Chapter 243 Jingguang's Thoughts
Day 14 of the Highway Survival Game!
"So our current situation is in this instance. We either need to knock them out, or find a way to knock out all the organization members present, and then communicate with the real Akai Tsutomu through their bodies."
"Or will we have to return empty-handed?" After understanding Matsuda's concerns, the others lost interest in investigating the secrets that Nomoto Masahiro was trying to hide.
Fengxing Shouze pondered how to knock out everyone in this real-dimensional instance, but unfortunately, she couldn't come up with any ideas. She could only ask, "Do you have any methods to knock them out?"
"If we can get out, even if they have a lot of people, it's just difficult for them, but not impossible. Unfortunately, this is on the premise that we can go to the real dimension. If none of us can get out, then there's nothing we can do." Hagiwara, clinging to the idea that a man shouldn't say no to someone he likes, offered a small act of self-justification.
"Tsk!" Matsuda glanced at the childhood friend, who was so unbearable to look at, with his crescent-shaped eyes, and then asked Fuusei, "Do you have any drugs or the like that that can make people unconscious among the resources you've collected?"
Feng Xingshou shook his head upon hearing this: "No, if I did, I wouldn't be so troubled."
"It seems we're going to have to return empty-handed this time." Upon hearing the answer, Morofushi Kagemitsu sighed inwardly.
Matsuda also said, "Fine, since we can't contact Akai Tsutomu in this instance, we should at least find out what secrets Nomoto Masaru is trying to hide."
Mu Ping was a little surprised to hear how easily they were about to give up: "Given your personalities, I thought you would think of other ways before deciding whether to give up! I didn't expect you to make the decision so readily."
Hearing her ask this, Hagiwara smiled and said, "We're just ordinary people, only our profession is police. This job gives us more experience in various aspects, but we also have to learn to give up in time, since we can't solve the practical problems."
We can't risk merging with our past selves to go out and deal with them ourselves, so we'll just have to do it another day. Anyway, we have plenty of time. If it doesn't work today, then tomorrow or the day after. We still have 16 days until Akai Tsutomu's accident happens!
When he heard Hagiwara mention this number of days, Kazesei no Mori's heart skipped a beat.
"What's wrong, Feng-chan?" Matsuda asked with some concern, noticing her strange expression.
Feng Xing Shou looked at the three of them, unsure of what to say. Not wanting to keep them on edge, she shook her head, not revealing her thoughts. She couldn't very well tell them that she had heard about this number of days.
Suddenly, I remembered that the game would be launching a large-scale dungeon on the 27th. I thought to myself, if the regular daily dungeons are this dangerous, I wonder how dangerous the large-scale dungeons will be! Luckily, I have the Reincarnation skill, so it's not a big deal.
But everyone's safety is really worrying. She didn't want to say these things and make everyone worry about what might happen in the future, so she simply changed the subject: "I'm fine, I just feel like I made a wasted trip today, and I'm a little annoyed."
Hagiwara could tell she wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't call her out on it; he still had that much politeness. Although he really wanted to know what the person he liked was worried about, he didn't press her for an answer. Instead, he said, "It's not necessarily a wasted trip."
Since Masahiro Nomoto can act as a front man for high-ranking officials, the secret he's trying to hide might be very helpful to our situation in the future. Let's find out what secrets this place is hiding.
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“Alright, let’s continue the investigation.” Matsuda said, glancing at Morofushi Kagemitsu, and continued, “Let’s go back to where we left off and investigate separately, looking for any clues.”
"Hmm!" Hagi glanced at Kaze Star Guardian, knowing she wasn't good at these things, and said to her, "Kaze-chan, why don't you go collect the supplies here? Even if there's nothing here and it won't be of much use in the future, every little bit helps!"
"Okay, then I'll pack up my things. But I'll keep an eye on things while I'm packing. If I think there's anything that seems to be hiding some secret, or anything strange, I'll leave it out for you to check."
Perhaps then we can find out what Mr. Nomoto is hiding! "Fuusei knew that he was not good at finding these kinds of secrets, and besides, this was Japan, and everything was written in Japanese. Even if there were secrets, he wouldn't know what use they would be. So he readily agreed.
Hagiwara nodded, about to lift his long legs and begin his action.
The others glanced at the break room again, just about to continue their work when Morofushi Kagemitsu suddenly mentioned something else: "Eh! I remember now."
"What did you remember?" Matsuda asked him, somewhat surprised.
Hagiwara also stopped and looked at Morofushi Kagemitsu with some interest.
Morofushi Kagemitsu immediately said, "I was just thinking about this time of year when I was a child. I do seem to have seen a corner of a niche newspaper mentioning that a financial company had caught fire."
But after that, I didn't see any reports. At the time, I thought it wasn't a big deal! After all, none of the major TV stations reported it. Now I wonder if someone used their influence to suppress it?
“You’re talking about a fire, not a gas rescue,” Hagiwara noticed.
Upon hearing his friend's question, Morofushi Kagemitsu thought carefully for a moment before nodding: "It was indeed a fire."
"Tsk! So, besides these two valves being open, there's actually another ignition device left at the scene." Hearing this, Matsuda immediately clicked his tongue in amazement.
A glint flashed in Morofushi Kagemitsu's gentle blue eyes: "According to some criminal psychology theories, if such a thing is designed, then the secret that the other party wants to hide is either near the opening of this valve."
Either it's near that ignition device, or one of those two places, that creates the mental state they feel they want to destroy something, to completely destroy it in that location.
“Since it’s not here, it seems that what we’re looking for is likely near that ignition device. Now that we have a target, things are much easier,” Hagiwara said with a half-smile.
Everyone else nodded in agreement.
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All three were graduates of police academies, possessing extensive knowledge and experience. Given that they had considered these factors, finding a ignition device would be relatively easy for them in a financial company, even one that was not small in size.
In less than 10 minutes, they found a simple fire ignition device set up by refracting sunlight in what appeared to be his secretary's office.
Based on the timing of the ignition device and valve opening, the group deduced that the futures device would activate when their instance time ended and the instance exit closed.
In other words, the exit of the copy is actually related to the time of the fire device of this financial company and the concentration of gas released by the valve, and has nothing to do with the organization. After confirming this, the group began to search around the fire device.
Feng Xingshou couldn't understand how they searched or looked for things, and feeling that she couldn't help in this regard, she simply went to other places to collect all the materials in the entire financial company. Busy as she was, it took her nearly half an hour to collect everything from the entire three floors.
After she finished collecting the items and returned to the vicinity of the ignition device, she saw the three of them looking at something that resembled computer software or hardware often seen in Hong Kong movies from the 1990s, with mixed expressions on their faces.
Looking at their expressions, Feng Xingshou felt they resembled the expressions of those who had discovered the corruption and filth in Japan—no, they were even more unpleasant. This piqued her curiosity: "What have you found out? Why do you look so grim?"
“There’s something in here that really surprised us all.” Hagiwara waved the floppy disk in his hand.
Feng Xingshou looked at the items on the screen. It was the first time she had ever seen them in real life. She had only seen them in TV dramas and movies in Hong Kong and other places before. By the time she came into contact with similar things in real life, the technology had been updated and they had been eliminated by society.
Seeing that Hagiwara and the others seemed to know how to use this thing, they were already curious, so their attention wandered a little: "I remember this thing was gradually phased out by society at the end of '98 or '99! You guys actually know how to use it?"
They should only be around 12 or 13 years old at this time. Generally speaking, by the time they reach the age to start using computers, the popular period for these things will have long passed. They wouldn't be using computers now, would they?
Ahem... Is this the real-life version of a certain high-ranking player being backed by an elementary school student? Thinking of this, Feng Xingshou pictured Hagiwara and the others with their chubby cheeks, secretly playing computer games behind their parents' backs, and couldn't help but chuckle. o(*￣︶￣*)o
Seeing this, Hagiwara guessed what she was thinking and reached out to ruffle Kazehoshi's hair: "Don't overthink it. I learned it when I was helping my father register auto repair customer information. I didn't secretly play computer games behind my parents' backs."
In reality, people of his father's generation were not proficient in using computers, but he found it very easy to learn, so his father often asked him to help register some information into the computer.
Morofushi Kagemitsu smiled but didn't say anything. Back then, in order to find out who killed his parents, he would spend his time after school either hanging out with Zero or searching for news that seemed to be related to his parents' murder. Because at that time, Japan had started storing complex and heavy information on floppy disks, he found a way to learn how to do it...
He was thinking about these things. Originally, he was just trying to explain to himself that he wasn't a bad kid who secretly played computer games when he was a child because Feng Xingshou's gaze was too obvious. But then he suddenly thought of the fact that his parents were killed by Waishuichi.
This made him pause involuntarily. Yes! Since Shuichi Akai was able to think of changing his father Tsutomu Akai's fate after learning about Fusang's abilities, why had he never thought of this himself? Did he think that bringing the dead back to life violated the laws of nature and ethics?
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