Chapter 173 Siblings
Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!
“Gin! Your silly antics have amused your companions!” Scotland said calmly to Gin, seemingly unconcerned about the Beretta gun barrel on his side.
This reaction amused Gin, who immediately flicked his thumb to release the safety: "If I hear your voice again, I won't hesitate to shoot a bullet into your brain and see what your face looks like after you die."
"Brother! Calm down, calm down!" Feng Xingshou knew that once his brother encountered something above him, he wouldn't care about gains or losses or how troublesome the aftermath would be. He would only act according to what pleased him. So he quickly grabbed his arm and persuaded him in his ear.
"Heh..." At the same time, seeing his dangerous actions, Hagiwara chuckled as if he wasn't worried about his friend at all, saying, "Gin-chan, don't let my beloved Kaze-chan see such a terrible sight! I'll be very angry!"
"You seem to be looking for death!" His words successfully turned the gun barrel in Gin's hand toward his head, o(￣ヘ￣o＃).
Bourbon and Matsuda couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Gin-chan... pfft!"
"Little Gin... Ahahaha..."
"Brother! He didn't do it on purpose, it's just his speech habit! He always likes to add cute ending sounds when he speaks, and when addressing others, he likes to add the word 'little' to those he's close to! He didn't mean to tease you!" Feng Xingshou also wanted to laugh.
After all, no one had ever dared to call her brother so boldly since she was a child, but she couldn't watch her trusted friend get killed by her brother, so she could only continue to hold onto her brother's arm and explain.
-_-|| Although she felt that Hagiwara was deliberately helping Inspector Morofushi out of a predicament this time, she could only pretend to be confused for now. She couldn't let Inspector Morofushi talk with a gun barrel pointing at him that could kill him at any moment, so she could only explain Hagiwara's behavior this way.
Then he quickly changed the subject: "Instead of getting angry, we should talk about serious business. We can only stay for an hour, and about 10 minutes have passed. We still need to check where this train is at risk of collapsing. We really can't waste time on arguing."
Coincidentally, as soon as she finished speaking, the carriage began to shake slightly, followed by the sound of a train whistle, and then the train began to move slowly.
Bourbon glanced at his watch, somewhat surprised: "7:10? Why are we leaving early? Wasn't the scheduled time 7:30?"
"Your plan has gone wrong? Bourbon!" Gin could tell that Bourbon was genuinely surprised, and immediately put the gun back into the pocket of his black coat.
Bourbon frowned slightly, then gave a somewhat dangerous smile. As he closed the carriage door, he said, "There might have been some unexpected incident, but Vermouth is here this time. If anything happens that affects the plan, she will contact me."
"Tsk! I knew this crisis of destruction in the instance was related to your mission." After listening to the conversation between the two and confirming that the organization was indeed active on this train, Matsuda couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark with his half-moon eyes.
Gin was perceptive and immediately picked up on the key point from Matsuda's words: "A copy? Annihilation crisis?"
"As expected of you, you grasped the key point so quickly! They just briefly told me about that 'major future change' that we've always been concerned about, and this instance is related to that 'major future change'."
"We still have time, so let them explain it to us in detail. This will help me fully understand the future situation." Seeing that they had come this far, Bourbon seized the opportunity to steer the conversation back to the aspect he cared about most.
After hearing what he just said, Bourbon now felt that neither the silver bullet nor Sherry, the developer of the new silver bullet, mattered.
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Seeing that Kofuyu had steered the conversation in this direction, Hagiwara quickly took over the topic to prevent his friend from being held at gunpoint again, saying, "Fū-chan can only communicate with one person at a time. She's right here with you now, and I don't know how much she's told you."
A one-to-one correspondence is too troublesome, so I'll start from the beginning! If there are any parts that overlap with what Feng-chan told you, please remind me so I don't waste my time! The story begins on April 1st, 2025…”
Hagiwara recounted to Gin, as concisely as possible, the story of how Kaze Seishu had been captured by the game, the in-game experiences of 'Granwitt' and 'Dalmo' that he had just modified, and the game rules they had discovered over the past few days.
Although he had omitted a lot of the details, it still took him six or seven minutes to finish recounting everything. Then he looked at Gin, ready to wait for this man, who seemed suspicious by nature, to launch into a barrage of questions.
Unexpectedly, Gin's first question after hearing this was: "You fat pig, you **￥&**..."
At first, they could understand that Gin's nickname, "Wind-chan," was in Chinese, but the rest of his words were very strange. Some of them sounded like Chinese, while others sounded like Russian... In short, they couldn't understand what Gin was saying at all.
Bourbon felt a chill run down his spine. He realized that it was no wonder Gin had never suspected that Feng Sang, who could only be heard but not seen, was a trick created by someone using advanced technology. It turned out that he and his sister had a secret code, so he was never worried that Feng Sang would be impersonated.
Hearing her brother speak in a code only the two of them knew, asking her about her spatial abilities, Feng Xing Shou became serious and quickly told him how she acquired them in a pronunciation only the two of them understood.
She even told him that the so-called road survival game might actually be a horrific live-streaming program, and that she had kept the Palm Immortal Technique, Reincarnation Reversal, Home Tree Space, and Water Manipulation from Hagiwara and the others.
However, in order to protect Hagiwara and the others and prevent his statement from being exposed by his own confession, Kazesei chose to switch the story, making it clear that she was originally the first person to die in the stunt competition after the dungeon.
She claimed that when she was first captured by the game, she tried to play a road survival game while driving, but died in a car accident. That's when she inexplicably "saw" the comments from the audience's perspective in the game, and in a fit of anger, she entered a game she had played before...
He also explained that he had been keeping this from 'Granwitt' and 'Dalmore' all along, fearing that if he revealed it, the game organizers would discover that they had discovered their true nature and take measures to silence him.
Concealing most of his abilities is in accordance with his teachings; he always keeps a few trump cards up his sleeve, just in case...
As for why Feng Xing Shou dares to tell her brother these things now, it's because her brother suddenly used this kind of language to talk to her, reminding her that she and her brother have this little secret that can bypass the game's monitoring.
It's called a little secret, but it's really just a way for parents of academically challenged daughters to deal with their hopeless academic performance. After all, her father is Russian, and her brother had tried hard to teach her Russian when she was little.
Unfortunately, she lived in China, surrounded by the highly infectious Northeastern Mandarin, which caused her native language to become fixed at a young age. No matter how her brother taught her Russian, she could only use the transliterated Russian pronunciation in Chinese to get by, and she would forget it all as soon as she turned her head.
Her brother was very angry at the time, but after listening to her repeatedly memorize the Chinese-to-Russian pronunciation, he accidentally discovered that this mixed pronunciation, which only he could understand, was very suitable for use as a coded translation.
So, she ingeniously edited these pronunciations into a way of speaking that only she and her brother could understand. She originally thought it was her brother's way of venting his energy and exhausting her brain! She never expected that her brother would use it in this way.
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At the same time, after hearing the voice that had been speaking in his ear, quickly understanding his question, and answering him with a familiar pronunciation, Gin completely let go of his suspicion that someone was impersonating Fat Pig and trying to gain his trust and exploit him through Fat Pig's identity.
After confirming that the person beside him was indeed the fat piglet he had raised himself, Gin was naturally furious when he heard about her future. The fat piglet, who had always been protected by him since childhood, had only ever suffered at his hands.
He had never let anyone bully her, let alone been killed once by those self-righteous guys. Just thinking about these things made him deeply resentful of those so-called game organizers.
However, he is not the kind of person who boasts when he is not strong enough and only talks big. In fact, he is the type who rarely speaks out until he actually catches his prey.
Therefore, after hearing Feng Xingshou's explanation, although he sensed that Fatty Pig seemed to be hiding something about her initial car accident, he still felt proud considering how well he had raised Fatty Pig.
He probably thought it was embarrassing for a woman in her thirties to have a car accident on a deserted highway, so he deliberately concealed it. At most, he assumed she made a stupid mistake while trying to drive. Based on this assumption, he didn't press the matter.
Instead, he looked at Hagiwara and the others and said, "Fatty has already told me some things about what happened that you didn't mention. Now tell me your thoughts and plans for this game."
"The idea is naturally to let countries that are capable of dealing with such a crisis know that even if they cannot develop their technology to the point of resisting the game's capture, they can at least find ways to improve the driving skills of the entire population."
Fortunately, this will increase the survival rate of those people captured in the game in the future. "When Gin asked them in standard Mandarin, Matsuda also frankly stated their main purpose in contacting people in reality.
“Heh…” Upon hearing this, Gin sneered on the spot: “When did the organization’s style become this disgusting attitude of being considerate of others? Bourbon, it seems that your future self has not properly taught them the organization’s true way of doing things.”
"Hey! Don't blame me every time a member of the organization has a problem. I'm not their mentor, I have no responsibility to take responsibility for their problems." Bourbon felt a pang of anxiety after Gin said that, and immediately retorted with an innocent yet ruthless Bourbon-esque tone.
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