Chapter 171: What Roadblock? It’s Clearly A Speed Bump
The vehicle routes on the map are not complicated, mostly straight ahead, and items and obstacles can be picked up on the road, but what they are is unknown.
It feels like it will be very thrilling.
Yu Jiang looked up and sized up the colorful vehicles around her. Hers was an off-road kart, with wheels and chassis clearly better.
There was another vehicle like this one behind, silver-gray, and it looked pretty good too.
The other side had obviously noticed her vehicle as well.
Yu Jiang didn’t display nickname or achievement title, just a number above her head: 6
It was her number in the instance.
As time passed, more and more players entered the instance, with vehicles of all kinds, but overall styles and sizes similar to go-karts.
Vehicles with off-road performance were few, and the most eye-catching were a few sports car style vehicles. The players on them looked toward the lanes, their faces showing a bit of determination and excitement.
This was their strength; in terms of speed, few vehicles here could compete!
Yu Jiang withdrew her gaze, not envious at all. Sports cars were cool, but in doomsday survival, how comfortable could they be?
Those excited expressions had a sense of finally venting frustration.
It had been a long time since seeing so many living people; the instance channel was bustling.
Salty Fish Doesn’t Like to Flip: “Hello everyone, please go easy on me, brothers and sisters. I just need a reward, don’t hit me.”
Pudding: “Damn, the sweat smell from behind, foot odor…”
Holding a Steamed Bun: “In doomsday, don’t be picky. Many people can’t even drink clean water easily.”
Seven Flowers on One Vine: “Instance time limit 1 hour, keep it peaceful, everyone can get rewards. If you encounter psychologically twisted people deliberately causing trouble, unite up, otherwise regular players really have no way to survive.”
This got agreement from many players. Yu Jiang just glanced at a few channel messages before focusing on the lanes, thinking which route to take.
The outside felt very dangerous, with monsters spawning, likely coming out from the forests on both sides.
The three middle lanes would definitely have the most people choosing them, turning into bumper cars directly.
Left side lanes 1 and 2, she found them more appealing.
Last 5 minutes, electronic sound broadcast.
“Welcome all survivors to this instance ‘Who is the God of Cars’. Please follow the floating prompts in the air to find your position. Do not attempt to interfere with the instance, otherwise you will receive punishment.”
A few sneaky players who wanted to strike first heard this and grudgingly retreated.
They didn’t give up, but started searching for targets that looked easier to bully.
At 9 o’clock sharp, with an electronic ringtone, all go-karts shot out.
A few sports cars performed especially well; while other vehicles were still accelerating, the fastest had already reached 170 yards.
Receiving the start prompt, nervousness and anxiety were normal; everyone wanted to go faster, with items and supplies on the road, first come first served.
Yu Jiang also took two deep breaths to restrain the urge to floor the accelerator.
This race was much harder than last time; haste makes waste, stay steady! she told herself.
Changing from left side lane 1 to lane 2, her current ranking was 19.
70km, many hidden masters hadn’t exerted yet, like the off-road vehicle in the rightmost lane 5, two positions behind her.
That was player 23, with decent equipment: goggles, old color, but a set of quick-drying clothes.
Those goggles might even have attributes.
The ones Yu Jiang wore were just picked up, yellowed swim goggles, windproof and anti-fog okay, usable.
Normally she was reluctant to use them, wearing self-made goggles from water bottles.
Yu Jiang gradually boosted speed to 100 yards, and at that moment, a loud bang suddenly came from ahead.
A sports car spiraled into the air, smashed into a tree and broke into two pieces, gone.
Immediately after, several vehicles rushing too fast behind couldn’t brake or turn in time, either crashing into the rainforest or flying out, dropping equipment everywhere upon falling.
The instance channel was filled with “holy crap” sounds.
Yu Jiang’s expression tightened, knowing something happened ahead, foot on the brake, and only saw what was going on after entering.
On lanes 3 and 4, at the end of an uphill road was a glowing spring; the vehicles ahead bounced out directly. Unlucky ones smashed into scrap metal, lucky ones had significant wear and tear, all smoking.
The floating prop card and 20 points in mid-air hadn’t been picked up yet.
Yu Jiang chose the one on lane 1, safer.
[You have picked up instance exclusive prop card · Caltrops, throw to create a row of sharp caltrops on the target lane, puncturing others’ tires.]
Unexpectedly such an item, Yu Jiang got a bit excited.
Accelerating again to 120 yards, behind couldn’t pick up many items, she needed to push and stock prop cards.
After 35km merging with other groups of players, in other words, in the end it was about who had more items.
Yu Jiang started changing lanes, going whichever had more points and prop cards.
The green off-road kart charged straight ahead, hit the spring, and flew up.
[Points +20]
[Picked up prop card · Fireball]
[Picked up prop card · 5-second speed boost]
Picking up things was really joyful; instance boxes didn’t require getting off, vehicle touch counts as pickup.
Yu Jiang even did S-shaped positioning, crossing 3 lanes, just for 5 points.
The players behind were stunned.
Nicholas: “Number 6, are you sick! Fighting over 5 points?”
This person directly voiced in the channel, sounding very angry.
Yu Jiang had no time to deal with him; what do you mean fighting over? Road items and points weren’t his, blame whoever for being slow.
At 10km, Yu Jiang had 80 points, two supply boxes, 4 prop cards.
Just snatched another prop card · Roadblock, place a no-pass metal sign on two adjacent lanes for 10 seconds.
Her vehicle shield was gone from hitting the spring, current wear and tear 5%.
Status okay, but no repair card picked up, still not reassuring enough.
Poisonous fog appeared ahead.
Spreading from right side lane 5 to the left, very fast. Yu Jiang in lane 3, about to go to lane 1, suddenly saw a snake ahead thicker than an arm, at least 3 meters long, blocking the road, looking fierce.
No problem, just a speed bump.
Yu Jiang thought so and stepped on the accelerator.
Things spawned in poisonous fog looked off in outline, seeming similar to adult human size.
She directly ran over the snake, ignoring the big snake behind rearing up angrily baring venomous fangs.
Poisonous fog spread too fast, in just a few seconds enveloping the entire road surface.
[You entered poisonous fog, feeling a bit dizzy, vehicle speed -20]
At this time, Yu Jiang also saw the things in the poisonous fog.
Flapping moths, moths this big!
Insects’ common compound eyes, magnified look chilling on the back, and sharp mouthparts in the mouth, feeling like they could pierce a person instantly.
Their wings shed powder while flying, no need to guess, definitely nothing good.
