Chapter 237 Mobile Home
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
Morobuchi Kagemitsu turned to the side, raised his hand, and pointed to another line of prompts on the game panel in front of Kazesei no Shou, saying, "There's another prompt to pay attention to. According to what it says, we can only use level 3 blueprints from now on."
Even if you obtain Tier 4 or 5 vehicles through rewards, you must wait until the entire vehicle is upgraded to Tier 3 before you can use Tier 4 vehicles. Similarly, you must wait until the entire vehicle is fully upgraded to Tier 4 before you can use Tier 5 vehicles again.
“That’s true. Even if it’s cutting-edge technology, if the quality and technology of the parts are too different, the car is more likely to have problems due to incompatible parts.” Hagiwara, who knows a lot about cars, finished speaking and looked at Kaze Seishuu: “Kaze-chan, how many materials do you have left? Is it enough to use all the level 3 blueprints?”
By the way, I have the blueprints for the level 3 engine and chassis. The level 3 cockpit blueprint likely refers to the center console. So, I'll choose the chassis and transmission as the two level 3 universal blueprints I got from the treasure chest this time, and I'll use these five types for material calculations as well!
"Oh! Let me see." Feng Xing Shou agreed, opened the game panel to check the materials required for the four types of level 3 accessories in the accessory crafting options, and also sensed the materials in his backpack and the materials around him that he had not yet put away.
He immediately nodded to the group: "It's enough to make these four kinds of accessories. However, after making these five pieces, the materials will be almost used up. As for the other soft furnishing blueprints, we'll probably have to wait until we collect more materials before we can process them."
"No problem, the interior decoration of our car is already better than most houses, there's no rush to upgrade it further." Matsuda thought to himself, "Unless the upcoming disaster affects the interior, there's no need to upgrade the interior decoration at all."
Seeing that not only Matsuda said this, but also Hagiwara and Inspector Morofushi nodded at her, Fengxingshou decided that since the main focus today was on vehicle upgrades and star ratings, they should do their best and use up all the materials in one go!
As she pondered, she retrieved the remaining materials and chose to use five blueprints to upgrade the vehicle's engine, body, center console, chassis, and transmission. Her choices once again shrouded the vehicle in a thick fog...
After the thick fog covering the vehicle dissipated again, the group saw that although it was still a Mazda, the body lines and paint color were inexplicably much more beautiful, as if there was a stream of light flowing through it under the gloomy sky.
However, only the exterior of the vehicle has obvious changes; the other upgraded parts are inside and cannot be viewed directly. Standing outside the vehicle, one cannot perceive any difference between the level 3 and level 2 versions.
Seeing this, they exchanged a glance, both looking expectant, and said, "Now we can finally see what the interior of the upgraded vehicle looks like?"
"The multiplier effect of 5 stars, could it be that the ceiling is 200 or 300 meters high?"
"That's actually possible? But wouldn't such a tall space be a waste inside the car?"
As Hagiwara opened the car door, he said, "We'll find out what happened once we go inside."
As he spoke, he walked to the car door. The moment he got in, everyone clearly saw his body stiffen for a moment, then relax. He turned around and stretched out his hand to Feng Xingshou: "Feng-chan, come on in, there's a surprise!"
"What surprise?" Feng Xingshou heard him call out and subconsciously offered his hand. When the other person held his hand intimately, he realized that the gesture was a bit ambiguous and was about to withdraw his hand when he was stunned by what he saw.
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From the outside, it looks like an ordinary vehicle, and the door can only accommodate an object about the size of a human. But once you step inside, the space inside changes dramatically.
The gleaming metal floor of the car extends in all directions. Even without furniture, the area looks almost as large as a playground of two or three thousand square meters. Looking around, you can even see several single-story buildings that look like houses in the distance.
Looking up again, wow, the metal wall was over a hundred meters high! Even the metal staircase they had seen when they checked the second floor had now become a winding, multi-level structure...
Matsuda and Morofushi Kagemitsu, who followed Fengxing Shou onto the train, also witnessed this scene and were speechless: "Although we had guessed that this star-up was possible before we got on, we didn't expect it to be so shocking."
“Those buildings were probably originally bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and other functional areas!” Morofushi Kagemitsu raised his hand to stroke his stubble, saying somewhat uncertainly, “Could this open area of about 3,000 square meters have been the original living room area?”
"No matter what district it is, this is too exaggerated. What do we need such a high ceiling for? To get to the second floor, we have to climb... uh! Let me do the math, it looks like a staircase that's at least 20 stories high."
"This star-level effect makes it even more difficult to utilize the interior space of this car!" After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, Feng Xing Shou's first thought was, "There isn't even an elevator, so what's the point of raising the ceiling so high?"
Unexpectedly, no sooner had she finished speaking than a female electronic voice rang out in the spacious room: "Hello, car owner. If you find the cabin space inconvenient, you can adjust it to your needs using the cabin space adjustment module!"
"Huh! Why is someone talking?" Feng Xingshou was startled by the sudden appearance of the unfamiliar voice, but she quickly realized that the voice, from tone to intonation, was very similar to the various intelligent systems that are currently popular in reality, such as Xiao AI and Xiaodu.
Although the rise of AI has affected all aspects of her life and work, and given that AI has always had various problems with its own lack of intelligence, she gets very angry when she encounters a vicious cycle of intelligence and can't find a human solution.
This made her averse to using AI, and she had never bought any AI-related products. However, she had seen demonstrations of various AI technologies used in short videos by many bloggers, so she quickly realized and said, "Is it the car's intelligent system?"
[Yes, car owner, I am your in-vehicle intelligent system 03. You can call me 03, or you can rename me.] The same female electronic voice sounded again in the car.
The intelligent system that can automatically respond to the driver's speech looks very high-end, but Feng Jiang was able to realize at a glance that it was an in-vehicle intelligent system, so it seems that this technology will not be considered cutting-edge technology in 2025.
However, the name 03 feels a bit subtle. Is the game system hinting at something? For example, there are 02 and 01 before 03. Is it trying to imply that before Feng Jiang, there were already two other people in the game who upgraded their vehicles to level 2?
Or perhaps they received the reward of a level 3 center console blueprint, and those two in-vehicle intelligent systems are named 01 and 02, so theirs is 03? If that's the case, then this game is truly full of hidden talents.
While thinking, Hagiwara looked at Kazesei-no-Mori: "Kaze-chan, should we name the vehicle's onboard intelligent system first? Or should we check the cabin space adjustment module it just mentioned?"
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"Uh... I'm terrible at naming things, so you guys should come up with one!" Feng Xingshou said, already clicking on the function bar on the game panel and searching for the carriage space adjustment module mentioned by the intelligent system.
Sure enough, she found the option in the vehicle function menu. She quickly opened it to check, and what she found shocked her. She discovered that the so-called cabin space adjustment module was activated.
It turned out to be a miniature, three-dimensional in-vehicle space, displayed in front of me in a light screen mode similar to 3D or 4D projection. Apart from accurately showing the miniature car space, it did not display any other functions.
Judging from the model, the second-level carriage was indeed the same as the one she was standing on, about 3,000 square meters in size and nearly 200 meters in height, a truly astonishing volume. This puzzled her: "How do you do things up there? There's no instructions or anything."
"It should be manually adjustable!" Matsuda glanced at it. He usually liked to use model kits to practice his finger dexterity, and after only a few glances, he seemed to have figured out how to use the module.
He raised his hand and used his nimble, long fingers to make a gesture as if grasping the miniature modules of the carriage space, stretching them to both sides. Incredibly, as he moved, the ceiling height of the carriage space they were in rapidly decreased, but the area of the carriage space increased.
Hagiwara was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized what was going on. Like a big kid who had seen a toy he liked, he said excitedly, "Huh! So that's how you play it. It's like a Rubik's Cube. As long as you stretch or widen the carriage space, the height of the roof will be lowered."
Based on the original height of the carriage space, if the roof were lowered to over ten meters, the area of the first-level carriage would likely reach an astonishing 30,000 square meters. If it were restored to the original height of 6 meters, it could even reach around 60,000 square meters.
"Tsk! If the interior space of the carriage were properly decorated, this vehicle could probably be used as a mobile fortress or a mobile home." Matsuda clicked his tongue as he continued to adjust the carriage space modules.
Thinking about the game organizers' schemes against Earth's humans, as analyzed by his two friends, Morobushi Kagemitsu's initial excitement turned somewhat low: "The more powerful the vehicles are, the stronger people's desire for them will probably be after they return to reality once. Sigh!"
"I just hope we can resolve this problem before it gets worse!" Feng Xingshou sensed Officer Morofushi's concern, and since she had no other recourse, she could only offer this words of comfort.
Seeing this, Hagiwara simply reached out and ruffled her hair: "Alright, we can worry about the future later. Right now, let's be happy that our vehicle has been upgraded with such amazing features! With tens of thousands of square meters of spacious space, you can even do square dancing in the car from now on."
"Hey! I've never done square dancing. Don't be brainwashed by those foreign propaganda. Not all women in Zhongzhou like square dancing." o(￣ヘ￣o＃) Besides, those are hobbies of some normal retired old men and women. I'm unemployed, not retired, Feng Xingshou thought dejectedly.
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