Chapter 58: Deadly Road Friendly Race
In the maintenance team's rest area, after Qiao Song entered the tunnel to confirm this round of rest, Tang Xiaoxiao and others who had been watching in front of the screen finally felt relieved.
Unlike the spectators who were watching the road race while eating snacks and drinking, they were really worried about Qiao Song. If the corresponding team chose to move forward, they would immediately enter the Candy Crush game.
Since you have mastered the rules of the game in the first round, the next two rounds will not be too difficult even if the number of parts increases and changes.
After all, their copy is different from the racing copy, it is a completely safe copy.
The wall broadcasting the game in real time suddenly went dark, like a TV that was turned off.
A line of reminders with white text on a black background appeared on the wall.
[The vehicle is about to enter the maintenance area, please select your maintenance card]
[Please note that the remaining number and level of all tool cards you have currently obtained directly affect the rating level of all team members.]
[Now you can select the tool card you want to use. ]
This reminder has ulterior motives.
If the team wants to pass the level with high scores, they can just use some low-level tool cards during the maintenance and just repair the car casually.
After all, the better the prop cards you have left in your hand, the higher the final clearance evaluation will be.
This is one of the reasons why large unions, from car manufacturing to car repair to racing, all aspects are covered by their own union members.
Fortunately, Tang Xiaoxiao and the others did not participate in the repair and maintenance of the hearse just to pass the dungeon.
"Quick, get the repair card first. Sister Qiao Song's car seems to have been damaged when she was in Mushroom Garden."
"Then add a disinfection card. Aren't there many mushrooms with mycelium at that time? It looks disgusting. I hope there won't be any residual mycelium on the outer shell of the dinosaur car."
"Yeah, that makes sense. Then add another cleaning card and wash the car to make it cleaner. Sister Qiao Song doesn't want to drive a dirty car, right?"
After everyone discussed it, they directly took one of each high-level card. Fearing that it was not enough, they stacked two high-level repair cards on top.
"The previous Thunderbolt looked too scary. It should be safer to stack two. Three seems a bit exaggerated."
"Well, Sister Qiao Song still has two more chances to enter the maintenance station, so we have to keep two in hand."
Before the 60-second countdown ended, Tang Xiaoxiao and a few others tapped the selected cards on the confirmation window. After these cards with redundant functions were embedded in the window, the wall quickly turned back to white.
A humming mechanical sound was heard, and the place in the center of the garage where a white square had been drawn a long time ago suddenly lit up with several light blue lights, covering the entire central area into a small blue square box.
The last scene that Tang Xiaoxiao and the others saw was a dinosaur car suddenly appearing in the frame, and several prop cards flew to the side of the car and lit up one by one, starting the repair and cleaning work.
Then everyone's eyes went dark and they felt an inexplicable sense of weightlessness. A few seconds later, they appeared in a place similar to an apartment.
After Tang Xiaoxiao landed, her mind was confused for a moment.
"Wait a minute, we're just going to come out like this, and leave the car there to be repaired. What about Sister Qiao Song?"
Just now I seemed to have only seen the dinosaur car, but didn't see anyone in the driver's seat.
"You guys are here? How is it? Is it fun to repair the dungeon?"
A familiar voice sounded from behind. As soon as Tang Xiaoxiao turned around, Xiao Ni rushed forward like a cannonball.
"Sister Qiao Song, look, Hei Dou's dinosaur eggs are about to hatch!"
Qiao Song rubbed his curly hair and looked at the dinosaur egg in his hand.
"Why does your eggshell look like it's cracked from the outside?"
Everyone who witnessed Xiao Ni using dinosaur eggs to smash the flying blocks in the game of Candy Crush: …
"Because Hei Dou's dinosaur shell is so hard, I used it as a weapon for a while. It's okay, I can feel that it wants to come out too!"
But this way of breaking the shell would give the dinosaur a concussion...
There were sounds of suppressed laughter coming from all around, I wonder if they were observing a moment of silence for Hei Dou.
After Xiao Ni brought out all the dinosaur eggs, the little ones could not hatch, probably because of the suppression of the copy.
After all, the NPC was kidnapped directly. If the dinosaur could be transformed back into its original form, that would be incredible.
Qiao Song: "Don't worry about hatching the black beans. Just stay in this safe copy. We can leave in two days."
Xiao Ni said "oh" and still held the big white egg in his hand, studying the cracks on it.
In the end, it was Tang Xiaoxiao who briefly explained to Qiao Song their experience in the dungeon.
"The Candy Crush game here is actually not that difficult. Even if you don't put in much effort, the jelly blocks will disappear by themselves during the flight. However, only human intervention can get more useful prop cards."
Knowing that the maintenance team could see the road race course throughout the entire process and could use the prop cards in time according to the situation on the course, Qiao Song immediately felt relieved.
"It also shows on my central control screen that after entering the pit, there will be a 10-hour rest period, and then I will return to the dungeon to continue the road race."
Tang Xiaoxiao and the others just heard the system prompt, which was also a 10-hour break.
The bond between the pit crew and the road racers is quite strong, with the same rest times and the same rest areas.
Qiao Song looked around the area where they were now. It was a small shelf hut similar to the one they had slept in before at the convenience store, except that this was a family-style suite with a living room and several rooms.
This should be the transit rest area provided by the copy.
What’s interesting is that according to the information provided by Tang Xiaoxiao, her performance in the road race directly determines the upper limit of the reward that the maintenance team can get. The maintenance team can handle the maintenance cards on their own and choose to use them all on the drivers, or keep a few for themselves to increase the final clearance reward.
This approach of encouraging cooperation between the two sides while wishing they would fall apart is really a bit of a hidden evil taste.
The door to the outside of the room is locked, and there is no balcony or window. It seems that there is no way to exchange information with people outside of my team.
There was no way to go out, and they were the only ones staying here. After discussion, everyone decided to eat, drink, wash up, and have a good rest.
Driving for such a long time was indeed tiring. Qiao Song looked at the recipe that appeared in the small kitchen and found that it required soul coins.
By this calculation, the Ghost Story Middle School at least issued an employee card so that they could eat in the cafeteria for free. Only regular convenience stores and hearse entertainment companies would have such a special rest area where one had to pay to get a meal.
Thinking of this, Qiao Song inexplicably had a feeling that the convenience store might have some kind of cooperation with this hearse company?
Gao Chengcheng seemed to have said before that she was chased into a dungeon by a display screen driver in a golden sports car.
Thinking of this, she called Gao Chengcheng.
The call fails and the voice prompt says the other party is out of service area.
Qiao Song also tried to call Tang Xiaoxiao in the copy, but was told that the call was out of service area. It seemed that this rest area separated them.
Tang Xiaoxiao ordered a bowl of curry chicken rice for herself, and sat down at the rectangular dining table with her plate. Because the previous car-building copy was fruitful, everyone ordered their favorite food this time. Drinks and fruits filled the table. All consumption in the infinite copy requires soul coins, and eating is no exception. But correspondingly, the more money you spend, the more luxurious the food you get.
Ghosts are the same as humans in this respect. They need to spend a lot of soul coins to eat those strange canned human-made foods, but if they can successfully kill human players in the dungeon, they can pick up fresh and nutritious foods for free.
But Qiao Song didn’t understand one thing: allowing ghosts to participate in this kind of racing game was just to let the audience see the scene of humans and ghosts fighting?
Judging from the fact that ghosts will surrender and ask to quit the game, if these ghosts die in the dungeon, they will be reduced to ashes and not even a trace will be left.
As long as the players participating in this kind of game have stronger fighting power, then even if the car cannot make it into the top 10, they can still save their lives with soul coins. If you calculate it this way, wouldn’t the number of ghosts consumed in this game be a bit too much?
When Tang Xiaoxiao saw Qiao Song's expression as she mechanically bit the watermelon, she knew that she was thinking about the situation in the copy.
"Sister Qiao Song, what's wrong? It's rare to see you so absent-minded while eating."
Qiao Song: "No, I'm thinking about the next map."
She recounted the information she had obtained from the boys and girls.
"Eternal Night Map, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?"
Tang Xiaoxiao frowned immediately: "Isn't this too unfair? After all, ghosts can also participate in this kind of competition. If there are too many ghosts in the map, it will be too disadvantageous for the players."
Qiao Song shook his head: "My feeling is completely the opposite. I think the further the game goes, the more disadvantageous it will be for the Goblins."
The people eating at the table immediately stopped, and then heard a very strange guess.
"Didn't you notice? The Thunder Plains dungeon I just passed gave players attack cards. Thunder Plains has clearly reminded all players that lightning cards can cause great damage to ghosts, so those ghosts have to use defensive items, and this lightning method will be dropped three times, which means that if the strength is enough, the player has the opportunity to get three attack cards."
On the surface, the next copy is the background of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, which seems to have a bonus to ghosts, but players who get the lightning strike card can also attack ghosts at any time.
Therefore, in the next copy, there will definitely be many new conflicts between players and ghosts.
The only weird thing is that this piece of news is a rumor she got from other ghosts, and judging from the fact that many ghosts' cars on the Thunder Plains have means of defending against thunder, it seems that these ghosts have made preparations for certain maps in advance.
Tang Xiaoxiao immediately said, "So, Hearse Entertainment Company informed the participating ghosts in advance of the maps they would be going through! But isn't this cheating?"
As someone who had participated in the hearse entertainment copy before, Wang Xiang expressed a different opinion at this time.
"I don't think every ghost can get this kind of information. Fatty has exchanged intelligence with other players before. In this kind of road race dungeon, a lot of ghosts will be consumed, but the mortality rate of humans is also very high. The ghosts' brains are directly connected to their stomachs. For a bite of food, they are willing to enter the dungeon and take risks even if they are reduced to ashes."
Qiao Song recalled the situation when he passed the map. Indeed, there were not many ghost cars that could catch up with the top dozens of human players. Most of them were still picking up the left and right. After all, the background of each copy was unfavorable to human players. As long as the ghosts were not picky and wanted to have a bite of food, they could just follow behind and wait.
"Another thing is, regarding the terminal, I have an idea."
Qiao Song picked up a French fry, dipped it in the ketchup on the plate, and drew a circle.
"In general, the map of a racing game should be a complete circle, and the simplest setting is that the end station is equal to the starting station. However, this game has been held for more than 700 times. I believe that someone must have thought of returning to the first map, but no one has reached the end so far. Either there is a problem with the game mechanism itself, or there is a possibility that no one has ever thought of, or there is a hidden map that no one can reach."
But Qiao Song feels that the possibility of there being a problem with the game mechanism itself is relatively small. After all, based on the information received so far, the creator of this game, the red-clothed ghost herself, although she has never died, seems to have always hoped that someone could reach the destination.
When Xiao Ni heard this, he suddenly became a little curious.
"Sister Qiao Song, what do you think the treasure at the terminal will be? Soul coins?"
Tang Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, "That's the terminal. Maybe there's a huge fortune of Hearse Entertainment hidden there. It must be more than just props, money, and other mundane things."
But the entire Hearse Entertainment Company, whether it was the players who came to participate in the dungeon or the ghosts who came to have fun, all guessed that it was a huge fortune that could drive them crazy.
Wang Xiang did tell a rumor that Fatty and Yellow Hair had heard: "Someone from the Gamblers' Union revealed that when they persuaded the girl in red to modify the dungeon, she said that she placed something at the end of the dungeon that all survival players would want and go crazy for."
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows. Something that all survival players would want?
In the eyes of the ghosts, isn’t it that what the survival players want most is to return to the real world?
This can well explain the attitudes of those big guilds when passing the map.
Legend has it that to return to the real world, one needs to push open a door in each copy. Are they trying to find that door in the highway copy, or are they trying to find it at the terminal?
But if there were such things hidden in the terminal, wouldn't people from the big guilds be more eager to go to the terminal? While Qiao Song was carefully collecting the special item cards dropped in each map, other guilds didn't seem to be so enthusiastic.
Let's not talk about the troublemaker in the strategy group. He's either fighting or looking for trouble. The other guilds are just so leisurely, as if they're on vacation.
Qiao Song ate the almost cold French fries, picked up a hot one, dipped it in ketchup, and drew a few stripes on the oval ketchup.
At present, she has passed three maps and obtained three different prop cards: the flame card, which can enter the fire elf's hut; the black bug card, which can enter a shuttle channel that is not locked by observation; and the mushroom card, which can disinfect the car.
The card with the most reserves in her hand is the Lightning Strike Card, which can be used for direct attack.
The information given by the boy and girl said that the next copy is the Eternal Night Map, when hundreds of demons will parade at night and attack the players in large numbers, and these lightning cards will come in handy.
But the virgin said that the map for the last day was completely random and there was no way it could lead to the final destination.
There can be no unsolvable copy in the world, and there can be no destination that can never be reached. Qiao Song knows that there must be some way to build a special passage, and these map-specific prop cards are the key.
It seems that there must be some special clues hidden in the eerie map tomorrow.
Qiao Song ate his French fries and stretched.
Don’t think about it anymore. My waist is sore after driving all day. I should just recharge my energy and have a good rest.
Outside the stadium, the huge screen of Hearse Entertainment Company was filled with the names of various players, followed by the corresponding odds and the corresponding prize pool amount.
The top 10 players hardly changed, but many people started to frantically raise bets for other players. Qiao Song was almost the player whose odds dropped the fastest in the entire venue.
"This number six is really crazy. She will definitely be in the top ten this time. Do you think I should bet on her to make it to the top three?"
In the betting pool, you can not only bet on the players who will make it to the top 10, but you can also bet on the specific ranking. The odds will be higher, but the risk is greater. After all, no one can tell the specific ranking.
The prize pool will be closed 48 hours before the end of the copy, and you will not be able to increase the bet at that time. If you want to bet on the dark horse to make a fortune, now is the last chance.
Just as these gamblers were hesitating, they suddenly saw a long string of numbers appear behind the girl's name, and her odds dropped sharply again.
Immediately, the ghosts realized that someone had paid a large sum of money to bet that she would come in first.
"Damn, who made the move so quickly? The odds have been lowered so much, how much money did they invest in one go?"
In a comfortable special room, a little girl in red dangled her feet and pressed the plus sign on the screen again. When she found that she couldn't increase the bet amount, she immediately asked, "Hey, why can't I continue to bet?"
The AI voice sounded at the right time: "Yinyin, every time you open a dungeon, you have to spend a lot of soul coins. The doll house is full of gold coins. Don't always spend money here."
"But I really have high hopes for her. Look, when the map was divided into two, she got all the prop cards. If she can collect everything later..."
"Yinyin," the AI interrupted her gently, "even if you collect all the prop cards, you may not be able to enter the last map. You can't change the rules of the dungeon privately to open a backdoor. Only children who follow the rules can get the treasure at the end. This is what you agreed with them."
The little girl pinching the hem of her skirt let out an "oh" sound, feeling a little aggrieved. After all, she had heard that the display screen itself could enter the game in the form of a split soul, but she, the creator of the copy, could not.
"If you enter the arena, the track will collapse." The AI reminded her silently, as if it knew what she was thinking.
Yin Yin pinched the hem of her skirt, and the red threads on the edge spread out little by little, soaking the floor, soaking the building, and seemed to soak the entire copy.
The copy was supported by her, but she herself could not enter it.
It’s okay. We’ve waited for so long, it will definitely work this time, right?
The little girl looked at the big screen eagerly, just as she had been looking forward to it every time in the past 700 competitions.
The screen lit up, and countless roaring cars finally appeared here again after being repaired.
Compared to previous maps with hot and cold elements, or maps filled with special weather, the first impression this map gives people is dark, extremely dark.
It was as if all the lights in the sky had disappeared, leaving only the gloomy environment and the gray buildings that occasionally passed by.
The hazy orange light is like an old man in his twilight years, holding an oil lamp and standing between these low buildings.
Since entering this dungeon, all players have felt the suddenly oppressive atmosphere around them, and a prompt for this map has appeared on the center console.
[You have entered the Eternal Night Town]
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