Chapter 247 Historical Resistance
Day 25 of the Highway Survival Game!
So that's how he planned it. However, before carrying out this plan, he had another worry in his heart, because his meeting with Zero was due to the death of his parents. He had to go to live with relatives in Tokyo, which is how he met Zero and they became close friends.
If his parents' death changed his fate, then his fate in meeting Zero would also change. Would Zero still be able to be his friend? Fortunately, through their last meeting, they had already understood each other clearly.
Once they cause changes in the past, people in the future will have two sets of memories, revised from the past. In this way, even if they changed their own fate in the past, creating a future where they never met Zero and became close friends, they could still have their memories altered.
In Zero's memory, there is another memory where they were originally best friends. He believes that Zero will not be affected by the other memory and will still regard him as his best friend.
Trusting them, they entered this past timeline when the game instance reopened the next day. This time, their operation seemed to go quite smoothly; finally, they didn't encounter the organization's operation site. -_-||
No dangerous individuals or activities were found in the instance, but after a thorough inspection, they were disheartened; this was definitely not a site of organizational activities or any dangerous activity.
However, this place wasn't a good place for them either, because upon inspection, they found that it looked like just an empty building waiting to be demolished on a timer, with no supplies whatsoever.
The building had been completely emptied, and given the era, the buildings here were constructed with ordinary materials, so there were no resources to collect.
The old lime, cement, wood and other building materials were not of much use to Feng Xing Shou at the moment, so the three of them did not pay attention to it. Instead, they searched the building that was to be demolished for any other people.
After all, if they want to connect with people in the real world through their mobile phones, they need to interact with real, living people. Fortunately, mobile phones still exist at this time, and they have already become popular, so they won't be in the awkward situation of not having a mobile phone to use.
However, this time their luck seemed really bad. They entered the instance a few days before the incident, on the day their daughter fell ill. The instance's boundaries were limited to buildings that were to be demolished.
Not only were there no other resources, but there was also no one. They even searched the entire instance thoroughly, but only found a corpse hidden in a wall.
According to the autopsy conducted by Hagiwara and his team, the person had been dead for over a year, and the case was determined to be a homicide. Apart from that, no other findings were made, and they were currently unable to solve this obvious murder case...
It was clear that they had made another wasted trip and could only return disappointed.
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After two consecutive setbacks, Hagiwara couldn't help but wonder, "Do you think there's some kind of limitation to this game? For example, the further back in time we go, the bigger the things that need to be changed, and the less smoothly the dungeons will open up new locations for us?"
"Really?" Matsuda asked, but his expression clearly showed he was deep in thought.
Unlike Hagiwara and Matsuda, Morofushi Kagemitsu hadn't had many smooth experiences, and had less experience with dungeons. So he was quite accepting of it: "The situation these past two days is indeed different from the dungeons I've experienced before."
“In the past, we could usually achieve our goals smoothly after calculating them, but this is the second time in a row that our plans have failed.” Feng Xingshou also found it strange that the two consecutive unsuccessful attempts had failed.
Upon hearing what Fuusei said, Hagiwara made a conjecture: "Could this be the effect caused by the so-called historical deviation value? The further we move into the past, the higher the historical deviation value we create for the future."
The higher the historical deviation value, the greater the resistance from spacetime, potentially preventing us from achieving our goals. The influence of the unaltered past on history is minimal, and its tendency to change the future is reduced. Could this be considered a form of self-repair of the world?
"If such a rule exists in the dark, I estimate that our journey ahead will not be so smooth, and the closer the distance, the sooner Jingdan's parents will have their accident."
The more we try to change these things, the more variables there will be. Perhaps we should try to find ways to overcome the resistance to this self-correction of history and find a way to achieve our goal.” Matsuda nodded in agreement with Hagiwara’s reasoning, thinking that we definitely needed to find a way.
His gaze then turned to the group: "What other options are there? Right now, all we can do is try and fail, one step at a time. Perhaps we'll have to try several times before we find people and things we can contact. We can't possibly wait five days, ten days, or even longer without finding anyone or anything we can contact..."
For a while, the group couldn't come up with any good ideas, so they could only try day by day. They thought that one day they would find a suitable dungeon to achieve their goal. It couldn't be that Matsuda said they couldn't find a suitable dungeon even after five or ten days.
However, Matsuda only made a joke to relax everyone's tense mood, but he didn't expect his words to come true. The Nine Heavens Wind Star Guardians and their group went through the dungeon nine times in a row.
The temperature on the Survival Highway dropped to -11 degrees Celsius. The remaining blueprint chests for the remaining level 3 car parts were collected, and the upgrade materials were also gathered by processing and trading parts on the trading platform. All the cars were upgraded to level 3, and a decent reward was obtained.
They used the newly acquired Tier 4 component blueprints along with the other Tier 4 component blueprints, and only three more were needed to upgrade to Tier 4 vehicles. They still hadn't found a dungeon that could connect them to that era, and as time passed day by day, everyone was extremely distressed.
“Continuing like this isn’t a solution. Let’s think of another way to solve this problem. We can’t keep gambling with luck. Nine days have already passed. If we try again, the historical obstacles will probably still stop us.”
Morofushi Kagemitsu sighed. He had always held a sense of awe and conflict about changing history and saving those who were supposed to die. The experiences of the past few days had gradually tilted the scales in his heart to the other side: "Perhaps we should give up, and we should go back and persuade Lai to give up."
Perhaps this is fate preventing us from offending the dead or attempting to defy destiny. Perhaps this is a warning from the unseen laws of time and space. Let's abandon this matter and return to the future to achieve our goal!
"But it's too hard to give up like this." Matsuda clicked his tongue, clearly unhappy.
Hagiwara looked at him and Morofushi Kagemitsu: "Besides, if there really were any divine retribution, I wouldn't have been saved by Kaze-chan, and neither would you. We all changed our fate of death, and we haven't been punished by anyone."
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Feng Xingshou, watching them discuss, suddenly had an idea and asked them, "By the way, around the time this year was closest to the time when Officer Zhu Fu's parents had their accident, do you recall any devastating events that happened, like any particularly memorable devastating incidents you experienced yourself?"
"Do you have some ideas now?" Hearing Feng Xingshou ask this, the three of them looked at each other in confusion, then their expressions changed slightly, and they asked her with interest.
Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou did not hide anything and answered directly: "I do have an idea. I think that since there are obstacles in history, no matter how blindly we try, we may fail in these attempts."
If we keep encountering failures, why not try to pinpoint a specific instance of failure? By finding a past experience of personal shattering events, we can then take on that past self and attempt to achieve our desired goal.
"But once we appear in reality, we will definitely merge with our past selves, just like those mobile phones and other objects, becoming a closed loop of fate, at which point nothing can be changed."
"Does Feng Jiang mean there's a way to solve this problem?" After a few seconds of confusion upon hearing Feng Xing Shou's words, the three of them immediately realized what he meant.
"Is this the same method you came up with when you were trying to fool my brother?" Feng Xingshou nodded as he answered their question, "Didn't you mention it when you were trying to fool my brother?"
If we could enter a place where you are at the same age as the instance, I think we could store your teenage bodies in an empty inventory during the instance, and then transfer you out of the inventory into the real dimension.
Once you can enter the real world, there will be many things you can do. You can call Inspector Morofushi's parents to warn them of the impending crisis, or call that Moriichi and tell him that his daughter is about to fall ill, etc.
We could even contact Akai Tsutomu directly, as we discussed a few days ago, and commission him to find out in the real world whether the Symbiosis Cult possesses any vehicles. Would doing this prevent the resistance of history's self-correction from preventing us from doing so?
Upon hearing Feng Xingshou's method, everyone's eyes lit up: "Indeed, how come we didn't think of doing it this way?"
Matsuda tried hard to recall his memories of the past year, and looked at Hagiwara: "Think quickly, is there anything that left a deep impression on us this year that could have changed or was related to the destruction?"
Although Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't say anything, this matter was of utmost importance to him, and he tried his best to recall the experiences of the past year...
“There was an incident or case where someone died, and within the scope of that case, there were things like destruction and ruin. Let me think, I seem to remember something like that.” Matsuda said, glancing at Hagiwara beside him.
Seeing Matsuda's gaze, Hagiwara's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered: "Ah, you mean that matter?"
"What is it?" Morofushi Kagemitsu asked with interest, "Have you figured out the key points to locate the dungeon?"
Upon hearing this, Matsuda nodded and replied, "I just remembered something, but I'm not sure if it can be our entrance to the instance."
"Do you guys remember? It was that famous subway accident in '92." After hearing him say that, Hagiwara went on to explain.
Upon hearing this reminder, Morofushi Kagemitsu's eyes widened immediately: "Was one of you also on that subway train at the time?"
"That happened when we were seven years old. We were taking the subway to school during the morning rush hour that day," Matsuda and Hagiwara said with a wry smile when Morofushi asked this question.
Feng Xingshou, listening from the side, was a little puzzled: "What are you guys keeping us in suspense for? What exactly happened with this subway accident?"
Seeing that Kaze was curious, Hagiwara explained to her, "You may not have heard of it, but in 1992, when we were seven years old, a major subway accident occurred in Japan."
It was during the morning rush hour, and many commuters were taking that subway train. The subway accident resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people and injuries to thousands. Matsuda and I were both lucky and unlucky.
We happened to be on that subway train at the time, but we were lucky on one side; although the train had been in an accident, our seats were at the back of the carriage.
The second carriage following the one most severely damaged, which is about one carriage's distance from the most damaged one, only sustained minor injuries; there were no serious or fatal consequences.
“That time is a month and a half away from the time we initially planned for Morofushi’s parents to have an accident. I just don’t know if this time can be used to set up a duplicate? Can it change your parents’ fate?” Matsuda looked at Morofushi Kagemitsu.
After saying that, he added from the side: "By the way, it is said that the accident was caused by the carelessness of the maintenance personnel who did not find the fault under the car. When the car reached the vicinity of the accident site, it collided with the track, causing the subway to derail."
The train carriages were severely deformed, and the people inside were crushed to death like sardines in a can. The death toll alone reached more than 200, and more than 1,000 were injured. I think if the story is about an accident or event that caused death and destruction of surrounding objects to a certain extent.
"If we're talking about the coordinates for the dungeon's arrival, the subway accident site should fit the criteria. It's too dangerous there; we must be careful and leave immediately before the dungeon's destruction occurs—assuming, of course, the dungeon actually opens there."
Feng Xingshou was quite surprised to hear their explanation: "I remember that elementary, junior high, and high schools in Japan are all very close to home. How did you get there? Why did you need to take the subway?"
"It was also a coincidence that my father was banned from competition for some reason, which had a certain impact on his career, so he moved from his original community to another residence."
"But my original school registration hadn't been changed yet, so I was still attending school in the same place." Upon hearing this question, Matsuda's tone was devoid of emotion, and he explained the reason in a very calm manner.
Hagiwara then explained, "My father expanded his auto repair shop recklessly, which coincided with Japan's economic bubble, resulting in losses and debts. He had no choice but to sell his original house and move to a cheaper place."
However, I still had more than half a semester left in my school enrollment, so I had to commute to school by subway for a long distance until the following semester when I transferred to a primary school closer to home with Xiaozhenping.
Feng Xingshou, who was listening nearby, understood. It was probably because when Hagiwara and Matsuda were seven years old, they lived in an affluent area and attended a nearby school, which was a relatively good private school.
However, after their family experienced a change in circumstances, they moved to a more ordinary area and lived there. But their school registration was not transferred back, perhaps because they didn't want to waste the tuition fees for that semester.
So they had to take the subway to and from school until the end of that semester. Unfortunately, they encountered the serious subway accident they had mentioned. After understanding what happened, Feng Xingshou stopped asking about it, since it wasn't a pleasant memory.
Instead, he said to them, "Since there is a high probability of success in this instance entry point, let's try this instance tomorrow. If we can open this instance accurately, then I will collect your childhood bodies."
"You need to step in and change the fate of Inspector Morofushi's parents, and also contact Mr. Akai Goubu. Only in this way can we achieve our goal and give Mr. Akai an explanation in the future."
"Um!"
"good!"
"Then let's look forward to tomorrow!" Hearing Feng Xingshou's arrangement, the others had no objections and readily agreed.
The next day, which was the 25th day since Feng Xingshou was captured by the game, they entered the new instance at the coordinates they had calculated in advance. This instance was locked in by the team based on their precise calculations, and the time and location they knew perfectly matched the instance conditions.
Finally, they entered smoothly without any further deviations due to historical obstacles, and found themselves on a subway in Japan in 1992.
Feng Xingshou looked around with some curiosity and couldn't help but say to Hagiwara and the others beside him, "Wow, is this what the subway in Japan was like in 1992? It's so crowded! It's like people are packed together, and the interior of the carriages is so narrow. The ceiling is also very low. I feel like I can't breathe after staying here for a while."
In her extreme frustration, she couldn't help but secretly unleash a palm strike, which made her feel much better.
"After all, it was 1992. Times have changed a lot. The subway environment must have been pretty good back in the day, right, Feng-chan?" Even though Hagiwara knew that they wouldn't be squeezed by people from the real world in the instance dimension, he still held Feng Xing in his arms and couldn't help but chuckle as he listened to her complaints.
Feng Xingshou was already used to his thoughtful care, so when he asked this question, he immediately nodded and said, "I don't know about foreign ones, but domestic ones are very advanced, especially some subway station entrances, which are decorated like luxurious alien high-tech venues."
Moreover, the subway travels at high speeds, both fast and smooth, with minimal noise. Technological advancements are progressing very rapidly, making the ride very comfortable. In cities like mine, the subway is punctual, with stops every five minutes…”
Feng Xingshou subconsciously answered Hagiwara's question, unaware that while Hagiwara was talking to her, he was holding her hand and walking into the distance with a somewhat nostalgic expression.
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