Chapter 79 The Snow-Covered Highway
It's normal that Gin would be skeptical of what they said. For example, they were on the phone with Gin just one minute before the Twin Towers exploded, and apart from a child, no one else escaped the Twin Towers at that time.
If they reappear unharmed in front of Gin next time, then the time travel should be confirmed. Once that's confirmed, it seems we can no longer be too cautious with Rum.
Thinking that he had to eliminate him without harming the organization's vitality, he had to get rid of this threat quickly. But before that... Karasuma Renya simply stretched out his childish fingers, picked up the tablet, edited two emails, and sent them out.
After receiving the email, Gin frowned slightly. He knew that in the future he had created, Rum had usurped his position, yet he remained calm. Why was he so tolerant of Rum, given his personality?
Or does Rum have some hidden cards that I don't know about? Could this be the reason I'll fall apart in the future? It seems I need to investigate Rum thoroughly and eliminate all potential crises beforehand.
On the other side, Vermouth was completely bewildered by the email the BOSS had sent her. What did he mean by "investigate Rum's secret time-travel research institute as soon as possible"? Had the BOSS become so childish that even his brain had become immature?
Meanwhile, Conan pretended to be cute and innocent in front of Ran Mouri, not daring to say that he had risked going to some dangerous place, but his eyes kept glancing at the burning building and its surroundings.
Sure enough, he didn't see the two people. He even wondered if they were like Kaito Kid, skilled at using gliders, and had escaped by gliding away before the explosion. But he had looked around the sky above the building with his tracking glasses and still didn't see them.
Where exactly is their safe evacuation route? Damn it! This is the first time he's arrived at the scene well in advance and still hasn't found their evacuation exit. Is his observation skill really that bad? -_-|| Conan couldn't help but start to doubt himself…
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On the other side, Fengxingshou left the dungeon about 30 seconds before the countdown ended. After returning to the car on the racing road, he immediately released Hagiwara and Matsuda from his backpack.
She was just about to tell Hagiwara and Matsuda her thoughts after hearing her brother's voice, and why he hadn't asked anything, when she heard Hagiwara, whom she had released into the driver's seat, say in a slightly surprised voice: "Huh! There's this kind of change in the rules of this driving competition?"
"What changes?" Feng Xingshou asked curiously, thinking that he had noticed the racing rules that he had missed.
Unexpectedly, Matsuda, who had been placed in the passenger seat, spoke quickly in Chinese: "Feng-chan, sit back down immediately and fasten your seatbelt. This time, the racing rules do not allow you to return to the starting point and restart the race."
Instead, we'll continue our driving skills test from yesterday's schedule. Just like yesterday, the road conditions will become increasingly dangerous as we go further. The race is about to start, so be prepared or you could get injured!
"Oh! Okay." Upon hearing this, Feng Xingshou immediately sat back in the back seat and fastened his seatbelt. Only then did he look out the window and saw that it was indeed the last stretch of highway that Hagiwara's car had driven to yesterday.
While Matsuda was instructing Fuusei no Mori,
Hagiwara started the car and tried to keep the bad news about the class monitor and Komorofushi to himself until after the driving competition, while concentrating on his work.
Looking at the countdown timer next to Feng Jiang in the rearview mirror, he waited until the countdown reached zero and the sign indicating the start of the car stunt competition flashed. He immediately stepped on the gas and drove off towards the road ahead...
At the beginning, the road conditions were just like yesterday, with all sorts of bad sections such as pit spikes, traps, swamps, fences, etc. Drivers without skills simply couldn't get through. Hagiwara was able to drive through, which means his driving skills are really amazing.
But the passengers sitting in the car were having a very uncomfortable time. Feng Xingshou was sitting in the car seat, even though he was tightly fastened to his seatbelt and holding onto the handrail next to him. He was gritting his teeth, but he was still messed up by the violent shaking, the tilting of his body, and the feeling of being suspended in the air.
Thanks to her good physical condition, she didn't get carsick or vomit despite all the hardship. However, just when she thought that this was the worst possible road condition, something even worse was about to happen.
This time there were no fancy traps or elaborate roadblocks, but rather a simple, endless snow-covered road. Even from this distance, you could see that the snow-covered road was at least a meter higher than this side.
If the game developers didn't intentionally deceive the survivors' vision, this snow-covered road has at least a meter of snow. If you encounter this kind of road condition, even if Hagiwara hasn't driven in yet, you need to slow down immediately.
Upon witnessing this scene, even Matsuda couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement: "Tsk! How insidious! Without snow chains or high-performance anti-skid tires, the tires would slip as soon as they entered this road condition, and they wouldn't be able to move forward for long, would they?"
Before being taken to Japan by his older brother to study, Kazesei Mori lived in the region bordering Northeast China and Russia. The weather there was cold, and he had encountered countless snow-covered roads, making him more experienced than Hagiwara and Matsuda, who had not lived in cold regions.
Seeing this, he quickly said, "Hagiwara, let's stop here for today! With such thick snow ahead and no end in sight, even if you're a great driver, you'll just get stuck and unable to move."
Even with snow chains, with such thick snow and such a long distance, you can't drive very far. When I was in my hometown, I encountered this level of snow accumulation and saw that people used sleds, skis, and other similar methods to get around.
"Only cars with really big wheels, really high frames, and really deep, complex tire treads, and a really high chassis can drive on these kinds of roads. Our little cars can't handle these kinds of roads!"
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"Since Feng-chan has made this judgment, let's stop here for now!" Hagiwara wasn't the type to ignore advice just because she was a good driver. On the contrary, she was the kind of person who knew her place and would make the right choice at the right time.
He knew that where he grew up, it rarely snowed throughout the year, and even when it did, it was only a thin layer of snowflakes. He had never encountered snow this deep before, and he had never specifically gone to Hokkaido to practice snow racing.
In this situation of unfamiliarity with snowy road conditions, it's natural to choose to listen to the advice of experienced people. So, after hearing what Feng Xingshou said, he drove the car on the snow...
It stopped in front of the highway.
Meanwhile, Matsuda, looking at the seemingly endless highway, thoughtfully guessed, "The game has only just begun, and according to the usual pattern, the game developers won't provide unsolvable levels."
So the appearance of this snow-covered road must mean there's a solution, Hagi! Do you think the game developers might be using this road to hint at the upcoming road conditions for 'players,' or the direction for upgrading Tier 2 vehicles, or something like that?
"Possibly! After all, it has been announced that the natural disaster for this season is low temperature rain and snow. If it is related to snow, then the upgrade direction for Tier 2 vehicles is very likely to be to adapt to snowy roads." Hagiwara thought Matsuda's guess made a lot of sense.
Fengxing Shouze was puzzled: "Didn't the game announcement say that the initial vehicles in the first two seasons would be enough to survive? Now that this kind of road section has appeared, won't it trap most of the survivors in this area?"
"Feng-chan! Don't forget that Hagi got first place yesterday. Only a very small number of people can drive that fast on roads like that. Most survivors would have to drive like that if they didn't want to die in a car accident."
It should be similar to how we are now stuck on this road, stuck on a section of road that their driving skills simply cannot pass. In this way, the survivor with the worst driving skills and the one at the back will become the 'player' who loses the driving skills competition.
Those with good driving skills can stay stopped in front of this snow until the end of the season without being disqualified. Matsuda only described the surface situation and did not reveal his speculations about the darker side of the game organizers, so as not to put the junior student in a negative emotional state.
Another possibility is that the game organizers deliberately used game announcements to lull survivors into a false sense of security, causing them to rush to accumulate various survival resources and slow down vehicle upgrades. Then, at a crucial moment, they would harvest a group of survivors who lagged behind in vehicle upgrades.
Hagiwara also considered the speculation that Matsuda didn't voice. Like Matsuda, he believed that making such speculations without any evidence would only create unnecessary negative anxiety for Kaze-chan.
So he didn't mention that point, but said in his usual relaxed tone, "If Xiaozhenping really guesses right, then among the rewards we can exchange for the points we get from today's driving skills competition, there might be blueprints for a Tier 2 car!"
"I wish it were like that!" Feng Xingshou said while looking at the countdown for the driving skills competition. Fortunately, Hagiwara had already driven through those dangerous road conditions for more than 4 minutes, and their conversation had consumed some time.
So she didn't have to wait long; almost ten seconds after she finished speaking, today's driving skills competition ended. And Hagiwara stopped two minutes earlier than the original six minutes, stopping at a little over four minutes. Although her points were less than yesterday's, she still came in first place.
[Announcement: Today's daily dungeon, the Speed Obstacle Race, has ended.]
[Announcement: Congratulations to survivor Wind Star Guardian for achieving 15 points in the daily obstacle course, Speed Obstacle Race, ranking first in this region.]
[Announcement: In this daily dungeon, 23 survivors failed to overcome the obstacles and were eliminated.]
[Announcement: The limited-time racing track shop is now open. Survivors are requested to use their points to trade for the items they need.]
It seems Matsuda was right; the others must have stopped on this snow-covered road as well!
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