PFRG: Chapter 108

The waiting area for the Death Go-Kart.

Miao Zhou, a member of the Jazz team, looked outside countless times but still didn’t see anyone. He couldn’t help asking, “Captain, you came in so confidently. Aren’t you afraid the Dawn team will give up and run away?”

“Don’t worry, they will come.” Qu Leng didn’t seem worried. “Compared to these, you need to hurry up and prepare. You should’ve seen it when you registered just now. You are the first one to play.”

“Don’t worry, Captain. Leave the exploration to me.” Miao Zhou smiled confidently. “Do you need me to come up with a way to eliminate them in advance?”

They hadn’t made it to the top ranks yet, but there was a reason why the Jazz team had been so popular recently. Led by the captain Qu Leng, the remaining players also had outstanding personal skills. If they ignored the experience gap between them and the top players and only looked at strength, they could be considered a perfect team configuration.

Among them, Miao Zhou had an extra chance to escape death due to his personal skill ‘Death Substitute.’ He was naturally the best candidate to explore the first round of this racing competition.

Moreover, he obviously knew how to use the advantages brought about by his skills. In previous instances, he had done things like ‘finding ways to eliminate other players in advance’ many times.

However, Qu Leng shook his head this time. “Don’t worry about that. After all, this is a speed race. Your most important task is to complete the exploration in the first round. As long as you can successfully bring us a safe route, we will have plenty of opportunities to take action in the next two rounds.”

He still had a modest and elegant attitude. The words he spoke formed a sharp contrast with the smile on his face. “The rules of this instance support players to fight against each other, so there is no reason to refuse. The game coins in the hands of the Dawn team can be considered as friendly sponsorship for our achievement points to improve our team rankings.”

The moment these words fell into everyone’s ears, a chill inexplicably ran down everyone’s spines.

Several members of the Jazz team also smiled. “That should be their honor too.”

After around ten minutes of waiting, the Jazz team finally saw Chi Ting’s team come in.

For a team that wanted to gain as many contribution points as possible, every minute was undoubtedly precious. It was due to the rule that the winner could obtain a percentage of game coins from the loser that they were willing to wait patiently.

After all, according to the previous system notifications, the team with the large number of game coins in the current arcade, apart from their Jazz team, should be the Dawn team that they had never heard of.

Qu Leng was actually very curious about the origins of this team. He wanted to know what preparations the team made that they spent such a long time outside, but he still maintained his politeness and made a ‘please’ gesture. He greeted them very naturally, “Come on, go and register. Then we can start.”

Chi Ting walked to the workbench as the team representative.

His mind was still full of the traffic rules that Yue Ren had taught them at the last minute, but he also remembered the order of appearance that they had discussed at the last minute. He quickly completed the team registration.

After locking in the lineup between the red and blue teams, the staff opened the entrance to the passage for the players.

The players of the two teams went in together. They first changed into racing suits and helmets in the locker room. Then they came to the official competition venue.

Chi Ting’s gaze swept over the racing track, which looked very standardized at first glance. Then it fell on the farthest point within his field of view.

By the way, was this Starry Sky Arcade where they were located that big?

Next to him, Yue Ren simply stretched his muscles and got into the red go-kart representing their team. He looked over through the protective shield of his helmet and said, “Wait and see how I perform.”

Yue Ren would be the starting player, which was the order they discussed and decided on outside.

After all, Yue Ren was more familiar with the traffic rules compared to Chi Ting and the others. He was responsible for the first lap and could figure out the road for the others who would play later.

Chi Ting stood at the starting point and watched Yue Ren get ready. He waved and said, “Have a good trip.”

Such a scene fell into Yue Ren’s eyes. It wasn’t known what it reminded him of, but he laughed in a good mood and sat back in the car.

The staff member dressed in the doll costume raised the small flag in his hand.

As the countdown ended and the flag fell, the smile in Yue Ren’s eyes faded, and he stepped heavily on the accelerator.

Two cars, one red and one blue, whizzed out at almost the same time.

It wasn’t until the afterimage disappeared from view that Chi Ting retracted his gaze. “Let’s go to the monitoring room to take a look.”

They couldn’t see the situation inside the field from the starting point. If they wanted to collect more information, they needed to go to the monitoring room as stated in Rule 7 to observe the situation inside the field.

Obviously, everyone on the Jazz team thought so as well.

The two teams soon met again in the monitoring room, but the red and blue team’s surveillance cameras were placed separately. Each team came to their own camp’s area to watch. Obviously, they could only see what their own team members encountered.

After arriving at the blue team’s surveillance area, the Jazz team’s Diao Baiwei glanced in the direction where Chi Ting’s group had left and couldn’t disguise her surprise. “This new team is quite perceptive. They have already determined early on to check the surveillance.”

The person next to her didn’t take it seriously. “I think you take them too seriously. It is just watching the surveillance. It isn’t a big deal.”

Diao Baiwei frowned. She was about to retort when she heard Qu Leng slowly say, “I think Baiwei is right. Once you enter the instance, you must never take anyone lightly. The guy named Chi Ting gave me a really strange feeling, and so did the others. I don’t know where this Dawn team came from, but my intuition tells me it is better to let them stay in this instance forever to avoid having another opponent in the future competition for rankings.”

As Qu Leng spoke, he looked up at the images displayed on the row of surveillance screens in front of him and gradually regained his usual humble smile. “In any case, let’s wait patiently for Miao Zhou to come back. Once we figure out the map situation of this competition, it will be clear what to do next.”

Diao Baiwei exchanged looks with her teammates next to her.

No one spoke but everyone knew that the captain was about to attack this Dawn team.

In the red monitoring room on the other side, the three people also looked up at the picture brought back by Yue Ren’s perspective.

Just as Ji Xingque concentrated and repeated his observation for the tenth time, he finally couldn’t help asking, “Captain, did you find anything here?”

Chi Ting had been watching the surveillance footage from the beginning and hadn’t spoken a word. He hadn’t even looked away for a moment. It was only when he heard Ji Xingque’s question that he slowly frowned. “It’s gone.”

Ji Xingque was confused. “What’s gone?”

“The blue team’s go-kart.” Chi Ting scanned the surveillance screens in front of him one by one. After clearly seeing every surveillance angle that Yue Ren currently had, he repeated with certainty, “It should only be a few minutes from the starting point to here, but the member of the Jazz team is gone.”

After being reminded, Ji Xingque realized that there was indeed no trace of the blue vehicle on the screen. He was stunned for a moment before asking, “Could it be that he was shaken off?”

“It would be great if that was the case.” Chi Ting shifted his gaze back to the surveillance screen while showing no emotion.

On the field, Yue Ren was wearing a helmet, and his expression couldn’t be seen, but it wasn’t difficult to see his relaxation from his leisurely posture.

Just a while ago, he remembered that the blue go-kart of the Jazz team was always in his sight. He didn’t know when it had completely disappeared. However, this didn’t affect his mood at all.

He drove forward on such a wide road and could hear the wind whistling past his ears, mixed with the sound of music gradually fading away from the starting point.

Soon, as the distance grew farther and farther, the sound of music was finally completely cut off.

The howling wind slapped Yue Ren’s helmet like a knife, leaving only the sound of axles rubbing against each other.

The lingering sound remained on the dark road in front of him which stretched out like a swirling poisonous snake and leading to an unknown destination. It was indescribably strange.

Yue Ren could feel the clear heartbeat coming from his chest. He looked up slightly and scanned the guide lights on the top. Then his eyes narrowed slightly.

He remembered that it definitely wasn’t this feeling when he first started. If it wasn’t an illusion, the lights around the track seemed to be gradually dimming as he drove.

The feeling of rushing toward the abyss bit by bit could easily make people feel a chill all over their body, but it made the corners of Yue Ren’s mouth rise in a distinct arc.

Okay, this project was really interesting.

It had only been a short time since they started. Yue Ren knew that no matter what, he wouldn’t be able to pull too far away from the player of the Jazz team. Now he couldn’t see any trace of the other party. No matter whether it was a temporary situation or not, the only possibility was that they had entered completely different tracks after they started despite passing no forks in the road.

No matter how he looked at it, this felt like something that had been specially arranged for them in the next stage.

So what evil was being held back?

After driving smoothly for an unknown amount of time, Yue Ren finally caught a glimpse of changes in the track route at the end of his field of view.

The moment the sharp turn warning sign appeared, Yue Ren quickly completed the emergency turn.

The sudden change in the road caused the car body to vibrate violently. After the overly urgent curve, there was a brief feeling of weightlessness. However, the car body fell back to the ground heavily. Then there was another curve and another one…

Yue Ren couldn’t help cursing despite his half smile. “If your driving skills aren’t up to standard, you really can’t play this.”

The dense curved area made the wind in his ears much sharper.

Under the repeated feeling of weightlessness and landing on the ground, Yue Ren didn’t forget to look to the side. His gaze fell on the side of the road. He found that after leaving the original road, the flat ground on both sides had long disappeared, replaced by bottomless cliffs and an abyss.

At this moment, the red go-kart he was controlling seemed to be walking on the edge of a cliff. If he deviated from the route even a little bit, he would fall to the bottom of the cliff along with the car body, leaving no traces behind.

It was indeed ‘deadly.’

Yue Ren was forced to communicate with the god of death, and his heartbeat inevitably quickened.

However, what concerned him more at this moment was the clear and distant ‘clicking’ sound that he could hear along with the cold wind blowing into his ears.

At first, it was a very subtle sound.

But as he passed one thrilling cliff bend after another, the sound became increasingly more frequent.

The feeling was so close like it was happening right next to him.

To be precise, it came from the go-kart he was driving.

Even without looking down, Yue Ren could feel the go-kart beneath him vibrate strangely as if something was slowly being dismembered. After each turn, he could feel the steering wheel that he was tightly gripping loosen a bit.

Yue Ren lowered his eyes slightly and saw from the corner of his eyes that the panel of the go-kart had cracked at an unknown time.

The dense cracks spread out in an instant like a spider web.

Due to Yue Ren’s excellent eyesight, he could see through the cracks and found that the internal parts of the go-kart were connected by fragile, thin threads.

With each vibration, the fragile threads broke one by one, and the vibration of the entire car became more violent.

The gradually collapsing car body made the cornering process more difficult.

He barely brushed past the edge of the cliff countless times. The tense atmosphere made Yue Ren break out in a cold sweat.

It felt like death was just around the corner.

At any moment, he might fall into the abyss and be smashed to pieces after turning the next bend. Faintly, it seemed like countless sounds were mixed in the whistling wind and pierced his eardrums.

This couldn’t go on any longer.

He had to stop and leave.

This was undoubtedly everyone’s first thought in this situation.

Yue Ren felt that his eardrums were almost aching from the continuous trembling. The increasingly frequent sounds around him seemed to remind him that he might fall into endless darkness along with this broken go-kart at any time.

However, his hands gripping the steering wheel were still tense. His eyes were fixed on the new curves that appeared one after another in front of him, and he didn’t relax his pressure on the accelerator.

One curve.

Another curve.

Every time he narrowly escaped death, the precarious go-kart seemed to be held together by the last string and never collapsed.

However, after Yue Ren’s persistence was verified, the leisurely smile on his face gradually faded.

Vaguely, he could feel something lurking and gradually spreading from the soles of his feet.

It was the threads connecting the parts inside the go-kart, so dense that they could make one’s scalp tingle.

They seemed to be coming to life.

Yue Ren slowly frowned.

To be honest, this feeling was indeed a bit disgusting.