Chapter 38 Low Temperature Rain and Snow Disaster
Just as the two were looking at each other thoughtfully, they saw the reflection of Feng Xingshou sleeping in the rearview mirror. A familiar light screen appeared out of nowhere—it was the game notification and announcement panel.
Seeing this, Kenji Hagiwara immediately stepped over the center armrest from the driver's seat, entered the trunk, and peeked at the game notification panel that automatically popped up in front of Kaze-chan to see what new information it had:
[Game Announcement: At 12:30 AM on the 7th day of the season, the disaster theme will officially begin. This disaster theme is low temperature rain and snow disaster. At that time, the temperature will drop by one degree every day from the normal early spring and late autumn temperature, and light rain and snow will fall randomly every day.]
An extreme cold and snowy environment has been created, causing the climate to rapidly become cold and damp, lasting until the end of the season. Survivors, please upgrade your vehicles as much as possible to survive this disaster theme!
[Game Announcement: At 12:30 AM on Day 7 of Season 7, the trading channel will officially open. Survivors can list their surplus materials and supplies for sale in the trading section, or purchase the items they need from the merchants' shelves.]
[Game Announcement: The new season has been underway for 7 days, and most survivors have adapted to the initial pace of exploring dungeons. Starting tomorrow, dungeon time will be increased to 1 hour.]
[Game Announcement: After several days of car races, survivors who couldn't adapt to the game and lacked driving talent have been eliminated. Starting tomorrow, the car races after each instance will be upgraded to single-player driving skills competitions. Survivors are requested to show off their driving skills once they enter the track! The higher the score, the richer the rewards!]
"A disaster-themed section and a trading section are also launching at the same time?" Matsuda Jinpei looked at the game announcement and felt very strange: "Shouldn't similar games usually launch chat channels like world chat first? Why is this game launching the trading channel first?"
"The purpose of opening chat channels is to consider the players' feelings and increase the emotional value gained from social interaction. This game seems to completely disregard the emotional value of survivors, but it opens a trading section at the start of the disaster theme."
It was as if they were encouraging survivors to trade blueprints, materials, and other resources to upgrade their vehicles as quickly as possible, almost as if they were deliberately reducing the survivor mortality rate. "Kenji Hagiwara said this, but he didn't voice his true thoughts.
It seems like the game organizers are not concerned about the survivors' gaming experience or emotional value, but are instead increasing the players' survival rate. It's as if the organizers are after the survivors' lives, but don't care about people's thoughts or emotions at all.
Just like when they arbitrarily captured Feng Jiang and made her a survivor, their self-serving pronouncements were utterly repulsive, and one could even sense a certain malice lurking beneath these cold announcements…
Matsuda, whose reasoning ability was not weak, could naturally think of what Hagiwara had thought of, but he did not voice these thoughts, since Hagiwara had previously mentioned that the game might have a monitoring effect.
So he paused for a few seconds, as if he were looking at these game announcements and thinking, and then said, "Not only the disaster theme, but I also think the increased duration of the dungeon is something worth noting."
"Given the game's consistently ruthless and resource-efficient nature, I always felt there was a conspiracy behind suddenly increasing the time survivors spend gathering resources and searching for the dungeon exit," Hagiwara said with a half-smile.
"Same here! Once we get into the instance tomorrow, we'll probably know what their conspiracy is." Matsuda said, then continued to complain, "And this disaster theme looks troublesome. It gets colder by one degree every day. The first few days will be fine, but it will probably get colder and colder as it goes on."
With rain and snow falling, the temperature is expected to drop by a full 23 degrees Celsius by the end of the season. The temperature at that time is estimated to be...
Temperatures can drop to minus ten degrees Celsius, or even minus twenty degrees Celsius. The chilly feeling of rain and snow will make the perceived temperature even lower.
In short, with this disaster theme, the vehicles lack air conditioning and sufficient gasoline for power generation or coal fuel, they simply won't last until the end of the season. The game organizers are truly insidious, using such cruel rules.
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"We can only upgrade the air conditioning and other heating facilities as soon as possible." Kenji Hagiwara glanced at the silver treasure chests outside the car, then at the sleeping Fuusei, and wisely remarked, "But let's not open these treasure chests."
With our luck, we probably won't even get any useful supplies from the silver treasure chest. But Feng-chan always seems to get exactly what she wants when she opens a chest. I think the car air conditioner will depend on whether she wants it or not.
"..." Matsuda Jinpei, who was once again being teased about his luck by his childhood friend, stared with his half-moon eyes, feeling speechless but unable to refute it. After all, he had indeed encountered quite a few unlucky things since he was a child, and he had never won a "one more popsicle" since he was a child.
"Heh..." Seeing Jinpei's speechless expression, Hagiwara couldn't help but laugh: "Maybe your luck will be better when you go back this time! After all, not everyone can be lucky enough to change their fate of death."
"Are you indirectly hoping your luck will improve when you go back?" Matsuda rolled her eyes at him, then looked at the silver treasure chests outside the window: "Is it okay to just leave these chests out like this?"
"It should be fine, but if we wait a little longer and see if there are any other dungeon monsters, we'll go out and bring it into the carriage." Hagiwara said, then asked with concern, "Are you hungry? If you are, I'll wake up Fuu-chan now and get your food."
"No need..." Matsuda Jinpei hadn't finished speaking yet!
Then came the sound of bedding rustling in the back of the car, and a groggy voice: "Oh! I'll get it out right away."
With the sound, several disposable lunch boxes appeared out of thin air next to the sofa bed. Then, the figure sleeping on it groggily turned over and continued to sleep soundly with its back to the two of them...
"...Talking in her sleep?" Matsuda looked at the disposable lunch boxes next to Kazesei's pillow and felt that rather than talking in her sleep, she seemed to have vaguely heard their conversation, tried to react, and then fell asleep again.
"Haha..." Sure enough, Hagiwara, who had learned about Fuu-chan's daily routine over the past few days, couldn't help but suppress his laughter. As he climbed over the central armrest to get the lunchbox, he said, "He must have been thinking about getting you dinner the whole time."
But the high-quality sleep prevented her from fully waking up; she could only manage to finish what she was thinking about when I mentioned the keywords, and then she fell asleep again.
"I envy this quality of sleep." Looking at the still-warm lunchbox Hagiwara handed him, he couldn't help but reveal his beady eyes: "How does this guy manage to accurately retrieve his dinner lunchbox while he's asleep?"
“Hmm! Instinct? Willpower?” Hagiwara agreed: “But her sleep quality is indeed commendable. It’s even more effective than Kofuya’s sleep aid package. She falls asleep instantly after 10 o’clock, and even the sound of gunfire can’t wake her up.”
"Heh... So waking up just now was all thanks to your keyword triggering." Matsuda couldn't help but chuckle after hearing this.
Hagiwara was a little smug: "Well! After spending a few days together, she's quite aware of my voice."
"You must have tried to improve her impression of you!" Matsuda muttered with half-moon eyes as he opened his lunchbox, picked up disposable chopsticks, and began eating dinner.
Hagiwara, whose thoughts had almost been guessed, silently looked away. -_-|| There was something very...
Having someone who understands you around has one downside: it's hard to hide even the smallest secrets!
So they really did something? Sensing his childhood friend's guilty conscience, Matsuda decided to continue the interrogation after dinner...
The silver treasure chest gleamed faintly outside the car window, illuminating the silhouettes of two figures inside the vehicle, chatting and laughing as they ate with the interior lights on...
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The next morning, Feng Xingshou woke up right on time according to his biological clock and opened the car door, exclaiming with delight: "Ahhh!!! A silver treasure chest, second-year graduate student, this is a silver treasure chest, which is even more advanced than a bronze treasure chest, right?"
"Achoo!" Hagiwara, who was shaken awake in the driver's seat, looked at the person outside the car with an energetic and surprised expression, and patted her head: "That's right, sweetie! Go open it and see what surprises are in store today?"
As for the disaster theme already being announced, let's talk about that later! Don't spoil the mood for now, he thought as he opened the car door and got out.
Matsuda, who was in the passenger seat, was also awakened from his light sleep by Kazesei's joyful laughter. Fortunately, he was not grumpy when he woke up. He had taken a long nap yesterday afternoon and evening, so he was not very sleepy or upset. Instead, he was curious about Hagiwara's mention of her luck in opening the box, so he got out of the car to watch the fun.
"I told you not to touch my hair, hmph! I'm going to open a treasure chest." Being patted on the head by a handsome guy younger than himself, and hearing such doting words from Su Yin, made Feng Xing Shou's old face blush.
Thinking that she must make him change his flirtatious behavior when they were alone together, she hurriedly slapped Hagiwara's hand away, said something in a hurry, and then took the crowbar to open the silver treasure chest.
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining a 5000-watt vehicle air conditioner manufacturing blueprint, 10 units of plastic, 10 units of rubber, 10 units of iron, 10 units of chemicals, 10 units of electronic components, and 10 units of silver!]
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining a 50-liter vehicle water heater manufacturing blueprint, 10 units of steel, 10 units of rubber, 10 units of black iron, 10 units of chemicals, 10 units of electronic components, and 10 units of silver!]
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining a blueprint for a 5-square-meter vehicle-mounted bathroom, 20 units of ceramic, 10 units of rubber, 10 units of plastic, and 10 units of silver!]
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining one 5-square-meter vehicle-mounted kitchen expansion blueprint, 10 units of ceramics, 10 units of wood, 20 units of black iron, and 10 units of silver!]
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining a 5-square-meter double living room expansion blueprint for a vehicle, 10 units of wood, 10 units of cotton, 10 units of iron, 10 units of cloth, 10 units of electronic components, and 10 units of silver!]
[Congratulations to the survivor for obtaining a 500-liter vehicle water tank manufacturing blueprint, 50 units of plastic, and 10 units of silver!]
Standing behind Feng Xingshou, after seeing the announcements of the loot from these chests, Hagiwara couldn't help but exclaim, "As expected of a Silver Treasure Chest, the rewards are very generous!"
“Yes! Now that the upgrade is complete, we’ll have air conditioning, a kitchen, a water heater, a bathroom, and a water tank. And what’s with this extended living room?” Feng Xingshou imagined the structure of the Earth Star RV.
One person speculated, "Could it be that they're adding five square meters of space in the back to create a living room? If so, our vehicle will be much more spacious! And the kitchen—we can cook outside right now, so we don't really need a kitchen. We can use the expanded kitchen space as living space..."
"We'll find out exactly what's going on once we try it out. Anyway, the materials from each treasure chest reward are just enough for one crafting attempt." Hagiwara's tone was full of eager anticipation.
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