Chapter 46 Dream Amusement Park (28)
When Cangzhi's voice was the first to sound in the car's voice channel, it can be said that everyone except him was surprised.
Because no matter what, Cang Zhi doesn't look like the first one to speak. He has become quite taciturn.
"Be careful." Cang Zhi said.
This sentence seemed to be addressed to everyone, but only the person involved knew how clear the purpose was. It was just that everyone in the test group shared the same voice channel, so Cang Zhi couldn't make the "be careful of that bug guy" more clear.
Su Yue certainly knew what he meant.
"Yes." Su Yue said, "Maintain the formation and pay attention to the division of labor."
This was a reminder to Cang Zhi that Su Yue, in the back row, was responsible for assisting in defense and would not make any mistakes, even if the Seekers tried to disrupt him. At the same time, Cang Zhi had to remember that his responsibilities were to assist Zhao Shuo, who was charging ahead, and Su Chen, who was responsible for observation, and not to be distracted by looking at Su Yue.
Logically speaking, Su Yue doesn't need such a reminder, because the puppet Cang Zhi will completely obey all his arrangements. Even if Su Yue decides to die, as long as he clearly expresses this wish to the puppet Cang Zhi, the puppet will not object.
But he felt for no reason that he should explain it to Cang Zhi. If he had to explain it, it was probably a kind of intuition from God.
Cang Zhi replied: "I understand."
"Everyone, be careful," Zhao Shuo's voice rang out. His college-aged tone was a bit immature, and his voice was filled with barely suppressed nervousness. "These NPCs don't seem human. The one sitting next to me has fangs almost reaching his chin."
"Azhi, protect Xiao Zhao well." Su Yue said.
Cang Zhi: "Okay."
Su Chen said: "Don't be nervous. If someone attacks you, I will warn you immediately."
"Thank you." Zhao Shuo forced a smile. "Let's not rush to the front at the start. Early collisions can be very dangerous. Let the first echelon leave to them. I'll study the terrain before moving forward. There are five item slots in total. Take the items according to the ratio I just allocated. Make sure you have a nitro booster bottle to save your life."
Zhao Shuo said, "Otherwise..."
While he was thinking, all the lights in the racetrack switched on, and the spotlights on the starting line suddenly illuminated the starting area as bright as day. The sudden light caught everyone's attention, including Zhao Shuo, who stopped talking mid-sentence.
The sound of a broadcast came from high above, forming an empty echo in the closed racing track.
"All players, get ready. The competition is about to begin. Please pay attention to the countdown and signal lights."
A 10-second countdown appeared on the LED screen, with the numbers having a special effect of a flame edge.
When the countdown reached 3 seconds, the row of red traffic lights above my head flashed for a moment, turned yellow when the countdown reached 2 seconds, and when the countdown reached 1 second, all the traffic lights went out.
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All the traffic lights lit up green, and with the roar of the engines, eighteen racing cars rushed out like arrows from a bow.
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"Hold on quickly. First, be careful not to get separated." Zhao Shuo's voice was steady. "The enemy is an NPC, which can be understood as a difficult human-machine. They have some tactics, but they won't be very powerful."
"Brother Cang, temporarily drive to the left in front of me and take my place as the lead vehicle. The enemy won't be able to identify the lead vehicle and won't be able to focus their fire."
"Got it." Cangzhi replied.
There are six parallel lanes on the track, but after less than half a minute, the road suddenly narrows because we have entered a mountain road from a flat road, and towering mountain walls can be seen on both sides.
Overall, Zhao Shuo, Cang Zhi and Su Chen were in the second echelon, and the first echelon was the three leading vehicles of the NPC team. The coordination between these three vehicles was not very good, and some even collided with each other.
This made Zhao Shuo breathe a sigh of relief, indicating that the opponent's tactics were not that smart. He might not face targeted concentrated fire, but just attacks from all cars indiscriminately trying to overtake the car in front.
After entering the mountainous area, the runway is divided into three roads. The left and right roads are uphill roads, and the middle road is a flat road. Generally speaking, the uphill roads will have more complicated road conditions, but if you want to take a shortcut, you must go uphill. The flat road will be much gentler, but if you want to take the lead, there is basically no chance on the flat road.
Two of the three leading vehicles in front took the right ramp and one took the middle ramp. Zhao Shuo made a decision immediately.
"I'll take the left lane, Su Chen will follow me, and Brother Cang will take the flat road directly, driving at a normal speed. The people behind will watch the situation." Zhao Shuo said, concentrating on operating the joystick.
Thankfully, the handling of this car feels almost identical to that of a racing game, except that when you're inside it, you can feel the intense vibrations under your feet as the car travels at high speeds.
Zhao Shuo could also foresee that if he made a mistake in operation and hit the side of the runway or something, the collision alone would be enough to get him into trouble, but he couldn't care less now.
He changed lanes very skillfully, and the car rushed smoothly up the left ramp. A light green nitrogen acceleration bottle logo was suspended in the air in front. When Zhao Shuo rushed over, he felt the car body shake slightly, and then a fluorescent nitrogen acceleration prop icon appeared in the prop column on his left hand.
"You can get the props by bumping into them. Be careful of the opponent's prop attacks and report the road conditions at all times." Zhao Shuo said.
"Xiao Zhao, I...didn't follow you closely enough." Su Chen said.
She was driving very hard, but racing games required a lot of proficiency, and she was afraid to drive on the highway. Zhao Shuo looked in the rearview mirror and saw that two staff cars had been squeezed in between him and Su Chen.
"Don't panic, just make sure you can see me." Zhao Shuo said, "Can you see Brother Cang's position?"
"Yes." Su Chen calmed himself down. "He's on a flat road below, with no obstacles. His car is about a body length and a half behind yours, and is still falling... The car behind you is throwing rocks to your right!"
Zhao Shuo slid the joystick to the left completely by intuition, but because the slope was too narrow, this operation had to be extremely delicate. No matter how much force he used, the front of the car would directly hit the hill and then be hit by the car behind.
The car slid to the left with perfect control. The uphill road was very narrow. The left rearview mirror rubbed against the left mountain wall, making a huge rattling noise in an instant. The rearview mirror splashed a string of orange-red sparks on the rock.
In the right field of vision, a large rock flew past Zhao Shuo's car body. When it reached the attack distance, it disappeared into the air in a flash.
Su Chen's exclamation was heard from the voice.
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"Fuck, 5 points of defense is too damn weak." Zhao Shuo cursed with lingering fear, but his hands did not stop for a moment and moved forward steadily.
"I picked up rocks and banana peels," Cang Zhi said, "I'll help you throw them away later."
"Okay, Brother Cang, this is the first time I've heard you say so many words." Zhao Shuo adjusted his mood and was even able to make a little joke before asking, "Boss, how's the situation at the rear?"
"Everything is normal." Su Yue replied.
"OK." Zhao Shuo's expression relaxed a little. In front of him, in the dark shadow of the mountains was a huge uphill slope, just like the taxiway at an airport, with flashing lights on both sides marking the route.
Zhao Shuo thought about it and grabbed a nitrogen acceleration bottle in front of him. Because there was an NPC car behind him, he couldn't leave this bottle for Su Chen, so he grabbed all the equipment. This uphill section would be his best chance to overtake the first echelon of NPCs without being affected.
"I rushed forward." Zhao Shuo said.
"Got it." The three people said in unison.
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The situation in the last row is neither normal nor abnormal.
The cars of the NPCs in the back row were lined up in a row, three side by side, blocking Su Yue and Seeker behind them like an iron chain across a river. There was another row of cars behind them, which might be the one with the worst driving skills among these NPCs. One of them couldn't even find the direction.
This was the situation Su Yue had anticipated. Anyway, the rule for winning a team competition was that the first car passed. It didn't matter if the cars behind them fell behind. They just had to save their own lives and prevent the cars behind from causing trouble that would affect the cars in front.
But something abnormal happened at this time.
Su Yue was looking forward intently, and noticed out of the corner of his eye the shadow of a car flashing on his left. He reacted very quickly and slid the joystick to the right. He couldn't drift, so the car turned sharply to the right.
However, after shaking dangerously for a moment, it continued to drive on the road relatively steadily.
Su Yue looked to the left and saw the Seeker's car continuing to ram into him as if nothing had happened.
Hold.
Su Yue pressed the emergency brake to slow down the speed. This action almost made him hit his head on the windshield, but it did work, because the seeker was not an old hand at racing games. He was determined to hit Su Yue. Su Yue suddenly braked, and the seeker lost his target. However, he could not control the car to change direction immediately, and crashed into the mountain wall with a "bang".
There was a seeker's car blocking the front, and an NPC car coming up from behind. Su Yue was caught in the crossfire and pulled the joystick to the left to the end.
After the car turned to the right again, it immediately did a dragon-like tail swing, and Su Yue pushed the accelerator to the limit again.
Fortunately, his car was similar to Zhao Shuo's, with full control and high acceleration. With a harsh squeaking sound of the tires rubbing against the ground, Su Yue managed to turn out from the gap between the front and rear cars and continued to move forward.
Their car audio systems were all set to free speech. The sounds of the Seeker's crash and the squeal of Su Yue's tires reached everyone else's ears. Zhao Shuo nervously asked, "What's going on?"
"It's okay." Su Yue smiled and finally straightened the front of the car. The seeker was reversing with difficulty.
Su Yue rolled down the car window, stopped pushing the accelerator, leaned out from the passenger side, and knocked on the seeker's window.
Under the other party's shocked and angry gaze, Su Yue raised the corner of his mouth brightly and gave a middle finger.
Then he retreated back into the car, rolled up the window and stepped on the accelerator, replying to Zhao Shuo in a relaxed tone, "It's just an idiot who hit the wall."
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"...Oh." Zhao Shuo was stunned. His intuition told him that what happened next was not that simple. It was very subtle. He felt a nameless anger about to burn over through the car voice. But since Su Yue was fine, then it was okay. In fact, Zhao Shuo couldn't spare too much attention to do anything else.
The track here is like a real racing game, with acceleration bumps and speed bumps. Zhao Shuo avoided all the speed bumps, but driving on the acceleration bumps was also quite scary. He felt dizzy and thought the car was about to go out of control. He had to remind his teammates to be cautious on the acceleration bumps.
But he must use the full acceleration because the first group of NPC cars on the right ramp is still in front of him.
And he must rush through the key points as the first one.
After fully utilizing the acceleration strip and using up all the nitrogen to accelerate, Zhao Shuo finally rushed to the front in this long uphill section, but the leading car on the right was also very close to the front.
What's more troublesome is that Zhao Shuo has noticed that the lanes ahead will change from three to two, and the slope and flat road on the left will merge into one place, which means that he has to turn one more turn than the cars on the slope on the right, so this advantage is completely not enough.
Zhao Shuo collected four nitrogen acceleration bottles along the way and had used up three of them. In order to maintain his advantage and rush into the front lane, he made up his mind and used up all four acceleration bottles.
The racing car made a humming sound, and Zhao Shuo's sight on both sides became blurry. He suppressed his instinctive fear and gritted his teeth and moved forward. At the moment when the car rushed to the highest point, Zhao Shuo suddenly found that the road ahead suddenly dropped, and it was a huge Z-shaped downhill like a roller coaster!
There is a cliff on the outside of the track.
Zhao Shuo yelled and tried to control the direction of the car as fast as he could. His operation was already top-level, but the car was going too fast and the front of the car was out of control, rushing straight out of the track!
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The moment the front of the car shot through the guardrail, Zhao Shuo's mind went blank. It's over, I'm dead, I'm sorry, Boss. Such thoughts quickly flashed through his mind.
The next moment, Zhao Shuo felt a burning sensation on his neck, which made him shudder. When he came to his senses, he found that his car had returned to the downward Z-shaped track!
This time Zhao Shuo did not miss the opportunity. Without thinking, he pulled the joystick to the limit and slowed down rapidly.
While controlling the car to turn quickly, he touched the pendant on his neck. The pendant given to him by Su Yue now felt cold, and it was obvious that it had died for him once.
Zhao Shuo broke out in a cold sweat, feeling exhausted as if he had survived a disaster.
While trying to control the car rationally, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Boss, I love you! Slow down when going uphill! It's very dangerous down there! Boss, I love you to death!"
Cangzhi honked the horn three times.
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