Chapter 184 Termite Crisis
Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!
She suddenly realized something and quickly continued in Hagiwara's ear: "Hagiwara, I think the reason why the game's difficulty has increased, or even the penalty mode has been triggered, might be because we met with people from the past."
And by leaking game-related or future information to them, you've caused them trouble. Tell everyone this speculation, and then don't share any more game information with them. See if distancing yourself from them will lower the difficulty of the punishment mode.
“Dajiafeng said…” Upon hearing this, Hagiwara also realized that this time, he had contacted old acquaintances with Komorofushi and leaked some information, which led to the increased difficulty of the game dungeon.
He thought that Feng Xing Shou's guess might be correct, but after thinking about it, he gave Okibomoto a wink and added his own thoughts: "However, I think this is related to the factor of 'meeting people from past historical timelines'."
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he met with people he knew in the past and revealed information about the future or the game. We also talked with people from the past during the Twin Towers incident, and Little Dahlmo even rode in the same elevator with them.
However, the instance did not experience any anomalies other than destruction at that time. When we rescued Little Scotland, we were short of supplies to cope with the low temperatures due to the arrival of the disaster season in the game. Therefore, we contacted Little Bourbon at that time before rescuing Little Scotland.
We asked him to urgently purchase some winter supplies and deliver them to the area covered by the instance. However, since it was shortly after Little Scotland's arrival, there wasn't much time to communicate. We only revealed a little information about time travel and Feng Sang's abilities to Bourbon..."
“Indeed, there are many similarities between our meeting and our communication that time and this time. Perhaps that is the reason why the difficulty of the dungeon has increased.” Matsuda knew that his childhood friend was deliberately using Bourbon to replace the class president so that he could legitimately give the correct information.
Bourbon had heard them talk about meeting the class monitor before, and even after what happened last year, he heard the details from the class monitor. Naturally, he cooperated very well and did not show any surprise at suddenly being 'recalled' to meet them three years ago.
Gin didn't doubt them after hearing this. Instead, their words led him to another speculation: "There's another possibility: Bourbon met with you alone last time and learned some information."
The dungeon only increased the difficulty by raising the level of geological disasters that did not reach the level announced in the mission notice. This time, you met with a few of us and leaked a lot of game-related information, so the punishment mission announced in the mission notice appeared.
This likely means that, according to the game rules, the number of people you meet with from the past and the amount of information you leak will affect the difficulty level of the instance; the more people and the more information leaked, the higher the difficulty of the instance's penalty mission.
"Now is not the time to speculate. Judging from the appearance of these termites, they will probably attack us after they finish eating the carriages. Let's see how to deal with these sources of danger first!" Scotland reminded the group who were focused on reasoning.
"Hmph! Fat pig, have any mutated termites appeared in your dimension?" Gin snorted coldly after hearing this, but did not refute Scotland's opinion. Instead, he asked Hagiwara and the others this question directly.
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"This instance is actually overlapping with yours. I have everything you have here, but don't worry about me, I can protect myself." When Feng Xing Shou heard his brother ask this, he quickly moved to his side and answered in his ear.
She wasn't actually afraid of insects, but she was disgusted by insects. The moment the mutated termites crawled out from all directions, she quickly used her backpack space to store all the mutated termites she sensed.
Also, because he found the insects disgusting and couldn't tolerate their presence in his backpack, he sold them through the backpack's selling function after collecting them, earning a whopping 20,000 copper coins.
The only difference was that storing these things was different from storing ordinary supplies, and the combination of storing and selling backpack space was more mentally taxing. After quickly completing this series of actions, she felt extremely tired and sleepy.
She desperately wanted to find a bed and sleep, but she knew it was not the time to sleep, so she could only force herself to stay awake so as not to worry her brother, while collecting and selling the mutated termites.
Remembering the overlap between the instance and the real world, he told Gin, "By the way, bro! I just put all the mutated termites from the instance dimension into my inventory."
Based on the previous reactions after collecting resources in the instance dimension and the real dimension, anything I take in the instance will also disappear in the real world after we successfully leave the instance.
In other words, although this place looks dangerous now, it is actually just a reflection of the mutated termites in the instance dimension, a kind of virtual-real interplay. As long as we leave here and return to the game, we can overcome this danger.
Once the reality that the mutated termites within my instance dimension will disappear is mapped back to real spacetime, these reactions will vanish. As long as no other mutated termites continue to pursue you outside the instance's radiation range, your situation will be safe.
"I see!" Gin immediately understood what his fat pig meant, and then instructed the group, "Take the fat pig and find the dungeon exit using the same method you used to use to find the dungeon exit."
"Bourbon, we'll retreat in the opposite direction from them. While you're there, contact Vermouth and see if any mutated termites have appeared on her end."
"..." Bourbon remained outwardly calm upon hearing this, but inwardly he couldn't help but grit his teeth. Given his current role as an organization member and his persona, he had to ignore the termites around him and the deaths and injuries of the humans who were about to be attacked by the termites.
He didn't care whether they would become food for the mutated termites, but his sense of duty as a Japanese public security officer and to protect the Japanese people made it impossible for him to leave these people, who were under the threat of the mutated termites' mouthparts, behind.
Therefore, upon hearing Gin's command, he felt extremely conflicted and tormented, even more so than when he had made up his mind to kill Sherry, even at the cost of implicating some of the passengers on the train.
From his perspective, he couldn't express his inner turmoil, nor could he show any concern for the lives of these people.
But Scotland, whose identity had already been exposed, had no scruples, so upon hearing this, he immediately looked at Gin: "What about these passengers? The mutated termites have already started attacking the crowd."
"Heh..." Gin was about to sneer and say something cruel to shatter the rat's delusion that he was hoping to save people.
Then Hagiwara's voice came from the side: "Fū-chan just said that she has already eliminated all the mutated termites she could reach in the dungeon dimension, and when she was collecting these mutated termites, she used her mental power to cover the perception range of the carriage and confirmed that she was heading towards the front of the train."
It was discovered that the end of carriage number four, which faces the front of the train, is the boundary of the instance. Therefore, it is speculated that the instance exit should be in a carriage facing the rear of the train. Considering that most of our instances are destroyed by the power of bombs and explosions.
I suspect the exit from this instance is inside the truck bed where Little Bourbon planted the explosives... so the faster we find the instance and leave, the sooner these mutated termites will disappear from real time and space.
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OK!
"learn!"
Upon hearing this, the group understood Hagiwara's meaning. Given the current number and attack power of the mutated termites, it was impossible to prevent people from getting hurt. However, if they were fast enough, they should be able to avoid casualties in the surrounding area.
Thinking of this, Matsuda and Scotland disregarded the fact that they were carrying prohibited weapons and fired several shots at some mutated termites that had begun attacking people in the corridor at the rear of the train amidst the noisy screams and the crowd rushing to other carriages.
After shooting down these defenseless creatures with terrifyingly strong acid corrosion, they immediately avoided the acid-smoking areas and ran towards the rear of the train.
However, before completely leaving the carriage, Scotland, who was at the very back, shouted loudly to the carriage that had suddenly fallen silent due to the gunshot: "Everyone, evacuate immediately towards carriage number 3. There shouldn't be any termites there."
After saying that, he chased after Matsuda Hagiwara, who was shooting at the mutated termites that had appeared in other carriage corridors as they moved, and retreated towards the rear of the train...
Upon hearing this, the passengers in the carriage noticed that many of the mutated termites seemed to have been lured away by them, and most of them were chasing after them, eating and crawling. The number of giant termites in their carriage had indeed decreased.
But if you accidentally get bitten, you'll still lose a piece of skin and flesh, so you quickly follow the Scottish method and shove each other towards carriage number 3 to escape...
Gin and Bourbon had already moved to carriage 3 before that, and continued their evacuation to the safer carriage 2.
While dialing Vermouth's number, Bourbon looked at the sight of not a single mutated termite in carriage number 3 and exclaimed in amazement, "It's like an invisible wall separating the other world from this one."
"Hmph! This game can bring these ants to life in just a few seconds. It seems that the fat pig's description of them wasn't exaggerated." Gin snorted coldly and said this in an ambiguous way.
Then, as if he had no concern for his younger sister, he said, "After finding out the situation in Vermouth's carriage, ask her how Sherry is doing. Don't forget that your main target this time is that wary deer!"
"Don't worry! I understand what you mean." And he absolutely wouldn't allow Sherry to live. With a forced smile, Bourbon asked Vermouth, who had just answered the phone, "Vermouth, have you found any very large termites over there?"
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