Chapter 69: Deadly Road Friendly Race
At this time, Qiao Song, who skipped the rest stop and chose to enter the third map, suddenly sneezed while hiding in Gao Chengcheng's car.
Gao Chengcheng was holding the steering wheel, his heartbeat still not calming down. Although he was scared and broke out in a cold sweat, it was too exciting!
When the door numbered 000 was pushed in front of her just now, she almost used her skills to rush over at full speed. Fortunately, her brother asked her to calm down and think about what Qiao Song had said before.
When Qiao Song asked Gao Chengcheng to come here, he had told her that no matter how much a portal leading to the terminal they saw here later, they should not believe it and just follow her.
As it turned out, Qiao Song really made a feint. After all, it would have seemed strange if he didn't rush to the door at that time.
"Wait! Sister Qiao Song, why did you get into my car? Where's your car!?"
Gao Chengcheng finally realized what was wrong. There were only the contestants left in the racing competition, but no cars. What was going on?
If he gets in her car, will Qiao Song's competition still count?
Qiao Song sat in the back seat of the car and patted Gao Chengcheng on the shoulder: "My car is still parked in Yongye Town. Don't worry, I can get it back. But if I want to go to the terminal, I have to get on someone else's car. You can take a look first, where are we now?"
Gao Chengcheng looked out the window in the direction of her finger. It was the familiar scene of the Jurassic forest, but this scene was limited to a few hundred meters around him. Outside was thick fog that he had never seen before.
And an obvious track had been laid in the Jurassic Forest, not far from where they had just come out of the portal.
There are fences made of small ribbons on both sides of the track. In the distance there is a huge sign with the finish line timer and a smiley face next to it.
Gao Chengcheng understood the meaning of timing. It was said that Hearse Entertainment would adopt the timing mode every time when no one found the terminal. In the last picture, the first 10 teams with the shortest time would be directly counted as having passed the level.
This timing should start from the moment the car enters the track.
"That's not what I want you to see. We're not driving on the track."
Qiao Song patted her shoulder and pointed at the fog in the distance.
"Remember what was there?"
Gao Chengcheng recalled for a moment: "Stone pillars, forests, and lakes?"
"Right, let's go to the lake."
Gao Chengcheng's eyes widened: "But this fog doesn't look right. Should we just rush into the fog and drive to the lake?"
Under Gao Chengcheng's surprised and confused gaze, Qiao Song explained what happened to him in the Prison of Light.
She was accidentally shut down before, and she used a bug to open the Jurassic portal in advance. At that time, this place was not what it is now. Because it was not easy to enter the map directly, Qiao Song let the little dinosaur carry the portal on his back and walk around the map for several hours, and found something very interesting.
Except for this runway in the dense Jurassic forest, other scenes are similar to those they saw in the car-building copy. The only difference is the lake.
Although the lake that was once broken has been repaired, there is a layer of very light and strange fog on the lake. As time goes by, the fog on the lake becomes heavier and heavier.
The fog felt very much like the all-consuming fog they would see on the Infinite Highway before entering a dungeon each time.
But this thing only permeates between copies and never really goes deep into the inside of a copy, so Qiao Song didn't think about it that way. At the beginning, this thing was just like water vapor and was inconspicuous.
As time passed, thicker and thicker fog drifted out along the lake, and the feeling of being swallowed by the endless highway fog also appeared.
The fog makes the lake look very dangerous. If players who come in later don't know the specific appearance of the map at the beginning, they will definitely not dare to get close to anywhere other than the runway.
But whether it is dangerous or not, you won’t know until you try it.
These local NPCs seemed to be unaffected by the fog. Qiao Song let the dinosaur lead the door. As long as they didn't go out, the fog could not get in at all.
She stubbornly came to the center of the lake, and that's why she saw a magic carpet that inexplicably appeared in the center of the lake, which was incompatible with the painting style of the Jurassic forest.
It was the Monopoly magic carpet used for family entertainment. It was a square blanket with circles of small grids painted on it. Qiao Song stopped next to the magic carpet and roughly estimated the number of grids, at least several hundred.
The most peculiar thing is the things in the grids. Ordinary Monopoly games would put house models, but here it seems that each grid represents a world, with different colors and styles.
Qiao Song looked there for a long time and found more than one familiar small map square.
Some are mountains burning with fire, some are filled with densely packed small houses, and some are frozen lakes with strange lights floating in the sky and black bugs floating in them.
It looks like places like the Flaming Mountain, the Ice Field, and the Eternal Night Town.
The pictures they race through might just be parts of a Monopoly game.
But this Monopoly game seemed to have ended long ago. In the center of the Monopoly game carpet were two crystal dice, next to which was a familiar scale and a small mountain of gold coins.
The two players were one red and one blue, with red flags all over the carpet, while the blue guy seemed to have only gotten one thing.
It was a small locked toy room.
The small blue flag was inserted on the edge of the small grid. Next to it was a mini racing car model with a label on the front with the words "Terminal" written on it.
But the toy house where the terminal is located does not belong to any small grid. It seems to exist alone in the center of the carpet, painted at the bottom of a building familiar to the logo.
That building is the Hearse Entertainment headquarters.
"Wait!" Gao Chengcheng finally realized something when he heard this. "So the final stop is at the Hearse Entertainment Headquarters. We have to drive back?"
What is that door numbered 000 that the magician went to so much trouble to create?
Qiao Song didn’t know either. She was more inclined to believe that the door was no different from the other doors, except that it was just numbered earlier.
"Although the door created by the magician may seem intimidating, have you ever thought that if the door leading to the finish line requires such special props and so many coincidences to be created, then this game is too difficult. After all, a racing game should allow every contestant to drive to the finish line."
Since the starting point is Hearse Entertainment, it is not surprising that the terminal is also Hearse Entertainment.
Gao Bin, the co-pilot, was smarter than his sister. "I think I understand. If the game is to be reasonable, at least everyone should have the possibility to reach the end. So in fact, all the more than 300 portals in Evernight Town can lead to the terminal."
"is that so……"
Gao Chengcheng was very confused, but since everyone had made the decision, they just drove inside.
The light blue ice cream truck slowly drove towards the Jurassic Lake in the fog. Gao Chengcheng listened to the conversation between Qiao Song and her brother and felt as if she was growing a brain.
"Are we going in to look for that blanket now?"
Qiao Song hummed: "If my guess is correct, we should be able to drive directly to the center of the lake and see it."
"But why this lake?" The map of the Jurassic Forest is very large. In comparison, the Monopoly magic carpet described by Qiao Song is much smaller.
If it weren't for Qiao Song, after entering this map, even if they knew this was Jurassic World, they would not dare to drive directly into the fog, let alone rush into the lake to find such a small blanket.
Qiao Song laughed and said, "Remember when we poked a hole in the lake, we saw another map downstairs?"
After the entire lake surface was broken, they could even see the scene in the dusk maze downstairs through the big hole.
"The grids on the entire Monopoly map are connected to each other. Since there are more than 300 maps, every driver can drive to the destination according to his or her final map. The magic carpet may only appear at the connection to another map. In the Jurassic Forest, that place is this lake, which is connected to the Dusk Maze."
Just as Qiao Song had guessed before, the ice cream truck turned on its lights as it drove through the fog. With a visibility of more than ten meters, the lake in front of it could be seen lying there like a huge piece of crystal.
Gao Chengcheng's courage gradually grew back, because she could clearly feel that the thick fog around her was rapidly rolling to both sides after the ice cream truck stepped onto the lake, leaving a passage, at the end of which was a glowing magic carpet.
When they saw the blanket, the blanket seemed to see them as well, and two small flags suddenly flew up, one yellow and one green.
Gao Chengcheng was just curious. In the hundreds of road races that have been held, there should be athletes who have tried to rush into the fog. Why, except Qiao Song, no one has discovered this blanket?
Now she knew the answer.
Qiao Song smiled and patted her shoulder: "This is why I didn't drive myself, but got in your car. The Monopoly game requires at least two players."
"Deadly Road Friendship Race, friendship comes first, competition comes second, and life comes third."
"If you want to reach the finish line, you need the courage to rush into the fog, the determination to give up racing, and friends who can play games with you at this time."
Two small flags flew directly through the car window glass into the car, floating in front of Gao Chengcheng and Qiao Song.
"Now, let's go play the final game!"
Players in the same car can only be counted as one group. Qiao Song is in one group, and Gao Chengcheng and her brother are in another group. Qiao Song is on the green side, and Gao Chengcheng is on the yellow side.
The scene before their eyes blurred, and the three of them disappeared directly from the car, just like they did at the Flaming Mountain, and appeared in a pure white space, with only the magic carpet in front of them.
Three things slowly flew up from the magic carpet: two flags of different colors, dice waiting to be rolled, and a scale.
【Value Scale】
[You can choose to exchange valuable items for game points, or you can choose to redeem items on the Libra with points]
[After the racing game started, the investment window of the scale has been closed. It is detected that you have redeemable items. Do you want to redeem them? ]
Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng had thrown money into the display window just for fun, but they didn't expect that it was just as Qiao Song had guessed. It was not used to exchange the bet amount, but a place to store pawns.
They were already in front of the terminal, so of course they redeemed all their props.
Gao Chengcheng looked at the handful of cards in his hand and thought he was dreaming. Ever since he was restricted to using only three cards, he hadn't fought such a rich battle in a long time.
At the same time, after Boss Cai raided Yongye Town, the live broadcast was cut off and they had no idea about the situation on the field. Tang Xiaoxiao and her friends, who had been upset and worried for a long time, finally received news at the maintenance station.
【Congratulations! Your matched teammates have successfully entered the final race track. Now you have two choices:
1. Replace all racing prop cards and give them to the team you match with (Note: no reward)
2. Submit the remaining racing prop cards in your hand to the system for settlement, and directly pass the maintenance station copy game (Note: The total number of prop cards remaining by all members of the maintenance station determines the final score of each member)]
This line of system reminders, almost every word is advising the players in the maintenance station to keep the card in their own hands instead of handing it over to the team that has reached the finish line. After all, the success of the team has nothing to do with them.
Of course Tang Xiaoxiao wanted to leave all these things to Qiao Song. She grabbed the corner of her clothes and turned around. Before she knew how to start the conversation, the people around her reacted quickly and handed her the prop cards in their hands.
"We didn't come here to score points in the first place." said the girl holding the musical instrument and the racing driver Wang Xiang who came to join the crowd.
Xiao Ni almost jumped up with joy while holding the dinosaur egg: "I told you that Sister Qiao Song will be fine!"
The signal was cut off before, and anyone who saw it would know that it was a bad sign. Looking at the result now, Sister Qiao Song really went to the terminal, and it was not in vain that they worried for so long!
Xiao Ni could even feel that the black beans in the dinosaur eggs were also very excited, as if they knew where Qiao Song was going.
After getting everyone's permission, Tang Xiaoxiao immediately collected everyone's cards and put them into the teleportation window where the maintenance team appeared.
Qiao Song, who had just taken the prop card he had put in from the scale, heard a prompt sound in his ear.
[Congratulations! Your companions at the maintenance station have chosen to transfer all remaining special item cards unconditionally! ]
Then she had a bunch of special prop cards in her hands, all of which were maintenance cards, cleaning cards, disinfection cards and the like.
The same was true for Gao Chengcheng on the opposite side. It seemed that the four people who went to her side to serve as the maintenance team also abided by the agreement.
Giving so many prop cards at one time shows that this Monopoly game is probably not that simple.
Qiao Song ordered the things in his hand: "Then let me see how to play this game."
He planted his flag on Jurassic Forest No. 78, and Gao Chengcheng did the same.
Then the grid filled with plastic dinosaurs suddenly changed a little. A row of transparent straw-like channels grew directly from it, pointing directly to the toy house grid in the center of the carpet.
[You are currently 1,000 squares away from the final destination! Please roll your dice, protect your car, and rush all the way to the final destination! ]
1000 grids?
Gao Chengcheng had originally estimated that the No. 78 Jurassic map was not particularly far from the central grid where "Yin Yin's Toy House" was located, but he did not expect that 1,000 grids was actually a mandatory distance.
"It looks more like a combination of flying chess and Monopoly, and the settlement can only be made after one round." Qiao Song said.
The magic carpet glowed slightly, and the final game began.
At the same time, the black screen in the hearse entertainment hall, which had been off for a long time, suddenly lit up.
A burst of cheerful music suddenly sounded, and a Monopoly icon suddenly appeared on the screen, with fireworks exploding next to it, and a line of large words appeared on the screen.
[Congratulations everyone, a player has unlocked the Terminal game, the Terminal prize pool is open, now, players start rolling the dice! ]
"Wait, what happened? What game was unlocked?"
In addition to the ghosts in the spherical hall who were awakened from their drowsiness, the players who had been paying close attention to the progress of the game also reacted.
"A player has entered the terminal!?"
"What do you mean by rolling the dice? Isn't this a road race? How did they get into the Terminal map?!"
"Prize pool!? Oh my god, the prize pool at the terminal is open!?"
Amidst a clamor of confusion, the screen changed, and the players soon knew why there was a reminder to roll the dice, because there was a giant Monopoly board hanging on the screen.
At this time, the green side chose to roll the dice, and the dice continued to spin and stopped on the side with the number six.
[The flying chess mode has begun. Please sit tight and hold on. The vehicle will start immediately! ]
The first person to roll the dice was Qiao Song. After she rolled a six, Gao Chengcheng saw that Qiao Song, the girl sitting opposite her, disappeared from the spot. Instead, a small mini model car on the Monopoly map started moving.
In this Monopoly map, each map has a number. The car that Qiao Song was in started from Jurassic Forest No. 78, took six steps towards the target, and entered a map called "Mild Despair".
Qiao Song immediately felt that she suddenly appeared in her own dinosaur car. Without any operation from her, the vehicle rushed forward on its own. It was dark all around, and mud-like monsters kept attacking her car.
[Ding——You will leave this map in 120 seconds, please protect your car! ]
A familiar dinosaur roar came to my ears.
This dinosaur car, which focuses on defense and deterrence properties, seemed to come alive when its owner was not operating it, and knocked away or stunned the surrounding beasts that jumped out of the mud and tried to pull the car.
Qiao Song looked at it intently for a while, then quickly grabbed a card in his hand.
There was no other way. She had just redeemed a lot of things from the Libra, and with the prop cards sponsored by Tang Xiaoxiao and her family, Qiao Song had no plans to save money. She was very curious about the terminal.
The large black creatures that emerged from the mud had almost been dealt with by the dinosaur car. Qiao Song used another prop card, and after 120 seconds, Qiao Song's car was almost intact, with only a little mud on it.
When she reappeared on the magic carpet, Gao Chengcheng seemed to have just returned as well. He patted his chest and said, "It's so exciting. I just entered a lake map full of piranhas. Luckily, it only lasted 120 seconds, otherwise my car would have been bitten by those guys."
Qiao Song nodded: "Then let's continue."
The two dice roll at the same time, with the smallest number being 2 and the largest being 12. Their initial distance from the destination is 1,000 steps, and the shortest time required is less than 3 hours and the longest time requires nearly 17 hours to complete the game.
There isn't even a toilet in this white space, and we can't drink water or eat, so of course the shorter the time spent, the better.
The two began to roll the dice against the clock. After each roll, they would go on an adventure on one of the strange maps. Fortunately, they had enough tool cards in their hands. As long as their luck was not too bad, it was not difficult to reach the end safely.
On the contrary, the audience outside the venue had an even more outrageous adrenaline rush.
They can only see a Monopoly map, flags representing the players, and model cars, but every time a grid is selected, the name of the map and the decreasing values of the vehicles will be displayed next to it.
Just looking at the numbers is thrilling enough.
"Can anyone tell me what this is doing? We have to enter a new map every 10 seconds or less, stay there for 120 seconds and keep the vehicle integrity at no less than 25% before entering the next map. Are they trying to tire me to death?"
In the player lobby, as ordinary spectators, they had no way of contacting their companions who were participating in the road race, but they could also see that there were now two groups of players entering the Finish Line game.
"Wait! Does that mean the terminal bet has taken effect? Damn, the odds are so high, did I bet on anyone?"
This is what the vast majority of people who don't participate in road racing and only participate in betting think.
Only the members of the large trade unions all had serious expressions and sat upright.
"Can you deduce which two groups of people entered the Terminal game?"
"It's still hard to confirm with the current information. Maybe we have to wait until all the players involved in the game come out before we can lock on to the other party."
That’s the finish line, that’s the accumulation of hundreds of competitions, a fortune that’s enough to make the entire infinite world jealous.
At this time, all the players who were still in the road race, except Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng, heard the new system reminder.
[It is detected that a player has entered the terminal game. All players of the road race can still choose the racing mode and strive for the top 10. The specific information of this ranking will not be announced to the public, and the rewards will remain unchanged. After the racing is over, all players will be automatically transferred to the maintenance station until the terminal game ends. ]
This is clearly to protect the information of the players at the terminal, to prevent someone from using the top 10 rankings to eliminate and infer who will enter the terminal.
After coming out of the Eternal Night Town, the remaining drivers can choose to return to the maintenance station to rest and regroup, or they can choose to directly enter the third map and start the competition mode.
As for the ghosts participating in the road race, almost all of them have chosen to withdraw. After all, most of them were killed by a crazy colleague in Yongye Town. In the final map, one car enters one door. They don't want to compete for the top ten to earn a few soul coins. The ghosts who can come all the way to the hearse entertainment to play are not ordinary ghost NPCs. Instead, they want to go to the lobby to have fun.
The group of players who were still in the game were in an uproar. Unlike the audience outside who were scratching their heads in front of the big screen, they knew obviously more information and could determine the most suspicious group based on the situation in the Eternal Night Town at that time.
Among them, the ones that were most suspected were the Newcomer Alliance where the Magician was, as well as the Dawnland Guild, the Strategy Group and the Black Iron.
"Why did I hear from Wild Grass's brothers that it seems like the Black Iron Guild picked up the leak?"
A player said this in the maintenance station.
"I think I've heard this as well. It's said that a brother used his skills to watch the battle from afar. It was so intense. It's said that the magician created a special door, and it was snatched away by everyone, and finally it was picked up by the people from the Black Iron Guild."
"I didn't expect that the Black Iron guild, which only had a few filthy rich guys, could actually bite off a piece of meat from the Dawn Country and several other large guilds."
It really makes people envious, jealous and hateful. However, if the first prize is really taken away this time, I don’t know how many people will be staring at the Black Iron convoy behind.
"Then should we still participate in the competition mode? We can at least get some money."
"Go ahead, but take a rest first. There's no rush anyway."
Some players who were in a hurry and did not enter the maintenance station are already in the last map.
In order to avoid being besieged, You Yitong retreated early with his hungry ghost puppet to prevent the two people from the strategy group from reacting and using special props to deal with him. However, he never expected that the last map turned out to be what he did not expect.
The information of the big guilds was circulated internally, and some people even participated in the road race more than once, just for the information of the finish line.
The magician is one of the people who has participated in the competition many times. The ribbon track is still the same as before, and the timing mode has not changed. The only thing that has changed is the foggy scene before. Now it is suddenly clear, the fog has disappeared, and the scene of the entire map is in full view.
He quickly figured out the key, because someone had entered the terminal, so the "fog" illusion was no longer important.
The secret of the terminal is actually in the fog?
Soon, the magician in the top hat started laughing.
"So that's it, that door is fake."
"It seems that every door can lead to the terminal. The answer has been right under our noses. So you gave the thing to the Black Iron Guild on purpose. Qiao Song, you are really interesting."
He gathered his thoughts, started the car and drove onto the time-limited track to complete his last small task.
Apart from the magician who guessed the truth and the Land of Dawn who used the Witch Card but was also deceived, a piece of gossip spread like a plague throughout the entire stadium almost before the secret of the finish line was revealed.
——"The people of the Black Iron Guild have been given the opportunity to go to the terminal."
After this group of players leave the stadium, this news will probably spread outside.
Qiao Song and Gao Chengcheng, who knew nothing about this, had almost used up the thick stack of props cards in their hands after playing the Monopoly game for 5 hours.
Every time they roll the dice, they will take the corresponding number of steps to the corresponding small grid on the magic carpet and experience a two-minute racing adventure in that map.
After two minutes, as long as the vehicle still retains 25% of its integrity, you can continue playing the game.
At this time, Qiao Song, who was closest to the finish line, was only two steps away, and Gao Chengcheng was only seven steps away.
If someone else was here, the atmosphere would have been tense a long time ago, because at the beginning, who would use the dice first was decided by a simple game of rock-paper-scissors between the two of them, and with such a huge fortune at stake at the end, it would not be surprising if there was a fight over the dice.
As long as Qiao Song rolls the dice one more time, he will win; it's almost a foregone conclusion.
There was no violent fighting, intrigue, or enmity. The two people and the dog on the field seemed to be playing a thrilling board game, and they were so tired that they kept sweating but couldn't stop.
"You know what, this is really like a combination of Monopoly and Ludo. I've never played this kind of game before. It's really exciting." Gao Chengcheng commented truthfully.
They have enough prop cards in their hands, and the modified cars themselves have other functions. It is not difficult to last for 120 seconds in those maps. The difficult part is how to protect their own cars.
They went through dozens or even hundreds of maps in these few hours. Although the time was short, some of them were enough to leave a deep impression, such as the zombie siege, the mushroom spore eruption, or the disgusting map full of insects.
At this time, the repair cards sent by the maintenance department are very useful, as well as cleaning and disinfection cards, which can prevent things like mushroom spores and zombie viruses brought in from the previous map from being distorted in the next map.
After having enough equipment, it is just like playing games in an arcade. There is no tension, only excitement and fun.
Only at this point does the name of the dungeon really make sense. The Highway Friendlies is really just a game played when friends get together, not really to take each other's lives.
"It's really interesting. The guys who designed these maps are really talented." After making his comment, Qiao Song looked at the two dice in the center of the carpet and the small grid of the toy house very close to the dice.
The two stopped at this time, not because they wanted to fight for the dice, but for other reasons.
Gao Bin's dog nose came into play again.
"I smell betrayal and regret, and a strong smell of blood." After Gao Bin used his skill this time, his body began to shrink slowly and turned back into a complete Doberman Pinscher.
"Be careful when you go to the toy house at the terminal, the owner of the copy should live there."
The meaning of these two siblings is very clear. Since you started rolling the dice, it is naturally your turn for the last time.
The lowest number of points on the two dice is 2, so as long as Qiao Song turns it, he wins.
There is no such thing as humility. After all, the game has to be played according to the rules. Winning is winning. At least in the last few hours, they had a lot of fun.
"Then we'll meet outside."
Qiao Song unceremoniously grabbed the dice and threw it into the air. After it landed on the carpet, two small red dots slowly appeared, which was exactly the number 2.
She disappeared right where she was.
On the magic carpet where Gao Chengcheng and Gao Bin were, the small green flag moved forward two steps and finally reached the bottom of the Hearse Entertainment Company logo, which was pressed in the cage at the bottom.
【Welcome to Yinyin's toy house】
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