Chapter 48: Deadly Road Friendly Race
After the magician left, Gao Chengcheng couldn't help but make a face at his back.
"I hate this guy in the Newcomer Alliance. He's so hypocritical."
She turned around and found that Qiao Song had taken out his toolbox and seemed to be looking for something.
"Sister Qiao, do you want to try it too?"
Qiao Song didn’t have many prop cards, so she wanted to try something else.
As long as the players think it's valuable...
Qiao Song took out various odds and ends from his net bag.
Gao Chengcheng thought she was going to try using all kinds of worthless gadgets, so she immediately explained, "This value scale is very strange. Players have tried it before, and ordinary items may not even show a number when put on it. Only prop cards can have some effect."
Anything placed on the scale will automatically change in value, and you cannot regret taking it down later, so Qiao Song chose a few more common items.
These were all ordinary little things looted from the Ghost Story Middle School. After they were put on, no number appeared on the other side of the scale, but these items still disappeared.
Seeing that she was not giving up, Gao Chengcheng had no choice but to say, "Some players have tried it before, but after they found that only item cards could show their value, they stopped trying."
Qiao Song thought for a moment and searched for a while. This time he found a diary with no content that he had found from an NPC.
A magical scene appeared. It was also a daily item, but after the diary disappeared, a number 1 appeared on the other side of the scale.
Gao Chengcheng opened his eyes wide: "Is that diary some special prop?"
Not all props can be turned into prop cards, so players' skill derivatives cannot be collected into cards.
Qiao Song shook his head. It was just an ordinary diary with nothing written on it except for "A gift for someone" written on the cover. Qiao Song originally wanted to leave it for Tang Xiaoxiao to take notes. There was no stationery store in the copy. Tang Xiaoxiao usually got the materials for writing test papers from the copy.
The "value" on the scale of value should not mean money.
Qiao Song put another hammer of his own on it, but the scale still showed 0.
"I think I have a little understanding of the operating rules of this value scale. Gao Chengcheng, guess where the things we invested in went?"
"Hmm...turned into gold coins?"
Gao Chengcheng also became interested at this time. He lay on the windowsill and watched for a while, but he didn't find where the prop card that the magician had just thrown in went. There was not a single extra gold coin in the pile next to the little man.
After observing for a while, she found all kinds of toys in this window full of toys. In addition to the most eye-catching toy racing track in the center, there were also various colorful children's kitchen utensils, building blocks, puzzles, several dolls, and some handmade house models around it.
Each one is finely crafted, like a playground for children.
Qiao Song even caught a glimpse of a small bookcase in a small model room that looked like a wooden house in the corner.
The bookcase was about the size of a shell and was filled with all kinds of strange little things.
"You said before that the Red Lord was not very old. Is he a child?"
Gao Chengcheng scratched his head and thought for a long time: "It should be? Few players have seen her. The last time she showed up seemed to be many years ago. It was said that she met with people from the Gambler's Guild."
"But the people in the Gamblers' Guild don't like to play dungeons. Even if they come here, they will probably just play the first two dungeons and then watch the betting in the third dungeon. You know, their guild is just like its name."
Qiao Song didn't find the dinosaur model among the toys. After hearing this, he seemed to have finally made up his mind:
"Gao Chengcheng, do you have any extra item cards? Sell me some. Some that control defense and attack. Don't be too expensive."
"Oh, sure. I'll give it to you at cost price, no more than a hundred!"
Gao Chengcheng thought Qiao Song also wanted to use the card to place bets, but he heard Qiao Song say, "If I'm not mistaken, this scale is not used to exchange money for betting."
Gao Chengcheng exclaimed in confusion: "If it's not betting, then what is it for?"
Qiao Song had already transferred the soul coins to her, and after taking the dozen prop cards, he threw them all into the scale.
She bought a little bit of all kinds of prop cards, and the converted number was neither too much nor too little. After the name input interface appeared on the window frame, Qiao Song wrote her name.
"Don't you think this is like pawning something in a pawn shop? Maybe you can put it in and take it out."
Gao Chengcheng:!
She looked at Qiao Song: "You mean..."
Qiao Song nodded: "It's not expensive anyway, let's give it a try."
Although she said it was not expensive and Gao Chengcheng gave him the cost price, Qiao Song still spent three or four thousand soul coins on the prop card in one go.
The guys from the Newcomer Alliance were not fools, and the magician was not a pushover either. There was no need for him to perform such a show in front of her just to trick her into giving him some prop cards.
After listening to Qiao Song's explanation, Gao Chengcheng hesitated for a while and took out a dozen prop cards.
"Okay, I'll try it too!"
But this time, Qiao Song asked Gao Chengcheng to write her own name.
After finishing all this, Qiao Song looked around at the people around him and found that no one had any intention of coming to this corner to place a bet.
If the value of the prop cards has a conversion rate of 10:1, and each card may not necessarily earn so many points, then it is understandable why so few people come here. After all, this grand prize has not been awarded in more than 700 years.
As for those big guilds that were going to participate in the road race, they had already completed the necessary preparations and did not need to rush over during this short break.
You Yitong might have just finished the car-building copy like them, so he came here at this time.
Gao Chengcheng looked up at the countdown screen and said, "There's still time. Huang Maosheng and his team are going to register for the hearse repair and modification. Let's go check on the car as well."
Although the venue for the Death Road Friendly Tournament is on the 13th to 18th floors, once you exit the elevator on the 13th floor, you will find that the entire venue is a lobby entrance about 5 stories high.
On the left is the vehicle confirmation center, and on the right is the driver preparation area.
Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng went to the left side first. At this time, there were many people coming to pick cars. Some of them were choosing cars with people from their own guild, and some others looked like they were bargaining.
"The car I built has 820 points! The competition hasn't started yet, so I still have the priority to choose the car. I'll take you to choose the car for 500 soul coins."
"500? There's a guy with almost 900 points in front of him and the offer is only 450, why don't you go grab it!"
"Now the high-scoring cars have all been picked up by others in advance, just tell me whether you want to buy it or not."
The man finally made the deal despite cursing, and the player who received the money took him to an operating panel to quickly lock a car.
Gao Chengcheng led Qiao Song to the control panel while explaining, "Players in the car-building dungeon can prioritize locking onto the cars they built. For unlucky guys like us who were thrown out, we have the car card in our hands. Even in the later stages, no one can lock onto our car."
When she got to the operating table, Qiao Song swiped her car card. After her personal information was verified, three options appeared in front of her. She could choose her own vehicle, the car stored in the car card, and a car built by other players after entering the copy.
Qiao Song chose the car card, and Gao Chengcheng chose to bring his own.
After confirmation, the car card disappeared and turned into a key pattern in Qiao Song's hand. Gao Chengcheng took out his hearse key and after clicking confirm, the key also turned into a pattern and appeared in his hand.
"Oh, it would be nice if my keys could be turned into tattoos when I'm out in the world."
At the same time, Qiao Song saw a huge screen at the entrance of the car manufacturing hall. Originally, there was a table with the names of various players written on it, but the order of this list was changing in real time.
Qiao Song noticed that a score suddenly appeared behind his name.
[Qiao Song: 6078 points]
"Shit, am I dazzled? What's the score?"
Someone in the hall soon noticed that a name on the form was rapidly rising from the bottom position and then firmly locked into the top 10.
Gao Chengcheng's name was originally in the middle row. After locking the vehicle, a 4900 appeared behind her name.
"Sister Qiao, that's awesome. I haven't even calculated how many high-grade materials your car used, and you got this score." She clicked her tongue twice and pulled the other party into the car-making copy ahead of time.
Unlike the noisy car selection environment outside, it is much quieter in here. Those who can come in have already selected a vehicle and discussed it with their companions.
Gao Chengcheng's dog brother is not here. He said he went to exchange information. Qiao Song looked at the message popping up on his mobile phone. Huangmao and Fatty have also gone to the maintenance department downstairs.
[AAA haircut and blow-drying card 20% off: Sister Qiao, don’t worry, the name of our maintenance team is very conspicuous, and we will be bound after double selection]
[Little Candy: Sister Qiao Song, Xiao Ni asked me to tell you, remember to put a few more of those special rearview mirrors on the car. He has dinosaur eggs in his stomach, and he can come to support you when the time comes. (I can do that too!)]
Gao Chengcheng hummed: "Very conscious."
After completing each map, road race participants can go to the maintenance department for repairs. As long as the car is not full, they can grab someone from the maintenance department to get on the car at any time, but they can only get on and not get off.
Joe: You are not allowed to get in the car.
After saying that, he ignored the wailing in the group and soon saw Gao Chengcheng’s dog brother coming back.
Because the driver's information had been registered, the Doberman was able to come in directly without being stopped. However, many players in the waiting room looked at this side a few times. After all, the dog was too conspicuous.
The combination of Gao Chengcheng's orange wavy hair and a dog also made many people aware of her identity.
She seemed quite comfortable with other people's looks, and even asked with a smile if anyone wanted to buy a prop card before the game started.
No one paid any attention to her at first. After all, most of the people here were from big guilds. Only one or two people came over to ask about the price of the item cards, and she gritted her teeth and bought two.
After finishing her business, she paid attention to her brother.
"How's it going, brother? Have you received any news?"
Gao Bin nodded seriously and told the information that was not easy to obtain:
"The first floor is the mushroom forest, the second floor is the roaring dragon boat, the third floor is the food court, the fourth floor is the amusement park, the fifth floor is the dusk maze, and the sixth floor is the Jurassic forest."
The main reason is that Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng said that the map of the car-building copy may also be very important.
These six names directly correspond to the car-making process and the copy theme of each floor.
After breaking through the gap between the floors, Qiao Song immediately wrote down the map she got after overlooking the maze on the 5th floor. At that time, she felt that the official reaction of the copy to the lake was too strange, and it could be said that she was too nervous.
"But Sister Qiao Song, in the road races I participated in before, I never used the car-building dungeon maps."
Qiao Song memorized the names of these floors.
“It’s better to be prepared.”
Gao Chengcheng said "oh", but those players did not provide any more useful information. Gao Bin only roughly found out the basic settings of each copy.
"The cars on different floors have different styles. The cars on our floor are more offensive. I don't know about the other floors yet. Once we get in, we should be able to understand by looking at the shape."
Because of his special sense of smell, Gao Bin can easily distinguish the true from the false of information, so he is the one who goes out to inquire about most of the key things.
Before the game started, those who came in an hour in advance to wait for the bus were all members of large unions who had prepared early. It can be said that most of them were guys in the top 30 of the outside betting rankings.
Gao Chengcheng was looking around at this moment, and couldn't wait any longer, so she pulled Qiao Song over and started gossiping about the people around them.
"Sister Qiao, let me tell you, those business-like guys in the corner are mostly from the Black Iron Guild. They are not good people, and the term 'profiteering' is most appropriate for them.
The ones on the right look like they deserve a beating. They are weeds and are too arrogant. The ones we met in the dungeon have already been restrained.
I won't say much about the Newcomer Alliance, you are familiar with it, but the two teams over there are what we need to pay most attention to."
Gao Chengcheng pointed to the sofas in the corners of the hall, one on the left and one on the right, where two groups of completely different people were sitting.
"The group on the left who look ordinary and each of them has a notebook is called the Strategy Team. These people are really strange. They seem to have never thought about leaving the Infinite Highway World. The greatest pleasure for these guys is playing games, that is, completing dungeons. They like the Hearse Entertainment Company Road Race, a game that no one has ever won the first prize. They complete dungeons as if they are risking their lives. They value the fun of playing games more than their lives. You should pay more attention to them then."
Qiao Song remembered this name. Among the top 10 odds rankings outside, the second ranked one was from the strategy group.
"The group on the far right..." Gao Chengcheng's tone suddenly became complicated, "They are a group of people who are completely opposite to the strategy team. They really, really want to go home."
Gao Bin looked up at her and said, "Don't look like you're reminiscing. Didn't you suffer enough there?"
Gao Chengcheng hummed. "Well, it's a group of players who will do anything to get home. I used to be a member of this guild, but later I quit."
To be precise, they really couldn't stand these players who were so eager to go home that they were going crazy.
"Most of the top players I've seen so far have been to Dawnland. Every time they clear a dungeon, it's all to find the door from the game back to the real world. They can sacrifice everything for this."
There is a huge treasure hidden at the finish line of Hearse Entertainment's road race, which is enough to attract the attention of any big union.
Not to mention Dawnland, which has attracted a large number of players who are going crazy wanting to go home.
"It's better not to mess with those people. Rather than winning first place, they are more likely to come here to find a door and see if they can make money."
After Gao Chengcheng finished her summary, she looked up and found that her sister Qiao was also in the top 10.
"Wow, Sister Qiao, your odds have dropped a lot."
It is not known which players placed a large bet on her. It might be the score that appeared behind the name after selecting the car card that really shocked some players. It also reminded them of the name Qiao Song, who was chosen by the ghost in the car-making copy to participate in the road race.
Gao Chengcheng could imagine that the Huangmao gang was probably crying and wailing, wondering why the odds had dropped so much.
It was exactly what she thought. When Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng were preparing to enter the road race in the waiting room, the others were also divided into groups and were ready to enter the maintenance copy at any time.
Huang Maosheng put his arm around the fat man's shoulder with a look of regret, looking at the list above his head where the first few dozen names were almost motionless, with only the numbers at the back changing all the time, feeling a little melancholy.
"There are too many people who have discerning eyes. Can't I make a fortune?"
Now Qiao Song’s odds have dropped to 2 to 1, and it seems that there is a trend of further decline.
The fat man could only pat his shoulder and say: "Small gambling is fun, big gambling is harmful to the body. Let's just go through the dungeon honestly and help them."
Because there were more people this time and everyone's personal skills were varied, after listening to the opinions of Qiao Song and others in the group, they divided into two groups with both control and attack abilities.
The maintenance team members of Qiao Song’s group: Tang Xiaoxiao, Wang Xiang, Xiao Ni, and Yuan Ya.
Members of Gao Chengcheng's maintenance team: Huang Maosheng, Ren Nanping, Ren Zhuo, and Lin Xiaolu.
Fatty was responsible for driving the two teams and sponsored two substitute clay dolls and several other attack props for each team.
After all, his abilities are not suitable for actual combat, and are more suitable for kneading some mud to make props in advance.
After the team registered, he waved outside: "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on the bags and the odds for everyone."
Huang Mao waved his hand in a cool manner: "Wait for me to come back and make a fortune!"
When registering the team names, he did give the two teams resounding titles.
Team One: Sister Qiao’s sweet and caring little cotton-padded jacket.
Team Two: Ice Cream Truck Transfer Station.
I guarantee that Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng will recognize the name of their team at a glance!
The two-hour countdown passed quickly, and more and more people filled the two waiting rooms upstairs and downstairs. Gradually, the pointer reached the last second, and the moment it returned to zero, the hall darkened.
The entire Hearse Entertainment Company seemed to have undergone some subtle changes at this moment. Invisible passages extended outward from this giant company after the lights were turned off, laying out one strange and illusory stadium after another in the air.
It looks like connected constellations in the dark night, or like a runway with ignited sparks.
Those transparent pipes that fell from the sky were wrapped in several different crystal balls. There was a new small square building between each node with the word "Maintenance Department" written on it.
The next moment after the stadium was set up, Qiao Song, who had been standing in front of a screen, saw a few lines of words gradually appearing in front of him.
[Before the road race starts, please choose your maintenance team]
[Please note that road race players and maintenance team players are double-selected. Unless one side is completely wiped out, the matching object cannot be changed later. Please choose the maintenance team carefully.]
Qiao Song saw many application lists pop up on his screen instantly. Because it was a double selection, many maintenance team players applied for the top-ranked teams.
It's like eating meat while holding the thigh. Anyway, the work in their maintenance department is not dangerous. The dangerous ones are the people who race on the road.
Qiao Song saw the team name chosen by Tang Xiaoxiao and the others at a glance, curled his lips, and clicked OK.
Gao Chengcheng was not far away from her. Seeing the name of her team, she couldn't help but smile: "I like this name, it's bright enough."
After the list was confirmed, a circular area illuminated by a beam of light appeared in front of each player, where the cars they were going to participate in the road race were placed.
This was the first time that Qiao Song had looked at the car she built from this perspective since she completed the car-building copy. After being processed by the driver of the Hearse Entertainment Company, the puzzle-like building block toy car finally looked like a real steel man.
In front of her was a huge vehicle covered in dinosaur elements from head to toe, like a dormant beast, waiting for the moment its engine was ignited. A steel creature that was cold, fierce, and filled with dinosaur violence.
Qiao Song expressed his satisfaction.
In front of Gao Chengcheng was her own ice cream cart, but when she saw Qiao Song's car, she couldn't help but whistle and give him a thumbs up.
"Cool, Miss Qiao."
The players on the field also began to look at the vehicles not far from them. They could even tell the performance of each car from its appearance.
Apart from Qiao Song's car which looks like a powerful one, there are all kinds of other vehicles.
There are land dragon boats with several tires but shaped like a boat, enlarged mini go-karts with a few camouflage leaves on the head, and even a car that looks like a cake.
Qiao Song could almost tell from the appearance of the cars which floor the players came from.
Feeling the gazes coming from somewhere, she suddenly turned around. Not far away, You Yitong was standing next to a large mushroom with a strange shape. When he saw her looking at him, he took off his hat slightly to signal her.
Qiao Song noticed that there was a companion standing next to him with strange behavior. He should be the player from the same guild who would accompany him to participate in the road race.
Qiao Song frowned. If he remembered correctly, this was the ghost in the rookie alliance team that the magician had taken to register before?
Before she could think about it, cheerful music resounded throughout the entire copy, and a familiar golden microphone fell from the sky. He was still wearing the same red cloak as before, and this time he even wore a tie. He waxed the microphone for maintenance, which made him look even more showy.
“Welcome to all viewers and players, the exciting moment is finally here!
The 786th Deadly Highway Friendly Tournament is about to begin. Human players have already taken their positions on each floor. Please enter the special passage as soon as possible. Registration after the time limit will be invalid.
I believe there is no need for me to describe in detail the rewards for completing this competition. This is a competition full of excitement and joy, and also a happy journey with endless wealth hidden at the finish line.
In the fatal road friendly race, friendship comes first, competition comes second, and life comes third. I wish all the contestants a great journey.
The game begins! "
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