Chapter 83 Sports Car and Passenger Seat
"Who...who fed you dog food?" Feng Xingshou's face turned red from Matsuda's teasing. He subconsciously glanced at Hagiwara beside him, feeling a little reluctant to see him resentful because of his friends making fun of him, but also secretly expecting something from him.
What she saw instead was Hagiwara's affectionate gaze smiling at her... To be honest, she had never been able to imagine what kind of beautiful eyes the ancient saying described as "affectionate eyes" were. At this moment, she suddenly felt that perhaps it was Hagiwara's eyes.
Being stared at like that was a major heart attack! Feeling her heart pounding wildly, she quickly looked away from his face and towards Matsuda, clearing her throat.
Trying to maintain her serious and earnest persona: "Anyway, we can wait until we go in and out of the instance a few more times and investigate things thoroughly before we talk about my brother. It just so happens that your friend is also investigating the organization he works for."
If he needs our help to save people, he'll definitely have to do us something in return! What about you? If I'm not mistaken, you probably also want to save your deceased friends, right?
She wasn't stupid. Just from Hagiwara's tone, she could tell that he had a deep friendship with the two police officers who had tragically died young. Even if his feelings weren't as deep as Matsuda's, they probably weren't much different.
In this situation, since he chose to stay and save Matsuda, there's no reason for him not to save the other two. It's just unclear what Matsuda was thinking, since he was the one who 'lured' him back.
-_-|| Recalling his good intentions backfired, Kazesei quickly tried to patch things up in his mind. This time, this time he absolutely had to be careful. He couldn't do something as stupid as Matsuda did back then and drag Hagiwara's other friends into this game.
"Do you even need to ask? Anyway, I said from the beginning that I wasn't in a hurry. The Japanese Explosives Disposal Team isn't incapable of functioning without me." Matsuda answered by looking directly at Hagiwara when she asked this.
Even though he knew that Hagi wanted him to go back sooner, he still expressed his thoughts to his best friend. In reality, he wanted to witness Hagi's return to 2007 and then return to his own time. Otherwise, he was always worried that unexpected problems might arise.
This shouldn't be a psychological problem caused by losing a close friend and having a sense of loss. In fact, didn't we encounter information about the class president and Morofushi having problems in this instance?
If he had returned before today, wouldn't he have had to handle all these matters himself, significantly prolonging his return time? He might also have encountered unpredictable dangers during that period, given how dangerous the criminal organization Morofushi was investigating was…
Despite being mentally prepared, Hagiwara was still somewhat troubled after hearing Jinpei's unthinking answer: "Jinpei, if you keep delaying like this, you'll waste even more time here!"
"Let it be delayed! It's a good opportunity to take a long vacation. There's nothing wrong with enjoying these carefree days without having to think about work or interpersonal relationships." Matsuda saw that Hagi wanted to say something more after he said that.
Before he could even speak, she turned to Feng Xing Shou and asked, "By the way, Feng Jiang, didn't we get a car from the dungeon? Take it out and see what happens when you put it on this road."
Perhaps even a non-initial vehicle can be converted into a survivor's vehicle on this road! If not, it can still yield a lot of useful materials. I'm thinking of bringing a real-world vehicle here.
I'm really interested to see what kind of reaction the game developers will have!
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"Oh! I almost forgot." Perfect timing to take a look. Even though it's a small sports car, it still takes up a lot of space. If it weren't broken down into materials, the backpack space occupied by the sports car would be freed up!
As she thought about it, she released the sports car and placed it on the one-way road. Unexpectedly, as soon as the car was placed on the road, several new game announcements popped up on her game panel:
[Announcement: Congratulations to survivor Feng Xing Shou for obtaining the complete vehicle '1', one vehicle trailer upgrade blueprint, 50 Iron units, and 25 Bronze units.]
Hagiwara and Matsuda also saw the game announcement and were somewhat surprised: "It seems that obtaining a complete real-world vehicle will not be converted into an upgradeable vehicle for the survivors, but it can be upgraded to have a towing function, meaning that you can tow this vehicle and drive it together?"
"We'll understand what's going on once we use the vehicle trailer blueprints." Matsuda is a straightforward person, and his reaction to this situation was to 'give it a try'.
Feng Xingshou was also quite curious about this, so he readily accepted Matsuda's suggestion and used the newly acquired blueprint and the materials that came with it for one more use.
As the usual vehicle upgrade process ended in a few seconds, a slightly different, yet seemingly unchanged, Tier 1 vehicle appeared before the three. Only then did they clearly see the blueprints.
It simply resulted in a tow bar at the rear of the vehicle that looked like a sturdy, thick metal bumper, with a sturdy-looking hook in the middle that could be rotated flexibly.
Seeing the upgrade result, the three of them became even more curious. Feng Xingshou couldn't help but say, "This hook looks like it's trying to lure me to hang that sports car on it."
“Let’s hang it up and see. Maybe if we add another trailer and continue driving on the highway, we can get double the treasure chests! The key to this sports car is still hanging on it.” Hagiwara said as he opened the door of the sports car.
After starting the car with the key, they gently drove the sports car to the tow hook at the rear of their vehicle, then stopped and turned off the engine. They then got out of the car and tried to hook the tow hook onto the sports car.
Seeing this, Matsuda simply went over to help.
So, with the two police officers, who were very familiar with the vehicle, busy at work, the beautiful sports car was soon hooked up to the rear of the Mazda that Hagiwara and Matsuda said was a bit deformed, with big wheels and a small body.
But when the sports car was attached, something unexpected happened: the tow hook on the trailer block disappeared into thin air, just as if Hagiwara and Matsuda had attached the sports car to thin air earlier.
Now it has returned to a distance of about 20 centimeters between the rear of the vehicle and the sports car, and the two cars are just parked close together, with no relation or connection whatsoever.
At the same time, before Feng Xingshou could see what changes might occur to the two cars, his attention was drawn to the newly appeared game announcement.
[Announcement: Congratulations to Survivor Wind Star Guardian for adding a trailer to your vehicle fleet and obtaining a co-driver's work permit.]
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"Co-pilot's work permit? What kind of reward is this?" Feng Xingshou looked at the reward that appeared in front of him along with the game announcement, and it looked very much like the one from his own country.
A palm-sized card-like object, similar to a work permit or ID card.
Her voice drew the attention of Hagiwara and Matsuda. After seeing the game announcement and the new reward that the Wind Star Guardian had obtained, Hagiwara realized that opening treasure chests and breaking down materials were both done with that inconspicuous crowbar that had caused the accident.
Guessing that figuring out how the reward works, or using it, might require a crowbar to activate, he immediately reminded her, "Feng-chan! Try the crowbar."
"Hmm!" Feng Xingshou was also skilled at using a crowbar. Hearing this, he understood what was going on and immediately took out a crowbar from his backpack and tried to touch the co-pilot's work ID. Sure enough, the crowbar touched the new prize.
What was originally a blank card, only the size of an ID card, now has some Chinese characters: [Co-pilot Work Permit - When used, it can grant a co-pilot job to survivors who have lost their vehicles, or human life forms such as dungeon NPCs, etc., with a quantity of 1.]
The player drives the vehicle towed by another vehicle, surviving alongside the driver. Rewards earned are doubled and credited directly to the driver's in-game account. The driver can then use this account to allocate resources to the passenger side and pay the passenger's wages.
As these words appeared, the game announcement in front of Feng Xing Shou changed to: [Please select a target using the co-pilot's work pass. Currently, two members are available. Please select one person to use it!]
Seeing this result, all three were surprised. Matsuda looked at his childhood friend and complained, "Hagi! When did you develop the ability to use words of power? It was said that you could get double rewards, and it actually worked."
"Heh...it's just a coincidence!" Hagiwara chuckled, watching Fuu-chan's curious expression as she looked at the passenger's work ID, without revealing the darker reasoning behind the ID.
Although this work permit is presented as a legitimate job, it is actually like using a co-pilot's work permit to bind other humans to oneself as subordinates or even slaves. The phrase "autonomous division of co-pilot's salary" says it all.
In the game, wages are essential for human survival. Controlling the distribution of these resources is equivalent to controlling the survival rights of the bound drivers, even if the documents do not show this information.
He estimated that once this document was used, there would be unspoken rules such as the co-driver having to follow the car owner, obey the car owner's orders, not being able to leave the job, or defect. If that were the case, it would be like a contract of servitude.
To make matters worse, through today's attempt, he confirmed another thing: Feng Jiang has a spatial backpack, which allows him to bring real-world cars into the game's highways, thus discovering the passenger seat function almost like a bug.
Even if other people enter a dungeon where there are real vehicles that can drive away, the dungeon exits described by Feng Jiang are generally circular openings with a diameter of two meters, and the small semicircles close to the ground are narrow to less than one meter in width.
Other survivors, unless they have Feng Jiang's spatial backpack ability, cannot collect real-world vehicles onto the game's roads. Therefore, the only other possibility that can trigger this towing function is other survivors' vehicles.
It's estimated that later in the game, there will definitely be gameplay elements where survivors gather or meet. At that time, the game organizers may announce this rule or plan other methods to incite survivors to fight each other.
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