With day and night as the time limit, the team that reaches the tip of the spiral will successfully complete the race. Therefore, the 24-hour team endurance race naturally starts from zero.
The huge size of Broken City and the slow flow of time made the time after dinner enough for Wu Chen and the entire team to practice in the virtual race. As the master of the entire small universe and the core source of the Ω Curtain Network, Wu Chen has innate networking advantages. As the adventure deepens and the female companion joins in, the original high-dimensional abilities continue to recover. The spiritual connection with the female companion becomes stronger and stronger, and the spiritual tentacles become sharper.
Over time, quantitative changes will naturally lead to qualitative changes. At that time, Wu Chen ignored the organic and inorganic, whether physical or virtual, the "spiritual perspective" that could see through all energy circuits, and the "thinking fire" that could increase the life level of all AIs, should have been revived one after another. More powerful high-dimensional abilities, such as the "Power of the Omega Constellation", are also waiting for Wu Chen to activate.
Half an hour before the start, the drone will arrive at the 0326 flatbed base. Transport all the cars and drivers of the "0326 Team" participating in the team's endurance race to the starting point.
Even though it is only held within the sci-fi spiral zone and is geared towards middle and low-level players, its scale far exceeds expectations.
All vehicles of the 0326 Endurance Racing Team, including International Lone Star, Knight XV, E450 RV, SNG, Wrangler, and Wu Chen’s own AE86, have all changed the race-specified livery of 0326 ERT in advance, with Obvious racing logo. This is the key to smooth passage and less trouble.
"Master, the departure point is at the loading and unloading platform No. 003 in the harbor area." Zhinao quickly determined the departure point by referring to the flight route of the drone.
"We've been here before." Wu Chen was somewhat impressed.
The giant loading and unloading platform in the harbor area can accommodate starships. Nowadays, the top, bottom, left, and right are all occupied by the player's capsule house. It looks like the stacked building area where the male protagonist lives in "Ready Player One". It is also a place for patients with trypophobia to be cautious. When Wu Chen and others entered the city after running the 404 Road of Destruction, four people and three cars stayed here briefly. Bailiyan and the player couple are also interested in renting a capsule house. After being persuaded by Wu Chen, they went to the traveler's camp together and have been living there ever since. Although it was only 20 days ago, Wu Chen still felt that a long, long time had passed. This is also due to the high-dimensional space-time properties of Broken City.
As we know before, the capsule houses are converted from shipping containers in the Broken City harbor area. It is an original creature of this world and is born with the memory of a guardian. The giant loading and unloading platforms lined up in the port area have naturally become a gathering place for players’ capsule houses.
Compared with the traveler camp, the living environment here is much worse. However, some players who are accustomed to fishing in troubled waters and are good at taking advantage of the fire are like a fish in water. Moreover, compared to a single-household, randomly spliced flat base, the connection between players in a capsule house is more fixed and closer. Suitable for team-based junior players. Many tasks that require teamwork are completed by familiar players working together. In short, everyone has his own way of living.
Loading and unloading platform No. 003.
The starting order will be arranged according to the level of the entry cards. 0326 ERT ranks very high. But there is still a convoy of players ahead. From the cheers of the surrounding capsule house players, Wu Chen heard the home field advantage of the front-line players.
Amidst the noise of the mountains and tsunami, the brain suddenly recognized some secret audio. And zoom in on the central control screen of AE86.
All team members can share in real time.
It sounds like the race through the harbor area is destined to be uneventful. There are even many player teams with home field advantage who have set up roadblocks and traps in advance. Used to slow down or even destroy opponent vehicles. And taking advantage of the flexible mobility of the capsule house, the first-place team seemed to have prepared a shortcut for themselves in advance to pass under the "Capsule House Mountain". It's just that compared to the tunnel that is drilled through the mountain inch by inch, this shortcut that goes under the capsule house can be built quickly as long as you have enough connections.
"Mark roadblocks, traps, and shortcuts." Commanding the smart brain to perform big data calculations, Wu Chen said to the team channel: "According to the simulated race conditions, Knight XV breaks obstacles and clears the road, E450 RV provides logistical support, and the International Lone Star team fights to destroy the enemy. , SNG information confrontation, Wrangler is responsible for guerrilla exploration."
"Understood, Master." The female riders were eager to try. Before departure, the base's Luhuo-5 construction drone had completed 3D printing of all external equipment. In the AE86 model database, there is also all the data of The Wreckers, which can transform into a heavily armed Nascar racing car. Of course, it is a 24-hour team endurance race after all, not a 24-hour death rally. Obvious offensive weapons are best not exposed in advance. Otherwise, according to the previous game situation, he will be beaten to death immediately.
"Master, someone is deeply scanning our racing car." Intelligent Ai Yi was already prepared: "But they haven't broken through our digital disguise."
"Okay." After all, he is a mid- to low-level player. If you can't break through the camouflage, you won't be able to tell that 0326ERT's vehicles are actually source energy symbionts.
The participating teams are lined up. Signal drone, countdown begins.
Return to the shelter, day 20.
The green light comes on. The team ranked No. 1 will set off immediately.
With the 10-second countdown light as an interval, the second, third, fourth... teams set off one after another. Wu Chen started in 17th place. The moment the team drove out of the loading and unloading platform, the team immediately spread out in all directions, running wildly in multiple directions, going hand in hand. As the saying goes, all roads lead to the top. Just reach the tip of the spiral within 24 hours. As for which route to take, it doesn't matter.
Moreover, the special structure of the spiral zone is like a winding mountain road, which also eliminates the advantage of "taking shortcuts" to the greatest extent.
Wu Chen followed the route pre-designed by Zhinao and moved forward at a constant speed. Knight XV, equipped with an obstacle-breaking shovel, clears the way ahead. The International Lone Star Highway Train is in the middle, the SNG satellite car and the E450 RV are in front of one another, and Wu Chen's AE86 and Wrangler are on the left and right. Such a large team, although the ranking is not at the top. But the rolling wheels rumbled by. Few people dare to touch it easily.
Just imagine, the cross-shaped convoy, the eye-catching International Lone Star Road Train located in the formation, must be the core of the convoy.
On the contrary, the AE86 and Wrangler located on the flanks went unnoticed.
Even so, indirect harm is inevitable.
Suddenly, large parts fell down on the track ahead. The No. 16 team was unable to dodge and was overwhelmed by a landslide of parts. Amid the exclamations of the spectators on both sides, a debris flow of parts blocked the entire passage. Zhi Nao immediately modified the avoidance route.
Knight XV made a steady left turn and entered the route just set.
All vehicles passed corners in an orderly manner and safely.
"Master, there is a hidden shortcut ahead." Zhi Nao marked the location of the entrance that was obscured by the holographic image.
"Drive normally." Wu Chen has already judged: "The race has just begun. According to the opponent's estimation, we 'should not know' this hidden shortcut."
"So Master, you judge that this so-called 'hidden shortcut' is actually a trap." Zhinao understood.
"In other words, it is a reference for the team's strength. Teams that can find shortcuts will be judged as 'dangerous competitors' and removed first." The intuition solidified from the experience of the only Zijin VIP player in the shelter made Wu Chen more confident: " So first of all, be a novice."
"Understood." Zhinao immediately corrected the route and canceled the marking of the shortcut entrance.
