved swiftly through these obstacles, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. In narrow places, he drove sideways, just like before, and in the short span of ten seconds, before Kazesei-no-Kami even forgot to breathe, he had passed through the obstacle area.
Then it suddenly accelerated, and in less than 20 seconds, when Feng Xingshou felt as if the whole car was flying, the car actually flew directly over a section of road covered with black iron thorns, and then went straight into the broken cabin of the plane that looked like a crashed plane, and quickly passed through it.
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