Qin Yubai stared intently at the bicycle for a long time.
For your own personal safety, you still can't use it.
He tentatively suggested to Jian Zhizhen, "How about we forget it? We can win the land using boats."
Jian Zhizhen's expectation slowly faded, her eyes drooped, and she looked pitiful: "Bai Bai, why don't you want to use my new invention? Do you look down on me? Do you have an image to maintain and think the bicycle I invented is too ugly?"
Qin Yubai said anxiously, "No..."
What kind of image does he have to maintain?
He pays the least attention to the audience's attitude on the show; he never turns on the bullet comments and basically never goes online.
He doesn't use it simply because he has experienced firsthand how terrifying Jian Zhizhen's inventions are.
But seeing Jian Zhizhen like this, he immediately softened.
She was already disappointed, so she definitely couldn't refuse again.
Even if the car spirals into the sky the moment he gets on it, he can't refuse.
Just as he was about to agree, Li Ze, his eyes shining, leaned over and said, "Jian Zhizhen, this thing of yours is amazing! Qin Yubai doesn't want to use it, so let me use it. It just so happens that the kayak that Qiu Yuan and I were trying to fix kept leaking, and we were just worried about what to do."
Jian Zhizhen hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Anyway, whoever wins between her and Xu Qiuyuan, it's all about making money for Jinju.
Jian Zhizhen gave the bicycle to Li Ze.
Then she turned around and glared at Qin Yubai: "You just wait to lose, Qin Yubai!"
Qin Yubai: "..."
Oh no, she's really angry. She's started calling him by his full name.
I need to think of a way to coax her tonight...
Then, the competition officially began.
Jiang Fang used a proper speedboat to take all the female guests to a small island in the middle of the lake.
Then she came back and gave the four male guests the order to set off.
Once the timer started, all the male guests set off.
As soon as Li Ze stepped on the ground, extremely low-temperature liquid nitrogen gushed out, and the water surface immediately froze!
The bicycle shot off across the ice in a flash!
The bicycle was flying across the ice while playing background music—it was so cool!
[Yiting: Why does this even have its own background music? If I heard correctly... this background music is "X-Files Theme"? Is this... is this auspicious?]
[Zhu Suchen: Zhenzhen found an old, broken TV set before. I was wondering what it was for, but it turns out she just took the speaker off and put it in the car.]
[lazy cat: Hahaha, so ginkgo-colored! When I ride this after my night shift, nobody dares to come near me within 100 meters! Link here!]
While the other three male guests were still leisurely rowing, Li Ze had already ridden his dazzling ice-magic bicycle to the edge of the island.
Even at this point, he felt certain that he had won today.
He planned to park his bicycle on the edge of the island and pick up Xu Qiuyuan.
Then it suddenly dawned on me... I couldn't find the brakes!
He had no choice but to steer the car around the island at breakneck speed, anxiously asking Jian Zhizhen as he flew, "Where's the brake! Jian Zhizhen, where's the brake! Where's the brake!"
Jian Zhizhen squatted on the edge of the island, propped his chin up, and looked at his invention with satisfaction. He casually replied, "There are no brakes, but you can step on them backwards."
Li Ze then vaguely understood why Qin Yubai loved her so much, yet he was unwilling to use her inventions!
Li Ze was on the verge of tears: "How am I supposed to pedal backwards? I don't know how... Why don't you make brakes when you make bicycles!"
Chien Chih-chen said earnestly, "Because I need to make the bicycle move on ice, I have to minimize its weight, so I disassembled everything that could be disassembled, which means I can't install brakes. If you can't pedal backwards, just use the foot brake..."
...
The other three male guests had already seen Li Ze circling around the island.
He tried everything to stop the car, but he just couldn't.
If it were on the ground, the bike could gradually come to a stop due to friction as long as he stopped riding it.
But this is on ice, and he can slide around even without riding.
Zhou Sui looked over there in shock: "I thought he was going to win for sure, but I didn't expect there to be a reversal."
Qin Yubai, whose speed was similar to his, shook his head and sighed softly: "As expected. When Zhenzhen was first built, I could tell it was a fixed-gear bike."
Zhou Sui was puzzled: "Fixed-gear?"
Qin Yubai nodded: "This kind of bicycle with an extremely simplified structure is called a fixed-gear bicycle. The core is a large chainring and a small freewheel. The rear wheel is directly fixed to the freewheel, and it runs very fast. But there is no braking system. If you want to brake, you can only pedal backwards. You can also use the foot brake, but it is quite tiring for your feet."
Zhou Sui had never been involved in this industry before and was hearing about this kind of bicycle for the first time. Curious, he asked, "So that's how it is... I understand the principle, but what does the name 'fixed gear' mean?"
"They died very quickly," Qin Yubai explained earnestly.
[A Paper Kite Tree: Hahaha, Qin Yubai was just kidding! A "fixed-gear" bicycle is a type of professional bicycle. It's called that because its freewheel is fixed. Because of this special structure, it really is incredibly fast; in professional races, fixed-gear bicycles are even faster than cars! As for using foot brakes… just imagine what it feels like to use foot brakes on a car traveling at high speed…]
[Fairy: Oh my god, even top students can joke this seriously? I almost thought "fixed-gear" meant that...]
[Black Bean Sprout: But this kind of car does sound very dangerous. It's good to use that to scare kids, so they won't be curious about everything.]
[Zi Yan: No, Qin Shen, you already knew what was going on, so why didn't you warn Li Ze? And Zhenzhen, why didn't you teach them how to back down beforehand? Can't you two have any conscience? It's hard not to feel sorry for Zeze after this...]
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