Chapter 257 Auction of Mental Power
Day 28 of the road survival game!
As she spoke, she released her spatial storage ability again, storing all the mutated sea beasts they had killed into her backpack space. Feng Xingshou felt that her mental strength and physique allowed her to continue releasing this power.
So, she wouldn't easily miss any opportunity to obtain copper coins, and once again activated the group collection function towards the mutated sea beasts that were rushing towards her from afar, gathering all the mutated sea beasts in the surrounding area.
Once, twice... including the first time, she collected them ten times before she felt the same weakness as when she collected the mutated termites. Only then did she stop. Hagiwara and Gin, who had been waiting next to her without getting on the car, immediately reached out their hands at the same time.
Unfortunately, Hagiwara was a step too slow. Gin grabbed Fuusei before he could, grabbed her, and carried her into the vehicle, leaving her frustrated as she exclaimed, "I still have the strength to walk!"
"Shut up, you fat pig!"
Seeing this, Hagiwara gave a helpless laugh, looking somewhat regretful that he was a step behind the other person's older brother, and then quickly followed behind and got into the car together.
While everyone in the car saw that Fuusei was collecting sea monsters, and Hagiwara and Gin were waiting for her to get into the vehicle, Matsuda seized the opportunity to get into the driver's seat and start the car ahead of time.
As soon as the three of them entered the vehicle, before they could even sit down and fasten their seatbelts, he stepped on the gas, maneuvering the vehicle out of the large dungeon exit and reappearing in the racing arena.
At the same time, a game announcement appeared before everyone: [Game Announcement: Congratulations to survivor Wind Star Guardian for completing the punishment mission...]
Having already experienced the scene of a Level 4 racing circuit yesterday, the group was not surprised to experience it again today. With their average balance and courage, they accepted this racing competition in a very ordinary way.
As it turned out, Hagiwara's control over holographic driving improved even further after today's mental power upgrade. The points he received this time, combined with the remaining points from yesterday, were enough for him to exchange for two level-five accessory blueprints.
In addition to the level 5 component blueprints they had obtained as rewards for upgrading their vehicles, they were just enough for Feng Xing Shou to upgrade his vehicle to level 6 when they returned. So, as soon as they got back into their survival vehicle, they planned to have Feng Xing Shou upgrade it to level 6.
However, after experiencing this large-scale dungeon, Wind Star Guardian successfully used the backpack synthesis function to improve his physical attributes and other aspects, especially after discovering that his backpack space could isolate the information of vehicles.
While she had the opportunity to sell a large quantity of various Japanese goods and obtain a huge amount of copper coins, another idea came to her mind: since mental strength, physical conditioning potions, and other items could be purchased from the gift shop and synthesized into better products.
So, can these universal component blueprints for each level, and even the vehicles themselves, be purchased from the gift shop and then upgraded to higher levels through crafting?
Furthermore, during the synthesis process, is it possible to remove the parts of the game that control, manipulate, or control oneself, both in reality and in the game, and to eliminate the honesty and truthfulness involved? How can this effect be removed?
She really wanted to try this part, but she also knew that within the survival highway, if she eliminated the game organizers' control over her, she might be trapped in the survival highway forever. She wanted to try to synthesize and eliminate the connection and control of vehicles over her.
I must wait until I return to reality to rest and recuperate before attempting the synthesis again. If possible, I might be able to avoid returning to this survival game at all once the rest period is over.
But to accomplish this, I must send Hagiwara and my brother back to their respective eras before the end of this month's activities, so that they don't miss out on the most important stage of their lives because of me...
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Although the vehicle synthesis function is currently unavailable, the universal parts blueprints are still usable. The rewards for upgrading vehicles from five stars to nine stars at each stage include a set of universal vehicle parts blueprints for levels 6, 7, 8, and 9.
If these items are put on the gift shop, I can quickly upgrade the vehicle to the maximum level of 9. I collected a lot of materials during this large-scale dungeon. Everyone who accompanied me knows Japan very well, and they know the location of various important equipment and inventory.
I estimate that the materials I've collected this time should be enough to upgrade the vehicle to the maximum level. However, given my current physical condition, I probably won't be able to sustain myself to complete these operations. Oh well, there's no rush anyway...
So Feng Xingshou, unusually, rejected the suggestions of the others and said directly to everyone, "I need to recover my energy. Upgrades and vehicle upgrades can wait until I recover my energy."
"Okay, you should go and rest. We can talk about other things tomorrow." Everyone then realized that she had exhausted all her energy while collecting mutated sea beasts, and quickly advised her.
"I'll take you back to your room," Hagiwara said, and then followed Kazesei-no-Mori back to her bedroom. After Kazesei-no-Mori fell asleep from exhaustion, he went to the bathroom to fetch a basin of hot water.
After wetting a towel with hot water, I wiped Feng Xingshou's face, neck, and hands. I also took off her shoes and wiped her feet before covering her with a blanket so she could get some rest...
On the other side, Gin, Akai, Tsutomu, and others were also exchanging their gains from this large-scale dungeon. However, they all knew that the vehicles had the function of monitoring them by the game organizers.
Unaware of the potential for a live stream, they only mentioned things that were being monitored by the game and didn't care if the game listened to them. As for their awakened physical and bloodline skills, which hadn't been displayed when killing the mutated sea monsters, they certainly wouldn't mention them now...
As they talked, they discussed tomorrow's itinerary. Hagiwara, who knew Fuusei no Mori's thoughts very well, came out after taking good care of her and watching her get into bed. He then heard everyone discussing this issue.
He stated directly, "Tomorrow, of course, we will send you back to your original coordinates and back to the time when you were supposed to return."
“Since we’ve finally made it into this survival game, we want to see if we can get more information.” Bourbon frowned upon hearing this; he didn’t want to make the trip just to take a look around the game and then leave.
Hagiwara shook his head firmly and said, "No! This game has too many problems and variables. Perhaps one or two delays will trap you in the game's chaotic timeline."
You should return to your original future at the right time, and since you've all awakened your mental abilities, when the system reopens in 2025, you'll definitely be captured by the game.
"One thing I need to remind you of is that the records of the Symbiosis Cult show that the organizers of these survival games do not hold them every 10 or 20 years. They held them four times between 1994 and 1995."
It was held once in 2014 and 2015, and since time loops also exist in your time, it is very likely that there were also survival games being held at that time.
"They've simply concealed this information from reality, so you're unaware of it." Matsuda, sensing their resistance to Hagiwara's arrangement, immediately continued to persuade them.
Hearing Matsuda say this, Morofushi Kagemitsu added, "Perhaps it should be said that we really didn't know about the survival game they held in 2014 and 2015."
Perhaps this is happening on a parallel planet that we haven't yet encountered and don't know about, and each time they succeed, a parallel world merges into our world, and then time starts looping again.
"To this day, we still can't tell which side's memories the Mandela Effect keeps intact after the parallel world is merged, or whether it keeps the correct memories of those from the merged parallel world," Shuichi Akai said with some helplessness. There really is no way to prove this.
"It seems we'll have to wait until 2025 to enter this game and find out what's going on!" Bourbon's tone was clearly disappointed.
Despite their disappointment, they followed Hagiwara's plan and drove their car back to their original coordinates after lunch, preparing to return to their own time and space through the instance when it opened the next day...
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Feng Xingshou had no idea what the others had discussed after she fell asleep. She only felt that she had slept very well and for a very long time. In her drowsy state, she felt as if she had floated to a very spacious place, suspended at a very, very high altitude.
Below were countless heads, and how could people with indistinct faces make sounds from under those heads? Survivor ID 0256 Feng Xing Shou's mental strength had reached the top level, Follower Kenji Hagiwara's mental strength was at the top level, and Follower Jinpei Matsuda's mental strength was at the top level.
The remaining attendants—Kurosawa Jin, Morofushi Kagemitsu, Akai Tsutomu, and Akai Shuichi—are undetermined, but are estimated to be between first and top tier. The auction is now beginning; please submit your bids.
"Ten million!"
"Twenty million!"
Thirty million!
...
"One hundred million!"
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Amidst the continuous bidding, Feng Xingshou could also hear people discussing among the dense crowd, saying, "I never expected that the 'extreme' old lady would evolve her mental power to the top level in less than a month!"
"What kind of mental power skill did she awaken that allowed her to evolve such a high-level mental power skill so quickly?"
"And if I'm not mistaken, her skill seems to be able to directly create potions that upgrade mental power, it's like she's cheating."
"If our vehicle core weren't able to sense the mental state of each bound person, we wouldn't have been able to discover that she had cultivated her mental power to the highest level."
"If they continue to evolve like this, they might surpass us?"
"If we try to seize his spiritual power again, she might take it away from us instead."
"We need to act quickly while we still have the chance."
"Moreover, I am very much looking forward to her mental power skills. If we make her mental power skills into a mental power core, my daughter may be able to obtain most of her mental power skills. At that time, she will be able to produce mental power primary awakening potions and become rich for the rest of her life."
"The man's mental strength is also quite good. He has a wind-type mental ability, and this kind of natural elemental control skill has great potential."
"If you ask me, the lightning attack power of that guy named Matsuda Shinpei is the strongest."
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The crowd was buzzing with discussion, and the bidding grew louder and louder. Feng Xingshou listened to the bidding in a daze, vaguely wondering what they thought of him, Hagiwara, and Matsuda. Were his spiritual power and everyone else's spiritual power just commodities for them to buy and sell?
How unwilling I am! It seems they can steal other people's spiritual power for their own use, or for their own children. It turns out they really are just as the Symbiotic Cult speculated, using the spiritual power of Earth's humans as their spiritual power breeding ground.
Is the truth that they cultivate humanity's spiritual power through the arrival of the game and then steal it? Or is it that my thoughts about the Cult of Ascension are causing my dreams...?
In a daze, Feng Xingshou remembered the phrase "what you think about during the day, you dream about at night." Realizing that she was dreaming, she suddenly plummeted downwards and opened her eyes instantly. When she opened her eyes, she found that it was already the next morning.
Having just regained consciousness, she was urged by a strong feeling of hunger to quickly take some food from her backpack and eat it to tide her over. After a quick wash, she prepared to go to the kitchen to make herself something to eat.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the kitchen, she saw Morofushi Kagemitsu busy at work. Upon seeing her come out, he immediately greeted her, "Feng-san, I've made breakfast. You haven't eaten since yesterday noon, so you must be very hungry now. Hurry up and eat breakfast."
After spending these days together, Feng Xingshou no longer bothered with formalities. Seeing this, he immediately took the food that Morofushi Kagemitsu handed him and quickly ate it at the dining table.
However, even while eating, she seemed to be multitasking, quickly eating her food while mentally organizing these blueprints in her mind.
Then, he closed his eyes and entered the gift shop within the gift consciousness, where he put up blueprints of various levels. Using copper coins, he purchased all the blueprints for the general accessories he needed, from level 6 to level 9.
According to calculations, this is enough to upgrade his vehicle to the maximum stars. However, Feng Xingshou felt a pang of heartache when he saw that a large amount of copper coins had suddenly disappeared from his backpack.
Thinking that those sea beasts were just an eyesore in my backpack space, and that my stamina had been restored, and since I didn't have anything else to synthesize and sell today, I decided to sell all the sea beasts and replenish the copper coins I had spent today!
Thinking of this, he sold all the sea beasts he had collected yesterday. Sure enough, the copper coins he obtained from these mutated sea beasts not only made up for the amount he spent on buying blueprints today, but also recovered the huge amount of copper coins he spent on buying a large number of dual-element awakening upgrade potions yesterday.
This made her wallet bulge again, which made her feel unusually at ease after she had felt poor due to unemployment. She thought that even if she returned to reality, she would not be able to openly sell the supplies she had collected in large dungeons and other dungeons.
With these copper coins, she could ensure that Hagiwara and her brother would have a worry-free life. After preparing everything that needed to be bought, she had almost finished eating and then called everyone who had already gotten up and eaten breakfast to get off the carriage.
Then, together with everyone, they got out of the car wearing thick, warm clothes and began upgrading their vehicles. At first, the level 5 blueprints were within everyone's expectations.
They knew that Wind Star Guardians had received rewards for upgrading vehicles, so they weren't surprised when they created and used the level 6 component blueprints. But when they saw the second, the third...
When the vehicle was upgraded to level seven, everyone present was stunned. Hagiwara, however, seemed to have guessed that was indeed the case. He glanced at Kazesei no Shou but did not show any unusual reaction.
As for Gin, after hearing about the reason for the awakening skill of the Wind Star Guardian, he specifically looked up the Naruto game. In his time, the Naruto game had only been around for a short time.
Fortunately, all the necessary functions were available. The homestead function had already appeared by then, because he knew that there was actually a gift shop in the Wind Star Guardian's skills. It was just that he was not sure whether the gift shop, Fat Piglet, had been preserved.
It seems she kept them. I guess she bought these blueprints and the previous potions through the game's gift shop feature and copied them into reality!
Knowing that this might be related to the secrets of the Wind Star Guardian skill, they felt they had no right to pry into such a confidential ability, so they remained silent. They even felt that as long as it was beneficial to matters related to the game, there was nothing more to say…
Unexpectedly, when Windstar Guardian upgraded her vehicle to level 9 using the convenience of the gift shop, a game panel suddenly popped up in front of her, followed by a game announcement in yellow font.
[Game Announcement: Congratulations to survivor Feng Xing Shou for completing the vehicle upgrade to level 9 and 9 stars, triggering the mission - Permanent Return to Reality! Next, the game organizers' testers will put survivors to the test.]
Once it's confirmed that a survivor's survival ability has reached the limits of human survival, their survivor status will be removed, and they will be permanently returned to reality. The challenger will arrive in three minutes; the survivor is requested to prepare to face the challenger's test.
The information provided by the game organizers startled everyone. Shuichi Akai said with a cold expression, "According to the records of the Symbiosis Cult's Jerison, survivors do not need to compete against each other at the end."
Then only those who win the first, second, and third place prizes can return to reality; everyone else will become sacrificial lambs? There must be a reason for this sudden change.
"We've only upgraded our vehicle to level 9, and this is only the first season. How could we trigger such a mission in the first month?" Matsuda was also incredulous.
“Fat piglet. Do you know anything about the test taker?” Gin asked, turning to Fuusei.
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