PFRG: Chapter 115

The touching friendship between teammates was shattered like a glass heart. Ji Xingque wanted to say something when he heard someone behind him say in a cold voice, “That is enough talking.”

His keen intuition about danger made him shudder subconsciously. No sound came out of his open mouth. He swallowed back his bitterness and made a ‘please’ gesture.

Yue Ren got the answer he wanted, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

He turned to look at Chi Ting and asked in a very gentlemanly manner, “Captain Chi, can you talk to me now?”

Chi Ting said, “…Didn’t I just talk to you?”

“When?”

“Just now.”

Yue Ren briefly recalled it. “No.”

“Yes.”

Chi Ting saw Yue Ren’s expression that said ‘Don’t lie to me’. This made him pause for a moment before he said, “I already thanked you.”

Yue Ren was visibly choked up. “This counts?”

Chi Ting looked at him doubtfully. “What else?”

“……”

Yue Ren was completely silent for a long time. Then he sighed as if he had compromised. “Yes yes, of course it counts. Then I’ll change my words. Can you talk to me more now?”

The air around them seemed to pause for a moment. Chi Ting stared at Yue Ren steadily before revealing a harmless smile. “Don’t worry. Old Song just came on the field. Let’s focus on the game first. If we want to discuss the details of the game just now, we will have plenty of time to review it after this project is over.”

Yue Ren: “.”

If he had previously doubted whether he was just imagining things and asking for trouble, then now seeing this warm smile, he was immediately certain that his keen guess wasn’t an illusion.

In particular, the last few words were very intriguing.

Yue Ren cleared his throat quietly and accurately found an absolutely safe topic in the current situation. “It actually has nothing to do with the competition. What I want to ask is whether you are still thirsty. If one bottle of water isn’t enough, I can give you another one.”

Chi Ting glanced at him with a good-natured smile on his face. “That is enough. Thank you.”

His gaze swept over the surveillance screen, and he raised his throat. “As expected, the content of this third round has changed again.”

“Yes, the rest should be about the remaining rules.”

Yue Ren answered according to Chi Ting’s words. Then he glanced at the handsome side profile of the person next to him. He took advantage of the moment when Ji Xingque wasn’t paying attention and pulled him to the side.

Chi Ting glanced at the two figures that flashed by, but didn’t stop them.

Ji Xingque had just focused his attention on Song Xuefeng’s game progress when he was suddenly pulled away by a force. He instinctively used force to avoid crashing into the table next to him.

In the next second, someone lowered his voice in a tone that was rarely heard in daily life. “Little Bird, let me ask. How did your captain usually review the game in the past?”

“Before?” Ji Xingque thought about it. He didn’t know why, but he subconsciously cooperated with Yue Ren’s expression and lowered his voice., “It depends on how the mission is accomplished. If everything goes smoothly, it can basically be over in just one or two seconds. But if the mission fails, those of us who made mistakes will probably be in trouble.”

Yue Ren thought for a moment and asked, “What if the mission was successful but the process wasn’t smooth?”

“The captain is easy to talk to. He usually won’t stick to it if the mission is successful.” Ji Xingque frowned and thought seriously. “But if it really comes to the point where we need to dissect and review it even if the mission is successful, then the process of the mission must not be smooth, right? Or the way of completing the mission violated the taboo of the team. In this case, the result is probably worse than the failure of the mission…”

“I got it… there is no need to say more.”

The hand gently placed on Ji Xingque’s shoulder interrupted what he was saying. He looked up and caught a glimpse of Yue Ren turning around with a slightly melancholy look. He was stunned for a moment before asking, “What’s wrong?”

Yue Ren waved his hand. “I’m a bit thirsty, so I’ll review it myself.”

He had just considerately handed Chi Ting a bottle of water. Now, facing the possible reckoning that might come later, he felt that he really needed a sip of water to calm his nerves.

So killing was indeed a taboo. He didn’t know what method Captain Chi would choose to use in the end to educate him and med his evil ways.

Would he be hung up and beaten with that string of bone beads?

Yue Ren slowly licked the corners of his somewhat dry lips.

He suddenly felt a bit excited when thinking about it this way.

In front of the surveillance screen, Chi Ting withdrew his gaze from the gradually receding figure and rubbed his throbbing temples.

With his hearing ability, he could naturally hear every word of the conversation at such a distance. He strongly suspected that Yue Ren had no intention of avoiding him from beginning to end. On the surface, he seemed to be asking Ji Xingque, but he was indirectly telling Chi Ting.

In fact, he wasn’t sure what attitude he should take towards this man.

Treat him like the others in Dawn? But this NPC he brought out from the instance wasn’t one of his team members after all. As for how to get along with Yue Ren, he couldn’t say why but the recent interactions always gave him a strange and subtle feeling from time to time.

Captain Chi, who had never been stumped by anything before, suddenly felt that the situation was more difficult than ever before.

“F*k, where did all these cars appear in such a short time? Captain, that one looks like the go-kart of the Jazz team, right?”

Ji Xingque returned to the surveillance screens, and his cry instantly drew Chi Ting’s attention back.

The go-karts on the track had already appeared when the two men went to the side to talk, but a blue go-kart had just appeared in view. This made Chi Ting look a bit surprised.

The second lap did feel extremely long, but this shouldn’t allow the opponent to make up for the advantage created by Yue Ren.

If nothing unexpected happened, the player on the field now should be the second player of the Jazz team after the substitute. What was unexpected was that the blue team, which was a whole lap behind them, would enter the same track as the red team, who had entered the third lap.

This arrangement appeared in the instance. For a while, he didn’t know whether it was disgust towards the Jazz team, who was a big step behind, or to disgust their team in the lead, trying to take the opportunity to create another collision between the two teams.

“It is over, it is over. Those sinister guys on the Jazz team will definitely want to attack Old Song, but Old Song will definitely not bother to find a way to deal with those guys… It is over, it is over. I always feel like I’m going to be disgusted again. It is over…” Ji Xingque, who had already started circling back and forth on the spot, finally explained the most troublesome situation.

At this moment, Chi Ting also felt a bit regretful that Song Xuefeng was the one to play this time.

If he had been assigned to the third round, he could’ve at least taken this opportunity to teach those from the Jazz team a lesson.

“What happened? Why is it over?”

A sudden voice from behind made Chi Ting turn around. He saw a bottle of something in his field of view. He reached out to take it and found that the previous mineral water bottle had been replaced with milk. The only thing that remained unchanged was the straw that had been inserted in advance. “…Thank you.”

Yue Ren smiled as he watched Chi Ting holding the milk bottle and drinking it. Then he looked up at the surveillance screen with a slightly raised eyebrow. “This level seems to test your eyesight. Is Song Xuefeng’s eyesight good? What time is the eye examination?”

Ji Xingque was stunned by the question and wasn’t sure for a moment. “Old Song’s eyesight… should be okay, right?”

“It doesn’t matter. Our red team is quite eye-catching. It is fine as long as he is not red-green color blind,” Yue Ren said while looking at the blue go-kart with a smile. It had already rushed over. Unknowingly, the distance that had been widened was clearly closer to Song Xuefeng. The corners of his lips curved up. The curve was obviously much colder. “Why do I feel like this Jazz team has some crooked ideas again? They really can’t learn well at all.”

He thought of something and glanced at Chi Ting. Then he lengthened his tone a bit. “S, I was too soft-hearted when dealing with this type of scum before, right?”

This sentence was too obvious. Chi Ting couldn’t help looking back with the straw in his mouth. He was puzzled, but he hummed in a supportive manner. “But it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

The moment Ji Xingque heard this, his originally nervous state suddenly disappeared. “Captain, I’m relieved to hear you say that!”

Yue Ren couldn’t help laughing when he looked at Ji Xingque’s demeanor of completely letting go of his worries.

It was really hard to imagine what type of absolute trust there was that could allow these people in the Dawn team to have no doubts about anything their captain said without any extra explanation.

As expected, it was impossible not to feel jealous.

He lowered his eyes and naturally moved closer to Chi Ting. Without making a sound, he was almost right next to Chi Ting, and he had a questioning look on his face. “Do you trust Song Xuefeng so much?”

Chi Ting seemed to be oblivious to the fact that the distance was too close. “It has nothing to do with whether I believe him or not. It is just that when it comes to this project alone, Old Song does have an absolute advantage. After all—”

He tried his best to ignore the breath that gently caressed his hair and concluded, “After all, he has never lost to anyone when it comes to slacking off.”

There was a brief silence. Then he suddenly realized something and let out an ‘ah’ sound. He had obviously figured out the details. “Indeed, I can see that.”

In the surveillance footage, the originally empty track had long been full of all types of vehicles.

The sudden appearance of these cars in different colors made the two drivers on the track feel as if they were really in the middle of a noisy city.

The comments in the live stream room scrolled rapidly because of this scene.

[I am shocked. Why did so many cars suddenly appear?]

[These colors are too bright. From the looks of it, we should be careful of vehicles with the same color as the team, right?]

[F*k, I feel dizzy after staring at it for a while.]

[Shouldn’t the Jazz team have just entered the second round? Why did they bump into the Dawn team that has already entered the third round?]

[The Jazz team will definitely take action again. After all, if they don’t, they will have no chance when the opponent finishes the lap.]

[There are so many cars, and you have to pay attention to the color, so as to not injure yourself when you get distracted, right?]

[I understand. This stage tests your ability to multitask.]

This was a road test that simulated reality very much. It also corresponded to Rule 8: In order to increase the fun of the race, there are many accompanying vehicles and various Easter eggs arranged on the field. But two go-karts of the same color aren’t allowed to appear at the same time in the same section of the field. If a vehicle of the same color appears in your field of view, please avoid it as much as possible and make sure it is out of your field of view for more than ten seconds before continuing the race.

According to the specific content described above, it didn’t matter whether it was the red or blue go-kart. As long as a vehicle of the same color appeared in their field of view, they had to avoid it for more than 10 seconds.

For a race against time, even 10 seconds was enough to create a large gap, not to mention that the same vehicle might appear multiple times. In this way, in order to safely pass this section of road while ensuring the shortest possible time, players often needed to have a very accurate understanding of the so-called 10 second limit. The most feared thing in this process was that the timing in the mind deviating due to excessive actions, or actions were taken in advance when the 10 seconds limit wasn’t met.

This was undoubtedly another type of game playing with human hearts.

After all, in addition to the prize pool rewards, the total time taken would affect the proportion of game coins won from competitors. Anyone with a bit of ambition would inevitably choose to race against time as much as possible. In this way, the more anxious they were, the more likely they were to make further mistakes.

Of course, the premise was—to have a bit of ambition.

But as everyone knew, Old Song never had any ambition.

Even Chi Ting had never thought that the aspect the others had complained about countless times in the past would one day become the most reassuring quality.