Chapter 260 Returning to Reality
What goes around comes around!
“I’m not interested in you guys, but if you need a job, you can come to me. After all, you were raised by fat pigs, and your abilities are still quite useful.” Their reaction seemed to bore Gin.
He simply put away his gun, took out another cigarette, lit it, and put it in his mouth while talking. After he finished speaking, he turned around and left the Pacific buoy. However, before he left, his gaze swept over Bourbon and Morofushi Kagemitsu.
When the two saw his gaze, they remembered that Hagiwara and Matsuda's identities had been exposed earlier, so as their contemporaries, Gin probably already knew their identities as well.
For some reason, Gin wasn't interested in or didn't care whether they were undercover agents or not, and didn't settle accounts with them. What did that look mean now? Morofushi Kagemitsu couldn't help but look at his childhood friend with a questioning gaze.
Bourbon thought for a moment and speculated, "It's probably because we both awakened two skills because of Feng Sang, especially your healing skill. Compared to the potentially dangerous Silver Bullet, your healing skill is very valuable. He probably wants to recruit you so that he can easily use your healing skill in the future!"
"And what about you?" Morofushi Kagemitsu said, winking playfully, then grinning and saying, "Ah! I get it, you're his safety net."
"As long as you and Feng Sang are here, if his abilities spiral out of control again, you and his sister can team up to teleport his out-of-control skills to another location, ensuring the surrounding area isn't swallowed by the black hole."
Upon hearing his childhood friend's speculation, Bourbon couldn't help but reveal his beady eyes: "So, this is what I use it for?"
"Oh……"
"Heh..." The conversation between the two drew a soft chuckle from the Akai father and son standing nearby.
Seeing them laugh like that, Bourbon couldn't help but show a mocking face, looking at Shuichi Akai, who annoyed him the most, and asked, "Is it funny?"
“Somewhat!” Shuichi Akai replied without any politeness.
Akai Tsutomu watched the two bickering silently from the sidelines...
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When Feng Xing Shou opened her eyes again, she felt a sense of déjà vu. She looked at the familiar scene before her: the familiar ceiling, the familiar white walls, the familiar small bedroom, and the soft yet firm touch of the bed.
Even the mini alarm clock beside her pillow was her old item. The sunlight streaming through the curtains was so clear that the light was so vivid. Then, the memories that flooded her mind made her sit up abruptly in bed.
Then, I threw back the covers and looked at the mini alarm clock next to me before getting out of bed. It showed that it was 2:24 pm. Wait a minute! Isn't this the time when I'm usually still at work? I usually get off work at 3:30 pm.
She racked her brains for a moment before realizing that it was April 2014. The reason she wasn't at work today was because it was her day off. Her work schedule and vacation days were different from those of ordinary white-collar workers because she worked in the food industry.
Her working hours are usually from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, and then from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM. These are the normal working hours. Moreover, her job only has one day off a week, not two days off a week.
And it wasn't a Sunday off, but rather she had to work in shifts with other colleagues to get a day off. Was today her day off? So she had somehow traveled back eleven years.
She rubbed her head, her heart pounding in panic. How had she let things get this far? If only she hadn't been so eager to upgrade the car, or even just to upgrade her mental strength.
Now, Hagiwara and his friends have reached the future, 2014. They have lost a full seven years. He had promised them that he would return the year in which the accident happened, so that they would not lose any time.
Now that things have turned out this way, how am I supposed to face them? Thinking about this, she suddenly realized something was wrong. Wait a minute! Wasn't it April 2015 when they entered the Pacific buoy?
When I woke up in the morning, we talked about sending my brother and the others back to the timeline of the Pacific buoy while we were having breakfast together. So the vehicle drove back to its original position. Logically, their return time should be 2015.
Why is the time of merging between my side and the side that went there in 2014? How come there's another year difference? Did Earth's time cycle again during the time they entered the large-scale instance?
Earth's timeline from 2014 to 2015 should be cyclical, and it should be starting again in a few days. How could it suddenly be back in 2014? Thinking about this, she was very confused and hurriedly got up and changed her clothes.
She didn't know why she changed her clothes, but the matter of Hagiwara and the others, and the abnormal time, made her want to do something. Now she couldn't lie down or rest.
Just then, her phone, which she had left in the living room, rang. The familiar ringtone made Feng Xingshou hurry out to check. When she saw the name "Brother" displayed on the phone screen...
Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly answered the phone, her voice trembling without her even realizing it as she called out, "Brother! Are you alright?"
This phone call was incredibly precious to her, because she hadn't received any contact from her brother since April 2015, let alone a phone call. So seeing her brother's call brought Feng Xingshou a small measure of comfort; at least her brother's fate had changed...
"Fat pig! Don't make such a pathetic sound!" Gin's voice remained calm, showing no emotion even in his tone, and giving Fuusei no time to express his feelings.
He then said to her, "Immediately turn on your computer and check the changes around the world, especially spiritual practitioners. You'll probably find some information that will surprise or satisfy you."
Gin really did say that and then hung up the phone.
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Feng Xingshou stared blankly at the phone screen, which had already been disconnected and was gradually going black. His mind was filled with confusion. What did "spiritual cultivator" mean? He had no idea what a spiritual cultivator was.
She was puzzled, but she still followed her brother's instructions. After the computer finished booting up and she opened the browser, she started searching as her brother had suggested. She didn't know if the computer had an automatic recording function.
She would still adjust the font to the shape of words, and when she unknowingly typed in the pinyin of the three characters "lingxiujia", the words "spirit cultivation" and "home" were displayed.
Then, upon searching, she found a bunch of entries she had never seen before. Feng Xingshou quickly looked at them and opened the top entry to check it out. She discovered that it said the Lingxiu family was one of the Hundred Schools of Thought during the Spring and Autumn Period.
He is a thinker who takes spiritual cultivation as his foundation and the cultivation of the soul as a path to advancement. He can also develop a drug that can stimulate the potential of the soul, enhance a person's memory and thinking ability, and even, for those with exceptional talent, can unleash a supernatural power to interfere with natural energy through spiritual energy...
Feng Xingshou was completely bewildered. Huh? Isn't this just some description of those mental power users from the game organizers? He'd never heard of any spiritual cultivators, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought, in ancient Zhongzhou Kingdom.
What the heck is this? Suddenly she remembered that she had thrown the black hole into the other side of the portal to solve the threat of that black hole. Could it be that she had guessed right, and the other side of the portal was actually the world of the game's organizers?
Upon realizing this, Feng Xingshou couldn't help but have an unbelievable yet plausible thought: Could it be that the black hole he threw in couldn't be solved even with the many advanced technologies possessed by that world?
Did it truly cause immense damage to that world, plunging its civilization into destruction, and then merge into our world, just like our own?
Like many other parallel worlds that were irreparably damaged by the game's host world and automatically merged into other worlds, now it's finally their world's turn to become wanderers and merge into their own world.
So no wonder the timeline here has returned to 2014 on this day? The reason why the time loop in their world is fixed is because the game mode, the event time, and the end time are all fixed.
Therefore, after the game ends, the broken world will automatically merge into other parallel Earth planets. However, now the broken world has become their own, even if they do not control it.
It seems that parallel worlds automatically have the function of converging world lines and merging damaged parallel worlds into intact ones. From this perspective, the other world seems to be quite close to our world.
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However, I wonder how much impact the merging of worlds will have on my own world? If that method of spiritual cultivation doesn't abandon the physical body like the other side, but only preserves the spiritual and soul state to survive, it wouldn't be bad. Let's see what changes they bring to this world first!
Realizing what his brother wanted him to find on the computer, Feng Xingshou immediately began researching information related to the Lingxiu family and the various changes their existence had caused to his world.
After extensive research, she finally determined that the black hole's impact on that world was perhaps too severe, and that the more advanced methods of spiritual cultivation from that world had not been passed down; the latter were the kind that transformed into spirit bodies.
And abhorrent survival game live streams like this, as well as other high-level spiritual technologies, have not been integrated into this world. All that remains here is the basic spiritual awakening recipe.
There are three stages of mental power cultivation methods: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Among them is a cultivation method that condenses mental power into mental power weapons. However, all of these methods require a lot of talent.
It belongs to the ancient cultural heritage of Zhongzhou Kingdom, so it is only passed down in Zhongzhou Kingdom. There is no such heritage abroad. As for other aspects, it may be a newly integrated spiritual cultivation technology.
It has not yet merged with the pure technological civilization of its own world, so there has been no invention that combines spiritual cultivation skills with mechanical technology.
Furthermore, the number of spiritual practitioners is relatively small. They are rarely seen or encountered in ordinary society. To the people of Zhongzhou, they are like urban legends, let alone in other countries...
Another thing that pleased Feng Xingshou was that, as she searched for this information, evening arrived without her noticing, and at that moment, she unexpectedly saw several explosive trending topics related to the survival road on her browser's homepage:
Not only did she return from that strange survival road, but a large number of other survivors also returned from that survival road, and their return time was the same as that of Feng Xing Shou and the others.
It's estimated that the damage to that thing called the Eye of the Sky was the cause, or perhaps the black hole also created a crack around them that could bring them back to reality.
In short, you can find many people online saying that they were suddenly captured by a game and taken to the Survival Highway... and so on, and that they suddenly saw a huge black ball in the sky.
After the black sphere was swallowed by a small black hole, they saw a crack in the reality and returned to related information, as well as some minor mentions of various future events up to 2025...
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Now this information has even become a trending topic. The number of people who were arrested and brought back has been statistically shown on the websites of various countries, which shows that the total number of people who have returned from all countries is about 87.62 million.
There are still about 13 million people who have not returned. Are they eliminated because of the cruelty of the survival guide? Or are they hiding their past as survivors on that survival road, just like me?
Or perhaps they were simply unlucky enough to miss the chance to return to reality when the survival road closed, or perhaps they simply didn't encounter the cracks that prevented them from returning to reality? Feng Xing Shou had no idea.
If it really is the last possibility, Feng Xingshou can only apologize in her heart and feel very sorry, but she really has no way to reopen that survival road and rescue everyone. It is already a great stroke of luck that most of the people have come out.
Well, in general, the ending is good. My brother, Hagiwara, and Matsuda are all safe and sound, and most of the survivors have been rescued. My world has gained a new ancient civilization of spiritual cultivation.
Survivors from all over the world are returning, bringing with them upgraded vehicles of various levels. Presumably, the technology on those vehicles can also bring a certain degree of improvement to the technology of various countries. From this perspective, it's not a bad thing!
Feng Xingshou tried hard to think about these things, not letting herself think about Hagiwara and Matsuda. Whenever she thought about them, she felt very guilty because her mistake had caused them and her family to miss out on several years of their lives. She regretted it as soon as she thought about it.
If she had known it would develop this way, she wouldn't have taken advantage of the large-scale dungeon opening, storing the vehicle in her backpack space so that she wouldn't have significantly boosted everyone's and her own mental power when the game monitored her.
As long as their mental strength hadn't reached its peak, the survival game organizers wouldn't have auctioned it off, and things wouldn't have ended up like that. Perhaps with more time, they could have brought more survivors back? Ultimately, the trigger was on their side…
After returning to reality, Kazesei avoids thinking about how Hagiwara might blame him for those scenes, having caused him to miss seven years with his family. He lies listlessly on the sofa, feeling lost and uncertain about what will happen next.
If she could go back to 11 years ago, she would still be herself, and she could live her life as she always had! As she was thinking this, she subconsciously looked at her hands and suddenly realized that something was wrong with her body as well.
The appearance and strength of this body are completely different from my physical condition 11 years ago. My current physical condition is more like the state after using a physique upgrade potion in a game to upgrade my physique to the top level.
Does this mean that the fusion with one's past self was primarily based on a stronger physique? And therefore, is one's current personality and thinking also primarily centered around oneself?
Instead of focusing on his past self? If he focuses on his past self, he might forget those memories of the future after merging. Thinking of this, Feng Xing Shou felt somewhat fortunate.
Feng Xingshou lay on the sofa in a daze for a while, then suddenly remembered that before he left, he had told Hagiwara and the others that since he had returned to the past as if he had been reborn, he should make the most of his time in the future. He couldn't be so depressed now.
If you do something wrong, you should apologize first. You can't make up for lost time right now, but you should at least apologize to them. Even if you don't get their forgiveness, you should still express your remorse.
Feng Xingshou couldn't help but feel fortunate that his memory had improved since he awakened his skill. Even without deliberately trying to memorize it, he had inadvertently memorized the phone numbers that Mr. Bourbon had prepared for Hagiwara, Matsuda, and the others.
She took out her phone, feeling hesitant and a little nervous, and dialed Hagiwara's number. The moment the call connected, she watched as the other person answered almost immediately.
Feng Xingshou swallowed nervously. He had initially intended to apologize, but after the call connected, his mind went blank, and he didn't know what to say to the person on the other end of the phone.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, Hagiwara's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, I guess it's Kaze-chan on the other end of the phone right now? Is this your phone number? Then I'll have to write it down right away."
The voice, as gentle as a spring breeze, was as soothing as ever, without any blame or anger, sweeping away all the worries and anxieties in Feng Xingshou's heart. Hearing the other person's voice, which was devoid of any gloom, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but still said with a sense of guilt, "I'm sorry, Hagiwara, it's my fault that you missed the most important 7 years of your life."
"How do you know that the past eight years were the most important seven years of my life?" Hagiwara asked from the other end of the phone, seemingly suppressing a laugh.
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