Chapter 49: Deadly Road Friendly Race
All the contestants have already taken their seats. The circular beam of light shining on the top of the vehicles gradually disappears, and the contestants' vehicles form an arc in a semicircle, facing the gate outside the square.
The gate, which was more than ten meters high, slowly opened to both sides, letting out a strange red light, followed by flames that almost penetrated through the crack in the door.
Many people sitting in their cars felt the heat wave coming towards them.
After entering the self-driving vehicle, the players' central control screen will automatically display the name of the front competition area:
[Huoyan Mountain Ring Road]
[Here is the most beautiful flame in the world, and also the most gentle and changeable flame. Monsters and elves live here together. They may not look cute, but they are hospitable enough, especially love to eat with guests. Of course, if you come across a meal you don’t like, don’t refuse it easily. After all, if you anger these natives, they will definitely give your car a bad taste.]
It seems that the most dangerous things in this map, besides the flames, are the monsters inside the flames.
While other players were calculating the fire resistance of their cars, Qiao Song noticed that three strange slots had inexplicably appeared in front of her driver's seat, and she suddenly had a bad feeling.
[Please select your prop card before entering the front area. Please note that the card cannot be replaced or replenished before arriving at the maintenance department transfer station, and is limited to three cards.]
Mike Feng's voice sounded at this time as if he was half a beat late: "Oh, I forgot to remind you, at the strong request of many special guests, the rules of this competition have been slightly changed. The number of prop cards that can be used in each segment map is limited to three. This will greatly narrow the gap between some of the top teams and small teams, making our competition more exciting, right?
Of course, ghosts have to follow the same rules. We can see that the ghosts in another race have also set off. The cars of these guys are still as eye-catching as ever. "
No one wanted to listen to Mike's crazy comments on the car. All the players were caught off guard by this sudden rule, and many people in the guild instantly turned unhappy.
If you ask who suffered the most, it must be the members of the big union who prepared a lot of resources early on and were ready to dominate the road race.
Outside the screen, many players watching the game suddenly let out a wail.
"Are you kidding me?! I was originally saying that although the odds are a bit low this time, you can definitely win if you bet on a few big guilds. Are the officials crazy?"
With this restriction, the variables become much greater. It just so happens that the cars of the big guilds are all prepared in the dungeon in advance, and their scores are already far ahead of other ordinary players.
However, the restriction on item cards was not mentioned at the beginning of the game until everyone was on the bus, which was obviously a trap for the players.
Not only the players are cursing, but the ghosts are also cursing.
The unit of settlement in the gambling pool is soul coins. Ghosts usually come to watch the game, in addition to wanting to see human blood splattered, the most exciting thing is to make some money by the way.
In previous years, there were no restrictions on the use of prop cards, so we could see players killing each other with all kinds of lethal weapons. The current restriction will narrow the gap and make the originally bloody scenes less shocking.
Mike Crazy just went his own way and ignored the other guys' opinions. He urged excitedly, "Great! The first batch of players have already rushed into the track. The remaining players please leave here before the one-minute countdown ends, otherwise the platform will automatically collapse and enter the forced escape mode. Anyone who enters the track cannot regret or turn back. Before the top 10 are decided, unless you die or reach the finish line, you will never be able to leave this road."
"Everyone, except for the rest area of the maintenance department, your cars must not stop. Please hurry up and drive."
Not long after he finished speaking, the ground began to tilt slightly, like a funnel that was gradually being pulled up. After a minute, if there were any vehicles remaining in the same place, they would be forced into the gate filled with flames.
Long after those big guild members set off, Qiao Song quickly picked out three prop cards and put them into the card slots.
This thing is limited to only item cards, which means that the skill derivatives traded between players cannot be used.
Qiao Song tried it and found that his toolbox could be used, but he was unable to take out the suona, school badge and other props that had been stored in the net bag.
Gao Chengcheng, who was not far from her, also chose the prop card while cursing, and drove the cool blue ice cream truck into the Flaming Mountain Highway.
You can feel the difference as soon as you enter this map. It deserves the name of Flaming Mountain. The temperature rises instantly. Even through the car window glass, you can feel the surrounding heat waves moving and washing all vehicles entering this world.
The surroundings were all red, and the flames were like flowers growing on the mountains, hiding in clusters among the rocks. Every time a car sped past, it would cause the flames on the side of the road to shake.
The desolate road can accommodate four cars running side by side, and next to Qiao Song is Gao Chengcheng.
The girl's orange curly hair made her seem to fit in well with this world, but the weather was too hot. Qiao Song just turned his head to look and could even feel that the Doberman sitting in the passenger seat of Gao Chengcheng's car was uncontrollably trying to stick out its tongue.
The two cars are now driving side by side and can talk to each other directly by opening the windows.
When the instance just starts, the large guild convoys that set out early will actively stagger their vehicles to avoid conflicts, and only acquaintances will stay close to each other.
"Sister Qiao, you can drive your car a little closer to me. Every time I use a skill, I can create an ice road, which can just restrain the Flame Mountain."
In Gao Chengcheng's ice-blue car, the back seat has become a modified freezer.
[Ice Cream House Self-Driving Version]
[After combining with the mobile house, every time you use a skill, you need to eat the ice cream in advance and apply the skill to the vehicle]
Thanks to Gao Chengcheng's skill, although it was hot in Huoyan Mountain, she felt okay in the car, mainly because her brother was afraid of heat.
"Brother, why don't I get you some ice cubes and put them next to you so you can lick them for a while if you're too hot."
Gao Bin rolled his eyes at her and told her to get lost.
"This temperature affects my sense of smell a bit. Drive more steadily and don't be reckless."
"Okay."
High temperature environment has an impact on both cars and people.
Qiao Song could feel that the temperature of the map was indeed a bit exaggerated. Just a few minutes after driving in, he could see those people who had left first in front of him. Although their cars were all of different shapes, some distorted heat waves had already appeared where the tires were in contact with the ground.
If this temperature continues, it will have an impact on the car. Fortunately, the higher the vehicle score, the stronger the car's ability to withstand environmental pressure.
Qiao Song told Gao Chengcheng not to rush to use his skills and to drive forward a little further.
"Right now there are only flames all around. The monsters and elves from the Flame Mountain haven't appeared yet."
The rules announced by Mike Crazy before the game were basically the background of this copy, just like the one they had previously seen in the Jurassic Forest.
Moreover, the danger of the fatal road friendly race does not only come from the environment.
Qiao Song's vigilance was not wrong. The two soon heard the loud roar of an engine coming from behind. After a few strange shrill laughs, a running coffin appeared in the rearview mirror.
That’s right, it was a black sliding coffin with red patterns painted on its surface, running very fast.
To be precise, it was a coffin with four wheels. Inside it were two ghosts wearing clothes from a certain dynasty with green faces. They were waving bones in their hands and chasing them with gleams in their eyes.
"Hit them, hit them! Hit them to death! It doesn't matter if we can't make the top ten, we'll eat as many alive as we can!"
It was as if he hadn't seen a living person for 800 years. The first thing he did after opening the coffin was to knock over some food and taste it.
After 100 human vehicles set off, the ghosts also drove over to join in the fun. Players can only get very little information about the ghosts' participation in the competition. The most unfair point is that once the ghost vehicle stops, it will be automatically eliminated, and there is no such thing as death.
This is also the reason why these guys are so arrogant on the road. If they can reach the terminal, they will make a fortune. If they can't, they will come to make trouble, crush this group of players, paint the entire stadium with their blood, and even perform an outdoor picnic in front of their colleagues.
Gao Chengcheng was stunned when he saw this scene in the rearview mirror: "Wow, this coffin is moving pretty fast."
Both of their modified cars were of relatively high levels, and in order to catch up with the big guild leading the way in front, they were speeding up. They didn't expect that this small coffin car that looked like a pair of roller skates could actually run so fast.
Although the host himself did not enter the road race instance, he was able to grasp all the situations on the road in real time through surveillance from somewhere, and Mike's crazy real-time commentary could be heard throughout the map.
"Dear viewers, we can see that the first echelon has quickly entered the Flame Mountain Division. The ones running in the front are still the major guilds on the leaderboard, namely, Dawnland, Strategy Team, Black Iron Guild, and Newcomer Alliance. That's great. The fifth place is already a solo player, a personal team codenamed Ice Cream Truck and Iron Dinosaur. Oh, but they seem to have run into a little trouble now."
This method of live broadcasting is even more annoying than the car-building competition. Back then it was all-round peeping, but now it is blatant.
Gao Chengcheng smiled and gave the middle finger out the window.
Qiao Song subconsciously looked around, his eyes fixed on the flames that kept flashing outside the window and the red rocks. Occasionally, some black ash from something burnt would float across the sky.
The roar of the engine behind me was getting closer and closer, and the coffin car was still accelerating.
"Hurry up, hurry up, catch up, catch up, go get the one on the left first, she's the only one in the car!"
The way they were loudly conspiring clearly showed that they did not take Qiao Song seriously.
Vehicle speed is also a part of performance. The top five are all big guilds, but the Ghost Car that can catch up with the first-tier guild so quickly is obviously not an ordinary one, or it may have chosen the wrong target.
Qiao Song sneered. It was time to find a lucky person to test the performance of her car.
At this time, Gao Chengcheng also noticed the unfriendly tone of the pursuers.
"Damn, who are you looking down on? How dare you chase my car!?" Before she reached out to take the ice cream in the back seat, she was stopped by Qiao Song.
"It's okay, I'll do it. It's a good opportunity to try out the car." Qiao Song took out his mobile phone and switched to voice call mode.
"Chengcheng, please keep an eye on the flames near the road. If there is a large flame, tell me immediately." An OK came from the other end immediately.
After explaining everything, Qiao Song slowed down, turned the steering wheel, and took the initiative to approach the coffin car behind.
Seeing that this human was so bold and came straight to their doorstep, the zombies with green faces and fangs immediately waved their clubs and became even more excited.
【Zombie Brothers' Happy Coffin (Hearse Version)】
[You can use the bones in the coffin to attack and infect the target with zombie toxins. The more frightened the target is and the worse their mental state is, the faster the zombie toxins will spread.]
The two brothers love to use this bone to attack the fair and tender human beings. Once they are scratched, they will be quickly attacked by corpse poison and lose their ability to move, and then they can have a delicious meal.
While his brother was still shouting "crash, crash, crash" like an idiot, Qiao Song drove his car to the side, left some distance, then suddenly accelerated and slammed into the coffin lid.
[Southern Beast Dragon Set Ability Activation]
【Strong shell, invincible! 】
[The shell is doubling its hardness, the dinosaur roars——]
The roar of an ancient beast suddenly roared out from the mouth of this steel giant. The sound seemed to carry an invisible wave, which directly caused the coffin cart next to it to stagger.
"My god, what the hell is this? Why is it still screaming?"
Qiao Song took advantage of the fact that the two brothers were looking at his car with curiosity, and unceremoniously pulled away and hit it again.
But the two brothers driving the coffin car were not good people either. The younger brother had a vicious look in his eyes, and when Qiao Song hit him for the second time, he immediately grabbed the sharp bone spur in his hand and scratched her car window.
In the past, it could easily smash the bones of human vehicles, but this time it only scratched a shallow white mark on the outside of this car.
My brother cursed the previous dynasty.
"Brother, this player's car seems to have maxed out its defense!"
"Useless thing, let me do it!"
The elder brother next to him, whose face was dark, adjusted a small black round-top hat with a peacock feather on his head, leaned back and seemed to be ready to grab his own coffin board and use it to attack directly.
Qiao Song stepped on the accelerator slowly and rushed forward.
This immediately made the two brothers behind him angry: "You still want to leave?"
Gao Chengcheng's voice came from the receiver of the phone: "Sister Qiao, I saw it. There should be a large flame at the next intersection. There is still one thousand meters..."
After hearing that the thing he asked the other party to pay attention to had appeared, Qiao Song immediately glanced at the distance through the rearview mirror.
After judging the distance between the cars, she also saw a large mass of red appearing in front of her with her peripheral vision.
The further you look into the picture, the denser the flames become, and from time to time the small flames will gather together to become large flames, and the way they wriggle seem like they have life.
Qiao Song had been paying attention to these flames for a long time, but there was no movement, so he waited for the ghosts to attack from behind.
This is the Flame Mountain where monsters and elves live together. Players have been driving in for so long but have only seen flames and mountains. It’s time for the local monsters to appear.
She was not polite when the test product was delivered to her door.
Just before reaching a certain intersection, Qiao Song could indeed see that the red mass was gradually condensing into the shape of a small house, and three tall and short little men at the door were also condensing quickly.
Following her reminder, Gao Chengcheng stepped on the accelerator and quickly passed through that place. The flames immediately condensed faster, as if they were afraid of missing the next car.
Qiao Song also heard the sound of the coffin cart accelerating behind. The two brothers yelled, "Don't run, you coward!" Then she suddenly turned the steering wheel and repeated the same trick.
Although she doesn't have any fancy long-range attack skills, if she only focuses on ramming cars, even a tank may not be able to knock her down.
Even though an old coffin was blessed by some unknown force, it still creaked continuously when hit by her, and from time to time there were also dinosaur roars and double crushing sounds.
"Brother, hurry up! Hit her with the coffin lid!"
The coffin of the brothers is a very evil object, which embodies thousands of years of resentment. The coffin itself may not be as good as the cars built with great difficulty by the top-ranked players, but it is hard to say about the coffin board.
[Zombie Brothers' Happy Coffin (Hearse Version) - Forced Sealed Coffin Lid]
[Any power will be reduced to mortal form in front of it! If you can hit it]
The biggest reason why these two brothers dare to be so tough is this coffin lid.
The bones held by the zombie brothers can scratch humans and spread corpse poison, and can also attack players' vehicles to a great extent. Even if they encounter a target like Qiao Song whose vehicle shell is extremely hard, they can still use the coffin lid.
The girl in the strange hearse seemed to be finally frightened. Her brother could even see a hint of fear in her eyes. She seemed to have forgotten to react as she looked at the coffin lid that was smashed high up.
Then in the next second, after a squeaking brake, the steel vehicle with dinosaur elements was suddenly left behind, and the coffin lid that was swung high hit directly on the roadside, a ball of fire that had already condensed into a shape.
The fire elf, which maintained the shape of a small house and took on the image of a family of three, suffered an unexpected disaster.
The power of the coffin lid was indeed very strong. The flames from the Flame Mountain itself must have some special properties, but they were extinguished on the spot by being hit by this wooden board.
But the little house made by the fire elf was gone, but the three little elves were gone.
The coffin lid belonged to his family, so of course he couldn't just throw it away after smashing it. But when the zombie brother took back the coffin lid with a grim face, he found that three red elves were already clinging to it.
The three elves with big blood-red mouths spoke their lines at this time.
"Would you like to come to my house for dinner..."
Not to mention eating, the family he had just built was smashed to pieces by someone else's coffin lid.
The three little men, who realized what was happening later, suddenly swelled up like angry balloons and climbed directly up the coffin lid.
"Brother! What are you doing? Put out the flames! It's going to burn our car!"
"Do you think I don't want to? Come on, get me something to get this weird thing off. This car of ours is made of wood!"
"Which part of our coffin is not made of wood?"
While the fool brothers were using bones to poke the flaming figures, the flames had already climbed up the coffin boards and onto their entire car. The three angry figures, which had swelled up like balloons, were roaring as they devoured the wood chips on their car.
"Why don't you eat with us? Why are you destroying my house?"
The first half of the sentence sounds like a cliché set in the copy, but the second half is a real curse.
Qiao Song calmly accelerated and slowly caught up from the side. After passing the coffin car and hearing enough information, he increased his speed to the maximum and went to the front to find Gao Chengcheng.
The orange-haired girl driving the blue ice cream truck seemed to be having fun in the rearview mirror. When she saw the coffin catching fire halfway, she laughed so happily.
"Hahaha, they really don't want to put down their coffin lids no matter what."
If the game is eliminated, their ghosts will be fine, but if the car is damaged, it would be like losing their own coffin.
"Don't tell me, I can tell at a glance that this guy is an NPC from a funeral dungeon."
After Gao Chengcheng finished speaking, he immediately asked, "How is it, Sister Qiao? How is the attack power of the fire spirit?"
Qiao Song recalled the scorching heat that almost hit him when he drove past just now.
"Very strong. Those two zombies should be ghosts of a very high level. When the three fire spirits angrily climbed onto the coffin, a large amount of blood and energy seemed to have evaporated from the zombie brothers' arms in an instant."
Moreover, the wood chips on the coffin lid were almost all picked off by the elves with their bare hands.
On the road to Flame Mountain, there are images of flames clustering together at regular intervals. It seems that flame huts and the elves inside are slowly being generated.
"It is known that these flames will condense into a house every once in a while. The spirits born in the flames will invite the cars passing by to eat. We don't know what will happen if we refuse the invitation, but if we destroy their houses, they will probably be very angry."
At this point, Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng glanced at the rearview mirror together. The coffin car that was driving slower and slower had almost been burned.
The two brothers with sad faces finally stood at the head of the coffin and shouted something into the air. Soon a beam of light came down from afar.
Mike Crazy's regretful voice sounded, and this time it seemed that it was not a global broadcast, but was targeted at this area. Only his vague voice could be heard.
"Oh my, the competition has just started and it seems that some ghosts are ready to give up. How embarrassing."
Despite saying so, the ghost who had given up still disappeared from the spot along with the car, leaving only three still angry fire elves wandering there for a while, and finally shrinking their size a little bit, jumping back onto the red rock and turning back into flames.
Qiao Song narrowed his eyes and looked back carefully at the place where the beam of light fell.
As long as I give up, the ghosts and the cars will disappear out of thin air?
At this time, Gao Chengcheng's slightly vigilant voice brought her back to her senses. The little girl's voice sounded rather solemn.
"Sister Qiao Song, this is the car from Dawnland..."
A car with a golden shell was right in front of them. It seemed to have slowed down on its own, as if it was waiting for them.
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